As Black Panther’s plane crashes into the mine where Master Man is wreaking havoc, Gabe Jones manages to flee down a tunnel just ahead of the resultant fireball. In a place of safety he discovers, and pockets, a small piece of Vibranium….
At the Nazi camp, Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos are barely able to withstand the attack of the Red Skull in his armored suit….
Climbing a ladder at the end of the tunnel, Gabe finds himself in the palace courtyard where Armless Tiger Man has the young prince T’Challa at his mercy. The unseen Gabe fires a shot hitting the villain in the forehead. As the Queen praises him for his talent, Captain America arrives to tell Gabe the Howlers are in trouble….
At the mine, the Panther (actually a warrior named Azzuri) leaps on Master Man, pressing a caustic substance into his face until he is dead. He is then assaulted by Warrior Woman, and gives her the same treatment….
Fury and the Howlers dodge the armored Red Skull by hiding among nearby trees and race back to the camp to enter the tent of Baron Strucker and try to take him hostage. The Skull appears, however, tearing apart the tent and opening fire with his machine guns….
En route to the Nazi camp, Black Panther offers Gabe citizenship in Wakanda as a reward for his honorable behavior. Gabe, remembering his stolen Vibranium, asks for time to think about it….
In the camp, as Fury is fighting Strucker in a hand-to-hand duel and the Red Skull is pursuing the other Howlers, the Skull suddenly pauses, gazing into the sky. Fury looks up to see…Captain America and the Black Panther dropping into combat. The two heroes engage with the armored villain, who withstands their attacks, even crushing Cap’s shield. Panther passes Cap his round wooden shield and Cap hurls it, piercing the circuitry on the front of the Skull’s armor, sending paralyzing shocks through him. Strucker surrenders and the Black Panther gives him a warning to take back to Hitler that any further Nazi encroachments on Wakanda will result in their invasion of Germany. Cap thanks the Panther for his help and says the native shield has given him an idea for his next one. As the Americans prepare to leave for home, Gabe tells the Panther he is declining the offer of citizenship, citing his loyalty to the United States; he also has an eerie feeling that the Panther knows about his stolen piece of Vibranium. On the flight home, Gabe tells Fury he was unsuccessful in obtaining a piece of Vibranium.
Back in the States, Fury reports to his superiors that Captain America is a superb fighting man but because of his unwillingness to betray his allies (the secret mission proposed in the previous issue) Cap should be teamed with a partner willing to do the dirty work. In the end both the Black Panther and Captain America (with a new round shield) think fondly of their new overseas friends.