After removing the arc reactor from Tony Stark's chest, Obadiah thought Tony would surely die, so he no longer concealed himself and openly admitted all his actions.
Back in Afghanistan, he'd ordered terrorists to eliminate Tony Stark, and had always treated Tony as a money-making tool, exploiting his talent in weapons manufacturing to make money for him.
Only now did Tony Stark completely recognize Obadiah's true face, deeply regretting his previous naivety and ignorance.
Before leaving, Obadiah proudly told Tony he'd already manufactured an even more powerful Iron Man suit. The miniature arc reactor would serve as the core of this powerful new-generation weapon, helping him control the entire world.
And after Tony, he was about to make his move on Pepper Potts. This made Tony Stark extremely anxious but powerless.
Having lost the arc reactor's energy supply, the electromagnet installed in his chest cavity couldn't continue attracting the shrapnel in his chest. They began slowly moving toward his heart with his blood. Tony Stark appeared exceptionally pained and weak.
But due to the neural paralyzer's effect, he was completely unable to move, could only helplessly slump on the sofa, feeling death's continuous approach, completely powerless to stop Obadiah.
After Obadiah left the villa triumphantly with the second-generation arc reactor, Chen Mo slowly walked out from the underground laboratory, holding in his hand a just-manufactured third-generation arc reactor.
Tony's originally despairing gaze became excited the instant he saw Chen Mo. After Chen Mo installed the new reactor for him, the electromagnet resumed working, attracting the shrapnel moving toward his heart. He finally escaped the threat to his life, his complexion also slowly improving.
Chen Mo immediately called Agent Phil Coulson, having him take Pepper Potts to a safe place and immediately dispatch people to evacuate personnel near Stark Industries.
Obadiah's evidence of private arms deals and instigating terrorists to kill Tony Stark had already been obtained by Pepper Potts. He'd definitely become desperate. A major battle was inevitable. With the Iron Man suit's powerful might, nearby civilians could easily be harmed.
Receiving Chen Mo's order, Agent Phil Coulson disregarded Pepper's demands that he assemble personnel to arrest Obadiah, and took her to the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division New York branch.
That place was heavily guarded with underground shelters. Even if Obadiah came attacking in an Iron Man suit, he couldn't harm Pepper.
Confirming Pepper was safe, Tony finally breathed a sigh of relief.
When the neural paralyzer's effect passed and he completely recovered, Tony Stark immediately stepped onto the equipment platform with a face full of killing intent and donned the Iron Man suit.
Obadiah had obtained the miniature arc reactor, so his manufactured Iron Man suit now had energy. Although he didn't know exactly what kind of suit he'd manufactured, since he could instigate terrorists to attack him and claimed to have manufactured a larger Iron Man suit, he must have obtained the Mark I design blueprints he'd left at the base, possibly even including the prototype that crashed in the desert.
Obadiah now completely controlled Stark Industries. With the company's strength, having blueprints and prototype, manufacturing an Iron Man suit more powerful than Mark I wasn't difficult.
The only thing that could hold him back was the energy source to power the Iron Man suit. Now having obtained the second-generation arc reactor from Tony, his Iron Man suit had power.
With Tony Stark's understanding of the Iron Man suit and Stark Industries' R&D capabilities, even if Obadiah's Iron Man suit wasn't personally created by him but improved by Stark Industries engineers based on Mark I, its destructive capability would certainly be extremely astonishing.
He had to stop him in time. Tony wouldn't allow what he created to be used by others for evil, harming innocents.
Chen Mo didn't stop him. A powerful warrior had to undergo combat tempering. To become a superhero, Tony would inevitably experience countless battles in the future. Obadiah was a good practice opponent.
Moreover, the one who betrayed him should be dealt with by himself.
Although during this time they'd been researching the new third-generation arc reactor and suit rapid equipping system, Tony hadn't completely shelved Mark II.
Very satisfied with this suit, Tony had taken time to modify it, adding weapon systems and applying an overall paint job. Just like in the film, he adopted gold-red dual-color paint similar to a vintage car in his collection—passionate, eye-catching and handsome.
After equipping on the platform, Tony Stark nodded to Chen Mo and Yinsen beside him, then directly activated thrusters and accelerated away through the passage.
After Tony left, Chen Mo also quickly put on his Adamantium alloy armored combat suit, opened the door of a sports car parked in the garage and sat inside.
Seeing this, Yinsen hurriedly ran to the other side wanting to get in the car.
"You're going too? Take me!"
