Chapter 29 -

While Thor flew off to chase after one Legionnaire that had taken the sceptre, the rest had gone down to the lab. Banner quickly rushed over to his computer and began looking everything over as fast as he could.

"Bruce?" Harry said.

"All our work is gone, Ultron cleared it out. He used the internet as an escape hatch." Banner replied, emphasising his point by gesturing to the computer and showing that all of the work they had was now gone.

"Shit." Harry cursed under his breath.

"Ultron." Steve said with disbelief.

"He's been in everything," Natasha said, standing in some more comfortable clothes that she made by changing her own clothes using the power Aether, she was rather glad that she was able to do it on the first try. "Files, surveillance. Probably knows more about us than we know about each other."

"Yeah but he doesn't know everything." Harry replied. "I made sure that information about myself was limited, as for that lovely little red power source in you, it's possible that he knows about that but there's not much information on it, especially since I didn't let Shield, or Stark and Banner make records about it."

"He's still in your files, in the internet. What if he decides to access something a little more exciting?" Rhodey said.

"Nuclear codes." Maria Hill said, instantly understanding what he meant.

"Nuclear codes," Rhodey nodded. "looks like we need to make some calls, assuming we still can."

"I miss the days when the worst I had to deal with was Hydra soldiers." Bucky said, shaking his head.

"Nukes?" Natasha asked. "He said he wanted us dead?"

"He didn't say dead, he said extinct." Steve pointed out.

"He also said he killed somebody." Barton reminded them.

"There wasn't anybody else in the building." Maria Hill replied, with Harry nodding in agreement. Once the party was over he had used his magic to scan for life forces to make sure nobody had stayed behind and he discovered nobody.

"Yes there was." Stark said as he showed a holographic image of an orange destroyed ball.

"Jarvis." Harry said, realising what it was.

"This is insane." Bruce said with a large amount of disbelief and shock as he walked closer to look at the dead Jarvis holograph.

"Jarvis was the first line of defence, he would've shut Ultron down, it makes sense." Steve replied.

"Sort of...but no." Harry said as he shook his head.

"Harry's right," Bruce nodded. "Ultron could have assimilated Jarvis but he didn't, this...this isn't strategy…it's rage."

Harry was about to respond when Thor stormed into the room in full Asgardian armour, he immediately walked up to Stark and grabbed him by the neck with one hand and raised him up in the air.

"That's going around." Barton replied.

"Use your words buddy." Tony managed to get out despite being held up by his neck.

"I have more than enough words to describe you Stark." Thor said.

"Thor," Harry said softly as he grabbed Thor's wrist and gently pushed down. Thor sniffed and let go of Tony, allowing him to get back on his feet and massage his neck. "any luck with the Legionnaire?" Harry asked Thor. "Judging by the lack of sceptre I would say no."

"The trail went cold about a hundred miles out, but it's heading north and now it has the sceptre. We have to retrieve it...again!" Thor said, glaring at Tony.

"Genie's out of that bottle, clear and present is Ultron." Natasha responded.

"I don't understand, you built this thing, this program." Helen Cho said. "Why is it trying to kill us?"

Instead of a responding Tony began laughing, Bruce's eyes went wide and looked at Tony while shaking his head and whispering 'no', clearly telling him to stop laughing.

"You think this is funny?" Thor said with a smile, not a happy smile, more like a 'keep it up and I'll smash you' smile.

"No, it's probably not." Tony said when he turned to face the team. "Right? It's...this is very terrible. It's so...is it so...it is so...so terrible."

"This could have been avoided if you didn't play with something you don't understand." Thor said.

"No, no, I am sorry but it is funny." Tony said as he walked up and got in Thor's face. "It is a hoot that you don't understand why we need this."

"Tony, maybe this isn't the best time to..." Bruce started only to get interrupted by Tony.

"Really?" Tony asked as he turned around to face him. "That's it? You roll over onto your belly every time somebody snarls."

"Only when I've created a murderbot." Bruce replied, making it clear that he was also unhappy about the situation.

"We didn't, we weren't even close." Tony replied. "Were we close to creating an interface?"

"Well you did something right, and you did it right here." Steve said. "The Avengers were supposed to be different from Shield."

"That is the whole point of the Avengers." Harry nodded in agreement. "Well Stark?"

"I'm sorry but does anyone remember that incident with a giant alien army that came out on a wormhole?" Tony said as he pointed up. "Nobody? You know, the one where there was thousands of aliens and we all nearly got nuked. You know what? Maybe it's just me who remembers that. We're standing three hundred feet below it. We're the Avengers, we can bust arms deal and Hydra soldiers all day. But that up there...that's the real deal...that...that's the endgame. Last time we were lucky enough to have a nuke with an immortal wizard to carry it up there, what are you planning to do next time? Send another nuke? What if the next person who carries it isn't immortal or magical? How are you guys planning on beating that?" He asked, glancing at everyone.

"Together." Steve said.

"We'll lose."

"Then we'll do that together too." Steve said without missing a beat.

