Okay, I honestly just realised that Sam and Rodney were actually two different people – they look so alike! Or is this just me, I keep getting them mixed up. It wasn't until I saw the different clothing all of a sudden during the party and this scene. Sam must have left the party before the Avenger's hammer scene. It's a good thing I realized now before I got any further in because I had to re-edit the last chapter to get it right, haha.

Avengers: The Age of Ultron | Saviours | Aftermath

"All our work is gone." Bruce breathed in shock … like this day couldn't be happening, his eyes darting around the lab area where he and Tony had been practically hiding in for the past couple of days. "Ultron cleared out, using the internet as an escape hatch."

Steve shook his head, almost disgusted by the name. "Ultron." He scoffed, not believing how two members of his team could go behind they're his back and create a monster (even if they knew it at the time or not). The thing that pissed him and them and the rest off the most, was the fact that this secret project was kept a secret from them – they're own team.

Avery was keeping to herself, quiet and listening. She couldn't believe what was happening – after finding out what Tony Stark and Bruce Banner had done behind everyone's backs; she couldn't help but feel a tremendous amount of anger run through her veins. She didn't know much about Shield other than what the boys had told her, but she knew Hydra and everything connected with it. And that's where her anger laid. Those two idiots had basically stripped the Avengers' of their identity and exactly copied what Hydra and Shield were to the point. The Avengers' were supposed to be different from both Shield and Hydra, but right now, she couldn't even see that difference anymore.

Natasha sighed, having finished browsing through some of the computers, "He's been in everything." She informed them, twisting around so she was face to face with everyone else. All of them had come straight to the lab where Ultron was created, forgetting about the party and to see what damage Tony and Bruce had done. "Files, surveillance…" Natasha had gotten out of her party dress and shoes the moment she had a chance, now she only wore the jogging uniform that was rarely used but stored in her room in the Stark Tower. She crossed her arms, leaning against the side of one of the tables. "He probably knows more about us than we know each other."

Rhodes still held his damaged arm, the one he landed on after his descent down to the floor below – courtesy of Tony's destructive bots. "He's in your files, he's in the internet." He summarized briefly, pacing over to stand by Agent Hill who was still tending to her feet, shards of glass piercing at her skin. "But what if he decides to access something a little more exciting?"

Agent Hill knew exactly what he was saying, what they all should be dreading more than anything else right now. "Nuclear codes."

"Nuclear codes." Rhodes nodded. "Look, we need to make some calls, assuming we still can."

Natasha wasn't buying it, "Nukes?" She said with an ounce of doubt, "He said he wanted us dead." Although, if the machine did fire nukes towards them – they could actually result in dying anyway, but not only that, hundreds of thousands of people will suffer in death too.

Bucky shook his head, "He didn't say 'dead' though," He said, unconsciously bringing himself nearer to Avery - who actually stood next to him, both leaning against the table behind. She didn't move away from this, finding it oddly comforting having him so close – almost like a protector. She still wore her nightly outfit and even though he wouldn't say it (wanting Ava to still feel comfortable with him) he was really liking her choice of clothing tonight. Very nice…

Steve nodded, remembering the choice of words Ultron had indeed used. "Exactly, he said 'extinct.'."

Clint decided to pitch in. "He also mentioned killing someone." He looked pissed that they couldn't save this person who didn't have a name or face. But if Ultron had killed someone, where was the body?

Agent Hill frowned, confused, "But there wasn't anyone else left in the building." Everyone from the party had left hours before their little get together on the balcony.

"Yes, there was." Tony sighed with sorrow, grabbing his mini tablet before walking into the middle of the room. He flicked the device outwards and out popped up an almost ball of orange holographic pieces floating in the air, but it looked so broken with many scattered pieces.

Everyone in the room knew instantly who was killed when this was formed.

"What?" Bruce gasped, taking hesitant steps towards the remains of the AI everyone grew to love; Jarvis. "This is insane." Not believing how much damage Ultron had done to Jarvis, it was utterly unbelievable.

Steve bowed his head, feeling sorry for the now deceased AI. Even though Jarvis wasn't an actual human being like they were, he was still a part of the Avengers'. "Jarvis was the first line of defence. He would have shut Ultron down. It makes sense."

"No." Bruce shook his head, a frown forming on his lips, still looking at the broken pieces floating in the air. "Ultron could have assimilated Jarvis." He gestured to Jarvis with his hands, trying to make his point clear, "This isn't a strategy. This is … rage."

Large thumps filled the air, making their way with anger towards Tony. Tony only turned around the second he found himself dangling in the air while a hand slowly crushed his throat. It was Thor. He now wore his Asgardian warrior uniform, his hammer clutched in the hand that wasn't in the middle of crushing the life out of Stark.

