Red String of Fate Chapter 11: 열 (Yeol), an avengers fanfic

~April 11, 2015 (Late Night at Seoul, South Korea)~

"It's beautiful."

Helen Cho under mind control by Ultron, looks at the computer screen in amazement as she continued. "The Vibranium atoms aren't just compatible with the tissue cells, they're binding them." She walks away from the computer screen and went towards the end of the cradle to check on the analysis of the cells. "And S.H.I.E.L.D never even—"

"The most versatile substance on the planet." Ultron continues to finish that sentence and said out in a sarcastic tone. "And they used it to make a Frisbee." Referring it to Captain America's shield as his red glowing eyes rolled in displeasure and walked his way towards Loki's scepter being broken down with the laser. "Typical of humans, they scratch the surface and never think…" The blue stone of the scepter turns into a bright yellow one as it floats in the air. "To look within…"

Helen furrows her eyebrows and watches the yellow stone curiously while Ultron grabs it with his metal palm and walks over to his new synthetic body and places the yellow gem at the top of its forehead as the cradle continues to print the skin tissues around the body.

Ultron looks up to see Helen still standing in the end of the cradle looking so interested in the process of his synthetic body as he smirked ominously at the mind controlled doctor. Once his own base consciousness is plugged into that body and complete in the process… he will kill her instantly after this is done, so the Avengers will never know the way of his hidden plans through Helen.

~o~

~April 12, 2015 (Early Hours)~

The whole team was back in their battle gear as Steve placed his shield on his back and firmly said to Tony. "I'll take Natasha and Clint."

"Alright, strictly recon." Tony agreed and continued. "I'll hit the NEXUS and I'll join you as soon as I can."

"If Ultron is really building a body…" Steve murmured slowly as Stark glanced at him.

The pair stopped by the doors and leading themselves out of the living room and Tony said to Steve in a serious tone. "He'll be more powerful than any of us. Maybe all of us. An android designed by a robot."

Steve nodded before saying sarcastically. "You know I really miss the days when the weirdest thing ever created was me."

Tony deeply sighed in annoyance as their conversation was suddenly cut off when Fury walked over while shrugging on his coat and said. "I'll drop Banner off at the tower."

He turned his eye to Tony as he pointedly asked. "Do you mind if I borrow Ms. Hill?"

"She's all yours, apparently." Tony shot back a bit sarcastically.

Fury looked faintly amused at his reply, especially when Tony tacked on curiously. "What are you gonna do?"

"I don't know." The former director replied before looking between the pair with a hint of a smirk. "Something dramatic, I hope."

He walked out of the door leaving Tony to good-naturally roll his eyes and Steve slightly grinned as the two made their way out of the house. Tony went straight away towards the quinjet while Steve just stood outside to wait for their archer companion. At the back entrance, the Barton couple were having a quiet moment as Clint strapped on the last of his gear and murmured to Laura. "I'm gonna finish re-flooring that sunroom as soon as I get back."

"Yeah." Laura replied with a challenging tone. "And then you'll find another part of the house to tear apart."

"No." Clint answered firmly. "It's the last project, I promise." He told her quietly, making Laura smiled at his analogy. But her face was still lined with worry as he leaned down to kiss her, she lifted her hands to cup his face gently and caressing him one last time.

Steve witnesses the whole moment between Clint and Laura from a small distance, hearing slightly from what they're saying. The Captain knows that he shouldn't eavesdrop but he can't help listen to their exchange words of tenderness and worry, the way that they look at each other is sweet nothing and affectionate. The more he sees them being intimate, the more he becomes secretly jealous of Clint having the woman he has completely loved in his arms and considering each other as their home. Even his other teammates already had their love lives, Tony is in a long time relationship with Pepper Potts and Thor is in devoted romantic ties with an astrophysicist named Doctor Jane Foster while Bruce and Natasha are still having small troubles in their complicated relationship.

