A.I.M. prepares Protocide for his
mission against Captain America by telling him that he should have
been Captain America but Steve Rogers sabotaged the experiment,
leaving Protocide for dead and usurping his position. A.I.M. plans to
destroy SHIELD but they cannot do so until Captain America is
eliminated....
A team of thieves is caught robbing a
jewelry store by Captain America who quickly subdues them and turns
them over to the police because he is in a hurry. And so, he arrives
at Shea Stadium for his date with Connie Ferrari. They meet a former
client of Connie's, Chet Madden, had been accused of various business
improprieties. Steve wonders if Madden was innocent; Connie explains
that it doesn't matter, he was entitled to effective
representation....
In the Middle East, Nick Fury meets
with Jasper Sitwell to learn what happened to Agent David Ferrari.
Agent Ferrari was part of a SHIELD team assigned to destroy an A.I.M.
bio-weapon lab; they were caught and, as a last resort, Ferrari
released the deadly Omega Compound which destroyed the lab and the
SHIELD agents. There was a cover-up, claiming Ferrari was killed in a
hazing accident, designed to fool his sister Connie, the hot-shot
lawyer. Then Fury learns that Ferrari's body was never recovered....
Back in the States, USAgent's life is
saved by prompt medical attention. Then Sharon Carter and Dum Dum
Dugan plan for the mission sending the Omega Compound out of New
York....
Steve drops off Connie at her apartment
while he goes out to “work.” He is protecting the Omega Compound
shipment as Captain America; the truck is ambushed by a vengeful
Protocide. The two super-soldiers fight with Cap taking most of the
injuries but he manages to grab the vial holding the Compound before
Sharon whisks him away in her flying car. When they land she and
Dugan discover just how badly injured Cap is....
Continued in CAPTAIN AMERICA [ANNUAL]
2000.