Iron Man and Doctor Doom are trapped in the past, and they now find themselves in the fabled court of Camelot! In order to return to the present, Doctor Doom and Iron Man must strike a truce. Featuring Morgan Le Fay.
As Doom's Time Machine hurtles the two armored combatants into the past, they merely perceive it as a huge explosion, and believe they have been expelled into Doom’s courtyard. Only after looking around does Iron Man stop the fight to realize they’ve come a lot farther that that- They are in CAMELOT!
Doctor Doom quickly deduces what has happened. His assistant has sent them into the past. It had been set to come to Camelot for Doom had planned on making the journey to consult with the great sorceress Morgana Le Fey. Thanks to the turn of events, he has arrived- only in a much more permanent state than he’d planned! They haven’t been there for very long before they are confronted by Guards who attempt to take them prisoners and are taken to be judged by King Arthur.
Iron Man is quick to make peace with the king and demonstrates some of his armor’s abilities. Doom is not so forthcoming, and states that in his homeland HE is a king, and won’t lower himself to perform “parlour tricks”. They are kept as permanent guests for the time being. Doom is able to wring a girl’s mind for information on Morgana Le Fey’s whereabouts. Once the knowledge is obtained, he immediately leaves the castle, locates Morgana’s Castle and offers his services to the Dark Sorceress.
Doom explains to the Sorceress how he has been visiting the great magicians through time using his timecube machine with one purpose: to free his mother from the prisons of hell. Morgana Le Fey listens and strikes a bargain with Doom- she will help him if he will lead her undead soldiers in the final battle with King Arthur. Doom readily agrees.
And so the battle is begun- the good side of King Arthur led by the Golden Avenger, and Morgana Le Fey’s undead army led by the sinister Doctor Doom!
The battle is raging until Tony puts two and two together- Le Fey’s Soldiers are Undead, so the only way to truly stop them is to stop them at the source- Morgana Le Fey herself! While the battle goes on, he leaves and makes his way the the Castle, where he starts another battle- of science versus magic! In the end, Morgana is defeated, and she leaves the land, never to return.
Meanwhile, back at the battlefield, once the undead soldiers become inanimate again, he knows that Le Fey has gone, and his chance of rescuing his tormented mother has once again slipped from his grasp! In a rage, he speeds over to the castle, and smashes in on a startled Iron Man. He threatens to kill Iron Man, then shocks the Avenger by adding…”Someday” And Why? The battle over, even Doom must concede that there is no reason for him to exist here anymore. He decides the time is right for his return to his own time and reveals his plan to Iron Man:
It is just possible that they CAN return to the present, but only with their COMBINED GENIUSES and CANNIBALIZING BOTH OF THEIR ARMORED SUITS and using the intricate circuitry to create a device that might warp time around them and return them to the present day! Yes, they realize the only way they will get back home is to work TOGETHER! The two minds work together all through the night, and by dawn have come up with an elaborate construction wired into both armored suits for power. They make a truce that if the device should happen to work, they will allow each other to go their own way.
When the final connection is made, the fabric of time rips around them, and the two find themselves back in the present time, the collaborative construct reduce to molten slag around their fried mechanical parts. Doom leaves with a remark: “We WILL Meet Again”, to which a weary Iron Man simply states, ”I’ll Be Waiting.”
Then the two turn around and go their separate ways.
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