Steve wishes to have that kind of domestic life with Helen someday like Clint and Laura if he ever truly confesses that he has feelings for her. It may sound a bit cliché but somehow, this feels right no matter how many people would judge this kind of attachment.

The Captain sees Clint letting go of his wife's embrace and stared at her lovingly for a short moment before leaving out of the house. Steve catches a glimpse look at Laura who turns to face him and gave a quiet goodbye with a soft smile, wishing him the best luck. He also smiled in return and gave her a silent goodbye as it was unlikely he would come by again. Steve then turns around and walks away from the barn house before going towards the quinjet.

Laura sadly watches from her porch as the quinjet readies itself to take off before flying in swift speed, taking her close friend and her husband into the danger zone once more.

~o~

The mind-controlled Helen helps Ultron by plugging the thick wires at the back of his head as she explains to him in a calm and serious tone. "Cellular Cohesion will take a few hours but we can initiate the consciousness stream." After it's done, she makes her way towards the end of the cradle and proceeds to begin on the computer. "We're uploading your cerebral matrix." Helen then presses the start for the transferring. "Now."

Ultron begins to relax and felt his mind being slowly transferred to his new synthetic body while Wanda curiously looks down at the body inside the cradle and can suddenly feel it's mind. "I can read him. He's… dreaming."

"I wouldn't call it 'dreams'." Helen corrects her as she continues to explain. "It's Ultron's base consciousness, informational noise. Soon—" Ultron cuts her off in sentence and asked out to her.

"How soon?" Then he casually tells her. "I'm not being pushy."

"We're imprinting a physical brain, there are no short-cuts even if your magic gem…" Helen explains to him while Wanda puts her hands on the top of the cradle and took the opportunity to explore Ultron's mind, suddenly masses of horrible visions began to flow into her mind as she can see the destruction of the earth. Horrified by this, she moves away from the cradle and felt her brother wrapped his arms around her, breathing heavily with her eyes widened in terror.

Ultron immediately stood up in his ground and faced the Maximoff twins with an unemotional expression.

Wanda faces Ultron in horror and spoke out. "How could you?"

"How could I what?"

Still struggling from what she had just seen, Wanda said in a confused tone. "Y-you said… we would destroy the Avengers. Make a better world."

"It will be better." Ultron reassures her but she didn't fall into his words.

"When everyone is dead?"

"That is not—" He pauses himself for a short moment before continues to explain. "The human race would have every opportunity to improve."

Pietro turns around to face him with the same expression as his sister's before he finally asked. "And if they don't?"

"Ask Noah?"

Hearing his response, Pietro averted his eyes away from him while Wanda's eyes widened in shock and said. "You're a madman."

"There are more than a dozen extinction-level events before even the dinosaurs got theirs." Ultron said in exasperation before continuing. "When the earth starts to settle… God throws a stone at it. And believe me, he's winding up. We have to evolve, there's no room for…"He leans in and looks down at the cradle while stroking it. "The weak."

Unbeknownst to him, Wanda secretly uses her powers with her fingertips to free the doctor from the hypnosis so that she could sabotage the upload.

"And who decides who's weak? Life." He chuckled mockingly.

Helen feels her senses being recuperated as she blinks her eyes and looks at Ultron in fear though keeps herself looking calm to avoid knowing she's recovered.

"Life always decides…" Suddenly he felt intruders coming from the outside and looked up around. 'The Avengers… they're here.' He thought annoyingly as he said out loud. "There's incoming, the quinjet." He stood up and faces the twins with slight alert. "We have to move."

'Ultron's going to escape! I have to stop him fast.' Helen thought grimly as she thinks quickly until she had an idea, the only way to do so, is to unplug the uploading of the consciousness stream by stopping him from transferring his mind to the synthetic body. Even though Ultron finds out about her motive and will immediately kill her if she does so, Helen didn't care. She has to take that risk if it means being killed for the Avengers to stop him with a possible chance as she looks down at the computer and presses the buttons to stop the continuation of the uploading.

"That's not a problem."

