User blog:Ironmonger7/Iron Man 3: Improved

"Save the world, Tony..."

- Maya Hansen's last words

Welcome. We all know how we feel about Iron Man 3 (for me it was okay, but I didn't like it so much). So you should check out my version of the film that I think is pretty good. If you don't like it so much you still gotta admit this version is a lot better than the actual movie.

Plot
Keep the original 1999 Christmas flashbacks but without any Aldrich Killian stuff.

Tony Stark works with Bruce Banner on the Hulkbuster armor, because that kind of what Igor was, but it wasn't really. And of course to add the actual Hulkbuster to the story, you would have to stretch Bruce Banner's cameo from the movie into a major role. Stark next decides to create a portal with Banner and meanwhile a Ten Rings agent has been spying on them all along. He gets back to base where he tells his leader, the Mandarin, that they can activate the portal themselves to transport the Makluans to Earth as the Mandarin has been wanting their rings. Though he would successfully gain the Makluan Rings, one of the group's members asks what would happen to Stark and Mandarin tells him that the Makluans, being dragons, would step over and crush Tony. The Mandarin then attempts to grab Stark's attention by attempting to kidnap James Rhodes, but he suits up in War Machine (not Iron Patriot) and uses his missiles to blow a hole through Mandarin's stomach. The Ten Rings attack the military base before bringing the wounded Mandarin to their base, where they know "someone" who can save him. Maya Hansen arrives to the scene, being the brains behind the Ten Rings. She has created the Extremis virus, injecting it into the Mandarin, allowing his stomach to regenerate. Realizing of his new powers, he attacks the military base, having killed almost everybody except for Rhodes. However, Mandarin departs without even attempting to attack Rhodes, revealing that he is going for a bigger prize: Virginia Potts. Maya is sent to go to Stark's Mansion where she distracts Tony into going upstairs while she secretly kidnaps Potts.

Stark is waiting for Hansen upstairs only to find that she is not coming or responding to him (she has left kidnapping Potts) and she calls him on the phone, telling Stark that if he doesn't show up to the Ten Rings and the Mandarin within 24 hours, Potts will be killed. Stark arrives to a vault containing the Iron Man armors where he picks up the movie's main suit (having more red than yellow like all times, which is better) and flies to there to the Ten Rings' new base, a mansion. Stark arrives to the mansion to save Potts. While beating up the members using his kick-ass suit, he then reaches the Mandarin. Mandarin states that Stark should arrived without a suit to meet Potts so she could be freed, but arrived rather to a duel, and tells Stark that because of this he has to kill Potts for confronting him and killing a lot of the Ten Rings troopers. As he is about to kill her with his "Extremis karate" Iron Man knocked him out, s they have their own fight. However, it ends up with the Mandarin winning by using his fiery powers on Stark's weak spot; the Arc Reactor in his chest. it burns up and nearly allows the shrapnel to reach his heart and Hansen takes him back to his house, where she decides to save Tony's life (not to make her fully a villain) by injecting him with Extremis, knowing that while she wants revenge on him for leaving her after one night before helping her collaborate on the Extremis project, she realizes that she could get her chance of working with Stark despite her thinking the Mandarin "better" than him. The Extremis removes the shrapnel from Stark, healing his heart without the need of his Arc Reactor. He is now able to somehow mentally hack into technology and control his armor as it flies to him piece-by-piece. Hansen tells Stark he now has the Mandarin's powers, amazing him.

Realizing Potts could be killed soon, he contacts Rhodes as backup before heading back to the Mandarin's base. Hansen secretly arrives to the base as well to once again support Mandarin