April 2015 South Africa.
Wanda had always hated guns and weapons since her parents had died. The sound they made was horrifying and so loud. It didn't help that they were directed at her or that they were in an abandoned freighter where the sounds were everlasting. Her thoughts were soon broken off by a demanding Ultron, "Its time for some mind game." Wanda was ready, for it had been the plan all along to break and torture the Avengers. Her eyes found Thor the god of thunder alone, she disliked the god for his arrogance and his cockiness. But what she saw in his mind was fear of failure and the loss of himself and his people. Wanda walked off after corrupting his mind to find the other when she saw the Captain fly back from Pietro hiting him. She looked into his mind not expecting to not find much fear in him but he only ran on fear of his and his friends' futures on top of his sadness of his past life masked by courage and loyalty.
Wanda corrupted the Balck Widow and moved on to Hawkeye but he had felt her presence behind him and was saved by her twin brother.
"It hurts... it hurts," Wanda repeated to herself more then to her brother.
"I'm going to kill him." Pietro said only to be stopped by Wanda.
"I'm alright." Wanda said catching her breath, "I want the big one." Wanda finished looking towards the Quinjet.
Steve awoke from his awful nightmare by Clint holding Natasha. "That bitch did this to all of you and turned the Banner into the hulk."
"We gotta stop him." Steve order standing to his feet to onlt be stopped by Clint, "Tony has it cover you need to get Thor and get to the jet." Steve didn't object to the plan he was to shaken to think about it.
By the time they arrived to the jet and got it off the ground Tony had already stopped the Hulk and was awaiting for pick up. That was the quietest ride on the Quinjet ever, everyone was deep in their thoughts in their on section of the jet. Steve couldn't shake seeing Peggy and the life he had missed from his mind. He could feel himself going back into the ice but before it could consume him the jet landed in a field next to a farm house. They all shuffled out of the jet following Clint into the building. Steve was shocked by seeing that Clint had a family and was lost in his thoughts intil Thor who was beside him suddenly walked out. Steve Chased him outside, "Where you going Thor?"
"I need answers and I can't find them here." Thor replied swinging his hammer and flying off into the air.
About an hour later Fury was talking to the team in the dining room coming up with a way to find and stop Ultron. Bruce realized that Ultron was going Korea to evolve himself using the regeneration cradle. The team split up sending Tony to the nexus to find the hacker that was fighting Ultron while Steve, Natasha, and Barton went to Korea to stop Ultron.
"Scream, and your entire staff dies. I could've killed you, Helen, the night we met. I didn't." Ultron threatened Helen stopping her from screaming.
"Do you expect a thank you note?" Helen responded stepping away.
Ultron plays a recording of Helen, "The Cradle, its the next thing Tony.
"The Cradle can't make a living body."
"You're a brilliant woman, but we can all improve," Ultron stepped towards her pressing the scepter to her chest.
She immediately started working on a new boby for Ultron using the Cradle and the vibranium while the Maximoff twins and Ultron watched. "Cellular cohesion will take a few hours, but we can initiate the consciousness stream. We're uploading your cerebral matrix...now." Helen Cho said turning around to Ultron.
"He's dreaming I can feel it." Wanda whispered concentrating on the Cradle. When she suddenly screamed from a vision of total annihilation.
"What's wrong?" Pietro asked hugging his sister.
"How could you?" Wanda almost yelled at Ultron. "You said we would make a better world without the avengers."
"We are making a better world, a beautiful world." Ultron pleaded trying to convince Wanda.
"With everyone dead." Wanda said defiantly distracting Ultron turning Dr. Cho back to normal.
Ultron unplugged himself blasting Dr. Cho giving the twins time to escape, "Guys wait." Ultron begged killing the technicians.
So after Steve Rogers runs into the Genetic research lab finding Helen Cho, "Dr Cho."
"He's uploading himself into the body. The gem its the power. You've got to get it to Stark."
With that Captain America runs off to find the Cradle.
"Cap I've got a private jet leaving with no manifest." Natasha saidsaid into comms.
Clint cut the two off noticing a truck from the lab leaving, "There. It's the truck from the lab. Right above you, Cap. On the loop by the bridge. It's them. I got three with the Cradle, one in the cab. I could take out the driver."
"Negative! If that truck crashes, the gem could level the city. We need to draw out Ultron." Steve said jumping onto the the truck. Steve moved to the back doors of the trailer truck.
