Cloud 9 (comics)

Cloud 9
Interior to Avengers: The Initiative #1. Art by Stefano Caselli.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Avengers: The Initiative #1 (June 2007)
Created by	Dan Slott Stefano Caselli
In-story information
Alter ego	Abigail "Abby" Boylen
Species	Human Mutate
Team affiliations	Freedom Force The Initiative
Abilities	Expert markswoman Ability to manipulate an unidentified cloud-like gas form on which she can fly

Cloud 9 (Abigail "Abby" Boylen) is a fictional character, a teenage superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Cloud 9 was created by writer Dan Slott and artist Stefano Caselli. She first appears in Avengers: The Initiative #1 (June 2007).

Cloud 9 is one of the feature characters in the 2011 six-issue limited series Fear Itself: Youth in Revolt.

Abby first demonstrates her powers while flying on a cloud in Evanston, Illinois. She is spotted by the Initiative program and was recruited into it by War Machine, who informs her that if she wants to continue flying, she needs a license. Once at the base, Abby is revealed to be very shy. Self-conscious about her body, she compares it to the other girls' bodies there whom she feels look like Vogue magazine models.

During a uniform exchange, Abby accidentally enters the boys' showers and is found by fellow new hero MVP. He takes a liking to her and watches as she trains. However, when the training with another new hero Armory produces a mishap, MVP is shot by one of Armory's blasts when he tries to protect Abby from harm. Armory was grounded from superhero-ing and expelled out of the base.

Abby is one of the cadets sent on an emergency mission to protect the President from an assassination attempt by HYDRA. It is revealed that she is the top marksman among the Initiative cadets, and she shoots down a HYDRA fighter with a pulse rifle. She becomes distressed when she realizes the HYDRA pilot perished in the explosion. Her drill instructor Gauntlet emphasizes this. Later, in a fight with the group Warbound, she tries to kill her opponent Elloe Kaifi. She is talked out of her actions.