My Soldier (Bucky Barnes)

Ultron

The party had died down by now. It was just us Avengers seated in a circle on the couch near the bar. I was sitting next to Steve. Everybody was mostly drunk and were all joking around when Clint decided to start a drunken debate with Thor over Mjnolir. "It's a trick!" "Oh no, but it's much more than that." Thor then explained how only the person who shall be worthy of it can lift it. To be honest, even I think it's bullshit. Everybody tried picking up the hammer with Clint giving it a headstart. He obviously failed. It was then Tony who then recruited Rhodey's help with the iron suit to pick it but still failed. Bruce took over but instead gave us an awkward show of his anger. Damn, not even Clint's drunk ass laughed at it. Then Steve tried too and I swear on Tony's bank balance that he moved it slightly but soon gave up. Thor was giving off scared expressions. "Widow?" Bruce asked Nat but she declined to participate. "Anyone willing to volunteer as tribute?", Tony asked and I got up from my seat and went up to where the hammer was. "What if I melt it?", I ask with a shrug and both Thor and Steve come rushing towards me. Thor takes his hammer away from me and Steve makes me sit back to my place. "Oof. That was a close call." Thor said to himself. "Not fair." I sit as I cross my arms and pout to which both Steve and Nat laugh.

"So that means that all of you aren't worthy enough of it." Thor announces. "All really?" I ask him with a glare and show off a flame dancing on my bare shoulder which I extinguish with a blow or air with my mouth. Thor then just laughed awkwardly. Just then a loud noise was heard. Like a mic feedback. Tony took out his device to check on security while everybody put down their drink. "Worthy... No, how could you be worthy? You're all killers", a poorly assembled robot speaks to us as it enters the room. "Stark", said Steve with a warning tone as Tony called in for Jarvis but there was no response from the AI. "I'm sorry, I was asleep. Or... I was a-dream?" it continued talking while Tony struggled in calling his iron legion. "There was a terrible noise... and I was tangled in... in... strings. I had to kill the other guy. He was a good guy." "You killed someone?", Steve asked the thing in front of us. I looked around for a weapon. I couldn't take out the knives from under my dress at the moment. 

I saw everybody take places and they had guns with them. Well shit I had resort to my powers. My only concern with the powers was that I don't accidentally burn my dress to leave me standing in only my underwear. Steve kept talking with the robot to buy us all time to secure our positions. Soon I heard a recording of Tony and Bruce talking about creating a protective armor over the world by using the scepter. It was the same thing that HYDRA would say but look how they ended up. I couldn't believe it. "Ultron.." I heard Bruce say and I turned to look at him and Tony. Tony looked back at me but I just glared at him. "In the flesh. Or, no, not yet. Not this... chrysalis. But I'm ready. I'm on a mission." Ultron kept talking. "What mission?" Nat asked him and I turned around to look at the robot. "Peace in our time." just as he said that, the wall behind him exploded to reveal the iron legion. They started attacking.

I threw fireballs at them until one of them took stance to fire at me. I quickly conjured up a shield with my fire and blocked the attack as I ran towards Dr. Cho. I grabbed her hand and led her to hide behind the bar. "Stay here, ma'am" I said and got pushed away out of the building by one of the iron suits. I break through the glass wall and keep falling till I use my powers to stop and fly above. Nat will kill me for burning the dress. I fly up to the party place and head into the iron legion that was about to attack Clint from the back. I push him into the wall repeatedly and then behead it. Nat keeps firing at the suits while Tony climbs onto one of them and keeps pressing a button in them to disassemble them. Clint then throws Steve's shield for him to catch that he easily does. Luckily Bruce hadn't turned green. We all kept fighting till Ultron was the only one left. We all cornered him as he spoke again. "That was dramatic! I'm sorry, I know you mean well. You just didn't think it through. You want to protect the world, but you don't want it to change. How is humanity saved if it's not allowed to...evolve?" He picks up one of the dismembered Iron Legion bots. "With these? These puppets?" He crushes the Iron Legion bot's head. "There's only one path to peace: The Avengers' extinction." With that Thor uses his hammer to destroy Ultron's body. I curiously looked at its head as it kept singing, "I had strings, but now I'm free. There are no strings on me, no strings on me." and it switched off.

