Scared To Be Lonely

Chapter 21: The City Is Flying

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Now they were where there were more people, and more legion - which Ultron was using to speak to them. "Do you see? The beauty of it?"

"Are you guys okay?" Nick quickly moved over to where a young couple was, the woman holding her arm in pain, and the man having a gash on his forehead. She helped them back to their feet, ushering them to get far away from any of the edges, before she then looked back up at the nearest legion as Ultron continued. 

"The inevitability. You rise, only to fall. You, Avengers, you are my meteor. My swift and terrible sword. And the earth will crack with the weight of your failure. Purge me from your computers, turn my own flesh against me. It means nothing. When the dust settles, the only thing living in this world will be metal."

"Come on, we gotta get to cover." Nick once again grabbed Mark's arm, ushering him into a building, and pushing him more towards the back - seeing that he was still in shock with everything that's been happening. "Stay here, alright?" 

"Where- where are you going?" He shook his head at her, and Nick glanced over at the few others that were huddled into the building, all of them terrified. She then looked back at him, "I'm gonna go help the others. Stay here."

Then with that, she quickly left and began trying to get more people inside since there was no where to run.

But as she began helping them inside, her name was called. "Nick!"

When she turned around, Nick couldn't help a relieved breath as she ran over and hugged Clint - even though it was very brief as the Earth still shook beneath them. The man hugged her back as well, since he and everyone had been so worried about her when Hill had told them that she had been taken. 

"Cap, you got incoming." Tony announced through the comms, then there was a grunt, and Steve's voice came through - strained. "Incoming already came in. Stark, you worry about bringing the city back down safely. The rest of us have one job, tear these things apart. You get hurt, hurt them back. You get killed, walk it off."

"If I get killed, I'm haunting your asses." Nick grumbled as she stumbled again from the ground shaking, and Clint shook his head at her. "Definitely Stark's."

As more legions began attacking them, Clint began shooting and Nick helped Wanda get people down and to safety. But after getting someone into a building, Nick noticed a legion headed straight to Wanda, causing the girl to quickly run over. "Look out!"

The two hit the ground roughly, but just in time to dodge the legion... except when they looked up, they could see about ten more coming in - and more following.

"Go!" Clint ran over to them, getting the two girls to their feet. "Go, go!" He then jumped them through a window so that they could hide in the building, and as Wanda was breathing heavily, Clint quickly got back to his feet and began shooting his arrows out the window, while Nick quickly got to her feet and looked around the small room they were in - trying to find anything useful.