Synopsis
Invincible Iron Man #10 synopsis by
Rob Johnson
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Norman Osborn continues to give his press conference as head of HAMMER. He is mostly evasive, and dismissive of hostile questions. But continues to suggest that Tony Stark and Maria Hill were complicit in the Skrull invasion.
Meanwhile Tony and Maria are together in Tony's hideout (FunTime, Inc) where he's hooked up to the computer again. Tony wants Maria to go to another Stark Industries subsidiary FuturePharm in Texas, to find a harddrive and take it to Captain America.
He unhooks from the computer, and tells Maria he needs sources of repulsor power in order to continue the destruct sequence that will erase his brain and all the secrets it contains, to keep them from Osborn. Such sources are in his armour and his armouries. But as soon as he uses them, Osborn will know.
Tony takes Maria down into a basement where there are rows and rows of Iron Man suits. And this is just one of the many armouries scattered throughout the world.
The couple make love, as you do when you're about to head into deadly danger.
Osborn's assistant Victoria Hand announces that Stark will be given a chance to turn himself in and answer the questions over his conduct in Secret Invasion. Osborn will be waiting in Central Park the next morning. If he doesn't comply, he will be considered a fugitive, as those were who didn't obey Stark's own edicts during Civil War and the Initiative.
Meanwhile Pepper Potts has been left to oversee the closing down of Stark Industries. She is enraged at Hand's twisting of Tony's actions. As she lays waste to Stark's deserted office, she opens a concealed room. In it she finds an Iron Man suit tailored to fit a female body (hers).
Osborn waits for Stark in Central Park clad in his Iron Patriot armour. When the deadline passes, he issues an arrest warrant for Stark. And also authorises HAMMER troops to seize all Stark Industries remaining assets worldwide.
When they break into Pepper's CEO office in SI HQ they find her (and the armour) gone.
When Maria Hill wakes in the morning she finds Tony gone too. Leaving a note telling her to blow FunTime and its armoury up. Which she does. And leaves on the run.
And Tony and Pepper are on the run too, flying off in their suits of armour.