The Many Adventures of the Avengers and Friends

💜 Age of Ultron (Part 2)

Dr. Helen Cho's Lab, Seoul, Korea

"Cellular cohesion will take a few hours, but we can initiate the consciousness stream. We're uploading your cerebral matrix...now." Dr. Cho, under the scepter's influence, told Ultron, who had cords plugged into his head. The body he was building was close to completion. Wanda, Carson, and Pietro entered the room tentatively.

"I can read him. He is dreaming." Wanda said about the body in the cradle.

"I wouldn't call it dreams. It's Ultron's base consciousness, informational noise. Soon-" Dr. Cho replied.

"How soon? I'm not being pushy." Ultron asked. Wanda started to place her hands on the cradle to read the body.

"We're imprinting a physical brain. There are no shortcuts. Even if your magic gem is-" Wanda let out a scream, cutting of Dr. Cho and recoiling from the cradle.

"What? What did you see?" Carson asked as Pietro pulled his sister close, protective.

"How could you?" Wanda asked Ultron, not answering Carson's question.

"How could I what?" Ultron asked.

"You said we would destroy the Avengers, make a better world."

"It will be better."

"When everyone is dead?" Wanda asked.

Dead? What does he plan on doing? Carson asked himself. He started to feel sort of scared of Ultron. For his life and for the twins'.

"That is not...! The human race will have every opportunity to improve." Ultron defended.

"And if they don't?" Pietro asked.

"Ask Noah."

"You're a madman." Wanda said shakily.

"There were more than a dozen extinction level events before even the dinosaurs got theirs. When the Earth starts to settle, God throws a stone at it, and believe me, he's winding up. We have to evolve. There's no room for the weak."

"And who decides who is weak?" Carson asked. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Wanda break the enchantment over Dr. Cho.

"Life. Life always decides." Ultron paused. "There's incoming. The Quinjet. We have to move."

"That's not a problem." Dr. Cho said before shutting the transfer down. Taking notice of this, Ultron blasted her with his repulsors.

"We need to go." Pietro said as he, Carson, and Wanda ran out of the building.

***

"Two minutes. Stay close." Steve said. He, Olivia, Clint, Loki, and Nat were tasked with recieving the cradle in South Korea. But first, Olivia needed to find Dr. Cho.

She ran into the lab, finding the bodies of technicians everywhere and a severely wounded Dr. Cho.

"Dr. Cho!" Olivia called, rushing over and pressing a cloth to her wound.

"He's uploading himself into the body." Cho said laboredly.

"Where?"

"The real power is inside the Cradle. The gem, its power is uncontainable. You can't just blow it up. You have to get the Cradle to Stark."

"I know what the gem is. It's alright. But first we have to find it."

"Go."

"Just let me slow the bleeding so you don't lose too much blood. One second. This might sting a bit." Olivia inhaled and let a small glow emit from her fingers. Dr. Cho inhaled sharply before Olivia pulled her hands away. "Stay safe, Doctor. You guys got that, right? The stuff about the cradle?"