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War of the Iron Men Part Two
Seeing the news of Iron Man’s invasion of Transia and fight with the Transian air force, Henry Peter Gyrich pushes past Pepper Potts to confront Tony Stark directly. Tony denies having any hand in Iron Man’s actions and mocks Gyrich who gives him one news cycle to bring his employee back under control. Then we learn that this Tony Stark is an LMD (Life Model Decoy) and the real Tony, of course, is inhabiting the armor in Transia. Tony has a mobile lab hidden in a farmwoman’s barn. Nina is Muslim Romani, the group marked for ethnic cleansing by the Slavic majority. She explains how the Slavs and the Romani had lived in harmony until the paramilitary force called the Zmaj came for them, then their longtime friend Darko turned against them and all the Romani men were murdered. She demands that Iron Man slaughter all of the Zmaj but he refuses. She is bitterly disappointed in his style of justice. He uses his new subterranean armor to burrow into the ground….Nearby, the Zmaj Iron Men are using a Stark sonic projector to torture a village of Romani before killing them; one man stands up to them just as Iron Man bursts up through the ground. As the Romani flee to the Latverian border, Shellhead battles the enemy who are using Stark weaponry against him. Tony discovers that they are all drones before he is cut down by microwaves penetrating his armor; he uses his drill to wreck the enemy with the device. He sees a panicking boy fleeing and he follows only to discover the boy is a projected illusion and a bomb goes off, demolishing the armor….Tony awakens in a cave where he is questioned by Darko of the Zmaj; he gives his name as Howard Jarvis. Darko denies having stolen Stark’s inventions, merely his legend. They have a legend of Svarog, the smith of the gods having enslaved his enemies and he shows Tony the graves of Romani scientists who have died creating this tech for them. Then Svarog himself approaches and exposes Tony’s real identity and announces he has come to lead his people to glory….


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Jury-rigged
The nascent Serpent Society have Tony Stark trapped in a shack in a junkyard, or so they think. Sidewinder stops Puff Adder from blowing venom in there because the wind might blow it back on them. He proposes they all go in and kill him in person. But no-one seems to want to accompany him so SW goes it alone. And the shack explodes knocking them all down.Stark emerges sheathed in a forcefield he's knocked together. He tells the just-about-conscious Sidewinder that he's read a SHIELD file on him and his Serpent Society, where he learned that Seth Voelker's teleportation cloak uses an Nth Generator. Tony designed his kinetic field to work on the same principle, and Voelker kindly powered it up for him.Stark believes that the Serpents have been sent after him by Obadiah Stane who stole his company and bankrupted him. he tells Sidewinder to advise the bald man who hired him to leave him alone or he'll destroy his business.Tough Anaconda weathered the blast better than the others, and she attacks Stark with her coiling arms. But a shock from his chestplate blasts her away.The junkyard owner runs up to complain. Tony had given him $100 for anything he could carry away. But that won't cover the damage. Stark questions whether you can 'damage' junk. But the tech from the villains' costumes should see him right.The Pride meet in full session at the Wilder estate. They somehow know all the details of what just occurred. They take Stark's "baldy" remark to mean their leader Geoffrey Wilder, and his threat to be against their criminal empire in Los Angeles. They've obviously heard about Stark's downfall, but now think that it's just a cover for Stark to infiltrate their territory. They think Stane and Stark are in it together.They need to deal with Stark before the Rite of the Gibborim is due. Geoffrey suggests they abandon force and use more subtle methods to stymie their foe.In the Robinson home Tamara comes to see what all the shouts of joy are about. Tony and her brother Tyree have got their prototype working. They're finally willing to show her what it is. It's an automated pillbox that will keep track of when you're supposed to take each type of pill, and tell you what to take when. It was inspired by the myriad of meds Tyree has to take to keep his sanity in check.It's not world-beating, but Tony says it's the kind of cheap and simple device on which fortunes are made.Homeless bum and recovering alcoholic Stark cleans himself up and goes seeking venture capital to back the idea. But all his local connections don't want to talk to him. We see that Dale Yorkes of The Pride is behind this, backed up by the threat of his pet dinosaur.Tony drowns his frustration by having a closer look at the abandoned factory he wants to manufacture the pill dispenser. Tamara finds him there and tells him how the Imperio neighbourhood has been turned into a den of vice. Including a long string of missing girls. This area has run out of hope.Later Geoffrey Wilder complains to wife Catherine about the neighbourhood meeting that Stark has called. (Financed like the prototype by Tamara's dwindling resources.) Tony gets a full turnout (mainly because his flyers promised loadsa money).Stark proposes to set up a company Imperio Techworks owned by them all in the derelict factory which will give them all jobs. He says he's already got a large order from Japan (which is a lie that he expects (hopes) to be able to turn into truth). All he needs is $700,000 dollars to get things going, which is $20 from each of them.Someone asks why they should trust a man who's lost his own company. Tony says that experience is a great teacher. A few people decide it's worth the gamble, and they start to persuade others.That's when The Pride's gunmen try to break up the meeting. And that's when Iron Man shows up to stop them.And says he wants to talk to Stark.


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Legacy of Doom Chapter 4: Knightmare's End
In Scotland, the sky has torn open and a grisly creature composed entirely of eyeballs steps through to face Iron Man and Doctor Doom. Together those two antagonists cannot harm the monster which sucks the souls from the unprotected. The creature heads for the nearest city; by combining their new magic powers, Shellhead and Doom manage to tear a hole in the ground for the monster to fall through. During their respite, Doom reveals that he had borrowed a magic book from this monster and not returned it. When the monster swore vengeance on all his subjects, Doom went through the complicated deal with Mephisto and Morgana Le Fay to obtain Excalibur and its scabbard, together the only way to defeat the monster. The monster returns from the pit, and Doom realizes that from his time as “Emperor Doom” everyone on Earth is technically his subject—and doomed. Merlin then reappears, telling them that Excalibur must be put into its scabbard to become the necessary superweapon—which means Shellhead must be impaled on the sword. They try—and it doesn't work. Turns out it is because Tony doesn't believe in magic; once he can open his mind to the possibility of magic (which he has seen thousands of times) the sword plunging into his chest fires a blast of energy which causes the eye-creature to melt. When all is done, Iron Man and Doctor Doom are back to normal, with Merlin in possession of both sword and scabbard, intending to return it to the Lady of the Lake. The wizard erases the memory of the events from all witnesses, including Shellhead and Doom, and they all part....Now that Tony has recovered these memories from the computer chip, he immediately flies to England, purchases the land surrounding the reputed lake where the Lady has Excalibur, and orders it covered over with a shopping mall...which is where we find it in IRON MAN 249-250.


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Legacy of Doom Chapter 1: A Knight in Hell
While melting down some old armors, Tony Stark looks at the memory chips and gets a surprise: one chip shows an encounter with Doctor Doom he does not remember. Concentrating, Tony now begins the recall this mysterious meeting. He was in space as Iron Man, repairing a Stark satellite when a holographic projection of Doctor Doom appeared before him, with an urgent command to come to Doom's castle in Latveria. Iron Man heads there straightaway and finds himself in the midst of a military assault on Doom's castle by his own people. Entering the castle, he finds Doom preparing to use a neutron pulse engine to wipe out the opposing forces. Iron Man pleads for their lives and Doom grants him the ten minutes it would take to prepare the neutron weapon to try to save them. Shellhead jets out over the battlefield, destroying the planes, missiles, and tanks, scaring the soldiers into full retreat. On his return, Doom explains the nature of the threat: Mephisto has found a way to hasten the end of the world; Doom has modified his Time Cube to traverse other dimensions. He also has remote transmitters to recall the Cube to pick them up; Iron Man satisfies himself that there is no trick to these and they set out....They arrive in a Hell that combines Dante's Inferno with the works of M.C. Esher and are set upon by its gelatinous inhabitants. Holding them off with their weapons, the two travelers dash into an office marked “Manager,” where they find Mephisto. The Evil Lord gives a tiny metal object to Doom, who departs via the Time Cube, as Iron Man finds out he has been tricked, his escape device does not work —and Doom has traded him to Mephisto for that metal sliver....


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Legacy of Doom Chapter 2: Knight of the Living Dad
Doctor Doom meets with Morgana Le Fey, who is imprisoned in Doom's mystic cage; he now has the shard of Excalibur he sought, and needs her help....Meanwhile, trapped in Hell by Doom's deception, Iron Man is fighting off hordes of Mephisto's gelatinous minions and achieving some success so Mephisto makes things a bit more personal. He releases the demonized soul of Howard Stark, Tony's father. They fight, with Stark piling on the verbal abuse, harping on his disappointment with his son over his weakness and cowardice. It is when Stark mentions that Tony was a disappointment to his mother too that Tony can break out of the spell as he knows it is a lie; every good thing in him he got from his mother. This gives him the strength to yank Howard through a narrow passage between stone blocks....Morgana casts the spell which fuses the shard of Excalibur with Doom's armor, rendering it black and magical. And Doom keeps his word by sending her “back” only it's to the tower prison where they first met....Iron Man freezes then shatters Howard Stark. Mephisto call out his imps so Shellhead picks up the arm that was torn from Stark's armor and uses it to create a force shield around him while he tries to rejigger Doom's escape device so that he can get out of there before the imps' acid burns through the shield. And it works—in the nick of time—sending Iron Man to Doom's castle. Doom now has Excalibur and it is powerful enough to cut through Iron Man's armor; he challenges his foe to a final battle....


