KIRBY PLAZA OUTDOOR
CARPARK
11:00PM
RAINING - ALOT
Iron Man crashes from high above onto a car. The alarm of the car starts to sound as Iron Man lays there covered in glass and parts of his armor pulverized
Iron Man: Ugh...
A large, grey, bulky version of Iron Man, known as the Iron Monger, hovers down from the rooftop and lands in front of Iron Man
Iron Monger: Look at this... The great Tony Stark! Iron Man! Lying right in front of me in shambles... Pathetic. Weak.
Iron Man: tilts his head a bit to face Iron Monger You won't get away with this, Stane...
Iron Monger: Poor fool... Don't you realize by now that I have already won?
Iron Man tries his best to stand up, but can't
Iron Monger: You're getting old, Stark. And now, it's your time.
Iron Monger takes a few steps towards Iron Man
Iron Monger: lifts up a fist This is for my father.
THE
TRISKELION
INFIRMARY
DIRECTOR STARK'S ROOM
Tony lies unconscious and all bandaged up on a bed and machines plugged onto him everywhere around him. James Rhodes (his Stark International Chief Engineer, War Machine and best friend), Harold "Happy" Hogan (his chauffeur, the former War Machine and Tony's other best friend) and Pepper Potts (his secretary, Happy's wife and Tony's ex-girlfriend) stand beside his bed.
Pepper: They said that he's taken several concussive hits to the head.
Happy: He's still alive.
James: He's BRAIN-DEAD, Jim! And the Doctors have no idea when he'll wake up!
Happy: There's still hope--
James: NO! We've always HOPED in the past and LOOK WHERE IT HAS GOTTEN US!
Happy: By all means, Jim. The good that has happened far outrank the bad.
James: But the bad is so drastic that the good is nothing but # to that now in comparison!
Happy: Jim--
James: SHUT UP! I'M GONNA TAKE ACTION FOR THIS! That Stane's gonna get such a beating!
Pepper: We can't hold any charges against him. Not unless we got some evidence to prove that he's the Iron Monger.
Happy: He was just avenging his father.
James: Huh. "Avenging".
James turns around and storms off
STANE
INTERNATIONAL
MAIN OFFICE
A young, but bald business man sits in his office looking out the large window. He is Obadiah Stane. His secretary comes in
Obadiah: Well?
Secretary: Stark International is officially yours now, Mr. Stane.
Obadiah: Excellent. You can leave now.
The Secretary leaves
Obadiah turns around and then walks over to his desk and then looks at the photo of an old fishing trip with him and his dad, Zebediah Stane.
Obadiah: Vengeance has been dealt.
??: No it hasn't.
Obadiah: What?
War Machine smashes in through the window and then grabs Obadiah by the neck, he then flies back out and then holds Obadiah by the neck about 50 stories high up in the air
War Machine: You're dead meat, Stane
Obadiah: Rhodes, calm down.
War Machine: HOW CAN I CALM DOWN WHEN YOU PULVERIZED MY BEST FRIEND INTO A DROOLING VEGETABLE!? HUH!?
Obadiah: He deserved it.
War Machine: NO! HE DIDN'T! NOBODY DESERVES THAT! ONLY KILLERS! LIKE YOU!
Obadiah: Stark was a killer.
War Machine: HE WAS ANYTHING BUT A KILLER!
Obadiah: Oh, come on. Director of SHIELD? Ever heard of mercy killing? Killing for the "greater good"? And to add to that--he killed my father.
War Machine: SHUT UP! YOU DON'T KNOW THAT UNLESS YOU CAN PROVE IT!
Obadiah Stane: Very well, then.
MINUTES LATER
War Machine has a large machine gun pointed to the back of Obadiah's head while he plays a tape
Obadiah: This footage has been taken through a security camera all the way back in the late-80's.
The video starts
The footage plays to show a blue, less sophisticated version of the Iron Monger, laying against the wall of a factory with his helmet off. The man was a bald man with a bear on his face. His name was Zebediah Stane, the father of Obadiah. And the same man in that fishing photo that Obadiah was looking at earlier.
Iron Man, in a cheaper, more simple version of the Iron Man armor, lands in front of the fallen Iron Monger
Iron Man: End of the line, Stane. Nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide. I've got you trapped like a rat.
Zebediah: I'd rather die than lose to you...
Iron Man: Really? Huh. Then instead of me finishing you off and delivering you to the police, how about I just kill you right here on the spot? aims his Repulsor Ray gauntlet at Zebediah
Zebediah: I'm not afraid of you...
The footage ends
The footage ends followed by just a grey signal-blur on the screen
War Machine: That still isn't really any proof that Tony did murder Stane.
Obadiah walks over to his desk and then gets a file out of a drawer labeled "THE STANE MURDER". He then takes out a few photos and shows them to War Machine.
Obadiah: Minutes later they found the dead body of my father laying against that same wall in the same factory, with a repulsor ray injury in his stomach that went right clean through. And another security tape recorded that Iron Man was the last one out of that factory after the incident.
War Machine: This can't be...
Obadiah: So you see, "Rhodey"... Your precious best friend and employer was more of a killer than anyone else. And so he deserved what he got. Every. Little. Bit of it.
War Machine: Grrr...SHUT UPHHHYYYAARRRGGGHHH!!
War Machine throws a fist at Obadiah, but Stane ducks and then backrolls to the right wall of his office. He then slaps a button nearby and then it opens up to reveal the Iron Monger armor, and Obadiah just swiftly leaps right into it through the head and it covers up
Iron Monger: Now then, let's get to business, shall we?
Iron Monger powers up his jets and then crashes onto War Machine at full speed. He then smashes War Machine onto a nearby rooftop hard
War Machine: Augh...
Iron Monger: Don't worry, Mr. Rhodes. I'm not going to kill you. I'll merely...
Iron Monger lifts up War Machine in his arms, and then knees War Machine hard onto his back
Iron Monger: BREAK YOU!!
War Machine: AAAAAAUUUUUURRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!
War Machine's back snaps and then Iron Monger drops him onto the streets below.
Iron Monger Have a good day, Mr. Rhodes.
Iron Monger flies off and War Machine just lays on the ground, broken.