Iron Man 2099

Iron Man 2099's History

Andros Stark, also known as the Iron Man of 2099, is an Iron Man from the future and grandson of the original Iron Man and the great-grandson of Howard Stark.

Future

Andros Stark is from a future where his grandfather, Tony Stark, created Vortex, an artificial intelligence that was supposed to be used for the betterment of humanity, but it infected the computers of S.H.I.E.L.D. and took control of the entire internet. Vortex then judged that humanity was evil and caused the extermination of all human life on Earth. Andros travelled back to the past to prevent this doomsday future from happening.

Present Day

While in the past, he started looking for his grandfather and found him and Pepper Potts. He explained the details that led to his dystopian future and how his own creation created it. He then revealed his true mission to eliminate Stark. He was thrown off of a building, but his Extremis connection to his armor saved him and he fought Andros. Andros was fully willing to sacrifice himself by killing his own grandfather for the sake of his future. He has Iron Man at his mercy, but he was distracted by the police. He took them down without excessive force, allowing Iron Man to escape with Pepper.

To track him, he sought the help of Justin Hammer (who in the future, survives due to cybernetics and becomes the President in the face of the Vortex virus threat). He gives Andros the Iron Man specs to try to track him and leaves, thanking him. When the specs prove to be ineffective, Hammer suggests that he attacks S.H.I.E.L.D. (because if S.H.I.E.L.D. no longer exists, Vortex wouldn't have any computers to take over). Hammer gives him data on their weapons, defenses, and weaknesses to assist him (not knowing that this is Justin Hammer's plan from the start). Andros thanks "President" Hammer, and leaves again.

Meanwhile Tony and his friends are working on a virus that would cripple Andros's defenses and allow Iron Man to defeat him. It would work by taking over the computers inside Andros's armor which would also destroy his shields allowing Iron man to attack and defeat him.But to implant it, he enlists the help of Hawkeye to help shoot the chips, using his arrows.

He attacks the Helicarrier, crippling it with his more advanced unibeam and destroying their best weapons and vehicles. Iron Man and Hawkeye appear to stop him, but he proves to be more than a match for them and S.H.I.E.L.D. combined. Andros destroys Iron Man with his ultra-beam, afterward, Hawkeye implants the virus chip on Andros's armor. When Andros recognizes the virus as Vortex, he realizes his nano-virus chips were the original seed for the Vortex virus and that the original reason Tony invented it was because trying to save himself from Andros. He travels back in time for a short moment to warn Iron Man that his nano-virus chips were actually the Vortex virus. He quickly destroys the last nano-virus arrow, saving Andros. As a result of this change in the timeline, the future was saved and because of this, Andros is erased from existence after saying his last words to his grandfather, but Andros may still be alive in a different future.