As Laura and Clint were in their room as he changed Laura was with Lila on the front porch sitting on a rocking chair with her on Laura's lap after Thor left to investigate his day dream. "What's that" Lila asked Laura pointing at her bracelet?
"It's a bracelet my husband gave me. Pretty isn't it" Laura answered while smiling and putting her wrist in her hand and she held onto it.
"The Prince gave it to you" Lila asked her?
"Yes, he did, and he has one as well. Do you know why" Laura asked her as she shook her head?
"It's so we're always connected even when we're far away" Laura told her.
"Like right now" Lila asked her?
"Yes, but with this" Laura said while holding it up.
"We're never that far away. We're always together" Laura said while trying not to think about him being angry at her and the mess she caused.
"What's Wakanda like" Lila asked her again as Laura smiled?
"It's very beautiful, the people are kind and it's my home. Not many people know that so that'll be our secret" Laura told her while smiling as she nodded.
"Won't you be a queen someday" Lila asked her innocently as Laura chuckled?
"Maybe but I didn't marry him for that I married him because I love him, and he loves me just like your parents do and hopefully that won't happen for a long long time" Laura told her while smiling as she saw Clint walk towards them from the house.
"Hey Princess, you good? You took quiet the beating back there" Clint asked her while chuckling as they got up?
"Yeah you're telling me boy this stuff gets harder as you get older. Here be a good dad and watch Lila I need to decompress" Laura said awkwardly as Clint gave her a look but nodded as she walked over to the barn and sat on the stool by the work bench and sighed thinking about the current mess and day dream from the Hydra base as Tony and Steve began chopping the wood pile.
"Thor didn't say where he was going for answers" Tony asked Steve as they chopped the wood piles?
"Sometimes my teammates don't tell me things. I was kind of hoping Thor would be the exception" Steve answered him.
"Yeah, give him time. We don't know what the Maximoff kid showed him" Tony explained.
"Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Pulled us apart like cotton candy" Steve replied.
"Seems like you walked away all right" Tony told him unimpressed as Steve gave him a look.
"I don't trust a guy without a dark side. Even Laura was visibly shaken up by hers. Yelled her name like five times in her face back at the Hydra base in Sokovia" Tony added.
"Where has she been anyway" Steve asked while looking around not seeing her since they landed?
"As I was saying even, she has a dark side, so I trust her and probably hiding you know her and you know Ultron is trying to tear us apart, right" Tony asked him?
"Well I guess you'd know. Whether you tell us is a bit of a question" Steve said unimpressed.
"Laura, Banner and I were just doing research" Tony justified.
"That would affect the whole team" Steve said annoyed.
"That would end the team. Isn't that the mission? Isn't that the "why" we fight, so we can end the fight, so we get to go home" Tony asked? "Every time someone tries to win a war before it starts, innocent people die" Steve told him firmly as Laura walked up to them.
"I'm sorry. Mr. Stark, uh, Clint said you wouldn't mind, but our tractor, it doesn't seem to want to start at all. I thought maybe you might..." Laura asked him, but Tony interrupted.
"Yeah, I'll give her a kick" he nodded at Laura while looking back at Steve with the axe. "Don't take from my pile" Tony said while pointing at the larger pile of wood while walking towards the barn.
Laura noticed Tony walking inside the barn and got up from the stool "Hey" she nodded at him who nodded back.
"So, this is where you've been hiding. You good" Tony asked her?
"Yeah you know overactive brain, just need to be alone and let my thoughts flow. What are you doing here" Laura asked him?
"Laura asked me to work on the tractor, Princess" Tony told her smugly.
"Uh huh and sorry for not telling you about this place but Clint…" Laura explained but Tony interrupted.
"It's fine it's Barton's life not mine now let's see what's wrong with this thing" Tony told her as she nodded as they walked over to it. "Hello dear" Tony said as the knelt by the John Deere engine.
"Do me a favor. Try not to bring it to life" Fury told them speaking up from a distance as they looked over at him.
"Ah, Mrs. Barton, you little minx. I get it, Maria Hill called you, right? Was she ever not working for you" Tony asked annoyed?
"Nick…? How long were you watching me alone in here" Laura asked him unimpressed while crossing her arms?
"Long enough Watson or should I say Udaku now after all I wouldn't know what you two have been up to behind everyone's backs" Fury asked unamused? "Artificial intelligence. You never even hesitated" Fury asked them?
"Look, it's been a really long day, like, Eugene O'Neill long, so how's about we skip to the part where you're useful" Tony interrupted him.
"Look me in the eye and tell me you're going to shut him down" Fury told them.
