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Sentenced to Life
The Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas: one of the harshest prisons in the US, and Tony Stark’s friend James ‘Rhodey` Rhodes aka War Machine has been locked up in there for weeks. On his way to the courtyard, a prison guard offers Rhodey a cell phone and tells him there’s a call for him. Suspicious, Rhodes refuses to touch the phone. He doesn’t want them to have a chance to frame him for possessing contraband. The guard tells him to accept the call and accept that he has friends in high places.“Yo,” Rhodey speaks into the phone and is told to hold for Tony Stark. Thank God, he mutters.Stark, in the meantime, is playing Black King at a Hellfire Club party, pretending to be drunk and sharing amusing anecdotes about his past. A butler comes with a phone and announces he has a call on a new sim card. They will destroy it, when he is finished.Tony takes the phone and announces he was Iron Man as a greeting, hello? At least it sounds like one of them is having fun, Rhodes greets him wryly. He’s not, Tony assures him and looks for a private place where Rhodey can yell at him. He asks how he is and promises he is working on several initiatives for him. He’s paranoid, Rhodey replies, and sure this phone call is somehow going to be used against him. What did Stark want to talk about? Flabbergasted, Tony bursts out, Rhodey called him, right?Rhodey looks around the prison courtyard and sees several muscular prisoners beginning to surround him, while there is a distinct lack of guards.That very moment, Feilong enters the Hellfire Club and enthusiastically greets Tony, who realizes that Feilong set this up, hoping to watch him listen to his friend get beaten to death. Tony whispers into the phone that Rhodey’s life is in danger. Hang up and get ready to fight!A tattooed giant grabs Rhodes and announces that he’s got a message for him. Don’t care! Rhodes grunts and headbutts him. He gives as good as he gets, but he is one man against many.At the Hellfire Club, Stark sees red and is about to attack Feilong. However, Wilson Fisk interjects himself between the two of them. Tony orders him out of his way. Fisk calmly explains that the arrangements Tony had commissioned from him were implemented in the Polunsky Unit several days ago.Back in Texas:Suddenly, the fight breaks up, as sand rises from the ground. A giant fist made of sand hits the attackers. One of them hasn’t got the message and tries to attack Rhodes with a knife but is held back by a new prisoner wearing a power inhibitor. Rhodey recognizes him as the Living Laser. Behind him, the Sandman reforms. Turns out, when Wilson Fisk wants someone in prison protected, it is as good as wearing armor.The Living Laser introduces himself as Arthur Parks and Rhodey will be his bunkmate until they get out of here. Sandman adds their employer hired them to make sure nothing happens to Rhodes till he gets out. Parks helps Rhodey up and mentions that the hardest part was getting to Texas fast enough and getting arrested. What did he do? Rhodes asks. Hit a cop, Park replies.Sandman, in the meantime, disappears into the ground again.Rhodes continues the phone call and tells Tony he is impressed. Tony is glad he is alive to be impressed. He begins describing the plan. Rhodes interrupts and tells him to do what he needs to win.In the meantime, the warden informs Feilong that the hit didn’t happen and the target now has some super-powered muscle. Feilong swears and schemes again.Rhodes is grateful but surprised that Tony hired some criminals. Parks laughs that Stark currently couldn’t afford his day rate. So, who does he have to thank? Rhodes asks.Flashback to several weeks ago:The office of the White King:Stark berates Wilson Fisk, he needs his friend back out of jail and Fisk wants his wife back, so play ball! He needs Rhodes to win!With a smirk, Fisk orders Emma (dressed as Hazel Kendall) to explain how this works. Emma explains that Tony needs to ask. Fisk waits and Tony finally swallows his pride to tell Fisk he needs his help. Fisk puts a hand on his shoulder and assures him he shall have it.Present:The Kingpin warns Stark not to make him protect his investment in him again. Is he sure he needs Feilong alive? Until he gets what he needs out of his head, yes, Stark replies. But there is going to be a line to kill him. His assistant Hazel has called dibs – in fact it’s a good thing she’s not here—Of course, that moment “Hazel” shows up and sees Feilong in the crowd. Tony sees her angry look and she prepares to remove the power dampener ring from her finger. With a frozen smile, he asks her for a word and drags her into a private room.He asks her to hear him out. She flat out refuses. She has borne every humiliation but she will not play Hazel for this murdering pig, so step aside! Tony stands and explains he has made progress with his designs, but Feilong has information in his head he needs, and they need to do this right! If she wipes Feilong’s mind, she prolongs this war and, if she takes off the ring, she will bring Sentinels to this door.Emma touches the ring and orders him out of her way or she will make him pay. When he doesn’t comply, she kicks him in the groin. Emma suggests he suit up and get ready to fight or start running. In thirty seconds, Feilong will be braindead and she expects the minute after that the Sentinels will arrive.Stark crawls after her, telling her she can kill Feilong, but not those machines, and he doesn’t know exactly what he’s baked into those Sentinels! He knows from Synch that his countermeasures to Magneto are in there. And he needs to know what else!Emma hesitates as he continues that he is engineering a solution, but he needs more information! And he needs to know what his father found outside this reality. Now that he is defeated, it is Feilong’s new focus! He picks up the ring and begs her for some more time.That moment, Feilong enters the room, asking where they are keeping the good liquor. He takes in the scene before him: Stark on his knees before “Hazel,” a ring in his hands, and bursts out whether he is marrying the help?Emma and Tony have a quick telepathic conversation. She chafes at being restricted. She tells him to get what he needs quickly. She dreams about avenging them all! He knows, he replies telepathically, and adds with his voice he promises to make all her dreams come true. He puts the ring on her finger and they put on a show for Feilong by kissing.Later, back among the crowd, Tony makes a show of thanking Feilong, who is understandably surprised. Tony claims none of that would be happening for him, if he’d still be wasting time in that armor saving people he doesn’t even know. Retirement suits him, he just needed the push! He is very welcome, a bemused Feilong replies and asks why he was doing that nonsense anyway. Tony explains he’s an addict and addicts gotta addict! He traded the booze for adulation – it’s a hell of a drug, but the comedown’s a bitch. Booze is tastier. He takes a drink. Plus, she was a possible human resources nightmare for him. Longtime relationship, longtime employee. She’s cheaper to marry – plus he wanted something Feilong couldn’t take from him!Feilong asks if he is invited. Tony almost says yes, but realizes that would probably cause Feilong not to come, so he replies no. Feilong warns him he won’t’ know any real peace, until he tells them where Frost escaped to in his Iron Man armor. He must know! Stark replies, the answer is obvious. She went to Mars. Before he took a blowtorch to the mark 70, the black box told him it had been to the moon and then Mars via a teleport of some kind. If he were Feilong, he’d worry about the mutants rebooting Mars Attacks. He turns away, leaving Feilong looking concerned.The happy couple tell everyone assembled the news and Emma decides she died at the Hellfire Gala and went to hell.Tony whispers he has been tinkering in an old sex dungeon with a shag carpet. He needs a real place to work. This is going to buy them time away from prying eyes. With a frozen smile, she whispers back, good idea. She ought to pry her eyes from her head.Reddick the butler (and the only one in the know about Emma’s true identity) congratulates them. When Emma assures him that it’s going to be a very long engagement, Tony interrupts and orders him to pack their things - they are heading for Las Vegas!En route in the sports car, Emma groans that Feilong had better show up if they are going to go through with this. Tony points out that, technically, he is the only one getting married. Hazel Kendall is just… a suit of armor! Emma can throw the identity away after they win. And please throw away the X-chain she is wearing! She replies she found it in one of her coats. It was a gift from Forge. There will be no more of it.They arrive at the hotel and do what they are expected to do. Dinner, dancing, romance. At night, Tony puts on his new Mark Nil stealth armor. He tells her not to wait up. He has a busy night. She replies she has some X-Men business. If she doesn’t show up in the chapel, she is either dead or didn’t even want to fake-marry him.Iron Man takes off. The armor is a good stealth suit but lacks the power he needs to fight Feilong and the Sentinels. So, he breaks into Zeke Stane’s secret labs and robs him blind. He relatively quickly gets rid of the defense drones and steals what he needs: a machine that builds other machines. And Captain America organized a driver for him to take this to the Morlock Tunnels. Said driver is Deadpool, who wheedles for an invitation to the wedding and is summarily ignored.A quicks shower and change of clothes later, Tony heads to the wedding chapel. He isn’t nervous, until he sets eyes on her. She looks beautiful and Tony realizes Emma Frost is going to break his heart. He looks surprised, she smiles. He replies that he wondered if one of them was going to get cold feet. She asks, what if Feilong doesn’t show or does so with an entourage? Then they do it the hard way, he replies, and tells her she looks wonderful.As if on cue, Feilong enters, grinning he just couldn’t help himself. He takes a seat in the empty pews as the ceremony begins. Emma telepathically warns Tony that Feilong will have psychic defenses, so stay close.Emma takes off the inhibitor ring, tucks in their officiant for a little nap and then links with Tony to have both of them dive into Feilong’s mind.The astral plane:Emma’s mental image is that of the White Queen, Tony’s of his first Iron Man armor. They smash the wall into Feilong’s mind. They find a memory of Feilong watching a filmed message Howard Stark had left behind for Tony. Feilong destroyed the message later, but now Tony gets all the info from Feilong’s photographic memory. Emma downloads all the intel about the Sentinels and states the man is a monster.Tony watches the message and when his father greets him, he greets back with a smile. Howard in his message explains about a metal outside the periodic table that shouldn’t exist - because it exists outside their universe. If he is successful, this could be more important to humanity than iron was to their ancestors. He leaves after some personal additions and apologies to Tony.Tony realizes that Feilong is noticing their presence in his mind. Feilong attacks him and literally throws him out of his mind. Emma calms Feilong down and implants a suggestion to prevent him from connecting Emma Frost and Hazel Kendall. She peeks deeper into his mind wanting to know the reason for his hatred. First, she is unimpressed - quite an ego. And the theoretical discovery he stole from Tony’s father sounds a lot like the mutants’ mysterium.Tony tells her to hold that thought. Feilong is obsessed with Tony’s father. Let’s take a look at Feilong’s!They are in for a surprise, as they learn that Feilong’s parents were mutants. He was born without powers and resented them. While he tells the story that he was abandoned by his parents, it is quite the opposite - they loved him for who he was, and he hated them for what he was not.What a waste! Emma sighs. Tony tells her he has the Sentinels schematics and the message from his father. He’s got everything he needed. Feilong’s fate is in her hands. It’s her call but, if she does it, make it look like a stroke.Emma considers making him confess everything, but Orchis would just kill him. She decides he needs to stay alive, so the world learns the truth. She makes him forget everything before leaving his mind.Barely a minute has passed and the officiant declares them man and wife. They kiss and Feilong watches, smirking and unaware of what has transpired.While Emma is still talking to the officiant, Feilong tries to recruit Tony for Orchis, offering him a way to save face and regain a stake in his old company. After the honeymoon, of course. Tony, jokingly threatens Feilong, should he plan to crash their honeymoon as well. And he has a little something under his nose. Confused, Feilong touches his nose to find he has been bleeding. “Hazel” offers him a tissue. Tony tells him they’ll see him whenever they make it back to Hellfire.The newlyweds drive off and Tony asks about mysterium. Emma explains that Howard apparently had the theory but probably never got his hands on it. It’s a metal that’s only available to be mined by mutants from a place outside space and time they call the White Hot Room. The were using it as more soft power after the terraforming of Arakko.She shows him her X-shaped keychain made from it. How much more is there? he asks. If they could get offworld, she could get him as much as he needed, she replies. How much will he need? All of it, Tony replies.


