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The secret origin of Tony Stark: The best offense part three
Tony Stark has been kidnapped by Rigellian Recorder 451 to operate the super-giant Godkiller armour/robot, which 451 had programmed him for before he was born. 451 intended the Godkiller to be Earth's best defence, and lead to a human galactic empire, but Tony didn't want to play ball. Last issue it turned out that the Stark couldn't actually operate the Godkiller. But 451 thought he was bluffing, and has set Godkiller on a course to destroy Earth to call that bluff.Stark, in the Iron Man space armour (and he seems to have found time to retrieve his discarded helmet), races to Godkiller's mouth/entrance where Death's Head left the Iron Man Armoury. He switches to a different armour (the one he wore on Earth in #1-5), and downloads a backup of the PEPPER AI from before it was taken over by 451 on the Voldi World.451 is also ready for battle. He's created a weapon from his stolen Rigellian database, which in turn creates energy duplicates of himself. But Iron Man also isn't alone. He's got other armours, including the space one, directly linked to his own by cables so that 451 can't hack them via comms channels.Battle is joined as Godkiller enters the Solar System. The Iron Men try to destroy the 451 duplicates while they in turn try to physically break into the suits so 451 can control them. But if any 451-dup succeeds, the Iron-suit self-destructs taking the dup with it.451 changes tack and sends all his duplicates to attack Iron Man himself, reasoning that that suit at least won't commit suicide. But all the while PEPPER has been diagnosing 451's innards and tracing his 'hacking unit'. When she does Shellhead drills through it with a laser.Then IM activates another suit of armour, a large one loaded with weaponry, which destroys 451's dupes as fast as he can create them, and then rips off the arm which holds the duplicating device.Even though he's beaten, 451 refuses to stop the Godkiller's approach to Earth. He still thinks Stark is lying about being unable to pilot the giant robot. So Tony goes to a nearby control console and shows him that nothing happens. 451 orders the Godkiller to accept Stark as pilot, but finally has to admit that his genetic manipulation of Tony-as-a-foetus has obviously failed.But now 451 goes into a state of mental paralysis. He had abandoned his role as a Recorder, and chosen to act instead. His 500 year plan would have led to galactic peace under human rule. And all the lives he took along the way (including the Voldi) were worth it. But now that his meticulous plan has turned out to be flawed, he no longer dares take any action, even stopping Godkiller destroying Earth.Tony talks him out of his frozen state just in time, and 451 turns the giant robot away from Earth. But now the Recorder has realised that the Godkiller is too dangerous to leave lying around. And so is his 'creation' Tony Stark! So 451 orders Godkiller to exit this reality taking Iron Man with it, and then wipes his own computer brain.


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Tony Stark donned a new suit of specialised space-armour last issue, and headed off into space. Now we find Iron Man defending an ancient artificial planet called the Voldi Tear against mechanoid pirates:- 1 page and a double-page spread of space battle.Then we cut to the more serious pursuit of romancing a Voldi woman named Veritina. (But still in armour.) During the proceedings a floating intelligent tray offers Tony a drink, as it's his birthday. His onboard AI PEPPER had informed the bar AI. Stark turns the drink down (ostensibly because he can't drink through his helmet, not because he's an alcoholic).Iron Man notices a 30ft robot staring at him. Veritina says it's Death's Head the bounty hunter. Tony takes this as a cue for them to leave the bar, and head to her place (or her palace as it turns out).The Voldi are an ancient race that have evolved past barbarian fighting. They all have everything they want, so effectively they're all princes and princesses, and they all live in palaces. They have often dealt with cosmic powers, but something called the Heart of the Voldi (at least I assume it's a capitalised thing) protects them from such beings. However it's not much use against simpler physical threats like the pirates.Significantly one of the cosmic beings who has visited them often is called the Void Falcon.The Voldi have learned much from these cosmic powers. And they have passed knowledge on to younger species, in return for peace treaties and protection, presumably from people like the pirates. (Which didn't seem to work here.) Their influence can be seen everywhere. For instance the Shi'ar fashion for having their head-feathers in a triangular shape is very similar to the Voldi.Tony's encounter with the alien princess is progressing to it's desired conclusion. But when he opens his helmet, Veritina recoils from the sight of his moustache and beard. She throws him out, despite his offer to shave.Outside, PEPPER informs him he's about to be attacked by some robots. After he's trashed them, he discovers they were the local police, mechanohoplites, out to arrest him for deicide. Law-abiding soul that he is, Tony gives himself up.When he faces the Supreme Justicar, without his armour, he learns that he is accused of killing the Void Falcon. Otherwise known as the Phoenix.


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Believe 2: A gentleman's wager
1 year ago a man calling himself Arthur approaches Russian Alex Draguno. Draguno was the best student in the Black Academy, trained to pilot armoured suits against American super-soldiers like Iron Man, but now reduced to operating exoskeletons in hazardous workplaces. Arthur asks Alex to be his Lancelot in the brotherhood he's putting together.In the present, Tony Stark is recreating a version of the JARVIS AI that ran Pepper Potts' Rescue armour. He tells Pepper he's intent on personally tackling the Extremis users he learnt about last issue. He's past the info on to SHIELD, but apparently they are hampered by red tape.Tony says one of his Extremis targets is a group called the Circle, based on a lake island in Symkaria that they call New Avalon. Coincidentally he then gets an invitation from that group, spelled out by laser beams in the middle of the air.Stark flies there as Iron Man, followed by a hovering shipping container. He is greeted by Arthur, who explains that he leads a team of armoured knights who will defend Symkaria (and others) against their Latverian neighbour Dr Doom (and other threats).Arthur claims that Iron Man has ushered in a new age of armoured chivalry, and the knights of New Avalon will be a force for good. He likens Extremis to the Holy Grail, and Iron Man to the Grail Knight. Stark points out that Arthur bought Extremis from the criminal organisation AIM. But Arthur evidently believes that the ends justify the means.To further his aim, Arthur would like access to Stark tech. He doesn't want weapons or repulsor tech, which he know Stark won't give. He has his own weapons designer called Merlin. But there is lots of other stuff Tony could give. Rather than buy it, he offers Stark a wager. If Iron Man defeats the Avalon knights, then Arthur will surrender Extremis. If IM loses, then Tony gives them what they want.Arthur knows his own suits of armour aren't as good as Iron Man's. But he believes his pilots are better (or at least 1 of them is).Merlin is a woman named Meredith. Years ago when she was a hotshot young scientist she invented a force field which she pitched to the military. They set up a test against Iron Man. Her force field held up against his repulsors, but Stark 'cheated' by hacking through her security and switching the force field off.She says that was the end of her career. (Actually her bitterness and revenge-obsession had a lot to do with it.) Now she's going to show Stark who's better. She's used Extremis to make the pilot knights one with their armoured suits.Stark accepts the wager, and first faces Gawain. Iron Man opens up the large container, which contains spare parts and a robot system controlled by the proto-JARVIS. It turns out that the current Iron Man armour is modular, and the JARVIS system can alter it to give specific features.All the knights have force-field shields to fend of repulsor blasts. But Gawain prefers armour-assisted martial arts moves. His arrogance lets him get put down by a two-handed repulsor hit.The Extremis Grail is on show on a display stand. Tony tries to destroy it with another repulsor blast. But it too has one of Meredith's force-field shields, which holds up again.When Stark reenters the container to modify his armour for the next bout, he includes computer hacking capabilities. While fighting Galahad he tries to break Merlin's security, but she's got much better over the years. So he just smashes his opponent with the more powerful chest uni-beam.Before the next match Stark switches one of his hand repulsors to a uv laser. Lancelot elects to go next, for the last bout. The other knight Percival is too young.Lancelot has trained the other knights, and proves to be the best of them. Alex's special skill is in using the boot thrusters. Evading all Iron Man's shots, and using timed thruster bursts to augment directed body blows.But now Iron Man plays his trick card. Meredith designed the force field around the Extremis Grail to allow light through, so Stark could see his goal. But now Tony fires a high intensity laser through the shield, incinerating the Extremis virus.Iron Man flies off home. Arthur is angry, because without Extremis he can't make any more enhanced knights. Lancelot removes his helmet to reveal that 'he' is a 'she'. And her thoughts show that things went as she planned.


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Mary Jane Watson has arrived at Stark International for her 1st day of work, but Tony Stark is 40 minutes late meeting her. We get to see a news headline saying the company is losing even more money, but she just gets to stare at a picture of Howard Stark.Tony tries to turn the situation round by saying this is exactly the kind of reason he needs her to organise his life. MJ says she's not going to take the job unless he's really going to follow her suggestions. It takes 3 pages of talk to get to this point, mostly Tony being flip - which is 1 of the things she finds counter-productive.By this time they've walked to the room where he keeps his armours. Stark starts tinkering with them while they talk. He doesn't want her to take this the wrong way, but he claims that he'd already predicted this whole conversation so he's been thinking about these armour improvements while they talked.MJ counters by saying something Tony didn't expect - she's talked to Pepper Potts. She wanted the inside scoop on what it's like to work for him. And why Pepper doesn't work for him anymore. She refuses to tell Tony what Ms Potts said.At this point the AI Friday manifests herself, complimenting MJ on her stand. Tony says Friday runs the company. The AI says that if she was really allowed to do that it wouldn't be in the mess it's in now.Now Stark remembers that last issue he sent Jim Rhodes as War Machine to Tokyo to investigate what Madame Masque had been up to in the Tokyo Stark Tower (#1). Friday says he's not answering her messages. And he removed the tracker that Tony stuck in his armour.Tony suits up as Iron Man to fly there to investigate. MJ doesn't suggest he delegates the job to someone else. But she does suggest he might get someone already in Tokyo to help while he's on the way.Tony asks Friday if they have any allies in Tokyo. The AI says Peter Parker is there at the moment. Stark is reluctant to involve him because of corporate jealousy - Parker's company is on the rise as Stark's is falling. But the point is moot as Peter seems to be refusing Friday's calls.However, MJ saves the day by providing Peter's emergency number. Then she has to explain they have known each other well for a long time. But they're not on speaking terms at the moment. Stark contacts Parker and asks for the use of his bodyguard Spider-Man.Spider-Man swings to the last place we saw War Machine last issue - on top of a skyscraper. He doesn't notice 2 of the light-sabre ninjas lurking around.But we find WM chained up inside a building (maybe the same 1) with his Friday AI not working and the armour dead. A woman (possibly 1 of the 2 who attacked him last issue) uses mystic gestures which cause his armour to leave him piece by piece. His smaller body slips from the restraints.But when he looks up he sees that the woman, who calls herself Tomoe, is now wearing the armour. And it now looks bulkier - maybe Hulkbuster-level.Iron Man is on his way.And in an MIT dorm an unusually young female student named Riri is building her own Iron Man armour.


