Iron Man: Reforged Season 02 Episode 08

The Makluan Ship had began deploying even more drones like crazy sending them across the city with Iron Man stating "Alright everyone this is it, the Makluan aren't messing around it's full scale invasion."

"No problem, us versus sixty thousand invaders. Sounds like a Tuesday right?" War Machine spoke making light of the situation more for himself than for the others.

"Eh, more like a Thursday for the Front Lines." Hotstreak answered back preparing to take off again.

"Well then ladies and genttlemen, and Hotstreak." Static began to say with his teammate looking over at him with an annoyed look before continuing to ask "Shall we put on a show?"

"Ya, let's light up their lives." Albedo spoke in agreement and slapped the bands on his arms together calling "Way-X!" and in an almost blinding green flash he'd become a very large alien that had a pair of brown eyes with that being the only facial features they had as the entire rest of their body looked like they were filled with clusters of stars.

When Way-X backhanded the ship he'd sent it flying up higher into the air while spinning wildly out of control before it had then stabilized the others had began to take that as their cue and started to take down the enemy ship with Ship taking on the form of one of them calling "Shiiip." as they join in shooting and destroying scores of the enemies ships at once.

"These guys just don't quit do they?" Hotstreak questioned about how many there were as he'd blasted them with fire causing them to crash into each other and explode.

"It's like the Thanagarians all over again, but all just coming from one spot this time." Static agreed remembering the last time this happend and continued to zap the ships destroying them and the Static Saucer had started to wobble "Whoat now, starting to run low on power."

"Ship, give static a recharge." Iron Man called out to their little Mechamorph friend hearing Static was running low.

"Shiiiip." The Mechamorph Blob responds while changing back to their normal form and dropped down onto one of the ships altering it and firing it's power in the form of electricity over to Static.

The Electrokinetic Metahuman began absorbing the power from them getting one hell of a boost calling "Whoa, I feel like I just swallowed all of New York's power grid!"

Rescue had been blasting ships nearby and questions "The City?" while turning to look over at him.

"The State, everyone get clear!" Static responded to her question and calling for everyone to move away as he'd then blasted electricity in one continuous burst wiping out a large chunk of the wave as he'd done so.

They'd continued fighting until all the ships were gone. "Alright skies are clear, for now. Gear, how's the device coming along?" Iron Man questioned into the com.

"We're working as fast as we can, the prototype took weeks to build and was much more precise." Gear answered back about the device they were working on.

"It's a bit on the shoddy side but it will nullify the rings." Howard answered adding to the conversation about the one they had built now.

"At this point I'd take a slingshot if I knew it stood a chance." The Armored Hero answered back about the situation.

"We'll give you the heads up when it's done." The Metahuman super genius stated in response and then cut the feed.

Suddenly a large robot appeared annoying the group with Wonder Woman questioning "What exactly is that?"

"It's a robot we fought a long time ago. Back when it was a guardian of one of the rings." Iron Man answered back.

"Can you take it down with Extremis?" War Machine questioned looking over at his best friend hoping for some good news.

"I've been trying since before the invading ship appeared, the Makluan tech is too Alien, I couldn't take it down even with Ship's help." He'd answered back about not being able to deal with that.

Way-X began to fight against the robot and it began to blast lasers from it's eyes while our alien hero crossed their arms and fired energy from them that had a green outline and the inner part looked like clusters of stars like the rest of them.

While this was going on War Machine's computer stated he had an incoming call from Roberta Rhodes. "Mom? Put it through." He'd spoken answering the call.

"James Rhodes where are you? I've been worried sick I've been trying to call your cell." His mother quetioned over the call.

"I'm good mom, are you okay?" Rhodey answered back trying to keep from sounding like he was currently in a fight with a giant alien robot.

"I'm fine baby, I need you to stay in New Jersey. I'm gonna meet you at Uncle Nick's as soon as I can." She'd answered back about being okay too.

"Oh Uh, Uncle Nicks, got it. Mom, I gotta go, I love you." He'd spoken before hanging up and rejoining the fight to help out.

"Were you just on the phone with your mom in the middle of a battle?" Hotstreak questioned War Machine when he'd joined them.

"Uh.. maybe?" He'd anwered though it was more like a question since he wasn't sure what to say about that sitatuion.

"Well, at least if you die the last thing you said to your mom was that you loved her. Whish I'd thought of that with my sister." The Pyrokinetic Metahuman stated shrugging it off and then going back to fighting the robot.

