A.N: Hey guys, I know I got some mixed reviews from the last chapter. Some loved it, some hated it, that's fine. I didn't expect everyone to like, I was trying something and if it worked for you then great, if not then I'm sorry. Some of the reviews are...unique. For example the one I just got while writing this is 'that's gay', don't ask me how it is. All I want to say is if you want to tell me you don't like something I do then fine, I have no problem with criticism, just tone down the swearing and insults. A simple 'that didn't work because of this...' will work.
Chapter 30 -
"How is he?" Steve asked Natasha when she came down a couple of hour later. The rest of the Avengers were all there, except from Thor who had left due because he felt the need to investigate something thanks to the vision that he had gotten after Wanda messed with his mind during the battle.
"He's...he needs some time." Natasha said. "He's not in a good place right now."
"So what's the deal with this...'Daphne'?" Tony asked.
"Daphne was...the first person that Harry ever felt in love with and the first person he ever trusted." Natasha said as she slumped into her seat. "Harry's life wasn't the nicest nor was it the best. If it wasn't for her then he would've broken a long time ago, and he did break when she died. He's been missing her ever since."
"Yeah," Steve nodded. "even back in the war he was still missing her."
"So she's this Maximoff girl?" Bucky asked.
"I don't know," Natasha said as she rubbed her face with her hands. "all I know is that Wanda Maximoff is somehow Daphne. He's been missing her for years and then when he finally moves on she pops back up out of nowhere."
"What about the two of you?" Bucky asked.
"To be discussed." Natasha said.
She had no intention off ending her relationship with Harry, it was the best thing that had ever happened to her after all, so was he. Her mind went back to all the stories she had head him tell her about Daphne. The look in his eye when he spoke of her, even someone who had never been in love could tell that it was real love. She didn't doubt that Harry loved her seeing as the same look was in his eyes ever since they got engaged.
The question at the moment was what to do with Wanda Maximoff, not only was she helping Ultron but she was also either Daphne or a reincarnation of her or something along those lines. She had thought that her life was complicated, though she supposed that Harry's life being complicated made her own life complicated.
"Hey," Harry said when Natasha came back into the room. "how are you doing?"
"I should be asking you that." She said as she came in and sat on the bed next to him. "In fact I will, how are you doing?"
"Well," Harry gave her a small laugh. "I've...I'm sorry...I just...I just needed to get that out of my system."
"It's fine." she said as she placed a hand on his.
"No, it's not." Harry said as he looked her in the eye. "I know I'm not the only one in this room who's gone through a shitty life, and I bet I sounded stupid crying over it."
"No more stupid than me when I did the same with Clint," Natasha responded. "I broke down in front of him once, just like you did with me, I felt so weak, crying about my cards in life. He gave me a hug and some food and just waited until I was ready to talk. If I complained about you doing it then I'd be a hypocrite, I've seen people who have gone through less than you break down worse than you did. You were overwhelmed after seeing a dead woman, a woman you've mourned for years, come back in another body. It doesn't make you weak, it just makes you human."
"You're brilliant, do you know that?" Harry said, smiling at her.
"I did know that actually," Natasha grinned as she pecked him on the lips. "I've got to ask, is Wanda a reincarnation of Daphne? Did she change her body and lose her memory? What's the deal?"
"I'm not sure if we're being honest." Harry replied. "She's different in looks, I know her personality is probably different seeing as Daphne grew up in a rich English home while Wanda didn't. I doubt she's the exact original in a different form, reincarnation is probably the best bet but I'm not sure."
"What are you planning to do next time you see the Maximoff twins?"
"I'm just going to wing it." Harry shrugged. "I don't really know what else to do. I think it might be best if I..."
"What would you do if she wanted you?" Natasha asked suddenly.
"What?" Harry blinked.
"If she wanted you, what would you do?" Natasha asked, observing his reaction.
"I wouldn't leave you if that's what you mean." Harry replied. "Like I said, I'd wing it but I'm not leaving you, I'm with you as long as you're willing to have me."
"But you love her." Natasha said, she didn't want Harry to leave her but she was still surprised.
"Yes, I do." Harry nodded. "I will always love her, but I love you too." Harry said. "You gave me hope, gave me life. I will never forget that."
