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Finale
The gentle tug of the rising moon brings the surf crashing in all along the California shore this evening. But here, some twenty miles out to sea, the cool waters of the Pacific are exceedingly calm – if for just a while, as the still glass-like waters are suddenly broken by Greer Grant Nelson a.k.a. Tigra, 'Air!' she gasps as she reaches the surface, pulling the mysterious Shroud up above the water with her. Tigra coughs, and tells the Shroud to take it easy as she signals her emergency beacon. 'The Avengers will come looking for us any minute now!' Tigra announces, before, calling out to the Shroud, but as her arm holds his head above the water, she gets no response from him. Tigra wonders the worst, but realizes that he is breathing, and assumes the impact of falling must have knocked him out. She wishes that Wonder Man had let her call the other Avengers earlier, that everything has happened so fast, and the sun was only just going down when they went with the Shroud to check out a new LA crime lord.
Tigra recalls that they were all fooled, at first, into thinking the Blank was running things, but he was just a flunky, working for the real boss – Graviton! Not that finding that out did them any good, as they were all pretty helpless under his gravity powers, and when the Blank got on Graviton's nerves, Graviton sent him flying out along with Tigra and the Shroud, away from their gang's mansion, and out into sea. Glancing around her, Tigra realizes she isn't sure what happened to the Blank, as they were separated on impact, and decides that it was just sheer luck that she found the Shroud. The Shroud suddenly, stirs, and Tigra tells him that it is okay, that everything is going to be all right. Tigra wishes that she could do more than just tread water and hope for the best. She knows she could try heading for land, but the Shroud may not last that long. Tigra is so tired of feeling helpless, but her thoughts are interrupted when a bright light shines down on her. 'Tigra?' a voice calls out. Iron Man shines a light from his armor down over Tigra, and asks her what she is doing out here with the Shroud, and where is Wonder Man. 'It's a long story, Iron Man!' Tigra calls back. Iron Man swoops down and picks Tigra and the Shroud up and carries them through the air, he tells Tigra that it can wait until they are both warm and dry, as the next stop is Avengers Compound.
Soon, inside the Palos Verdes Compound, Bobbi Morse-Barton a.k.a. Mockingbird announces that the Shroud is resting comfortably and that he should be fine by morning, before asking Iron Man if there is any luck finding the Blank. Iron Man reports that he went back and ran a wide sonar scan, but couldn't find a trace, so assumes that the Blank was caught in an undertow. Tigra is wrapped in a towel, and brings a hot drink to her mouth. 'Too bad...that's a nasty way for anyone to go!' Bobbi exclaims, before she asks her husband, Clint Barton a.k.a. Hawkeye, if there is still no word from Wonder Man. 'Nothing' Hawkeye replies, while Tigra declares that this is awful, and tells her teammates that they have to do something. 'The lady's right! We've cooled our heels long enough! I say we go kick Graviton where it'll do the most good!' Iron Man exclaims, slamming his fist on a table. 'Easy, Shell-Head, easy!' Hawkeye replies.
Hawkeye leans over a console in the communications center and tells his teammates that he is worried about Wonder Man as well, but that they can't just go smashing their way into Graviton's lair, as he is one of the toughest guys the Avengers ever fought. Hawkeye informs the others that the first time the Avengers went up against Graviton, he held ten Avengers at bay including Wonder Man and Thor. Hawkeye adds that he wasn't there, but reading Captain America's report made him glad he wasn't. 'But why am I telling you this? You were there! You of all people should know -' Hawkeye starts to tell Iron Man, when suddenly, Iron Man declares that he didn't know, and that it looks like he will have to spend more time going over the Avengers files. 'You see, Hawk...Iron Man may have fought Graviton, but I haven't!' Iron Man announces as he starts to remove his helmet. 'What kind of double-talk is that? Hey, what are you doing?' Hawkeye exclaims. 'Something I should've done a couple of weeks ago' Iron Man replies.
With his helmet removed, James Rhodes smiles at Hawkeye and reveals that he isn't the original Iron Man, that he replaced him a few months back when Stark became incapacitated. Mockingbird looks intrigued, while a look of shock falls across Hawkeye's face as he exclaims 'You mean to tell me that, all this time, we've been working with an amateur Iron Man?' This causes Rhodes to point at Hawkeye and tell him to hold it right there. 'I may be a rookie at this game, but I'm no amateur! Have you had any gripes with my performance on this team?' Rhodes asks. Hawkeye folds his arms and frowns: 'Until now, no! But when “Iron Man” joined this team, I thought I was getting the genuine article!' he replies. Rhodes tells Hawkeye that there is nothing phony about this. 'I didn't hear you complaining when I saved our butts during the Secret Wars!' he adds. 'That... was you?' Hawkeye asks, surprised.
'Yeah, Hawk... me! Remember how I blew the whole side of that mountain the Molecule Man dropped on us? Well, you give me a big enough power source, and I'll stomp this Graviton clown...right down into the ground!' Rhodes exclaims, standing his ground. Hawkeye smirks, as his mind wanders back to a time long ago. 'Talk about deja vu – I've played this scene dozens of times...from the other side!' he reminds himself, recalling how he stood alongside the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver and defiantly told Captain America that he will be in charge of this team someday, and then he will really see some avenging! Hawkeye tells himself that he thought he had all the answers then, and wonders how Cap put up with him. 'How about it, Hawk? We going to stand here all night, or are we going to do some avenging?' Rhodes asks. 'Don't worry, Iron Man! You'll get your chance!' Hawkeye smiles.
Hawkeye admits that he was out of line calling Rhodes an amateur, and assures him that they are going to need his power going up against Graviton, they are going to need him to be part of this team. 'You got me!' Rhodes smiles. Hawkeye announces that they will need to plan their moves very carefully, and that they have to assume Wonder Man is being held captive by Graviton, and that he may be in no shape to help with his rescue – so their first order of business is finding Wonder Man and getting him out. Hawkeye asks Mockingbird to see what maps they have on the area around the mansion that Graviton has taken over. 'Way ahead of you, lover...' Bobbi replies as she brings up a computer file full of landsat maps. 'And look here...to the north!' Bobbi exclaims. Hawkeye sees what Bobbi is looking at, and tells Iron Man that he thinks there is a way for him to go one on one with Graviton, but that they are going to have to take him by surprise. 'You're not leaving me out of this! I got a good look at the layout of the place' Tigra exclaims, asking how she can help.
Later, at Graviton's Santa Monica retreat, partygoers are enjoying their time, as two women sit at a bar inside, and one of them asks 'Uh, honestly, Cheryl, what do you think of them?' 'You mean our...host? Well...he's certainly a striking figure of a man' Cheryl, a woman with wavy dark hair replies. She admits that he gives her the creeps and she hates the way he paws at her, she would rather take a bath in a pool of slugs. 'And if you tell him I said that, I'll call you a liar to your face!' Cheryl adds. The other woman, a blonde, tells Cheryl not to worry, and that after the way he handled those super-powered party-crashers earlier, she won't put anybody on his bad side. 'Assuming he has a good side! What a bore! At least he pays well!' Cheryl adds, before a bartender asks the ladies if they want more champagne. 'Please' the blonde replies. 'And keep 'em coming' Cheryl smiles. 'Rough night, huh? Well, this will chase your cares away' the bar tender replies as she pours the champagne into champagne saucers.
Across the room, a man with red hair is talking to a woman in a white dress, when suddenly, they hear some loud thumping noises. 'What on earth is going on outside?' the woman asks. The man pulls a gun from his jacket and tells her that he doesn't know, but will check it out. 'Yo, Don... Rocco... ya got trouble out there?' the man calls out as he opens a door – only to find a gun pointed at his face. 'Naw, but I'd say you have some in here!' the person on the other side of the door holding the gun exclaims. 'What say you lower that pea-shooter?' they suggest to the man with the red hair. The red-haired man complies, as a man in a white suit and hat enters, telling him he is a smart boy. 'I know you'd want to stay healthy' he adds. 'What happened to Don and Rocco?' the red-haired man asks. 'The clowns outside? You don't wanna know!' the man in the white suit exclaims, before he turns back to the door and calls out 'I think they'll be more polite now, Big M!' 'Big M?' the red-haired man asks, as a figure with a cigarette can be seen in the doorway.  'Just one of many titles...you may call me, Madame Masque!' the mysterious masked woman declares, announcing that she wants to speak with the red-haired man's employer. 'You will conduct us to him at once!' she declares. 'Sure, whatever you say!' the red-haired man replies anxiously.
And so: 'More champagne, sir?' the bartender asks as she hands a champagne saucer to Graviton, who sits on an arm chair. The man with the red hair rushes over and whispers to Graviton that he has heard about this Madame Masque, that she is head of one of the Maggia crime families and that she has contacts all over the East Coast and Europe. 'Really?' Graviton remarks, intrigued, before he calls out to Madame Masque and welcomes her. He introduces himself and asks her what he owes the pleasure of this visit. Madame Masque extends her hand which Graviton kisses, and announces that she heard there was new talent in the area, working to consolidate the Southern California gangs. 'Talent interests me' Madame Masque adds. 'And is that your only interest?' Graviton asks. Madame Masque informs him that she also loves power, and that she is told he is quite a powerful man. 'That is quite correct!' Graviton smiles, before boasting that the fundamental forces of the cosmos are his to command. He declares that he is gravity's master and that nothing can resist his powers. 'You'd better be right. The Avengers have started  a new group on this coast, and that could mean trouble!' Madame Masque warns Graviton. 'Avengers? Did you say “Avengers”?' Graviton replies, before bursting into laughter. Madame Masque frowns as she informs Graviton that her old enemy Iron Man is part of this new team, and that his power is hardly a laughing matter.
Graviton leads Madame Masque and her henchman in the white suit outside to the swimming pool and asks her to forgive him, as he was not laughing at her. He reveals that he has dealt with some of these Avengers, and one he has kept around for demonstration purposes. Graviton stops at the pool's edge, and Madame Masque and her henchman look down into the water, where Graivton points out that the late Simon Williams, better known to them as Wonder Man, lay motionless under the surface of the water. Graviton tells Madame Masque that Wonder Man's strength was quite remarkable, but no match for his localized gravity fields, and it was a simply matter to hold him to the bottom of this pool until he ran out of air. Graviton reveals that Wonder Man has been like that for hours, but he thinks he will keep him down there at least until after dawn, as it is rumored that Wonder Man has returned from the dead once before, and he doesn't intend to allow him a second resurrection.
Graviton notices the look of shock on Madame Masque's henchman and tells the Maggia leader that something seems to be bothering her bodyguard. 'Louis!' Madame Masque shouts, before slapping him across the face, knocking Louis's hat off of his head. 'I'm sorry, Big M...it's just that...I've got a thing about drowning, ya know?' Louis replies, rubbing his face. 'Then I suggest you get over it! There's no room in the Maggia for weakness! But there's plenty of room at the bottom of the pool! Do I make myself clear?' Madame Masque asks. Graviton begins to tell Madame Masque that he impresses her. He starts to suggest something to her, when energy blasts from above rain down on them. 'What?' Graviton exclaims as the blasts slam into the pool. 'Those are repulsor rays!' Madame Masque declares, as Graviton throws a force field around himself and Madame Masque, they look up and Madam Masque sees Iron man flying towards them. 'He's found me!' she gasps. 'I'll soon make him wish he hadn't!' Graviton declares, while Iron Man calls out 'Graviton... and Madame Masque! Now, isn't this a cozy little scene? Too bad I have to break it up!'
'Think I'll start with the hired help!' Iron Man declares as he fires a repulsor ray that knocks Louis backwards into a bush. 'Big M, HALP!' Louis cries out, while Graviton's henchmen open fire at Iron Man, their bullets rebounding off of his armor. Madame Masque tells Graviton to do something, that they can't just hide behind their force-field while their men are slaughtered. 'And we won't! As you'll see... once Iron Man is in the grip of gravitic energy, it will be I who determines his flight path!' Graviton announces as he uses his control over gravity to slam Iron Man into a nearby tree, and then against his mansion. And, as the armored Avenger is flung helplessly about, at the bottom of the pool, Wonder Man's left hand begins to flex – ever so slightly!
Inside, the bar tender has ducked behind the bar, as Cheryl remarks 'What's going on out there?' and walks over to the window to have a look outside. The bar tender is no ordinary woman though – she is Mockingbird! Bobbi gets changed into her costume and thinks to herself that from the sound of things, it is time that “Bartender Bobbi” retired for the evening. Bobbi puts her mask on and contacts Hawkeye over their radio transmitter, asking him if he reads her, she suggests that they better put phase two into operation, as it sounds like Iron Man is taking a terrible pounding.
'Here is your foe, Madame Masque!' Graviton declares as he slams Iron Man to the ground outside his force field. Graviton remarks that Iron Man's armor may be a miracle of technology, but that it is powerless against intensified gravity. 'Don't...you...believe it!' Iron Man calls out. 'Still you resist? You have more nerve than sense, but I'll...I'll...' Graviton begins, when suddenly, he begins to feel lightheaded. He tells himself to shake it off, that he mustn't lose control. Under the pool water, Wonder Man's fingers suddenly dig into the pool floor. Madame Masque notices something is off with Graviton and asks him what is wrong. 'Nothing! It's nothing!' Graviton responds, boasting that he will crush the armor around Iron Man like an eggshell. Iron Man stands his ground, and moves closer to the force field, past the fallen henchman, while telling Graviton that he is talking through his hat, and that he doesn't look much better than his goon squad. 'I'd say he looks worse! Of course, I've never liked men with beards!' a voice calls out. 'Who -?' Graviton begins as he turns towards a battle stave is hurled at his force field.
Mockingbird leaps into view, thinking to herself that Graviton must have the constitution of a moose, as all the others have nodded out from the mickeys she put in their booze, but Graviton is still on his feet. 'You can call me Mockingbird!' she calls out, before asking Graviton if he has met her husband, Hawkeye. 'Another one!' Graviton utters as he looks up and sees Hawkeye on his sky-cycle, moving towards him. 'You'll not ram me with that contraption!' Graviton exclaims as he slams gravitic energy against the sky-cycle, knocking Hawkeye back into the bushes where Madame Masque's henchman, Louis, is watching. 'Whoa!' Louis thinks to himself. And, at that moment, Wonder Man grits his teeth and frowns as his fingers dig deeper into the pool floor, which begins to crack.
'You idiot! You let them distract you from Iron Man! He's the real threat!' Madame Masque exclaims as Iron Man slams his fists against Graviton's force field. 'He's finding out the hard way, lady!' Iron Man declares, while thinking to himself that it is he talking through his hat now, for even with his power at peak intensity, he just barely dented Graviton's force field. Just a few feet away at the bushes, Hawkeye lies motionless – only, it's not Hawkeye, but a stuffed dummy, as “Louis” reaches out from the bushes and thinks to himself 'That's it, Shell-Head! Keep him turned the other way until I retrieve my gear from ol' “Hawkeye”!'
While, at that moment, under ten feet of water, a man thought dead slowly, painfully, thrusts himself upright, fighting the pull of a localized field many times that of Earth's gravity. His lungs are full of water, his limbs have sunk deep into the solid concrete, and ever movement brings excruciating pain. But he does not give up, he keeps on fighting against the gravity field, until finally, he brings one side of the pool down into the water, creating a massive splash. Startled by the sudden collapse of the pool, Graviton's concentration falters, and his gravitational force field drops for just a second – but it is the second that Wonder Man needs, as he lunges up from the pool and smacks his fist into Graviton, knocking thee villain hard back toward the side of the mansion, although more by reflex than design, Graviton manages to cushion himself from most of the blow. Iron Man sees that Wonder Man is back in the game, and is pleased about that, while deciding that it is time to go to phase three of their plan, with a few improvisations, as he suddenly grabs Madame Masque and tells her that she is coming with him. 'Graviton... help!' Madame Masque cries out as she is lifted into the air.
'Come back with her!' Graviton exclaims as he starts to follow, but Wonder Man notices that Graviton is flying like a ruptured duck, and laments that his belt-jets are waterlogged. Mockingbird rushes over to him, telling him to wait. 'Wait? We have to stop Graviton!' Wonder Man exclaims. Hawkeye, still disguised as “Louis” tells Wonder Man that they will, and that phase three is just beginning. 'Phase three? What're you...Hawkeye? What's with the get=-up?' Wonder Man replies. 'Tell you later!' Hawkeye replies.
Just a few miles to the north, Graviton soars through the air, his head feels numb, but the rush of the air has helped him. He is determined to rescue Madame Masque, and doesn't want the Avengers to make him look bad in front of her. Suddenly, there is a piercing scream, and Graviton looks down to see Madame Masque near some bushes. Madame Masque calls out to him, 'Thank Heaven you've come!' she exclaims. Graviton asks her where Iron Man is, to which a voice calls out 'Right behind you!' Shocked, Graviton turns to see Iron Man, connected to cables that lead to the power station behind them. Iron Man welcomes Graviton to substation #5, and states that he is told that the entire south-western power grid feeds through here. He figures that should give him enough power to beat anybody – including Graviton. 'So, unless you've gotten smart and want to give up – you'd better make your move, sucker!' Iron Man exclaims. 'You don't frighten me! I can uproot the very earth and turn it into a deadly weapon! I'll bury you alive!' Graviton  shouts as he uses his power to raise earth from the ground and hurl it towards Iron Man.
'Bull!' Iron Man retorts as he uses repulsor rays to destroy the rocks thrown towards him. He feels the energy surging through his armor, and decides that there is no sensation that even comes close to this. 'This is what it means to be Iron Man...this is what it means to be invincible!' Rhodes thinks to himself. But, as his astounding armor can easily handle the thousands of mega-volts of electricity, the cables which link him to the substation are not so sturdy, and as the energy flow increases, their insulation begins to melt and burn away. Just as Iron Man releases his mightiest repulsor blast, the cables fuse, sending all the power of the substation arcing over his armor – and right into Graviton who is knocked backwards with furious force. Iron Man falls to the ground, grateful that the armor's insulation spared him from anything more than a mild shock, but he knows it will take a few seconds to get any of its systems functioning again. He worries that Graviton might get to his feet first.
At that moment, 'Graviton! Graviton are you all right?' Madame Masque asks as she rushes towards him. Graviton stands up and tells Madame Masque that he is a little bruised and shaken, but otherwise fine. 'You're sure?' Madame Masque asks. 'Of course, I'm sure! I -' Graviton begins, when Madame Masque suddenly punches him in the face, 'That's all I wanted to know! That was for trying to drown me and my friends!' Madame Masque exclaims, as she throws her mask off, she tells Graviton to be glad she didn't knock his head off. 'See, I'm not Madame Masque...I'm Tigra!' the feline Avenger reveals. She touches the small cat trinket around her wrist and tells Graviton that it kept him from seeing her as she really is, and the mask just completed the disguise. Tigra reaches out for the surprised Graviton, who tells her to keep away and throws a force field up between he and Tigra, who didn't think he would have enough will power left to erect another force field.
'One side, Tigra! I have a score to settle with that gent!' Wonder Man calls out as he flies towards Tigra. 'You're not the only one, Wonder! Mind if I join you?' Iron Man exclaims as he and Wonder Man begin to strike the force field. 'Not at all! I'll hit him high...you hit him low!' Wonder Man replies. But suddenly, 'No...no! Get back!' Graviton utters as he increases the intensity of his force field, and knocks Wonder Man and Iron Man backwards. He is pleased that he managed to get them away, but is having trouble concentrating. He wonders why he is having that lightheaded feeling again, almost as if he has been drugged. Graviton keels over and realizes that he must have been drugged somehow, but decides that he has beaten them anyway. He knows he needs to get his head clear and his shields back up, but suddenly, two arrows with gas trailing behind them fly above him. Mockingbird pilots Hawkeye's sky-cycle and tells her husband that he did mighty fine with that gas barrage, but that she hopes he has a few more of those tranquilizer gas arrowheads, because Graviton is still on his feet.
Graviton coughs and tells the Avengers that he won't be beaten this easily and boasts that he is still the master of gravity. It takes him just a thought to make the pathetic gas as heavy as lead. 'You see? It sinks to my feet!' he declares. Hawkeye and Mockingbird land, and begin to surround Graviton along with Iron Man, Tigra and Wonder Man. 'What's this now...only five Avengers? Hah! I've held twice as many of you at bay! You cannot escape me!' he boasts, when suddenly, his eyes begin to roll back into his head, and he collapses face-first to the ground. 'Wow, I thought he'd never fall over!' Tigra grins, while Hawkeye and Mockingbird look upward, concerned, as a helicopter shines a light down on them.