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OK, so last issue Ironheart defeated Lucia Von Bardas and declared herself Queen of Latveria.S.H.I.E.L.D. react by sending their main helicarrier. Sharon Carter and Nick Fury Jr descend with some troops, 2 of them in Hulkbuster Iron Man armour. Commander Carter meets Latverian General Karadick who ushers her into the presence of Her Majesty, who is getting Doombots to feed starving children. Riri Williams sends Karadick to check on a Red Cross delivery, but really so she and her Tony Stark AI can talk to Carter privately.Riri admits that making herself Queen was an impulsive mistake. (We get a flashback to that, continuing to a bit more fighting with Bardas and her soldiers which Ironheart ends with a Hulk-like earthquake-producing fist-strike to the ground. And then AI Tony suggests she call in SHIELD.) She wants Sharon to get her out of the situation, but she can't just leave without sorting out the mess the country is in. She produces a list of conditions.In Chicago Mrs. Williams is enjoying a leisurely bath when SHIELD Agent Daisy Johnson knocks on her door to inform her that her daughter has taken over Latveria as Queen. Quake asks if Mrs Williams now considers herself Latverian Royalty, and is her house now a Latverian Embassy? Mrs W isn't too stunned to ask for a lawyer.Ironheart is on the way to show Sharon what she's done with Von Bardas when the area is invaded by a group of armed nationalists. Riri disarms them magnetically, and threatens to disarm Karadick's men too if they don't lower their guns. Then she tells the insurgents to leave peacefully while she deals with things.Lucia Von Bardas is a prisoner. AI Stark hacked her forcefield generators and used them against her. The terrorist shouts slogans as she's taken away by SHIELD.Agent Carter suggests that authorising aid to Latveria will be impossible while Karadick is involved because he led a military takeover (before Von Bardas). Riri counters that Latveria fell apart when Dr Doom vacated the throne, and Karadick stepped in to try to do what little he could. Karadick says the outside world wouldn't talk to him. Carter points out that he's just been working with terrorist Von Bardas. Karadick counterpoints that she became the country's ruler so he was obliged to obey her - just as he's now obeying Ironheart.Sharon realises that this whole conversation is being recorded on mobile phones. So she turns conciliatory.Next we see a Daily Bugle front page saying that Ironheart has brokered free elections for Latveria. Back home Riri tells her mom that the country is going to have schools again. But she thinks they may have to move to avoid publicity. And she's decided between working for Stark Industries, returning to MIT or becoming a full-time superhero.Next issue's cover suggests it's Stark.


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Between last issue and this Riri Williams has been summoned to see Tony Stark's mother Amanda Armstrong, the new CEO of Stark Industries. When she gets there she finds also arrayed to meet her Pepper Potts, Mary Jane Watson, the AI Friday and her own Tony Stark AI. But Riri is mainly overawed that the meeting is being held in the vault of old Iron Man armours. She geeks out at the Silver Centurion version - and shows she knows more Shellhead history than the other 3 humans present.

Amanda tries to drag the proceedings back to business by introducing the others. Riri already met Pepper in the last few issues, and she recognises Mary Jane. But she is awestruck again by Friday - she's seen some of her internal code and it's gorgeous.

What they really want to talk about is something else that's happened between issues. The fight she and Pepper had with Tomoe and her ninjas has got Ironheart all over the news and the internet. Riri doesn't know how to react - she doesn't want to go public or do interviews.

And what they really want to do is offer Riri Tony's lab here in the vault to work in and use as a base. They want her to be the official replacement for Iron Man. (Pepper is too busy with other stuff to be Rescue full-time.)

In Paris a woman named Max meets a man named Mr Lucky. He asks her to arrange to buy Latveria from whoever owns it now Dr Doom has abandoned it. She says that the place is in chaos and no-one now 'owns' it. But if he can get the country running again the people will gladly let him take it over. Mr Lucky says he'll think about that. He also says the country is special to 'us'.

In Chicago the Tony Stark AI asks Riri why she's not jumping at Amanda's offer. She changes the subject to how Tomoe managed to ignore all the security systems when she took over her and Pepper's armour in the last 2 issues. Tony suggests Tomoe's Inhuman power lets her use unknown energy fields. Riri suggests Tomoe might be creating those energy fields too.

At that point someone from MIT arrives. Tony guesses she might be here to claim ownership of Riri's armour, because she built it while a student at MIT with material 'borrowed' from MIT. (Actually that was her 1st armour in the previous Invincible IM series. The current Ironheart suit was built with Stark material and Stark permission/support.)

Actually Dana Richardson is here to ask Riri to return to MIT. They'll give her a grant to continue her studies and work.

In Latveria General Karadick and his forces greet a visitor who has already restored power to the country and reopened the schools. They welcome the return of Lucia von Bardas, who promises them she'll make Latveria great again.

Riri has put on the Ironheart armour and wants something superhero to do to distract her from having to think about the 2 competing offers. AI Tony guides her to the rampaging Armadillo in Philadelphia. She stops him in his tracks just before the Champions turn up to do the same thing.

They also say they've been looking for her since Civil War II. They invite her to join the team.


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This issue starts with a flashback to Riri Williams' early Elementary Schooling. She tells her teacher she wants to be a scientist when she grows up, but is disappointed when the teacher doesn't try to steer her towards more 'appropriate' careers. She wanted to be inspired to prove her wrong like her heroine Mae Jemison the 1st female African-American astronaut. The teacher thinks about it and says "You'll never be Tony Stark". Riri determinedly returns to her technical drawing, while the rest of the class are drawing cartoon animals.Now Ironheart is where we left her at the end of last issue flying towards the explosion at the Smithsonian Museum. But on the way the Tony Stark AI in her suit is more interested in trying to persuade her to watch the Freaks And Geeks TV show. When she gets there Nick Fury Jr and loads of SHIELD Agents try to keep her out and ask her to remove her armour. But a phone call from inside changes their minds.Inside Riri finds SHIELD Commander Sharon Carter alone and unharmed. (When she realised the man, Geraldo Lucky, talking to her last issue was going to explode she got everybody else out of the building, and her tux has its own forcefield.) Carter warns her about dropping in on terrorist crime scenes like that - people don't yet know who she is and whether she can be trusted. But since she's here Ironheart can scan the place for stuff. (Well, her AI does it.)Another flashback takes us to when Riri was 11. She rings up Kennedy Space Center to ask about the age requirements for astronaut training. The woman on the other end of the line patronisingly says she has to be old enough to have a relevant college degree and be able to pass a physical test. Riri says she's already at MIT so she'll call again when she gets her degree. (11 is a few years earlier than I understood she got in there.)Now we don't learn anything about the scan but pick up with the 2 females leaving the building. Sharon has just asked Riri to do something else. She says she trusts the teen because SHIELD has been monitoring her since before kindergarten - as a super-genius they had to be sure she wasn't turning evil. The good news is that she wasn't. Riri of course is angry about being spied on. Carter tells her to wise up.Inside the iron armour Riri asks the AI what Carter wants with her. (It becomes clear that Sharon asked her to to go after Lucia Von Bardas, who Mr Lucky said last issue had sent him.) Tony guesses that SHIELD can't officially attack Von Bardas in Latveria without more proof, but Ironheart would be a deniable loose cannon. And that's what Carter says when asked.She adds that it's only luck that no-one apart from Mr Lucky was hurt. If *some* of the attendees at the gala benefit had been killed it might have started World War III. And she doesn't know what Von Bardas will do next.As if to underscore the point the crowd is attacked by Lady Octopus. Ironheart engages her in battle. She's not doing very well when she belatedly realises an obvious tactic and electrocutes the villainess through 1 of her metal arms. Finishing off with a repulsor blast. As SHIELD prepare to take her away Octopus confesses that Von Bardas paid her to do this.3rd flashback 2 years ago. Riri's friend Natalie Washington brings her a birthday present, despite the fact that Riri doesn't *do* birthdays. She's wangled Riri a phone call with Mae Jemison. (This has to be not long before Nat was killed.)Now in Latveria Lucia Von Bardas and General Karadick are monitoring the news  hoping to hear who they've killed. But SHIELD have kept a lid on all info until now when it is announced that Sub-Director Sharon Carter prevented any casualties. Lucia's displeasure is increased when Ironheart accosts her.


