Iron Mantis was once an apprentice to a great warrior called Golden Dragonfly along with another called Bronze Centipede, they fought against a organization that called itself GOD (A anagram, for Government. Of. Death) that wished to Unleashed a Demonic Energy deity simply known as the Evil Energy. Iron Mantis and Gold Dragonfly tried to fight back, but were to tired from there fight with the leaders, the grunts were used as cannon fodder while Bronze Centipede killed Gold Dragonfly and thrown Iron Mantis out of there base to a ocean thinking Mantis was as good as dead.