Dryad (Peggy Carter) is reviewing intel on the Power Elite
gleaned from interrogating Baron Strucker when she receives a call from
Sharon Carter. Her niece wants to know when they are going to tell Steve about Peggy
(presumably that she is still alive) but there is another interruption as the
people Dryad has been waiting for have arrived….
Aboard a VTOL jet furnished by Wakanda as thanks for helping
capture Zeke Stane (in issue #3), Steve Rogers and Sharon Carter are heading
toward their first mission in the plan to offer Captain America redemption. Sharon
and White Tiger outline the mission for Steve: a local militia is harassing migrant
workers near the border who need to be rescued. Sharon has to admit that many
of the migrants are in the country illegally which doesn’t sit well with Steve
who objects to the extra-legal trappings but he agrees to go. He and White
Tiger are dropped into the field and as Steve ponders the often gray areas of
modern life, he and the Tiger beat up a bunch of well-armed thugs with
Confederate flag masks. Seeing themselves outnumbered, the baddies who can walk
seize hostages and teleport up to their ship; Sharon and Toni Ho pursue in the
jet but suddenly the enemy craft just disappears….
As Steve and Ava tend to the wounded migrants, he receives a
call from Sharon that they have identified the bad guys: the Watchdogs, a fascist
group that Cap has tangled with in the past….
As her hideout is invaded by Nick Fury Jr. and agents searching
for the fugitive Steve Rogers, Dryad takes them all on and easily clobbers
them; she then informs Fury he is on the wrong track and picks up a fallen gun
and points it at Fury, intending to straighten him out….