Chapter 9
The clouds were becoming darker as the storm over Gibraltar intensified. Lightning flashed and lit up the sky, as the clouds began to swirl over the landing area for Ultron's drop ship. In the middle of the storm lay Mjolnir, left behind after Thor was kicked through the portal. As the weather worsened, bolts of lightning began to strike Mjolnir, giving the effect that it was being powered up by the heavens.
"Whosoever holds this hammer, if they be worthy, shall posses the power of Thor."
The hammer shot up high into the sky, high enough to be seen by anyone at the watchpoint, giving off a loud rumble as it did so.
Watchpoint Hanger-Fifteen minutes earlier-
Everyone at the hanger was in disbelief. Angela was gone, killed by Ultron. Genji had now left the hanger and was running over to the lab, while the rest of the team remained in place. Pharah had now joined the rest of the team outside, along with Lucio. Fareeha took a moment away from the fight, joining her mother at her vantage point. She walked over to the wall and slid down into a sitting position, before taking her helmet off and letting out her tears.
Ana noticed her daughter behind her and walked over to her, sitting down next to her and hugging her as she cried.
"I'm sorry Fareeha. I know you and Angela were close, but we still have a job to do. We can grieve for her later." Fareeha remained still, continuing to cry as Ana hugged her. "Angela would want us to stop Ultron. If we don't, more people will suffer. We have to stop him." This was enough, as Fareeha leaned up and wiped her tears, with a new found determination to avenge her fallen friend.
"Your right. Where am I needed?"
Ana pointed down to Reinhardt. "Go behind the barrier, keep hitting that large mech once Reinhardt gives the order." Fareeha nodded, standing up and flying down to the group. Ana repositioned and overlooked the battleground with her biotic rifle, ready to heal the team as they needed it.
Meanwhile, Ultron's remaining forces had finished grouping by up by the mech. Captain America had taken the opportunity to run over to Wanda and make sure she understood the plan.
"So where about am I holding the mech still?" Wanda asked.
"Somewhere so that everyone can hit it. So in front of the hanger somewhere." Cap replied
Wanda now looked over to the mech. "That'll take a lot of concentration to keep it still... I'll be practically defenceless."
"I'll watch your back, you focus on that mech." Cap signaled to the others that they were ready, just as the Ultron prime landed next to the mech.
"Two down, a lot more to go." Ultron said as he looked at the remaining forces he had. While he had damaged whatever the device was in the lab, the drop ships remained operational. This was Ultron's last attempt at taking Overwatch out of the picture, since he didn't have enough drones left. The prime turned to that large mech. "Well, have fun." He held back while the other drones attacked, the prime a bit too damaged to do anything major in this fight.
Ana saw the advancing force. "Heads up everyone, Ultron's inbound."
Winston's lab-
Genji arrived outside the lab, seeing Lena holding onto Angela. Genji couldn't believe it at first, the woman who saved his life, one of his closest friends was gone. He knelt down next to Lena, remaining still for a few moments before he spoke.
"She is at peace now Lena." He said, placing a hand on Lena's shoulder. "We will honour her passing, however right now we must focus on the task at hand. This is what she would want."
Lena sniffled, looking up at him before replying. "Yeah... your right... I just never thought that this would happen... not her." She dried her eyes and finally let go of Angela. Genji stood and helped her back into her feet.
Meanwhile, Morrison was speaking with Stark, realising that he was staring at the unusual weather on the other side of the base.
"What's going on over there? I assume you know." Morrison asked Stark, his mood foul due to the events unfolding around him.
"I'm not completely sure, but I think Thor's hammer's causing it." Stark remembered the old SHIELD report about what happened in New Mexico. He figured that if the hammer was planning on moving, then Genji would be the one it deemed worthy. "I believe that our cyborg ninja will be able to lift it, or maybe Vision."
Morrison nodded, not fully listening as he stared at Angela. Ultron had killed the peace loving medic, the one who kept Overwatch together when times got tough. This was personal now, for all of them.
