The
members of the Outer Circle meet and all are mad at The Revolution for bringing
Captain America to their Capitol and they expect to see his scheme fail….
Cap,
Winter Soldier, and the Starpoint called Redacted parachute down through a
hologram cover and land on a huge orbiting station that is patterned after Cap’s
shield. Cap sends Redacted off for his part of the mission (the part with
explosions). Giant hologram images of the Outer Circle appear above Cap and Bucky
and explain how they have controlled history for much of the Twentieth Century…and
now for the Twenty-First they will kill Captain America. They are suddenly
surrounded by the Tithed, the Outer Circle’s set of controlled troops. A female
soldier named Staci gets the drop on Cap and he tells her that she can put down
her gun, all she need do is let go. She does and discovers that the Outer Circle’s
threat of instant death by explosion did not happen. More soldiers see this and
do the same—because Redacted has destroyed the tower controlling the bombs
implanted in their uniforms. Cap and Bucky crash into the main building to
confront The Revolution, the only member of the Outer Circle who has not fled.
The villain addresses Bucky, revealing that the Outer Circle has caused every
incident in his life to make him first be Captain America’s sidekick, subtly
controlling the hero and then, when that failed, having him recreated as the
Winter Soldier. Bucky asks Cap to leave but Cap refuses, trying to talk Bucky
out of violence and interposing his body between Bucky and The Revolution.
Bucky fires his gun, the bullet passing through Cap and striking the villain….