Take A Chance On Me

Chapter 5

"All out work is gone. Ultron escaped using the internet." Banner said, staring at the wreck of Tony's lab.
"Ultron." Steve tried the word on his tongue.
"He's been in everything." Nat said looking through a computer, "Files, surveillance, probably knows more about us then we know about each other."

Tears formed in the corners of Tony's eyes as he came to the realisation of what he had created.
"What is he wants to up the anti, do something a little more exciting." Rhodes puts in.
"Nuclear codes." Maria Hill sits in the corner pulling glass out of her feet.
"Nuclear codes. We need to make some calls assuming we still can." Rhodey decides.

"Nukes? He said he wanted us dead." Nat starts.
"He didn't say dead, he said extinct." Steve looks up.
"He also said he killed somebody." Clint puts in.
"But there was no one else in the building." Maria questions.

The realisation hits Tony. "But there was." He pulls up the scattered remains of Jarvis
"This is insane." Banner says walking up to holographic image.
"Jarvis was our first line of defense, It makes sense Ultron would go after him." Steve agreed.
"No, Ultron could have assimilated Jarvis, this isn't strategy, this is rage." Banner said deep in thought.

Thor entered the room and walked straight to Tony, holding him by the neck as if to say this was all his fault, which in partial it was.
"Thor. The legionnaire." Steve said making the god drop Stark.
"Trail went cold about 100 miles out, it's headed north." Thor explained looking around, "And it has the scepter." Steve nodded as Thor turned and left the room, followed by the other, Steve stayed. Tony bent over the desk where the suit Ultron was in had been placed, letting his tears drip down onto the metal beneath him.

Steve approached the man, wrapping his arms around the other mans smaller frame for a hug. Tony turns around in the embrace and nestles his face into the soft fabric of Steve's shirt.
"I created something terrible." He sobbed tears wetting the shirt. Steve placed his thumb and forefinger on Tony's chin, lifting his face up from where it was buried.

"We do bad things, that doesn't make us bad people." Steve explained, lowering his face to meet Tony's and kissing him softly, the kiss was sweet and soft. Time seemed to slow and speed up at the same time, in a moment Tony felt as safer then he possibly ever had.
"I was never drunk." Tony murmured into the kiss and Steve smiled, pulling away but keeping his arms around the smaller mans waist.

"I have to brief the others, work on finding Ultron, will you?" Steve asked, compassion never leaving his voice. Tony nodded as Steve cupped his cheeks wiping the tears away and kissing him softly on the nose before letting go of Tony and walking out of the lab as Tony watched him leave.

***

"He's been in everything, all over the globe; robotics labs, weapons facilities. Reports of a metal man or men comin in and emptying the place, fatalities only occurring when engaged. Men left saying stuff about old memories or worst nightmares and something to fast to see." Maria Hill told the Captain as they walked towards the rest of the team, Steve wished he could've spent more time with Tony. The man seemed to devastated at the creation of Ultron.

"Maximoffs, well it makes sense he'd go to them they have something in common." Steve stated as Maria pulled a tablet out with a picture of Strucker murdered and lying by a red brick wall, using his blood, the word 'PEACE' was spelt out.
"Not anymore." She says.

***

Steve handed Thor the tablet, Thor roughly shoved the tablet to Tony's chest. "Ultron killed Strucker."
"Why send a message though?" Widow asked leaning over Tony's shoulder to see the tablet, seeing Nat so close to him angered Steve, even though he knew it shouldn't.

"Strucker knew something that Ultron wanted us to miss." Steve pushed his thoughts away to focus on the task at hand, Natasha moved away from Tony to sit at the computer.
"Yep, he's deleted all of our files." Widow looked around the team.
"Not everything." Steve says, of course the capsicle knew about the hard cover files.
"Time to go old school." Tony grimaces.

***

After breaking out all of the boxes of files Avengers Tower had and rooting through them Bruce held one of importance.
"Known associates." Steve said, giving them a light idea of what to look for.
"These are all horrible people." Bruce said gazing at a file.

"Wait I know that guy?" Stark asked Banner, Bruce handed the file to him and Stark skimmed through it.
"Klaue, he operates of the African coast black market ops." He read the file out.
"What's that?" Thor asked, the groups attention had been drawn by Starks act.
"Oh, those are tattoos." Tony explained.
"No, those are tattoos, but that is a branding." Thor said pointing to the picture.

Bruce moved to a computer across the room and looked up the branding.
"It's in the Wakananda Wa Wa Wakanda dialect, it means thieve, but in a really bad way." Bruce said.
"This guy was in Wakanda for selling and trading goods." Tony put together.
"I thought your father got the last of it." Steve thought aloud.
"I don't get it. What's in Wakanda?" Bruce asked confused.
"The strongest metal on earth." Steve said, letting his gaze trail over to his shield, "Vibranium, where is this guy now?"