"Tony," Harry said. "I get that you had good intentions when you made this but you really should've talked to the rest of us. I am not as good with tech as you but even I could have told you that experimenting with artificial intelligence was a stupid idea. Ultron's decided his mission is going to be 'peace in our time' but he wasn't given any restrictions or rules to follow. We will discuss this more later but for now let's get on to business.

Hill, Rhodes, contact everyone you know. Inform them that a rogue program is on the lose. If they ask who the creator of the program is then tell them you don't know or that you suspect Hydra or some other organisation that we won't mind throwing under the bus, the last thing any of us need is to be blamed for creating this."

"Got it." Rhodes said as he left to make some phone calls along with Maria Hill.

"As for the rest of us," Harry turned to the Avengers. "I want Bruce and Stark to lead as we check through all of our system and anything we have that connects to the internet. If possible try and make it so that Ultron can't access it and if you can't do that then shut them off. We are not allowing him access to our stuff. Also gather any and all information you have on Ultron and try to find a location. The rest of you either help them if you're capable or stay ready, the second we get a hint of where he is we are off.

We need to find Ultron as soon as possible. If possible I want to convince Ultron to come to our side."

"Harry?!" Steve blurted out as the rest looked at him in shock.

"I said if possible." Harry replied. "Give him one chance but if he doesn't take it then we're not going to waste time and lives trying to convince an AI to not be a world destroying asshole. Get to work." Harry said before walking out the lab.

"Hey," Natasha said as she walked alongside him. "nicely done team leader."

"Thanks," Harry nodded in appreciation. "I see that you've mastered your powers better, have your changed your clothes or merely how it appears to others?"

"The clothes." She answered.

"That's good but I'd recommend not doing that with your uniform until you can be sure that the changes are permanent." Harry replied. "But well done, when we get time once this is all over then we can probably spend more time experimenting with your powers."

"Are you serious about giving Ultron a chance?" She asked.

"Ultron seems to believe that the best way to achieve his goal is to get rid of the Avenger's and possible the rest of humanity, if we can convince him it's not then he could be an extremely valuable ally. But with that being said I am not risking a single life trying to convince him."


Unfortunately Ultron wasn't found in a day, the fact that he could be anywhere in the internet made sure of that. The Avengers focused all of their time on trying to find Ultron, luckily Harry and Natasha didn't really need more than two minutes to repair all of the physical damage from Ultron's attack. A lot of time had been diverted into making sure Ultron couldn't hack into any of their systems.

Harry was currently walking along with Maria Hill who was reporting to him.

"He's all over the globe." She said. "Robotics labs, weapons facilities, jet propulsion labs and so on. Reports of a metal man, or men, just coming in and emptying the place."

"He's probably made a lot of robots to help him." Harry sighed. "I can only guess the number. Has there been any attacks? Injuries? Deaths?"

"Only when engaged." Maria Hill replied. "Mostly just a lot of guys complaining and going on about old memories, worst fears and something too fast to see."

"Maximoff twins then." Harry nodded. "I guess I'm not completely surprised, they both have something in common."

"Not anymore." She replied as she showed Harry a tablet with a picture of a dead Strucker with the words peace written behind him in Strucker's blood.


"Guys." Harry said as he joined the other Avengers. He handed Thor a tablet showing him the picture that Maria Hill had showed him.

"What's this?" Tony asked, Thor's response was slamming the tablet into Stark's stomach, causing Tony to stumble back slightly. In Thor's defence, he was still upset.

"A message, Ultron killed Strucker." Steve said as they all looked at the picture.

"And he did a Banksy at the crime scene just for us." Tony replied.

"This is a smoke screen, why send a message when you've given a speech?" Natasha asked.

"Strucker knew something that Ultron wanted us to miss." Steve replied.

"Why would he...yep." Natasha said as she looked at a computer. "All of our information on Strucker has been erased, it was done from the very night that Ultron became active."

"Well he takes after his dad in the brains department." Harry said, causing Tony to glare at him. "But the one thing he can't hack into is physical knowledge, find any files we have. Maybe we can find something."

"On it." Barton said.

The Avengers went off and came back later with as many boxes of files as they could, everyone began looking through for any piece of valuable information they could find.

"Strucker sure had a lot of friends." Steve commented after half an hour of searching.

"Well these people are all horrible." Bruce said after putting one file to the side.

"What? You expecting respected and kind members of society that raise funds for charity?" Harry asked sarcastically.

"Wait!" Tony said as he picked up the folder that Bruce had put away. "I know that guy from back in the day, he operates off the African coast. Black market arms deal."

"Tony." Harry rolled his eyes as everyone else gave Tony a look that clearly showed what they were thinking about Tony dealing with this guy.

"There are conventions alright. You meet people, I didn't sell anything." Tony said, defending himself.

"What's this?" Thor asked as he pointed at the guys neck.

"Tattoos." Tony said.

"No these are tattoos." Thor said as he pointed to different marks.

