John sipped his coffee as he made his way down to Stark's lab to roust their resident geniuses out into the land of the living. Harold and Tony had been down there a while. Although the absence of any explosions or alarms was a good sign, they both needed to eat and certainly in Tony's case shower and sleep as well. Really, who had thought it was a good idea to send Harold of all people down to lure Tony from his lab?
The two were startled by John's entrance into their lair. They tried (and failed) to surreptitiously hide the evidence of whatever it was they were working on. John was a bit surprised by their actions. Certainly Tony could be secretive when he was working on new arrows for John, but that work usually didn't involve Harold and Tony had just given John new tech only a few days ago.
Putting aside the mystery for the moment, John shepherded the two out of the lab and off to the kitchen, suppressing a smirk at how closely they resembled pouty 2-year-olds being sent of to bed. When he was assured that they would eat a proper meal under Natasha's watchful eye, he snuck back down to the lab to check things out. Surprises from those two could be a dangerous thing.
Examination of their workstation yielded a stopwatch, two identical Master Level Sudoku books, and a tally sheet indicating their respective number of wins. It appeared the only danger was to Tony's ego. The man must have been very tired indeed to let Harold get so far ahead of him point-wise.
