Fred Davis’ mind goes back to an incident in 1949, when he had been forced to retire as Bucky after a bullet wound. He overheard two servicemen in a bar talking about Baron Zemo and drunkenly told them that he had been the second Bucky and had fought Zemo. The servicemen are insulted that anyone would claim there was more than one Captain America, and when Fred tries to pick a fight, he falls down and can’t get up. That was when the realization sank in that he would never receive any recognition for the one thing in his life he was proudest of….
In the present at the Hoboken scinence lab, the now-elderly Fred confronts the Human Torch, out of his mind from trying to fight Adam III’s reprogramming. The maddened hero tries to seize Fred who ducks, sending the Torch into an electrical transformer. The severe shock burns out the virus in his brain and he tells Fred that Adam is alive….
At Fort Stone, Adam III, in the form of Captain America, meets with General Matheson and they lay the groundwork for replacing the human race with androids….
Fred and the Torch arrive at Fort Stone, where they learn from the sentries that Cap is already there and he has brought a truckload of cargo. Torch and Fred enter the truck and find the unconscious form of the real Captain America….
Inside the Fort, Matheson gives Adam a tour of the war machines that will be the key in the coming battle, and Steve Rogers’ biometrics will provide the military clearance for activating them. But suddenly Cap arrives on the scene, and Adam activates the deadly machines. Cap and the Torch take on the devices while Fred follows the fleeing Matheson. Cornering him in a small room, Fred tricks the General into revealing his traitorous plans in the hearing of two concealed MPs. In the midst of the chaos next door, Cap confronts Adam who is about to launch missiles to destroy the human world; Cap calls on the remnant of the brain of Will Naslund to fight back—and it does, interfering with Adam’s attempt to hack into the defense system and causing the android to have a gruesome nervous breakdown and collapse. Fred confesses that he feels better than he has in a long time….
Days later, Cap and the Torch bring Fred to the VA hospital he occupied for a time. Cap shows Fred a statue of Captain America and Bucky, honoring William Naslund and Fred Davis, Jr. for their selfless service to the United States.