Issue 4 - A group of terrorists called the Heat in Chicago raid a dinner and kidnap the people in it. We switch to Santa Monica where Tony called Riri Williams to come look at the medallion that Justine Hammer left and the new Iron Monger suit of armor. Tony also called in the Scarlet Witch to help understand the magic from the broach. Scarlet Witch goes in it and finds formidable magic in it. Says that it can corrupt the wearer and the Mysterium acted as a stabilizer for the dark forces. Riri hooks it up to Stark servers, and it begins to eat away at the magic virus that originally attacked his armors. All are wiped except for a California factory to get Stark tech into SHIELD. Tony and Riri go to see Melinda. This was something Tony approved as Director of SHIELD. Melinda takes them to it and finds Agent 33 (Kara Palamas, who quit SHIELD and started a private firm stealing Stark technologies and selling them to the Heat in Chicago, to Lucia Von Bardas with a Stark Sentinel. Issue 3 - Iron Man is fighting the new Force. Meanwhile, the board is meeting to join Roxxon Oil and Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.) in a merger. Iron Man defeats Force and breaks through the window where the merger meeting is taking place. He plugs himself in to massive machinery and pitches why people should not vote for the merger. Dr. Druid is part of this and so is a newly alive again Justine Hammer. She turns into Iron Monger, and Iron Man battles her with a giant sword. Dr. Druid introduces a middle man demon to seduce the board members' greed. Tony informs the extradimensional backers that the history of A.I.M. and Roxxon have been as losers to Iron Man and the Avengers. So, they back out, threatening the souls of the members. They call for Iron Man to help. He does. Issue 2 Tony is convalescing, and Jack is running on Tony's treadmill. Jack is telling Tony that he will vote with A.I.M. and Roxxon to buy/control Stark Unlimited. Melinda, a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent that served with Tony when he was the Director. He goes to get her vote, but ends up criticizing her lack of protection of mutant kids when she was on the board while Feilong was warring against them. He flies away in his makeshift armor. Back to the desert, Iron Man faces a woman who turns into a beast and attacks Stark Unlimited framing Iron Man in the process. Someone in an armor that looks like Carl's Force armor attacks Iron Man, then Monica Rappaccina invites Tony to join her for dinner with Dr. Druid disguised as a waiter. Dr. Druid attacks Tony - Tony sees his burning dad and Captain America and then Emma Frost, and then is tempted to drink. When he refuses, he then awakes and Force attacks. Iron Man disables a pipeline and turns it into a giant sword.
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