Synopsis
Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin #3 synopsis by
Rob Johnson
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Injured Tony Stark in the still-damaged Iron Man armour (from fighting Mandarin in #1-2) battles Scarecrow and his crows with help from Happy Hogan. Scarecrow escapes with the data he stole from the Stark Industries database.
Scarecrow is working for Mandarin, through an intermediary Mr Miyagi. Meanwhile Mandarin also has lots of other minions at work across the globe, like hijacking a CIA weapon convoy in Sin-Cong. Scarecrow takes the stolen data to Miyagi on a ship. But when they try to read the data, it triggers a homing signal.
While waiting for the signal, Stark discusses with Anton Vanko the idea of Vanko using his Crimson Dynamo armour to test his new laser weapon against. But they detect the signal, and Iron Man follows it to the ship. He throws Scarecrow overboard, and tries to get Miyagi to say who he's working for. But Miyagi commits suicide.
Mandarin goes to a Himalayan monastery where his son Temugin is living as a monk. He uses a ring to bring Temugin under his control. Temugin goes to America and joins SI as a gardener, awaiting his moment.
He thinks his time has come when there is an explosion. Temugin follows Iron Man and finds him fighting someone in the Crimson Dynamo suit. It's not Anton Vanko because Vanko is using his laser array against the villain. Dynamo is defeated, but Vanko is caught in the blast and dies. Temugin sees a woman in black through the smoke.
Later Temugin is trying to sleep as he recovers from minor injuries. He never saw Stark during the battle, so he had no chance to carry out his orders and kill him.
Later still, after Vanko's funeral, Temugin (somehow) makes his way to Stark's private office where Tony is recharging his chestplate. And he shoots a gun at him.