Within a blink of an eye, Nemesis suddenly finds himself sitting in some kind surveillance rooms. Walls are lined with monitors displaying a recording of Tom's run-in with Cameron Chase and the OMAC. He watches again his own reaction to the death of the redacted man from earlier. Waller and Flag claim to be there just as unwillingly as Tresser, referring to themselves as fellow prisoners. They offer him an ultimatum - "When it's time, you're either with us, or alone." and before long the world once again turns upside down for Nemesis.

This time Tom finds himself standing in a large open room along side Cameron Chase and several members of Checkmate and the Blackhawks. In the center of the room is what appears to be a large black castle chess-piece. Around it sit Waller and Flag. Their faces don't seem to even register Tom's conversation with them just moments prior. No one in the room will look Cameron Chase in the eye and when a group of faceless GPA agents come barreling through with an unnamed Checkmate pawn strapped to a gurney, not a soul moves. Unable to sit by and do nothing, Tom rushes over to the man and notices strange blue fluid seeping from his eyelids and splattered all over his chest. At the man's behest, Tresser frees one of his hands which immediately rockets up into the pawn's face, digging out his own eyes. The GPA agents force the pawn back into restraint as he screams to be let go in order to "get them out!"

The GPA agents rush from the room but the strangeness does not stop. Tom is accosted by an old man who speaks of another named "Forest" and complains of a strange fuel-like smell. In between them an Atomic Knight appears seemingly from out of nowhere, confused at the prospect of Tom even being able to see him. Then, just as unexpectedly, Captain Nazi rushes over to attack the old man before Cameron and Tom put a stop to it.

It seems as though every blink of an eye takes Tom to another place - and perhaps another point in time. In one moment he's helping a dying Checkmate pawn who is struggling for his last breaths. The next, he's standing before a "time pool" from which he retrieves a familiar (yet younger) looking face. In yet another moment Tom is staring down at that same face, only older and dying. All three men mutter some form of plea, asking Tom to pass along a message to an unspecified "her."

At the end of the day, as the moon sits high above Electric City, Tom Tresser is once again in the room, standing around the giant Castle with Waller in Flag. His demands for answers are met with aggression from Commander Flag but in the instant before Tom's neck is snapped Flag disappears. Finally a weakened looking Amanda Waller offers one last answer, "Rick Flag was never here."