They ran out to see the mass mayhem that had now taken over the city. Clint wasn't in sight, he was dealing with Wanda. The two women looked over to see Steve battling on his own.

Peggy and Natasha took a glance to each other, nodded to each other and then ran in different directions to fight separate robot soldiers. Steve looked over to see them, although they were fighting, he was glad to see them. Knowing that Natasha was okay. They fought and fought, right now that's all they could do, Tony was off getting some sort of solution. And he was taking a long damn time about it.

Steve looked over to see Natasha against a car, almost cornered by one of the bots.

"Romanoff!" He called to her as he threw his shield to her for her protection. The shield hit one of them, knocking it down, Natasha glanced to him as she yelled back "Thanks!"

Grabbing the shield, she blocked the bots shots, she could work with it well as she ducked down as she hit the bot and then threw it back to Steve who jumped in the air as he caught it and crashed down to the bot, smashing it with the shield.

They looked at the now broken bot and then looked to each other, Steve gave her a little smile "Glad to see you're okay"

Natasha let out a breathless laugh and lightly punched his arm "Fighters you and me"

Steve went to walk away, before he did. He patted her shoulder and said with his eyebrows raised "Soldiers you and me"

Natasha let out a small smile and then followed him. Steve ran over to Peggy, briefly checked if she was okay which she confirmed before he even had a proper chance of looking.

"Just help me with getting the civilians to safety" she softly demanded as she walked over to the frightened people, guiding them along with Wanda and Clint. Natasha walked over to Clint, it's the first time he's seen her since she was taken. They knew they didn't have time for a heartfelt reunion, Clint put his hand on her cheek and just smiled to her

Natasha exchanged the same expression and whispered "I love you too"

They quickly broke apart and went back to helping out the rest of them.

"Where's Tony with this damn solution?" Peggy muttered under her breath to Steve beside her as she guided a young family away from the destruction that was happening in their once beloved city.

Steve sighed and put his hand on her back as they headed back to help out more people "Faith right?"

"Yeah….faith" she sighed.

Steve then took the chance and finally contacted over to Tony "The next wave's gonna hit any minute, what've you got, Stark?"

"Well. Nothing great"

Steve and Peggy exchanged a worried look on their face to each other Tony was their big hope in all of this.

"Maybe a way to blow up the city...that'll keep it from impacting the surface if you guys can get clear"

"I asked for a solution not an escape plan"

"Impact radius is getting bigger every second, you're gonna have to make a choice"

Steve and Peggy stopped as they both looked out to the view surrounding them. High up in the air. So so far away from where they wanted to be.

"Steve these people are going no-where" Peggy shook her head as she glanced to Natasha, Clint and Wanda still looking for a place to get everyone to safety Natasha stopped and sighed, she looked to Peggy and shrugged, with a hopeless look on her face. Peggy looked back to Steve and stared at him. She knew he had some kind of idea.

"If Tony finds a way to blow this rock-"

"Not till everyone's safe"

Peggy's eyebrows pinched together "Everyone up here verses everyone down there? Steve there's no math there-"

"I'm not leaving this rock with one civilian on it"

Peggy's expression softened, to a more accepting one "I didn't say we should leave"

Steve's face dropped to a shocked one, Peggy nodded and then shrugged

"There are worst ways to go"

"Peggy-"

Peggy tightly gripped onto his hand and then wrapped her arms around his waist as she pressed the side of her face against his chest "Where else am I going to get a view like this?"

Steve sighed and kissed the top of head head, holding her tighter he repeated in a whisper whispered "Peggy"

It fell silent between the two for a moment and then heard a voice they certainly weren't expecting "Glad you like the view Carter, It's about to get better" Nick said. Steve and Peggy then pulled away and stared back to the view in front of them. Waiting. Not for long though as the shield helicarrier they know and love appeared soon enough.

They sure as hell never thought they'd be so glad to see that big ugly thing again. Peggy let out a breathless laugh as a way of also letting out a sigh of relief She ran her hand down Steve's chest briefly and licked her bottom lip as she looked back at it.

