As Loki went on, Tony found it a good time to activate his armor and start the timer. When it passed the five-minute mark, he'd move on to proper defensive troubleshooting.

"Subterfuge? That's a mental load I could be spending on what I do best. My research--that is my current strategy. Trapped in a floating spacetime anomaly may be my best chance at stopping the show before it starts but I need to know I'll be bringing anything back with me to make it count. You dig? Too many unknowns about how we even relate all this to home." If the truth of the matter was they were getting stirred up to waltz blissfully back into their lives as if nothing occurred, the uselessness of it all would have made him laugh.