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The Honeymoon is Over
After Tony Stark got married to Emma Frost (going by Hazel Kendall) in Las Vegas, the happy couple head to Oahu to be seen on their honeymoon. “Hazel” is sipping cocktails on the beach, while Tony learns surfing. They figure that being married makes Tony boring, not worth a second look, and that buys them time for what they need.In their suite, Emma throws Tony a box with his armor and warns him that they are taking an unnecessary risk. Putting on the armor, he replies that the new metal mutants created – mysterium – is worth the risk. He tells her if he gets caught or dies, walk away from this… become someone else. Emma jokes that would be a shame, as she is becoming fond of Hazel. Her hair is certainly easier to maintain. She calls room service to send dinner for two to keep up appearances.Tony switches on the armor’s stealth mode and apologizes; he only now gets how hard this is for her. Is she up to this? If the mission is too difficult, he can go it alone. She assures him this is fine. The sunglasses he made for her connect her to his armor.Iron Man flies off.They chose Hawaii as destination not just because of their limited budget but because of its proximity to Krakoa.Iron Man closes in beneath the waves. As he arrives, he sees Stark Sentinels guarding the island. While he can disguise his armor, he cannot cloak the exhaust from his propulsion, so he walks instead, arriving at Hellfire Bay, as Emma informs him. She steers him to her former home where she kept some of the mysterium. If it hasn’t been found and confiscated yet, it will be in the largest of her walk-in closets.He is interrupted by several Orchis agents walking and flying by, and is shocked that Orchis hires intelligent apes. Emma cheerfully advises him not to underestimate them. They come with PhDs. She guides him down the corridor of her sumptuous private rooms, and he is impressed that Krakoa grew all that for her. She asked very nicely.She tells him to look for a trunk with thigh-high white boots atop. She notices the ape behind Iron Man in the mirror and asks if he is sure that the apes don’t notice him. He is, until the ape hits him hard (and kindly informs him that Feilong tuned their satellites to find a new element and an anomalous reading brought him here. He asks where the White Queen is. Iron Man plays dumb, claiming he saw the signs about an estate sale. No japes! the enraged ape shouts and hits him.Sipping her cocktail, Emma reminds him that she did warn him this would be a disaster. Multiple PhDs.The ape takes him in a headlock. Iron Man breaks free and claims he isn’t Stark. The ape demands that he step out of his armor then. And what is he doing here? Grabbing one of the bras, Iron Man claims he is the biggest White Queen fan. He was going to make all of this tie-dye? The ape throws a couch at him and observes he is not even as funny as Feilong said. Iron Man sensibly retorts that that makes sense, because he is not Stark.He blasts the couch apart and hits the ape, who decides this is a good time to stop being a vegetarian. Tony replies that this is getting weird. He blasts the ceiling and the parts fall on the ape, burying him. He actually offers him a hand, which the ape swats away, getting buried.Tony regrets that. He calls Emma, who asks if the metal is there. He opens the case and finds the mysterium inside. Next to the case, he spies an album made by the Stepford Cuckoos for Emma. She tells him to leave it. It’ physical evidence she doesn’t need back at the Hellfire Club. Perhaps it belongs with all the other rubble… She mutters that the glasses have given her a migraine.He uses the suit’s stealth mode to carry the case away. He has a feeling as though he is not alone, but doesn’t think much of it, not realizing how much danger he is actually in.They return to the Hellfire Club, where he continues to play Black King, while secretly working in the former sex dungeon turned workshop. He’s used the machine from Stane to shape the mysterium into an ordinary cane. Something he wants to test before trusting his life to it. He decides it’s time to visit an old friend…He heads to the Jarvis Lounge and has Avengers leader Captain Marvel try to break it – to no avail. Frustrated, she announces she can’t even bend it. What the hell is it? It is the future, he grins.Next, he visits Dr. Strange, who similarly cannot affect the metal with magic either. He cannot even levitate it, let alone destroy it. Tony thanks him and Strange warns him to be cautious. Tony assures him he will be and thanks him for taking care of the book of a friend he left with him. One of them will be by for it.Tony then uses a “bat signal” with a head of Electro to get the attention of Spider-Man. Somewhat annoyed, Spider-Man gives his condolences to Tony’s bank account. Did he get bitten by a radioactive pauper?Tony replies he needs his help with a science experiment. Spider-Man gets excited. Pretty much everyone forgets he has a science background - though Tony’s plan is not quite what he expected. He asks him to close his eyes, then hits Spidey with the cane. Spider-Man yowls in protest, then realizes his spider-sense didn’t warn him. What is that thing? he demands.It is a weapon, is Tony’s evasive answer. He’s gonna hit the Sentinels in the shin with that? Spidey asks and Tony agrees that is his plan at a time and place of his choosing. Cool, is he invited? Spider-Man asks. Tony promises, everyone will see his signal and everyone harmed by Orchis and Feilong will be avenged…


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(1st story) A little help from my friends
(2nd story) Panic on the streets of London
1st story:
Tony Stark has travelled from the present to a few years in the past to find help to save the Earth. What he finds in his penthouse is his past self, stinking drunk and announcing he is the handsomest pink elephant he’s ever seen. Angrily, future Tony throttles him, telling him he is him from the future! He loves it! past Tony replies. Ghost of Christmas yet to come, huh? Well, he’s gonna spend next Christmas the same way he spent last one. Care to join him?
Future Tony angrily throws his drink away and orders him to listen. Years from now, the entire world is going to be destroyed. Just when he’s gotten his life together, everyone he knows and loves will die horribly! He barely made it back to this era. He needs his help, to find Dr. Doom’s time machine.
Past Tony informs him he had a long night and is in no mooed for some existential chat about the future with his conscience, so why doesn’t he go back to Never Never Land?
Tony realizes more than ever he was pathetic. He wants to throw up, to hit him, but more than anything he wants a drink. He realizes he can’t stay. He takes up the helmet past Tony was playing with, threatening, if past Tony’s brain is too pickled to be of any use, he’ll get help another way. He wants the Iron Man? past Tony asks. Take him. He’s done sticking his neck out for people who don’t appreciate it. That’s another back up suit anyway. He’s got Jim Rhodes holding down the hero side of things while he takes a little Tony time. He offers him one for the road. Future Tony declines, though he wants it. Past Tony wishes him fun.
Future Tony barely makes it up the stairs to the roof where he changes into the armor. He’s weakened like a ninety year old man, ever since the Iron Man armor in his body was disabled. At least the archaic armor will give him mobility. He heads for Avengers Mansion.
In the living room of said mansion, Starfox, She-Hulk, Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau) and Hawkeye are gathered. Monica wonders why Hawkeye is allowed to stay on active duty with his leg in a cast. He didn’t ask, Hawkeye replies. As long as his arms work – hey, look who’s back! he shouts when he sees Iron Man. He thought he quit!
Tony recalls aloud that he did take a leave of absence, but this is something he has to take care of. Starfox reintroduces himself to Tony. Looking at the membership, Tony realizes the Wasp would have to be chairwoman at the time. He asks to see her, as well as Thor and Captain America, if they are around. Clint informs him they’re all together, talking about Iron Man, he thinks. Is he in trouble? He hopes not, he replies and enters the room.
He steeled himself but is still shocked to see the Wasp alive. They are indeed discussing the Tony Stark of their time. Thor calls him one of the truest warriors he has known. Surely he can overcome this with their aid. Wasp is more pessimistic. Tony is an alcoholic. Unless he wants to stop drinking, none of them can make him. Cap agrees, and the man he saw has no intention of stopping.
They stop talking when they see him. Tony reminds himself he needs to convince them or they are all dead! Is he the new Iron Man? Captain America asks him. The one Tony gave the armor to? Tony takes off the helmet to show it’s him. He is from the future and needs their help, he explains.
They’ve seen time travelers before, the Wasp admits. But he is wearing a contemporary Iron Man suit. Tony upgrades his armors almost as often as she redesigns her costumes. Thor points out he reeks of spirits. It’s the helmet Tony explains. Their era’s Tony was using it as a party decoration. If they will just let him prove it!