Watchpoint Hanger-
The drones and the defenders were now in the middle of a fierce battle. The drones were attempting to gain entry into the hanger once again in order to damage the dropships. The defending forces were holding them back, however, this time Ultron had the mech, which was walking towards the hanger. The mech took aim at Reinhardt and fired, the laser being absorbed by his shield. The drones moved forward, only to be cut down by a barrage of firepower from the defenders. Falcon continued to fly around performing hit and runs on he enemy, while Widowmaker was on the hanger roof, taking down drones when they got close to the barrier. Ana and Lucio were keeping everyone healed up, a job made a lot easier since everyone was close to the hanger door.
As the mech moved closer, it continued to fire at Reinhardt's barrier, weakening it and causing it to crack. When it got far enough forward, Scarlet Witch reached out and held it in place. The mech attempted to move, trying to lift its left leg, only for it to remain clamped to the ground. While it struggled, Reinhardt shouted out an order.
"NOW! HIT IT WITH EVERYTHING WE HAVE!"
The defenders fired at the mech, hitting it with lasers, rockets and bullets. Ana used her nano-boost on Pharah as the attack began, but kept her focus on the defenders, healing them up, while a few defenders kept their focus on the smaller drones. Reinhardt dropped his barrier, letting it recharge since the healers had everyone covered. As the attack continued, a yellow laser beam passed across the area, taking out a number of smaller drones. Vision had returned from the town and now hovered above the battlefield.
"Ultron, this conflict has gone on long enough." He addressed the mech, since the prime was no where to be seen.
The mech looked up at Vision. "Only when I've completed my mission will I stop."
"This is not a fight you can win..." Vision began, only to be cut off by Ultron.
"Oh I think I can. The god of thunder is lost and the angel has fallen. Everyone of you will soon fall..." The mech was unable to finish as Reinhardt fired a fire strike at it. The mech quickly turned and fired back, the laser once again being blocked by the barrier.
Meanwhile, Captain America was defending Wanda from an assault from Ultron's drones. They had worked out where she was and were trying to stop her. Cap beat back several small waves of drones, occasionally getting a small amount of help from Wanda, just enough to throw a drone off balance so Cap could finish it off. Eventually one drone managed to sneak up unnoticed by Cap and take a shot at Wanda. It wasn't a very accurate shot, but it was enough to cause her to lose concentration, enough for the mech to be freed.
As the mech regained the ability to move, it targeted Vision and fired. He flew out of the way and attempted to return fire, only for a drone to fly and fire at him beforehand. He refocused on the drone and followed the flyer, finishing it off and returning to the mech.
Cap finished off the drones near him and ran over to Wanda. She was kneeled over due to the shot, but not too seriously injured. Ana fired a shot into her and healed up the injury.
"You good?" Cap asked her.
"Yeah. Wasn't a bad hit, Ana healed it." She answered, breathing slowly to attempt to stop the mech again. However, her concentration was once again broken by a large boom of thunder. Everyone who could, including Ultron's drones and mech, turned to see a large bolt of lighting hit nearby, before Mjolnir flew up into the air. It passed over the hanger, Widow watching it pass over her and disappear. Cap immediately contacted Tony, seeing Vision floating nearby.
Meanwhile at the hanger, it had been agreed that Reaper would stay behind and guard the damaged EMP, while everyone else went to the hanger to assist the team. That was the plan anyway, before they all saw Mjolnir shoot up into the sky.
"Stark, the hammers in the air... not Vision, any ideas?"
Friday quickly analysed the path of the hammer. "The trajectory indicates it's heading towards us." Stark noticed that the hammer curved towards them, indicating that Friday was right. He knew that Genji was worthy, since he had managed to lift the hammer beforehand, so he considered that he was who it was going towards.
"Split up, Genji, that's likely for you so prepare to catch it."
He nodded, as the small team outside the lab split up away from each other. As the hammer approached, Genji prepared to catch it.
