Captain America and Thor are trying to rescue people from a
burning building but they are not allowed in by the Fire Department because the
building is unsafe. Damage Control has to stabilize the structure first but the
DC workers are on strike against the company's new owners....
In Washington D.C., Comptroller Albert Cleary is working with
Nick Fury and his overly enthusiastic Agent Alexander Pierce to pull off a
hostile takeover of Damage Control. Meanwhile, Henry Peter Gyrich is seduced by
an attractive woman who turns out to be shape-shifting villain Dittomaster, who
overcomes and impersonates Gyrich. The baddie then attends a meeting with Mrs
Hoag, intending to force her to sign the majority report on the Super-Hero
Registration Act and then kill her. Mrs Hoag is far too sharp for that and
clobbers the fake Gyrich as Nick Fury arrives to arrest him....
Back in New York, Robin Chapel persuades Lenny Ballinger to
call the men back to work to shore up the collapsing building but even then
it's still dangerous. R&D guy Gene Strausser, released from prison by Nick
Fury supplies them with a number of devices that would support the building
from inside—but first they need to be put in place inside the structure. Cap
volunteers and John Porter accompanies him to show him where they should be
placed....
Mrs Hoag with Albert, Nick Fury and Pierce confront Michael
Souris, the new boss, and reveal that they know he is gutting DC to cover a
loan from Kingpin Wilson Fisk. They tell him to sell the company back to Mrs
Hoag and she will give them the money; if he refuses, they will inform the
Securities and Exchange Commission—and the Kingpin. With the company back in
good hands, Robin goes to see the Kingpin and tells him that he no longer has
any connection to Damage Control. The Punisher, who had earlier planted a wire on
her, learns that she wasn't one of the bad guys and refrains from shooting her.
A few minutes later, Nick Fury confronts Fisk telling him to stop his attacks
on SHIELD....
After Cap has placed Gene's devices in the collapsing
building (and John has rescued a child), Gene presses a button and a web of
braces shoot out, propping up the structure fully. Mrs Hoag settles the strike.
The staff goes back to work. Cap understands the importance of Damage Control.
And the huge building with the letters DC on top is carried away, sold to a
comic book company which has made a great deal of money from a recent movie
(It's DC and the 1989 Batman film, just so's we're on the same page). Soon
they've repaired all the damage done by the “Acts of Vengeance” battles and Anne
hopes that this will be the end of it. It isn't....