He powered down the armor to take off the helmet. Forgetting how heavy it was and seeing Jan makes him stumble, which leads the others to believe he is drunk. Cap offers to help him up. He knows a facility…
No! Tony shouts, aware that now they will never believe him. Janet and Thor agree that drunk in his armor he is a threat. Thor asks him to see reason. He has no wish to raise a hand against him. Neither does he, Tony agrees, and uses his repulsor ray on him, then flies out.
The Wasp shouts at the Avenger outside to stop him. He is an impostor. She-Hulk grabs him by the ankle and smashes him down. He blasts her. Starfox tells him that’s no way to treat a lady and suggests they stop fighting. They are all Avengers and surely can straighten this out. Tony is almost convinced but then blasts him, recalling Starfox’s persuasion power.
He flies outside a window, hoping that none of the others can match him for speed, but he forgot their latest member, Captain Marvel. She announces she’ll give him one last chance. However, he absorbs her energy form and redirects it back at Thor, allowing him to make his getaway.
Thor admits his fighting skill seems undimmed. Monica wants to catch up. Wasp claims he isn’t a priority. She’ll alert the real Iron Man to look for him. They’ve got other problems.
She called this meeting because Ultron is back. That’s all they need, Hawkeye moans. Is that metal fruitcake building himself another wife? Maybe 2.5 robot kids and a mechanical schnauzer?
Cap chides him that’s no laughing matter. Ultron’s been stealing cutting edge technology. Given his hatred of humanity, they can’t risk him completing whatever he’s working on. He tells Captain Marvel to trace his energy signature.
Elsewhere, Tony chides himself for his stupidity. He’d just seen his friends die in the future, so he ran to them for comfort in the past without thinking. Not only did he fail to get their help, they’ll warn all the other Avengers to be on guard for him. The Fantastic Four’s robot receptionist said Reed Richard is in another dimension. He is running out of geniuses. Then he has an idea. There is someone whose location he knows. Although the timing couldn’t possibly be worse. This could get awkward…
And so Tony arrives at Hank Pym’s Midwestern lab. Pym greets him with a punch and a curse. He has the gall to come here?! he shouts. After he seduced his wife not a month after their divorce? While Hank was rotting in jail for a crime he didn’t commit? He knew Tony was a narcissist, but this – he must be delusional!
Tony admits to himself he deserved this. By the time he crawled out of the bottle and joined the West Coast Avengers, Hank was putting on a brave face, but this is what he did to him.
He admits to Hank he is a real piece of work. Hank has ever right to be angry. But he’s not the Tony Stark he knows. Doesn’t he seem older? Hank admits he’s looked better but he’s heard Tony’s drinking again. In this era, Tony admits, but he is from the future.
Hank accuses him of being loaded and orders him to get out. Tony begs him to listen. Years from now, Hank will develop a process that’ll let him access Overspace. The dimension of abstract cosmic entities. Hank admits he’s only just begun that research. It’s still theoretical. He hasn’t told anyone yet. Tony assures him he’ll get there and again asks him to believe.
Let’s say he does, Hank concedes. Why does that change anything? Why would he help Tony? Because the fate of the world depends on it, is the reply. In the Avengers, we’d call that Tuesday, Hank replies drolly. Someone will take care of this. No one else can! Tony adds if it helps in this era he is at the lowest point in is life. He’s losing everything and a big part of why he started drinking again was guilt over what he did to Hank and Jan. He’s not saying it makes it right. But he’s paying for what he did. Can that be enough? Will Hank help him, please?
Soon, Tony shows Hank the part of the time machine he has. Tony explains he is trying to locate the other pieces in the past so the madman who used it never gets the chance. Hank examines it and explains that these machines are infused with pretty unique energies. No two are the same. He thinks Doom uses magic in their creation. It’s just a matter of isolating and analyzing the energy and searching for the same pattern. He adds a tracking device to it. Easy, he tells Tony. He could have done it himself. Nobody understands dimensional devices like Hank is the reply and, without the right equipment, Tony is useless. He thanks Hank. He’s a real Doc Brown.
Hank tries it out and gets a reading in upstate New York and another familiar energy signature. Ultron…
In upstate New York, the Avengers are battling the evil robot. Have at thee! Thor booms as he throws his hammer at the indestructible robot. Ultron uses his forcefield to keep the Hammer from returning to Thor. Thor worries that it will be kept from him for more than sixty seconds at which point he’d revert to his Donald Blake identity.
She-Hulk hits Ultron and orders Captain Marvel to help Thor. The rest are to hit Ultron hard! But Ulton takes down Jen easily.
From a glider, Hawkeye shoots a special arrow at him, mocking he’s got to be Ultron thirteen by now. So what’s his nutball computer brain up to this time? Looking for a hot date with a Ms. Pac-Man machine? Ultron replies he has no title. Individual names are a human affectation, flaws in his other models. He evolved separately from them, from remnants of Ultron-Six. But if they must, call him Ultron Omega, for he will be the last, and the end of their misbegotten species! He has obtained a fragment of a time travel device built by the one they call Doom. When it is rebuilt, he will travel to the dawn of time and crush the ancestor of humankind as it rises from the primeval sea!
As Ultron takes out Hawkeye,  Cap throws his shield at Ultron, pointing out the flaw in the plan. Ultron was created by a human. He’d undo his own existence! Catching the shield, Ultron pronounces this a small price to pay to wipe the stain of humankind from Earth. He throws it back, taking out Cap, Starfox and the Wasp with one throw.
Thor asks Captain Marvel to fight. Maybe her power will succeed where his failed. The newest Avenger attempts a wide spectrum barrage to disrupt Ultron’s systems. He calls her a fool. She thinks too slow or overcome his defenses, while he feeds on energies like hers. He captures her energy form and observes that he may not be as evolved as he thought, for he looks forward to slaughtering them all, as soon as he has killed Thor! Thor nervously thinks that in a few seconds that will be very easy if he doesn’t reach his hammer.
That moment, Iron Man flies in, blasting Ultron. He’s seen the future, he announces, and it doesn’t include Ultron Omega. Somewhat familiar with Ultron’s tech, he sets up a counter frequency to disrupt the forcefield, allowing Thor to take Mjolnir just in time. Thor admits he owes him an apology. Tony suggests he can make it up to him by taking Ultron apart. They just have to keep him busy; he’s got an ace in the hole…
Hanky Pym (as Ant Man) enters Ultron and follows the course Iron Man uploaded to his helmet. He asks Tony to call him “Hank.” He isn’t Ant-Man anymore, someone else is. He’s just wearing the suit out of necessity again.
Suddenly, a swarm of internal defense drones attack. Tony was worried about this. He warns Hank they face some defense of artificial intelligence for identifying contaminants. But Hank announces he can handle them. He still has the strength of a full-sized man.
Hank hits the bots, then sees Ultron’s molecular rearranger, the device he uses to reshape his adamantium body, meaning he can also be destroyed with it. Tony tells him to attach the device he made to it, activate it and get out. He is interrupted when he tells Hank how much time he has as the battle outside becomes hotter.
But suddenly, Ultron feels his internal systems corrupted. He literally begins to melt as he shouts: “Father, why have you betrayed me?”
Captain Marvel is freed and unharmed and to Iron Man’s relief so is Hank, who even managed to get the fragments of Dr. Doom’s time machine, which he hands to Tony.
Captain America apologizes for doubting Iron Man, who replies he hasn’t done a lot to earn their trust. Hawkeye asks Hank if he’ll reconsider returning. Hank tells him too much has happened, too much to pretend they can just start over and he couldn’t do that to Janet.
Captain Marvel and She-Hulk help the Wasp, who was grazed by Ultron’s encephalo beam. When she hears what Hank did..., Monica begins. Hank asks them not to tell her. He created Ultron, so he felt he had to help stop him. But, if Janet knew, she’d feel obligated to ask him back and he’s hurt her enough. He suggests they tell the Wasp Hank was here to give advice on Ultron’s construction. Or keep the mission out of their records entirely, given the time paradox. Captain America doesn’t like it but respects his wishes.
Tony muses that, despite it all, they are still friends. After so long they’ve finally come back to that in his era. If he tells them what is to come, warns them, could he stop the Civil War? Prevent Cap and him at each other’s throats? Bill Foster’s death? Could he stop what happens to Wanda…could he save Janet and do more? Could he change his past? But things might turn out worse. He needs to find the rest of the time machine or there won’t be a future. Still, he wonders if there isn’t something he can do.
Captain America points out that both Tony and the time machine pieces are glowing. Is it some attack? Hank explains that now that two pieces of the time machine are united, it is taking him to the others, trying to achieve equilibrium. Before he disappears, Tony wants to tell them something about the future. Hank warns him he can’t. There’s potential for disaster! He won’t get specific, Tony promises, but he can see how hard this has been on Hank and he just wants to tell him that, from someone else who has hit bottom, he will get through this. Hank smiles and thanks him, hoping Tony will get through this. Because his future sounds like someplace he’d really like to see.
2nd story:
England, years earlier. Everything is grey with rain. Tony Stark sees a news report on a TV set in a shop window. It shows a speech of one Sir James Jaspers, MP.
It’s true that these are dark days. Unemployment has risen, yes, but this recession has made life difficult for everyone. We must all tighten our belt at a time like this, Jaspers demands. People are scared. They feel their very way of life is under threat. And this is precisely why he believes these… “mutant” individuals should not be allowed to live amongst them without regulation. Until they know exactly what they are capable of. Internment is simply the simplest choice. This is an unstable, volatile time. Their heroic troops have been fighting a war overseas. And the safety of good honest people is his only concern in the matter.