"Nice, right? Cleared out the mothballs for a couple of old friends, she's dusty but she'll do"

An amazed smile escaped from Steve "Fury you son of a bitch"

And then, another very very unexpected voice was heard as the reply "Whoa, Steve, you kiss your mother with that mouth?"

"Bucky?"

Bucky smiled as he stood next to Nick, hands behind his back, standing like a true soldier "Hey buddy, how's work?"

"Wha-how are you...why-"

"Call it the right place at the right time, a friend of mine agreed that I was finally ready" Bucky looked over to Maria and gave her a wink as he looked back to looking straight ahead.

"And I am, ready to finally fight for the right side again"

Steve smiled ever so brightly and looked to Peggy, looking almost as happy as he was. Steve kissed the top of her head again, they both looked at the airboats that the helicarrier sent out, he looked down to her and said with a now confident tone in his face "Let's go"

"Well that's certainly put him in a better mood" she said to Maria on the a private channel of the earpiece "Thank you Maria"

She heard a light laugh from Maria over the earpiece "Any time"

Pietro walked in front of them with a smile on his face in amazement as he was setting his sights on something like this for the first time ever "This is shield?"

"This is what shield is supposed to be"

Pietro looked back at it and smiled "This is not so bad"

"No it's not" Peggy walked over to him and patted his back briefly "So, are you going to be a part of this and help us?"

Pietro looked at Steve and then back to Peggy, he pulled a half smile and nodded "I will"

"Let's go then" Peggy nodded and walked over to the air busses with the civilians wait.

Back on the helicarrier, Maria spotted all of Ultron's bots heading towards them.

"Sir we have multiple bogeys converging on our star bird flank" Bucky walked beside her and looked over her shoulder to what she was seeing.

"Show em what we got" Nick smirked.

Maria pressed down on her earpiece and contacted to Rhodey "You're up"

She heard a light chuckle from behind her, she turned to Bucky and spoke with a serious look still lingering on her face, she was in work mode. This was her work face. Hardly anyone could make her smile when she's in her zone.

"What?"

Bucky shook his head and shrugged "Nothin' nothing...you're just...you're cute when you're bossy"

Maria rolled her eyes and lightly pushed him back "Go and make yourself useful and check the monitors over there"

Bucky smirked and walked away, over to the monitors. Leaving Maria to let out one brief, subtle smile.

Peggy and Steve ran towards the airboat, guiding as many people as they could who would look at them to get on the airboat that they were standing by.

"Come on, hurry" Peggy called to them "You'll be safe"

Peggy saw a woman, holding two children in her arms, they must be at least four years old. With people running ahead of her, she was struggling. Peggy raced over and held her arms out for the little girl that was on the side Peggy was on.

"Thank you" the woman said in an exhausted tone.

Peggy just gave a small smile and a nod, she held the little brunette girl in her arms. Who was sobbing, who could blame her. It was all very scary stuff, even for Peggy.

"It's going to be alright, sweetheart" Peggy whispered into the girl's ear as she jogged over to the airbus, with the mother only a few centimetres behind.

The girl also seemed scared of the airboat .

"Are you afraid of heights?"

The little girl nodded. Peggy whispered to herself "Right" she ran a little ahead and stood at the front of the airboat, she pointed to Steve "You see this man?" Steve glanced at them as he carried on piling people on, he shot the little girl a quick smile before looking away.

"Captain America" the little girl mumbled, still frightened.

"Yes. And I'm...Mrs Captain America" Clint's niece certainly stuck that in her head. But it was the easiest thing to say right now to describe who she was "You are?"

"Yes, and my husband and I want to keep everyone here safe, so we promise you that this airbus is safe, if you get scared you can shut her eyes and hold your mummy's hand...will you be brave for your mummy and brother? Be brave for me and the captain?"

