Iron Man: Reforged Season 02 Episode 04
The Trio was walking around down a sidewalk as Pepper had both her arms around Tony's left arm with her head resting on his shoulder while they were walking. "I can't believe that in just a few short months we'll be eighteen. I don't even know where High School went." Rhodey stated about the whole thing.
"Eh, you know what they say, time flies when you're flying around in high tech body armor." Tony then stated casually in response.
"You got that right, so you consider where you're going to school yet?" Rhody responds asking about College. "I'm thinking Empire State maybe, or possibly Friedkin University."
"I'm thinking maybe M.I.T., see if maybe I can learn to understand more of Tony's Technobabble." Pepper answered back about what she wanted to do.
"I dunno if I'll even have time to attend College between the P.H.D. work and running Stark International, though I might join Pepper at M.I.T. if we find out what happened to my dad before College starts." Tony stated about not knowing if he could go or not.
Before they could continue to chat further someone came out into the streets and began blasting away cars and things with Electrical powers "What the heck, I thought Electro was dead!" Tony's Best friend questioned seeing them.
"I dunno Rhodey, something tells me that guy isn't Electro." Our Genius then answered back about what they were seeing.
"Tony where's your armor?" Pepper questioned about where he left his tech hoping it was somewhere they could get to easily.
"It's Inside Rhodey's car." He answered back gesturing over towards the Car that he left his backpack armor in. "I sure picked a bad time to return Ship to Albedo."
Some Military guys had shown up and started trying to take down the guy with Electrokinesis with Rhodey calling "Quick, while he's distracted." and the three began trying to get over to his car with Tony leading the way managing to get his backpack and threw it on as quick as he could.
Once he'd gotten it they ran into an alleyway and Tony made his suit unfold around him before flying off and landing in front of them "Okay whatever you are, claws up and don't move!" He'd then called pointing one of his Repulsors at them.
"Iron Man." Whoever, or whatever, that thing was had called out while Iron Man swapped their sensors to see just what's going on.
"Whoa, buddy, your vitals are going nuts. There's no reason for this." The Armored Hero told them trying to de-escilate the situation.
"Oh yes there this, lots of reasons. When Cadmus sees me take you down bare handed they'll have to take me back." They'd responded to him and began walking towards him.
"I thought Cadmus was shut down by Amanda Waller years ago." He'd spoke surprised to hear who they were associated with and began to blast at them with the Repulsors.
The guy just kept moving closer unaffected by it while stating "Hah, you're wasting your energy I can't even feel that."
"Computer give me a full bioscan." Iron Man spoke while his Computer got to work, only to tell him the scanning was incomplete because the biology was unknown.
"Hah, you're little toys won't do anything against me. Now let me show you something that you won't soon forget Iron man." They'd spoken and dashed forwards faster than they could fly away and punched the middle of the lit up part of his chestplate.
The Computer told them that the Torso unit had been breached while Iron Man had stood up stating "Tell me something I don't know."
The two took to fighting again but whatever that thing had been managed to get the better of them zapping him with their electrical powers stating "I'm gonna fry your heart!"
"Iron Man, you gotta get out of there!" Rhodey called over to his best freind telling them to try to escape.
The Computer in Iron Man's suite warned of extensive damage to their heart and that the heart monitor was shut down and the guy let go of Iron Man leaving them on the street while laughing like a maniac. Someone started shooting at the guy as a voice called "Step away from Iron Man and put your hands behind your head!"
The guys began to shoot at the man when he didn't comply and so he left with whomever that was picking up Iron Man and flying off with them as Pepper and Rhodey tried to get them to wait but it was a waste of breath. "He's alive right Rhodey, he's gotta be alive." Pepper spoke with her voice quivering.
"Ya, I'm sure of it." Rhodey answered back taking something from his pocket that was a white and black device with a red spot on it "This is P.H.D. agent War Machine requesting Emergency Plumber Pickup and dropoff."
"We read you War Machine, E.T.A. two minutes from your location." A voice spoke over the Com on his badge.
Pepper's phone began to ring showing Tony's contact on there with Tony having cake on half his face and she'd answered saying "Tell me you're okay!" She'd spoke immediately. "This is Colonel Rozum with Cadmus, our scans show that Iron Man's heart is failing. He could die if we don't get this armor off of him."
"This is War Machine, I'm going to remotely unlock the armor, but I swear if ANY of this gets leeked out I will bring down the full force of the P.H.D. on your asses, do not let my best friend die." Rhodey then warned while unlocking the systems and his armor opened up so that they could preform medial opperations.
