Iron Man: Reforged Season 01 Episode 03

Tony had gone to speak with this guy who had a dragon on his shirt and after introducing himself to the guy states "I was hoping to talk to your stepdad about something my dad was working on. He was doing resarch on these ancient chinees artifacts called the Makluan Rings."

"Makluan Rings?" The guy questioned hearing that and seem to be interested in what he was saying. "I'm Gene Kahn, why don't you tell me about this research a bit more. Maybe I might be able to help."

"Well I've been going over my dad's notes on them and Mr. Zhang's name came up in his diary." Tony explained to them about what's going on while taking a device out of his pocket. "I guess they talked alot."

"Your dad keeps a.. diary?" Gene questioned sounding kind of perplexed by what Tony just said.

"I know, talk about old school. But take a look, it has everything he learned about the rings. But he wrote that he wanted to follow up with your stepdad to ask him about the chinesse history involving the rings and other similiar artifacts. It's clear by his notes that they seem alien in orgin but we're not ." Tony explained showing them the hologram of the pages.

"Couldn't it be possible that the Makluan Rings are magic in origin instead? What if it's simply something developed by Azmuth, his designes are beyond anything the other Galvan are capable of." The kid with the dragon shirt on questioned in response to that.

"They ruled out Magic by asking Gwen Tennyson if she sensed anything from it and she stated that it didn't give off any magic auras." He'd responded back about if they were magic or not. "As for Azmuth, the only response we got from him was not to bother him with such nonsense before he then hung up."

"Interesting, so the rings aren't magic in origin then.. Uh, Zhang is out of country on business and won't be back for awhile." Gene then explained about his stepdad not being there at the moment. "If you wanna leave a copy of the diary I'll be sure to pass it along to him."

"That's okay, just let him know I'd like to talk to him as soon as possible please." Tony then stated putting his pone back onto it's holster on his belt.

"Sure.. but where can I find you?" He'd then questioned the geinus in the red shirt that was in front of him.

"I wrote down my cell number, but I'm in school during the week." Was the answer he'd gotten as Tony handed over a piece of paper to him.

"Oh, I'm enrolling in the Tomorrow Academy while here." Gene then stated about what school he'd be going to.

"Oh cool, guess we'll be classmates. I gotta get going to meet up with a friend before school so gotta head out now. Thanks again." Tony answered back as Gene waved goodbye letting Tony leave and smirked slightly once he was gone.

Our genius had gone to the Armory where his suit of armor was moving on it's down and flown around the room hitting the helemt against part of the desk and then falling over onto Tony who'd seemed annoyed by that.

"Rhodey, if you're mad at me for something we can just talk it out." Tony stated over to his friend who was in a cair that acted as some sort of controls.

"Sorry Tony, I was just practicing with the new remote control systems for the armor." His friend explained about what they were doing.

"You need more practice." He'd answered back shoving the armor off of himself and getting it put back into storage.

They'd headed on to go over to the school while Tony was explaining things to Rhodey about what happened. "So Zhang's stepson Gene said that he was out of the country, and my dad didn't have anything for them in his contacts list either."

"So you don't know anything more about the rings, or the Mandarin. Good start." Rhodey stated back in response.

"I was never good at research, I always just invented whatever I needed." He'd then answered with a sigh of annoyance while they walked.

They'd headed to class where Tony had a few different books with him that day and Pepper had seemed confused by that. "I thought you didn't do the whole book thing."

"Ya I went to this place called.. uh.. what was it.." Tony then stated back pretending to think about where he went.

"The Library." Rhodey answered back about where Tony had gone to knowing he was just playing dumb on purpose.

"That's the one, anyway I'm doing research." He'd then stated about why he had the different books on had.

"Oh on what?" Pepper questioned curious to hear about what they were researching using the books.

"Um.. Jewlery..?" He'd answered back not really sounding all that convincing when the teacher had come on in to speak with them.

"Attention everyone, we have a new student joining today. Gene Khan, why don't you go have a seat over there next to Happy Hogan." The Teacher stated as Gene went over and sat down immediatley getting annoyed by Happy making movie references about his name.

Later out in the halls they were talking about Gene and how Rhodey didn't seem to like him. "I'm telling you something's up he's got that arrogant rich kid vibe, like he thinks he's above all this."

"Oh ya, arrogant rich kids are the worst." Tony stated back sarcastically to what his friend had said about the new guy.

"You know what I mean. Jerk." Rhodey then answered back annoyed at his friend's sarcasm towards the situation.

"I'm pretty sure I've hear'd the name before. I think I might know something about him but can't remember what." Pepper answered back about the situation as well.

"Sorry, no time to gossip girls, it's my free period and research calls." Tony stated checking out his watch and began to head off.

After school they'd gone to talk with Gene as he was about to head out when something struck his limmo that he was leaving in and some guys grabbed Tony, Pepper, and Gene. Rhodey had still been inside and so wasn't taken with them. Though he did see them and immediately began to head over to the armory to help.

When they were made to go sit quielty Pepper had thrown a fit stating "You guys really don't know who you're dealing with here. My dad is an F.B.I. agent!"

""Pepper!"" Both Tony and Gene spoke at the same time getting annoyed about her throwing a fit.

"Let's not antagonize the armed thugs okay?" Tony then stated warning her not to make things worse for them than they already were and began to mess with his device and one of the guys took it away from him. "Hey, it's just a mobile gaming consol to avoid boredom."

"Kid you better shut up and cooperate if you wanna get out of this without suffering too much." One of the guys stated pointing a finger at Tony warning him to keep quiet.

"Oh by all means threaten the guy who's dad was friends with the Tennyson family." Tony then answered back.

"Seriously if you're going to threaten someone you should at least do it right. You're suppose to say get out of this alive. And another thing what kind of a name is Killer Shrike anyway?" Pepper stated annyoed to them.

"Who are you people anyway?" Tony then questioned just who this guy was exactly that had kidnapped them.

"Your buddy's dad is head of the Tong. The Maggia is at war with the Tong, they're hitting our leaders so we're hitting back." This Killer Shrike guy then explained to them.

Rhodey had gone to the Armory and now was using the remote controls to try to get to Tony after the computer found the signal given off by the device he used earlier and they'd managed to find them attacking the guys that had taken them with the repulsers in the hands of the suit.

"Gene, take Pepper and get her out of here. I'll be right behind you." Tony stated telling them to leave while everyone was distracted.

Once they'd gotten out Tony had fround a place to get into the armor with Rhodey stating "Wecome back."

"Good to be back, as for them.." He'd answered back and bega to fight against these guys that were fighting against him.

He'd blasted Unicorn with the Unibeam on his chest taking them out of the battle and then focused his efforts on Shrike next. The two had taken to the skies ans Shrike was gaining the upper hand but Iron Man then managed to bust their guantlets making them drop back down unable to properly fly without them.

"Ooh, that looked like it hurt." He'd then mocked about what happened "That's a serious design flaw. Now I gotta get back down there before anyone notices."

"Alright, I'll pilot the armor back after you say it. C'mon, say it." Rhodey then stated to Tony about flying the armor back to the base.

Tony let out a sigh and says "Thank you for saving us all Rhodey you're my hero." before then dropping down someplace he could get out of the suit without being seen.

He'd then gone to where the Plumbers had shown up taking a statement and the famous Gwen Tennyson had actually been there and hugged Tony glad to see he was alright. "Are you okay, what happened?" She'd questioned him.

"I'm fine Aunt Gwen." Tony answered telling her that he was okay while Pepper and Gene looked surprised to see that. "I told you my dad was friends with the Tennyosn Family didn't I?"