In South Africa,
on a boat named "Churchill"
People scramble about on the inside, moving missiles, and other explosives.
"Now you will make it right, or the next missile I send you, will come very much faster," A man says in his small office above all of the constructed chaos.
He clicks a button on his receiver to transfer his call over to the next line.
"Now, Minister, where were we?" He continues.
Then the power shuts off.
The constructed chaos below, turns into a mad house. Everyone running around trying to find some source of light, and trying to turn the power back on.
The man slowly moves to his handgun laying on his crowded desk.
He slowly moves over to the darkened doorway to see if anyone was going to jump him in a sneak attack.
After a moment, he fires a shot in the dark, only to have Pietro speed in, grab the bullet and gun in midair, empty the chamber of bullets on the Man's desk, and set them standing perfectly upright.
Wanda and I make our way out of the darkness, and into his office, standing next to Pietro.
"Huh," He says. "The Enhanced. Strucker's prized pupils… and you… he never mentioned anything about you…"
He motions over to me.
"Want a candy?" He asks us all, holding up an ashtray of candy.
He puts the ashtray back on his desk when we do not reach for one.
"I was sorry to hear about Strucker," He says. "But then, he knew what kind of world he was helping create. Human life. On the growth market."
We all glance at each other uneasily.
"You… you didn't know?"
He leans forward on his chair.
"Is this your first time?" He asks. "Intimidating someone? I'm afraid, I'm not that afraid."
"Everyone is afraid of something," Wanda says, moving closer to Klaue.
"Cuddlefish," He says almost immediately. "Deep sea fish. They make lights, disco lights. 'Whomp whomp whomp' " he motions with his hand.
"To hypnotize their prey. And then, 'WHOHP!' " He motions with his hand again.
"I saw a documentary, it was terrifying," Klaue says.
Pietro moves at lightning speed, and grabs a candy from the ashtray on Klaue's desk.
"So, if you're going to fiddle with my brain, and make me see a giant Cuddlefish, then I know, you don't do business, and I know you're not in charge," Klaue says, standing up and out of his chair, not noticing Ultron floating outside his window, ready to strike.
"And I only deal with the man in charge-"
Ultron bursts through the glass, throwing Klaue through the doorway, and Ultron stepping through.
"There is no man in charge," He says leaning down to face Klaue on the ground. "Let's talk business."
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We were lead down a few levels, where a man pulled back a door to reveal barrels of things labeled "TOXIC WASTE". The man pressed a button, and the barrels were moving down to reveal an entire rack of tubes filled with Vibranium.
Klaue grabs a tube from the rack and walks it over to Ultron.
"On this rock, I will build my church," Ultron says. "Vibranium."
He tosses the tube to Pietro, who catches it and starts to inspect it.
"You know," Klaue says reaching up to the brand on the side of his neck. " It came at great personal cost. It's worth billions."
Ultron chuckles, and turns his chin upwards, and closes his eyes. After a second he opens his eyes and turns back to Klaue.
"Now, so are you," He says.
The man next to Klaue pulls out some sort of banking devise, only to see that the money in the accounts were increasing.
"It's all under your dummy holdings? Finance is so weird," He continues. "But I always say, keep your friends rich, and your enemies rich, and wait to find out which is which."
Both men turn to Ultron slowly.
"Stark," Klaue spits in disgust.
"What?" Ultron asks.
"Tony Stark used to say that. To me. You're one of his?" Klaue says as more of a statement than a question.
"What?" Ultron says, grabbing Klaue by the arm.
The man by Klaue's side reaches for his gun, but Wanda uses her power to keep the man from moving his arm.
"I'm not one of Stark's puppets, one of his hollow men. I mean look at me, DO I LOOK LIKE IRON-MAN?! STARK IS NOTHING-"
If I could gasp. I would.
Ultron ripped off Klaue's left arm in a single yank.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry, ohhhh. I'm sure that's going to be okay, oohhh, I'm sorry. It's just, I don't understand. DON'T COMPARE ME WITH STARK!" Ultron yells, Kicking Klaue down the flight of stairs to his right, his lackey following behind him.
