𝐼𝒻 𝐼 𝑅𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓂𝒷𝑒𝓇... (𝒜 𝐵𝓊𝒸𝓀𝓎 𝐵𝒶𝓇𝓃𝑒𝓈 𝒮𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓎)

27. The Cradle

Yet again, I was not listening, the team was talking about something. Ultron I believe. I was thinking about what Wanda did to me. 

When I suddenly was shaken by a little girl, she was smiling and holding a piece of paper in her hands. I looked down at her a gave her a slight smile, she gave me a bright beaming smile and she handed me the paper. It had a butterfly on it, it was purple and blue and for her age it was quite good. I took it carefully as I placed a hand on her should thinking her.

 She ran/walked back over to her table continued drawing. I looked at the drawing, studying it for the next few minutes before everyone got up. I darted my eyes between them and Stark sighed "You know if actually pay attention, when we finish talking you won't look like a lost puppy."

"Well if you guys were interesting I wold pay attention."

"Yea... she's back." Clint says taking some Darts off the dart board.

***

"I'm close to the lab." Steve says talking through his ear piece. Natasha  and Clint are pilots. I begin to grab some stuff. Daggers, guns and some grenades. I begin to strap  them on my body, carefully so I don't blow myself up. I hear a familiar voice in the ear pieces. Helen Cho. I try to listen to the conversation to make sure my new found friendship wasn't about to die. I can hear her voice in sharp breaths. I can't make out what there saying. I can make out some words.

'The gem.'

'Cradle'

'Ultron's new body.'

'Stark'

"Did you guys copy that?" Steve asks as the conversation finishes.

"We did." Clint confirms and I feel him fly the sip more further to the left.

I walk over to them and peer out the window, trying to see anything out of the ordinary.

"I got a private jet taking off, across town, no manifest. That could be him." Natasha says nodding her head towards the plane taking off.

"There. It's the truck from the lab. Right above you, Steve. On the loop by the bridge. It's them. I got three with the Cradle, one in the lab. I could take out the driver." Clint says noticing the truck.

"Negative! If that truck crashes, the gem could level the city, We need to draw out Ultron." Steve disagrees.

I zone out again. I hear the plan, but the words that Steve says reminds me of the day he crashed the plan and saved the world in order he 'died'. 

Natasha takes me back into the world and tells me to get on my bike. I look at her in confusion, she sighs "We helping Steve and going to the trucks." 

I nod.

"We got a window." Clint says as he opens the gate. "Four, Three... Give 'em hell."

Me and Nat drop down on the ground, me following her. We dodge through people and traffic. We make sharp turns and I almost run into an elderly lady. I spot the truck and I make the bike go faster and i jump onto the truck almost falling off. 

Ultron lifted a piece of ground us with something and Natasha had to stop. 

I was about to touch the Cradle when two Iron legion pull me out of the truck and sent me rocketing through the sky I used my powers to rip them apart and I began to fall. "Shit!"

I use my powers to re-gain balance and I land on the ground with a loud Thud. Ignoring the pain in my back I slowly get up and breath heavily. I rub my head as the migraine kicks in. 

"Nick! Problem!" I hear Steve yell, I sigh again, more robots I guess.

"What?"

And in this very moment, as if time said here you go. A train burst through the building and heads straight towards me.