Chapter 26 - Murder Bot

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"All, our work is gone, Ultron cleared out. He used the internet as an escape hatch." Banner explained to all of us not in the group of making a super bot.

"Ultron." Cap muttered annoyed.

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

"He's in the files, he's in the internet. What if he decides to access something a little more extreme? Like nukes." I add in while twirling a stick of metal I found in my hands. 

"Okay we need to make some calls. Assuming we still can." Rodey chipped in. 

"Nukes? He said he wanted us dead." 

"He didn't say dead. He said extinct." I rolled my eyes, sometimes I get sick of all the worry and righteousness that is in this tower. 

"He also said he killed somebody." Clint reminded us. 

"There wasn't anybody else in the building." I looked over at Tony as he walked into the middle. He looked sad but I don't know why.

"Yes there was." He showed a picture of Jarvis. It looked destroyed and dead. Ultron killed Jarvis? 

"What?" Banner said speechless. "This is  insane."

"Jarvis was the first line of defence. He would of shut Ultron down. It makes sense." Cap always finds away to slip in a little military reference in doesn't he? 

"No he could have assimilated Jarvis. This isn't strategy."

"It's rage." I finished it off for Bruce. Thor then storms in and grabs Tony by the next.

"Woah woah woah."

"It's going around." I smirk at Clint at his comment.

"Come on. Use your words buddy." Tony tries to reason with the god. 

"I have more than enough words to describe you Stark." I badly held in a laugh causing Nat to glare at me. 

"Thor. The Legionnaire?"  Cap cut in, making Thor drop Tony.

"Trail went cold about 100 miles out, but it's heading north. And it has the scepter. Now we have to retrieve it, again." I sigh and roll my eyes.

"Genie's out of the bottle. Clear and present is Ultron." 

"I don't understand. You built this programme. Why is it trying to kill us." I honestly didn't even know Doctor Cho was still here. Out of no where Tony starts to laugh and we all just look at him like he's insane. Banner shakes his head at his friend.

"You think this is funny?" 

"No. It's probably not right? This is very terrible. It is so... It is so, this is so terrible." He says while laughing making Thor get more angry.

"This could have been avoided if you hadn't played with something you don't understand." 

"No! I'm sorry. It is funny. It's a hoot that you don't understand why we need this." Tony says aggressively in Thor's face. 

"Tony, maybe this might not be the time." Bruce tried to help. Key word, tried.

"Really? That's it? You just roll over, show your belly every time somebody snarls."

"Only when I've created a murder bot." Ha that's funny.

"We didn't. We weren't even close. Were we close to an interface?" 

"Well you did something right. And you did it right here. The Avengers were supposed to be different from SHIELD." Cap stepped in, annoyed at Stark.

"Anybody remember when I carried a nuke through a wormhole?" I roll my eyes.

"No it's never came up."

"Saved New York?"

"Never heard that." 

"Recall that? A hostile alien army came charging through a hole in space. We're standing 300 feet below it. We're the Avengers. We cane bust arms dealers all the livelong day, but that up there, that's... That's the endgame.  How were you guys planning on beating that?"

"Together." Cheesy but okay. 

"We'll lose." Oh thanks for the vote of confidence.

"Then we'll do that together too. Thor's right. Ultron's calling us out. And I'd like to find him before he's ready for us. The world's a big place. Let's start making it smaller." I nod and we all go off to work on separate things on finding Ultron.

 A cold feeling ran through my body. I don't think someone is going to die. 

My phone then started buzzing, and unknown ID was calling. 

"Who is this?" I ask.

"Stiles, it's Lydia. I got your number from Scott."  I walked out the room and leaned against the hallway wall.

"Oh, hey."

"I was wondering about something supernatural related."

"Go on." 

"I fell like you're in danger. But not just you, a lot of people. Maybe even global." I though back to the feeling I got earlier.

"Was it like a cold shiver and a feeling of sheer dread?" 

"Yes  but also add in a hundred voices whispering something about a thing called Ultron? How did you know?" Oh god.

"I felt it too. And Ultron is a murder bot that Stark and Banner made." 

"Two avengers made a murder bot?" 

"Kinda. Don't worry we're on it. If you feel anything else not worthy call me or something okay?" 

"Okay. Bye."

"Bye." I hang up.


Cap had us gather round a table at some promising news.

"What's this?" Tony asked.

"A message. Ultron Killed Strucker." I took the tablet and looked at the words 'PEACE' written in blood on the wall behind him. 

"It's a standard kill, meant for us to see it. But why send a message when you've just given a speech?" I say frustrated at the amount of cold leads we had all had on Ultron.

"Strucker knew something that Ultron wanted us to miss." 

"Yeah I bet he...Yeah. Everything we had on Strucker is gone." Nat says annoyed.

"Not everything." I chip in. We got all the paper files out and looked through what seemed like hundreds. 

"Known associates. Baron Strucker had a lot of friends." Cap said sighing.

"Well these people are all horrible."

"Wait. I know that guy." Tony says stopping Bruce. "From back in the day. He operates off the African coast. Black market arms. There are conventions. All right? You meet people I didn't sell him anything." He said at Steve's obvious disapproving look.  "He was talking about finding something new, a game-changer. It was all very Ahab."

"This?" Thor questioned.

"Ah, it's a tattoo I don't think he had it." I looked at the picture to where Thor was confused about.

"Those are tattoos, this is a brand."

"Yeah it's a word in an African Dialect meaning 'theif' in a not so friendly way. Wakanda." Bruce gave me a weird look along with the others. "What? I get bored." 

"If this guys got out of Wakanda with some of their trade goods." What is Tony on about?

"I thought you father got the last of it." Oh, I got it.

"I don't follow. What comes out of Wakanda?"

"The strongest metal on earth." 

"Where is this guy now." 

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