"Thor's right," Harry agreed as he examined the photos. "the difference is there, that mark is burnt on to his skin. He's been branded. Bruce, look up this symbol." Harry said as he showed Bruce the picture and pointed to the brand on the guy's neck.

"You got it." Bruce said as he took the photo and went to a computer and began searching.

"You think it's important?" Natasha asked.

"You don't just brand people." Harry said. "You brand pirates and thieves and people who have committed a crime."

"It means thief." Bruce said a short while later. "It means thief in an African dialect."

"Which one?" Harry asked.

"Wak...an...ada, no um...Wakanda." Bruce answered. Tony, Steve, Bucky and Harry all looked at each other.

"If Strucker's been to Wakanda..." Bucky trailed off.

"I thought your father said that he got the last of it." Steve said to Tony.

"Maybe he thought he did." Harry offered.

"I'm sorry, but what's in Wakanda?" Bruce asked.

"The strongest metal on Earth." Tony answered.

"Get a location and get ready," Harry ordered "it's time for action."


The team arrived at a salvage yard on the African coast, they all came out of the Quinjet, wearing their Avengers gear.

"Hulk, I want you to stay with Banner on the Quinjet." Harry ordered. "Stay ready and watch out, be prepared in case we need either of you. Stark, Steve and Thor, you three come with me. Natasha I want you, Bucky and Barton to go flank them while the four of us go through the front and distract them. Got it."

"Got it." The team chorused.

"Alright, guys grab on." Harry said as Leviathan came to his hand.

The team all grabbed on to him or grabbed on to someone who was holding him. He teleported them inside, the team split in two with Harry going for a direct assault along with Tony, Steve and Thor while the others began making their way around.

Harry and the other three kept going until they saw Ultron and the Maximoff twins, they watched as Ultron kicked someone down the stairs and another person ran after him. Thor, Steve and Harry jumped down below.

"Stark...he...he's a sickness!" Ultron said, ranting.

"Ah Junior," Tony said as he landed alongside the other Avengers, bringing the attention of Ultron and the twins to them. "you're going to break your old man's heart." He said, the Avengers standing on one end of a walkway while Ultron and the twins stood on the other.

"If I have to." Ultron replied.

Harry took a step back and unintentionally bumped into Thor.

"Raven?" Thor asked.

"Harry." Steve said as he looked at Harry who appeared to have frozen in place, his eyes wide open in shock. "Harry!" He said, shaking him.

"What did you do to him?!" Tony demanded when he turned back to Ultron and the twins.

"What did you do to him?" Ultron said to Wanda, echoing Tony' words except in a calmer and more curious tone.

"I didn't do anything." Wanda said as she stared at Raven.

Harry took a step forward, Leviathan slipped out of his hand and fell to the floor. Harry walked along the walkway and towards the other three. Quicksilver was ready to jump into battle but was stopped by Ultron who placed his hand in front of him and signalled for him to stay still.

"Raven." Thor called but was ignored.

Harry's hands went up to his head, he slowly removed his hood, revealing his messy black hair and making it easier to see his green eyes. He then reached down and pulled off his mask and revealed the rest of his face, he kept walking.

Wanda stared at him, he had her raised, ready to defend herself if she needed to but he didn't look like he was about to attack. His face while handsome seemed to be stuck in disbelief and shock. She saw his emerald green eyes look watery, like he was about to cry. But what surprised her most was not the fact that he was walking toward them, but more how he was focused on her. He was looking at her with a laser like focus, his eye weren't focused on her body but her face instead and he seemed to have forgotten that her brother and Ultron were on her right.

Harry stopped in front of her, the two locked eyes. He stared at her for several seconds, as if looking for something. His mouth slowly twisted into a small and almost unnoticeable smile as it appeared that he had found it, he raised his hands up and grabbed her shoulders and pulled.

Her eyes went wide as she thought that this man was about to kiss her, she raised her hands to blast him when his head went past her face as he pulled her into a hug. Her eyes were still wide as she struggled to work out why this was happening.

"Um...what's happening?" Tony and Ultron asked at the same time as everyone stared at the two.

"Is...is he crying?" Ultron asked, really not sure what to do now.

Wanda, if she was capable of speaking, would have probably confirmed that he was crying as she could hear his sobs and feel his tears on her shoulder. But as it was she was still stunned from what was happening.

"It's you!" Harry said happily as he let go but kept his hands on her shoulders, as if he was afraid she'd disappear the second he let her go. "It's really you!" He said, tears of happiness dripping down his face.

"What's going on?" Steve said.

"It's her Steve." Harry said, smiling as wide as possible. "It's her."

"What are you talking about?" Quicksilver frowned, ready to jump at his sister's aid if necessary.

"Harry, what do you mean?" Steve asked.

"It's Daphne!" Harry said, his eyes still on Wanda. "She's Daphne."

"Harry, that's not possible." Steve said, wondering if Harry had gone mad.

"Yet she's here." Harry countered, his magic feeling happier and stronger than it ever had done. This was Daphne, that was something he was sure about. "You look good Daphne." Harry said to her.

