Iron Man: Reforged Season 02 Episode 05

We see a statellite moving around earth with Iron Man in a black and yellow armor flying over towards it "Sooo.. what does this Satellite thingy have to do with Gene Khan again?" Pepper questioned over his com system.

"It detects Makluan energy anytime the Mandarain uses the rings in a big way. Y'know like when he Teleports huge distances, or blasts something with one of the stronger rings." Iron Man explained and began messing with the setup for the device.

"Then we can be on that little jerk so fast his helmet will spin." Rhodey answered back about what they were doing.

"Well, unless he's in like Japan or something." She'd then responded back while Iron Man was still working the controls.

"Ya but if he's anywhere we can get to him quickly enough we'll have him.. hopefully." Our Armored Hero stated to them. "Alright I'm programming now, Satellite will be online in exactly.. Nine hours."

We then immediately cut to Iron Man and Mandarin struggling against some of the walls that were trying to impale them. "Mandarin we gotta put eveything into bashing down the wall!" He'd called and used the Unibeam while Mandarin slammed their fist through the stone breaking through with Iron Man flying out after them just as the walls closed flat against each other. "Let's move I have to find dad."

Meanwhile a meteor was about to hit War Machine but something blasted it apart and he'd turned seeing the Stealth Suit questioning "Pepper?"

"I owed you one, call us even." She'd stated back in response and something opened up the sky with weird little orbs coming thorugh and attacking them and the two had ot fight back.

Cutting back to Iron Man they'd walked up to a person in a large chair and he'd demanded "I'll only ask this one Vandal Savage, where is Howard Stark!?"

"You really should be more concerned about yourselves." The Man, Vandal Savage, spoke as they'd began to fight against them.

"Look, you've trusted me to get you this far just give me one more so that I can fight!" Mandarin spoke holding out his hand.

"Fine, but if you try to stab me in the back I swear you won't live long enough to regret it!" Iron Man threatened and tossed him another ring.

This however didn't go so well as they'd been led into a trap and were placed into the same strange containment cell with the man inside stating "Welcome back Gene, I almost missed you." annoyed by seeing them again.

"Howard Stark? I'm Iron Man a member of the P.H.D. and I'm here to rescue you." Our Armored hero then stated to the man in front of them.

"Rescue me, ya sure, and who exactly is going to rescue you?" Howard questioned about what exactly they were going to do.

"You are an anomaly Mandarin, that is why you can wield these rings. But I have found other uses for the one I have here." Vandal Savage told them opening up a portal with a strange creature appearing in front of them that looked like some sort of centipede creature of some sort.

"Yogthulu, hear me! I have brought you my end of the bargain and now it it time for you to keep your end of the deal as well! Three Pure Souls for what I desire."

"So, you have upheld our bargain Savage, soon you will have what it is you desire." The creature known as Yogthulu spoke taking away the three of them.

"Where are we?" Mandarin questioned looking around the empty space they were now in with only four large doorway looking rectangles attached to the large floor they were standing on being the only thing present besides themselves. "Is this one of the seven evil realms?"

"No it's some sort of pocket dimension, we can still get out of here by finding another wormhole.. I hope." Iron Man then answered back looking around.

The Centipede monsters Yogthulu appeared in front of them blocking their way "You are in Yogthulu's dimension now, and you shall never escape." It told them as they tried to run to the other side but Yogthulu then cut them off.

"There has to be a way out, what did Gwen Tennyson tell me about magic once.. it was something important!" Iron Man spoke hitting the forehead of his helmet with his gloved hand.

"Magic requires an equal trade." Howard spoke about what he may be thinking of "Those involved must accept the deal for it to be binding."

"That's right, YOGTHULU! None of us agreed to the trade in question, by the rules of magic you must cancel your end of the deal and return us to Earth!" Iron Man yelled out at the eldrich horror in front of them.

"What?" They'd hissed hearing that the deal hadn't been respected and taken them back to the cube thing outside the dimension. "You have not respected the rules of Magic the bargain is now void, the payment has been returned." Yogthulu stated to Vandal Savage and then returned back to their own dimension.

"Nice try Savage, but you really should have done your homework!" Iron Man called out to them smugly.

"Iron Man you want to get out of this cube then give me more rings, I give you my word that I will not fight you or Howard, and I will allow you to take him to his son." Mandarin spoke to Iron Man.

"Do it, Mandarin has kept his word for everything that he has told me he would do thus far." Howard told Iron Man so that they could get out of there.

"Alright fine!" He'd answered back giving him the rest of the rings from where he'd had them in storage.

"You had more rings on you this whole time?" Savage questioned how they'd managed to keep them from his notice.

"Yup, radiation-proof, high-density, lead-lined storage facility for containing small items. In other words, Super-Pockets." Iron Man answered back as Mandarin dropped the three of them out of the shield "Mister Stark, get to safety we'll handle savage."

We then cut back to War Machine and Pepper in the Stealth Armor as they were fighting against the things that were attacking them and the former states. "Gotta say Pepper, I'm impressed. When it comes down to the wire, you're really good in that armor."

"Danger makes me focus, you better tell Tony how awesome I'm doing!" She'd called back as the two continued to fend off the invading things.

"Oh trust me, I definately will." War Machine then responds before they were starting to be ganged up on by those strange creatures.

Returning to what was going on we see that Iron Man and Mandarin were both fighting against Vandal Savage who was trying to use the power of the ring despite not being able to properly wield it in order to take them out.

"Time to see what the non superpowered guy can do." Howard stated to himself and began to mess with some old tesla coils causing Savag to be zapped and making them drop the ring.

"Finally, the ninth ring belongs to me now!" Mandarin then spoke grabbing it from the air and then flying over to the device that Savage used before.

Vandal Savage blasted him but Iron Man came in and activated the device which then sent away Savage as Yogthulu came in and swallowed him making the three guys left in the room visibly wince. "Oooh, sorry about that Vandy!" Our Armored hero then called out to them as the portal closed up.

Mandarin had gone and taken the ring from the device stating "At last, I now have nine of the ten rings." and looked over at Iron Man and Howard Stark.

Back with War Machine and Pepper we now see that those strange things had returned through the portal in the sky with the latter questioning "Uh, what's gong on exactly?"

"The portal is closing, Tony did it!" War Machine cheered in response seeing those things had all left and the hole in the sky had closed up.

Returning again to Iron Man and the others Mandarin had a stare down at the two of them stating "I have closed all the portals that Vandal Savage's Arrogance has opened up. So do you still see me as a monster? Iron Man you have kept your end of our deal, Howard, consider your end paid in full. As promises you are both free to go." before then vanishing by teleporting away.

"Are you okay?" Iron Man questioned looking over at Howard Stark wanting to make sure he was alright.

"I dunno how exactly I survived all that, but I'm still in one piece." Howard then answered back glad all that was over.

Back at the house sometime much later on Tony had come in with Rhodey and Pepper and he'd hugged his dad glad to see him. "I can't believe it, you're really back. This is incredible news."

"I'm back son, and right now that's all that matters." Howard stated to his son in response hugging him back.

Tony then pulled away for a moment and steped over towards Pepper stating "Dad, this is Pepper. My uh.." Tony began to say but paused for a moment realizing that the two of them never did get around to deciding that.

"I'm his girlfirend. It's nice to finally meet you." Pepper spoke picking up what Tony was saying before things could get awkward.