At least Steve was being complacent. Tony palmed the tube to crack open he bottle of water he brought with him, too, and hand it over to Steve so he might not need further chap applications. Meanwhile, Tony explained, "I wasn't thinking it was something Hammer was doing. More like not doing." After all, he couldn't believe Magneto was sated after the big show he put on with the helicarrier, and Loki definitely wasn't the type to settle for a bit of single-party disfigurement after the humiliation of a jail sentence. But nothing, not a word from either of them, with Hammer focusing his big, career-molding piece around keeping the capes off of the streets. "Hammer was on that island," Tony pointed out, "and he sure as shit didn't engineer a miracle cure by himself." The soup on the stove was beginning to kick up an energetic bubble, so Tony pushed himself to his feet to search out a spoon and give it a halfhearted stir.