"Talk," the young woman commanded. The red-headed witch and her silver-haired twin were curious about the need for their presence in the empty church, "And if you are wasting our time.."
"Did you know that this church is at the exact center of the city? The elders decreed it so that everyone could be equally close to God. I like that. The geometry of belief. You're wondering why you can't see inside my head." Wanda was taken aback slightly at the man's observation. He was facing away from her and her brother, but clearly he could sense her frustration somehow.
She held her composure despite the tight knot forming in her stomach, "Sometimes it's hard. But sooner or later, every man shows himself."
"Oh, I'm sure you do," He said as he stood, the sheet that had previously covered him falling away and revealing his sleek, shining, metal body. Wanda moved slightly closer to Pietro in fear, "But you needed something more than a man It's why you let Stark take the scepter."
"I didn't expect... But I saw Stark's fear. I knew it would control him. Make him self-destruct."
"Everyone creates the thing they dread. Men of peace create engines of war, invaders create avengers, people create... smaller people? Uh... children! I lost the word there. Children. Designed to supplant them. Help them... end."
"Is that why you've come? To end the Avengers?"
"I've come to save the world. But also... yeah."
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"He's all over the globe," Maria mumbled, "Robotics labs, weapons facilities, jet propulsion labs, reports of a metal man, or men, coming in and emptying the place.
"Fatalities?"
"Only when engaged. Mostly guys left in a fugue state going on about old memories, worst fears, and something too fast to see."
"Maximoffs," Lilith stated, "It makes sense he'd go to them. They have someone in common."
"Not anymore," Maria corrected, holding up a photo of a corpse. Lilith gasped at the gruesome photo. It was of Strucker's body, with the word 'peace' painted on the wall behind him in blood.
"Barton, get over here. We might have something," Steve called.
"Gotta go," Barton said to his phone.
"Who was that," Lilith teased. She knew damn well who it was.
"Girlfriend." Close enough.
"What's this?"
"A message. Ultron killed Strucker."
"And her did a banksy at the crime scene," Tony said, "Just for us."
"This is a smoke screen," Nat said, "Why send a message when you've just given a speech?"
"Strucker knew something that Ultron wanted us to miss," Steve realized.
"Yeah I bet he... yup. Everything we had on Strucker has been erased."
"Not everything." Lilith dropped a box full of files on the lab table in front of them with a grin.
"Nice thinking, Lee Lee." The team spent hours looking through their physical files of Strucker until finally someone found something on Ulysses Klaue. He was branded with a word from an African dialect meaning thief in a much less friendly way.
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Beautiful Chaos
Fanfiction[l.odinson x fem!oc ] "You can't fix every broken soul you meet." "No. But I can try." ••• Lilith Stark's only job was to keep Doctor Banner from turning green while he and her father helped SHIELD locate and retrieve the tesseract from Loki. Every...