"My name is not Daphne." She said, wondering if he had mistaken her for someone else.

"Right..." Harry nodded, looking as if he had just remembered that. "...you go by Wanda now, don't you?"

"I have always been Wanda Maximoff."

"And you don't know who I am, do you?" Harry asked with sad yet disappointed voice despite the fact that he was still smiling.

"No..." She shook her head, he was familiar to her for some reason but she was pretty sure that she had never seen him before. "...no I have not. Pietro?" She sent her brother a questioning glance.

"No," Pietro shook his head. "I've never seen him before."

"I love your accent by the way," Harry said to her, still smiling, he then looked at Pietro. "your accents nice too." He said before turning back to Wanda. "You...you can read minds right? Read mine."

"What?" She stepped back, looking at him like he was crazy.

"You wouldn't believe what I could tell you, if you see it then you'd believe me." Harry said. "I'll let you in, just please look." Harry said, he grabbed her hands and placed them on the side of his head. "Just take a look, trust me."

"I believe we've heard enough." Ultron said, he was amused and confused by what had happened but he was not about to let Raven try to win the twins over to his side. Harry let go of Wanda's hands, letting them slide off his face, he turned to Ultron.

"I will deal with you later," He said before turning back to Wanda. "now I..."

"Excuse me?" Ultron said, interrupting once again, Harry was under the impression that Ultron would have raised an eyebrow if he had one.

"Listen," Harry said as he turned back to Ultron and glared at him. "I have been dreaming about this moment for years and years and I am not about to have it be interrupted by something that was made because Stark had a threesome with Banner and a computer."

"Hey!" Tony complained as Harry turned back to Wanda.

"Wanda, I just want to..." Harry was cut off as his magic flared, he jumped back, barely avoiding a backhand from Ultron but didn't react fast enough to avoid getting blasted back.

As Harry landed on his back the whole scene was thrown into chaos as Tony flew at Ultron just as Ultron flew at Tony and the two engaged in battle while a swarm of Ultron robots flew in and attacked the others, Quicksilver had began running around just as Harry kipped up to his feet and looked at Wanda who he saw getting ready to attack. He was about to say something when one Ultron robot tackled off the walkway, he felt his back smash against the railing before he was thrown down on to the ground.

Two more flew at him, Harry summoned Leviathan to his hand. He cut the head off of the first one as he got to his feet before ducking a punch from the second and then slamming Leviathan into its back. He sent lightning through the axe and into the robot, short circuiting it. He flew up and saw that Wanda was no longer in the same spot she was last time, he was about to start looking for her when he saw another Ultron bot flying at him, his magic warned him of another threat behind him.

He flew to the side, the two bots nearly collided but both managed to avoid it at the last minute. Harry sent an explosive spell at one which caused it to burst into pieces. The other charged at him, Harry dodged it and grabbed its head, he squeezed and crushed it, once he was sure that it was no longer a problem he tossed it away.

He was about to go back when his magic flared and he ducked to avoid one Ultron bot, Harry grabbed it and quickly ripped it's head off as he didn't want to waste time with it. His magic scanned for Wanda and found her moving around, he saw that her signature was moving away from Thor.

"Thor, status." Harry heard Cap say on the communication devices.

"The girl tried to warp my mind," He heard Thor replied. "take care, I doubt a human could keep her at bay. Fortunately I am mighty."

Harry didn't reply, he teleported to where he felt her signature. He landed in front of her, she jumped back and raised her hands and they glowed red.

"Wait!" He said to her, raising his hands as he did so. "Look I don't want to fight you."

"That's too bad." She said as her hands glowed red, she thrust her palm at him with the intent of sending him backwards but nothing happened. She blinked and tried again, only to get the same results. She looked at him. "What have you done to me?!" She demanded.

"That's not me." Harry said with a small grin. "You can't hurt me because of you. I can't hurt you anymore than you can hurt me."

"Why?!" She demanded.

"Well," Harry said as he causally elbowed the robot that tried to attack him from behind. "my magic won't let me harm you anymore than your magic will let you harm me."

"I don't have magic!" She said, yes she had powers but they weren't the same as magic.

"You do actually," Harry said softly. "I can sense it deep inside you. You're magical Daph...um sorry, Wanda, yes I need to remember that. But you are magical."

"How do you know me?! We've never met."

"Read my mind." Harry replied. "You won't believe me otherwise."

Wanda gritted her teach and used her powers to reach into his mind, she had looked into a few different minds since gaining her powers. Each mind was different than others, some were more organised while others were more chaotic. For example, Pietro's mind could be just like a regular mind then instantly switch to thinking faster than she could handle.

As she reached into his mind she had suddenly realised something, he really was letting her enter. She could feel defences in his mind, she wouldn't know how strong they were until he actually tried to use them but for now he was apparently giving her permission. She entered his mind.

She suddenly felt overwhelmed by his thoughts, memories of a black haired boy and a blonde haired, thought they weren't quite as powerful as the emotions that accompanied them. Overwhelmingly happy moments filled her mind.

