Iron Man: Reforged Season 02 Episode 01
We see Pepper riding in the back of a taxi and speaking to the driver trying to get them to speed up. "Hey can you go a little faster please? I'm in a rush to pick up someone important and he's rich so he tips really well." She'd stated and the driver then sped up.
Cutting to where a jet with the Stark logo on it had stopped, we then see the door open and the stairs fold down so that they could let the passenger off and Tony stepped off of the plane with Pepper then running over glad to see him back as she threw her arms around his neck and he wrapped his around her waist.
"Tony, welcome back I missed you! Everyone's been worried about you being gone for so long, hey it's your birthday in two days, did you find your dad, or Gene, or any of the rings?" She'd then bombarded him with questions in one go.
Tony however had laughed about that and says "I'm happy to see you too Pepper, and um no on finding anything. But China is a big place and I haven't given up hope. How's Rhodey?"
"Oh he's been handling things, supposed to meet up with us when he's done handling Unicorn and Srike." Pepper then stated back basically pulling him along with her to get into the back of the cab. "So uh, why are we going to the Makluan Temple again?"
"It's a surprise, something I was working on before I left for China." He answered back about why they were going back there again.
We then cut to the three of them now at the temple walking down one of the pathways with flashlight as Rhodey says "This better be good Tony. This place freak me out to no end."
"Exactly, no one comes here because they're too scared to. It's totally abandonded, the perfect place." He answered back leading them to whatever he'd been working on and opened up a hidden doorway.
Pepper ran deeper in when they'd gone through the door long around impressed "Wow, you rebuilt the entire Armory here?"
"In the Makluan temple of all places? It's kinda weird but.. I like it." Rhodey stated to them checking out the place too.
"It's nearly identical though I did add a few modifications, starting with better defences. No one's blowing up this place. The Computer's linked to nearly every spy sattelite in the world." Tony then explained to them about the new place.
"Ooh, hey did you guys get to meet Spider-Man while you were training with the P.H.D.?" Pepper then questioned about if they got to meet the famous wallcrawler.
"Uh, no. By the time we were undergoing training Spider-Man had been placed under involuntary medical leave after his last run-in with the Sinister Six." Rhodey answered back about if they met them or not.
"Ya, and the rest of the Cluster were either working on somewhere else, or had chosen to take an early retirement. No idea what exactly happened but it must have been really bad." Tony then stated about the rest of the Spider team.
"oh.. So what's this secret Project you've been working on anyway?" Pepper spoke hearing that they hadn't met any of The Cluster and quickly changing the subject looking over at Tony. "You said you were working on a couple of surprises right? The Armory is one, but waht's the other?"
"Something I've been designing since even before the Mandarin damaged the Mk-I. It's getting close to being finished though." He then answered back "I should be able to complete it here very soon."
We then cut to Iron Man and War Machine flying above the city on patrol with the latter stating "Seriously she was going totally stir crazy without her boyfriend here to keep things exciting."
"I'm.. not sure if we're ready to say boyfrined just yet, we haven't even really discussed that." Iron Man then answered back about what they were talking about.
"Seriously Tony, the whole school knows you and Pepper are totally a thing." War Machine then stated back as they were continuing to patrol.
"If we're gonna continue this conversation can we at least fly by a drive through first? I'm starving." He'd answered back before something had been detected on the radar and they'd zoomed in to see what it was. "Is that.. Whiplash on a falying sawblade?"
"Looks like it, seems he's headed towards Stark International. Let's get down there." His field partner then answered back as they began to fly on down to see just what the heck was going on now.
They'd headed down there and by the time they arrived Whiplash had flown off with Stane while on the flying sawblade thing. "I'm back, what'd I miss?" Pepper spoke over the coms having stepped away for whatever reason.
"Stane was just kidnapped by Whiplash while riding on a flying buzzsaw blade." Iron Man answered back about what they'd just seen.
"Can't you just let Whiplash have him? I mean he's such a huge pain and all." She'd then questioned back about that.