Ultron looks up to see her pausing the uploading as he groaned and eye rolls in annoyance before he firing the blast of energy towards her, giving the chance of the Maximoff twins to escape from him.

"No! Wait! Guys I—"

Ultron gestures the Iron legions to fire their blasts at Doctor Cho's employees as he sighed. "They'll understand. When they see, they'll understand. I just need a little more…" He then pulls the thick wires from the back of his head, making the connection of uploading lost. "Time."

And with no choice, Ultron leads the Iron Legions to move the cradle onto the truck with an attempt to escape.

After they left, Helen opens her eyes slowly and recovered from her injuries before sitting herself up with her back on the wall as she breaths heavily and can feel the intense pain from her shoulder. Looking around to see her lab being destroyed and her employees possibly dead or mortally injured, she closed her eyes in distraught on what Ultron has done.

Helen can feel a tear falling down to her cheek as she began to feel herself being drained out, she hopes that the Avengers will be there on time to stop Ultron from his plans. Most especially… she hopes that Steve will come to her aid, so she could just to see him once more before losing consciousness. However, Helen doubts this possibility after what happened that time she last saw him…

Or so she thought…

~o~

Clint dropped Steve off onto the roof just nearby of Helen's U-Gin Genetic Research Lab roof as the super-soldier jumped up before pulling himself onto the highest balcony. The Archer took off again and flies away as Steve called over the comms.

"Two minutes, stay close."

The Captain made his way quickly over to the lab, dashing inside a little too easily. His senses heightened as did his worry when he ran into the largest lab to find several of the attendants lying dead, killed by Iron Legions' laser blasts. God, he hopes that nothing ever happens to her…

'Helen, please be alright.' He thought with worry as he hurried into the inner lab, seeing a large gaping hole in the wall where Ultron most likely either left or entered.

Steve's attention was diverse as he spotted a familiar figure lying on the side ground of the lab. His blue eyes widened in horror when he saw Helen bleeding from her shoulder, slightly limping with her eyes closed as he called out urgently. "Dr. Cho!"

He hurried himself over to the wounded woman, her blood seeing all over her blue uniform. She was breathing heavily as Steve knelt beside her before he quickly grabbed a clean towel, pressing it to her wound. 'Ultron did this to her.' He thought angrily and his eyebrows furrowed, seeing the sight of the woman he loved being almost killed by Ultron.

'He will pay for this.' Thought vengefully, even though he's not that kind of a man to do so but when it comes to the enemies who hurt the people he deeply cared about, he will stop at nothing to hurt them intensely with his bare hands.

Helen felt someone tending her wounds as she slowly opens her eyes. Her sight fades the blurriness and clears the vision as she saw the familiar person right in front of her. 'Steve…' She thought in astonishment, seeing him tending the bleeding wound on her shoulder. He's here, Steve is really here. The man she had grown to care about is really here in front of her, she desperately wanted to apologize for what happened that night but now… Now's not the time, for Ultron has escaped with the cradle and so with this, she said out urgently to him. "He's uploading himself into the body."

Hearing her voice, he looks at her with worry though kept himself a bit stern at this. "Where?" He demanded immediately as Helen shook her head in reply, not knowing where Ultron is headed.

Despite seeing her injuries like this, he has to stop Ultron from uploading himself into his new body as he tries to stand up quickly when he felt Helen placed her hand on his, demanding his attention again. Both trying to ignore the same spark within their skins from each other's' touch as Steve glanced back at her with worry in his eyes.

"The real power is inside the cradle… the gem, it's power is uncontainable." Helen warned him while heavily breathing, struggling to keep on giving the information she has for him. "You can't just blow it up. You have to get the cradle to Stark." Her earthly brown eyes gazing into ocean blue ones, giving him the reassurance while tightening her hand on his with determination.

Staring into her eyes as if she tells him 'Go, I'll be fine.' Steve answered grimly though also determined as well. "First I have to find it."

Helen nodded at this, letting go of his hand and she urged him softly before looking away from him. "Go."