While the hammer had temporarily stopped the fighting outside the hanger, it's wasn't for long. Shortly after it flew up, everyone returned to fighting. The mech once again fired on the barrier, causing it to once again crack and nearly collapse. Falcon flew overhead, preapred for another hit and run, only for the mech to look up and fire towards him. He avoided the laser, only for a drone to take a shot and hit him. He crashed towards Reinhardt, as his barrier failed due to another attack from the mech.
Scarlet Witch was unable to grab hold of the mech, as the drones had begun to focus on her in order to keep her busy. While Captain America had her back, they were being overwhelmed by drones. Vision flew over to them and fired his laser at the drones around them, before landing and assisting the two further.
While this was happening, the situation in front of the hanger door had worsened. Reinhardt's was not being given any chance for his barrier to charge, having to bring it up periodically to protect someone, only for it to go down in a matter of seconds. The large mech kept firing at him when his barrier fell, causing his armour to take extensive damage. Pharah had landed nearby and ran into the fight to pull Falcon away, who was injured thanks to his crash. She pulled him behind a nearby crate which Torb had built a turret next to.
The drones however focused on this turret, destroying it quicker than Torb could repair it, before firing at him. Everyone else was occupied with other drones and Ana and Lucio were too busy healing them up to see this. Torb attempted to move back behind the box, as Pharah flew up in order to give him covering fire. Unfortunately, the drones anticipated this, firing at Pharah and damaging her suit so that its flight capabilities were serverly limited. While this happened, Torb was unable to move very far before he was hit by shots from three drones, falling to the ground as the shots hit. He was unable to get back up in time to avoid a fourth hit, killing him instantly.
Pharah and Falcon saw this, powerless to do anything as Fareeha landed back behind the crate. She knew both of them couldn't fly out of this, so they needed another way out. She looked out from behind her hiding place for a brief second and then popped straight back into cover. She managed to see enough, seeing Reinhardt a short distance away, busy fighting off drones while using his barrier to avoid the mech's weapon. Ana was frantically healing him up, throwing biotic grenades and firing shots into him frequently, while also firing at other agents in the area.
"Reinhardt, I need a barrier in front of the door to get Falcon out of here."
Reinhardt looked back briefly, seeing Pharah wave from behind cover. "Right away, though it won't hold for long."
Pharah stood up, picking up Falcon and supporting him with one of her arms. She gave the signal to Reinhardt and he moved towards them, activating his barrier and giving them time to move. They ran behind the cover as Reinhardt moved sideways. The mech however was still operational and even with Sombra hacking into it, the mech managed to fire, taking the shield down once again. The drones took advantage of this very quickly, firing and hitting Falcon, which caused both him and Pharah to fall. She tried to get him up but was unable to in time, as the drones shot him and killed him. Reinhardt now saw the mech charging for another shot and his barrier was not charging quick enough. He moved in front of Pharah, raising his shield as the mech fired. The shield fell while the mech was still firing, causing Reinhardt to take the full brunt of the attack for Pharah.
Reinhardt turned around to face Pharah, his shield now inoperable thanks to the damage to his armour.
"FAREEHA, RUN!"
He took another hit from the mech, chunks of his armour falling off as he fell forward. Fareeha immediately ran towards cover but never made it, taking a shot in the back of her left leg and falling to the floor. She flipped onto her back as she crawled away, drones approaching her to finish the job. Ana saw the events unfolding and was firing at the approaching drones, but was unable to stop them all.
"FAREEHA, MOVE!" She pleaded through her comm, but it was no use, as a drone got to her and pointed its weapon straight at her. Ana was left powerless as Fareeha closed her eyes, prepared for what was going to happen.
However, the shot never came.
Instead, she felt a large impact nearby before hearing the drone smashed by something. She opened her eyes to see the remains of the drone falling from the door and as she looked to her left, she couldn't believe her eyes.
"TILL VALHALLA!"
Torb, Falcon and Reinhardt glowed gold, being resurrected and fully healed up. Everyone stopped once again and started at the sight.
