Iron Man: Reforged Season 02 Episode 06
We see Tony working with his systems stating "C'mon Satellite I know you're working. Where is Gene and his stupid Makluan Rings?" before then hearing Pepper's voice and went to set up before she could come in.
"Replax Pepper, you're gonna love this one." Rhodey told her while helping her get to where they were going while she was blindfolded.
"Relax, how can I Relax when you've got me walking around blindfolded for like forever plus one?" Pepper questioned back while continuing to be pushed by Rhodey for where to go. "My birthday isn't until another three months."
"Well I guess Tony just couldn't wait that long." He'd then answered back and led her into the Armory before taking off the blindfold.
"Tony?" She'd questioned looking around before spotting Tony next to the deployment unit with a purple and silver armor that was slimmer than the usual Iron Man armor. "No way, is that what I think it is?"
"Yup, Pepper Potts you are now the proud owner of the X-LI Stealth Infiltrator Armor." Tony then stated moving the Armor down so that they could get a better look at it.
Pepper had basically lost her mind for the next around 30 seconds or so excidetly checking out the armor and repeatedly thanking Tony over and over agian. "I think she likes it." Rhodey then stated.
"Like it, I love it!" Pepper responds excitedly about now having her own suit of Armor like Tony and Rhodey do.
"Well, I fiured since you put in enough practice with the old stealth armor." Tony then spoke gesturing to the old armor which wad been sparking on the ground with the pieces in a pile.
"Ya, uh, sorry about that." She'd apologized about how she left the armor the last tim that she'd tried it out.
"Nah, forget about it." Her boyfriend responds and starts to walk back to the computer "Let's focus on what you're gonna call yourself."
"I'm still deciding on that one, had some ideas but they sounded lame when I said them out loud." She'd then answered back about what to call herself "It's gotta sound cool, something that just screams hero y'know?"
"Alright then, now before you put the armor on you gotta tread up on some important safety Protocols." Tony stated about the armor "Basic opperations, pod interface." H'ed thne began listing off but Pepper, had already managed to get into the suit.
"I'm gonna take it for a quick test drive, just a once around the block y'know? Be back in a few hours." She'd then called before blasting off into the air cheering about having her own armor now.
"Pepper no, wait!" Tony called trying to get her to stop but she'd already been in the air flying away when he'd done so.
"Well, you better hope she doesn't take out New Jersey." Rhodey stated watching Pepper fly away from the Armory.
"Let's just hope it's the shore and nothing else." He'd spoke in response walking over to the deployment and storage unit "I'm armoring up."
When both Iron Man and War Machine caught up to Pepper the former states "Pepper, there's a bunch of stuff that you need to know about your suit. Y'know before you accidentally blow apart a skyscraper."
"Well I know about the Repulsors and Unibeams like you guys, but what else?" She'd then responded back.
"Well you've got Energy Bombs for starters." He'd explained to her about one of the things that her suit had.
"You mean Laser Grenades?" Pepper questioned and tried it out shooting at the water where there wasn't anyone that could get hurt. "Oh oh oh, what's this one do? Stealth mode?" She'd spoke and began playing with it vanishing and reappearing.
"Pepper stop, the stealth mode is a big drain on the battery." Iron Man told her saying to stop playing with the suit when the computor had picked up Makluan energy signature. "That's it, the satellite is picking up large amounts of Malkuan energy, Gene's teleporting all over the place."
"That means he's going after the tenth ring, so where is he?" War Machine questioned hearing that they'd finally found him.
"Mainland China." He answered back about where they were currently. "This won't be a short trip, we'll need to come up with some sort of excuse. I'll see if Uncle Albedo can help us out with a cover story."
Cutting to later Tony was talking to his dad about the plan as he was continuing to work on some new project again.
"Oh uh, ya sure Tony. But first you gotta tell me what you're really up to." Howard stated about Tony going to do something. "You're about as good at keeping secrets from me as your mother was."
"Dad I'm three days from turning eighteen, you don't have to know everything about everything." Tony had stated back to his dad.
"Oh really, well so long as you're living under my roof you bet I do." He'd then stated back to his son about knowing what he's doing.
"What does it matter when you're always working on.. is that a weapon? You're making Weapons again!?" Howard's son began to state but then actually look a look at the specs for what he's working on.
"Tony it's not what you think I"I don't want to hear it, you lied to me after you swore you'd never make weapons again!"" His dad tried to explaine but Tony cut him off and stormed off after yelling at them.
Sometime later Iron Man, War Machine, and Pepper who hadn't taken a hero name yet were flying through the air above china when they'd had missiles being shot at them by China's airforce. War Machine had blasted some of the missiles and a stray one managed to hit making him start to drop with Pepper flying down and picking up up until the systems came back online.
"Yo, can't you do anything about this?" War Machine then called out to Iron Man asking about them actually stopping them.
"I'm working on that now." He'd called back to his best friend using Extremis to hack into their systems and make the jets turn around as the missiles exploded mid air away from them.
"Whoa, how did you manage that one?" Pepper questioned just what happened with the jets back there.
"I hacked in using Extremis, right now those Jets are following three fake dots." Iron Man answered back about what he'd done.
"Nice, you should lead with that next time." War Machine then called back as they returned to their search for Gene.
"Uh Tony, I think I found where Gene is." Pepper called as she'd gestured towards where the temple was and they all flew off over to the entrance.
"Did you guys see the torn up bamboo out there? This Temple must have been raised from deep inside the earth. That's how powerful Gene has become with nine rings. Let's hope he hasn't gotten the tenth one yet." Iron Man stated as the three began to go inside the temple to find where the Mandarin was.
