Iron Man: Reforged Season 01 Episode 09

We see that the group had been trying to find out anything more at the Library with Gene questioning "Why are we here again? I thought the Computers were Deciphering the map to the next Makluan Ring."

"They are but the data that we've gotten so far doesn't make any sense." Tony answered back about why they were doing research.

"Look, not every ancient text has been converted to digital. So we may find answers here that the computer can't." Rhody then answered back while taking down notes of things that he finds.

"Ya, good luck with that. Call me when the computer figures it out. I'll leave my Phone on this time." Gene then answered back getting up and stretching before walking off.

"Maybe you two should head on back to the Armory and see if the computer has gotten anything else yet." Rhodey then suggested to Tony and Pepper.

"You're just trying to get rid of us, aren't you?" His Genius friend then stated back figuring he just wanted to study in peace.

Rhody looked at them twitching his pencil for a moment looking annoyed, but then just smile turning back to the book his was working with while stating "Yup."

"C'mon genius, let's go see what the computer might have found." Pepper then stated getting up with Tony and the two of them had left.

Once he'd gotten some peace Rhody continued to look through the books discovering a crude stone carving of the Mandarin's helmeted face. "No way." He'd spoken and began to reference the book and the map he had in his bag "No way, I think I got it!" He'd then excalimed before being shushed.

We then cut back to Tony and Pepper walking to the Armory as the former was stating "You can't be serious here."

"I am serious." She'd then responded to him while they were walking towards the compound "If these rings are as powerful as we think then maybe it's best we don't find the last one y'know?"

"Pepper, I have to try to find it. If I don't then then Mandarin just might, he's out there looking for them too." He'd stated about having to go out and find it.

"But that's my point, the only reason the Mandarin has three rings so far is because of you and your dad searching for them. The Mandarin didn't find the second and third ring, the Starks did. And how long until the Mandarin steals the fourth ring off of your finger? Tony maybe it's best that we don't find the fifth ring." Pepper spoke with worry in her voice about what could happen as they were making their way to the armory.

Tony's pod began to ring and so he'd answered it saying "Hey Rhodey." once he'd put the device up to his ear.

"I found it! I need you to cross reference a few things from the Firebrand map, but I think the last ring is in South America. Specifically the lost city of the Incans." Rhodey then stated to them about what they discovered. "Machu Picchu. You can tell me how awesome I am anytime now."

Tony had look over towards Pepper who still looked worried about finding the ring responds "Rhodey, you're awesome."

"Woo, that's right I am!" His Best Friend answered back over the phone after Tony praised him for the effort.

The Genius then hung up as Pepper was still not fully on board with this and they hear someone dropping down behind Tony. "Armory, run. Now!" He then stated grabbing her by the hand and the two began to run knocking over the base of a crate at the person chasing them as they'd ran to get down to the Armory.

The two had to escape from the side and ran out of the building only to find even more people there waiting for them along with three helicopters landing "Tell me again how it's going to be okay." She stated worriedly as they were then shoved forwards.

One of the helicopters then opened up with the Mandarin walking out as they'd seen that Gene had also been captured by them and one of the guys working for the Mandarin made Tony outstretch his arm with the Mandarin then grabbing it and removing the ring stating "You are as arrogant as your father Tony Stark, but for your sake I hope you're a bit more useful."

"What do you know about my Father!?" Tony then demanded wanting to know just what happened to his dad.

"Take the children into the chopper, and then burn this place to the ground." The Mandarin spoke not giving them an answer about what he might have known.

They were forced to watch while on the Helicopter as the Compound had been violently blown apart, and with it went the Armory as well. Rhodey had arrived late as there were firetrucks and things located at the Compound and unbeknownst to him someone had been watching them too.

Gene had started to wake up and Tony decided to ask him a few question while they were on the ride to wherever they were going. "Gene what happened, why did the mandarin grab you?"

