DESTROYED | What They Made Me | part 1✔️

30. We lose Ultron

After what seems like hours of searching for something to do, Harley comes over to me. "Nova? Is there no way we can open this door. It's a code! You know codes. Why can't you get us out?"

I sigh. "I told you. I can't."

"You haven't even tried!" He exclaims.

"Harley I know all dad's codes! If there was one that could open this door I would open the door!"

"There's no way you can remember every code." Maddie states.

"Do you remember that I told you that Fiers guy messed with my brains? I can remember all the codes for this building, the other Stark industries building and the new one they're working on right now. That's 783 codes. If this one had a code it would be amongst those 783. But it isn't. So there isn't one."

Harley sighs. "We're going to starve to death."

"More likely dehydration. If I don't kill you first because apparently, you're bothering me an I really want to hit something."

"Slow down cowboy." Harley says, holding up his hands. I let out a sigh and plop down on the ground. It is unbelievable how unsorted these boxes are. If they ever need something it'll take days to find it.

After a while of sitting far away from each other and being bored to death, the door makes a bleep noise. We run for it and wait for it to open up. Dad is standing there, a worried look on his face.

"Are you guys alright?" He asks. We nod and mumble somethings in agreement.

"Good. Come on." Dad motions us forwards and we leave the room. He closes the door and tells us to go to the lab. I quickly grab his hand when he lets go of the door.

"Dad is everyone else alright?"

He just nods.

"Was that really Ultron? How is that even possible. He was supposed to be the good guy."

"He is. In his own eyes. He thinks that what he's doing is right. Even though it isn't. He doesn't understand that." Dad explains.

"Are they all gone? The legionnaires?"

"Yeah. Ultron cleared out. He used the internet as an escape. So he's no longer in anything here. But he's been there. He knows everything that's in our files."

My eyes widen at that. "Everything? But dad that's..." I start. But dad interrupts me, saying: "I know what that means squirt. You'll be fine. I won't let anything bad happen to you. I promise."

He holds up his pinky, and I link mine with his. He looks down at me while I look at him. He gives me an encouraging nod, and we walk further to the lab with Maddie and Harley.

"All our work is gone. Ultron cleared out. He used the internet as an escape hatch." Bruce tells everyone else in the room.

"Ultron..." I hear Steve mumble from next to me.

"He's been in everything." Nat says. "Files, surveillance. Probably knows more about us than we know about each other."

"He's in your files. He's in the internet." Rhodey says while walking to the middle of the room. "What if he decides to access something a little more... exciting."

Maria looks up from where she was picking glass from her feet. "Nuclear codes." She says.

I look up at dad. "Is that possible?"

He doesn't say anything. He doesn't even look at me. He just stands there for a second before he slowly nods a little.

"Look, we need to make some calls. Assuming we still can." Rhodey tells dad.