"More or less," Pepper replies, grinning. Tony had this interesting habit of being a genius and still making some phenomenally idiotic mistakes, but when it came to technology there was no denying he was beyond skilled.

It's a little weird having her last memory of home be seconds before a massive explosion that surely caused chaos in its wake, but it is less troubling with both Tony and Gene's assurances. There are a lot of other things that are far more upsetting at the moment, and the ship doesn't often feature in her dreams or nightmares.

"Yeah, it records just about everything. Tony made the armor to monitor us and so we could adapt to stuff on the spot, so it's always scanning, like, everything," she explains. "Why?"