"No, no leave me alone!" Ultron yelled blasting the back doors shooting Cap's shield from his hands. Steve jumped back on top of the truck drawing Ultron out. Natasha was drop onto the road on a motorcycle while Steve distracted Ultron on top of the truck.
"Steve heads up." Natasha yelled throwing the shield at him. Steve then pressed the attack on Ultron tackling him into a passing train as Natasha jumped intot he truck.
"The package is airborne I've got a clean shot." Clint said aiming the gun on the Quinjet.
"I'm still in the truck. Get ready I'm sending the package to you."
Ultron had worn down and trapped Steve into a corner but to the shock of Steve he was saved by the Maximoff twins.
"Please don't do this." Ultron said standing back up looking at Wanda.
"What choice do we have." Wanda retaliated as Ultron shot the driver and controls to the train before flying off.
"Cap I've got the package but I don't have eyes on Nat."
"If you have the package go."
"Where's Nat?"
"Go now Clint." Steve yelled into the comms looking at the twins, "Get the civilians to safety speedy and can you stop this thing." Looking at Wanda.
Wanda was almost reluctant to try and stop the train being afraid of not succeeding and possibly passing out from using to much energy, but she ignored those thoughts. Next thing she is being woken up by and unfamiliar voice. "Hey you okay kid?" Steve asked picking up Wanda, "You stopped the train, I'm taking you not your brother."
"Pietro?" Wanda mumbled with a lost look on her face.
"No it's Captain America." Steve said stepping out of the train.
"Captain America?"
"Just call me Steve kid." Steve said setting Wanda down by her brother, "She going to be okay." Steve looked worriedly at her."
"Her powers are a bit more wild then my but she should be fine in a second."
"Where's the Cradle did you take care of it?" Wanda asked sitting up.
"Tony will take care of if." Cap reassured.
"No he won't." Wanda replied with a pause, "He can't tell the difference between saving the world and destroying."
"Stark, Clint come in. Anyone on comms?" Steve said looking worriedly at Wanda, "I've got to get back now."
"We're coming with you?" Pietro and Wanda demanded at the same time.
Back at the Avenger's tower, "Clint there any old school spy stuff she might do?" Tony asked looking away from the Cradle.
"Yeah I could go cast some nets." Clint said walking downstairs.
"I can work on the tissue degeneration while you fry the operational systems." Bruce said looking at the Cradle.
"About that." Tony said walking towards Bruce.
"No, Tony just no."
"The guy protecting the codes was Jarvis. Ultron was afraid of him."
"You want me to put Jarvis into this." Bruce said in bewilderment.
"Nope I'm not doing these again Tony, I'm not."
"We're mad Scientists, Monsters. We gotta own it."
Bruce and Tony soon started to wire the Cradle and begin transferring Jarvis to the Cradle.
Hours later Captain America and the Maximoff twins find Tony and Bruce finishing the process of installing Jarvis. "I'm not going to say this once shut it down now, you don't know what you're doing."
"Oh and you do she's not in your head." Bruce retaliated.
"I know your angry." Wanda protested
"We're past angry I could choke the life out of you and not even turn a shade."
"This isn't a game." Steve stepped in before Pietro unplugged all the wiring in the room.
Thor suddenly crashed through the building landing on the Cradle shooting lighting at it and soon after Vision came flying out of the Cradle, "I'm sorry that was very odd, thank you." Vision said coming back to Thor.
"You helped create this thing." Steve said in shock.
"I've had a vision. A whirlpool that sucks in all hope of life and at it's center is that... the Mind stone one of six infinity stones the most powerful thin in this universe." Thor replied pointing at the yellow gem.
"Then why bring it to life?" Steve asked.
"Because with it on our side we can defeat Ultron and whatever comes next." Thor defended himself.
"Are you on our side?" Cap asked stepping towards vision.
"I'm on the side of life, Ultron isn't. And he wants you there when it happens."
"Where is it happening?" Tony asked.
"Sovokia, he's got Nat there." Clont said cutting into the conversation."
Vision then turns around and picks up mjolnir handing it to Thor, everyone looks awkwardly at eachother as Thor took the hammer, "Okay everyone suit up we leave in 3" Steve commanded.
"Do you have any running shoes I could use?" Pietro blurted out as they disbanded whitout an answer, "well that's just great."
Three minutes later Pietro and Wanda are the last one onto the plane and they received dirty looks from Banner and Clint.