The little girl looked at Steve, then the airboat and then back at Peggy. She hesitated at first but then nodded. Peggy smiled and whispered "Good girl"

She propped her down as her mother caught up, Peggy walked them over to three spare seats, she placed her hand on the top of the little girl's head "You'll be safe, remember what I told you"

The little girl cracked a small smile and nodded, Peggy went to walk away, her hand was then grabbed by the little girl mother "Thank you" she cried.

Peggy smiled at her "Hold onto her okay?"

The mother nodded and then took her hand off of Peggy's and grabbed her daughters, Peggy smiled again and then walked away back to the front. The little girl leaned over and got a better look of Peggy, yelling orders at Steve.

"Mommy" she whispered, she then pointed to Peggy "That's Mrs Captain America"

Maria's eyes widened "Incoming!" Bucky and Nick's head snapped up to see one of Ultron's bot making it's way fast to the window. Before they even knew it, it smashed through the window, knocking Nick and Bucky down.

Maria quickly began to shoot at it, keeping it distracted as Nick found the time to grab a sharp metal piece that fell down when the bot crashed in, it smashed it into the bot's head. Shutting it down. Maria lowered her gun after her heavy breaths, she put her gun back in her holder and walked over to Bucky "James? Are you alright?"

She put her hand under his non-metal arm and helped him up. Bucky shook his head, shaking off what just happened almost. He took a long blink and cleared his throat

"Yeah, yeah it's just-"

"Getting back into the wing of it. I know, take it easy"

Bucky briefly put his hand on her waist before dropping it after a second or two and nodded. Even though he was well enough to help again, he was still a little jumpy at things like that. But he wanted to feel useful and being with Maria at the time she got called out for it, she decided that it was time he was useful to shield.

"Avengers, time to work for a living"

Peggy scoffed a laugh as they began to run towards the church "Cheeky bastard"

"Like father like son" Steve added on.

All they could say in times like this was thank god that the serum let's them run fast because damn, they got there in no time. Granted a lot of them were already there but still. They were rather proud of themselves. If it was a different situation they'd high five right now.

Pietro checked up on Wanda. Bruce was stood beside Thor, still in Hulk form. Clint and Natasha were no-where to be seen.

"Romanoff...you and Barton better not be playing hide the zucchini"

"Relax, Shevin, not all of us can fly" Natasha said as she was currently driving a big yellow truck with Clint sitting beside her.

"Told you it'd work, look there getting squashed under the damn thing"

"Yes, genius out of the one thing you have come up with over the past seven years, male supremacy should really be more appreciated" Natasha dryly joked as she pulled the truck to a halt. They both jumped out and joined the rest of them.

"What's the drill?"

"This" Tony pointed to the core "Is the drill if Ultron gets a hand on the core we lose"

There were no more bots left to fight however, not a single one. Was that it? Was that all of Ultron's army gone?

Speaking of the devil, Ultron appeared from a distance. They all stared at him.

"Is that the best you can do!?" Thor yelled.

Which was possibly the dumbest thing Thor had ever said as Ultron raised his hand and called over the what looked like thousands more bots, now running towards them. Peggy and Steve's face dropped "You had to ask" they said in unison as they then shot him the same look.

"This is the best I can do, this is exactly what I wanted. All of you, against all of me. How can you possibly hope to stop me?"

Tony sighed, not believing he was actually about to say this but he did it anyway, he looked over to Steve Like the old man said" he then looked back at Ultron and said "Together"

Hulk roared loudly as the bot's then went ahead with their attack.

The bots came streaming in, creeping in like insects and by god there was a lot. But they were heros, they fought their way through like they always do. It's not easy, far from it in fact. But they were pulling through. Peggy saw Steve jump up in the air at one point and did some sort of air aerobics and all she could think was 'Who the hell taught him that? I sure as hell didn't'

Peggy punched through the bots one by one with quite little effort. She didn't want to brag or anything but she was on fire.

Ultron soon got involved and went against Vision, after knocking him against the wall, Vision then knocked Ultron out of the church completely. Tony, Vision and Thor followed him out. Forcing their powers against him, overpowering Ultron altogether. Seeing how much he had weakened, they stopped.