In the physical world Wanda Maximoff suddenly collapsed on to her knees, her eyes wide and her breathing heavy.

Harry rushed over and quickly kneeled next to her.

"Wanda," He said as he grabbed her hands in his own. "are you okay?! It's alright, it's alright Wanda."

"I...I..." She said but was unable to get the words out.

"Alright, it's fine." Harry said soothingly as he pulled her into a comforting hug, holding her head against his shoulder. His left hand placed on the back of her head, he gently ran it through her hair while he used his right hand to rub circles on his back. He held her like this, both seemingly unaware of the raging battle happening alongside them. "It's fine, I'm here for you."

"Get away from her!" He heard someone shout.

He looked up to see Pietro Maximoff, Pietro charged at super speed. Harry reacted on instinct and teleported himself and Wanda away to another part of the factory. The teleporting had seemed to snap her out of her trance. Wanda quickly pushed him away and got to her feet.

"Harry." A voice said, he looked to his right to see Natasha standing there, her hands glowing red. Wanda saw her and allowed her own hands to glow red.

"It's her!" Harry said to Nat. "She's Daphne!"

"What?!" Natasha said, not sure if she had heard right.

"She's Daphne!" Harry said as he gestured to Wanda.

"I'm...I'm not Daphne!" Wanda said.

"I know," Harry said softly as he raised his hands in a calming gesture. "You're her but you...you're different as well. It's really amazing."

"Harry?" Natasha said.

"I know you're confused," Harry said to Wanda. "I know you want to make Tony suffer, believe me I get that, but you need to know that I..."

Harry was cut off as a trio of Ultron soldiers charged at them, Natasha quickly reacted and sent red tentacles from her hands which wrapped around the three and crushed them. A fourth flew in from the side, Harry got to it first with a lightning blast. He turned to Wanda just as a silver blur grabbed her and took her away.

"No wait!" Harry said as he flew after them, he was stopped by five more Ultron robots.

"Sorry Raven," One of them said in Ultron's voice as it's eyes turned red. "but you are not getting to them."

Harry growled and charged at the robots.


"Are you alright?" Pietro asked Wanda once they got outside.

"I...I'm fine." She said as she shook her head, trying to clear her throat.

"What did he do to you?" Pietro asked, anger rising at the thought of someone hurting his sister.

"I looked into his mind..." Wanda said, her eyes teary and her breath hitched. "I...he didn't try to hurt me...he didn't hurt me...but his mind..."

"Shall we go?" Pietro asked.

"N...no," She shook her head, "not yet." She said as she remembered the plan, it was necessary, they had to complete it. "I...I want the big one." She said as the two of them looked at the Quinjet and Banner who had come out of it.


Harry flew out when he saw the Hulk running away from him, he also saw Wanda and Pietro.

"You can follow us or you can go after him." Pietro said before picking up Wanda and running away.

The choice wasn't an easy one for Harry. On one hand he could chase after them, there was no guarantee he'd be able to catch them but if he did then he could get to Daphne...or Wanda as she's called now. But if he didn't stop Hulk then people could die and if they did then Bruce would never forgive himself and it was likely that the Hulk wouldn't either. Harry spent longer thinking about it then he would've liked but eventually he made his choice and went after Hulk.

He flew in the direction that Hulk had went in, he couldn't exactly teleport to his location as he didn't know how far away the Hulk was seeing as he was really fast and capable of leaping great distances. So he flew and teleported within seeing distance every few seconds. His eyes widened when he saw a city in front of him, he sped up.

As he reached the city he saw the Hulk throwing a car at a building, people nearby were screaming and panicking but fortunately it seemed that the Hulk hadn't created too much damage yet. He had simply ruined one street which was much better than what Hulk could usually do, Harry felt lucky that he was able to get to Hulk before he caused too much damage. Harry teleported in front of him.

"Hulk, calm down." He said, but he quickly realised that words weren't going to be enough when he saw the red in Hulk's eyes. Hulk growled and attacked.

Harry reacted quickly and rolled out of the way to avoid a punch from the Hulk, he then cartwheeled to avoid Hulk's attempt to grab his legs. He hit the Hulk with two cheering charms, Hulk growled and tried to shake it off as he raised both fists into the air. He brought them down in an attempt to smash Harry. Harry teleported behind him and shot him with two stronger cheering charms, these actually seemed to make Hulk pause so Harry quickly followed up with two more charms.

Hulk turned and tried to back him, Harry could see the Hulk's mind clearing. He hit him with a few more, having his magic boosted by Thor really helped.

Soon the Hulks body began changing back into Banner's, Harry conjured some clothes for Banner and teleported him into the Quinjet.

"Harry? What happened? She did something to my mind." Bruce said as he shook the cobwebs out of his head.

"Just get changed." Harry said as he handed him the clothes and teleported back outside.

