Biography - Page 6
Mockingbird found herself on new ground with Ronin, as Clint struggled emotionally with Norman Osborn claiming control of the Initiative and the Avengers. After trying to discredit Osborn with public statements and displays of heroism failed, Clint reached the point where he was prepared to kill Norman in order to stop his corruption of the Avengers' good name. In light of their break-up years earlier over Avengers killing, Bobbi ironically found herself on the opposite side of the argument this time. Clint even went so far as to claim he now saw why Bobbi needed to kill the 
Phantom Rider, but she rejected the comparison to the premeditated murder Ronin was contemplating. Ronin went off on his own and got captured by the "dark" Avengers under Osborn, forcing Mockingbird to rescue him. She teamed up with Ms. Marvel, Jewel and Spider-Woman to get Clint free from the H.A.M.M.E.R. Helicarrier. In the end, Ronin recognized he had gone too far and renounced his attempts to kill Osborn. [Dark Reign: The List - Avengers #1, New Avengers (1st series) Annual #3]
Bobbi remained active with the Avengers. They confronted the Hood when he tried to seize the Eye of Agamotto and become the next Sorcerer Supreme. Later, they fought his gang when they set up an ambush using a power dampening unit. Most of the Avengers were incapacitated, but 
the non-powered Mockingbird stayed in the fight long enough to stall Chemistro and the Wrecking Crew by herself and help get the team to safety. Bobbi still had trouble sleeping because her abduction by the Skrulls, which strained things with Clint when she wouldn't confide in him. She and Clint had a close call during the fall of Asgard when Bobbi was almost buried alive as the city came down. This only reinforced the bond they had forged with one another. [New Avengers (1st series) #51-64, Siege (1st series) #1-4]
After Steve Rogers returned to become America's top cop and the Registration Act was rescinded, two teams of Avengers remained active. While Clint went back to being Hawkeye with one group housed in Stark Tower, Mockingbird remained with Luke Cage's street-level team operating from the renovated Avengers Mansion. [New Avengers (2nd series) #1-6] Separate 
from their Avengers duties, Hawkeye and Mockingbird continued working together with the WCA. Although their relationship seemed strong, Bobbi was still keeping secrets from Clint, fearing he couldn't handle the occasional moral ambiguity of the spy world versus the super-hero world. [Enter the Heroic Age #1]
When a car chase with arms dealers ended at the Museum of Natural History, Hawkeye and Mockingbird were confronted by their past. Crossfire was responsible for the criminals they were hunting, and shot their lead from a sniper's nest over the museum. While dealing with the return of 
the man who brought them together, Bobbi and Clint were also reminded of the one who drove them apart. Jaime Slade, daughter of Hamilton Slade and descendant of the western Phantom Riders, was running an exhibit out of the museum and had an uninformed and unpleasant opinion of the two super-heroes.
A stressed Mockingbird put the WCA to work when she got back to base, dispatching Twitchy, Bangs, London, Clint and Dominic Fortune on various assignments. Clint tried to get her to open up about running into the Slades again, but Bobbi didn't want to discuss her feelings. Clint was increasingly worried about Bobbi, with the nightmares and the strain she was facing in the field. He had tasked Twitchy with looking into Bobbi's past, hoping to find someone from her family she could talk to. When he found her mother's identity hidden behind a firewall and went out to meet her, however, Hawkeye learned Bobbi's family had believed she was dead for years. [Hawkeye & Mockingbird #1]
If Hawkeye thought this would mean a happy reunion, he was wrong. Bobbi's mother slapped her once she learned her daughter had faked her own death and lied to her family. Worse, the spirit of 
Lincoln Slade returned through an urn on display in Jaime's exhibit, possessing her to once again ride as the Phantom Rider and prevent Barbara Morse from knowing happiness. Crossfire and Phantom Rider joined forces against the WCA as Slade began actively haunting Bobbi in her dreams. Bobbi and her mother were trying to reconcile over the phone when Crossfire shot her mother through her hotel window. [Hawkeye & Mockingbird #2]
Barbara's mother was rushed to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the head. Bobbi was furious at Clint for putting her family in harm's way by reintroducing them into her life, and Clint could hardly argue. The WCA tore through their leads on Crossfire's operation trying to find him. They succeeded, but Crossfire was still running his old sonic brainwashing equipment and he snared Hawkeye and Dominic Fortune. The Phantom Rider paralyzed her with one of his/her phantom bullets and intended to force Mockingbird watch as her allies killed each other. Crossfire then abandoned that base and set off the self-destruct for good measure. The three only barely managed to survive by the skin of their teeth. [Hawkeye & Mockingbird #3]