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Worried by the silence, Rhodey goes down to Tony’s lab to find Steve dead and Tony missing. Pepper receives a call from Jake in Security, telling her that Stark has ordered everything to go through retinal scanners. Then she encounters a huge artificial Tony in a larger Iron Man armor. It tells her it is not Tony but something better. Pepper warns Rhodey; soon Rhodey is trapped in an elevator and the building goes into lockdown. The AI announces to the staff that they will soon be going somewhere else, being liberated from “the meat.” The AI goes looking for Rhodey in the elevator but he has already escaped. Pepper and Dr. Serrano discover all of the staff unresponsive, their minds transferred into a virtual land called StarkWorld. The real Tony is behind the AI, chained to a rock, his virtual liver being eaten by a mechanical vulture….


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As War Machine and the AI Tony Stark 2.0 battle their way through the building, Pepper Potts, now trapped in the virtual realm called StarkWorld, has met Mike, a programmer, who shows her the place, built out of the AI’s hate for the human race. Mike is full of despair because everyone’s dead and who’s to say this isn’t what Tony Stark wanted all along? Pepper insists this isn’t what Tony intended and nothing is yet permanent. So while Rhodey is in the real world fighting the AI, they have to locate Tony while fighting their way past an army of virtual demons. But when they start out they find the “demons” frozen so Pepper realizes Rhodey must be hurting the AI. They find Tony, chained to a rock like Prometheus, his liver being eaten by a vulture. The bad bird kills Mike so Pepper grabs it by the leg and smashes it on the rocks. Tony explains how the monster wants to be free of the meat, killing all organic life. But it is still learning and needs Tony’s body; once it’s done with its rapture, it will leave and no one will be able to stop it. Tony claims Pepper can stop the AI so it sends her back into her body where she dodges the battling Rhodey and the AI; she cuts her hand and places her bloody palm on a screen and the program Tony wrote into her destroys StarkWorld, killing everyone within, including Tony. The AI also dies and Pepper tells Rhodey that it was Tony’s act of love….


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Tony Stark suffers a serious heart attack; Pepper Potts has him rushed to the hospital. His life is saved but the doctor recommends a heart transplant. Tony is impatient and doesn’t trust the doctors so he goes home, assuring his beloved Pepper that he knows what he’s doing….As Pepper, Rhodey, and Dr. Serrano (psychologist) watch, Tony operates on himself, installing an artificial heart he designed. He refuses to do the follow-up with the doctors, refuses the meds prescribed, and won’t do the recommended exercises. Instead, he insists he feels like a new man and doesn’t want to stop. Pepper and Rhodey meet with the doctor but there’s little he can do; Tony grows impatient with his friends asking about his health. Pepper grows increasingly worried about what he’s doing but he tries to assure her that all is good. But he claims to be getting better while increasingly shutting them out as he is building a new mechanized body for himself. Finally, Tony allows a tech named Steve to come down to see what he’s doing. Steve enters the lab and discovers an AI has formed—then he is killed by Tony Stark 2.0, taking over Tony Stark’s cyborg body….


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The Tony Stark AI glories in its genius, capturing everyone’s minds as part of its scheme to eliminate all organic life. The captive Tony Stark taunts the AI until it goes hunting for Rhodey….Pepper Potts and Dr. Serrano, also searching for Rhodey, encounter Mo Haddawi, an engineer who is one of the few people still conscious. They explain the situation and Haddawi deduces that Tony Stark has created a sentient network that can draw human minds into itself. And then the AI walks in….Rhodey reaches a lab where he suits up in the newest War Machine armor but the tech, Jake, refuses to start an untested set of technology. The AI comes in over the PA system and volunteers to initialize Rhodey’s armor, inviting him to “come and get me….”The AI steals Serrano’s and Haddawi’s minds, sending them to StarkWorld; it then takes Pepper on a tour, showing her the lab. When he hears Rhodey coming, he sends Pepper to the virtual realm where she is met by Mike, a shadow of one of the programmers who has an idea for stopping the AI from within. Then War Machine enters and, learning Pepper has been sent away, opens fire on the AI….


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Sometime in the late 90's Tony Stark and his PA Pepper Potts have a brief meeting with Stark Industries staffers Loretta Sims and Neal Van Zandt and SHIELD Director Birch. SHIELD itself is up and running, but SI is building the helicarrier, to be held aloft by Stark repulsor technology. Stark won't admit it but the SHIELD project is the only thing keeping his company in business, now that hard-drinking playboy Tony has taken over from his dead father. The meeting is very short because Stark is boarding his private plane to go sort out SHIELD problems in Chardistan.SHIELD is having problems there with Stark's repulsor-based airborne land mines, which sometimes don't go off at all, and sometimes go off prematurely. (If Tony had read Pepper's notes on the plane instead of drinking he'd have know that the humidity was degrading the firing mechanisms.) During Stark's visit the base is attacked, and he is injured by one of his own land mines.Stark is believed dead. But he wakes in a jungle hideout with a piece of shrapnel threatening his heart. He is a prisoner of Muslim extremists Wong Chu and Maouad Khouri. Maouad was Tony's drinking and girl-chasing buddy at MIT, but now he has renounced his decadent Western ways.His captors want Stark to repair some deflector technology his company sold them back when they were fighting the Soviets. Another captive Prof Hoy Yin Sen will help, and when they're done Yin Sen will be allowed to remove the shrapnel.The scientists start work. But pain is crippling Stark, and even here he manages to find alcohol to drink 'for medicinal purposes'. They jury-rig a breastplate to manage Tony's condition. Stark get the idea of incorporating deflector tech in the breastplate, hoping to escape.Wong Chu and Khouri discover what they're doing. Wong Chu shoots, Stark deflects the bullet, which kills Yin Sen. Tony uses the deflector aggressively and kills Wong Chu, and then escapes.Khouri tells his men that Stark was rescued, and even seems to believe it himself. So when Tony returns completely clad in cobbled together armour, Maouad thinks he's a SHIELD Agent. Stark destroys the base, and seems to be the only one who makes it out.But later allies of Maouad find him alive but horribly burned and mutilated. Even as they stretcher him off, he orders them to search for any traces of what Stark and Hoy were doing.Armoured Stark staggers into a village, and stays there helping Ving brew beer (and drinking some of the stock). Meanwhile Khouri has his own armour built, and both useless legs and 1 arm replaced with extensions of the armour. Meanwhile (again) Pepper is trying to hold Tony's company together and keep up the hope that he'll return. She doesn't realise that Birch, Sims and Van Zandt have been siphoning money from the increasing overrun of the SHIELD project budget.Tony's idyll is interrupted when the tanks of a local warlord invade the village. But his ramshackle armour is enough to stop them. But (again) a UN/charity organisation helicopter turns up, piloted by Jim Rhodes, and Tony can't escape from the 'real' world anymore. But he can prolong his 'holiday' by claiming to be someone called Tom Smith.After a few drinks with Rhodey in the Chardistan capital, Stark flies home in his armour by magnetising it underneath a passenger jet. He disengages over New York, but is mistaken for a terrorist threat and strafed by fighter planes and the coast guard. Pretending to be damaged he falls into the river, and then walks to shore.Meanwhile Birch, Sims and Van Zandt have gotten increasingly greedy, and are worried that Potts will suss them out. So they plan for her to have an 'accident'. But everyone is shocked by Tony Stark's sudden reappearance.Back in Chardistan Maouad Khouri has completed his conversion into an armoured warrior, and run a successful test shooting down helicopters. Now he too is disturbed to hear that Tony Stark is alive. And vows vengeance for what Stark's escape did to him.In the following weeks the conspirators believe that they can continue to steal money from under drunkard Stark's nose. But they still need to get rid of Pepper. Meanwhile Tony works on a proper version of his armour. And Khouri is brought to America.The Stark Industries Board, along with Pepper Potts and Jim Rhodes (whom Pepper tracked down), confront Tony over his alcoholism. But they are interrupted by news that an armoured form calling himself Maouad Khouri is attacking the UN Building and shooting down SHIELD jets. Stark recognises the name and the type of armour.As Director Birch heads into town to take the helm of SHIELD, Stark dons his new improved armour. By now Khouri has worked out that it's Stark in the armour. But Tony's drunken state means that Maouad can still outfight him. Stark winds up in the river again, not by choice this time. But Khouri also exits injured and running out of power.Back at SI, Tony sees news reports of the fight, half of which he can't even remember. And realises what a weapon of mass destruction he was drunk in charge of. Then he also sees Khouri has appeared again. But this time he's heading for SI. Slowly shaking off his doubts, Stark suits up again.In the chaos of the attack, Sims and Van Zandt choose the moment to get rid of Potts by 'accidentally' running her over with a car. But armoured Stark saves her, before jetting off to face his foe.Stark leads Khouri to the hanger housing the SHIELD helicarrier, nearly completed. He remotely triggers its repulsor lifters, raises it up and lets it fall on top of Maouad, crushing him and his armour.We learn afterwards that Sims and Van Zandt were killed in the attack. And that the news is calling the red and gold saviour Iron Man. Stark uncovers the embezzlement, and has Birch under official investigation. Birch is removed as Director of SHIELD, and Stark recommends Nick Fury as his replacement. He puts Potts and Rhodes in charge of completing the helicarrier. And he goes to an AA meeting.


