The sky is still clear.
Colonel Rhodes drove his war machine across the air, searching for traces of the Mandarin and the group of terrorists, until his radar alerted that there was an anomaly in this area.
However, a thousand-meter-long sharp blade spread up from the ground, pierced through the war machine, and also pierced Rhodes' lower abdomen, pulling Rhodes down from the sky!
A man glowing with fire walked to the side of the war machine, stretched out his high-temperature fingers, and landed on Rhodes' steel battle suit...
It was Killian.
"I still don't quite get it."
Killian glanced at Gin Ichimaru who took back the long bladed knife, couldn't help shaking his head and said, "This kind of power should be able to easily cut off Air Force One's hijacking of the president, right?"
"Are you questioning your lord's decision?"
Ichimaru Gin looked down at the war machine that fell unconscious on the ground, then at Killian, narrowed his eyes slightly and said with a smile: "If everything is up to us, why should we let you survive? If Mr. Killian can't prove his role, I can let Mr. Killian die peacefully."
"..."
How could you kill someone at every turn
Killian shook his head speechlessly, and beckoned to his subordinates to transport the war machine to a safe location, and he was about to start his next plan.
"Force Colonel Rhodes out."
Killian glanced at the war machine pierced by the sharp blade, waved his hands and said, "Fix this steel suit again, this is the car we will welcome Mr. President."
"besides."
Ichimaru Gin looked down at Colonel Rhodes, and raised the corners of his mouth: "Put Colonel Rhodes in your original base and let Tony Stark find him... Otherwise, who will let that Iron Man go to our base camp?" Woolen cloth?"
"..."
Killian was silent for a while, and rubbed his hair: "You mean, use Colonel Rhodes to attract people, and we will fight Tony Stark at the base camp?"
"yes…"
Ichimaru Gin glanced at Killian, squinted his eyes and smiled and said, "When you execute the president in the base camp, Mr. Iron Man had better show up at the right time...
Just before fate finally arrives, there will be a fateful confrontation with his former idol. Don't Mr. Killian want to try? "
"Tsk..."
Killian smacked his mouth, touched his chin, and nodded slowly: "Then add some other bets!
My man, Maya Hansen, is with Pepper Potts, the president of Stark Industries, and I'm going to bring her back, just in time for the victor's trophy. "
"random."
Ichimaru Gin looked indifferent.
Tony Stark's friend Colonel Rhodes has been directly captured by Killian, and his girlfriend Pepper Potts is about to fall into Killian's control.
And Tony didn't know anything about it.
Mr. Iron Man, who thought he was hiding, was still tirelessly tracking down the aid of those human bombs. Tony Stark even got information on pioneer technology from the family of a retired Marine Corps soldier.
Killian was killed by Uehara Naraku a group of men. Because of the shortage of manpower, he didn't have time to hunt down Tony Stark, but it made Tony's progress in tracking down Pioneer Technology very fast.
Christmas day.
Tony Stark finally found out where the Mandarin was, but the mansion was already empty, with only traces of a pile of charred corpses.
It's over.
The investigation was completely deadlocked.
Just as Tony Stark was searching for traces in this mansion with some helplessness and despair in his heart, there was a noise in the basement, which finally caught his attention.
People Trapped in the Basement…
It was his good friend Colonel Rhodes.
"Tony?"
When James Rhode saw Tony, his face was full of surprise, and immediately turned into a serious expression: "Tony! Please help inform Air Force One! They took my steel suit away! They want to use the suit to sneak into Air Force One." Kidnap the President!"
"???"
Tony Stark was full of question marks.
Just a second later, Tony Stark understood what James Rhode meant, and he quickly took out his mobile phone to try to contact the official.
However…
It's too late.
The first time Tony Stark took out his phone, he saw the news of the accident on Air Force One... and an email sent to him by a person.
There is only one video in the email.
In the video, Pepper Potts is tied to an experimental machine, and someone next to her is injecting her with the Extremis virus, causing her body to burst into flames from time to time.
"Hi, Tony Stark, my idol."
A man's face appeared in the video, with a smirk on the corner of his mouth, as if he could see Tony's face through the screen: "Long time no see, I'm Aldredge Killian, remember? ?”
In the video, Killian put a finger on his temple and rubbed it, and said slowly: "I guess you may not remember me, do you need me to remind you
On Christmas 1999, when you and Maya Hansen were in bed, I stood on the roof of the building and wanted to jump off and end my life..."
When he said this, Killian in the video suddenly twisted his camera and looked at the corpse of a woman on the ground, which was the corpse of Maya Hansen.
"This woman has not forgotten you."
Killian pointed the camera at himself again, and continued: "When I wanted to take Miss Pepper away, I seemed to have other ideas, so I could only kill her... Huh, this used to be my most loyal cooperation buddy!"
"..."
Tony Stark's scalp was slightly numb.
His brain was spinning rapidly, recalling little by little what happened at Christmas in 1999, and he and Maya Hansen also met at that Christmas banquet.
like…
Tony Stark rubbed his forehead firmly. He seemed to have indeed agreed to meet a man named Aldredge Killian at the beginning, just because Maya Hansen's body was too attractive. I can only miss my appointment with Killian tonight...
This is a revenge after fourteen years!
The man whom he had broken a promise with came back with hatred and pain, and took revenge on him, the former breaker, and even involved Pepper in it!
"Tony, there's no Mandarin."
Killian in the video is still talking, and every word makes Tony Stark feel like falling into an ice cave. He seems to be able to guess Tony Stark's expression, and he smiles very happily in the video.
"There was never any Mandarin."
"The Mandarin you see, the Mandarin you see in this world, is just an actor I caught from London. Let's say...his acting skills are not bad!"
"Everything is controlled by me behind the scenes."
"Tony."
"Everything about you is under my control."
"Let me check the time..."
In the video, Killian glanced at the watch on his wrist, then suddenly raised his head and grinned: "Hahahahaha...it seems not right, I don't care about the time here, I'm just guessing you It's time for the video."
"Judging from the time you received the video, you should have received the news by now, right? Air Force One news, after all, I just got it and will send you this video."
"Air Force One should be miserable."
"No one was spared except our Mr. President."
"As for our Mr. President, according to the time difference, he should have almost fallen into my hands at this time."
"Guess what I'm going to do to him?"
"Tony."
In the video, Killian slowly approached the camera, his eyes gradually becoming dangerous: "Whether you want to save the president or Pepper, come here!
Don't bring too many extra people, by the way, Colonel Rhodes can bring along, if it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have caught Mr. President so easily! "
"Tony."
"A big Christmas feast awaits you."
"Just like that Christmas in 1999, this time, you are still the protagonist of the whole banquet, and all eyes will be on you."
"This is my very sincere invitation to the Christmas party!"
"I have carefully prepared for you for fourteen years! Tony, do you know how I got here for these fourteen years?"
"..."
At the end of the video, Killian deliberately turns away from the camera to reveal Pepper Potts on the experimental steel frame, his smile is extremely dangerous.
"Tony."
"I want to see…"
"This time, will you miss the appointment?"