Race To My Heart ☞︎ A Pietro Maximoff Fan Fic

The Truth That Should've Been Told

The three of us stop short as we get into the lab.

"No." I whisper, rushing to the closest computer, typing through it frantically. This can't be happening.

"All our work is gone. Ultron cleared all our work. He used the internet as an escape hatch." Bruce started explaining as more team members of the avengers walk in.

"Ultron." Steve mutters in distaste.

"He's been in everything. Files, surveillance," I explain, heartbreakingly taking a step away from a computer. "Probably knows more about us than we know about each other." I say in slight amusement.

"He's in your files, he's in the internet. What if he decided to access something a little more exciting?" Rhodey suggests.

"We're screwed?" I ask, kind of seriously.

"Nuclear codes." Hill says.

"Oh, we're definitely screwed." I say.

"Nuclear codes," Rhodey nods. "Look, we need to make some calls, assuming we still can." Rhodey says.

"Nukes? He said he wanted us dead." Natasha said.

"He didn't say "dead"." Steve says, looking over at me.

"He said extinct." I say in a small voice.

"He also said he killed someone." Clint steps forward.

"There wasn't anyone else in the building." Hill argues. Tony's head snaps over to look at me. He begins walking down from where he stood.

"Yes there was," He says, making Jarvis' wrecked and destroyed "body" show up in the middle of the lab. Bruce shakily steps forward.

"What?" He whispers. "This is insane." He adds.

"Jarvis was the first line of defense. He would have shut Ultron down. It makes sense." Steve says.

"Doesn't make it right." I mumble, stepping forward to look at him. He left when we weren't on the best of terms...

"No. Ultron could have assimilated Jarvis. This isn't strategy. This is... rage." Bruce explains. Footsteps storm into the lab and I immediately glare at Thor in all his battle armor. My glare drops as Thor starts choking Stark.

I smirk, both the people I'm annoyed at could possible be having a fight to the death... No! No. I don't want either of them to die... right?

"Woah, woah, woah." Bruce says.

"It's going around." Clint says.

"Pass me the cup." I mumble, but see Clint's faint smirk.

"Come on, use your words buddy." Tony says. I move out of the way as Thor starts walking forward with Tony in his grip.

"I have more than enough words to describe you, Stark." Thor chuckles.

"Thor! The legionnaire." Steve asks for a report. Also, successfully getting Thor to drop Stark.

"Trail went cold about one-hundred miles out, but its headed north. And it has the scepter. Now we have to retrieve it. Again." Thor says disgruntled.

"Genies out of that bottle." Natasha says.

"Someone didn't rub this room the right way." I laugh quietly at my own joke as mostly everyone else ignores me.

"Clear and present is Ultron." Natasha continues.

"I don't understand," Dr. Cho says, turning away from a broken robot to look at us, Stark in particular. "You built this program. Why is it trying to kill us?" Dr. Cho asks.