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The Coming of the Melter
Tony Stark, in full Iron Man armor, holds a press conference on the roof of Stark Industries, to unveil a new product. Suddenly, he is attacked by the Melter, who causes the company sign to collapse on the hero, promises another demonstration, and offers his gear for sale to the highest bidder before jetting off….Two days later, War Machine is helping test a new military drone when the Melter arrives and attacks him. The villain crashes Rhodey’s systems and punches him out before flying away….Tony and Rhodey meet to compare notes. A computer search reveals the Melter to be Bruno Horgan., a weapons designer whose demonstration of a new armor to the military failed and he was blackballed, later creating the Melter tech. Tony and Rhodey make a friendly bet on who finds Horgan first that the loser has to polish the winner’s armor. Rhodey goes through all the resources of Military Intelligence while Tony’s approach is a bit more haphazard. It’s not until they compare notes that they identify Horgan’s base in an automobile scrapyard. Iron Man and War Machine take on the Melter on his home ground where everything can become a weapon but the two, working together, defeat him. They shake hands.Also included:-“Convention of Fear!”Reprinted from IRON MAN Vol. 1 #73.


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The End
After fifty years of building Stark Universal into a technological powerhouse, Tony Stark is slowing down, relying on medication to stop his hands from shaking. He dons the latest Iron Man armor which can be reconfigured into several specialized versions. He visits a South Pacific island, site of the upcoming Big Jump: the world’s first space elevator. He reconfigures from supersonic to underwater and goes beneath the waves to do his part in the construction when an earth tremor shakes the area. Some divers and a ship are in danger and Tony makes an error of judgment but still manages to save both at the last minute….Back at the office, he meets with his wife, Senator Bethany Cabe, who tries to talk him into slowing down with his degenerative nerve damage. He refuses, claiming the world still needs Iron Man. A few days later he comes to a decision and names Nick Travis, his most promising staff member, the company’s Head Technologist, Tony’s official title. Nick is surprised and humbled but Tony wants to focus all of his time on the Big Jump. Then Tony learns from his investigators that the earth tremor that damaged the Big Jump was artificially induced as an act of sabotage and the culprit is Krycek Power Resources, a subsidiary of Roxxon, Tony’s longtime enemy….Iron Man goes to Krycek’s lab in Siberia where he encounters the massive Ultra-Dynamo, an advance over the Crimson Dynamo. Shellhead is beaten up by his foe bearing advanced Russian weaponry and, while his armor can repair itself, he is afraid to die and runs from the battlefield. Later, Tony’s doctor tells him that his condition is getting worse. Tony ponders a bottle of liquor but puts it back without opening it….Tony tells Bethany that she was right: the world needs an Iron Man but not him. He spends days pondering various candidates but in the end, he selects Nick Travis…who refuses, claiming he is a scientist not a superhero. Tony persuades him to give it a try. Tony then turns into a harsh taskmaster, forcing Nick through grueling training. Tony is disappointed and decides that Nick isn’t his Iron Man; Nick replies that it is because Tony won’t let go and admit someone else can wear the armor and walks out. And then the Ultra-Dynamo arrives with orders to kill Tony. Tony manages to dodge his foe—and then Iron Man Nick Travis arrives to challenge the villain. There is a battle in which Nick outthinks Ultra-Dynamo, using a nanite weapon he had added to the armor without Tony’s knowledge, and the villains’ armor is destroyed and the operator arrested….At the dedication of the space elevator, named in memory of James Rhodes, Tony announces that he and Beth are retiring and will spend their remaining days living on the space station and looking to the future….


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Book One: This Old Truth
A new Spymaster contemplates destroying Tony Stark's fiction that the current Iron Man isn't him.On the way to a charity gala Stark stops off to buy an advanced laser-guided weapon on the black market.His secretary Mrs Rennie accompanies him to the gala. They meet Sinclair and Greta Abbott who founded the charity.Tony is called away. The black marketeers have been traced to their base via a chemical he transferred to them with a handshake during the deal. Iron Man invades their base and trashes a tank equipped with large pincers. Then he calls in SHIELD to take them away.It turns out Stark made a deal with SHIELD to keep the laser system. (And a SHIELD agent's whispered comment indicates that Iron Man's identity isn't as secret as he thinks).Later Tony meets with Dr Maggie Dillon, psychiatrist to supervillains. He believes that the consciousness of the Living Laser is trapped inside the laser system, and he wants her to communicate with him. (Dr Dillon also doesn't seem to believe Stark really isn't Iron Man.)Back at the Abbott mansion it turns out Sinclair Abbott is Spymaster, and he and his wife have larcenous plans. An invader into the mansion reveals himself as IM's old foe the Ghost, come at Spymaster's request.


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Book Four: Ordinary People
Psychiatrist Maggie Dillon makes contact with the personality trapped within the experimental laser weapon. But he doesn't remember that he is is Arthur Parks, the Living Laser. Maggie makes Arthur confront his past. She wants to free him from his laser weapon prison, but also from the personality problems that made him a supervillain.Meanwhile Iron Man battles Ghost, who has returned to steal the weapon and Parks. IM has Ghost trapped in a room which neutralises his intangibility tech. IM continues to insist he isn't Tony Stark, while Ghost is correctly convinced he is and taunts him with his intent to destroy him and Stark International.Ghost manages to get out of the room trap, but with his intangibility still compromised. He calls Spymaster to guide him through an escape route. But Spymaster is fed up with Ghost's failures and washes his hands of him.Iron Man catches up with Ghost and beats him up. But their battle has damaged the plant's generator, and it's going into overload. Ghost runs away as IM applies a temporary fix.But the interruption in power has drastic effects for Maggie Dillon.Her personality dissolves inside the laser. Her body is caught in an explosion. And Living Laser escapes.


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Book Three: Those Who Can't, Teach
Ghost reports back to Spymaster about his mission. He claims to have killed Tony Stark/Iron Man but failed to steal the laser weapon he was sent for. Spymaster correctly guesses that this Iron Man was a remotely-operated decoy. And now Stark is forewarned.Ghost intends to quit. The anti-corporate terrorist is only concerned with destroying Stark International, and killing Stark will do that. But Spymaster coerces Ghost into going back for the laser weapon, by revealing that he has created a device that can switch Ghost's intangibility tech off.Besides, he knows Stark isn't dead because Tony has been on a TV interview confirming that he will attend the opening of the new non-profit Benedict Research Institute.Sinclair Abbott, Spymaster's alter ego, also attends. He verbally spars with Tony. His wife Greta makes sexual advances towards Tony, but he turns her down.In response to Ghost's attack Stark has moved the laser weapon to the SI Long Island site, along with Maggie Dillon's attempts to contact the Living Laser trapped within it. He installs disruptor fields around the site, but ignores comments from his staff that the system has some weak points.Stark has also seriously upgraded the tech Dillon is using. He also makes Dillon wear a crude Iron Man-like suit that will monitor her to avoid the earlier physical problems. This time she makes clearer contact with the intelligence in the weapon, confirming that it is Arthur Parks.Later Tony and Maggie have dinner. Tony is still keeping up the fiction that he is no longer the man in the Iron Man armour. But he breaks of the meal when Maggie exhibits signs of mental stress. He tells his chauffeur to take her back to her hotel. But Dillon makes the chauffeur take her back to work instead.Ghost invades the Long Island factory. But Stark had left the security holes deliberately to lure him in to a special room. When activated the room neutralises Ghost's intangibility. Now Iron Man has a chance to catch him.


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Book Five: The Anti-Mask
After the explosions last issue iron Man goes to the lab where psychiatrist Maggie Dillon was trying to bring Living Laser out of his state trapped in an advanced laser weapon. She succeeded. Laser has escaped. But Maggie is broken and dying.IM cradles her as she slips away. He accedes to her last wish and unmasks. She laughs as it is confirmed that it's still Tony Stark in the armour. And then she dies.Tony attends the funeral. And then a reception for Governor Pataki. Sinclair and Greta Abbott are there too, and use another opportunity to needle him.Tony is distracted, at work, in Avengers Tower (with Luke Cage and Spider-Man), and on a date. He nips into space and fails to find any trace of Living Laser. Doc Samson, Maggie Dillon's tutor, comes to see him to tell him to stop blaming himself for Maggie's death. And to stop pretending not to be Iron Man. Tony claims to be fed up fighting the same old villains. And shows Leonard that under the armour is the Extremis covering that is part of his body.Stark searches through signals that were picked up on the night of Maggie's death, when Ghost invaded the factory. He finds the last message exchange between Ghost and Spymaster, and tracks Spymaster's signal to it's source. Iron Man goes there. But Spymaster/Sinclair Abbott is waiting for him. His electronic defences bring the Armoured Avenger to his knees.


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Book Six: Best Of The Rest
Iron Man's damaged armour starts to self-repair as he fights back against Spymaster. Spymaster's wife Greta watches by video from a bunker. Spymaster throws laser beams and rockets at him, but IM defeats them all and destroys the villain's control console.Throughout the fight Spymaster continues to claim that Iron Man is Tony Stark. And that they are arch-foes destined to battle. (Even though he's only just taken over the role of Spymaster.) IM denies that he's Stark, and also denies that Spymaster (any of the holders of the name) was ever a major opponent.As IM smashes Spymaster's helmet open, Living Laser makes his appearance. His arrival kills Greta Abbott. But his presence allows Spymaster to slip away.IM doesn't want to fight Laser. (He has spent much of this series freeing Arthur Parks from being trapped inside a laser weapon.) He leads Laser deep into the by-now-burning building, where he appears to try to trap him somewhere. But it fails.Realising that he can't fight all this living energy, Iron Man does the opposite. He uses his chest beam to absorb Laser into his armour.Later at the Stark International Coney Island HQ Iron Man transfers Laser's energy into a specially-designed prison cell.Later still at Avengers Tower Tony is greeted by Jarvis. And he has accepted that his life as Iron Man will continue.


