Iron Man #8

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Synopsis

Western France. Tony weaves his flying car above the trees. He has a lady with him, named Yvette Avril. She is chief of European Operations for Stark-Fujikawa industries. But right now, Whiplash is hot on their trail, and Tony is doing his best to outrun him. But he doesn’t succeed. Whiplash damages on of the jets of the car and Tony goes down. However, he succeeds in getting the car into a nearby tunnel. He signals Yvette to run, while he puts on his armor in the shadows.As Tony dons his armor, he recounts the recent past. A few days before, the Avengers managed to stop the Kree from executing their devious plans, but they lost Carol Danvers. She didn’t want to speak, so Tony went back to search for his “Mystery Man”. He succeeded partially, but needed access to more information. So, he came to France and was welcomed by Yvette. He got into Stark-Fujikawa’s computers and carried on his search. Otherwise, he was dating her, but that’s when Whiplash showed up.Tony comes out as Iron Man and engages Whiplash. But Whiplash simply kicks his butts. Tony manages to knock him off his hover-platform, but Whiplash gets back up. He hits Iron Man with a supercharged whip and cracks his armor. Iron Man tries to talk him out of fighting, bringing up memories about Michael Scarlotti. But Whiplash refuses to listen. He sees that Iron Man has damaged his platform, so he brings out his Kinetic Whip and hits Iron Man so hard that he propels backwards to crash into a restaurant. Whiplash says that he was hired to kill Tony Stark. With that, Whiplash is gone.Next day, Tony fixes up his armor inside his private jet and calls Pepper. She says that she needs him back home. Happy catches a flirtatious note in his boss’ voice and goes away, not liking it.Back in France, Tony goes out with Yvette. They have a wonderful time, and Yvette gives Tony a beautiful flower to wear on his shirt. Tony comes back to Stark-Fujikawa industries, with a calmed mind. He sets to work on his target,...