Dr. Doom has captured Pepper, Rhodey and other employees closest to Tony Stark and given him a simple ultimatum--turn over the one weapon Doom needs to destroy the Fantastic Four in four hours, or his friends' lives are forfeited!

Avast, ye swabs! Commander Kraken and his techno-pirates have captured Iron Man, stripped him of his deep-sea armor, and are attacking hydrobase with it! Unarmed and unarmored, can Tony Stark take out Kraken's scurvy crew all by himself?

"Why should Tony Stark be the one to benefit from all of his technology? What right does Stark have to keep his miracles to himself? Doc Ock demands answers--and salvation--from Iron Man. To get Tony Stark's attention, Dr. Octopus serves him notice with a 21-kiloton nuclear device. To force Stark's compliance, he threatens to kill millions of Manhattanites. And to prove Stark's inferiority, he has one impossible request: fix the unfixable."--Amazon.com....

After the war's climax, a young woman with a surprising relationship to Tony Stark will answer the call.