Iron Man 3 (Book 6)✅

Chapter 20✔️

Emoji Chapter:➕Added/🗣 Mentioned Scenes/Chapter

Same Day: Miami, Florida
Another Building: Basement / Dungeon 🎭

Maya typing in her computer with an unconscious Tony strapped to an old bed frame standing up.

Tony wakes up, "Ah..." He moves his hands and realizes their tied, he sighs, "Okay."

Maya turns her seat around, folds her hands in her lap, smiling at Tony, "It's just like old times, huh?"

Tony not looking at Maya, moving his strapped hands, says sarcastically, "Oh, yeah. With zip ties. It's a ball." He looks at her annoyed.

Maya shakes her head, "It wasn't my idea."

Tony states, "Okay. So you took Killian's card."

Maya corrects, "I took his money."

Tony continues, "And here you are 13 years later, in a dungeon."

Maya refuses, "No."

Tony pushes, "Yeah."

Maya corrects again and tells Tony simply, "No, you're in a dungeon. I'm free to go."

Tony looks away, "Yeah?"

Maya sighs as she gets up, she walks towards the stairs, "A lot has happened, Tony." She walks down, "But I'm close." She walks towards him, "EXTREMIS is practically stabilised."

Tony snaps, "I'm telling you it isn't." Maya stops in front of him, sighs annoyed, "I'm on the street. People are going bang. They're painting the walls. Maya, you're kidding yourself."

Maya pleads as she holds up Tony's name tag, 'You Know Who I Am', the one he used—the last time he saw her in '99, "Then help me fix it." She turns it around with her fingers to show him what he wrote, a scientific equation.

Tony asks Maya as he looks at it, "Did I do that?"

Maya looks at Tony in disbelief as she lowers her arm, "Yes."

Tony tells Maya honestly, "I remember the night, not the morning." He asks her, "Is this what you've been chasing around?"

Maya with tears in her eyes, asks Tony in disbelief, "You don't remember?"

Tony tells Maya, "I can't help you. You used to have a moral psychology. You used to have ideals. You wanted to help people. Now look at you. I get to wake up every morning with someone who... doesn't believe it, but still has their soul." He's talking about AnnaBeth and how she doesn't believe in herself because of what she's done in her past—before she was dating Tony, but Tony loves and believes in her. Tony tells Maya, "Get me out of here." Maya was stunned at what she heard but then swallows and looks down, "Come on." Maya just looks at him and turns around, walking away from him.

Killian then walks in, "You know what my old man used to say to me?" Tony looks to his left to see Killian casually walking down the set of stairs as he says, "One of his favourite of many sayings... 'The early bird gets the worm,-" He walks over to the table as he finishes the quote, "-but the second mouse gets the cheese.'" Maya standing off to the side with her arms crossed.