Stark didn't like Nerissa's plan but since Yinsen had disappeared and his assistant would not cooperate he resolved to at least reduce the likelihood that she would be hurt any further. So, he moved out of the cave that had been his cell for the last three months and opened fire on anyone who came his way using the guns that he had built into the arms of the suit.

"Arissa?" Stark asked without turning around, "You doing okay?"

"Fine!" she replied with a grunt, "Keep going! I've got these guys under control!"

"What?!" Stark asked and turned to find her locked in hand to hand combat with several men who were trying their best to swipe at her with their knives. What surprised him most was not that she was fighting well for the weakened state she was in but that she was easily fighting these men at all. He watched in amazement as she quickly disposed of one man with a quick blow to his groin and then to the skull.

Then, she proceeded to dispatch of the second with a jab to the gut and threw him into the wall, but the third was not so easily defeated. The third man was the largest and he had gotten in several good blows of his own before Nerissa kneed him in the gut and then flipped herself over him and drug him to the ground with her momentum and finished him off with a shot to the head with his own weapon.

"What?" Nerissa asked when she looked up at Tony, "Let's get a move on."

"Are you okay?" Tony asked spotting the small bloom of blood on her shirt.

"I'm fine," she insisted, "I'll be better when we're out of here."

The two of them continued like that until they reached the entrance of the cave, there they found Yinsen laying in a pile of garbage.

"Yinsen!" Nerissa yelled tried to move towards him but was forced to duck behind Tony's suit for cover when a gunshot rang out.

"Raza," Nerissa snarled as she came out from behind Stark.

"I suspected that these two had been lying to me," Raza said unsurprised to see her moving around so easily, "but I could not prove it."

"Guess you're not as smart as you thought you were," Nerissa sneered.

"I guess I should have killed you when I had the chance, my dear Ava," Raza said raising his gun, "but I will not make the same mistake twice."

Nerissa's eyes widened but as Raza fired Tony pushed her behind him and fired a mini-missile at Raza that caused a small portion of the cave to fall onto him.

Finding the path clear Nerissa ran over to Yinsen and moved several bags off of him, only to find he had been shot.

"Yinsen," Nerissa said, "Everything's going to be alright. We're going to get you out of here."

"No," Yinsen said gasping for breath, "I'm not going to leave this wretched cave."

"Come on, Yinsen," Tony said, "We're getting you out of here so you can see your family."

"My family is dead," Yinsen rasped, "I'm going to see them now."

As Yinsen took his final breath Nerissa whispered, "I'm sorry, old friend."

"Let's go, Riss," Tony said closing the mask on his suit determination in his voice, "We're bustin' out of here."

Moments later Tony and Nerissa stepped out of the gloomy cave and into the sunlight for the first time in months and left them both blinking for a moment before their eyes adjusted and they saw the sea of men laid out before them, all armed.
"Oh shit," Nerissa said.

"It's alright," Tony said raising his arms, "I'll clear a path. You get to that jeep on the far side of the camp."

"There's no way I'll make it," Nerissa said.

"Yes you will," Tony said, then he opened fire on the small army before him, literally. In addition to the guns, Tony had built flamethrowers into his mechanical suit of armor. After a few moments a significant number of the men had been torched, fled or taken cover and opened fire on them, so Nerissa started running.

She ran straight through the center of all the chaos sliding behind cover occasionally or being forced to engage in combat with an enemy soldier. Within minutes she was feet away from the jeep but a man came out of nowhere and tackled her to the ground. Nerissa recovered quickly by kicking him in the head but that did not knock him out.

They both managed to climb to their feet and proceeded to launch themselves at each other locking into combat, Nerissa managed to get the upper hand and had the man in a headlock but a knife appeared in the man's hands and he managed to contort his body enough to slip it between her ribs. Nerissa screamed out in pain and released the man from the choke hold, pushing him away from her and he fell away leaving the knife stuck in her. Clutching her abdomen she yanked the knife out from between her ribs, the man had a devilish grin on his face but she silenced it when she spun the knife and threw it, lodging it square in his chest. Nerissa didn't even wait to watch his body slump to the ground before she turned and trudged to the jeep a few feet away and climbed into the driver's seat.

"Nerissa!" Tony yelled stomping over to where she was.

"Tony!" she yelled back still clutching her abdomen, "Go! I'll follow the best I can!"

"You're bleeding!" Tony said.

"Go! I'll be right behind you!" she ordered starting up the jeep. Tony closed the mask on the suit and then powered up the mechanics on the suit that would take him airborne and let him fly out of the camp. As Tony went airborne, Nerissa gunned the engine on the jeep and sped out of the camp. Free at last.