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Book two: Blind dates
The new Spymaster and the Ghost discuss what happened to previous Spymasters. Ghost killed the 1st one by materialising him in a wall. Iron Man got the 2nd Spymaster put in jail, where the new one arranged for him to be killed.Ghost is willing to work for Spymaster for the money, but doesn't share his goals. Spymaster thinks that, now that he's taken on the role he's also taken on the status of 1 of IM's major foes. And as such it's he and Ghost's duty to oppose him.Spymaster is particularly offended by the fact that Tony Stark is now denying being Iron Man. (Ghost wasn't even aware that Stark was ever outed as IM - he's not interested in celebrity gossip.) And he doesn't like that Stark was made Secretary of Defense.Spymaster tells how Living Laser was transformed into intelligent laser energy, and how part of the energy has been incorporated in an intelligent laser weapon. Stark got hold of that weapon last issue, and Spymaster wants Ghost to help him steal it.Spymaster now drops a bombshell. He's not going to pay Ghost for his services. He knows that Ghost only charges a fee as a front. Really Ghost is an anti-corporate terrorist. And Spymaster is offering him a chance to bring down Stark International. Ghost agrees.Tony Stark has hired Dr Maggie Dillon to communicate with Living Laser inside the laser weapon. She uses advanced Stark tech to do so, and senses a screaming consciousness within. Meanwhile her body undergoes a shock reaction.Stark is too busy being a business man and Iron Man to attend Dillon's experiments. But he sends her some notes on Arthur Parks, the Living Laser. He was a brilliant and mild laser scientist, who seems to have been tipped over the edge by rejection from his girlfriend Lucy and turned into the bombastic supervillain.Dillon's 2nd attempt gets her closer to the laser consciousness, but leaves her in a 2 day coma. Tony thinks she should stop, but Maggie insists on continuing.Stark is considering how to monitor Dillon in the next session, when Ghost invades Stark International. The villain blasts at Tony's briefcase (presumably assuming the Iron Man armour is in there), and wounds Stark. He leaves to find the laser weapon he was sent for.But Tony activates a remote armour, which arrives and battles Ghost. Ghost defeats the armour. He is now convinced that TS is IM, and thinks he's killed him.But the armour has delayed him long enough for the site's emergency lockdown procedure to kick in. So Ghost flees. (I would have thought such situations are exactly what Ghost was designed for.)


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Challenges
This 2-issue series weaves a new story around Tales of Suspense #39-48, a tale of the 1st attempted takeover of Stark Industries. This issue is narrated by Pepper Potts as she remembers her early days with Tony Stark.The bulk of this issue occurs around ToS#39-44 (which are the issues before we actually met Miss Potts), including Avengers #1.In fact it begins with his father Howard still running Stark Industries when Pepper joins from secretarial school. Howard was past his prime as inventor and boss, but Tony didn't want to take over. He was more interested in being a playboy. However his genius was such that he could keep the firm supplied with innovative tech in his few spare minutes.But then Howard and his wife Maria were killed in a car crash, and Tony had to step up to the plate. The company continued to benefit from Tony's design flair. But he also continued his playboy lifestyle, and even a lowly secretary like Pepper could see the business side of the firm was dragging everything down.Pepper improved herself with business courses at night school. One day she made some improvements to a business plan she was typing up, and sent it to the big boss. And Tony made her his Personal Executive Assistant.Unfortunately what she found was that this meant he would leave all the business side of the company to her, while he swanned around with his cousin Morgan, or did the only work he liked doing:- inventing stuff. And Pepper's business course hadn't prepared her for effectively running a multi-million dollar company.Tony did try to sometimes handle some of the business, but it wasn't his forte and he was easily discouraged. So he ran away, with the excuse that he was going to solve some technical problems in their Southeast Asian plant. This was where he was injured and captured, and built the 1st Iron Man suit to save his life and escape in his origin in ToS#39. And where he met James Rhodes (as seen in Iron Man #144).When Tony came back he was a changed man. He broke off his engagement to heiress Joanna Nivena. But he no longer found partying with other women so much fun, and took to drinking alone, much to the dismay of his butler Jarvis.And soon after that the bulky golden Iron Man started showing up, and it became known he was a friend of Stark.But Stark had enemies as well as friends. Republic Oil and Natural Gas intended to take over his ailing company. To hurry the process along the executives John T Gamelin, Jonas Hale, Hugh Jones and Krieger had caused Howard Stark's car crash. And now they hired the female Saboteur to cripple Stark Industries.Saboteur infiltrated SI and sabotaged an anti-missile missile gun. Iron Man saved the day, but Tony angered his workers by demanding to know who had messed up the implementation of his perfectly-designed equipment. As confidence in the company waned, suppliers stopped supplying, and new contracts dried up, especially from the government.Tony continued to jet-set around the world (in Egypt for a time-travel adventure in ToS#44). And Iron Man continued to fight villains like (not the) Dr Strange in ToS#41. Then IM helped form the Avengers.Tony got an offer from RONG to buy his company, and Morgan encouraged him to take it. But Pepper tried to persuade him otherwise. She took Tony to meet a pair of employees married to each other, with a family. Then she told her boss that RONG only wanted his patented inventions. They'd probably close most of the actual company down and put a lot of the employees out of work.She didn't really think it would do any good, and arrived at work next day ready to prepare her CV. But to her surprise Stark was in before her and ready to work. They started the long road of rebuilding confidence in the company. Tony got supplies flowing again, partly by guaranteeing payments with his personal fortune. They persuaded Senator Byrd to bring his weapons-buying committee to see Stark's new stealth aircraft.RONG's plan was falling apart. On the day of the aircraft demonstration they sent Saboteur in again. This time she opted for the direct approach, in super-villain costume with lots of hi-tech gadgets, eventually hijacking another of his inventions, a sea tank. But Iron Man defeated her, the demo went ahead without a hitch, and the government committee was impressed.


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Bodyguards
Harold 'Happy' Hogan takes over the narration from Pepper Potts last issue, again remembering the early times. This issue covers the time around Tales of Suspense #45-48. The new corporate takeover plot continues.#45 included Happy's 'origin'. (It was also the 1st issue with Pepper in, but as explained last time she was behind the scenes in the earlier issues.) We see him rescue Tony Stark from the crash of his racing car. He refused a cash reward, and just asked for a job. Tony made him his chauffeur, but kept him around at other times as well. Ex-boxer Hogan figured he was Stark's bodyguard as well, which was true because Tony couldn't always safely change to Iron Man.Iron Man at this time was billed as Tony's friend, not his bodyguard, who just 'happened' to turn up at useful times.This issue also started Happy's attempts to woo Pepper, which she initially rejected with a string of insults.We also see the start of the plot from ToS#45, as Stark fires Prof Shapanka for trying to sell his tech secrets.We also see a press conference announcing the founding of the Avengers after Avengers #1. Stark has lent them the use of his Manhattan mansion for free. (It doesn't say he's also financing the group.)Then we pick up the new plotline from last issue, where the management of Republic Oil and Natural Gas (John T Gamelin, Jonas Hale, Hugh Jones and Krieger) tried to cripple Stark Industries so they could take it over. Last time Krieger's agent Saboteur failed. Now he sends in a mercenary group called the Dogs of War.Iron Man defeats them easily, but they were expecting that. They relay an offer from their employer to betray Stark for money. Iron Man pretends to consider it and lets them go. Happy sees what happens but doesn't hear anything. But he's still suspicious.Next we get quick flashes of Iron Man vs Jack Frost (more Shapanka in ToS#45), Crimson Dynamo (#46) and Melter (#47).Meanwhile Tony Stark has a meeting with a Col Harrison from a secret government dept about supplying them with tech. At the same time he gets grief from Sen Byrd's committee who suspect that Stark's excuses about weapons development messed up by Dynamo and Melter is a cover for incompetence or possibly deliberate self-sabotage because Stark is a Communist!In ToS#48 Tony designs a new closer-fitting lightweight red and gold armour.RONG are getting impatient and uneasy about Krieger's plans to bring down Stark Industries. Hugh Jones has a meeting with a half-seen figure.Iron Man comes to see Krieger, and agrees to keep Stark out of the way at the time of a crucial meeting. Happy spies on this exchange too, but again can't tell what is discussed. However he confronts Iron Man back at SI. Iron Man tries to reassure him, but Hogan doesn't buy it. But then Tony and Pepper don't believe his story.Just before the time for the crucial meeting, Tony seems to disappear from his office. But then he reappears as if from elsewhere. Even though he doesn't know where this secret meeting is to be held, Happy insists on driving (to protect him from Iron Man's treachery). Strangely Stark seems to expect Happy to know where to go. But Happy notices that Tony has installed an advanced auto-navigation system he'd told him about. So he just pushes a button and the car starts off.Imagine his surprise when the car starts to fly! But Tony seems equally shocked. Then they rendezvous with the SHIELD helicarrier, which Stark does know about. Happy realises this must be the secret stuff he's been working on with Col Harrison.Happy tries again to warn Stark about Iron Man. But gets KO'd with a cosh for his pains!When Happy awakes we see Tony Stark and the Dogs of War holding the heads of states and corporations that rule SHIELD hostage. Stark goes on air to the nation threatening to crash the helicarrier unless he gets paid an enormous ransom.The RONG bosses realise what's happening. This is Krieger's plan to discredit Stark.But Iron Man has only been waiting to see what the plan would be. And now he heads for the helicarrier, where Happy is starting his own 1-man war against the Dogs. Iron Man arrives and attacks the Dogs. However they are prepared with special weapons since last time.Iron Man is disabled and captured. But 1 of the masked Dogs reveals himself to be Happy Hogan, who then pulls a facemask off 'Tony Stark' uncovering Krieger live on air. Krieger shoots the helicarrier's control console, sending it falling out of the sky, and then tries to escape using a hidden jetpack.However Happy lassos him on the way out. Shellhead breaks free, and uses his knowledge as the designer of the helicarrier to stabilise it. Krieger and the Dogs are taken into custody.This raises questions later about how IM knew something that should have been top secret. Stark neutralises this by saying that Iron Man has always been a Stark employee, his personal bodyguard, and privy to his secrets. He uses a prototype SHIELD Life Model Decoy to impersonate Iron Man during the press conference.Pepper starts to thaw towards Happy.The 3 RONG bosses give up on trying to destabilise SI. Hugh Jones has sent the mystery figure to assassinate Krieger in his jail cell. And the company changes its name to Roxxon.


