[Pepper says she wants a vodka martini, dry with at least 3 olives.
"Oh."
Tony walks back over to the bar. Tony orders their drinks saying that he wants 2 vodka martinis, extra dry, extra olives and asks to make one of them dirty. He sits down and Christine comes into view.]
"Why her?" Clint groaned.
[Christine greets him.
Tony greets her back.
She says that it's fancy seeing him here.
Tony struggles to place her name, then calls her Carrie.]
"Christine." Everyone said.
[Christine corrects him and says that he has a lot of nerve showing up there and asks for a reaction from him.]
"Not the one you're so desperate to get out of me. No." Tony said.
[Tony says panic is his reaction.Christine says she was referring to his company's involvement in the latest atrocity.
Tony says he doesn't know what to tell her and that they just put his name on the invite.]
"There was no invitation though, you just kind of showed up." Steve said.
[Christine says that she almost bought it.
Tony says that he was out of town for a few months.
Christine asks if this is what he called accountability and shows him pictures of Gulmira and asks if he's heard of it.]
"That's where Yinsen was from." Steve said, quietly.
[Tony asks when the pictures were taken.
Christine says they were taken yesterday.
Tony says he never approved any shipment.
Christine says that his company did. ]
Little did I know just how little control I actually had over my own company." Tony said.
So much was happening under his nose and he never even suspected.
[Tony says that he isn't his company and walks out of the building to find Obadiah.]
"She really likes to make you angry." Clint said.
[He asks Obadiah if he's seen the pictures and what's happening in Gulmira.
Obadiah says he can't afford to be so naïve.]
"You were the one keeping me that way." Tony said.
[Tony says that he was naïve before when they said that there's the line, don't cross it this is how we do business. He then asks if they're double dealing under the table.]
"You already know the answer to that, man." Clint said.
[Obadiah tells him that they should take a picture. Obadiah said and pulls Tony to his side.
He asks Tony who he thought locked him out, he says that he was the one who filed the injunction because it was the only way to protect him. Then walks away. Christine is still lingering behind Tony.]
Do you know how long this had been going on before this all happened?" Steve asked.
"I can only assume it started when we took over the company after dad died." Tony said
. "Maybe before... maybe after."
[Tony is sitting on a couch in his lab watching the news. He is fiddling with one of his gauntlets. The news reporter says that the 15 mile hike to the outskirts of Gulmira can only be described as a descent into hell in a modern day heart of darkness.
She says that farmers and herders from peaceful villages have been driven from their homes, displaced from their lands by warlords emboldened by a new-found power.She reports that villagers have been forced to take shelter in whatever dwellings they can find and that recent violence has been attributed to The 10 rings and that they're heavily armed and on a mission.]
"To essentially rule over the middle east." Steve muttered.
[Tony gives his screwdriver a violent twist. She says the mission could be fatal to anyone in their way.
Tony gets up off the couch. She says with no political or international pressure there isn't much hope for the refugees.]
"Most countries won't help with issues like these unless it directly effects them or they can benefit from it." Clint said.
[Tony looks to the side and raises the hand holding the gauntlet. The reporter talks about a woman begging for news of her husband who's been kidnapped.
Tony shoots at something in the lab and his arm is knocked back from the force. A light fixture falls from the ceiling. The reporter continues talking about those who are missing.
Tony straightens his posture and walks forward.
The reporter talks about a child asking where their parents are.
Tony stops in front of three panels of reflective glass, he turns and looks at it.
The reporter says that there is little hope for the refugees who can only wonder if someone would help them.
Tony looks at his reflection with a grimace, he shoots at the center panel, then the left panel then turns and shoots at the right panel and walks away.]
[The scene switches to Tony getting suited up. Then it cuts to him flying.]
"I like this better." Steve mumbled, the people of different world that could hear him nodded in agreement.
[In Gulmira there are bombs going off and the ten rings are killing people.
The brutality of it all was jarring to some. These people really did not care about who they were hurting. They only saw them as obstacles, people to made into an example for others.
One of them says to put the women in the trucks and to stack the weapons, then clear the houses.
A family tries to get their son away. A man says to grab him and put him with the others and calls him a 'dog'.]
Steve grimaced at the dehumanizing language. No matter who someone is or what they've done, no one deserves to be treated as subhuman.
[A little boy tries to run to his father. They shove the boy away and shove his father to the ground and stand over him then a man starts kicking him, a woman screams in the fright]
"You better be getting there soon, Stark." Steve said.
[A man says to shoot him, then calls his men incompetent.
Then Tony lands.]
"Wow, you have great timing." Clint said.
[A man shoots at him, Tony punches him then starts firing at the others. He goes to fire at the ones behind him but they're holding guns to civilians heads. He puts his hands down and targets the terrorists.]
"Nice targeting system you've got there." Clint said. "Bet I can do better."
"I'm sure you can, Barton." Tony said, smugly.
[The boy runs to his father. Tony walks to where the last guy is and grabs him through the wall and throws him on the ground in front of the civilians. Says he's theirs and then flies away.
The townspeople are going to enjoy beating him up.
The people glare at the man on the ground.Tony flies and locates his weapons, he gets blown out of the sky and lands at the place the weapons are located. A tank is shooting at him and he blows it up.]
"Well okay then." Steve said.
[People start shooting at him, he flies up and notices the Jericho missile, he blows it up. He flies away and gets noticed by the military.
A man asks what it was and if they were cleared to go in there.
Someone else says that they weren't because they were using human shields.]
"That....barbaric" Steve exclaimed.
[Someone says to put him through to State because they're gonna want to be all over this.]
Oh they definitely are." Tony sighed.
[Someone says they've got a bogey. They discover that it isn't military or CIA.
Someone else says that he needs answers and asks if he could get eyes on the target and asks for Colonel Rhodes from weapons development.]
"Oh dear god. Something tells me this won't end well." Clint said.
[Rhodey enters the room. Someone tells him that they ran ID check and cross-referenced with known databases and that they have nothing.
Rhodey asks if there's any high altitude surveillance in the region.
The man tells him that they have an AWAC and a Global Hawk in the area.
Rhodey asks why it didn't show up on the radar if it appeared out of no-where and asks if it's stealth.]
"You could say that." Tony said.
"Not when you painted it red and gold "Clint said.
[Someone says that it's not and its tiny and they think its an unmanned aerial vehicle.]
"Defiantly not unmanned." Tony muttered.
[Someone asks Rhodey what they're dealing with.]
"Me." Tony said quietly.
[Rhodey says to let him make a phone call.
Tony is still flying and we hear a ringing noise coming from the suit. Tony answers the phone with a 'Hello.'
Rhodey greets him. Tony asks who's talking to him. Not hearing Rhodey's answer, he apologizes and says 'hello' again.]
"Are you taunting him?" Steve asked.
"No. well.... maybe" Tony said.
[Tony tells him to speak up.]
"Now I'm taunting him." He said.
[Rhodey asks what the noise is.]
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