The
story starts with an odd recollection of Captain America (Steve Rogers) of a
childhood visit to the Gettysburg battlefield where he was dissuaded for
urinating in the grass because it was hallowed ground. Now in Central
Pennsylvania, he meets up with Captain America Sam Wilson, both on motorcycles
and Steve with the electronic shield once created for him by Tony Stark. They
are looking for the fake Cap who stole Steve’s shield and are there to look into
the case of Nichelle Wright, a young Black woman who was arrested for domestic
terrorism while wearing a Captain America suit. First they investigate the new water
pipeline Nichelle is accused of sabotaging. They realize that it was damaged using
Cap’s shield—and the super-fast Cap impostor shows up to fight while confirming
that his mission is to make the country hate the name of Captain America. The
lady assassin in a red, white, and blue costume is also there and she shoots
Sam. Steve conks her with a chink of wood and the imposter carries her off
quickly….
At
the jail, the Caps are denied permission to see Nichelle. A racist cop defends
her arrest and Sam hurls the man through a glass door. They break Nichelle out
to protect her from the assassin and she declines the aid, needing to get back
to her job, protecting the people on the street. The lady assassin then drives
up in a military vehicle and fires a mounted machine gun into the place.
Nichelle Cap protects the racist cop and Steve Cap walks out, his shield protecting
him from the deadly gunfire. But she doesn’t want to make Steve Cap a martyr,
just tarnish his symbol using the local Caps when they can. She then fires a
flame thrower at Cap and drives off. Nichelle declines to join the two Caps in
their pursuit of the bad guys, instead getting back to her main job of
protecting the neighborhood which the real Captain America has no time to do….
Epilogue:
the baddies are revealed to be Speed Demon and Sinthea "Sin" Schmidt, now calling
herself “Superior”….
“Hometown
Hero”
Writer:
Mohale Mashigo. Art: Natacha Bustos. Colors: Matt Milla.
Synopsis: Having been busted out of jail by
Steve Cap and Sam Cap, new Captain America of Harrisburg Nichelle Wright is on
the run. She dodges the police and returns to the neighborhood she protects and
find a couple of white guys holding hostages in a restaurant to celebrate Nichelle’s
arrest. She bursts in and fights the guys and receives a bullet in the
shoulder. The police arrive and she runs for it, claiming she was protecting
the people in the restaurant; a cop points out that it was the people in the restaurant
that called the police. She is nabbed by a dude named Benjamin, who hides her
in an abandoned church. She defends her practice of protesting legally by day
and fighting crime as a vigilante by night. Nichelle’s sister Joan and her
former gymnastics coach (who receives no name other than Coach) arrive to help.
Joan shows her a series of videos of neighborhood people who offer their
support for Nichelle. She gets a call from Aaron (Captain America of the Railways)
warning her of trouble coming her way. So she goes out to meet it as a symbol for
America.