Hearing this, Chen Mo couldn't help but recall from the film the scene of Dr. Yinsen roaring in the cave holding a rifle and driving away several terrorists to buy Tony time. It had to be said, when the usually refined Dr. Yinsen went all out, even terrorists were afraid.
However, obviously there was no need for him to risk his life now.
"Yinsen, stay here. There's still a very arduous mission that needs you to complete."
Hearing this, Dr. Yinsen immediately stopped, looking at Chen Mo with a face full of determination and an expression of generous martyrdom.
"Don't worry, leave it to me!"
"What mission?"
Chen Mo stepped on the gas. Amid low, resonant engine roaring, the sports car accelerated forward, rushing toward the passage.
Chen Mo's voice came from the car.
"Give me navigation. I don't know the way."
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Although under the Yinsen-version human voice navigation system's guidance, Chen Mo drove the sports car to maximum speed, performing Speed and Passion all along the way, he still wasn't as fast as Tony Stark's flying Iron Man suit.
When he arrived at Stark Industries, Tony had already been fighting a much larger iron armor for quite a while. Surrounding buildings had been demolished quite a bit by their battle.
Fortunately this was Stark Industries' campus—employees had all gone home from work. Civilians within several kilometers around had also all been evacuated with warning lines established. So their battle, besides destroying large amounts of buildings, hadn't caused civilian casualties.
However, their battle was truly too intense, fighting from the factory to the road with astonishing momentum. Many curious onlookers in the distance still saw it.
The "Iron Monger" Obadiah piloted was obviously much cruder and more backward than Mark II. But its massive size gave it enough space to install higher-power propulsion devices. So purely in terms of strength, it was considerably stronger than Tony's Mark II. Its heavy armor also made it very difficult for Tony to break through its defenses.
So when Chen Mo arrived, what he saw was Tony being suppressed by Obadiah. He could only rely on Mark II's superior agility and speed to maneuver with Iron Monger.
Multiple scars already appeared on the suit's surface—obviously it had taken quite a few attacks. Fortunately Mark II's gold-titanium alloy enhanced composite defensive armor had strong enough defensive power, which prevented it from being directly torn apart.
Stark Industries was a munitions manufacturing company, naturally not lacking weapons. Iron Monger's huge size could also load more and larger, more powerful weapons.
However, the engineers who manufactured Iron Monger didn't have Tony Stark's talent to hide all weapons inside the suit. Most of these weapons were directly mounted on Iron Monger's body.
Different from the film, because Obadiah's left hand was severed by Brock Rumlow, Iron Monger's left hand position was modified into a heavy impact hammer that could burst out powerful impact force to send enemies flying.
After once again using the impact hammer to heavily send Tony flying, embedding him in a pile of twisted steel pipe racks where he temporarily couldn't break free, the armor on Iron Monger's back slowly opened, extending a heavy missile over a meter long. After locking onto Tony, it fired at him.
This was Iron Monger's most powerful weapon, also the only weapon hidden inside the suit. Its power was enough to directly eliminate a tank head-on.
If Mark II was directly hit, it would also suffer great damage. Fortunately, Tony broke free from the twisted steel just as the missile flew over, dodging the missile's direct attack. But he was still sent flying into the air by the missile explosion's huge impact force.
While tumbling in the air, Tony directly activated the foot thrusters and palm flight stabilizers, hovering steadily in midair, also making it impossible for Obadiah to catch him.
"Wow! Impressive! You upgraded your armor?"
Obadiah's arrogant voice issued from inside Iron Monger, praising Mark II.
"What a coincidence! I also made some improvements!"
After Obadiah finished, Iron Monger's legs began transforming, extending two thick thruster nozzles. Immediately the thrusters ignited and started, jetting intense flame airstreams that propelled Iron Monger upward.
Although Iron Monger's thrusters were obviously much more backward than Mark II's, the huge model to some extent compensated for deficiencies, giving the clumsy Iron Monger flight capability.
Seeing Obadiah controlling Iron Monger flying toward him, Tony hurriedly increased thruster power and flew toward high altitude.
Intent on eliminating Tony, seeing this, Obadiah also pushed thruster power to maximum. Fierce flames with billowing black smoke jetted out. The massive Iron Monger, feet dragging two thick smoke columns, chased Tony toward high altitude.
The instant Iron Monger took off just now, Tony's mind racing couldn't help but recall when Mark II test-flew, being sternly stopped by Chen Mo when flying to 150,000 feet altitude.