Too damaged to handle Mandarin and Unicorn together, Iron Man rushes back to Stark International for repairs and recharging. The damage to his suit prevents him from properly recharging, but as a side effect, he notices that his heart is stronger than it had been before. Tests prove that the initial rejection of his transplanted heart is reversing, and that Tony may one day be able to live without his chest plate for longer periods of time. He dons an older set of armor and sets out to find the Mandarin and the now mindless Unicorn, only to have them locate and attack him en route. During the melee, the Mandarin's brain patterns are somehow transferred to the Unicorn (who had been mindless as a result of the Mandarin's efforts to reverse the damage done to Unicorn's body by the process that turned him into the Unicorn in the first place.) The Mandarin, in control of the Unicorn's body, then takes his own body and escapes in hopes of reversing the transfer before his body dies and the Unicorn's mind deteriorates further. Iron Man returns to his lab to find that the striking employees are returning to work, now that they know Gene Kahn was really the Mandarin.