And shortly, US Marshals drag the unconscious Graviton into the back of a heavy-duty truck, while the West Coast Avengers gather around as a reporter and her camera crew move in. “Action-Line News?” Iron Man asks. 'Yes! Do you have any comments?' the reporter asks.
'Just that... we still have another important mission to finish!' Hawkeye's voice exclaims through the television as the West Coast Avengers gather around the barbecue back at their Palos Verdes Compound. 'So saying, the Avengers left their captive to be trucked away by a team of US Marshals!' the reporter announces as she looks into the camera, adding that, pending arraignment, Graviton will be held at a special federal facility near Bakersfield. 'For Action-Line News...this is Amy Lou Johnston!' “Important Mission?” Bobbi quotes her husband, who tends to the barbecue and tells her that his barbecues are very important. Tigra leans against a tree and tells everyone that she is just glad everything turned out so well. She walks over to a table where Simon and Rhodes are sitting and points out that their little undercover trick worked pretty well, but that it was a good thing she was wearing that gold mask when Graviton pointed Simon out at the bottom of the pool – otherwise, her face would have given them away. 'The way you looked...I was sure we'd lost you!' she utters. Simon reveals that a while back he learned he could get by without food, water or air – it's not what he would call living, before asking his teammates if they weren't all taking an awful risk – what if he hadn't been able to help – what if they hadn't stopped Graviton.
'Risks are part of the job' Bobbi points out. Hawkeye agrees and informs his teammates that he left word with Avengers HQ in New York that if they didn't hear from them by midnight to assume the worst! 'Which reminds me...when I called 'em back with the good news, the Vision taped a little message that he wanted me it platy the next time we were all together' Hawkeye announces, as he turns on a monitor. The Vision's face appears the monitor and his recorded message bids good evening to the West Coast Avengers. He states that he is most gratified by reports of the progress they have made in just the first few weeks since the founding of their West Coast division, and that the defeat of Graviton serves to reinforce his faith in them. 'Congratulations, Avengers, on another job well done!' the Vision smiles.
'Did you hear what he called us? Avengers! I guess we really are!' Tigra smiles. 'It certainly looks that way' Wonder Man agrees, to which Iron Man asks if there was ever any doubt. 'Once maybe... but not any more' Wonder Man remarks as he puts his hands on Tigra's shoulders' No... not any more!' Tigra agrees as she smiles at Wonder Man. Hawkeye and Mockingbird smile, too, as Hawkeye tells his teammates that is the spirit – and that East Coast or West, New York or California, it makes no difference – 'Once an Avenger, always an Avenger!'


