Synopsis
Iron Age: Omega #1 synopsis by
T Vernon
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The child Donald Birch sees a vision of an old man he does not recognize as his aged self and his mother doesn’t believe him….
Tony Stark is trapped in the past by the destruction of the time machine (at the end of IRON AGE #3). He is living in a secluded house trying to recreate the device but things go wrong and it explodes, burning the house….
In the present, just as Birch brings Phoenix back from the past before Tony’s eyes, another Iron Man, plus Cyclops, Human Torch, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Dazzler, and Captain Britain emerge from the time portal to battle Birch’s robots. Birch is surprised: this has happened multiple times but now one of them is missing….
In the past, Tony gets in touch with Hank Pym, finally deciding he needs help. They reconstruct the machine and Tony heads through time to assemble all of the heroes he’s aided in the search whose pictures were displayed in Birch’s lab at the beginning. He hopes, by leaving Pym in the past to help run the machine, that Birch will be confused by the unexpected….
Then Phoenix, enraged at being manipulated in time kills the Iron Man who came via the machine and Birch again commands his robots to fire on her and increase her power. Hank arrives as Yellowjacket as Phoenix destroys the robots. The heroes all fire on Phoenix and she collapses into unconsciousness. Birch dies from a combination of his cancer and his shock at the failure of his scheme. Tony thanks all of the heroes and they return to their own times….
That night, by arrangement, they all meet for a reunion, to remember their one-time teaming and to drink to the memory of the absent Johnny Storm….