Ulton stumbled up "You know with the benefit of hindsight-"

He was cut off as Hulk punched and launched him across the city. Hulk turned to the huddle of bots beside them, they quickly ran away.

"They're trying to leave the city"

"We can't let em, not even one...Rhodey!"

"On it"

Peggy rubbed Steve's back as she reunited with him. He put his hand on her back and looked back to the team "We gotta move out, even I can tell the air is getting thin you guys head to the boats let's sweep for stragglers, I'll be right behind you"

"What about the core?" Clint pointed out.

Wanda stood, tall and proud "I will protect it"

They all looked at her, surprised that she would step up to such a task. But she was sure, she wanted to do this. Wanda looked at Clint, Peggy and Steve weren't sure what was said between them but it was like Clint had given her some sort of courage "It's my job"

He gave her a nod, almost to show he was proud. He then looked over to his red headed partner "Nat" Natasha looked to Steve and Peggy and then moved out with Clint.

"Come on, Peg" Steve whispered as he backed out then turning and running away completely. Peggy looked at Wanda for a little longer, and told her good luck, by just the way she looked at her. Wanda got the message and thanked her in the same way. Peggy then followed Steve out.

"I know what I need to do"

Natasha raised an eyebrow and looked at Clint. As he focused on driving he then glanced at her for a moment "We need to get an apartment with a nice dining room, right? We could look for ones that'll have a nice working space for us too, but the dining room right? That'd be good what do you think"

"Who are we kidding we'd just end up always eating in the kitchen anyway"

Clint then blew of the idea "Yeah. No one eats in a dining room"

He pulled up the car "We don't have a lot of time"

"So get your ass on a boat" Natasha got out the car and began to go in a different direction from the airboat "Nat!"

She turned to him and pointed over to their large green friend "I'm on lullaby duty remember"

"So degrading" Clint laughed

"That's what I get being a strong woman in a man's universe" Natasha said with a smirk as she rolled her eyes and ran off to get Bruce back to being Bruce. She does kind of owe it to him after pushing him down that hole.

Clint got on the airboat, waiting for Natasha to come back to him. He heard the cry of a sister, who had lost her brother. Clint looked over and saw her little brother trapped in the distance. Clint let out a deep sigh and then ran over towards him.

Meanwhile Steve and Peggy met up with Thor "Is this the last of them?"

"Yes" Peggy nodded with a relief in her tone "Everyone else is on the carrier"

Peggy looked around and then saw Clint running over to the little boy, she wasn't listening to anything Steve, Thor or Tony for that matter was saying because she was so focused on what he was doing. She then wondered where the hell Natasha was right now, if she was here she'd be dragging his ass back to an airboat with him in one hand and the kid in the other.

The sound of machine guns were heard, not fair from them. Making everyone jump and look up to the sky, Peggy spotted the jet that Ultron was in, she heard Hulk's roar and hoped that he had kept Natasha from harm. She was strong but she wasn't bulletproof. Her heart then felt liked it stopped when it clicked, she looked over and saw Clint pick up the little boy "Oh shit" she whispered to herself. She looked up and saw the jet.

"Shit!" she said louder.

"Peg, what is it?!" Steve asked with a worry in his voice. But Peggy ignored him, she looked back at Clint and yelled loudly "Clint! Run!"

The guns fired at her and Steve and Thor. Peggy and Steve jumped one way as Thor jumped another. Now on the floor, she looked up to see Clint just about holding the little boy, he turned to see it all and panicked inside.

Peggy saw Pietro from a distance and saw this, he was getting ready to run "Pietro!" he looked at her, Peggy grabbed Steve's shield and threw it to him as he ran past her.

After the noise of the bullets, it then stopped. Clint looked up and saw Pietro standing in front of him, Pietro looked up from hiding behind the shield.

