Tony Stark attends the 24th annual Conclave of Electronics Engineers and Innovators in Dallas Texas. At the event he rubs shoulders with CordCo, SHIELD, CTE and ROXXON representatives. When a trio of armored men called the Raiders attack the convention, Scott Lang tackles them despite having left his Ant-Man equipment in New York, and then Tony battles them as Iron Man, but they manage to escape. The next day Iron Man makes an appearance at the convention and Raiders attack again but this time Iron Man is prepared and defeats them. The Raider's employer Edwin Cord shows a film of their exploits to SHIELD to try and get the weapons contract they formerly offered to Stark, but SHIELD is unimpressed by Cord's illegal means and arrest him.

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