Iron Man: Reforged Season 01 Episode 08

Gene had been at the compound with or Trio, but seemed to be distracted. "Gene, Gene!" Tony had yelled to get his attention snapping him out of whatever he was thinking about. "Are we keeping you up?"

"Sorry, what were we talking about?" He'd questioned while sitting down on a coffee table that was in front of the three.

"The Mandarin and what exactly he wants with the Makluan Rings." Our Genius then answered back.

"Right, now I remember." The guy in the sweater with a dragon on it stated back now recalling what they were discussing.

"We know that the original Mandarin was some kind of Chineese Boogieman, and that he hid the rings all over the world as a part of some big test." Rhodey then stated about what they were talking about.

"And this new Mandarin, he's after the rings too. The first time I'd even seen him was when I hacked into the footage of the earthmovers, he'd taken the ring Stane stole from my dad. He had two rings the first time we actually saw him in person when the Temple Guardian made it's way all the way from Greenland to New York." Tony then stated to them.

"You didn't get anything else on the Mandarin from the wall in the temple of wisdom?" Rhodey then asked looking over at Gene while having been taking down notes.

"No, after you were knocked out I was too preoccupied trying to get us both out and away from the Dreadknight statues." They'd then answered back about the situation.

"So to sum up, we're in the dark about pretty much everything." Pepper then stated over simplifying what they were doing.

"Well, we know that the mandarin doesn't know where the rings are either. If he did he'd just go get them." Tony answered back about at least knowing the Mandarin was in the dark about temple locations. "Luckily we've got a map to the next one."

"Uh, any luck with that?" Gene questioned hearing that they'd managed to get a map for where the fourth one was located.

"Well, no. It's pretty confusing compared to the last one. I've had my computers analyzing it for awhile now but still nothing." He'd then answered back about that.

"Call me when you get it figured out, then we can go after it together." They'd then stated back while standing up off of the table and looking at his watch. "Listen I gotta head back to my Stepfather's shop, there's a buyer coming to look at a statue." He'd stated and began to head on out.

Once he was gone they'd walked into the Armory and was checking things out as they'd had the head of the Temple Guardian being analyized and it had shown them a general location of what they were after. "Oooh, tell me it's somewhere dangerous. That'd be so cool." Pepper spoke excited seeing that it was done.

"It's.. inside an active volcano." Tony answered back about just where the next ring was located at now.

"A volcano, on top of whatever giant robot or monster is waiting for us inside the temple. Great, that's just fan tucking fastic." Rhodey stated with a sigh.

"We should call Gene to let him know we finally got the next location." Our Genius then stated about what to do next.

The next day a plane was starting to take off with Tony stating "We'll have to tackle this one without him, something about the buyer being delayed." as they'd gone into the air.

"This is my first time on a private Jet." Pepper then stated looking out the window watching as they were taking off into the air.

"You get used to it." Rhodey stated having been on rides with Tony before all this Makluan business started.

We then cut to after they'd been dropped off by helicopter and Tony began to check out his scanner stating "Looks like we don't actually have to go into the volcano. I did a satellite geological scan of the area. The temple is burried at the base of the volcano a few meters from here."

"You have a satellite?" Rhodey questioned since it was news to him as that had never been public knowledge.

"The Government does, so I borrowed one. And by borrowed I mean hacked it." He'd then answered back and continued walking.

"Oh so if the big monster doesn't eat us we get to go to jail, super." His friend answered back as he and Pepper began to follow them.

It didn't take long to find the temple and where the platform for the next test had been located with Pepper questioning "Any idea what it says?"

"I uploaded the language into my pod." Tony answered back with the computer then telling them the simple translation for the character read as Temperance.

Rhodey then touched the beam of light in front of them as it reacted and made him pull his arm away. "Okay, that's hot."

"I don't get it, in both the other temples the ring chamber opened as soon as we came inside. So why not this one?" Our Genius then stated and began looking around.

Pepper had found some tongs and was going to use them on part of the test had Rhody not stopped her questioning "What are you doing? You know what happens when these test are activated."