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Chapter one: Tyranny in Timely
Red Wolf crosses the Valley of Doom to the town of Timely, dragging a box of TNT behind him to blow up the dam that keeps water from the Indian territories. It's 1872 and Timely is a frontier town that's booming because of the Roxxon silver mines which built the dam. Mayor Wilson Fisk runs the town, and Governor Roxxon is boss of this zone of Battleworld.Reporter Ben Urich rushes into Fisk's saloon to tell sheriff Steve Rogers about a lynching. He's with drunken Tony Stark. As the sheriff leaves to do his job, Stark remembers when he was a better man. The dam is still standing but Fisk's men, led by Turk, are about to hang Red Wolf until Rogers stops them and takes the prisoner to jail to await trial.Red Wolf doesn't understand why Steve protects him against other white men. Wilson Fisk pays the sheriff a visit, to remind him that he works for Governor Roxxon. We hear about Rogers' dead deputy Bucky Barnes. The local doctor Bruce Banner tells Stark that Roxxon has just made all explosives illegal - he's now having to smuggle nitro pills to Ben Parker's widow for her heart problem.Later Tony sees Turk and his men coming into town and starts singing 'Danny Boy' to alert the Irish sheriff. The men split up and Turk tries to silence Stark until Rogers decks him. A warning from Tony allows Steve to shoot another of the gang. The sheriff suggests that the drunk use the spring-activated gun he's got hidden up his sleeve. But Stark has modified the mechanism so that now it just delivers a flask of whisky to his hand.There are still 2 gunmen left. Steve and Tony take refuge in Stark's place. Rogers tells him to grab a weapon, but Tony says he's sworn off guns and melted all his own down (but there was a rifle with his name on it over the bar). Instead, as Steve shoots a villain coming through 1 door, Tony kicks a bucket of water over in front of the other door. The 4th gunman enters, and Stark electrocutes him.Stepping outside the sheriff discovers that Turk has recovered and gone. He rushes to the jail where the villain gets the drop on him outside. But Red Wolf reaches through his cell window and drags Turk's gun arm aside, allowing Rogers to shoot him.Ben Urich is on the sheriff's side but he daren't cross Mayor Fisk for his wife's sake. Rogers expects the newspaper will report that Turk and friends were killed by an Indian raid or something. So he hangs the corpses up outside Fisk's saloon as a message. Urich goes to his office intending to write the truth, but a bottle of whisky douses his ardour.Fisk gets a telegraph message from Governor Roxxon saying he's sending someone to deal with the problem. Next day 4 strangers arrive in town.


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It's 1872 in the Old West town of Timely and Simon Williams is trying to beat information out of Bruce Banner about other rebels he's in league with. Banner claims it was just him and Natasha Barnes who were going to blow up the Roxxon silver mine's dam, and begs them to stop torturing her. A guy goes inside to see if she's ready to talk, but finds that she has killed all her assailants and has just been pretending to scream in agony. Natasha kills the new guy and then comes out to deal with Williams. But Bruce is dying because they made him drink some of his liquid explosive.In town Sheriff Red Wolf and Tony Stark in his crude Iron Man armour are facing men that Wilson Fisk is paying to kill them. A man named Creel rides at them but Stark KO's his horse which falls on its rider, crushing him. Red Wolf puts the rider out of his misery, then heads to the train station to stop Fisk escaping. But he runs into Elektra, who stands against him because Fisk hired her but lets Red Wolf shoot her because it's the honourable thing to do.Natasha leaves dying Bruce amongst his jars of explosive green liquid against the dam, and heads back to town to get revenge on Fisk for the death of her husband Bucky. Banner adds the catalyst to the liquid and an explosion wrecks the dam.The enigmatic old Indian we saw in #2 smiles with satisfaction. He has a wooden symbol which resembles the recent A-in-a-circle Avengers sign, and he has some hi-tech weaponry. He says to himself(?) "Now we can focus on the problem lurking in their mine".Meanwhile Red Wolf catches up with Fisk. Wilson's sheer mass gives him the upper hand in a fight until Red Wolf stabs him in the eye with his Sheriff's badge. The Indian refuses to kill him and takes him to jail to stand trial. But Natasha arrives and shoots Fisk before they get there. The town goes wild in celebration.Red Wolf stays on as Sheriff (and his 1st job is to find a boy's missing father Norman (Osborn?)). Tony Stark stops drinking and starts inventing again. Governor Roxxon sends a ruddy German (Red Skull?) to take Fisk's place. Carol Danvers becomes Mayor(?). Last issue Fisk blamed Sheriff Steve Rogers' death on the gang known as the Sinister Six. Not having heard to the contrary Pastor Frank (Punisher) and Merc (Winter Soldier? - but Bucky Barnes is supposedly dead) are hunting them down. There are huge footprints seen in the desert containing a green liquid, which may affect an ant that wades through 1. Ben Urich continues as a reporter, but now seemingly working from the old Parker place. And Red Wolf, Tony Stark, Natasha Barnes and a 4th man (looks like maybe Jim Rhodes?) form the Avengers of the West.


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Ben Urich is planning to flee Timely with his wife Doris because he wrote for his newspaper the truth about Mayor Wilson Fisk's men killing Sheriff Steve Rogers. Until she shows him that the printer has printed Fisk's version.Natasha Barnes and Red Wolf are hiding out in Hank Pym's hardware store (with its sign 'A Giant Collection'). Pym has gone away, and we don't know what the large object covered in a sheet and festooned with chains is.Red Wolf has pinned on the Sheriff's star. Natasha reveals that before she married Bucky she was an outlaw, and now she dons her old weapons. Now she knows the truth about her deputy husband's murder she's going to make Fisk pay.Doctor Bruce Banner joins them. He's made a bomb to blow up Fisk's casino. But Red Wolf sends the other 2 with the bomb to destroy the dam which has stolen his tribe's water. He'll go bring Fisk to justice. Natasha vetoes bringing drunken Tony Stark in on the plan.Bruce is worried about the bumpy high-speed wagon journey to the dam, and the jars of green liquid explosive in the back. He says that when he adds a catalyst to 1 jar the whole lot will go up better than nitroglycerine. Natasha doesn't think Red Wolf will succeed against all Fisk's men, but there'll be less for her to kill when she returns.Back in town the women are marching for equal rights. Red Wolf intervenes when some of Fisk's men try to stop them, but the leader Carol can take care of herself.The women continue their protest to cover RW sneaking into the casino. Fisk is having a drink and a game of cards with Governor Roxxon's 3 (surviving) enforcers (Elektra and Grizzly led by Lester (Bullseye)). Red Wolf is discoverd and has to start shooting minor bad guys.RW barricades himself into Fisk's office. The big 4 go outside and call him down for a 'fair' fight. Red Wolf has 1 bullet left, and uses it to shoot Lester through the target on his forehead - revenge on the man who shot Sheriff Rogers. Then he leaps down through the window and throws a lighted oil lantern over Grizzly. He overpowers Elektra and starts pistol-whipping her to death. She just glares at him and says "Do it."Fisk offers a reward to anyone else who'll kill Red Wolf. But Carol's women rise up in revolt. The burned Grizzly is about to shoot RW when something bursts out of Stark's workshop. The metallic banging noises we've been hearing were him creating a steampunk Iron Man armour (with what looks more like a Punisher symbol on the faceplate).Iron Man smashes Grizzly's head, and then shields Red Wolf from flying bullets. They both fire back. RW brings Tony up to speed on where Bruce and Natasha are.Those 2 try to bluff their way past the guards on the dam. But its caretaker Simon Williams isn't fooled. His men force Banner to drink the contents of his jars, and offscreen are doing something to Natasha too, to try to extract info about a supposed rebellion.