"I just gave you what you gave to me." She replied.
"Maybe you did. Maybe you helped me, maybe I helped you, maybe we're just two broken people who were able to fix each other. All I know are the facts. You're a spy, I'm a wizard, the Earth is round, I'm male, you're female and I love you. I don't know what's going to happen the next time I see her, but right now you're the one I'm planning to marry, as long as you'll still have me."
"You're not getting rid of me that easily." She smiled.
"Likewise."
Later that night Harry and Natasha came down for dinner.
"You alright Harry?" Bucky asked, asking the question on everyone's mind.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Harry said before noticing the guest in the room. "Hi Nick."
"It's Fury." Fury sighed.
"It's also Nick." Harry replied as he and Nat sat at the table, the others were all standing around as they had already ate. Steve stood in the doorway, Fury was making food in the kitchen while Barton stood alongside Bucky as Tony played darts.
"Hello." A voice whispered, Harry and Nat looked behind them to find Barton's daughter, Lila, handing them a drawing of what appeared to be her and the dog that Harry had got her. "Do you like it?"
"It's brilliant sweetie." Natasha smiled as she caressed Lila's cheek.
"It's really good, you're better than your dad." Harry told her, causing her to giggle. "Have you named the dog?"
"Lucky." She chirped happily.
"That's brilliant sweetheart."
"Can we keep him?" Lila asked hopefully.
"I don't have any problems with it, go ask your mother." Harry said as he handed her the picture. She smiled and walked out.
"Alright, now we can get to business." Fury said "Ultron took you folks out of play to buy himself some time, my contacts all think he is building something. With all the Vibranium he's made off with it, I don't think it's just one thing."
"What about Ultron himself?" Cap asked.
"Oh he's easy to track, he's everywhere. Guy multiplies faster than a catholic rabbit. Is still doesn't help get an angle on any of his plans."
"Unfortunately." Harry sighed, hoping for better news.
"Is he still going after launch codes?" Tony asked.
"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, letting everyone around him know how easy it should be for Ultron to hack into the codes. In Tony's opinion it was laughably easy.
"Well I contacted our friends at the Nexus about that." Fury replied.
"The Nexus?" Bucky and Steve asked at the same time.
"It's the world internet hub in Oslo," Bruce began explaining. "every bite of data flows through there. Fastest access on Earth."
"So what did they say?" Harry asked.
"He's fixated on the missiles but he's not making any progress because the codes keep changing." Fury responded.
"By whom?" Tony asked just as three dart pieces fly past his face and hit the bullseye on the dart board, Tony glared at Barton who simply smiled and shrugged.
"Parties unknown." Fury answered.
"Do we have an ally?" Natasha asked, she wouldn't mind having another ally at this point.
"Maybe, maybe not." Harry replied.
"He's right, Ultron has an enemy yes but that doesn't guarantee that they are on our side. Still I'd pay folding money to know who it is." Fury replied.
"I might need to visit Oslo, find our unknown." Tony said.
"This has been great and all, really it has, but I was kind of hoping that you would have had something more than that." Harry said to Fury.
"I do, I have all of you." Fury said, causing everyone in the room to look at him. "Back in the day I had eyes everywhere and ears everywhere else, you kids had all the teach you could dream of. You had the suits, the gadgets, the magic, everything. And now here we all are, back on Earth with nothing but our wit and our will to save the Earth. Ultron says that the Avengers are the only thing between him and his mission. And whether or not he admits it, his mission is global destruction. All this, laid in a grave. So stand, and outwit the platinum bastard." Fury said as he sat down.
"Steve doesn't like that kind of talk." Natasha said, referencing Steve's earlier use of the word 'language', something that Harry correctly predicted would haunt him for the rest of his days.
"You know what Romanoff..." Steve said to Natasha, who couldn't help the big smile on her face.
"So what does he want?" Fury asked.
"To become better, better than us." Steve said. "He keeps building bodies."
"Person bodies." Tony said. "The human form is inefficient, biologically speaking we are outmoded but he keeps coming back to us."
"You're right," Harry nodded in agreement. "Ultron walks like a human, talks like a human and still shapes his bodies after humans."
"When you two programmed a robot to protect the human race you amazingly failed." Natasha said to Tony and Bruce.