"Impossible..." The mech said quietly.
Angela was alive. More importantly, Angela was holding Mjolnir and her entire appearance had changed. She now was wearing armour and a helmet which had wings on it, making her look extremely Nordic. (Think of the Valkyrie skin)
Mercy now raised Mjolnir up and lighting struck it, powering her up. Ana, who was watching the entire event from her vantage point, had an idea. She aimed her nano boost and fired at Mercy.
"YOUR ALL POWERED UP, GET IN THERE!" She shouted as the mech charged its weapon and fired at Mercy. She wasn't phased however, dodging to her right and firing the collected lightning into the mech
"I AM UNSTOPPABLE!" As Mercy said this, Ultron had no choice but to agree, as the mech was forced to kneel due to the power of the attack. Mercy stopped the lightning and threw the hammer into the mech, causing it to fall into its back. She then ran forward, catching the hammer and leaping up, crashing it down on the mech, finally destroying it.
As the nano boost wore off, Angela looked over towards the remaining drones, who decided that the fight was lost and ran away, taking off and retreating fully away from Gibraltar.
"Oh, now they run." Falcon said, still trying to understand what just happened to him.
As the drones took off, Widowmaker, who was still positioned on the hanger roof, fired at the escaping drones. She fired off a number of shots, reloading multiple times and managed to take out most of the escaping drones. Some still managed to escape, flying low and out of her line of sight, but this number was far smaller now. Once the last drone Widow could see fell, she lowered her rifle and remained on the hanger roof, in case any stragglers flew up.
Meanwhile on the ground, the defenders turned to face the now resurrected Angela. Just as they did, a dropship took off from the landing pad. Widow attempted to fire at the pilot but was unable to get a clear shot.
"Oh no you don't!" Angela said aloud, as she flew after the ship. She landed inside as the doors closed, the prime at the controls not realising the intruder was aboard. Angela snuck up behind him, grabbed him by the throat and threw him to the back of the ship.
"I take it your not the forgive and forget type?" Ultron said, seeing the super powered medic in front of him.
Angela didn't reply. She opened the doors and picked up the prime, throwing him out with tremendous force and sent him crashing into the ground. Without a pilot and autopilot offline, the drop ship quickly descended into the ocean.
The prime recovered from being slammed into the ground slowly, the force of the impact crippling its ability it fly and causing high levels of damage. As it leaned up, it's damaged arm fell off, causing a grunt of annoyance from Ultron. Wanda had seen where the prime crashed and had walked over to it, preparing her powers as she did so.
Ultron saw her approach and saw the fury in her eyes. Something had happened that caused her to hate him and he didn't know what.
"Wanda, why? Why do you hate me so much?"
"You really have to ask." She replied coldly.
"The meteor? Sokovia? This is what this is all about? Where's your brother? He might be able to tell..."
Ultron saw that she seemed to get angrier when he mentioned him and realised what must of happened.
"Oh no... I'm so sorry...how?"
"When you took the jet... your attack run killed him." She had tears in her eyes as she looked at her brothers killer.
"I get it now...ripping my heart out back at Sokovia because I ripped yours out..." Ultron understood now and he felt regret. He did truly care about them, even when they turned against him. Hearing that changed everything.
Wanda knelt down next to Ultron, activating her powers and grabbing his power core. In seconds she ripped it from his chest, deactivating the prime. As she was left holding the power core, Captain America walked up behind her.
"You okay?"
Wanda let out a long breath, throwing away the power core as she replied. "Yeah, I'm okay." Cap held out his hand and Wanda accepted it, being helped up. She nodded at Cap and walked back towards the others, while Cap looked at the now destroyed prime unit. This was the one covered in Vibranium, which gave him an idea.
"Stark, where are you?"
"At the lab. The EMP took a hit." Cap paused for a moment hearing this. The EMP was vital for their plan, so if Ultron managed to destroy it, the plan went out the window.
"I'm near the landing pad a short distance from the hanger. Can you meet me here?" Cap asked.
