How I Spent My Vacation
(Writer's Block is drop kicked into a black hole.)
Wanda: There. That should take it longer to respawn...I hope...
Tyene: Hope springs eternal.
Wanda: I refer you all to the first chapter for the disclaimer.
Chapter 10: Going for a Ride, Part 1
"Everybody out! Take the nearest bridge and evacuation procedures immediately! Do not stop for supplies!"
Sonorus spells were very handy for evacuation efforts. Ginny was standing on a rooftop, her voice amplified once more as she urged Sokovian citizens to leave their houses and take the nearest street past the borders. Wanda was nearby, using her magic of suggestion to achieve the same effect. The two witches had come to an unspoken agreement to stick together for this mission.
Ginny could see Clint and Steve both waving the people onward across the bridges. Bruce had gone to find Natasha below the surface with Thor. The Vision was floating in the sky...Ginny wasn't sure exactly what he was planning. Tony was looking for Ultron.
Dawn was approaching quickly. Ginny felt her pulse quickening. What was Ultron waiting for? They had been here for nearly an hour.
Ginny hopped down to assist an elderly woman who was struggling to keep up with her grandchildren. She had just brought the woman across the border when a huge rumbling nearly knocked them both off their feet.
Thinking quickly, Ginny apparated back to the other side of the bridge.
The ground...was rising. Buildings shuddered and broke apart as Sokovia burst free of the ground, rising higher and higher into the sky. Ultron had built the first flying continent, but he hadn't done it for the sake of tourism.
He was creating his very own Extinction Meteor.
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Ginny gaped wordlessly down at the shrinking earth; she didn't have long to be surprised though. Hundreds – no, thousands – of Ultron's drones made themselves known moments later, attacking both the Avengers and the terrified civilians who hadn't yet been evacuated.
"All of you get inside a building!" Ginny yelled, casting a shield out as far as she could over the heads of screaming families. Realizing she had been separated from Clint and Wanda, she quickly emptied the parking lot, placed protective wards around the building containing the frightened people and warned them not to leave. Then she began to make her way down the streets.
"I swear to god, if I ever-!" SMASH! "EVER!" MAUL! "see another bloody one of these stones-!" CRASH! Tinkle! "before time itself comes to a stop-!" THUD! SMASH! CREEEK! "-It'll be too soon!" Ginny seethed.
She was taking a page from the Death Eater style of combat, which is to say picking a powerful spell and spamming it as if it were going out of style. In her case, that spell was Reducto.
Voldemort had usually been called a genius, but if you only knew the man from the battles in which he only used two of the vast array of spells created over the centuries, you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise.
"Hey, here's a ticket to a high end party!" CRASH! "You'll meet some great friends there!" BOOM! "You'll have a lot of fun!" THUD! MAUL! BOOM! "Did I mention you'll have to re enact Galaga on a floating fucking country? No!? Well too bad!"
Safe to say, Ginny wasn't very happy with Ultron's theatrics.
"A floating fucking country! Fuck, even Malfoy isn't crazy enough to come with shit like this! Maybe the aliens are a good thing, indeed, Hermione! Easy for you to say when you aren't the one standing in this shit right now!"
Ginny burst through the allyway she had been travelling in, grinning when she found another horde of victims begging to be blasted to bits. The first drone didn't even see her coming – the Reducto hit the back of its head because it was too focused on a couple of policemen who were valiantly dedicated to their jobs, however outmatched they were.
"A stone that can change reality and create psychotic AI? That sounds like a brilliant thing to keep! What? You think we should toss it straight into the nearest black hole? That would be just stupid!"
Blam blam blam blam blam! Three more drones dropped on the spot. Ginny, getting fed up with having to it one drone at a time, came up with a new tactic as she found herself surrounded. "Augmentai!"
What happens when cold water is suddenly superheated?
Ginny spun in a circle, casting flames directly at the frozen bots. The drones exploded violently; even Vibranium was still a kind of metal. And metal can be reshaped.
"I mean, why would you want to get rid of something that dangerous when you can just fuck around with it and get the universe destroyed? Yes, it worked for Vision, but that's because of Tony, and Tony's pretty much one of a kind! Why would anyone else want to keep that shit around when it explodes at the slightest provocation!?"
It was safe to say at this point in her life that Ginny had a certain distaste for politics – especially warfare politics.
Back to spamming Reducto. Malfoy once said that the Weasley family had no sense of style, which of course was more important than morals to a pompous shite like that. Ginny retorted that style didn't count for very much when you were trying to not fucking die. Like right now.
"Power is far more important than common sense! Leave your brain at the front desk when handling these things, you won't be needing it!"
Ginny blasted apart the final drone in the square. A moment later, Pietro burst onto the scene, tossing aside a disembodied arm he'd ripped off in a scrape.
"Wanda and the old man need some help." He said, using his nickname for Clint (he had come up with it after their first scuffle.) the fact that it pissed the archer off just gave him more reason to use it.
"Where are they?" Ginny asked. Pietro offered her his hand in response.
After accepting it, the redhaired witch squeaked in surprise when she found herself picked up, bridal style, before being rushed through the streets. The world turned into a blur for a moment before she found more drones and more people.
Clint and Wanda had indeed been backed into a corner – there was a shed there, but it lead straight to a dead end. Once she was back on her feet, Ginny started throwing more blasting curses around.
"Done a bunch of shitty stuff in your life? Congratulations, you get to run for Minister of Magic! Fought for peace and equality and lost a lot in the process? The universe will continue attempting to fuck you over, except this time it has psychotic computer people and flying rocks!" Ginny kept on ranting as she fought.