Steve stood up from his ground and stared down at Helen for a short moment as her eyes slowly closed to rest in unconsciousness. His fist tightened and eyebrows furrowed when seeing her like this being bloodily injured, Ultron will pay for killing the people inside this building and especially for hurting the woman he loves as he turned around to run himself out of the lab while calling out over the comms.

"Did you guys copy that?"

"We did." Clint replied as he piloted the quinjet while scanning the city. Natasha, on the other hand, was searching on one of the jet's computers.

I got a private jet taking off." The Spy called out as she continued. "Across town, no manifest. That could be him."

Clint's eyes narrowed as he spotted a truck with U-Gin Genetics logo on it and informed them that he calling out in confirmation. "There, it's the truck from the lab."

Natasha looked over quickly while Clint instructs Steve. "Right above you, Cap. On the loop by the bridge." The Archer had run a scan on the truck and added shortly. "It's them. There are three with the cradle, one in the cab." He switched on the quinjet's target lock and said. "I could take out the driver."

"Negative!" Steve called back sharply.

They all paused with a slight frown on their faces at his reply as Steve climbed quickly up the high steps towards the highway bridge. "If that truck crashes, the gem could level the city. We need to draw out Ultron." He dashes across the top loop of the highway, jumping off the edge and landed himself on the truck just as it passed beneath him before rolling across the top and settled himself on the truck.

Steve quickly made his way down on top of the truck, heading for the back door before he just swung himself down to hang from the back and was about to open the door when Ultron yelled out from the inside. "Leave me alone!"

The Captain grunted while he was clinging onto it tightly and swung open suddenly from the force of the laser blast Ultron had fired at it. The door swings open, right around on its hinges causing Steve to groan from being whacked against the side of the truck and sandwiched between the door and the truck. He quickly kicked off the side of the truck and swinging the door shut again as he peeked inside through the crack and quickly leaped off when Ultron blasted both the doors right off their hinges this time. The truck ramp clanged as it clattered down while dragging along the highway. Steve grunted again at the impact as he landed on the ramp heavily while quickly hung on before he could slide off and hold onto the ramp.

"Well, he's definitely unhappy! I'm gonna try and keep him that way." He shouted out into the comms.

"You're not a match for him, Cap." Clint said out bluntly as he flew the quinjet overhead, trying to keep the truck in sight while avoiding the tall skyscrapers.

"Thanks, Barton." Steve muttered out sarcastically before slowly made his way up the ramp, trying to maintain his balance as the ramp swung around wildly on its one hinge. He'd just made it back to the doors, when Ultron suddenly appeared in front of him. Before Steve could react, the robot blasted him with an energy bolt.

The Captain and the ramp went flying backwards where it smashes into the car behind them while he landed heavily on the windshield of the car behind the truck. The windshield cracked severely from the impact but thankfully it held without breaking completely.

Meanwhile, Clint was pulling a few slick maneuvers, swearing under his breath at the artistic buildings. As he swung the jet between a gap in the middle of twin skyscrapers with a bridge connecting the two near the top of the buildings as he and Natasha looked for an opening.

Steve, on the other hand, had jumped from the cracked windshield into a passing garbage truck. He hung precautiously from the side mirror before swinging himself up high and landing back on the U-Gin truck as his feet were caught in balance when Ultron flew out of the back and lift himself up to face the Captain.

"You know what's in that cradle?" He demanded as he lifted his hand and fires directly at Steve who quickly turned around, using his shield to block Ultron's energy blast. "The power to make real change, and that terrifies you." He said scathingly.

"I wouldn't call it a comfort." Steve replied before he threw his shield at him. it hit the giant humanoid robot in the neck, throwing off Ultron's next laser fire at the Captain. Ultron was flung back slightly before regaining himself and hovered high above.

