Clint Barton aka Hawkeye of the avengers wasn't always an assassin. He was born as Warren Worthington the Third. A mutant. But now, that life is gone...or so he thought. After a nightmare about his old life, Charles Xavier contacts his team to talk to him, telling him that he's being hunted. Now he has to tell the avengers about his past... And open old wounds. Wounds that were long forgotten. It's time for this Hawk to take flight.

This book starts off after Nightcrawler joins the X-Men and the team is given detail from the professor that there is an overlooked project called "Point Opposite" made by the same scientists who made Wolverine the way he's now. When Jean, Cyclops, and Storm arrive at the destination they realize that Maxine's background may be even more difficult to understand than they thought.