"I'll be there shortly."
Meanwhile Pharah had stood up against a crate, looking at her injury. It wasn't serious, but it was enough to stop her walking properly. Just as she was worrying about her injury, Ana shot her with her biotic rifle. With the injury healed, Pharah put pressure back on her leg and looked up at Ana.
"Thanks mom." Ana jumped down from her vantage point and walked over to her daughter, hugging her tightly as she reached her.
"Don't ever scare me like that again." As the two Amari's hugged, Mercy landed next to them.
"Your looking good for someone who was reported dead." Ana joked.
"Look who's talking." Mercy joked back, gaining a chuckle from Ana. As the rest of the defenders recovered, Ana grabbed her rifle, nodding at the two women next to her and walked off to heal them up.
"So..." Fareeha spoke up after a moment silence. "Are you okay? Like really? We heard that you were killed." She took ahold of Angela's hand, worried about her friend.
"I'm fine Fareeha. Thank you for worrying."
"Are you sure about that Ang?" The two women looked round to see Lena standing close by, holding Angela's healing staff and had a look of concern in her eye. She clearly had blinked over to the hanger shortly after the hammer landed with Angela. "One moment we were all mourning you, the next your the goddess of thunder!"
"I'm not a..." Angela started, before she put Mjolnir down on the nearby crate and placed an arm around Lena, keeping the other one around Fareeha. "Look, I don't really know what happened, but I remember being on the ground after being shot by Ultron. The next thing I know, I'm holding this hammer and feel extremely powered up. I'm still me though and nothing is going to change that."
The two friends relaxed slightly, hearing Angela's soft voice convinced them their friend was okay. As the three hugged, Lena remembered that she was holding Angela's healing staff.
"Oh, I think this is yours." She said, handing over the staff. "You were in a bit of a rush so I brought it over."
"Ah, wondered what happened to that, thanks." Angela took the staff, leaning it against the crate with Mjolnir on. Soon after she did this, Vision landed nearby and walked over.
"Doctor Ziegler, I'm glad to see you've recovered from your injuries." He said, pointing towards the hammer as he did so.
"So go on Vis, why is she suddenly the goddess of thunder?" Lena asked, motioning towards Angela with her head as she did so.
"From what I've gathered, anyone that Mjolnir deems worthy can hold it and is able to use the powers of Thor. Now Thor was unfortunately kicked back through a portal, leaving behind his hammer. The hammer must of deemed Miss Ziegler worthy and, when she was killed by Ultron, gave her the powers of Thor."
"But why me? Genji is worthy and I've heard from the other Avengers that you are as well. I'm just a medic and I hate violence." Angela asked, still unsure why the hammer decided to give her the power.
"A hammer is as much a tool for building as it is a weapon for war. You understand the consequences of violence and understand the price that is payed."
"Ang, when Emily was kidnapped, you didn't hesitate to help me rescue her. That's why I think your worthy, not because you hate violence, but because your willing to help those who need it, even when violence has to happen."
Lena smiled up at Angela, as she nodded at Vision. He took his leave and left the three alone. Lena was the first to break the silence.
"By the way, I like your new outfit Ang, really works for you." This gained a laugh from Angela.
"Thanks Lena." Angela looked over to Fareeha, seeing her looking at her with a raised eyebrow. "What?"
"So you couldn't resist shouting 'Till Valhalla' when you resurrected those three." She said, causing Lena to giggle.
"Oh, you didn't." Lena said.
Angela smiled. "Guilty. I might of gotten slightly into it."
"Slightly's an understatement. Besides, it's not every day that you can summon lightning, so can't really say I blame ya luv." Lena said, winking as she did
As the three of them laughed, Fareeha thought of something. "Ang, you know your nano tech, how does it work now that your..." She motioned to the hammer resting nearby.
"That's... actually a good question." She looked around and saw Winston. "Hey Winston!" He walked over, clearly lost for words at her revival. "Mind if I use your equipment in the lab? I'll explain later."