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The Tony Stark AI in young Riri Williams' grey armour is taking her for a training session in the sky over her home city Chicago. And it's running loads of alternate Iron Man armours as her opponents. It claims that she's lucky to have survived her fights so far. After the 1st few blows Riri decides to try to escape by flying away. But 1 of the armours knocks her into the water.Then we flashback 2 years to younger Riri and her friend Natalie having a friendly disagreement about things such as The Little Mermaid. It's the day before the picnic where Natalie will die (last issue). She wants Riri to help hook her up with a boy named Stevey. Riri is building a rocket pack because she wants to fly.Present-day Riri uses her boot jets and hand repulsors to stop from hitting the water. But another IM armour pushes her into the river. And the AI asks her if her armour is sealed against water. A few leaks suggests not very well.Flashback to the hospital after the picnic incident. Mrs Williams is told that her husband hasn't survived the shooting. And we learn that he's her 2nd husband to die of a gunshot. Riri asks about Natalie but the doctor won't tell her because she's not family. But Riri dashes further into the hospital and finds her friend's dead body.Back in the present Riri jets up out of the water and flies off again at supersonic speed, but with the Iron Men still in pursuit. AI Tony says running away won't help in a real fight, but she's pretty sure it's a good option. They catch up with her because her homemade armour isn't as good as his more professional versions. But she catches them by surprise by suddenly going into reverse.A bit later in the past Mrs and Riri Williams are being interviewed by a detective concerning the drive-by shooting. They can't tell him much except a bit about the car. Riri's more interested in a super-battle on the news. She's not satisfied with the idea that it's just luck that left they 2 alive while hubby and Natalie died. She concentrates on Iron Man on the news, and resolves not to be a pawn of fate.Now the aerial chase is still ongoing when Riri reveals her masterplan. She'd just been stalling for time while she concocted a virus with which she infects the Tony AI. And all the other armours fall out of the sky and into the river.In Japan Tomoe (the villainess from #7-11 of last series) is alerted to the battle. She doesn't know whether the new Iron Man is the supposed-dead Tony Stark or someone else. But either way she wants him killed before he interferes with her plans.


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We left Riri Williams and Pepper Potts facing light saber-wielding techno-ninjas on a rooftop while their leader Tomoe had used her Inhuman technopath ability to take their Ironheart and Rescue armours and combine them into a large armour for herself. And that's still the situation.Riri is excited to be facing ninjas, but her heroine Pepper points out that they're in deep trouble. When young Riri admits she hasn't any fighting abilities outside her armour Pepper advises her to run while she holds the enemy off. Riri doesn't want to abandon her but Pepper insists.She makes a dash for it when she spots an opening in the ranks. She may not be able to fight but she sure knows how to dodge and weave. Meanwhile Pepper uses judo-ish moves on the ninjas, and simple punches. Tomoe tries to blast Riri but there are so many ninjas she hits 1 of them instead.As she reaches a door Riri looks back and sees a ninja slash Pepper's leg. So she turns round and kicks a ninja in the back. He stumbles and (I think) causes another to stab 1 of his comrades in the back. She dives under another shot from Tomoe and grabs a fallen saber, only to be disarmed immediately. Avoiding 2 more ninjas she follows her saber over the edge of the roof and lands on a balcony. The 2 ninjas follow her but she throws a potplant at them and they fall off the balcony to their deaths below.Entering the apartment behind the balcony Riri sneaks past the oblivious owner and down the stairwell of the apartment block. She finds a young lad using his laptop and convinces him that it's important that he lets her borrow it. After dissing the guy's computer security she sets to work.Meanwhile Tomoe tells her ninjas to get out of the way and tags Pepper in the shoulder with a repulsor blast. And then they pause for a chat. Tomoe, who hates being called the Techno-Golem, wants to know all about the new Iron-person Ironheart. She doesn't believe Pepper's (true) claim to know nothing.Meanotherwhile Riri has got her Tony Stark AI copied into the laptop. When she describes what's happening Tony updates her on 'his' previous encounter with Tomoe in the last Invincible series. He admits that he has developed a virus to destroy the network which links Tomoe and her ninjas, but it's untested. Riri also asks for a replacement Iron-suit.At Stark Industries HQ Mary Jane Watson is showing the new CEO, Tony's birth mother Amanda Armstrong, the collection of old Iron Man armours when 1 of them steps out of its container, apologises, and jets off.The rooftop fight has resumed. Pepper has gained 2 lightsabers but Tomoe blasts her into a wall. The IM armour arrives just in time, but Tomoe just starts taking it to pieces. Riri has grabbed a fire extinguisher to defend herself against some approaching ninjas. She tells her companion to hit Enter when the AI tells him to. AI Tony yells "Now!". And nothing seems to happen ....


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This issue has an adventure of Riri Williams interspersed with episodes from her earlier life. I've separated everything out into time order.10 years ago, Riri is 5 in Chicago. Her worried parents have taken her to a child psychologist who says she's bored because she's a super-genius. He recommends sending her to a special school that will cater for her accelerated learning needs. But it will be her parents' job to keep Riri engaged with the normal world.5 years ago Riri is building something in the garage at home. Her mom tries to get her to eat and go out to play, but she begs for 5 more minutes to finish what she's doing. Mom leaves, but Riri notices a young girl on a bike watching her. The girl enters and asks what she's doing.Riri explains she's building a device for superheroes to use. When a hero is too busy heroing to do his normal stuff he'll press a button which will alert a bot at home to cover for him. And ask other heroes for help if necessary. But the device she has built so far is too big. She needs to miniaturise it - or even make it a skin tech-tattoo.The other girl is enthusiastic and says everyone would want 1, not just superheroes. They exchange names - the girl is Natalie. Mom looks in and is glad her little girl is making a friend.2 years ago in Marquette Park Riri and Natalie are having a barbecue with Riri's parents. The psychiatrist told her stepfather to tell Riri "it's a nice day", and he does it every day even if it isn't nice. She overheard him tell her mom he's worried that she'll grow up to be a supervillain if he doesn't.Suddenly there's the sound of a drive-by shooting. Pop dives to push the girls to the ground as mom runs over from the barbecue. But when it's over both he and Natalie are dead.Back in #7 of the previous series we saw 15-yr old Riri already studying at MIT but spending her time building her own 'Iron Man' armour which she completed in #9. A test flight of the clunky grey armour in #10 revealed the need for an AI to control it. In #11 she went public by stopping her 1st crime. In #12 Tony Stark heard about her and came to see her. We understand that he took her under his wing, and she appeared in Civil War II #4-5 as part of his 'army'. But she left with other young heroes in CWII#6.Now Riri is flying in the armour and mourning the fact that Tony is dead (presumably it happens in CWII#7-8) and has left her only part-trained. She wonders if she's supposed to be the new Iron Man.She's in Cheyenne, Wyoming where a monster is on the rampage. She traps it in a bubble of zero-point energy but then loads more appear, created by a young supervillain calling herself Animax.Riri asks the computer she's built in to her armour to look up info on Animax, but it's very slow. She still hasn't got an AI. It reports that Animax is a mutant who can create monsters from her own DNA. She has a short police record ending in being captured by the new Champions, and before that she fought the X-Men in Arizona. Animax complains that she came to Wyoming to avoid superheroes.A video of the X-fight shows them KO'ing Animax which makes her monsters disappear. Riri tries out a new armour facility. Her gloves detach and she sends them flying towards Animax, knocking her out. And as promised the monsters go away.Riri recalls her gloves and asks the cops if they need help cleaning up the mess. But 1 of them shoots at her and tries to arrest her. She pulls his gun from him by magnetism and then crushes it. And jets away.Back home Riri moans to her mother about the AI she can't afford for her armour. But then a courier arrives with a package for her. Inside is a hi-tech device with a 'push me' button. When activated it generates a hologram of Tony Stark. It's an AI version of himself which she can install in her armour.


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Last issue an unofficial 'suggestion' by SHIELD's Sharon Carter sent Ironheart to Latveria to confront Lucia Von Bardas who had just organised a bombing in the US. Now the 2 armoured females clash in midair.The Tony Stark AI says that he and SHIELD have no information on the capabilities of Bardas' armour. But a gesture which sends our heroine flying tells him she has a force field generator. Which he predicts could break apart Riri Williams' armour if it found an opening. Riri re-enters the fray to give the AI time to scan Lucia's system for weaknesses. But then she's attacked from behind by a horde of Doombots (the ones that look like armoured Von Doom).Back on a SHIELD helicarrier Commander Sharon Carter is mildly surprised that Ironheart actually took the job. And in Tony Stark's lab in New Jersey another avatar of his AI is also observing the proceedings alongside an avatar of the AI Friday that runs Stark Industries. She wants him to pull Riri out before she gets killed - Stark created his AI to protect her. AI Tony objects that he's supposed to *guide* Ms Williams, not control her.Mary Jane Watson enters and is surprised to find the 2 AI's using humanoid avatars to communicate with each other when there are no humans present. While Tony focuses on the Latverian situation Friday chats with MJ. 1st she assures Ms Watson that the 2 AIs aren't conspiring. But Friday does say that the Tony AI is very different from herself. *She* is just a program designed to do a job, but that job includes presenting a humanoid interface and simulating human responses. Stark on the other hand is a copy of Tony Stark's personality with concomitant emotions. They converse as humanoid holograms because it makes Tony feel better. But she worries that he has no real body to ground his emotions. However she has observed that working with Riri is good for him.Meanwhile Ironheart has been holding off the Doombots with repulsor grenades (her own invention), but she's run out of them. She wants to know why she can't use the tactic that worked (in #2) in the training session when the AI sent a lot of old Iron Man armours against her - she stalled for time to invent a virus to take them all down. AI Tony says it won't work. His armours were linked in a network, but Von Bardas is controlling all the Doombots personally.But the AI has noticed that Bardas is sitting the conflict out because she's having repairs done on her armour. Ironheart must have damaged it. (It must have been between issues because we haven't seen her dishing anything out.) So the Doombots are merely a delaying tactic.Now Von Bardas returns to the fight after instructing her men to film the battle for propaganda purposes. Ironheart's armour appears to suffer a malfunction and she crashes to the ground. Lucia lands and leans in to take Riri's mask off. But our heroine was waiting for this and gives her opponent a full repulsor blast that sends her flying into the side of a truck.Ironheart gets up and walks through a hail of bullets to get to the fallen foe. Von Bardas says Ironheart has illegally invaded a foreign country and attacked its ruler - this means war. Riri counters that she's just taken over by right of conquest - she's now Queen of Latveria.


