BIOGRAPHY - PAGE 7
In time, Billy and Teddy were recruited to the new Avengers Idea Mechanics, a global peace-keeping force founded by Roberto “Sunspot” Dacosta after he bought out A.I.M. Dacosta intended to redeem the science terrorists, and he crafted a public relations friendly Avengers team to help sell his dream to the wider world. A.I.M. was still regarding with extreme suspicion by the authorities, however, regardless of who was in charge. The United States government went so far as to ban "Avengers Idea Mechanics" from operating on their soil, and requested Hawkeye be added to the team as a S.H.I.E.L.D. liaison and spy. Wiccan had doubts about this new lifestyle, but he and Hulkling moved to Avengers Island to become part of the “New Avengers” strike team. [New Avengers (4th series) #1-2]
Complications arose when the Knights of the Infinite, a secret order of Kree-Skrull hybrids, kidnapped Teddy to be their legendary king, and Billy came along for the ride. Amongst the Forbidden Asteroids of the Andromeda Galaxy, Teddy proved to be the reincarnation of Dorrek Prime, the first hybrid and founder of their order. However, the Knights' elder mage was possessed by Mor-I-Dun, an evil mystical force from the Fifth Cosmos. When Mor-I-Dun revealed itself, it stung Wiccan with one of its undulating tentacles. The Avengers arrived and, in the battle that followed, Hulkling drew forth the talisman sword Excelsior and supposedly killed and banished Mor-I-Dun. [New Avengers (4th series) #3-4]
All was not as it seemed, however. Mor-I-Dun's sting had infested Wiccan's soul, and everything after that had been a distraction to satisfy the Avengers that the creature was gone. Billy began feeling the effects of Mor-I-Dun's influence almost immediately. He decided to move past his codename as Wiccan, ostensibly because he wasn't a practicing wicca and didn't want to co-opt someone else's religion as a super-hero power name. However, Billy chose to claim the name Demiurge instead, demonstrating a quiet arrogance that Billy Kaplan normally would not show in assuming the mantle of ultimate power he would potentially reach in the future. Despite a newfound recklessness, Hulkling didn't notice anything more seriously wrong in Billy's behavior.
Decades in the future, Demiurge was fully consumed by the influence of Mor-I-Dun, his soul emptied out and replaced with the nightmare of the Fifth Cosmos. The Avengers of that future traveled back in time to prevent the rise of Mor-I-Dun. Although they arrived too late to prevent Mor-I-Dun's infestation, future Teddy was prepared to kill the young Billy while he was still mortal and before Mor-I-Dun had made him all powerful. Demiurge's behavior soon revealed the truth behind the future Avengers' warnings, but Hulkling would not allow Billy to be killed. Instead, he reached out to his fiancée and told Billy to rid himself of Mor-I-Dun. Billy confronted Mor-I-Dun on the spiritual plane, and the shadow creature at first seemed sinister and imposing. Billy soon 
recognized, however, that that was ALL Mor-I-Dun truly was: a bad dream, a negative or corrupting thought pushing in the recesses of his mind. By seeing Mor-I-Dun, by actively acknowledging and denying him, Billy found the shadow wizard of the Fifth Cosmos lost all his power by being brought into the light. Mor-I-Dun was truly eradicated this time, and Billy Kaplan reclaimed control of his own body and power. [New Avengers (4th series) #5-6]
A.I.M. faced a crisis point when they were contacted by Rick Jones. Rick had become a hacktivist known as the Whisperer, and he exposed a dangerous plot by S.H.I.E.L.D. to use fragments of the Cosmic Cube to rewrite reality "for the greater good." On the run, Rick reached out to Sunspot when he was captured by S.H.I.E.L.D., forcing the new Avengers to make a choice: remain in the good graces of the United States government, or enter American airspace and confront S.H.I.E.L.D. to rescue Jones. The Kobik scenario was a step too far for most of the Avengers and A.I.M., who agreed to oppose S.H.I.E.L.D. Billy, Teddy, and Squirrel Girl, however, wanted to try talking with S.H.I.E.L.D. instead. Sunspot then had the three of them knocked out and their 
phones disabled, abandoning them in the middle of nowhere. In order to keep them from being compromised by A.I.M.'s actions, he told them via hologram when they woke up that they should make contact with S.H.I.E.L.D. as soon as possible and be entirely truthful, for their own benefit. Avengers Idea Mechanics was going its own way, but it was up to Wiccan and the others to maintain the banner of the New Avengers. [New Avengers (4th series) #8]
