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Chapter One:  Father’s Day
A Sentinel towers above the wreckage of another Sentinel in the Sapien Death Match Arena. Standing below that Sentinel, in the open-air arena, is a small, golden, armored figure, who hears the malicious Sentinel state that it will destroy all sapiens.
Tony Stark, the man in the golden armor, dodges the fist of the Sentinel, as the announcer narrates the events for the audience. The announcer reminds his audience that Stark is just a human, an evolutionary dead end. How could he possibly defeat the greatest weapons the House of M has to offer? He cannot buck the inevitable evolutionary decline of his race. In fact, he cannot even live for another three seconds!
Tony, however, proves the announcer wrong and strikes the Sentinel with a repulsor ray, destroying the mechanical beast. The announcer screams out to his audience that Tony Stark, the great sapien hope, has won again. He rules the world of business, rocks the world of gladiators and is cute as well. Below, another competitor in battle armor below wonders if he is just chopped liver. The announcer laughs and calls the audience’s attention to young Johnny Storm, who is speaking through his on-air helmet mike. It seems, though that with all the other competitors and Sentinels down, Johnny and Tony will have a one-on-one battle.
The two mecha-warriors fly high into the air, where Tony asks Johnny if he is up for this. Johnny tells Tony to bring it on, but Tony decides to give the young boy one more chance to shake hands and walk away. Johnny interrupts Tony’s speech and screams his battle cry, “flame on,” which results in his chest plate opening up and shooting out a blast of fire. Tony is caught off guard and plummets to the ground, while the announcer tells his audience that it is unbelievable that Stark was taken off guard by Storm. Johnny descends to the ground, wondering what is so unbelievable about that, when he sees something not to his liking.
Tony, who burrowed underground, flies out of the earth and punches Johnny hard, knocking the boy to the ground and sending his helmet flying away. While the announcer raves over the upset, Tony tells Johnny that it is over. Johnny smirks and tells Tony that it is. Suddenly, he rolls to the side as a massive mechanical foot stomps on Stark. The announcer tells the audience that Stark has been taken out by the only opponent who could ever beat him. A voice from inside the giant mechanical robot that has pinned down Tony tells him that it is over.
Tony looks up at his father, as he emerges from the victorious mechanical giant. The announcer calls out that Howard Stark is the winner of this week’s Sapien Death Match. As the three men take the stage to receive their trophies, Howard scolds his son for being so careless and being taken by surprise. Tony tells his father that he hates to see an old man cry. Meanwhile, Johnny revels in the attention he is getting as he is now in league with the big dogs. As Howard rubs the hair of Tony, Flash Thompson, the announcer for MBC, bids adieu to his fans.
Some time later in Chicago, Tony and his father return back to work, where he learns that there is trouble in the personal computing sector. Tony asks if this has to do with Jason Wyngarde, his competitor. His informer tells Tony that Wyngarde is going to introduce a new six-ounce mini-pad on Wednesday, which will blow Stark Industries’ P-7 out of the water. Not impressed by Jason’s latest toy, Stark proudly announces that he has been working on the 0-1 recently. Wyngarde is blind, for his chip canyons aren’t sharp enough and Tony’s 0-1 should work much better. His scientist is left in awe.
Stark smugly tells his companions that they will announce the 0-1 on Wednesday, a half hour before Wyngarde’s announcement. Howard is pleased with his son’s business savvy nature, while the scientist remains behind, playing with the 0-1 model and wondering if the genius Stark really is a human, or perhaps he is a mutant after all.
Further down, Tony meets with Henry McCoy and Forge, and asks them if they remember his father. Howard asks the two men what they are working on. Hank takes charge and introduces the Vision Project. It is a sophisticated artificial intelligence, combined with the most advanced mechanical body, and then jokingly adds that it can baby-sit the kids and do taxes. Tony questions the earlier problems with the object recognition system, to which Hank replies that the same problems are recurring, but they have new processors so things may change.
Howard interrupts and excuses himself, as this techno talk is not something an old chairman emeritus needs to be a part of. He tells Tony to go ahead and iron out the details while he pokes around. Howard then walks down the hall to another lab, occupied by Hank Pym.
Some time later, Tony notices that his father has been gone for a while. He investigates and finds Howard in Pym’s lab, and his father asks Tony if he wants to go grab something to eat. Tony agrees, but then his attention is turned to a hologram of a strand of DNA. Howard looks at the hologram and tells Tony that it is some project that Pym is working on, but it makes no sense to him. Tony questions Pym about the project. Pym, a bit worried, assures Tony that it is a simple genome mapping project and he would be more interest in the new miracle rice research. Stark, not easily swayed, realizes that the genome is of a mutant.
Before Pym can come up with a convincing lie, Howard throws him roughly against his lab table, asking what is wrong with him. Pym, scared, tells Howard that it is a question of science and of the pursuit of knowledge. Enraged, Howard reminds Pym that it is illegal to map a mutant genome. Mutants rule this world and they do not want their vulnerabilities exposed, which would give the sapien resistance a means to destroy them. Pym, shocked, tell Howard that he would never turn over his information to terrorists, and then asks Tony for help.
Tony, not wanting to hear Pym’s excuses, orders him to shut down the project or be fired. If he refuses, he will be terminated on the spot. Pym looks at Tony, feeling betrayed, then looks away. Tony looks at his father, who stares at him disappointed, then walks away.
That night, Tony finds himself alone in his apartment, drinking and watching his recent appearance on Sapien Death Match. He watches the trophy ceremony where his dad rubs his hair, and is reminded of a time when he was a child and his father forcefully grabbed him by the hair and yelled at him for breaking a toy that cost a lot of money to develop, before calling his young son a disappointment.
Brooding, Tony heads down to the twelfth sub-basement of his building and enters in the access code. The doors slide open and reveal Tony’s latest secret project. Before him is a red and gold battle armor, his latest battle armor design that he has been working on for some time. Tony gets back to work on his design and can’t wait for his old man to see this.
Some time later, Tony walks down the halls, determined. Nobody is smarter or richer than him. They cannot touch him. He is Tony Stark. Suddenly, he walks past Hank Pym’s lab… and finds it completely empty.
Soon, after an investigation, his robotic guards tell Tony that there is no trace anywhere of Hank Pym on the premise. His research material is missing as well. Security logs indicate that he vacated the premise at 6 p.m.
Tony speeds away to his father’s estate, where he informs his father that Pym has disappeared, but he will find him. Howard, however, tells his son to shut up. He will do nothing, because Tony has no clue what to do, otherwise he would not have come there would he? Tony pauses, but Howard continues on to speak. It is his fault. Tony never grew up, because as a father he never made him. Saddened, Tony tells his father that this accusation is not fair. Disgusted at that comment, Howard asks Tony if he is twelve for saying something so childish and irresponsible.
Angered, Tony tells his father that he does not have to listen to this for he is a grown man. He runs the most successful business this world has ever seen. Howard reminds Tony that he created and passed on that business, but Tony tells his father that he inherited it on the verge of collapse. He was the one who created new technology that put Stark Enterprises back on the map. Howard tells Tony that he built his new company on the old foundations. Tony has no idea what it took to create that foundation. Worse, he does not want to know. Tony could never have done what he did; he could never do what was necessary. Now, in his moment of crisis, he does not have the knowledge or will to do what must be done. Howard orders Tony to go home to bed. Everything will be fine in the morning.
Tony does indeed go back home and drinks himself to sleep, but he does not stay in bed for long. Angered, he heads back to the sub-basement to his latest armor Angered, he armors up in his new suit and heads out into the night.
Tony checks his systems to see if he is on-line, then makes sure any logs of conversation to his armor tonight is deleted immediately. He then orders his armor to hack into the system and to find the use of Hank Pym’s I.D. to show his movement in the last past three months. The armor informs Tony that this would be illegal. Tony tells his computer program, known as Jarvis, that it is not a lawyer. The armor complies.
Tony’s armor guides him to a residential neighborhood and to a normal looking house. Tony is not sure what this means, so his armor switches to infrared and shows him a secret area under the house where there is a large congregation of people. The bunker is equipped with a scrambler, which the armor begins to decrypt. I.D. cards indicate that there are six known members of the Sapien Resistance in the area. The armor begins to hunt for a probable entry point, but Tony tells Jarvis not to bother.
Tony lands on the lawn as a woman and her father walk by. He then punches a whole in the ground and into the bunker. The Jarvis program is not sure if Pym is present and begins to search through the faces, but suddenly it recognizes that three of the subjects before Tony have guns. Tony blasts away the goons and orders everyone to freeze and he shoots out a blast of fire. He is about to tell the confused men who he is looking for, when suddenly a giant hand pulls him out of the basement.
Tony finds himself in the clutches of a standard issue Sentinel and is thrown into a car, as two more Sentinels comb the area. One Sentinel informs those in the basement that they are partaking in an illegal gathering. Any attempt to flee will result in termination. The daughter and father watch on, and the father is frightened that the Sentinels might kill. The daughter assures her father that the Sentinels are not like the ones in the old days during the Mutant-Human War, but she is proven wrong. The Sentinel, without warning, opens fire into the bunker and incinerates all present.
As the father and daughter run away, a voice on Tony’s intercom tells him to run, which confuses him. Tony refuses and chucks a car at one Sentinel, which makes it shoot its other unit in the chest. The last remaining Sentinel takes to the air, but begins to descend again to crush Tony. Jarvis warns him to dodge, but Tony thinks that he is fast enough. He is not.
Tony, stuck under the Sentinel’s foot, mutters that these Sentinels are faster in real life. Suddenly, the Sentinel looks down at Tony, addressing him by name, and tells him that it is over. Tony recognizes the voice… as his fathers.
Sitting in a lab controlling the Sentinel, Howard Stark looks down at Tony through the eyes of the Sentinel. “What a disappointment,” says the bitter father.


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Chapter Two:  Independence Day
Tony Stark lies trapped in his armor under the mighty foot of a towering human policing Sentinel. Guiding that Sentinel through the residential district, however, is Howard Stark, Tony’s father, who calls to Tony through the intercom of the Sentinel and asks him if he can hear him.
Tony, confused and hurt, asks his father if he is inside that Sentinel, using it to kill humans. Annoyed, Howard tells his son that he is the only Stark stupid enough to run around outside of a sports arena in a robotic suit. He has tapped into the Sentinel’s controls remotely. Tony is about to say something, but his father tells him to shut up. He has to do exactly what he tells him.
