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Next day. night. In the living room. 

Fury "Ultron took you folks out of play to buy himself time. My contacts all say he's building something. The amount of Vibranium he made off with, I don't think it's just one thing."

Cap "What about Ultron himself?"

Fury " Ah. He's easy to track, he's everywhere. Guy's multiplying faster than a Catholic rabbit. Still doesn't help us get an angle on any of his plans though."

Tony "He still going after launch codes?"

Fury "Yes, he is, but he's not making any headway."

Tony "I cracked the Pentagon's firewall in high school on a dare."

Fury "Yeah, well, I contacted our friends at the NEXUS about that."

Cap asked confused "Nexus?"

Bruce " It's the world internet hub in Oslo, every byte of data flows through there, fastest access on earth."

Clint "So what'd they say?"

Fury "He's fixated on the missiles, but the codes are constantly being changed."

Tony "By whom?"

Fury "Parties unknown."

Nat "Do we have an ally?"

Fury "Ultron's got an enemy, that's not the same thing. Still, I'd pay folding money to know who it is."

Tony "I might need to visit Oslo, find our "unknown.""

Me "Well, this is good times, boss, but I was kind of hoping when I saw you, you'd have more than that."

Fury "I do, I have you. Back in the day, I had eyes everywhere, ears everywhere else. Here we all are, back on earth, with nothing but our wit, and our will to save the world. So stand. Outwit the platinum bastard."

Nat said amused "Steve doesn't like that kind of talk."

Cap snapped fake offended " You know what, Romanoff?"

Nat gave him an innocent smile. 

Fury " So what does he want?"

Cap "To become better. Better than us. He keeps building bodies."

Tony "Person bodies. The human form is inefficient, biologically speaking, we're outmoded. But he keeps coming back to it."

Me "When you two programmed him to protect the human race, you amazingly failed."

Bruce "They don't need to be protected, they need to evolve. Ultron's going to evolve."

Fury asked confused  "How?"

Bruce "Has anyone been in contact with Helen Cho?"

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Clint had brought the Cradle to us but we Nat got kidnapped in progress. Crap. 

Me " Anything on Nat?"

Tony shook his head " Haven't heard. But she's alive, or Ultron'd be rubbing our faces in it."

Clint "This is sealed tight."

Bruce " We're going to need to access the program, break it down from within."

Tony "Hm. Any chance Natasha might leave you a message, outside the internet, old school spy stuff?"

Clint "There's some nets I can cast. Yeah, alright. I'll find her."

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