Birch heard the Hulk roar in the distance. Birch jumped off the building he was standing on and made sure no one was in danger. There didn't seem to be any civilians around the area. More drones came in relentlessly.

Clint came out of a building and readied his bow. Wanda was missing. Clint shot down drone after drone after drone and they just kept coming.

Birch's hand soon transformed into a plasma cannon and he quickly shot down three drones. Birch saw Clint jump behind a car and shoot an arrow at a drone. The drone soon exploded as the arrow hit it's mark. The explosion seemed to hit the car Clint was hiding behind.

" Ow. " Clint groaned as more drones came in. He seemed to be very outnumbered.

A building's doors flew open to reveal Wanda, she was ready to fight. She threw a drone away and it crashed into the ground. With her power she grabbed a drone a ripped it in half. The top half of the drone soon found itself thrown into another drone.

Clint nocked two arrows and shot two drones in the head. Birch ripped a cars door off and used it in a similar way Steve used his shield. Birch banged the door into drones before throwing it. The car door beheaded a drone. The drone collapsed onto the ground. The door stuck itself into a wall of one of the buildings.

Wanda formed a ball of energy and used it to destroy a drone. Two other drones went down with it. The wave of incoming drones seemed to stop. The sense of danger eased for a moment. The three of them glanced around the area.

Clint said into his comms. " Okay we're clear. "

Birch heard grunts and bangs from Steve's comm. The super soldier spoke, " We are not clear! We are very not clear! "

" Alright coming to you. " Clint said when Birch and Wanda were both carried off by Pietro. The male Maximoff twin left Clint in his dust.

Pietro taunted him saying, " Keep up old man! "

When they stopped Birch saw a line of policemen taking cover behind their cars. They were shooting at incoming drones. The police's bullets weren't doing well against the drones.

One of the drones had exploded a bench. A bullet bounced off a drone's shoulder.

Pietro dropped Wanda and Birch off. Birch turned his hand into a cannon and began to take down drones. Wanda stood beside him and was also taking down drones.

The captain of the police ordered, " Hold your fire! "

Pietro ran ahead of Wanda and Birch, not seeing the incoming bullet. Pietro felt a pain in his arm and he saw a bullet grazing his arm. He glanced down and felt annoyance more than anger. He looked over to where he was sure one of the police shot him.

One of the younger policemen slid down awkwardly. Pietro gave him a look and was almost tempted to run over there himself.

A shot was blasted and a beam of energy was making it's way to Pietro. He easily avoided it and did a short sprint before jumping. He landed on top of a drone and destroyed it. Around a dozen drones were standing in line, as if waiting to be destroyed.

Pietro ran and easily destroyed all of the drones. The drones remains fell to the ground.

Birch shot and slashed through drones before he sniffed the air. The air was getting thinner. Which meant they were getting higher. And that wasn't good for anyone. How were they going to stop the city's seemingly inevitable fall?

Steve called them in. Saying they needed to bring civilians to safety. Birch doubted that there was anywhere truly safe on the city. Nonetheless he followed Steve's orders. No point in arguing.

When Birch made his way to the store where Steve was located, Birch noticed the smoke and dust in the air. Wanda gently guided a while women into the store. Birch heard Tony's plan to blow up the city. He didn't like the idea of killing all these people but they might have to. He was willing to take the sacrifice of it meant saving humanity. Steve didn't seem too keen on going with the plan.

Birch felt a buzz in the air. It was a machine's signal. It was beginning to match the comms frequency. He could hear that something big was coming up.

Something had began rise from the fog. Birch felt himself connecting to files and the Internet to find out what was rising from the fog. A couple of months ago SHIELD and Hydra files were briefly public before put under wraps by the government. Still the government wasn't as protected against hackers as Hydra was. It made accessing the files easy. The thing rising from the air? It was a helicarrier, apparently.

Steve and Natasha were in front of the store, watching in amazement as the helicarrier came into full view. Pietro jogged over to the near edge of the city to watch. Birch could hear Steve say, " Fury, you son of a bitch. "

Birch almost grinned in amazement but decided not to. Smiling hurt his face since he barely does it. Instead a ghost of a smile appeared on his face.

The sides of the helicarrier opened to reveal small carriers flying to the city. They would be finally able to evacuate the city. Birch stood behind Steve and Natasha, still watching the carriers fly over to the city.

" This is SHIELD? " Pietro asked, his accent thickening.

" What it was supposed to be. "

Pietro smiled at Steve's words. " This is not so bad. " He looked back at Birch. The boy gave him a nod.

" Let's load them up. " Steve ran over to where they had placed the civilians.

Drones appeared suddenly, they were flying to the helicarrier. If Birch could talk he would have said some very unflattering things. He thought for a moment of creating a jetpack and flying over there to help them when unexpected help came in.

Bullets flew through the air and into the drones. War Machine came flying in, most likely enjoying his herioc entrance. From behind the buildings Tony appeared flying in his suit. He began to help Rhodey fight off the drones.

Birch focused his attention on evacuating the city. He pointed and pushed and pulled civilians into the direction of safety. Sometimes he would bark out but immediately take it back. It was embarrassing.

A carrier started to lower itself down from above. The wind ruffled Birch's hair as he looked up. Pietro ran past him carrying a young child to a carrier. Wanda wasn't in Birch's line of sight but he was still connected to the twin's mental link. They were talking to each other a lot. Birch didn't try to ccontribute to the conversation, he never did.

Birch watched as a drone managed to break into the helicarrier. No one screamed in panic and the helicarrier didn't seem in any danger of crashing so Birch assumed everything was okay. He looked at the building to his left and saw that it was a hospital.

