AVENGERS: Gemini.

11. Battle Of Sokovia

AALA POV:
We're in Sokovia and ready for Ultron, Steve is giving his speech "Ultron knows we're coming, odds are we'll be riding into heavy fire and that's what we signed up for. But the people of Sokovia, they didn't. So our priority is getting them out. All they want is to live their lives in peace and that's not going to happen today. But we can do our best to protect them and we can get the job done and find out what Ultron's been building. We find Romanoff and we clear the field, keep the fight between us. Ultron thinks we're monsters and we're what's wrong with the world. This isn't just about beating him, it's about whether he's right." Wanda, Pietro, Neve and myself start evacuating people, the rest of the team start fighting and watching our backs for us.

All of a sudden, the ground starts shaking and holes start appearing all over the place, we start rising into the air. I start to help fight the bots, I'm fighting side by side with Steve, one of the bots starts speaking to us "You can't save them all, you'll never-" Ultron's speech is interrupted as Steve throws it off the edge of the bridge "You'll never what? You didn't finish!" I can't help but laugh. Thor lands by us "What, were you napping?" Ultron speaks again "Thor! You're bothering me." I rip an arm off the robot "Oops." It's Steve's turn to laugh, we continue fighting together. I hear Clint through my earpiece "Alright, we're all clear here."

Well, good for you!

Steve replies "We are not clear! We are very not clear!" "Alright, coming to you." Natasha joins us and Steve throws his shield to her so she can protect herself as she's attacked, Steve sighs "The next wave's gonna hit any minute. What have you got Stark?" "Well, nothing great. Maybe a way to blow up the city, that'll keep it from impacting the surface, if you guys can get clear." "Asked for a solution, not an escape plan." "Impact radius is getting bigger every second, we're going to have to make a choice." Dad jumps in and tackles a robot that was about to hit me.

Thanks, Dad!

Natasha speaks up "Cap, these people are going nowhere. If Stark finds a way to blow this rock-" "Not 'til everyone's safe." "Everyone up here versus everyone down there? There's no math there." "I'm not leaving this rock with one civilian on it." "I didn't say we should leave. There's worse ways to go. Where else am I going to get a view like this?" I hear an unfamiliar voice on the line "Glad you like the view, Romanoff, it's about to get better." A huge flying vehicle of some sort rises up.

What the hell is that?

"Nice, right? I pulled her out of mothballs with a couple of old friends, she's dusty, but she'll do."

This is who the Avengers used to be run by, right?

I ask a question "This is S.H.I.E.L.D?" Steve nods "This is what S.H.I.E.L.D's supposed to be." "This is not so bad." "Let's load 'em up."

WANDA POV:
I'm tearing robots apart with my magic, fighting alongside Neve, who's shooting ice at them, we're only paying attention to the robots, until the word Avengers is mentioned through the earpiece by Stark "Avengers, time to work for a living.

What do you think we've been doing?

I notice Thor and Vision nearby, Vision waves me over "Neve, come on." We run to where they are and help fight from there, Pietro zooms in "You good?" I nod "Yeah.” Everyone but Rhodey, Aala, Natasha and Bruce are here, Neve notices too, as she questions my brother "Where's Aala?" "Helping load civilians onto the ship." She nods in understanding, we take a short break, Natasha joins us and Stark points to something in the centre of the room "This is the drill. If Ultron gets a hand on the core, we lose."

So, protect the core at all costs. Got it.

Ultron shows up and Thor shouts at him "Is that the best you can do!?" A large group of robots join him, Neve sighs "You had to ask." "This is the best I can do, this is exactly what I wanted. All of you, against all of me. How could you possibly hope to stop me?" Stark speaks for us all "Well, like the old man said. Together." The battle starts again, all of us protecting the core with everything we have, while the others are evacuating the innocent. I ignore everyone's talking and focus on the robots I can get my magic on.

It starts to get hard to breathe, I see Steve thinking up a plan "We gotta move, even I can tell the air is getting thin. You guys get to the boats, I'll sweep for stragglers, be right behind you." Clint mentions something very important "What about the core?"

This is my home, my responsibility.

"I'll protect it." Neve grabs one of my hands "I'll help." Bucky approaches Neve "I'm not going to leave you here." Pietro is by his side "Neither am I." I grip Neve's hand tighter "We can handle this." A robot is approaching behind them, Neve shoots ice at it "Come back for us when everyone else is off, not before." Neither seem to want to move, I get a bit more forceful "You understand?" Pietro reluctantly nods and runs off, Bucky still hasn't moved "I can't leave you in here." "Dad, I'll be fine, I've got Wanda." Bucky looks to me.

We've got each other.

He sighs "You kids be careful." We nod and he runs off, we go back to protecting the core, one of us standing either side of it, as close to it as we can possibly be, only a few feet away from each other.