Blood of the Father, Heart of Steel.In the aftermath of the O.S.I./Monarch battle, Brock finds himself aboard one of the O.S.I.'s medical units, particularly their brainwashing unit, and with H.E.L.P.eR's head lodged in his chest. The doctors try to say there are simply no other medical units available, but he escapes with H.E.L.P.eR. Sergeant Hatred is administered a chemical before being re-recruited into O.S.I. once more and hired as the Ventures' new bodyguard. Brock makes his way to Macaronesia to see the doctor who operated on Gathers to remove H.E.L.P.eR from his chest. With the operation successful, he sends H.E.L.P.eR back to the Venture compound before going to see Steve Summers and Sasquatch to recuperate after surgery before staging an attack on the Black Heart Assassins. While attempting to infiltrate the compound, he comes across a SPHINX agent, even though the O.S.I. defeated SPHINX in the 80s, while interrupting a meeting between Molotov and Gathers, disrupting a SPHINX operation. When he comes to, Brock begins to realize what happened with all the events leading up to the battle and discovers that Hunter Gathers is no longer a woman and has reformed SPHINX. In a parallel storyline, Henchman 21, having formed a LARP group, commissions Dr. Venture to clone 24 back to life, despite the fact he would not be the same, and offers his copy of Marvel Comics #1 as collateral, valued at $500,000, with the value's drop indicative of the timeframe of the otherwise disjointed plotlines. At the same time, Venture is hired by a group of "fake" Nazis to clone Hitler from a bulldog containing the man's spirit. In the end, Hank, now with longer hair and wearing Brock's old jacket, and Sergeant Hatred hold up sniping positions to save Dr. Venture, who has refused to clone Hitler. Orpheus, with H.E.L.P.eR in his new walking eye body, tells Dean to kill Hitler with a magic dagger, but Dean refuses, and Hitler escapes. While Orpheus kills the Nazis, Hitler finds his way to Hank. Brock appears, with the same magic dagger, and kills Hitler, while telling Hank that no one can know he is back.