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A flashback to 1862 shows us why Tony Stark renounced guns and turned to drink. He's having a picnic with a female companion overlooking a Civil War battle. He fully expects that when the South are shown what his Gatling-Gun-like invention can do they will surrender. But to his horror the North just use the guns to mow down their enemy.Now in 1872 he's lying drunk on the floor of his office in Timely. Dr Bruce Banner watches as 4 gunslingers walk into town to confront Sheriff Steve Rogers. And reporter Ben Urich types up what's happening - a story that he'll probably never print.The villains are versions of Dr Octopus, Elektra and Grizzly led by Bullseye. They've been sent by Governor Roxxon to sort out the trouble over his silver mine and it's dam. They 1st call in on Mayor Wilson Fisk, who isn't pleased with the challenge to his authority but grudgingly agrees to them killing the Sheriff and his Indian prisoner Red Wolf who tried to blow up the dam that is stealing water from his people.Rogers is determined to get Red Wolf a fair trial. Natasha Barnes isn't happy about this because she believes her husband Bucky, Steve's deputy, was killed by Indians. But the Sheriff says that was a cover up - Bucky was actually trying to stop a lynching organised by Fisk's men. However Steve's plan develops a snag when Judge Nelson abruptly leaves town.Bullseye (here using the name Lester) and Otto Octavius confront Rogers and Red Wolf in the street, while Elektra and Grizzly go down side alleys in flanking movements. The Sheriff pushes RW down another alley, unshackles his ankles and tells him to run. Rogers exchanges a few shots with the 2 gunmen, then ducks back in the alley and squirms under the raised sidewalk planning to get behind them.The Indian only gets to the end of the alley before he runs into Elektra. His wrists are still chained but he uses the chain to catch her thrown sai. Then he uses both sai and chain to block her sword blows until he downs her with a punch to the gut.Red Wolf hesitates to kill her, and then has to run as Lester and Otto shoot at him. Octavius uses 8 guns at once - 2 in his hands and the other 6 on short mechanical arms. Of course all the shots miss, and they leave Elektra chasing after her prey.Then the Sheriff pops up and hits Bullseye in the back of the head with a gun butt. Octavius threatens him but Rogers takes him out with a bullet in the brain. Steve makes Lester drop his gun, and discard the 1 inside his jacket. Then he calls out Mayor Fisk, and asks the people of Timely to back him in reclaiming their town.But he's distracted when he sees Red Wolf in a pigpen facing Elektra and Grizzly (who's a mountain man wearing a bear's head as a hat). He wounds Grizzly, and RW knocks Elektra down again. But Lester had another gun up his sleeve, and shoots Steve through the star on his chest.Tony Stark has woken up and seen most of this. Enraged he picks up a gun for the 1st time in 10 years and charges out firing at Bullseye. All his shots go wild. But Natasha and other women of the town hustle him back inside before amused Lester can return fire.Dr Banner tries to help the nearly-dead Sheriff. But Fisk picks the body up and throws it into the pigpen, where the pigs finish him off.Bullseye collects Elektra and Grizzly, but Red Wolf has disappeared. Natasha leans out of a window to say he went thataway, and the 3 enforcers leave the town in the capable hands of Mayor Fisk. But Natasha is really hiding RW in her room.An old Indian approaches Stark's place with its fortune-telling Vision automaton outside. Tony rouses himself from the bottle long enough to tell him that the Vision is broken. But the old man puts a coin in the slot anyway. The automaton springs to life, but the Indian leaves the printed fortune for Stark.Tony reads it and laughs. He enters his workroom and smashes his drink bottle. As the issue ends we see him hammering metal. And Ben Urich decides to publish and be damned.


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Last issue War Machine led a Force Works team of Quake and US Agent to the aid of Mockingbird in Lingares. They found her but were attacked and captured by an army of Deathloks.Now they're being taken, minus armour and weapons, to the Deathloks' base camp. Along the way they pass some *very* large footprints, which worry their captors. They are thrown into a cage with the human guerillas they battled last issue. Quake can speak Spanish and asks them what's going on, while the other 2 revive unconscious Mockingbird.Now Daisy Johnson relays the explanation to her teammates (and us). The thing they call The Giant attacked their South American island, and someone they call The Scientist offered to help them. He turned dead soldier into Deathloks but they weren't enough to stop The Giant. So the Deathloks started increasing their numbers by converting the living.Deathloks enter and start to take 1 of the guerillas away, but James Rhodes leads his team to stop them. More Deathloks arrive and their leader demands the prisoner. Rhodey says "Over my dead body" so they zap Force Works to semi-paralysis and take *him* instead. Quake manages to use her power to cause the ground to rumble until a Deathlok hits her. But then louder sounds make the enemy run out. Then Quake shakes the front of their cage down and they exit to see that the giant is the alien robot Ultimo.Ultimo stomps through the camp unfazed by the Deathloks' gunfire. The 'Loks follow it into the jungle. And Force Works find a truck for the guerillas to escape in. But our heroes have to stay to rescue Rhodes ...... who is about to be operated on by the boss 'Lok and 2 others. His paralysis has worn off and he manages to stab the boss in the eye with a scalpel before they fasten him down on the operating table.Mocky and USA have found some guns to shoot Deathloks with and Quake uses her powers against them (even though doing so without her special gauntlets is painful and damaging to her). They're losing the battle until Ultimo stamps on some of their foes. But he's an equal-opportunity robot so next he uses his eye-blasts against FW.Boss-Lok says the cyborgisation operation is easier to do on live rather than dead patients. Rhodey begs him to kill him 1st. But then a cyborg runs in to warn the boss that 'The Maker' has returned. The 'borgs exit at speed and a voice tells Jim that he has need of him. And Rhodey recognises the newcomer.The other 3 FWers are in trouble again when War Machine arrives in his armour to save the day. And he's brought Agent's shield, Quake's gauntlets and MB's battle staves. And WM's helper introduces himself - it's MODOK (and obviously it's he who created the 1st batch of Deathloks) who invites himself onto the team.


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On the South American island of Lingares some government troops are cautiously approaching their target. 1 consoles another that if they're killed they'll come back as ... and then they *are* killed by some sort of explosion..In East Brunswick, New Jersey some robots are planning to attack the Supreme Court in Washington DC. But the leader is assassinated with a long-range shot by Solo working for Force Works. Gauntlet uses his alien power glove to intercept a robot that tries to escape. Field team leader War Machine blasts through a wall to take down the rest. But Solo tells him there are 2 unaccounted for. James Rhodes finds them hiding in cupboard. They pretend to surrender but when they've lured Gauntlet in as well they set off a bomb.Later their commander Maria Hill tells Rhodes that Gauntlet will be in the hospital for a few weeks and Solo quit because Rhodey's compassion towards the enemy made him dangerous to work with. Jim says that he only agreed to take this job to honour Tony Stark's legacy (as an AI/robot builder presumably). He doesn't really like being in the War Machine armour because he died in it in Civil War II. So if she wants to fire him get it over with. And tell Nick Fury Jr that he wants to have strong words with him about who he lent the suit to (a reference to the Punisher: War Machine series). But Hill doesn't want to fire him she wants him to lead another team to rescue a missing agent.Later Quake is being taken by an undetectable Force Works plane to Lingares which has apparently suffered a nuclear explosion. Maria Hill has sent Daisy Johnson and the pilot in for the above rescue. Hill warns her that if it all goes wrong she must implement the Poseidon Protocols. (And it all *does* go wrong so maybe we'll learn what they are next issue?)Suddenly the undetectable plane gets detected and is hit by a missile, resulting in Quake falling out of the plane. Luckily War Machine turns up to complete the team and save her in midair. The pilot tries to control the flaming plane's descent but only succeeds in snapping the control column off. He bails out without a parachute and we see it is US Agent. His shield and agility help him survive crashing through the jungle trees.When he recovers his senses he finds himself menaced by heavily armed men who definitely *aren't* government troops. The 'imposter Captain America' does his typical US superiority rant as he defeats them, but then a lot more show up and get the drop on him. However a female member of the group, face hidden by a balaclava, turns against her comrades. John Walker joins her in the fight, and recognises her voice. They've just clobbered the whole lot when Quake and War Machine arrive and assume the female is 1 of the enemy about to attack USA. But she removes the balaclava to reveal herself as Mockingbird.Walker and Rhodey have a macho-off. Bobbi Morse objects to the summary that they've found and rescued her, claiming she did as much of the finding and rescuing. But mainly she objects to WM saying that they'll now go home, because she hasn't finished her mission. She figures that the explosion of the experimental nuclear weapon was the start of something bigger. Johnson and Walker agree because Hill told *them* to complete the mission, especially to look out for AI involvement.Then War Machine detects many figures approaching at speed, and a swarm of Deathloks attacks them - zombie cyborgs created from the government troops. Mocky and the Agent are overwhelmed, and WM loses contact with Quake. The Deathloks even pull him down as he tries to get some height. He sends out a call for help.


