With Lockdown holding Zoe and Nakia hostage, Ms. Marvel stands down and allows Lockdown and Discord to take the three of them into custody, placing a pair of power-nullifying cuffs on Ms. Marvel and a bit of duct tape to gag her mouth. After an awkward van ride, the group arrives in Orange Plains, a town in central New Jersey that has since been renamed Rubicon, after the company that's overtaken its economy. At Rubicon HQ, Lockown and Discord remove the gag and introduce Ms. Marvel to their employer and benefactor, an affable but unsettling man who insists he be called "Uncle Brett."
