Bound By Purpose

A Vision

Clint and I shove the cradle out the back quickly as we land at Avengers tower. We're met by Bruce and Tony, both in awe of the body in the casket.

"Anything on Nat?" Bruce asks as we push past him.

"She's gotta be alive." Tony says coming to our aid and pushing the cradle into place. When he looks up and sees my face he continues his thought, "Ultron'd be rubbing our faces in it if it were otherwise." I don't know what he'd do, but I suppose a little part of Ultron was taken from Tony's personality so perhaps I could believe it.

Clint changes the subject before I can question it further, "This is sealed tight." He says not looking up from it.

"We're going to need to need to access the program, break it down from within." Banner says tugging on the side of it to test it's integrity. Clint was right the only way to get inside was to start there and work our way out. We all stand momentarily frozen thinking of the next step. It's Tony that breaks the silence first. 

"Any chance Natasha might leave you a message, outside the internet, old school spy stuff?" I look up to answer but he's directed this question to Clint. I might be a little taken aback, jealous even, that I couldn't help. I knew all the old tricks, but those two had worked together a very long time, I needed to let it go and pray that Clint finds something.

"There's some nets I can cast." He answers. He nods again, determined. "Yeah, I'll find her." As he walks away I can't help but feel guilty for it all.

"It's my fault." I say under my breath. I feel a hand on my shoulder.

"You were just following Cap's orders. When Clint finds her she'll lead us to Ultron." He steps away hands open. "That's that. It'll all be okay." I nod finding comfort in his words yet again.

"So what now?" I ask. My thoughts wander to Steve and his wellbeing and then to Nat once again.

"I can work on tissue degeneration, if you can fry whatever operational system Cho implanted. I nod my head working through the process in my head, that could work in dismantling it. Tony hasn't moved a muscle.

"Tony?" I ask, this makes Bruce look over and drops his shoulders.

"No." Bruce says shaking his head.

"You have to trust me." Tony says

Bruce and I answer at the same time. "Absolutely." I say stepping forward. At the same moment Bruce shakes his head and says, "Kinda don't." We look over at each other not sure if we're surprised by the others answer or not.

"Our ally? The guy protecting the military's nuclear codes? I found him." He takes a step forward and taps his phone in the air sending an infinite amount of blue light in the space between us.

"Hello, Dr. Banner, Agent Moore." My mouth drops open. How in the hell did he survive.

"He didn't just go after JARVIS cause he was angry. He attacked him because he was scared of what he could do. So JARVIS went underground. Okay? Scattered, dumped his memory. But not his protocols. He didn't even know he was in there, until I pieced him together." The man in front of me right now, this genius man, may have just saved us all.

"Let's do it!" I say jumping into action wanting to do something, anything to get moving. Bruce stops me short. 

"You want my help putting JARVIS into that thing?" Tony gives him a look that only a best friend could.

"You know we're out of my field here. You know bio-organics better than anyone."

"And you just assume that JARVIS' operational matrix can beat Ultron's?" Alright they've lost me with their science alk.