"Huh. So your Pepper doesn't have the Rescue armor? Weird." Or maybe not. It was impossible to know how common that might be in other worlds. Loki is a name Pepper is as of yet unfamiliar with but: "Is your Agent Hill as scary awesome as mine?"

Maria Hill was one of the only SHIELD agents aside from Director Fury himself that Pepper had had any extended interaction with. She was the kind of agent the young redhead had always dreamed of being, perhaps without the straight-faced terseness.

"Yeah, totally," she replied, grinning. "Show me what you've got."