Iron Man 3 final part.
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"So, he just stormed in, took down almost all of the guards in his way, and then proceeded to interrogate Trevor before you apprehended him?," Killian asked over the phone as he stood outside his office.
"That's it in basic terms, yeah," Savin answered.
"...Okay, I'll be down once I've concluded my business with this buyer here. Deal with it until then."
He then hung up and went back in and sat down at his desk.
"Apologies for that. Just an unexpected turn of events. Back to business, shall we?"
"Very well," the buyer said. "Now I am willing to pay any price for one set of EXTREMIS. Just one question: are the effects permanent?"
"It is indeed, but EXTREMIS is removable, if given time and the knowledge to do so," he answered. "You are also in luck as we do have one of an advanced set of it. However, it is experimental, but I guarantee you that there is no risk of exploding. Are you still interested?"
The buyer slowly nodded and went into his phone and soon, Killian's phone went off and he smiled.
"Pleasure doing business with you, Mr. Killian," he said, stepping out of the shadows to shake his hand, revealing a young man with five large claw marks on the left side of his face.
He then walked out and Killian walked out of his office as well he headed towards the basement of the mansion.
Max slowly awoke to find himself hanging upside down from the ceiling, his head about six feet from the ground. He looked around and quickly saw his father zip tied to a bed.
"Dad!!," he exclaimed.
"Max!! Thank God, you're alright," Tony said.
"Where's mom?"
"Don't know. Woke up just before you did."
"I'd probably worry more about yourselves at the moment," a familiar voice said and Max turned to see.
"If you're working for AIM, Miss Hansen, then why come to Malibu and try to save us?"
"Because I need your father to help us. With the help he gave me thirteen years ago, EXTREMIS is practically stabilized."
"You're kidding yourself, lady. I've been out there in the world, and people are going boom and taking many lives with them."
"Then both of you help me fix that," she said and showed a crumbled up nametag with an equation on, and it was in Tony's handwriting.
"Did I do that?," Tony asked and Maya grew a confused look.
"...Yes."
"I remember the night, but not the morning."
"Sounds like you," Max commented. "Now why am I upside down?"
"So you can't concentrate hard enough to phase out with all the blood going through your head. Anyway, you don't remember?"
"You know, I had heard of you. You were once a woman of morals, good intention and ambition. Now look at you... obsessed with getting this monstrous program right and doing whatever it takes to do so. At least my mom and dad still have their souls."
Her face then changed into one of shock and realization as she knew that Max was right.
"Get us out of here," Tony said, and she looked scared at the idea. "Come on."
She just backed away from them as Killian came in.
"Do you want to know what my old man used to say," Killian said as he walked up to them. "One of his favorite of many sayings, really. 'The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."
"You're not still pissed about the whole Switzerland thing, are you?"
"How can I be pissed at you, Tony? You gave me the greatest gift anyone's ever given me... desperation. You think back to Switzerland, you said you'd meet on the rooftop, right? Well, for about the first... twenty minutes, I actually thought you'd show up. After the first hour, I thought about taking that one step down to the lobby, if you know what I mean."
"Honestly, I'm still trying to figure out what happened to the first mouse," Tony said.
"Killian, just let my parents go," Max said and he looked at him. "It's me who threatened you, said those things. They've done nothing to you."
"Under normal circumstances, I would actually consider doing that. But sadly... no can do," he said. "You called the Mandarin out, and forced me to reveal my hand. Now I have to hide it again, and I can't take any chances. You see... on that rooftop, an idea struck me that would guide me for the years to come. I looked down as the people below me cheered. No one saw me... no one knew or cared that I was there... and that's when the idea came... anonymity, Max. Rule behind the scenes. You see, once you give evil a face... a bin Laden, a Gaddafi, a Mandarin... you give them a target. I'm told that you've already met him, right?"
"Oh yeah. Sir Laurence Oblivier."
"I know he's a little... over the top sometimes. It's not entirely my fault. He has a ten- he's a stage actor. They say his Lear was the toast of Croyden, wherever that is."
