That wasn't as easy to answer as Tony anticipated, leaving him without the words even as his mouth opened readily, so he could only close it again with a shrug and apologetic wince. It did get Tony to the stated goal: keeping the Avengers around. How satisfying that was was more debatable. "It's not as easy without the credit cards," he admitted, because it was harder to ignore the limits of the tactic now that they were here. He wasn't exactly anyone's first choice on the dodgeball team. "Your team has got to be keeping you around for a reason," he encouraged, because maybe if they figured that out, Tony could try it out for himself.
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