Steve caught his shield as it ricocheted back to him before he quickly somersaulted to avoid the next shot Ultron fired. The humanoid robot flew back down onto the truck's roof when Steve threw his shield at him again, causing Ultron to get hit in the face, making him reeling a bit backward. The Captain kicked his shield back at Ultron as it spins back towards him again, wedging it into the robot's chest. Unfortunately, it only succeeded in angering Ultron further and the incensed robot snapped.

"Stop it!"

He pulled the shield off from his chest, throwing it aside and onto the road before blasting the now defenseless Captain. Steve was flung off the front of the truck, landing him on the cab roof. He quickly grabbed the top of the cab as he tumbled over and almost off the truck. The Iron Legion saw the Captain in front of it and punched its fist right through the windshield in an effort to hit him as Steve quickly dodge its attack and immediately moved away from the front then to the side of the truck, swinging acrobatically as he hung from the top of the cab.

Inside the quinjet, Natasha opened the twin compartment quickly settling herself in while preparing. Clint called back to her as she gripped onto the handles. "We got a window. Four, three…"

He pressed the button as he lowered the quinjet close to the road and muttered out. "Give 'em hell."

The drop hatch opened and Natasha dropped out of the jet, landing perfectly onto the roads on her motorbike. Speeding down on the streets, weaving her way quickly through the other cars and sighed annoyingly when she saw the shield on the ground.

"I'm always picking up after you boys?" She said sarcastically as she swooped down and grabbed the shield with her right hand before placing it onto the magnetized front of the bike.

"Which way?" Natasha asked as she continued to weave through the crowded city streets.

"Hard right… now." Clint replied.

She swerved sharply, causing several cars to stop abruptly and honk after her angrily. Speeding up the smaller side street, the narrower roads forcing Natasha to drive in a single file. She whizzed past several people, who backed out of the way in alarm as she made up into the small alleys before shooting out of a narrow alleyway and back onto the main road. She made it in perfect timing as the U-Gin truck passed right before them when Natasha slammed the brakes, pulling the bike down sideways.

The Spy skid below the truck, narrowly avoiding being hit by the front or back wheels. She glanced up to see Ultron holding Steve over the edge of the truck roof in a chokehold.

He saw Natasha sped up beside the truck as he reached out his right hand when she threw his shield up to him. He caught it completely and smashed it against Ultron, forcing the robot to let go from him. Ultron snarled angrily while being landed heavily on the truck from the force of Steve's punch and spotted the female agent on the side road.

Ultron fired a shot into the road right before Natasha, kicking up a large chunk of cemented rubbles. She pulled her bike up sharply from the back, pulling the brakes then forcing the bike into a sharp sudden stop.

Natasha swerved as the two Iron Legions inside the truck began firing at her. She swerves her back to the right, heading up a pedestrian bridge. "Out of the way! Coming through! Sorry, coming through!" Saying it out loud to the people who moved away from her path.

Ultron fired at Steve, sending him flying off the truck and crashing into a car windshield once more. But this time, Ultron pulled up the road right in front of the car Steve crashed into. The Captain jumped off of the car, he'd crashed into, avoiding the oncoming cars and leaping onto the bottom of another overturned car as it skids passed through.

He then used his leverage to jump back onto the U-Gin truck roof, engaging once more. Natasha sped after the truck as she called out sharply. "Clint, can you draw out the guards?"

"Let's find out." Clint replied as he flew in. Natasha rides down the stairs of the pedestrian bridge and yelled out to the people to give way. "Beep! Beep!"

The quinjet pops out behind from the large skyscraper and Clint fired several shots at Ultron as Steve ducked away, angering the robot. The Iron Legions flew off to take out the new threat when the Archer quickly flew off, taking the robot guards with him as they tried to break into the quinjet but unfortunately Clint manages to spin it expertly by shrugging them off the vehicle.

The Captain easily threw Ultron away, making him crash into one of the stone pillars supporting the highway looping over them. Incensed at this, Ultron flew back to tackle Steve and sending them both off the truck then crashed into the train. The people screamed at the intrusion as Steve wrestled with Ultron, trying to contain the fight away from the civilians.

