Steve Rogers is tracking Peggy Carter but he knows she is
dead; he is met by Agatha Harkness who offers to take him on a journey through
time to show him all he needs to know. They step through a portal and Steve witnesses
the birth of the Daughters of Light, a group of women who rose during the
Enlightenment to take advantage of the new era but were persecuted in the
French Revolution. Some escaped to America where they formed a secret society
to ensure that men did not abuse this new knowledge and turn it to wrong ends.
This was the birth of the Daughters of Liberty, led by Dryad, a position passed
down through the years. Steve is then shown a young Peggy Carter, whose love
for a black man was not acceptable so they had to part; Steve watches as Peggy
is recruited for the Daughters of Liberty by Alexa Volkoff, who served as Peggy’s
handler when Peggy was assigned to keep an eye on Captain America, then the
country’s newest and most powerful weapon. Agatha then sends Steve to meet
Peggy herself, returned to life by Alexa Lukin when she is needed. Peggy now
explains that Alexa rejected the Daughters to become a Soviet operative and as
Sharon Carter killed Lukin’s husband Aleksander she wanted revenge. When Sharon
was her captive in Alberia (issues #4-5), she stole a piece of Sharon’s soul.
Sharon enters with Falcon and Winter Soldier who thought Cap didn’t need to
hear all this while he was in prison and on the run, and have reassembled the
team to recover Sharon’s soul; everything thus far, Ross, the Watchdogs,
Scourge, has been part of one big scheme. Sharon gives Steve the shield,
telling him it is time for Captain America to return. Because if Aleksander
Lukin is back, the Red Skull can’t be far behind….