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Tony Stark's recently-discovered birth mother Amanda Armstrong is watching videos of the life of her son (we see news footage him as Iron Man fighting the Controller, but she also has family videos of his personal life). Mary Jane Watson joins her for lunch.MJ mentions that she had met Tony long before he hired her as his executive assistant. But he didn't remember even though they slept together - only joking! It was when she was a supermodel. Iron Man and Whiplash crashed onto a catwalk in front of her. Later Tony crashed the after-party with his Iron bodyguard in tow to apologise. Back then he always pretended he wasn't IM himself, but MJ says she wasn't fooled and she thinks *most* people weren't - he obviously had the armour running on remote at the party.Tony started chatting MJ up but soon they began talking properly. They compared notes on fathers. MJ's was abusive and she ran away as soon as she could. Howard Stark was distant and Tony got out too. MJ commented on Tony's drinking, but he claimed he could handle it. She asked if the stress of being Shellhead drove him to drink. He tried denying that again but had to admit that a poll showed only 44% of people believed his story - and he stopped pretending in this conversation. MJ said if she had a suit like that she'd prefer flying to drinking. Tony admitted he really drank just because he wanted too. MJ commented "just like my dad". They parted on good terms.Ironheart drops in, and when they tell her what they were talking about Riri Williams says *she* met Tony a while ago too, during the Skrull Secret Invasion. The guy who was going to be her stepdad took young Riri out for the day but when they came out of the mall there were alien spaceships in the Chicago sky. Then a Skrull Thor menaced them until they were whisked out of harm's way by Iron Man. He dropped them off and went back to fighting Skrull versions of Captain America, Hulk and Phoenix. Riri noticed 1 of IM's jetboots was malfunctioning, and the young genius reckoned she could fix it. But current Riri asks the Stark Industries AI Friday to confirm that the incident was just 1 of many such saves in Iron Man's busy life.Friday responds by showing them scenes from Tony Stark's personal files (which his mother can authorise access to). She shows them some of the things he doesn't tell the world about. We see him capturing Blackout and Friday tells them that Tony secretly funded a rehabilitation program for him, as he does for all the foes he can. Also, when he learned he was adopted and went looking for his real mother (in the International Iron Man series) he visited many orphanages. Since then his Foundation has been funding *those* too. And he often visited to hug babies as an antidote to his troubled world.Of course that was before (as Friday reminds us on the opening page) he was put in a medically induced coma (to recover from his injuries in Civil War II). Amanda asks her to check that the orphanages are still OK. And she wants to make her son's good deeds public. But the AI goes quite for a long time, and then says Tony Stark has gone - not dead but gone.Next issue starts the search for Tony Stark. It also switches to #593 which presumably reflects where the original series would have reached if it hadn't kept restarting with new #1's.


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We begin with a look at what's happening at Stark Industries. CEO Eric Lynch from the previous series is back. Then he tried to take control of the company because Tony Stark was pretending to be dead. Now he's making the same move because Stark is in a coma since Civil War II. And this time he's not going to let the AI Friday and Mary Jane Watson stop him.But this time they have another card to play. In this circumstance Tony's living will takes effect. And he changed it after he found his birth mother (in International Iron Man). She now has power of attorney and so she runs the company.They take Lynch to meet Amanda Armstrong in Stark's private lab - which even Lynch doesn't have access to. They find he playing her guitar and singing. Lynch feels he recognises her. And when she reveals her stage name Amanda Strong he's starstruck because he's a big fan. She shoos him out with a mixture of friendliness and firmness.But when he's gone she tells Friday to keep on running the place. And she tells Mary Jane that they're going find someone to take on the role of Iron Man. But the other 2 inform her that Tony already had a protégé Riri Williams. She built her own armour, and Tony sent her an AI version of himself to help.In Chicago Riri is putting the finishing touches to a sleeker red & gold armour to replace her bulky grey version. She tells AI Tony that she's having trouble coming up with a superhero name. She rejects as sexist anything that indicates a female version of the original, including the AI's suggestion Fe-Male (Fe being the chemical symbol for iron).Tony then realises that she has no friends to bounce ideas off, not since Natalie Washington died. As they continue the conversation we see Riri flying around in the armour and fighting villains. He says its not healthy to have no friends, and that she mustn't have survivor's guilt over the shooting of her friend and father. And he wonders if the armour is a way of protecting herself from the cruel random world.When Riri mentions that the 2 were shot through the heart the AI comes up with Ironheart as a name. While she's mulling that idea over they are joined by Pepper Potts in her Rescue armour, who's been following them undetected.Pepper is disturbed to see the AI hologram of Tony Stark. She won't tell Riri why she and Tony fell out, except that it was very personal. But she tries to warn her off becoming a superhero. Although she's impressed when Riri stands up to her.Then 1 of the dangers Pepper warned of happens as an 'old' Iron Man foe strikes. Their armours break into pieces and fly off them to reform as bulkier armour around another figure. Accompanied by sword-wielding techno-ninjas.


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SHIELD has been keeping a serious spy eye on Riri Williams. A briefing to Executive Director Sharon Carter gives us a rundown on the life of teen genius Riri and her current options of returning to MIT, having free rein in Tony Stark's personal lab, and joining the Champions. 1 of SHIELD's major concerns is the Tony Stark AI that advises her, and what it might do if it went rogue.

As she suits up as Ironheart for a morning patrol Riri herself is wondering just how much of an independent person the AI is. The AI is evasive and changes the subject to her choices. Riri avoids that by engaging a villain in battle - Will O' The Wisp who has smashed his way into a Roxxon facility.

The AI tells Ironheart about the enemy's ability to control his own density. But Riri is more interested in Tony's opinion on which choice she should make rather than concentrating on the fight. And super-dense Will O' The Wisp knocks her out. The AI has to take over the armour to take her to safety.

Riri wakes up in the New York Stark lab with Amanda Armstrong (Tony's mother and CEO of Stark Industries while he's in a coma), Mary Jane Watson (Tony's PA when he wasn't in the coma) and Friday (the AI who really runs the company). AI Tony joins them and says the Avengers have dealt with the situation - but only to the extent of holding Will O' The Wisp off while Roxxon safely hid what the foe was trying to steal (whatever that was).

Amanda tries to bolster Riri's confidence. And AI Tony tells her he admires her. And that human Tony saw her as a daughter he was unlikely to have in his Iron Man life. Friday brings things down to earth by suggesting Riri learn from the armour's recording of her mistakes. And AI Tony adds that next time it might not just be a minor foe like Will O' The Wisp.

Meanwhile Sharon Carter is at a gala benefit at the Smithsonian Museum when she is approached by Geraldo Lucky (from last issue). Carter isn't interested in what an international arms/drugs dealer has to say, unless he wants to give himself up for arrest. But her interest rises dramatically when he mentions he's just helped Lucia von Bardas regain control of Latveria (again last issue).

Lucky tells her Von Bardas wants them all dead, and then collapses on the floor. Sharon fires her gun in the air to get the crowd's attention and tell them to evacuate the building. And then Mr Lucky explodes violently.

Back in her garage workshop Riri is as usual scanning multiple news channels while she works. When she hears about the bomb she suits up and flies off immediately.


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Mrs Williams (still no name) is worried about her 15-year old daughter being the armoured superhero Ironheart, even though she's older than her years. She knows that she can't stop her but just hopes she can guide her a bit. She tries to talk about it with the Tony Stark AI in Riri's garage workroom but gets no reply.

The AI is currently busy in Chicago with de-armoured Riri. They are facing Tomoe and her techno-ninjas along with Pepper Potts. Tomoe has done her shtick of mentally taking over the IH armour and Pepper's Rescue suit and combining them into her own large armour. Now another 'Iron Man' has shown up and challenged Tomoe, but she just sees that as another resource to commandeer.

Meanwhile Riri did her own commandeering and used the laptop of a local boy to write a virus in concert with the AI. The AI is also piloting the IM suit. Riri held off a couple of techno-ninjas with a fire extinguisher while the boy was supposed to hit Enter when the AI told him to - as Tomoe was dismantling 'Iron Man'. But nothing seemed to happen - cliffhanger.

Now we find that the confused boy hasn't obeyed orders, until Riri shouts "Now!" at him. Then she rushes outside to see Tomoe finishing taking the IM armour apart and being shocked to find no Tony Stark inside. (Apparently the Techno-Golem just figured that Tony had got over whatever his current problem was.)

For a few seconds as Tomoe adds the new armour to her own the virus still seems not to have worked. But then Tomoe's suit suffers rejection and violently breaks into pieces. And phase 2 of the virus kicks in and infects all the cybernetically linked ninjas, incapacitating them.

However it's not all over yet. Tomoe is still up and about, and approaches menacingly with 1 of her ninja's light sabres. Riri grabs another 1 and manages to switch it on. All is set for a duel as the villainess asks if the heroine knows how to use a sword. Riri remembers her stepfather offering to teach her to fence. Now she regrets being too busy with her inventing to take him up on it.

