Iron Man: Reforged Season 01 Episode 06
Tony had been testing a new version of the Iron Man armor that had a different core system in it that was supposed to work for stealth missions with Rhodey and Pepper watching as he'd gone invisible, however the battery on it had died after a few laps around the building and he'd realized there was a power issue.
"So much for Stealth Armor, I'll have to go back to the drawing board on this one." He'd stated to the two of them.
"Still it is cool that you built armor that could turn invisible without any alien cloaking tech involved." Pepper then stated in response.
"Ya, well we'd better call it a night or else we'll all be in trouble." Rhodey spoke gesturing to the time and they'd signed in response but he wasn't having it stating "I'm not about to get grounded because you two wanna play with Tony's new toys, go." and the two then left actually going to head on home again.
We then cut to sometime during the next morning with Tony talking to someone over the phone using a headset while working on something else in the Armory and stating "That's the last of the journal entries. My dad's ring is gone now and I've been through the diary a hundred time, I still don't know what the rings are or where to find them. If you're still interested in helping me I'd love for you to take a look at the diary." He'd stated setting down the screwdriver he was using.
"Sure I'd be happy to help." We hear the voice of Gene Khan coming through the other end of the line talking to Tony.
We then cut to later with Gene going through the diary in a classroom after school while Tony was doing stupid stuff like trying to balance a book on his head since he had no need to studdy and meanwhile Rhody and Pepper were studying in their desks behind them.
"What is this?" Gene questioned while trying to make sense of what all was written down the in the diary.
"My dad was a genius and he structured his thoughts a little differently, there's stuff in there that even I don't know what he's talking about. He's been searching for the rings for years, but his diary is filled with riddles, half thoughts and weird entries on tests. Along with a few inventions he came up with." Tony explained about what all was in the book.
"Helpful." Gene stated shutting the book. "How did your dad find the first of the Makluan Rings anyway?"
"Pure luck. Stark International was building a new facility in Jersey when they'd stumbled upon an old temple under the site." He'd then explained about how that happened. "But then our plane crashed and the ring went missing."
"I'll go over the diary tonight and see if there's anything more that I can come up with. We can compare notes tomorrow." Gene then stated putting the book into his bag.
"Uhh guys, don't you think it's weird that Howard found an ancient Chineese temple under Jersey of all places? Shot in the dark, if the ring was found there maybe the temple he found it at could have more information." Rhodey then stated getting up from his desk suggesting they just check out the temple.
We then cut to later back at the compound where Tony was trying to get a new backpack on with Rhodey helping him get his arm through the other strap so he could connect the buckle on them together with Pepper talking as usual. "Something seems weird about Gene, and didn't you say those rings were dangerous?"
"Ya, the Mandrain nearly took him out using one of them." Rhodey stated back to her as Tony connected the buckle on the backpack.
"That's why I'm going in prepared." Tony stated and pushed a button on the buckle and his backpack then unfolded around him and took the shape of the Mk-I armor freaking the two out. "It's got anti-gravity tech so that it doesn't weigh like a billion pounds. Pretty neat huh?"
Pepper had pulled the goggles she was wearing up over her head so that she could see them better impressed by the new suit while Tony helped up Rhodey who'd tripped over a cable. "Thanks for the warning Genius." The latter then stated annoyed.
"You're welcome, and don't worry about Gene he might be a little stand-offish but he's a good guy deep down." Tony then stated opening up his mask plate to better talk to the two of them.
Later on we see the four of them going down into the temple to check things out after having discovered the place was completely deserted. They'd headed into the opening that let them walk around inside the temple itself. Tony had taken them to where his dad had found the ring and Gene stepped on part of the circle that caused a side panel to open up like large stone doors.
"The Earth Mover must have cut through part of the back of the temple. Whatever just happened it must have opened the door to the actual entrance of the temple." Tony suggested wanting to check it out and heading over.
The four of them found a sword and a book on two pedastals with a symbol on the ground in front of them. "Wisdom, if this is a test then it's a rather obvious one." Gene stated grabbing the book and causing things to start to move and the floor cracked around them causing them to all drop into a pit below them.
