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Tony Stark’s body is kept alive by machines after his mind has been erased to protect the Superhuman Registration Database. In other words, Tony is dying.

Anticipating the worst, Tony left instructions for his friends should they ever try to bring him back. Each of his allies has a task tailored to their strengths. Maria Hill must retrieve a hard drive containing a backup copy of his mind, while Rhodey is tasked with reconfiguring the repulsor technology once implanted in Pepper Potts’s chest. Once everything is prepared, electrodes are attached to Captain America’s shield and Thor is called upon to strike it, creating a surge powerful enough to jump-start Tony’s heart.

The plan doesn’t go as expected. The problem is not Tony’s body but his mind. While all his allies struggle to bring him back from a vegetative state, Tony is lost within his own consciousness, surrounded by fragments of memory and fear, unable to remember who he is.

Tony Stark returns at last when Doctor Strange enters his consciousness and helps him reclaim his identity and sense of purpose, giving him a true second chance at life.