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Railguns, Power Ties and Titanium Men
Tony Stark and Pepper Potts are joined by representatives of other tech firms for a meeting at the corporate HQ of Designed Intelligence, who are unveiling a new invention. Their Chief Technological Officer Huang Qiaolian greets the assembled businesspeople and we learn that Tony has slept with the girl genius so he could swap her glasses for a pair that would allow him to spy on her work; it turns out she only wears them for show so nothing results. Huang then says the magic words, “Activate Titanium Man!” and a bootlegged version of the Russian armor appears; further, it has a Matryoshka mode, revealing successively smaller versions within. Huang then reveals that she is part of A.I.M. and they are all to be held for ransom. Tony reveals that his accompanying lawyers are actually robot shells containing the armor. Tony suits up and Iron Man battles the large Titanium-Man drones while the smaller one herd the hostages into elevators which are fired into the sky by railgun tech and sent to splash down in the Pacific Ocean near an A.I.M. ship. Iron Man follows and Huang activates the pulse mite she hid in Tony’s hair during their affair. It shuts down the armor and the Titanium-Man drones try to cut it open. But Tony has two surprises: a) Huang’s substituted glasses can emit an EMP which shuts down Huang, revealed to be an LMD and b) Tony’s tie contains the software to reboot the armor. Pepper, in one of the elevators, uses Huang’s phone to shut down the evil drones while Iron Man steers the elevator with Pepper to wreck the A.I.M. ship. Back home, the real Huang is frustrated that Stark has foiled her plan to be a billionaire by age 22. Story 2:- “Killer Commute” 4/5Writer: Mark Haven Britt. Art: Nuno Plati. Colors: Nuno Plati. Letters: Jeff Eckleberry.Pepper Potts must deliver an important prototype to Tony Stark’s big meeting with a foreign team. Her chauffeur has a breakdown and the Brooklyn Bridge is gridlocked so she decides to take the subway. She does not know that a disgruntled former Stark engineer has recreated the Mauler armor and needs the prototype Pepper is carrying to complete it and use it to pay off a gambling debt to a gangster; to that end, he and his two brothers have arranged Pepper’s delays and set a trap on the subway. The baddie in the Mauler armor attacks her on the train and she escapes to a platform; cornered, she takes out the prototype, which is a weaponized gauntlet and clobbers the guy in the armor and his two brothers surrender….Pepper, disheveled, arrives at the office a bit late but with the prototype.Story 3:- “Heavy Rain” 4/5Writer: Mateo Casali. Pencils: Steve Kurth. Inks: Allen Martinez. Colors: Sunny Gho. Letters: Dave Sharpe.A giant robot is terrorizing Nevada and Iron Man is fighting it while communicating with Maria Hill as SHIELD evacuates the area. Shellhead identifies the creature as related to Ultimo; this one seems to have been discovered and accidentally activated by an A.I.M. splinter group. Iron Man’s armor is losing power while he fights a losing battle. He has a risky protocol he can use but he is reluctant. Soon it’s all he has and he rains down plasma energy on the robot, destroying it. Tony reveals he had reverse engineered an alien weapon and Hill calls him irresponsible for using it. Tony defends his use of the alien WMD and fears what would happen if it fell into the wrong hands. He invites Hill to dinner but she refuses.Story 4:- “Hack” 4/5Writer: Tim Fish. Pencils: Filipe Andrede. Inks: Rick Ketcham. Colors: Andres Mossa. Letters: Jeff Eckleberry.Tony Stark attends a reunion at his alma mater MIT where he encounters an old female pal Jules. He also runs into Miles, the guy who always came in second to Tony, and the embittered Miles reluctantly shakes his hand. Miles then hurries home, having planted a microchip in Tony’s ring which will hack the armor and give him control of Iron Man. Tony dons the armor in Jules’ lab and so Miles takes control, having Iron Man thrash around, wrecking her lab, then seize Jules and fly high into the sky and drop her. As Tony tries to reroute power in the armor he swoops down to catch her then drops her again, this time saving her and depositing her on the ground. Miles makes the armor thrash around some more in the sky and finally Tony is able to contain the virus in a gauntlet then removing the gauntlet and blowing it up. Iron Man bursts into Miles’ lab but the bad guy can’t stop laughing at how he bested his great rival, even as the police are taking him away. Tony vows to wear only a tuxedo to the next reunion.


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Viva Las Vegas [Part Two]
In Las Vegas, Tony Stark praises Pepper Potts for her hard work in ridding the city of the lizard infestation. Pepper introduces him to Elsa Bloodstone, noting that their fathers had worked together. Tony is smitten with her and invites her to lunch. She explains that she believes she caused the lizard invasion when the dragon statue was brought to Vegas; she wants Tony’s help in identifying the mystery individual who hired her. The only clue is the inscription on the statue’s base. Tony invites her to the grand opening as his guest so she can get closer to the statue….That evening, they arrive at the ceremony, Elsa dressed in a flashy gown and jewelry which Tony paid for. The giant statue is unveiled and Tony hands Elsa a new Stark camera which can zoom to the base. As she reads the inscription, the statue—Fin Fang Foom—roars to life and goes on a rampage. Tony has Happy Hogan drive Elsa to safety while he grabs his briefcase and hurries to the nearest hotel where he checks into the Bridal Suite, the only rooms available, and dons his armor. Iron Man zooms out and rescues people from a roller coaster damaged by the monster. Iron Man then confronts Fin Fang Foom and challenges it to battle….


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Viva Las Vegas [Part One]
Elsa Bloodstone is guided to a temple in China; inside she sees a massive bronze dragon and immediately buys it for her mysterious client….Tony Stark is in a plane over the Mediterranean and chatting up an attractive woman next to him when a man with a bomb seizes control of the plane. Tony takes his briefcase into the restroom and emerges as Iron Man. Seizing the bad guy, he crashes through the plane roof out into the sky where he detonates the villain’s bomb, killing him but leaving the armored hero intact. He returns to the plane to find the largely European passengers condemning him for killing the guy who seemed willing to negotiate. Fed up, Iron Man flies off to his destination independently….Some time later, Tony Stark is in Las Vegas for the dedication of the Golden Dragon casino, the symbol of which is the dragon statue purchased by Elsa Bloodstone in the prologue; he picks up a pair of tattooed cuties by the pool and takes them to his room for hanky-panky. Then he is interrupted by Pepper Potts, alerting him to a disaster: the city has been overrun by swarms of lizards, shutting down all transportation. Meanwhile, the golden dragon statue’s eyes begin to glow….


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A detailed look at the Iron Man armor and weapons with diagrams and extensive commentary by “Tony Stark.” Also shows us the layout of Tony’s home in the Pacific Pallisades and his office set-up. Includes pages on the deep sea and stealth armors and a diagram of his space station. There’s a gallery of the main armors through history.


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Unbreakable part 3
Last issue James Rhodes lost the Iron Patriot suit in the ocean and is now dying of a decompression-induced heart attack on a devastated street in New Orleans. (This is 1 of several US cities to experience a terrorist attack.) The armoured villain who found him doesn't want him to die - yet. So he gives him an electric shock to restart his heart.Also last issue 2 fake cops working for the villain kidnapped James' grandfather Terrence and his niece Lila. 1 of the 'cops' is taking the opportunity to beat Terrence up. It turns out he used to be a real but corrupt cop, until Terrence helped expose him.When Rhodey recovers the villain tells him he wants him to kill someone. Jim tries to fight him, but the baddie threatens his kidnapped family.Terrence is handcuffed to a chair. Young Lila also has her wrists cuffed together, but is otherwise free. Now 1 of the abductors goes to get ropes to tie them up, and her grandfather tells her to run away while he attacks the other 1.JR and the armoured guy are on a private plane. The villain explains that he used to be a SHIELD soldier but he was sickened by the things he had to do. (And he was heavily burned/scarred at some point.) He intends to make everything public, and expects it to start a civil war. But the opening move will be for Rhodes to kill the man the villain considers ultimately responsible - the ex-President.Lila is on the run from the fake cops shooting at her. She gets a flesh wound in the leg, but manages to hide in a cave in a wood. Then she walks to the nearest town, staggers handcuffed and bleeding into a coffee shop and asks to borrow a laptop.


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Unbreakable part 2
Last issue Iron Patriot was fighting some monsters in the sea off Louisiana. We learn now that at the same time there have been terrorist attacks across the US. The Washington Monument has been destroyed. And other attacks are in New Orleans, Dallas International Airport and the Los Angeles Superior Court.James Rhodes' father Terrence is watching all these events on TV at home in Atlanta when 2 armed men burst into his house. He doesn't resist until 1 of them goes upstairs looking for his granddaughter Lila. Terrence overpowers the gunman who stayed with him, but the other guy comes back and knocks him out.The upstairs guy had found Lila's bedroom empty, but the window wide open. She's hiding on the roof and watches as the 2 men cart her limp grandfather off in a van.At the end of the 1st issue the Iron Patriot armour seized up in mid-battle, dropping into the ocean where Rhodey's starting to drown. The suit isn't responding to any commands, but Jim remembers there's a manual eject button. With a special extra function. He lines the suit up hopefully pointing to the surface. It ejects him into the water but also rockets forward. It shoots out of the water and decapitates the (last?) mud monster. But self-destructs in the process.Rhodey is left to swim to the surface from a long way down, with very little air in his lungs. Of course he makes it, but collapses from decompression.Meanwhile Lila has called the cops. But the 2 uniformed officers who respond aren't real cops. They're the bad guys come back to finish what they started.When Jim wakes up he's in a helicopter with 2 men who pretend to be journalists covering his fight with the monsters. But actually they were sent to pick him up. They take him to New Orleans ravaged by explosions. And accidentally let slip that their boss doesn't want him dead.When they land in a street Rhodey tries to escape, but collapses with a heart attack from the decompression. And an armoured form approaches, claiming to be acting for the good of the country.


