Synopsis / Summary / Plot
Union Jack is stunned
at Steve Rogers’ reference to the time during the War when the Invaders
murdered a town full of innocent people. This UJ, who is not the same man who
was present for the WW2 incident, is stunned when he learns that Steve is being
quite literal. The other Invaders agree though they are still bothered by the
event. Aarkus, the original Vision, shows him what happened in a misty vision….
The Invaders (Captain America, Bucky, Human Torch, Toro, Sub-Mariner, Spitfire,
Union Jack) were in the Netherlands fighting the Uberkommandos, Hitler’s own
superteam (Master Man, Warrior Woman, Baron Blood, Iron Cross, U-Man) to
discover the doomsday weapon being developed by Arnim Zola at a Nazi-held
castle. The enemy suddenly retreat through the village toward the castle but
it’s a trap. Horribly deformed people are released in the village and anyone they
touch becomes infected too. Cap orders a wall of fire to hold them back while
they decide what to do. Assuming that if Arnim Zola created the disease, he
might have an antidote, Torch flies to the castle and roasts Zola alive,
following that with blowing up the doomsday weapon, a rocket set to launch the
disease into allied territory. Zola’s assistants insist there is no antidote
and that Zola himself seemed unconcerned with safety (we know why: he is having
his brain transferred into a weird robotic body). So Namor concludes that, with
no antidote, the only thing they can do is to kill the infected villagers. Each
is a walking doomsday weapon and the mineral used in the virus’ creation is
only found in this area so all the infected are right here in the fiery
enclosure. No other option is feasible, even Captain America sees that. One of
the infected pleads with Cap to not let them and their loved ones to suffer
this way. Union Jack refuses to have anything to do with this so the others
harden their hearts and slaughter those infected with the gruesome virus….
Now the Invaders are realizing that the infected man in the Netherlands was
released as a warning. Aarkus senses magic involved and the new Union Jack
agrees to join their mission. Aarkus teleports them all to the Vliet, the
village where it happened—and they are attacked by the newer incarnation of the
Uberkommandos (Warrior Woman, U-Man, new Iron Cross, new Master Man and two of
the latter’s henchmen)….