The movie opens in an abandoned Hydra base which is now being used by AIM and Modok who are trying to recreate Red Skull's super collider. We see Baron Strucker come into an office and talk with a mysterious figure covered in a shadow. The two talk about what their plan is with their prisoner as what looks to be a machine holding a monitor showing an AI rendering of Dr. Arnim Zola walks in with someone tied up with a bag over their face. The mysterious figure walks over revealing himself to be Baron Helmut Zemo who after World War 2 ended stole a canister of the super soldier serum and is now ageless. They take the bag off of the prisoner's head to reveal Jack Duquesne aka Swordsman who after dying was taken by AIM and brought back using the super soldier serum 2.0. Meanwhile we see Hawkeye's Avengers team that he is now calling the West Coast Avengers planning on breaking into this AIM base and saving Jack after getting an anonymous tip that he is being held there. During the mission Wonder Man returns to help as well as Eric Williams. The team heads in and goes to war with AIM. The movie ends with the team stopping Zola, Stucker, and Modok but Zemo gets away. The movie closes with the Swordsman becoming an official Avenger.
