Synopsis / Summary / Plot
Justine and Sasha Hammer warn some terrorists about the US's Detroit Steel program (showing the same video they used last issue to try to sell the program to the US military), and then sell them ex-HAMMER weapons (that they were buying up last time). They point out that ex-HAMMER means ex-SHIELD, made by Tony Stark, so they'll be top quality. And it will be ironic to use the US's weapons against them.
Maria Hill, back in SHIELD uniform, has come from Steve Rogers to pick up a USB stick from Tony Stark at the new Stark Resilient office in Broxton. The stick contains information that will enable Steve to shut Iron Man down if necessary. Tony is willing to give Steve this, because he knows that he has done things in the past that in retrospect were big mistakes. But he thought they were a good idea at the time, and so he'd do them again.
This also applies to recent things he can't remember, that happened since the brain backup he was restored from in #21. On hearing this Maria storms out, much to Tony's confusion.
12 years ago Stark publicly fired Carson Wyche from Stark Industries, despite the fact that Carson had just invented the iPhone years before it happened in our reality. Since then Wyche has founded a company that makes an electric racing car. Its only problem is battery life. Tony now offers to go into partnership with him, to use Stark's Repulsor tech as the battery.
Tony takes delivery of some old Iron Man suits from Steve Rogers. Wyche decides to join Stark's new endeavour. And their first job is to cannibalise the old Iron Man suits for spare parts.
Spymaster blackmails an inventive genius into signing over his company. Later, after he's burned the building down, Justine Hammer hires him to infiltrate Stark Resilient, and destroy it from within.