"It's a large town, south of London," Max said.
"Oh... yeah, it does sound British," Killian said and he got up and walked up to him and grabbed him by the hair and Max saw EXTREMIS course through a vein in his face. "Anyway... perhaps I should hand you over to my most recent buyer. He said he wants EXTREMIS to take down Arc after all. Why don't you give me a reason to not give you to him?"
"You leave my son alone!!!," Tony yelled and Killian just laughed.
"Hahaha... look at this. The son is trying to protect the father, and the father is trying to protect the son. How touching. I'm not gonna hurt either of you, not yet anyway. Right now, I wanna bestow upon you both the same gift that you graciously bestowed upon me, Tony."
He took out three small ball like objects and rolled them over to the side and a hologram of Pepper being injected with EXTREMIS.
"Desperation."
"Mom!!!," Max yelled when he saw his mother in pain. "I swear when I get down from this, I am going to kill you."
"I can't wait," Killian taunted. "Now, this is live and right now, the body is trying to decided whether to accept EXTREMIS, or to just give up. If it gives up, well... I have to say the detonation is quite spectacular. But up until that point, it's really just a lot of pain."
"Oh boy, you do realize you're just digging your grave deeper, right?"
"I'd listen," Tony said. "My son doesn't make idle threats."
"Really?," he said and walks over to him and punches Max in the face as heats up his hand. "You see, I don't really react well to threats. And this what I do to those who do threaten me."
"Let them go!!," Maya yelled and he turned slowly to see she had an injector at her neck. "I said let them both go!!"
"...You know it's times like these when my temper is tested more than usual," Killian said. "Maya, give me the injector. Now."
"If I die Killian, what happens to your business? What happens if you go too hot?"
Killian's answer to this was simple... he shot her through the heart and she fell dead.
"The good news is... a job position just opened up."
"...You are a maniac," Tony said as he left.
"No, I'm a visionary. But I do own a maniac, and he takes the show tonight."
The two of them were then left there and later on, two guards came by to watch them.
Then Max's watch began to beep. The guards looked at him strangely when they saw what kind of watch he had.
"It's a limited edition," he said and winked at his father and gave him a look to which Tony seemed to understand. "Hey, Ponytail Express. What's the mileage count between Tennessee and Miami?"
"832 miles," he answered as the other guard walked up next to him with the watch in hand.
"Not bad."
"I'm good like that. You wanna...?"
"Break it, you bought it," Tony said as the guy stomps on the watch.
"I think I bought it," the other guy said.
"Okay, that was actually a friend of mine's sister's, so we're gonna kill you first, then I'm gonna kill everybody else here," Max said.
"Oh yeah, and how are you gonna do that? You're tied upside down and he's ziptied to a bed."
"By doing this!!," Tony exclaimed and moved his hands a little, but nothing happened.
He tried again and still nothing happened. This kept on going for a while between Tony and the guards. All the while, Max simply watched with a bored and annoyed expression on his face.
"Cut me loose, tie yourselves to those chairs, and I'll let you live in five... four, come on!!! Three... two... one. You should be dead right now."
"I am beyond terrified," the first guard said. "This is what you've had to deal with everyday, kid?"
"On the better days," he answered, then he noticed something. "...Five, four, three, two, one, go!!!!"
Then the right arm of the Mark 42 suit flew through the window and got on Tony's arm, who immediately shot the second guard.
"Told you," Tony said as he got himself loose and began to fend off the other guard as a leg attached to his own leg and he kicked him away whilst grabbing his gun and had his weapons, but then looked back. "Where's the rest?"
"Come on, kid. I told you to be ready to open the doors," Max said quietly to himself. "They should be here soon. Do you mind?"
Tony then shot the rope holding his son, who quickly got it off and took the gun and began speed shoot all nearby guards. He then came back and brought his father over to the upper levels.
"My suit?"
"They took it."