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Unbreakable part 1
We open with a scene where Jim Rhodes, out of armour, has been attacked by someone in armour and hasn't survived very well. We won't find out any more about this during this issue. Instead we go back 2 days.Iron Patriot is investigating why New Orleans is sinking (presumably only as much as it is doing in the real world). He's sending crab-like drones to assess the damage. But he gets a call from his father Terrence reminding him they need to discuss his schoolgirl niece Lila.Later Jim has that discussion with his father. Lila is living with the grandparents (although we don't see any sign of Mrs Rhodes this issue) since Jim's sister died. Terrence thinks his son should be devoting more time to Lila instead of spending all his time superheroing. Jim responds that the new role he's defined for Iron Patriot will help with that.It turns out Lila is an engineering prodigy, and just loves to poke around the innards of the Patriot armour. Grandpa is worried that she doesn't relate to kids her own age.Jim goes home to his own house, and remembers in a dream how his father taught him to box.The next day he gives a press conference to announce that the government has agreed a new strategy for Iron Patriot. He will restrict his operations to the US, rather than the foreign military ops he has done as War Machine and lately as IP. Except that he will also do rescue missions worldwide. Then he has to cut his speech short to go sort out another problem in Louisiana.We cut to Congress where Mr Fujikawa is blackmailing Congressman Meyer to get Iron Patriot returned to military special ops. Meyer publicly denounces Rhodes' plan. Lila goes online to support her uncle, and makes a big impact. And a mystery villain changes his plan - Lila will be kidnapped too (presumably alongside Grandpa).Meanwhile Patriot is fighting mud monsters in the Gulf of Mexico which have sunk some ships and an oil rig. Suddenly his armour stops working and he plunges into the sea.


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The unnamed armoured villain is flying James Rhodes to kill the previous President. He has given Jim an Iron Patriot armour (Rhodey lost the 1 he was wearing in the Gulf of Mexico). Jim has to obey because his grandfather and niece are hostages, and anyway the villain can control the IP armour.The villain once again explains that his experiences as  a SHIELD agent have made him distrust the motives of politicians, especially the previous administration. Here he specifically mentions being a SHIELD Peacekeeper during the ethnic cleansing in Symkaria.We know that the armoured villain is working for more powerful people. As we suspected in #1 Mr Fujikawa, who blackmailed Congressman Meyer into withdrawing support for Iron Patriot's new domestic super-hero role, is a major player.Rhodey doesn't know that niece Lila has escaped her kidnappers. She's now 'borrowed' a laptop from a customer in a coffee shop - judging by the man holding a bloody nose I guess she borrowed it with violence. She has locked herself in a loo to avoid the staff who are concerned about this very young girl with a bullet-grazed leg assaulting their clientele.The kidnappers, 2 fake cops, have returned to granddad Terrence Rhodes, 1 of them has a grudge against Terrence. He tells him his granddaughter is dead and threatens to cut his ear off.Some real cops have been called to the coffee shop, but Lila still refuses to come out of the restroom. The whiz-kid has used the laptop to contact an Iron Patriot armour (presumably another 1 Uncle Jim had at home). She remotely flies it into the kidnapper's hideout in time to save Grandpa's ear, and KO's the fake cops. Then she lets Terrence know who's flying the suit before the real cops break in and take her away.Meanwhile Rhodey and the armoured villain have flown to the ex-President's ranch. The villain stuns all the Secret Service Agents with tasers, then calls Iron Patriot to join him. Streaming the action live to the Internet, the villain enters the ranch and confronts the ex-President. He orders Rhodes to kill him, and takes over the armour (or does he?) to force him to obey.But then Terrence Rhodes bursts through the wall in the other IP armour.


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The issue opens with an injured Ironheart and unconscious Spider-Man (Miles Morales) in a scene of forest devastation with snow and also flickering flames. Then it backtracks to explain how they got there.Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan), leader of the Champions, has contacted member Riri Williams about Spidey. Miles quit in Champs#4 but now he's gone missing for a couple of weeks even from his parents. He may just want to be alone to come to terms with the deal he made with the devil (see Champs#2). Under those circumstances they agree he wouldn't want his friends to go after him, but he and Riri never really bonded so Ironheart is perfect for the job. Riri remembers Miles feeling out of place in the team, and she warned him that if he quit she'd kick his butt - so now's the time to follow up on that.She and her NATALIE AI track his cell phone usage and find he left New York City for the Upstate woods. His phone then stayed in 1 place for the last 16 days but it hasn't been used in that time.Next day (February 2nd) Ironheart flies there from Chicago and finds a snow-laden cabin. (We are made aware that someone is watching the cabin and recording her arrival.) Riri knocks on the door and it swings open and there's a whooshing sound.Inside she finds Miles in civvies about to make pancakes. He doesn't understand why she thinks he's been missing for 2 weeks - he says he's only been here a day. The cabin belongs to a school friend's family and he did indeed come here to sort his head out. Riri checks her watch and sees that it now reads January 18th, which is what Miles thinks is correct. She tries to leave the cabin ...... but there's another whoosh and she finds herself entering again to meet a Miles who acts as though this is the 1st time she came in. NATALIE confirms that the time is the same as when they 1st entered. Riri convinces Miles that time is repeating itself and he's somehow been here for 16 days which has only been a day for him. Superhero Spidey is used to weird stuff so he believes her. (But Miles can't remember what film this reminds him of.)Scientist Riri theorises they're locked in a space-time loop. But entropy still rules so each time they go through the loop should be different. Miles points out that a birthmark on her wrist has gone. (I don't see *that* as an entropy effect.) But Riri adds that they both remember a time *before* the loop, so the loop has a beginning. So someone must have started it, and they must be nearby to maintain it.They both suit up. Ironheart hopes the place is insured because she blows a hole in the wall, taking out the door. They step outside and suddenly it's February 2nd again.A voice shouts at them from a nearby observation tower, complaining that they've ruined his 30-day experiment. The being leaps out and names himself the Tank. He claims to be interested in Spider-Man because he's an interdimensional traveller (coming from the now-defunct Ultimate Universe). He's also interested in Small-Scale Space-Time Portals and he set 1 up here in the doorway.Now the angry guy's mutant power kicks in and he grows giant-sized. He smashes up some trees to bury the pair. There's a green disc lying around (presumably the SSSTP) which he can apparently control. He uses it to drop bits of burning wood onto their 'grave' (debris from Ironheart's explosive exit). Which brings us to where we came in.Riri wakes Miles up and flies them out of the woodpile. They attack the giant enemy. Ironheart fires a mini-missile at him but he creates a portal between them and another behind her so that her missile enters 1 and comes out of the other towards her. She dives out of the way and Spidey shoots webbing through 1 portal so that it comes out of the other and attaches to Tank (who has somehow come between them).He then yanks on the webline which pulls the foe through his own portal, and the giant ends up repeatedly cycling through the portal pair. Riri predicts that he'll continue like that gradually degrading via entropy. But they alert the Forest Service so someone may be able to save him. (But a bit later the portals implode and Tank's gone.)Miles asks Riri why she came here. He thought she didn't like him. She says they're team-mates and friends, and team-mates have each other's backs. Miles hopes his friends can give him some time to sort himself out. Riri says it's a deal as long as he keeps in touch so they don't think he's dead (or trapped in a time-loop). And by the way the film was Groundhog Day.


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Ironheart is having a VR sparring session in her mom's basement when she gets a call from the Dean of MIT asking where she is. He's in her lab with another load of donors and trustees who want to see the college's prize pupil. She gives him a garbled excuse and cuts him off.Mrs. Williams was listening and wants to know why her daughter is slumming here instead of her state-of-the-art MIT lab. Riri Williams says she doesn't like having strings attached. Ronnie Williams sympathises. She reminds her that her stepfather believed in being his own boss, and always owning what he had outright, so he never owed anybody anything. We are reminded that Riri's father died before she was born. [I don't know if this is leading up to a question of who exactly he was?] As she leaves Mrs W tells Riri her friend Daija is out of hospital now. Riri's response is conflicted (because Daija lied last issue when she said she *hadn't* been kidnapped by the gang Ironheart is hunting).When Ronnie has gone Midnight's Fire steps out of the shadows. Riri was expecting him to track her down because her identity isn't a secret, and continue his attempts to kill her. But 1st she wants to talk about the Ten Rings token (that Clash gave her in #1). She's noticed that he has 1 of its symbols on his chest. All she can find about that organisation online is a myth with no substance. MF says they're very good at covering their tracks.He then tells Riri his backstory. His father was with a troop of US soldiers in Cambodia when they found a temple ruled by his grandmother Tai. Tai promised them wealth and power if they married her 6 acolytes and gave her their children. 1 of the acolytes was Tai's daughter who became the mother of twins, 1 of whom was MF. But his mother didn't want Tai to have them so she gave them away (with some money) to a poor family.MF grew up with abilities which he used to become leader of a street gang. As he honed his talents he became a mercenary. But he intended to eventually go after the greater power that Tai had promised, from the Wellspring Of Power. Tai's portal to this was destroyed, along with supposedly all the others on Earth. But MF believed there was another 1, and he broke into Dr Strange's Sanctum to get information about them all. But he still doesn't know where it is.The Ten Rings of which he is a member has nothing to do with that. They are an ancient order dedicated to accumulating weapons, which they worship. He invites Ironheart to join them, and also join *him* in his search for the Wellspring. She will be his heir, and through her Tai's pact will be fulfilled. He *knows* she wants it ...... but Riri rejects him angrily. So they fight again, and Ironheart uses the power of her armour and its NATALIE AI to try to force him to tell her everything about the Ten Rings and his own plans (involving the kid gang in previous issues). However he's too experienced and soon has her helmet open and a sai in her face. But he won't kill her because he believes she *will* come to see things his way. Instead he sends her to sleep and leaves.


