Iron Man: Armored Adventures (2008) s02e17 Episode Script
The X-Factor
2x17 - The X-Faxtor All right, Pepper.
Going in.
Where? What? Can it get any creepier? It's like Dawn of the Zombies out there.
Ooh! What's up with that place? There's weird magnetic fluctuations permeating the infrastructure.
I keep picking up residual traces all over the city.
But right now this is definitely the strongest.
Ah, if any zombies attack, call S.
H.
I.
E.
L.
D.
Hello! Anyone in here? Can't you scan for people? Whatever this weird energy is, it's messing up my HUD big time.
I can barely hear you.
Night vision and infrared are out.
Visible spectrum is skipping like crazy.
I'll use the arclight.
Hey! You okay? Are you conscious? Pepper, we got a man down.
Don't move.
I'm contacting an ambulance now.
Another pitiful homosapien, this time in armor, mimicking the powers of my kind.
He's a man on a mission in armor of high tech ammunition trapped on the edge of an endless game his teenage life will never be the same in a dangerous world, he does all he can he's Iron Man Iron Man Simon Trask was assaulted last night for his anti-mutant stance.
His "Humanity Now!" coalition is going to protest the Mutant - Whoa, Tony, did you shower after your little garbage truck dive? You smell like diapers.
Oh, man! Like 140-pound diaper.
I showered like 19 times.
Trust me.
You can't get that smell out of polyresin iron.
Or my hair.
And worse, whoever did that to me, whoever has that kind of tech, vanished.
That's the guy you found last night, right? Wants to identify and control mutants.
What is this? The 1950's? That's just wrong.
Well, I kind of want to know if someone has the power to like "fry my brain" or something.
There's a lot of evil mutants out there.
What's wrong with at least identifying them? So you think they should be outed and ostracized even if they don't want to be? Segregated even? No, not segregated.
But maybe, you know, identified.
and act like civilized humans.
Thank you.
I'd like to introduce a new student.
Her name is Annie Claremont, and she's moved all the way from Colorado.
Stand up, Annie.
Hi, I'm Annie.
I don't really know what to say.
Nice clothes, if you're from Loserville.
Whoa, she's cute.
Am I right, or am I right? Meh, if you like the snobby, stuck-up "Better than Thou" attitude Nah, I think she's just shy.
I'm telling you, Extremis keeps giving me all these amazing new ideas.
I already sold a dozen new inventions to Pym Industries and the Baxter Think Tank.
I can't take you anywhere! Man, just think of it, by next year Stark Solutions could be bigger than Stark International.
Hammer would lose it.
Hey, check it out, there's the new girl.
Hmm.
Do we really need another redhead? I don't think so.
Nice bag, new girl.
Oh, easy.
I just wanna take a look.
Could you just stop? I really don't want trouble.
Trouble? That's funny, 'cause you just found a whole -- What are you? Some kind of mutant? Did you see that? You really think she's a mutant? I mean if she is, maybe we should keep our distance.
Um Annie? Hi, we're not here to mess with you.
- I'm James, and-- - I'm Tony.
- Stark.
I know.
- You know me? Well, you're kind of famous.
And I heard about you when I registered at this school.
What you did back there, that was amazing.
I shouldn't have reacted like that, but, he wouldn't back off.
But you didn't touch him.
We saw everything.
You're one of them, aren't you? A mutant.
And that freaks you out? - No, of course not.
- Kind of.
Look, after school, let's go someplace a talk.
Away from the Academy.
Is that cool? Mm-hmm.
You don't have to be afraid of us.
You can talk about whatever you want.
I'm not afraid, believe me.
Not anymore.
We all have secrets.
Right, Tony? Man, that is so cool.
What else can you do? I can read people's thoughts.
That's why I trusted you.
I know who you and Tony are.
And I need your help.
You mean you know? You're Iron Man and War Machine.
Yeah.
Look, I didn't mean to pry into your mind.
I just don't trust people very often.
So why do you need our help? I've been trying to find a school.
