StormWatch receives a distress call from the Earth's surface and an old ally rears his head-Jon Drake, leader of The Establishment! But the happy reunion doesn't last long as he brings news of newly awakened Soviet-era doomsday machines preprogrammed in the event of a nuclear war to seek out and destroy the United States! Also, Christos Gage and Mike McKone's new backup story continues, focusing on Marc Slayton, the original Backlash!