There is a piece of shielding missing on the Sentinel’s left side. Does Tony see it? Tony confirms this, so Howard tells him that when he lifts the Sentinel’s foot, Tony should fire an electrical disrupter at that spot. It should fry the black box. The Sentinel will fall back and Tony better run. Is he smart enough to get back home without getting caught? Tony begins to ask his father what he will do after that, but his father ignores him and tells him that they are deploying their plan now.
The Sentinel lifts up its leg and Tony wastes no time in hitting its left side. As the Sentinel starts to fritz, Howard tells his son to run. Tony flies into the air, but then looks down to see what appears to be his father commanding the Sentinel to blast away the human rebels in the underground passage, where Hank Pym was supposedly to be. Howard tells his son to run once more, but Tony tells his father that he cannot kill those people. He then attacks the Sentinel, prompting Howard to ask Tony what he is doing. Tony asks his father if he really thinks he will let him kill those people.
In his command base, Howard watches the fight on the monitor and tells Tony that he is insane. He calls his son an idiot and says goodbye. He then turns off his controls to the Sentinel.
Tony descends from the sky after trashing the Sentinel. The human rebels he saved cheer him on as their savior, but in seconds robotic TV cameras arrive on the scene. One camera, from MBC news, asks the iron warrior what his name is. Is he a member of the Sapien Resistance? A camera from Badger Network asks the iron man what he has against mutants. A third camera asks him how tall he is exactly. Does he wear boxers or briefs?
Later that night, Tony sits in his penthouse and watches the news of the “Iron Man” fighting the Sentinel in the residential neighborhood. The government has yet to issue a statement, but apparently Sentinel units have increased in Chicago and security has tightened in New York City and Los Angeles. However, Badger Network promises its viewers that, whoever this terrorist is, he will be in the hands of the authorities soon.
Tony’s beeper goes off so he turns it on, which displays six holographic screens of various employees. One tells Tony that Sapien Death Match wants him to provide expert commentary for a special show on Iron Man. Tony tells the man to tell the show that he is booked. Another board member tells Tony that the toy division has a mock-up of an Iron Man toy awaiting his approval. Shocked, Tony asks who authorized that, and learns that the toy division thought it would be fun and profitable. Tony shuts down the idea and tells him that they aren’t going to be making toys of terrorists.
He then asks his secretary to hold all calls for him for an hour, but learns that there is one more thing. An envoy from the House of M has arrived. Tony tells his secretary that he will be right down. He then turns off the holographic displays and rubs his head. He then pours himself a drink.
After some time Tony goes down to another floor where a two-headed, long necked woman waits. Tony apologizes to the madam, but one of the heads interrupts and tells him that it is okay since he is a busy man. The other head, slightly agitated, tells the other not to make excuses for him. An envoy from the House of M should not have to wait. However, they should begin.
They heard he is developing some interesting new technology. Tony confirms this and tells the women that they are about to announce their new q-series mini-pad. He has a prototype if they want to see it. The nice head interrupts Tony and tells him that they know what he is hiding. Embarrassed and nervous, Tony asks them if they do.
The mean head shows a display of the Vision Project, and tells Tony that they know he has been making good ground on this project. Tony, modest, tells them that he is only human. Hank McCoy and Forge are the real geniuses behind it. The nice head gives Tony a document and asks him to sign. It is a license for the House of M to use all technological advances associated with the Vision Project, which may have application for national defense. In return, the House of M will grant him exclusive commercial rights to any technology not thus restricted by national interest.
Tony tells the women that it is a nice offer, but he needs to consult his legal team. The women tell him that there is no need and no time for that. He is familiar with Iron Man isn’t he? Tony tells them that he is and it is unfortunate as his actions may outshine his new product announcement on Wednesday. The women tell Tony that they know who Iron Man is.
Scared, Tony asks them if they do. The women tell him that Johnny Storm is Iron Man. Only a handful of sapiens have the skill to pilot a suit, and Storm is the only one of them to disappear in the last twelve hours. They need to find him. They need Tony to sign the paper. They need to eliminate Johnny Storm.
Some time later, in Howard Starks’ office, Howard tells Tony that they do not suspect a thing. Has he made some advances in that psionic inhibitor? Does he carry it or is it embedded in the room? Angered, Tony calls his father a murdered. His father, however, tells him to grow up. Tony tells his father that he stood by while those Sentinels fried dozens of people, and then he tried to finish the job. Howard retorts that Tony just signed a paper that could lead to the deaths of millions. Why does he do the things he does? What guides his decisions? Tony wonders what kind of question that is, but his father just wishes to be indulged.
Tony stutters that he is trying to do the right thing, but Howard asks for whom? Tony retorts with his own question, asking his father who he is to lecture him on ethics. He was the one driving a Sentinel. Howard asks Tony why he is asking about what he does. The question is what Tony does and why. Tony, annoyed, realizes that his father has a point he wants to address, so he asks him to just get on with it. Howard sits at his desk and tells Tony that he wasn’t going to kill the people. He was going to put out the fire behind them. Tony, however, signed those papers without a second thought.
Tony asks his father what he should have done. If he said no then they would have taken over and there would be no way for them to know what they truly wanted. Howard, however, tells Tony that he wasn’t thinking about that when he signed the papers. He was trying to get rid of the fear in his gut. Howard leaves the room and tells Tony that he was just playing his role. He doesn’t have to fear anymore though. All he has to do is to go into the basement and destroy the suit.
In Starks Lab, Hank McCoy and Forge watch a news report about the Sentinel Fields, where Sentinels are building barracks for the influx of recently captured sapien rebels. This act was sanctioned by the Sapien Protection Act, and humans can be kept there for three months while their cases are reviewed. Hank is concerned about these “safe zones” being set up. Forget tells him that back in the day they were called reservations.
Meanwhile, the two-headed delegate from the House of M goes through the papers that Stark has provided her. One of the heads finds the schematics for a robotic unit. “This is… This is getting ugly,” says Hank to Forge, as they watch the women at work.
Elsewhere, Tony watches the news report about the human “safe zones” and sees the daughter and father who were walking their dog by that sapien resistance meeting he attacked. Apparently, they were arrested for no reason. The girl screams that they were just walking their dog, but her father hushes her. No one cares, he tells her.
Tony turns off the television and heads to his secret lab, where he takes a particle cannon and is about to destroy the Iron Man armor. Suddenly, the armor moves and tells Tony that he surrenders.
The Iron Man removes his helmet to reveal Johnny Storm underneath, who tells Tony that he will never play Chicken with particle cannons. He tells Tony that he got inside this armor, but he couldn’t get it to go on-line. Is there a password, or retina scan? Perhaps it needs a genetic signature. He tells Tony that this armor rocks and that he loves him for it. He saw news reports on Iron Man and realizing that it had to be Tony; he snuck in and found the armor.
Tony calms Johnny down and then rushes to work. He needs to get Johnny a new identity card and he can slip out with the night shift. Johnny, confused, tells Tony that he isn’t going anywhere. Tony tells Johnny that he is going to escape so the House of M cannot catch him. Johnny, however, refuses to run. That is why he came here. He wants to fight.
Soon, when Johnny is out of the armor, he reasons with Tony and reminds him that the mutants are rounding up normal humans. Tony, however, tells Johnny that, even if they smash up a few Sentinels, the House of M will send a few hundred more. Suddenly, Tony’s palm pilot goes off and tells him that his target has been found. Johnny, recognizing the pad as one of Wyngarde’s, asks if it was manufactured by the man. Tony, however, is more concerned with what he sees. The House of M has Pym. They are taking him to the “safe zones.”
Some time later, Hank Pym stands in line with a bag in his arms. Paranoid, he looks around him, but eventually he is next to being called to a table where two mutants await. One tells him to open his bag and Hank obliges, but stares at the sky. One mutant wonders what he is looking at, but the other tells him that it is just the sun. Suddenly, they notice a blue armored figure flying straight at them.
The armored figure streaks through the Sentinels and the humans in the camp cheer that Iron Man has arrived. The warrior, however, tells them to get with the program. He is Johnny Storm. No one in the crowd, however, knows who that is.
The mutant bag checkers run away, but Pym stands there in awe and mutters that this wasn’t apart of the plan. As a Sentinel is about to fall on him, Iron Man swoops down and picks him up. A group of armor-clad House of M agents arrive, with their fists glowing green. They order the humans to calm down and to get back in line. They shouldn’t get any bright ideas. However, the humans, inspired, charge and attack the guards, who are severely outmatched.
A few flying guards chase after Iron Man, who holds Hank Pym in his arms. Johnny spots them and tells Tony, but Iron Man realizes that it is him they want. He throws Pym to Johnny and flies towards the mutant guards. However, much to his surprise… they fly past him.
The guards surround Johnny and order him to give them Pym. He has three seconds to comply. The guards begin to count, but Pym pulls a bomb out of his bag and detonates it. The result is not an explosion of fire, but of energy, which does not harm him, nor Johnny or Tony. Instead, the mutant guards are surrounded by a blue energy and begin shrieking, as they literally decompose into nothing in seconds. Elated, Pym screams that it works.
As the guards’ armor fall down the ground, Johnny asks Pym what works. Pym explains that his gene bomb works. It keys in on organic forms carrying the mutant genome. It then triggers genetic meltdown. Johnny tells Pym that he just murdered those people. Pym, however, does not care, as they are mutants. Johnny calls him a monster, but Iron Man shushes him. He asks Pym how many bombs he made. Lots, replies Pym. Tony then asks where the other bombs are. “Everywhere,” replies Pym, as he looks down.
Iron Man and Johnny Storm look down at Chicago.


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Chapter Three: Doomsday
Tony Stark, suited up in his Iron Man armor, hovers in the sky above Chicago with friend Johnny Storm, also wearing his own suit of armor. Iron Man holds in his hands one of his former employees, Hank Pym, who has just revealed that he has planted around Chicago many genetic bombs, which will cause genetic meltdown in anyone with the mutant genome. Iron Man questions Pym one more time on what he means when he says he planted the bombs everywhere.
