It'd been one of his most boring stretches of captivity ever, Clint Barton thought as he stepped out of the elevator onto the main floor of Avengers Tower. Just him and his new friend Xander Harris trading stories for the couple of days they'd been stuck together in that other-dimension dungeon, until Willow the witch rescued them both and sent Clint back to New York City at his native reality.

However, now that Stark had just entered the room and was heading Clint's way, it was time to use Xander's hilarious suggestion on how to best get some payback at that rich jerk with his incessant nicknames.

"Hey, Legolas, where've you been lately? We could've used you against Hydra," breezily hailed Stark coming to a stop before a deadpan Clint.

"Yeah, I heard, Stork. Sounds like you and the rest handled it pretty well," nodded Clint.

"Of course we did- What?" Stark started off with a naturally prideful response, only to stop in mid-sentence with a definite doubletake while regarding Clint looking back at him.

All his years of spy work were useful in keeping Clint from laughing right into Stark's face. Instead, the bowman just said in mild puzzlement, "There something wrong?"

"Uh, did you take a good, hard kick in the head recently? You just called me Stork!"

Clint squinted in growing perplexity at where Stark was appearing to be offended for some reason. "Well, why shouldn't I? That's your name, Stork."

"It's STARK! Tony Stark! How hard is that for anyone to remember?!"

"You need to calm down a bit, Stork," Clint compassionately informed the other guy with their face definitely turning red in serious irritation. "I know how to say your last name just like everybody else does. You don't have to yell it at me, okay?"

"You- You-," spluttered Stark, throwing up his hands in sheerest frustration and spinning around to storm out of the room.

Clint just watched him go with a honest expression of concern upon the SHIELD agent's face, knowing full well Jarvis was recording this on the AI's cameras. Inwardly, though, Barton was howling in glee. Oh, yeah, he was going to bring the others in on this once the gang were out of Jarvis' range.

They'd go for it, absolutely: Nat, Steve, Bruce, and even Thor. All of them had also been gifted with those endless, annoying nicknames from Iron Man in his civilian identify, and they'd happily seize the opportunity to drive Stark nuts by referring to him as "Stork" every chance they had.

*Got to thank Xander if he ever visits here,* Clint cheerfully thought to himself. *When he told me about his Slayer pal Buffy and how she really pissed off her enemies by always mangling their names, we both realized it'd work on Tony, too.*