Disgusted, Tony mutters that some things never change. That moment, the TVs shut off. So much for hoping the news would tell him what year he was in. Or telling him why people are running to get off the streets like their lives depended on it. He figures this is London. Hank Pym’s GPS is showing that a part of Doom’s time machine is nearby.
He drops the trenchcoat and is about to put on the helmet, wishing he had the strength. He misses the modern armor, feeling strong. He misses his friends. He needs sleep, a hot meal, but has a word to save. He needs help! So does someone else, as he hears a scream and flies towards its source.
A woman in a car screams at armed soldiers in beetle-like armors to leave her husband alone. They haven’t done anything wrong! As the soldiers get the unconscious man out of the car, she babbles that Mark can move a chess piece a few centimetres by thinking, if he concentrates really hard. That’s all he can do.
One of the Beetles begins to inform her that her husband isn’t human. Something hits him at super speed. He thinks that’s quite enough! the perpetrator announces and gives the other two Beetles a bit of advice to take back to STRIKE and the Vixen: You don’t send people to a prison camp for what they might become one day! “These are my people!” Captain Britain announces. “His is my county. So sod off out of it!”
From a roof, Iron Man observes the scene, recalling he saw Captain Britain’s face on display in Birch’s base. Just like Hank Pym. What’s going on here? Maybe these are the people that are meant to help him. But how could Birch know that?
As Cap helps up Mark, Iron Man approaches him. Seeing another armored man, Cap reacts automatically and hits him. Iron Man falls and sees that the time machine control panel has cracked during the fall. In despair, he shouts that without this he is lost! He attacks Cap, calling him an idiot. They are all dead! he shouts, and now he can’t save them! He sinks to his knees. He can’t do it. Can he help him? he asks Captain Britain.
At STRIKE command, the crime mistress Vixen, who is currently in charge, listens to the tortured screams of a prisoner, remarking she enjoys a spot of agony in the morning. She asks her scientist if there is anything superhuman about their prisoner and is told it would not appear so. She sighs. So all these gadgets were made by an ordinary little man? Boring. Jim Jaspers has them round up anyone with the slightest show of superhuman potential. It would be nice if they could actually find one special person. England is currently very ordinary, it seems.
In the East End of London, Iron Man tries to fix the panel, while Cap asks if the rest of the Avengers are with him. He’s alone, Iron Man admits. That’s a shame, Cap agrees, but he knew someone would come. Someone from across the pond would notice what’s going on here. They couldn’t just ignore it. The food lines and the curfews were bad enough, but now? They’re dragging innocent people off to camps! There’s talk that they’re death camps! In Britain! It makes him feel ill. And the sky… He thinks they’ve done something to the sky…
They’ll get through it, Iron Man comments, not really caring. Angrily, Cap asks if he is paying attention. These are his people he is talking about! What is that bloody thing anyway? Something with bigger implications than what’s happening in London! Iron Man snaps.
“My God, the arrogance!” Cap shouts. If it threatens America, it’s important, but if there’s a threat to Britain? If he can’t get it working again, there won’t be a Britain, Iron Man retorts. What does he mean? Cap asks. Iron Man just tells him he has to trust him. He doesn’t even know who’s under the helmet, Cap retorts. He actually thought he’d come to help.
Got it! Iron Man exclaims. Good luck, Cap tells him, looking at the readings. What he’s looking for is in STRIKE headquarters. STRIKE is Britain’s SHIELD, so he’s going to have to get past a high tech army. An army trained to kill superhumans!
Iron Man asks for his help. No, Cap tells him after some thinking. Iron Man tells him that Captain America went through this. Sooner or later, he’s going to have to decide what he wants to be: Whether he is a British hero or a hero. Full stop. This isn’t America, Cap insists. Super people aren’t ten-a-penny here, he’s all they have. Iron Man wishes him good luck but, before he goes, anywhere around here he can get a cheap suit?
Outside STRIKE HQ, the top secret underground bunker in Central London, two armed Beetles guard the entrance while discussing football. Suddenly, someone knocks on the door from outside. They look at each other, confused to find Tony Stark, head of Stark International, who was just passing by and thought he’d say ‘hi’.
In her bedroom, the Vixen, informed of this, scoffs. Why would Stark turn up at the front door unannounced? The messenger Rodney informs her Stark’s been visiting the Ministry of Defence and wants to sell STRIKE Stark technology while he’s in London. Vixen orders one of her submissive men to check the story with the ministry. She admits that Stark has the reputation of being something of a loose cannon in the business world. Not to mention a notorious ladies man… She checks her wardrobe in anticipation of the meeting.
Soon Tony kisses the hand of the Vixen, who is clad in a tight dress and informs him this is a charming surprise. Does he often go knocking at the front doors of top secret covert organizations? Only when he’s been told there’s a beautiful host inside and an excellent cup of tea, he retorts smoothly. He has a flattering tongue, she informs him and imagines that’s why he’s been so successful at business. That and the fact he’s a genius who creates the most advanced weaponry on the planet, he reminds her. Weaponry that he’d very much like to sell to STRIKE…
Well, the free market is the way forward, their inspiring prime minister informs them,  the Vixen muses and, until she gets official word from the MOD that his story is correct, he is her rather cute prisoner.
Tony opens his case to put on an Iron Man glove. What elegant wares is he touting today? she asks. What does it do? “This!” he replies and takes her and the guards out.
He runs through the complex to look for the time machine piece and hopes that, once he finds it, he will fade out of this time zone. If not, he hopes this armor can get him past an army. Which it can’t.
He finds the panel in a not too heavily guarded area. On a chair next to it is a tied up, tortured man who is unconscious. Tony recognizes him. It’s Birch, the man who destroys the world. Birch, with his first part of Doom’s time machine. Helpless, unconscious. One point blank high power repulsor blast… no more Birch. He considers murder to save the world. Or he could smash up the two parts of the time machine he has. That way Birch can never rebuild it. Never bring back Phoenix.
But it happened. Tony was there. They all still died. But if he can put the machine back together, go back a few minutes before… A few seconds even. He can save everyone! Still, the saver option would be to kill that monster.
“You don’t send people to a prison camp for what they might become one day” he recalls Captain Britain’s words and powers down. He’ll survive, he tells the unconscious Birch. He’ll see him again and will stop him. He promises that.
Iron Man gets ready to battle an army, one trained to kill super heroes. Some things never change, he sighs as he begins battling the Beetles.
Vixen notices there is no sign of Stark and his body guard arrives suddenly. She wonders what they were after and wants to find out who is inside the Iron Man suit.
Iron Man is about to be overwhelmed when suddenly someone knocks on the door. The next moment, Captain Britain tears open the door. Leaving people to starve and strike and rot in darkness, while they enjoy the spoils of power; that is not Britain! The army behind him though: they’re Britain!
While the soldiers keep the Beetles busy, Cap assists Iron Man and helps him outside. He orders him to go. He explains STRIKE aren’t the army. The soldiers agreed to help him because they are angry about what’s happening. He can’t leave them. This country is being ripped to shreds. It’s a civil war. America has to help. No, Iron Man tells him. He doesn’t think Cap will need him. Then the time machine rips him away.


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The Iron Age: Alpha
“The past is a foreign country… they do things differently there.” L.P.Hartley
An old man in a wheelchair sits in a spacious underground complex under the ocean. In his modern library, he looks at old pictures showing a group of scientists. A female-shaped robot addresses him as Dr. Birch and tells him they are ready. Calling her Elsa, he asks her to begin. Elsa presses a button to open the door to a lab. Inside are more robots like her and in six tubes large armored robots. She gives the order to initiate. And the robots are sent out…
A library opening in Harlem:
Tony Stark confides to the audience that he hates modern technology and is greeted with laughter. No, he does, he protests. Would they believe him if he told them his Stark phone seems currently to be broken? Shoddy workmanship, these days. More laughter. If it was working, he’s sure his P.A. could have told him the exact amount his industrial buddies spent rebuilding this beautiful Harlem library. Don’t worry. He’s sure it was millions. He’s very good at spending money. Which is maybe why he’s not rich anymore and Stark International no longer exists. But since their library was knocked down in a battle with Norman Osborn, who happened to be wearing a derivative of his Iron Man armor, he figured lobbying absurdly rich people was the least he could do. And it is very kind of them to invite him here for the opening. He appreciates it.
Nearby at the buffet, Luke Cage tells his oldest friend, Danny Rand aka Iron Fist, that Stark’s really good at throwing out money for a quick fix. Time lost and pain caused, that ain’t so easy to wash away. Times change, Danny tells him. They move on to the next phase. They are all Avengers now. Maybe, Luke agrees but, thanks to smug and smiling Tony Stark and his Superhuman Registration Act, they were hunted like fugitives. Luke’s wife and baby daughter were hunted like fugitives! Hiding out in derelict buildings, running for their lives. Shoulda been the happiest time!
Stark runs into them, champagne flute in his hand. What are they doing here? he asks. Danny explains that Luke knows a lot of people in the neighborhood. They asked him to attend. Luke just glares. And Danny? Tony asks. He’s Luke’s bodyguard, comes the explanation. In case there’s trouble. Which Luke causes. What kind of trouble? Tony asks. Looking upward, he sees the robots about to attack. Sweet Christmas! he exclaims Luke’s old catchphrase. Luke agrees.
Stark orders them to cover him until his armor boots up. Iron Fist gets ready remarking giant robots hate new libraries. Man treats them like rookies, Luke seethes. Play for time ‘til he flies back in and saves the day. They’ve been doing this a good few years now, so let’s show Mr. Stark some old school Power Man and Iron Fist action. Unfortunately, the robots’ repulsors take both of them out quickly.
Like he said, he hates modern technology, Iron Man quips. No, really he does. Before he can fire, the robots’ rays disable his armor and kidnap him.
Tony Stark awakes in the underwater fortress without his armor. It is so difficult to get a meeting with him, Birch remarks, not like the good old days, certainly. What has he done to him? Tony asks. Brought him down to his level, as it were, Birch retorts and asks Elsa to release him. His old friend is not really going to go anywhere at this point.
