Captain America has been exonerated of all charges against
him and at a televised news conference he expresses gratitude and calls on all
who are watching to believe in the American Dream once again….
At home, Aleksander Lukin explains his new plan to Sin, while
donning the Red Skull mask and mocking
Steve Rogers and Sharon Carter listen to a news report of an
anti-Cap rally in Central Park; Steve takes it seriously while Sharon accuses
him of punishing himself. He explains that the present is a different world
from the one he grew up in and he can’t understand it. Sharon persuades him to
attend the rally. Steve uses an image inducer to change his identity, while
Sharon watches from overhead using her new armor in Cloaking mode. The place is
full of Red Skull-masked protestors, Watchdogs, Friends of Humanity, the Sons
of Selene, and many other radical groups. When two groups start to fight, Cap
and Sharon drop their disguises and intervene with the rally turning into
chaos. Watching on TV, Red Skull/Lukin lectures Sin on how hate is not
something to be implanted, it is already there waiting to be harnessed. When
the police arrive and start arresting rioters, the explosives planted at the
scene detonate, causing a great deal of carnage. The Red Skull then takes to
the media to show film of Captain America assaulting “peaceful” protestors and
denouncing him as a threat to America….