There's rumors about a special institute for mutants.
But there are other mutants out there.
- Not all of them good.
- Well, that's a big surprise.
One of them wants me for his own cause.
And he's been trying to track me down.
I had to run away from home just so he wouldn't find my family.
He hates normal people, thinks a war is coming.
Uh, does he wear red and purple? - Yeah.
- And a metal helmet? It protects him from mental powers.
And does he have the power to control magnetism? Oh, no.
It's him.
It's Magneto.
Get down! You think you could hide from me for long, child.
This way! The iron in your blood is unique.
Like a fingerprint.
Once I'm close, I can track you like a lion tracks a gazelle.
Keep going! Run! Faster! He's right behind us.
You run from the truth, girl.
You know of what's to come, and yet you flee from me.
Foolish.
That's what happens when I pull my punch.
You don't want to find out what happens when I don't.
Why are you doing this? Who are you? You may call me Magneto.
And you, my friend, are largely made of iron.
You would think our first meeting would have taught you a lesson.
Tony, no.
Warning! Can't move.
Computer, all power to servos.
Servos failing.
Electrical systems failing.
Power failing.
Leave him alone! Impressive.
Your telekinesis is quite strong.
Next time, try non-metal objects.
You are nothing but a human being inside that metal flesh-- bone, hatred, and little spirit.
Armor systems version 2.
4, shutting down.
Amusing.
But I don't have time to play with tin soldiers.
No! Come, child.
We have much to discuss.
Annie! What's he going to do with her? Tony! Aw, no.
Rebooting systems.
Wow.
I think my bones are like, powdered.
But I'm okay.
No worries.
Forgive this horrid place.
It's a temporary refuge.
This is where they have driven me to.
Let me go.
You can't do this.
I do what must be done.
We can clearly see what these mutants are capable of in the wake of Trask's attack.
Mutants must be controlled.
You can't have these so-called people running rampant.
Senator Kelly, a leader in mutant segregation and hatred.
Mutants must be identified, their births must be regulated, for the sake of our normal human children.
As a child, I was locked away in a facility.
Experimented on.
I finally fled for my life.
And I've been running ever since.
I know how that feels, to be on the run all the time, to always live in fear.
You cannot be that blind.
The humans would segregate us, ostracize us, and eventually exterminate us.
They destroy anyone who is different.
Even amongst their own kind.
Well I have one last Mark 2 suit.
If Magneto trashes this one Maybe you better build some plastic armor, like, ASAP.
Yeah, I don't think we have a few weeks to rescue Annie, but good call.
You know this isn't really your fight, Tony.
It's between the mutants.
There you go again, talking about mutants like they're so different from us.
- We're all people.
- I know that.
I'm just saying we're still interfering.
So what are we going to do? Well, repulsor technology is based on magnetic principles, right? But Magneto controls magnetic fields.
Right, but scans reveal that he can only control a positively charged field, or a negatively charged field, not both at the same time.
I'm going to program my force fields to counteract whatever field he's using.
Brilliant! I have absolutely no idea what you just said, but it sounds cool.
So you're going to alter my force fields, too.
War Machine is more offense than defense, Rhodey.
It would take too long to modify.
But as long as you stay close, you'll be fine.
Why don't I feel convinced? Tony Rhodey hear me.
I have this sanctum fortified with the same anti-psy tech that lines my helmet.
Your telepathy is useless here.
Your powers are strong, child.
I could teach you how to use them.
Never! I hate you! You're just as evil as the most prejudiced ignorant humans! You will help me wage my war, or I will hunt down your family.
This is not a false alarm to shock the nation.
Mutants are very real and very dangerous.
And they must be controlled.
Thus far I have approached the situation the wrong way.
We can't make a martyr out of these fools.
You will make it look like a natural cause.
No mutant could be blamed for a heart attack.
End him, or you and everyone you love will suffer.
We've been looking Annie all night, Tony.
I'm not picking up any more magnetic signatures.
