Synopsis / Summary / Plot
"We are dead." Such is the judgment of Sergeant Roberto "Bob Solo" Solano Vicq, one of five soldiers lost in the jungles of South America while protecting a group of local children. They managed to get a distress call out before the radio was destroyed and its operator killed. To their amazement a plane passes overhead and drops a lone man on a chute. They figure the jumper has to be dead until Captain America steps out of the forest to announce help is here. Lieutenant David introduces himself and the others Sgt. Solo and Privates Sore, Hulk, and Nystrom. Cap is there to lead them to where his plane is waiting at a private landing field a two-day march ahead; there is a convent halfway there where they can rest briefly. Cap sings a lullaby to the frightened children in Spanish and they trust him. A short time later in the night, they are attacked by native soldiers, with Cap fighting them off almost single-handedly. As they march along, Cap discovers that the enemy is from the local drug mafia, attacking the Americans who are on loan to the local government to stop the cocaine traffic. Cap finds this dubious and intends to take it up with their commander. Cap starts to question the children as to why they were prisoners but they group is spotlighted by a helicopter overhead, demanding they free the children and surrender. The squad fights back and Cap is shot by the enemy; Private Hulk picks up Cap’s shield and hurls it at the copter, causing the pilot to lose control and crash into a tower. Nystrom rushes out into a crocodile-filled swamp to recover the shield. After they have gotten to safety, Cap asks Lt. David why one of the children thought the man in the copter was her father.... Solo administers a painkiller to Cap—which turns out to be a sedative. As Cap passes out, the soldier explains that they are after the dealer’s stash—and have taken his kids hostage. The Americans then realize that for their mission to succeed, Captain America must die….