Tony Stark in his Arctic bunker, which we first saw last isssue, views holograms, memories and hallucinations of his past. He is agonising over having to kill his old mentor
Theodore Slaght last issue, and his mind is fracturing.
He dons a new set of armour and flies to
Stark Enterprises in Los Angeles to accept a contract from
Peter Corbeau of the UN Starcore agency to build communications and research satellites. He immediately unveils
Starcorp Command which will control the project. He was so (over)confident of winning the contract he had built the command centre already. His close associates have mixed reactions about this.
Later he has a romantic liaison with his security chief
Bethany Cabe, rekindling a romance that ended in #153.
Then he attends a
Force Works training session where
Century,
Spider-Woman (
Julia Carpenter) and
U.S.Agent are fighting holograms. Team leader
Scarlet Witch suggests increasing the threat level, but U.S.Agent asks
Iron Man's opinion. Scarlet Witch complains that Iron Man frequently undermines the authority he gave her. Iron Man flies away from the argument.
He asks Avengers' butler
Jarvis to arrange a gathering of
Avengers for the next day.
The Crossing preludes continue in 2 independent issues
FORCE WORKS #15 and
WAR MACHINE #18.
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