Artemis : The Seventh Avenger ➳ Steve Rogers [1]

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I portal us back to the lab, where it was clear that Tony and Bruce had already started working on the cradle.

"I'm going to say this once." Steve says as soon as we step foot in the room.

"How about 'nonce'?" Tony interjects before he could get the words out.

"Shut it down!" Steve yells over him.

Tony doesn't budge, "Nope, not going to happen."

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

"And you do?" Bruce asks before turning his attention to the girl, "She's not in your head?"

"She's definitely not in mine." I say, folding my arms, "This thing in there is beyond us. It isn't even of this earth, we don't know what it's going to. We could be creating another Ultron for all we know."

"Et tu, Cam?" Tony scoffs, "That witch messed with all our heads and you're siding with her?"

"I know you're angry-" The girl tries to speak but is cut off by Bruce.

"Oh, we're way past that. I could choke the life out of you and not change a shade."

"Stop it! None of this is helping." I yell, "And I'm taking any sides, Tony. But we need to know for sure that this is going to work before we do it."

Steve sighs, "After everything that's happened-"

"That's nothing compared to what's coming!" Tony yells in frustration.

"You don't know what's in there!" The Maximoff girl yells.

"This isn't a game." Steve looks to Tony with pleading eyes.

They all start talking over each other, making it hard to distinguish who said what. Then, a blue streak speeds around the room.

When it comes to a stop, the Maximoff boy is standing on the other end of the room and the wires attached to the cradle were all disconnected.

"No, no. Go on." He says, tossing a wire aside, "You were saying?"

Then a loud gunshot sounds throughout the room, causing the boy to fall through the glass floor.

"Pietro!" His Sister yells.

"So, that's his name." I mumble to myself, massaging my shoulder.

Tony takes full use of the timely distraction, turning back to return to work.

"I'm rerouting the upload." He announces.

Before I could say anything, Steve flunks his shield at the monitors and the two start going at it. Even Bruce and the Maximoff girl. 

I sigh, not in the mood to fight with a sore shoulder. Reaching down to my thigh holster, I cock my gun and point it to the roof before firing three shots.

The room falls silent and everyone stops in their tracks.

"My bad, did I interrupt play time?" I ask sarcastically, returning my gun to its holster. "Look at yourselves. You're giving Ultron exactly what he wants. We either start working as a team again or there isn't going to be one at the end of this."