In the wake of the inversion, the public is divided on whether the new Captain America can be trusted, sending Sam Wilson into a spiral of despair and depression. The wizard Kaluu explains to Sam the concept of a qlippoth, in Kabala an inverted version of the Tree of Life where all values are reversed. The wizard suggests that they are now in a distorted world that may become worse. Spectrum then enters and wants to have a talk with Cap….
Luke Cage, no longer a Mighty Avenger, meets with the sinister CEO of Cortex Inc., Jason Quantrell. Now that the inversion is past, Luke still wants to be a part of Quantrell’s sinister schemes….
White Tiger and the new Power Man visit the site of Gideon Mace’s murder, meeting Detectives Lowe and Carter. White Tiger detects something very odd about the scene; Power Man uses his senses to pick up on the chi of whoever has been in that alley. He locates the ghosts of Mace and his henchman Robert Toole, the same Robert Toole whose corpse has been detected in orbit around Ganymede. PW then “sees” Toole replaced by someone who leaves only an enigmatic yet familiar trace. The two Avengers are now on the trail….
Elsewhere, the fiendish Quickfire is using the heart she ripped from Gideon Mace’s body as a seed to grow something creepy and very like Mace….
Luke Cage phones his wife Jessica Jones to tell her he has been successful in infiltrating Cortex by pretending he is still a bad guy. Jessica wants to be a part of the investigation despite the danger. They are both unaware that Jason Quantrell can hear what they are saying….
Spectrum (Monica Rambeau) is having a talk with Sam who is broken up with horror over having been possessed by and evil version of himself. Under Monica’s prodding he comes to realize that Captain America is not just for good days, that on his worst days he must rise above adversity to prove himself….
In the days that follow, Cap takes a public stand as the spokesperson for the Mighty Avengers and wins back some of the respect he had lost….