"You don't need to ask Angela, your welcome to use it whenever you need to."
Angela picked up her healing staff and the hammer, before she turned around and walked towards the lab. Fareeha and Lena looked at each other, before walking after her.
Volskaya Industries
The Ultron prime left in command at Volskaya walked out of the factory, away from the production line, towards the entrance to the factory. The attack on Overwatch hadn't gone exactly to plan. He had managed to weaken them, damaging whatever the device was in Winston's lab and taking Thor out of the picture. However, the current situation regarding Mercy now concerned him greatly. Not only was she still alive, she now possessed Thor's powers.
This raised a number of concerns for Ultron. Was Mercy able to do everything Thor could do? He had to assume she could. What about her previous abilities. He knew she could still resurrect, but what of her nano tech. How did Thor's powers affect those. He felt like he simply removed one problem and replaced it with another.
On top of that, one of his tatical advantages was the prime that had the Vibranium build into it. That advantage had just been lost thanks to Scarlet Witch. Now he needed to reinforce the defences and prepare for the counter attack that was certainly coming. As he approached the entrance, he signaled over the commanding Omnic, which moved over to him.
Thankfully, the Russians had not tried to attack the facility again since the last attempt, yet Ultron knew this could mean that another attempt was imminent. With the odds now twisting towards the enemy, he needed to reinforce his defences and make sure any holes were removed.
"The attack on Overwatch didn't go as planned." Ultron stated to the Omnic. It simply tilted its head before replying
"What do you mean "as planned?"
"Well... most of the force I sent was destroyed... and I may not of crippled them as I expected to."
The Omnic continued to stare at Ultron, clearly unamused by the explanation. "Also I may of lost the prime with the Vibranium..." The Omnic looked at the defences before replying.
"So you've lost a major advantage we had over Overwatch and a number of your drones are gone." The Omnic was clearly aggravated at this.
"It sounds worse than it is, all we need to do is..."
"No." The Omnic interrupted Ultron. "You said we would get revenge on Overwatch and while you've been attacking them, we've been here defending your rocket. now your attack on them has failed, you've shown that your not up to the task." A number of Null Sector Omnic's appeared and surrounded Ultron, all of them aiming their weapons at him. "Therefore, we will take over command of this operation. Now, how about you place your drones on the defensive lines and we will fall back and make a plan of attack."
Ultron simply continued staring at the Omnic commander. Obviously, they didn't quite understand that Ultron was all the drones and the prime at the factory. However, he didn't need the drones to deal with this small rebellion.
"And if I refuse?"
"Then we'll take you out of the picture."
Ultron simply chuckled at the reply, angering the Omnic commander. "Try it, I dare you."
With that, the Omnic gave the order. "Fire!"
The Omnic's around Ultron prepared to fire, but were unable to. Their systems began to shut down, one by one all over the factory.
"Might of forgotten to mention. Back at your the Kings Row base I took the liberty of installing a back door into your systems. By your systems I mean..."
"Our actual systems..." The Omnic commander said slowly, realising what was happening and preparing itself.
"Having control over Anubis has a few advantages. Now since you wanted me to do all the work, I'll do it. But I'll have a few new pieces of hardware to help me out." With that, the Omnic's eyes changed colour to a dark red, shutting down and powering back up. The Omnic commander then spoke to the prime in front of it.
"Guess that's the end of Null Sector." Ultron had assimilated the entire Omnic force at the factory. "Now the world."
Watchpoint Gibraltar- Winston's Lab.
Angela was on one of Winston's computers, analysing her nano tech with Mjolnir placed next to her. Fareeha was leaning against a wall close by, holding on to Angela's healing staff. At the other side of the lab, Winston was looking at the damage to the EMP, watched over by Reaper and Soldier 76. Everyone else, including the Avengers, were checking around the base, making sure all of the drones had left.
As Angela typed, occasionally pausing and reading the screen, Lena walked back into the lab, after making a call and checking in on Emily.