"Sadly no, P.H.D. rules and all, and besides Stane is still.. sort of a person.. I mean, kinda." He'd then stated to her about having to save them for their job and Whiplash launched a small missile from the flying blade while they dodged and it hit War Machine by accident.
"This guy is seriously starting to get on my nerves." War Machine then stated to them about being annoyed by them shooting at them.
"I'll hit them high, you grab them low." Irn man then stated and began to blaste at Whiplash forcing them to have to dodge and making them drop Stane as War Machine had grabbed them from the air.
They'd continued to fight with Whiplash stating "You've been a real thorn in my side Iron Man." while trying to fight them.
Iron Man tried to use the Unibeam but Whiplash had spun his whips around causing a shield that reflected the beam back at them cauing our Armored Hero to drop and then they began heading to finish the job.
"Forget it Whiplash." War Machine spoke having managed to catch back up but Whiplash sent out pieces of his whip chains over at War Machine as he knocked some away but a couple had stuck to the armor and began to beep faster and faster. "That can't be good." He then stated as they exploded making them drop to the ground crashing into the street. "Ow."
Whiplash had gone after Stane again as War Machine had managed to get up slightly dazed but he'd soon recovered and rejoined the fight shooting a shoulder missle at them and blasting the sawblade with it making Whiplash again drop Sane this time with Iron Man catching them.
"Well look what the stork dropped, what a big baby you are." Iron Man then began to mock Stane while flying to get them to safety.
"I demand that you put me down this instant you metal moron!" Stane demanded annoyed by their antics.
Iron Man then began to laugh in response to that "Oh-ho-ho-hoo and it talks too. I think I'm gonna call you.. Pickles." He'd then continued to mock them in response before flying them down to a moving semi trailer "Alright you just hold onto your toupe and uh, don't look down."
Somehow Whiplash had managed to get War machine to crash into a bulldozer and then immediately set his sites on Iron Man grabbing them with the whips and trying to fry their systems completely "Y'know I never did get the chance to try this out." while putting an emphasis on the word this.
They tried to fight back but Whiplash sent those bomb at the armor with the Computer warning them that they armor was about to explode and from inside Tony was calling "Eject, Override and Eject now! EJECT!" as the bombs then exploded.
"TONY!" Pepper cried out from the Armory assuming the wors as Whiplash had picked up the broken chest plate and began to let out a twisted laugh.
We then see a blurry image of War Machine walking down a hallway "ay bro." He'd been saying as things were fading in and out "ony Stark." he'd continued to say as the image was going from blurry to black and then blurry again "octor Yinsen, he save them bef" they'd continued to say as we now see that there were people in white coats around them.
Cutting to sometime later Tony was in a hospital bed with Rhodey standing to one side while Pepper was sitting in the chair on the other. "It was his birthday today, he's seventeen now." She'd spoken upset.
"I was, working on a little surprise party for him." Rhodey then stated about what he'd been working on for Tony's birthday.
"I one year Tony gets Stark International, it makes me wonder was this really an accident or was it deliberate?" Rhodey's mom questioned about what happened having been told it was a car crash.
"The Plumbers had said they were gonna find Doctor Yinsen for us and transfer Tony to a more secure facility given the circumstances at the request of Ben." Rhodey then stated about what was going to happen next.
Sometime Later we see that Tony was awake with Dr. Yinsen checking over Tony stating "These Plumber facilites are really quite impressive, they had everything I needed to patch up your heart monitor and you're healing up nicely. You could be out of here within a few days or so."
"I don't have a few days Doctor Yinsen, there's something Important I need to take care of." Tony then answered back.
"Nothing could possibly be that important, oh by the way you have visitors." The Doctor then stated with Rhodey and Pepper coming into the room.
""Happy birthday."" Both Rhodey and Pepper stated coming into the room after being given the okay to do so.
"Hey guys, I was just finding out how long I'm stuck here for." Tony stated to the two of them as they'd come over.
