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            You decide the dream team have got this and, abandoning the ruined ex-hovercar, you and Natasha take off in the direction of the rest of your teammates.

            You weren’t really expecting them to need much help - let’s face it, this is as much a joyride as it is an earnest attempt at furthering mission goals, because if they had needed backup, they would have called - but you manage to help marshal the prisoners to the extraction point (and convince them to follow you there despite the somewhat worrisome sight of the Hulk up ahead, clearing them a path). When you arrive, you all take up positions to defend the prisoners until aerial support arrives...

…only to realize that there’s so little defending required that most of what you’re doing is twiddling your thumbs.

“Okay, screw this,” you declare. “I’m going for the metal octopus. Who’s with me?”

            As it happens, Thor is just as bored as you are.