Issue #7'd
ended with AIM taking Lower Manhattan in New York City. It was the next move in the world-spanning Century Game, the one that Bucky Barnes'd broken away from Steve Rogers to join, to end the way he wanted to.
Steve and friends, gathering to prevent that move, were caught off guard. Most of them (excepting Hawkeye and Black Widow, who either couldn't be claimed for multiple issues of a Captain America story or just weren't) were diverted to Baxter Springs, Kansas.
AIM's beekeepers went about their work in issue #8 as if no one'd even tried to forestall them.
( They were enthusiastic. )