Tony sighed and braced himself for his own version of a Cap speech. "A terrible misunderstanding is screwing up a few verb tenses and pronouns in French and offering to eat the waitress for dessert in front of your fiancée. Or completing a botanist's life-altering theoretical serum for her after a drunken one night stand and she thinks it means something more. This," He waves both hands out to indicate their entire surrounding. "is a bit more than that. You believe it's a misunderstanding about as much as I believe you're just some government nobody." He shrugged and dropped his arms again.

"Whatever this is, I'm getting to the bottom of it and I'm getting us out of it because it's what I do." He stepped closer, not threateningly, but for her full attention, trying to lock his gaze with hers. "There is a room full of computers just inside," He pointed towards the building subconsciously. "and I'm the guy that doesn't like when information is withheld. It's a," He rolled his eyes. "thing with me. Working with SHIELD made me a paranoid bastard. I just need to find an interface and strong-arm my way past their security protocols. Bada-bing, I'm in. Bada-boom, everyone else can go home. My team and I take care of the mess."

And that was Tony in a nutshell. Arrogant, annoying, sarcastic, but he really did want to help.