Suddenly, Clint called out urgently in the comms. "They're heading back towards you, so whatever you're going to do. Do it now."

Inside the train, people were screaming as they recoiled away from the intense fight. Steve somersaulted once more to avoid being hit as Ultron flew at him intensely, he missed tackling the Captain while flying past him and he turned back around in fury before blasting Steve, knocking him off his feet. Natasha was speeding up behind the truck, having finally caught up as she called in the comms. "I'm going in. Cap, can you keep him occupied?"

"What do you think I've been doing?" Steve groaned irritably before picking himself up and jumped back into the fight.

Natasha speeds up a little behind the truck and waited, timing it before jumping off the bike and into the truck. She grunted as she skied through, landing at the back of the truck just beside the cradle where inside is a humanoid body rattled slightly, both fascinating and revolting her. The Spy proceeds on trying to disable the upload mechanism as she can but paused when she felt the truck being lifted ominously off the ground. She gasped before tumbling out the front of the truck as it was lifted, successfully grabbing the straps that hold the cradle securely in place, using them to pull herself back up beside the cradle.

"The package is airborne." Clint called out as he spotted the truck and followed it. "I have a clean shot."

"Negative." Natasha called back sharply then continued. "I am still in the truck."

"What the hell are you…?" Clint began incredulously but she ordered. "Just be ready, I'm sending the package to you." After this, the Spy starts to saw the straps on each side of the cradle.

"How do you want me to take it?" The Archer asked as he flexed his shoulders in preparation. Natasha paused slightly in her words, even if she didn't in her actions until she replied at last.

"Uhh, you might wish you hadn't asked that."

~o~

Steve was fighting a desperate losing battle. He was almost at the end of his tether as Ultron backed him into a corner, and it was taking all for Steve to keep his shield lifted to block Ultron's ceaseless punches. The Captain grunted as Ultron finally found an opening and landed a solid punch to Steve's lower abdomen.

'This is not good.' He thought grimly when suddenly, Ultron was flung aside. Steve was also knocked off his feet slightly as a strong gust of wind flew past him as he looked over in surprise to see Pietro Maximoff skidding himself to a stop at the end of the train compartment.

Ultron turned around and make his way towards the white-haired Sokovian when suddenly the metal bars around the train moved, melding to form a barrier before him. Ultron and Steve turned in shock to see Wanda on the other side of the train, manipulating the metal with her powers.

"Please." Ultron sighed before pleading to her. "Don't do this."

"What choice do we have?" Wanda growled in anger, her blue eyes steely and fury. Ultron turned back towards Pietro and the young man quickly dodged him but Ultron had no intention to hit him anyway as he fired right through the walls blasting a shot right through the front of the train.

Steve stared in horror as Ultron flew out of the opening train door, he quickly dashed towards the front of the train and yelled out. "I lost him!"

He jumped over the several of debris as he shouted out urgently to his team. "He's head your way."

The Captain skid to a stop as he reached the front of the train, checking the collapsed driver but it was too late. His face was grim and then it became horrified when he looked up and saw they had reached the end of the tracks. They were going to crash right through the civilian walkways. Steve lifted his shield, bracing it for the impact as the train smashed through the barriers marking the end of the track lines.

Clint called out anxiously from where he was waiting in the quinjet. "Nat, we gotta go."

He was flying backwards, keeping a safe distance behind the truck, as he hovered with the backdoors, opened and ready.

Natasha cuts the last strap and placed a time bomb on the back of the truck as she jumped onto the back, hanging on tightly before going into a free fall through the air. She grunted a little as the front of the cradle landed with a thud before she skids into the quinjet. But as she slid in, Natasha felt her foot being grabbed by Ultron and got dragged out just as the truck exploded behind her.

"Nat!" Clint yelled out worriedly, looking from behind then faced in front and demanded. "Cap, you see Nat?"

