Theft of the Iron Man Armor

The Theft of the Iron Man Armor was an operation undergone by Obadiah Stane to take the Mark I Iron Man armor from the Ten Rings.
==Background==
Obadiah Stane paid the Ten Rings to kill Tony Stark. However, when they realized precisely who they were hired to kill, the Ten Rings decided to simply kidnap him, bringing him back to their base. The Ten Rings attempted to force Stark to build a Jericho missile, but Stark instead built a Iron Man armor with Ho Yinsen, which Stark used to escape the Ten Rings. Upon Stark's return home, he shared his revelation about terrorists using weapons produced by his company, so he decided to end weapons production.
Stane became frustrated with Stark's decision as the Ten Rings found the discarded pieces of the armor Stark used to escape. Meanwhile, Stark built a second armor. He began work on a third and attended a party, where he learned that his company was still selling weapons to the Ten Rings, who had attacked Yinsen's home village of Gulmira. Angry, Stark publicly recommended pulling money out of Stark Industries and went to Gulmira, where he defeated the Ten Rings himself using the third armor.Iron Man: The Junior Novel
==Theft==
Obadiah Stane met with Raza Hamidmi al-Wazar near Gulmira, and al-Wazar welcomed him. Al-Wazar explained that the Ten Rings were insulted to learn that they had been paid to little to kill Tony Stark, mentioning his superior. Stane asked al-Wazar not to involve his boss and asked to see the reassembled Mark I armor. Al-Wazar took Stane to the armor, telling him to leave his guards behind. Stane admired the armor and al-Wazar explained that it was likely Stark had perfected the design.
Al-Wazar showed Stane the blueprints to the armor and offered a partnership, noting that Stark could serve as a common enemy between them. However, Stane used his Sonic Taser against al-Wazar, paralyzing him and causing him to drop to the ground. He explained that the effects would only last fifteen minutes and looked at the ring on al-Wazar's hand which signified his position within the Ten Rings, noting that it will be difficult to explain what happened to his superior. Stane left the tent and found that his guards had taken all the Ten Rings operatives hostage and left them by their trucks, bound and gagged. Stane ordered his guards to put the armor in crates and brought it back to Stark Industries Headquarters.
==Aftermath==
The armor was kept in the ARK Reactor room at Stark Industries Headquarters, where Obadiah Stane had a group of engineers work to recreate it and build an Iron Monger Armor. Pepper Potts discovered these plans and told Phil Coulson about them. Meanwhile, Stane could not power the armor, so he stole Stark's ARK Reactor to power the armor. Stark managed to reach an older ARK Reactor and used it to power his own armor and confronted Stane, killing him. Stark became publicly loved as the hero Iron Man.
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