Iron Man: Reforged Season 01 Episode 10
Picking up where we left off the Dragon Fin Fang Foom had been going after Pepper as Tony and Gene were trying to get to her. The temple guardian however had snapped at her with Pepper jumping backwards scared and falling onto her butt. She'd then began scooting backwards trying to get some distance between her and the dragon in front of them.
The Dragon let out a roar and then began to circle around her like a serpent getting readt to squeeze the life out of it's prey. "Pepper, it's after the rings. Throw them to me!" Gene then called out to her.
"But if I give you the rings then it'll go after you!" She'd called out concerned about what might happen to them.
"Just do it!" He'd demanded in response and Pepper began to think and threw the entire armored glove into the air along with the four rings they'd found so far.
Fin Fang Foom had then swallowed the whole thing in one go while Gene called out "What have you done!?"
"Maybe.. maybe it'll leave us alone now!" She'd then called to them as the dragon was getting ready to strike with Pepper running over to Tony and Gene before turning to see what was happening. "Or maybe not.."
Back with Rhodey he'd been inside of a spaceship that was black and green in color stating "Computer retract the Mk-I Armor." as the red and yellow Iron Man armor then folded up to it's backpack form.
"So, you guys didn't think to tell anyone about your little excursions? It's a good thing Mouldywarp's crazy ass knew how to counteract the activicty at the source and slowed it down long enough for you guys to finish the job." The Blond man stated to Rhodey who was still in the War Machine armor.
"Look, I'm sorry alright, but right now Tony and Pepper are in some sort of trouble so you can scold us later." He'd then answered back about what's going on.
"Scold? Nah, I was thinking more.. Recruit." The Blond then answered back about just what he was considering.
"Dude seriously?" Rhodey questioned surprised to hear that the guy wanted to recruit them instead.
"Shiiiiip." A loud voice spoke and they went to the controls checking out what's going on discovering there were multiple aircraft there.
"Nows your chance, impress us." He'd then stated to them "Ship, drop them here let's see how well this goes."
"Shiiiiip." The spaceship then spoke opening a hatch underneath War Machine and the Mk-I which had still been folded up into the form of a backpack.
Rhodey had flown off while grabbing Tony's backpack "Locate Machu Picchu co-ordinates and lock in." He'd stated as the computer warned him that multiple aircraft had been detected. "Computer, power up all weapons."
We see that Zhang was still there and something blasted one of the aircraft, moving up we see that it had been War Machine that did so. He'd activated all the weapons and began to blast at them with the gattling on one of his arms as a helicopter was taking off causing it to be forced to drop back down onto the ground. The last of the three helicopters had flown at War Machine as he leaned back with it just barely scraping against his chest plate as it was escaping.
War Machine continued to follow after them as they turned around and fired a missile at him before then trying to continue to escape. We then see inside the helicopter as the hatch in the back had been completely ripped off by War Machine as Zhang had then been thrown out of it freefalling in the air as the armored individual had been following.
Zhang had then been grabbed by the arm as War Machine questions "Where are they?" wanting to know what he did with his friends.
"Ha, you are too late." Zhang answered back smugly about them not being able to save the kids and War Machine let them go allowing them to continue falling towards the ground.
War Machine then grabbed Zhang by the ankle and says "I'll ask one more time, where are they!?"
Cutting back to the others Tony had pushed Gene out of the way and the two slid past where Fin Fang Foom had almost chomped down onto them before the two then got up and started running again.
"Tony, Gene, it's coming back!" Pepper called out to them from where she'd been close to the door of the temple for her own safety.
Gene had managed to run over to where Pepper was with Tony on his heels and yells out to him "Move Stark, Now!"
Tony ran to them and jumped away form the dragon and over towards the door with Fin Fang Foom slamming their snout into the doorway not being able to fit and so they backed away going to try something else probably.
"So does anyone have a plan?" Pepper questioned about just what they were supposed to do exactly.
"Not since you threw the rings into the dragon's mouth!" Gene snapped at Pepper about her giving it the Makluan Rings.
"Hey, it seemed like a good idea at the time!" She'd then responded about what she'd done earlier.
"Will you two knock it off, we have to pass this test." Tony then told them both to stop trying to focus on what to do. "It wasn't a sacrifice, like an offering or something. Now think!"
Fin Fang Foom didn't give them much time for that as they'd busted further through the doorway getting closer to them as the three jumped back in surprise. They continued moving back and ramming deeper and deeper into the doorway getting closer to gnawing on them.
"Tony." Pepper spoke with her voice shaking as she was afraid of just what's going to happen to them.
"It's okay Pepper, it's going to be okay." He'd answered back trying to reassure her that they would be able to handle this.
"We're not gonna make it are we?" She questioned stepping closer to him fearful of what might happen next.
"Yes we are." He'd answered back sounding dead serious, which she'd never heard him speak like before. "I'm gonna get us out of this."
"How?" She'd questioned meekly with the word being barely audible as Tony then walked forwards to confront the Dragon in front of them. He'd then taken off running towards the Temple Guardian with Pepper reaching for him barely squeaking out "Tony?"
"Hey ulgy, over here!" Tony then yelled out at Fin Fang Foom waving his arms to get their attention.
She tried to go after them but Gene held her back stating "Pepper, he's doing this to give us the chance to escape."
The guardian continued to chase Tony when something got their attention, turning towards whatever had caused the commotion we then see that it was War Machine who slammed them against the wall knocking them for a loop making them drop.
"Iron Man?" Gene questioned surprised to see them there at the temple as they dropped a backpack in front of Tony.