"Woah, woah, woah." Steve straightened up, not wanting a fight to break out no matter how much he wanted to be in Thor's place right now, his hand around Tony's throat. Everyone else straightened up too, either thinking the same thing as Steve and not wanting more violence, or they actually want Tony to feel some more pain after what he's done.

Clint was one of the ones who wanted Tony to at least get a good punch from the God, "It's going around." He muttered to himself, narrowing his eyes at Stark.

Tony's hands were gripped around Thor's very strong one, barely any oxygen able to get into his lungs. "Come on, use your words, buddy." He croaked with very little breath going into his words, only Thor could have heard what he said.

Thor's eyes pierced him with anger, his hand clutching tighter. "I have more than enough words to describe you, Stark."

"Thor." Steve took a step forwards, seeing that no one else was going to try and stop this future-brewing fight, "The Legionnaire." He spoke the word that meant team member; because even though Tony had screwed up, they needed him to help fix this monumental problem in front of them.

Thor paused for a moment before throwing Stark out of his grip, making the man stumble and grasp his own throat as the oxygen finally filled his lungs back up. He groaned with discomfort quietly, although never reporting that what Thor had done wasn't a bad thing. Tony knew he screwed up – although he won't fully admit it out loud – he just made a mistake. But now it was time to fix that mistake.

Avery could help but silently think, 'What a shame' when Thor threw him down. But that was the Winter talking, the real Ava would never say yes to killing a man on her team, even if they've done something incredibly stupid.

Thor was still brimming with furiousness, "The trail went cold about 100 miles out, but it's headed north." He glanced around to his fellow Avengers', all feeling the exact thing he was when it came to the situation they've been forced back into. His eyes finally landed on Tony, and they glared at him. "And he has the scepter. Now we have to retrieve it, again!"

"Genie's out of that bottle," Natasha nodded over towards the Ultron bot they had destroyed only an hour ago, "Clear and present is Ultron."

Dr. Cho, who had been silently listening and internally trying to forget that she could have been killed tonight if it hadn't been for Bucky, was now staring down at the robot Ultron had been occupying in – the mess of a bot was laying on top of a metal table. "I don't understand." She said slowly, but it was loud enough to gain everyone's attention. She turned towards Tony, her eyes full of confusion, "You built this program." Tony made his way over to a surviving computer as she spoke. "Why is it trying to kill us?"

There was a moment of silence before something startling happened, and this wasn't a pleasant event. Tony laughed; he slowly began to chuckle but turned into full-blown laughter. Everyone was beginning to wonder if he had either finally gone crazy, or he just doesn't get how serious his actions could become. Banner was standing next to him, shaking his head silently with panic staring into fill his eyes. Everyone else wasn't finding this predicament funny – so why the hell was he?

"Do you think this is funny?!" Avery finally spoke up; her tone was deadly calm but you could almost sense the undeniable murder in her voice. She stopped leaning against the table with Bucky, but her arms were still crossed against her chest, her metal arm constricting with the need fight, to relieve the tension.

Tony finally stopped laughing for a second, turning towards her with an odd look. "No." He replied, looking as though a second ago he hadn't been laughing at what he had created in this very room. "It's probably not, right?" He looked around to everyone else. He was acting as thought he really was going crazy, "This is very terrible. Is it so-" He laughs again, "-Is it so … It is. It's so terrible."

Thor stepped forwards looking exasperated – he hated when a fight between friends and allies was in motion, not that he had exactly done anything to stop it. He started it actually. "This could have been avoided if you hadn't played with something you don't understand."

Tony was having enough of the blame game, "No. I'm sorry." He apologised, but not really, "I'm sorry. It is funny. It a hoot that you don't get why we need this." Feeling the urge of anger that none of them were trying to understand why he had to do this. What he was trying to accomplish.

"Uh, Tony." Bruce called from behind, looking uncomfortable, "Maybe this isn't such a good time."

Tony spun around to Bruce, "Really?" His voice rising, "That's it? You just roll over, show your belly every time somebody snarls?"

"Only when I've created a murder bot." Bruce retorted, looking at him dumbly like this should be what he's doing too.

"We didn't!" Tony exclaimed looking defensive, "We weren't even close. Were we close to an interface?" But all he got in return was a look that said 'We were, and you knew that!'

"You were playing with fire, Stark!" Ava suddenly yelled, causing many people to jump but also Tony who spun around to her. Bruce was looking at her wide-eyed, seeing her eyes practically turn red with an emotion he couldn't seem to quite grasp with. She strode up to him, practically in his face now, "And you knew that! You just didn't care." She continued, Steve and Bucky stood there still in their stances, never seeing her like this before. And this outburst was different from both the Hallway and the gym.

