"I can already tell what you're thinking and I'm not even looking at you," Tony spoke half-consciously. Paying more attention to electronics and metal bits calmed Tony enough that he didn't immediately get into Steve's space. The two butted heads more often than not and, while Stark may have enjoyed it time to time, he never got anything out of it after a mission. When Rogers was just yelling at him or arguing with him about something he had obviously done for his own amusement, it drove Stark to see red.

Robots were so much easier to understand than people.

"We needed to be the patsies, Rogers. If we had just swiped the files, Doom would have turned his attention on the first idiots he saw. Someone who wouldn't be able to take him. He needed to know who he was dealing with."