Devilish Secret ✦Steve Roger & Bucky Barnes✦

♔Chapter 5♔

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Ellaria's POV

"All our work is gone." Bruce exclaimed looking around the lab. I couldn't help but watch him pace. Tony was looking at Ultron's form. "Ultron cleared out. He used the internet as an escape hatch." Steve uncrossed his arms and leans on the table next to me. "Ultron."

Nat was looking at the data base. I could tell she was worried about what Ultron knew and did. "He's been in everything. Files, surveillance. Probably knows more about us than we know about each other." Rhodes mentions, "He's in your files, he's in the internet. What if he decides to access something a little more exciting?" This was not sounding good and not knowing the outcome was starting to get on my nerves. I know I can't look in the future and that my specialty as a witch is to know people's fear but shit do I have this fear of not knowing.

"Nuclear codes." I looked at Maria and see the fear on her face. She's afraid of the world ending. I can understand that. But that is not something anyone can control. It could end one day and we'd never know. "Look, we need to make some calls, assuming we still can.

I could tell the longer we were discussing this my chest felt heavy on the unknown of that A.I. could do. I tried to pace my breathing to keep focusing on the conversation, but the voices of their fear keeps speaking and they won't shut up. I jumped feeling someone patting my shoulder. I turn to look at Steve smiling at me. "He didn't say us being dead." He paused looking back at the team. "He said extinct."

"He also said he killed somebody." Clint mentions.

"But there wasn't anyone else in the building." Maria says.

Tony walks up to the platform bring Jarvis up. When he did my heart stopped. "This is insane." Banner said. I could tell what this Ultron did to Jarvis. How he brutally ended Jarvis.

Steve looks down, "Jarvis was the first line of defense. He would have shut Ultron down. It makes sense."

"No Ultron could have assimilated Jarvis. This isn't strategy. This is rage." I walked out of the room seeing that we are dealing with a narcissistic sociopath. I couldn't hear it anymore. I went to my room ignoring the camotion in the lab. The power I used did a little big of draining on me and if Tony wants me apart of this I going to need it back.

The next day I start to walk out when I bump into Maria and Steve at the elevator. "Where are you going?" Maria asked. "Class." I started to walk past them since I was running late. The last thing I need is a professor on my ass for my attendance. Steve stopped me and I truly wish he'd stop doing that. "We need all of the Avengers." I looked at him and listened to what he was saying.

"We all saw what you did Ellaria. We will need it when we find Ultron." I nodded. "There is a reason I said no to it in the first place, Steve. I would be a burden. I also only take order from Mr. Stark and no one else. I'm running late to class so goodbye." I pressed the elevator button waving at them lazly.

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Steve's POV

"What does she mean by being a burden?" I turn to look at Maria. She shrugs her shoulders. "You shouldn't ask me. You should ask her mother."

Even though her statement was stuck on my mind we continued the conversation about Ultron and any sighting of him. That is when Maria mentioned the Maximoff's. As we head into the lab the picture of Strucker's murder was shown to me as peace written out in blood right above him. I handed it to Thor to take a look at it.