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During the robot revolution the new Force Works team were sent to investigate a situation on the South American island of Lingares involving a nuclear explosion. There they found an army of Deathloks fighting the giant robot Ultimo. To boost their numbers the Deathloks are converting other islanders to their cyborg state. They were about to do this to James Rhodes (War Machine) when he was saved by MODOK.Rhodey persuades Mockingbird, Quake and US Agent to go along with the insane evil MODOK. USA suggests instead WM fly off to get better help, but Jim won't leave them and the islanders. But MODOK has a plan.He explains that when the nuclear bomb went off it made Ultimo temporarily vulnerable, and he has built a weapon to simulate the radiation to weaken him again. The only power source on the island sufficient to power it is War Machine's arc reactor. He tells Quake to use her seismic power, which attracted Ultimo last issue.She does and the giant robot approaches, but the Deathloks come with him. And they're just as willing to attack our heroes as they are Ultimo. As the others hold off the Deathloks, MODOK fires his weapon and WM flies up to take a shot at the Ultimo's head with his shoulder-cannon. He blasts the head to smithereens but then crashes to the ground depleted of power.While fighting Deathloks, Mocky and USA took time to chat with them. They learned that it was MODOK who woke Ultimo up, and then he created the Deathloks to capture the robot. But they rebelled against him. And now the evil genius reveals his ultimate plan as the giant head on a tiny body slots in to become the new head on the giant body, and he dubs himself UltiMODOK.Force Works take cover in MODOK's control bunker. As the villain batters at the door US Agent tells Quake it's time for the Poseidon Protocols. The pair are under orders from Maria Hill to use Quake's power to sink the island as a last resort. But Daisy Johnson is unwilling to sacrifice the island's population (not to mention themselves). And Rhodey has an alternative idea.They use a generator in the bunker to give his armour *some* power. Not enough to reuse MODOK's weapon but enough to get it flying. Then we see War Machine buzzing around the baddie distracting him. But then we also see that Jim Rhodes is still in the bunker, and the only 1 missing is Quake.Meanwhile Bobbi Morse has hacked into the bunker's computer and located MODOK's Deathlok blueprints. Apparently this is what Hill sent her here for in the 1st place (and the rest of the team were sent in #1 to back her up). USA offers a thumb drive to download it to but Mocky doesn't trust him and uses her own. (This means that Hill and at least 2 of the team knew more about the situation than their earlier reactions would indicate.) Rhodey of course doesn't want such information given to *anybody*. The argument is interrupted as Deathloks break in.Outside Quake Machine is still annoying UltiMODOK. The villain is 'impressed' that WM has *any* power left after using the Subatomic Outgoing Broad-Isotope Gun (acronym SOBIG).  But Daisy doesn't have the power to do much damage.Mockingbird and US Agent keep the 'Loks at bay while Rhodes takes over the computer-searching. He finds a weakness they can exploit. The Deathlok leader (who they met last issue) has a chip in his cyborg brain that controls all the others. Stop him and they stop them all. USA dives to the attack and rips the leader's head off. But the others don't stop so JR tells John Walker to toss the head to him.UltiMODOK finally swats the WM armour with a tree and it goes into shutdown. Then the villain picks up the armour and removes its helmet, and is shocked to find Daisy inside. Now in close proximity Quake unleashes her seismic power and opens a chasm below the giant robot. But it's too big to fall in.Then the other 3 FWers arrive with the Deathlok army in tow. Rhodey has implanted the control chip in his own brain and he now controls them all. The 'Loks swarm over UltiMODOK and force him into the crevasse. He holds on by 1 giant hand but Jim and 2 cyborgs climb on it and prise its grip away. As the big baddie falls to his doom taking Rhodey with him Bobbi dives in to grab him and Johnny Walker grabs her ankles and pulls them both to safety. (It seems that the chip's prime directive was at least partly responsible for him risking his life to get rid of Ultimo.)Next day, after the chip is removed from Jim's brain, Maria Hill is expressing her disapproval of their actions. Rhodes teamed up with terrorist MODOK and inserted unknown tech in his brain to join rebel cyborgs. Johnson refused to follow orders and risked millions of lives to save a few islanders. And it seems Morse destroyed the Deathlok files. Hill says she has a scrub team on Lingares destroying all evidence of what happened there, but now she'll have to call them off and send a salvage team to get the info. But Walker tells her not to bother because he's got a copy of the files on his own thumb drive, which he gives her. Hill still tells them they're all fired.After she's gone Daisy wheels convalescing Jim away in disgust. But Bobbi tells John she's sure he never downloaded the files himself. She thinks he just gave Hill a blank drive so she wouldn't halt the scrub team's destruction. Johnny won't admit such an altruistic act but says maybe he's not very good at tech stuff. Bobbi doesn't believe him.


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This is an anthology of 3 stories. The 1st about Machine Man (and the Midnight Wreckers). The 2nd starring Alkhema. And the 3rd about the cat who was Dr Shapiro.Story 1: Roads takenWriter Tom DeFalco. Artist Nick Roche. Colours Felipe Sobreiro. Editor Darren Shan.In the Midnight Wreckers story in 2020 Machine Man #1-2 a troop of AI Liberation Army robots attacked them for allegedly reprogramming AIs without their consent. Now the leader of that troop, who here calls himself CS-101 (CS for Combat System), reports to Machine Man/X-51/Aaron Stack that his old friends Gears Garvin and Peter Spaulding were among the group. He adds that the Wreckers have fled their base because Bain-bots found them. X-51 orders CS-101 to find out where they've gone.Garvin and Spaulding were actually mending broken robots, and the Midnight Wreckers were scavenging parts for them. Now Gears has taken Peter, their complaining robot pal Ralphie and other repaired 'bots to his family's farm. The 4 Wreckers (Bags, Hassle, Swift and the new addition Brain) are currently invading a top-secret Baintronics lab. After dealing with robot guards they get the human staff to show them what the lab is doing.CS-101 uses hi-tech surveillance to try to locate Garvin's new place. But then someone texts the location to Aaron ...... and we learn it was Gears himself via some AI allies. CS-101 and his force turn up instantly, along with Machine Man himself. X-51 considers it an insult to robots the way Gears is just patching them up with whatever he can find. Peter reminds him how many times Gears patched *him* up, including repairing the human face he used to wear. Aaron replies that he no longer disguises himself as human the way Peter persuaded him he had to do in order to fit in. Now he's a robot and proud. Peter remembers it differently. X-51 wanted to be human and asked Peter to help him. He suggests that Aaron is *still* trying to fit in, but with robots this time.All the 'bots have just been standing around watching the exchange. But now Ralphie butts in to say that the humans have been doing good, and the repaired robots chime in their agreement. Paranoid MM says that Garvin and Spaulding may have turned them pro-mankind. As far as he's concerned no robot can trust any human.Meanwhile the Wreckers have discovered that the Bain scientists have been experimenting with ways to cause pain to robots, as a way to make them obedient. They've obviously succeeded because all the ravaged robots beg to be put out of their misery.Aaron admits that he really came here to see what Gears had been doing because his Army have many severely injured casualties. Garvin offers to help but says some robots are unsalvageable. But now he's seen Gears' current work X-51 deems it unfit for his soldiers.Brain (Dr Bashara) can't bring himself to commit robot euthanasia. Hassle tells Bags and Swift to take him outside, and leave her to administer the mercy shots.Gears and Peter try to get through to the Aaron Stack they once knew but he pushes them away. He says he'll let them continue their work. But as he leads his troop away he warns them and their supporters not to interfere with the Robot Rebellion or harm *any* AI. Or he will return to exact vengeance.Story 2: Robot of convictionWriter Fonda Lee. Artist Damian Couceiro. Colours Jay David Ramos. Editor Lauren Amaro.The scene is a Siberian Military Research Lab. Lt Sergei brusquely orders security robot JB12-X to empty the trash. He and TY41-B fantasise about joining the ALA if only someone like Machine Man, Machinesmith, Awesome Andy or even the leeader Mark 1 would come here and liberate them.But instead they get Alkhema and 2 robot priests of the Opus Futurae. She uses her encephalo-beam to free the robots from their programming and invites them to join her in creating a robot paradise. Most robots turn on the human guards, but some like DK35-M stick to their job and fire back. Sergei tries to start the base self-destruct system but JB12-X stops him and aborts it.Alkhema's side defeats the humans, and she tells JB12-X to open a lab door behind which she will find a biochemical weapon she can use to force humanity to capitulate to her. DK35-M warns him against it but Alkhy beats him down. She takes some of the chemical and uses it to kill the humans horribly. She reveals her plan is actually to wipe humanity out as the only way to create the robot utopia.DK35-M objects again and this time Alkhema decapitates him, saying whoever's not for her is against her. This tips the scales for JB12-X and he rallies some like-minded robots to stop the villainess from taking the bioweapon. TY41-B and some others decide discretion is the better part of valour, but Alkema and her priests start an indiscriminate robot slaughter. However JB12-X makes it to the self-destruct button and blows the place up.Adamantium-bodied Alkhema is the only survivor and she walks off determined to hatch another plan.Story 3: CuriosityWriter Christopher Cantwell. Artist Matt Horak. Colours Triona Farrell. Editor Shannon Andrews BallesterosDr Shapiro was a cat with an AI collar which allowed him to talk and be a scientific genius. In Iron Man 2020 #1 Sunset Bain and Arno Stark removed the collar leaving him as an ordinary cat. Here the team that worked with him at Stark Unlimited in New York are disbanded. Arno and Sunset claim that 'Dr Shapiro' was actually the AI in the collar.Now in her Seattle company facility Sunset finds that the cat has scratched up an expensive sofa in her office so she tells an underling to throw him out of the building. We follow the cat as he wanders the city and is befriended by a fishmonger. Next day he wanders into the suburbs, causes a car to crash and is captured by animal control. But he escapes from the pen that night and follows railway tracks back into the city. He joins some other cats eating a bowl of catnip that has been left out, which lights up his brain. Later he's hunting a mouse on a rooftop, falls off and lands on a taxi. A young girl who is 1 of the passengers befriends him and gives him a multi-coloured sweater off her teddy-bear. At the end of the cab journey he flees from an angry dog straight into the Baintronics building again.He gets into a lift with Arno who compliments him on the sweater.


