At the cemetery where his wartime comrades are buried, the time-displaced Paul Anselm wishes he could change history….
Aboard the SHIELD Helicarrier, the Invaders and the New Avengers are locked in combat with Tony Stark’s Mighty Avengers, while the modern Captain America tries to warn his younger self, Bucky Barnes, about the fate that awaits him in 1945. SHIELD ESPers are preventing Dr. Strange from teleporting his allies from the deck so the heroes leap overboard to be snatched out of the air—but original Captain America and the Sub-Mariner are recaptured. Back at the Sanctum Sanctorum, the Invaders see the Gulf of Time, held at bay by Strange. Their new mission: find the Cosmic Cube and set things back to normal….
Back on the Helicarrier, Iron Man finally has the opportunity to explain the situation to a bound Cap. Consumed by guilt over his part in Steve’s death however, he makes a poor job of it, but Cap believes him when he says that the Invaders cannot be allowed to see much of the modern world…
At the Sanctum Sanctorum, Wolverine detects that Toro is a mutant and lectures him on the oppression that they face in the modern world—and the Human Torch compares them to the Life Model Decoys—which Logan disputes. The presence of Bucky allows Dr. Strange to see the exact moment of the rift in time—and they learn that another person came through with them. Meanwhile, and angry Torch zooms off, his mind racing back to the War when he liberated a concentration camp and discovered that the Nazis were exterminating Jews—and wondered if his creator Professor Horton, himself Jewish, intended that. Torch arrives at the Helicarrier and announces that he is there to liberate the LMDs from their oppression by humans—and below, the minions of the sinister mastermind behind the Torch’s manipulation ready a hidden army of LMDs for action….