Elena sleeps lightly on the cot as Yinsen stirs a bubbling pot on the furnace. He flicks glances at Tony, waking up on the cot. Tony eyes the bulky chest-piece protruding from his fresh bandages.

"What have you done to me?" Tony asks.

"What did I do? I removed what I could, but there's a lot left headed for you atrial septum. Do you want a souvenir?" Yinsen tosses Tony a jar with scores of bloody Christmas treelike barbs. Tony regards the 'shrapnel' he owns the patent to, and lets the jar drop. "I've seen many wounds like this in my village. The walking dead we called them, because it took a week for the barbs to reach vital organs" Yinsen nods across at Elena. "Miss Wayne, she anchored a magnetic suspension system to the plate" Yinsen touches his own chest and then points to Tony's, Tony reaches for the plate on his chest. "It's holding the shrapnel in place...at least for now"

"Wayne" he whispers looking to Elena. Flickers of memories, a small girl lingering, clinging to an older man, meetings with Bruce Wayne and his little business partner in pig tails. She's all grown up now. And dragged into whatever this is. Tony struggles up, sits on the cot and notices something; a surveillance camera on the cave wall.

"That's right, smile" Yinsen tells him. There is a pause as Tony glances back to Elena, her jaw and cheek are purple with a bruise, her hair still messy and knotted with her own blood. "We met once -- at a technical conference in Bern" Yinsen tells Tony who turns back to him.

"I don't remember"

"You wouldn't. If I'd been that drunk, I wouldn't have been able to stand, much less give a talk on integrated circuits"

"Where are we?" Tony asks. The door-slat flies opens and a pair of dark eyes stare in. Yinsen drops his spoon and hurries over to Elena.

"Wake up" he hisses shaking her shoulders. "Get up, now" he snaps as she wakes, she looks to the door as Yinsen puts his hands on his head. Elena stands up from the bed still waking up, Yinsen looks to Tony. "Stand up! Do as I do. Now!" Tony gets to his feet, can't gets his hands up. Elena helps him, Tony turns to look at her as she steps to his side placing her hands on her head, they share a look before she looks away, Yinsen looks to the two of them.

"Listen to me, whatever they ask you, refuse. You understand? You must refuse" The door opens and Abu enters with two armed Henchmen (Ahmed and Omar). On Ahmed's wrist, Tony notices Jimmy's bright orange METS watch (from the convoy earlier). Abu begins to talk in Arabic. Yinsen waits for him to finish before he translates for Elena and Tony. "He says welcome Tony Stark, the greatest mass murderer in the history of America. And Elena Wayne, brightest and most promising engineer of her generation" Yinsen states. "He is very honoured" Abu looks Elena up and down like a prize horse, she wants to sink away from his gaze, she used to men looking at her, women too, but now she feels more exposed then ever before. Abu starts talking again looking between Tony and Elena. Abu holds out a photo: a surveillance image of the Jericho Missile launch Tony attended and demonstrated days ago now. "You will build for him Jericho missile you were demonstrating" Yinsen translates, Tony glances to Yinsen and then Elena before looking to Abu.

"...I refuse" Yinsen backhands Tony across the face, goes ballistic, Elena flinches.

"You refuse? You will do everything he says. This is the great Abu Bakar. You're alive only because of his generosity. You are nothing. NOTHING. He offers you his hospitality, and you answer only with insolence He will not be refused. You will die in a pool of your own blood" Abu, spooning down Yinsen's food, throws a look of smug satisfaction. He heads out. The door slams shut. "Perfect. You did very well, Stark" Tony is utterly perplexed. "Good, I think they're starting to trust me" Yinsen returns to cooking as Elena lowers her arms and moves back to her cot. "Well, that's the end of my plan" Yinsen finishes, Tony watches as Elena lays down curling back up, her back to the room.

.............

Tony is jostled awake by Elena screaming, he looks up as she is carried literally kicking and screaming from the room with a canvas bag over her head. As she is forced to leave two more henchmen walk into the room and straight for Tony, they wrestle a hood over his head. He struggles as he's pulled to his feet.

...................

They're both taken outside of the cave. A new set of handcuffs are snapped around Elena's wrist and the other half is attached to Tony's, they both look down at the metal as their hoods are pulled off their heads, bright sun light invading their senses, Elena pulls her free hand up to rub at her eyes. Tony looks around, squinting at the light, his expression turning to shock. In a bowl of tall mountains, camouflaged tarps are furled, revealing row upon row of Stark Industries weapons. The crates have Stark Industries written all across them. Some faded, some new. Tony, stunned, staggers along the crates. As he moves it tugs on the handcuff and Elena cries out a little as it pulls on her skin, Tony stops and looks to her as she shoots him a look, he holds out his hand to her, she sighs and takes it to stop the harsh pull of handcuffs, she follows close at his side. Yinsen follows the two of them.

"Quite a collection, isn't it?" Yinsen asks Tony.

"How did they get all this?" Tony counters looking around at the array of equipment, Abu starts talking, and they wait again for him to finish talking before Yinsen translates for them.

"As you can see, they have everything you need to build the Jericho. He says make a list of materials. You will start work right away and when you are done he will set you both free" Elena sees a heavily armed and imposing man surrounded by several men, who act as pilot fish around him. This is Warlord Raza, a man you don't mess with. Elena steps closer to Tony.

"No, he won't" she corrects, Tony looks down at her and squeezes her hand.

"...no he won't" Yinsen agrees with them. 

...............

The henchmen leave Tony and Elena handcuffed together when they return them to their 'room'. Which is fantastic, just what she needs to be stuck to some strange guy.

"Fantastic" Elena grumbles looking down at their hands.

"It's no picnic for me either, sweetheart" Tony counters. "I need to lay down" he grumbles and pulls her over to her cot, she has no choice but to follow him, he lays down and then sighs realising that she's still standing and his arm is hanging at an angle. "Get on" he scolds, she rolls her eyes and lays next to him, trying to get comfy on the one bed cot, Tony clenches his jaw trying not to get annoyed, because he knows this is just as weird for her. She falls silent and he would think her asleep if not for the uncomfortable wiggle she does every few seconds. "You know....I remember you" he offers as Elena stops wriggling slightly. "From when you were younger. You used to have these pig tails, dressed in black and yellow ribbons..." he looks to her. "You must have only been six or seven the first time I saw you" he admits looking up at the ceiling. "Clinging to your father's leg" she looks to him.

"What's your point?" she asks him.

"No point" he grumbles. "Just making conversation"

"Well don't" she argues, he leans up on his elbow to look down at her.

"Look, who knows how long we're going to be stuck here, like this" he holds up their joint hands. "And you and me and him" he motions across at Yinsen who sits on his own cot reading. "In here, that's all we got....it's just us"

"You know my father will come for me" she offers confidently, still believing that Bruce will save her. "He will come and he will save us" she adds, Tony looks to her sadly not entirely believing like she does. She looks away from him.