The problem was, it was nobody's intention to hurt this animal, and everyone would have been better off if it had made an elegant escape and Tony wasn't suddenly having the air knocked out of him, shoulder thrown back and stumbling slightly with the force of the impact. That was already going to bruise, but what was worse was that dragging suction hauling him forward again, and the grunt of surprise that he made turned into a whining, "Ow-ow-ow--..." as he tried to keep his footing, effectively crashing into Jon as the other man tried to intervene, metal throwing sparks as his heel scraped against stone. One hand went around Jon's wrist, the armored arm flung heavily around Jon's shoulders in protective autopilot while Tony had to very rapidly devise the best way to avoid something currently attached to them.

In the same moment the animal seemed to accept that there was no going back, Tony used the gauntlet to blast the nearest stone shelf at its base, sending it toppling toward Jon and Tony. He barely had a second to glance up and realize the animal was falling toward them before the shelf was crashing down on them, with only Tony's gauntlet raised between their heads and the stone to keep it from cracking them open. Between the weight of the shelf and the creature landing on top of it, they were shoved to their knees, effectively turtled under the leaning shelf while the animal scratched its panic into the stone, its tongue still snaked under the edge and trying to haul them out.