Almost a year ago, on a whim, I decided to create a fanfic speculating about what Iron Man 3 would be about, using information I already knew combined with speculation of where Tony would be post-Avengers. Now Avengers is out, the film is coming in May and we already have posters and trailers revealing more info, including the recent Super Bowl TV spot. Between the given footage and all the rumors out there about what may go down, I decided to take all this footage and even the various rumors and work out a new plot for the Armored Avenger's third outing.
We begin the film by exploring the world's post-Avengers mindset. The World Security Council and several government higher ups are pissed off that SHIELD isn't tracking the Avengers and that these powerful super humans aren't under government control. As a result, the government redesigns Rhodey's War Machine armor to give it the friendlier moniker of the Iron Patriot, and takes out a contract with A.I.M. to try and create a new Captain America serum. Scientists Aldrich Killian and Maya Hansen create the Extremis nanotech virus as a result, and begin looking for human candidates.
Meanwhile, Tony is becoming more paranoid after his journey through the portal traumatized him. Convinced he needs to be prepared should another large scale attack happen, Tony rapidly speeds through several armor designs and gets to the Mark XLII, a version that he can mentally control with a tech-com link. When he begins having nightmares about being unable to save Pepper, the armor subconsciously springs to life to check up on her, making Tony wonder if his paranoia and obsession with upgrades is causing him to lose his humanity.
Killian grows desperate for human trials and, through shady deals, meets the Mandarin, leader of the Ten Rings society who had dealings with Obadiah Stane, Ivan Vanko and Justin Hammer. Mandarin seeks revenge against Tony and also wishes to enact a master plan to remove the public's idolization of super heroes, while consolidating his own power. He hires mercenaries Eric Savin and Jack Taggert to undergo the Extremis procedure, and they are transformed into Coldblood and Firepower. Mandarin sends helicopters to blow up Tony's home, and he escapes in his suit while Rhodey saves Happy Hogan. During this time Pepper finds out Tony, in his paranoia, built a suit of armor for her, called the Rescue armor, should she need to escape a hostile environment. She escapes the crashing mansion in the Rescue armor.
Tony, utterly defeated, finds his way to Russia, realizing he needs to get off the grid. He works his way to China to rondevue with Dr. Chen Lu and Maya Hansen, who has left A.I.M.'s employ after learning of Killian's deal. Rhodey, Pepper and Hogan meet up there as well. It turns out that Lu is already under the Mandarin's employ and sells them out to Killian, who sends Coldblood and Firepower to deal with them. Lu is given an Extremis dose and is transformed into the Radioactive Man, who kills Hogan. Tony, Rhodey and Pepper fight Coldblood, Firepower and Radioactive Man, and the fight ends with the former villains killed and the latter taken into custody by a mysterious female SHIELD agent.
In the fight, Pepper's Rescue armor and Rhodey's Iron Patriot armor is heavily damaged, forcing Pepper to discard her suit and Rhodey to resort to the War Machine armor. Tony is badly injured, and the only way to save him is to undergo the Extremis procedure himself. When he emerges, he finds he no longer needs a tech-com link and can mentally summon the armor by thought alone, as well as communicate with other forms of technology via the nanobots that run through his system. Tony resolves his identity crisis when he realizes that technology will improve him but never consume him.
Killian, using footage from the Coldblood, Firepower and Radioactive Man trials, boards Air Force One for a meeting with the President and the rest of the Executive Branch, hoping to make his case for Extremis as a viable military application. The meeting is a ruse to rig the plane, killing the Executive Branch so Mandarin can make his move: unleashing a homeland invasion of America with an army of Extremis infused Ten Rings mercenaries. Iron Man and War Machine board Air Force One as it explodes. War Machine captures Killian while Iron Man saves the 13 freefalling passengers.
As Mandarin's army marches, Tony, Rhodey, Pepper and Maya travel to Stark Tower, where Tony reveals his secret weapon: a fully functional Hall of Armors, almost 40 different models all able to be remotely activated and controlled. He used a combo of his Mark XLII tech-com link and reverse engineered Hammer Drone tech to accomplish this. Tony has himself, Pepper, Rhodey and Maya each control 10 armors, leading them into battle against Mandarin's Extremis army.
With the fight ended, Tony races off for a final confrontation with the Mandarin, who reveals that he named his Ten Rings organization off the ten rings that he wears. The rings were miniature repulsion drives for an ancient alien starship that crash landed in the Middle East thousands of years ago, which Mandarin found and fashioned into rings. He studied them but could never get them to work, but after injecting himself with Extremis he is now mentally bonded to them and can unleash devastating blasts of energy at his opponents. Iron Man and Mandarin engage in an intense battle that ends when Tony forcibly cuts off Mandarin from his rings, a process which eventually kills him.
The mysterious female SHIELD agent returns to talk with Tony, and reveals herself to be Janet Van Dyne, a high ranking scientist and partner to one Henry Pym. Janet thanks Tony for collapsing Mandarin's Ten Rings empire, and says they have Killian in custody and have confiscated the rest of Extremis. Mandarin's story of the rings gets Tony thinking about what other threats are lying out there in the stars. Donning a new deep space armor, the film ends with Tony rocketing off into the cosmos after saying goodbye to Pepper.
In an after credits scene, Janet meets with Dr. Pym, who is pouring over the Extremis tech and leftover Iron Man drones pondering the possibilities of A.I. Wanting to know more, Janet takes him to meet Radioactive Man, where Pym asks him to tell him everything he knows.
I have no idea how accurate this plot will be to the final product, but this was created through what I know of the story, what plot points I could gather from the trailers, and the various rumors floating around online about who will show up and what will happen. Whatever we end up getting, I hope that Iron Man 3 doesn't dissapoint.
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