Max then sped off again to search the mansion, just as Tony began to walk out and the rest of the Mark 42 arrived.
"Well, better late than never."
He walked outside as the suit attached to him until only the faceplate was left.
"No, no!! Not this time, not this time," he said as he caught the last piece and put it on. "Ah, that's better. Hello, by the way, JARVIS."
'Oh, hello, sir,' JARVIS said as the Iron Patriot flew over them and Max sped over with his suit on, apart from his helmet.
"They got Uncle Rhodey as well?," he asked.
"So it would seem."
Then Tony got a call.
"Tony!!," Rhodey said over the phone.
"Rhodey, tell me that was you in the suit."
"Nope. I was caught by Killian."
"Well, meet us at the main house. I've got somebody I think you both will want to meet," Max said.
They made their way to the house and quickly found Trevor. They shot down the guards protecting him with ease, all the while Trevor woke up and finished off the beer in his hand before looking at them.
"What have you come as?," he asked.
"You move," Rhodey said as he pressed the seat the man was in down and pointed a gun at him. "I break your face."
"I... I didn't know that people were getting hurt. They-They lied to me on that."
"This is the Mandarin?," both Tony and Rhodey said, looking at Max.
"Yeah. Embarrassing, huh?"
"Hi, my name's Trevor," he said, extending his hand but Rhodey slapped it away. "Trevor Slattery. I know I'm shorter in person, everybody says so. Hey, if you're here to arrest me, there are some people I would like to roll on."
"Here's the deal, Meryl Streep," Tony said. "You tell us where Pepper is and he'll stop doing it?"
"Doing what-?"
Rhodey then pressed the still hot barrel of his gun against the side of the weasel's ear.
"Ow!!! Ow, that hurts!!! Well, I don't know about any Pepper, but I do know about Killian's plan."
"Do you know what they did with my suit?," Rhodey asked.
"What? No. But I-I do know it involves a... very big boat. Hey, ole!! Ole, ole, ole!!!," he yelled at the tv which had a soccer game going and his team just scored. Max responded to this by blasting the tv. "Hey, I was watching that."
"You'll be watching me do a lot worse than destroy your tv soon," Max threatened.
"Alright, alright!! This next bit might involve the Vice President. ...Is that important?"
"Somewhat," Tony said.
"Yeah, a little," Rhodey said next.
"Well, whatever's going on is on a big boat. I can take you there!!," Trevor said and the guys then huddled together to talk amongst themselves.
"So what are we gonna do? We have no transport," Rhodey asked and then Max remembered something.
"Hey, Macbeth," Max said, getting Trevor's attention. "Didn't you say something about a lovely speedboat?"
Trevor simply pointed outside to the water and they saw a speedboat there. Soon enough, they were well on their way towards a distant salvage yard. As Tony and Rhodey informed the Vice President of the danger that he and President Ellis himself were in, he began messaging Shuri.
"Hey, sorry I haven't been able to talk," he messaged. "I got captured. But I'm free now."
"You are having one crazy Christmas, aren't you?," she said. "Did you find the Mandarin?"
"It's a long and complicated story. So I'll tell you once this all blows over. And after Christmas, I'm heading to England to deliver my lecture on my Tesseract theory."
"Okay. Talk to you later then. ...Stay safe."
"When have I ever not stayed safe?," he asked, then realized what he had just said and quickly added something. "...Don't answer that question."
He walked back over to the others who were discussing what to do first.
"Listen, guys, we either save the president or Pepper. We can't do both," Rhodey said.
'Sir? Max?,' JARVIS said. 'I'm pleased to say that the cranes have finally arrived and they are clearing debris on the vault as we speak.'
"And what about the suit I'm wearing?," Tony asked.
'Power is currently at 92%,' he answered as Tony removes the cables connected to his suit, which charging via a car battery.
"That's gonna have to do."
"Well, we can't risk you freaking out up there since we all know we need to save the president first," Max said.
"Then what do you suggest we do?"
