Britney Waters ends up in a pretty different kind of team in the original Red Agent series. She's still Red Riding Hood, still has that wolf transformation, and still has plenty…

Britney Waters ends up in a pretty different kind of team in the original Red Agent series. She's still Red Riding Hood, still has that wolf transformation, and still has plenty of reasons to be dangerous on her own. Now she's working inside a government operation with a witch and a hacker, trying to stop an organization that wants to wipe out Highborns. The Highborn Initiative is the government side of this. Its headquarters are inside Cheyenne Mountain, and the purpose presented to Britney is finding, protecting, and helping people with extraordinary abilities. Her original field team is a much smaller part of that operation. Britney, Avril Williams, and Ditto are the people to follow through this first five-issue story. Red Agent is Britney's codename, so when I'm talking about this group, I mean her team within the Initiative. Britney doesn't just sign up and agree to do whatever she's told. She wants the freedom to handle the job her way. That matters when the job involves people who are already being hunted for what they are. Somebody at headquarters can describe the mission, but she's the one who has to go out there and deal with the person trying to kill them. Her first assignment pulls her toward Ditto, a hacker the Circle needs for its plans. They send Alpha after him, and Britney gets a very unpleasant introduction to how dangerous he is. Having powers doesn't automatically put her above the person she's fighting. He overwhelms her early, and the encounter becomes the point where these separate characters start getting pulled into the same fight. Avril Williams comes into it with her own reason for going after Alpha. He's responsible for killing witches from her coven. She isn't somebody who just happens to be available when Britney needs another teammate. There's a history there, and she's carrying that into every encounter with him. Her magic also gives the team options Britney doesn't have. She can attack with magical energy, but she can use it in more practical ways too. In the third issue, she changes a locked door into glass so they can get through it. That's a useful little example of what she brings. A problem that would require equipment or a different route for somebody else can become something she solves on the spot. Ditto brings the computer side, and he's tied into it much more directly than an ordinary person sitting behind a keyboard. He's able to physically connect to the technology he's using. That makes him valuable, but it also leaves him exposed in ways the others aren't. When Britney and Avril find him connected to his computer and in serious trouble, they have to get him out. His abilities don't stop him from needing help. Then there's Eve, the android the Circle has taken. She's central to the whole operation because of the technology they want to exploit. Calling her an asset might describe why these organizations are interested in her, but there's still a captive at the center of the mission. Getting to her becomes the reason the team has to work together rather than just survive separate encounters with Alpha. By the time the search takes them into the Pacific Northwest, they've got physical strength, magic, and advanced hacking between them. Those abilities solve different problems, and the story keeps putting them in situations where one person can't cover everything. Britney can fight, Avril can change what they're dealing with, and Ditto can reach into the systems behind it. The original Red Agent run is where that combination gets put together and immediately tested.