Iron Man: Reforged Season 01 Episode 07

We see that Tony and Gene were sliding down an ice wall while holding climbing picks and were wearing artic gear, the former of whom had jabbed his pick into the ice as he slowed down sliding to a stop and the latter still sliding past. Tony had managed to Grab Gene before he'd fallen off of a cliff as he'd dropped his own climbing pick to better hold onto him. They noticed a ledge underneath them and so had dropped down onto it starting to walk along the path that it had made.

"That was fun, we should go again." Tony stated as they were walking along the pathway trying to find whatever it was they were actually looking for.

When they found it the path was starting to collapse and they made a dash for the temple entrance. Seeing the bridge was separating the two jumped and slid under the door just as it was closing managing to actually make it to the other side just as it shut behind them. The two had then began to laugh about having barely made it.

"It's identicle to the temple of wisdom." Gene stated while he and Tony looked around the place seeing weapons scattered about in piles and walked over to the floor stating "This character reads as courage."

Something began to light up inside of Gene jacket and the symbol moved open allowing something to rise up that looked like a statue but different to the other ones from the other temple. "Well that's not so scary. If this is courage, I think we're good." Tony then stated to his companion and walked over towards a door. "It happened just like last time, the door to the ring chamber opened when we came in."

"Yes, but this statue is different from the dreaknights from before. The question is how do we trigger it?" Gene then questioned trying to find out how to activate it.

"Or we could not do that. We know from my dad's notes that we can take the ring without having to deal with the trap's mechanism." Our Genius then suggested about simply taking the ring and leaving.

"But if we don't pass the test we can't activate the ring. You said it's possibly ancient technology right? What if passing it sends out some sort of triggering signal to make the ring function, like how you can wirelessly turn on the tv with the remote by pressing the power button on it?" His companion then suggested to them.

"Maybe, but we barely came out of that last one alive. It's better to air on the side of caution here. Once I've studdied the new ring then we can see if the test really is required, or if I can activate it regardless. Like making a universal remote, it didn't come with the tv, but it works all of it's parts." Tony then answered back and the two went into the chamber with the ring taking it.

We then cut to Rhodey yelling at Tony stating "I can't believe you did that, we were supposed to go after the next ring together remember!?" Being frustrated that they went without him.

"Also we totally beat the dreadknights together don't forget that!" Pepper then added in also being annoyed at having been left behind.

"What do we have to do for you to let us in huh? Pepper and I, we put ourselves out there, we try so hard to be there for you! But you shut us out, and why exactly?" Rhodey demanded wanting to know why they didn't go with them.

"Look, I get that you two are mad at me, but at the last temple you almost died! I'd never be able to live with myself if either of you got hurt, or worse because of me!" He'd responded to his friends about being worried for them.

"You took Gene with you." Pepper stated crossing her arms and turning her head so that she was looking the opposite direction of Tony.

"Well, I needed Gene to translate since he can read Chineese." Tony stated awkwardly about why he'd taken them along.

"That's not funny Tony, did you even get the ring?" His friend spoke angry before calming down slightly asking if they managed to get the ring or not.

"Ohh, pretty. Can I?" Pepper questioned seeing what a Makluan Ring looks like for the first time and he'd flicked it over to her. She'd then put it on her ring finger stating "Oh, Tony you shouldn't have." slightly joking about how she was wearing it.

Rhodey however had let out a frustrated growl and taken it off of her hand questioning "Am I the only sane one here? This thing is dangerous, the Mandarin almost took you out with one of these things!" and then let out another frustrated growl while looking at the ring and giving it back to Tony. "Okay, you got the ring, but this isn't over Tony!"

"I'm sorry, I know." He'd responded holding out his hand and Rhodey dropped the ring into it. "But I can analyze the ring now and hopefully find out what makes them tick. And maybe then we can find out what the Mandarin wants with them."

Later on Tony and Pepper had been walking to the Armory while Rhodey had already been there since he had a free period for the last part of school that day when something very big had come stomping down the street. Whatever it was the thing was clearly looking for something as it was moving around and seemed to be purposely stepping over the cars and despite it's size hadn't stepped on a single person there, even when people had fallen onto the ground in it's path it steped beside or completely over them not stepping on anything but the road.

"The ring, that thing's gotta be here for it!" Tony stated in realization about why exactly that thing had come to get them.

"Seriously, that thing walked all the way from Greenland just to get the ring back?" Pepper questioned surprised by that.

