Captain America and Iron Man, in his jury-rigged armor, are facing Kashmir Vennema, Batroc’s Brigade, and MODOK at their base in Madripoor. Shellhead tells Cap they need to hold off the bad guys for five minutes—and then all chaos breaks loose. After a wild and crazy battle, the five-minute mark is reached: Tony’s Extremis armor has finished recalibrating itself and he regains his full powers and takes down MODOK. Kash Vennema, cornered by Cap, unleashes the Harvester Protocol and the virus begins to shut down all technology in Madripoor including MODOK. Iron Man came prepared however and deploys his army of hornet drones, each carrying the anti-virus. They neutralize the Protocol and Cap takes Kash off to prison.
Epilogue: in a mysterious building in the middle of a hardware-strewn wasteland, a pair of women assume that Operator 12 (Kash Vennema) has been captured and their mission has failed. One consolation: they have the specs for Iron Man’s armor....