Flo travels back in time to Detroit and kills RoboCop before he can awaken Skynet, which in this story is an orbital defense system, defeating the machines in the future.

RoboCop refuses to give in and copies his mind into Skynet's networks, where he is hunted for decades, replicating faster than he can be erased, until he finds a security flaw in a terminator factory and uses it to build himself a new and improved body.

In the saved timeline, the existing RoboCop feels an unexplained sense of peace, and decides to return to Detroit Police Department headquarters for a rest.

Several scenes are narrated from the viewpoint of the machines (little distinction is made between Skynet and the machines as a whole), which describe a lifeless Earth ("silent and cold and clean") in exultant terms and life ("all the buzzing, twittering, dripping, drooling things") with disgust, at one point monologuing how life "thought its mushy grey brains had conquered the planet" when in fact it was "its endless, sweating spawning.

He's suicidal, but unable to act upon it as his mechanical components' command program forces him to follow his directives to serve the public trust, protect the innocent, and uphold the law, much to his disgust of his thoughts being only partly his.

When he has to coat himself in flesh to travel back at the time in the finale, he opts for a shapeless lump that he immediately discards and is described as cold inside and out, his humanity completely gone and only the command to destroy Skynet left.

[2] The four issues, including stiff cardboard inserts intended as pull-out cut-outs, were bound together with a new cover as an "exclusive" collection by Diamond Comics.