The Crew

Why Are You Doing This?

Back in Harlem, Sam visit Isaiah new home. He knocks on the door and Isaiah answered it.

"Well, shit. It's good to see you, man." Isaiah chuckled as he hug Sam

"It's to see you, too, Isaiah." Sam said with a smile on his face.

"Come on in, man." Isaiah invites him in.

"So, your sister in law, huh? She got it all touch up for you." Sam said.

"Yeah. She a real workaholic." Isaiah said.

"They finally made a book about you." Sam said as he look at his memoir called, "Truth: Red, White & Black."

"Yeah. It's sold to 5 million copies. The best seller yet." Isaiah said.

"So, you heard about that Rage kid getting killed by that Americop?" Sam said.

"Sam, it was on the news. Everybody hears about it. I even tell my Elijah that he can't stay out at night anymore. I'm worried that one day the Americop will shoot him." Isaiah said.

"That's reminds me. Where is he?" Sam asked.

"Elijah! Get in here! Look who is here." Isaiah exclaimed.

"Hey, Black Captain America." Elijah said.

"Yeah, man. How you been doing?" Sam said.

"Oh you know same old same old." Elijah said.

"Can I talk to him for a moment." Sam said.

Elijah took Sam to his room.

"So, how are you liking Harlem?" Sam asked.

"It's alright. I mean, it's no different than Baltimore." Eli said.

"Let me ask you something, Eli. Have you heard about this mask vigilante, guy? I called him, 'Patriot'. What do you think?" Sam asked.

"I mean it's an okay name." Eli said.

"I always wander how he got to make the shield. I even saw one of his videos on YouTube." Sam said.

"Yeah. He got slick moves." Eli said as Sam went to his closet and saw his costume and the shield.

"Well, well. What do we have here." Sam said.

"Hey, man! Did you mom ever tell you not go through people's things?" Eli said as he shut his closet door.

"So, you're the mask vigilante Patriot?" Sam said as he looked down and step away from the closet door. He open the door and looked at the shield.

"You know I was finally have a good day here, you know, man. Didn't get any trouble with the law. Found a Biggie Smalls vinyl and made some new friends." Eli said.

"Does your grandfather know about this?" Sam said.

"No. But if my Aunt knows, she would go off on me. It ain't pretty." Eli said.

"You know what I think it's pretty cool. This shield." Sam said.

"It was his shield. Back in the day." Eli said.

"Your fighting skills. How long you been doing that?" Sam said.

"I've been going to this boxing gym, after school. Grandpa signed me up for it." Eli said.

"You really need to update your techniques. Let me ask you this, Elijah. Why are you doing this?" Sam said with his arm fold and Elijah sat down the on the side of his bed.

"After you showed my grandfather that statue. It gave me a second thought of my life. I mean I would play football, if the coach would give me a chance. When you want to do the things you wanna do but you can't. Then that's when the but things happened." Eli explained.

"So you want to look out for your generation. Want to make your neighborhood safe your own way?" Sam said.

"Yeah. Yeah. I'm not like those other kids that wanna sell drugs and all that. Just want to look after the people. But hey, it is what it is." Eli said.

"One last thing. You want to take be a pro at this?" Sam said.

"Yeah. I guess. Eli said.

"How about I help you on this. Thing of me as your mentor." Sam said.

"You want to help me on doing this?" Eli said.

"Hey, you wanna do this the right way. You're gonna need some who have more experience. Just thing of me as your Master Yoda." Sam said.

"What about my grandpa?" Eli said.

"Don't worry I got this under control." Sam said.

In the living room, Sam tells Isaiah that he'll be taking Eli on a trip to Stark's Internship.

"You wanna take my son on a internship trip?" Isaiah said.

"Well. Thought he might be good for him to offer a good career training program." Sam said.

"How long will this trip will be? Because me and him were planning on going fishing." Isaiah said.

"Don't worry, he'll be back just in time for your summer plans. I'll be seeing you around Eli." Sam said.

"Yeah. You too, man." Eli said as he showed him to the door. Until he was about to leave. Eli told Sam about Miles.

"Hey. I forgot to tell you this. There's another kid you should check out." Eli said.

"Who?" Sam said.

Miles Morales was walking in the neighborhood with his earbud in, until he got a text message from Eli

It said, "Meet me at East Harlem. No superhero business." Sam agree and reply "okay".

Miles went to East Harlem to meet with Eli. He seen's him as he wave to get attention." Eli said.

"Miles! Over here." Eli exclaimed.

"Eli! It's been awhile." Miles said.

"Guess who here?" Eli said as he introduce Sam.

"Hey, you are Sam Wilson." Miles said.

"Mr. Morales. Finally we got to meet. Your friend, Eli was tell my you got a gift." Sam said.

"Well, I would call it a gift." Miles said.

"Miles he want to join him." Eli said.

"What? You want me to be an Avenger?" Mile said.

"Well, not particularly. But I can help you get your powers to the test. You ever been to upstate?" Sam said.

"Miles you got to do this." Eli said.

Later on today, Miles told his parents that he will be going on a camping trip with Ganke and his family.

"So, I'll be going on a camping trip with Ganke. Can I go?" Miles said.

"Alright." Rio said.

"How long will be this camping trip?" Jefferson asked.

"For a week." Miles said.

"Alright. You can go. But you must promise that you'll call us before you go to bed." Rio said.

"Can I? Thanks! I'm gonna call Ganke." Miles said with excitement, but he texted Eli.

"Eli! I'm going to do this." Miles texted.