While checking out Stark International's current operations, Tony runs into an old college professor, whom he immediately hires to train and inspire his current staff. Later, he's hosting a party in which himself and Iron Man are both scheduled to appear, so he gets Happy to wear the armor. The party is crashed twice, first by Kevin O'Brien's brother Michael (who blames Stark for Kevin's death), and then by the Red Ghost's Super Apes. Stark is captured, and Happy is knocked off the building, and possibly killed.