Maya Hansen

Rewind an hour, and Pepper Potts was working in the president's office at Stark Industries, one of the world's largest companies named after the Tony family, which has an inseparable relationship with Tony Stark.

This doesn't just mean that Tony Stark is the company's largest shareholder, or that the CEO is Tony's fiancée; it means that any move Tony makes affects the company's stock price.

Happy's injury had already caused quite a stir, and with Tony and Xia Yu's comments to the reporters, Pepper Potts ended up with a lot of strange and inexplicable things to say and do.

After a long day of work, Pepper Potts finally caught her breath, poured herself a glass of water, and sat on the sofa, contemplating whether to go back to Tony's mansion in Malibu Beach to sleep or stay at the company.

At that moment, Pepper's secretary came over and told Pepper Potts that a woman had come looking for Tony Stark.

The woman who arrived was Maya Hansen, the female scientist who had a one-night stand with Tony in Iron Man 3 in 1999, and also the inventor of the Extremis Virus. In fact, Tony himself deserves half the credit for the Extremis Virus.

After showing Tony the first-generation Extremis Virus used on plants, the girl wanted to discuss with Tony how it could be applied to humans. As a result Tony had a one-night stand with her across the globe and left her with a formula the next morning.

It was a formula that Tony casually came up with that solved the problem of how the Extremis Virus could be implanted into the human body. However, after Dr. Killian began large-scale human trials, he found that it was unstable and required a large amount of inhibitors to prevent the human body from exploding due to excessive heat.

This is the origin of terrorist attacks and the fake the Mandarin, merely a cover for the real reasons behind those who carried out the bombings.

They studied the problem for a long time without finding a solution to the explosion, so Killian remembered Tony Stark, who could solve it with a simple formula back then, and should be able to do it now.

So, Killian's first step was to go to Stark Industries and find Pepper Potts, ostensibly to get Stark Industries to invest in the project, but his main purpose was, of course, to get Tony to solve this problem.

But Pepper Potts refused.

When Kirlian Ramaya Hansen joined the group, it was as a medical research project to treat limb regeneration.

However, Killian was later used to develop biological weapons, so when Maya Hansen came to Tony in the movie, she was already preparing to betray Killian.

However, things are different now than in the movie. In the movie, Tony gave out his home address, but now Xia Yu is causing trouble and giving out the address of U.S. Military base. However, due to the inertia of the plot, although the current United States vice president is different from the previous one, he is still in cahoots with Killian, so Killian knows that it is a U.S. Military base and naturally does not fall for the trick.

However, as a terrorist organization, they were bound to retaliate after being provoked by Tony and Xia Yu, especially since Killian already had a grudge against Tony. (If you haven't seen the movie, go watch Iron Man 3; I'll give you a brief overview.)

So, eager to tip off Tony Stark, Maya Hansen had no choice but to go to Tony Stark's company.

Normally, it would be impossible for a girl to come and see Tony Stark, but Maya Hansen directly told the secretary about the intelligence related to terrorists, so Pepper Potts met her in her office.

"Are you Tony's friend? Or his ex-girlfriend?" With a woman's intuition, Pepper Potts felt this woman had something to do with Tony.

"I wouldn't call her a girlfriend or a friend, at most it was... well... a one-night stand," Maya Hansen said honestly.

"Okay, this is very Tony -like. What brings you here? He hasn't been to the company in a long time. Sorry, I meant you said you have intelligence on terrorists?"

Pepper Potts started asking Maya Hansen questions, and she answered them all without hiding anything.

Pepper Potts became increasingly alarmed as she asked. She had just met Killian a few days ago, and at that time, Happy thought he wasn't a good person and said he would follow him, but she hadn't taken it to heart. She knew that Happy had called Tony, but Tony was busy working on his new Armor and was lucky to even answer the phone; he definitely hadn't been paying attention to what Happy was saying.

It seems that Happy's injury may not have been an accident.

Maya Hansen confessed that she had been deceived and blackmailed by Killian for a long time, and hadn't spoken to anyone like that in a long time. Her original intention was to research something to help people, but she had become a tool for Killian, an ambitious man, to modify people's bodies.

Maya Hansen had felt guilty for a long time, and while talking with Pepper Potts, she couldn't help but cry.

While comforting her, Pepper Potts thought about how to resolve the situation: should she call the police first or contact Tony and the others?

Before I could even think it through, the office's floor-to-ceiling windows were suddenly opened by machine gun fire.

Unlike the attack on Tony's house in the movie, which involved armed helicopters and Missiles, this time it was clearly just a kidnapping, so they only used guns to shoot at the windows.

Three Killian under Killian's command stormed into Pepper Potts's office. The company's security reacted quickly, and several guards rushed into the office to protect Pepper Potts as soon as the cyborgs entered.

But how could ordinary people be a match for such a monster? One of the cyborgs breathed fire and turned the unfortunate security guards into ashes.

Pepper Potts was taken away just like that.

On the other side, Tony was stunned upon receiving the news. Pepper Potts was his Achilles' heel, but after everything that had happened, Tony didn't do anything pointless. Instead, he immediately used the computer in the base to try and find information about A.I.M..

Tony needs to hack into A.I.M.'s system via the military's communications satellites, but first he has to hack into the military's communications system, and he doesn't have that much time right now.

"Xia, call Rhodey. I need his account and password in the military system, quick!" Tony said, his hands already clattering on the keyboard.

"The account is War Machine 86, and the password is... well... War Machine Awesome." Xia Yu quickly finished the call and recited Rhodey' childish password.

Tony worked quickly; within minutes, videos of human modification appeared on the computer screen, along with files on many soldiers who had undergone the modifications, all of which matched the bombings one by one.

"A human bomb, it really is this. Killian's company developed this thing and sold it to the Mandarin, that terrorist, for a high price," Tony speculated.

"No, Tony, he's already secured funding from the military. If he's already working on this project and has successfully modified human subjects, he wouldn't need to go after terrorists at all. That doesn't make sense. You know what kind of people the military is; they'd definitely be willing to pay a hefty price," Natasha said.

"So the best answer is that they are simply a group of people, a terrorist group similar to Hydra." Hawkeye concluded definitively.

"Then let's directly trace the source of the video released by the Mandarin, and combine it with all of A.I.M.'s routers and emails; we're sure to find something."

Natasha and Hawkeye joined in, while Xia Yu and Thor stood by like idiots, quietly watching the three of them show off.

"Brother, I'm from Asgard, I've never been in contact with these things before, they're all..." Thor made a gesture of typing on a keyboard.

Why don't you...?

"Get lost!~!" Xia Yu kicked Thor away.

I slept until after six after lunch and almost missed the deadline. I'll post one chapter now while I go grab some food. There will be another chapter later! Sorry, dear readers!