Obadiah had run into trouble.
No one had expected that miraculous energy source to be so difficult to control.
The facility housing the Tesseract was the most heavily secured place in Stark Industries Park. Over the years, no one but Howard and Tony had ever entered it.
After Tony disappeared, Obadiah and his team had tried several times to enter the core reactor, but they had failed.
A thick isolation door stood in their way. They could only watch the production lines operating day and night through the surveillance systems.
The core reactor's fully automated equipment also seemed to show that Howard had not lacked the ability to make Ultron robots a reality. He had simply believed the time was not right yet.
Obadiah sat at home, deeply troubled. He had gone to great lengths to screw Tony over, yet he had never expected the terrorists not only to fail to kill Tony, but to get beaten up by a robot Tony had cobbled together from scraps.
And during the days Tony had been missing, he had not even entered the core production area. He could only gather data from the perimeter.
The key to unlocking the core production area seemed to be connected to whatever was inside. In other words, to open the security system, they first had to know what was inside... It was a complete dead end!
Beep—
At that moment, his communications device rang. The caller was General Talbot.
"...General, Tony is back, and he brought along that shiny robot of his."
"The whole country knows. And I also know Tony has begun contacting people in Congress—this is the first time in years that he has actively involved himself in politics for a product."
Bang!
Obadiah slammed his fist onto the table. It was a dangerous