themainframe | Mark I ⊚ [Video for Bruce]

You know, there's meanness in you.

This computer could get us home, and you don't want to give up a toaster?

[He is not about trying guilt to get his way.]

[Wow, Tony. Rude.]

Just because I want to get back as well doesn't mean I should sacrifice where my food comes from.

[He kind of appreciates having proper food to eat once again, okay.]

[Why are we being surprised at this?]

Toast isn't food, it's a snack, or goes under food. Like omelettes.

You have an oven to make other food, actual food even.

[Tony avoids cooking, so unfortunately he's not sympathetic to your toasting needs.]

[Well its new for Bruce, he's only known Tony for less than 72 hours before this.]

It's easier food. Why are you so insistent on my toaster, anyway?

[Everyone knows what Tony's like even in Calcutta and Brazil. He's a sexy guy, people love to know about him.]

Well mine had a lot of useful parts. So, yours will too. That and you're the only person I know well enough to talk out of toaster ownership.

[You just keep telling yourself that, Tony.]

Nice to know I'm good for something.

[Oh so dryly.]

[Well it doesn't help when he keeps reading about how sexy he is in the papers or hearing about it on TV]

You're good for more than that, my good doctor.

[He smirks at the screen]

[This is why your ego is terrible.

Also, totally rolling his eyes at you here, especially when he knows that Tony doesn't mean it.]

Guess I move up a few spaces from 'toaster provider'.

Well, considering you're not handing over your toaster, it's not really a title you can have. So you're just going to have to stay as a good Doctor.

Until something more impressive comes along, like 'cheif green beast'

'Chief green beast' doesn't have that much of a ring to it.

[Wryly. He's not entire comfortable with people mentioning the other guy so casually, but, well--this is Tony.]

That's the great thing about being here. There aren't any focus groups to test how a name sounds.

Besides, with so many other mean greens about. Might as well claim the king of the mountain.

[Have a small snort, Tony.]

I'd rather not, thanks. [He's not some ape who needs to assert his dominance or whatever it is you're saying. He's perfectly fine where he is.]

[Tony just gives him a teasing smirk.]

Not one for being on top, huh? Well I guess, it can get boring.

[Being on top is... painful, for Bruce. He was at the top before, in his own way, once believing to have the world on his fingertips - and look where his arrogance has led him to now. So its better, this way.]

Not for you though, it seems.

Being on top is all I know. All I do is find ways to make it interesting.

[After all, a Stark always acts like he's on top, even when he's far from it.]

You do make it pretty interesting.

[It's not that all hard to see your face on the news, for many various reasons Bruce is sure he doesn't need to name.]

Even I surprise myself with what ended up on YouTube sometimes. But JARVIS liked to keep all my public appearances tracked.

I think I'm the only person I know with a computer who doubles as a disapproving nanny.

I'm pretty sure there's nobody else who has a computer that can disapprove of your life choices.

[He doesn't really know JARVIS, per se, but he has read about him in some of the magazines he used to read back in the day. He's undeniably one of Tony's greatest creations, barring the arc reactor and the suits.]

Oh I'm sure someone else does, probably a few. The only difference is mine can actually sound annoyed about it.

[He smirks, thinking about the computer not being here is kind of lonely, but Dorumon is slowly starting to fall into the role of ignored nag.]

It wouldn't be the same if it couldn't, I guess.

Only if you look at objectively. Abstractly it's the same.

[Tony, why you gotta be obtuse sometimes.]

[Because that's how he rolls.]

But it still makes enough of a difference.

Well, I guess you have a point there, and with luck it'll stay that way.

Let's all keep up our hopes, then.

[Smirks]

Suddenly I feel like you've really grown.

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