When Mr. Fix rematerializes the Living Laser on Justin Hammer's orders, unexpected complications split him into two separate halves. The evil and dark half seeks to destroy Iron Man and conquer the world while the good and light half tries to warn Tony and help him.

When Stane builds duplicates of the Iron Man armors called the Guardsmen (consisting of Force, Shockwave, and Firepower), Tony must reveal they are frauds. But this causes the civilians to start hating Iron Man, as they believe that he is simply jealous of the town's new heroes.