A Harlem soup kitchen opens for
the day but those arriving for a meal are attacked by vampires. Captain America
Sam Wilson arrives, accompanied by Redwing leading a flock of birds, and drives
them all off. Captain America Steve Rogers was waiting nearby in case Sam Cap
needed any help but he did not. Sam says he needs to pick up his cousin Billie for
a family function and invites Steve along….
It turns out to be a birthday
party for the elderly Isaiah Bradley, the first Black Captain America and many
Black superheroes are present at the cookout. Billie is thrilled to see all the
heroes, especially Isaiah. She trades barbs with War Machine and Patriot and
pals around with Misty Knight. Billie approaches Sam with a business
proposition: A company called Eaglestar is launching a land grant company to
reimburse Black farmers who lost their land when denied federal grants and she
promised them she could get her cousin Captain America to be their spokesman.
Sam is annoyed about being signed up without his okay so Billie lays a guilt
trip on him. Rhodey mentions that Eaglestar was a shady paramilitary
organization but there are new people in charge and they may have changed. The
Avengers among them are called away on a mission and Sam is excused so he can
go off with Billie….
In the New Mexico desert, Sam and
Billie are picked up by a flying disc carrying Eaglestar CEO Dennis Harmon and carried
off to Skydream, one of a series of floating cities with advanced technology and
abundant farmland. They are introduced to Dr. Gwendolyn Cangza of Wakanda, Chief
Tech Officer, and Robert Maverick, Head of Security. They are shown the farms
and chat with the farmers, mainly Black people. Redwing panics, sensing danger
and the city is attacked by mechanical pterodactyls. Cap fights them off…then
he recognizes the deadly machines are Eaglestar technology. Harmon then claims
that Sam Cap is an LMD. Maverick, hating traitors, transforms into Red Hulk and
attacks Cap….