Avengers Tool Missing: Smart Card

“I didn’t lose it,” Tony snapped. “It was in my lab. In the secure drawer. Yesterday, 9:14 PM. I logged it. FRIDAY, confirm.”

Tony Stark stood in front of the main assembly table, arms crossed, helmet off, looking more agitated than when Thanos had thrown a moon at him.

“You’re telling me,” Natasha Romanoff said slowly, “that the most advanced piece of tech in this building is locked behind a card the size of a library card, and you lost it?”

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Tony snatched it. “Where was it?”

As the team dispersed, Tony walked back to his lab, muttering. “Avengers tool missing smart card. Should’ve just said ‘Peter was hungry.’ Would’ve saved me four hours.”

“Peter,” Tony said slowly.

“It’s gone,” Tony said flatly. “The smart card for the Excalibur prototype.”

FRIDAY chimed in helpfully: “Shall I add ‘peanut butter-proof casing’ to the Excalibur’s next iteration?”

Then Thor laughed, a booming thunderclap of a laugh. “The mighty Excalibur, defeated by a refrigerator!” “I didn’t lose it,” Tony snapped

Natasha buried her face in her hands. Steve looked like he was questioning every life choice that led him to this moment. Thor offered Peter another Pop-Tart.

“Under the fridge.”

Thor, munching on a Pop-Tart, squinted. “Why not simply ask the drawer who took it?” Yesterday, 9:14 PM

In the high-tech bowels of Avengers Tower, a crisis was brewing—not of the world-ending variety, but of the deeply embarrassing, logistics-based kind.

“It’s non-stick?”