Wanda had agreed with Steve's speech about Ultron and the Sovokian people but she thought of it has a little cheesy and stupid.
Wanda cleared most of the city out before the first robots attacked, she and clint were at the second smaller bridge leaving the city while Captain America and Natasha was at the main bridge into town.
She was not familiar with combat especially of this magnitude and a part of her home was flying, she didn't want to be there, she was scared intil Clint had save her and jumped into a building. She had crawled into the conner of the room, "Its all my fault." Wanda mumbled to herself mainly but Clint had heard her.
"Hey, look at me. It's your fault, it's everyone's fault, who cares. Are you up for this? Are you? Look, I just need to know, cause the city is flying. Okay, look, the city is flying, we're fighting an army of robots, and I have a bow and arrow. None of this makes sense. But I'm going back out there because it's my job. Okay? And I can't do my job and babysit. It doesn't matter what you did, or what you were. If you go out there, you fight, and you fight to kill. Stay in here, you're good, I'll send your brother to come find you, but if you step out that door, you are an Avenger." Clint said to no avail as Wanda said nothing and just stared back up at Clint as he stood up preparing more arrows for his bow. Soon after Wanda could hear the sounds of robots surrounding Clint and because of that she walked out of that building and made her life's most drastic decision ever.
"Avengers time to work for a living. Everyone get back to the church." Tony commanded everyone over comms. Once everyone got back to the church Ultron had appeared outside prompting Thor, "Is that the best you can do?"
Thousands of robots started to appear from the buildings and back alleys, "You had to ask." Captain America sighed at Thor. If Wanda wasn't staring at death she would have found that remark quite funny.
The final assualt against the avengers for the core was underway as thousands of murder bots attacked. Ultron soon joined the attack to only be stopped by Thor, Vision, and Tony. The murder bots were on the retreat now as the air continued to get harder to breath.
"You guys need to get to the life boats, I'll sweep for any stragglers." Steve barked at Clint, Nat, and Wanda.
"What about the core?"Clint asked looking at Steve and back to the core.
Surprisingly Wanda had cut into the conversation, "I'll Protect." She didn't know what had come over her to say that maybe it was the guilt from starting this or
wanting to prove to herself she was good.
Clint and Nat had split up, she was going to find the Hulk while Clint went to a life boat.
"My son, I lost him, we were in the market." A distressed mother yelled out. Clint saw the boy so being the superhero he his he ran to him. At this time Ultron was using the Quinjet has his escape when he saw Clint he decided to open fire. Clint shielded the young boy waiting to die from the hail of bullets for it to not come. He opened his eyes to find that Pietro barely standing riddled with bullets, "You didn't see that coming?" Pietro said falling to the ground.
Wanda screamed in agony releasing a cosmic blast of energy. She had felt her twin die at the hands of Ultron, deciding to the leave the core unguarded to find Ultron.
"If you stay, you'll die." Ultron told Wanda as he lay in the bus injured.
"I already have, you know how it felt?" Wanda replied using her powers to rip open his chest pulling out his mechanical heart and destroying it. The core being left unguarded was switched on by a robot making the rock fly back down towards the heart. Wanda didn't want to be saved she wanted to die with her brother but she was by vision has Tony and Thor destroyed the flying island. She was sat down onto the helicarrier by Vision and she walked inside of the carrie finding herself an unoccupied room closing and locking the door Wanda started to bawl her eyes out.
Natasha and Tony were focused on finding the Hulk and bringing him back, Clint was checking on the survivors, Vision and Thor were looking for any surviving robotsto, and Cap was looking for Wanda.
Captain America was following the dark presence he could feel coming from the living quarters. He approached the door the darkness was coming from and couldn't hear anything from inside. "Hey you in there it's Steve?" Steve asked knocking on the door with no answer, "Okay I'm gonna come in."
Wanda was sitting in the middle of the bed hugging her knees to deep in her thoughts to here the outside world. "Wanda?" Steve asked worriedly touching her shoulder.
Wanda's thoughts were broken off by Steve touching her shoulder, looking up she saw a man she's never really met trying to give her comfort. "Wanda we are going to a new avengers compound and you're going to stay with us for awhile if you want." Steve said sitting down on the bed. Wanda just looked away from Steve. "Trust me I know it's hard but you're apart of this team, that means you're apart of my family."
Steve stood up walking towards the door, "If you need anything get me okay?"
Wanda nodded at Steve holding pick tears, "A shower helps clear your head." Steve finished walking out of the room.