"The ring that Rhodey has right now back at the Armory!" He'd then stated realizing just where it was heading off to. "I didn't take you guys to Greenland because I didn't wanna put you guys in danger, and now the whole city is in trouble. This is my fault Pepper."

"We should tell Rhody about the massive robot coming after him!" She'd then stated freaking out more not even realizing that he was walking up to them.

"Hey guys, the subway is nuts, must be some sort of construction or something going on." Rhodey then stated about why he wasn't in the Armory right now.

Some jets came in and blasted at the robot as Pepper had turned Rhodey's head towards it and when the explosion took place it only made that thing grow even bigger. "That's not good." She'd stated about what just happened.

"Tony get to the Armory, if this thing is after the ring then Pepper and I will lead it out of the city." Rhodey stated and he'd nodded rushing off to go armor up.

The two ran off to get the thing out of the city and Rhodey had noticed that it was avoiding hurrying anyone or damaging anything. "Hold on a sec Pepper, this thing isn't trying to hurt anyone, it's even avoiding damaging the cars and buildings. I think it only wants the ring." He'd suggested to her as something knocked it over.

"Iron.." She'd began to state but noticed that he wasn't there and instead the Mandarin had appeared in front of them.

"Give me the ring." The Mandarin spoke and Rhody looked at the Makluan Ring before wrapping his hand around it tightly.

"Not a chance in Hell." He'd responded moving away from Mandarin slightly refusing to hand it over.

"Give me the ring or I'll let him take it from you." The Mandarin then responds gesturing to the giant robot.

Iron Man had flown past grabbing the Mandarin and slamming them into the wall. "You're not getting your hands on this ring Mandarin!" He'd stated to them saying they weren't going to simply hand them over.

"These rings are mine by right, I will have them!" The black armored individual responds making the two rings on his hand light up and teleporting away which pushed Iron Man away from the spot.

This let Iron Man get over to his friend and he'd blasted at them while calling "Back off big guy!" however this only made the thing grow larger in response. "Uh, big, big guy.." he'd then spoke susprised and then began to think. "Wait the test." He'd suddenly realized before flying off and grabbing Pepper and Rhodey flying off with them.

"Alright we gotta figure out how to stop this thing. At the temple the guardian was surrounded by hundreds of weapons but I don't think force is the answer, somehow it's courage." He'd stated to the two of them after setting them down on top of a building.

"Seriously if that thing is after the ring than just give it to him!" Pepper then stated annoyed at them for not seeing the obvious.

"What, I can't! I have to find out what these are and what my father was onto, it's the only thing I have left of him was his notes on the rings." He'd then answered back about not giving up the ring.

"Tony, there's more than one kind of Courage y'know." Rhodey stated to his friend about the situation they were in right now.

"Sometimes the most corageous thing you can do is give up something important to save the people that you care about most." Pepper spoke taking Iron man's hand into both of hers trying to get him to see reason.

After letting out a deep sigh he'd then responded to them stating "You're right, both of you are right. I'll be back soon." He'd then flown off to get the Guardian's attention flying up towards their face. "Hey, you want the ring then take it!" He'd called thrown it over at them with the Guardian then taking it from the air and looking at the ring before back at them as he'd landed on a rooftop nearby and turning away from them. "I won't fight you anymore, just take it and go."

The Guardian began to shrink down and took a kneeling possition opening up the hand that the ring was in, however before Iron Man could retrieve it the Mandarin appeared again and blasted them backwards taking the third ring for their own and teleporting away with it. He'd turned towards the Guardian after getting up and found something appeared on their head.

We then cut back to the Armory with Tony putting his armor away while stating "The Mandarin is winning. He has three rings now, everything my father worked to find is being taken away from me. I failed. This is why I didn't want you two involved you could have been killed."

"You think we don't know that, or that we don't feel the same way? Tony every time you go out there on your own you might not come back. Everytime I see Iron Man take off, I could lose my best friend. If we're going to survive this we've got the best shot doing so together. We'll find the Mandarin and Iron Man will take them back. All it takes is courage." Rhodey then stated to him in response explaining to his Best Friend what should be obvious for why they were so upset with him earlier.

"You may not have the ring but you still saved everyone after all." Pepper stated to Tony and kissed him on the cheek surprising him.

"Okay, that was worth giving up the Makluan Ring for." He'd then spoke putting his hand up to where Pepper had kissed him in surprise.

"Good, because you're on your own when you tell Gene how you lost the ring." She'd then told him with a cheeky look.

"Oh man I totally forgot about Gene." Tony then stated suddenly realizing he was in trouble and slapping his forehead about that.