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===Avengers Initiative===
Penance, brainwashed and heavily drugged, is persuaded by Norman Osborn to join his new [[Avengers: The Initiative|Initiative]], at Camp H.A.M.M.E.R., and has psychotherapy sessions with [[Trauma (comics)|Trauma]], the camp therapist, having been ordered by Osborn to keep Penance in his mentally fragile state.<ref>''Avengers: The Initiative'' #25. Marvel Comics.</ref> Through Trauma's "pet therapy" method, Penance is unknowingly reunited with his cat Niels. When the [[Counter Force (Marvel Comics)|Avengers Resistance]], consisting of many of Penance's New Warriors teammates, come to Camp H.A.M.M.E.R. seeking to release a captured teammate, [[Taskmaster (character)|Taskmaster]] orders Penance to attack them.<ref>''Avengers: The Initiative'' #29. Marvel Comics.</ref> Their fight is interrupted by [[Nightmare (Marvel Comics)|Nightmare]] having taken over the body of his son Trauma. Nightmare forces Penance to remember the Stamford incident, causing him to pass out in mental anguish. [[Tigra]] revives him, using her powers of empathy to help him see Trauma's predicament. With this knowledge, Penance is able to talk Trauma into freeing himself from his father's control. Penance then helps the Avengers Resistance escape Osborn's forces by rupturing a gas main. He refuses Vance's offer to join their team, not wanting his old friends to see how much he had changed.<ref>''Avengers: The Initiative'' #30. Marvel Comics.</ref>

Penance turns against Camp H.A.M.M.E.R. and helps the Avengers Resistance fight the Hood and those that are with Hood. During the battle, he finally reveals his identity to his other ex-New Warriors teammates.<ref>''Avengers: The Initiative'' #34. Marvel Comics.</ref>