Steve really wants to question further, because as much as he always liked and respected and even cared about Tony (after that first rocky 12 hours), he didn't figure he was his closest friend even among the Avengers. And he figured that was mostly because of Howard; if he'd grown up feeling compared to some dead guy and found wanting all the time, and then said dead guy showed up in his backyard not dead at all, he'd be a little bit cranky about it, too. He figured Tony wasn't his biggest fan, but it was never really personal, and the fact that they worked so well together in spite of it was a testament to the man's hidden grit and the inherent goodness in him that he seems so reluctant to admit to.
If anything, he'd have expected Tony's nightmare vision to be of Rhodey or Banner dying, specifically. Or Pepper, if it was particularly unkind.
One of these days, he's going to pursue this line of questioning. Why him? Why me? But that day is not today, and Tony's lack of response reinforces that conclusion. They can have a heart to heart after they save the world (isn't that always the way? and then the heart to heart keeps getting put off for later).
Steve is on high alert as he follows, and he seems to have taken his duty as rear guard very seriously. The arm-shields that T'Challa commissioned for him are quietly opened, but he relies on Tony for light. That, and his own enhanced senses. It strikes him that it's far, far too quiet in here, but he has nothing more concrete than that mild misgiving to voice until the lights come on.
Then, he begins swearing under his breath, just barely audible but unusually vehement, and including a few words Tony has most certainly never heard him use before--and not because they're in the Xhosa dialect he's been learning on his visits to Wakanda.
Tony may have Rogers pegged as a bleeding heart, and he kind of is, but he's also very keenly aware of the protocols of military prisons, high tech or otherwise. And he's broken into this one before. "We need to get out of this room right now," he says in his battlefield voice, the one that brooks no argument, as he lunges to guard the door they came through. "Put the suit back on, move!"
Clearly, the place is not as decommissioned as Stark was led to believe. And an operational prison's emergency systems do not include the whole power grid going down in a disaster. There should at least be emergency lighting and air circulation, and if half the guards in the place are dust, the other half should have been active enough to come ask what the fuck they thought they were doing landing an unauthorized aircraft on a restricted-access base.
Something's bad wrong here, and Steve's first assumption is a prisoner breakout. The Avengers weren't the only people locked up in here, and while they may not have been the only relatively innocent ones shoved away without due process, there are almost certainly some dangerous individuals in this facility.
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If anything, he'd have expected Tony's nightmare vision to be of Rhodey or Banner dying, specifically. Or Pepper, if it was particularly unkind.
One of these days, he's going to pursue this line of questioning. Why him? Why me? But that day is not today, and Tony's lack of response reinforces that conclusion. They can have a heart to heart after they save the world (isn't that always the way? and then the heart to heart keeps getting put off for later).
Steve is on high alert as he follows, and he seems to have taken his duty as rear guard very seriously. The arm-shields that T'Challa commissioned for him are quietly opened, but he relies on Tony for light. That, and his own enhanced senses. It strikes him that it's far, far too quiet in here, but he has nothing more concrete than that mild misgiving to voice until the lights come on.
Then, he begins swearing under his breath, just barely audible but unusually vehement, and including a few words Tony has most certainly never heard him use before--and not because they're in the Xhosa dialect he's been learning on his visits to Wakanda.
Tony may have Rogers pegged as a bleeding heart, and he kind of is, but he's also very keenly aware of the protocols of military prisons, high tech or otherwise. And he's broken into this one before. "We need to get out of this room right now," he says in his battlefield voice, the one that brooks no argument, as he lunges to guard the door they came through. "Put the suit back on, move!"
Clearly, the place is not as decommissioned as Stark was led to believe. And an operational prison's emergency systems do not include the whole power grid going down in a disaster. There should at least be emergency lighting and air circulation, and if half the guards in the place are dust, the other half should have been active enough to come ask what the fuck they thought they were doing landing an unauthorized aircraft on a restricted-access base.
Something's bad wrong here, and Steve's first assumption is a prisoner breakout. The Avengers weren't the only people locked up in here, and while they may not have been the only relatively innocent ones shoved away without due process, there are almost certainly some dangerous individuals in this facility.