till the end of the line

24 Ultron

All of a sudden, I dropped my drink as I covered my ears along with everyone else. It was a loud screeching noise, like microphone feedback.

Once the sound had subsided we all looked up and lowered our hands before we turned to Tony. He sighed and pulled out a smaller device and inspected for whatever could have been the disruption.

Soon enough, we all turned to see one of the Iron Legion suits, heavily damaged and housing some form of consciousness stumbling into the room.

It shook its head as if contemplating something before it turned to face us, "Worthy. No, how could you be worthy? You're all killers."

Steve got up from behind me and we both took a stance before he stepped in front of me, "Stark."

Tony shook his head frustrated, "JARVIS."

The suit hesitated once more before it looked up, "I'm sorry, I was asleep. Or, I was a- a dream?"

Tapping his device, Tony groaned before rubbing his head, "Reboot, Legionnaire OS, we got a buggy suit."

"There was a terrible noise... and I was tangled in- in strings. I had to kill the other guy. He was a good guy."

I raised my brow and cocked my head as I looked at the suit, confused, "You killed someone?"

"Wouldn't have been my first call. But, down in the real world, we're faced with ugly choices," the suit then turned to me and focused on me, "Do you regret it?"

"What?"

"The misfortune event. Do you feel remorse? Do you feel the guilt?"

I took a step back before Steve and everyone else glanced at me, "What is he talking about?"

"I- I don't know."

"Oh, come on! You were there! The way you destroyed that man and his life. That county, blown to bits. How do you get by without the guilt, the remorse, the mere memory of it?"

"I- enough of this. Why are you here?"

"To remind you and every one of their mistakes. So tell me, do you remember it?"

A deafening silence filled the room as I felt all eyes on me before I lowered my gaze, before looking back up with a stone-cold face, "I regret nothing."

The suit shook his head and scoffed before turning back to me, "Because you don't remember what you're supposed to regret. So, how about I remind you?"

He chuckled and then a broken screen appeared before our eyes as I looked up, eyes wide.

Screams and cries, people running and then there was a man. He cowered and fell back against a wall as an ice-blue blast then took his life. Seeing a town soon burn under the stars, all I could see was myself, standing on a hill as I watched the town burn before my eyes.

"That was you?"

I turned to Natasha as she looked at me with widened eyes, "You're the ghost that burned down Hamilton County?"

I shook my head as flashes of the memory took over. I closed my eyes and groaned, falling back in my step as I searched for hope in her eyes, "I- I- why can't I remember? I- I don't know."

We then all turned to suit as he chuckled, "Of course you don't. The Allfather made sure of that."

I then looked over at Thor who shook his head, "Who sent you?" He pointed his hammer at the suit as it turned and hit a button on its arm.

From the button, audio played only for us to hear Tony's own voice.

"I see a suit of armor around the world."