And he thinks the world of him too, obviously, Stark replies sarcastically. Well, he would, if he had the slightest idea who he is. Ill-looking supervillain, underwater base, robot army that’s not a million miles removed from Stark tech, obviously insane vendetta towards him. He’d remember, probably. Well, it has been many years since last they met, Birch remarks as Elsa wheels him out. He tells Tony to follow him. He has something to show him.
Looking around, Tony asks who built this base. He’d be guessing it’s a Hydra construct. Too advanced though. Birch agrees. Since last they saw one another, he’s worked for both Hydra and AIM., building much of their technology but he never agreed with their ideologies. He’s no terrorist. He realized through years of therapy that he simply doesn’t like people. So he took his robot creations, stole billions from both malicious organizations and built this base, far away from the eyes of the world. He has been very happy here, but time has run out. Cancer. He has weeks at most.
Tony expresses sympathy, but still doesn’t see what this has to do with him. He’s ruined his life, Birch tells him coldly. Stark stole his work and had him blacklisted. Tony calls him deluded, which is probably a given for anyone who lives with robots in an undersea base, granted.
They have stopped in front of a giant metal door. He was at Stark International at the beginning. His new products division. He developed robotic schematics that he’s seen bastardized in many Iron Man armors over the years. Stark’s life of privilege could have been his but Stark had him fired, hauled off the premises and arrested for sabotage. He called himself the Phantom back in those days.
The door opens. Donald Birch! Tony recalls, then mouths “my God” when he sees what’s in the giant lab. That may sound silly and childlike now, Birch continues but those were more colorful and innocent times. That was the past.
Tony stares down where more robots are at work around a square-like machine. Above, on computer screens, the face of several heroes can be seen. Birch asks Tony if he knows what that is. He’s studied the schematics with Reed Richards. It’s one of Doctor Doom’s time machines. Tony notices the computer images of the heroes and identifies them: Hank Pym, Johnny Storm, Captain Britain, Luke and Danny, Cyclops and Dazzler?
He warns Birch he is making a huge mistake. That machine is incredibly dangerous. He is fully aware of that, Birch assures him. He has been using it. He may not have a future himself, but to look into it has been fascinating. It has allowed him to make many key advancements to his robots, hence them dealing with Iron Man and Tony’s friends so easily. He had to increase their power for what he had in mind.
What does he want? Tony asks. What does he want him to do. Do? Oh, the arrogance! Birch scoffs. He doesn’t want Tony to do anything. He is completely powerless here. He brought him here to watch. It took a considerable amount of time for his robots to find and restore the disparate parts of this particular machine which had been destroyed in some pointless super-powered conflagration or other. The parts had been scattered across the globe, falling into the hands of various ambitious collectors and technologists.
While he talks the machine is activated and several of Birch’s robots appear holding a barely conscious woman whom Tony recognizes as Phoenix, or, more to the point, Dark Phoenix.
What is he doing? Tony demands. He’s very tired, Birch replies. Does Tony know that he sees him as possibly the most important person in his life? Yet Tony doesn’t remember him. Isn’t that sad? Almost as though he never existed. That moment, that flippant arrogant moment, he had him at Stark Enterprises, the entire path of Birch’s life changed. It could have all been so different. Tony was the father of this life he has lived. He was there at its birth. So, of course, he wanted him to see, what his actions eventually created. To see his life’s end. His Alpha. His Omega.
Dark Phoenix begins to stir.
Tears run down his cheeks as Birch admits he doesn’t know what to say. This is for Tony. He orders the robots to proceed as planned. They fire energy weapons at Dark Phoenix. Tony shouts at them to stop. That’s a primal destructive force of the universe down there, capable of erasing whole stars and he’s pumping up her power level! He’s only going to make her angry!
He realizes that this is the idea as Birch tells him goodbye. Goodbye to everything. Tony jumps down to the time platform.
Phoenix begins to glow with energy. “I am fire and life incarnate” she shouts. “Now and forever I am Phoenix!”
Tony reaches the time platform and activates it as the Phoenix effect rises and burns everything away, starting with the undersea lab, growing and growing across the whole world, destroying everything in its path, and finally the whole world.
Tony finds himself in a back alley, his clothes still smoldering. He tears them off. He relives the last moment and his own guilt in this, crying in shock. Above him he sees the window of Doom’s time machine where he came through. The portal disappears, he realizes why. The machine blew up along with everything and everyone else. Everyone he’s ever known. Pepper, Rhodey, Steve, Thor, all gone. He crouches in the rain.
Finding an old blanket to cover himself with, he starts walking. He figures he came through to the moment where Phoenix was grabbed from. He is in Manhattan. He knows a few good guys in Manhattan. Question is, who can he trust most? He walks up to the apartment complex and is greeted by the guard. Exhausted, he steps into his penthouse apartment, figuring two Tony Starks might be able to save the planet. That might be difficult though as he finds his past self slumbering in a drunken stupor…


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Dazzled (1st story)
 Bad Moon Rising (2nd story)
1st story:
East Side, Manhattan, 2 A.M.
Alison Blaire, dressed in her Dazzler outfit, skates through the streets to get to a surprising gig she got. She is delighted, especially after last week’s disaster. Armored mutant hunters were invading a disco to hunt her and she got caught up in X-Men insanity. Was even asked to join them. She just knew her career was over. Who’d hire her after that mess? But then she got a call for a private party. A last minute deal. Ten minutes to get there, but the pay is excellent!
The streets are empty when, suddenly, someone shouts, “there’s the mutie!” Several armored goons like the ones that attacked the disco grab her. Dazzler protests that she’s not an X-Man. She’s a singer! Her powers are nothing! She can make bright lights! Big deal!
The men tell her the boss wants her. F.Y.I., Dazzler replies, she downplayed the power thing. She reaches into her purse and switches on her radio. She absorbs the sound to emit light. The leader tells the others to smash her radio. The racket will have people call the cops!
Not too far away is Iron Man. Four days ago, he watched as the world was destroyed. Now, he’s halfway to saving it. But he’s running on yesterday’s technology and it isn’t pretty. Power’s getting low. He hasn’t slept in days. He didn’t think he could get this tired. He urges himself to keep going.
He has no idea when he has landed and where he is heading. His tracker says the Hellfire Club. At least he’s a hereditary member there. He figures it could get worse. Then he notices the music, recognizing it as Pat Benatar’s Hit me with your best shot. Tony sighs as he sees Dazzler fighting the goons. One of them stamps the radio. Tony realizes it’s madness to waste what’s left of his power to rescue one girl when the world is at stake, but he does.
He uses his repulsors on the men to take them out. When he takes off one goon’s helmet, Dazzler blinds him with her lights. Recognizing, Dazzler and her disco era outfit, Iron Man has figured out when he is.
Still weakened he falls into her arms, admitting he can’t think of a single line of witty repartee and the situation cries out for it. Just shove him upright… Dazzler tells him they need to get out of there before the goons wake up. Does she know them? he asks. She admits that they were after the X-Men, and now they want her too. Long story.
He identifies her as Alison Blaire, the Dazzler. Alison is flattered he’s heard of her. But how? She’s just moved here and this is her second gig, well, it will be when she gets there. She’s a mutant, just not X-Men material. She can make lights, even use them to stun people, but she’s really a singer and she has to be at the Hellfire Club in eight minutes, she realizes.
Tony wonders at this. Things like this keep happening. It can’t just be coincidence; it has to be part of a plan, but whose plan? People have been helping him since the beginning of this quest, but so far he hasn’t told any of them who he really is. They’d have thought him crazy, but Alison’s still a kid. Probably still believes in fairy tales. What if he just tells her the truth?
And so he does. He tells her he’s Iron Man from the future and is wearing armor from his past. It’s not as powerful, so he gets tired. But he needs to do the job fast or the world will be destroyed… He could use her help. Alison agrees, but can it wait until after she’s done with the job? She’s down to her last 23 cent.
Iron Man agrees. Someone at the Hellfire Club has a device he needs. His friend Tony will meet her outside and tell her what to do.
He wonders whether he should have scruples about using the still inexperienced Dazzler. Still, fate dropped her in his path.
Soon Tony meets her in his civvies and pours on the charm. Unimpressed, Alison silently notes that he’s old and looks sick. She wonders whether they will let him in with his ratty clothes. He tells her he is a member. He asks her to sing. To dazzle and distract the audience. Iron Man will do the rest. Together they enter.
The moment they are in, Tony reaches for a drink. He’s older now and looks like hell, but he figures the booze will help explain his appearance and the bad suit.
Amidst the crowd are Sebastian Shaw and Donald Pierce, who make fun of Stark and his alcoholism. They note that Dazzler is there. The men should have abducted her but, if she was with Stark, the mercs probably backed off. Pierce wonders how that little tramp knows Stark. How do any of them know him? Shaw scoffs. He may have lost his fashion sense at the bottom of a bottle but, apparently, he still has what women want. So they just find another way to “recruit” her, Pierce decides.
Pierce greets Stark and asks to be introduced to Dazzler. He shows her where she can set up. Nervously, Alison hopes this is her big break.
The band begins to play and her voice soars. Soft lights begin to play around her, flashing off her face and jewelry. After several sets, everyone, guests and even servants, have wandered in to see the show.
Tony admits that she has star quality, even back then. He almost hates to leave the party, but does. His tracer leads him to a sub basement area. Soon his luck runs out as the Hellfire guards receive an intruder alert. Hearing them, Tony changes to the Iron Man suit.
Upstairs, Dazzler is finishing her concert and wonders where Tony is.
Donald Pierce figures that maybe they can get Dazzler without violence, since she is so naïve. He praises her concert and tells her he’d like to make her an offer after the party. He is interrupted by an alert and learns Iron Man is in the armory. Dazzler figures something is wrong and follows.