"It's a thing with me. Stark is… He's a SICKNESS!"
"Aww, Junior," An all too familiar voice says from behind us. "You're gonna break your old man's heart."
Pietro tosses the Vibranium down, as we see Thor, Iron-Man, and Captain America Land on the metal 'bridge' in front of us.
"If I have to," Ultron says.
"No one has to break anything," Thor says.
"Clearly you've never made an omelette," Ultron states humorlessly.
"He beat me by one second," Stark replies, slightly turning to Thor.
"Ahh, this is funny, Mister Stark," Pietro says, moving closer to Ultron.
"It's, what? Comfortable? Like old times?" He continues, motioning to the explosives all around us.
"This was never my life," Stark replies.
"You three can still walk away from this," Captain America interrupts.
"Oh, we will," Wanda replies.
I step into the light and glare at Stark.
"...You…" I growl in my head. "You left me to die… You left and FORGOT about me in that cell!"
"...You…" Stark breathes.
"You remember Seven, don't you Stark? You remember how you left her her in a glass prison to die?" Pietro says.
"I didn't mean to-"
"WELL YOU DID! I'VE BEEN NOTHING BUT A LAB RAT MY WHOLE LIFE, AND ALONG COMES THE EARTH'S MIGHTIEST HEROES TO SAVE THE DAY, AND I WAS STILL LEFT ALONE TO DIE IN THE DARKNESS OF HYDRA!" I scream in my head, slowly advancing on the Avengers like a lion hunting it's prey.
"Ohhh, yeah… I don't think she likes you all that much," Ultron says, grabbing my arm, stopping me from moving any closer to them.
"I know you've suffered-" The Captain tries again.
"Blach!" Ultron interrupts. "Haha, Captain America. God's righteous man… Pretending you can live without war… I can't physically throw up in my mouth but-"
"If you believe in peace," Thor interrupts. "Then let us keep it."
"I think you're confusing peace with quiet," Ultron states.
"Yeah-huh. What's the Vibranium for?" Stark asks.
"I'm glad you asked that, 'cause I wanted to take this time to explain my evil plan," Ultron replies sarcastically, motioning with his hand.
He lifts Stark up off the ground with some sort of tech in his hand, then Ultron blasts him away with a shot from his hand.
Iron-Man gets up, and he and Ultron start to brawl.
Captain America and Thor get caught up with Ultron's other robots, while Pietro, Wanda and I go in to attack.
Pietro gets Thor's attention, while Cap. and Wanda get into it.
I circle around the back and try to find a higher view point where the echo of my voice will speak all throughout the ship.
I start to hear gunfire everywhere.
"It's okay," I tell myself. "This is what I was trained for."
I spot Hawkeye and Black-Widow taking down some of Klawe's thugs, and some of Ultrons 'bots.
I glance down towards where I last saw Wanda, and all I see is a blue flash knocking the Captain over on his back.
Thor tosses his hammer towards the blue flash and it slows down, and grabs the hammer.
"Really, Pietro?" I mumble in my head. "You really think anyone but Thor is worthy?"
Pietro lands in a pile of boxes on a lower level.
I hear another crashing sound and I notice that Ultron and Iron-Man are missing. Then I look up and notice the hole in the ceiling.
"Definitely outside…" I think to myself.
I made my way up to the top floor in the boat without any confrontations.
As I look around, I begin to go through my mental playlist….
"Which one…. which one!" I panic.
"Got it," I smirk.