The slightly eccentric Pym states that he wasn’t literal when he meant everywhere. Obviously mutant free places don’t have bombs like a cow pasture. He and the Human Resistance concentrated their bombs on the downtown area after mapping high mutant traffic. His program forecasted 47% elimination within the first five minutes. However, as the hour passes and air circulates, it should reach 79% within 24 hours. Having heard enough, Iron Man demands to know when the bombs go off. Not falling for Iron Man’s tough guy act, Pym refuses to inform him of where they are. Iron Man then pushes the barrel of his largest gun against Pym’s chest, telling the man that he can tell them.
Pym simply looks at Iron Man silently, almost daring him to pull the trigger. Iron Man knows that Pym has called his bluff and tries reasoning with the man that he does not want to kill four million people. Pym explains to Iron Man that he is just doing what he was put there to do. He knew one day he would serve a special purpose for something greater. He is saving the world. Actually, he has already saved it. He then tells Iron Man to shoot him; he is ready for it.
Angered, Iron Man throws Pym on the roof of a nearby skyscraper and tells Johnny that he isn’t going to talk. Storm tells Iron Man to shoot Pym for real, but Iron Man explains that he is tracking Pym’s vitals and it shows that the man isn’t bluffing. Johnny doesn’t listen and shoots Pym in the shoulder, much to Iron Man’s dismay. Pym taunts Johnny on the nick on his shoulder and tells him to finish him off. Frustrated as well, Johnny asks Stark if he cannot just use some advanced Stark technology to pull the data out of Pym’s head. Not in this universe, replies Iron Man.
Iron Man then gets and idea and contacts his advanced computer program, Jarvis, which informs him that his download is complete. His armor has done a constituent element analysis and has matched all the trace particles of the genetic bomb blown only a few moments ago against the House of M guards. Jarvis then displays a map after scanning Chicago and has matched the trace elements to various locales in the city, the locations of the bombs. Iron Man asks Jarvis when the bombs go off, and he learns that they only have 17 minutes and 57 seconds. Johnny is dismayed to learn this, but Iron Man asks Jarvis to patch him into his lab, but display an image of Tony Stark and not Iron Man.
In Stark Labs, Forge and Hank McCoy receive a transmission from Tony Stark, who informs them that he has been contacted by Iron Man. Iron Man has provided him with data that is being uploaded right now into their systems. It details the locations of 103 anti-mutant genetic bombs scattered throughout downtown Chicago. The two-headed dignitary from the House of M hears this and wonders what that filthy Iron Man wants. Tony tells Madame Envoy that someone else has planted the bombs and that Iron Man is helping out. McCoy, pessimistic, asks Tony why he would trust Iron Man. Tony tells him that he has no time to explain. The House of M must be informed and they must evacuate every mutant from downtown Chicago.
After Tony ends the communication, Johnny asks him if he thinks that they believed him. Iron Man informs him that Forge maybe believes, but Hank probably thinks it’s a terrorist trap. Nonetheless, when they process the data they will listen. Johnny, however, feels that it will be too late. He can call Flash Thompson and have him get MBC to put out an emergency call. Iron Man tells Johnny that it is their last resort. This city is full of angry humans and, if even one bomb got into the wrong hands, this would be worse.
He then asks Jarvis for an update to their mission. Jarvis shows them the map of the downtown again and shows various gold and blue dots. Tony is gold, Johnny is blue. They have ten seconds to defuse each bomb. Flames or heat will neutralize the organic compounds of the virus. Right now they have a 47% probability of succeeding. As the two heroes fly towards their respective bombs, Johnny tells Iron Man that he signed up to fight mutants not save them. Iron Man reminds him that, if he doesn’t save the mutants, he will have no one to fight. Johnny chuckles.
Soon enough, Johnny destroys three bombs, raising the mission probability of success to 52%. Iron Man raises it to 56% after destroying five more bombs. There are only sixteen minutes left. Johnny knocks off four more and asks Tony to beat that, but Iron Man finds and neutralizes his eleventh bomb, raising success to 68%, but only leaving fifteen and a half minutes left.
As Johnny finds his thirteenth bomb in a park, he jokes that they might even have time to get Pym to a hospital. There are only fourteen minutes left. Iron Man, somewhere else in Chicago, tells Johnny that Pym can wait. He then looks up at the sky in horror, as he sees an armor of very familiar synthezoids. It is the Vision Project, or rather hundreds of them and they are all streaking towards Iron Man.
As the Visions begin to attack Iron Man, he contracts Forge as Tony Stark and demands to know when they started mass-producing homicidal Visions. Embarrassed, Forge realizes that Tony is watching the news and says that they wanted to surprise him. Forge tells him to hold on as he receives a transmission from the House of M. They have analyzed the data and trust Iron Man. They are not redirected the Visions to help him, not kill him.
Iron Man barely avoids a blast, as the time ticks down to thirteen and a half minutes. Apparently, the Visions haven’t gotten the message yet. Suddenly, he gets a call from Johnny, who has trouble keeping away from the Visions too. Before Johnny can finish relaying his message, he is blasted in the back by a Vision. Thirteen minutes and five seconds remain. Iron Man frantically calls out to Johnny.
In Stark Labs, Forge looks desperately at McCoy, who turns to Madame Envoy and demands to know why the House of M isn’t calling off the Visions. As Iron Man is surrounded by a few massive Visions, one of Madame Envoy’s heads uses her telepathy to double check what is happening, but learns that they cannot turn off the Visions for some reason. Suddenly, the Visions attack Iron Man between two skyscrapers, leaving nothing but a massive cloud of ash and smoke.
Forge calls Tony and asks him if he is there. Did he see what happened to Iron Man? As the time dips below ten minutes, a fallen Tony tells Forge he saw what happened. Forge then informs Iron Man that they are reviewing the Vision coding to see what is going wrong. They have found a few sleeper codes hidden in the programming. They didn’t add in the programming though… Howard Stark did.
Outside, as the time clicks down to nine minutes and thirty-seven seconds, Howard Stark hovers in the air in his blue and white armor and greets his son.
A massive Vision lifts up Iron Man, who tells his father, sans helmet, that he doesn’t understand. Howard, however, tells Tony not to whine. No one likes a whiner. Weakly, Tony tells his father that they must stop the bombs. No, replies Howard. Not we… only him if he can. Tony should remember that his father gave him an out but he didn’t destroy the armor. He chose this path. Realizing the truth, Iron Man calls out his father and realizes that he and Pym set up this whole thing. As the time reaches nine minutes, Howard tells Tony that they couldn’t have done it without him. He was so eager to dance for his mutant masters that he worked into the plan beautifully. Tony asks his father if he really is a monster. “No,” replies the apathetic Howard, “Just a different breed.”
Iron Man tells his father goodbye, but his father tells him not to over dramatize. He isn’t going to kill his son. “I’m not your son,” says Iron Man, as he shoots a repulsor blast from his chest into his dad.
Iron Man then disconnects from his back plate to escape the clutches of the Vision, but finds that he has to fight two more. Howard tells Tony that despite what he does he is still a Stark. Iron Man continues to destroy more Visions. Only eight minutes and fifty-one seconds remain.
At MBC studios, Flash Thompson receives a phone call. After hearing the story, he tells his friend that he is on it. Flash then makes various phone calls to the best of the Sapien Death Match contestants in the area, asking them to suit up and help out with the bombs. Flash calls Tony ignorant and tells him that Iron Man could use his help, but Iron Man informs Flash that he is a little tied up at the moment, all the while he fights three more Visions.
As five minutes remain on the clock, Iron Man is caught between two Sentinels, but he suddenly hears Johnny call out to him and tell him that he brought some friends. Iron Man escapes his captors to see various Sapien Death Match contestants suited up and battling the Visions. Iron Man thanks Johnny as Flash Thompson hits the airwaves, reporting that the Sapien Revolutionary Iron Man is joined by Johnny Storm and other regulars of Sapien Death Match. Thompson patches into Iron Man and asks if he has anything else to say.
Realizing that they must resort to their plan B, Iron Man announces on Flash’s program that there are 73 genetic bombs throughout the city and, if they go off, millions of mutants will die. He is now uploading maps to people’s video hard drives so they can see the locations of the bombs. If they are near one, please torch it.
Across the city, millions of people head to find the bombs near them. A chef informs his boss that there is one in the kitchen. A woman on the street finds one on a street lamp and uses her flame powers to torch it. Within two minutes, only thirteen bombs are left and they are all in a cluster.
Iron Man follows the map to a tower and finds Howard and an army of Visions waiting. The Sapien Death Match contestants wait for Iron Man to make his move. He then patches privately to Howard and tells his dad that the tower has been evacuated. It is all over. Yes, replies Howard, to his confused son. He then throws him a bomb. He calls his son a hero. Hasn’t he been listening to the news? He is not transferring control of the Visions over to his son. He then asks Jarvis if he is ready to receive the controls, to which the program affirms. Howard then calls his son savior of sapiens and deliverer of mutant kind. It is perfect. Only one minute and twenty five seconds remain.
Tony speaks up to voice his confusion, but his father tells him to shush, as there is not much time and he wants him to understand. He would have told him in the beginning but Tony was so weak that he used fear to make him grow. Iron Man stops his father and calls him a maniac. He was ready to kill four million people. What could he possibly say to defend that? Howard tells his son that they never were going to kill four million people, just one. That is what he raised Tony for.


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Man on the Street - Industrial Revolution part one
(years ago)
Wong is carrying out his duties at Dr. Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum. A blue portal suddenly appears behind him and Dr. Strange emerges through it, landing in a heap on the floor. He explains that he is spent but unharmed and glad to be home. He’s fine. Unlike some of his colleagues like ‘Doctor’ Doom, Strange explains, he actually graduated medical school. More to the point, he adds as he heads to the door, Tiboro of the Screaming Idol has been denied the sacrifices he needed to breach the veil of space and time between our dimension and his. “Praise be the Vishanti!” Wong repeats his phrase and asks if he wants some tea. Strange declines his offer. After a battle of this magnitude he prefers to repose in the inner sanctum… alone.
On the other side, he finds Mr. Fantastic pouring Charles Xavier a drink. Seated nearby is the Inhuman Black Bolt and Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, standing with his arms folded. Between them they are five sixths of the Illuminati. Dr. Strange apologizes for his tardiness but Reed tells him its fine. He hopes Strange doesn’t mind him helping himself to some of Wong’s Green Wulong. Namor ask if he’s sure Wong suspects nothing. Strange assures him that his spell of summoning bought them directly to the chamber under the inscrutable ward of Zhered-Na. He needs fear no detection. Namor warns that if his servant discovers the existence of their group, he won’t be the one to fear.
