Take A Chance On Me

Chapter 3

Everyone had left, leaving the team and Maria, Dr. Cho and Rhodey eating takeout on the sofa. All of them sat in a circle like shape around Mjolnir, laughing at how Thor suggests no one else could lift his hammer.
"But it's a trick." Clint laughs.
"No, no. It's much more then that." Thor explains.
"Ah, whosoever be he worthy shall haveth the power." Clint imitates, "Whatever man, it's a trick."

The god motions towards the hammer, "Please, be my guest." He smiles.
"Oh, this is gonna be beautiful." Rhodey remarks.
"Clint you've had a tough week, we won't hold it against you if you can't get it up." Tony mock assures.

"You know I've seen this before right?" Clint stands and walks behind the hammer. He puts a hand on the hammer and attempts to lift it, straining at the weight of it. "I still don't know how you do it!"
"Smell the silent judgement?" Tony asks.
"Please Stark, by all means." Clint invites, throwing his hand out towards the man.

Comments were made at Tony stood from the couch and made his way towards the hammer.
"Never one to shrink from an honest challenge." He says confidently, "It's physics. Physics. So, wait, if I lift it I then rule Asgard?"
"Yes. Of course." Thor nods.
Tony moves his hands on the hammer, "I will be reinstituting Prima Nocta." He attempts to lift it, then readjusts his hand yet again on it, sighing, slightly embarrassed. "Be right back." He says and leaves.

***

Tony comes back a few minutes later with an 'Ironman glove' and places his gloved hand back on the hammer to yet again attempt to lift it. A few seconds after Rhodey had also put on a his 'War Machine Glove' to try and pull together.

"Are you even pulling?" Rhodey scoffs.
"Are you on my team?" Stark asked dead serious.
"Just represent. Pull." Rhodey answered also dead serious as Thor watched with amusement.
"Alright lets go." Tony says.

***

After their failure Bruce tries, awkwardly grunting as he had the same luck as the others, he seemed almost aggravated at his loss. When he pulled off he noticed everyone looking at him and he awkwardly readjusted his clothing and went to sit down blushing with embarrassment.

***

"Go ahead Steve, no pressure."
Steve Rogers, if anyone but Thor was worthy it was the American Patriot himself, Steve looked at Thor and the god smiled almost nervously.

"Come on, Cap." Tony said trying to be encouraging, Steve tried one pulled on the hammer, head thrown back with restraint. Tony blush at the sight. Steve gave up quickly and threw his hands in the air with reluctance, Thor let of a breath he had been keeping in and laughed at the soldier.
"Nothing." Steve smiled and retreated back to his spot on the couch.

***

"Widow?" Bruce asked gesturing to the hammer.
"No, no, that's not a question I need answered." She smiles.
"All difference to the Man Who Wouldn't Be King, but it's rigged." Tony says not willing to admit he's un-worthy as such.
"You but your ass." Clint patted Tony on the shoulder obviously believing the same.
"Steve he said a bad word." Maria teased at Clint's choice of language.
"You tell everyone about that?" Steve asked making eye contact with Tony a bit longer then he should have.

"The handle's imprinted right? Like a security code?" Tony asked still not believing in this worthy/un-worthy stuff, "Whosoever is carrying Thor's fingerprints? Is I think, the literal translation." He scoffed.
"Yes, yes. Well that's a very, very interesting theory. I have a simpler one: Your all not worthy." Thor picks up Mjolnir and every one starts complaining.
"Aw, come one!" Clint exclaims.

A piercing sound fills the room as every one ducks their heads trying to stop the ringing in their ears.
"Wwwwhhherrrrreee. No, how could you be worthy? You're all killers." Everyone whips around to face what looks like one of Tony's suits, coupled together with duct tape.
"Stark?" Steve warned at the appearance.
"Jarvis?" Tony tested the AI.

"I'm sorry I was asleep or I was a dream." The suit continued.
"Let me just reboot, maybe it's just a buggy suit." Stark says flipping switches.
"There was this terrible noise and I was tangled in, in strings. Had to kill the other guy, he was a good guy." The suit kept taking as if Stark hadn't said anything.

"You killed someone?" Steve asked calmly.
"Wouldn't have been my first call, but down in the real world, we're faced with ugly choices." The suit explained.
"Who sent you." Thor asked, hammer in hand. The suit, AI, robot, played a video recording back of Tony telling vison for Ultron.

Bruce snapped his head up, "Ultron."
"In the flesh or no, not yet, not this Christmas. But I'm ready, I'm on mission." Ultron might have been smiling if he had the ability to do so.
"What mission?" Widow asked him or assuming he was a he.
"Peace in our time." The AI looked at them as Stark's suits erupted from the walls beside him.

Everyone ducked as they flew towards them, Steve kicked up a table but got sent flying across the room by a suit flying into him, groaning as he landed on the floor several metres away from the sofas. Maria pulled a gun out and lying on the floor behind a sofa began shooting at the suits, Thor swung his hammer in the direction of one, knocking it across the room.

Tony and Rhodes jumped a banister and slide down the glass on the other side to the lower level, making their way to where their suits supposedly were. A suit came crashing into Stark, knocking him into a cupboard, the same on shot Rhodey and knocking down into the glass.

Thor used Mjolnir to fly up and knock the one he hit down, sending it flying again, Clint slid under a table for protection against the suits and Nat and Bruce jumped for behind the bar. Nat made it over but Bruce slid and stayed on the table, Window reached up and grabbed what she could to pull him back down to her. He fell on top of her, safer from the suits now.

"Sorry." Banner apologises as Nat breathes heavily.
"Don't turn green." She says quickly.
"I won't." He reassures. One grabs Loki's staff as each person grabs what they can for protection, Steve jumps on ones back, beating it with his fists as it backs him into a wall then drops him.
"Come on." Nat motions for Bruce to follow her as the two of them run up the stairs to the glass overview of the so called tower living room, shooting at whatever shot at her.

Stark already up their jumps on one from the balcony, Tony jams a rod into its circuitry as Thor rips his in half and throws it to the ground. The suit now in two goes after the Doctor cowering behind a piano. Steve chucks one at Thor, shouting his name in awareness, Thor brings his hammer down to it head and crushes it. Clint finds and picks up Steve's shield, throwing it to him. Steve catches it and twists throwing at one, halfing it as Tony manages to disable his.

After the last one if dismembered or disabled or crush Ultron talks again.
"That was dramatic, I'm sorry I know you mean well and you just didn't make it through. You want to protect the world, but you don't want it to change. How is humanity saved if it's not aloud to evolve? With these?" Almost laughing the AI crushes the head of one of the suits, "These puppets? There's only one path to peace." If he had a face it would gone cold and cynical as he finishes his speech. "The Avenger Extinction."

Thor throws his hammer into Ultron's chest and the AI falls apart. "I had strings but now I'm free." He sings.

*Elsewhere*

"There are no strings on me."