[1] Tigress || Wanda Maximoff ||

Chapter Eight

Steve, the twins, and Kat turn up at the lab, "I'm gonna say this once."

"How about "nonce"?" Tony immediately retorts. Kat and the twins stay back, the girls holding hands with Pietro slightly in front of them.

"Shut it down!" Steve snaps.

"Nope, not gonna happen."

"You don't know what you're doing."

"And you do?" Bruce steps in and points at Wanda, "She's not in your head?" Kat's eyes change as she snarls , her urge to protect Wanda taking over.

"I know you're angry." Wanda tries to reason.

"Oh, we're way past that. I could choke the life out of you and never change a shade." Kat snaps as Wanda is threatened.

"Watch it!" Kat looked like a wild animal that was ready to kill Bruce.

"Banner, after everything that's happened..." Steve tries to reason with Bruce.

"That's nothing compared to what's coming!" Tony retorts and flings an arm out.

"You don't know what's in there!" Wanda yelled and Kat held her back.

"This isn't a game..." Steve tries to get his words out.

"The creature...!" Wanda is cut off when Pietro uses his speed to destroy the lab equipment, Kat high fives him when he gets close enough.

"No, no. Go on. You were saying?" Pietro asked sarcastically. Suddenly Clint shoots a bullet below caused the glass Pietro is standing to stand to smash and he falls through.

"Pietro!" Both Kat and Wanda call out. "Dad?" Kat adds and Wanda looked at Kat in shock. Kat shrugged as is saying 'later'.

Bruce gets Wanda in a chokehold, "Go ahead, piss me off." Kat snarls and rips Bruce off of Wanda, although she was careful enough to not hurt Wanda. Just then Thor enters and pounds the cradle with his hammer, sending a powerful bolt of lightning that brings the body to life. "Wait!" They all watch as a body attacks Thor and flies out towards the window.

They watch in shock as he talks and has JARVIS's voice, " I'm sorry, that was...odd." It turned to Thor. "Thank you." Thor set his hammer down.

"Thor, you helped create this?" Steve asked in disbelief.

"I've had a vision. A whirlpool that sucks in all hope of life and at it's center is that." He points to the gem inside Vision's head as he explains himself.

Bruce questions, "What, the gem?"

"It's the Mind Stone. It's one of the six Infinity Stones, the greatest power in the universe, unparalleled in its destructive capabilities." Thor's information comes to as a shock.

"Then why would you bring it to..." Steve starts but is cut off.

"Because Stark is right."

"Oh, it's definitely the end times." Bruce mutters while wiping his hands over his face.

"The Avengers cannot defeat Ultron."

"Not alone." Vision adds onto Thor's statement.

"Why does your "vision" sound like JARVIS?" Steve questions even more.

"We...we reconfigured JARVIS' matrix to create something new." Stark explains to the group.

"I think I've had my fill of new."

"You think I'm a child of Ultron?" Vision questions Steve. Kat and Wanda, along with Pietro watch the interaction silently.

"You're not?"

"I'm not Ultron. I'm not JARVIS. I am...I am." Vision can't seem to find the word.

"I looked in your head and saw annihilation." Wanda stepped forward and Vision turned towards her.

"Look again."

"Yeah. Her seal of approval means jack to me." Kat glared at her father, who was pissed about Natasha being taken.

"Their powers," Thor motions towards the trio, "the horrors in our heads, Ultron himself, they all came from the Mind Stone, and they're nothing compared to what it can unleash. But with it on our side..." Thro is cut off by Steve.

"Is it? Are you? On our side?" He is skeptical of Vision.

"I don't think it's that simple." Vision says.

"Well it better get real simple real soon." Clint states and glances at his daughter's hand that is intertwined with the Maximoff girl's.

"I am on the side of life. Ultron isn't, he will end it all."

Stark speaks up, "What's he waiting for?"

"You." Vision said it as if it was obvious.

Bruce asks, "Where?"

"Sokovia. He's got Nat there too." Clint answers for Vision.

"If we're wrong about you, if you're the monster that Ultron made you to be..." Bruce threatens but is cut off.

"What will you do?" He looks at them all realizing they will destroy him. "I don't want to kill Ultron. He's unique, and he's in pain. But that pain will roll over the earth, so he must be destroyed. Every form he's built, every trace of his presence on the net, we have to act now. And not one of us can do it without the others. Maybe I am a monster. I don't think I'd know if I were one. I'm not what you are, and not what you intended. So there may be no way to make you trust me. But we need to go." He holds up Thor's hammer and hands it to him, Vision walks off and everyone stares in shock.

"Right." Thor pats Stark on the shoulder. "Well done."

Steve looks to the others, "Three minutes. Get what you need." They all start getting ready to leave. Kat and the twins go to a locker room. Since Kat's suit was ruined, she puts on clothes she can fight in and look like a civilian.

Wanda looks over at Kat as she pulls off her shirt, noticing the spot where Ultron impaled her left a mark. "Why isn't it disappearing?" Wanda asked and Kat sighed while looking down.

"My healing. It isn't working as good as it use to." Wanda sucks in a breath realizing that Kat could die. Kat grabbed Wanda's arms and held her still while looking into her eyes, "Hey. It'll be okay."

"What if I lose you?" Wanda starts to tear up, "I can't lose you." Kat smiles reassuringly.

"If anything happens to me, it'll be fine. It's just what fate has in store for us." Wanda nods and Kat kisses her with all her might. They poured out even more emotions into that one kiss. "I'll always find my way back to you," Kat tells her before walking away to get changed.

Wanda watched her walk away and knew that if she lost Kat, she would die on the inside.