He tells Charles that it’s good to see him up on his feet. Charles replies that he’s indebted to his friends in the Shi’ar Galaxy and their technology for that. He hopes they can come to order before his Majestrix Lilandra discovers that he has been spirited from her flagship… and her bed. Reed begins proceedings by informing them that he’s asked them to Strange’s home to discuss their absent sixth member; the one who dubbed their band of concerned citizens the Illuminati. He adds that Tony Stark’s competitor, Obadiah Stane, has taken over his company and Tony is now penniless. He’s been sighted living on the streets both in New York and in Los Angeles. Reed’s question is simple. Tony is their friend and comrade – a cornerstone and founder of their group. What can they do for him?
Charles suggests that, due to the problem being caused by Tony’s destructive tendencies, maybe if he agreed to return with him to the Shi’ar, telepathic probing might reveal the source of those tendencies. He could help Tony overcome them. Strange adds that a few divination spells would reveal if Stane used financial chicanery to seize Stark Industries. That would greatly assist Tony in regaining his company, he imagines. Reed reckons that, as a temporary measure, the Fantastic Four’s patents could know no better steward than Tony. Black Bolt raises his finger and Reed asks if he has anything to… add. He simply shakes his head, and Namor states that, despite not being able to interpret Black Bolt’s subvocal whispers like his wife, Medusa, can. As sovereign rulers of their respective peoples, Bolt’s opinion is clear for it mirrors his own.
He asks the others if they are listening to themselves. He claims that Tony Stark is the most irritating lung-man he’s ever met. But, he is in his own way as regal as either of the true princes of the blood here today. They would insult him by offering charity? If Stark cannot defeat his inner demons, what good is he against alien invasions and super-powered megalomaniacs? What good will he be to they who have sworn to defend the Earth? He feels that if Tony manages to pull himself out of the gutter, he will be stronger than ever before. Should he fail, then he wasn’t worthy to sit among them in the first place. Either way, he concludes, this road of trials that faces him now… he must walk down alone.
(Los Angeles)
Tony Stark is sitting on a bench by the side of the road. A bag of gold clubs resides next to him. He looks around at his surroundings and wonders why they even bother building sidewalks there. Everyone just stays encased within their glass and steel cars like they were some kind of… armor. He’s been going up and down Wilshire Boulevard for four hours, and the only other human being he’s seen is the guy currently standing nearby.
The man asks Tony if he saw them turning the block. Tony asks who. “The F.T.C.,” he replies. They’re working with the S.E.C. getting their intel from the F.A.A. Tony quips that he should watch that alphabet. It can be treacherous. The man explains that they’re from further down the timestream. He swam down to the past to spawn in his mind like salmon. Their eggs hatch parasites to erase his inspiration for devices that’ll break the Iron Legion in 2020 a.d. The Anglaxius and the Spedifower. He looks Tony in the eye. “You see,” he adds, “I’m God!” Tony replies really? He thought he would be taller…
The guys says that he sees. He knows. Tony is like him. “I smell like two dumpsters making love?” replies Tony. The man tells Tony that he is an intelligent designer. If he sees them following him, he tells them he went the wrong way, right? Tony says that if he sees any mind-eating fish from the future masquerading as low-level bureaucrats, he will do just that. He has his word. The guy turns around and wanders away, leaving Tony feeling like he’s just had a conversation with his future. Maybe Stane was right?
(flashback)
Tony is in Obadiah Stane’s office. A chess board has a white king standing before a defeated black king - a symbolic show of victory. “Poor Tony,” he sighs. He tells Tony that he inherited his wealth, though his engineering genius is undeniable. But, he enjoyed a pre-existing fortune and market dominance to apply to them. He is a lion, but one raised in captivity, about to be released into the wild for the first time. His prediction? Tony will be eaten by the first gazelle he sees. Tony looks at his competitor and asks ‘his baldness’ for a request. Stane got everything in the buyout, but the golf clubs… they were his fathers. Stane agrees that he can take them, and then he can get the hell out of his office.
(present)
Tony stands and grabs the golf clubs and starts walking. He ends up standing outside a liquor store and stares at his reflection in the window. So, he thinks, is this the last chapter in the Tony Stark story. He turns and continues walking. No, he thinks… it’s the first.
As he walks past an alleyway, he spots the guy he spoke to earlier. He isn’t in a good way. A costumed villain carrying a large scythe has him hanging by a rope from a fire escape. Tony doesn’t hesitate to leap into action. He puts his clubs down and presses a switch on the side of the bag. As it opens, he thinks that he may be a self-destructive narcissist, but that’s nothing a few twelve-step programs and crying on Oprah’s couch won’t fix. Stane, on the other hand, will always be an overconfident idiot… and bald. The bag opens up and a version of his Iron Man armor begins to form. Tony puts on the armor and attacks, first using his repulsor ray to snap the rope holding his new friend.
He flies towards them and says that he knows he and his fellow New Yorkers get a lot of flak for thinking they have the best of everything (and rightly so), but Los Angeles is the second largest city in the country. Does he have to be such a poor-quality super-villain? The masked man replies, “Villain? The Hangman is on a holy mission to wash the filth into the gutter and take back their streets.” Iron Man orders him to stop talking. He’s just proving his point. He aims the palms of his hands at the Hangman’s scythe and it begins to glow. “Ah, old-timey electro-magnet. How I missed you and your smooth retro cool.” His opponent may be disarmed, but Tony’s old boots decide that now is the time to let him down. They splutter to a halt and Tony drops into a dumpster below.
The Hangman takes his rope and makes his way to the dumpster, stating that the heavenly hand has struck his enemy down from above. His mission continues to enjoy divine sanction. When he gets to the dumpster, he is smacked in the chin by an iron fist. That shuts him up. Tony thinks that his boots need rocket fuel - the kind you need a permit from the F.A.A. to buy. Not to mention money. He welcomes himself to his new world. He bets Spider-Man doesn’t have to scrimp and save to buy whatever his webbing is made of.
As he approaches the victim who is lying on the ground, he assumes it’s probably a long-chain polymer liquid that becomes an adhesive fiber when exposed to air. He wouldn’t mind synthesizing that when he becomes rich again. He asks the guy if he’s all right. Does he want taking to a hospital? He struggles to speak, but says no hospitals. Their needles extract his dreams to be sent to the Pentagon for study. He asks where Tamara is. She’ll hide him. She has no choice. Tony pulls the guy’s wallet out and reads his driver’s license. ‘Tyree Robinson.” It has his address on it, so Tony picks him up and hopes it’s current. As he’s grounded, he realizes there is no choice but to do what he really doesn’t wish to do.
(soon)
Tony rollerskates along the highway carrying Tyree. The attachments to his boots were thought of after one too many Jamesons, but they’re coming in handy now. One smart guy in a passenger seat asks if he’s gotten lost looking for the roller disco, but Tony wishes he’d just keep laughing it up. When he’s rich again, he’ll… he’ll buy him or something. As he shoots along the freeway, closed-circuit television cameras follow his every move.
Before long, Tony is outside Tamara’s house, no longer wearing his armor. “Tamara?” asks Tony. Tamara says maybe. Who’s asking? Tony introduces himself, and Tyree asks his baby sister how she’s been. Tony explains that Tyree’s had a rough day. One of the city’s many charming local psychopaths cast him against his will in an amateur production of the Ox-Bow Incident. He’s a little banged up but said she would take him in. Tamara is quite surprised that he actually said that, but guesses that they can come on in.
Tyree makes his way upstairs, asking if his room is still there. Tamara replies that she didn’t rent it out if that’s what he means. Tyree goes for a lie down, telling Tony he can take it from there. Once he’s gone, Tamara asks Tony if he’s a cop. “Me? Nope,” he replies. “Social Worker?” she asks. Tony says no. Tamara asks if he’s just a good Samaritan.” Tony explains that he’s more like a fellow traveler. She tells him that if he’s looking for a reward then he’s gonna go away disappointed. Tony just says a glass of water would be great. He adds that he’s from back east. He’s not used to their non-climate.
Tamara apologizes for her attitude, and explains that she and Tyree grew up there. He was diagnosed in the middle of his sophomore year in college. He was top of his class in engineering. It’s been the same story with him for a decade now. Maybe four months from now, she adds, maybe tonight, no matter how hard she watches, he’ll stop taking his meds and wander off, heading back to the streets and whatever tells him to go there. She hands Tony his water and closes her eyes. She tells him that her mother died just around the same time he got sick. They were happy that they had each other, but now, he just looks like her brother. Sometimes, like now, he even acts like him, but inside, there’s just something nobody can reach. He wears you down until you’re hollow inside.
Tony tells her that he understands, and says everyone has their demons. He should probably go. He heads outside, and Tamara warns him to get a move on. This isn’t a good neighborhood. Tony asks what she means. It looks safe enough. Tamara tells him that Imperio is safe, but that doesn’t mean it’s good.
Tony heads off past Watts Towers to the place where he left his clubs. He finds two men looking at them and warns them off. The guys don’t recognize him and basically tell him to get lost. There’s nothing for him to steal there. They tell him that he smells like the men’s room in a distillery. They doubt his name is Star… Before he can finish his sentence, Tony leaps at him and lands a good punch. “What are you thinking?” barks the other guy. “This neighborhood is protected. We work for the…”
Tony puts him down as well with a Captain America patented right cross. Steve told him he put down the Fuhrer himself with that one. Unseen, the other guy recovers and pulls out a strange weapon. “Here’s who we work for!” he cries, as he blasts Tony through the chest with the weapon.
As Tony collapses, the two men flee the scene. Tony wonders what they hit him with. His chest is on fire. He hasn’t felt like this since the bad old days, before he got his artificial heart. He lies down and snaps open his shirt, popping the buttons clean off. The Iron Man armor builds itself beside him and he slaps the chest plate onto his body. It begins to stimulate his heart. His armor started life as a glorified pacemaker. All he needs is its power. His strength has been sapped and he struggles to pull himself along the ground. He hallucinates that he sees Professor Yinsen. As he blacks out, he figures this is the final chapter.
