AofU part two.

I own only original character, my version of SWORD, nothing else. I don't own White Wolf.

The Avengers has completed their mission and taken out all of the main HYDRA threats. Now they were on their way back to Avengers Tower. Banner was listening to some calming opera music, as turning back from the Hulk took a toll on him usually. Natasha was now trying to help him calm down.

"Lullaby worked better than ever," she said to him.

"Yeah, well...guess I wasn't expecting a Code Green," Bruce said back.

"Well if hasn't been a Code Green, there would've been double the casualties," Richard said trying to pitch in. "Our best friend would've been a treasured memory."

"Exactly what I want to hear isn't really always exactly what I want to hear."

"Thor, report on the Hulk."

"The Gates of Hel have been filled with the screams of his victims!!," Thor said, earning a serious glare from Natasha. "Oh, not the screams of the dead of course! Mainly wounded screams, a lot of whimpering and uh...gout."

"Why don't you just stop talking?," Richard suggested and he agreed and they both walked over to Tony and Steve who were looking at the scepter. "Feels good to finally have this out HYDRA's hands."

"Yeah it does," Iron Man said.

"But this draws our quest to a close."

"Now we need to find out what they were doing with it. Since when is Strucker capable of human enhancement?," Steve said.

"Banner and I will give it the rundown before it's taken back to Asgard, is that okay with you?"

Thor nodded and then Tony got an idea.

"Perhaps we should have s little party, in celebration of getting this back? Thor will you stay for that?"

"Oh yes, of course. Victory should celebrated with revels." he said.

"Hopefully this puts an end to both Chitauri and HYDRA threats," Cap said. "So yeah...revels."

Soon they reached home just as the Iron Legion got back as well. Barton was taken to the medical center, and Maria walked up to greet them.

"Director," White Wolf greeted and she nodded.

"Everything's all set boss," she said looking at Tony.

"Actually he's the boss," Tony said, pointing at Steve. "I just build everything and pay for everything and make everyone look cooler."

"What's the word on Strucker?," Cap asked.

"SWORD has handed him over to NATO as ordered."

"The two enhanced?"

"Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, twins. Orphaned at ten when a shell collapsed their apartment building."

"Damn," Richard commented as he and Rogers walked with Maria between them. "Sounds like Sokovia is on the way to everywhere special."

"Their abilities?"

"He's got increased metabolism and improved thermal homeostasis. Her thing is neural electric interfacing, telekinesis molecular manipulation."

While Richard understood everything she said, Rogers was at a loss.

"She's saying that he's fast and she's weird."

"Well, they're gonna show up again."

"Agreed."

"File said that they volunteered to the experiments," Maria continued. "That's insane."

"Yeah, what kind of person would let a German scientist experiment on them so that they can protect their home?," Rogers sarcastically asked as he got into an elevator.

"Easy, Cap, we're not at war anymore," Richard said.

"They are."

"Is SWORD taking any remaining HYDRA agents into custody?"

"Yes sir. Sending them all to NATO to await trial. Why aren't we taking them into our own custody?"

"I don't want to take any chances this time. HYDRA grew from within SHIELD, that is not going to happen with SWORD."

"Yes sir, I'll have those I trust most to personally handpick our recruits as well."

"Do what you believe is necessary, Sword," Richard said, using her codename. "Just be sure to follow the guidelines I established a year ago."

"Don't worry about that, Richard," Hill said, walking away.

Richard then deactivated his suit and it went back into his wolf ring. He was wearing a grey long sleeve shirt underneath and black military pants with black military boots. He walked up to the medical center to see how Clint's doing and he past Banner on the way with a drink in his hand.

"How is he?"

"Still Barton," he answered.

"Oh God that's horrible!"

"I heard that!!," Clint yelled.

"I know," Richard said.

"Children, you can fight later," Natasha said as Richard came up to see Banner give Barton his beverage as he laid down and Korean scientist, Dr. Helen Cho, healed him.

"Artificial tissue, right doc?"

"Of sorts, yes," she answered. "But this is the future, your little suit in a ring will be collecting dust very soon."

"Ohh I highly doubt that," Richard said and he did not notice the suspicious look his wife gave him. "But moving on, will you be staying for this little celebration my father is having?"

"Well unlike you all, I don't have much time for such things.

...Will Thor be there?"

"Yes he will be," Barton answered for them.

