Issue 4

Date:  October, 1990
Title:  Genetech Potential
Writer:  Fabian Nicieza
Penciler:  Mark Bagley

Synopsis:  The New Warriors decide to break into Genetech in order to find out why they hired The Mad Thinker to gather information on them.  Soon after their arrival they are attacked and subdued by an unseen force.  Speedball, who is an hour late, meets Tai in Manhattan.  She gives him a tracking device so that he can catch up with the rest of the Warriors.  Inside Genetech the rest of the Warriors are held captive by Walter Rosen and Harmon Furmintz.  Furmintz tells the Warriors that he continually came close to becoming superhuman in the past, but for whatever reason was excluded or missed the opportunity.  It was for these reasons that Furmintz has decided to create a race of super-humans.  His first successful experiment was Psionex, a group of young humans that volunteered to have specific portions of their minds enhanced, giving them psionic powers.  Outside the Genetech facility, Speedball has arrived and managed to use his kinetic powers to break his way into an air conditioning vent.  Inside, the Warriors are being introduced to the members of Psionex.  Speedball kicks out the vent in the room the Warriors are being held in and frees them.  The New Warriors fight Psionex and defeat them.  Walter Rosen promises to take more care with future experiments and the Warriors take their leave.  Elsewhere in Manhattan, a strange figure watches the New Warriors on a television broadcast and comments about one of the male New Warriors being back (presumably Nova since he recently regained his powers after a long hiatus) and whether it will affect her plan.

Key Events: 

	First appearance of Psionex (Asylum I, Coronary, Impulse, Mathemanic, Pretty Persuasions).
	Second clue that there is more to Tai than she lets on (her comments about maintaining her charade as a concerned housekeeper).
	Coronary is shattered.
	First cameo appearance by Meryet (the female Sphinx).