[ This is also an interesting turnabout, but Bruce doesn't point that out. Luckily for Tony, Bruce isn't going to be nearly as long-winded as Tony was when he told him about all this. ]
Aldrich Killian owned AIM— Advanced Idea Mechanics. He invented Extremis, a gene therapy that allows the human body to instantly regenerate damaged tissue. It can go as far as regrowing severed limbs in a matter of seconds. He gathered a number of soldiers enhanced by this therapy under his command. It's not an entirely stable system, though, so it didn't work for all of them. Some actually died. And by 'died' I mean basically exploded. To cover up those explosions, he hired this actor to pretend like he was a terrorist called Mandarin, and that the 'bombings' were his doing, while he went on with his plan to off the president. He had leverage over the vice-president, so he wanted him to take over the president's seat, while Killian pulled the strings and effectively gained power over the whole of the US government. Theoretically.
In the middle of all this, he had some kind of vendetta against you, because when his company was just getting started you refused to fund him and his research. So he kidnapped Pepper and subjected her to the treatment, thus infusing her with the Extremis. You went to get her, and he locked you up too. He went off to set up some kind of grand spectacle in which the president was murdered on live TV, apparently by the Mandarin. You and Rhodes went on to end the whole thing. Rhodes managed to save the president, Killian started to fight you. He also had the Extremis, for the record. You found Pepper in the meantime, but in the middle of the fight, she fell from some incredible height, and you thought she'd died. Pretty sure she thought she'd died too. But when Killian was about to end you, she showed up again and killed him.
[ Yeah he's not pulling any punches there. Tony appreciates honesty, right? ]
When she was here before, she still had the Extremis. She told me about this even before I knew about it back in our world. I went back home and went forward a little over a year, and you told me even more about the whole thing while I was there. In the end you managed to get the Extremis out of her, though. Don't ask me how, you didn't get that far in your story. The whole point is that ended kind of well? Sort of. Oh, you blew up all your suits at the time. All 40 of them. [ WEEP, TONY. ]
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[ This is also an interesting turnabout, but Bruce doesn't point that out. Luckily for Tony, Bruce isn't going to be nearly as long-winded as Tony was when he told him about all this. ]
Aldrich Killian owned AIM— Advanced Idea Mechanics. He invented Extremis, a gene therapy that allows the human body to instantly regenerate damaged tissue. It can go as far as regrowing severed limbs in a matter of seconds. He gathered a number of soldiers enhanced by this therapy under his command.
It's not an entirely stable system, though, so it didn't work for all of them. Some actually died. And by 'died' I mean basically exploded. To cover up those explosions, he hired this actor to pretend like he was a terrorist called Mandarin, and that the 'bombings' were his doing, while he went on with his plan to off the president. He had leverage over the vice-president, so he wanted him to take over the president's seat, while Killian pulled the strings and effectively gained power over the whole of the US government. Theoretically.
In the middle of all this, he had some kind of vendetta against you, because when his company was just getting started you refused to fund him and his research. So he kidnapped Pepper and subjected her to the treatment, thus infusing her with the Extremis.
You went to get her, and he locked you up too. He went off to set up some kind of grand spectacle in which the president was murdered on live TV, apparently by the Mandarin. You and Rhodes went on to end the whole thing. Rhodes managed to save the president, Killian started to fight you. He also had the Extremis, for the record.
You found Pepper in the meantime, but in the middle of the fight, she fell from some incredible height, and you thought she'd died. Pretty sure she thought she'd died too. But when Killian was about to end you, she showed up again and killed him.
[ Yeah he's not pulling any punches there. Tony appreciates honesty, right? ]
When she was here before, she still had the Extremis. She told me about this even before I knew about it back in our world. I went back home and went forward a little over a year, and you told me even more about the whole thing while I was there.
In the end you managed to get the Extremis out of her, though. Don't ask me how, you didn't get that far in your story. The whole point is that ended kind of well? Sort of.
Oh, you blew up all your suits at the time. All 40 of them. [ WEEP, TONY. ]