"I suppose I could...work something out of my schedule then," she said, and everyone had smirks on their faces.

A few days later, Richard was in his personal training room, practicing his attacks, flips and slashing techniques.

"Okay, I've got to know, where did you get your suit?," Natasha asked, coming in.

"...I made it."

"Out of Vibranium? In Wakanda?"

"There's still some flakes of it here and there in that country," he explained and stopped training. "That craft that delivered my first suit was not Vibranium though. I built it while I lived in Wakanda and I couldn't bring it there. Taught some people how to fly it, they caught onto it rather quickly."

"And T'Challa's suit? Did you make that?"

"...Nobody knows who made that one. It's been in his family for years."

"...Okay."

"Why the sudden questioning?," he asked.

"I just find it strange that you were able to build these things in Wakanda, a third world country, without anybody noticing."

"Landscape of Wakanda helped hide it.

...Sunsets there are probably the most beautiful on Earth. I hope I can take you there to see it one day."

"Why not now?," she asked as they walked out.

"King T'Chaka, T'Challa's father, like his predecessors, wish for Wakanda to remain an isolationist country, they accept no aid or anything from the outside world. Almost nobody ever visits it, it was a miracle I lived there for a time."

"So...you lived the simple life? Like a shepard?!," she said, finding the image of her husband as such very amusing.

"No I lived with the royal family," he answered and she then understood.

'Boy do I hate lying to her,' he thought to himself.

"Come on. We're going for a drive."

"To where?"

"DC. There's someone I want you to meet."

They got cleaned up and they headed down to Washington, to a nursing home.

"What are we doing here?," Natasha asked.

"I'm here to fulfill a promise I made to an old friend," he said, and they went inside and soon found themselves at room, and an elderly woman saw them and she smiled.

"Hello, Richard!," Peggy Carter said. "Good to see you again. Is this your wife?"

"Yup. Natasha, meet Peggy Carter."

Natasha was quite surprised that he had brought her here to see her, but she walked over and gently shook her hand.

"It's an honor to meet you ma'am," she said.

"No please the honor is mine after all you've helped save the world more than I have. Thank you making Richard happy, he's been through quite a lot."

"Yes...I suppose that's one of the many things he and I have in common," she said and Richard chuckled at this a little.

"Richard...," Peggy said looking him again. "I heard about SHIELD. I never thought...I thought HYDRA was gone."

"Well, they were two sides of the same coin. But don't you worry anymore, HYDRA is pretty much gone completely."

"I always believed that Howard's idea for the Avengers was a marvelous one. No one else but Fury did though, God rest that man's soul. Well done, both of you. Now as much as I'd like to talk to you both more, I'm sure you both are very busy with cleaning up what's left of HYDRA, so don't let this old woman keep you any longer."

They both chuckled at this and they said their goodbyes left.

"Thank you for that," Nat said.

"You're welcome," Richard said back. "I thought that you ought to be able to meet her before she...she doesn't have much time left."

"...Steve is gonna take it hard."

"Yeah, let's worry about that later though, I'm sure the party is about to start soon."

Soon enough, they were back at Avengers Tower, and the party soon started afterwards.

"Trust me guys, if I knew it was gonna be as big of a fight as it was beforehand, I would've called you both," Richard said to Brian and Sif.

"No worries, Richard," Sif said. "There will always be more battles."

"Aye, though it would be more fun if Jason and Emily were still here huh?," Brian said, earning nods from both of them.

Brian wore casual clothes, button down shirt, brown pants with a royal blue jacket on. Sif wore black pants with high black boots, grey sleeveless shirt and a maroon leather jacket, still had her sword hidden underneath the jacket.

"...So have you had any luck?"

"No, this Erik is completely off the grid, but there have been some mentioning of a master thief with the first name of Robert."

"Okay, focus on Robert, Erik won't show himself until he wants to be found. Thanks for helping me with this."

"You're our friend, Richard. More so you're family, we'll always help."

Natasha now stood behind the bar pouring drinks. Then the man she loved decided to have some fun with her.

"Well hello beautiful," he said, sitting down at the bar. "Now what's a nice girl like you doing in a dump like this?"

"Fella done me wrong," she said, playing along.

"Sounds like you may have a bad taste in men, sweetie."

"Nah, he's not that bad. Though how he was able to trick me into marrying him, I'll never know."

"Trust me, I think it's just as confusing to him," he joked, and she laughed knowing he was. "But tell me, what exactly did he do?"

