Iron Man Page #4

do you understand?

There's nothing we can't do

if we stick together,

like your father and I.

I'm sorry I didn't give you a

heads up, okay? But if I had...

Tony, no more of this

'ready - fire - aim' business.

- Do you understand me?

- That was dad's line.

You gotta let me handle this.

We're gonna have to play whole

different kind of ball now.

We're gonna have to

take a lot of heat.

I want you to promise me

that you're gonna lay low.

Stark Industries. I've got one

recommendation. Ready, ready?

Sell, sell, sell!

Abandon ship!

Does the'Hindenburg'

ring any bells?

Let me show you the new

Stark Industries business plan!

Look, that's a weapons company

that doesn't make weapons!

Pepper!

How big are your hands?

- What?

- How big are your hands?

- I don't understand why...

- Get down here. I need you.

Hey!

Let's see them.

Show me your hands.

Let's see them.

Oh, wow, they are small.

Very petite, indeed.

I just need your

help for a sec.

Oh my God, is that the thing

that's keeping you alive?

It was, it is now an antique.

This is what will be keeping me

alive for the foreseeable future.

I was swapping it up

for an upgraded unit

and I just ran into a

little... speed bump.

Speed bump?

What's happening?

It's nothing,

it's just a little snag.

There's an exposed wire

under this device

and is contacting a socket wall

and is causing a little

bit of a short circuit.

What do you want me to do?

Put that on the table over

there. That is irrelevant.

I just want you to reach in...

and you're just gonna

gently lift the wire out.

Is it safe?

Yeah, it should be fine.

It's just like an operation,

you just don't let it

touch the socket wall.

- What's Operation?

- It's just a game, never mind.

- Just gently lift the wire.

- Okay. - Okay? Great.

You know, I don't think

that I am qualified to do this.

No, no, you're fine.

You're the most capable,

qualified and trustworthy

person I've ever met.

You're gonna do great.

Is it too much of a problem to ask?

Cause I really need your help here.

- Oh, there's pus!

- It's not pus.

It's a plasmic discharge, it's from

the device, not from my body.

- It smells!

- Yeah, it does.

The copper wire.

The copper wire, you got it?

- I got it.

Now don't let it touch...

...the sides, that's what I was

trying to tell you before.

Okay, now make sure that

when you pull it out,

you don't pull out the magnet

and the end of it. That was it...

...that you just pulled out.

- Oh God. OK, what do I do?

- Don't put it back in!

- What's wrong?

Nothing, I'm just going into cardiac

arrest cause you yanked out...

- What? I thought you said this

was safe! - We gotta hurry.

Take this, you gotta switch,

real quick. - Okay, okay.

Tony, it's gonna be okay.

I'm gonna make this okay.

You gotta touch

that to base plate.

And make sure you...

Was that so hard?

That was fun, right?

I got it, I got it.

Nice.

- Are you okay?

- Yeah, I feel great.

Are you okay?

Don't ever, ever...

...ever ask me to do anything

like that ever again.

I don't have anyone but you.

Are we ready?

What do you want me

to do with this?

That? Destroy it.

Incinerate it.

You don't wanna keep it?

Pepper, I've been

called many things.

Nostalgic is not one of them.

- Would that be all, Mr. Stark?

- That would be all, Ms. Potts.

Hey butterfingers, come here.

What's all this stuff doing

on top of my desk?

That's my phone, that's

a picture of me and my dad...

Right there. In garbage.

All that stuff.

The future of air combat.

Is it manned or unmanned?

I tell you, in my experience,

no unmanned aerial vehicle

will ever trump

a pilot's instinct,

his insight - that ability

to look into a situation

beyond the obvious

and discern its outcome.

Or pilot's judgement.

Colonel, it's... why not

a pilot without a plane?

Look who fell outta the sky!

Mr. Tony Stark.

Speaking about manned

or unmanned,

you gotta get him to tell you

about the time he guessed wrong.

It's spring break,

just remember that.

Spring break 1987, that lovely

lady, what was his name?

Was it Ivan?

Don't do that, they'll believe it.

Don't do that.

Give us a couple

of minutes, you guys.

- I'm surprised.

- Why?

I swear I didn't expect to see

you walking around so soon.

I'm doing a little

better than walking.

- Really?

- Yeah.

Rhodey, I'm working

on something big.

I came to talk to you.

I want you to be part of it.

You're about to make a whole lotta

people around here real happy,

cause that little stunt at the

press conference, that was juicy.

This is not for the military.

I'm not... it's different.

What, are you humanitarian

now or something?

I need you to listen to me.

No, what you need is time

to get your mind right.

I'm serious.

It was nice seeing you, Tony.

Thanks.

- Jarvis, are you up?

- For you sir, always.

I'd like to open a new

project file, index as: Mark 2.

Shell I store this on the Stark

Industries' central database?

I don't know who to trust

right now. Till further notice,

why don't we just keep everything

on my private server.

Working on a secret

project, are we, sir?

I don't want this winding

up in the wrong hands.

Maybe in mine it could

actually do some good.

Next.

Up.

Not the boot, Dummy, right here.

You got me?

Stay put. Nice.

And you, you're no better

at it at all. Lift... I got it.

Okay, I'm sorry,

am I in your way?

Up.

That's great, don't even move.

You... are a tragedy.

Okay, lets do this right.

Start mark, half meter

back of the center.

Dummy, look for light.

Stand back for fire safety.

You, roll it.

Activate hand controls.

We are gonna start up

nice and easy,

raising 10% thrust capacity

to achieve lift.

And 3, 2, 1.

Up two? Alright, step back.

I've been buzzing you.

Did you hear the intercom?

Yeah, everything's... what?

- Obadiah's upstairs.

- Great, I'll be right up.

I thought you said you were

done making weapons?

It isn't. This is

a flight stabilizer.

It's completely harmless.

I didn't expect that.

How'd it go?

Oh, went that bad huh?

Just because I brought

pizza back from New York

doesn't mean it went bad.

- Sure doesn't. Oh, boy.

It would've gone better

if you were there.

You told me to lay low and

that's what I've been doing.

I lay low and you

take care of all the...

Hey, c'mon.

In public, the press...

This was a Board of

Directors meeting.

This was a Board of

Directors meeting?

The Board is claiming

a Post Traumatic Stress.

They are filing an injunction.

- A what?

They wanna lock you out.

Why, cause the stocks dip 40 points?

We knew this was gonna happen.

- 56 and a half.

- It doesn't matter.

We own a controlling

interest in the company.

Tony, the Board has rights too.

They are making the case that

you and your new direction

isn't in a company's

best interest.

I'm being responsible.

That's a new direction.

For me... for the company.

I mean, me on the company's behalf

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