Protect the Fallen

Chapter 4

Salvage Yard

African Coast

We got to the Salvage Yard as I pointed to a ship. "There?" I asked while Steve nods. "Let's go," He says as I see Dad fly above me as I followed close behind as I flew behind him and landed onto the ship where I see it was quiet for a moment. I landed softly and looked up to see my dad was landing into the opening to the bottom of the ship. I stood up straight and tugged on my and walked down the stairs. Once on one of the bridges, I notice two teens standing next to a tall silver figure. "It's a thing with me. Stark is, he's a sickness!" He yells as I scoffed. "Ahh, Junior. You're gonna break your old man's heart," Tony fakes pouts as if really talking to his long lost son. "If I have to," Ultron rolled his eyes as I stood my ground and looked over to one of the teens. He had silver hair and a blue suit on while his sister had brown hair and wore a red outfit. The male stared me down as he crossed his arms over his shoulder. "We don't have to break anything," Thor tries to reason with him. "Clearly you've never made an omelet," Ultron says as Tony scoffed. "Ah, this is funny, Mr. Stark. It's what, comfortable? Like old times?" The teen says as he stares at my father with narrowed eyes. "This was never my life," Tony says. "You two can still walk away from this," Steve says trying to get the twins to not do Ultron's bidding. "Oh, we will," The female says as she smirks evilly. "I know you've suffered," Steve says as I nodded. But then jumped a little when Ultron spoke in his booming voice. "Uuughh! Captain America. God's righteous man, pretending you could live without a war. I can't physically throw up in my mouth, but..." However before Ultron can say anymore, Thor cut him off. "If you believe in peace, then let us keep it," Thor says as Ultron narrowed his red eyes. "I think you're confusing peace with quiet," He says as I spoke.

"Yuh-huh. What's the Vibranium for?" I asked as Ultron smirked and stared me. "Well now, this is quite a surprise, Stark's daughter, Maria. I never thought you would be here with Stark," He growls as he sighed and took a deep breath, and then added. "and I'm glad you asked that because I wanted to take this time to explain my evil plan!" Suddenly the Legions bots attack as I landed back as I was fighting with one as I tried to push it off me. Suddenly I kicked it off, hard enough for it to shatter. I got up to see there was an all-out battle as I start to run to help out one of the others, but stopped only to see Thor's hammer coming after me as I tried to duck only to get hit by another body as we both fell to the bottom as I groaned in pain. I was on top of the person who came down with me as I looked down to see it was one of the twins. Both my hands were above his head and his hand was over my waist as if it was on instinct as I gulped and looked down at him with an apologetic look. "Sorry," I squeaked at him as I quickly got off him and backed away as I see my dad battling it out with Ultron as I opened my wings and flew over to help him out, but was taken down as I felt my mind was warped into another place. I fell back down but instead of feeling the hard ground, I felt someone catch my body and lay me down gently. "Sorry," I heard a male accent of the twin as I kept my eyes opened but dazed as I looked at the boy as he gave me a smile as I tried to grab his arm but he stopped my hand and shook his head as I looked over to the other side of me to see a bright light go over my eyes like a veil.

I was standing in front a long hallway that was ruined, it had paint already peeling off the walls, the smell was putrid, already decaying. The windows were shattered, which showed the palace was near a beach. I could see the waves hitting the sand in a loud crash. I limped my way around hoping to find some kind of life form in this decrepit abandoned mansion. "Hello?" I called out only to get a loud echo of my voice. I walked out of the hallways and entered a large room where there was a grand staircase with vines and moss growing on each stair and statues. "Wow," I say in awe as I walked up to them and entered the middle where there was a door that was opened ajar. There was light leaking through the doorway as I heard a female singing quietly. I walked closer to the door and opened it as I saw a room this time I wasn't in the ruined castle but a brand new palace. There was a large room with a black bedroom as I saw a rocking chair rocking back and forth as the woman looked very familiar, but she looked ghostly. She was rubbing her belly as she sang softly in a different language.