It wasn't even fifteen minutes before those same previously quick-retreating footsteps became louder on a return route. If Tony had been bothering to track him in the cameras, he would have seen that Donnie hadn't stayed terribly long once he did get back to his room, almost immediately rushing back out.

He skidded past the doorway to the forge, scrambling back to throw himself bodily through it, his goggles askew, a hand gripping tightly the staff section he'd reclaimed from the workbench.

"I found it!" he blurted, looking even more like some deranged scientist as he pulled his goggles down and once again looked towards the bench.