"Not a damn thing, but never say never."

"But you just said it...twice."

"Hahaha...you know what I mean," she said laughing. "Anyway, all of my friends are fighters. While he's a fighter too, I've never met anyone quite like him. As secretive and mysterious as myself, but he never tells anyone or even me because they're his secrets. This man...he is a fighter like I said before, but he fights only to end the fight because he's scared."

"Scared?"

"Scared because he knows he'll most definitely win."

"...Sounds like he can be a real handful."

"That and he can be a huge dork," she said and he chuckles a little. "Chicks dig that. What I'm trying to truly say is...I don't care what secrets you keep from me, because you likely have a good, unselfish reason to not tell even me. So no matter what, I'll still love you, and I'll be here when you're ready."

He smiled and he pulled her in for a kiss.

"Hey, bartender!!," Tony yelled, ruining the moment. "Save the smoochin' for later! People are thirsty!!"

"When have ever been able to tell me what to do, Stark?"

"I do vaguely remember you once working for me."

"And I vaguely remember that she actually worked for Mom, not you because you made her CEO," Richard argued.

"Well, I'm gonna go talk to some people," Nat said walking away. Tony smirked when he saw his son was still watching her.

"I'm still proud of you, Richard. Finding the love of your life."

"Yeah. I bet this is how you felt you saw Mom. Right?"

"Oh yeah, but you know me...I didn't realize it until late into our lives," he answered. "But tell me, was there ever anyone before her you thought was the one? Out of curiosity."

"There was one girl, who thought I was the one for her," he answered. "She was just a kid with a crush though, a little young compared to me."

"Who?"

"Princess Shuri of Wakanda. T'Challa's younger sister."

"...Wow," Tony said.

"Yeah, I was twenty-six when I moved back here to America seven years ago, so she was like eight."

"Yeah a little young."

"Yeah, she's a good friend all the same," Richard said, getting up. "See ya later."

Soon he found Thor and Steve have some kind of Asgardian drink.

"Hey let's have some of that."

"Are you sure wolfman?," Thor asked. "Look what happened to them."

He looked to see that the guys they had had a round with were frozen solid.

"Trust me. I'll be fine."

"Alright...," he said pouring them all another round.

They all drank and to both Thor and Steve's surprise, Richard looked completely unaffected by it just like them.

"What the...?," Steve said.

"Long story that's part of an even longer one that I vowed never to tell without permission," Richard explained.

"You are by far the most mysterious human I've met, Richard."

Sometime later, almost everybody had gone besides the Avengers, Rhodey, Maria and Cho. They were now just sitting down drinking and arguing about how Thor can lift Mjolnir and nobody else can.

"I don't believe it, it's a trick," Barton said.

"Ahaha...oh it's much more than that my friend," Thor said.

"'Oh if he be worthy shall haveth the power!' Whatever it's a trick."

"Hey if you're so sure, go ahead and try it," Richard dared.

"Yeah?," he said and everyone agreed he should try. He got up walked over to the table that held the hammer and began to pull it, but it did not budge a single bit. "I still don't know how you do it."

"Don't worry buddy, you've had a rough week," Tony said. "It's understandable that you can't lift it."

"Oh then please Stark, by all means."

"...Never been one to back down from an honest challenge. So if I lift it I then get to rule Asgard?"

"Oh yes, of course," Thor answered.

"Well then I will be re-instituting Prima Nocta."

Tony then got up and did the same, same results.

"Be right back," he said then left and came back with an armored arm and it still did nothing, so Rhodey came in with an armored arm to help.

"Are you even pulling?," Rhodey said.

"Are you pushing or pulling?"

"Just represent!! Pull!!"

They were not able to move a bit.

Then Banner got up and tried it, freaking some people out after he yelled in frustration.

"Wonder if the big guy could eventually lift that hammer," Richard said to himself as Cap tried, and both he and Thor saw that it moved a little but he couldn't lift it.

"Hahaha nope. Nothing from any of you."

"All difference the man who wouldn't be king but it's rigged," Tony said.

"Bet your ass!!," Clint said.

"Steve, he said a bad language word," Maria said and everyone laughed.

"Did you tell everyone?," he complained.

"No I did," Richard said, then he turned to his wife. "Nat? You want to try?"

"Oh no. That's not a question I need answered," she said. "What about you?"

