HYDRA attack on Hong Kong

Iron Man fighting a HYDRA robot in the streets of Hong Kong

The **HYDRA attack on Hong Kong** is conjectural name for the events of the Stark Expo attractions the Iron Man Experience and Ant-Man and The Wasp: Nano Battle!.

## History

### Prelude

The Stark Expos were demonstrations of Stark Industries technologies, historically hosted in New York by Howard Stark. In 2010, Stark's son Tony Stark AKA the super-hero, "Iron Man" revived the Stark Expo tradition. After this, he created a new Stark Expo overseas in Hong Kong, co-hosted by Stark vice-president Wendy Wong. This roughly coincided with the creation of Hong Kong's Stark Tower, powered by a giant arc-reactor similar to the tower's counterpart in New York City.

The Stark Expo featured new Stark technologies, a historic display on both Howard and Tony's histories, and the S.H.I.E.L.D. Science and Technology Pavilion where the military organization S.H.I.E.L.D. promoted itself. In addition to this, Tony arranged for rides of his vehicle the *Iron Wing Mark VIII*, piloted by his A.I. butler, "JARVIS".

### Events

During the expo, one Iron Wing piloted by JARVIS departed and flew over the skies of Hong Kong to show off Stark Tower. During this time, Tony Stark was in his Iron Man posing with tourists whom he described as, "My people". However during this time, the expo and city of Hong Kong was put under attack by the Nazi organization *HYDRA*, under leadership of Arnim Zola, a World War II era Nazi scientist who joined the US under *Project: Paperclip*, allowing for him to secretly let HYDRA live into modern-day while he himself lived on by implanting his mind within computer code. Zola attacked Hong Kong using an arsenal of giant robots intending on stealing the giant Arc Reactor, meanwhile having his microscopic, "Swarmbots" attack the SHIELD Pavilion to steal its Data Core containing confidential designs.

From the Iron Wing, JARVIS contacted Iron Man and alerted him of HYDRA's attack, resulting in him flying to the main city to fight. Amidst this incident, the Iron Wing was hit by a robot and nearly destroyed before being saved in the nick of time by Iron Man. Iron Man and the Iron Wing then joined forces to fight off Zola's robots and protect the Arc Reactor. During this time, the S.H.I.E.L.D. Pavilion was was struggling to fight off Zola's swarmbots with chief-engineer Leslie Lam overseeing a defence assisted by superheroes Scott "Ant-Man" Lang and Hope "The Wasp" van Dyne.

Video-calls were made between Iron Man, Leslie Lam, Ant Man, the Wasp and Arnim Zola during this time, with the superheroes unable to assist one-another. It was decided on during these video-calls for SHIELD to recruit attendees of the pavilion to board their "Dagger" Defense/Assault Ground Rovers and arm themselves with EMP Blasters to be shrunken down with Pym Particles and fight Zola's nano-bots. Here, they were able to blast most the swarmbots along with a nano-bot form of Arnim Zola, foiling his scheme to steal the Data Core.

Meanwhile in the sky, Iron Man called upon his multiple different suits of armour and Iron Wings piloted by A.I. to fly in and take on Zola's main ship. Ant-Man and Wasp might have joined in on the city's main battle. This was a success and the machines proceeded to return to the expo where Tony was instantly irritated by his robot DUM-E whom he threatened to turn into a coin-press.

### Aftermath

Shortly after this fight or roughly during these events, Avengers training initiative lead Agent K began training young recruits, presumably in the USA. Tony Stark sent these recruits a video-message welcoming them, but explained he could not be there in person due to Zola's attack on Hong Kong. Using double-agent Crosby, Arnim Zola also made an attack on the training initiative to hack into Avengers data globally. However, the recruits were able to foil Zola's scheme, with Iron Man calling them again to give his thanks.

The attack on the Hong Kong Expo inspired Tony Stark to create the, "Global Avengers Initiative" which his Stark Expo would remain a part of. This included the construction of the Avengers Campus California, Avengers Campus Paris, Xandarian Outpost in EPCOT, Mission Station in Shanghai, and Super Hero Academy.

## Appearances

The HYDRA attack inspired Tony's Global Avengers Initiative, making it connected to both Avengers Campuses, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, Marvel Universe, and Marvel Super Hero Academy.

### Avengers Campus (Disney California Adventure)

#### PYM Test Kitchen

In the PYM Test Kitchen, there is a framed photograph of a HYDRA robot attacking Hong Kong under Stark Tower.

### Avengers Training Initiative

Tony Stark sends recruits a video-message from Hong Kong where he explains he is busy due to the expo being under attack by Arnim Zola and his robots.

### Stark Expo

The attractions of Stark Expo revolve around this event.

## Trivia

* The events might have occurred prior to around 2014/2015 due to the timeline in the queue referencing the Stark Tower, which became the Avengers Tower by the events of *Age of Ultron*. Iron Man also refers to Ultron's existence in the attraction, and Jarvis is alive in the attraction though he is usually depicted as having been killed and replaced by FRIDAY in the film's events.
* It is known that Harley Keener and Doreen Green attended the Stark Expo but it is unknown if this occurred during the HYDRA attack.
* HYDRA and Arnim Zola are both traditional enemies of Captain America rather than Iron Man or Ant-Man & the Wasp.