Wait, just as I say that.
It's faint.
This is it.
The entire building is magnetized.
It's messing up my sensors.
That's the magnetic field.
Come on.
Yoy gotta be careful.
Are you guys okay? Whoo! That was a close one.
Magneto's making sure no one's following him.
And according to the S.
H.
I.
E.
L.
D.
database, that would include everybody, boatloads of secret government agencies-- something called the Weapon X Project? It looks like Magneto's real name is Max Eisenhardt, aka Eric Lehnsherr, aka Magnus.
Wow, look at his record.
This guy's competing with Dr.
Doom for the "supervillain of the century" award.
All right, we gotta find Annie.
Let's split up.
We'll go all day if we have to.
Tony Rhodey It's Annie.
Whoa.
Where are you? Tony, is that on our com channel? No.
It's in our heads.
It's telepathy.
I'm on the roof at the corner of 68th and Hanover.
Please hurry.
I am here to talk about my new proposal.
Proposition X.
The Mutant Control Act.
My proposal seeks to identify mutants even before they're born and register them as we would register a gun.
You see, already they treat us like objects.
As weapons.
If this man comes to power, every mutant will be hunted down.
Mutants are a genetic mishap, an unnatural product of nature, a disease that must be controlled before it gets out of hand.
Make it look like just another normal act of the nature he so embraces.
A heart attack.
He cannot die a martyr.
I won't.
Human life? Every form of life is precious.
You are a weak fool.
Your parents will suffer.
But first, you! Iron Man! The metal buffoon returns.
Be gone! Amusing trick.
We got a million of them.
Annie, get out of here.
Go! Be careful.
You don't know how strong he is.
What's going on up there? Is that a mutant? You interrupt the good work.
I have no sympathy for anyone who stands in my way.
What? Saved by one of them? Tony, right below you.
No! Thanks for the save, Pepper.
Changing your feelings about mutants, huh? I never said I didn't like Annie or mutants.
I just don't like evil mutants.
Can't move.
Now it ends.
I see you have some control over magnetism.
Very well then.
Warning.
Magnetic interference compromising force field.
Thanks for the update.
Power at 30%.
You are a clever if frustrating foe, and when I finally get to you, I'll twist you into abstract art.
Power at 24% and failing.
Hold on.
Don't shut down.
Guys, listen to me.
You have to get his helmet off.
It protects him from my mental powers.
And how are we going to do that? Ask him politely? I'm coming up the fire escape now.
You have to do something.
No, it's too dangerous.
I told you to run.
Power at 12% and failing.
Just put it on the screen, Pepper.
I could use some bright ideas here.
Stop with defense and go with offense, while he doesn't expect it.
Firing uni-beam.
Now Tony! Get him! Pathetic.
You really weren't much of an adversary.
Lucky, yes.
Crafty, perhaps.
But worthy? No.
I feel the same way about you.
No! Why don't you just take a nap? Ah, he'll wake up in a few days.
Hopefully inside a plastic prison.
There she is.
She's a mutant.
She's the cause of all of this.
Are you out of your mind? She saved your life.
That's right.
She saved all our lives.
I think you better go, Kelly, before your followers turn on you.
Yeah, after the camera crew saw Kelly spew his hatred on a teenaged girl who saved his life, his supporters bailed.
He doesn't have a platform to stand on.
You're a mutant.
Show us your powers, huh, mutie? You're just a freak.
You don't have any friends.
Never will.
Oh, she has plenty of friends.
You wanna do something about it, tough guy? Hey, hey.
I was just playing around.
Relax.
I'm gone.
Thanks, guys, but I think from now on I can take care of myself without my powers, unless someone really ticks me off.
You guys trusted me, now I want to trust something to you.
- My real name.
- It's not Annie? No.
It's Jean.
Jean Grey.
I like that even more than Annie.
Is that someone looking for you? Hello, miss Claremont.
My name is Professor Charles Xavier and I run a certain institute, I'd believe you've been looking for.
School for mutants.
