Synopsis
Invincible Iron Man (2008 series) #12 synopsis by
Rob Johnson
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Tony Stark, Pepper Potts and Maria Hill continue their individual odysseys through the world of Norman Osborn's Dark Reign.
Pepper is practicing with her new Iron Man suit when she rescues children from a school struck by an earthquake. The onboard computer JARVIS tells her that the armour is designed for such work. It has no weapons.
But Norman Osborn doesn't believe that, despite what the HAMMER scientists tracking her tell him. He decides to put the suit to the test. He officially claims that a Skrull agent is on board an airliner, and orders it shot down. Pepper catches the crippled plane and brings it in to land. But she is arrested by HAMMER troops.
Maria has found the Controller feeding off captured missing persons in an abandoned Stark facility. He senses her and sends his victims to hunt her. The mob overwhelm Maria and bring her to their master. Who slaps one of his control discs on her.
Tony is in an undersea lab working on a deep sea armour. The slow process of deleting his brain (to destroy the only remaining copy of the Superhero Registration Database and other sensitive files) is already starting to affect his ability to think. Suddenly the base is attacked by the Sub-Mariner and some Atlantean troops. Namor was sent by Osborn to kill Iron Man.
Stark dons his Heroes Return armour before they breach the wall. Iron Man defeats the troops. But Namor's fists start to crack the armour, as well as making more holes in the lab walls. Stark retaliates by bursting waste pipes, and the resulting polluted water stops Sub-Mariner in his tracks.
Stark switches to the deep sea armour and escapes, blowing up his base behind him.
Namor reports his failure to Osborn. Osborn contacts the Hood and Madame Masque, offering a load of gold to whoever of their gang kills Stark.
EnemiesPlus: H.A.M.M.E.R. (
HAMMER), Ms. Hand.