Downstairs, the armored guards attack Iron Man and Tony now realizes they belong to the Hellfire Club. He shoots them, then gets into the armory where he finds a panel of Doom’s time machine plugged in.
As he makes a grab for it, he is attacked by Pierce’s personal energy siphon. Tony realizes that Pierce is the brain behind the armored suits. Of course he’d want to study Doom’s micro circuit…
Pierce hits Stark, announcing that this is his lucky day. He calls the guards to his workshop and looks forward to unmasking Iron Man.
That moment, Dazzler comes to the rescue. Falling equipment creates the noise to fuel her lights. She stuns Pierce.
She runs to Iron Man’s side and urges him to get up. Iron Man tells her weakly his armor is drained. He needs to plug it in somewhere and recharge it. He recalls there are solar cells and asks her to make full spectrum light and focus it on his armor. Needing noise, she smashes the empty armors, then shoots a gun. She tries to think of sunlight and begins to charge the armor. When it’s up to 85 percent, she finds she is out of noise and therefore out of power.
That moment, guards arrive. Iron Man fires a repulsor at them and orders Dazzler to keep the sunlight coming, as well as grab the cylinder behind her and stuff it in the duffle. With that done, he flies away with her.
Ali worries they’ll call the cops. Iron Man points out they won’t want them nosing around in their basement. What about that old guy, Tony? Alison asks. Iron Man asks her not to worry. He is already gone.
They land on a deserted street and Iron Man praises her for keeping her head. Thanks to her, he is one step closer to saving the world. Yeah, but she doesn’t think the Hellfire Club will recommend her to their friends, she remarks. So much for paying the rent. No problem, he replies and gives her some money. Her fee for tonight’s engagement, he tells her. Cash left over from his tussle with the Tinkerer, he thinks to himself.
She thanks him and asks how he knew about the sunlight thing. He reminds her he is from the future. In the next few years, she is going to find she can do lots of things she thought were impossible.
Will she be a star? Dazzler asks. More than a star, he assures her. She’s barely begun to tap her potential. And what she does, she is going to be amazing! Now go on inside. She walks to her apartment. Iron Man suggests she not completely write off working with the X-Men. He thinks she’s going to be their kind of woman.
As he focuses on his next step, he is suddenly hit by an electric field and stunned, courtesy of Sebastian Shaw, who takes away his bag. Taking out the time machine parts, Shaw announces that his collection is complete…
2nd story:
Dream:
Tony Stark sees his friends: Pepper Potts, Rhodey, Thor, Steve Rogers… They are alive! he realizes. No, Pepper corrects him. They are still dead. Before his eyes, they all begin to burn as they remind him everyone on Earth burned and it was his fault.
And he cannot change it, Reed Richards reminds him. The timeline… How many times have they discussed the potential ramifications of amending the timeline?
He will fail! Dark Phoenix announces. And they will burn!
Reality:
Iron Man awakes screaming and still tied up, thanks to Sebastian Shaw, who tells him not to pass out again. He needs him later. Iron Man is going to help the Hellfire Club change the future…
Iron Man recognizes Shaw and remembers he hit him after he said goodbye to Dazzler. And now he’s put together the majority of Doom’s time machine from the segments Iron Man gathered. He thought it was Donald Pierce who was studying the part of the time machine. Maybe if he’s lucky, Shaw is as stupid as his somewhat fey dress sense and he doesn’t know what the time machine…
Shaw hits him. The time machine! he spells out. Does he think he allows Pierce his little experiments with impunity? He is always one step ahead of him. The Hellfire Club’s Inner Circle is his for a reason! He was looking for scattered parts of Doom’s time machine and Iron Man just happens to come here carrying all the pieces? That almost seems like something preordained.
Iron Man realizes he dresses stupider than he is. Shame.
There is a booming noise from above. They know how to throw a party, Iron Man jokes. Damn them! Shaw mutters. The X-Men have won this battle, he announces, but if Iron Man activates the time machine, the war will be over very quickly indeed. He can make sure Charles Xavier is never even born! He can mold the world in the Hellfire Club’s image! Sideburns and ponytails all around, huh? Iron Man jokes.
Shaw warns him he cannot survive another shock of this magnitude and orders him to activate the time machine. Iron Man agrees if he is let down. Shaw complies, warning him he has incapacitated him before and can do it again. Don’t cross him!
Iron Man walks towards the time machine. He realizes Shaw is right. He can barely stand. Still weak from whatever Birch did to him. He doesn’t need to stand, Iron Man figures, just activate the machine with the preset coordinates taking him back to Birch’s base.
The power builds up. While Shaw is entranced, Iron Man hits him in the face. Looking at the glowing panel, Iron Man realizes he thought he’d come to this moment filled with anger, justice or the need for redemption. But right here and now? He just wants his friends back!
But the next moment, everything goes dark. The building’s power supply has been cut. Shaw attacks him, demanding he turn the power back on. Iron Man feebly jokes he’s power mad. As Shaw hits him, Iron Man thinks what a lame sub-James Bond line to go out on. But then both hear a snikt and, as Wolverine attacks Shaw, Iron Man knows it might not be him who’s dying today.
Wolverine threatens Shaw with his claws. He told Cyke he hates leaving a fight half finished. And then he heard all this shouting here. And look what it led him to. He slashes at Shaw, continuing that he just dropped on his tubbo friend Leland by the way. His Inner Circle‘s gonna be a whole lot thinner without him in it.
“Animal!” Shaw cries and hits him. Wolverine will find that any attack on him is returned ten-fold. He reminds him he absorbs kinetic energy and turns it into raw strength. If he has killed Harry Leland, then both Shaw and the Hellfire Club owe him vengeance and bloody retribution! He keeps on hitting Wolverine straight out of the room.
Iron Man uses the chance and emits a last weak repulsor blast against Shaw, who grabs him and throws him upward through the ceiling, into the party room.
Iron Man lands at the feet of Colossus, who believes him to be another foe. Iron Man tries to identify himself, but already Colossus’ fist is raised and about to be brought down. Miraculously, Tony is saved by a quick teleport courtesy of Nightcrawler, who has recognized him.
Iron Man moans he feels like the morning after one of Tony Stark’s penthouse parties. Teleporting with him seems to have that effect, Kurt agrees, but he thought better a dicky tum than Colossus taking his head off. Has he arrived to help them? Nightcrawler asks.
That moment, the lights return. Back-up generator has kicked in, Iron Man realizes. That means the time machine will be activated again and calibrated to take him back to Birch’s base. Kurt Wagner… another dead hero he’s run into. He can’t save him, he thinks. He thanks him and leaves.
He runs inside again and sees Cyclops running through the hallways. Cyclops, the final of the faces on Birch’s display. It was inevitable he encounter him.
“Jean!” Cyclops cries and Iron Man stiffens as he sees the redheaded woman stepping towards Cyclops. Dark Phoenix, Iron Man mutters. She turns towards him. What did he say? she asks sharply. He shouldn’t be here, Jean announces.
Cyclops interrupts. He’s been searching for her all over. Is she all right? Mastermind was up here… Is he? Still controlling her? No, she… took care of him, Jean announces ominously and walks away from him.
Scott shouts after her to wait. Please let him help! He’s losing her, he announces helplessly. The woman he loves, and he is powerless to save her…
Iron Man recalls Reed Richards’ words about not being able to change time. He knows, but he’s Tony *%$* Stark! When has he ever listened to other scientists telling him what can and can’t be done? Listen to him! he urges Scott. Nothing is inevitable. His actions can still decide this! Does he love her? She doesn’t have to change! He can save her! Iron Man can save them. How does he know… Cyclops begins but, that moment, Colossus cries out that he can hear police sirens. They have to go!
Running up the stairs, Tony hopes Scott can save Jean from the Phoenix. Maybe she never changed and there is no power for Birch to use. He’s in danger of changing the past… changing everything! And he doesn’t care anymore. Just get to that time machine and pray that Shaw hasn’t--
Shaw hasn’t. He’s still busy fighting Wolverine, who is joined by Storm, Nightcrawler and Colossus, the latter of whom tosses Shaw out of the window. Iron Man stops for a moment to watch the X-Men. They are so young! The uncanny X-Men… They were amazing!
Colossus jokes that high society dining may not be for Wolverine, who agrees. Iron Man plans to leave but suddenly finds that some force is levitating him, taking him down to the time machine.
Phoenix stands there waiting. This, she points to the machine, is connected to her. So is he. The Phoenix can feel it. How? Iron Man says he doesn’t want to hurt her. He just has to change things, save people! Just let him go through the portal, please!
The Phoenix is an elemental part of the universe, she announces, a being of space and time. He shouldn’t be here! With barely a gesture, she takes control of all the pieces he has fought so hard to collect and destroys them. With a red light glowing in her eyes, she announces she has to go now. Scott is looking for her. It… has to begin. Some things are inevitable.
You too will fail, are the words Iron Man remembers as he stares at the remnants of the time machine.


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Iron Age Omega
the past:
Young Donald Birch is playing outside with his action figures of World War II heroes, such as Captain America and Bucky against the Red Skull and Zemo. Suddenly, he starts when he hears a cough. An old man in a wheelchair sits under a tree watching him. “Our memories as reality. We are all time machines”, he remarks. That moment, his mother calls the boy. He protests there is a man by the tree, but he is no longer there.
The more recent past:
Tony Stark sits in a house, a prisoner of the past, of this tired body. Whatever Birch did to shut down his armor, he’s never physically recovered. He’s weak and ill. Weakly, he looks at a bottle. He’s lived alone here for so many years. He’s lost count. He didn’t open a bottle. For the first few of those.
It was his decision to hide himself away after Phoenix destroyed Doom’s time machine. He knew he was stuck in the past. He knew this era’s Tony Stark was out there living his life. He knew history was happening. His history. A history he dare not change.
