Issue 14

Date:  August, 1991
Title:  The Breeze of an Underwater Wind
Writer:  Fabian Nicieza
Penciler:  Mark Bagley

Synopsis:  Speedball and Namorita act on an anonymous tip that an illegitimate cargo shipment is being received in Staten Island.  Upon arriving they are fired upon by smugglers.  Speedy and Nita take them down easily.  Nita then discovers that the illegitimate cargo is a shipment of Atlantean artifacts.  Just then Darkhawk appears and the obligatory misunderstanding fight between heroes occurs until Speedball breaks it up and tells Darkhawk who they are.  Due to the skirmish, Nita and Speedy let the smugglers get away.  They chase after them, but Speedball's bounce lands him in the water, just short of the boat.  Nita continues on while Speedball returns to the docks to assist Darkhawk in catching the smugglers there.  On the boat Namorita is attacked from behind Jeremy Swimming Bear, a.k.a. Sea Urchin.  He then proceeds to run spikes through Nita's arms and legs, effectively nailing her down to the ship's deck.  He then proceeds to beat her to a pulp and cut off her hair.  In Queens, Rich meets Dwayne and Silhouette to bury the hatchet on the friction that the had been between the two.  Dwayne gives Rich a present.  Inside is new costume that closely resembles his original Nova uniform.  In West Morris, Jew Jersey, Vance picks up Angel at her house for their first date.   In Manhattan, Namorita wakes up at Oracle Headquarters to Namor standing over her.  Namorita tells Namor that Sea Urchin did this to her and that he is stealing Atlantean artifacts.  Namor suggests that they bring Sea Urchin to justice, but Namorita gets angered and walks into the other room.  When Namor enters he sees that Namorita has donned an Atlantean armor which, by custom, is only worn when one is prepared to fight to the death.  Namorita says that she is going to kill Sea Urchin and then flies away.  Namor is unable to follow her due to his ankle wings having been removed.  Later, 300 miles off the coast of North Carolina, Sea Urchin is in the process of another salvage mission when Namorita tracks him down.  She battles him under water and almost shatters the face plate to his armor, which would kill him.  Namorita decides that she cannot be a murder and swims him to the surface and tosses him onto his boat.  One of the smugglers on board prepares to fire at Namorita but is stopped Michael Shauneghann, who is working undercover for Project: Earth to put Sea Urchin in jail.  Namorita leaves Sea Urchin and the smuggler to Michael Shauneghann so that the courts can handle him.  She then returns to Namor, severely weakened and upset that she could not carry out the Atlantean tradition of the armor.  She feels that she will never truly be an Atlantean or a human.  With that, she collapses from exhaustion.  

Key Events: 

	The New Warriors meet Darkhawk for the first time.
	Vance and Angel begin their romantic relationship.
	Dwayne and Rich resolve some of their issues with each other.
	Nita is beaten by Sea Urchin, and dons battle armor.