All over the world (and all at once), the superhuman associates of the High-Blind, Wish, the Engineer, Rite, the Eidolon, Smoke, and the Doctor-begin enacting a plan to bring lasting societal change to the world by any means necessary. Televised to a global audience, the High declares his intentions to the world and to the agents of StormWatch at the UN, with devastating effect! Meanwhile, Jenny Sparks discovers why the Weatherman has been ducking her calls when she happens upon an old friend of hers on TV-John Cumberland, a.k.a. the High!