"You're not the director of me" Tony answered.
"And I helped shut down our last project the last time you and Steve asked me to" Laura added.
"I'm not the director of anybody. I'm just an old man, who cares very much about you. The both of you" Fury told them.
"And I'm the man who killed the Avengers. I saw it. I didn't tell the team, how could I? I saw them all dead, Nick I felt it. The whole world, too. It's because of me. I wasn't ready. I didn't do all I could" Tony explained.
"The Maximoff girl, she's working you, Stark. Playing on your fear" Fury told him, but Laura interrupted.
"I saw something similar as well Nick. Am I crazy or maybe you shouldn't be ignoring two people, two very smart people who saw the same thing" Laura spoke up getting annoyed.
"You both have come up with some pretty impressive inventions. War isn't one of them" Fury told them.
"I watched my husband die Nick. I…" Laura tried explaining but choked up as Tony interrupted her.
"I watched my friends die. You'd think that'd be as bad as it gets, right? Nope. Wasn't the worst part" Tony finished, and Fury sighed.
"The worst part is that you didn't".
Later Fury meets with the rest of the group "Ultron took you folks out of play to buy himself time. My contacts all say he's building something. The amount of Vibranium he made off with, I don't think it's just one thing" Fury said as Laura nodded.
"What about Ultron himself" Laura asked?
"Ah. He's easy to track, he's everywhere. Guy's multiplying faster than a Catholic rabbit. Still doesn't help us get an angle on any of his plans though" Fury explained.
"He still going after launch codes" Tony added.
"Yes, he is, but he's not making any headway" Fury replied.
"I cracked the Pentagon's firewall in high school on a dare" Tony replied as Laura smiled remembering that story.
"Yeah, well, I contacted our friends at the Nexus about that" Fury told him.
"Nexus" Steve asked?
"It's the world internet hub in Oslo, every byte of data flows through there, fastest access on earth" Bruce explained.
"So, what'd they say" Clint asked?
"He's fixated on the missiles, but the codes are constantly being changed" Fury replied.
"By whom" Laura asked?
"Parties unknown" Fury answered?
"Do we have an ally" Nat asked?
"Ultron's got an enemy, that's not the same thing. Still, I'd pay folding money to know who it is" Fury said.
"Looks like we may need to visit Oslo, to find our unknown" Tony said while gesturing his finger at Laura.
"Well, this is good times, boss, but I was kind of hoping when I saw you, you'd have more than that" Nat asked?
"I do, I have you. Back in the day, I had eyes everywhere, ears everywhere else. Here we all are, back on earth, with nothing but our wit, and our will to save the world. So, stand. Outwit the platinum bastard" Fury told her.
"Steve doesn't like that kind of talk" Nat joked as Steve sighed.
"You know what, Romanoff…" Steve began but Fury interrupted.
"So, what does he want" Fury asked?
"To be better than us. He keeps building bodies" Laura explained.
"Person bodies. The human form is inefficient, biologically speaking, we're outmoded. But he keeps coming back to it" Tony added.
"When you three programmed him to protect the human race, you amazingly failed" Nat told them unimpressed. "They don't need to be protected, they need to evolve. Ultron's going to evolve" Bruce explained.
"How" Fury asked? "Has anyone been in contact with Helen Cho" Bruce asked?
Meanwhile in Seoul "It's beautiful. The Vibranium atoms aren't just compatible with the tissue cells, they're binding them. And Shield never even thought…" Cho said while still brainwashed looking at it.
"The most versatile substance on the planet and they used it to make a Frisbee. Typical of humans, they scratch the surface and never think to look within" Ultron said while breaking open the scepter's blue gem and a yellow gem that was inside floats out and lands in his hand as He places it in the head of the body.
Back at the farm the group are getting ready to leave "I'll take Natasha and Clint" Steve told Tony who nodded.
"Alright, strictly recon. Princess and I will hit the Nexus we'll join you as soon as you can" Tony said, and Laura nodded while putting on a spare hoodie she kept at Clint's farm.
"If Ultron is really building a body…" Steve told them, but Tony interrupted.
"He'll be more powerful than any of us. Maybe all of us. An android designed by a robot" Tony explained.
"You know I really miss the days when the weirdest thing science ever created was me" Steve told them as Laura smiled.
"Welcome to the 21st century Steve" Laura added as he smiled.
"I'll drop Banner off at the tower. Do you mind if I borrow Ms. Hill" Fury asked Tony who nodded.
"She's all yours, apparently. What are you gonna do" he asked?