Taking advantage of Crossfire momentarily thinking they were dead, Hawkeye and Mockingbird made some plans. They made peace with each other and organized the WCA into blowing up and/or shutting down Crossfire's entire infrastructure. With their foes good and riled, Bobbi sent a 
message to the Rider through the mystic link they shared, luring them into a trap. The heroes and villains arrived at Spirit's Peak, the site of Lincoln Slade's death. There they were joined by Hamilton Slade, the heroic Phantom Rider of the Texas Initiative, and also Jaime's father. Hamilton had prepared the urn and knew how to exorcise his ancestor from his daughter's form. [Hawkeye & Mockingbird #4]
Hamilton Slade prepped the exorcism ritual, while Mockingbird and Hawkeye kept Jaime and Crossfire busy. Hawk wrapped Cross in a barbed wire arrow while Mock stood up to Lincoln Slade and rejected his hold over her. Once the circle was complete, Hamilton Slade sacrificed the spirit of Carter Slade empowering him as the heroic brother carried the ghost of his twisted brother into the hereafter represented by the urn, leaving Hamilton and Jaime Slade powerless. Hawkeye thought Crossfire was secured, but Cross managed to get his gun hand free and shot Hamilton 
Slade, killing the archeologist and shattering the urn to release Lincoln's spirit. Jaime awakened and misinterpreted the scene, blaming Mockingbird for Hamilton's death and freely bonding with Lincoln Slade once more. Mockingbird and Jaime fought and history repeated as the Phantom Rider fell over the side of the peak. This time, however, Bobbi refused to let the Rider die and pulled her back up, only incapacitating Jaime. [Hawkeye & Mockingbird #5]
Bobbi and Clint sat atop Spirit's Peak and decided they needed to end things. As much as they loved one another, they just weren't good together. Enraged by Crossfire's actions, Clint had assaulted the restrained villain, snapping his trigger finger and gouging out the ocular implant that 
replaced his left eye. Bobbi's world of grays in the spy trade was compromising Clint's beliefs, and pushing him in a moral direction he didn't find comfortable. Hawk's expectations as an Avenger were always a strain on Bobbi which she didn't think she could live up to. They briefly reunited to deal with a threat on Bobbi's life, but their relationship and Clint's ties to the WCA came to an end. [Hawkeye & Mockingbird #6, Widowmaker #1-4]
[Note: The World Counterintelligence Agency made no further appearances, and presumably disbanded at some point off-panel.]
Back with her Avengers team, Mockingbird and the group received intelligence that agents of H.A.M.M.E.R. were still operating illegally out of Rhode Island. Bobbi infiltrated their laboratory and storage facility at a strip mall before H.A.M.M.E.R.'s new organizer, Superia, arrived on scene. A fight broke out and Bobbi was shot in the stomach by an assault rifle, suffering mortal wounds. Doctor Strange stabilized her long enough to get to a hospital, but her condition was critical. Hawkeye and the Avengers tracked down Superia, who had escaped the initial dragnet and recovered a bio-chemical formula she had been working on at the site.
Nick Fury arrived on the scene and confirmed the formula was a reworked combination of the Super-Soldier Serum and Infinity Formula which gave him his increased lifespan. It was 
concocted by renegade Nazi scientists back in 1959, confiscated by Fury and stolen from S.H.I.E.L.D. archives by H.A.M.M.E.R. With Bobbi's life on the line, Hawkeye took responsibility and made the decision to infuse her with the formula, despite the chances of it failing to bond with her or proving toxic. Miraculously, Mockingbird bonded with the formula and recovered from her injuries, becoming a super-soldier in the process. [New Avengers (2nd series) #9-13]
Mockingbird's recovery was phenomenal and she left the hospital in record time. Her resulting enhanced abilities left her feeling she had a new lease on life. Bobbi got to test herself in the Serpent War, fighting against the Red Skull's Nazi robot soldiers. Mockingbird was now strong 
enough to confront the exo-frames with her bare hands. Bobbi also felt deeply thankful for the Avengers after what she went through. She now felt she had a bond with the team that transcended the "borrowed" relationship she got from Hawkeye when she first joined. [New Avengers (2nd series) #14]
Mockingbird became the Avengers' unofficial pilot, operating the experimental jump-ship Nick Fury left them after the siege of Asgard. Norman Osborn escaped custody and re-established H.A.M.M.E.R. as a counter-establishment group. Osborn's former second-in-command Victoria Hand had been named the Avengers' liaison by Steve Rogers, but appeared to betray them to 
Osborn. Mockingbird's own background as a spy helped her recognized that Hand was actually a double agent working for Rogers to undermine Osborn. H.A.M.M.E.R. had their own team of dark Avengers, including Hawkeye's rogue brother Barney Barton, a.k.a. Trickshot. Mockingbird brought down her ex-brother-in-law, using her newfound enhanced reflexes to deflect his arrow bolts. [New Avengers (2nd series) #17-23]