Beacon.

I can fix it.

Hidden location of AIM

Kindle returns to consciousness with a groan. Her head hurts and her throat feels like sandpaper. She takes a moment to process what her body is feeling and to recall how she got here before opening her eyes.

The lab around her is a cinder block room filled with equipment for DNA resequencing. Kindle is strapped to an examination table and there is a IV in her arm. Maya is sitting near by watching her.

"There you are, I was starting to worry he really hurt you." She pushes a button on the table. "Please cooperate with him Kindle. He has a temper."

"So do I." Kindle warns. "Please Maya, let me help you out of this mess." She pleads.

"You can help me! Take a look at the formula? I know you can help me stabilize it." Maya walks towards her and shows her a note on the back of a name tag with a set of equations signed in Tony's distinctive scrawl.

Kindle's eyes take in the formula and she frowns.
"It the Telomerase algorithm." She focuses on Maya's note. "That's why it's unstable, as the cells reproduce to heal at an accelerated rate the chrosomes are shortening with each cycle... losing important DNA so they approaching apoptosis. The DNA it's self, is self destructing under the strain."

"You... you mean you actually understand what he wrote here? You understand how to fix it?" Maya demands.

"It's missing part of the solution. You've had this formula all along and you couldn't?" Kindle counters. "You have been experimenting on human beings and letting them die horribly because you didn't understand the math!!!!" Kindle's voice is rising in horror and anger. "And you let Killian turn your glitch into a weapon!"

"Now let's not get all judgmental." Killian's voice sounds out as he walks in. He walks to the side of the table she is strapped to and leans over her. "We can't all be Tony Stark or Kindle Singer. Some of us are just run of the mill geniuses doing the best we can." He reaches out and runs his fingers over the bruises that have shown up on her neck from earlier. Kindle tries to jerk away from him but the restraints are too tight. As he strokes over the dark blemishes a orangeish glow appears in the center of his eyes.

"Oh my god! You used your self as a test subject. You're insane." She whispers.

"Yes. Which is one of the reasons I need you to help us fix the flaw." Killian explains.

She eyes him with disgust. "I am not helping you make your weapon more effective you psycho. And there is nothing you can do to make me."

Killian sighs. "I was afraid you would say that." He reaches for a syringe lying on a near by work table. "Let hope Tony is more reasonable."

"Killian No!" Mays protests. "There has to be another way. Let me talk to her!!" She moves as if to stop him but before she can he plunges the needle into the IV. Immediately Kindle's veins begin to glow with a orangeish red light and she begins to scream as her DNA starts to rewrite itself.

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Rhodey flies across the sky and lands in front of a warehouse. He kicks open the door, guns drawn.
"Nobody move."

Everywhere women dressed in black hijab with their faces covered exclaim in fear.

"Oh. Support Blue-Zero, unless the Mandarin's next attack on the U.S. involves cheaply-made sportswear, I think you messed up again." Rhodey reports and lowers his weapons. The women scramble to run out of the building. "Yes, you're free, uh, if you weren't before. It's... Of course. Yes, ma'am. Iron Patriot on the job. Happy to help." One of the walks up to him. "No need to thank me, ma'am. It's my pleasure." She reaches out to shake Rhodey's hand but just before she touches him her hand glows red and she hits him square in the chest. Rhodey falls backwards, with a grunt as the armor freezes up around him.