Flashback to 1946: Namor the Sub-Mariner arrives in Nuremberg to be greeted by the second Captain America. Cap calls him Subby; Namor rebukes him for the familiarity. Namor declines to swear on the Bible as he is of a different faith, and merely gives his word. He is there to testify at the trial of Helmut Gruler, the Nazi hero Iron Cross.…
Now, Bucky Barnes the Winter Soldier has encountered Gruler’s daughter Clare, the new cyborg version of Iron Cross. She has been his mystery informant; she easily destroys the robots attacking them and they move further into the base of arms dealer Kurt Dagmar in search of his missing comrades….
Bucky and Clare soon discover Captain America and Namor confused at the discovery that Kurt Dagmar was a Martian—especially since there are no Martians, not in this timestream at least. Clare explains that the Inhuman Gene was activated and she bonded with her Iron Cross armor; Dagmar’s gang kidnapped her with Toro as bait to capture the Human Torch. The unconscious Torch awakens in a panic and escapes by burning a hole through the ceiling. Iron Cross heads out after him, and Cap, who is still smarting over his brainwashing by the Illuminati, asks Namor to go too. Cap then meets with Luther Manning, the original Deathlok who explains that he and all of his variations are being kept there by Dagmar’s gateway to the alternate realities. Once Manning destroys that the Deathloks fade away one by one. Cap’s last problem is how to free Toro from his cocoon—which glows as soon as Cap turns his back….
In London, Union Jack, Spitfire, and the Destroyer are facing a Martian tripod stalking the city. In a nearby asylum, a totally mad Killraven is chanting "the Martians are coming" over and over….