The Hydra
Agents who attacked the Presidential debates and were subdued by Loki (issue
#1) are being transferred to another prison, despite all still being in comas.
Reporter Nisa Contreras tries to follow the prison bus through heavy traffic
and find it wrecked,. All passengers dead. She then spies Angela, Loki’s sister
and security chief, at the scene and sees that as proof that the Hydra attack
was all a set up and now he is silencing anyone who can prove otherwise….
Yet he
incident becomes a joke, everyone assuming that Loki had the bad guys killed
and seeing it as a good thing. Then someone suggests Loki handle the situation
in Latveria….
Loki is
invited to participate in a debate with the Republican and Democratic
candidates. They are asked how they would deal with the situation in Latveria
in the wake of Doctor Doom’s being deposed, and the other two candidates
suggest some sort of military response. Loki then manages to discredit both of
them by positioning himself as a pacifist….
Nisa goes
to Latveria to examine the situation firsthand. Doom’s palace is under the
control of the group known as Doom’s Children; agents of the opposition group,
the Latverian New Prosperity Alliance, infiltrate the palace through a secret
entrance and make their way to the secret weapons cache. They are spotted by
Doom’s Children and a force led by the leader Octavio von Bardas approaches the
rebels who are now armed. Then a massive explosion takes place killing all of
them. Loki, who fomented the whole thing, takes on his real form and teleports
back to the US; Nisa has spotted him and gotten this on film. The matter makes
the news, with many in the media condemning Loki for vigilantism only hours
after claiming to reject violence. Nisa returns home to learn that Loki’s
followers now support him even the more for dealing with the explosive
situation in a way that won’t endanger American lives while the media is
conspiring to discredit him….