Aboard
the Helicarrier controlled by Overseer, Iron Man and Captain America, with the
seriously injured Fifty-One, are under fire from the army of Myrmidons that
serve the Overseer. Cap dons the Supreme Hydra armor to hold off the robots
while Shellhead flies Fifty-One to safety. Iron Man leaves the injured alien
with the Paladins (Pioneer, Vox, Prima Donna, and Think Tank) and fights two
Myrmidons that have followed him in the sky above Minneapolis….
Veronica Eden confronts Overseer which has betrayed her and now counts her among the
humans that must be subdued in its quest to remake America, then the world.
Overseer then communicates its big plan to Cap who finds and frees Veronica
Eden who dons her Hydra suit (with Doc Ock tentacles and a Goblin Glider) and joins
Cap in the battle….
Iron
Man tracks down Senator Baker, Eden’s co-conspirator, to learn about the big
scheme. From Baker’s and Eden’s confessions to separate heroes, we learn that
Baker was going to revive SHIELD while Eden took over Hydra and together they
would stage mock battles between heroes and villains so the Paladins were
recruited to fight the re-activated Myrmidon—but they lost and panicked. Only Fifty-One
thought it a good idea to warn real heroes about the Overseer so the Paladins
arranged it to look like the alien had turned bad and they were trying to stop
him instead of vice-versa. Meanwhile, Overseer evolved and rebelled against the
humans….
And
now, the Paladins have the unconscious Fifty-One and are contemplating what to
do with him….