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Wasp (Nadia van Dyne) came to visit Ironheart last issue, and they and Riri Williams' friend Xavier King wound up fighting a plague of zombies. It turned out that the invasion was caused by a new mystical villainess named Eclipse. And she turned out to be a member of the Ten Rings who was practising for something worse. Now our heroine is concerned about stopping whatever *that* is.She explains about being attacked by Midnight's Fire of the Ten Rings (#3-5), and how he asked her to join him as his 'heir' (#4). He was acting like a father, and she wonders if he saw evil in her. Nadia assures her that we all have the capability for evil as well as good, but it is *our* choice. And we see her remembering being brought up in the Russian Red Room facility to be an assassin.Nadia leaves. Xavier tries again to get Riri to talk to him about her step-father and her best friend Natalie being killed a few years ago. But once again Riri suppresses her emotions by concentrating on the problem at hand. So he leaves too.Ironheart flies from Chicago to New York to consult Doctor Strange about magic. Riri wonders how to gain entrance to the Sanctum Sanctorum but the door tells her to just knock. But then it opens anyway to the sight of Stephen Strange battling an other-dimensional monster he calls Zetok The Merciless. The Crimson Crystals Of Cyttorak don't work, even backed by IH's repulsor rays. The Icy Tendrils Of Ikthalon fare better and freeze the foe allowing our heroine to shatter it. And Dr Strange sends the pieces through a mystic interdimensional portal.Stephen tells Riri to make herself at home and she asks for some orange pop. But the Doc tells her it's bad for her teeth and gives her tea instead. Riri tells him about her magical foes Midnight's Fire and Eclipse and about the Ten Rings. But it is when she mentions the Wellspring Of Power (which she heard about in #2&4) that he sits up and take notice.That is a cosmic portal, and he says someone broke into his Sanctum recently and stole a different portal, the Stone Of Hala. Ironheart reminds him that the Ten Rings collect weapons so it might have been Midnight's Fire. DrS pooh-poohs the idea that a minor ninja could breach his defences. (It seems to have slipped Riri's mind that (in #4) MF said that some years ago he *did* get into the Sanctum.)Anyway the good Doctor now shows her a map/diagram of the Wellspring system spread across the world. He repeats what MF said that all the Wellsprings were believed destroyed. But he also adds as MF did that he believes 1 extra 1 may still exist. (We see images of the 2 story arcs the Wellsprings have been involved in, in New Warriors/Night Thrasher where we met Midnight's Fire and in Thunderbolts where they were destroyed.)Stephen looks into Riri's mind and sees why she's getting involved. There's not only the Ten Rings attacks on her but also her friend Daija got dragged into their schemes. And her mind also links her dead stepfather into the pot. He warns her about making a fight personal. He also throws in a bit about avoiding arrogance like her mentor Tony Stark's (and in fact his own), and not taking on things that are beyond her current capabilities.So saying he tosses the map aside. But Riri has glimpsed a change, and she realises that Strange somehow got the hidden location of the last Wellspring out of *her* mind (?!). She persuades him to show her that it is in Wakanda.


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We start with a flashback memory to when Riri Williams was *very* much younger but she was already mechanically-minded. Her mother has hidden the welding goggles she needs to finish work on a hydraulic skeleton in order to get the little girl to play outside. While Riri is searching for them she comes across a box of photos of the father she never knew. Her mom and step-father decide it's time to explain that her dad was a bystander killed in hold-up before she was born. His name was Demetrius but everyone called him Riri, so they thought that was a good name for *her*.In the present Ironheart is in Wakanda trying to stop Midnight's Fire and the rest of the 10 Rings group from gaining access to the Wellspring Of Power. She's teamed up with Shuri (Wakandan Princess), Okoye (leader of the Dora Milaje female warriors), and Silhouette (sister of Midnight's Fire). They've reached the building housing the Wellspring but the 10 Rings have beaten them to it. Silhouette used her shadow power to spy on them and has returned to say that 1 of the Rings is Riri's birth father. (Now that we've seen a photo of him *we* could make that connection, but Silhouette was working solely on a likeness to Riri!)Riri protests that it can't be true because her father's dead. Silhouette reminds them that *her* mother faked her death. Shuri suspects a sorcerous trick. Okoye tells them all to shut up, they need to let Riri see for herself. Shuri hands Sil a Kimoyo Bead set up as a camera which will transmit back to Ironheart's helmet, and Silhouette disappears into the Darkforce again.A little later the helmet displays a view of the 10 Rings in council. The only ones unmasked are Riri's dad and the 2 we've seen before Midnight's Fire (nearly every issue) and Eclipse (#7). MF says Eclipse failed (#7) to get them the zombie bodies they needed to power up the Wellspring and now it seems she's too weakened to try again. Eclipse ripostes that *she* found the Wellspring, and they are *all* needed to use it. Another female unmasks and reveals that she doesn't understand what they're really here for. Another member who is referred to as Ambition says he thought they were after some enriched uranium. Midnight's Fire castigates him for aiming too low, but 2 other members chip in that it's all very well aiming for godlike power if they don't have the means (zombies) to get it.The possible Riri Williams Snr tells *them* all to shut up. He has the Stone Of Hala which will give them the power they need to access the Wellspring. MFire explains that he acquired it a while ago (in #8 Dr Strange said he used to have it but someone stole it from him) but had to find someone powerful enough to wield it - and he found that man in Dune (which is apparently RWS' codename). Other members doubt Dune's ability so he causes parts of the walls to crumble but the ground to raise him up on a plinth (this is his natural ability, nothing to do with the Stone Of Hala). And he sends a large mass of rubble towards his chief detractor until it's hovering before his face. Said detractor apologises.Okoye and Shuri are trying to figure out the best thing to do. But Riri has seen the face of her 'dead' father and has gone into shock. The other 2 manage to bring her out of it but then Silhouette returns with the 10 Rings hot on her heels. The 4 prepare for a fight.When the Rings arrive Ironheart is attacked by the 2nd unmasked female who she recognises as Tomoe, the Techno Golem, who she fought in Iron Man (2016) # 4-6. Riri easily bests her old foe but is then trapped by Dune's rocks and plant tendrils from some other Ringer. The others have also been subdued and all 4 are led away to be sacrificed in the ceremony to access the Wellspring. But Okoye breaks free, followed by Ironheart. Dune is ordered to kill IH but she removes her helmet and tells him she's his daughter.


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Ironheart, Okoye, Shuri and Silhouette are trying to stop the Ten Rings group from controlling the Wellspring Of Power in Wakanda. However Riri Williams has discovered that 1 of the Rings is her father Demetrius who was supposedly killed before she was born. She's just confronted him with the fact ...... but now he denies it and throws a large chunk of rock at her. (As Dune he is able to control earth.) The leader Midnight's Fire tells his people to kill the 2 Wakandans but not Silhouette (his sister) or Ironheart (because *he* knows she's Dune's daughter and that connection can be used magically in accessing the Wellspring). But as it happens they don't kill anybody.Dune was given the Stone Of Hala (last issue) and now he uses it in a rite which opens the Wellspring. IH's NATALIE AI reminds Riri of a gift Nadia Van Dyne gave her (supposedly in #7 though we didn't see it). It's a dose of Pym Particles and Riri uses it to shrink to escape her captors and then grow giant-size to grab the Stone. But then she collapses from the strain and falls into the Wellspring.The Wellspring and the Stone allow her to talk to her own subconscious and experience visions of the past. Riri sees her father leaving his heavily pregnant wife saying he's got something to do. In order to earn some money he's volunteered along with lots of others for a medical experiment. They get injected with something which we hear the scientists say afterwards has mixed results including death. They intend to kill the survivors but Demetrius Williams escapes because the process has given him his Dune power.Knowing that after that her father became a supervillain makes Riri certain that she's going to turn bad. But then she's shown many good things she's done for others in her life. And then a vision of the future where she's grown up and happily living in the family home. Finally an inspiring moment with her stepdad. She comes to the conclusion that like everyone else she's a mixture:- good and bad, fearful and courageous.And then Ironheart surges out of the Wellspring glowing with power. The other 3 have somehow broken free of their bonds and are fighting the Ten Rings, but the villains turn on IH when she appears. However her enhanced powers including being able to see what's going to happen next enable her to trounce the lot of them. Midnight's Fire calls for a retreat and Eclipse teleports them away.When it's all over Princess Shuri sends for Wakandan troops to seal off the area containing the Wellspring. A few days later Shuri honours Riri and Silhouette with the Circlet Of Bast and says they're welcome in Wakanda whenever they want. Riri returns to her mom in Chicago And she goes kite-flying with her friends Daija Hamilton and Xavier King.


