Maybe Someday

The Vision

Tony walks into the lab where Bruce is. "Have anything on Nat?"

"Haven't heard. But she's alive, or Ultron'd be rubbing our faces in it."

Clint crawls off the cradle. "This is sealed tight."

"We're going to need to access the program, break it down from within," Bruce tells Clint.

"Any chance Natasha might leave you a message, outside the internet, old school spy stuff?" Tony suggests, trying to keep Clint busy.

"There's some nets I can cast. Yeah, alright, I'll find her,"Clint assures.

"I can work on tissue degeneration, if you can fry whatever operational system Cho implanted," Bruce suggests.

"Yeah,about that," Tony says.

Bruce stares at Tony for a moment. "No."

"You have to trust me."

"Kinda don't"

"Our ally? The guy protecting the military's nuclear codes?" Tony flicks his panel. "I found him."Jarvis appears behind Tony.

"Hello,Doctor Banner," Jarvis says.

"Ultron didn't go after Jarvis cause he was angry. He attacked him because he was scared of what he can do. So Jarvis when underground. Okay, scattered, dumped his memory. But not his protocols. He didn't even know he was in there,until I pieced him together."

"So,you want me to help you put Jarvis into this thing?" Bruce asks, to make sure he's hearing this right.

"No,of course not!" Tony assures. "I want to help you put Jarvis in this thing." Bruce shakes his head no. "We're out of my field here. You know bio-organics better than anyone."

"And you just assume that Jarvis's operational matrix can beat Ultron's?"

"Jarvis has been beating him from inside without knowing it. This is the opportunity,we can create Ultron's perfect self, without the homicidal glitches he thinks are his winning personality. We have to."

"I believe it's worth a go," Jarvis supports.

"No. I'm in a loop. I'm caught in a time loop, this is exactly where it all went wrong."

"I know, I know. I know exactly what everyone's going to say, but they're already saying it. We're mad scientists. We're monsters, buddy. You gotta own it. Make a stand. It's not a loop. It's the end of the line." Bruce lets out a sigh.

In Strucker's lab, in Sokovia, Natasha is waking up on the floor. "I wasn't sure you'd wake up. I hopes you would, I wanted to show you. I don't have anyone else." Natasha tries to sit up,weakly. "I think a lot about meteors,the purity of them. Boom! The end, start again. The world made clean for the new man to rebuild. I was meant to be new. I was meant to be beautiful. The world would have looked to the sky and seen hope, seen mercy. Instead they'll look up in horror because of you. You've wounded me. I give you full marks for that. But,like the man said, what doesn't kill me," Ultron comes up behind the one speaking and destroys him, terrifying Natasha into backing up. "Just makes me stronger!" Ultron closes the cell,locking Natasha in.

Tony works on his computer as Bruce connects wires and tubes to the cradle. Clint sits at a table, listening on frequencies to find a code from Natasha. He smiles and drops the headphones as he hears the gently tap of Morse code. He quickly zeros in on her location.

"This framework is not compatible," Tony complains.

"The genetic coding towers at ninety-seven percent," Bruce informs. "You have got to upload that schematic in the next three minutes."