Chapter 4

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"Talk and if your wasting our time..." The Witch threatened
"Did you know this church is in the exact centre of the city, the elders decreed it, so that everyone could be equally close to god. I like that, the geometry of belief." Seconds pass as she walks slowly towards the half cloaked figure on the chair. "Your wondering why you can't look inside my head." He continues.
"Sometimes it's hard, but sooner or later everyman shows himself." Her accent thick on every word.

The cloaked man stands after she finishes speaking, his broad shoulders knock the cloak off of him, revealing a metal man, his body shape is that of a tall humanoid. The Witch in shock backs into the sliver haired man behind her.
"But you needed something more then a man, didn't you? That's why you let Stark take the scepter." Ultron said walking towards the twins.

"I didn't expect." The Witch looked the AI up and down. "But I saw his fear, I knew it would control him, make him self-destruct."
"Everyone creates the thing they dread, men of peace create engines of war, invaders create avengers. People create... Smaller people? Ah... Children!" He laughs, "I lost the word there, children, designed to supplant them, to help them... End."

"Is that why you've come, to end the avengers?" She questions.
"I've come to save the world, but also... Yeah." He says turning away from them.

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"We move out right away." Ultron commands, "This is a start." He gestures to Strucker fortress now full of metal bodies as the twins followed behind, "But there's something we need to begin the real work."
"All of these are..." The Witch asks, eyes going wide at the site of them.
"Me." The AI cuts in. "I have what the Avengers never will; Harmony. They're uncoordinated, disconnected, Starks already got them turning on each other and when you get inside the rest f their heads"

"Every ones plan is not to kill them." Her brother interrupts.
"To make the martyrs." Ultron agrees, but turns to him. "You need patience, need to see the big picture."
"I don't see the big picture. I have a little picture, I take it out and look at it everyday." He says staring in thought at the Metal Man.
"You lost your parents in the bombings, yes, I've seen the records." Ultron nods.
"The records are not the picture." He says.

"Pietro." She say turning so she's face on with her brother.
"No. Please." The AI invites.
"We were ten years old, having dinner the four of us and the first shell hits. It makes a hole in the floor. It's big, our parents go in and the whole building starts coming apart. I grab her, roll under the bed and the second shell hits, but it doesn't go off. It just... sits there in the rubble, three feet from our faces and on the second shell there is painted one word." His accent also thick on each word.

"Stark." The Witch continues.
"We were trapped for two days." Pietro says.
"Every effort to save us, every shift in the bricks I think, this will set it off. We wait for two days for Tony Stark to kill us." Her tone going from angry to sad to enraged.

"I wondered why only you to survived Strucker's experiments." He says nodding, the AI's tone is almost sympathetic. "Now I don't. We will make it right, you and I can hurt them." Ultron gestured towards Pietro. "But you will tear them apart from the inside." He lifts a cold, metal hand, almost grazing the Witch's cheek as she does not cover. She stands and makes eye-contact with the AI's glowing red orbs. Ultron pulls his hand away slowly.

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