"I don't know. Something dramatic, I hope" Nick told them vaguely. Laura and Tony take off for Oslo in their suits as the others headed for Seoul in the Quinjet as Laura watched them leave from the porch.
Laura and Tony land at the hub outside Oslo and head inside as they try and to find the hacker. "So, a hacker who's faster than Ultron? He could be anywhere. And as this is the center of everything, I'm just a guy looking for a needle in the world's biggest haystack" he told Laura who nodded.
"Well let's begin shrinking the pile" Laura told him as they began their search as a tech approached them.
"How did you find it" a tech asked them in disbelief?
"Pretty simple. You bring a magnet" Tony replied as Laura got his attention as she brought up the nuclear codes as she began decrypting them.
"Oh, we're decrypting nuclear codes and you don't want me to. Come and get me" Tony told him as the tech stared at them in their suits.
Meanwhile back in Seoul "Cellular cohesion will take a few hours, but we can initiate the consciousness stream. We're uploading your cerebral matrix...now" Cho explained to the twins.
"I can read him. He is dreaming" Wanda told her.
"I wouldn't call it dreams. It's Ultron's base consciousness, informational noise. Soon..." Cho added.
"How soon? I'm not being pushy" Ultron asked?
"We're imprinting a physical brain. There are no shortcuts. Even if your magic gem is..." Cho began explaining but Wanda read Ultron's mind and discovered his plans for human extinction.
"How could you" she asked horrified?
"How could I what" Ultron asked?
"You said we would destroy the Avengers, make a better world" Wanda explained.
"It will be better" Ultron told her.
"When everyone is dead" Wanda replied.
"That is not...! The human race will have every opportunity to improve" Ultron tried explaining to them.
"And if they don't" Pietro asked?
"Ask Noah" Ultron answered.
"You're a madman" Wanda stated.
"There were more than a dozen extinction level events before even the dinosaurs got theirs. 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 the weak" Ultron said as Wanda broke Ultron's hold on Cho as she woke up.
"Life. Life always decides. There's incoming. The Quinjet. We have to move" Ultron told them as Cho canceled the upload.
"That's not a problem" Cho told Ultron as he blasted her, and the twins run off.
"Two minutes. Stay close" Steve told them as he runs insides and finds Cho on the ground wounded.
"Dr. Cho" Steve yelled while crouching down to her!
"He's uploading himself into the body" Cho explained.
"Where" Steve asked?
"The real power is inside the Cradle. The gem, its power is uncontainable. You can't just blow it up. You have to get the Cradle to Stark" Cho begged him.
"First I have to find it" Steve replied as he ran off back to the Quinjet.
"Did you guys copy that" Steve asked them?
"We did" Clint replied while flying the jet.
"I got a private jet taking off, across town, no manifest. That could be him" Nat told them as she dropped to the ground on her bike speeding through traffic as Clint noticed the truck.
"There. It's the truck from the lab. Right above you, Cap. On the loop by the bridge. It's them. I got three with the Cradle, one in the cab. I could take out the driver" Clint told them.
"Negative! If that truck crashes, the gem could level the city. We need to draw out Ultron" Steve said as he jumped on the trailer getting Ultron's attention inside.
"No, no, no, no, no. Leave me alone" Ultron yelled as he blasted the door open as Steve was trying to enter!
"Well, he's definitely unhappy! I'm gonna try and keep him that way" Steve told them.
"You're not a match for him, Cap" Clint told him.
"Thanks Barton" Steve replied unimpressed as Ultron blasted him again, but Steve manages to hang on.
"You know what's in that Cradle? The power to make real change, and that terrifies you" Ultron told him.
"I wouldn't call it a comfort" Steve said as they began fighting.
As they were fighting the twins show up on the train that Steve and Ultron ended up fighting Ultron on "Please. Don't do this" Ultron asked them?
"What choice do we have" Wanda asked him as Ultron took off?
"I lost him! He's headed your way" Steve told Clint and Nat.
"Nat, we gotta go" Clint told her as she dropped the cradle into the jet, but her leg is caught by Ultron and pulled away.
"Nat? Cap do you see Nat" Clint asked?
"If you have the package get it to Laura and Stark! Go" Steve yelled as Clint reluctantly took off.
Clint landed on the tower and gave the cradle to Laura, Tony and Bruce "Anything on Nat" Bruce asked them concerned?
"She's alive Bruce. You know her she's tough to kill" Laura tried reassuring him who smiled faintly.
"This is sealed tight" Clint told them.
"We're going to need to access the program, break it down from within" Bruce told them as Laura nodded.
