Doors

[News media explodes with coverage of an unidentified explosion at Stark Tower. Cameras are trained on the smoking wreckage of the top of the tower, drawing uncomfortable echoes of 9/11 footage, but before services can appropriately respond, more explosions (in white and in blue) rain more rubble on onlookers below. Things get even better for the media when a very visible silhouette of Loki blows Iron Man out of the side of a slightly lower level, and he is then caught in very heroic fashion by an out-of-uniform Captain America, shield and all. Cap joins the fight, but not for long, as after more explosions he retreats with an undeniably unresponsive Iron Man over one shoulder. Loki exits on a flying contraption to who knows where, and some time later the news stories update with the information that Tony Stark is in critical but stable condition at an unknown location. Nobody seems to really know what that means, but the story is on repeat.]

[Tony makes the news when he shows up without an appointment on the set of Larry King, boots a Twilight actor out of his slot, and gives an impromptu interview in which he flippantly refers to Loki as "a big picture maker, kind of like Michael Bay." He informs Larry that he is sure someone "who actually gets his hands dirty" will probably end up taking him down. He then orders someone off camera to "fetch Captain America's shield, maybe I have it stashed in my lab somewhere" which causes an uproar of the eyebrow-waggling kind.]