"The Mandarin, is my Stepfather Zhang." Gene then answered back about what happened to him and why they were in custody now.

"Are you kidding me? That's exactly what I was talking about when we first met!" Pepper responds frustrated about the whole situation. "You knew about that?"

"No, all this time he'd lied to me. He betrayed me, played me for a fool." They'd answered back about the situation t hand. "Zhang was my only family after my mother died, and now.. now I have no one."

"You're not alone, you've got us, and also Rhodey too." She then stated to him about them not being alone at all.

"Pepper's right Gene, that is assuming we all survive this." Tony then agreed about Gene having them too.

"What do you mean, where are we?" They then questioned just what he was talking about this time.

"We should be somewhere over Peruvian Airspace right about now." He'd answered back about what's going on. "That's where the fifth ring is, I had to tell him for all our sakes."

Zhang came out wearing the Mandarin armor without the helmet and says "Untie them." having distracted them from the conversation they were having.

When they landed Zhang used the four rings to open the pathway to the fifth ring. "The ring is inside, now let us go." Tony spoke after they'd done so.

"Do you think me a fool boy? I am well aware of the tests and the guardians of the rings. Why did you think you are still alive? The two of you will retrieve the ring. Whatever dangers are here you will face them, not I." Zhang then stated to them in response.

"And if we say no?" Tony then questioned what he thought he could do to them to make them go in.

"Then the girl will pay the price for your refusal." They'd answered back grabbing Pepper by the shoulder.

"You think he'd actually do it?" Tony then questioned Gene who'd sighed and nodded in response. "Great, well let's hope you're up to this." and the two took the lead heading off to see what the puzzle was this time.

They walked over to the Symbol that was on the temple ground and Gene says "Sacrifice." while translating it.

The two went over to the pedastals and looked at the stone seeing an indent for you to put your hand in and then Tony went over to Gene's and says "Something's wrong. They're both right hands. That means you'd need two people to activate it."

"Fin Fang Foom. It was an old legend about a sleeping dragon. If we activat that thing it's likely to eat us both." His friend stated to them about the statue in front of them.

"And if we don't Zhang has Pepper. There's not much of a choce to it is there?" Our Genius then stated about the situation at hand.

We then cut back to Rhodey had gone into the compound once he could sneak in unnoticed seeing just how bad a shape it was all in and began to climb down a ladder to get down to the Armory. He'd eventually gotten down there falling onto the ground and coughing while looking around the place seeing the computer could still function he'd watched the feed of what happened exactly.

"Computer lower the Mk-I Armor." Rhodey then spoke telling it to give him the Iron Man armor to use and though it tried the damaged to the Armory was too bad to be able to do so and some of Tony's other armors had began to blow due to the power cores overloading from the explosion. That's when he'd noticed another armor that Tony hadn't told them about.

Back at the temple Tony and Gene had then activated the test for the temple and waited to see what should happen. "Wait for it." Tony told them as some of the stone cracked revealing red colored eyes underneath.

Rhodey meanwhile had donned the new undamaged armor "Target aquired launch!" He'd spoken as the Computer had called the suit modle the War Machine and they'd flown through the tunnel taking the Mk-I modle along with them as they went. "Computer take control of the Mk-I and follow my lead." He'd then stated and they began to fly off.

Back with the others when they activated the statue the rest of the Tong had escaped while Zhang was trying to forcibly dragged pepper along with them but his arm was caught in the door as it was closing and she continued struggling to break free of his graps.

She'd fallen backwards taking the glove and the rings with her as she'd falling with Zhang being unable to follow. "I've got the rings!" She'd called out showing Tony and Gene the glove.

"Pepper throw them to me now!" Gene then called as she was running over towards them and the guardian was now surrounding them snapping at Pepper as she jumped back scared.

Back with Rhodey a very large green and black spaceship had appeared in front of him with a man with blond hair standing on top of them questioning "Need a lift?"