"Going in today
It's my only shot
My life could end today
Yeah, my heart could stop
If I go out tonight,
I'm going out on top
I give it all
This life ain't all I've got
Yes'sir, now wait a minute brah,
I see you rocking with your hands high
Waiting for that beat to take off
so 808's on standby
When I'm breathing Bangers
I say statements that I stand by
Ground's gonna shake when that beat drops
La-landslide
Please let me off my leash
I feel it, I'm feeling, I'm feeling too good
Like I'm a beast
Like a guerrilla who's real in the hood
So I'm going on and on
I'll be resting when I'm gone
Rise and Grind is what I'm on,
Brah, that's why I wrote the song
Tonight I'm going off like
My lifespan lasts all night
If I don't wake up in the morning
Brah, I'm gonna be alright
Throw caution to the wind
Let go, we 'bout to go in
No slowing down we gonna win,
No slowing down we know him
Tonight I'll
Risk it all to follow
And live like my
Life's over tomorrow
We Love it
We go hard all week
Till it's over
Ain't no sleep
Till we getting it, getting it, getting it
Insomniaiaiaiaiaiaia
Aiaiaiaiaiaia
Insomniaiaiaiaiaiaia
Aiaiaiaiaiaia
We be getting it, getting it, getting it!"
As I finish the first verse, I notice everyone starts showing signs of fatigue. Eyes becoming set deep within their sockets, and black bags start appearing underneath their eyes.
"Insomnia,"
"Good choice," I hear Ultron's voice say from behind me.
I turn to see one of his robots turn from blue, to red. Signaling that it was Ultron's consciousness that was in the Robot lackey.
"It's time to leave," He finishes, lifting me off to the jet, already occupied by Pietro and Wanda.
"We got the big one," Wanda informs.
I raise an eyebrow.
"The Hulk is on the loose," Pietro informs.
My eyes widen in fear.
"This isn't what I agreed to… Wanda, innocent people will get hurt… you need to stop him!"
I plead in my head to her.
"This is exactly what you signed up for!" She defended. "You want revenge on Stark? How about the lives of millions of dead people on his hands?"
"Stop it… STOP IT!" I yell in my head.
"I don't think I will," She states.
I had to make a decision. Go along with this, or stop the Hulk from hurting people.
My eyes set with determination.
"Then tell Ultron that I'm sorry," I say, bolting out of the jet.
As I reach outside, I notice that the city below us is in absolute chaos.
"Seven! Stop!" I hear Pietro yell from behind me.
"I'm sorry… I can't let this happen…" I think to myself as I bolt down the hill.
Pietro catches up to me quickly enough, but I can't let him stop me.
"Get back to the plane!"
I ignore him.
"OI!" He grunts, lifting me up and over his shoulder, and running back to the plane.
I pound on his back the whole five seconds it takes to get back to the plane.
"I'm a grown woman
I can do whatever I want
I can be bad if I want
I can say what I want
I can live fast if I want
I can go slow and mellow
I'm a grown woman!"
I sang against Pietro. He faltered, but he kept going straight to Ultron.
"Seven! What were you thinking!" Ultron yells at me.
"I was thinking that I'd save people!" I wanted to scream.
"You used your gifts against Pietro! Why?" He kept going.
"Innocent people were dying because of us! That wasn't the plan! The plan was to end the Avengers!" I wanted to scream again.
"Why are you giving me no choice but to turn this off?" He asks me, motioning to my throat.
"You wouldn't…" I think after a moment.
"Perhaps this is too much,no?" Pietro says, trying to stop him from doing it.
"If she is to stay on our side, she needs to learn the consequences of her actions against us," Ultron reasons.
"No… please… I just wanted to save people…" I plead with my eyes, as Ultron comes closer to me.
I take steps back as he comes closer, shaking my head 'no'. I keep backing up until my back hits the wall of the jet. I cower down as he towers over me reaching for my neck. I scrunch my head down to try and stop him from turning my collar off. He just forces me to look at him with one hand, and reaches for my collar in the other.
I feel a small poke at my neck, then Ultron lets me go.
I fall to my knees as I try to sing, but no sound comes out.
"No…. no…. please…. turn it back on…. I promise I won't do it again…." I silently cry in my head.
Then, I start to silently cry on the outside too. I feel warm tears streak down my face, and onto the cruel, metal floor of the jet.
I feel Wanda wrap her arms around me in an embrace, but I push her away.
"Don't," I say in my head. " I want to be alone right now…"
I hear her and Pietro leave my side slowly.
This is what I get for trying to help people.
This is what I deserve for trusting people.
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Songs:
Insomniac: By Trip Lee
Grown Woman: By Beyonce (My Queen!)
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