Assigned • s.r

Ultron

•Before the break out.•

Steve and I are watching Bruce and Natasha talk at the bar.
"She's totally flirting." I took a drink of my beer.
"Come here," he said, grabbing my hand and pulling me towards Bruce after Natasha leaves.
"That's nice." Steve says.
"What? What, what is?"
"You and Romanoff." He smirks.
"No no- we haven't-"
"It's okay," Steve chuckles.
"Nobody's breaking any bylaws, it's that she's not the most- open person in the world. But with you she seems very relaxed." I say.
"No, Natasha she- she likes to flirt." Bruce stutters. I chuckle.
"I've seen her flirt. Up close. This ain't that," Steve grabs a beer and walks over to Bruce. I take a seat on the stool next to Bruce. "Look, as maybe the worlds leading authority on waiting to long, don't," Steve says, looking at me. "I didn't."
I went behind the bar and got me another drink.
"What do you mean up close?!" Bruce asks.
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•Continued•

"You're all not worthy." Thor flips his hammer in his hands. I hear groans and mumbles from around the room. Seconds later we hear a high pitched sound in our ears, I flinch. One of Tony's Iron Legion robots, torn up might I add, came stumbling into the room.
"No.. How could you be worthy? You're all killers," the robot says.
"Stark." I say.
"Jarvis?" Tony says.
"I'm sorry I was asleep. Or I was a dream."
"Reboot. Iron Legion, we got a buggy suit."
"Terrible noise. And I was tangled in.. Strings. Had to kill the other guy. He was a good guy." The robot says. I stand up.
"You killed someone?" Steve asks.
"Wouldn't have been my first call. But, down in the real world we're faced with ugly choices."
"Who sent you?" Thor inquired.
"I see a suit of armor around the world." The tape said, sounding like Tony's voice. I looked at Tony confused.
"Ultron." Bruce said, turning to Tony.
"In the flesh, or no- not yet. Not this Christmas. But I'm ready," I took the gun from behind my back and got it ready. Maria did as well. Thor gripped his hammer. "I'm on a mission."
"What mission?" Natasha asks.
"A piece of our time." Right after he says that, two robots from the Iron Legion came flying into the room, attacking us. Steve kicked the table to make a guard. Maria and I began shooting. Thor was hitting them with his hammer. I see Bruce and Natasha slide over the bar, Bruce on top, and they fall. One of the robots grabs the scepter and flies. Natasha, Maria and I shoot at it. Steve jumps on the back of the other robot. My eyes widen. The robot flies itself back into the wall, making Steve crush between the wall and the robot. The robot throws steve across the floor.
I shoot the robot and get its attention.
"Hey!" I say, I run over to it and jump as high as I can. I flip midair. I land on its shoulders, the robot claws at my arms and my face, making cuts everywhere it touched. I yelled and rip off its head. More robots fly into the room.
"Really?" I say, out of breath.
Tony jumps on the back of one of them, sticking a rod into its neck, trying to fix it. Thor throws one of them off of the railing, breaking off the waist down. It gets up, putting its hand up to shoot Helen. But Steve grabs it and throws it.
"Thor!" Steve says. Thor smashes it with his hammer.
"Tony!" I yell.
"One sec- one sec." He struggles on the back of his robot.
"Cap!" I hear Clint say, he throws Steve's shield to him. Steve catches it and spins, getting more strength, and throws it at the last robot. We all loosen up and pant.
"That was dramatic. I'm sorry- I know you mean well. You just didn't make 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 says. "Look at these, look at these puppets," he picks up a broken robot and crushes its head, throws it on the floor. "There's only one path to peace.. The Avengers extinction." Thor gets angry and throws his hammer at Ultron, he goes through the wall. "I had strings- but now I'm free." He sings, then his lights go out.
••
"All our work is gone, Ultron cleared out, used the Internet as an escape hack." Bruce says hurriedly.
"Ultron." Steve whispers.
"He's been in everything, files, surveillance.. He probably knows more about us than we know about each other." Natasha says. She and I changed into more comfortable cloths.
"He's in your files, he's in your Internet, what if he decides to access something a little more exciting?" Rhodey ponders.
"Nuclear codes." Maria realizes.
"Nuclear codes," Rhodey nods. "Look we need to make calls, assuming we still can."
"Nukes? He said he wanted is dead." Natasha questions.
"He didn't say dead- he said extinct." I corrected.
"He also said he killed somebody." Clint joins in.
"There wasn't anyone else in the building."
"Yes there was." Tony says, tapping his control in the air. It revealed Jarvis' brain- destroyed.
"This is insane." Bruce says.
"Jarvis was the first line of defense. He would've shut Ultron down. It makes since." Steve says, gloomily.
"No, Ultron could've Insulated Jarvis, this isn't strategy. This is rage." Bruce points out. We hear loud footsteps in the room, Thor goes charging at Tony. He holds him by his neck.
"Woah woah woah." Tony says.
"It's going around.." Clint says.
"C'mon, use your words buddy." Tony chokes. I stand straight.
"I have more than enough words to describe you, Stark."
"Thor! The legion air!" Steve walked towards him. Thor dropped Tony.
"Trail went cold about a hundred mines out but he's headed North. And it has the scepter. Now we have to retrieve it, again." He says annoyed.
"Genies out of that bottle. Clear and present as Ultron."
"I don't understand. You built this program. Why is it trying to kill us?" Helen asks.
Tony starts to laugh. I look at him angrily. Most of us do. He's laughing at the fact that the dumb robot he wanted to make, thinking he doesn't have enough, wants to kill all of us and take over the world. That makes me angry. Bruce looks at me and turns to Tony. He shakes his head repeatedly.
"You think this is funny?" I ask angrily, taking a few steps forward. He turns around.
"No, it's probably not. Right? It's very terrible-is it so- it is. It's so terrible." He laughs.
I walk up to Tony.
"What part of this, to you, is funny?" I snap in his face.
"You, making a big deal about a robot. I'll fix it."
"Ahh. Tony Stark, here to fix everything. Doesn't look like you're doing shit!" I yell. He stumbles back, surprised. "Maybe you should get your chuckling ass to realize you shouldn't have played with something you don't understand!"
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Its funny that you don't get why we need this."
"Tony, maybe this might not be the time for you to-"
"Really? You just roll over, show your belly, every time somebody snarls."
"Only when I've created a murderbot."
"We didn't. We're we close to an interface?" He asked Bruce. Bruce nodded.
"Well you did something right, and you did it right here. The Avengers are supposed to be different from SHIELD." Steve says. My fists curled.
"Anybody remember when I carried a nuke through a wormhole?"
"No. Never come up." Rhodey shrugs.
"Saved New York?"
"No. Never heard that."
"Recall that? A hostile alien army came charging through a hole in space. We're standing 300 feet below it. We're the Avengers. We can bust arms dealers all the live long day but- that up there, that's the end game. How were you guys planning on beating that?"
"Together." Steve says.
"We'll lose."
"Then we'll do that together too," He says. My fists loosen. "Thor's right. Ultron's calling us out. And I'd like to find him before he's ready for us. The worlds a big place, Let's start making it smaller."
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