Some time later, Iron Man flew up towards Air Force One, which was flying nearby.
"Looks like our old friend Savin is onboard," Tony said as he closed.
"Tell him I said hi," Max said over coms.
Iron Man then smashed through a window and blasted Savin into a wall before coming in and pinned him to that wall, threatening to blast a hole through his face.
"The president!!!," Iron Man yelled. "Now!!"
"He's not here," he said calmly and he grabbed hold of Iron Man's arms and heated them up. "He had a flight to catch. Speaking of which... go fish."
He lifted up a detonator and activated it. An explosion occurred and the people still on the plane were blown out and began to fall to the ground. Savin began to try killing Iron Man, but he was able to get out of his grip and used the chest repulsor and burn a hole through Savin's.
"Walk away from that, you son of a bitch," Max said over coms as he slumped to the ground. "Now that that's done, go save those people."
"Right," he said and then flew out and save them.
One by one, he grabbed hold of all thirteen in the air like barrel of monkeys. Once he had them all, he dropped them safely in the water... but then Iron Man was hit by a truck to reveal that it was just the suit and that Tony was still on the speedboat, controlling it remotely.
"That came out of nowhere."
"Is everyone safe?," Rhodey asked, opening the door to the inside of the boat to reveal Tony and Max.
"I think I got everyone. I missed the president though."
"Great. You couldn't save the president with the suit, how are we gonna save Pepper with nothing?"
"...JARVIS, is it that time?," Tony asked.
'The House Party Protocol, sir?,' JARVIS asked.
"Yes."
"Do I want to know what that is?," Max asked.
"You'll see."
That night, they arrived at a cargo shipyard, where they saw the place was set up for a show, and was practically a fortress.
"You're not gonna freak out on us, right?," Rhodey asked.
"I hope not," Tony answered as he was handed a gun and the three of them headed into the compound.
"Look, it's the president," Max said and pointed upward to see President Ellis in the Iron Patriot suit, hanging by his arms in the air under oil tanks. "They're gonna give a viking funeral. A public execution. We have to stop them now."
"Yeah, but we're kind of outnumbered at the moment. So, what's the plan exactly?"
"...Alright. We've got three priorities, right?," Max asked and they nodded. "Rescue Mom, save the president and take down Killian. Uncle Rhodey will save the president and get his suit, Dad will get Mom and I'll fight Killian."
"Alone?," Tony said.
"I started this mess, now I'm gonna end it. Trust me."
"That's a good plan and all but-," Rhodey said and then they were being fired at as they had been spotted. Max grabbed them both and sped them over to cover higher up. "What about all of these EXTREMIS soldiers? Man, I would kill for some armor right about now."
"Yeah, we need back up."
"Yeah, a bunch."
"You know what?," Tony said as he looked out into the distance as a large group of a familiar sight came flying towards them.
"I-Is that-?," Rhodey asked, bewildered at the sight.
"Yup."
"Are those...?," Max asked as well, just as bewildered.
"Yep," Tony answered as the other thirty-four Iron Man suits of different shapes and sizes arrived and surrounded the area. "Merry Christmas, guys. JARVIS, target EXTREMIS heat signatures. Disable with extreme prejudice."
'Yes, sir,' JARVIS said through the suit.
"The Iron Legion...," Max muttered to himself.
"Well, what are you waiting for? It's Christmas... take 'em to church."
With that, the suits began to attack the soldiers. One by one, they entered combat against the EXTREMIS soldiers, while some were quickly overwhelmed, they took down some of the bad guys with them. But then explosion destabilized the platform they were one but Tony quickly summoned a larger suit named Igor to keep it stable.
"So this is how you've been managing your down time?," Rhodey said.
"Everyone needs a hobby."
Then one suit is being ripped apart while it was in the air and it flew into the main control room, making it blow up.
As the suits continued to fight, Max joined in the battle as a suit came down for Tony to put on and Rhodey held his arms up for one.
"Okay, give me one too."
