5.8 Retrieving the Cradle

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Captain Carter ran through the deserted and destroyed laboratory. She passed unconscious or dead staff members. Making her way to the back lab, she found Helen Cho bleeding out with a gash on her side.

Peggy: Dr. Cho!

She rushed to the woman's side and immediately began bandaging the wound, trying to stop the bleeding.

Cho: He's uploading himself into the body.

Peggy: Where?

Helen shook her head. She didn't know. Ultron was gone. Peggy was about to run out when Cho stopped her.

Cho: The real power is inside the Cradle. The gem, its power is uncontainable. You can't just blow it up. You have to get the Cradle and deconstruct the body.

Peggy: First, I have to find it.

Cho: Go!

Peggy talked to the others over her comms. Y/N, Natasha, and Yelena were in the quinjet with Nat behind the controls.

Peggy: Did you guys copy that?

Natasha: We did.

Yelena was looking at something she found on the monitor.

Yelena: I've got a private jet taking off across town. No manifest. That could be our robot friend.

Looking down outside the cockpit, Romanoff saw a U-Gin truck on the road below them.

Natasha: There. It's a truck from the lab. Right above you Pegs. On the loop by the bridge.

The jet's radar scanned the truck. No life forms inside. The sensors indicated traces of vibranium. Looking further, the sensor picked up a set of robotic bodies.

Natasha: It's them. You got three with the Cradle, one in the cab.

Yelena: We can take out the driver.

Peggy: Negative. That truck crashes, the gem could level the city. We need to draw out Ultron.

Yelena turned to Y/N.

Yelena: Could you go big and grab the truck?

Y/N: It's too risky. It could cause a set of crashes or unintentionally smash the truck. 

Peggy ran on the overpass above the truck. She saw it pass underneath her and ran to the other side. She leaped off the overpass and on top of the truck. Ultron heard her shield clang as it hit the top of the vehicle.

Ultron: No, no, no, no. 

Peggy slid across the top of the truck and grabbed onto the back door.

Ultron: Leave me alone!

The enraged robot used an energy beam to hit the back door

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The enraged robot used an energy beam to hit the back door. It swung open with Peggy still on it. She hit the side of the truck and pressed her foot against it to swing the door back. It was then hit with another energy beam and ripped off its hinges. Peggy was flung into the air and landed on the door which was now grinding on the road clinging onto the vehicle by a thread.

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