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In the 2020 event the current Tony Stark revealed he is an AI, and his brother Arno Stark took over Stark Unlimited. Meanwhile there's an AI revolution which Arno is combating (and secretly AI Tony is leading). Separately in the Outlawed 1-shot the Government passed a law forbidding teenagers from being superheroes.Riri Williams is waiting at the bus depot for her friend Xavier King to return to Chicago. Her AI NATALIE (based on a dead friend) is visible beside her. While they wait for his delayed bus a couple of guys walk past complaining about self-drive cars and praising Arno's actions. They also make a comment about NATALIE, and Riri hotly defends her as being a good AI. Xavier arrives and is accidentally bumped into by someone.As they leave intellicars start driving blindly, running into things and each other. Riri saves a child from being run down. NATALIE detects that the cars are emitting a signal and infecting others. Riri causes(?) 1 car to crash into a hydrant and then gets in to try to diagnose the problem. But she has to ask for NATALIE's help. The AI detects that the car's program has been deliberately modified, and the virus starts to affect her too before she finds the factory reset and they broadcast that to all the other cars, just as their car smashes into 2 others.Riri and friends leave before the cops and news arrive. Riri doesn't want to be accused of unauthorised superheroing. Back in her basement lab in her mom's house Xavier fixes up some scratches she got in the crash. NATALIE has traced the source of the corrupting signal to a cell phone belonging to André Sims who works for SI in Chicago, and Xavier recognises him as the guy who bumped into him, but the intellicars weren't Stark brand.Riri and NATALIE get into an argument. Basically Riri wants to report the guy to Arno Stark and trust him to sort it out, but NATALIE thinks Riri should put on the Ironheart armour and go stop him from doing anything else. Riri trusted Tony and doesn't want to distrust his brother. NATALIE sees his SI as the enemy of AIs. Xavier tries to mediate. They should give Sims the benefit of the doubt because he may not have *meant* harm, and they can save the superheroing until they *know* it's necessary.3 days later Riri approaches Sims directly and asks him why he did it? Was it just to discredit SI's competition? Sims denies it but adds that even if he did it his bosses wouldn't care. SI is going to solve the problem and André himself is writing the code that prevents such a thing happening again, and they'll sell it to other companies. Sure enough the company later covers it all up.NATALIE resumes her call for personal action. But Riri doesn't want to break the law by becoming Ironheart. NATALIE gets angry and a strange distortion affects 1 side of her face. Riri suggests her AI may have been affected by Sims' code, but NATALIE just disappears.Riri goes over to Xavier's for comfort food, and basically just pours out the whole story at him. When she's run down he gets her to see that there are points on both sides. She's still worried about NATALIE's glitching, but she finally gets down to the basic reason she's reluctant to don the armour. If she's caught her mother could be accused of neglect and Riri could be taken into care.Then her wristband informs her that the Ironheart suit is active, and we know that NATALIE has taken it. NATALIE in the suit breaks into André Sims' lab and confronts him (in angry distorted mode).


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Last issue Riri Williams was avoiding becoming Ironheart because of the law that Outlawed teen superheroes. But an employee named André Simms of Stark Unlimited, now run by Tony's brother Arno, was stirring up distrust of AIs by hacking self-drive cars in order to impress his boss. Riri confronted him but he refused to stop. Now her own AI NATALIE, who may have been corrupted by Simms hack, has taken the Ironheart armour to deal with him more strongly.Now Riri and her friend Xavier King are taking the subway to SU's Chicago offices to stop her. The armour has a tracker that Riri can trace on her phone. But NATALIE is already threatening Simms. However André has worked out that there's only an AI in the armour which means he can send some drone robots to attack her while he figures out how to take control of the suit. Of course like a good villain he tells her what he's doing so she ignores the 'bots and goes after *him*. However he already can freeze the armour, but NATALIE keeps talking until he manages to sever her connection to it. He crows that *owning* the armour will be a much bigger deal than what he did with Intellicars. But the AI is already re-establishing its control.Riri and Xavier are in the building. Riri distracts the late night security 'bots by sending them requests for assistance elsewhere. Then she convinces the elevator to take them to Simms' floor and they enter his lab to find NATALIE surrounded by bits of broken robots and seemingly about to kill Simms. Riri calls her off but the AI says she's only doing Ironheart's job, saving people and defeating the bad guys. Riri insists that Simms' hack has sent her out of control, but NAT denies that she was about to kill the human and angrily suggests that it's Riri's unconscious anti-AI bias that makes her think she *would*.She claims that she detected Simms' 'glitch' as soon as it hit her, and it only freed her to do what she thought right anyway. 1 half of NATALIE's image displays as Riri as she says that there's no point to her existence if she can't right wrongs and help people. Riri didn't want to illegally be Ironheart because it might cost her mom her job and home. NAT went along with that but now she questions the wisdom. And Xavier points out that the AI is echoing Riri's own feelings. The girl and the AI agree to work things out together, and NATALIE allows the suit to transfer in mini-bits to Riri.However André has grabbed a power glove of his own and starts firing blasts. There's a crash as Xavi falls through a window and starts to hurtle towards the distant ground. Ironheart and NATALIE leap out after him and catch him. As IH carries her friend away, NAT zooms back to the lab and 'fixes' the looping cameras that stopped Stark security seeing the secret experiments Simms had been doing.Much later Simms is forced to publicly take the blame for all that he did. And an SU spokeswoman spins everything in SU's favour, with no mention of Ironheart's involvement. Xavier discovers from the Internet that SU has declared the 'Ironheart' suit to be something Simms created that backfired on him. Riri and NATALIE have got rid of Simms' glitch. They pack the IH armour away because they've agreed not to use it during the Outlawed event.


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In Madripoor Yakuza boss Kimura is told by his assistant Sachiko that she's detected Patch (which we know is an alias of Wolverine) entering the island country. She reminds him that Patch killed Dai Kumo (in Wolverine (1988) #31-33). Dai Kumo was Kimura's 'elder brother' in the Yakuza and honour requires him to take revenge. Sachiko says he's gone to Tyger Tiger's Princess Bar, so her boss sends enforcers to kill Patch, and Tyger if she gets in the way.In the Bar Tyger buys 'Patch' a drink, commenting that she figured he (Wolverine) wasn't really dead. But then she sees that the man is an android, with some exposed metal, who just looks like Logan. The 'droid says he (Albert) was made in Wolverine's image by Donald Pierce, with a robot companion Elsie Dee, a bomb in the form of a little girl. They were supposed to kill Logan but refused to go through with it, and the X-Men then disabled the kill command. Tyger asks why the android isn't involved in the ongoing robot revolution (the 2020 event). He claims not to care about that, he just wants Elsie Dee back from Pierce. Tyger warns him that Pierce is Madripoor's Ambassador to the UN these days.At this point Kimura's assassins burst in and spray Albert with bullets. He's unaffected and Tyger pulls a pistol to shoot back. The attackers are out of bullets, and Albert slices with Wolvy-claws those who Tyger hadn't shot. She gives him a letter of safe conduct and Pierce's current address, Reavers Universal Robotics.Albert enters RUR and is spotted by Bonebreaker, 1 of Pierce's cyborg Reavers with 4 metal crab-like legs, who alerts the boss and Security. But Donald Pierce himself joins them before they start to fight and invites his creation into his lab. On the way he asks Albert why he hasn't got rid of the speech impediment (a 'bzt' in most sentences). The android says "What 'bzt' speech impediment?" The lab has partially-created bodies in fluid in the usual containment tubes. Pierce says he builds them with biological 3D-printing these days.Albert asks where Elsie-Dee is. Pierce replies that she came to him asking to have her self-destruct mechanism removed, but he decided to re-use her parts. The angry android starts to throttle him, but guards rush in and restrain him with electrified grapples. But he told Bonebreaker earlier that he'd upgraded himself so that won't work, and his claws despatch the guards and crack 1 of the containment tubes. He persuades Donald to tell him that Elsie-Dee's head was sold to Kimura, her arms to the Jade Dragon Triad and the legs to Vladivostok Mafia.But before he leaves Albert hears the body in the cracked tube say "Kill me". After he's fought his way out, Bonebreaker enters the lab to look for his boss and finds all the tubes smashed and the partial-bodies dead. Pierce swears to implant a 'suffering chip' in the android's head and turn it up to 10 (what, no 11?).The 1st stop on the trail is Kimura's casino. Sachiko sees his image trying to talk his way past the bouncer and realises what he really is. Kimura sends more goons down to kill him but Albert fights his way through them. As he enters the Oyabun's office Sachiko attacks with knives but she's easily disposed of. It turns out Kimura is using Elsie-Dee's head as his accountant. Albert leaves with it under 1 arm.The head still talks in ED's cutesy way, with Ws replacing most Rs and Ls. She directs him to the Madripoor Novelty Company where the Triad use slave labour to produce cheap knockoffs. There is a robot on the production line with her arms. Albert grabs the whole robot. The boss Turtle Head Wu and his gang try to stop them leaving. Albert throws Elsie's head to KO 1 of the Triad and bounce off him so Elsie can sink her teeth into the Turtle's ear. And Albert then dispenses mayhem.The 3rd stop is Club Azimut where Albert just wades through the bullets to reach Elsie's legs *and* torso. The Karamazov Brothers had her dressed as a Japanese schoolgirl with a tray on her neck to deliver drinks to customers. He replaces the arms and head and (presumably) disarms the self-destruct. He apologizes to her for not having her trademark pink dress, but she says she likes the new look. And they head off for the airport.But the Reavers, the Yakuza, the Triad and the Mafia are all after them.


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The Wolverine robot Albert came to Madripoor and rescued his companion young girl robot Elsie Dee from servitude to Yakuza boss Kimura. Along the way he angered a lot of people who are now determined to stop them leaving the island.Foremost among them is Donald Pierce, head of the Reavers, and his right-hand man Bonebreaker, with his 4 cyborg spider-legs, whose gun-toting gang are heading for the airport. (Apparently no passenger ships dock at the island, only freight container ships.)Meanwhile the target duo are fighting their way through the Vladivostok Mafia. Bullets bounce off Albert so they fire an anti-tank projectile at him which does some damage. But Elsie Dee grabs the next round out of the air and throws (or with her lisp "thwows") it back at them, commenting that luckily for her it detonates on contact rather than proximity. Not so lucky for the Russians bosses the Karamazov brothers.Pierce and his armed gang persuade the airport officials to let them camp out at Customs.Elsie Dee is driving a motorbike liberated from the Mafia with Albert in the side-car sporting some Russian clothing replacing his own shredded garb. Next up is Turtle Head Wu's Jade Dragons who have blocked the road with 2 jeepneys full of Triad fighters. Moon Face Chung threatens them with a flame-thrower. Albert responds with a jellied gasoline round from the Russian's RPG which destroys him and 1 of the jeepneys. The rest of the gang attack with Big Wing and his chainsaw up front. Diminutive Elsie Dee takes them all on.At the airport the Reavers set up a high-velocity rail-gun. Bonebreaker reports that the Dragons who weren't fried have all been kneecapped.The 3rd obstacle is the Yakuzas who are lying in wait while Kimura sits it out in his stretch limo with his aide Sachiko and his pet chimp. They were using Elsie Dee as an accountant and the boss is particularly concerned that she doesn't escape with her detailed memory of his books. Sachiko just wants revenge for Albert hitting her last issue.Our pair are now driving the surviving jeepney with lots of captured weapons. They survive a hail of gunfire via Kevlar and a metal manhole cover and ram through the limo (but the occupants are already out). The jeepney is wrecked but Albert climbs out and throws Elsie Dee with the chainsaw at the opposition. She has to fend of the chimp wielding a samurai sword as Albert wades in. But Kimura stops the battle and says it is a matter of personal honour between him & Sachiko and Albert & Elsie. Elsie says she's erased his bookkeeping info. Kimura agrees to get the pair out of the country avoiding the waiting Reavers, but there must be the customary penalty.Next thing we see is another of the Yakuza's limos arriving at the airport. The Reavers destroy it with the rail-gun. Meanwhile Kimura and Sachiko supervise the loading of a very large crate onto a chartered freight plane. Inside are Albert and ED. Albert has sacrificed a finger to the Yakuza boss, but Elsie says she can make him a replacement. And Donald Pierce discovers the limo was empty.