"Any chance Natasha might leave you a message, outside the internet, old school spy stuff" Tony asked Clint?
"There's some nets I can cast. Yeah, alright. I'll find her" Clint answered.
"I can work on tissue degeneration, if you can fry whatever operational system Cho implanted" Bruce explained.
"Yeah, about that" Tony said while looking at Laura as both her and Bruce figured it out.
"No" Bruce told him. "You have to trust me" Tony told him firmly.
"Kinda don't" Bruce asked?
"Then trust me Bruce. The guy protecting the military's nuclear codes? We found him" Laura explained as Tony brought up Jarvis' consciousness.
"Hello Dr. Banner" Jarvis greeted.
"Ultron didn't go after Jarvis cause he was angry. He attacked him because he was scared of what he can do. So, Jarvis went underground. Ok? Scattered, dumped his memory. But not his protocols. He didn't even know he was in there, until I pieced him together" Tony explained.
"So, you want me to help you put Jarvis into this thing" Bruce asked confused?
"Even better Bruce. We need you to put Jarvis into in this thing" Laura told him as Bruce shook his head.
"We're out of our field here. You know bio-organics better than anyone" Tony told him.
"And you just assume that Jarvis' operational mix can beat Ultron" Bruce asked still unconvinced.
"Jarvis has been beating him from inside without knowing it. This is the opportunity, we can create Ultron's perfect self, without the homicidal glitches he thinks are his winning personality" Tony explained as Laura nodded.
"We need to do this Bruce" Laura told him firmly.
"Princess is right Dr. Banner. I believe it's worth a go" Jarvis told him.
"No, I'm in a loop! I'm caught in a time loop, this is exactly where it all went wrong" Bruce told them.
"I know, I know. I know what everyone's going to say, but they're already saying it. We're mad scientists. We're monsters, buddy. You gotta own it. Make a stand" Tony said as Bruce still shook his head.
"This is where it ends Bruce" Laura finished.
Meanwhile Nat wakes up in her cell with Ultron near by "I wasn't sure you'd wake up. I hoped you would, I wanted to show you something. I don't have anyone else. I think a lot about meteors, the purity of them. Boom! The end, start again. The world made clean for the new man to rebuild. I was meant to be new. I was meant to be beautiful. The world would've looked to the sky and seen hope, seen mercy. Instead they'll look up in horror because of you. You've wounded me. I give you full marks for that. But, like the man said, "What doesn't kill me…" Ultron told her in his new bigger body.
"…Just makes me stronger" Ultron said while locking Nat in a cell as she sent Clint a morse code message of her location.
Back at the tower Laura, Tony and Bruce are experimenting on the synthetic body "This framework is not compatible" Tony told them as Laura pinched her forehead feeling way out of her league.
"The genetic coding tower's at 97%. "You have got to upload that schematic in the next three minutes" Bruce told them as they began to hurry.
"And this is why I didn't become a doctor" Laura murmured to herself trying to keep up as Steve and the twins show up at the lab and Laura flinched seeing Wanda next to Steve.
"I'm gonna say this once" Steve interrupted them.
"How about nonce" Tony told him.
"Shut it down" Steve yelled as Laura got in between them trying to stop them from fighting.
"Guys…" Laura interrupted.
"Nope, not gonna happen" Tony told him.
"You don't know what you're doing" Steve told them.
"Yes, we do Steve. She wasn't in your head" Laura told him while giving Wanda a death stare.
"I know you're angry" Wanda told her.
"No, I'm not angry. Everyone here as seem me angry. We're beyond that. I'd kill you right now if I could without a second thought" Laura told her through her teeth.
"Look Laura, guys after everything that's happened..." Steve tried explaining but Tony interrupted.
"That's nothing compared to what's coming" Tony yelled as Laura nodded.
"You don't know what's in there" Wanda tried telling them.
"This isn't a game" Steve added.
"The creature" Wanda yelled as Pietro ran to destroy the lab equipment as Laura brought out her spear quickly trying to shoot him as he stopped over the glass floor.
"No, no. Go on. You were saying" Pietro told them smugly as her and Clint shot at the glass Pietro was standing on as he fell through it as Laura looked back at Wanda smiling at her.
"Pietro" Wanda yelled!
"What? You didn't see that coming" Clint asked her while looking at her and Laura smugly?
"As I've always told these guys never piss off the woman with the spear. Try it" Laura told her angrily as Thor suddenly entered and pounds the cradle with his hammer, sending a powerful bolt of lightning that brings the body to life.
