The only Invader to escape capture by the Avengers, Namor the Sub-Mariner heads to his city of Atlantis to recruit his people in a rescue effort. Instead he finds the city destroyed, the people gone….
The New Avengers arrive at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington for a meeting with Spider-Woman. Though a part of Tony Stark’s Mighty Avengers, she considers herself on the side of what’s right first of all and so wants to aid them in rescuing Captain America and his allies. She tells them that the SHIELD Helicarrier will be over Washington in two hours. Dr. Strange creates a mystic wall to keep the time paradox from changing the present while his comrades locate the Invaders and return them to the past….
In New York, the young and the old Paul Anselm talk, with the current elderly one filling in his younger self on his future—his marriage, family, and other details. Then he drops the bombshell: Paul was the only one of his company to make it through the war….
Namor arrives at the sunken hulk of the Titanic where his modern counterpart, now King Namor waits with his subjects. The younger Subby demands that Atlantis attack in force to free the Invaders; King Namor declines, citing a fragile peace between the ocean and surface worlds. The hot-headed youngster fights the veteran warrior and emerges victorious. He then calls on the people of Atlantis to follow him against the surface….
Aboard the Helicarrier, Human Torch has discovered that the SHIELD agent he overpowered was a Life Model Decoy, and feels a kinship to it. Bucky releases Cap from his cell and they head to the deck where they are shocked to find the craft floating, not on the sea but high in the air. They are attacked by an army of LMD agents; Cap holds them off while he sends Bucky to find the others. Below deck, Bucky encounters Tony Stark who is holding Cap’s shield and wants to explain the situation. The hot-headed young soldier fires point blank at he shield and knocks Tony back, so that he hits his head on the bulkhead, losing consciousness. Bucky reclaims the shield….