✓ | Darkness.

chapter twelve

CHAPTER TWELVE: SAVED BY THE DARKNESS

Both Olive and Steve exited the Quinjet in sync. Olive was more focused on staying calm than what was going on around her, but when Steve tapped her shoulder twice she was immediately focused on the mission. He then began to speak into the comms, "Two minutes. Stay close."

Steve and Olive made their way to Dr. Cho's lab as quickly as they could, but much to their surprise, the building had been damaged on the inside. Sparks flew and computer screens were cracked. Clearly, Ultron had thrown a fit. Olive's eyes landed on Helen Cho. "Dr. Cho!" She called, rushing over to her. Blood was seeping from a wound in her stomach, and her face was twisted in pain.

"He's uploading himself into the body." Helen said painfully, while Steve rushed to put pressure on the wound to slow the bleeding.

"Where?" He asked.

Helen immediately began shaking her head as Steve tried to stand to find Ultron. "The real power is inside the cradle. The gem, it's power is uncontainable. You can't just blow it up. You have to get the cradle to Stark." Her voice was growing weak. Olive frowned in confusion at the news, what could a stupid rock have to do with an evil robot trying to destroy the world? It was laughable.

Olive inhaled before nodding at the doctor, "first we have to find it."

Helen took a sharp intake of breath, but nodded anyway. "Go." She said.

Olive felt terrible for leaving Helen there, but the doctor was persistent. She glanced back at her one more time before following Steve out of the lab. "Did you guys copy that?" Steve asked through the comms.

"We did." Clint confirmed from the Quinjet.

Natasha's voice crackled in Olive's ear next, "I got a private jet taking off across town. No manifest. That could be him."

There was a long pause before Clint spoke again. "There. It's a truck from the lab. Right above you Cap. On the loop by the bridge. It's them. You got three with the cradle, one in the cab. I could take out the driver."

"Negative." Steve immediately shut the idea down, "that truck crashes, the gem could level the city. We need to draw out Ultron." Olive and him began climbing up a latter, in an attempt to align themselves with the truck.

Olive's eyes fell on the truck, and the two readied themselves to jump. She waited for his signal, "go!" He shouted. The two jumped from the bridge, feeling nothing but air until they smacked against the roof of the truck. Olive stayed on the top of it while Steve carefully went to the back doors. There was a bump in the road, causing Olive to slide, but she managed to get a grip before she went tumbling towards the road.

Suddenly, a blast of boiling hot light came from inside the truck, smashing against the back door of the truck, causing it to swing open as Steve held on for dear life. Steve kicked back on the side of the truck to swing the door closed once again. Ultron, seemingly annoyed, blasted another shot towards the door causing Steve to fly up into the air momentarily. The door caught itself on the edge of the truck, scraping across the road, while Steve landed on top of it. Olive's eyes grew wide, but one look from Steve caused her to silence herself.

"Well, he's definitely unhappy." Steve groaned. There was another bump in the road, and Olive let out a soft squeal as she slid, before catching the side of the truck, her legs hanging over the side. She slid again, and fell off entirely, only being held back by the ledge that she gripped with all her strength. She grimaced at the noise she made before hoisting herself back onto the top.