Iron Man and Open
Damn SHIELD and their redheaded secret agents. Tony was still grumbling about it as he got dressed for their special party, and then flew his shiny ass over to their shiny flying carrier. Damn manipulative redheaded secret agents. Took advantage of him having several moments of weakness.
And damn if they weren't right. At least right enough. They needed him and his extremely big brain and his incredibly advanced heroics to save the world. Potentially.
Besides, they were up to something - everyone agreed that they were up to something and really wanted to know what. He could probably break into their systems, if he holed himself up in the lab for a few days, and then they'd still probably know about it. He was curious and dealt just as well with people as he did with computers.
And there were people he knew on the team. He did a lot for friendship.
That included showing up to shindigs. And hey, at least it was close.
He did a complete circle of the Helicarrier, looking it over as JARVIS scanned it in. Yep, getting to be this close to it did make things easier. Ignoring the pinged orders, he landed where he wanted and marched through security, pointing out that there wasn't any point in searching him when all his weapons were built into the suit.
"You may now proceed to party," he announced as he entered into what seemed to be the main room they were all gathering in.