(later)
The two men return to their employers at a large white house. One of them explains that they tracked Iron Man after the first sighting at the vacant lot in Imperio. That’s one of theirs. There they found a set of golf clubs with Tony Stark’s name on it. His partner adds that a wino caught them going through it, but they killed him with the kinetic drainer which the travelers gave them. Their employer asks them to confirm that they are the only ones who know that Tony Stark and Iron Man are in Los Angeles. They say yes. They were real careful. “We appreciate it,” replies their employer, Geoffrey Wilder, before raising his hand and incinerating the pair of them.
Victor Stein asks why Stark wouldn’t deploy Iron Man aerially, as he has in 93% of recorded sightings. He doesn’t understand. Geoffrey Wilder replies that this is because he thinks like a geek and not like a strategist. Stark is trying to sneak under their radar. But, they have discovered his presence in Los Angeles first, and destroying Tony Stark has just become the Pride‘s number one priority.


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Untitled (Industrial Revolution part six)
The Pride faces the powerful Illuminati. Robert and Tina Minoru square off against Doctor Strange, with Tina using the Staff of One to augment her magical powers. He asks if they believe the Gibborim's lies. Those creatures, he states, serve no cause but their own greed! Whatever they may have promised the Pride in exchange for their servitude is a Chimera! Tina says she doesn't care if he is the world's Sorcerer Supreme, he will pay for his blasphemous words with his life.
Elsewhere, Alice and Gene Hayes battle Charles Xavier on the Astral Plane, though even with two against one, the Hayes' know they have a difficult task. Namor has taken to the air to sort out Frank and Leslie Dean, and Black Bolt uses his energy projections to keep the Yorkes on their toes. Reed Richards stretches in all directions, flipping Victor Stein into the air whilst reaching for Janet Stein. She struggles with a new weapon which Reed recognizes as being a Universal Weapon. He informs Janet that it's impressive, and the best example he ever discovered was on the third planet of the Kygnari system in the Negative Zone. "I pray one of these settings shuts you up, Richards, you insufferable blowhard," Janet replies.
As Namor tears though the Dean's he says to Tony that Dr. Strange led them to believe that the 'Pride' he faced were a threat to the very existence of life on Earth! So far... he is not impressed. Tony replies, whilst defending himself from Catherine Wilder's gunfire, that he never is. He called Strange for advice. It was he who decided to get the band back together.
As Namor punches Leslie Dean, he remarks that he can't believe he left the Atlantean Council in the middle of a closed session for this. Tony smacks Geoffrey Wilder and suggests that they actually defeat the Pride before they declare them to be pushovers. To help out Charles Xavier, Black Bolt sweeps through and takes out Gene Hayes. Charles thanks him and wonders if the key to victory is engaging foes whose abilities do not directly mirror their own. He reaches out mentally to Tina Minoru, taking hold of her mind. He asks if her magicks can work with her mind flooded with psychic chaff. Tina is surprised by the attack, and Doctor Strange easily captures Tina within the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak.
Namor proceeds to pummel Robert Minoru as Reed Richards captures the Steins with their own weapon. As the weapon falls to pieces, Janet cries that she had no idea that the weapon could be used like that. Reed tries to explain her engineering mistake, failing to note that a non-user can interfere with its logic tree. Janet cuts him off mid speech. "Shut up, shut up, Shut up!" Iron Man uses his repulsor blast to put down Alice Hayes and reckons that should just about do it.
Soon, police sirens can be heard. Tony shakes Namor's hand and tells them that the help of the Illuminati was as unexpected as it was appreciated. Namor replies that he knew he could pull himself out of his wretched circumstances. The fact that he already has an army of would-be world conquerors hounding him proves it. As the team takes to the skies, Tony asks Mr. Fantastic if Namor just paid him a compliment. Reed replies that Sue says he is as unpredictable as the seas... though he thinks she just says that to make him jealous. He figured it was wise to send away the members of their group with the... least friendly relationship with law enforcement. Tony reckons they can handle it from there, though they're going to have to do some explaining as it is. He asks Reed to bring the police up to speed. He needs to go find his friends.
(inside the Wilder's house in Malibu)Young Alex Wilder wanders through the house listening to music on his headphones. He whistles as he makes his way to the fridge to grab some milk. He is blissfully aware that Tony Stark, still in the Iron Man armor, is right behind him. He looks at Reed's sonic imager and determines that there should be a hidden passageway right next to him. He clicks a switch and it slides open.
Nearby, Tamara and her brother Tyree sit in their cell, helpless. Tyree guesses it's only a matter of time before the cultists or whoever they are come for them. Tamara asks him not to give up hope. Tyree wishes to say something, and asks her to let him get it out. He's in one of his lucid phases and neither of them knows how long it will last. He remembers one of the spells that he had when he hurt her. He wants his sister to know how sorry he is. It seems like this is his last chance to say it. And not just for the most recent thing, he adds. He wants to apologize for all of it.
Tamara strokes his cheek as he lets it all out. He says he knows how hard it is to deal with him... all the ways she's tried over the years. He wants her to understand that he appreciates it. The real him, buried deep inside his illness, appreciates it more that she can know. Tamara gives him a big hug. Those words speak volumes and she sheds a tear as she replies that this is what family is for.
As they embrace, the wall to their cell explodes and Tony calls out their names. They call back and see him approach. Tamara asks if it's really him and not more mind manipulation by those maniacs. Tony opens the cell door and says there's only one way to find out. Tamara figures she'll use her own technique, and plants a kiss on Tony's lips. "Real enough for me," she smiles.
(later)The cops take away the Pride in handcuffs. Geoffrey Wilder asks Stark if he thinks he's won. Tony replies that if he hasn't, he's going a pretty good impression of it. Wilder asks him to consider that it's one thing to conquer territory, but it's another to hold it. He is shoved into a police van and driven away, shouting, "Take it from one who knows."
(the next morning)D.A. Chalmers stands before Wilder and nervously apologizes, asking for forgiveness. He was on vacation in Lake Tahoe. He came as soon as he heard of this most... unfortunate incident. A police insider informs Wilder that the criminal records of he and his associates have been wiped clean. It's like none of this ever happened. "With one exception," replies Wilder. He smashes Chalmers across the face, knocking the guy's glasses off, adding that District Attorney Chalmers will be facing a primary challenger this September... a challenger he will lose to. Wilder storms out of the building followed by the rest of the Pride. Now that's over with, he exclaims, they can go about destroying Tony Stark.
(Imperio)At the factory, Tony walks with Tamara and informs her that Rhodey came through, as he knew he would. Investment and purchase orders are flowing in from Japan. He tells her that it will take all her organizational skills to make sure their company doesn't fall behind in the first week of its existence. Tamara appreciates the confidence, but she's never organized anything bigger than an assembly full of fifth-graders. Tony assures her that you don't manage a company with half a million employees without acquiring an eye for innate talent. Tamara reminds him that he 'managed' his company right into the hands of Obadiah Stane. "Touche," replies Tony, but reckons he won't get the chance to do that with Imperio Techworks. Tamara suddenly looks concerned and asks what he means.
(meanwhile, in Geoffrey Wilder's study in Malibu)Wilder has returned home and discovered that someone has left an auto-executing file on his computer. He switches it on and Tony Stark's bearded face appears on screen. He states that Wilder was hauled off to jail not fifteen minutes ago but he doubts he will be staying there long. They let themselves be defeated a tad too easily. He's thought about what Wilder said and decided he was right. So, he is going to give up all personal interest in Imperio Techworks. He will leave the Los Angeles metropolitan area to join Iron Man and his friends outside the city limits. He also will not tell his allies in the super hero community that he strongly suspects that his Pride runs the law in Southern California. Tony leans into the camera and points his finger at the screen. In exchange for this, Wilder will leave the people of Imperio alone forever. If he learns that he so much as prevented a street light from going on there, he will call the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, the Inhumans, the Atlanteans and anyone else he can think of. He will not rest until he has annihilated him.
(Imperio)Tamara looks at the sign on her door which reads 'Tamara Robinson, President CEO.' "But..." she gasps. She tells Tony that she is honored, more than words can say, but she thought that these were his positions. If she's filling them, what will he do. Tony struggles with his words, and admits that this isn't easy. He's come to understand that he came to Los Angeles to build a company by himself, without his father's money. Now that he's done that, he feels like it's time to move on. Tamara slaps him across the face and calls him a bastard. Tears well in her eyes and she asks if he's going to leave her, like every other piece of **** man she's ever met in her life! Tony tells her he's sorry, and he knows there is no reason for her to believe this, and he can't explain why, but his leaving is the only way he can save her life.
(elsewhere)The Pride are gathered for a meeting and Tina Minoru asks Geoffrey to begin. Victor Stein points out that they seem evenly divided and, as leader, they need his vote. Do they expend more Pride resources crushing Stark and Imperio? Wilder pauses a moment and then replies no. They have new business which involves the Maggia who have approached them about opening new heroin routes.
(two weeks later)Tyree is pushing a shopping trolley through a scrap yard. Iron Man sweeps down and calls his name. Tyree stops and Iron Man lands beside him. He tells Tyree that they haven't technically met, but he's Iron Man. He's not going to hurt him. Tyree doesn't wait for him to stop before grabbing him around the waist, hugging him. Tyree smiles and says he knows him. He's the Iron Angel! He comes from his fellow intelligent designer. He adds that he's happy to see him and asks how Tony Stark is. Iron Man replies that he's good, but is worried about him. He says Tony heard he stopped taking his meds and returned to the streets. Tyree tells him that the only way to stay one step ahead of the men from the future is to keep moving.
Iron Man hands him a piece of paper and says Tony wanted him to have it. They're the plans he drew for the Techworks smartbox. "I drew this!" exclaims Tyree. Iron Man replies that this is what Tony tells him and it must be true because he registered the patent in his name. He's never known Tony to be generous where credit is concerned. He adds that Tyree's making quite a bit of coin in the form of royalties. All the money is going into a trust controlled by his sister. So, if he ever wants to go into a home, he can certainly afford it.
"No thank you," replies Tyree. "Freedom ain't free, Angel!" He thinks that the pills kill the colors. It's like they pull a dirty grey sock over the world. Iron Man takes to the air and wishes him good luck. If he ever needs anything, Tony Stark ain't a man who forgets his friends. As he watches Iron Man rocket into the distance, continuing through the scrap yard, Tyree asks what he could possibly need, when he has all this!


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1S story: J2: Master Of Jug-Fu!
