Paige laughed.

"I swear if it was anyone else telling me that story I wouldn't have believed them," she said, grinning. "An alternate universe, really? And a roaming pack of Roombas that you just kind of left somewhere?"

"Yup pretty much." Tony grinned. "Jarvis, bring up the photo of Thor Roomba-surfing."

It took only a second to bring up the video of Thor on a surfboard on a bunch of Roombas being led along by Natasha scattering dirt all over the tower.

Paige broke down laughing.

"No way," she gasped. "Oh that's awesome."

"Yep, that's the craziness around here," Tony said with a grin.

"That's amazing," Paige said. "How does everyone handle things like Roomba surfing and stuff?"

"That's kind of the norm around here." Tony grinned. "You get used to it eventually."

"Surfing on Roombas is not something I think I'll ever get used to seeing," Paige said. "And I see a lot of weird things at the mansion. I mean, hell, you've met Darwin."

"Yeah. Smart kid." Tony shook his head. "There's only so much weirdness you guys can get into at the mansion because there are small children and Charles keeping watch. We don't have that."

"Darwin once dunked his head in a vat of maple syrup to see what would happen," Paige deadpanned.

Tony paused at that and looked over at her. "What did happen?" Because that was an interesting experiment and he kind of wished he'd seen that.

"Absolutely nothing," Paige said, snickering. "Apparently, you can't survive in maple syrup. Though it ended up gluing his eyelashes together for the rest of the afternoon."

Tony snorted. "Oh that would have been fun to see," he said.

"It was fun," Paige said. "Every time he blinked his eyes stuck closed. Took six washes to get his face clean enough not to stick anymore."

Tony snickered. "I bet Charles scolded him for it and then started laughing like crazy."

"Charles had to leave the room because he couldn't contain his amusement," Paige corrected, grinning. "Erik gave the lecture."

"Metalhead gave the lecture? That doesn't happen often. Mostly he just looms and grunts." Tony grinned.

"I think he was just acting as a proxy," Paige said. "The words sounded like Charles."

"That makes more sense," Tony said, shaking his head. "Charles is very good at multi-tasking."

"He must be, because we could hear him cackling from the next room," Paige said frankly, grinning.

"Oh he's good," Tony said with a grin. "He's a devious thing." He shook his head and glanced over at the door.

"Sir, Dr. Banner has asked me to remind you that tonight is movie night and Indian food," Jarvis reminded him.

"Right, thanks." Tony stood, stretching out. "You like Indian food, right?"

"Never had it," Paige said, watching him carefully. "Why?" Because she thought it sounded like he was inviting her to movie night, but that couldn't be right.

"Well if you don't like it we can get you something else," Tony said. "Come on, chop chop, Brucie only reminds me when it's time to get up there."

"Wait, you mean now?" Paige asked. "I'm allowed to just crash Avengers Movie Night?"

"Um, yeah. You're my guest, of course you're allowed to crash." Tony grinned and headed for the door. "Hurry up or all the food will be gone."

"But... It's Avengers Movie Night," Paige said. "Like... Avengers-only super secret clubhouse. You sure they're okay with me crashing the party?"