Y/N L/N is a good-hearted young man who means well. He wants to help his uncle Scott and cousin Cassie, but he just can't stay out of trouble. However, his luck turns around when an old man presents him with an odd job proposal involving a suit that...
The Avengers were huddled together in Pym's lab. Peter made sure both MJ and Ned had made it home safely before returning to the others. They were looking around the destroyed lab. Only a few of the monitors were still operating. All of their data had been erased.
Peter: All our work is gone. Ultron cleared out. He used the internet as an escape hatch.
Natasha: He's been in everything. Files, surveillance. Probably knows more about us than we know about each other.
Y/N: Great. And there's some things I was wishing to keep private from you guys.
Sam: He's in your files, he's in the internet. What if he decides to access something a little more exciting?
Hill: Nuclear codes.
Sam: Nuclear codes. Look, we need to make some calls, assuming we still can.
Natasha: Nukes? He said he wanted us dead.
Peggy: He didn't say "dead." He said "extinct."
Y/N: He also called Hank his "father." What's that about?
He turned to look at his mentor who had been silent the whole time. Hank had been looking over the systems in disbelief. He finally turned around and looked at everyone.
Hank: In a sense, he's right. I created Ultron.
Sam: I'm sorry, you're the one who created a killer AI program? The guy who's against weapons?
Hank: It was never meant to be a weapon.
The old man sighed and rubbed his eyes before leaning against the table.
Hank: Back at S.H.I.E.L.D., Howard Stark and I stumbled across a small bit of code. It wasn't much, but it was far more sophisticated than either of us expected. The data was incredibly complex. At the time, we weren't quite sure what it belonged to. All we knew was that it could possibly be a strand of some artificial intelligence system.
Y/N: Zola.
Hank nodded, confirming his protege's assumption.
Hank: We thought we could make good use out of it. We used what little code we had to build upon it and create our own intelligence. An AI that would secure world peace. We called it Ultron. Within seconds, it could disarm a nuke before it launched or redirect a plane carrying bombs. But, as the program advanced, it began to learn things on its own. It became violent. It saw humans not as beings to protect but rather ones to exterminate.
Yelena: Why would it think that?
Hank: Ultron was programmed to protect the Earth. It began seeing mankind as the greatest threat to the Earth's existence. When I saw it was becoming too violent, I shut it down. I couldn't entirely destroy its code, but I was able to strip it down to its base code. I buried it in my files. Never to be opened again. The data inputted from the scepter must have been enough to restart it. It gave it more sentience than even I could have ever imagined.
T'Challa: What about the other guy? The one he said he had to get past?
Hank: I set up a protection program as a safeguard in case Ultron ever tried to get out or expand. It kept him restricted in his basic form. But the scepter must have finally given him enough input to overpower it and break out.
The others were quiet for a moment, taking in everything Pym had just told them. Thor then stomped into the room angrily. He grabbed Hank by the neck and held him up.
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