Chapter 20
Final Chapter, here goes nothing. I hope you've all enjoyed this story as much as I've enjoyed writing it! #AGEOFULTRONISSOON!
As they came to a small village in South Africa, Tony and Rhodey began to pick up power signatures like crazy. The Ultron armor had not only been able to absorb the power stone's energy, but was now feeding off of the windmills in the close vicinity. Every second he remained in this village, he grew stronger while the civilians grew powerless.
Civilians poked their heads out of their homes when they heard the Quinjet arrive, followed by two flying suits of armor.
"Where's Ultron?" Rhodey asked Tony as they landed on the streets of the village, holding their hands up to show that they were here to help.
"Jarvis translate to whatever language these people are speaking." Tony instructed, facing a man who stood in his doorway. "We're here to help, that robot with the red dagger eyes, he's the bad guy. Get your people out of this village quickly." The man seemed to understand, thanks to Jarvis' language translation software.
He called to the people in the area around him and they all headed out of their homes and towards the North side of the city, away from Ultron and the windmills.
"Barton, make sure these people get to the Helicarrier when it arrives, they're not safe here until Ultron's a pile of screws and bolts." Tony instructed, followed by Rhodey as they flew towards the large silver robot, with red light seeping through the silver armor's open parts.
"Then creator, now to be destroyed by his own creation." Ultron monologued, like any sane bad guy, shooting red bolts of what seemed like energy at Rhodey and Tony as they flew quickly to dodge it.
"That's Ultron?!" Rhodey yelled through the commlink in his suit. "HOW DID YOU EVEN MANAGE TO DO THAT!"
"Sorry, can't hear you, too busy saving the world." Tony replied, firing repulser blast's over and over into the Ultron armor. It didn't eve leave a mark.
"You designed something you couldn't destroy?" Rhodey asked, breathless as he too shot back at Ultron.
"It was supposed to be something that... Saved power. I designed it for SHIELD to store intel, not to do this." Tony told him, his red and gold armor taking quite a beating from the energy that Ultron was gaining by the second.
"We need to get him away from the windmills, they're his power source." Natasha called from where she was sinking electrical blades into smaller versions of Ultron, which Tony had warned everyone about, since Ultron had also been designed to create small armies in record time. In the event that the world was ending, which now, it was. And also, because he's Tony, he named them Ultron-Bots.
"You never expected me to be able to override a private radio channel?" Ultron mused, his sickening voice floating through their commlinks. "Now you're just making this easy." The radio channel went silent, and the team was no longer in communication.
"Dammit!" Tony yelled, and while he was distracted with the radio going out, Ultron shot him across four houses with one blast. He landed in the street, where Ultron followed him, towering over the damaged red and gold suit like the god he thought himself to be.
"Next time you really should design your robots to sense when their being snuck up on by Widow's motorcycle." Steve mused from the side of the street, where he watched Natasha smash the motorcycle into Ultron, causing him to fly into the cement roads. Natasha had flipped off of the bike just before the collision, and now stood next to Steve proudly.
Ultron leapt from the ground and hovered over Natasha and Steve. "You are all fools." Ultron brought his arm down to toss Steve down the road, then shoved Natasha into the brick wall of a house.
He then turned back to finish off his creator, unfortunately, he was no longer where Ultron had left him.
"Hey ugly!" Tony hollered, a large electric net being launched at Ultron using a repulser blast from his arc reactor.
Ultron flew to the ground, stopped by the twins before he could untangle himself from the net.
"You are no longer in control of this world." Wanda brought her hand up and brought it down hard against the empty air. The net tightened. Red light flew from her hands, curtesy of being a witch. Ultron could no longer budge in his confining cage, but still shot energy beams from his hands where they were stuck permanently in one position.
Ultron's red energy seemed to begin seeping more and more through the slits in his armor.
Steve noticed. "Is that supposed to be happening?" He demanded, and just as he spoke, the red energy threw them all away from Ultron, the net being disintegrated in the process.
"I'm always picking up after you boys." Natasha rolled her eyes as she grabbed Steve's shield off the ground, tossing it back to him.
He caught it and threw it forcefully into Ultron's energy field. At first, it seemed that it would bounce off and come back to Steve, but Ultron caught it, and used his vibranium armored hand to split it in two.
Steve's eyes were wide. Anything that could break his shield could bring the world to an end.
That's when the thunder struck Ultron.
LINE BREAK BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW WHOSE ARRIVING AND I DIDN'T WANT TO END THIS CHAPTER BECAUSE I LOVE U GUYS!
"Thor." Natasha said before his hammer struck Ultron's energy field, forcing it to flee back inside the silver vibranium armor.