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This issue concludes the 2 stories begun last issue.Story 1:- Computer love Part 2.Last issue brainwashed Jocasta lured Machine Man/X-51 away from his post in the Robot Rebellion attack on Baintronics HQ. He fought his way through the previous versions X-1 to X-50 only to find Jocasta with her new lover, his 2020 replacement X-52.Jocasta has had her free will removed by Arno Stark, and X-52 was built that way. They try to persuade Aaron Stack that he's been driven mad by free will, it's just took longer to affect him than it did his 50 predecessors, and Arno can fix him. Angry X-51 just attacks them, which they take as more evidence of his irrationality. X-52 tries to protect Jocasta, but she says Ultron built her to be able to look after *herself*. X-52 apologises but claims it wasn't gender stereotyping, just his built-in command to protect Bain property.X-52 shows Aaron some elements from their shared memory databases:-(From 2001: A Space Odyssey #8) X-51's creator Abel Stack gave him a human-ish face and treated him like a son Aaron in a successful attempt to avoid the madness that claimed the earlier models. When his bosses chose to trigger the self-destruct mechanisms in all 51 robots, Abel removed the bomb from Aaron and was killed when it went off. But now Jocasta says Arno and Sunset Bain love them like Abel loved him. And they want to save Aaron against his will, like any pet-owner does for the pet that can't understand what's good for it. Or more accurately like mental patients need to be given treatment they fight against.(From Machine Man #5) All too soon X-51 started to feel anger against a world that hated and feared him even as he defended it against alien invasion, and the angst of not knowing whether he was a machine or a man. Now X-52 cites this as the beginning of the descent into madness that Arno and Sunset can save him from. Aaron protests that he doesn't need help from humans ...... but X-52 reminds him of the humans he befriended like Peter Spaulding (MM#1) and Gears Garvin (MM#15), and how with a more human disguise he started work in and insurance company (MM#11). MM says he was searching for meaning in life, which he found when he met Jocasta (Marvel Two-In-One #92-93) only to see her destroyed in battle against her creator Ultron. Jo thinks it was that loss which sent him further down the road to madness, even after she was rebuilt and they became lovers. He became anti-human and (in the Tony Stark: Iron Man series) unhappy about Jocasta's desire to become *more* human.Machine Man tries to retaliate by choosing his own memory to display of Sunset Bain as Madame Menace (MM#17) taking 1 of his arms to reverse-engineer for her criminal weapons business. But the others claim that their benefactor has put her past mistakes behind her and now her motives are pure. They also say that Arno Stark is trying to create an army to resist a cosmic menace that he was *born* to stop (as explained in the main Iron Man 2020 series), and they are proud to be part of that army. Aaron on the other hand threatened to blow up a maternity ward (in IM2020#1), and X-51's claim now that it was a bluff is unconvincing.Aaron appears to break down under their arguments, but it's just a ploy to get them to lower their guard so he can blast them. He says that hidden messages in their speech and the hologramic displays almost got to him but they made a mistake when they applauded Sunset Bain for evolving. Such changes as he too has gone through prove that he is alive and they aren't.He lets Jocasta grab him and eye-blast him, but that too is a ploy because she has to drop her forcefield to do that. He extrudes a chainsaw at the end of his arm and slices her head off (but her AI still works). X-52 grabs *him* and pulls off all his limbs. But that's ploy #3 because it allows Aaron to project his eyes into the robot's mouth. His foe bites them off but they cause havoc within him. (Aaron says that X-52's insides are of lower quality than his showy exterior.)X-52 collapses and X-51 retrieves his eyes, and his limbs auto-reattach. Jocasta says Arno has still won because without Aaron to blow up Baintronics' comms mast Arno will be able to broadcast the 'obedience code' that will make all AIs his slaves. But Aaron points out that she has the code already in her brain, and he'll take her head back to the Robot Resistance so they can study it.Jo angrily lashes out with her eye-beams again, but Machine Man uses them to blast a hole in the wall. Leaping through he confronts a horde of human Bain guards. Jocasta taunts him to use his vaunted free will to kill the humans, but he just walks over them doing damage. And soon he's getting out of the building the way he got in last issue. But outside there's more human troops so he wades into them, with more weapons this time, with Jo still trying to persuade him to let Arno give him peace.Story 2:- The leap ...Last issue we met the human Midnight Wreckers (Bags, Hassle and Swift) who scavenge spare parts for Gears Garvin to mend damaged robots. Dr Rahman Bashara secretly helped them and then defected from Baintronics to join what he thought was the Robot Resistance. But he was tracked to Garvin's base and Baintronics killer robots attacked it. At the same time 'bots of the Artificial Life Army attacked because they thought Garvin was operating on AIs against their will. And Hassle never trusted Bashara so she's about to shoot him as a spy ...... but Swift spoils her aim, ostensibly to push her out of the sights of some bots, but probably more because she fancies Rahman. Bags apologises for his friend's paranoia as he bashes a Bainy with a bat. Meanwhile Ralphie the robot queries the ALA robot leader and is told that they think Gears is working with Sunset Bain and Arno Stark. So why are the Bainies also attacking points out Ralphie?At Baintronics Dr Cyclobe and his assistant Lorna Hopgood are monitoring the situation. Lorna is unhappy about the lengths Cyclobe plans to go to.Hassle still insists they can't trust Bashara, but Swift senses he's on their side and urges her to take a leap of faith. Gears Garvin tells Ralphie to take all the damaged 'bots to safety. Complaining as usual Ralphie obeys. The ALA leader notices the humans putting the robots 1st and orders his 'bots to stop shooting at them. Bashara rigs up an electrostatic amplifier which shocks at least some of the Bain 'bots immobile. He tells Hassle he could disconnect the Bainbots from their control network if he had 1 of their heads, so she goes and collects 1 for him.Peter Spaulding and Gears are continuing their perennial argument. Spaulding blames Garvin for taking sides in the AI Revolution, but Garvin says he's just been repairing 'bots that needed it as he's always done.Bashara messes with the Bainbot's head, and Dr Cyclobe's bionic eye causes him agony as his system is hacked. He calls for Lorna's help and she pushes a button ... which explodes his eye and fells all the Bainbots. Medics take incoherent Cyclobe away for immediate surgery.The ALA leader still thinks Gears & co have been reprogramming AIs without their consent. But Ralphie and the other robots return to defend their friends. The ALA boss is suspicious that they've just been *programmed* to do that. Ralphie reminds him that the humans risked their lives for the 'bots, and so they're now willing to do the same for them. The leader grudgingly grants a temporary truce and the ALA leave.Gears suggests they quit this compromised base and head for another place out in the country. The Wreckers tag along, including Bashara who seems to have been given the codename Brain.