Tomoe leaps in to the unequal fight. Then an iron glove knocks her out. Pepper has regained mental control of the pieces of her armour.

Now the Rescue and Ironheart suits reform around their mistresses, as SHIELD turn up. Apparently Pepper's armour is classed as a weapon of war and is fitted with a lojack alarm to tell SHIELD if it gets taken over by anyone else. She figures that SHIELD will insist on the same thing being done to Ironheart.

SHIELD Commander Sharon Carter gratefully takes receipt of the Techno Golem and her biohack ninjas. She knows who Riri Williams is and remembers that she was 1 of Iron Man's group who attacked the SHIELD Triskelion HQ (Civil War II #5), and accuses her of wearing stolen property. (Riri 'borrowed' stuff from MIT to build her 1st suit in the previous IM series, but this 1's been created with Tony Stark's resources.)

Pepper and Sharon are shocked to learn that Riri is only 15. But Carter still offers a job as a SHIELD trainee. Riri violently rejects that and Carter accuses her of supporting Hydra. Riri says that black and white view is part of what she doesn't like about SHIELD, and their habit of abusing their power even if for good cause.

Riri and Pepper agree to meet sometime to continue their conversation interrupted by Tomoe in #3. Riri sarcastically guesses that SHIELD will eavesdrop. With that she makes her exit. But not before meeting Tomoe's glare from her (hopefully Golem-proof) confinement box.

Pepper and Sharon exchange words. The unfortunate helpful local boy gets arrested by SHIELD despite his protestations of innocence. And there's a gratuitous cameo by Deadpool in the background.

Later Mrs Williams finds exhausted Riri asleep in her armour in the garage. Mom insists her daughter disinfect her (minor) wounds, while Riri is more worried about disinfecting the suit from Techno-Golem viruses. They dismiss her passing out as natural (but maybe it's foreshadowing). Riri is more worried than her mother was about getting no answer from the Stark AI ...

... which is currently in Tony's New York lab with his company's AI Friday. She's surprised to find him taking holographic human form when there are no humans about. But he says because he's a digital copy of an actual person (unlike Friday) he is used to having a body and misses it.

Friday asks about Riri Williams but Tony says he's though of a better way to protect the good from the bad. "I'm sure you've come to the same logical conclusion yourself ... it's the humans." (Now that is foreshadowing.)


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The search for Tony Stark part 4
Last issue Iron Maiden (Melina Vostokoff) plus help was hired by Stark Enterprises to take possession of Ironheart's armour, and anything else derived from Stark technology. It looked then as though she'd talked them out of it because of the bad publicity (she's recording everything). But now she seems to use a different argument and loses.Riri Williams suddenly changes from defiant to compliant. She says they've got her bang to rights without the missing Tony Stark to back her up, and surrenders her armour. Her mother tries to stop her but Riri says she doesn't want to risk a fight in their neighbourhood. They somehow take the Tony Stark AI hologram too, which has been inactive since the end of the issue. (We know it's because the AI's attention is elsewhere.)Riri's friendly neighbour Xavier King is with her. She apologises for the scene, but young Xavier says it's the most exciting day of his life. His mother calls him to come home, but he says he'll be back later. And Riri tells *her* mom that she's got backups for all the software they took anyway.Also last issue Hood came after Victor Von Doom with Corruptor and Living Laser as backup. They lay in wait for him at his house in the South of France. Hood shot him with 2 magic explosive bullets while he was out of his Iron Man armour.But now we see Doom fight back with defensive and offensive black magic. (Hood gave Victor plenty of time last issue to work up a plan by boasting about what he was going to do.) Laser tries to get a shot in (contrary to Hood's plan, whatever that was) but Doom lays him low. Hood shoots again, and Corruptor seems to be emitting rays from his eyes (which is *not* what he does).But Victor now uses mystic mind-control to force Parker Robbins to point 1 of his guns at his own head. Hood struggles to resist the command to pull the trigger. Meanwhile Jackson Day has moved behind Von Doom (seeming to teleport there - *another* power he doesn't possess). Now he grabs Victor's head and uses his *real* power. Skin contact allows psycho-chemicals to take control of *Victor*'s mind. (Doom had been ignoring Day, assuming him beneath his notice.)Corruptor thinks he has the great Dr Doom at his mercy. But Victor still controls *Hood*'s mind, and he makes him shoot Jackson Day in the head. Doom now armours up as Hood shoots at him again. But a spell makes Parker Robbins dissolve away.Another thing that happened last issue was that Tony Stark (probably) was lying somewhere in an old Iron Man suit having hallucinations. This time he sees his father Howard Stark sitting at a grand piano having a drink. Howard wants to know why he's just lying there not asking for help. Tony says he got himself into this mess (by continually experimenting with his body) and he doesn't want to burden any of his friends with it. Dad asks again, and Tony claims he doesn't *need* help.Tony then deflects the questioning by asking Howard why he never told him he was adopted. He claims that 'dad' stood by and watched him struggle with his demons and take refuge in alcohol, when if he told him the truth everything might have been alright. Howard dismisses that as a rationalisation, and adds that his wife Maria colluded in the deception - but Tony thinks *she* could do no wrong.Howard says he *is* Tony's father in the ways that count. He raised him. He *protected * him from the truth about his villainous (as we learnt in International Iron Man #7) biological father. He gave him the Stark name and fortune, and the opportunity to make the most of his engineering brilliance. Compared with all that being adopted was irrelevant.Tony starts to come to his senses, but Howard's parting remark is that there are lots of people who would gladly help him - so why doesn't he call for any of them? As Tony sinks back into unconsciousness again he calls out for Rhodey. (But he *should* know James Rhodes is dead - it happened before his coma.)The last thing that happened last issue was that the AI Friday summoned AI Tony to Stark HQ because she suspected he/it knew where Tony Stark is. Now he's taking Friday, Mary Jane Watson (Tony's PA) and Amanda Armstrong (Tony's real mother) to New Jersey (on a flying platform fronted by the head and shoulders of an IM armour).He claims not to actually *know* where Stark is, but now that they've asked him directly he's been able to detect the likeliest place. It's an abandoned-looking building, presumably owned by Stark or his company, that is noticeable because the AIs can't scan inside it - which is what tipped him off.The door appears to be locked. But when Friday examines it and cracks it's security it turns intangible and they just walk through it. Inside they find a secret lab, and an Iron Man armour lying on the floor. It's presumably the correct 1, but when Amanda removes the helmet there's no-one inside. But they see fresh footprints leading away. They assume Tony's alive and was here very recently.Last scene:- Riri rings someone (probably MIT) to accept their offer (see the most recent #6). But she's interrupted by the arrival of Blade (the vampire hunter) with an alternative proposal.