He rubbed his hands through his hair when he realised that Wanda and Pietro were long gone by now, he could follow them but he likely wouldn't catch them with ease knowing how fast Pietro was. And if he did catch them then it was possible that the two would be more hostile.

He couldn't believe it, he had saw Daphne...he had finally seen Daphne again. He had lost count of how many years he had sat and simply wished for her to be next to him, he honestly didn't know how long it had been. He knew it was at least in the three digits, but now he had finally found her and she was taken away from him. She ran away from him, years ago he would be jumping with joy at just being able to see her but now he realised that he had Natasha in his life, with that came the realisation that he couldn't have them both. Natasha and Wanda, both loves of his life and now he had to choose between them.

He growled, cursing under his breath, his breathing became heavy and fast as his green eyes glowed brightly. He reared his head back as his body was covered in lightning, he let out a roar.

"AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!" He roared into the sky as his body glowed, his voice was amplified by his magic meaning even the Avengers could still hear it from within the factory. If anyone was nearby then they'd probably be blinded from the glow. Eventually the light faded away, along with the lightning, he fell to his knees, feeling more drained than he has in a long time.

"Harry!" He heard Natasha say and felt her hands on his shoulder. "Harry!" She said though he barely heard. His eyes felt heavy and he leaned into her without thinking about it. He heard her call him one more time, though he couldn't reply as he felt his eyes close as his world went black.


"Is he okay?" Harry heard a voice say as he felt himself ease back up into consciousness.

"I don't know," A soft voice said, it sounded like Natasha, he felt her fingers run through his hair. Either that or Thor had smaller hands than he had remembered.

"The news is loving you guys," He heard Maria Hill's voice over the jet's com system. "nobody else is. While Raven may have reduced the damage, there is still damage and frightened civilians. Banner's arrest isn't official but it is still up in the air"

"What about the Stark relief foundation?" Tony asked.

"They're there, how's the team?"

"They're fine...we took a hit, we'll brush it off and be fine."

"Well for now I'd stay in stealth mode, and stay away from here."

"So run and hide?" Tony asked.

"Until we find Ultron I don't have much to offer." She said apologetically.

"Neither do we." Tony sighed before ending the call.

Harry felt Natasha's hands leave his hair.

"Who told you to stop?" Harry said as he opened eyes. He looked around and saw that he was in the Quinjet along with the rest of the Avengers while Barton was flying it.

"Harry, are you alright?" Bucky asked.

"Peachy." Harry said as he shook his head. "What happened?" He said as he saw Leviathan lying near by, he assumed that Natasha picked it up using her powers instead of anyone trying to pick it up physically.

"Well when I confronted Ultron he revealed that he was doing a Loki and trying to get Hulk to cause some damage," Tony said. "I flew after the Hulk, ready to try out my new Hulkbuster armour. When I saw you teleport Banner away. I came back here and found these lot dragging your unconscious body into the jet."

"What happened?" Steve asked.

"You said that girl was called 'Daphne'?" Thor said.

"Apparently she goes by Wanda now." Harry shrugged.

"Who is Daphne supposed to be?" Tony asked.

"The first love of my life." Harry answered.

"But I thought she was dead." Steve said.

"She was but that was her." Harry said.

"But that can't be her if she's dead," Tony argued. "and it's not possible for her to be Maximoff seeing as she's only about twenty years old while you're like an immortal who at least dates back to World War Two, I'd bet probably before that."

"It was her." Harry said in a voice that said he was not going to be questioned on this.

"But it couldn't be," Tony said, pressing on. "maybe you were mistaken but..."

"Tony" Harry cut him off. "when you make your little flying suits of armour I don't question you because that is your area of expertise, I have spent more time mourning Daphne than most spend living so when I tell you that she is Daphne then you shut the hell up and fuck off!" Harry said, glaring at Tony. Tony took a step back, realising that it was probably better not to antagonise Harry since he wasn't looking too stable right now.

"She's not blonde." Natasha said in a low voice.

"What?" Harry turned to her.

"You told me that Daphne was blonde, but Maximoff wasn't. Her brother yes but not her." Natasha said.

"I didn't recognise her because of her looks." Harry said. "I once met a girl who looked exactly like Daphne, right to the smallest detail but I knew she wasn't Daphne. She jut looked like her. I didn't recognise her because of her looks, I recognised her because of her magical signature."

"She's magical? Like you?" Bucky asked.

"Sort of her, she has the same magic but that power she has is not the same. It reminds me of the stuff inside Nat, she got it from the experiments is my guess." Harry said, as he resisted the urge to yawn.

"Get some rest Harry, you're still tired." Steve said.

"I'm fine." Harry said.

"We've got a few hours before we get there, it's fine if you rest." Barton said.

"I'm just..."

"Harry," Natasha cut him off. "just go back to sleep for a while, please."

"Fine," Harry said, not in the mood to argue. "wake me when we get there." He said as he closed his eyes and went back to sleep.