Tony felt the need to counter what she was saying, "Of course I care! It's why I invented Ultron as a peace-keeping program."

Ava gave a hollow laugh before repeating mockingly, "Wow, a peace-keeping program." Narrowing her eyes dangerously, "How's that working out for you? I bet hundreds of people are already dead because of your stunt." She paused, relishing in the realisation fluttering in his orbs but she didn't call it out, "You know what I think? … I think the man I'm seeing in front of me is an exact replica of Hydra just built into one body. They went head first into something they didn't understand too – and then, they created me, an emotionless soldier built to torture and kill under orders. The only difference is; is that they used me, a human who had a life beforehand and luckily I got my memories back so I could stop myself. But right now? You've created something much worse than Hydra did." She cocked an eyebrow, tilting her head with question. "So, what the hell makes you any different from them?"

Everyone was stunned into silence; you couldn't even hear anyone even breathing.

"The Avengers' were supposed be different from Hydra … from Shield." She paused, "And as far as I'm concerned – you've destroyed what's made the Avengers' who they stand for. We were supposed to be a team, but where you were a couple of hours ago, it was just a one-man's game."

Tony was silent for a moment, honestly stunned by how right she sounded. A great pit in his stomach began to form; he blinked, trying to think of a way to steer away from the subject she just rose. "Does anybody remember when I carried a nuke through a wormhole?" He looked around to everyone with his words, but they stayed silent. Apart from Rhodes that was.

"No, it's never come up." He replied, shaking his head but you could tell by his face he knew exactly what Tony was talking about and what he was doing. He too was still thinking about what Avery had said. How right she actually sounded, and by glancing to everyone else to see what they were thinking – he was sure their faces mirrored the exact same expression as him.

"Saved New York?"

Avery could understand the bravery, courage and sacrifice he had made that day. But it still didn't give him the right to go behind their backs like this. A big part of her was thankful to Tony after hearing that he had saved everyone from a nuke that day – it was one of the things her brother had mentioned during one of their sharing sessions.

"No, never."

"Recall, that?!" Everyone who had witnessed that day did lower their heads – Tony had indeed saved the lives of New York that day, along with them. But parts of them knew that even that couldn't excuse him from what he's done now. He didn't think this through – he didn't include them in the debate. They were supposed to be a team; a solid one. A family of weirdly sorts. "A hostile alien army came charging through a hole in space. We're standing 300 feet below it." He paused, looking at everyone but mostly to Ava. "We're the Avengers. We can bust arms dealers all the livelong day, but that up there, that … that's the endgame."

"How were you guys planning on beating that?"

Steve wasn't smiling, "Together. Just like Ava said; as a team." He said with a hard tone.

Tony looked towards him. "We'll lose."

Ava moved back over to Bucky as he said. "Then we'll do that together, too." He stood up for his two best people in the world.

At that Tony gave up his fight, looking away before heading back near Bruce who still looked the most uncomfortable person in the room. Steve took a deep breath, "Thor's right." He declared, "Ultron's calling us out." He glanced to Bucky who nodded subtly, getting where this was going – then he looked to Ava; she sighed but gave one nod in approval. "And we'd like to find him before he's ready for us."

"The world's a big place." Bucky continued for him, and although he didn't realise it, his hand was now resting on the base of Ava's back, and this time she didn't flinch. She just went with it, liking the feel of his warm hand against her clothed covered skin. "Let's start by making it smaller."

Note: Well, took nearly a week for me to get this chapter up. Darn.

Anyway, some of you probably have already noticed but I have put up the official poll for which Movie book you'd like me to write for you next. Here is the tally so far [FROM BOTH FANFICTION AND QUOTEV!]

[1] Harry Potter Fanfiction. Character ~ Lyla Kerrigan, The Girl Who Lived.

Harry is not the Chosen One, but he will be in the story as well as his parents {Alive!}

[2] Hunger Games Fanfiction. Finnick/OC. Caliana Val; 69 Hunger Games Winner. (Spans between her own games - to Catching Fire - To Mockingjay)

[3] Sorcerers Apprentice. Dave/OC

[4] Bourne Legacy {And any other future movies connected – I think they're planning a number 2 movie?}. Aaron/OC

[5] Kick Ass 1+2. Dave/OC

[6] Transformers. Sam/OC

Just like before; this poll will continue to be open until Saviours is finished. If you wanted to just comment, you can definitely do that and I'll make sure to add them on for future tally's. Here is the current status.

[1] 6 {Harry Potter}

[2] 5 {Hunger Games}

[3] 1 {Sorcerers Apprentice}

[4] 0 {Bourne Legacy}

[5] 1 {Kick Ass}

[6] 0 {Transformers}