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The search for Tony Stark part 7
We're back to Riri Williams doing the recap, reminding us that Tony Stark's missing, she's been subbing for him as Ironheart and Dr Doom is going by the nom-de-armour Iron Man these days. Loads of people have been searching for Tony lately but last issue he contacted Riri and some others and told them to stop looking. Also someone aims to set up a replacement for the disbanded SHIELD, and Riri guesses it's Tony.Meanwhile in Amara Perera's apartment in Boston Victor Von Doom is recovering from his injuries (he was attacked by Hood's gang in the past 4 issues). He asks about their unborn child but Amara continues to insist she doesn't want him involved. Victor in turn says he will give her whatever the child needs and ask for nothing in return. Then he mystically summons his armour and just as magically vanishes. When he's gone Amara confides to the baby inside her that she reluctantly loves the man.Tony Stark's birth mother Amanda Armstrong is staying at the Sofitel Hotel in New York, sitting on her balcony. She gets a(nother) visit from Mary Jane Watson who tells her that Eric Lynch is going to sue Amanda for hitting him with her guitar (#594). And also that Lynch and the rest of the Stark Industries Board are going to take control of the company away from Amanda on Monday if Tony doesn't show up.After MJ has gone Amanda gets a phone call from Tony, just to warn her that he's coming to see her. She looks up and Iron Man is hovering in front of her. He lands and de-armours. He tries to explain why he's been absent, but she's more concerned why he's wearing a wig and false beard. And it turns out also false moustache and eyebrows. The medical stuff he's been through has left him (temporarily) completely hairless (as we saw in #593 and later). He says he wanted her to recognise him.Tony explains that enhancements he made to his body saved his life (in Civil War II) but it could only work once. And those enhancements were somehow bad as well, so he 'rebooted' his system to get rid of them. (It's unclear to me whether the coma he was in was part of the enhancements saving his life or part of the reboot.)But he also says unfortunately he's got to go now. He's got a long flight and he gives her a communicator and asks her to tell him about his biological father while he's en route. Then he armours up again and jets off.We now move to Eric Lynch in the Stark Industries Boardroom on the phone to MJ telling her that he's going to sue Miss Armstrong and that the Board have voted to take the Company on Monday if Tony Stark no-shows. (But up above it seemed he'd already told her all this!)But we haven't time to think about that because the Hood has teleported in. He came to ask why Dr Doom was pretending to be Iron Man (to which Lynch doesn't know or care about the answer). But now that he's overheard about the hostile takeover he wants in (and not just because he's a very minor stockholder).While Iron Man flies away from New York Amanda starts to tell him about the imminent takeover. But the AI Friday chimes in to say she's already brought her boss up to speed on everything. Tony still wants to know about his father. All his life he'd been fighting what he thought was his genetic heritage from Howard Stark. But since his near-death he's become more interested in what he might have inherited from his real father.Iron Man is flying over Washington as Amanda tells him his dad was Thor. The joke has the desired shock effect. Then she reminds Tony that dad was a SHIELD Agent who was really working for Hydra. She found out about Hydra while she was pregnant, and killed him in self-defence. He was a bad guy, but also very smart and very handsome. Tony reckons he definitely inherited the last 2 parts.Over Arlington National Cemetery he asks why exactly she killed him. Amanda replies that Jude was going to give the child to Hydra. And after Tony was born she worried about Hydra coming after him, and Howard Stark offered to help hide the child. (But this doesn't jibe completely with her story in International Iron Man #7, and her memory now seems to show her killing Jude with scissors in his neck only because he was a traitor who betrayed fellow Agents to their deaths.)Tony asks why Jude worked for Hydra. His mother says Hydra had a persuasive pitch then. She agrees that Jude believed in what he did. Tony says he's trying to justify to himself a selfish decision. And we see him standing over the grave of James Rhodes.Now at last we join Ironheart with fellow armoured heroes Toni Ho (in a variant of her Iron Patriot armour), Madison Jeffries and Arno Stark. Last issue they came to a warehouse in Paramus New Jersey hoping to find Tony but instead burst in on villainess Ceres Goldstein. Riri is sure they were sent on a wild goose chase and demands to know who Toni and the others are working for (the mystery SHIELD-replacement guy). Madison says they don't know, but Toni says she knows enough to know the job's important.But just then Ironheart and Iron Patriot's boot jets take them into the air, and they didn't initiate it. Toni says the mystery boss has taken control of their armour, which Riri protests should be impossible for hers. A voice breaks in to greet them and confirm Toni's theory. Then they meet the mystery man who claims to be *the* 15th/16th Century Leonardo da Vinci, who claims to have been 1 of the original founders of SHIELD.Back on the balcony Amanda Armstrong is remembering stabbing Jude again. When he walks in alive. She's not surprised but annoyed because she said they had a deal. 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The search for Tony Stark: Finale
This issue is narrated throughout by the Tony Stark AI who reminds us of all the plotlines that have led here.He's based in Ironheart's armour and was created by Tony Stark to help Riri Williams grow into her role. But he was also created as a faithful copy of Stark's mind without a human body to temper his ego.For years Stark had been upgrading his own body/DNA to keep pace with his evolving armour. When he should have died (at the end of Civil War II) these enhancements saved his life but put him in a coma while his body 'rebooted'.Tony's best bud James Rhodes/War Machine was also killed (at the start of CWII). We saw in previous issues that Tony really missed Rhodey's help while he was recovering. Now he figures that if he can come back from death maybe Rhodey can too. Last issue we saw him in Iron Man armour standing over Jim's grave. The voiceover confirms that Tony dug him up. (But strangely we see James in armour too. Surely he wasn't buried in it?)Tony blames himself for his friend's death - he is responsible for Rhodey getting into the armoured superhero biz. On the other hand Jim was a soldier who died a heroic death against big bad Thanos. He might not want to come back, especially with the risk of being a zombie. But he has so much to come back to, including the love of Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel. (The AI marvels at the world humans have created which has such moral quandaries in it.)Whatever, Stark goes ahead and does it. And Jim Rhodes wakes up. His immediate reaction is to ask why he's hairless. So is Tony - it was a side-effect of his reboot process and so presumably that's what happened to Jim. (Ignoring the fact that his body should have started decomposing by now. Unless that's a side-effect of being buried in superhero armour?) Tony checks Jim's not a zombie by asking if he craves brains.Stark's AI assistant Friday makes a cameo app asking why Tony didn't let her help.The Tony AI takes us next to catch up with Ironheart. But 1st he muses how all the AI's in the culture Stark was brought up in always tried to kill or rule mankind. This AI's Tony-ego certainly tempted him down that path (as hinted at in #5 of the preceding Iron Man series).AI Tony reminds us how Riri Williams was guided to team up with Toni Ho (Iron Patriot) and a couple of other armoured heroes to help look for real Tony. And last issue the pair were led to meet the man behind the scenes - Leonardo da Vinci. Now he assures them he *is* *that* Leonardo. Riri and Toni want to know how come he's alive and not ancient, but he just claims to be a master of space and time.What's more important is that he helped found SHIELD and then let it evolve into its own thing. Now that SHIELD has been disbanded (again) (after being corrupted by Hydra in Secret Empire), he's starting up a replacement.On a tour of the facilities they run into Blade, who da Vinci sent to recruit Ironheart in #596. He's overseeing the martial arts training of some other recruits (who Marvel Wiki informs us are Cloud 9, Reptil, Striker and Trauma of Avengers Initiative and/or Academy). Riri figures her armour makes martial arts irrelevant for her, until Blade takes her down.Then Miles Morales joins them with his parents Rio Morales and Jefferson Davis. (For some reason Cable is with them.) Although his parents know he's (a) Spider-Man he appears not to want them to know about him being in the Champions with Riri. Cue much whispering between the Miles and Riri as they exchange info about the situation.The Tony AI's next stop is with Tony's birth mother Amanda Armstrong, ex rock star and Agent of SHIELD. Tony's real father was another SHIELD Agent Jude who really worked for Hydra. She killed him to protect her unborn child who she then gave up for adoption (by Howard and Maria Stark). But last issue Jude turned up alive and wants to see his son.Amanda rings Tony (who just left her to dig up Rhodey so the resurrection can't have taken *too* much time) to ask him to come back for something important. Jude claims Hydra saved/resurrected him but he's been operating behind the scenes since then to maintain the fiction of his death. Amanda assumes he's here to kill her now, but he says he's had opportunities to do that before and not taken them. Amanda wants to know what he wants with Tony. And someone arrives who wants to know the answer to that question too.But the AI switches our attention to Eric Lynch on Tony Stark's yacht. Lynch is scheduled to take over Stark Enterprises tomorrow but he's being pressured by Hood and a lawyer (and Hood's gang led by Wrecker) to give the villain Power of Attorney, and then resign as CEO to give Hood control. Hood hates Stark and Victor von Doom (currently in the role of Iron Man), who he mistakenly believes are working together. He expects this will mess up their 'plan'. And he intends to turn SE into his own criminal organisation.But just as Lynch is about to sign the yacht is attacked by a horde of Dr Doom's and/or Doombots of various types. Some of the Doom-alikes turn out to be illusions. Hood uses magic to find the real 1 ...... but then Iron Man, War Machine and a load of remote-controlled old IM armours join the fight. Hood still targets Victor von Doom in *his* Iron Man armour. Tony rescues him and asks why Victor is impersonating him. Victor is just surprised Tony's alive. Several armours target Hood as Tony gets Amanda's message.The AI Tony psychoanalyses Doom for us. His witch mother messed him up and then got sent to Hell. Victor conquered the universe (sort-of, in Secret Wars III) and then discovered it wasn't worth it. He then turned to the side of light and took on the role of the missing Iron Man.But now Hood in demon-mode has blasted War Machine out of the sky with magic. Tony dives to save his friend but demon-Hood grabs him by the leg and his magic invades IM's systems. Rhodey has recovered but before he can act Iron Doom rockets demon-Hood into the stratosphere.The battle is mostly over. Stark and Rhodes confront Eric Lynch who resigns from the Stark Enterprises Board and promises to go away. Tony then jets off to see what his mom wants.Doom and Hood continue to fight in the sky. Hood thanks Victor for leading him down this path. He never would have thought of taking over SE. Now he can use the company to turn the world against superheroes. The old Doom would love the idea. Doom fights back and Hood's voice says that Parker Robbins is just a body he's borrowed. If Doom kills this 1 then he'll take over another - such as Stark. But Doom doesn't stop. The demon begins to panic because Victor is using spells too powerful for mortals. It fights back in desperation asking von Doom why he's fighting for the heroes. And the battle reaches a crescendo.But we leave it and return to Amanda and Jude. They have been interrupted by Mary Jane Watson, Stark's executive assistant. Amanda explains that this is Tony's father who has made her call Tony into a trap. Jude now has a gun so MJ shoots him in the shoulder with a hi-tech light weight weapon Stark gave her. So now Hydra goons drop in from a hovering troop carrier.But MJ isn't alone. Ironheart, Iron Patriot and her 2 armoured pals (1 of them is Madison Jeffries) bring the fight to Hydra alongside Spider-Miles, Blade, Cable and another armoured figure. Jude is about to shoot Amanda in the back when Iron Man and War Machine arrive and blast him. Colonel James Rhodes also calls in the military.Amanda tells Tony Jude is his father, and he obviously wasn't dead (and he isn't now). Riri explains that the extra armoured figure is Leonardo da Vinci. (Her 2nd armoured pal doesn't take his helmet off or speak so Tony doesn't appear to know it's his brother Arno Stark.) The other Champions Hulk (Amadeus Cho), Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan) and Viv Vision appear to have also been in the battle. (Nova (Sam Alexander) isn't with them but he leaves the team in an imminent issue. I don't know why Wasp (Nadia Pym) isn't here unless she's too small to see.)Riri also tells Tony that Leonardo has a plan for the future, and Stark wants in. But he still also wants to know why Victor von Doom was playing Iron Man.AI Tony takes us 1 last time to see Doom's lacerated body crawl within the ruins of his Latverian castle. His face is scarred again, possibly worse than it was pre-SWIII (because we don't actually know how bad that was or wasn't). Energy cloaks the ruins.The AI says it's decided not to take over the world to save humans from themselves. He enjoys the suspense of not knowing the future. What's Jude been doing and what does he want? Will Leonardo's big idea work? What will Rhodey, Riri and her Armour Squad do? What about Doom's unborn son (we haven't seen Amara Perera this issue)? But because he's an accurate copy of Tony he *knows* what Tony's future is. (And how much of this will be followed up by Dan Slott in the new series?)Then we get a glimpse of (a) future. In 2099 Eva Bell (Tempus of the X-Men) visits a mansion to be met by Wagner, a besuited Nightcrawler who doesn't know her. She pushes past him a demands to see the (female) Doctor. But Dr Strange is a man. But he's not Stephen Strange. He's Dr Anthony Stark, Sorcerer Supreme.


