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Ch. 14

Steve gives an inspirational speech just before they left and when he finished, they quickly head to Sokovia. Once they arrived, everyone dispersed to do their jobs and Joy stood by Steve's side the entire time. Her hand unconsciously went to her necklace and started fiddling with it to help her calm her nerves but it wasn't working. Noticing Joy's nervousness, Steve gentle rubs her head and she immediately calms down.

"Pops, I'm scared."

"Do you want to know a secret?" she nods "I'm scared too but we can't hide from our fears and let them control our lives. Sometimes you need to take them head on and go with it. Don't worry sweetheart, I'll protect you."

"But who's going to protect you?"

Steve lightly laughs and continues to walk with her to the bridge. The evacuation is doing well on the most part as there's traffic on the bridge caused by the Sokovians using their cars. Steve and Joy usher people to get out of the city while they still could.

"Let's keep it moving people" Joy says and they actually listen to her. Maybe it's because she arrived with her parents and looks like them. Suddenly Joy got a sense of dread in her stomach and she looks around trying to figure out why she was feeling this way. "I've got a bad feeling about this" she thought then out of nowhere Iron Legion robots start popping out of the ground like daisies.

"I just had to jinx myself" she muttered and went to do her job. Luckily she was still on the bridge and Steve kept an eye on her while fighting the robots. Joy pulls out her sword and went to hacking the robots in half, so she can use her arrows and knives as a last resort. More of the robots start coming after her and Steve runs over to help after noticing that most of them were after her.

"No" Steve destroys a bot, "One" destroys another, "Hurts" another goes, "My" another one, "Little" one more goes, "Girl" and there goes the last one.

Just as Joy was about to cheer, she felt the ground shake a little then cracks can be heard and the bridge breaks as the city rises into the air. She was close to where the bridge broke off and lost her footing "Pops!" she yells out. Steve ran to her and catches her just in time then holds her tightly in his arms muttering "I've got you sweetheart. I've got you."

Joy lets out a shaky breath "I'm ok Pops. I'm good."

He puts her down and gave her a quick look over to see if she was hurt. No injuries were found and he internally sighs then they heard Ultron speak.

"Do you see the beauty of it? The inevitability. You rise, only to fall. You, Avengers, you are my meteor. My swift and terrible sword. And the earth will crack with the weight of your failure. Purge me from your computers turn my own flesh against me. It means nothing. When the dust settles, the only thing living in this world will be metal."

"Oh will you please shut up! God you're so annoying!" Joy yells as she smashed a robot with her shield.

Steve internally chuckles at his daughter's statement while destroying the robots that keep coming at them with no end in sight. Joy makes her way to Steve's side and they start fighting in sync, each helping the other, a true father/daughter moment that won't be forgotten by either one. He quickly picks her up, swinging her around and she uses her legs to kick the robot away then he launches her at a robot where she decapitates it.

"You're having too much fun with this aren't you?"

"Of course I am Pops! I never get to use my sword and now I can. Watch out!"

Steve turns just in time to punch the robot behind him. He noticed one was behind her but before he could say anything, Joy quickly bends down and the robot actually tripped over her then she stabs it in the chest. The city is still rising and Joy can feel it "This isn't good" she thought.

She looks up to see a boogie yelling "Pops! Watch!" the bot sends Steve flying into a car's windshield "Out."

"Cap, you got incoming" Tony states calmly.

"Incoming already came in" Steve struggled to say as he tries to get out of the car "Stark, you worry about getting the city back down safely. The rest of us have one job, tear these things apart. You get hurt, hurt them back. You get killed, walk it off."

"They will walk it off when my pins activate and save their lives" Joy thought as she goes after Steve. The fighting moves toward the square and they use all of their might in destroying the evil robots. In the town square numerous Sokovians are running rampant throughout trying to find shelter from the bots attacking them. Steve and Joy continue to fight on each others side, backing each other up in the fight and they're doing a pretty good job until something happens. A robot shows up out of nowhere and grabs Joy by the throat slowly choking her to death.

"P….o…ps" Joy struggles to say.

Steve turns to see why she sounded like that and internally gasps when he sees Joy turning blue. He growls as he throws his shield at the bot, destroying it then runs over to Joy making sure that she's breathing properly.

"You ok sweetheart?"

*Coughs* "Yeah" *coughs* "I'll be ok."

"You sure?"

"Yes Pops. Now lets go kick their tin can a-"

"Joy" Steve gave her a pointed look.

"What?" Steve gives her another look "Ah c'mon! Please! Just this once" Joy pleads.

Steve sighs "Fine but only one time."

"Sweet! Lets kick their asses!" she yells out. A collective gasp was heard through the comms and Joy knew that everyone heard her cuss.

"Excuse me?!" Tony yells.

"Good job honey. I'll teach you some more colorful words in Russian. How does that sound?" Nat's pride shinning.

"No you're not Nat! Cap I can't believe you allowed our little girl to curse!" Clint's appalled at Steve's decision.

