Chapter 4

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I throw a dart at the dart board and hit the bullseye.

"She gets that from me," Clint says proudly.

"Uh, no, she gets that from me," Mr. Stark says. "I'm the one who taught her how to calculate the trajectory and—"

"—I've been giving her archery lessons—"

"Ultron took you folks out of play to buy himself time," Fury interrupts Mr. Stark and Clint's banter. "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."

"What about Ultron himself?" Steve asks.

"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."

"He still going after launch codes?" Tony asks, throwing a dart after me. It misses the bullseye.

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

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

"I hacked into some SHIELD files when I was 11 because I wanted to," I say. Mr. Stark gives me a respectful look.

Fury stares at me for a moment. "That was you?"

I nod.

"You sent everyone in security into a frenzy. Anyway, back to what I was saying, I contacted our friends at the NEXUS about that."

"NEXUS?" Steve asks.

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

A dart whizzes by Mr. Stark and I's heads and hits the board perfectly in the center. I turn around to see Clint smiling at us. "So what'd they say?" Clint asks.

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

Mr. Stark pulls the darts out of the board. "By whom?"

"Parties unknown."

"Do we have an ally?" Natasha asks.

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

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

Natasha leans back in her seat. "Well, this is good times, boss, but I was kind of hoping when I saw you, you'd have more than that."

"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."

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