Having passed out in the Parliamech
offices, Captain America awakens to find himself in a cavern of ice,
battling ice monsters, shattering them with his mighty shield and
trying to make sense of his new surroundings....
In New York, paramedic Jake Olson (then
the mortal guise of Thor, God of Thunder) and his partner Christine
Collins are trying to save the life of U.S. Agent, brutally beaten by
Protocide last issue. When they get him stable enough to go to the
hospital, Sharon Carter and SHIELD arrive to take the battered hero
into their custody....
Elsewhere, Falcon is leading Dawn
Ridgeway and Josh Hoard through a treacherous jungle swamp....
Cap is still fighting ice monsters only
now there is a lake of lava at the center of the iceberg, which is
what finally convinces Cap that none of this is real. Attacked by
fire-breathing ice dragons, Cap breaks through a wall and shorts out
an electrical system, revealing a holographic studio. He now faces
the enemy: Cache, a sentient software program in a metal body,
absorbing the world's information. The machine man attacks, confident
in victory because he contains the knowledge of every fighting style
in the world; Cap shows that all the knowledge in the world “doesn't
mean squat” without speed, strength, and training. While fighting,
they crash through a wall and into the jungle where Falcon and his
companions are shocked to see them. As Cache boasts of his great
knowledge, Cap asks him the big question “Who is Captain America
under the mask?” Cache freezes up in confusion, allowing Cap to
kayo him....
Later, as the police take Cache into
custody. Josh and Dawn explain how he created a data storage unit but
it went rogue. Cap tells Josh that his next job will be putting back
all the data that Cache stole....
Epilogue 1: Tracking down the truth
about Agent Ferrari, Nick Fury and his aide Berger drive out to the
middle of the Arabian desert where they find a white-domed building
hidden between some cliffs....
Epilogue 2: At A.I.M. HQ the leaders
discuss their failed attempt to infiltrate Parliamech with their
creation Cache. They move on to Protocide's next mission: kill
Captain America....