"How is she?" Angela asked as Lena approached her.
"She's okay. She says that the town wasn't hit too bad since Ultron was more focused on us. I told her to keep away for a while though because of..." Lena motioned towards Reaper, still uneasy of the temporary alliance with the Talon agents.
"You can go see her Lena, I really don't mind."
"I will do later. Right now, I'm still worried about you luv." Lena replied. "What have you learned?"
Fareeha now walked over, wanting to hear as well.
"I can't believe what I'm seeing. The nano tech has been powered up by the hammer. My healing factor is so effective now, I could be shot and the wound would heal instantly. In fact I think I could take the level of damage Reinhardt blocks with his barrier and still be able to out heal it."
"So your... what immortal now?" Fareeha asked, amazed at what the computer screen was saying.
"No, I can still be killed. At the moment, it's going to take a lot to take me down though."
"That could be helpful." Lena said.
"There's more." Angela added, taking hold of her healing staff. "According to this, the healing staff has also had a power boost. I can now heal much quicker and the beam will hit multiple people at once."
Both Lena and Fareeha looked at Angela sceptically, as she activated her healing staff and connected the beam to Lena. The beam hit her, before splitting off into outlooks directions, hitting Fareeha, soldier and Reaper, with Winston was just out of range. The beam caused both Soldier and Reaper to turn around and look over at Angela. As she shut off the beam, they both turned back around to Winston.
"What happened to her?" Asked Reaper
"It's a long story that I'm sure someone will explain later." Winston answered, more worried by the state of the EMP. As he continued to analyse the damage to the device, Captain America and Iron Man walked into the lab.
"How bad's the damage?" Asked Cap
Winston looked away from the device and sighed. "We have a problem. Ultron did a number on the payload and it's not going to move any time soon."
"What about the EMP itself?" Asked Morrison.
"The detonator and the EMP are working, though there's no way to move it into position."
"What if we remove that part from the payload then and just simply walked it into position instead?" Asked Lena, overhearing the conversation.
"The payload is an amplifier. Without it, the blast won't be as effective." Winston replied.
"What's the effective range without the rest of the payload?" Asked Reaper
"Probably the size of this building, maybe a little less or more."
Reaper thought for a moment before replying. "That would be enough to neutralise the production line."
Winston understood where Reaper was going. "The device would still be vulnerable while it activated, someone would have to protect it, putting them in the blast range."
"Then I'll walk it there myself and protect it, no tech to worry about then."
Winston nodded, before turning back to the payload and opening up a panel, removing a large metal ball from the centre. "This is the detonator, I'll modify this so it can be activated manually, though it's too vulnerable like this, even with Reaper protecting it."
"Actually I can help with that." Stark interrupted. "Wanda managed to take down the Ultron prime with the Vibranium. It's the same metal that Cap's shield is made from and the reason why we struggled to take him down. So if we use that Vibranium on that device..."
"It'll be one less thing to worry about." Morrison concluded. "How long will that take to make?"
"The only things I'll need to do is add a switch and get the Vibranium onto this." Winston answered.
"I'll lend a hand getting the Vibranium onto it." Stark added
"Then not long at all." Winston concluded.
"Right, then we need to make a plan of attack, and quickly." Cap said.
"We have one, we just need to adapt it." Said Morrison. "Lena, go find Torb and, if he isn't already, tell him to work on that dropship."
"Roger." Lena blinked out of the lab, rushing over to the hanger.
"The plan needs to remain the same apart from the EMP, Reyes will deliver it to the production line. Everyone else will focus on the defenders and take them out the old fashioned way. Not a single one can be left." Morrison said.
"Ultron will be heavily protecting that rocket, we need to keep it on the ground and if it manages to take off, bring it back down." Cap said. "Stark can deal with the rocket and from what I've seen, I think Mercy will be able to as well." He looked over to Angela.
"If it comes to it, I should be able to." Mercy said, confident in her new abilities
Morrison nodded at the reply. "Better inform everyone of the plan."