Captain America
busts up a big drug deal only to discover the buyers were undercover cops and
he just ruined a major operation. Embarrassed, he stops off at the Brooklyn
garage where he keeps his motorcycle and takes off….
Meanwhile, Nomad (Jack Monroe) is in Miami,
undercover as a waiter on a luxury yacht belonging to the gangster known as the
Slug. He is there, we learn, on behalf of a woman named Priscilla Lyons, who
wants Nomad to rescue her brother from the Slug’s gang. That evening, at a huge
party he is throwing, Slug has the Jacuzzi filled with real slugs and an unsuccessful
minion tormented by being dunked into the slimy creatures. Jack meets
Priscilla’s brother and delivers the message that he should come home; Phil
Lyons reveals he is there willingly and threatens to expose Jack. That night,
Jack is trapped, injected with heroin, and tossed overboard….
At home, Priscilla is worried, not having heard from Nomad
for days, so she calls Captain America’s
hotline to get him to investigate. Steve gets the message and hops a flight to Florida,
arriving the next morning. There, searching the harbor in a boat he discovers
Nomad, semi-conscious but alive, having inflated his pants as a makeshift
floatation device….
That night Captain America
and Jack steal aboard the Slug’s yacht; Jack heads to his room to don his Nomad
outfit and then to the kitchen to start a major grease fire. Nomad heads to the
main room where he takes out the mobster’s bodyguards with his throwing discs
then confronts the Slug. Cap, meanwhile, is ensuring that the passengers and
crew get safely off the burning ship, and then goes in search of Nomad. He
finds his partner brutally beating the grotesquely obese bad guy, and restrains
him from killing the Slug with his bare hands. Nomad runs off to save the
unconscious goons leaving Cap to try to move the Slug to a place of safety. The
ship explodes, and Nomad and Cap link up in the water. Cap believes the Slug is
dead with him sinking like a stone in his mechanized wheelchair. The reader
knows the truth: Slug was able to inflate a huge raft and is floating free….