"Ooh treasure." His girlfriend spoke picking up a coin that she'd found on the ground looking at it.
"No, just common Chinese currency, Gene must be using it to keep from getting lo" He'd began to respond when something blasted him in the back.
"Three of you now, are you starting your own little Iron Brigade?" Mandarin spoke seeing that there was now three people in armor.
"Big mistake Mandarin!" War Machine spoke blasting Repulsors at him though he teleported behind them and knocked them into a wall.
"Hello new recruit, are you ready to fall before the Mandarin's might?" They'd questioned ready to fight this new person.
"Give it a rest Gene, you're wasting your breath." She'd stated in response surprising him when he realized that was Pepper under there and she'd punched him into the wall.
"I won't let anyone get between me and my destiny!" He'd warned but Iron Man had gotten back up and punched him in the face with War Machine then doing the same when he was knocked over towards him.
The two of them blasted the mandarin at the same time with their Unibeams and knocked him through a wall where the platfomr they were looking for had been and Mandarin realized that the maze was nothing but a rouse to confuse them.
"He's going for the ring!" Pepper called out and tried to blast him in the back with her Repulsors but he'd managed to avoid it.
"You're all too late, the tenth ring is finally.. mine?" Mandarin began to state but the ring just teleported away from them and something opened up in front of them. "The Temple Guardian, it has to be. The Protector of the tenth ring."
The Creature was some sort of Lizard Man who'd forced the Manarin to revert back with the rings missing before it began to speak "You Gene Khan, have the Dragon Seed within you. It makes you not entirely human."
"So I'm like an alien Hybrid, like Ben or Albedo Tennyson?" Gene questioned surprised to hear that.
"You are part Makluan, as were your ancesstors. That is why you are able to wield the rings, where as your Stepfather Zhang was not." The Creature then explained to them.
"Makluan? So Gene is part, uh.. ring?" Pepepr questioned now even more confused by what was going on exactly.
"The rings were made by my people the Makluan Eons ago, they were created for our Overlord who used them to enslave worlds. When I could bare witness no longer, I was able to steal the rings and escaped. Traveling to this backwater planet that I could hide upon I found the people had great promise. The original Khan, showed great promise, and so I bestowed upon him the dragon seed. It altered his D.N.A. and allowing him access to the ten rings and became the very first Mandarin, and now that honor falls to Gene." The Makluan lizard man explained to them all.
"Hang on, if all this is true then why were the rings hidden in the first place?" Iron Man then questioned why they'd been locked away.
"In his old age the Mandarin grew weary of his children who wished to use the rings most unwiseley, he decided to scatter the rings across the planet and returned the tenth ring to me. I placed myself in stasis waiting for the one who would discover the other nine rings and use their power to find me here." They'd then explained about how everything happened. "Tell me Gene Khan, are you worthy?"
"I am worthy, and I'll do whatever it takes to prove it." Gene answered back to them saying he believed he ws worth.
"I.. do not think so. I see much darkness in you." The Makluan guardian stated to him saying he wasn't worthy.
"You dare to question my birthright?" Gene questioned reactivating the rings and his armor while creating a dust storm around them that began to blow away the guardian.
"Pepper hold onto me!" Iron Man told his girlfriend to help keep her from blowing away too while Mandarin was fighting the guardian.
The three of them blasted Mandarin with the guardian questioning "You assissted me?" surprised.
"Well y'know the enemy of my enemy and all that." Iron Man answered back and the guardian began to get into their heads.
"You female, you would be far more worthy to wield the power of the Makluan Rings." He'd then stated after scanning the minds of the three of them.
"Thanks but, no thanks. The Makluan Rings are pretty and all but they've been nothing but a pain since day one, you keep them." Pepper answered back not wanting the rings after the trouble they caused and then looked over at Iron Man before adding "Besides, I'm looking to get a different sorta ring of power."
This made War Machine snort in response to what she'd just said but the Mandarin had gotten up and blasted both Iron Man and War Machine with energy "Pepper stealth mode!" Iron Man called out and she'd vanished with Mandarin missing her.
She'd blasted at him from a distance but he managed to find Pepepr and thrown her to the ground stating "You think you can Rescue your friends but you're nothing." before then setting his sights back on the guardian using the nine other rings to destroy them and reclaim the final ring. "Finally all Ten Rings are mine!" He'd laughed and began to turn towards them but something blasted him.
"What, who?" Iorn Man questioned and saw that his dad had come in with the new weapon they were arguing about "Howard Stark, what are you doing here?"
"Anthony are you okay?" Howard questioned helping up Iron Man asking if he'd been alright calling him by his first name.
"What, no I'm Iron Ma"Tony you can cut the cherades son."" He'd began to correct but his dad told him to stop.
"How long have you known?" He questioned opening up the the faceplate of the armor to speak with them.
"Since I first saw Iron Man in the newspaper after I was abducted. Who else could have built that armor?" Howard explained stating he'd figured it out becuase it had been obvious to him who it was. "This little number is a quantum dot energy field surpressor, I shut down the rings with it."
"This isn't over." Mandarin called out and used the ten rings power to teleport away from them all.
"Well, it is for now. As for you, I figured Rhodey is War Machine, but this one is new. And what are you calling yourself?" Howard stated gesturing to the purple and silver armor.
"Please don't tell my dad, but I'm thinking Rescue for the name." Pepper stated as she and Rhodey had opened up their face plates too.
"I like it." Tony answered back "But the problem now is Gene has all ten rings, which means the world is in serious trouble."
