She was just an experiment. Born to be a weapon. A weapon for HYDRA to use.
But HYDRA never got the chance to do so.
Because she was not alone.
They broke her to make her weak.
But they just made her stronger.
'Cause she was not alone. And never w...
Everyone removed their hands from their ears as the loud screeching sound faded. Tony pulled out his device as One of the Iron Legion suits, heavily damaged and housing Ultron's consciousness, stumbled into the room. "Worthy... No, how could you be worthy? You're all killers."
" Stark." Steve said to tony in a cautious tone.
"JARVIS." Tony called for his A.I. but got no response in return, while Ultron kept on blabbering.
"I'm sorry, I was asleep. Or... I was a-dream?"
"Reboot, Legionnaire OS, we got a buggy suit." Tony said while tapping his device, trying to control the Iron Legion suit. Everyone looked at each other with confused stare.
"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 interrupted, while pushing Andrianna behind him.
" Wouldn't have been my first call. But, down in the real world we're faced with ugly choices."
"Who sent you?" Thor asked.
Ultron replayed a recording of Tony's voice, "I see a suit of armour around the world."
" Ultron!" Bruce realised.
" In the flesh. Or, no, not yet. Not this... chrysalis. But I'm ready. I'm on a mission." As Ultron said this everyone got up and prepared themselves as they can sense the incoming danger. Thor tightly grabbed his hammer, Hill cocked her gun, Andrianna conjured a small flame in her hand.
"What mission?" Natasha asked.
"Peace in our time." As soon as Ultron said this, the wall behind him exploded, and several Iron Legion bots barged into the room. They begin attacking the team, who all got on the defensive mode and fought back.
One of the robots was advancing towards Steve and Andrianna. Seeing it Steve kicked the table using it as a shield, the robot hit the table, the force sent Steve and Andrianna flying back. Andrianna landed a few feet away from Steve. Just as she got up, another robot came and taking her by surprise, collided with her and again sending her flying back to the wall. The force of impact knocked the air out of her lungs as she collapsed on the ground, catching her breath.
Just then Natasha came towards her along with Bruce and started dragging her towards the stairs. As they were ascending the stairs one of the bots was constantly shooting at them, and it hit Andrianna's right thigh causing her to fall on the ground.
"Rianna!" Natasha yelled; she was about to go down but because of the robot's constant firing she couldn't. So, she hurried back with Bruce and after finding a safe place started shooting at them. The robot which shot Andrianna was about to attack her again but Tony jumped on it and tried to shut it down with the help of a fondue fork. He shuts it down and it falls to the floor. Tony quickly went towards her found that she had fainted due to loss of blood. She had a bleeding gash on her forehead and blood was constantly seeping from the wound on her thigh.
"Shit!" Tony cursed under his breath.
The fight continued until Barton threw Cap's shield to him. "Cap!" Steve used his shield to dismember the last Iron Legion bot.
" 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?" Ultron picked up one of the dismembered Iron Legion bots and continued, "With these? These puppets?" He crushes the Iron Legion bot's head. " There's only one path to peace: The Avengers' extinction."
Just as Ultron completed with his speech Thor threw his hammer and destroys Ultron's body.
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6 May 2015, Stark's Penthouse, Manhattan, New York
Andrianna opened her eyes and looked at the ceiling. It was the ceiling of her room in the penthouse, but that was not possible because she was at the Avengers tower fighting...
She jolted on her bed, looking around she realised that she was in her room. Her right thigh was covered in bandages and she was wearing shorts and a long T-shirt.
Just then her bedroom door opened and Pepper walked in. Seeing Andrianna awake Pepper rushed to her side and hugged her tightly. Andrianna returned the gesture; she was still confused as to how she got here. After providing her with something to eat Pepper explained,
"On your birthday I was hoping to surprised you with a visit, though I didn't really wanna come to the party. I was in my way when I got a call from Tony. He told me that you were injured and that he is getting you back to the Penthouse. I rushed to the penthouse immediately. After a few minutes Tony arrived. Seeing you unconscious I was very scared. But then Tony said that you just fainted because of loss of blood, and that Dr. Cho had already operated on you and that you just needed rest. So..."
"So, you've been giving me sleeping pills. So that I won't wake up?" Andrianna questioned angrily. Pepper bowed her head in shame. "Because if I wouldn't have done that then you would have run off to help the Avengers without caring about your health. And I didn't want you to get hurt. You needed rest at that time."
"'That time?' How much time has passed? What date is today?"
"6ᵗʰ" Pepper replied timidly. Andrianna's eyes widened and she looked at Pepper in disbelief.
"I have been out for 3 whole fucking days!?"
"Christ Andy! Mind your language."
"First of all, don't call me Andy, it's gross. And second, what else do you expect me to say!" Andrianna yelled as a surge of power went out of her body and shattered glass of the windows. Pepper looked at the broken window then at Andrianna, while the latter bowed her head down feeling guilty for the damage she had done. "I-I'm sorry. Th-This is all just so messed up."
Pepper put her index finger below Andrianna's chin and lifter her head up, so that their eyes met. Removing her hand from her chin and keeping it on Andrianna's shoulder she looked in her eyes then said," I know I shoudn't have done that, and I'm sorry for that. I wasn't stopping you from helping them it's just that... you needed rest at that moment. I'm not stopping you now. I know, no one can stop an Avenger if they have made their mind. Once and Avenger always an Avenger, there is no such thing quit in this field. I got to learned it the hard way."
Andrianna gave her a small smile. "Now let's change your bandage." Pepper opened the side door and took out the first aid kit. She took the scissors and cut the old bandages. As Pepper was removing them, Andrianna moved to get the bottle kept at the side table but her hand accidently hit the side table, making the candle stand, that was kept on it fall right on her wound. Pepper removed her hands as Andrianna's leg caught fire, she quickly went towards the side table and grabbed the water bottle. Before Pepper could extinguish the fire, Andrianna stopped her and urged her to look at her thigh.
Pepper gasped as the fire instead of spreading was diminishing. Pepper expected to see the burn marks but was shocked when she saw that Andrianna's skin was smooth, as if nothing had happened, and the wound had healed.
"I didn't know that fire can heal me. This is... a new discovery. That-that was just like the-"
"The Phoenix."
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[A/N]: Just realised I messed up the date. I wrote March instead of May. I think I really need to edit the whole book, there are a few places where I have done stupid mistakes.
I have corrected the time, and I will edit the book once its completed or maybe whenever I'll get time. Writing two books at the same time is really something. Anyways hope you all enjoyed the chapter.