"Wait" Bruce yelled as they all stared at in shock seeing Vision appear in front of them. Suddenly Vision flew towards Thor who threw him into the window shattering at as he flew towards the main ones but stopped and looked outside them seeing the city as Laura ran with her spear with the others towards him getting in a stance as he floated in the air as Steve jumped down next to her as Thor lifted his hand up to them as her and Steve gave each other a look still in shock. Vision was staring at a reflection of himself in the window as he turned around to face the group.
Bruce and the twins rush down in shock seeing Vision floating in the air "I've had a vision. A whirlpool that sucks in all hope of life and at its center is that" Thor told them while pointing at the stone in Visions head.
"I'm sorry about this" Vision said while landing on the floor as his cape appeared on him and he and Thor stared at each other.
"Thor? You helped create this" Steve asked?
"What is it Thor" Laura asked still in shock?
"It's the Mind Stone. It's one of the six Infinity Stones, the greatest power in the universe, unparalleled in its destructive capabilities" Thor told them.
"Then why did you bring it to…" Steve asked unimpressed, but Thor interrupted.
"Because Stark and the Princess are right" Thor explained.
"Oh, it's definitely the end times" Bruce said still unsure.
"The Avengers cannot defeat Ultron" Thor added.
"Not alone" Vision spoke up getting everyone's attention.
"Why does you Vision sound like Jarvis" Steve asked confused?
"We... we reconfigured Jarvis' matrix to create something new" Tony explained.
"I think I've had my fill of new" Steve said unimpressed.
"You think I'm a child of Ultron" Vision asked Steve?
"You're not" Steve replied?
"I'm not Ultron. I'm not Jarvis. I am… I am" Vision tried reassuring them.
"I looked in your head and saw annihilation" Wanda told him.
"Look again" Vision asked her?
"Yeah. Her seal of approval means jack to me" Clint spoke up.
"Their powers, the horrors in our heads, Ultron himself, they all came from the Mind Stone, and they're nothing compared to what it can unleash. But with it on our side..." Thor told them.
"It? Are you? On our side" Steve asked?
"I don't think it's that simple" Vision told him.
"Maybe I am a monster. I don't think I'd know if I were one. And not what you are and not what you intended. So there may be no way for you to trust me but... " Laura spoke up interrupting them.
"Look Jarvis, Vision whatever you are we need to find Ultron" Laura told him who nodded back at her.
"The Princess is right. I am on the side of life. Ultron isn't, he will end it all" Vision told her.
"What's he waiting for" Tony asked him?
"You" Vison replied.
"Where" Bruce asked?
"Sokovia. He's got Nat there too" Vision told them.
"If we're wrong about you, if you're the monster that Ultron made you to be…" Bruce told him.
"What will you do" Vision asked as he looked at all of them and realized they would destroy him. "I don't want to kill Ultron. He's unique, and he's in pain. But that pain will roll over the earth, so he must be destroyed. Every form he's built, every trace of his presence on the net, we have to act now. And not one of us can do it without the others. Maybe I am a monster. I don't think I'd know if I were one. I'm not what you are, and not what you intended. So, there may be no way to make you trust me. But we need to go" Vision told them as he lifted up Thor's hammer casually and handed it to him as Laura and the others stared at him in shock.
"Right… Well done" Thor said while patting Laura and Tony on their shoulders in shock as Laura held up her finger still in shock.
"Uh…" Laura managed to say but Steve spoke up.
"Three minutes. Get what you need" Steve told them as Tony and Laura load up Friday into their suits.
"Good evening Princess" Friday told her as Laura suited up and sighed dramatically.
"Tony I'm going to kill you. Friday we have work to do" Laura told her as her helmet came off as she joined Tony and the others.
"No way we all get through this. If even one tin soldier is left standing, we've lost. It's gonna be blood on the floor" Tony told them.
"I got no plans tomorrow night" Steve told him.
"And I need to fix the mess I caused" Laura told them.
"Right I get first crack at the big guy. Iron Man's the one he's waiting for" Tony told them as Vision walked up.
"That's true, he hates you the most although I suspect the Princess isn't far behind" Vision told him while nodding at Laura.
"Ultron knows we're coming. Odds are we'll be riding into heavy fire, and that's what we signed up for. But the people of Sokovia, they didn't. So, our priority is getting them out. All they want is to live their lives in peace, and that's not going to happen today. But we can do our best to protect them. And we can get the job done and find out what Ultron's been building. We find Romanoff, and we clear the field. Keep the fight between us. Ultron thinks we're monsters and we're what's wrong with the world. This isn't just about beating him. It's about whether he's right" Steve told them as Laura and Tony took off fast for Sokovia with the rest following behind.
