Synopsis
Last issue Iron Man turned up at Hyperion's motel room looking for him, but found instead the teen girl Doll that Hype saved from her carnie Family.
Now Marcus Milton gets back to find Tony Stark waiting to arrest him for killing Sub-Mariner (Squadron Supreme #1). Marc responds by punching the Golden Avenger out of the building. But IM comes right back and takes Hyperion into the skies. Marc wins the fight but Stark uses dark radiation to cut him off from the solar radiation which powers him.
Powerless and trapped in a forcefield, Marc has to talk to Tony. He counters Stark's talk of justice by pointing out that Namor was a mass murderer who needed killing. (During his time with the Cabal in the lead-up to Secret Wars they destroyed many alternate Earths to safeguard this 1, Earth-616. And while in the Illuminati he blew up the Earth of Squadron Supreme member Dr Spectrum. But he was not responsible for the end of Hyperion's own Earth.) Tony decries the cycle of violence such an eye-for-an-eye system leads to.
The argument is interrupted when Doll hits Iron Man with a thrown can. And even more so when Hype's lover Thundra hits him with her mace-on-a-chain. This breaks the dark radiation projector and frees Hyperion.
Tony tells Marcus that if he doesn't come peacefully now, then soon lots more superheroes will be after him. Marc says he'll deal with that if it happens, but right now he needs to protect Doll from an army that is coming for her.
This is news to Doll. But Hyperion and Thundra explain that Doll's father Junior didn't really die in #4 when Hype destroyed the carnival, and he's recruited a load of followers to attack. It is Marc's theory that Junior can recreate himself from a single molecule, and so is unkillable.
Hype and Thundra are going to face the army. He persuades Tony to take Doll and her dog to safety. IM agrees - they'll discuss Namor again later. Then Marcus sends Thundra to guard the perimeter, and kill any of Junior's men who tries to escape.
Hyperion faces Junior and his Mad Max-style army/Family. But instead of fighting them he rises high into the air and then comes down like a missile. The site is devastated, but Hype sees Junior starting to regenerate from a bit of flesh clinging to his glasses. He takes him into space where he can keep being reborn and dying from lack of oxygen.
Marcus returns to Thundra, and they drive off to try and find this Earth's version of his adoptive father.
Tony Stark takes Doll to New York, sets her up in a life and organises her legal emancipation from her father. She decides to name her dog Marc.