It turns out that nobody needed to wake up Harry as he had already woken up when they arrived, he got up and spent a few seconds stretching before walking out with the rest. Natasha walked next to him but that only helped in making him feel more guilty, he had been so happy when he saw Wanda that he had almost forgotten about her for a while, remembering her was probably the only reason he didn't kiss Daphne on the spot.

When Harry saw their safehouse he realised it was Barton's house, he supposed that it made sense seeing as it was off records and very few knew about it.

"What is this place?" Thor asked as they got near the front door.

"Safe house." Tony answered in his own cheeky way, earning a small glare from Thor.

"Let's hope. Honey, I'm home." Barton said as they all entered the house and made their way to the living room. Barton's wife appeared in the room, shock momentarily over as she saw all the Avengers in her house before she wiped it away as Barton greeted her with a hug and a kiss. "Sorry I didn't call ahead."

"This is an agent of some kind." Tony said to the group.

"Gentlemen, this is Laura." Barton said.

"Hi," Laura said with a small wave. "I know all your names." Any further response was cut off by the sound of footsteps.

"Incoming." Barton said just as a pair of kids entered the room, one boy and a younger girl.

"Dad!" They cried out in joy.

"Hi sweetheart!" Barton said as he moved forward and picked up the girl with one hand and hugged the boy with his other just as the girl hugged him with all of her worth. "Hey buddy!" Barton said as he kissed his son on the head.

"These are...smaller agents." Stark said as he pointed at the kids, words seemed to have failed him as he found it hard to believe that Barton had kids and a wife.

"Did you bring Aunty Nat?" The daughter asked when she was put down.

"Why don't you hug her and find out?" Natasha grinned, bringing the attention of the kids to her. The girl grinned in response and ran to hug Natasha who picked her up and returned the favour. Harry couldn't help but smile at that despite the various thoughts in his head.

"Magic man!" The girl shouted with joy as the two kids ran up to him. "Can you do another magic trick?!" She asked with a pleading expression.

"Please!" The boy added, unintentionally imitating James Potter when he tried to get out of a prank.

"Um sure," Harry said, he recognised that he probably wasn't in the bet emotional state at the moment so decided to make things quick. "have a dog." Harry waved his hand and transformed a chair into a brown dog.

"Ah it's so cute!" The girl squealed as both children went to play with the dog.

"And you can have a replacement chair." Harry said to Laura as he conjured her up a new chair.

"And I thank you for that." Laura smiled.

"Sorry for barging in on you." Steve said.

"Yeah, we would've called ahead except we had no idea that you existed" Tony added.

"Where are we staying Clint?" Harry asked, not wanting to stay and talk longer than necessary.

"You can stay in the same room as the last time you bunked over." Barton replied.

"Thank." Harry said before teleporting out.


"Harry," Natasha said as she entered the room that Harry was in, she found him sitting on the bed, staring at the floor. "are you alright?" She asked.

"Nope." Harry said instantly, he waved his hand and the door closed and locked. "There's a silencing spell around the room so feel free to shout at me if you want."

"Why would I shout at you?" She asked.

"Isn't that the usual response when your fiancée tries to win back his Ex?" Harry asked as he looked at her, his face blank while his eyes were teary. "That was Daphne, it really was."

"I believe you." She said as she walked into the room and kneeled in front of Harry. "I've heard you talk about her, I know how much you love her. I understand that your emotions got the best of you, it happens to the best of us and..."

"How old can a person be for them to fully understand death?" Harry asked, cutting her off.

"What?" She blinked at the sudden question.

"How old until someone can fully understand death?" Harry asked, locking his eyes with her.

"I'm not sure, why?"

"Because all I know is it's definitely not when a person is seven," Harry replied, his eyes not moving from hers. "the first time I tried to kill myself was when I was seven, did you know that? I had spent a day getting beat up and spat on by my relatives and thrown under the cupboard under the stairs. My uncle...he grabbed me by the hair and whispered something into my ear, he whispered the words 'I hope you just die and join your freak parents'. You know what I got from that? If I died then I could join my parents, no more beatings and no more screaming and shouting and cupbard for a bedroom.

Guess what was in the cupboard with me, bleach along with a whole lot of shit that a kid should not be drinking."

"Harry," Natasha said, really not liking what she was hearing. "why are you telling me this?"

"I drank a lot of it." Harry said as if he didn't hear her. "I remember my insides burning along with my throat, the only thing I had known about dying before that was that people are gone when they die, I didn't know it's be so painful." He said, tears dripping down his eyes. "I tried calling for help, I could barely say anything because starving children and bleach is not a good combination, but I did. My aunt thought I was just being a little brat and told me to 'quit shouting or be locked in the cupboard for a week'.

I woke up later covered in my own vomit, amongst other things and wondering how I survived. Turned out it was because of my magic as I found out later on in life, it kept me alive and healed me. Since then I never wanted to die. I went through all of the suffering, I went through bullies and my 'family' and I dealt with it because it was better than the alternative, I did that until I got my letter. I was told that I was a wizard, I had hoped I would finally find somewhere where I would be normal. Where I didn't have to get hurt."

