Tony bolted into the changing room ahead of Steve and Bruce as Steve had gone to collect his shield from his room and Bruce just did not run as fast as Tony in his cat form. The bag was on the floor by Steve's locker, he managed to nudge the flap up and wriggle inside just as the others arrived. He burrowed under the clothes and lay very still. He just hoped that Steve would not notice that the bag was heavier than usual.
Sure enough after changing Steve reached down grabbed up the bag and ran out to waiting quinjet, tossing the bag onto the seat next to where Agent Coulson usually sat, he did not here the yowl of protest that came from the bag over the noise of the quinjet taking off.
Tony snapped his mouth closed and resisted the urge to jump out and claw Steve for the rough treatment but the sound of Phil's voice moving closer reminded him of the need to stay hidden. After all he would not be able to help if he was discovered. Yet again his cat body decided since he was warm and safe it was time for sleep, he drifted off to sleep to the sounds of the other Avengers discussing the forthcoming mission and how to adapt their plan of attack now that they had no air support.
Doom Bots in Central Park how original thought Tony, who was currently hiding beneath a hotdog stand near the command post that Shield had set up. It had not taken much to sneak free and hide, the Hulk out bag was always left by the door of the mobile command centre ready for Agent Coulson to take it to Bruce after he had changed back.
The other Avengers were already battling the Doom Bots with some success but more kept appearing, Cap's shield was cutting them off at the knee joint whilst Widow flipped up on to the back of the bots to slice the wiring at their necks. Hawkeye's exploding arrows were meeting their target every time but he would soon run out and Hulk was smashing away, parts of Doom Bots flying through the air.
Tony knew that he had to find the Controlling Bot once that was destroyed all the others would cease. Decision made he darted out from under the hotdog stand regretting that he was not able to eat one and ran off through the trees heading towards the battle. Dodging trees and leaping over bushes taking the odd tumble when his legs were going to fast in his eagerness to reach the other avengers, he soon arrived at the large open green where the fight was in full swing.
Tony realised straight away that he had a problem, from his position so low down on the ground he was unable to tell the difference between the Doom Bots as all their legs looked the same. God this really sucks not being able to fly, I need to get higher up he thought.
Tony looked around trying figure out how to get off the ground, I so miss my armour if I'm going to be a cat for much longer I need to find some way of making kitty armour that's if Phil ever lets me back into my workshop. Feeling more and more frustrated he clawed at the nearest tree trunk over and over trying to release some of his frustration and anger. Just then he heard a rustling in the branches above, looking up he saw a squirrel glaring down at him before leaping up to a higher branch disappearing amongst the leaves.
For a genius I am such an idiot cat he thought, crouching down he jumped up at the tree trunk digging in his claws then pushing against his back legs he scrambled up the trunk to the lowest branch. Right got to keep the momentum going don't think about it just do it, I'm a cat it should be natural. Not giving any more time to think he leapt up and continued higher and higher into the tree.
Soon Tony was high enough up that he could see the rounded bodies of the Doom Bots but he needed to get closer to study them to find the one different from all the others, if he was right there would be some kind of transmitter somewhere near the top. He walked out along the branch whiskers twitching, tail straight out for added balance, the closer to he came to the end of the branch the lower he crouched hyper aware of the bowing of the ever thinning branch. It was worth it though when he saw he had a clear view of the battle, concentrating on the Doom Bots he scanned each one as it neared his hiding place they were uniformly ugly and ungainly but their lasers were accurate and he could see the other four Avengers struggling to keep the upper hand.
Just as he was beginning to lose hope of spotting the controller Bot he saw one that was acting differently to the others, there were no lasers firing from the central eye and it was moving in a circular pattern round the edge of the park close to the tree line. Tony calculated it would pass by his tree within the next 20 seconds and due to the fact he knew zilch about how far a cat could jump he was just going to have to take his life in his paws and make a leap of faith, after all he did have nine lives he hoped.
As the Doom Bot passed by his branch Tony leapt stretching his body and extending his front legs as far as possible in front aiming for the flat head of the Bot, landing with a thud he scrambled to find purchase on the slippery metal. Just as he felt his back legs sliding off he managed to hook his front claws into a crack in one of the metal seams across the head, painstakingly he pulled himself back up. Ignoring the pain of his two broken claws he peered over the edge and sure enough there was the transmitter attached to front of the Doom Bot. Now came the hard part how was he going to destroy it, there had to be a weakness he could exploit there was a reason even the Fantastic Four managed to beat Victor Von Doom.