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At the Smithsonian, Sam Wilson speaks publicly while holding Captain America's shield, struggling with the weight of Steve Rogers' legacy and tells that he is not ready for the shield. The scene quietly plants the first hint that something is wrong with Rhodey, who is present in the background.
The story then shifts to the Skrull side, where Talos is shown trying to hold together a fragile refugee community. The Skrulls are living in secrecy, trying to build a home through crops, education, and discipline, but the peace is unstable. That balance is shattered when news arrives that Base 2 has been compromised and that Gravik has betrayed his own people.
But previously there were public unrest due to street protests, and hidden violence all point to a growing crisis of trust.
A masked faction known as The Hand appears in the public eye, leaving people uncertain whether they are saviors, extremists, or something in between.
At the same time, the murder of Everett Ross during a tense exchange is blamed on the Winter Soldier, and the footage of the attack becomes a major turning point. The public believes Bucky Barnes has become a killer again, and that misinformation becomes fuel for an increasingly aggressive state response.
As fear grows, the government reacts by tightening control. At the Smithsonian, John Walker is publicly introduced as Captain America replacement, a more forceful and militarized symbol than Sam Wilson.
Meanwhile, the military brands Bucky Barnes a threat, and Sharon Carter is caught between official orders and her own doubts. The world is rapidly moving toward authoritarian certainty while the truth is still buried.
The Skrull conspiracy grows darker when Gravik is revealed in his underground lab with Mira D'Rann, the scientist behind a new kind of replication technology.
Mira's invention is not just shapeshifting; it allows memory, behavior, and instinct to be reproduced with frightening precision. This means infiltration can become total impersonation. Gravik sees this technology not as a scientific achievement, but as a weapon.
It is then revealed that Mira had been Rhodey for years.
He pushes Mira to use it immediately and begins turning captured targets into usable assets, revealing that his operation is moving far beyond survival and into full scale domination.
The story then shifts into a more intimate emotional thread through Sam and Sharon's investigation. They begin following hidden SHIELD paths and underground intelligence, eventually linking up with Maria Hill. Their search pulls them into deeper layers of the conspiracy, where old networks, dead drop sites, and secret safehouses become the only lifelines left. Then at the end they three suspect Rodhey must be a skrull. Then Sam, Sharon and Hill go to look for Bucky.
Talos, meanwhile, is trying to protect what remains of the Skrull refugee population, but his priority becomes personal when he seeks out G'iah, his daughter. Their reunion is tense and unresolved, marked by years of pain, mistrust, and unspoken disappointment.
G'iah accuses him of failing to understand the real danger around them, but the two eventually align because the threat has become too large to ignore.
Mira's role grows increasingly tragic. She is shown to be intelligent, capable, and morally conflicted, but Gravik's influence has dragged her into a system she does not fully control. Her tech is expanded to replicate not just bodies but identity itself, and Gravik keeps pushing her to make the process faster, more efficient, and more usable for war.
At the same time, Mira begins to understand the harm her work is causing. That moral collapse becomes especially important in the later sections, when her inventions are used to deepen public chaos and create false heroes.
The middle and late portions of the story escalate into open conflict. John Walker is taken through a violent chain of events that results in him being replaced, copied, and used as a new weapon of false authority.
Gravik demonstrates that he is no longer simply operating through disguise; he is manufacturing symbols and identities on demand. His larger strategy becomes clear: divide humans from one another, divide Skrulls from each other, and collapse trust in every institution that once gave society structure.
The false Captain America killing the mayor on live television becomes the most shocking public proof of that strategy, because the image of the shield itself is now tied to murder, panic, and public humiliation
As the public breaks down, Gravik's propaganda campaign begins in full. He appears on television in his human and presents the Avengers, SHIELD, and the old order as a network of lies hiding behind symbols. Deepfake footage, altered broadcasts, and manipulated evidence all become part of his war on reality.
Gravik tells on live broadcast that SHIELD created them as a hidden weapon and then discarded his people when they were no longer useful. He frames his rebellion not as invasion, but as justice: a reckoning against hypocrisy, secrecy, and the myth of heroic authority. Gravik presents himself as a realist and a liberator, but the deeper truth is that he is turning pain into a doctrine of control. He does not want merely to expose the system; he wants to replace it.
The closing portion of Part I brings the emotional and ideological themes together. G'iah and Talos are finally forced into an honest understanding of each other, and their bond becomes a stabilizing force amid collapse. Talos begins to accept that protecting someone sometimes means letting them choose their own path, even if that path is dangerous.
It is revealed that Mira is actually G'iah's sister.
Mira, however, ends the part in devastation. Watching the fake Captain America murder the mayor on live television makes her realize that her technology has crossed a moral boundary. Then she decides not to work with Gravik anymore.