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However, after a disastrous mission in the Middle East against the Arabic super-team named Desert Sword, the government disbanded Freedom Force, and Avalanche became a free agent.Īvalanche later found himself in the employ of the government once again, this time as a super-powered operative for the government-sponsored Project: Wideawake. On their first official mission, they were dispatched to capture the self-styled master of magnetism, the mutant named Magneto.Īs a member of Freedom Force, Avalanche was involved in missions that continued to bring him into conflict with super-heroes, most notably the X-Men, X-Factor, and the Avengers. Thus the Brotherhood was renamed Freedom Force, and Avalanche and Freedom Force's other members became superhuman operatives of the United States government. Mystique soon became aware of the United States government's increasing anti-mutant activity, and, tired of being hunted as outlaws, offered the services of herself and the Brotherhood to the United States government in exchange for a pardon for their crimes. He returned to the Brotherhood to recuperate, and eventually both his arms were fully healed. Avalanche encountered the gamma-spawned behemoth known as the Hulk, and suffered serious injury when he attempted to use his power on the beast, resulting in him shattering every bone in both his arms. The attempt failed thanks to the intervention of the mutant team of costumed adventurers known as the X-Men.Īvalanche briefly left the Brotherhood to attempt to blackmail the state of California into paying him a large sum of money to prevent him from using his mutant power to trigger a major earthquake. He first publicly appeared with the Brotherhood when they attempted to assassinate Senator Robert Kelly during his hearings on the alleged menace that mutants posed to humanity. The past of the mutant known as Avalanche before he was recruited by the shape-shifting mutant terrorist Mystique into the team of superhuman operatives known as the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants is almost entirely unknown, except for the fact that he is a naturalized American citizen after having immigrated to the U.S.