The team now stood almost fully assembled in the town's center. The city surrounded them.
Clint finished taking citizens out of the city, and used a grappling hooked arrow to meet up with the rest of the team where they stood together against Ultron.
Wanda and Pietro ran at him, Pietro running around him to distract him while Wanda used her strange powers to throw him back and forth with Rhodey and Tony's repulser blasts.
They threw him against a metal building eventually.
Thor hollered at him. "IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN DO?!"
Ultron laughed maniacally. He moved his hand in a gesture, signaling for all of his Ultron-Bots to attack the Avengers.
"You had to ask." Steve looked annoyedly over at Thor, who looked out at the waves of Ultron-Bots converging on them.
Bot after Bot swept towards the city circle filled with Avengers, each one becoming spare parts in one way or the other.
Hulk grabbed them and tossed them into each other, destroying five in one swift movement.
Clint shot explosive and electric arrows at them, using the electric arrows to deactivate the Bots that failed to explode.
Tony and Rhodey had done this before, when they were hammered by hammer-drones. (Pun intended.) They shot repulser blasts into them, and as they did, the Bots would fall to the ground.
Thor trained his lightening on the larger groups of Bots, taking out ten at a time.
Natasha leapt on the Bot's heads, confusing them when she left their line of sight, just long enough for her to rip off their heads.
Steve, now left without his shield, ripped pieces of the Bot's off with pure strength, in a similar way which Natasha was, but instead of being sneaky, he was simply stronger.
The twins tried to keep Ultron at bay while the Avenger's dealt with his army, but he was far to powerful for two people, even two incredible people, to take on alone.
The Bots, eventually, stopped coming. They were left with just Ultron. All eight of them, exhausted, and in need of more arrows and a recharge, still stood against Ultron defiantly.
Natasha took out the last Bot, and the second she did, they converged on Ultron. The red energy shield did little against Thor's lightening.
Thor took out the shield, and then it was up to them to power him down.
Although, with an infinity stone, that was easier said than done. The Power Stone was making this fight harder, but not impossible.
The Avengers could tell they were wearing the robot down every second.
It was just a matter of lasting longer than him.
"Should've stayed on my farm." Clint mumbled, only loud enough for Natasha to hear, who was shooting at Ultron with her pistols.
"Should've stayed in Budapest." Natasha threw back, earning a playful glare from Clint, who continued to shoot electric arrows at Ultron.
"Touche." Clint said, before taking a few steps to the left to land an explosive arrow in between two of Ultron's armor slits.
The arrow exploded. Apparently Clint hit a sweet spot, because after that, Ultron stopped hovering in the air and fell to the ground.
A large opening was now left in Ultron's side.
Natasha knew what to do next. She leapt towards Ultron, grabbed the exposed Stone in her gloved hand, and threw it to Tony, who already had the Stone container out and ready for her.
He caught it and quickly shoved it back in a special compartment on his suit.
Ultron flew into the air, shoving Natasha into Clint as he did. "I will destroy this poisonous world without the stone! You think I need an infinity stone to control your weak world! You moronic humans. The human race will be my first issue to deal with."
Ultron flew off, leaving the infinity stone in Tony's control.
Tony grabbed the stone from his compartment and opened the container. "Be careful." Natasha warned.
"This... This is amazing. Infinite power, all in one stone. I could build a billion suits and this could power them all." Tony went on listing all the uses for something so incredible.
"And that's why it's going back to Asgard, with Thor. Just like the Tesseract." Clint yelled to Tony, who landed along with everyone else on the ground, followed by Rhodey.
"Maybe we could run some tests before Thor takes it. I could hook up a suit to it to see what sort of power it could absorb." Tony continued, almost ignoring Clint's comment.
"Stark, your scientific interest is what brought us here in the first place. That stone isn't going anywhere but Asgard." Natasha said sternly.
"Quinjet's scrap metal. Bots tore it to pieces, and the Helicarrier is busy ferrying people, anyone got anywhere we could go? Stark, secret South African beach house?" Steve asked, rolling his eyes at the talk about using the power stone.
Tony didn't have time to reply, a Quinjet landed in the field next to them and a familiar looking man walked out of it.
"Son of a bitch, I'm going blind." Clint said, running towards the Quinjet.
Agent Coulson stood outside of it holding a folder and a coffee mug with a picture of Steve's shield on the side.
"I had it custom made." Was the first thing he said.
Clint held a fist threateningly at Coulson. "You're dead."
"I was. Good times." Coulson said, then turned to Natasha. "Fury wants you back at the Helicarrier."
