"I'm sure Hershey Park will be thrilled to hear it." Clearly she's not going to get anywhere with the chocolate fountains, but arguing with Tony is fun.

"Well, technically speaking a masquerade is about wearing masks, not suits of armor, although I suppose the tradition is old enough that maybe people did actually wear armor at some point, even if they couldn't actually move," Pepper considers analytically. "But it might soften the image a bit. When you get older it could pop back up if you mess up somehow, even if you wearing the armor to a ball literally has nothing to do with anything."

Security was as much good PR as superior firewalls and minidrones with a license to kill, after all.