Picking up from the fallout of Project Zero Tolerance, Sentinel and his team are summoned to Washington for debriefing—but the meeting turns into an ambush when rogue Cybernet operatives strike the Pentagon. As Youngblood scrambles to contain the attack, evidence surfaces linking the strike to a senior government advisor within the Defense Directorate. Meanwhile, Brahma and Dutch clash over the team’s future and the moral cost of serving as state-controlled heroes. Masada and Cougar discover that Cybernet is using young metahuman test subjects as bioweapons, setting the stage for Youngblood’s eventual split into independent and government branches.