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The search for Tony Stark part 1
In the Stark International facility in Dover, New Jersey Tony Stark is lying in a coma in a containment vessel. He's been in there a while and his hair, beard and moustache have grown long. Someone touches the faceplate.The AI Friday gives us a rundown of the current situation, including some new bits of information. Tony's been in the coma since he was fatally injured at the end of Civil War II. She speculates that some secret changes to his body related to his Iron Man armour saved his life. (Surely she knows about Extremis so it can't be that.) But it's keeping him in the coma and she doesn't know how to get him out of it.Friday reminds us that teenage Riri Williams took over the IM role as Ironheart (the last Invincible IM series, or this 1 before the issue numbering changed - however you want to look at it). Her armour is run by Stark's consciousness in AI form (it's not been put *quite* like that previously), and that AI has started to have some worrying ideas.She also reminds us about the Infamous IM series where master villain Dr Doom has taken on the role and name of Iron Man to redeem himself as a hero.Tony's recently-found birth mother Amanda Armstrong is introducing the Annual Tony Stark International Sciences Expo. Tony would normally do it but as they all know he's indisposed. And Amanda promises that anyone here who has invented a way of waking him up will be guaranteed winner of the show. But whatever, in his honour she wants this to be the best Expo ever.And in the absence of Tony as Iron Man she introduces Ironheart, fresh from her success as temporary Queen of Latveria (the latest #9-10). Riri revels in the applause, but the Tony Stark AI warns her not to let it go to her head like Simon Williams (no relation).Mary Jane Watson, who organised this whole thing, is watching from the wings when she is approached by Eric Lynch chairman of the SI board of directors. He tells her that the board is tired of an ex-supermodel (MJ) and ex-rock star (Amanda) wasting the company's money. They're taking control of the company.Just then she gets an emergency text from the Dover facility.Cut to the other half of this combined operation. An FBI Agent has arrived to investigate a massive prison break from Ryker's Island. Warden Mosley claims that now that SHIELD has been disbanded they haven't got the staff or power to keep all these super-baddies in jail. Especially after Victor Von Doom dressed as Iron Man recently supplied them with dozens of top supervillain inmates (in the InfIM series). (Those guys were planning a break in InfIM#12, so presumably they did it.)He must be able to hear when his name is spoken anywhere because Doctor D chooses that moment to drop in. The lawmen almost piss themselves despite Doom saying he's just come for a list of escapees. But Thing is there too and wants to arrest him. Victor points out that SHIELD hired Ben to pursue him, so he can stop now SHIELD is gone. But Ben Grimm says he doesn't need anyone to tell him to hunt down his mortal enemy. Doom's next ploy is to say that the escapees were the villains he captured (I thought he needed a list), so they'll be after his blood and Ben needn't bother.Thing responds with a speech along the lines of:- No matter how much good Doom does no-one will forgive him for his past. He may wear the armour but he's *not* Iron Man. But even if he *does* convince people he's changed his spots, Victor himself will know what he is inside. He could have matched the calibre of Reed Richards, but he just didn't have it in him.Doom just teleports away.Amanda, Friday, MJ and Riri have come to Stark Dover where they find that Tony's body is missing from the medical pod. Friday doesn't respond when Riri asks about security footage, so presumably it doesn't show what happened. Instead she says that Stark has wavotech implants that she can access, but she can't find him anywhere in the world. She reassures the others this doesn't mean he's dead because she would still be able to detect them. Someone somehow has stopped them transmitting to her. She doesn't seem to consider that his body could have been completely destroyed. But she does offer the possibility that maybe Tony has taken *himself* off the grid for reasons of his own.All the while the others have been asking who they should call. Friday says she's already alerted his friends. We see lots of superheroes chasing down leads, which mainly seems to consist of beating up bad guys. But she ends by suggesting they could call Victor Von Doom.The issue ends somewhere else. A naked hairless man staggers out of a mist-filled room, falls, and drags himself towards some suits of Iron Man armour. He puts on Tony's favourite fallback Model 4 armour and curls up into a foetal position.This issue includes 3 pages of historical background.Tony Stark's long career gets 1 page. 4 panels cover Iron Man's origin. (Millionaire playboy arms manufacturer gets injured in a conflict zone and captured by a terrorist who wants him to create weapons. Instead Tony creates the prototype Iron Man armour to stop shrapnel in his heart from killing him and to allow him to escape.) 1 panel then shows him looking at his array of old armours and says he's changed from warmonger to superhero.Riri Williams gets 2 pages. The precocious teen built her own armour at MIT and became a hero. 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The search for Tony Stark part 2
The story this time actually starts on the splash page with Ironheart's message to Iron Man (Victor Von Doom). She asks for his tech/sorcery help in finding Tony Stark's missing body. She says she's already tried Dr Strange but he's not in, and Reed Richards isn't around these days (possibly *not* the best strategy to win Victor's cooperation). Riri Williams also warns him that if he himself is responsible for the disappearance then she'll come after him.Riri walks out of the New Jersey Stark Industries facility where Tony was being kept, accompanied by Tony's mother Amanda Armstrong, his PA Mary Jane Watson and the techs who were looking after their comatose boss. The AI Friday hologram has vanished. Ironheart's armour's Tony Stark AI is trying to find a way to get the message to Doom, but so far with no success. Riri is thinking of going to Latveria to find Victor ...... but they find they have a more immediate problem. The Stark board of directors were unhappy with the company being run by Amanda, MJ and Friday. Now they send a mutant named David Bond (Hijack) to order them of this and any other Stark premises, and to take possession of Riri's armour.Hijack uses his power to take control of cars in the company car park - just as a demonstration. Ironheart takes to the air but he's ready for that - she's surrounded by hovering SI warcraft. Riri flies away but the VTOL copters give chase and fire missiles at her.We now cut away to an apartment in Detroit full of science stuff. Chemistro desperately searches for his old alchemy gun because Iron Doom has come for him. Doom's force field easily repels Calvin Carr's attack, and Victor wants to know who organised the breakout from Ryker's Island of all the supervillains he'd sent their during the Infamous Iron Man series. (The prison break happened between that series and this.) He's not sure he believes the reply that the mastermind was the Wrecker.Chemistro says they knew Doom would come after them. This is a trap, and more of the escapees smash their way into the room. (As well as Wrecker we see here:- Jigsaw, Razor-Fist, Slug, Vermin, Centurius, Living Laser, Constrictor, Griffin, Crossfire, Armadillo, Cutthroat, Corruptor (maybe), Answer, and a Brother Grimm. And in later pages:- Shockwave, Thunderball, Piledriver, Bulldozer, and Deathwatch (maybe).)Ironheart is still fighting the war-copters. AI Tony can't override Hijack's control of them. But suddenly they stop attacking her and start to crash into each other. AI Tony figures they're out of Hijack's control range.As she flies back to the Stark plant Riri calls up Mary Jane to let her know what's happened. MJ approaches Bond and maces him. (I don't know why she couldn't have done that earlier.) And Amanda socks him on the jaw.Doom meanwhile is still not answering Riri's message. He's too busy getting beaten up by the assembled baddies, who seem to be wise to all his weapons. Centurius claims to be blocking his teleportation attempts. (Presumably he used his enhanced mind to figure out countermeasures to that and other tech of Doom's. But what about Victor's sorcerous powers?)Wrecker knocks Doom's facemask off and they're astonished to see his unblemished face. Not that any of them had seen his scars, but they'd heard the legend and assumed he looked worse than Deadpool. Now they figure it was always a PR myth put about by Doom. As was maybe a lot of other stuff. Victor uses the lull to blast them all and fly away. (Someone says Shockwave is dead.)Wrecker has a new plan. They'll loot Latveria, which must be full of valuable stuff. Then they'll smash Doom's face for real. Then they'll kill him.The Stark Industries board is meeting and Eric Lynch (of course) offers to lead them into a bright future. Amanda and MJ crash the party. Amanda castigates them for not searching for her son, their boss. She has brought her electric guitar with her which she claims she used to hit Keith Moon and Paul Weller. Now she attacks Lynch with it and declares the meeting over.And somewhere the man in the old Iron Man armour is still lying on a floor where we left him last issue.


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The search for Tony Stark part 5
The opening page summary this issue is provided by Tony Stark's executive assistant Mary Jane Watson, who is with his mother Amanda Armstrong and his AI 'gal friday' Friday. She is broadcasting a message saying that Tony was in a coma but is now missing. (Last issue they found where he had been for the last few issues, but only his Iron Man armour - the man himself had gone.) She mentions that Victor Von Doom is calling himself Iron Man these days, but Tony's protégé Riri Williams (Ironheart) has had *her* armour confiscated by the Stark Industries Board of Directors. She asks Tony if he's listening to please come back and sort it all out.

That's all we'll see of these 3 this issue. And Tony Stark won't appear at all. The focus this time is on Ironheart and mostly Iron Doom.

We begin with Doom flying back to Latveria. He stops off at the pile of rocks which marks his mother's grave. He blames *her* for what he has become (Dr Doom that is), and claims that only Reed Richards saw the real him (presumably referring to the end of Secret Wars III). So he petulantly blasts the 'monument'. Then flies on to his ruined castle.

