Little Avenger

15b

Now, half of us are surrounding the core, taking out a bunch of bots together. Steve shows up before Clint and Wanda do.

"Romanoff." Tony calls. "You and Banner better not be playing hide the zucchini."

"Relax, shell head. Not all of us can fly."

Here she comes, crashing into a gate on a bus, jumping out, and coming in here.

Crazy woman.

"What's the drill?" She asks.

"This is the drill." Tony points to the core. "If Ultron gets his hands on the core, we lose."

Now, Hulk's here.

"Little one."

"Hulk."

Ultron shows up, floating a few feet outside the church, staring right at us.

"That the best you can do?!" Thor asks.

"Moron!" I shout.

All the bots come this way now. Idiot.

"You had to ask." Steve sighs.

"This is the best I can do." Ultron states. "This is exactly what I wanted. All of you against all of me. How can you possibly hope to stop me?"

"Like the old man said, together." Tony gets ready.

Hulk roars as the bots come charging at us. So so many come in, all of us fighting against them. Ultron comes in and goes right for Vision, who throws him out of the building, Thor and Tony following and shooting Ultron with lightening, lasers, and the Mind Stone.

"We gotta move out." Steve orders. "Even I can tell the air is getting thin. You guys get to the boats. I'll sweep for stragglers. Be right behind you."

"I hope you know I'm not leaving." I nod.

"Lil-" They all try.

"Nope. Not happening. Sorry." I shrug.

"What about the core?" Clint rolls his eyes.

"I'll protect it." Wanda nods. "It's my job."

"Nat."

Clint, Steve, and Nat leave and Pietro comes speeding in, destroying a bot with one punch.

"Get the people on the boats." Wanda orders.

"I'm not going to leave you here."

"I can handle this." She also destroys a bot and he nods. "Come back for me when everyone else is off. Not before. You understand?"

"You know, I'm twelve minutes older than you." He smirks.

"Go." She chuckles.

He speeds off and I do my best to follow him, both of us going pretty fast, him faster of course.

I show up just in time to see Ultron shooting anything in his path. Clint stands up ahead with a child in his arms, I watch the blue blur head straight for it.

"Stop!"

That's exactly what happens.

Everything stops.

And I mean everything.

Everything but me.

"What?"

I land in complete silence, smoke and fire standing in place, no movement whatsoever.

The bullets Ultron had been shooting, frozen just before they can hit Pietro right in the back.

"What is going on?"

I hurry over to Pietro, Clint, and the kid, moving each of them out of the way, especially Pietro, moving him from the bullets. I fly up and grab them, putting them to where they'll be tossed somewhere else when I figure out how the hell to fix time.

Next, I move up to Ultron, tearing off the door to the jet he's using, pulling him out. He stands with an angry expression on his lifeless face.

"This is where you end, Ultron."

I move to him and pull his chest plates off, tearing his 'heart' out, along with his head because, I want to.

I get back to the ground and place the jet down, too. I close my eyes and listen for the rest of the bots, I don't even know where they are, listen to them being torn apart, as well. This leaves all of Ultrons army dead and gone, taking him with it.

Now, time to figure out how the hell I'm supposed to fix time seeing as, I am definitely the one who fucked it up.

Guess I found a new power.

Thank God.

"Uh? Go?"

Everything stopped when I yelled stop so, maybe go will work?

"No? Okay."

I concentrate hard on resuming this frozen timeline I have created, pushing myself forward in time, everything going back to normal.

Pietro and Clint look around terribly confused, jumping when they hear Ultron hit the ground.

"What?" They both breathe.

"See? I took care of it. Just like I said I would if you let me handle it."

"You did that?" Pietro points at a broken Ultron.

"Yes."

"Uh, guys?" Clint calls.

"What's wrong?" Steve hurries over.

"Nothing." I grit. "Nothing is wrong because, I handled it. Nothing would have even gone wrong if you had let me handle it in teh first place. Now, a bunch of people are dead. The city is floating and is probably about to be blown up. And I'm pissed."

I glare at all three of them before flying away, landing angrily on in the middle of the helicarrier.

-

Oh, would you look at that?

I was right.

Sokovia was just blown to bits.

Everyone is on board and okay, not dead at least.

I'm still in the middle, sitting down with my legs pulled up to my chest, arms hugging my thighs close, face in my knees.

"Lily." Tony calls and I ignore him.

I feel a hand on my shoulder and push it off as I stand, all but Banner watching me.

"Don't even try right now." My eyes water.

"Lil-" Nat tries.

"No! I don't want to hear it. You see what happened? If I was allowed to handle him from the start, none of this would have happened. Wanna know why Ultron is just dead out of nowhere? It's because, I stopped time. I literally stopped time."

"What?"

"Yeah. Pietro was about to get shot and I stopped time. I didn't even know I could do that. And guess what? He wouldn't have nearly gotten shot if I has taken care of Ultron from the beginning. Those people wouldn't be dead or scared out of their minds. They'd be happy and safe at home. I'm not saying that I blame you guys for all that has happened but, come on. You knew I could've done it and still stopped me. I know you knew. So, why stop me?"

They stay quiet as the tears fall out.

"Why did you stop me?!"

"Lily, please, calm down." Tony moves closer.

"No." I cry. "I'm not gonna calm down. I can't calm down right now. I-"

Tony steps out of his suit and forces me into a hug, throwing my arms around him as I sob into his shirt. I face away from the rest of the group, them still standing there with confusion, sadness, guilt, and anger, staring right at me.