"Oh, I have no idea!" the Master shrieked. "You see at first I thought about leading another alien invasion, maybe with Cybermen, they're much harder to kill with the Chitauri, especially since they can convert the people they conquer into more Cybermen!"
She laughed merrily.
"But then I thought, you know what, The Doctor didn't interfere in the Battle of New York. Silly me. Plus my critics would just try to accuse me of copying Loki and while he is dreamy, I'm so much more original than that."
The Master wiped a tear from her eye.
"Then I thought genocide! Wipe the Earth clean! Let it burn! Then The Doctor wouldn't feel so alone, you know? But again, that was kind of Ultron's deal, wasn't it? And that didn't get the Doctor on Earth to intervene either. I mean, it could have just been luck of the draw or something else...
"...So you know what I did instead?" she grinned.
Pepper and Tony were muttering quietly to themselves outside of Steve's room.
"The press doesn't know, do they?"
Pepper Potts shook her head, "No, they only heard the beginning of the argument between you two. The Post is calling it The Avenger's Civil War."
"Good," nodded Tony. Better to think the team was fighting than to announce what had really happened to Steve Rogers. He'd help keep it under wraps, there had to be a way to reverse the damage. They needed Bruce.
The TARDIS was giving Steve a busy signal, attempting to reroute the call to the next helpful person it could think of. At Storm Cage, the phone across from River's cell rang.