On the planet Syro, Bucky Barnes is a prisoner, their ruler pronouncing him guilty of harboring killing thoughts, and sentencing him to transfiguration, having his mind transferred into the Sacred Reznor, a harmless animal resembling an aardvark. Instead SHIELD Agent Daisy Johnson fires a vibranium bullet from the other side of the planet, killing the ruler; Bucky calmly frees himself and leaves the confused natives with the advice to establish a democracy…
In a mysterious darkened room, a mysterious figure mutters mysteriously while working on a mysterious project. No further explanations offered….
Back at Nick Fury’s secret satellite station, Bucky, the new "Man on the Wall," protects Earth from cosmic threats. He is trying to talk Daisy into being his permanent partner but she is reluctant. They head to the Herzog Station to dine on Thai-Skrull fusion cuisine where they continue to kick around his proposal and also Daisy discovers that Bucky has rescued the Sacred Reznor and is concealing it in his coat….
On the planet Mer-z-bow, Princess Ventolin and her counselor Rossz Csillag witness the birth of a new world in a white hole. She wants to abdicate the throne but Rossz is worried about anarchy in the kingdom; she prefers to look at it as keeping the system fluid and adaptable….
Bucky then teams up with Namor the Sub-Mariner to defeat a gang of underwater drug smugglers. Namor seizes the illium, a sedative which can destroy the mind. Bucky questions a captive who claims that Loki is their boss and that if captured to say "The lost glove is happy." Then Bucky is shot by another spacesuit-clad gunman a good distance away….