I too, have similar abilities, Jane.
You won't have to feel alone, ever again.
Going in.
Where? What? Can it get any creepier? It's like Dawn of the Zombies out there.
Ooh! What's up with that place? There's weird magnetic fluctuations permeating the infrastructure.
I keep picking up residual traces all over the city.
But right now this is definitely the strongest.
Ah, if any zombies attack, call S.
H.
I.
E.
L.
D.
Hello! Anyone in here? Can't you scan for people? Whatever this weird energy is, it's messing up my HUD big time.
I can barely hear you.
Night vision and infrared are out.
Visible spectrum is skipping like crazy.
I'll use the arclight.
Hey! You okay? Are you conscious? Pepper, we got a man down.
Don't move.
I'm contacting an ambulance now.
Another pitiful homosapien, this time in armor, mimicking the powers of my kind.
He's a man on a mission in armor of high tech ammunition trapped on the edge of an endless game his teenage life will never be the same in a dangerous world, he does all he can he's Iron Man Iron Man Simon Trask was assaulted last night for his anti-mutant stance.
His "Humanity Now!" coalition is going to protest the Mutant - Whoa, Tony, did you shower after your little garbage truck dive? You smell like diapers.
Oh, man! Like 140-pound diaper.
I showered like 19 times.
Trust me.
You can't get that smell out of polyresin iron.
Or my hair.
And worse, whoever did that to me, whoever has that kind of tech, vanished.
That's the guy you found last night, right? Wants to identify and control mutants.
What is this? The 1950's? That's just wrong.
Well, I kind of want to know if someone has the power to like "fry my brain" or something.
There's a lot of evil mutants out there.
What's wrong with at least identifying them? So you think they should be outed and ostracized even if they don't want to be? Segregated even? No, not segregated.
But maybe, you know, identified.
and act like civilized humans.
Thank you.
I'd like to introduce a new student.
Her name is Annie Claremont, and she's moved all the way from Colorado.
Stand up, Annie.
Hi, I'm Annie.
I don't really know what to say.
Nice clothes, if you're from Loserville.
Whoa, she's cute.
Am I right, or am I right? Meh, if you like the snobby, stuck-up "Better than Thou" attitude Nah, I think she's just shy.
I'm telling you, Extremis keeps giving me all these amazing new ideas.
I already sold a dozen new inventions to Pym Industries and the Baxter Think Tank.
I can't take you anywhere! Man, just think of it, by next year Stark Solutions could be bigger than Stark International.
Hammer would lose it.
Hey, check it out, there's the new girl.
Hmm.
Do we really need another redhead? I don't think so.
Nice bag, new girl.
Oh, easy.
I just wanna take a look.
Could you just stop? I really don't want trouble.
Trouble? That's funny, 'cause you just found a whole -- What are you? Some kind of mutant? Did you see that? You really think she's a mutant? I mean if she is, maybe we should keep our distance.
Um Annie? Hi, we're not here to mess with you.
- I'm James, and-- - I'm Tony.
- Stark.
I know.
- You know me? Well, you're kind of famous.
And I heard about you when I registered at this school.
What you did back there, that was amazing.
I shouldn't have reacted like that, but, he wouldn't back off.
But you didn't touch him.
We saw everything.
You're one of them, aren't you? A mutant.
And that freaks you out? - No, of course not.
- Kind of.
Look, after school, let's go someplace a talk.
Away from the Academy.
Is that cool? Mm-hmm.
You don't have to be afraid of us.
You can talk about whatever you want.
I'm not afraid, believe me.
Not anymore.
We all have secrets.
Right, Tony? Man, that is so cool.
What else can you do? I can read people's thoughts.
That's why I trusted you.
I know who you and Tony are.
And I need your help.
You mean you know? You're Iron Man and War Machine.
Yeah.
Look, I didn't mean to pry into your mind.
I just don't trust people very often.
So why do you need our help? I've been trying to find a school.
There's rumors about a special institute for mutants.