"Oh, I'm sorry. They're only coded to me," Tony said as he finished suiting up.
"...What does that mean?"
"I got you covered."
The faceplate went down and he flew off as another came to pick up Rhodey.
'Good evening, Colonel. Shall I give you a lift?'
"Oh, very funny," Rhodey said sarcastically as they flew off but then a soldier jumped onto the suit and destroyed it, making Rhodey fall onto a higher level.
"You good?," Max asked.
"I'm fine. I'll get the president, you deal with Killian!!"
'Sir, I've located Miss Potts,' JARVIS said to Tony.
"About time!!," Tony yelled as he flew to the control room with Max behind him to find Pepper pinned underneath rubble.
"Mom!!!," he yelled as he and Tony ran over and began to lift the rubble, but then some more rubble began to pin her more down.
"Stop!!! Stop!!!," she yelled as EXTREMIS flowed through her body.
"See what happens when you hang out for my ex girlfriends?," Tony joked, trying to lighten the mood, but neither his son nor Pepper were in a joking mood.
"...You're such a jerk..."
"I know. I know. You can get mad at us later, but you can't stay there. Give me your hand, I can't reach you. Please."
She began reaching out for his hand and just as he was about to grab it, a fiery hand ripped out the arc reactor in Tony's suit and then Max's as well. Tony fell to the ground as it was nearly impossible to move in the suit without the reactor energy going through it, and Max was stunned by the sudden move. Killian then came through the hole in the floor, EXTREMIS coursing through his whole body and burning incredibly hot, making him seem like an inferno.
"Are these guys bothering you?," he asked as he kicked Max away a distance and stood over Tony and began to heat up his suit. "Ooh, what's wrong? Stuck? You feeling a little stuck? Feel like a little turtle? Cooking in his little turtle suit?"
"Tony...," Pepper said weakly.
"She's watching. Well, she's gonna have to watch me kill you first and then move on to your son. If you don't want to see that, you should probably close your eyes. Close your eyes, you don't want to see this."
He was about to kill Tony just as Max came to and he saw him raising his heated arm. He ejected his claws and sped over and sliced off his arm before he could bring it down. Immediately he began to regrow it, though it was quite painful.
"Yeah, you take a minute," Max said as the severed arm melted through the floor and destabilized the room, making rubble and Pepper fall out. "MOM!!!!"
"I got her!! Go help Rhodey!!," Tony said, getting into another suit.
Max was quite reluctant to do so, but he knew his father was right as Rhodey had no suit.
He sped back out to find Rhodey gettingbthe president out of the Iron Patriot suit and then getting into it himself.
"Glad to see you were able to save him, Uncle Rhodey. I'll get him to safety, you help Dad save Mom."
"You sure?," Rhodey asked and he nodded. "...Alright. Mr. President, Arc here will get you to safety while I deal with all of this."
"Well, alright then," the president said and he flew off and began to fight the EXTREMIS soldiers to get to Tony.
"By the way, it's an honor to meet you, sir," Max said as he grabbed the president's arm and the back of his head.
"The honor is mine, but why is your hand on the back of my head?"
"To stop it from being jerked backwards by whiplash. Whatever you do, don't move, unless you want to lose a limb."
"What?!"
Max just grinned under his helmet and sped off, the president screaming a little. He quickly ran across the water and brought him to the nearest police station before heading back to the fight and he soon found them. His mother was still pinned under rubble and was about to fall from two hundred feet and Tony was reaching out to try to catch her.
"Just let go, I'll catch you!!!," he yelled and Max began to speed towards them.
Then the weight of the rubble became too much for the platform Pepper was on and Max jump into the air as she fell and he caught her and landed on a lower level.
"You alright?," he asked and she nodded before hugging him tightly. "...It's alright. I'm okay too."
"...Go kick his ass," she said quietly and Max looked at her.
"With pleasure. Dad, we're right below you. Get Mom to safety. Killian is mine."
"Thank God. Are you sure you can handle him alone?," Tony asked.
