Editing Robbie Baldwin (section)

===New Warriors: The New Team===
{{See also|New Warriors#New Warriors .28vol. 5.29||label 1=New Warriors vol. 5}}

Having taken to the road again, Speedball and Justice find themselves in the town of New Salem, Colorado, where they meet the [[Salem's Seven]]. They fight, but quickly patch things up after it is clear it was a misunderstanding. While Speedball plays video games with Brutacus, Justice has a little chat with Vertigo, Salem's Seven leader, about the town. When the conversation deviates to Justice's and Speedball's intention of reforming the New Warriors and the difficulties that that will probably bring due to the persisting bad reputation for their involvement in the Civil War events, the Evolutionaries arrive, intent on burning down the town.<ref>''New Warriors'' vol. 5 #1. Marvel Comics.</ref> Justice, Speedball, and Salem's Seven drive them off. Their subsequent mission to stop the Evolutionaries leads to their recruiting of two heroes to the cause, Haechi and [[Sun Girl (Marvel Comics)#Sun Girl #2|Sun Girl]].<ref>''New Warriors'' vol. 5 #2-3. Marvel Comics.</ref>

Looking for Nova but seeing he does not answer his phone, Speedball and the others head back to the Salem's Seven and through their help and that of New Salem's magical inhabitants, they locate the boy. As it turns out, Nova along with [[Hummingbird (comics)|Hummingbird]], [[Kaine Parker|Scarlet Spider]] and [[List of New Warriors members#New Warriors (vol. 5)|Faira Sar Namora]] of Atlantis had been kidnapped and were being held as prisoners in [[Transia|Mount Wundagore]] by the Evolutionaries and the [[High Evolutionary]]. Rushing, they arrive as the Evolutionaries are about to execute Nova, following his and the other prisoners' attempt to break out. Trying to reason with the High Evolutionary fails and Nova reveals his plan of eliminating "mostly everyone". A chaotic fight ensues, with the prisoners, Sun Girl, Haechi and the New Warriors forming an impromptu team that manages to defeat the small army of Evolutionaries through their diverse and very different powers and abilities. Shortly after, when the High Evolutionary activates his machine to eliminate the super-powered population of Earth, Speedball and the others are brought down to their knees in excruciating pain and almost die, but they are all saved by Sun Girl who, as a non-altered human, is immune to the machine and destroys it. With the enemy fleeing but fearing its return, an invitation is made to everyone to join Speedball, Justice and Nova as New Warriors to face the High Evolutionary should he try to repeat his scheme - an invitation that is immediately declined, save for Hummingbird (who eagerly and joyfully accepts) and [[Sun Girl (Marvel Comics)|Sun Girl]] (who does so implicitly).<ref name="NW v5 #4">''New Warriors'' vol. 5 #4. Marvel Comics.</ref>

While Justice takes Scarlet Spider and Faira on the task of cleaning the mountain of the High Evolutionary's hostile contraptions and robots, Speedball takes Sun Girl, Hummingbird and Haechi to a nearby town - with the excuse that it had been attacked - to have dinner and to take an opportunity to better know his new teammates. When the topic of everyone's abilities is discussed and Speedball clarifies his capacity to "bounce", Hummingbird suddenly starts to inquire about his other powers, if he still cuts himself and the reasons why. Somehow, her strange psychic powers shows her Speedball's mental image of himself as clad in the Penance suit instead of his normal appearance - indicating he still struggles internally with his guilt while keeping a carefree facade to everyone else. Speedball attempts to explain himself while telepathically warning Hummingbird in an ominous tone against reading his mind and to tell no one else about this. They decide to return to the base in Wundagore mountain where Justice and the others have encountered a pair of [[New Men (Marvel Comics)|New Men]] that are willing to help their group. Hummingbird develops an "unfathomable" crush on Speedball.<ref name="NW v5 #5">''New Warriors'' vol. 5 #5. Marvel Comics.</ref>

