For the Love of a Father ✓

The Man Who Shouldn't Have Meddled

We go back out to the others and try to sit as far away from each other as possible, avoiding eye contact. If the twins notice, they wisely choose not to say anything. We pass the flight in silence, each of us reeling for the events that we know are coming. Defeating Ultron, and all of his forms aren't going to be easy. We land at JFK and get a taxi, paying double to get us there as quickly as possible.

We walk into the lab and I'm baffled by what I hear. "You have got to upload that schematic in the next 3 minutes." Bruce says.

"I'm gonna say this one." Steve says as we take in the scene before us.

"How about 'none-ce'?" Dad says.

"Shut it down Dad!" I yell.

"Nope, not gonna happen."

"You don't know what you're doing." Steve tries to explain.

"And you do?" Bruce asks us. "She's not in your heads?"

"I know you're angry." Wanda says, stepping forward. I move in tandem with her. I may not appreciate what she said about Dad but I also know that Bruce has the ability to do some serious damage if properly provoked.

"Oh, we're way past that. I could choke the life out of you and never change a shade."

"Bruce, this isn't helping. I get you're angry. I get you feel violated. But bringing that thing to life is just going to cause more harm than good. We won't be able to control this thing any more than we could control Ultron."

"After everything that's happened..." Steve starts but Dad cuts him off.

"Is nothing compared to what's coming." He says.

"You don't know what's in there." Wanda tries to explain.

"This isn't a game!" Steve and I yell at the same time. Before any of us could continue Pietro became a blur, running around the room, unplugging the machine. Or at least I'm assuming that's what was causing the beeping that filled the lab.

"No, no. Go on. You were saying?" He says as the machine powers down. A gunshot goes off and Steve pulls me to him, the shield coming up in front of us for protection. But nothing hits. Instead, Pietro falls through the glass floor into the robotics lab beneath.

The machine is still beeping, alerting us to a cascade of system failures. "I'm rerouting the upload." Dad says as he goes to turn back to the computer. I watch as Steve throws the shield and it bounces off several pieces of equipment before Dad calls the hand of his Iron Man suit and goes to blast Steve.

Acting before thinking, I use my powers to push Steve out of the way, taking Dad's blast to the chest. "Myra!" Steve yells running back over to me. I groan, coughing as I sit up carefully.

"Ow." I groan out. "Asshole! You hit me!" I threw an energy ball at Dad but it doesn't do more than annoy him as he has the chest piece of the suit on as well.

I see Bruce has Wanda in a chokehold. "Go ahead, piss me off."

"Bruce, calm down." I tell him as I see Steve leap up to punch Dad. Dad engages a booster on his suit and the dual power sends them both flying backwards, Dad through a glass window and Steve across the floor. I watch in horror and anticipation as Wanda magics Bruce away from her. I approach him, my own magic dancing around my fingers. "I really wouldn't do that to him." I warn her, my eyes glowing pink.

We all pause when Thor flies in and approaches the cradle. He calls down lightning and power surges the machine, causing it to overexert on power, finishing the procedure. We wait with bated breath to see what will happen.

Everything is quiet, until the glass of the cradle shatters, sending Thor flying through the air as a man of red and silver pops out of the machine.