"They don't need to be protected," Banner said as he looked at a butterfly drawing, realisation dawned on him. "they need to evolve, Ultron's going to evolve."
"The vibranium," Harry said suddenly. "you say he's going to evolve and he's stolen a large amount of the strongest metal on Earth, that can't be a coincidence."
"That's...possible." Tony gulped as he thought about an Ultron made of Vibranium.
"How?" Fury asked.
"Has anyone been in contact with Helen Cho?" Bruce asked.
Wanda currently found herself in a lab along with her brother standing next to her, behind her was more scientists and Ultron robots. In front of her was a cradle that was placed in-between Ultron and her, next to the cradle was Helen Cho. Wanda currently had her and the other scientists under control by affecting their minds, not something she really enjoyed doing but it was necessary.
Wanda stood, thinking about the memories she had seen. That man, Harry his name was, she knew him. When she first saw him she found him to be familiar, but then she saw his memories. Apparently she was supposed to be the blonde girl, Daphne Greengrass her name was, she didn't believe it. But then something special had happened, memories appeared, memories that were not from Harry. Memories of a beautiful mansion, memories of punching a blonde boy in the noise, memories of holding a small baby boy in her hands as she was told that it was her new brother.
Memories of ghosts, flying brooms, a village covered in snow and a few more memories of Harry. Some from when he was young child at about eleven years old and a few from older years. These memories felt different from other memories, when she saw other peoples memories it felt like watching them through a screen but the memories she was experiencing felt like she had actually experienced them herself. God she felt so confused right now.
She was brought out of her thoughts by Helen Cho speaking.
"Cellular cohesion will take a few hours but we can initiate the consciousness stream." Cho said. "We're uploading your cerebral matrix now."
"I can read him," Wanda said, picking up on the thoughts of the being in the cradle. "he's dreaming."
"I wouldn't call it dreams," Cho said. "it's Ultron's base consciousness. Informational noise. Soon..."
"How soon?" Ultron interrupted. "I'm not being pushy." He quickly added.
Wanda ignored whatever Cho was saying as she placed her hands on the cradle, she tried reading it's mind once more. She closed her eyes as she did so, she looked into his mind when a burst of pain shot through her head as she saw all life on Earth being destroyed. Pietro was quick to her side, checking over her and holding her to comfort her.
"How could you?" Wanda said to Ultron in a horrified voice.
"How could I what?" Ultron asked.
"You said...we were going destroy the Avengers, make a better world!"
"It will be better."
"When everyone is dead?" Wanda countered.
"That is not...the human race will have every opportunity to improve."
"And if they don't?" Pietro asked.
"Ask Noah." Ultron replied.
"You're a madman." Wanda said, feeling more horrified than before, she could see her brother was the same.
"There are 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 he looked down at the cradle, his hand stroked it in a loving fashion.
"And who decides who's weak?" Pietro asked while Wanda took advantage of Ultron being distracted to free Cho from her mind control.
"Life," Ultron laughed. "life always decides." Ultron was about to continue when a beep was heard. "There's incoming," He said. "the Quinjet, we have to move."
"That's not a problem." Helen Cho said, drawing Ultron's attention to her. She quickly cut off the upload of Ultron into the creation in the cradle.
Ultron blasted her, Wanda gasped just as Pietro grabbed her and ran the two away. Once they were far and safe enough away Pietro put her down.
"Are you okay?" Pietro asked.
"He...he's going to kill us all." Wanda said. "We need Harry."
"Harry?" Pietro raised an eyebrow.
"Harry," Wanda nodded, all of her instincts and thoughts coming back to Harry. "he'll help us."
"Harry? The mask man? The Raven?" Pietro asked. "How can we trust him?"
"We can." Wanda replied. "He'll help us. Trust me Pietro, he'll help us."
"Alright," Harry said in the Quinjet, the other occupants were Steve, Nat and Barton who was currently flying the jet. Bruce had been sent to Avengers tower while Stark had gone to Oslo to find who the mysterious unknown, Bucky had gone with Stark in case he needed any back up. "Steve, you and me will go after Ultron."
"What about me?" Natasha asked.
"I'm putting you in charge of getting the cradle," Harry said. "you're still capable of teleporting right?"