"What took you so long?" Tony questioned walking over picking it up and began trying to get it onto his back properly.
"Don't ask, you guys okay?" They'd responded while opening up the faceplate and looking over at Pepper and Gene.
Gene had been completely surprised by seeing Rhodey in the armor that was flying above them and questions "Rhodes, you're Iron Man?"
"No." Tony answered with Gene looking over at him as Tony activated the backpack and it unfoled into the Mk-I armor. "That's what I was trying to tell you on the plane, I am Iron Man." He'd explaned and closed the faceplate of the armor.
Iron Man then flew up to War Machine stating "I'm switching to Internal Coms now, can you hear me?"
"Loud and clear, man you will not believe the morning that I had." They'd answered back about being able to hear them.
"Unless it beast a giant dragon trying to eat you, save it for later." He answered back as Fin Fang Foom began to move again having woken up from their little nap.
"Get Pepper and Gene out of here I'll handle ugly here." He'd stated as they began to move again flicking War Machine with their tail and knocking him onto the temple platform.
Iron Man blasted them with his Unibeam trying to stop them from attacking the others and Gene continued to stand here in shock with Pepper grabbing him by the wrist. "Come on, we have to move now!" She'd yelled at him and pulled him away from the fighting.
War Machine and Iron Man then both started fighting the Dragon as the former questions "How do we stop this thing?"
"How should I know, I thought you were here to rescue me." Our first Armored Hero answered back about what they were doing with the computer warning them of Makluan energy build up and they blasted all their repulsars at Fin Fang Foom to try to push back against their fire breath but were knocked back.
Once they were down the Dragon then moved off going after Gene and Pepper with the former pushing the girl into one of the little side slits in the doorway letting himself get swallowed by the Dragon alone as they slammed into the door that they were at.
"Pepper run, we'll go after Gene!" Iron man yelled out as he and War Machine flew past as she was freaking out even more now running after them as the dragon stopped moving as the two reddied their repulsors.
"It just stopped what's happening?" Rhodey questioned seeing that it was no longer trying to destroy them anymore.
"Gene passed the test." Tony answered back about what just happened. "He sacrificed himself to save Pepper."
The Dragon began to move towards them again and Tony tried to protect Pepper as Fin Fang Foom had been completely crystalized in ice and Gene walked out of the mouth of the Dragon. "Gene you're alive!" She'd spoken happy to see that he was okay.
"No, not Gene." He stated back revealing he had the Mandarin's glove and the fifth ring making them glow and create an energy around them which had created the Mandarin's armor around him. "Mandarin."
"Gene, what are you doing we're your friends remember?" Pepper spoke trying to calm down the sitatuion.
"No, youre not." He'd stated blasting War Machine backwards into a wall while stating "I never liked him."
"Gene this doesn't have to be this way." Tony told him also trying to calm down the situation as well.
"You're wrong Stark, from the day I destroyed your plane this was inevitable. I never knew how you survived but it all makes sense now." The Mandarin responds and prepared to attack with Tony grabbing and struggling against them.
"I won't let you hurt my family again!" Tony spoke struggling against him as the Mandarin's power had started to damage his suit putting cracks into it.
"Let me go or else you'll never see your father alive again!" They'd stated to Iron Man about Howard. "I took them because I needed information about the rings. He's still alive, turns out I took the wrong Stark that day. Now let me go or you'll never find him!"
Tony finally let go with Pepper questioning "Gene.. why?" looking over at him with a sad expression on her face and he disappeared.
We then cut to Tony waking up sometime later and sitting up with Rhodey standing nearby alongside Pepper the latter of whom was glad to see he was okay and moved to sit beside him on the bed. "Easy there Tony, you've been asleep for about fourteen hours now." Rhodey stated to them.
"You got us home?" Tony questioned looking around the room before then questioning "I probably don't wanna look outside do I?"
"No, the factory is trashed and the Armory is destroyed. We're gonna have a little explaining to do when my mom get's home." Rhodey then stated back about what's going on now.
"That's where I come in. I'll cover for you guys but I wanna talk to you three about something important." The Blond Man stated walking into the room once Tony had gotten up.
"Uncle Albedo?" Tony questioned surprised to see that they were here and a little blob of green and black circutry like that of the spaceship jumped up onto Tony's bed. "And Ship, nice to see you too."
"Ship's been playing with your armor while you were sleeping. Impressed by Earth Tech standards. I wanna have you join the P.H.D." Albedo then stated to them about why he was there specifically.
"My dad is alive, I can't drop everything and join the Front lines like that." Tony then stated to them about joining.
"I didn't say you'd be a part of the Front Lines. You can continue your own hero work here and wherever else you might be needed just if you're called in and you aren't already on mission you'll need to try to finish as fast as possible and come in. I'll even throw in having your Armor designs pantened under Iron Man's name. How does that sound?" Albedo stated to them and offering Tony the ability to pantent his tech without revealing his true identity to sweeten the dea.
Stopping to consider this Tony finally responds "I'll do it. But only if Rhodey is my field partner."
"You know I'm in. Someone's gotta keep your butt safe, or y'know kick if if you need a reality check." Rhodey answered back agreeing to join too.
"Ya, this. Is. So. Awesome!" Pepper then cheered hearing that they'd be working with the P.H.D. now and hugged Tony excitedly causing him to wince in pain slightly. "Oh, sorry, sorry." She'd quickly apologized.
"But first, I think I need ot heal up." Tony then stated with a bit of a laugh about his body still being a bit injured from what happened.
