Iron Man: Reforged Season 02 Episode 03
Iron Man had been flying around the city with an armor that looked to be the Mk-II but with a mostly black coloring that had green circutry patterns and he'd noticed some construction beams were falling from a crane anded over towards a schoolbuss. He'd began trying to fly faster to get there but might not make it in time.
"Ship!" He'd called out as the black and gren part of the suit moved as if it was a head popping out of his shoulder looking at him "I need a boost to Thrusters and the Force Fields."
"Ship Ship." The head on his shoulder then nodded and shrank back down with the thrusters changing to a more high powered version and he'd flown faster managing to get under the beams and then activated his forcefield which created a half dome over the buss and everything that the beams might have hit.
"Great, now I need your disintegration beam on the falling debris." Iron Man then spoke as they created a gun barrel up on his right wrist and he'd then blasted at them making the beams into falling sand blowing away in the wind instead. "Nice job pal."
"Don't worry citizens Shockwa..ve.. uhh.. where did the falling beams go?" Someone in yellow and white armor questioned coming over along with someone in mostly blue armor and a small splash of white.
"Gone, I had it covered." Iron Man answered back "And just where exactly did you get those armors from, I swear if you idiots are using knockoff versions of my armor there's gonna be hell to pay!"
"We were simply here to try to help but since you've got it covered.." The guy in the blue armor spoke and began to fly off along with the guy in the yellow armor.
"Hey, get back here!" He'd demanded flying off after them to get some answers but they used a smokescreen to escape. "Great, someone managed to steal the armor specs, it's a good thing I have it patented once I find out who I can have it shut down and destroy their whole opperation."
"For now why don't you go and find out what exactly happened and see if the crane opperator is okay." Rhodey spoke into the Com from back at base with Pepper.
"Good call." He'd agreed and they'd gone back discussing things with the guy working the crane and they'd explained about what happened.
Once back at the Armory Tony had removed his helmet from the Mk-II and Ship detached from the armor as Pepper had come over putting her hands on Tony's chest while leaning up slightly on her toes and kissed him as he had an arm wrapped around the small of her back. "Welcome back, that was amazing how you were able to save everyone."
"Ya well, I wouldn't have made it had Ship not been there to help." He'd stated back looking down at the Mechamorph Blob.
"It's a good think Uncle Albedo agreed to let you borrow him then huh?" Rhodey questioned while kneeling down and petting Ship's head as if he were a dog.
The next day at school Tony was walking down the hall with Pepper and had overheard Happy talking about what happened picking up around the middle of the conversation as he'd stated "ese two idiots that look like knockoff Iron Man show up acting like they were gonna save the day but the real Iron Man had already done so. I think those two set up the crane to mess up becuase of how they were trying to play up the hero thing and my uncle who worked the crane that day said that the controlls had moved on their own. It's a classic bad guy thing to do in comics to make the hero look bad."
That.. that was actually surprisingly intelligent, which came from Happy which was weird as Tony questions "Did.. Did Happy Hogan just say something that actually made sense?"
"I know, scary huh?" Pepper agreed just as confused as Tony was about what Happy Hogan had just stated.
The next morning it was Saturday and War Machine and Iron Man took down the Maggia before These two idiots could show up again, they were back in the armory with one of the holo monitors showing the news on what happened. We see Rhodey was sitting on one end of the couch petting Ship who had what would pass for his head on Rhodey's leg watching the screen, and on the other Tony was leaning aginst the armrest with Pepper sitting in his lap with her back against the rest and her feet on the cushion beside them.
"I'm gonna enjoy slapping the cuffs on whoever stole my designs and dismantling their whole opperation." Tony stated about the two morons that were starting to get on his nerves.
The news had been interrupted by Stane's ugly mug as he'd began talking but Pepper muted it since she didn't wanna hear him talk, however he'd seemed to be saying something out Iron Man and the two idiots in the suits so Tony unmuted it. "on't miss the Stark International Guardsman Expo this afternnon from two to five. I will personally introduce each member of the Guardsman including their newest member, and don't forget free balloons for the children."
"Okay, now this just keeps getting better. Not only are you taking down the asshole who stole your designs but it's Stane you're taking down too." Rhodey stated about taking down those guys.
"Oh that reminds me!" Pepper spoke getting up and going over to her laptop and began to pull something up. "Unlike you their voice modulator doesn't emit a frequency that makes it impossible to do a voice match on so I took a sample of those two guys in the knockoff armor and found out that they were wanted criminals."
Tony had wrapped his arms around Pepper's neck draping them loosely over the top of her chest as he rested his chin on her shoulder while reading over the information and says "Oh now this just keeps getting better and better." before kissing Pepper behind the ear and then standing up. "Rhodey, Ship, suit up we've got an Expo to crash."
They'd arrived just in time to see Stane talking about someone in a knockoff Hulkbuster listening to them state "ron Man had the guys to show himself here today, which he won't. Firepower can bring him to his knees."
"Well here I am Goldilocks!" Iron Man called out to get their attention "And you are in some serious trouble, stealing MY designs which by the ware Pateneted to Me!" and tapped the jumbo screen showing the offical pattent file on the Armor and that it was, in fact, patented to Iron Man specifically. "Let's see just what your Knockoffs can do."
"You're the one playing Vigilante remember, you're the one who"IS a member of the P.H.D. and therefore an acting agent of the Plumbers Earth Division, I'm more of a cop, and a hero, than your knockoffs could ever be. Especially since they set up the events that War Machine and I stopped, and they're wanted criminals."" Stane began to say but Iron Man put up thier mugshots and public records showing they were former magia along with video of what actually happened on the crane. "Your move Stane."
"Are we wrong, if so just take off your helmets and prove it." War Machine called out telling them to just prove that they weren't.
In response Shockwave sent out a pulse at Iron Man who'd been knocked to the ground but managed to get up quickly "Ship, increase the Force Fields, cover the stage." Iron Man spoke and the barrier had gone up while people were escaping. "Its just us now, let's see if you three actually know how to use those knockoffs."
The Guardsmen began to blast at Iron Man and War Manchine but the two had flown out of the way with their inferrior replusors bouncing off of the shield and hitting the three of them instead. "Oh very poor form." War Machine then spoke and took aim with his shoulder missiles and fired at them blasting the three as they were trying to get up.
"Guess we'll just have to end this sooner rather than later." Our first Armored hero stated slightly disappointed in how things had turned out and then deployed something from the arms of his suit throwing one of each at the Guardmen which had shorted out their armor.
"Okay, that was cool." Pepper spoke from back at the Armory as she'd been watching on the remote controls to see what's happening.
"Thanks, I call them Negator Packs." Iron Man responds back smugly as they dropped the shield around them now. "Ship, devour." He'd then spoken confusing those who weren't in the know.
"Ship Ship." The mechamorph Blob spoke detaching from Tony's armor and jumping onto Force seemingly taking the armor with them before doing the same with Shockwave, and then Firepower soon after only leaving behind the guys in the suit who tired to escape but were tazed by War Machine and cuffed.
"I don't know how you managed to steal my Armor Specs Stane, but I do know you're under arrest effective immediately for doing so." He'd then told them as Ship returned to his armor again and War Machine cut off Stane's exit path so that he couldn't try to escape.
They returned to the Armory once they were all in custody and the four began to celebrate the fact that Stane was finally put away for something.