2nd story: Gauntlet
1st story:
Avengers headquarters…
J2 feels a little down, even though he’s on a training session with American Dream at Avengers Mansion’s training room. American Dreams warns J2 to stay focused, as this exercise will help increase his reflexes and speed while dodging tennis balls. The exercise is over once the gauntlet has been reached without getting tagged by a ball. J2 remains unimpressed, and jokes that he isn’t here to attend class: he’s there to goof off. Besides, when you weight almost a hundred pounds like him and are practically invulnerable, you don’t run to anywhere. American Dream dodges all of the balls and makes it to the gauntlet first, believing that, if this exercise can’t impress J2, she can always up the ante.
Zahne tells her not even to bother, as his day started with his mom telling him to clean his room and since then he has been nagged at by teachers and whined to by friends. He doesn’t need any more grief and just wants to relax a little with some video games. American Dream doesn’t care, defending that J2 owes it to the team to improve himself. Jarvis enters the room, and mentions that a letter has been send for her and has been marked as urgent.
Zahne is impressed by the pretty amulet attached to the letter and wants to know what’s in it. It appears that American Dream has been invited to participate in some kind of contest for martial artists. J2 is impressed, believing that those people must think very highly of American Dream. But she doesn’t even care and tosses the letter away. She isn’t even curious about who the other contestants are, as she doesn’t enjoy fighting and only does it when absolutely necessary. That’s why she joined the Avengers and not the WCW. J2 is interested. He picks up the amulet, and is suddenly teleported away!
He arrives on an island. A blind Howard the Duck, believing he is dealing with American Dream, warns her to prepare herself as she must now prove herself to be worthy of this contest by facing him, the Master of Quack-Fu! Zahne thinks a talking duck is crazy, and reminds him of that talking gorilla he fought a while back. Howard attacks J2 with his staff, which breaks on impact. He realizes he isn’t dealing with American Dream, but with someone else.
J2 introduces himself, claiming he’s something like a last minute substitution. He notices Shang-Chi fighting the Sons of the Tiger, and wants to know what’s going on here. Howard claims that’s the problem, as nobody seems to really know that. It would appear that a few dozen of the world’s greatest martial artists recently received invitations to this so-called contest. And former and current superstars are performing. J2 believes Howard apparently suspects a trap. Howard confirms that, and mentions that only a few old guys have accepted the offer, guys like Iron Fist and Luke Cage, and the young people have apparently nothing to prove. He tried to stack the deck with American Dream, but now they are stuck with Zahne.
J2 and Howard meet up with Weasel and mention they are here for the contest. Weasel thinks that’s obvious, as there’s nothing else to do on this stupid island. He mentions they can both use the practice arena before the competition starts. Weasel mentions to the two that they can just holler if they need something, but can’t expect him to go and get it. Howard believes they’ll be just fine.
Weasel wishes them both good luck, confident that they are going to need that. J2 suggests they go scout the area and find out who’s the master-brain behind all this. Howard doesn’t think so, confident the guy will reveal himself on the proper time. He does believe that Zahne needs some practice. J2 mentions that he’s invincible and unstoppable. Howard claims that it doesn’t matter how strong Zahne is: a true master of the martial arts can easily turn his power against him.
The training Howard gives J2 goes on for an hour, with Zahne getting tired of it. He’s an Avenger for God’s sake, and doesn’t think he needs any more stupid training. Howard notices that Zahne’s distracted and orders him to pay attention. He wants him to draw each breath into the deepest pit of his stomach, and hold as if his life would depend on it. Zahne gets tired and, because of this, turns back into his kid-form! Howard didn’t notice this, and kicks Zahne into his face, causing him to fall down.
Howard wants to know what just happened, as it seems to him J2 just got shorter somehow. Zahne admits that he forgot to mention that his J-drive needs to download on occasion. Howard wants to know what Zahne’s fighting skills are in this state. None, actually, Zahne admits. Howard is startled! He explains that he was counting on Zahne to take his place in the contest while he tried to learn who lured everyone to this island. Zahne really has to be proficient in some form of combat. Zahne apologizes for it. He explains that, when you are a living Juggernaut, exercise and practice seem pointless.
Howard starts taking off, angrily mocking that this is just great. The contest is about to begin, and he’s stuck with “the uncanny useless boy.” Zahne mocks that “Daffy” doesn’t need to get all hostile on him. He suggests that he goes scouting around the island, while Howard does the fighting part. Howard dislikes that idea because Zahne is too vulnerable. He suggests that Zahne goes to find a place to hide, and to stay out of his way.
Zahne decides to go for a walk, and makes it to the beach. There, he thinks about what Howard said to him. He really is an “uncanny useless boy”. Heck, he was even blowing smoke when he volunteered to play detective. Like he would know how and where to start an investigation. Suddenly, he notices an old woman sitting on a tree branch. Zahne doesn’t know her, but warns the lady that she better goes to find someplace safe. Blind Al tells Zahne not to worry, as nobody’s going to bother an old lady like her. Suddenly, Al panics when she realizes she’s talking to just a kid! She asks Zahne if he’s really as young as he sounds. Zahne confirms that, and wants to know why Al asked.
Al panics, because “he” promised there would be no innocent bystanders invited to the party. Al tells Zahne to run to the hills, and he might live to celebrate another birthday. She explains that this place is about to get all hazardous to his health. Zahne doesn’t need to be told that twice, and promises he’ll be gone. Al mentions that’s fine, and tells Zahne to log some distance, while she tries to convince a certain corkscrew-brained lunatic to delay the festivities. As he watches Al take off, Zahe sighs, and smiles that the Hardy Boys have nothing on him, the Zahne-Knight Detective!
He follows Al to Weasel, and eavesdrops on their conversation. Al is telling Weasel that she thinks something is wrong. She has to talk to Wade. Weasel asks Al if that can’t wait, because she knows how Wade gets before a whack. Zahne can’t believe his ears. A whack?! He believes that his web-footed friend was right. Someone is planning a nasty. But, Zahne still doesn’t know who or what is doing it.
Suddenly, a teleportation portal opens, and… Deadpool jumps through it! Wade proudly shouts that everyone near his base is it. He notices Zahne and asks if him if he knows him. He also asks Zahne if he’s got an American Express Card, because they need to establish his identity so they’ll know where to ship the remains! Zahne panics, as he recognizes Deadpool. Wade wants to know if it was his costume that gave him away. He hates it when that happens. Al and Weasel go to stand in front of Wade, and asks him to hold the armament, as Zahne is just a “dumb kid.” Wade thinks that’s fine, because now the gene pool won’t miss him.
Zahne mentions to himself that he heard about Deadpool. He’s a professional killer. He’s a sadistic wise mouth, and a general troublemaker. And those are Deadpool’s good qualities! Zahne quickly transforms into J2, and Deadpool panics a bit. He recognizes Zahne in his uniform, and mentions that he’s that new Juggernaut he has been reading about. Wade’s mood immediately changes, and smiles that’s so cool. He starts slicing his powered-up sword on J2, and mentions that not everyone enjoys dancing the ugly with a thousand pound bundle of unstoppable stupidity, and jokes that’s their loss. Zahne asks Deadpool who his target is, since they are being so friendly with each other.
Deadpool powers up his new special glove, and smashes J2 with it, his “target”. Wade explains that he just called the old gang together for a good old-fashioned super-brawl. Wade doesn’t know what he can say, he was bored and the Biography Channel slated reruns for the entire week. Wade fires his plasma gun at Zahne, and traps him behind a force field. He warns Zahne to use it or lose it. Wade also jokes that, when a man reaches his age, he’s really got to work at staying in shape. And he figured the other guys could use a little simulation as well. On that moment, Iron Fist, Cage, Shang-Chi, the Sons of the Tiger and the White Tiger all stand behind Deadpool, ready to kick his butt! The battle begins, and everyone starts fighting Deadpool at once.
Zahne notices that Howard is approaching him, and asks the duck what’s going to happen now. Howard explains that everyone will keep fighting until, at a critical moment, they suddenly discover it has all been one big misunderstanding. Then, everyone will bow, say their goodbyes, and follow their separate paths. Such is the way of a true martial artist. Zahne takes a look at the battle from a distance, and jokes that people wonder why this genre no longer appeals to the mass market!
A little while later, Zahne has been transported back to Avengers Mansion. He goes back to the training room, and notices that American Dream is still working out there. American Dream mentions that crime never rests, and neither should the Avengers. She wants to know when Zahne got back. Zahne mentions he just got back, and wanted to apologize for being such an arrogant jerk. He asks American Dream if she remembers when she volunteered him to train him and transforms back into his form of Zahne. Zahne hopes that American Dream’s offer still stands. American Dream thinks that Zahne is kidding, because she thought he was practically invincible. Zahne confirms that he is, but only when he’s J2. American Dream gives Zahne a battle suit, and suggests they start teaching him the basic fighting skills.
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Wild Thing is in the forest, but also a little peeved. Getting hit by an invisible fore field will do that to a girl. Rina orders her opponents to reveal themselves, and to fight fair. Her opponents hit her again, and Rina falls down a hill, but lands safely back on her feet. Her opponents don’t see the fun in fair fighting, and knock her down another rocky hill, causing her to fall into a river. Her opponents tell Rina to think of this as pushing her envelope. Rina gets angry, and promises she’ll push her envelope alright: she’ll push it right through her adversaries’ throats!
Rina’s opponents don’t think so, as she won’t be able to do that when she can’t see them. Rina realizes that, but she also realizes that she can use the water to make them all wet, thus making them visible again. She does so, and Rina’s adversaries start to panic. Wild Thing decides to quote something her old dad used to say: it’s time to go to claw city. She snikts out her psychic claws, and slices through one of her opponents! A voice compliment Wild Thing that she didn’t perform that bad, but triumphantly declare that she’ll have to do a lot better than to beat the X-People!
The X-People make themselves visible again, and the Danger Room simulation is ended and the room is back to normal. Jubilee orders her team to get ready for action. Angry Eagle and Simian take the offensive, while Torque and Spanner are the back-ups. Spikes merge from the floor, causing everyone to almost reach the ceiling. Rina asks Jubilee what she’s going to do. Jubilee states that she is team leader, and gets to call the shots. Angry Eagle tells Simian to get Wild Thing, while he’ll distract her with stun daggers.