But there are other mutants out there.
- Not all of them good.
- Well, that's a big surprise.
One of them wants me for his own cause.
And he's been trying to track me down.
I had to run away from home just so he wouldn't find my family.
He hates normal people, thinks a war is coming.
Uh, does he wear red and purple? - Yeah.
- And a metal helmet? It protects him from mental powers.
And does he have the power to control magnetism? Oh, no.
It's him.
It's Magneto.
Get down! You think you could hide from me for long, child.
This way! The iron in your blood is unique.
Like a fingerprint.
Once I'm close, I can track you like a lion tracks a gazelle.
Keep going! Run! Faster! He's right behind us.
You run from the truth, girl.
You know of what's to come, and yet you flee from me.
Foolish.
That's what happens when I pull my punch.
You don't want to find out what happens when I don't.
Why are you doing this? Who are you? You may call me Magneto.
And you, my friend, are largely made of iron.
You would think our first meeting would have taught you a lesson.
Tony, no.
Warning! Can't move.
Computer, all power to servos.
Servos failing.
Electrical systems failing.
Power failing.
Leave him alone! Impressive.
Your telekinesis is quite strong.
Next time, try non-metal objects.
You are nothing but a human being inside that metal flesh-- bone, hatred, and little spirit.
Armor systems version 2.
4, shutting down.
Amusing.
But I don't have time to play with tin soldiers.
No! Come, child.
We have much to discuss.
Annie! What's he going to do with her? Tony! Aw, no.
Rebooting systems.
Wow.
I think my bones are like, powdered.
But I'm okay.
No worries.
Forgive this horrid place.
It's a temporary refuge.
This is where they have driven me to.
Let me go.
You can't do this.
I do what must be done.
We can clearly see what these mutants are capable of in the wake of Trask's attack.
Mutants must be controlled.
You can't have these so-called people running rampant.
Senator Kelly, a leader in mutant segregation and hatred.
Mutants must be identified, their births must be regulated, for the sake of our normal human children.
As a child, I was locked away in a facility.
Experimented on.
I finally fled for my life.
And I've been running ever since.
I know how that feels, to be on the run all the time, to always live in fear.
You cannot be that blind.
The humans would segregate us, ostracize us, and eventually exterminate us.
They destroy anyone who is different.
Even amongst their own kind.
Well I have one last Mark 2 suit.
If Magneto trashes this one Maybe you better build some plastic armor, like, ASAP.
Yeah, I don't think we have a few weeks to rescue Annie, but good call.
You know this isn't really your fight, Tony.
It's between the mutants.
There you go again, talking about mutants like they're so different from us.
- We're all people.
- I know that.
I'm just saying we're still interfering.
So what are we going to do? Well, repulsor technology is based on magnetic principles, right? But Magneto controls magnetic fields.
Right, but scans reveal that he can only control a positively charged field, or a negatively charged field, not both at the same time.
I'm going to program my force fields to counteract whatever field he's using.
Brilliant! I have absolutely no idea what you just said, but it sounds cool.
So you're going to alter my force fields, too.
War Machine is more offense than defense, Rhodey.
It would take too long to modify.
But as long as you stay close, you'll be fine.
Why don't I feel convinced? Tony Rhodey hear me.
I have this sanctum fortified with the same anti-psy tech that lines my helmet.
Your telepathy is useless here.
Your powers are strong, child.
I could teach you how to use them.
Never! I hate you! You're just as evil as the most prejudiced ignorant humans! You will help me wage my war, or I will hunt down your family.
This is not a false alarm to shock the nation.
Mutants are very real and very dangerous.
And they must be controlled.
Thus far I have approached the situation the wrong way.
We can't make a martyr out of these fools.
You will make it look like a natural cause.
No mutant could be blamed for a heart attack.
End him, or you and everyone you love will suffer.
We've been looking Annie all night, Tony.
I'm not picking up any more magnetic signatures.
Wait, just as I say that.
It's faint.
This is it.
The entire building is magnetized.