"...I started all of this. Now, I'm gonna end it."
Max sped back up to Tony as Killian came into view. Max looked at his father and nodded, Tony returned the nod and got into a suit and flew off with Pepper. Killian began to try to chase after them, but Max ran at him and kicked down.
"Your fight is with me, not them."
"Haha... my fight is with all of you," he said as Max took off his helmet. "But if you wanna did first, I'm good with that."
His body began to heat up and charged at Max. Arc simply sped towards him and grabbed him by the throat. He threw him back a distance before beginning to exchange blows with him. Max threw a punch, but Killian caught his hand and got him in a hold. Max simply began to punch him with his other hand but then Killian shot fire out of his mouth and Max had to phase out of his hold. The fire burn Killian's shirt and revealed the dragon tattoos on his chest and Max jump spin kicked him in the face and sped out of the way of his counterattacks, then they threw punches at each other at the same time with the same arm. Their arms connected and the force broke Killian's arm temporarily and also pushed him back on to the ground. With his enhanced abilities and strength, Max was able to withstand the force with only some burns on his knuckles even with his vibranium suit on.
"Okay... now you just pissed me off."
He shot fire from his mouth again to distract Max long enough for him to get up and grab him by the arm and flip him over his shoulder.
"Come on. We've gotta help him," Rhodey said as they watched after all of the other EXTREMIS soldiers were taken care of, apart from Pepper.
As he and Tony moved in to help, Pepper stopped them.
"This is his fight. He needs to do this himself," she said in a tone that told them that she was serious and they stood down.
Killian grabbed Max's arm and tried to cut his arm off, but only made a scratch in the suit.
"What the...?," he said, confused but he quickly recovered and tried to cut off his arm at a hotter temperature.
Max didn't wa t to push his luck so he quickly phased out of his grip again. He backflipped onto a lower platform and got ready to fight again.
'Mark 42 inbound, sirs,' JARVIS said to Tony and Max.
"I'll be damned. The prodigal son returns," Tony said and quickly began to try to remotely control the suit.
It then began to land next to Max, who seemed happy to have some backup. But then the suit made contact with the platform and fell to pieces.
"...Whatever," Max said, annoyed.
"You know, if you had just kept your mouth shut, I would've left you and your family alone," Killian said. "How ironic it is. That you try so hard to protect them, only to get them all killed."
He jumped down intimidatingly, but Max stood his ground.
"You're wrong though. You messed with my family when you almost got Happy killed."
Max then waved his hands towards Killian and the Mark 42 flew onto Killian and pinned him to the wall behind him.
"JARVIS, blow Mark 42 now!!!"
Killian yelled as the helmet came on and Max sped downwards to the ground as it blew. However the explosion began to take down the entire compound that was already severely damaged. Max was hit in the head by debris and off, only for Iron Man and Iron Patriot to grab him and fly him a distance away. Then some debris hit them both and they dropped Max, who then fell down to the ground. He soon came to, though he was still dazed and saw the Mark 42 helmet nearby, in flames.
He sighed in relief, believing that it was over and then the burns started to hurt him. All of a sudden, someone got up from the flames and limped closer towards Max. He soon saw that was a badly burned Killian coming towards him.
"...No more false faces...," he said. "You said you wanted the Mandarin. Well... you're looking right at him. It was always me, Max, right from the start. I AM THE MANDARIN-!!!!"
He was then struck away from Max by a girder, held by none other than Max's mother, EXTREMIS flowing through her.
"...Whoa...," Max said as Killian got back up and Tony and Rhodey flew in. Iron Patriot shot him back down as Max saw a missile on the ground. He quickly picked it up and kicked towards the Mandarin. "Dad, shoot it!!!"
"Got it!!," Iron Man yelled and blasted the missile and the explosion effectively finished Killian off.
"...I'm sorry. This was my fault."
"Don't be. It's over now," Pepper said. "But I wonder... which one of us is the piping hot mess now?"
