"I lead a very interesting life," Tony says with a shrug and a grin that doesn't quite reach all the way to his eyes. Because yeah, there was that one time when he fought off an invading army of aliens from some far reach of the universe who had used his tech to help bring them to New York in the first place. And that still stung a little bit. Maybe because it took him so long to realize what they were up to. Maybe because he just didn't like people touching his things. Either way though, it hadn't been a great day.

He wasn't convinced he was quite so directly needed or involved this time. Not in the matters of multidimensional travel through time and space, anyway.