It's messing up my sensors.
That's the magnetic field.
Come on.
Yoy gotta be careful.
Are you guys okay? Whoo! That was a close one.
Magneto's making sure no one's following him.
And according to the S.
H.
I.
E.
L.
D.
database, that would include everybody, boatloads of secret government agencies-- something called the Weapon X Project? It looks like Magneto's real name is Max Eisenhardt, aka Eric Lehnsherr, aka Magnus.
Wow, look at his record.
This guy's competing with Dr.
Doom for the "supervillain of the century" award.
All right, we gotta find Annie.
Let's split up.
We'll go all day if we have to.
Tony Rhodey It's Annie.
Whoa.
Where are you? Tony, is that on our com channel? No.
It's in our heads.
It's telepathy.
I'm on the roof at the corner of 68th and Hanover.
Please hurry.
I am here to talk about my new proposal.
Proposition X.
The Mutant Control Act.
My proposal seeks to identify mutants even before they're born and register them as we would register a gun.
You see, already they treat us like objects.
As weapons.
If this man comes to power, every mutant will be hunted down.
Mutants are a genetic mishap, an unnatural product of nature, a disease that must be controlled before it gets out of hand.
Make it look like just another normal act of the nature he so embraces.
A heart attack.
He cannot die a martyr.
I won't.
Human life? Every form of life is precious.
You are a weak fool.
Your parents will suffer.
But first, you! Iron Man! The metal buffoon returns.
Be gone! Amusing trick.
We got a million of them.
Annie, get out of here.
Go! Be careful.
You don't know how strong he is.
What's going on up there? Is that a mutant? You interrupt the good work.
I have no sympathy for anyone who stands in my way.
What? Saved by one of them? Tony, right below you.
No! Thanks for the save, Pepper.
Changing your feelings about mutants, huh? I never said I didn't like Annie or mutants.
I just don't like evil mutants.
Can't move.
Now it ends.
I see you have some control over magnetism.
Very well then.
Warning.
Magnetic interference compromising force field.
Thanks for the update.
Power at 30%.
You are a clever if frustrating foe, and when I finally get to you, I'll twist you into abstract art.
Power at 24% and failing.
Hold on.
Don't shut down.
Guys, listen to me.
You have to get his helmet off.
It protects him from my mental powers.
And how are we going to do that? Ask him politely? I'm coming up the fire escape now.
You have to do something.
No, it's too dangerous.
I told you to run.
Power at 12% and failing.
Just put it on the screen, Pepper.
I could use some bright ideas here.
Stop with defense and go with offense, while he doesn't expect it.
Firing uni-beam.
Now Tony! Get him! Pathetic.
You really weren't much of an adversary.
Lucky, yes.
Crafty, perhaps.
But worthy? No.
I feel the same way about you.
No! Why don't you just take a nap? Ah, he'll wake up in a few days.
Hopefully inside a plastic prison.
There she is.
She's a mutant.
She's the cause of all of this.
Are you out of your mind? She saved your life.
That's right.
She saved all our lives.
I think you better go, Kelly, before your followers turn on you.
Yeah, after the camera crew saw Kelly spew his hatred on a teenaged girl who saved his life, his supporters bailed.
He doesn't have a platform to stand on.
You're a mutant.
Show us your powers, huh, mutie? You're just a freak.
You don't have any friends.
Never will.
Oh, she has plenty of friends.
You wanna do something about it, tough guy? Hey, hey.
I was just playing around.
Relax.
I'm gone.
Thanks, guys, but I think from now on I can take care of myself without my powers, unless someone really ticks me off.
You guys trusted me, now I want to trust something to you.
- My real name.
- It's not Annie? No.
It's Jean.
Jean Grey.
I like that even more than Annie.
Is that someone looking for you? Hello, miss Claremont.
My name is Professor Charles Xavier and I run a certain institute, I'd believe you've been looking for.
School for mutants.
I too, have similar abilities, Jane.
You won't have to feel alone, ever again.