"Right." She nodded, understanding what he was saying.
"Good, wait for my signal before you go after it." Harry said. "Barton, you keep the jet warm and ready for her, when Natasha signals you I want you to confirm to her that the jet is still. We haven't experimented much with her teleportation but it'd be easier if she's teleporting without worrying about her landing spot moving." Harry said, fortunately for him the Quinjet was more than capable of staying in place in midair. "When I give Natasha the signal then she will bring the cradle into the jet, after that you fly the jet and cradle away. Natasha, you stay with Barton as back up until you're certain that he can get the cradle back without being attacked by another Ultron bot. Once that happens you can teleport back to us in case we need back up."
"Got it." Barton said as Natasha nodded.
"Cap, grab on." Harry said, Steve grabbed on to his shoulder and Harry teleported himself and Steve away.
Harry and Steve landed in the building where Doctor Helen Cho worked, both landed in fighting poitions, ready for an attack. They looked around and were glad to find that they weren't going to be attacked just yet seeing as their are no Ultron bots here.
"Stay vigilant." Harry said to Steve as the two began moving.
"Any life signs?" Steve asked Harry.
"Give us a sec," Harry said as he stretched his magic out to search for any people. "the building seems very empty but...wait..."
"What is it?" Steve asked.
"Quick." Harry said as he grabbed Steve's arm and teleported directly into Helen Cho's lab, he saw a couple of scientist dead on the floor. Harry rushed past them with Steve following behind, they found Doctor Cho in the next room with a big wound on her chest and blood over her face and uniform. "Steve," Harry said as the pair knelt down next to her "I heal, you talk, go." Harry said as he started healing her.
"He' uploading himself into the body." Helen Cho gasped out.
"Where?" Steve asked.
"The real power is inside the cradle." She replied as she felt her body healing, she would have answered the Captain's question if she knew the answer but unfortunately she did not. "The gem, its power is uncontainable. You can't just blow it up, you have to get it to Stark."
"We got to find it first." Harry said once he was done. "You'll be fine okay, you're healed."
"Raven, Cap, we might have found something." Barton said, he was going to say more when the two in question teleported back into the jet.
"Yes?" Raven asked.
"Look down there." Barton said as he pointed down. "It's the truck from the lab, on the loop by the bridge."
"I see it." Harry said as his eyes locked on the truck.
"I got three with the cable and one in the cab, I can take out the driver." Barton said.
"No." Harry shook his head. "From what we've heard that could end up causing more damage than we can handle. Cap and I will draw out Ultron." Harry grabbed Cap and teleported the two to a bridge. "Get ready." Harry said to Cap as the truck was about to pass under them. As the truck passed under the pair jumped off the bridge and onto the truck.
Harry managed to land perfectly but Cap ended up rolling backwards and dangling off the back of the truck.
"No, no, leave me alone!" Harry heard Ultron's voice shout from inside the truck.
The truck doors suddenly burst open, with Cap just barely managing to hang on. A blast followed that and the door nearly came off, the truck dragged it as Cap tried to hold on. Harry walked closer to the now open back of the truck, he saw Ultron's hand reach out, clearly about to blast Steve. Harry quickly reached down and grabbed Ultron's hand, redirecting his blast away from Steve. He pulled Ultron out and threw him away.
"There's two bots inside the truck!" Steve shouted as he climbed up the door.
"Too much for you?" Harry asked jokingly.
"Raven!" A voice growled, Harry saw Ultron flying towards him. Harry gave Ultron a 'bring it' gesture, Ultron fired a beam at Harry.
Harry dodged the first beam by leaning towards the right, he dodged the second by leaning to the left and flipped backwards to avoid the third that was aimed at his feet. He back stepped to avoid the next one and fired a blasting curse at Ultron, Ultron dodged and fired another beam. Harry shielded against it and sent a fireball at Ultron, the ball connected but didn't do much more than send Ultron back a few inches. Ultron dodged Harry's next spell and fired again, this time Harry ducked and sent and sent a lightning blast at Ultron.