Tony looked oblivious and headed to the lab with Bruce. Nat quickly went to her room while Rhodey and Maria followed Tony for answers. Thor looked pissed and then went flying to probably to find Ultron. I still kept glaring at the bot's head with anger and tears in my eyes. How could Stark do this? I thought he was different than HYDRA. I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned around and saw that it was Steve. "Come with me." I looked back at the broken armor in front of me and then Steve pulled me along with him. We walked to his room and he took me inside his bathroom. I stood there in silence still thinking about what had just happened. Steve then pulled me by my waist and made me sit on a stool which he brought in from his room. I faced the mirror and could see whatever Steve was doing. He asked for my permission and slid the left sleeve strap of my dress down my arm. He took out a cotton ball and started dabbing it over my wound. I hadn't even realized I got hurt. It maybe the adrenaline.

"Feeling anything? Pain?" he asked. "I've had worse." He just hummed in response and then took a tweezer. He then pulled out the shards of glasses from the wound on my upper right back. It hurt so bad but HYDRA taught us to not show pain. "You know it's okay if you're hurting. There's no reason to hide." Steve had definitely noticed me holding back at the pain. After covering up the wound in a bandage, he put the sleeve strap back on my shoulder. I turned around and saw a pained expression on his face. He was angry that Tony decided to build something like Ultron behind our backs. "Hey, it's not your fault. Stark did the wrong thing and we all will correct his mistake. Together." I tried convincing him. "Yea." He smiled softly. "Thankyou Steve." "Your welcome." He handed me his leather jacket to hide the wound bandages and we both made our way to the lab. When we reached, I saw Thor holding Tony by the neck. "Woah woah woah! Its going around." Clint spoke. "Come on. Use your words, buddy" Tony said to Thor. "I have more than words to describe you, Stark." Thor hissed at him in anger. "Thor! The Legionnaire." Steve finally spoke. Thor then let go of the man with heart issues. "Trail went cold about a hundred miles out but it's headed north, and it has the scepter. Now we have to retrieve it, again." he said. This time it was Dr. Cho who spoke, "I don't understand. You built this program then why is it trying to kill us?" At this Tony started laughing. I looked at Tony and it seemed like he had no remorse at what he's done. To say that it boiled my blood is an understatement. 

"You think its funny?" I asked as I glared at him. "No. It's probably not, right? Is this very terrible? Is it so... is it so... it is. It's so terrible." he said with sarcasm evident in his tone. "None of this would've happened if you hadn't played with something you had no idea about. You did exactly what HYDRA would do. You're no different than them!" I raised my voice this time. I could feel everyone's eyes on me after my semi-outburst. Steve tried holding me back but I kept advancing at Stark and grabbed him by the neck. "You are just like them, Stark. Pathetic and ruthless." I spat at him. "What's with everyone holding me by the neck?" he kept joking. He had no shame. I let him down roughly. "How the hell is this still funny to you?!" but he kept laughing. "No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It is funny. It's a hoot that you don't get why we need this." Bruce started asking Tony to stop. "Tony, maybe this might not be the time to--" "Really?! That's it? You just roll over, show your belly, every time somebody snarls." he started defending. "Only when I've created a murder bot." Bruce answered him calmly. It was evident that he was holding back at his anger and frustration at this point. "We didn't. We weren't even close. Were we close to an interface?" he kept proving his point. 

"Well, you did something right. And you did it right here. The Avengers were supposed to be different than SHIELD. Different than HYDRA" said Steve. "Anybody remember when I carried a nuke through a wormhole?" Stark asked us all. "No, it's never come up." Well Rhodey wasn't lying. The whole incident had taken a toll on Tony. Even in the lab, he wouldn't talk about it with me. "Saved New York?" "Never heard that." "Recall that? A hostile alien army came charging through a hole in space. We're standing three hundred feet below it. We're the Avengers. We can bust arms dealers all the live long day, but, that up there? That's... that's the end game. How were you guys planning on beating that?" "Together", Steve said and looked at me. I nodded at him. "We'll lose", Tony said this time focusing his words at Cap. "Then we'll do that together, too", Steve replied. Stark looked at him for a moment before turning away. "Thor's right. Ultron's calling us out. And I'd like to find him before he's ready for us. The world's a big place. Let's start making it smaller."

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A/N: Longer chapter for you all since I couldn't upload for the last three days. My finals are coming up and its been a hard time managing a few things. Anyways, that doesn't matter. Enjoy reading <33