The New Men - now renamed by themselves as Jack Waffles and Mr. Whiskers - assist the New Warriors to go to New York. However, they do so by using the base's advanced technology to teleport the entire Mount Wundagore, provoking a mass panic in the city, but not causing any casualties, as the mountain is "half-phased", so most of it doesn't physically interact with the water or anything passing through it. Still, the Avengers take notice of the event and dispatch Iron Man and Thor. The former takes Speedball and Justice to Avenger's tower, where they and Captain America get into a discussion about the problems that reforming the New Warriors will bring and the incident with the mountain. For a moment, as animosity rises, Robbie starts to discreetly charge his Penance powers to use them against the Avengers. But he is touched by Justice's passionate defense of the New Warriors' team name, its members and their actions. They part with the Avengers on amicable terms.<ref name="NW v5 #5" /><ref name="NW v5 #6">''New Warriors'' vol. 5 #6. Marvel Comics.</ref>

The next day, when Haechi and Sun Girl are forcefully taken to Singapore by Inhuman supremacists led by [[Lash (Marvel Comics)|Lash]], Speedball and the rest of the New Warriors go to save them, battling through all the floors of a skyscraper filled with innocent, mind-controlled people. As they do so, Robbie asks Scarlet Spider if Hummingbird has said anything about him and jokingly suggests to not believe anything she says because "she is really weird". When Scarlet Spider reprimands him for his timing and asks if Robbie can take anything seriously, Speedball discharges his Penance powers on the remaining mind-controlled adversaries and somberly proclaims "Yes. I can". They battle and defeat Lash's henchmen, who teleport away.<ref name="NW v5 #7">''New Warriors'' vol. 5 #7. Marvel Comics.</ref><ref name="NW v5 #8">''New Warriors'' vol. 5 #8. Marvel Comics.</ref>

During a distraction trip the group takes to a bar in Prague, Hummingbird insists on dancing with Robbie. She reveals to him that she is enjoying herself, as much as possible, since she is certain she will die soon as "[[Mictlan]] rises" (an event that portended in her dreams for months).<ref name="NW v5 #9">''New Warriors'' vol. 5 #9. Marvel Comics.</ref>

Some time later, the New Warriors locate the High Evolutionary to stop him from continuing to pursue his plan. With great coordination, they expertly board his ship, defeat his last Evolutionaries and trap him. It is then that the [[Eternals (comics)|Eternals]] appear to ensure the High Evolutionary fulfills his agenda and prevent the [[Celestial (comics)|Celestials]] from judging and destroying Earth.<ref name="NW v5 #10">''New Warriors'' vol. 5 #10. Marvel Comics.</ref> As the situation turns for the worse, Robbie coldly assess each of his teammates and sees they are fighting a losing battle. Nevertheless, he throws his best against the Eternals and for a moment manages to inspire the others to do the same and gain the upper hand. Hummingbird then uses her telepathy to discover that the leader of the Eternals, [[Zuras]], was lying, and the Celestials weren't coming. This was seemingly in vain, as the New Warriors are defeated and used to power up the machine while Zuras manages to silence them or deflect any suspicion of his persona from his peers.<ref name="NW v5 #11">''New Warriors'' vol. 5 #11. Marvel Comics.</ref>

However, Justice, who had been dealt with separately from the rest of the team, returns to the fight and frees his teammates, damaging the High Evolutionary's machine in the process. Justice then convinces the rest of the Eternals and the High Evolutionary that Zuras had, indeed, been lying. The leader of the Eternals is forced to admit the Celestials weren't coming, albeit blaming the attempted genocide entirely on the High Evolutionary with the excuse "he had been tricked by him too". The Eternals leave, warned by the New Warriors not to come back.<ref name="NW v5 #12">''New Warriors'' vol. 5 #12. Marvel Comics.</ref>

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Robbie is last seen happily walking away with the rest of his teammates from the crashed ship.<ref name="NW v5 #12" />

During the "[[Outlawed (comics)|Outlawed]]" storyline, Robbie appears as a member of C.R.A.D.L.E. when a law is passed that forbids superheroes who are below the age of 21.<ref>''Outlawed #1. Marvel Comics.</ref>