Rhodes did manage to get out of the country unnoticed and into Wakanda unnoticed surprisingly enough since unusually people notice when strange jets land in a remote air port on a very exclusive kingdom. But no-one had seemed to notice and that made him relax a little even as he pulls the tarp off a sleek black car placing his bags in the back seat before slipping into the front seat and grabbing the key out of the glove box. As Rodney grabs the keys his hand touches another piece of metal touches his hand, curiously he pulls them both out and sees the metal belongs to a sleek thin phone. Rodney sticks the keys in the ignition and turns the car on before opening the phone and finding a couple of numbers, one of which he recognized belonging to a red head. Rhodes debated over calling Natasha before finally pressing call and placing it against his ear as he puts the car in gear and begins to drive, Natasha picks up as he pulls out of the lot suspicious at the blocked untraced number.
"Hello?" Natasha's voice drifts through
"Natasha. Tony he-" Rhodes brakes off needing to clear his throat
"Rodney, where are you? Are you okay? Is Tony?" Natasha is instantly on it worry in her voice
"I'm fine in fact I'm in Wakanda thanks to Tony. But Natasha I don't know, somethings wrong with Tony and-" Natasha cuts him off
"We know, just come to the palace and we'll sort things out." Natasha says before they say their goodbyes and the call ends.
Meanwhile Tony is pulling into the parking lot at the base and getting out to lean against the jeep taking a moment before limping into base and into the med bay where a nurse looks after his gun wound. Ross strides in moments later a sour look on his face when he sees Tony on the bed sitting back against the transparent wall watching him tiredly sweat still present on his forehead. Ross begins yelling at Tony grabbing him by the hair and begins slamming Tony's head against the wall making Tony see stars as he tries to get a grip on Ross's arm trying to fight off the man. Finally Ross calls in two other guards and they drag Tony out and into a blank concrete cell where Tony is chained to one of the walls by his neck and beaten by the men who dragged him in while Ross continues to scold him from the door way. Finally they leave Tony and he curls into a corner pulling his stiff soar arms over his head hiding his face in his knees as he sighs long and tiredly not knowing how long it will take Ross to get his hands on the same if not similar machine used on Bucky.
Tony's bag lay against the opposite wall hidden in the shadows from peering eyes as his one and only last pieces of privacy giving him the last string of hope to hang onto in this very cold world he took step into. Tony doesn't cry or make any noise because stark men aren't weak and don't show any thing that could be turned against him even if it meant being human once again but now knew he didn't if ever deserve that soon looses count of the days that pass and Ross gets closer the the brain washing machine with each of those passing days giving Tony tiny cracks in his sanity that still lingered deep in his mind and then finally Ross burst into the med bay.
The same sick smile on his face as he stares at Tony who was just brought back from his latest assignment Ross had given him, this time a family. A young man Tony's age, a successful lawyer going against Ross, his young wife which looked and sounded like Pepper and their son, he is - he was only three. Ross walks in settling a hand on Tony's shoulder motioning for the doctor to bring a needle to him and watches as the doctor starts to inject the liquid into Tony's arm, making Tony twitch and writhe as it enters him.
"I found it Stark. You'll make a wonderful soldier" Ross says as Tony slowly looses consciousness