"Still debatable. Tipping both your ways now."
"No. You're all the piping hot messes," Rhodey said as he and Tony got out of their suits.
Tony then walked over to pepper to give her a hug. She was afraid at first but soon saw that she wasn't burning him at all. They quickly hugged each other tightly with their son and Rhodey watching them and smiling. Max then walked over and sat down against a cargo container nearby.
"Things are gonna be different now, I promise," Tony said.
"And your distractions?," she asked, referring to the many suits.
"Uh actually, I'm gonna shave them down a bit. Max, if you will?"
"With pleasure," he said. "JARVIS, initiate the Clean Slate Protocol."
They all looked up to see the suit all beginning to explode like fireworks until finally they were all gone.
"How do you like your Christmas present so far? Nice?"
"...It'll do," Pepper said as she gestured for Max to join them, which he did.
Sometime later, after Christmas, Max and Pepper had a long talk with Tony, who finally decided to not only have a procedure to have the shrapnel in his chest removed and no longer need the reactor in his chest, he also decided to go and get professional help as well. After some problem solving and calculations, Max and Tony were able to remove EXTREMIS from Pepper as well. Now, Max watched from the car as Tony stood over the edge of what was left of their old home. After a moment, he then threw his reactor into the ocean and turned back to him. Walking his way back, he picked up a small screwdriver and then a few other things and he got into his car.
"I have to go somewhere, I'll meet you in New York," Max said.
"Where are you going?," Tony asked.
"To see an old friend."
He nodded and drove off as Max took out his phone.
"Hey. Crazy holiday season huh?"
"That is an understatement," Shuri messaged back. "How are you all doing?"
"Much better. Happy is recovering, everyone involved in the Mandarin campaign has been apprehended, EXTREMIS has been taken out of my mom and my dad doesn't need his reactor anymore. Only one loose end left."
"Let me know how it goes."
"Will do," he said and then began speeding east.
After some time passed, he found himself back in Rose Hill and he phased himself into Harley's shop. He waited for about an hour until the kid himself opened the door and he hid.
Harley turned on the lights to find that his shop had had a serious upgrade. The computer was now state of the art, car looked brand new, it was almost like Tony Stark's shop. He looked to see a small robot arm even. The kid was absolutely blown away by all of this.
"Aha!!! What the-?!," he said.
"Glad you like it," Max said and the kid turned to see his friend and he immediately hugged him, which he returned. "Told you that I'd come back."
"Yeah, you did. Thank you so much!! This place is amazing!! How did you convince my mom to let you do this?"
"I told her that it was a Christmas present to her son for helping an Avenger. The computers are state of the art and are linked to Stark Industries satellites. But now hacking into anyplace you're not supposed to, okay?"
"Got it," he said, and then Max handed him a present.
"Late Christmas present," he said and Harley opened it to find a new potato gun inside. "Mark II."
The kid hugged him one last time before Max had to leave.
"See ya later, Iron Lad."
He sped off towards New York, to his new home and a new chapter in his life.
Somewhere in Europe
A man stood in front of the window of an abandoned warehouse. The scars on his face were clear as day in the flickering light within.
"You sure you wanna do this?," a second man asked. "There is a chance that you'll blow up."
"If I want to get faster, I must be able to withstand high temperatures or I'll never be able push my limits," he answered. "Besides there is a no blowing guarantee. Maxwell Stark will die by my hand. If that means I must become a living inferno, then so be it."
"Alright... but don't come crying to me if it doesn't work."
"Noted."
The second man then pulled out an injection gun and injected EXTREMIS into his friend. Immediately, it began to spread through his body and he began glowing bright orange. He yelled in pain for a moment until somehow, he was able to control it almost immediately and calmed down as his color returned.
"Huh... it really is an improved batch," he said.
"Now that that shit is taken care of, let's get back to work," Killmonger said.
I hope you liked this. Sorry it took so long, but I'll start on Thor 2 as soon as possible. Until then, see ya later.