Things that don't occur to Cortana: the possibility that their doorman is really, actually Washington and not a doppelganger summoned up by Theta's perfect AI memory, down to the IFF signal that suddenly appears in her perceptions. Wash vanishes before he can clarify the matter, so it will have to remain a secret until they're all back on Legion World comparing mission notes.

"Man on the inside, huh? I was just going to turn off the strong nuclear force." See if your hyper-condensed matter can hold up to a sudden absence of gluons, criminal scum. Oh well, maybe she'll get a chance to try it on the way out.

"Now where are those kids?" Cortana asks no one in particular, and drums her fingers on the dash. Wishing the place out of existence and into open tarmac would hit up against the wills of every one of their opponents, which might prove too much even for the galaxy's most willful AI. Instead, she imagines every wall in the place turning transparent.