"Can anyone tell me where Savin went?"
Looking at the Iron Patriot hanging before him, Killian had originally intended to have his capable assistant Savin pilot it and carry out the rest of the plan.
But Savin had yet to show up.
The sight of his men looking at each other made Killian increasingly irritated.
"A bunch of useless idiots... Find someone else. The plan remains unchanged."
The Iron Patriot had been modified by AIM, with a control program implanted inside. It had no ability to resist Killian.
Rhodey could only curl up inside it like a turtle, locking the armor shut.
But that did not trouble Killian.
He pressed against the mech's abdomen and heated it up. Rhodey instantly broke out in sweat, and after only a few seconds, he opened the armor and jumped out.
He followed up by swinging a heavy slap into a guard's face.
Killian laughed at Rhodey for leaving the armor and actually trying to resist barehanded.
"Whoosh—"
He spewed a blast of high-temperature fire from his mouth, deliberately missing Rhodey.
It only shattered the things around him.
Rhodey's eyes immediately cleared, and he spoke like a diplomat.
"You can breathe fire too...? All right..."
He immediately gave up on continuing to resist.
Meanwhile.
The alarm on Tony's limited-edition children's watch signaled that the armor had finished charging.
Just as a guard stomped the watch to pieces, Tony shouted the code word.
"54321!"
An unidentified object instantly flew into the room through the window.
It came to a stop on Tony's hand amid shattered glass—part of the Mark 42 armor.
Part of it.
As his hands and feet were armed, Tony finally gained the ability to fight back. He was just about to fire his repulsors and deal with the lackeys in front of