Captain America is in a near-future world where a bioweapon of the Red
Skull’s devising got out of hand, transforming everyone into maniacal replicas
of the Red Skull linked by a hive mind that only wants to create a new world
order. Now Cap is one man, standing alone against the hordes of Red Skulls,
battling (but not killing) them wherever he finds them and now he falls through
a floor and drops to a sub-basement where he finds human survivors. They are elderly
Dr. Abe Jacobs and a handful of children, hiding from the Skull hordes; Cap
explains the origins of the world-wide disaster but there is no cure for this
extremely contagious virus. Then the Red Skulls attack and in the battle
several of the kids are assimilated by the disease and teenage Marsha is shot.
With the monsters held at bay for now, Dr. Jacobs is able to save Marsha’s life
with a transfusion of Cap’s blood….
Desperate Cap leads the survivors (Dr. Jacob, the wounded
Marsha, and little Sarah) out of the city and discovers a SHIELD Helicarrier
wrecked on the ground. Cap enters alone and finds a Red Skull-infected MODOK
controlling the Skull horde; in a brief battle, Cap kills his grotesque foe and
gets his group to safety as the Helicarrier explodes. Outside they are
surrounded by Red Skulls and Dr Jacobs and Sarah are assimilated. Cap pulls a
piece of shrapnel from his leg and stabs Jacobs to get away with Marsha, the
last kid still normal. Standing atop a hill, Cap comes to the realization that
if he is the only normal person left and the battle is hopeless, then he is the
monster, the one standing in the way of a new civilization. But then he sees
Abe Jacobs in the crowd and realizes there must be a cure. Cap fight his way to
Jacobs where he learns that it is his blood that is the cure. So more and more
people are cured, humanity takes back the world and Cap spends his days
donating blood in the name of freedom.