We're Not All Heroes - AOU

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Maria walks into the room holding a tablet of some sort.

"He's all over the globe. Robotics labs, weapons facilities, jet propulsion labs, reports of a metal man, or men, coming in and emptying the place." She announces.

"Fatalities?" Steve asks her, he looks concerned but that may just be his face.

"Only when engaged. Mostly guys left in a fugue state going on about old memories, worst fears, and something too fast to see." Maria replies.

It's the twins. Wanda and Pietro. Science experiments. Voluntarily.

"Maximoffs" steve tells her.

"Makes sense he'd go to them. They have.. lets say a common interest." I let them know.

"Not anymore" she turns the tablet around to show strukers dead body slumped against a wall.

"He gave them revenge." I hum. It makes sense honestly. 'Hey I need your help. And here, look, you get to kill a guy who experimented on you, even though the experiments were completely consented by lab rat party. But you know, kill him because your the only ones to survive, let alone with magic powers.' Yeah. Total sense.

I see the words written in his blood on the wall. 'PEACE' it reads. Yeah, peace. I scoff at the irony.

Maria, steve and I leave the room we were currently in onto some bridge thing to go to another room with he others.

Clint is leaning over the rails of it, phone to his ear. He quietens slightly when he sees us comming.

"Thats a negative. I answer to your yes ma'am." He's obviously talking to his wife but nobody needs to know that. I eye the phone and baron eyes me back when he sees me looking.

Steve interrupts the conversation between 'mystery lady' and clint.

"Barton, we might have something."

Clint turns the back of his head to us and mumbles something into it. I didn't quite hear it but it probably wasn't important.

"Who was that?" Steve asks.

"Nobody. Uh, girlfriend." Clint fumbles.

"You know if I ever meet this girlfriend I'm so telling her that you just called her nothing when your boss asked about her." J try to joke. They both give me 'really?' Looks then turn back to eachother. I turn to Maria and shrug my shoulders.

The four of us walk into the next room where steve gathers everybody in it.

He projects the photo of struker onto a bigger screen so we all can see it.

"What's this?" Tony asks.

"Peace of our time" I quote ultron.

He mostly ignores me.

"A message, ultorn killed struker." Steve tells the team.

"And he did a Banksy at the crime scene just for us" tony stares at the screen.

"This is a smoke screen" natasha pipes up. "Why send a message when you just gave a speech?" Her hand rests on her chin as she thinks.

"Flare?" I shrug my shoulders. "I mean, look who created him." I point in Tony's direction and ge gives me a slight offended look.

I can hear the gears turning in Steve's head as he speaks. "Struker knew something that ultron wanted us to miss."

Natasha opens up a few gils on her tablet thing. There's nothing. "Yep. Everything on sturker is gone."

"Not everything" tony mumbles.

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We all have designated boxes on struker and anything remotely connected to struker. Meaning there's alot of boxes here.

Steve reads the label on his box "known associates." Then looks at the filled to the brim folders inside of it. "Struker had alot of friends."

"Somehow" I mumble flipping through pages in one of my folders. All it contains is useless to me so I pick up another folder.

Bruce flips through pages slowly, making sure to read everything on each page. "Well these people are all horrible."

Tony peaks over his shoulder slightly, putting his hand on that same shoulder when he sees a picture of someone. "Wait. I know that guy."

Bruce hands him the picture of some guy with scars for days all over him.

"From back in the day. He operates off the Africa coast. Black market arms."

I roll my eyes at him. "Ofcourse you know him."

Steve also gives him a look.

"There were conventions ok? You meet people. But I didn't sell him anything." Tony defends himself. "He was talking about finding something new. A game changer. Sounded very "ahab"."

We all see the photo of the man, his name being Ulysses Klaue. The man's crazy, if you ask me.

Thor points to the back of his neck where there's a strongly shaped scar and some tattoos. "What's this?" He asks.

"Uh. Tattoos" tony looks comfised.

"No." Thor points again. "Those are tattoos. This is a brand" we all notice the branded scar on the back of his neck.

Bruce scans the photo and searches for what the brand is. "Oh yeah... it's an African dielect meaning thief. In a much less friendly way." He coughs, slightly uncomfortable.

"What dialect?" Steve asks.

"Um.. wakanda? With some of their trade goods.."

Ah. King T'chaka. He's a pretty good man. Yes I've met the king. I've been through alot, ok?

"If this man got out of wakanda with some of their trade goods...." he looks like he doesn't even wanna think about it.

Steve is visibly confused. "I thought your father said he took the last of it."

"I don't follow. What comes out of wakanda?"

The two men look to the patriotic sheild. "The strongest metal on earth" tony says.