"Wait what, die?" War Machine questioned both surprised and confused at the same time hearing what he'd said.

"He's kidding.. probably." Static then answered back while also fighting the robot and had thrown restraining zapcaps at them but they didn't do much good.

"Probably!?" The armored hero yelled out but then went back to focusing on the battle as they were helping take down the Ultimo robot.

Iron Man flew into Ultimo's mouth and blasted from from the inside making it explode and he'd flown up higher into the air stating "Well, that was stupid. But it looked awesome right?"

The Ship began to blast at them again but Ship had put up a shield protecting them calling "Shiiip." as they'd opened up a hatch to let them inside.

"Everyone aboard NOW!" Albedo called having changed back to human and they'd all gotten aboard Ship who then flew off for now.

Sometime Later they were discussing plans on how exactly to take out the Makluna with Iron Man stating "I've got a plan, we've done a full scan of the Makluan's ship. We'll need to split into two teams, team A will enter into the ship here, through the top port." He'd explained to them about the plan. "That should take you directly into the reactor core, which will have to blow to detonate the ship."

"Okay, and what about Team B?" Wonder Woman questioned about what the second team would be doing.

"Team B will enter into the ship from below. They'll have to break in through the hanger, smash through, and take out the Makluan Overlord in his throne room." He'd answered back about the teams. "Both missions are critical to success."

"Iron Man, War Machine, Wonder Woman, and I, will take on the Makluan Overlord. Ship go with Rescue, Static, and Hotstreak to take out the core." Albedo then stated who would be a part of the team.

"Gear, you there, how's the shut down device coming along?" Static questioned making contact this time instead of Iron Man.

"We're here, the Makluan Energy Disruptor is finally opperational. Theoretically it should be about eighty percent more powerful than the Prototype." Gear then answered back about it. "We just haven't tested it yet."

"So you don't know if it works or not, great that's comforting." he'd answered back hearing that it hasn't been tested.

"We have to align it to the Stark One Satellite, it'll help pinpoint the beam to a remote target." Howard then stated while going through the computors at the Armory. "Iron Man has a space armor that I can borrow to get it up there and installed."

"Alright let's do this." War Machine called out and they'd headed off to go back to the ship to take them down for good.

We then cut to them having broken into the spaceship and they'd started fighting against them with Wonder Woman using her lasso on one of the larger vehicles and forcefully pulling it to swing it around and slamming it into the floor on top of a bunch of the Makluan warriors. Alebedo had transformed into Lycan-Chill and was knocking them away with his claws and unleashed sonic howls that had the ability to freeze them in place covering them in a block of ice. War Machine blasted missiles at the remanining vehicles causing them to explode and Iron Man was uing his Repulsors in a continuous stream while spinning aorund blasting a bunch of the Makluan warriors.

"Let's go!" Iron Man then called out and they all took off towards where the throne room should thoretically be. "How's the disruptor coming along?" He'd questioned over the com.

"It handles like a dream I just got to the satellite and am attaching it now. It's gonna take about twenty minutes." Howard then answered back.

"Right, you guys heard the man, we gotta buy him time to complete the setup." War Machine called to the rest of the group.

They'd managed to get to the throne room where Gene was and Iron Man questions "So he keeps you as his pet rat huh Gene?"

"I'm doing everything I can to fight back here." Gene had answered annoyed that they were still against him.

"He's here because of you, this is where your greed got us Gene. You're no saveor, you're a destroyer!" He'd then stated angrily while the Overlord had appeared jumping from his throne.

"Aptly said Iron Man. Come let us battle, I seek a challenge." The Overlord stated to them wanting to fight them now.

Before he could say anything Albedo changed back into human and put his arm between Iron Man and the Makluan Overlord. "Leave this one to me." He'd told them and the others stepped back. "Time to meet Atomi-X."

Albedo slapped the bands together and had once more become the fusion of Atomix and Alien X ready to fight against them and jumped forwards slamming their fist into the fist of the overlord who'd punched back at the same time, however Atomi-X had unleashed a blast of energy with his attack and knocked the Overlord backwards.

"How, can this be?" The Overlord questioned surprised that he'd been knocked back so easily by them.

Gene had began to laugh as they looked over at him "You're a slow learner Overlord, maybe you should have done your homework on just who's planet you've invaded."

"Albedo is the younger brother to the legendary Ben 10 savior of the known universe." War Machine then added with the Overlord looking even more surprised and slightly concerned.