Meanwhile Riri has flown to MIT (using boot jets she presumably cobbled together after her armour was repossessed). She is greeted by the acting Dean who apologises for how she was thrown out of the University (after she 'borrowed' parts to make her 1st armour in the 2015 IM series). He's glad she's returning. (He keeps waffling on, ignoring her attempts to say why she's really here.) He realises she's a genius and they want to give her the chance to blossom, in an environment of like-minded people. We see a busy robotics/hi-tech gadgets lab.

When he learns that Stark's company has taken her armour the (unnamed) Dean quizzes Ms Williams about her creation. He establishes that she created the prototype on these premises. And although the later Ironheart armour was developed under Tony's guidance, it contains much of her own ideas. He says in that case it belongs to MIT, not Stark Industries. But when she gets it back they'll sign ownership over to *her*.

So Riri sends a signal to her armour and other stuff. At Chicago's Midway International Airport Iron Maiden and her men are loading their crates of goodies onto a plane when they are opened from the inside. The Ironheart armour and other mobile objects break out and fly away.

Back at MIT Riri reveals that what she really came here for was to ask for help finding Tony Stark. But it turns out that 3 members of the lab group are already on the job:- Toni Ho (who used to be Iron Patriot) who's father Ho Yinsen helped build the prototype Iron Man suit and who's met Riri (during Secret Empire). Madison Jeffries (a mutant genius who used to inhabit/control the Box robot). Arno Stark, Tony's brother (except Tony was adopted into the family), another science whizz. Apparently *they* sent Blade (last issue) to send her here. But not for the Tony search, and they won't tell her the real reason why.

That's all for Ironheart. Now back to Iron Doom.

The Wrecker has got back together with his Wrecking Crew and they've come to Doom's castle for the treasure they've heard lies in the ruins. They find his lab and hope to pick up some of Victor's old inventions they can use or sell. They find his Time Cube but it's broken (it was still working at the end of Dark Avengers #4). They are attacked by guardian Doom Robots who quickly take down Bulldozer. The others fight back but the robots are booby-trapped, and an explosion gets Piledriver.

Wrecker and Thunderball call out for Dr Doom to face them himself. Victor appears but insists on being called Iron Man. The remaining duo do unusually well against their armoured foe. (Well, Wrecker and his crowbar *are* imbued with Asgardian magic, and Thunderball and his ball and chain share in that power.) But they stupidly give Von Doom time to recover, and his armour to recharge. And then Iron Doom easily bests them ...

... but only to find himself facing Hood and a gang of other villains who escaped from Ryker's Island in #593 (and who Doom had delivered to jail in Infamous Iron Man). They're here for revenge. Hood's magic bullets knock him down. And along with Wrecker the bad guys mercilessly beat him.


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The search for Tony Stark part 3
This issue's 'splash' page has Victor Von Doom with his Iron Man helmet off explaining the current situation to someone. The explanation for Tony Stark's coma is somewhat different than usual - that it is due to changes Stark made to his own biology (with no mention of the fight at the end of Civil War II). But now Tony's body is missing, and his company is under threat.Victor thinks in this situation it is even more important that he continues his role as Iron Man. And if Stark is dead he will enact revenge. But if he himself falls then his listener should contact Riri Williams (Ironheart).Said listener is Amara Perera and she is pointing a gun at him. Victor came here hoping to renew their relationship (from Infamous Iron Man) but then he notices that she has brought a vitamin supplement (or something) for pregnancy. And he vanishes away.The Tony Stark AI in Ironheart's armour has been trying to contact Doom via the Internet, but with no luck. Riri accuses him of not trying hard enough to help find the real Tony - maybe he *likes* being the only Tony Stark available. The AI diverts the conversation to Eric Lynch and the Stark Industries board trying to take over the company. And 1 of Ironheart's boot jets misfiring since her fight (presumably with Hijack last issue).Riri was flying to where she lives with her mother in Chicago. She reaches their street when the boot fails completely and she crashes in the road outside her house. A teen named Xavier King (who I guess is going to be a regular supporting character) from across the street asks Riri if she's OK, and now it's her turn to remove her helmet for a chat. They enter the garage and find ...... goons hired by the Stark board here to 'retrieve' what the board claims is stolen property - ie armour and other inventions she 'based' on Stark designs. Mrs Williams is being restrained by their leader Melina Vostokoff who we readers know better as Iron Maiden, another armoured character. Melina tries to calm things down but Riri says she's recording everything and will release it to the media. Vostokoff thinks the Stark board wouldn't like that, so they choose to leave.We now turn to the guy in the Iron Man armour from the end of last issue. It turns out he *is* (or at least thinks he is) Tony Stark but he's not feeling too well. He appears to be found by his (biological) mother Amanda Armstrong who carries him to a bed to rest. He confirms Victor's claim that he upgraded his body to survive being Iron Man but it all caught up with him. It was only his desire not to lose his mother now he has found her (see International Iron Man) that has brought him back from the coma.Amanda says Mary Jane Watson and loads of other folks have been looking for him. She's about to tell him something important about his real father when MJ arrives. Ms Watson phones some others - but she's armed and seems to expect danger. A lot of other superheroes join them, and Luke Cage says they had a guide to reach him - it's James Rhodes (who of course is dead).It was all a delusion, and the man in the armour falls back into unconsciousness.Victor Von Doom returns to his home in the South of France. But the Hood is waiting for him with Corruptor and Living Laser. Parker Robbins shoots Doom with both his guns, with explosive effect.Lastly we join the real Amanda Armstrong talking by video-link with some of the heroes who really *are* helping look for Tony, including Captain America (the returned good Steve Rogers) and Thor (Jane Foster). The real Mary Jane Watson has just got off the phone to the FBI. Nobody, including Stark's right-hand AI Friday, can find him. Amanda suspects Friday knows more than she's telling, but the AI assures her otherwise. But she has an idea ...... she calls the Tony AI to manifest a hologram form in their midst. She says he's a complete replica of Tony's consciousness and knows everything Tony knows, including what Tony doesn't want *them* to know. She accuses *him* of knowing where Mr Stark is. The AI admits it, but his defence for not telling them is that no-one *asked* him before.


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A blast from the past
Tony Stark's voiceover reminds us that he sold Stark Unlimited but then used the money to buy up dangerous black market superweapons. So now he'd reduced to living in his workshop in a deserted cab company in Jersey. And Feilong (Kelvin Heng) has acquired the company and is using it to build mutant-hunting Iron Sentinels. But Tony's also now a writer who documents events of his past life as they surface in his memory. The current memory is of his time in the Silver Centurion armour with the West Coast Avengers.We see Iron Man sparring with fellow members Hawkeye, Mockingbird, Tigra and Wonder Man. They defeat him and he gives in. We then learn that they're at a military base where they're testing a mind-control device which just forced the 4 to attack him viciously, but now they recover with no memory of what they did. But this demonstration was totally irrelevant to the reason General Dinger called them here, and the WCA all now leave to let IM return as Tony Stark who is the real person Dinger wants. (This of course is still in the era when Iron Man's civilian id was secret.)The General says he's not asking Stark to return to weapons design but for help protecting tech from being stolen, a situation he expects Stark to empathise with. He trusts Stark because he's helped on Project Deadbolt and the Magneto Protocols. This last is already being installed to protect the US against the Master Of Magnetism but it's still too bulky to be included in the Iron Man armour.The tech in question now is a psi-blocker like the 1 Magneto has in his helmet. The military have developed something similar but again still not small enough to be practical. And the prototypes were nearly stolen by someone who appeared to have Stark Enterprises credentials but turns out to be a complete fake id that's only 10 weeks old. He gives Tony  a case containing the prototypes and asks him and his armoured bodyguard to get them to Nick Fury.Tony flies by private jet to New York City. On the way he studies the fake credentials of 'scientist Hazel Kendal'. Dinger thinks she's a mutant telepath so Tony's instinct is to contact Charles Xavier or the Beast. But he promised to go to Colonel Fury so that's what he'll do. As he leaves the jet and flies down as Iron Man we see black-suited Spider-Man swinging by. Stark doesn't know why Fury didn't schedule a meet in the SHIELD helicarrier (which happens to be floating overhead) but in Hell's Kitchen. When they meet Fury claims it's because most of SHIELD isn't cleared for this project. But Nick calls IM 'Tony' which the real Fury doesn't know so Stark activates 1 of the prototypes he installed in his helmet ...... and 'Nick Fury' is revealed to be Emma Frost/White Queen. He pulls out some handcuffs and 'arrests' her while she flirts with him. But there's a reason for her choice of meeting place. It's above the Bar With No Name which is frequented by supervillains who she's now mentally controlling. Dr Octopus and Stilt-Man assault him followed by the Rhino who Shellhead downs with a spinning manhole cover. Then the unpowered Turk Barrett hits him with a fire extinguisher. Emma speaks through the thug to remind IM not to use excessive force on a civilian, so he blasts the extinguisher open to cover his foe in foam. WQ organises a combined attack by Hydro-Man and Sandman to encase the Armoured Avenger in concrete while Electro zaps him. But he breaks his arms and body free to KO Electro and Sandman with repulsor blasts and freezes Hydro-Man with liquid nitrogen. Then he uses a magnetic bolo to trip Stilty up. But his legs are still trapped in concrete when Doc Ock tries again and 1 of his metal arms smashed the side of IM's helmet with the psi-blocker in. Emma takes the briefcase and then compels him to forget about her ... but he somehow remembers.Back in the present War Machine (Jim Rhodes) has brought some weapons he stealthily 'stole' from Tony's cache (presumably the store of weapons he bought on the black market, which Bethany Cabe is guarding for him). Rhodey warns him that whether he succeeds or fails he'll be branded a criminal. But Tony says he can't let his tech be used in Sentinels so he has to destroy Stark Unlimited.