Unpacking crates in his new laboratory Fabian Stankowicz finds one of his old Mechano-Marauder battle suits, from his brief career as a hapless super-criminal, which to his horror comes to life and forces him into it, then destroys the lab. Terrified that the Avengers will fire him and still unable to remove the suit, Fabian gets another shock when his long-dead mother appears, claiming she left because she couldn’t stand Fabian’s crying and screaming and his drunken father’s abuse. When she tells “Frankie” the way he turned out proves she was right to abandon him, Fabian tries to stop her from leaving, but the suit fatally blasts her against Fabian’s will.