Come mid-morning, a Stark Industries flunky drops off a package for Steve.
Inside is a shield similar enough in weight and balance to the REAL Captain America shield to make one suspect that Stark has actually had blueprints on file for years. (He has. He's even had prototypes. One came in useful for propping up his accelerator.) It uses similar alloys to the War Machine suit of armor, and it is just as blandly metallic. Stark includes an unsigned note:
Inside is a shield similar enough in weight and balance to the REAL Captain America shield to make one suspect that Stark has actually had blueprints on file for years. (He has. He's even had prototypes. One came in useful for propping up his accelerator.) It uses similar alloys to the War Machine suit of armor, and it is just as blandly metallic. Stark includes an unsigned note:
Don't test this against anything bigger than one of Romanov's little pea shooters. If you try throwing it, you'll just look stupid. Let me know what needs improving.