Having saved the life of the Winter Soldier (Bucky Barnes), the Electric Ghost (Tesla Tarasova) surprises him with a kiss. She reveals that her father allowed himself to be slain by the Winter Soldier to prevent his discovery from falling into the hands of the Soviets who would use it as a weapon. She unveils the Tarasova Tesseract, a glowing cube which is the source of her power, and now she wants to bend time and space//she returns to her childhood and instead of murdering her friend Alphonse, as demanded by her trainers, she kills the brutal Master Murder Mouth instead//Tesla proceeds to visit the crisis points in her life, killing her enemies as Bucky pleads with her to abandon her thoughts of revenge…. Finally they reach the cabin where Bucky assassinated her father, she pleads with him to refuse his mission this time, preventing the creation of the Electric Ghost. He declines, insisting they can’t change the past, that he will have to live with this, the choice having made him stronger. She seizes the gun but they wrestle, Tesla inhabiting the body of Father Hammer, but Bucky asks if what she has really chosen is vengeance? They are suddenly cast back to the space station where, in frustration, Tesla shatters the Tesseract, sending the ship in a dive toward Earth. She can sacrifice herself to destroy the station, preventing it from killing civilians. Bucky instead persuades her to join him in his "jump" home, her intangibility shroud being the only thing that will ensure a safe landing. She does so and they plummet into the ocean—but she sinks to the bottom and Bucky is unable to save her….
Later Joe Robards meets with Bucky and explains how his beloved Gina Autry was the only person who accepted him for what he was; he ran from fear but instead of blaming himself, he realized she made her own choices—and Bucky had better do the same.
On the final page we see Bucky reunited with Natasha by the magic of the tesseract….