Birch heard muffled laughter coming from the building. The hospital was broken down just like the other buildings. Lights flickered and smoke filled the hallways. Birch felt like he was in extremely familiar surroundings.

He jogged through the hallways until he came across a hallway with pictures on the walls. They were pictures of old workers. Birch looked down to see a familiar looking man. He didn't look like much but Birch could tell that he had some secret significance either for himself or someone else. The man was a father. Birch could tell becuase he saw a young boy with the man in the picture. Neither were smiling, they both looked sad and lonely.

The boy in the picture looked significantly like him. They looked too much alike for it to be a coincidence.

A headache started to throb in Birch's head. The boy threw a punch at picture's glass. It shattered easily. Birch slipped the small photo out of it's frame. The photo was a bit dusty and felt smooth between Birch's fingers. Birch put the photo away.

Tony's voice sounded in Birch's ear, " Avengers, time to work for a living. "

Pietro had already ran over to where Tony, Thor and Vision were. Birch soon followed, running along with Wanda. Clint wasn't far behind. The key was placed into the middle of the church where the twins and Birch had first met Ultron. Birch saw a few drones running up from any direction.

Pietro ran up to drone and smashed it into the ground. When Wanda arrived he asked her, " You good? " Wanda nodded.

Natasha drove in, coming as fast as she could. She stood next to Tony. " What's the drill? "

Tony pointed at the key, " This is the drill. Ultron gets a hand on the core and we lose. "

Hulk jumped in, crushing a drone on the way and destroying another. Ultron came down from the sky.

Thor decided to get cocky. Hammer in hand he yelled, " That's the best you can do? "

Ultron waved a hand and suddenly almost every single drone came running up to the broken down church. It looked like hundreds of drones were there. Birch stared and suddenly felt very tired. Ultron spread his arms out, as if beholding his army.

Steve looked at Thor in exasperation. " You had to ask. "

" This is the best I can do. " Ultron said smugly. " This is exactly what I wanted : all of you against all of me. How can you possibly hole to stop me? " The android had a serious god complex. That made him even more dangerous.

Tpny looked at Steve. " Well, like the old man said - together. " Hulk roared as the drones surged forward.

The drones were flying, running and crawling from every direction. Wanda shot out with her powers and destroyed several drones but new one just popped up in their place. Pietro zoomed around the place, taking down as many drones as he could. Vision somehow found a way to gracefully destroy drones. Birch sliced through a few drones before shooting down a couple. One time he simply punched through a drone's head.

All of the heros fought together seamlessly. Like they had done this kind of thing before. It was like they were in perfect harmony. This feeling of unison was what Ultron craved. Something that Ultron would never truly have.

Sometimes Birch jumped into the air and grab a drone. He would drag it down to the ground and destroy it. One time he managed to shoot out a beam of blue energy, managing to destroy dozens of drones in a couple of seconds. It drained a lot of energy to do that. He probably couldn't do that again today. The sounds of the battle sounded everywhere.

Bang. Clash. Roar.

Ultron burst into the scene. He fought with Vision for a moment before he was dragged out of the house. Vision shot a beam out of the stone in his head at Ultron. Ultron landed on the ground and seemed to try to shield himself.

Thor summoned lightning and shot it at Ultron. Tony joined in as well. Ultron fell to his knees, his face was melted in. Tony, Thor and Vision stopped their onslaught.

Ultron staggered up and groaned. " Uh, you know with the benefit of hindsight- " The android didn't get to finish.

Hulk seemed to have been annoyed at Ultron or something because he ran and smacked Ultron away. The android sailed out of sight. Birch didn't know if the android would survive that hit but he hoped the android was gone for good.

Hulk turned to the remaining drones. They seemed to stare for a moment before they ran. All of them ran to the edge of the city and started to fly into the air.

" They're trying to leave the city. " Thor said.

" We can't let them escape. Not even one. Rhodey, " Tony called into his comm. War Machine came up from the other side of the city.

Rhodey began to destroy the drones, bullets went flying from one of the many weapons on his suit. Vision was there too, helping destroy the drones. Rhodey was very confused.

Birch turned his attention from the two and looked at Steve. The Captain began to talk, " We've gotta move out. Even I can tell the air is getting thin. You've got to get it the boats. I'll get the stragglers. " Steve looked behind him, as if expecting a drone to be right behind him.

" What about the core? " Clint asked.

Wanda was the one to speak up, " I'll protect it. " Clint liked at Wanda, surprised and obviously ready to argue. Wanda spoke again, " It's my job. " Those words seemed to hold some sort of hidden meaning between the Archer and teenager. Clint nodded.

" Nat, let's go. " Natasha nodded and began to go with Clint to head to the carriers. Steve headed off to do his own job.

Birch glanced around the place. Wondering where Pietro had gone off to. Wanda looked at hher friend, " Birch I- "

Pietro suddenly ran into the church. He almost seems to trip over the destroyed remains of the drone. It made Birch think if Pietro could actually trip, with his super speed it seems impossible.

Wanda and Pietro had already talked to each other over the mental link. Wanda said, " You two get the people on the boats. "

" I'm not going to leave you here. " Pietro argued stubbornly.

" I can handle this. " A drone suddenly rushed in but was immediately destroyed by Wanda. Pietro nodded in admitted defeat. " Come get me after anyone is off the city. Not before. You understand? "

Pietro seemed extremely conflicted. Birch could feel his emotions via the mental link. Pietro's thoughts raced faster than a regular man's.

Pietro smiled half heartedly, " You know I'm twelve minutes older than you? "

Wanda managed to put on a smile. " Go. Both of you. "

Pietro looked at Wanda for a moment before he ran off. Birch made his way out of the church in a slower fashion, reluctant to leave Wanda behind.