"You can't just give up like that man!" said Rhodey. He's been trying to get me to keep looking for my dad, but with Stane and Hammer with all the details about the Iron Man armour tech, I had to push the plans for finding my dad to the back of my mind. Don't get me wrong, I haven't forgotten about my dad, it's just that I should be worrying about more important stuff rather than going off something Gene Khan said to me. He's lied to me about everything else, so why not this? "My dad is gone, Rhodey. The faster we all accept it the better" I replied, not wanting to believe it but rather, having to. I ran off towards the armoury without another word, leaving Rhodey to run after me. I went inside the Makulan temple that hid the new armoury but what I saw made me stop dead in my tracks. "Wait up Tony!" panted Rhodey, coming up behind me. When he saw what I was looking at he stopped dead too. "Mr... Mr. Stark?" He asked, hoping to confirm both our thoughts. But there was no doubt; this man before us was... "Dad?" He looked up and I saw blue eyes that exactly matched mine. "Tony?" he said hoarsely. 'What happened to him?' I thought to myself. He walked up to me and gave me a hug that I missed so much in last 6 months.

"Dad, what did Gene do to you?"

"So you know that Gene Khan, is the Mandarin? Clever kids you two" he didn't seem very surprised.

"Actually, we had a little help from a girl named Pepper" I could feel my face going scarlet. Dad saw this and smirked.

"A girl huh?" he nudged me lightly, but not wanting to have that conversation, I quickly switched the topic.

"So dad, how are you? Did Gene do anything to you?"

"He wouldn't dare. How else would he get information about the whereabouts of the rings?" I couldn't believe what I was hearing, my dad helped Gene with the rings? Even after knowing he was the Mandarin? "You, you helped him?"

" Of course I did. He wouldn't let me come to see you otherwise"

"But he's the Mandarin, do you know the kind of damage he could do with the power of ten Makulan rings?"

"Tony, your dad had to do this" said Rhodey, not wanting my dad and I to fight so soon after we were reunited. "How about we let your dad rest, and we'll talk about this tomorrow?"

"Fine, night dad." I said watching him walk away sadly. After he was gone Rhodey and I entered the armoury where I finally let out my anger.