Captain America and his team awoke chained to tables in a cold, antiseptic medical laboratory. The Red Skull was standing over Captain America grinning. "Welcome, insects, I dont know how you discovered this bunker but it was foolish for you to have come here. Did you really think you could fool our master plan? Deprive us the fulfillment of our destiny?
"Dont worry, I wont kill you--not yet. Instead, I must thank you. You see, you have provided me with the perfect opportunity to test the effectiveness of my new Hyno-Wash methods and device, the newest product of fascist genius."
Red Skull presented his Hypno-Wash device, which was what appeared to be a small metal cube, six inches on each side. Unbeknownst to even the Red Skull, this object was actually a Cosmic Cube.
Red skull walked into a nearby observation room and activated the Cosmic Cube, which began to flash and vibrate. At the moment it was activated, all of Captain America's team began suffering a sharp and severe headache.
After a short while, some of the heroes began to succumb to the torrent of thought conversion. Bucky, Hawkeye, Union Jack, and even Cap had been overwhelmed. Wiccan and The Patriot had been deemed by Red Skull as unsuitable candidates for the brainwashing and transported them to a small detention area adjoining the lab.
Then, Hitler himself entered the room, with a security detail of 5 soldiers. The Red Skull made a show of ordering his new thralls to hail the Furher, as a test of loyalty. Then, he commanded the soldiers to escort his slaves to the large room at the eastern end of the bunker. Once inside the Heroes found themselves inside a concrete and steel labyrinth. Over the maze was a plexi-glass dome that housed an observation chamber. Red Skull, Hitler, and 3 Nazi soldiers were inside the observation chamber, looking to the floor below. The soldiers who had escorted the brainwashed heroes into the complex then handed each of them a Luger pistol and left.
A few moments later, a team of 20 nazi guards fetched Wiccan and Patriot and led them to the labyrinth, stating that things would not go well for their compatriots if they did not cooperate.
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The Red Skull began to speak: "Now we shall see if our new toys are effective. Listen to me, my minions! Those people in front of you," Red Skull pointed to Patriot and Wiccan, "Are enemies of the Furher!! You must destroy them!"
Each of the Brainwashed Heroes then said in unison: "We must destroy!" Before beginning their pursuit through the maze after Patriot and Wiccan.
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After a few small skirmishes in the labyrinth, Red Skull addressed the Heroes over intercom while the chase raged on. "I'm sorry that we cannot stay and watch you die, but the furher and I have many more important things to attend to for now. I will send some men in after another 60 minutes to clean up the corpses and finish off the survivors."
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Wiccan then began using his magic powers to try to break their teammates free of the mind control. However, Patriot was able to very easily coax his psyche to normal by reminding him of who he was. "We're not your enemy, Hitler is!" Patriotn cried.
Eventually the free willed heroes were able to save the others and revert them to their typical personalities. The Invader members urgently suggested the Young Avengers resume the search for the Nazi super-weapon. True to his word, The Red Skull sent a group of several soldiers to check on the battle an hour after he and Hitler had left. The team of heroes set up an ambush and after defeating the soldiers were able to leave the room.
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The American soldiers had survived and overcome the ambush that had been awaiting them, and had even continued to storm and take the bunker. Patriot's grandfather even displayed courageous acts, redeeming his previous behavior of cowardice. The Invaders and Young Avengers then began scouring the bunker for any object that could be the super-weapon.
In the testing lab was the original Orphu timeship from which the nazis created their duplicates. Spread out on a table nearby was a pile of notes detailing the entire story of how the timeship had crash landed and how Baron Zemo and Klaus Krupptman were successful in replicating the vessel. Immediately the Invaders destroy the time machine to guarantee that no irresponsible acts of time travel could be performed. Also located in the lab were notes on Red Skull's Hypno-Wash device. The notes made constant reference to the "Orion Project", which was apparently the Hypno-Wash's first full test.
When they arrived in Hitler's quarters, the room was empty. Spread out on tables were papers detailing the missions of the Commandos sent into the future. The papers clearly stated that only one team was successful, while the other two were never heard from again. The papers also stated that the weapon had been recently relocated to Vladistopol for safe-keeping.
Also located in Hitler's quarters was a locked trunk marked TOP SECRET. Inside the trunk were dozens of odd looking red and blue bracelets. These were pieces of technology from the original Orphu time-travelers, designed to help the aliens fit in with the native lifeforms. Their wearer became cloaked in an optical illusion that he or she were a non-descript human in a strange red and blue uniform. The invaders immediately confiscated the bracelets and turned them over to the Armies.
Located in a nearby storage room was enough weaponry and ammunition to arm an entire platoon of German soldiers, and a parcel of high explosives which was used to destroy the Nazi time machine.
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The team then met with an Allied submarine that took them to an airbase and boarded a plane back to Italy.