Clint and Pietro stared at each other for a moment, both trying to take in what just happened. After a moment Pietro just laughed "You didn't see that coming"

Clint rolled his eyes and let out a dry laugh "Cocky son of a bitch" he laughed. Pietro dropped the shield to show that he had gotten hit, on his right shoulder. It hurts but he should be fine. It could've been a lot worse if Peggy hadn't of thought of that shield when she did.

Steve ran over to them, he looked at Pietro's shoulder "Get to the boat, we'll get you looked at as soon as you get on there"

Pietro nodded, he looked at Clint once more and then ran to the airboat. Clint picked the little boy back up. Peggy ran over to him "Don't scare me like that again, please" she said softly.

"Sorry" Clint then looked around "Where's Natasha?"

"I don't know, we'll try and contact her when we get on a boat but for now, return the little boy" Clint nodded and ran ahead. Peggy pressed down on her earpiece "Nat? Are you there?"

"Yeah...Bruce he...he brought me to the helicarrier but he...he's gone, he jumped on Ultron's jet"

"Okay, okay we'll cross the bridge when the dust has settled. We'll see you in a bit"

Peggy walked onto the airboat, she sat next to Steve and let out a deep sigh "My god"

"Different from the war, huh?" Steve said with a laugh, Peggy lifted her head from his chest and scratched her forehead "It actually makes that seem easy" Peggy looked back into his eyes and softly smiled "Good work, Rogers"

"You too, Carter" Steve kissed her softly and then let out a sigh of relief as she rested his head on hers.

"Wanda…" Pietro muttered out in his heavy breath to stick out the pain of the bullet in his shoulder that the doctors took to attend to. Peggy lifted her head and looked at him, Pietro looked to her and breathed out "Where's my sister

"Oh my god" Peggy stood up, she then saw their newly founded purple friend "Vision" she called, he looked and flew over to her "Wanda is still there, she's in the church or somewhere you have to go get her"

Vision nodded "Yes, she does need to live"

"Yes she does now go and find her please"

Vision understood his orders and flew away. Peggy turned back to Pietro "Don't worry, he'll get her, she'll be fine"

Pietro trusted Peggy, there was something about her that made people just instantly accept her words. He nodded "Thank you"

The airboat then rumbled as it flew up, Peggy quickly sat back down, as the small Sokovia dropped down from the sky. They soon saw Vision fly in the air with Wanda in his arms, Pietro finally being able to let out his sigh of relief.

The airboat went back into the helicarriers. Peggy, Steve and the rest of the team made their way up to the helicarrier. Peggy ran over to Natasha and embraced her tightly "Thank God you're alright"

"Same to you"

Peggy then hugged Maria, thanking her for keeping things smoothly up here, she looked over to Steve embracing his best friend and smiled. She walked over to them.

"Hello stranger" she laughed as she pulled in Bucky for a tight hug.

Bucky laughed and looked to her "Surprise"

"We're proud of you, Buck" Steve said as he slapped his arm onto Bucky's shoulder. Peggy nodded and patted his chest lightly "We really are"

"It'll be like the good old days" Bucky reassured with an almost excited smile on his face.

"I need a drink" Peggy confessed as she then walked away, over to the water machine. She soon felt strong arms wrap around her waist. She turned around, still in Steve's hold and cupped his face, Steve stared into her eyes "You were amazing"

"So were you"

They pressed their foreheads together and breathed heavily through their noses. Steve rubbed his nose against hers and then locked his lips with hers. Peggy's arms wrapped around his neck.

"I love you" Steve whispered, feeling like he needed to tell her given that they were close to death.

"I love you" Peggy replied, then taking her lips back onto his. Peggy then nuzzled her head into his neck as he held her tightly, she laid a soft kiss on his neck and then heard him say "So, what now?"

"Now? Now we have our god damn wedding"

Whew that is the Ultron storyline finished! More or less, now on with the wedding finally.

I really enjoyed writing this, Bucky is back on the team, Pietro didn't die, it's all good.

I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter as always please leave reviews below it means a lot, let me know your favorite bits and what you're looking forward to!