"Help me Steve!"

"How do I help you Sharon?!"

"Please Steve! Help me!"

"I don't know how Sharon,"

"Steve help me!"

Cap suddenly jumped out of his bed with sweating running down his forehead and his heart beating faster than the tires of a NASCAR racer. Cap felt around for a light and eventually found one. That was his third dream about Sharon and every time the dream was the same. Cap was starting to think it was Sharon's way of calling out to him. Maybe it was Sharon's way of telling him things were hopeless. Cap wasn't going to have any of that though because if he learned one thing from being a hero it was that there is always hope.

Steve decided to put on his Captain America uniform and go patrol. Hopefully he could relieve of some the stress he has been under lately. It was a futile hope though. It would take a good long night at the bar to relieve his stress and that wasn't what Captain America was looking for.

Cap found the night to be very uneventful, that is until he suddenly started having molten lava thrown at him. Cap was agile enough to dodge all the white-hot blasts, but he wanted to know where they came from. He turned around to see Molten Man smiling. Why was he smiling? He was smiling because just then Man-Wolf tackled Cap from the back and threw him into a car, setting off the alarm. Cap was about to use his shield to take out Man-Wolf when his arm was suddenly grabbed by a very large hand. It was Big Man and he gleefully threw Captain America into a garbage can. Molten Man then was about to put Cap out of the game for good when he was taken out by a blast from the air. When Man-Wolf looked up he saw Undying--better known as Alicia Masters. Before Man-Wolf could leap to his friends' rescue he was taken out with a punch from Maggott. Cap, while Big Man was distracted, chucked his shield and knocked him to the ground.

"You guys came in the nick of time," Cap said gratefully to the two heroes.

"We just happened to be in the area," Maggott smiled.

"How did you get into a tussle with these guys to begin with?" Undying asked.

"They ambushed me," Cap said.

"Looks like we got a gig then," Maggott said, a smile beginning to form.

"What are you talking about?" Cap asked.

"See, Undying and myself are trying to build our reputations as heroes. So we are going to stay with you until we figure out why these guys attacked you," Maggott explained.

"I have no objections," Cap said holding out his hand. Maggott took it with great pleasure. A new alliance had just been formed.

A week later

"They've escaped out of prison," Maggott yelled as he rushed into Brian Vesso's lab.

"Who escaped?" Brian asked.

"Molten Man, Big Man and Man-Wolf!" Maggott explained.

"Do you know where they are at now?" Undying asked.

"Yeah they are in Canada," Maggott replied.

"Good, now lets go and give those suckers a beating they won't forget," Herth said.

Canada

The heroes could find no trace of the villains when they reached Canada. It was as if they had simply disappeared. Cap was getting a bad feeling about the whole situation.

"I wonder what they wanted here in Canada?" Maggott asked.

"I think it's a trap," Cap replied.

"Great now we are sitting ducks," Maggott sighed.

"No more like fried ducks!" Molten Man yelled as he launched off his magma at Undying, engulfing her whole body. Undying, knowing that the magma would burn her flesh and cause her extreme pain, switched the pain and burning from physical damage to physic damage. Undying screamed as her body fell to the ground.

Maggott was about to come to Undying's assistance when he was punched into a large tree by Big Man knocking him out. Just as Big Man was about to finish Maggott off Herth leaped to his rescue bearing claws and all. Big Man was confused by the fast movement and agility of Herth, but he managed to get a grip on Herth's arms and broke them with a hard squeeze. Herth yelled out in pain and hit the ground. Cap wished he could have helped Herth, but he was too busy with Molten Man.

"Give it up Cap!" Molten Man yelled.

"Not a chance on your life!" Captain America shouted, trying his hardest to hold back Molten Man's lava with his shield.

Meanwhile Brian was keeping Man-Wolf on the ropes easily by using his precognitive powers to anticipate Man-Wolf's next move. Brian was so busy concentrating his powers on Man-Wolf he didn't see a piece of Molten Man's lava hitting his leg coming. Brian yelled out in pain and fell to the ground gripping his leg.

Molten Man suddenly stopped his onslaught of lava and laughed at Captain America. "All your friends are injured and this is just a taste of things to come. Wait till you meet my boss. Come on guys! This is a waste of precious time," Molten Man sneered. Captain America wanted to pursue the villains, but his friends came first. He pulled out his S.H.I.E.L.D. communicator card.

"We have injured people down here. Give me back up ASAP!" Cap yelled into the card.

Somewhere in South America

"We finally got all the pieces to the puzzle," Bloody Bess said with a big grin from ear to ear on her face.

"Yes we even finally got her. I didn't believe it was going to be possible considering how important she is to their organization," Sea Dog commented.

"You should know by now nothing stops the Crimson Pirates! I'm sure Sharon Carter knows that now," Killian replied.

Black Tarantula's drug fields

"We put his allies out of commission for awhile except for Sharon Carter. She wasn't at the battle strangely enough. We can keep looking for her if you want," Molten Man said to Black Tarantula over a floating TV screen.

"No, Molten Man. Forget her. The time has come for the tarantula to get his prey."