"He won't even know what it is," Tony said at first before he realized what the Soldier meant. "You can't just leave." He'd put his foot down about that. "You're the key to safe passage. And you can't kill anyone that comes to talk to us either."

Trying to give orders to a stoic man-child covered in gore was insanity. Tony was half expecting puppies to come running out of the bushes or a giant Statue of Liberty to come wading over for a tea party, it was just that crazy right now.

"This is part of the damned mission, got it?"