Re: Batman/Captain America/Iron Man + OTA
Whether it was a worldwide problem or not, Tony's home was New York - alright, and California and that island in the Caribbean and the vineyard in Italy and the suit in Tokyo, but New York was special - and if the giants were going to be very conveniently in his backyard, well, he was just going to continue beating them back.
But once he finished with one, just as he was headed towards home to pour more calories into him or hammer out problems with the armor, there would be another wave of them, or another problem that required his immediate attention: whether with Stark Industries' answer to the cold snap, or the various heroes he saw running around with him.
"Sir, Captain America is calling," JARVIS informed him. "Shall I tell him you are unavailable?" Jarvis had started filtering his answer sometime after he'd told someone that they bored him and he wasn't going to talk to them anymore. It was probably for the best.
But in this case... "I'm halfway to the harbor already - I'll drop in on them," he decided, and changed his flight course for the Helicarrier, still floating just a little sadly in the deep waters of the harbor. Hadn't they gotten it airborne yet? The hell was wrong with them that they couldn't tinker with the engines and fix the problem that they'd had a month to work on?
He came in for a landing on the flight deck because it was there, and from the way the handlers scattered, figured that JARVIS had warned them he was coming. Which turned out to be a very good thing, because a vertical landing didn't mean a whole lot when the flight deck was half ice and all slick, wet metal. After skidding and feeling himself losing control, he hit the repulsors and lifted off from the deck, hovering just above the metal and gliding over to where they seemed to be gathering.
"I vote we skip the small talk about the weather," he said as he approached. "It's just such a cliche at these things because no one knows what to talk about."