"Who's running for Minister of Magic?" Clint asked; she had told him a bit about her country structure.
He'd called it 'questionable, even by third world country standards'. The most embarrassing part of that was she didn't even have a way to refute the comparison.
"Draco Fucking Malfoy! Never mind that he has the goddamned dark mark on his arm, folks, because he's totally turned over a new leaf! It's not like his dad did the exact same thing after the first war was over! Nope, no similarities there at all!"
"They're letting that brat run or politics?" Wanda asked in disbelief; she'd been well informed on Malfoy's racist antics at Hogwarts. "Why!?"
"Because," Ginny seethed, pouring her concentration into her next spell: Incendio. "these people-!" Two drones melted into slag. "NEVER!" Five. "FUCKING!" Ten. "LEARN!"
Fifteen in one spell! That was a record for her. Maybe she should keep trying to top it for the rest of the day. Ooh! Maybe she could even out shoot Thor! Perfect bragging points.
"Fifteen! That's a new record! COME AND GET ME!" Ginny said gleefully, throwing the middle finger at more approaching drones.
"Fifteen what?" Clint asked, before comprehension flashed across his face. He grinned and pretended to tip his hat to her. "I've gotten twenty so far. Keep up, kid!"
"Kid!? Is that a challenge?" Ginny asked tauntingly. She blasted apart another drone without even turning around. "You don't want to race against a witch, Clint!"
"I'll take my chances!" Clint responded. "How about you Wanda?"
Wanda, who had been struggling a bit, lit up with competitive spirit. She straightened up and grabbed a drone with her chaos magic. Ripping it in half, she then proceeded to use it as a bludgeoning tool, smashing drones out of the air and across the ground. In a few seconds, she cleared out the corner.
"Thirty!" The Scarlet Witch chipped in brightly.
"Oh come on!" Clint groaned.
"Hey! No kill stealing!" Ginny yelled indigently.
Determined not to be overtaken, Clint tapped his communicator while Ginny set up protection for the civilians again. "Steve, we're all clear here."
A crackle, then Steve's indigent, "We are not clear! We are very not clear!"
"Right. We're coming to you then."
Ginny grinned. She whipped her Firebolt out of her hand bag, sized it back to normal and yelled, "Race you!" before leaping on and barrelling across the sky, blasting a couple drones out of the way while she was at it.
Before Clint could respond, Pietro appeared out of nowhere and swept his sister up in his arms. "Keep up old man!" He added tauntingly, leaving the startled and furious archer behind.
Clint, apoplectic, drew an arrow and aimed it halfway between the ground where Pietro had vanished and the sky where Ginny had gone.
"No one would know..." He muttered to himself, before hurrying forward, grumbling, "What, the kids? Haven't seen 'em! Last time I checked Ultron was using them for baseballs. Quick little bastards, I miss them already!"
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"Sixty two! Sixty seven!" Ginny chanted, having gone back to Incendio for quick mass kills. The open area near the bridge Steve had been holding left plenty of room and plenty of enemies to smash!
Speaking of smash...
Ginny landed next to Wanda, who was once again assisting a bunch of cops. Several paces away from them, Hulk was rampaging through the street, taking out dozens of drones with a single stride of his massive legs and arms.
"Wanda? I think Bruce has an unfair advantage." She remarked, jerking a thumb in the direction of the Green Goliath.
Wanda took a glance at the carnage left in his wake and winced. "Yeah. It'll be hard to keep up with that."
"It might not be if we work together." Ginny suggested.
Wanda's eyes lit up. "I like the sound of that."
Ginny nodded and decided to mimic something Hermione had done waaaaay back in her second year, when Lockhart had left the class at the mercy of a bunch of angry pixies. Except this time, she used it on all the drones directly in front of them.
All one hundred and fifty of them.
Wanda then blasted them all to bits with several energy bombs, blasts, and Reductos. With Ginny's help, they didn't even last a full minute.
"Three hundred and six!" The two girls chorused, earning a flabbergasted "WHAT!?" from Clint and a furious "That's cheating!" from Pietro.
They were duly ignored.
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Steve, who was not too far away, rolled his eyes. Natasha, meanwhile, gave an affectionately amused chuckle. "At least someone's having fun!" She said.
Before Steve could respond, a voice broke over their intercom. "I was hoping they wouldn't be the only ones, Romanov."
A second later, a huge and familiar Hellicarrier emerged from the below the clouds, matching pace with the still accelerating country. The voice belonged to none of than Nick Fury, who continued, "I hear the civilians aren't enjoying themselves quite as much, so I thought I'd pull them out. How does that sound to you?"
Steve let out a laugh of amazement and disbelief. "Fury, you son of a bitch."
"Tony's figured out a way to blow up the city." This time, the voice belonged to Colonel Rhodes. Fully decked out in the War Machine suit, the other Iron Avenger was flying around the carrier, protecting it from enemy fire. He wasn't alone, either – Sam Wilson was with him! "But we have to get the people off this rock first!"
"Right. I'll pass it on; get the boats ready!" Steve said with renewed determination.
He turned around to find himself face to face with another drone. Before either he or Natasha could react, a great force smashed its head apart from behind. The other five who had been closing in shared the same fate. Confused, Steve looked all around...before his heart jumped into his throat.
A familiar black clad figure was perched on a nearby building, picking off the extensions of Ultron who got too close to the core Avengers.
James Barns didn't have an intercom, at his own request – but in this case, he didn't need one.
End Chapter
I'm back! Next time, Ultron is defeated, and Hermione finally returns Ginny's texts! Civil War will not happen because I friggin hate that plot.
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