"Of course I do, but we have to know what the test is in case something does happen." She'd then responded about what exactly she was doing.

The two got to fighting over the tongs and that made something spill from one of the cups and the light began to widen turning Rhodey into a living creature of fire and stone freaking out Pepper in the process.

Tony had held Pepper back and did a scan using his Pod stating "Whatever this is it's covering him but it's not in him. It must be part of the test."

"You mean the tests that have thus far beein trying to wipe us out?" Pepper questioned getting behind Tony.

"Ya, those." He'd stated back and activated his backpack and it unfolded into his Iron Man armor suit.

The two of them began to fighting with Iron Man now trying to get Rhodey freed of whatever is happening and the thing had absorbed a lot of the heat from the area they were knocked into questioning "Are you worthy?" Before blasting at him with fire from their mouth.

Everything began to shake violently as they were continuing to battle with Pepper calling Tony and the suit autoanswering. "Tony, this whole place is shaking apart, do something!"

"I'm trying Pepper, but what do you expect me to do it's Rhodey I can't fight him!" He'd stated back while continuing to try to find a way to stop them without hurting him.

"Then you give me the armor and I'll beat him up as you do the test!" She'd then spoken back about what's going on.

The Computer gave Tony an alert that there was an enviornmental hazard happening right now and the unknown energy was putting the region in jepordy. "Is there a town nearby, what's the affected region?" He'd questioned about just how bad this was. The Armor had responded it was planetary scale.

"DID YOUR ARMOR JUST SAY WHAT I THINK IT SAID!?" Pepper questioned now even more freaked out than before.

"Explain." Tony then stated to the computer as it said that an unknown energy was spreading beneath the planet's crust and was threatening volcanic eruptions worldwide that would emit suitable amounts of ash to block out the sun and would cause extermination of nearly all native life on the planet.

"So if we don't pass the test then all life will be wiped out?" She'd questioned hearing what the computer said. "Great, I think I can figure this out. Temperance, it's like self control right? When I knocked the ice into the light it activated the test, so maybe it's the other one." She'd spoken taking a bit of the coal with the tong and dropping it into the light to see what happens.

Whatever had happened to Rhody was expelled from his system and sent back over towards the temple with Iron Man flying down and catching his friend as it had then taken over Pepper questioning "Are you worthy?"

They'd taken Rhodey back into the place while explaining "Whatever Pepper did it save you from the temple's trap." however when they got inside they were attacked making him drop his friend in the process and be slammed into the wall.

"Are you worthy?" They'd questioned and he'd realize it was Pepper that had been overtaken by that stuff now.

Rhodey had found where Tony dropped his pod and picked it up calling Gene. "Gene, the test was activated. We need to solve it quick for all our sakes!"

"Calm down Rhodey, just tell me what you see?" Gene's voice questioned back about what kind of test it was and Rhodey began to explain. "Okay, you said neither Ice or fire worked right? Maybe it's misdirection, knock both of them into the fire at the same time!"

Rhodey dragged the two large challices over so that they were next to each other and knocked both of them over together at the same time. Meanwhile Iron Man was trying to stop Pepper without hurting her as whatever was possessing her states "You are worthy." and leaves her body going over to the Makluan Ring instead.

"I think that worked Gene the light's been crystalized. I'll take a pick so that we can anlyize it later." Rhody then stated to Gene before hanging up.

Later on they were back at the compound with Tony holding the ring and showing it to Gene while asking "Wanna try it on?"

"Ya, I don't think so." Gene answered back refusing the offer of trying on the Makluan Ring in front of them.

"Rhodey won't try it on either." Our Genius then stated back while turning to look over at his Best Friend with a bit of a chuckle. "I ran a few tests, and the computer is picking up something but it doesn't know what exactly." He'd stated putting the ring on his index finger. "It's turned on but I can't get it to do anything."

"But the Mandarin can." They'd stated about being able to get the ring to actually work and show them what power it possesses.

"Right, but what I'm more concerned about is what exactly he wants to do with these rings." Tony then answered back taking the ring off again.