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2 years ago Riri Williams graduated from High School in Chicago (a few years early). She already has the pennant signifying her acceptance at MIT. Her older friend Daija Hamilton is there to congratulate her. We learn that she herself never graduated because she had to leave school to help her mother. Mrs Williams invites her round for cake.Now Daija has gone missing and Riri has returned home to find her. But she also encountered a gang of young pickpockets who seem to be backed by ninjas. She (correctly) suspects that it's all connected. Her friend Xavier King finds her studying an electronic map of recent pickpocket incidents, but she can't find any correlations. Xavier suggests looking at the victims. The 1 Ironheart was involved with last issue turns out to be named Malcolm Rice.At this point Mrs Williams interrupts them to complain that her daughter is missing her MIT classes. Riri tries to get out of it by saying that her NATALIE AI is attending them for her. (We see her there making notes in her mind.) Mrs W (whose 1st name we at last learn is Ronnie) embarrasses her by returning to a perennial subject. She thinks Riri ought to go to a support group with her to deal with the death of her stepfather and her best friend Natalie in a drive-by shooting. But she also invites Xavier to stay for dinner.Xavier tells Riri maybe she should listen to her mom. And he asks why the Champions aren't helping her with this mystery. Riri says things are awkward between them at the moment, and redirects the conversation to their investigation. But 2 hours later they haven't found any patterns in the victims of the crimes. Mrs W calls them for dinner, but Riri has 1 last  possibility. She checks their jobs and finds that they all work for local politicians.Mrs W calls to them again but this time it's to say that Daija's been found and it's on the news. She's being interviewed and claims that she ran away from home because of stress. She tripped over in some woods and was knocked unconscious, but now she's back. (But we know she was held captive by the person who's running the teen gang.) Various pundits apply their pet theories to the case. And we see rolling news announce that Thomas Birch's only rival for the governership has dropped out. (Last issue we learned that Daija had been working for him, and that someone leaked private dirt on the rival to the Internet.) Mrs W and her daughter both think there's something wrong with Daija's story.That night Ironheart breaks through the window of Daija's hospital room. Unmasking as Riri she asks her friend why she lied. Daija tells her to go away and leave it. Before going Riri notes some expensive sneakers. After she's gone a figure emerges from the shadows in the room. It appears that he let Daija go because she said that would stop Riri investigating. But now that plan's failed Ironheart must die. And our heroine overhears this via a bug she dropped in the sneakers.The mystery guy starts hunting Ironheart, musing that she reminds him of "another armoured warrior I once knew". But IH finds *him* via thermal imaging. What follows (in the obligatory empty warehouse) is armour vs agility and the ability to be shrouded in darkness, including now to thermal wavelengths as well. Stealth seems to be winning as he pins her down with a hand round her throat. Until Ironheart fires a mini-missile at him at close range from her back. In the breathing space this affords Riri lifts some fingerprints from the neck of her armour, and her AI identifies her opponent as Midnight's Fire.But then he's on her again and lifts her up by the neck. Which causes Riri to experience a flashback to when Thanos had her at the same disadvantage, and then destroyed her previous armour (Infinity Countdown: Champions #2). But Natalie (either the AI or the memory) brings her out of her fugue. And she (armoured) headbutts Midnight's Fire and blasts him into a wall of the building. He springs back but she blasts him again and he stays down.NATALIE says he's not dead, so Ironheart leaves him to the approaching police sirens. As she flies away the AI berates her for being reckless. She says she should seek help, both from a psychiatrist and the Champions. But Riri switches off the voice. She tells herself that being alone means no-one else gets hurt. Tell that to her worried mother and crying Daija.And the police find Midnight's Fire gone.


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Fellow Champions member and teen female scientist Wasp (Nadia van Dyne) has come to Chicago to see Riri Williams' new lab. (At least I think they're still Champions though neither of them have been in the comic lately.) Riri's friend Xavier King drops in with pizza. The NATALIE AI wants to know what flavour so she can enjoy it in her mind. But enjoyment is delayed by a proximity alarm.A monitor shows a vacant-eyed shuffling character outside. Social media and TV report more of them in the city, with activity varying between terrifying and just weird. Nadia wonders if it's a terrorist attack, NATALIE suggests current recurring opponent Midnight's Fire might be behind it, Riri thinks it's mass hypnosis. But Xavier cuts straight to the obvious - zombies! Sceptical Riri and NATALIE scoff, but Nadia is more open-minded. Riri seeks more data, but they begin to look more and more like the walking dead.Riri seeks comfort in a chocolate dessert while she gets her scientific mind round this. Xavier points out that their families and friends might be in danger so Riri rings her mom. But Mrs. Williams says she secured all the doors and windows as if it was a tornado. Ironheart and Wasp suit up to go out to fight the menace. Xavier wants to join them with a baseball bat and some protective clothing. Riri doesn't want to let him come with them, but Nadia points out he *was* the 1 who knew what was happening.Ironheart flies up into the air above the city and tracks the zombie invasion. It doesn't seem to be the contagious spread that fiction would predict. Instead they are all coming from the airport. She returns to the ground in time to see Xavier swat a zombie. Wasp is worried about such drastic action - this was a civilian who could be cured.Wasp miniaturises herself and Xavier, and Ironheart takes them to the airport inside her helmet. Riri has narrowed the source down to a particular terminal so they fight their way through the zombies to get to it. (I don't know why Ironheart didn't just fly them there - writer's choice.) They're not making much headway so she tells her companions to jump in the air, and then she sends a shock through the floor which knocks all the zombies down.Outside on the tarmac they see near a plane a writhing blackness from which the zombies emerge. Xavier finally admits he's not a superhero, and the 2 heroines fly to the source. When they get there the darkness coalesces into a female who names herself Eclipse. She says she's here practising before leaving to perform a magic rite which requires lots of bodies. A tendril of darkness grabs Wasp and zombifies her. Riri recognises a symbol on Eclipse's forehead as 1 of the insignia of the Ten Rings (the group that Midnight's Fire belongs to). She hits the woman with sustained repulsor beams and Eclipse complains that it burns and teleports away.All the zombies recover. Riri tells Nadia what she learned from Eclipse. She needs to consult someone who might know what the villain was doing. (Hence next issue's guest star Dr Strange.) Xavier binged on cinnamon rolls while he was waiting and now he feels sick, so Ironheart won't let him ride home in her helmet.


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Riri Williams contacts Tony Stark for the 1st time in ages, and it seems he's been an absentee mentor too. He compliments her on her performance as Ironheart and her new armour (since Infinity Countdown: Champions #2 and throughout this series) and she tells him about some enhancements she's just made. But he cuts her off and says he's got a meeting to go to, so they get to the point of the call. It appears Riri already asked him to arrange for her to visit Wakanda. Now she tries to tell him about the Wellspring Of Power Dr Strange located there last issue, but he cuts her off again to tell her how he helped Strange go to space (#1 of the current DrS series). This time *she* cuts *him* off, so Tony tells her she's expected and sends her some background info on the country.Riri flies by armour-power to Birnin Zana the capital which is an amazing mixture of high and low tech. She spots a heavily-guarded building which she guesses correctly is the Royal Palace, and she hovers in front of it asking to be let in. Princess Shuri, sister of Black Panther T'Challa, creates an opening in the wall and invites her in.Once inside Riri absorbs her armour and launches straight into a spiel about the Wellspring but Shuri is insulted that her guest didn't exchange pleasantries 1st. Riri says its urgent because bad guys are after the mystical Well, and then gets distracted by an intriguing nano-machine. Shuri snatches it out of her hands and says she knows all about urgent situations - she's been Black Panther, fought Thanos, ruled Wakanda, fought Skrulls, and also died. And as a scientist she doesn't believe in mystical stuff (but what about the Panther God?). And anyway if the Wellspring existed in Wakanda she'd know about it.Meanwhile Riri has found another cool gadget. Shuri accuses her of having no manners. Riri accuses *her* of being pretentious because she inherited all of what she has. Shuri orders our heroine out of Wakanda. Riri's NATALIE AI tells her to calm down while Griot spirits tell Shuri the same.But before the pair can do anything they are rocked by an earthquake. They both work out this isn't a natural occurrence and it's targeting the city. Riri armours up again and offers to help. Shuri says her attire *is* her super-suit. They express mutual admiration for their tech.Outside the earthquake has created a rift out of which climb shadow monsters. Ironheart chips in that her last Wellspring-related encounter (#7) was with zombies. Shuri creates a wall-opening again and they fly out - Shuri's suit creates metal wings and panther-head blast gauntlets. They both shoot monsters and then Ironheart switches to sealing the chasm. Then they recombine to mop up the remaining shadows.But the city remains damaged so the duo turn their attention helping the people and repairing the buildings. At 1 point they hear a young girl crying from a shaky building. Shuri goes in the ground floor while Ironheart flies up to the window. Inside she finds the girl whose mother is unconscious. Riri unmasks to calm the girl's fear until Shuri joins them. The princess and the girl exchange words in their own language. After they've got mother and daughter out Shuri tells Riri that the girl asked if they were sisters - and she'd replied "Yes".Later back in the Palace NATALIE gets Riri to apologise to Shuri, and Shuri apologises back. They agree that they are both scientists, but this mystical Wellspring does seem to be real. Riri shows Shuri where on a map Dr Strange said the Wellspring was, and Shuri identifies it as in the Jabari-Lands.But then they are both alerted to an intruder. It seems to be 1 of the shadow monsters, but then it coalesces into Silhouette the paralysed sister of Midnight's Fire. (From  previous issues we know that it is he and his group the Ten Rings who are seeking the Wellspring.)