He’d had enough long late night conversations with Reed Richards to know that, so he locked himself away. In loneliness and obsession.
He walks to his workshop. His arrogance created Dr. Birch. His arrogance destroyed the world and killed everyone he’s ever known or cared about. His arrogance also told him he could build his own version of Doom’s time machine. After all, he’s studied the schematics. He made the world burn. He would save it alone. He figured he had all the time in the world to do it. Even if it took years.
As soon as the machine was functional, he could go forward to the exact stop before Birch captured Phoenix and stop him. But it did take years and he couldn’t make it work. And he learned the humiliation of frustration and failure.
Yes! he shouts as the Tachyon field begins to build up, but a moment later everything explodes. He tries to grab the control panel. Everything is burning and he recalls the memory of the Phoenix burning the world…
The present:
He’s very tired, Birch tells a powerless Tony Stark as his robots are dragging up an unconscious Dark Phoenix. Stark was the seed of this life he has lived. So of course he wanted him to see what his actions eventually created. To see his life’s end. His alpha. His omega.
“Doctor Birch!” Iron Man shouts as he appears from the time platform along with Dazzler, Cyclops, Captain Britain the Human Torch and Power Man and Iron Fist. They’ve got a second opinion!
Cyclops orders them to hit the robots hard. His voice trails off when he sees Dark Phoenix, whose eyes are open.
"He brought them here too late! he shouts at Iron Man. They were supposed to stop the robots before they grabbed Phoenix. If he wants to spend a decade building his own time travel device and making it work to the exact second, feel free, Iron Man suggests caustically. Just getting this close is a miracle.
A furious Dark Phoenix begins to glow with energy as she announces she is life and fire incarnate. That sound good to him? Power Man asks Iron Fist, who admits he was a little distracted by how good she looks in that outfit. Cyclops shoots him a glare. He’s a little intense, Iron Fist mutters while the Torch agrees she is smoking.
Dazzler wishes there were more women on this team. If this is a team. If it makes her feel better, he is the only non-American on the team, Captain Britain points out. Yay, she’s on a team, Dazzler exclaims.
Upstairs, Tony wonders who is in the Iron Man suit. Rhodey? Him? Birch too is bothered. He has seen things play out a hundred times using Doom’s time machine. Always the same heroes. One of them is not here! Where’s Pym?
The past:
Hank Pym hands Tony Stark a cup of coffee. He should have come to him a lot earlier he tells him and calls him a stubborn idiot. Tony Stark and Hank Pym can work together, he suggests. Tony admits that, despite being from the future, he hasn’t grown that much. He doesn’t really do “needing help.”
He told Birch to his face back in London. He promised him he’d save the world and beat him. Building the time machine challenged Tony’s intellect, his ego. It became his own private heavyweight bout. His “Rumble in the Jungle.” Once he got involved, he couldn’t let Foreman knock him out. Why is he not surprised Tony is Ali in that metaphor? Hank smirks.
But it did knock him out, Tony admits. It beat him. Birch beat him. He has the schematics drawn out. It should work but he energies are crazy and no one understands dimensional variances like Pym. He can’t do this alone.
If there’s one thing all those years in the Avengers should have told him, Hank explains it’s that they are stronger together than apart.
And so they get to work. Hank suggests involving Reed Richards. Tony is against it. In Birch’s base were pictures of certain people. Hank, Cyclops, Johnny Storm, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Dazzler and Captain Britain. All of whom he just happened to meet in the past? They are the ones meant to be involved at the end. He knows that now. Birch travelled though time and saw it. They need to set the control panel to zero in on just after the individual moments he left each of them. But will they help them? Of course they will, Hank points out. Whatever era they are in, they are heroes.
He still thinks his staying here is crazy. Tony, on the time machine field, reminds him his picture was on Birch’s display. His staying here and working the machine is hitting Birch with a variable he doesn’t expect. One less hero is helping him? Pym spells out. Tony doesn’t know, but having Hank stay feels like a back-up plan. He disappears.
Thanks, Pym remarks sarcastically. Whatever the era, still the same Tony Stark, eh?
The present::
The heroes fight and Dark Phoenix is about to go ballistic. Iron Man sees Luke Cage in the way as she loosens a deadly blast. Thinking only it is his responsibility, Iron Man throws himself in the way of the blast and is evaporated. He’s ever so sorry, Birch tells the present Tony. He’s just killed him. Only Iron Man’s mask is left.
Cyclops runs towards Phoenix, but she lashes out at the heroes.
Birch announces that Stark’s team is as easily incapacitated as ever, but his robots are the stuff of genius. He orders the robots to amplify Phoenix’s energy to planet-engulfing levels. Stark threatens to kill him. A robot holds him back as Birch remarks he hasn’t got the strength, physically or mentally. No watch as he makes this world burn! This is for Tony!
Stark is helpless when suddenly the robot holding him malfunctions thanks to Hank Pym. He respects him, he informs Tony, but he can shove his back-up plan! He’s offending people via time travel now? Tony mutters confused.
Birch protests this is not supposed to happen. He’s travelled endlessly through time and seen this moment in myriad scenarios. This doesn’t happen! The two heroes just reply that the future isn’t set in stone.
Down below, in her fury, Dark Phoenix is about to destroy the world. Tony and Hank work together using the robots. Birch used future technology to create them, so they’d be powerful enough to incapacitate and capture Phoenix. The two men alter their controls, so the robots attack Phoenix instead of amping her power level.
However, Phoenix still stands despite the robots’ attack, more furious than before, while the robots are down. The heroes, in the meantime, have recovered and Cyclops orders them to hit Phoenix with a second barrage. They attack, she falls down and it is over.
Cyclops cradles the unconscious Jean, while Hank sorrowfully examines the remains of the older Iron Man. Tony’s strength and the Iron Man armor return to him the moment Birch dies of the combination of cancer and shock of failure.
They have won and Tony wonders why he feels such a terrible sense of loss. Like he only knows a very small part of a larger story.
Pym sets the platform to his own time, from where he will return everyone to the moment they left off. Tony doesn’t know what to say. Luke Cage surprisingly hugs him. He doesn’t claim to understand what happened here, but he won’t ever forget what the guy in the Iron Man armor did for him.
Tony makes a point of shaking Johnny Storm’s hand. He turns to Cyclops, who is carrying the unconscious Dark Phoenix. Cyclops insists he is going to save her. Tony wishes him good luck. Waving them goodbye, Tony reminds them of the date and the place.
The same evening, dressed in a tux, Tony enters a swanky restaurant. At a table with two empty places sit all the present versions of the heroes he fought with.
Brian Braddock gets up, announcing that, a very long time ago on this day, they were part of a team. On this day, they saved the world together. They’ve all changed since then, but they all remember.
Tony takes one of the empty chairs. The other is left for the dead Johnny Storm. Tony raises his glass: To absent friends. To the future.
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there. But some things don’t change.


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Dark Horizon
Walking through the park, Danny Rand explains to Misty Knight and Luke Cage that he had never felt more helpless in his life. He was chained to a table and Junzo Muto, barely sixteen years old, was stealing the power of the Iron Fist. The pain was excruciating. The only thing keeping him from passing out was the sound of the old man, Hiromitsu, standing there laughing. The New Warriors managed to save him but Junzo and Hiromitsu got away with his Iron Fist powers.
Misty asks him that he saw this Junzo kid leading the Hand. Aren’t they… Cage tells her that they’re a secret Japanese order of ninja assassins, really bad dudes. Danny remarks that he couldn’t have said it better himself. Putting her head on his shoulder, Misty tells Danny that she’s sorry and asks him what he’s going to do. Danny tells her not to worry about it, he’s doing just... fine.
Just then, Danny sees a child ghost walking in front of him and is shocked to see that it looks like him. Rushing towards him, Danny tells his surprised and confused friends that they have to hurry and catch him. Up a little further, Danny sees the Hall of Ancestors. In his mind, he thinks that he’d know this place anywhere. He spent half his childhood slipping past the guards, just so he could sneak in there and look around. Even then, as a child, he knew it was a very spiritual place. But what’s a building from a mystical city doing there, in Central Park? K’Un Lun is in another dimension and only crosses over with ours in Tibet. This is impossible.
Catching up to him, Cage and Misty ask Danny if he’s okay. Pointing in front of them, Danny asks don’t they see it? It’s a structure from his homeland K’Un Lun. Cage informs him all they see is a park. Danny starts to tell them that it’s right there but then sees the ghost of his mother, Heather Duncan. After she greets him, Danny asks her why she is there, how she is there, she’s dead. Heather tells him that she was able to breach the dimensional fortitude of Feng-Tu, K’Un Lun’s land of the dead, because she needs to warn him. She knows what he did last year. She knows he arranged for K’Un Lun to manifest there, in this dimension in the year 2000.
While Misty and Cage don’t see what Danny sees, Danny tells his mom that he… She cuts him off and tells him that she knows he did what he did to try to pull Earth’s people out of the darkness and into a new age of heroes. Junzo Muto is in Tokyo and he wants to bring K’Un Lun there. She knows what he is thinking but he cannot go after him. K’Un Lun’s arrival is tied to his heartbeat. And as long as he stays away from Tokyo, Junzo cannot bring K’Un Lun there and his world will be safe.
Danny says to her wait. She said this world will be safe but what about K’Un Lun? What will happen to it? Heather informs him that it will move onto its next phase of existence. Where that will take it, no one knows. “Touching” his face, Danny’s mom tells him that this is good-bye for them. Danny exclaims no. This is all his fault. If it wasn’t for his stupid plan, K’Un Lun wouldn’t be fading away. Cage asks his fault, what is he talking about? He didn’t…
Just then, a horde of Hand ninjas appear. Danny asks Cage and Misty that they do see them – right. Cage replies ‘fraid so and tells Danny to stay back and let him an’ Misty handle ‘em. Joining in the battle, Danny states that just because he doesn’t have his Iron Fist powers anymore doesn’t mean he’s helpless. He still has all his skills.
