We fly through the window and land on our sides. We quickly take cover and the girl, Wanda, starts panicing. She starts mumbling how it's all her and her brother's fault. I look at her, she's pretty shaken. Poor thing.
"Hey, hey. Look at me." I say and she does just that.
"It's your fault, it's everybody's fault, who cares? What matters now is, are you up for this?"
That's when she lifts her gaze from the ground and looks at me. Damn, those eyes are big and beautiful. I look in them and I can tell she's scared out of her mind.
"Are you? Look, I gotta know because the city is flying."
The situation outside gets more serious by the second, but I find myself wishing we had met under different circumstances.
The city is flying, we're fighting an army of robots and I have a bow and arrow. None of this makes sense."
There's an explosion outside and some shrapnel tears small holes in the wall we are currently hiding behind. Wanda ducks her head and shrieks. I fire an arrow through one of the holes and reusme talking to her.
"But I'm going back out there 'cause it's my job. And I can't do my job and babysit."
Those big eyes are staring into mine again and I have a feeling she knows what I'm going to say before I say it.
"You get out there and you fight and you fight to kill. Stay in here, you're good, I'll send your brother to come and get you, but if you step out that door, you are an Avenger."
She looks like she wants to start panicing again, so I do something unpredictable, something to keep her mind of those thoughts.
I kiss her.
She's taken by surprise at first, but starts to kiss me back after a brief moment. It's not your typical kiss of course, but it tastes good. There's passion, desperation and magic in the kiss. That girl sure is a witch.
I break the kiss and look at her briefly. I can see the confusion on her face.
"Alrignt, good chat." I say and get up. Wanda looks up at me as I take a position at the door. I grab the multiple arrows Tony had made for me and put them on the string of the bow.
"Yeah, the city is flying." I say and then kick the door open with my heel and fire the arrows all at once at the incoming Ultron drones. I take them down and then some more and take cover behind a car. I can hear more drones landing and closing in on me. I think of the best way to deal with the situation and then the situation takes care of itself.
The door opens and Wanda's right palm is glowing red. She fires the ball of energy at one drone and then tears it apart. I'm looking from behind the car and I find it incredibly beautiful. She takes down all the Ultron fighters and then I walk to her.
"You good?" I ask her.
"Yes. Thank you for what you did for me back there." Wanda says to me.
"You mean kissing you? After this is over we can do that all you want, darlin'"
She smiles and shakes her head.
"No. For taking my mind of the thoughts in my head."
Wanda turns her back to me.
"But you are right. We can do that once this is over." I hear her say.
I smile to myself. Suddenly a breeze and a blue smuge pass me, her brother, Pietro appears for a split second, takes Wanda in his arms, shouts "you have to catch her first" and disappears with her.
I knock an arrow in my bow and aim it after him.
"Nobody would know. Nobody."
I put the arrow back in my quiver on my back and hang the bow on my torso and start making my way after them.
"Last I saw him, Ultron was sitting on him. Yeah, he'll be missed, that quick little bastard. I miss him already" I say to myself as I jog away.
I don't know how the others are planing to get the city back down, or what they wanna do with it, but I know one thing. I am going to survive this and have a date with a witch.