"Even better, Albedo can fuse Any of Ben 10's transformation with Celestialsapien D.N.A. and transform himself into the fusion." Iro Man then stated to them as well.

"In other words you've lost." Wonder Woman then picked up where Iron Man had left off with the explination.

"You just don't know it yet." Atomi-X then stated cracking his knuckles ready to beat down the Makluan Overlord in front of him.

"Dad how long until you've got it finished?" Iron Man called as Atomi-X had began to fight with the Overlord again.

"I'm working, it's installed but I can't get the targeting system to focus on the ship." Howard then called back.

"Just activate the laser, I'll control the targeting with Extremis. I may not be able to control Makluan Tech but that doesn't mean I don't have a few tricks up my sleeve." He'd answered back and began to tap into the satellite.

The Overlord cried out in pain as the beam hit them demanding "What is this?" angry that he was struck.

"It's called Extremis, I just shut you down Lizard." Iron Man answered back as the Rings had been shorted out.

Atomi-X then blasted the Overlord knocking them into the wall as Rescue called out over the coms "Alright it's set, sixty seconds MOVE IT!" yelling the last part.

"Right, where's Gene?" War Machine questioned looking around and we see that he'd taken the rings from the Overlord and reactivated them returning to his own armored form as well.

"The Mandarin Lives!" He'd called out blasting at the Overlord with Iron Man then slamming into them up against the wall.

"Gene get everyone out, NOW!" He'd demanded and the Mandarin had teleported everyone who wasn't Makluan out of the ship and onto a nearby rooftop leaving only himself and Iron Man to finish the job.

"NO, must get to the power core!" The Makluan Overlord called but Iron Man grabbed them by the tail and swung them over his head onto the floor and jumped on top of him punching them left and right as the computer on the ship warned that the reactor core had gone critical and counted down from five.

"Oh, this is gonna hurt." Iron Man spoke not having time to flee but flew up towards the Mandarin and the two put up their forcefields to prepare for the impact.

"If we die here Stark, I blame you." Mandarin spoke just as everything had exploded around them all at once.

Iron Man had fallen along with the debris and crashed down onto the ground below with his suit sparking because of the damage it took in the blast but he'd been able to get up calling out "It's okay everyone the Makluan invasion is over." and people started to call out that it was Tony Stark and he was Iron Man while recording on their phones. That's when he realized his helmet had come off during the impact, but the people had all cheered for him.

"Tony!" Rescue called out opening her faceplate as she was flying over and basically tackling him in a hug knocking him over as she did so and kissed him glad the he was okay.

War Machine and the others had come over and he'd shrugged opening up the faceplate to his armor too with the Front Lines coming over as well. There was one slight snag though "Patricia Potts, what the hell?" They'd heard a man calling out making her stop kissing Tony and looking surprised.

"Uh oh." Pepper then spoke looking over seeing her dad mad that she'd been keeping this secret from him the whole time. "Eh heh, hi dad." She'd then stated awkwardly.

"I can't believe it, All this time!? James Rhodes you are grounded until you're twenty two!" His Mom spoke also having come over as a part of the crowd. "Right haver you give me the biggest hug." She'd softened at the last part and hugged him while he was still in the armor.

Howard had come down too with Atomi-X changing back into Albedo again "Hey Howard, it's been a long time." he'd called to Tony's dad.

"Nice to see you again Albedo." Howard answered back with a nod after taking off the helmet seeing that everyone else had already shown their faces too.

"Not to break up this little fest, but what exactly happened to Gene?" Rhodey questioned about the Mandarin.

A large flash overtook the city and when it vanished everything had been repaired with Tony stating "Something tells me we won't be seeing him for a very long time."

Some time later War Machine had been at a celebration alongside other heroes and citizens as he was lifting kids up with his suit's arm while talking to someone over the coms stating "I can't believe you guys are missing this, do you wanna celebrate?"

We then cut back to the Armory as Tony had been laying on a couch stating "Thanks but, we have our own little way of celebrating." while Pepper was laying on top of him with her hands and forearms pressed up against his chest and giggling a bit as Tony had his arms around the small of her back and the two shared a kiss as the com lines were cut.

Moving back to War Machine had rolled his eyes stating "Those two." with a tired sigh before looking at the kids "Alright, who wants a free picture with War Machine?" he'd then questioned and the kids all cheered hearing they could take pictures together.