Captain America parachutes into an
abandoned military base in Alberia where Sharon Carter is a prisoner
of a blonde Russian scientist lecturing her on the importance of
power....
Cap enters, speaking to Black Panther
on a communicator, T'Challa apologizing for having to abandon Cap
because of treaties between Wakanda and Alberia. As Cap races through
the building, defeating guards by the dozens, he muses on patriotism
and how it occasionally makes him forget that treachery is real, that
other sworn patriots can easily betray their countries—like
Thunderbolt Ross who has teamed up with “reformed” villains and
sent his own agent, Sharon, into a trap. Cap tries to remind himself
that Washington was noble once and there were good guys and bad guys
on the world scene. That this flag he wears once stood for
something—and if there's any hope, that America remember before
long....
Sharon's captor explains how the Power
Elite realized that the working class of Middle America, feeling
forsaken after fighting Hydra, would greet them as their liberators.
The woman reveals herself to Sharon as Alexa Lukin, whose husband
Aleksander Lukin Sharon killed. And now Mrs Lukin will get her
revenge, by way of Selene's draining Sharon of her life force....
Moving deeper into the base, Cap is hit
by an arrow and finds himself facing Taskmaster. As they brawl, Cap
finds himself getting weaker, slowing down, thanks to a drug on the
arrow. He hears Sharon scream as Taskmaster raises his sword for the
final blow....