"Harry." Natasha said, her own eyes far from dry.

"I was wrong, if I wasn't being thrown into life and death situations by manipulative chess masters and untrustworthy friends then I was forced to act like someone I wasn't. I was caged, I was forced to play a part just to have friends, I had all the expectations of the world on me because my parents died and I survived.

But then things changed, Daphne came into my life. Beautiful, smart and brilliant Daphne. She freed me, I didn't have to act like someone else around her. I didn't have to get hurt around her. At that point in my life there was two living beings that had my full trust, my owl which I knew wanted nothing from me besides food and some occasional attention. The second was Daphne, when I was with her I finally thought that all of my suffering didn't matter.

I had Daphne, nothing else matter. Then she was taken away from me, my reason to live wasn't just taken, she was snatched away. I saw her die, I saw life leave her eyes as blood poured out of her neck. So do you know what I did?" Harry asked, Natasha shook her head to say no, words had failed her. "I went after them, I slaughtered an army. I used my influence and my family name to help make it legal for the death eaters to no longer be defended by the law, it took me a while but I got it done.

It became legal to hunt death eaters so I went after each and every one of them, I killed them all in my rage. And then...when there was nobody left to kill, all of that pain and grief came back tenfold. I remembered my pain from trying to kill myself, I remembered my pain from seeing Daphne died. I knew which I preferred."

"You tried to kill yourself again?" She gasped.

"I went to the highest spot of the highest tower in the castle, I jumped off of it at night and landed on my head. I woke up hours later with a blood pouring out of me, I looked around expecting heaven or hell and all I got was the sun shining in my eyes and a lot of pain, letting me know that I had failed. Do you know why I failed? Daphne, she had a plan before she died, for me to unite these three artefacts called the 'deathly hallows'. I did it and now I can't die.

I've tried a few time since, I even cut my head off once. I woke up later and found it attached to my body again. All I wanted was to be reunited with her, and if not that then I at least wanted the pain to stop. But it didn't. Years and years later, I'm still not over her. Then, then we meet..." Harry paused to grab her hands, he brought them up to his face and kissed them both. "...I thought I had gotten over her. I fell in love with you, I was finally happy again, then she comes back and now you're going to leave me." Harry said, his face red as he didn't even bother to hold back his tears anymore. "I'm losing both of you."

"I'm not leaving you Harry." Natasha said, her voice soft and low as she struggled to respond. Harry had always been jokey or serious, she had never seen him this emotional.

"Aren't you?!" Harry snorted with disbelief as he let her hands go and looked down at the floor. "I'm your fiancée and I'm crying over my dead but not dead ex and MERLIN I AM PATHETIC!" Harry roared as he clutched his head with his hands and a blast of magic shot out from him, pushing everything apart from Natasha back and shattering the window and any thing made of glass. "I'm pathetic!" Harry said as he sobbed into his hands. "Why...why can't anything be easy? Just...just once, why can't it be easy just once?! Haven't I done enough?! I saved lives, I did the hero thing! I've always tried to do the right thing, why am I still suffering for it?! What did I do?!

I couldn't have parents, I couldn't have friends and then I couldn't have Daphne and now I can't have you. You're going to leave me because I still love her, but I can't stop and...I love you both and I'm going to lose you both."

"Harry," Natasha said as she pulled him into a crushing hug. "you're not going to lose me." She whispered in a soothing manner. "I am here for you."

"I don't...I can't..." Harry tried speaking but she could barely hear him thanks to the crying and the fact that he was speaking into her shoulder.

"Harry?" She asked, long past worry and concern at this point.

"I...don't...I don't know how much more I have in me."


A.N: Hi guys, thanks for reading.

Be honest, did anyone cry at that? Get teary at least? I did as I was writing it, though tiredness may have also been a factor too but I'm pretty sure it was the story. What did you all thin about my introduction of Daphne/Wanda? More will be revealed on Wanda being Daphne later on along with Harry's back story.

A few people have requested Harry befriend Ultron, while I like the idea it is not something that I'm going for. Firstly because I want the twins and Avengers to unite, for that they'll both need to fight against Ultron. Second of all, I personally believe that Ultron isn't that capable of change. Yes he is an Ai but he has many human qualities and acts pretty human, he's also inherited stubbornness. I believe that he believes that he's right and won't change his mind. Also I think if you could change his mind using tech then it would've been done in the films, plus Harry is alright with tech but he's not as good with it as Tony or Banner so it doesn't make much sense for him to be able to reach Ultron that way.

Though a good guy Ultron is a potential future story that I might go for, maybe, no promises.

As for Harry, the general effect I'm going for is to show Harry as he really is. Yes he may be a joker who knows when to get serious but he's suffered, he's gone through a life that most of us couldn't handle and then the love of his life and reason to live died and he wondered all around without a purpose for the longest time only to find her again once he finally falls in love with someone else but isn't able to do anything because she gets taken away from him again. Yeah he's happy now but he hasn't always been.

Anyway thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed the chapter and feel free to leave a review.