"Daughter you should not be yelling out such unfit words for a child of your age. Are you maiming your enemies as you speak these words?" Thor curiously asks.

"Yes Father" Joy grunts as she takes out another bot "Ha! Take that you son of a-"

"Ok! That's enough! Jeez where did you hear these words?" desperation in Tony's voice.

"Stark" everyone said in unison.

"Ok, I'll try not to say any curse words in front of Joy."

"Thanks Papa but if you don't mind, we're kinda busy here."

Joy takes out a bot with her shield. Everyone goes back to their own business then Steve stops when he hears a woman scream and runs to her with Joy running after him. They reached the bridge where it broke in half and saw two cars that were about to fall, a red one and a green one. So Steve races to the red one grabbing the bumper but it breaks off as the car falls then the green one falls too. Just as a bot was coming close, Joy knocks it away with a pipe like a baseball bat as Steve got ready to catch the woman Thor was throwing. Thor tosses her back to Steve and he grabs her arm. She freaks out but he was able to help calm her down.

"I got you! Just look at me!"

"Ma'am it's ok! Don't be scared, just look up!" Joy yells from her spot on the bridge.

The woman looks up and actually relaxes as she spots Joy with a smile on her face. Steve helps the woman up and she escapes just as a robot was coming at them.

"You guys are so annoying!" Joy's annoyance showing.

"You can't save them all" it said.

Steve throws his shield at it and calls the shield back bringing the robot with it saying "You'll never" but it falls off the rock before he could finish speaking.

"Never what?" Steve wonders "You didn't finish!"

"I guess we'll never know" Joy states.

A loud thud was heard and both turned to see the green car landing with Thor on top of it. Thor continues to walk while Joy and Steve follow him sarcastically say "What, were you napping?"

"Honestly Pops, I think he was. His age is starting to show."

Thor doesn't even make a comeback as he makes his way to the square. Soon everyone went back into battle mode with Nat firing shots at the bots, Steve flipping over debris, Joy dodging shots and Thor bashing the bots with Mjolnir. Steve tosses his shield at Thor and he this it with Mjolnir sending the shield through numerous robots destroying them in the process as the shield ends up in a car. Thor sends a bot into a gas truck causing it to explode taking out more robots with it. Suddenly Ultron shows up and takes Thor away.

"Father!" Joy exclaims as she watches Ultron take Thor away.

To save him, she does something incredibly stupid. She takes a few steps back, runs and launches herself off a pile of debris onto Ultron grabbing his ankle.

"Give him back you jerk!"

"Joy!" Thor shouts.

"Joy? Oh that's right, you're their brat. I have no use for you, goodbye."

Ultron shoots at her hands causing her to let go of him and she falls screaming. "JOY!" Thor bellows as he watches his daughter fall to her death. Steve and Nat look up just in time to see Joy falling.

"Rogers!"

"I know!"

Steve runs up a pile of debris, jumps and catches Joy in his arms then tucks into a roll before letting her go. He checks her face and notices her eyes watering then looks down at her hands causing his brows to furrow at the sight of them; burned, possibly second degree burn hopefully first degree burn. Finding a piece of cloth next to them, Steve wraps her hands in them tightly so they won't fall off.

"You're done here" Steve sternly said.

"No! I can still fight Pops. It doesn't feel that bad, I don't even feel the burn" Joy pleads.

"Once this is over, no combat or weapons training until your hands are healed. Got it?"

"Yes."

"Good" he kisses her hands "Let's finish this."

Steve grabs her and tosses her towards one of the robots as she yells "Bonzai!" slashing a bot in half.

"She's having way too much fun" he thought then Clint's voice was heard through the comms.

"All right, we're all clear here."

"We are not clear! We are very not clear!" Steve exclaims as he struggles to take down a bot.

"Pops maybe you should take a break. You seem to be struggling there" Joy smirks.

"Oh great now we have another Stark and Nat. Perfect" Steve remarks sarcastically.

"Well I am being raised by them" Joy retorts.

The battle continues in the square as the cops shoot at the incoming robots, suddenly the twins show up and the chief police yells out "Hold your fire!" as Wanda destroys the robots. A shot was heard and the bullet grazes Pietro's arm then he looks up to see who shot at him noticing a young officer holding a gun with a look of nervousness. Pietro gives him an irritated look before going after more robots. Joy decides to help out the twins and starts firing her arrows at the robots, her sword back in its sheath. Wanda sees the arrows thinking that Clint was helping her again but it turned out to be Joy who was helping her.

"What do you think you are doing?" Wanda's accent coming through.

"I'm helping. What does it look like?" Joy retorts never taking her eyes off the target.

"You are going to get hurt."

"Been there done that."

"Such a stubborn child."

"Takes one to know one."

Pietro shows up "I like her, very spunky. I am proud to be her uncle."

"Thanks Uncle Pietro!"

"No problem" Pietro zooms past the girls towards a group of robots.

"I must admit, she reminds me of me" Wanda thought as the duo continues to battle robots.