As soon as the line to Tony went dead, Pepper called Rhodey. "What do you mean, he paid to have Tony killed?" Rhodey asked her. "I saw the video…" "Pepper, slow down. Why would Obadiah…okay, where's Tony now?" "I don't know, he's not answering his phone," the PA said. "Please go over there and make sure everything's okay. Thank you, Rhodey." She hung up the phone.

Turning to the agents from the Division-with-a-really-long-name, she said, "I know a shortcut."


Tony stumbled into the elevator and down to the lab. He was going into cardiac arrest, but he had one mission, well, two: Stop Obie, save Bee. He saw the old arc reactor on the other side of the room. He fell to the ground and began to crawl, determined to save his daughter. He was almost there…but he couldn't reach it. He collapsed to the ground in despair.

Just then, Dummy handed him the arc reactor. "Good boy," Tony choked out as he smashed the arc reactor against the ground.


Obadiah had tied her to a chair and gagged her as well. Biela had woken up that way. She squirmed, yelling into the gag and rattling the chair as Obadiah stepped up to his suit and inserted the arc reactor. Her eyes widened in shock as Obadiah smirked. This was not good, not good at all.

Tony heard as Rhodey came into the house, yelling, "Tony! Tony!" He heard him come down the stairs, still yelling, "Tony! Tony!" He entered the lab and ran over to where Tony was lying on the floor. "Are you okay?" he asked, kneeling beside him. "Where's Pepper?" he choked out, gripping Rhodey's shoulders.

"She's fine, she's with five agents, they're about to arrest Obadiah," Rhodey reassured. It didn't help. "It's not going to be enough," Tony almost growled, still recovering from the cardiac arrest. He used Rhodey to pull himself up.

"He's got my daughter," he said. "Obadiah? What, you have a daughter?" Rhodey said. "Yeah, Biela, turns out she's actually mine. He took her, he's raped her before and he's planning to rape her again. I've got to save her."


The cars roared up to the Stark Industries building. Pepper and Agent Coulson got out, followed by the other four agents. Pepper used her key to open the door and they stalked into Stark Industries. "Section Sixteen," Pepper muttered. "Section Sixteen. There it is," she said, spying the R&D area. She swiped her key. It didn't work. She tried again. Still nothing. "My key's not working, it's not opening the door," she told Agent Coulson.

The agent held out his hand and another agent placed as small black device in it. "Oh, wow, what's that? It's like a little device, it's like a thing that's gonna pick the lock?" Pepper said nervously as it began to blink red. "You might want to take a few steps back," Agent Coulson said. Pepper knew what that meant. Tony had used it often enough. She quickly ran back so that she was behind the agents, who were standing calmly facing away from the door. She plugged her ears. The bomb went off.


Biela heard the bomb go off. She could also hear Pepper and another man talking, though Obadiah couldn't hear that like he heard the bomb. "Sit tight, little slut," he said as he grinned lecherously. He ran towards the suit.


The robots assembled the Mark IV armor around him. "That's the coolest thing I've ever seen," Rhodey said in awe. "Not bad," Tony said. "Let's do this." "You need me to do anything else?" Rhodey called. "Keep the skies clear," he said as he rocketed through the hole in his house. "Damn," Rhodey said. He looked over at one of the older suits and said, "Next time, baby." He got into one of Tony's cars and sped off.