Rina dodges both attacks, and jumps into safety. She jokes to the boys that the only thing they’ll get is a world of hurt. She sticks her psychic claws into Simian’s back, causing him to feel pain and fall down. Rina also kicks Torque down, who almost falls into the spikes, but luckily he is rescued by Angry Eagle. Spanner stretches herself so she can safely grab Simian before he reaches the spikes. Jubilee shoots her fireworks at Rina, but she kicks Jubilee down. Jubilee loses her balance thanks to this and almost falls into the spikes, but luckily Rina rescues her.
Cyclops decides to end the simulation. After shutting down the holovision projector and directing the sensory input transmitters, Scott mentions to Jubilee it’s time for team leader summation. Jubilee confesses that there is no question on her mind that Wild Thing has successfully run the gauntlet, and passed her initiation into the X-People! Jubilee congratulates Rina and wants to shake hands with her. She explains to Rina that she has not only shown remarkable skill, but has also demonstrated compassion as well. The X-People will be proud to have her as a member. Rina doesn’t take Jubilee’s hand and starts to walk away, thanking for the offer. She only went through this exercise because her dad asked her to do it. As far as she is concerned, the X-People can keep their precious membership.
While observing in the control room, Scott sighs, noticing that there is a lot of Logan that can be recognized in Rina. He can even remember a time when Logan was just as testy and difficult. Logan agrees with him, but he has mellowed with time. He asks his wife, Elektra, if she agrees with that, but Elektra can only laugh.


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The young Jean Grey from the past sits in Kyoto, munching ramen and thinking about who she is. Jean Grey, yes, but not the Jean Grey who became Phoenix, was possessed by an intergalactic firebird with space-god power up, then went all crazy Dark Phoenix, destroyed a planet and tried to murder her friend. Which means she also never died in the love of her life’s stupid arms, a genocidal madwoman corpse, all decked out in her burgundy bad guy clothes. She’s pretty okay with not being that Jean Grey, frankly.
She also isn’t the grown-up bad-ass, seen-and-done-it-all Jean Grey who was cheated on by her husband and Emma Frost. She is her nightmare. Her life, the life she should have led, wakes her up a couple of nights a week, cold & sweaty. Her shadow will probably always stretch further than young Jean’s, but maybe that’s cool. Maybe she can learn from the older Jean’s mistakes. Maybe she can be the happy Jean.
She’s still a kid mostly. Trying to feel things out. But thanks to time travel and other crazy science fiction run amok, her fellow original X-Men and her are trapped in the future. She looks at a photo of the five of them goofing around on her cell phone. She loves them to death but they are still guys. Imagine sharing an apartment with four filthy weirdo brothers. Now give them superpowers and time displacement trauma. So that’s why Pickles and her are having Ramen brunch in Kyoto. Pickles is a teleporting demon Bamf thing. Makes brunching with him awesome. Delicious noodles, gorgeous view and all the peace and quiet she can handle.
Of course, that moment the quiet is interrupted by the Wrecking Crew, trying an armored truck robbery. Jean telekinetically catches the van and Piledriver, who is atop it. The villains are angry to see a “supes” after they tried an exotic locale to avoid this. Still, Thunderball would rather take this chick than Spider-Man and two dozen Avengers any day of the week.
Jean tries to keep them distracted with her telekinesis until her team which she has called can come join her, but she is aware that three supervillains are too much for her too handle to defend herself. She tosses Wrecker through a shop window then feels guilty when the Japanese owner couple berate her. While she is distracted, the other two Wrecking Crew members, whom she had levitated, land on the car. While she assures the couple that she will pay for the damages, Piledriver tosses the car at Jean. Instinctively, she deflects it, almost hitting a local woman who flees into the store that is about to collapse.
Jean wants to run after her. Wrecker suggests they grab their haul and split while she is busy. Angrily, Jean telekinetically tosses the van with the money high up, where it gets stuck on a pole. Should have seen that coming, Wrecker sighs.
Jean looks through the shop, angry with herself for juggling too much and hoping she hasn’t hurt the woman. She finally uses telepathy to find her then assure her she is not going to hurt her.
But the woman only speaks Japanese. Jean doesn’t, so she tries to send the woman happy thoughts of rainbows, unicorns, puppies and the like. If anything, the woman panics even more at the invasion of her mind. Go with that then, Jean decides and sends her intentionally horrifying images to get her to run out of the building, which, she does. Whatever works, Jean decides. “Yeah, nice swerve,” a voice speaks into her mind. Jean is surprised, but that moment the building collapses on her.
Outside, the Wrecker comments he guesses the fight is over. Call the meat wagon. Thunderball, who has reached the car and throws down the money bags, admonishes him that’s ice cold. She was just a kid. An idiotic kid, Wrecker opines. Messing with them was dumb enough. But running into a collapsing building, that’s begging to get yourself buried.
That moment another car is levitated and hits the van, forcing Thunderball to jump out. That’s right! an angry Jean shouts. Girlie survived! And now she’s ticked off!. She lashes out at Wrecker next. “You reckless idiots could have killed the girl!” she shouts. Technically, she was the one… Piledriver mumbles. So they could have the stupid stolen money! She continues.
Brutal, the voice observes. She’s a beast when she’s pissed off. What?! Jean looks around. “Nothing. give them hell, J.” the voice replies.
Jean shouts, demanding who is talking to her while, Piledriver takes the chance to run with the money. She chides herself. She is a psychic. She hears random voices all the time. Head in the game, she orders herself. She follows him into an underground parking lot and threatens several options on how she could find him.
She telepathically tosses him a horrible migraine and waits for the scream of pain. She tells him he can’t hide from her. She can see into his mind. Nice, the voice remarks. Confidence looks good on her. She has had just about enough, Jean states, then turns around as there is a light. No! she whispers.
The Phoenix raptor is rising in front of her and announces: Jean Grey is Jean Grey is Jean Grey. And yet somehow she thinks she can sidestep. She can escape. She cannot. No! Jean shouts. No way! She’s not her!
Piledriver is confused and can’t see who Jean is talking to, but he plans to use the opportunity to move.
Jean shouts she is not that Jean Grey. This cannot be happen… Piledriver hits her with a bag of money. She blacks out.
Jean comes to a little later to see her fellow X-Men in their plane. Cyclops tries to find out if she’s concussed but the others are calmer. They inform her the Wrecking Crew go away but they’ll nap them next time. Jean orders everyone to shut up. Scott asks if she’s ok. What’s going on? The Phoenix is coming! she replies.


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The Xavier Institute for Mutant Education and Outreach:Beast’s lab:A hologram of the galaxy. This is here, Beast informs teenage Jean Grey and points to Earth. And, as she can plainly see, the Phoenix is nowhere even remote nearby. They are talking about vast expanses of space, completely devoid of a firebird god creature. Jean stubbornly crosses her arms. So he doesn’t believe her? Cool.
Carol Danvers, who is present as well, along with Kitty Pryde and the young Beast, is more diplomatic. It isn’t disbelief so much— There’s just no empirical evidence to support her claim, Beast continues.
Jean tries to argue that, if there is any chance at all she is right, doesn’t it make sense to prepare? Last time this thing dropped in, they had a big stupid war. The moment that thing shows up on a scan, they’ll scramble the Blackbird and they’ll assemble every Avenger, Kitty promises. But beyond that… Carol agrees. They’ll have to wait and see.
Jean protests they think she is crazy. Adult Beast assures her no one questions her sanity and asks her to take a seat. He shines a light into her eyes. Think back before she encountered this vision of the Phoenix. Did she experience any pain? Perhaps a headache or twitching eye? Was she anxious or experiencing emotional distress? he continues.
Jean has had it and she shoves him away telekinetically. Just forget it! she announces and leaves the lab along with Pickles They join the throng of students outside. No empirical evidence! she fumes. She’ll just run along then pretending she didn’t have a ‘you’re screwed, girlie’ conversation with a smug flaming spacegod.
She decides he can’t do that. Because if Beast is wrong, she gets to live out her worst nightmare. And then maybe kill friends and friggin’ planets. She is sure her vision was real. They are talking about a giant bird made of fire that brings people back from the dead! she addresses Pickles in frustration. She shouldn’t have to find it on a map for them. There has to be somebody she can talk to. Who understands the Phoenix! Then she has an idea. She enters the Cerebro chamber and then uses Cerebro to find former Phoenix hosts.
The first is Colossus, who is currently painting. He informs her she is doing something wrong. Cerebro does not usually give headaches. She apologizes. This is harder than she thought.
Next is Prestige, currently embroiled in a battle who asks if everything is okay. She has her hands full with a big fracking minotaur. What does she want? Magik, who is battling a demon, asks curtly.
Quentin Quire, spending time on the sentient island Krakoa, laments her lack of courtesy. Nobody cares, she replies. Krakoa and he find her honesty refreshing.
Jean explains her situation to them. She believes the Phoenix is coming for her and she needs info from them as past hosts. Maybe they can tell her what to do.
Cross her fingers and run like hell! Quentin scoffs. Colossus is more empathetic. Rachel asks for more details and Illyana announces a little fire never hurt anyone. She suggests Jean embrace it.
Jean asks them to hold on. She is trying to get this Hope girl on Cerebro. The mutant messiah or whatever. Then she gets that Hope is in danger and races off.
Some baked desert town in Arizona:A Reaver referring to himself as Lundy enters a room, babbling how he succeeded where the others failed against the Red Ring of Death. Getting out a drill, he announces he is ready to perform the impossible assimilation.
The person he is threatening is Hope Summers, strapped to a chair. Enough monologuing, junkheap! she shouts. She doesn’t scare easy and he doesn’t have the tongue for it! Closing in, Lundy leers that his strength is biomechanical engineering.
That’s convenient, Jean remarks as she enters and telekinetically hits him hard. She’s been itching to hit a science bro since after breakfast.
With Lundy out, Jean introduces herself to Hope, releases her and explains she had this vision she wanted to ask her about but Hope’s thing seemed a bit more pressing.
Hope thanks her as she gathers her rather big gun. She misread the sitch’, firefight went pear-shaped and she somehow let that Poindexter get the drop on her. She asks Jean to toss her the pistols in the corner. Hope looks at her critically. People always say they look alike. Both decide that they don’t see it.
Looking at the knocked-out Lundy, Jean remarks Hope probably won’t need all those guns at once. Their boy looks down for the count. Amused, Hoper replies that, if Jean thinks one Reaver chumped her all by his lonesome – she fires her guns at the side where a group of Reavers is suddenly coming from – she’s never met Hope’s father.