The statues where Tony and Pepper had landed had somehow come to life, most likely with some sort of magic or possibly alien tech and began to attack them."Tony, put on the armor. Put on the armor now!" Pepepr then spoke hiding behind him.
"Uhh, ya good call." He'd spoken back and pushed the button activating his backpack so that it would unfold into his armor and they'd began to fight against the statues.
He'd been blasting them while trying to get Pepper away and one of the statues had jumped onto the wall and then from there onto his back weighing them down and causing them to drop to the ground.
"This is bad, this is so bad." Pepper stated grabbing anything nearby to swing wildly at the statues so that they'd leave her alone hitting a couple of them but not doing much damage.
"It's like there's no end to them." He'd responded while blasting and kicking and punching the statues repeatedly trying to get through all of the golems and get back to where Pepper was to keep her safe from those things.
"How are you supposed to stop these things when they're contstantly attacking, use that brain of yours Mister Genius!" She'd then called out still just trying to defend herself from them so that they could get out of there. "Didn't your dad's diary mention something about tests?"
"Ya, and above Gene said that mark on the pedastal said Wisdom on it. Our Armored Hero answered back and began thinking while fending off the statues. "This started when Gene read from the book, then maybe there's a way to stop it too."
"It's worth a shot, I saw the book over there." She'd then stated while pointing over to where the book was.
"I see it." Iron Man spoke busting through the stone golems and grabbing the book. "Computer analyze and translate." The computer in his suit began to do just that but it didn't give him anything useful. "There's nothing useful in the book it's like a record of who made the temple."
"Tony, get over here and help me!" Pepper yelled swinging a sword wildly just trying to get the golems to leave her alone.
"Wait a minute, that looks like the sword from pedastals above.. Of course!" He'd spoke before blasting the stone golems around her and flying over getting between her and the statues "Computer Analyze and translat the sword. Give me the pronunciation."
The Computer then translated it while the two continued to fight against the statues andshortly thereafter gave them the word on how to say it with Tony speaking the word aloud. This caused all the statues to stop moving just as they were about to try to strike them again.
When she'd realized that they were no longer in danger Pepper then let out a sigh of relief. "Hey can I keep this? I'm so keeping this." Pepper spoke gesturing to the sword with Tony just letting out a sigh.
Tony had then flown the two of them out of the temple and once safely above he'd folded up the armor again into the form of his backpack with the temple partially collapsing making them worry about their friends. "Gene, RHODEY!" Tony yelled out worried about their friends.
"Would you mind moving?" A voice spoke up with Gene climbing up to the top where they were and helped Rhodey reach the top too.
"Are you okay, what happened?" Pepper questioned worriedly once everyone was actually safe and away from the unstable part of the ground.
"Rhodes will be fine, he his his head." Gene answered back telling them that other than a bump the two were alright.
"Are you two okay, where did you go? And did you two see anything weird wherever you ended up?" Rhodey then questioned about the situation.
"You mean like a bunch of statues coming to live and attacking us? No." Pepper spoke sarcasically about what happened.
"Ya, we saw the statues. My dad thought the Makluan Rings are some sort of ancient technology, maybe those statues were also a part of that too. It was all a test designed to get the ring." Tony explained about what happened down there.
"So when I chose the book the test began?" Gene spoke about what happened down there in the temple.
"Right, but the book was so obvious that we didn't even look at the sword. The word to deactivate the statues was on the sword. Wisdom right? But if my dad already had the ring what did passing the test do?" He'd then responded thinking about just what might have happened.
"You passed the test?" Gene questioned hearing that "But I thought.." but then didn't really finish what he was going to say.
"And we got a neat souvineer out of it too." Pepper spoke gesturing to the sword which began to glow making her drop it as it snapped into two longwas from the tip of the sword to the bottom of the hilt.
"Hang on a sec.." Tony spoke taking a look at the sword and putting the two pieces side by side. "It looks like a map of sorts. Some kind of new location maybe?"
"There will be another test. Where Rhodey and I fell there was a wall that described the history of the rings. I couldn't read more of it before it was destroyed by the statues but it described more tests." Gene then stated to them.
"I'm sure it's nothing the four of us can't handle, c'mon Gene." Rhodey stated putting his hand on their shoulder before then walking off with the others.