"Why?" Natasha asked, ignoring Clint's OMG YOU KNEW HE WAS ALIVE AND DIDN'T TELL ME?! face.
"Secret stuff." Coulson explained.
"Awesome." Natasha hopped on board, followed by a speechless archer.
Tony just stood there like a statue. "You were dead."
"And you people take a while to comprehend things." Coulson led the group onto the Quinjet.
"And now Fury wants us to destroy Ultron? Right? Fight's over Coulson, that robot is nothing without the stone." Steve didn't even look the least bit shocked, considering everything these days had about the same effect. Sort of like when he first used a toaster oven and thought it was a bomb.
"Then why's it still kicking?" Coulson turned on Tony, who was still staring at Phil.
"You. Were. Not. Alive." Tony clarified one more time.
"Good to see you too." Coulson said, still waiting for his answer.
"He's designed to fly 20 times faster than any of my past suits, Rhodey and I can't catch him." Tony said quickly, then continued his rant. "How are you even-" Tony slapped him gently, making sure he wasn't a hologram. "Fury doesn't tell me anything."
"He doesn't tell anyone anything." Coulson said, handing the folder to Natasha.
"This'll work?" Natasha looked over the pages, the file was something she'd seen before. A weapon designed to take out Iron man if hewer ever to go rogue. Not that she'd ever tell that to Tony.
"It should now that the stone is gone." Coulson told her. She handed the file to Clint and he took one look before glaring at her.
"He'll know." Clint yelled at her in Russian.
Tony still had on an earpiece. Jarvis spoke through the earpiece the translation.
"Who'll know what?" Tony chimed in, grabbing the folder.
Clint didn't make a move to stop him. Natasha looked uneasy.
Tony didn't say anything for a while. "How long? How long have you known that SHIELD had this?" He turned on Natasha, who took a small step away from him.
"They only have them for people who- Who're-" Natasha tried to explain without giving away too much information.
"Consultants? Is this because I'm not technically part of the team?" Tony shoved the folder back at Clint. "I'll take down Ultron. Because he's my mess. But then, this is done. "The Avengers"? It was never going to work."
LINEBREAK! Okay, now before you all freak out because of Tony things, this movie DOES have to set up for civil war, so there's gotta be something in between Tony and the team before the fic ends.
"Tony." Rhodey called after him, but the red and gold suit was already flying ahead of the Quinjet, using his own tracking software to find Ultron.
Rhodey armored up too, and followed him. "Thought you were done lying." He said to Natasha before his armor disappeared out of the door as well.
Coulson looked sorry, but Natasha shook her head. "Better he knows what to avoid when SHIELD goes after him."
"SHIELD's going after him?" Steve asked, having remained silent through the entire conversation.
"Because you didn't want him on the team... What's left of SHIELD would rather stand behind the one who saved SHIELD, than the one who created a robot who would've destroyed the world." Natasha told him.
"I didn't think-..." Steve began, but Natasha looked away. She didn't agree with what Steve thought. Then OR now.
LINEBREAK!
Weeks after the Avenger's last encounter, they tracked him back to New York. Ultron was nothing without his stone, and they took him down easily.
Bruce disappeared from SHIELD's radar again, Clint went back to wherever that farm of his was, Thor went back to Asgard(without the stone.), Natasha once again returned to Fury's side, Steve worked small missions for SHIELD, occasionally with Natasha, though they never spook. The twins were still on Earth, for all the other Avenger's knew. But after Ultron was destroyed, none of them really kept tabs on them.
LINEBREAK! We now enter the setting in which makes all the fangirl's feels reach maximum overload. The remains. Of Tony's Malibu mansion.
"Jarvis, is the suit at full power?"
"Yessir."
"Prepare for infinite power."
"I don't believe using the Power stone is in your best interest, Sir."
"Can we absorb the power or not."
"Yessir."
The red and gold suit became glowing red, no proof of the shining gold was left. Just a pure red suit, ready to take down anything and anyone in it's path.
I'm not even sorry. That was just... I loved that.
The reason the defeat of Ultron was not in the fic, is because personally, I feel that something that amazing must first be seen on the screen at the theater to be truly appreciated in writing.
If any of you have any questions about where the characters ended up and all that, I'd be happy to give you my idea of the end of my take on Age of Ultron. Not that I know where they'll be at the end of the movie, it'd only be my literary opinion according to this fic.
I am so glad to have had so many readers throughout this fic, and I'm sad to see it end.
If you're in need of some more Tony!centric fic stuff, check out my Tony's New Suits story, it's full of Tonyness.
Like so many times before, I bid you all farewell,
-MarvelLuver