"If you have the package, get it to Stark! Go!" Steve ordered, although his heart was pounding and it suddenly had nothing to do with the fact that the train he was on had just crashed through the barriers at the end of the track. He prayed to God, hoping that his close friend Natasha was all right.

Clint tries to look for her from the left to right in front of him. "You have eyes on Nat—" His words were cut off when Steve repeatedly ordered him.

"Go!"

The archer's jaw locked in agitated but he knew what had to be done as he flew his quinjet off quickly back towards New York. Clint growled in frustration as he hit the turbo engines with his heart weighed heavily in worry.

Meanwhile, in the train, Steve ran back to the Maximoff twins as they stood uncertainly in the middle of the train before the Captain ordered Pietro. "Civilians in our path."

The speedster took the hint and he was gone in a flash of silver. Steve turned to face Wanda and demanded. "Can you stop this thing?"

The young woman stared at him, her face filled with uncertainty but Steve didn't have time for her indecision. He ran back towards the front to check their progress, shielding civilians as bits of the debris came flying in from the open front and the shattered windows and doors from his fight with Ultron.

Steve reached the front to see streaks of silver moving the civilians out of the way. He breathed in relief for a moment that at least one of the twins moved quickly and confidently but his lifted spirits were dashed as he saw where they were headed. The Captain immediately lifted his shield, once again bracing for the impact as the train went smashing through a warehouse barreling through the walls on the other side.

He then lurched slightly as he felt the train start to skid to a stop. Steve glanced back to see Wanda far behind, her face contorted with exertion as she halted the wheels of the train. Pietro was dashing about before him, clearing all the civilians.

All in all, when the train finally came to a complete stop, all Steve could manage to do was to sag in mental and physical exhaustion but his respite was brief and quickly walked out. Thankfully, nearby civilians and volunteers from the train itself were helping everyone climb out of the train safely.

Steve turned his attention instead to the Maximoff Twins as they huddled on one side of the road. Wanda had her hands on her twin's back, looking at him anxiously as Pietro bent over and gasped slightly for air. "I'm fine. I just need to take a minute." He reassured his sister as he sat down heavily.

Steve walked towards them and snapped at the twins. "I'm very tempted not to give you one."

Pietro didn't even glare back while Wanda demanded anxiously. "The cradle, did you get it?"

"Stark will take care of it." Steve answered firmly.

He was surprised when Wanda's face was changed as she stared at him with something akin to horror. She shook her head slightly and whispered. "No, he won't."

Pietro frowned while glancing between his sister and the Captain as he caught his breath. Steve examined the young woman before he finally said. "You don't know what you're talking about, Stark's not crazy."

"He will do anything to make things right." Wanda countered with her eyebrows furrowed slightly in worry.

Steve stared at her, measuring the sincerity in her tone and niggle of doubt that her words caused. Helen told him a while ago that the cradle should be taken to Stark because he knew that the doctor trusted Tony to take care of it. Also… he somehow believes in Helen's words rather than Wanda's. While he didn't believe in the Maximoff female's words, it did sound like something Tony would do.

The Captain turned away sharply and called out to check. "Stark, come in."

There was no response as Steve tries to repeat it. "Stark."

He paused at this when Wanda's face became terrified. Steve called again, refusing to believe anything with certainty yet. "Anyone on comms?" He asked, at last, feeling somewhat anxious as the radio went silent continuously.

"Ultron can't tell the difference between saving the world and destroying it." Wanda flatly said.

Steve turns his head side and glanced back at her as she pointedly asked. "Where do you think he gets that?"

The Captain turns away from her and stood in silence with his fists clutching tightly. His thoughts spread around his mind in possibilities and doubts about Helen telling him to take the cradle to Tony, he hopes to God that this Maximoff woman is wrong. But if she's right… he will without a doubt, stop Tony from doing something risky.

'Helen… I hope you're right on telling me this about bringing the cradle to Stark.'

Tony, you are so busted now! But honestly, I think Helen did the right thing though (^v^). Stark is not that stupid to do something risky, Steve!

See you soon for the next chapter ;)

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