Holding his own with relative ease, Cage asks that he thought these guys were supposed t’ be bad. They can pile on all they want but their pig-stickers still can’t pierce his steel-hard skin. Taking out some of them on her own, Misty asks the ninjas if they hear that crunching sound. That’s the sound of her bionic arm crushing their fibula.
As he continues to battle the ninjas, Danny mentions that his mom was telling him about the Hand’s plans for K’Un Lun. He doesn’t know what these guys are after. Maybe they want them as some sort of captive audience. Knocking a bunch of ninjas away from him, Cage states that there’s a time and a place for everything. First they punch them a lot. Then they do the detective work.
At that moment, Cage drops to his knees and begins to cough. Rushing towards him, Danny tells him to hold his breath. They took out Nova the same way. They realized they couldn’t pierce his skin so they attacked him from the inside with poisonous gas. He then tells him to hold on, he’ll be okay. When he calls out for Misty, he makes the unfortunate discovery that she is nowhere to be found.
Later, as Cage is lying in a hospital bed, Danny tells him the doctor said he’s gonna be just fine. He told him that all that junk food he eats probably coated his insides so the toxins had a hard time getting through. Danny then tells Cage that there’s something he never told him. A while back, he set into motion a plan that would bring K’Un Lun to their dimension permanently. He thought it’d benefit bout of their societies. By giving K’Un Lun a stable dimension to reside in and the people of Earth would have a new Camelot to draw inspiration from. He realizes now that he was wrong. But Junzo intends to stick with the plan.
Unfortunately for him, K’Un Lun’s arrival is keyed to his heartbeat. It appears where he is. If Junzo wants to bring K’Un Lun to Tokyo, he just has to stay away from Tokyo. That’s what his mom was warning him about. But the Hand has Misty. And it doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to figure out that they’ve taken her to Tokyo as bait. They know he’d have to try to rescue the woman he loves. This is all his fault so now he has to make it right. He’s going to Tokyo. He knows Cage would try to talk him out of it if he was awake so it’s just as well that he’s still asleep. As Danny turns to leave, Cage tells him to give ‘em hell.
In Tokyo, deep beneath the Imperial Palace, Junzo Muto addresses the Hand ninjas before him flanked by Hiromitsu. He tells his brothers the moment they have all been waiting for is swiftly approaching. For centuries, the Hand has operated in shadows, carrying out its objectives under the cover of the night. Well, all of that is about to change. When K’Un Lun arrives, they will conquer it and use it to launch their bid to become a world power, and then the Hand will be feared in the sunlight just as it is in the shadows. And to help ensure that K’Un Lun arrives as planned, he’s arranged for a little insurance.
At that moment, Junzo has two of his ninja followers bring Misty Knight out from behind a curtain. He addresses the crowd and tells them that now she is their guest, Rand is certain to bless them with his presence. Misty defiantly asks the person in front of her if he is Muto. She’s heard all about him, the little runt. Muto replies that he can understand why she’s upset… Kicking him in the face, Misty asks him can he? She’s gotta tell him, that means the world to her.
Enraged, Muto fires up his right hand and tells Misty that she will regret that. If she knows all about him, then he takes it she knows he now possesses the power of the Iron Fist, the power to collect his life force, his chi, and channel it into a weapon of raw power. And while she knows all about him, he still has things to learn about her. For instance, while he knows her right arm is bionic, he has to wonder if she still has feeling in her arm. As he grabs her arm, Misty screams out in pain and falls to the ground in extreme pain. When she does, Muto says that answers that and then reminds Misty that he doesn’t need her alive.
Using his powers to create stairs from the stage, Hiromitsu asks Master Junzo if he may have a word with him. He’s watched, and dare he say helped, him grow from a child into a man, and while he has the utmost faith in him… Muto tells him yes, he was always there for him. Now will he stop beating around the bush and be out with it. And please, do not call him “master.” They’ve known each other too long for that sort of thing. He’s like a father to him. Hiromitsu tells him he’ll try. He wants to caution him not to let his emotions dictate his actions. The Hand has prided itself on its cold efficiency. Displays like that, where his anger gets the better of him, may cause the others to question his leadership skills. Muto replies that’s a valid point, one he’ll be sure to keep in mind.
Forty-eight hours later, somewhere in Tokyo’s labyrinthine underground sewer system, Danny Rand, in his Iron Fist costume, faces off against a number of Hand ninjas. When he is surrounded by them, he asks them if he is trespassing or something. He knows how much they love hanging out in the sewers. As no answer comes from any of the ninjas, he engages them in battle. While he fights them, he mentions that maybe this is why Spider-Man has a better rep than him. All the guys he fights never have anything to say, kinda hard to banter with yourself. While more ninjas rush in, Danny says to them come on, is he going to have to start insulting their mothers.
When a shadowy figure takes out two of the ninjas and then joins the battle, Danny recognizes him as Wolverine. Joining the battle, Wolverine asks if there are enough of these jokers to go around. Danny tells him he bets and then asks Wolverine what brings him to this lovely locale. Wolverine tells him he has friends in Tokyo. They told him about some Hand business going down. He’s tangled with the Hand a number of times, back in New York. They’re kinda like his pet project. Him? Danny informs him that the Hand is trying to bring a mystical city called K’Un Lun to this dimension, right on top of Tokyo. They need him to complete the ritual, so they kidnapped Misty Knight to get him there.
Continuing to battle the ninjas, Wolverine says he knows Misty and then asks Danny why he’s on this mission alone. Why isn’t Cage watching his back? Danny tells him that the Hand put him out of commission and that he didn’t have time to round up anyone else. Wolverine tells him don’t look now but he has himself some back-up, bub. After Danny thanks him, four ninjas dressed in red enter the fray. At first, Danny and Wolverine expect to have to battle the new arrivals but instead, the ninjas assist the heroes in taking out the Hand ninjas.
When Danny thanks the red ninjas for the assist, Wolverine says not that they needed it and then asks them who they are. The ninjas answer that they work for someone who wishes to aid them in their quest. They invite them to come and speak with him. Danny quietly asks Wolverine what he thinks. Wolverine tells him that it’s prob’ly a trap but this is his “quest.” He’s just playin’ back-up, remember. Danny tells the red ninjas all right, but they don’t have a lot of time. Wolverine remarks that he hopes this works out because he hates saying “I told you so.”
Later, aboard a yacht in Tokyo Bay, Danny Rand and Wolverine enter a room and discover Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin of crime. Fisk thanks them for accepting his invitation. Upon seeing Fisk, Logan says “ferget it.” No way does he want any “help” from this fat sonuva… Stopping him from leaving, Danny says to Logan that he may be a criminal but maybe he knows something they don’t. If he wanted to hurt them, why would he have his men save them? Logan asks Danny that he doesn’t know fatso there very well, does he?
Danny then says to Fisk they’re there, what does he want with them? Fisk answers that he’s in the midst of rebuilding his empire after suffering a number of setbacks to his various business ventures. Tokyo has always been very good to him, but now he hears rumblings about the Hand and something called “K’Un Lun.” His research into K’Un Lun led him to him. The bottom line is that K’Un Lun’s arrival will have disastrous effects on Tokyo. He needs Tokyo. And in order to preserve it, he’ll supply them with whatever they require to take Junzo Muto out of business. As they leave, Danny tells Fisk that he can assure him that Junzo will be taken out of business. But the only way he can “help” is to stay out of their way.
Meanwhile, in the caverns beneath the Imperial Palace, Muto rushes in to see Hiromitsu and excitedly tells him that they have received word from some of the men that Rand is in Tokyo. Later, Muto addresses the members of the Hand in front of him that since Rand initiated K’Un Lun’s arrival, they need him there. The moment Rand steps foot on Tokyo’s soil, K’Un Lun will begin to manifest in this dimension. And they will have an entire mystical city to use as their impenetrable fortress as they launch their campaign to take over the world. With that, Muto slams his fist into the fire cauldron sitting on stage.
Meanwhile, in Tokyo Bay, Danny and Logan pull their speedboat up to the dock. As they exit it, Logan tells Danny that he told him so. Danny responds yes he did and he’s been “telling him so” ever since they left the yacht. He admits it, he was right. It was a waste of time. When Logan asks what now, Danny tells him he’s not sure. He guesses they keep routing known Hand whereabouts until they can capture one of the ninjas and hope he’ll tell them where to find Misty. The faster they find her and get out of Tokyo, the less chance of Junzo actually bringing K’Un Lun there.
Logan remarks that earlier, he said this was his fault. How does he figure? Danny tells him that if he hadn’t ever contacted K’Un Lun’s Dragon Kings and arranged for the entire city to be transported there they wouldn’t be in this mess. Logan says that doesn’t make it his fault. He was trying to do what he thought was right. He made a mistake, sure. But stop blaming himself. That’s not gonna help them get the job done. Danny says that coming to Tokyo, he…
Just then, a huge wall appears out of nowhere in front of them, knocking Logan into the water. Upon seeing the wall, Logan asks Fist what he did. Danny exclaims no! It’s happening; he’s too late. It’s K’Un Lun, the cities are merging. Danny then notices that people from K’Un Lun are beginning to materialize out of thin air. They must be terrified. Danny knows that the K’Un Lun people don’t speak Japanese. They can’t even understand what’s happening to them. And the wall is just the beginning! As Tokyo continues to transform into K’Un Lun, the city is going to turn into a giant pressure cooker. Surrounding a large portion of Tokyo is an enormous stone circle. Meanwhile, at the Imperial Palace, the royal family is faced with the appearance of something rather strange on the palace grounds – the Hall of Ancestors!