We see Tony waking up with a man in uniform standing at the foot of the bed stating "Welcome back to the world of the living Mister Stark. You needn't worry about your identity. We suspected you were Iron Man for awhile now. My name is Colonel Rozum."
"Where's my Armor?" He'd demanded glaring over at Rozum wanting to know what he did with his tech.
"It's safe, we had to have it remotely unlocked to save your life, War Machine is on his way here now. Despite our differences the P.H.D. and Cadmus do have the same goals." Rozum then stated to Tony.
"Ya, except you try to make people into weapons, The P.H.D. is a voluntary choice. I know about you Rozum, you locked up innocent people for over fifty years because of your own cowardice and refusal to understand their plight!" He responds while glaring at them not wanting to hear it.
"Yes, I admit I have made a lot of mistakes, however I am trying to make up for them now." Rozum then answered back not even trying to deny it.
"Give my my Armor, I'm leaving now!" Tony then stated to the man demanding that they let him leave.
"I'm afraid I cannot do that, your heart has taken far too much damage. To put it bluntly if you wish to live to be my age, your days of being Iron Man are over." The Elder Man answered back to him.
"Tell me, what the hell happened down there? That man was unlike anything I've ever faced." He'd spoken wanting answers.
We then cut to Tony walking down a hall with them as Rozum says "The Serum was called Extremis, it's a bio-enhancer. A few billion nanotick suspended in a carrier fluid."
"How's it work?" Tony questioned looking at him while they continued to walk down the hall to where it was.
"It rewrites your system using nutrients and body mass to build a better network." They'd stated showing him the room where the compound was being held.
"I see, thanks." He spoke before knee kicking Rozum in the gut knocking him out of the room and locking them out of the systems so that they couldn't interrupt him. "If I'm gonna save everyone I gotta have better reaction time, have to become one with the suit." He'd told himself while messing with the controls and having it set to give him what he needed in an injector syringe gun. "Only a tiny bit should do, a single drop and I take that bastard down for the sake of everyone important to me."
We then see War Machine had arrived as Rozum was hitting the door demanding that Stark opened it immediately. "Move!" He'd told them and fired one of the missiles blowing the door off the hinges and they'd gone inside along with Pepper too and found a black mass on the ground.
The mass moved and Tony had come out of it with Pepper freaking out pointing to him with Tony stating "My heart feels.. warm again." and Pepper had run over and he'd picked her up with his hands on her waist spinning around laughing happily before setting her down. "This is great, I feel incredible."
"Are you out of your mind, that serum could have killed you!" Rozum yelled at Tony who just ignored that.
"I altered the serum to fix my heart, I'm not stupid." Tony stated in response to them before turning to his field partner. "War Machine, let's go."
"You're not going anywhere without a full scan!" The colenl had yelled at them but Tony looked at them and raised an eyebrow.
"Ya, watch me." He then spoke as his Armor had flown down the hallway and attached itself to him surprising everyone "Well, this is new. Extremis must have given me Technopathic abilites. Y'know, that gives me an idea. "War Machine take Pepper back to safety, I'm not about to leave her here with Cadmus."
"Right." War Machine answered back picking up Pepper and then blasted a hole through the outer wall with the two of them flying off as she was holding onto them.
"I seriously need my own armor." Pepper pouted after War Machine put her down somewhere safely away from Cadmus.
We then cut to Iron Man fighting the guy who took the larger dose of Extrimus and he says "You can't beat me Iron Man with the power of Extremis no one can!"
"I don't have to beat you Mallen, I just have to outthink you!" He'd called blasting them with the Unibeam and knocking them into a wall. "See I just picked up a new ability of my own, and I've gotten to know your little friends very well, and they agree that you're the wrong kind of person to have their help."
"What are you, talk..ing.. ab..out?" They'd spoken while returning to how they were before they'd taken the Extremis. "What? WHAT DID YOU DO!?"
"Me, I just show down all the nanotech in your system. No more Extremis for you Malon, goodbye." Iron Man responds before throwing them out to where others were waiting to take them away.
"Aw man I missed the fun." War Machine pretended to pout as the Mallen guy was arrested and taken away now unable to pose as a threat to anyone anymore.
The last thing we see is Tony with Pepper flying above the Armory in the night sky together with his helmet off as if they were having some sort of slow dance with his arms around her waist and hers around his neck with her head leaning on his chest and shoulder. Rhodey meanwhile was at the Armory just shaking his head and rolling his eyes slightly letting out a sigh.
