The Supreme Soviets (Crimson
Dynamo, Perun, Fantasma, and Sputnik) have captured Hawkeye, Mockingbird, Black
Widow, and Dominic Fortune, believing that Hawkeye, as Ronin, is the secret
leader of the Dark Ocean Society, a team massacring Russian and Japanese
agents. The two teams begin to fight. Fantasma uses her hypnotic power to make
it look as though the dead Red Room trainees are still alive, moving like
zombies and attacking the heroes. Sputnik uses his powers to render the
Americans’ weapons inoperable. Then Crimson Dynamo breaks Hawkeye’s arms while
Perun slays Mockingbird with a blow of his axe. Natasha concentrates and forces
herself to see through Fantasma’s illusions to know that her teammates are
alive and still fighting and that there are no zombies in the room. Dominic
Fortune clobbers Fantasma over the head, causing her illusions to vanish, and
he dashes a bucket of water over Perun, electrocuting him. He persuades Bobbi
to go with him, leaving Clint and Natasha behind. But Natasha has defeated Sputnik
and takes his sash which is the remote control for Crimson Dynamo; they open
the armor and overpower the young guy inside. He reveals that the Supreme
Soviets were to distract them from the main events going on in St. Petersburg…
…where the Ambassador’s guards
search his house for assassins and they are quickly killed. The Ambassador
enters, looking around for anyone; Black Widow has Steve Rogers call him and
tell him of a secret escape route so that he crashes though a window just ahead
of the killers and into the hands of a field team….
Mockingbird and Fortune are on
their way to Japan in search of Ronin, with Fortune telling her Hawkeye has
been compromised as it can’t be a coincidence the villain is using his
alternate identity….
And Black Widow and Hawkeye are in
Russia, Nat telling Clint about a killer named Sadko after her. Clint is
worried about Bobbi while Nat looks at footage of the St. Petersburg killer and
finds their movements familiar….
At his base, Ronin ponders the
list of targeted spies. A minion dashes in with news and sees his master’s
uncovered face. He accepts his punishment and calmly stands still to be
decapitated. Ronin goes back to pondering his targets: Mockingbird and Black
Widow….
Characters: Black Widow, Hawkeye,
Mockingbird, Ronin (Red G), Dominic Fortune, Crimson Dynamo (?), Perun,
Fantasma, Sputnik,