At the Daily Bugle newsroom, reporter Kat Farrell takes a call from her mother telling her to look out the window. She does and, along with the rest of the staff, sees the Quinjet heading for the newly transformed Stark Tower….
Meanwhile, Steve Rogers has confronted Jessica Drew about her suspicious behavior on the Avengers’ recent mission in Japan (issues #11-13) and demands to know who she is really working for. Jessica is unable to evade his question and decides to tell the whole story—while putting partial blame on Steve for making her an Avenger: she relates how she was a Hydra agent at 17 and was rescued and recruited for SHIELD by Nick Fury. She enjoyed her adventuring life until her Spider-Woman powers suddenly disappeared. Unable to adjust to the life of an ordinary human, she was approached by Hydra agent Connelly who offered to restore her powers—if she became a Hydra double agent within SHIELD. Jessica realizes that if she refuses Connelly will kill her. She approached Nick Fury about being reinstated to SHIELD, revealing Hydra’s offer; Fury asked her to do it, planning to use her as a reverse double agent against the enemy organization. She agreed, submitting to Hydra’s process; it took seventeen months but her powers were finally restored and then some: she now had the ability to fly. Her time as a double agent put a great deal of stress on her as she had to be living a dangerous lie—then things became more dangerous when Nick Fury had to go underground, severing contact with her. SHIELD reassigned her to routine duty, such as the bodyguard detail that had her at the Vault on the day of the breakout (issue #1). And then Captain America made her an Avenger, an offer that Hydra would not let her pass up. She relates her suspicious that someone bigger is controlling Hydra—as well as the rogue element in SHIELD. She denies knowing where Fury is now—so Steve asks the other Avengers if they believe her, and the others, who were listening secretly, do—except for one point. She must still be in contact with Fury. At this point her phone rings—and Fury reveals he had been listening the whole time too. He then tells them to turn on the television; they do and see that the changes to Stark Tower have excited a firestorm of controversy over its significance. So Tony Stark calls Jarvis and has him set up a press conference….