When Thomas Charlize saw himself being shot on the mysterious sky screen, his body trembled involuntarily.
He didn't know why he had been captured by the Mandarin, but that didn't stop him from feeling terrified. He immediately applied for protection from the local police.
The police responded without hesitation and immediately dispatched officers to protect him.
At the same time, Tony and Banner had hacked into AIM's internal network, and this time they successfully pinpointed Killian's location.
It turned out that after Killian learned that his operation was exposed, he retreated to his secret base in Miami, preparing to find a way to leave the United States.
He knew very well that harboring a terrorist group on American soil was absolutely intolerable to the White House, not to mention that he was threatening the president and several explosions had already occurred.
"He's cornered," Steve Rogers noted with satisfaction. "And a cornered enemy is often at their most dangerous."
"But why not just surrender?" young Peter Parker asked. "Seems like he's just making things worse for himself."
Killian was unwilling to surrender because of Maya's existence. To some people, it would be better for him to die. The Extremis virus could not be a bargaining chip for him to escape.
The vice president had also broken ties with him. In order to save himself, the vice president chose to tell President Ellis everything he knew.
As for the fate of the vice president after that, it would be left to Ellis to decide.
"Smart move by the VP," Fury commented. "When a ship is sinking, the rats are always first to jump."
"Political survival instinct," Maria Hill added with a hint of disdain.
Tony and the others had begun to prepare to set out to deal with Killian.
After the last careless failure, which resulted in heavy losses for the Crossbones Team, Tony had learned his lesson and decided not to give Killian any chance to resist. He called Thor and Captain Marvel Carol.
Asking them to help coordinate taking down Killian, Thor and Captain Marvel agreed immediately. They had always been interested in this kind of adversary.
"Thor and Captain Marvel?" Clint whistled. "Talk about bringing a nuclear weapon to a knife fight."
"Overkill is underrated," Tony replied with a shrug. "I'm not taking any chances this time."
Then everyone boarded the Quinjet and set off.
Killian didn't know that his position had been exposed so quickly. He was racking his brains to think about how to leave the United States, not knowing that Tony and the others were already on their way.
[Tony is driving while looking through the information Mrs. Davis gave him.]
[On the other side, Rhodes kicked the door open in his armor, startling everyone inside.]
[He walked in, pointed his weapon at them, and yelled, "Freeze!"]
[Just when he was in all his glory, his cell phone rang at an inopportune time. He was stunned for a moment and looked at them: "Uh... please wait a moment!"]
[Then he answered the phone: "Hello?"]
["Have you ever looked up while a girl is riding you, and suddenly she glows from the inside out and turns bright orange?"]
[Tony started by saying something that sounded incomprehensible to Rhodes.]
[So he decided to ignore this and asked directly: "Yeah! Who are you?"]
["It's me! Brother, the last time I disappeared, if I remember correctly, you were looking for me! What are you doing now?"]
[Rod finally recognized Tony's voice and couldn't help but smile when he found out that he was not dead.]
[Then he answered Tony's question calmly: "Knocking on doors and talking to friends in Pakistan! What are you doing?"]
[Tony did not answer but asked directly: "Did AIM redesign your suit?"]
["Yeah!"]
[After getting Rhodes's exact reply, Tony told him why he was looking for him: "I need to find a large communication satellite and I need your account number!"]
["It's always that account: War Machine 68!" Rhodes didn't ask Tony why he wanted his account. Even if he didn't tell him, Tony would find a way to hack into it.]
["Where's the password?"]
[Hearing this, Rhode couldn't help but complain: "I have to change my password every time I get hacked by you! Tony!"]
["It's not the 80s now! The word 'hacked' is outdated. Tell me the password!" Tony teased his choice of words.]
[Rod hesitated for a moment, but finally overcame his inner shyness and said the password: "WARMACHINEROX with an X! All in capital letters!"]
[A local resident couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and Rhodes immediately pointed his machine gun at them, scaring them so much that they immediately raised their hands again and dared not say a word.]
[Tony also laughed. Facing Tony, Rhode had no choice but to say helplessly, "Yeah! Laugh as much as you want!"]
[That is much better than Iron Patriot!" Tony said what was in his heart, then his expression became serious, and he turned the steering wheel sharply and drove towards the place he just saw.]
"Rod! Didn't you expect your password to be so secure?" Tony teased Rhodes about his password while flying on the way to Miami.
"Oh! Come on! Man! Don't do this!" Rhodes was obviously a little embarrassed. He didn't expect that his password would be made public in this situation.
It was such a narcissistic password, which made for a terrible experience.
The others couldn't help laughing as they listened to the conversation between the two on the radio.
"To be fair," Happy commented between chuckles, "War Machine IS ROX."
"Still a terrible password," Natasha remarked, shaking her head. "No special characters, no numbers similarity with the username..."
[It turned out to be a sign outside a house on the roadside that read: "Hamilton County Memorial Hall: Miss Chattanooga Christmas Pageant!"]
[The atmosphere was very lively at this time, and the host was talking to a model: "Very good! Very good! Please answer the question: What Christmas gift do you want this year?"]
[Tony puts on Harley's hat and walks to a news truck with a bundle of wires. He hears a staff member on the phone: "We are live broadcasting!"]
[Tony opened the car door and got in while he was leaving.]
[A familiar old man appeared on the TV, voting for Miss No. 10, smiling happily.]
[Tony turned off the TV, plugged in the Internet cable and started to hack into AIM's system, but then he found that the Internet speed of the laptop was not fast enough.]
["That won't do!" Just as Tony was still thinking about how to increase the Internet speed, the staff member came back.]
[After seeing Tony inside, the other party didn't recognize him at first and greeted him, "Sorry sir! I didn't know..."]
[Tony turned around and looked at him, making a gesture to keep quiet. Gary saw that it was Tony and couldn't help but stare at him with his mouth wide open.]
[Tony smiled at him, and Gary quickly said to the other end of the phone: "Mom! I'll call you later! A miracle happened!"]
["Tony Stark is in my car!!!" Gary was obviously a little excited and said to himself.]
[Tony quickly waved his hand and said, "Keep your voice down!"]
[But Gary was still very excited and shouted again: "Tony Stark is in my car!!!"]
["You got the wrong person!" Tony waved his hands repeatedly to deny it.]
[But Gary recognized Tony, he would not mistake him: "I knew you were still alive!"]
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