Billy and Teddy were left adrift after that, unsure of their purpose. They visited with the Scarlet Witch for tea, only for Wanda to pressure them to step up with their wedding plans. When Squirrel Girl pushed them to help fight her old foe the Plunderer, though, Wiccan and Hulkling felt what they were doing was right. They weren't Young Avengers anymore, but the all-new New Avengers, 
and needed to act like it. Along with Hawkeye (who had also been cut loose from both A.I.M. and S.H.I.E.L.D.) they agreed to remain together as a team. [New Avengers (4th series) #11] As a unit, they were summoned by the Inhumans with most of New York's heroes to deal with the arrival of the Celestial Annihilator. [Civil War II #1]
Eventually, Roberto called Wiccan and the New Avengers for help. They were angry about being left out in the cold, but agreed in the end. Sunspot had been caught up in a series of moves and counter-moves with the Maker, evil Reed Richards from an alternate reality and head of W.H.I.S.P.E.R., the new science terrorists in A.I.M.'s absence. Wiccan and the New Avengers helped rescue Songbird from the over-reaching S.H.I.E.L.D. agent John Garrett, and defeated the Maker's New Revengers team. Afterwards, Sunspot made peace with S.H.I.E.L.D. by helping 
them eliminate all outstanding A.I.M. terrorist cells in the world in one fell swoop. Wiccan and Hulkling were dispatched to a really nice apartment overlooking Central Park, only to discover this wasn't a terrorist hideout but their new home, courtesy of Roberto DaCosta and A.I.M. Billy and Teddy decided to forgive Sunspot, and finally started their own life together, moving out of Billy's parents' townhouse. [New Avengers (4th series) #12-18]
Billy and Teddy struggled to move forward with their lives, however. Although engaged and in love, Billy was unable to commit to a wedding date or plans until he settled his fears about the Demiurge. Showing a shocking lack of good sense after the Mother fiasco, Billy began magically observing alternate timelines and possible futures to see how his life could turn out. Billy wanted to re-establish himself as a hero and an Avenger to find his confidence, but couldn't figure out how to get from "here" to "there," even when he found a favorable timeline during his "self-Googling" of the multiverse.
In several timelines where his Avengers career took off, Billy saw an unfamiliar bio-mechanoid on 
the team with him and Teddy, apparently a new version of the freelance peacekeeping agent Death's Head. Hoping the very presence of this Death's Head V would jumpstart his favorable future, Billy wished for "Vee" to teleport into his presence, inadvertently retrieving Vee from his creator Evelyn Necker before she brought him online. Finding himself with nothing more than an inert mechanoid on his hands, Billy hid Vee under the mattress until he could figure out what to do with him.
Continuing his searches, Billy brought him and Teddy into confrontation with the original Death's Head as well. Their fighting came to an end when Vee was discovered and came online. After Kate Bishop arrived and Billy explained himself and Vee to everyone, they decided to make 
contact with Necker and ensure she couldn't get control of Vee again. The (partially) reunited Young Avengers joined Death's Head and Death's Head V in confronting Necker at the abandoned Project: PEGASUS. Billy confronted some of his anxieties while the mechanoids confronted a bunch of Death's Head IV prototypes trying to kill them. In the end, Death's Head made a deal with Necker and left. Vee remained a house guest of Billy and Teddy while the pair of them tried to work on their relationship. [Death's Head (2nd series) #1-4]
Wiccan was drawn into a quest against his will when he and several other heroes were targeted by the Vridai. Fungal shape-shifters from Svartalfheim, the Vridai kidnapped him, Spectrum, Angela, the Winter Soldier, and Spider-Woman and set them up for a viral attack. Blade of the Avengers vouched for them, but knowledge of the Vridai is by nature corrupting, so he could not tell the rest of Earth's Mightiest Heroes the full story of why their allies looked guilty. Wiccan and the others have assembled around Blade as Strikeforce, pursuing the Vridai because no one else can be trusted to do so. [Strikeforce #1]