Iron Woman 3

Pepper Potts begins narrating the story of how she almost lost her purpose , stating how it all started at a New Year's Eve party in 1999; Tony Stark meets the eccentric and physically disabled Aldrich Killian, who promotes his company, Advanced Idea Mechanics. However, Stark, deciding to research another operation, Extremis with Maya Hansen misleads Killian into believing he was interested in his ideas. He sends him to wait on the roof, never intending to show up. Stark witnesses the powers of Extremis first-hand, as it can genetically manipulate living organisms. As the New Years fireworks go off, Killian is left alone on the roof.

In present day December 2012, 7 months following the Battle of New York, Obadiah Stane has spent all his time building dozens of new powered suits. It is clear that he was worried about Pepper Potts's near **** experience while destroying the Chitauri having fear of lost Iron Woman and with her, all popularity of Stark Imdustries. He starts showing signs of post traumatic stress disorder. Not helping is the emergence of a new threat; a powerful terrorist leader named the Mandarin has been responsible for multiple bombings. In order to assure the public that the US Government is capable of handling the threat, they demand Obadiah that he give them Christine Everhart (War Machine) and they have given War Machine armor a Captain Hydra-inspired paint job (people of goverment are Hydra agents) and renamed her 'Iron Shield', to a mixed reception across the US.

Stane meets the hypnotized Christine in a diner and the two discuss how stop the Mandarin. Cheistine reveals there have been more bombings than have been reported on the news, and intelligence agencies have been left mystified by the lack of physical evidence left behind. She promise Stane that she will stop Mandarin.

The situation becomes even worse when Stane is visited by Killian, who knowing that Stane is not Stark, show his projects. Stane rejects Killian's invitation into Advanced Idea Mechanics and Killian promise destroy Stark Industries.

The security chief of Stark Industries have suspects about Killian's bodyguard, Eric Savin, and investigates him at the Chinese Theatre. When he witnesses Jack Taggart unexpectedly combust, it destroys the Chinese Theatre, and puts the security chief into the Los Angeles Mercy Hospital: Savin escapes, mysteriously regenerating from his injuries.

When leaving the hospital after visiting his security chief, a pointed question by a reporter causes a furious Stane to make a impromptu statement towards the Mandarin promising **** and giving him his home address as a challenge. Later Stane is unexpectedly visited by Maya Hansen to warn him about Killian, and the same time, Stane's home is attacked and destroyed by Mandarin's helicopters. Stane survives the attack, but is left stranded in rural town Rose Hill, Tennessee when J.A.R.V.I.S. follows a flight plan left in his system, and Stane's emergency armor does not have sufficient power to return to California. The world believes Stane to be dead as the Mandarin starts issuing more threats of ****. Unfortunately, after landing J.A.R.V.I.S. powers down as the suit runs out of charge, leaving Stane with nothing but a dead suit and the clothes on his back.

Stane uses his apparent **** to his advantage, conducting an investigation into an explosion that bears the same hallmarks as one of the Mandarin's attacks, but which the Mandarin did not claim responsibility for. Stane befriends a local boy named Harley Keener, and hides out in his garage where he begins slowly charging his suit. Using what little information he has, Stane discovers that each of the Mandarin's explosions was triggered by soldiers that were injected with Extremis, the same experimental treatment engineered by Maya Hansen.

Extremis, however, has a fatal flaw; in the event a user is unable to regulate their internal body temperature, they will start to gain heat at an exponential rate and explode. Stane witnesses the power of Extremis first-hand when he is attacked by Ellen Brandt and Eric Savin, a pair of agents working for the Mandarin. Stane sets fire to a building that explodes Brandt, and even though Eric Savin had set a water tower on fire using his thermal abilities and had brought the tower down on Stane, Stane survived and after shooting Saving he steals his car key. Savin survives, while Stane abandons Keener and flees Rose Hill.

Further investigating into the Mandarin, he realizes that all the soldiers were once members of Advanced Idea Mechanics - Killian's company. Stane deduces that Killian had updated Extremis, and distributed the program to the Mandarin for his terror attacks. Maya Hansen confirms that she wa hypnotized by Killian the day after the party of 1999 , and her objetive was send Pepper to Killian so he can use her like a weapon. Pepper is kidnapped.

With Keener's help, Stane traces the Mandarin to Miami, where he infiltrates the Mandarin's headquarters with a variety of home-made weapons. There, he discovers that the Mandarin is actually a British actor named Trevor Slattery, who is completely oblivious to the acts the Mandarin has carried out. The Mandarin is Killian's creation, who used Hansen's research to cure for his own disability and expanded the program to include injured war veterans.

After veterans started growing unstable and exploding, Killian used their deaths to cover up the flaws in Extremis and manufacture a terrorist plot. Realizing Killian's motivations, Stane blames Stark for setting Killian on the path that would ultimately see him create the Mandarin. Killian reveals he has kidnapped Pepper and subjected her to the Extremis treatment, using her as leverage against Stark Industries. When Killian leave the room, Stane can use his artifact to put Maya Hansen under his control.

As he controls the Mandarin, Killian has also manipulated the American intelligence agencies as to the Mandarin's location. He uses this falsified intelligence to lure Christine Everhart with the War Machine—now rebranded as "Iron Shield"—armor. Stane and Hansen escapes captivity, just as Killian sends Savin to commandeer an attack on President Matthew Ellis aboard Air **** One. Savin plants a bomb on the plane, and kills multiple Secret Service agents, before abducting Ellis; Stane send Maya Hansen with his armor to intervenes and kills Savin, but the bomb goes off, sucking out multiple passengers.Maya saves the passengers and crew from their deaths, but Ellis is nonetheless captured by Killian.

They follow him to a container terminal, where he intends to kill Ellis on live television. Vice President Rodriguez will assume control of the country, following Killian's orders in exchange for a sample of Extremis to cure his daughter's disability. With the Mandarin and the President under his control, Killian will be able to manipulate global events for his own profit. Stane, Hansen and Christine infiltrate the container terminal, with Maya going to save Potts and Christine the President. Stane summons each of the Iron Woman suits he has created, controlled remotely by J.A.R.V.I.S., to support them from the air. Christine secures President Ellis and leads him to safety, whilst Maya discovers that Pepper has survived the Extremis procedure. However, before she can save her, the rig collapses around them and Pepper falls two hundred feet to her apparent ****.

Maya has no time to process this as she is **** into a fierce fight with Killian whilst wearing various Iron Woman suits. Stane successfully traps him in one of the Iron Woman suits and has it self-destruct. He starts searching for Potts, who survived her fall courtesy of the abilities she received from Extremis. A deformed Killian emerges from the wreckage and reveals to Stane that he is the real Mandarin, before attempting to kill Stane, but is instead killed by Potts.

In the aftermath of the events on the container terminal, Stane believe that the hypnotized Maya Hansen can be a third Iron Woman, name her as "Rescue". Both Vice President Rodriguez and Trevor are taken into police custody as Stane find a cure to the Extremis. Stane also rewards Harley Keener for his help by filling his garage with cool and expensive items. The popularity of Stark Industries increase.

Pepper finishes telling this story, and it is revealed she was telling it to Betty Ross, who had fallen asleep near the beginning. As Betty insists she isn't a psychiatrist as she hasn't got the temperament for the job, Pepper starts telling the story again.