Falling City

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚛 16

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"𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚊𝚗'𝚝 𝚔𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍"

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"A hacker that's faster than Ultron? He could be anywhere" Tony spoke.

Athena carried on "And as this is the center of everything and we are just people looking for a needle in the worlds biggest haystack" 

A woman stood behind the two "How do you find it?" 

"It's pretty simple. You bring a magnet" Athena explained.

"Oh, I'm decrypting nuclear codes. And you don't want me to. Come and get me" Tony sang. He then turned to look at Athena. "Right come on we have places to be"

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"Anything on Nat?" Athena asked.

Tony shook his head "No. But she's alive, or Ultron would be rubbing our faces in it" 

Clint and Athena jumped off the cradle. 

"It's sealed tight" Clint explained.

"We're gonna need to access the program break it down from within" Bruce explained.

Tony turned to Clint "Any chance Natasha might leave you a message outside the internet? Old-school spy stuff"

"There are some nets I can cast. I'll find her" Clint explained then walked off.

Bruce walked towards the cradle "I can work on tissue degeneration if you could fry whatever operational system Cho implanted" 

"Yeah about that" Tony started to speak.

Athena gave her dad a warning look "Dad?"

"You have to trust me," He told Bruce.

"Kind of don't" Bruce started to walk away from him.

"Our ally the guy protecting the military nuclear codes. I found him" Tony explained. He brought up a fixed Jarvis. 

"Hello, Dr. Banner Miss Athena" Jarvis greeted.

"Ultron didn't go after Jarvis because he was angry. He attacked him because he was scared of what he can do. So Jarvis went underground. Scattered dumped his memory. But not his protocols. He didn't even know he was in there until I pieced him together"

"So you want me to help you put Jarvis into this thing?" Bruce asked. 

"No! of course not. I wanna help you put Jarvis into this thing. I'm out of my field here. You know bio-organics better than anyone" Tony said. 

Athena shook her head "You're not going to do that" 

"Athena please" Tony begged.

"No, you just assume that Jarvis's operational matrix can beat Ultron. You cant keep assuming, things dad. You can't keep fucking around with things you don't understand"

"You don't understand Athena Jarvis had been beating him from inside without knowing it. This is the opportunity we can create Ultron's perfect self without the homicidal glitches he thinks are his winning personality. We have to" 

"I believe it is worth a go" Jarvis spoke.

Bruce shook his head. "I'm in a loop. I'm caught in a time loop. This is exactly where it all went wrong" 

"I know I know. I know what everyone's gonna say But they're already saying it. Were mad scientists. We're monsters, buddy. We've gotta own it. Make a stand. It's not a loop it's the end of the line"