Entroducing... (Era)

## Alternate Covers

* 2
* 3

"Second Time's The Charm" Variant

"Da Futurah" Variant

## **Synopsis**

As the world kept turning, everybody began to age more and more. **Hooligans** said goodbye to their last summer as middle schoolers and began to prepare themselves for life at high school. **Shay** began to grow closer to **Patrick**, more so than before, and the two often played basketball together which led to Shay joining his high school basketball team during the summer. **Tyler** began to play football as he was hoping to become physically stronger, **Alexis** dived fully into science and convinced Shay to hone his coding skills, and lastly, **Jane** had a personal revelation when her foster parents told her about her real parents who were living in New York. Jane did not want to see them but took the news well enough, but this only pushed her rebellious actions further. Here, Tyler began to develop feelings for Alexis as the two grew closer over him needing help with his science homework and Jane began to develop feelings for Shay as he was often - unwillingly - a participant in her acts of youthful rebellion. Meanwhile, **Jordan** was hoping to follow in his father's footsteps of becoming a cop - as he was two years ahead of the rest of Hooligans - and began to train his detective skills and meet the physical demands of the **LVMPD**. For The Daniels Family and Hooligans, it ended nicely with all of them traveling to Paris to watch Patrick and **Jennifer** renew their vows. Sadly, however, this year was not the greatest for others.

### **Of Weapons & Geniuses**

**Tony Stark** created a rough Iron Man suit - which became known as The Mark I - and managed to use it to escape The Ten Ring's grasp. He would crash land three miles away from a US military base. Saved by **Ford Easton** who was serving at the time, Stark was sent back to the states after a few weeks in a hospital as they examined the arc-reactor in his chest that was stopping shrapnel from piercing his heart. Tony's welcome home was very warming, but this frustrated many titans of the weapon development industry who were gunning for Stark Industries in Tony's absence but none more than Obadiah Stane. While Tony began to restructure his company to stop it from selling weapons, he began to work on a personal side project where he improved on the design of The Mark I and created what became infamously known as The Mark III. To compete with Stark's new expansion plan of clean-renewable energy, Obadiah was nearly caught in the act of corporate espionage but successfully managed to steal the designs of the Arc-Reactor and the classified files of Stark's escape from The Ten Rings. Here, Obadiah discovered Tony's creation of The Mark I and noticed that a similar suit was flying overseas to stop terrorist. Enraged but enlightened, Obadiah created his own suit of armor and after Tony revealed that he was Iron Man to the world, Obadiah dubbed himself Warmonger and attacked Tony Stark with every intention of killing him and absorbing his company. This failed however when Tony outsmarted Obadiah by forcing him to overexert his suit's power and letting Obadiah's Arc-Reactor completely deplete. Obadiah went to jail, Ezekiel - Obadiah's son - took control of Stane International and Tony showcased to the world that he was ready to be a superhero. However, this would have unforeseen consequences in the future.

### **In The Court of Ren Carter**

Elsewhere, **Connor Carter** would collapse into himself after the death of his wife, becoming a shell of his former self. He became neglectful and apathetic toward his children which then caused his eldest daughter, **Selena Carter**, to leave one day and never return. Then Kody Carter vanished suddenly one day, and **Ren** was left all alone with a man that could care less if she lived or died. Meanwhile, **Hendrix Shays** was a man out of time. In the year of 2105, Hendrix was what known as a "Carbon Dater", a hired professional that hunted down rogue "Carbons" - advanced AI robots that appeared human who had gained sentience - and brought them in or at the very least, disposed of them. During one of his jobs, he discovered that **Dynamics Industries** had created a temporal displacement device and it sent him back in time to 2018. Determined to get back home, he remembered that Connor Carter created Dynamics Industries in 2013 but did not remember that he had a daughter, Ren. After discovering that nobody cared about Ren, Hendrix offered her a place with him and after she originally turned him down, Ren would agree to flee her father with Hendrix, becoming his adoptive daughter. Once there, Hendrix told her about her origins and what Connor sets into motion in the distant future to which Ren agreed to help him stop Connor. In a lighter twist, Hendrix would come to realize that the reason why Ren never showed up in the history of Dynamics is because she was adopted by Hendrix in the past, completing the first loop. In an even darker revelation, Hendrix would realize that if this loop was completed and Dynamics still existed, **then something went wrong**.

## **First Appearances**

Below are a list of characters whose first appearance are in this era:

* Hendrix Shays
* Obadiah Stane (Warmonger)
* Ezekiel Stane (Master Planner)
* Ford Easton (Hellhound)