Percy's P.O.V
I walked into the Avenger's Headquarters for the first time. The lady at the front desk smiled at me.
"Welcome Mr. Jackson, Ms. Romanoff."
"Thank you Jocasta." Natasha said from my side. We made our way up to the main level.
"Look Percy, a lot of things happened after you left. At dinner you got to see everyone but it's not all dandy as it seems."
I looked her in the eye.
"What is it that you aren't telling me?" I asked. Cupping her face I rubbed her cheek with my thumb.
"Soon." She said. The doors opened and we walked into the conference room.
Tony was sitting down. Waiting patiently.
"Great. Come sit down Percy." He said. Steve was off in the corner, looking out the window. His gaze was far away as if he was in another world.
I sat down with Natasha on my lap.
"What happened?" I asked.
Tony sighed.
"When you disappeared we spent all our time looking for you. Natasha was pregnant and we were all a little off our game. I had an idea to create a program that could help protect the world but it didn't take off until we retrieved Loki's scepter."
"Didn't we get it back when we met Wanda and Pietro?"
"When Hydra was exposed they were able to get their hands back on the scepter. We had found it's location shortly after your disappearance. So once we got the scepter I was able to use the alien technology to create that program. Ultron." Everyone in the room flinched.
Why does that sound familiar? My mind flashed back to the whiteboard in the SHIELD facility. The name scribbled in red marker.
"Now, Ultron would have functioned primarily on a specific algorithm. He used all the resources he had access to and found threats and or potential threats present in the world. He then concluded on a scale of 1-10 how dangerous said threat was and made a decision on when to handle it and how. Now, as he evolved he was able to access all the archives and files and concluded that there was always going to be a threat somewhere. And the reason to this was because of humans. He was able to decide that to fulfill his programming all of the human race had to be wiped out which would then stop all the threats. That's when things went south."
"Ok. So, big bad robot. Got it. Who the hell is Vision?" I said.
"Vision was our answer to the problem. Ultron had began to create the perfect body for himself using a synthetic skin and vibranium. We had stolen the body from him but he retaliated by kidnapping Max." Natasha said
"Max being..." I said
"Wanda's boyfriend. The one she met at the club."
Oh, I remember now. Poor guy.
"We got him back but Max was injured. We used his brainwaves and a little lightning to birth the Vision. So technically, Max lives on as the robot."
"Ok. But if Ultron actually created him then why is he on our side?" I asked
"Ultron was only halfway done in creating him. We snatched the body from him before Ultron's data uplink was completed."
"Where's Pietro?" I asked
Everyone got silent.
"He's dead." Natasha said
"Ultron was able to make Sokovia rise into the air, he planned on dropping it so that the impact would wipe out the entire human population. We went there to stop him. All of us. Pietro didn't make it off the city in time. We blew it up so that it wouldn't fall. He's dead."