What the hell is going on? Jean demands. Where are they coming from? While she fires at the first ones, Hope explains she got word of a little Reaver activity in town. Reavers almost killed her dad and her once. She hates Reavers. So, she came here to clear them out. Turns out her intel was bad or a set-up. There is a little town built on a massive Reaver underground hive.
Uh-oh, Hope mutters when a massive Bombhead comes at them. His bomb explodes and the two girls barely make it out. Bombheads suck! Hope announces. Clearly Jean agrees as erects a TK shield to hold off Reaver fire. What did she want to know about the Phoenix? Hope asks.
Suddenly, Prestige is in front of them, attacking Reavers and explaining Jean is terrified. Of the bird. Of her destiny. What it all means. Quentin joins the fight with telepathic guns. She wants to dodge it. Or fight it. Or run the hell away. It’s a deep dark destiny and Grey’s Anatomy there wants no part.
Magik teleports herself and her brother Colossus in and scoffs. Dark destiny? Trade ya! It is not a contest, Colossus chides her as he finishes off a Reaver. Jean is scared. She should be, Magik smirks.
Jean explains she is looking for a little guidance, as she and Hope join the fight. Everyone knows what it did to the other her. She means Dark. Phoenix. Saga! They named a whole saga after her crazy. And that Jean was a full-grown woman. Experienced. Battle-tested. She’s just a kid. So yes, she’ll run if she can run. Avoid the Phoenix like the plague. But if she can’t, how does she keep from losing her whole damn mind? What’s it gonna look like? What’s it gonna feel like?
Quentin holds his psychic gun against her temple and fires.
Kid Omega’s mindscape: Jean awakes in a surprisingly sophisticated library. Quentin sits in a comfortable chair beneath a huge portrait of himself. Psychic weapons don’t kill, he explains. They just let him mess with her head. He’s answering her question. She wants to know what Phoenix flame broiled brain meat looks like. Peep it!
Jean is distracted by the fact that his mindscape is stained oak and leatherbound books. This one corner is, he explains. Used to be this was his peace and quiet. His all alone, his stare at the wall boredom. He walks toward a window. Now it’s more of a fireproof safe.
Outside the window are a bunch of burning Quentins wanting in. Brain damage, he explains and points toward his head. Phoenix fire burns.
Colossus’ mindscape:Quentin throws her out and she lands in Colossus’ mindscape, a huge, Siberian farm. She asks why he is plowing. He replies everything is fine, why does she ask? She looks at the farmhouse, burning with Phoenixfire
Reality:Rachel asks Quentin pointedly if this battle wouldn’t go better if one of them weren’t catatonic. What doesn’t kill them, makes them stronger, he replies philosophically. Colossus points out that  these people are trying to kill them. Quentin replies Jean had questions. And they could have answered them, Prestige snaps. With their mouths! But then he’d be catatonic. Besides a picture is worth a thousand words. He fires at Jean again. And that’s a big thing when the words are ‘oh no, you’re totally screwed!’
Prestige’s mindscape:Nothingness. Rachel rests in a fiery cocoon. That firebird saved her. Plucked her out of hell and gave her a new life. Death will always be part of the equation. But so is rebirth.
Jean points out her life isn’t hell and she doesn’t particularly want to be born again, thanks.
Reality:Quentin fires again.
Hope’s mindscape:The mindscape is joined by Hope jumping in guns ablaze at the Phoenix. Dad says, wars don’t end, they just change clothes, she informs Jean. The Phoenix sucks, sure. But it’s just an enemy like any other. She might have Jean’s number. Maybe Jean has hers. But if she keeps her guns loaded and her triggers moving, she’s got herself a fighting chance which has always been good enough for Hope. Jean admits Hope is surprisingly hardcore.
Reality:Jean awakes suddenly. The battle is almost over and she thanks Quentin sarcastically. She asks about Magik’s mindscape. Quentin hesitates. “Be my guest, snowflake,” Magik scoffs as she finishes another Reaver. Quentin points out he doubts there is anything in there to make Jean feel better. Point taken, she agrees and smacks a Reaver. So, she’s totally stuck. There is nothing she can do but wait. And burn. It’s gonna mess her up just like it messed her up. Like it messes everybody up. Best case scenario: It burns her down to ashes before she kills anyone.
Nobody is saying that, Rachel tries to calm her. He sorta said that, Quentin points out. Nobody had to! Jean replies. She is an omega level psychic. She can read between the lines. She orders Pickles to her side. She thanks them sarcastically. Rachel tells her to wait - they can talk about this. Later, she replies. Now she has to talk to the one Phoenix host awful enough he might actually know how to do this. She has to talk to friggin’ Namor! Pickles teleports her away.
Rachel snaps at Quentin. He suggests they look on the bright side. Maybe the big brains are right, the Phoenix isn’t coming and Jean is just crazy…


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Jean Grey is under the sea, sure that something is stalking her. Cynically, she tells herself “what else is new?” Ever since the Phoenix thing started, she’s been feeling like the puff-brained star of her own personal slasher movie. She isn’t some dumb scream queen, Jean announces, deciding to confront the underwater monster, only to find that it is a lot larger than she anticipated.
King Namor shows up, effortlessly harpooning the beast. Quite a clever ploy there, he mocks. First lull the beast into submission with her drylander dog paddle, then simply drown herself before he can eat her. The end result is roughly the same, crimson cloud of freckled backwash, but she gets the satisfaction of going out on her own terms.
Jean guesses to herself that that’s why nobody likes Namor. So snide and self-righteous, he is going out of his way to mock her, even as he saves her land-loving life. But that’s exactly why she came her, exactly what she needs. This jerk may be the only one who can save her from her flaming fate.
As she watches him battle the monster, she is impressed despite herself. This whole underwater “Conan the Destroyer” vibe is working. However, the kraken’s tentacle stings him from behind. Concerned, Jean asks if he is ok, while the kraken flees.
Fine, he replies brusquely and gives chase. Jean follows via telekinetic propulsion but asks if they can stop and talk for a second. This is hard for her! And here he was hoping they could spend the whole day together, he snarks. Undeterred, she continues that she has a couple of questions about the Phoenix. His favorite topic, Namor mocks. Sadly, he is busy dragon-slaying at the moment. Jean snaps she is an omega level telekinetic. She can help him with his dragon, but her thing is pretty important, too.
Namor sighs and stops. Jean doesn’t stop in time and bumps into him. Every bit as graceful as she is charming, he remarks. Shut up! she snaps. He tells her to get on with it. She explains about her Phoenix visions and how it is coming for her. She talked to the other Phoenix hosts but they are all super messed up by it. He’s the only one who came out unscathed. She was hoping he’d tell her how.
Look at her, Namor chuckles. Just a tiny flailing tadpole of a thing. Nowhere near the terrifying specimen that was the real Jean Grey. And even she couldn’t begin to handle hosting that horrible bird. What hope is there for her? She is clearly quite sunk.
They are interrupted by a shark exodus, courtesy of the kraken. Mind if he gets back to it? Namor asks. Jean watches him attack and muses that, while he is usually condescending, if anything he seemed to be sad for her when he answered her. Which is a whole lot scarier.
Namor is about to harpoon the creature but then freezes in mid-throw. Some help here, Omega level tadpole? he sends. It would appear the beast is poisonous. He appears to be paralyzed from the neck down. Good thing they paused for that chat, he adds snarkily.
Jean slams the creature telekinetically away, then catches Namor. “My hero,” he mocks. She points out he didn’t realize the creature was poisonous. He blusters that he rules 70 percent of this planet. When does she suppose he’d have time to catalogue every bottom- feeding creature? No way to guess how much time they’ll have until that thing finds them. Better get to it, he orders. Jean doesn’t understand. Her query, he clarifies. She wants to know how he got through the Phoenix fire unscathed. She is a psychic, so hop in. The water’s fine.
Namor’s mindscape:Jean swims in to find both sea creatures and Atlanteans dead, Atlantis in ruins. She swims into the throne room. Namor sits on his throne, the Phoenix flaring on front of him. Not meeting her eyes, he admits he lied about the water. It’s a bit hot. Jean sputters then begins to understand. He seems so cool and together and unaffected. She thought he had the answer, but he’s no different than the rest.
He’s King Namor! he shouts. The mighty Sub-Mariner! The supreme ruler of the deep! He’s lived a dozen human lifetimes. He has no equal! How dare she lump him in with those X-fools? He is nothing like the rest! But the Phoenix burned him just the same, Jean states calmly.
Reality:Does he think they lost it? Jean asks nervously. Maybe they lost it and they can wait out the poison and just swim away. Namor laughs briefly. And perhaps the Phoenix has forgotten all about her. Out of sight, out of mind, yes? Perhaps all of the monsters have given up and gone away and the two of them can live happily ever after. But he thinks they both know better. They both can agree that, once a monster has your scent, the beast will never stop coming.
Which it does, as if on cue. What do they do? Jean shouts panicked. The only thing they can do, he replies. If it’s any consolation, for once in his life he doesn’t take satisfaction in being right. Enough “cool guy snark,” Jean orders. Tell her how to do this! He wishes he could, Namor replies. It’s time for her to leave him. There will be an opening when the creature breaks free.
Jean refuses. Impatiently, he tells her that she has her monster, he has his. She isn’t leaving, Jean insists. Yes she is, he replies, equally stubbornly. She just hasn’t accepted it yet. Now be a good little hero and bring him his trident. If today is his day, he will go out with his birthright clutched in his cold dead hand. Or teeth, as the case may be, he adds recalling his momentary paralysis.
Jean tears the trident free. Namor shouts a challenge at the kraken and orders Jean to go. Instead, she lashes out with her telekinesis at the monster. Namor chuckles, amused and impressed. A tadpole no more, he has to admit as Jean skewers the beast’s brain.
He congratulates her and admits he is impressed. Jean in turn admits she doesn’t like killing things. Could have fooled him, he chuckles before admitting somewhat reluctantly he might have been wrong (which happens rarely). Wrong about what? Jean demands. About her and that Phoenix of hers, he replies. Look at what she’s done. A natural born warrior. If she lets that bird anywhere near her brain, it will burn it to a crisp. But what if Jean doesn’t allow it? What if instead she fights to the bitter end? What if she snuffs that wretched bird’s flame with her bare hands and lives to tell the tale?
Having found a new option, Jean thoughtfully stares at the bloodied trident in her hands.