Maria Hill and a squad of armed SHIELD Agents invade the Helicarrier
Iliad, blowing open the door and confronting Director Daisy Johnson with a challenge.
Daisy tosses it off with “Already got what I came for….”
On A.I.M. Island a/k/a Barbuda, Nick Fury Jr. has killed the Scientist
Supreme. Hawkeye leaps in firing explosive arrows at the A.I.M. soldiers and
Black Widow providing air cover by shooting her stings from atop a tower….
Hill informs Daisy she is officially relieved of command.
Daisy makes a snide comment about Hill’s eagerness to take over and Hill
punches her, accusing her, not of killing the Scientist Supreme, no one cares
about him, but getting three operatives captured or killed…and Daisy corrects
her, “Four operatives.”
On the island, Taskmaster and Mockingbird finish their job
and head out to rescue the other Secret Avengers, Bobbi using CamoTech (see issues
#2-3) to impersonate an A.I.M. agent. As the heroes fight the A.I.M. troops,
Graviton appears in the sky, bringing down on them a crushing weight of gravity,
pinning them to the ground. Hawkeye tells the villain not to look up. He does
and he is stomped out of the air by the Hulk. And Iron Patriot (Rhodey) arrives
with his army of drones. Hill questions Daisy’s choice to escalate the
conflict, telling her she has forgotten the long game but Daisy says she
thought it was about Kobik. Hill orders her off the ship….
As the heroes face off against the villains, Taskmaster is approached
by Superia, who thinks he is on her side; she needs his help to get the real
Scientist Supreme to safety. Mockingbird, disguised as an A.I.M. soldier, calls the Helicarrier
to report that the Scientist Supreme, Andrew Forson, is still alive and she can
get a shot at him. Hill tells her to stand down. Bobbi goes for it so Hill
orders their psy-ops agent Ellis Love to invoke the [reverie] code word and erase
Bobbi’s mind of all knowledge of the mission. As the Secret Avengers head for safety,
Hawkeye asks where Mockingbird is. On Hill’s orders, Love again sends out [reverie]
which alters the memories of the Avengers into thinking Mockingbird did not
come on that mission but is safe on the Helicarrier. And Bobbi doesn’t know where
she is. Maria Hill, now Acting SHIELD Director knows it had to be done to salvage
the mission….