Darcy gets a new partner, and it's just in time. Mayor Worth's pro gun law caused an ex-cop (Martin Kove) to lose his arm. Now reborn as Firearm and retrofitted with a high caliber prosthetic arm, this human arsenal seeks revenge by threatening the city with nuclear annihilation. Only Black Scorpion stands in his way.

A beautiful biologist is studying ocean pollution when the Mayor's Yes Men dump toxins on her. Gaining new water-based powers, she becomes Hurricane, vowing to drown the city. Can Black Scorpion calm this evil storm?

Blinded in his attempt to capture the identity of Black Scorpion on film, a photojournalist becomes the vengeful supervillain Flashpoint and vows to blind the entire population of the city with a laser beam.

AfterShock, a former seismologist who has discovered how to create earthquakes, joins forces with the homeless in an attempt to take over the City of Angels.

Darcy carries a torch for a heroic fireman who goes insane and becomes the arsonist supervillain Inferno, who is determined to use his power to make objects spontaneously combust to burn down the City of Angels.

Breathtaker is resuscitated by the mad-but-benign Dr. Phoenix. Unfortunately for the populace of City of Angels, Breathtaker plots to torture the city with a nerve gas that brings their fears to life through dangerous hallucinations.