Don't Lose Sight of Me

14

The doors closed.  The cage plummeted down down down. What was happening? What did happen? Were we really fighting Tony's own creations?

I was ready. I could have fought and won. Why did Steve do that! Who did he think he was! I groaned in frustration punching the side of the wall. I left a fist sized dent in it. The doors opened and there I was, all the way in the basement of the building with my friends fighting up on top. How could Steve just shut me out like that? I was ready!

"JARVIS! JARVIS, bring the elevator back up!" I yelled waiting around for the elevator to move. Nothing happened. Where was JARVIS? He was a computer, he couldn't have been hurt right? Ultron was born from a computer. Did Ultron get to JARVIS?

The elevator doors were obviously not going to open. There weren't any buttons since this was an emergency exit. Everyone else was at least fifteen flights up. With a huff I got to stepping.

Ultron didn't want to kill us in that fight. He was too weak to try. He just wanted our attention. He needs to upgrade. But where would he do that?

My leg was very sore by the time I got to the right floor. The elevators were down, everything was down. When I finally found them in the lab already talking! How could they have started without me?

"Steven Grant Rogers." I called dangerously calm. Steve swallowed and folded his arms. He was gearing up. "Who do you think you are? I was entirely prepared to fight. You cannot just move me wherever you want."

"Grant?" Tony whispered to Bruce.

I stepped in front of Steve putting my hands on my waist. "You weren't prepared to fight. You're not ready."

I gave a fake laugh tipping my head back. "I am ready and you know it. You're just scared. Who are you to decide if I'm ready anyway? It's my body, my choice."

"Yes, I am completely—"

Thor interrupted us grabbing Tony by the neck. "Thor!" Steve yelled.  Like an obedient dog, Thor dropped Tony.

Thor informed us the scepter was taken again. Ultron was missing too. Everything was gone, he had locked us out of the internet. We were back to square one. We'd have to find leads the old way.

"I don't understand," Helen Cho spoke up looking at Tony's robotics. "You built this program, why is it trying to kill us?"

Tony answered with one of his favorite defense mechanism: joking about it. Tony made a show of fake laughing, and everyone was having none of it. Bruce was trying to tell him to stop.

"You think this is funny?" Thor interrogated Tony.

"No, it's probably not. Right?" Tony answered looking around the room. "This is pretty terrible. It is so terrible." He fake laughed.

"This could have been all avoided if you hadn't played with something you don't understand." Thor said.

"No, I'm sorry." Tony interrupted approaching Thor. "I'm sorry, it is funny. It's a hoot that you don't get why we need this."

"Tony, maybe this might not be the time to–"
Bruce cautioned trying to pull Tony back.

"–Really that's it? You just roll over and show your belly every time somebody snarls?"

"Only when I created a murder bot."

"We didn't. We weren't even close."

"Well you did something right, and you did right here." Steve stepped in, and I wanted to roll my eyes. What a shining observation Steve. "The Avengers was supposed to be different than SHIELD."