"Yeah, I really don't think-okay."

He got up and took off his ring and handed it to Nat.

"So everyone knows that I'm not cheating," he explained.

He walked over and grabbed the handle and pulled hard. White Wolf was barely able to catch himself as he lifted it as if it was weightless and left absolutely everyone shocked and their jaws practically on the floor.

"Guess I can lift it."

"So it would seem," Thor said, pounding his chest in respect. "I'd follow you into Hel and back."

"Good to know," he said, handing him the hammer back. "But I'm not really king material, so you keep it."

"Very well, but clearly the rest of you are not worthy."

They began to complain and argue that it was as rigged and Richard was in on his trick. Then there was a loud screeching sound.

"Wooorrrrthyyyyyy...," a new mechanical voice said and they looked down to see damaged Iron Legionaire walking in. "How could you be worthy? You're all killers."

"Dad...," Richard said.

"Jarvis."

"I'm sorry, I was asleep. Or...I was a dream..."

Tony tapped his device. "Reboot, legionnaire OS, we got a buggy suit."

"That doesn't look like a buggy suit, Dad."

"There was this terrible noise...and I was tangled in...in...strings. I had to kill the other guy. He was a good guy."

"You killed somebody?"

"Wouldn't have been my first call. But, down in the real world we're faced with ugly choices," the Legionaire said.

"Who sent you?" Thor asked.

"I see a suit of armor around the world," Tony's voice answered through the suit.

"...Ultron!," Bruce said incredulously.

"In the flesh. Or no, not yet. Not this...chrysalis. But I'm ready. I'm on a mission."

"Oh? And what mission might that be?," Richard asked and Ultron turned to look at him

"Peace in out time."

Iron Legionnaires smashed through the walls and attacked the team. Richard grabbed Banner and Natasha jumping over the bar.

"Don't turn green," Natasha ordered.

"I won't."

Natasha grabbed the gun from under the bar and through Richard his ring. But then a Legionaire grabbed it he ran after it as the rest of the Avengers began to engage the others. While Richard was chasing after it, Ultron began conversing with him.

"How strange it is...that you left Wakanda for the primitive world surrounding it," he taunted as it landed and began to throw punches at Richard who blocked and evaded them. "But then again...the need for redemption at any cost seems to run in you family."

Then Richard grabbed the fish holding the ring and Rogers saw him do so. Then White Wolf then crushed the hand and ripped it off before roundhouse kicking its head off. He then picked up the ring and saw the Captain's shield was laying next to him.

"Cap!!!," he yelled then tossed him the shield as his dad, who had jumped onto another and stuck a knife through the circuitry and disabled it and Thor struck one down with his hammer. The Captain then threw his shield at the final one but then they saw one more escape and fly away...with Loki's scepter.

"That was dramatic," Ultron said. "I'm sorry. I know you mean well, you just didn't think it through. You want to protect the world, but you don't want to change. How is it suppose to be safe if it's not allowed to...evolve?"

He paused for a moment and took in the expressions on their faces.

"There's only one path to peace...the Avengers' extinction."

Thor then threw his hammer t him and he slowly shut down.

"I had strings but now I'm free...," he sang before shutting down completely and Thor flew out to try to find the Legionaire.

Back in the HYDRA lab in Sokovia, everything then turned on and it began to make robots nonstop.

"...There are no...strings...on me."

"Dad...," Richard said back in New York. "You and Banner have got a whole lot of explaining to do.

"Yeah...you're right," he admitted and gestured everybody to follow him down to the lab. But then Captain America stopped White Wolf for a moment.

"How were you able to do that?," he asked.

"Do what?"

"You know what. You crushed that suit's hand like it was nothing, with your bare hands and without the suit."

"...I've told everybody here time and again...I will never tell you people about how I got my abilities, how I got the Vibranium for my suit or what it had to do with Wakanda. I promised I would tell anybody without permission."

"I am ordering you to tell me now!!"

"We're both captains Steve," he said, getting his arm out of Rogers' grip. "Neither of us can give the other orders."

With that, he then walked away and soon Steve followed. They came down to the lab, where Tony was waiting for them to arrive so that he could begin to explain what he and Banner had been working on with Loki's scepter.

Here's the next chapter, hope you liked it. It might be more than five parts for this movie, not sure, we'll just have to wait and see. Anyway, I'll have the next one up as soon as possible. Until then, see you all later.