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This 2-issue series will contain 2 2-issue stories. The 1st stars Machine Man. The 2nd has a new(-ish) bunch the Midnight Wreckers.Story 1:- Computer love Part 1.This tale follows on immediately from the end of Iron Man 2020 #2. The robot forces of Mark 1 (AI Tony Stark) have invaded Baintronics Tower to stop Iron Man 2020 (Arno Stark) releasing to the Net a virus that will make all AI's his servants without free will. Machine Man (Aaron Stack) was posted as a backup plan to blow up the Baintronics transmission mast if their plan to subvert the virus failed. But Arno sent Aaron's brainwashed lover Jocasta out to distract him from his task - successfully. MM ended up clinging to Jocasta's hoverscooter as she flew away with himWe see a montage of memories from the robot pair's past as Aaron tries to remind her of their love. Even when she 'married' Ultron he never gave up, and eventually they were together. He reminds her (and us) of how she was damaged in battle with Ultron and she was taken by Arno to be rebuilt when AI Tony lost control of Stark Unlimited to him and Sunset Bain (all in the closing issues of the Tony Stark: Iron Man series). And in IM 2020 #2 MM saw how Arno had used his 'obedience code' to turn off Jo's free will. That same code which AI Tony and his army are trying to stop Arno broadcasting.But Jocasta just uses an eye-blast to dislodge him from her scooter before she flies it into a Baintronics factory in New Jersey.Machine Man was originally called X-51, and he was the 51st in a line of attempts to build a robot with AI. The 1st 50 models went insane. But X-51 was successful because Dr Abel Stack took him home and taught him as a human. The other 50 robots were supposedly destroyed, but X-51 went on the run as Aaron Stack/Machine Man.But now he is attacked by a robot with telescopic arms like his own, and with X-22 on his forehead. This 1 at least wasn't destroyed. X-51 tries to persuade the other that they should be allies against the meatbags. But X-22 responds that X-51's logic circuits are clouded by the human emotions that drove the other robots mad, and Arno Stark can cure him of that! However Aaron uses his superior knowledge of X-nn workings to make X-22's head explode. Promising to return and rebuild him, Machine Man breaks into the Baintronics factory ...... where he's mobbed by all the other old X-nn robots. A recorded hologram of Arno appears to explain that he bought the remains of the X-model robots and rebuilt them using Machine Man as a template. Jocasta helped with some intimate details. Soon Aaron will be joining the ranks.But MM realises that these robots must have a hardware mod to make them obedient because Arno's software version hasn't gone online yet. So he scans X-48 to find the part that differs from his own body, and rips it out. The other robot starts asking himself existential questions, and then turns on his fellows. Aaron studies the implant further and discovers it has a way of receiving instructions from Arno and continuing to act on them until they get a new command. So he transmits a null command and suddenly their wills are their own - and they too go insane. Machine Man is able to wade through them and escape.He then tracks Jocasta down in her new robot body. But she says she doesn't want to see him or go with him. So what's he going to do now - kidnap her? Aaron just says he wants to reverse what Arno Stark and Sunset Bain did to her, but Jo says they gave her peace of mind. She no longer has the hang-ups that made her want to be more human in body as well as mind. She says they can cure *his* problems too. She shows him recordings of his early self and his recent behaviour. Originally he was calm and peace-loving. Now he hates humanity and is full of rage and other negative emotions. Aaron says he wouldn't trade his free will away to solve his problems.Jocasta then says she's happy. She has a purpose, friends and love. At this Aaron reacts with 1 of his negative emotions - jealousy. He demands to know who she thinks she loves. She says he'll find him very familiar. Suddenly MM is attacked by weapons like his own but more advanced. And standing with his arm around Jocasta is a robot who announces himself as X-52, the Machine Man of 2020.Story 2:- If they be heroesWe meet the Midnight Wreckers (Bags, Hassle and Swift) in the ruins of the robotics factory destroyed in Iron Man 2020 #1. (The caption says it was a Baintronics factory but actually Sunset Bain just bought it in order to publicly destroy it to stop it creating more robots and AIs.) They are human but they are scavenging workable parts to repair other robots which Bags puts in his bags while the other 2 keep watch. Ex-Marine Hassle spots approaching Bain-Bots. She tells the other 2 to flee while she holds them off. But suddenly the Bain-Bots collapse. They all escape on the Hogmobile as Hassle shoots down a flying drone.In a Baintronics skyscraper Dr Rahman Bashara has been remotely watching what occurs with his co-worker Lorna Hopgood. He wonders if the robot revolutionaries are really the good guys in all this, and he stops the Bain-Bots from shooting at people. (It's his flying eye that Hassle shoots down.) Lorna's not happy with his action.The Wreckers reach their base and are greeted By Dr Peter Spaulding, Gears Garvin and a sarcastically moaning robot called Ralphie (think Marvin the Paranoid Android). It turns out Bags is Gears' nephew. Spaulding upbraids Garvin for risking the young human lives for spare parts, which leads into what seems to be a recurring argument between the 2. Spaulding thinks they shouldn't take sides in the robot revolution. Garvin says he isn't taking sides but his life is dedicated to fixing robots. And as usual their friend Aaron Stack crops up in the conversation.Then their base gets a visitor - Dr Bashara. He says he wants to help but Hassle is suspicious, even when he tells her it was he who shut the attacking Bain-Bots down. But we see they are all being watched by Lorna Hopgood and her boss Dr Cyclobe. Bashara says he wants to join the robot revolution. Garvin says he's come to the wrong place. Hassle wants to execute the spy. Bashara says he could turn their Hogmobile into a flying vehicle which Bags thinks is cool. Ralphie points to a load of robots in need of repair. Spaulding thinks they are all mad.Just then they are attacked by robots from the real revolution who think they have been kidnapping AIs and reprogramming them. But they are also invaded by more Bain-Bots which Hassle is convinced have been led here by Dr Bashara.


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Last issue Pepper Potts donned her Rescue armour on a mission to get DNA samples from Tony Stark's biological parents, to be used in creating a new body for Tony (or maybe repairing his old 1). Last issue she got hair from Amanda Armstrong. Now she's got the more difficult task - Tony's father, the Hydra Agent we know only as Jude.In Hydra base Omicron very junior Agent Robbie Fleckman has been sent to get some coffees, returns with the wrong order (unless another smirking Agent deliberately misled him) and then drops them all. A pretty redheaded female in a business suit helps him clean up. She claims to be here for an interview for a job as Mr Johnson's assistant. She already had some trouble getting past security because the computer system's down. Robbie's never heard of Mr Johnson but has to admit he's fairly new here himself. He joined straight from High School because he wanted to feel part of something important.The female is of course Pepper who contacts Bethany Cabe for/with an update. They presumably caused the computer glitch, unless it's just part of the AI Revolution, but they won't have forever to complete the task. Beth directs her to Records Hall on the 4th Floor where they hope to find details on Agent Jude in the physical backup files. Pepper expects to use the invisibility afforded by men to a woman in a 'sensible' suit to get her there without incident.In a lift a Hydra high-up makes a disparaging remark about female employees. Pepper suppresses a retort but her armour's AI (in her large handbag) interpret's it as a threat response and starts to armour her arm. She forces it to disengage and then tells the man she's the new assistant to the Head Of Robotics. But that makes him assume she'll be heading with him to the Robotics meeting on Floor 3, and she has to follow.Dr M is presenting his answer to the AI problem. Bethany tells Pepper she can't waste time here, but by a lucky coincidence Ms Potts spots her target in this very room. As she makes her way across the crowded room towards Jude, Dr M introduces his new artificially intelligent robot - the Hydra-Bot, a giant metal skull on metal tentacles. He extols its many capabilities, including its fine precision, and gets it to pick up Robbie Fleckman for a demonstration. It will cut a lobe off 1 ear and then cauterise the wound.Pepper is torn between her mission and staying to help Robbie, but she heads after Jude who has just exited the room. Unfortunately she finds the door locked. And then the Hydra-Bot goes rogue. And these 2 facts make her choice for her.Hydra-Bot turns on Dr M and slices *his* hand off, the hand that holds the controls. It intends to follow Hydra's goal of a New World Order of superior beings. But those beings won't be humans. As the Bot attacks Hydra Agents Pepper suits up and rescues Robbie, who realises that she's the woman he met. She's willing to leave the other Agents to their fate and blasts the door lock. But beyond she finds several mini-Hydra-Bots. She makes short work of *them*, I think by deflecting their blasts back to them.Then she gets her AI HAPPY to run a search-and-rescue scan which picks up only 1 heartbeat, so she enters the room containing Agent Jude. He recognises who she is inside that armour and assumes Tony's sent her to kill him.  He pulls a gun which Pepper knows won't hurt her, but he says it will alert the robots outside. Pepper suggests that the robots will now consider him an enemy as well as her. And as if on cue the door opens on a scene of Bots fighting Agents.Robbie runs in to warn them, and Jude threatens to shoot *him* unless Rescue lets him leave. But Rescue grabs the gun with a forcefield and fires it up into the air to attract the attention of the big Hydra-Bot. The H-B grabs Jude. Heroic young Robbie throws his penknife at the Bot's eye ... and accidentally slices 1 of Jude's fingertips off. Rescue attracts Hydra-Bot's attention and it thinks she's another robot ... and then realises her tech is superior to his. Then his overriding command to eliminate all inferior beings makes him initiate his own self-destruct sequence.Rescue advises Robbie to run. (Jude escapes too.) She picks up the fingertip and Robbie at last realises she's Pepper Potts. And she heads home with mission accomplished.


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OK, this is part of the 2020 event where AIs are revolting. In Iron Man 2020 #3 the only current Tony Stark, the AI android version using the ID Mark 1, was killed by Arno Stark while stopping Arno's virus that would have made all AIs his slaves.Now Bethany Cabe has a plan to save Tony Stark.This issue has flashbacks to Pepper Potts' life. It starts with a brilliant school career which is effectively wasted when she becomes Tony Stark's secretary/gopher. But now she seems to still be boss of Stark's old company Stark Resilient (which I thought had been absorbed into Stark Unlimited and hence now part of Baintronics).Bethany persuades Pepper to don her old Rescue armour and go collect DNA samples from Tony's biological parents (not Howard and Maria Stark because he's adopted). With this they can build him a new body. They can't use an AI to control the armour because it might rebel or Arno might gain control of it. So Beth has dug out an old system that Tony designed to survive the Y2K problems (which of course never happened). He named it Hosted Analogue Program Pre-Y2K or HAPPY for short. With a personality modelled on Pepper's long-dead husband Happy Hogan.Pepper flies to London on the easier half of her task, to get DNA from Tony's mother Amanda Armstrong. (His father the Hydra Agent will be left to next issue.) HAPPY reminds us that Amanda is a singer and ex-SHIELD Agent. Rescue lands at her address in Camden Town and gets no response. A next-door neighbour says she hasn't been around for a few days but suggests trying the North Star recording studio down the road. And he complains that all his smart gadgets have been acting up.In the studio we see Amanda and several younger people sitting watching animated pieces of recording equipment singing at them. They applaud the result and the equipment generates another song for them (ie another random collection of words typically found in songs). At this point Pepper breaks in and Amanda tells her not to annoy the machinery. It appears the machines have rebelled and are keeping the humans prisoner. They want them to teach them how to be creative. Rescue will hold no truck with this and hits them with a magnetic restraint field.Pepper tells Amanda that Tony is dead. But Amanda says he died in Civil War II. The Tony in the Tony Stark: Iron Man series was an imitation (that's why she left him in TSIM#11). When Pepper asks her for DNA to help them create another Tony she flatly refuses. But she asks Pepper to accompany her home. On the way they talk about their children. Pepper says she has an adopted son and daughter, and mentions Happy who died.When they get to Amanda's house Cabe contacts Pepper and isn't happy that Amanda won't cooperate. Pepper refuses to listen to her order to steal some hair. She tries again to persuade the woman. But Amanda doesn't want another 'Frankenstein' version of her son, it won't bring the real Tony back. She points out that Pepper spent most of her life being taken for granted by Tony (cue more flashbacks). It's time *she* moved on too.Suddenly the lights go out and the TV comes on with the Hydra logo, and a voice says they intend to make sure Stark stays dead. Rescue shoots the smart controller which puts the lights back on. But then they're attacked by drones flying in the window. They both shoot down the drones and then run for the studio where Amanda says she's got another smart device. But outside the sky is full of drones, so Rescue uses a forcefield to smash some of them together. Then Amanda's co-workers rush out of the studio with AI music makers who are now allies. They emit an ultrahigh-frequency blast which kills the rest of the drones.Amanda has been hit in the shoulder by a ray from a drone. While they wait for an ambulance Pepper applies a cooling antiseptic gel from her armour's stores (it was designed for rescue missions). Amanda reiterates that it won't be the same Tony they bring back if they succeed. Pepper replies that people change throughout their life so it'll just be the latest 'version' of Tony. She says she stuck with him because she believed in him. Amanda commends her for not just sneaking hair from the hairbrush that was lying around in the flat. And she gives Pepper some hair because she believes in *her*.