Story #2Father's Day
Writer: Greg Pak. Penciler: Pat Lee. Inker: Dream Engine. Colorist: Dream Engine. Editor: Stephanie Moore. Cover Penciler: Pat Lee. Cover Inker: Pat Lee. Letterer: Rus Wooton.
Synopsis
In the reality created by
Scarlet Witch mutants rule and homo sapiens is on the way out. But
Stark Industries is still one of the most successful companies in the world. However
Tony Stark is dominated by his retired father
Howard.
As well as running his company, Tony uses a primitive
Iron Man armour to compete in
Sapien Death Match, a televised contest between armoured non-mutants with
Sentinels running interference. (The Sentinels are supposedly deliberately inferior to the ones used by the ruling
House of Magneto.)
All the Sentinels are down, and Tony defeats what he thinks is his last human opponent,
Johnny Storm. Only to be taken out by a surprise attack from his father.
Back at Stark HQ in Chicago, Tony has invented a new PC to beat a rival offering. He and Howard visit
Hank McCoy and
Forge who are working on an android they call the
Vision Project. But Howard slips off to see
Henry Pym. Tony follows and finds them secretly working on mapping the mutant genome. Howard pretends not to have know Pym was doing something so illegal.
Not able to escape his inferiority complex where his dad's concerned, Tony's drinking. But he's also been working on a much better Iron Man armour, with an AI called
JARVIS.
Tony finds Pym missing. When he goes to see Howard about it, his father puts him down again. He claims that he'd had to make hard choices to build the company, things that Tony couldn't face. And he hints that he has more hard choices to make now.
Tony takes his new armour out for a secret test flight, and JARVIS locates Henry Pym in a meeting of human revolutionaries. Tony tries to break the meeting up relatively gently. Until a trio of Sentinels take a firmer approach. They mistake armoured Tony for one of the enemy. And Tony discovers his father is controlling one of them.