The blast hit Ultron, but Ultron flew out the way before he could be damaged too much. Ultron charged at Harry, clearly deciding to go hand to hand seeing Harry was superior from a range. Ultron threw a punch, Harry caught his arm and flipped Ultron on to the top of the truck. He tossed Ultron away but Ultron flew back and tried to knee him in the face. Harry side stepped and grabbed Ultron from behind, he placed his hands on Ultron's head and started squeezing.
Ultron realised what he was doing and elbowed him in the stomach before blasting him backwards, Harry rolled to his feet and ducked a second blast.
"You know what's in that cradle? The power to make real change and that terrifies you." Ultron said.
"It's not something I'm happy about." Harry admitted as he sent another spell at Ultron.
Ultron dodged and fired a beam at Harry but Harry teleported behind him and tried to punch him from behind only for Ultron to quickly turn and dodge. Ultron punched him in the face, Harry didn't let it stop him and hit Ultron with a left hook that caused more damage to Ultron's body. Ultron's current body may have been made of stronger material than his other bots but Harry had super strength before he was given the power of Thor.
Ultron kneed him in the gut, but Harry powered through the pain and grabbed his leg. Harry sent a bolt of lightning through him, Ultron punched him again and pushed him away. Harry dodged a right hook before blocking a left one, Harry didn't get time to counter as he quickly ducked another right before blocking a knee. Harry jumped in the air and hit Ultron in the chess with a drop kick, Ultron flew backwards and off the truck just as Harry landed on the top of the truck and kipped up to his feet.
Ultron flew at him and tried to punch him in the face, Harry dodged then side stepped another attack and kicked him from behind, Ultron flew away and crashed into a bridge column but quickly recovered. Harry could tell that he was the better combatant but Ultron had the advantage of not being able to get tired or feel pain so he wasn't slowed down.
"The Ultron bots are dealt with." He heard Cap say over the ear pieces.
"What took you so long? Signal Nat." Harry replied back. "I'm busy dealing with the big guy."
Ultron flew at Harry and tried to blast him, Harry shielded but Ultron didn't let up.
"Cradle's secure." He heard Natasha say in his ear piece.
Ultron flew closer and increased the power of his beam as he did so, Harry took a few steps back as Ultron landed on the truck but still kept his shield up.
"Getting tired?" Ultron taunted.
"Of your face? Yes." Harry replied.
"That's really smart." Ultron said sarcastically as he stopped his beam. "You're parents must be so proud to have given birth to a genius like you."
"They probably are," Harry nodded. "I know yours can't say the same." Harry replied.
Ultron definitely wasn't happy with that comment and charged at Harry, he threw a lot of punches and kicks, far more aggressively than before. Harry dodged and blocked most of them even if a few got past his defences, one right hook sent him a few steps back.
"Touch a nerve?" Harry said mockingly.
Ultron charged at Harry and tried to tackle him, Harry ducked under Ultron's arms and grabbed him by the waist, the two wrestled for a few seconds before both fell off the truck and crashed through the windows of a train that was driving alongside the truck.
As they landed in the train Harry mounted Ultron and began throwing punches at him, Ultron pushed him off then blasted him backwards. Harry quickly got to his feet, Ultron tried flying towards him. Harry teleported behind and grabbed Ultron by the feet, he pulled and slapped Ultron on to the floor. He jumped bac to avoid a blast that Ultron had aimed at his face. Ultron was up quickly and tried to nail Harry with a left hook, Harry side stepped and punched Ultron in the gut.
Ultron was unfazed and tried to back hand Harry with his left, Harry stepped back to avoid it and found his back against the wall of the train. Ultron tried hitting him with a right but Harry barely managed to dodge, Ultron went for a body shot, Harry covered up. After two punches he managed to get a shield out to block his strike.
Ultron was about to go for another punch when he was pushed away as a silver blur pushed past him, Harry looked to one side to find Pietro Maximoff on the train. Ultron tried to move towards Pietro when some metal bars moved in front of him, stopping him from going forwards. Ultron and Harry looked on the other side to see Wanda standing there with her hands glowing red. A few seconds later a noise was heard above, letting them know that someone or something had landed on top of the train.
Harry reached his magic out and found that it was Steve.
"Please, don't do this." Ultron said in a pleading voice.
"What choice do we have?" Wanda replied.
Ultron turned and fired a blast in Pietro's direction, Pietro dodged but the blast still managed to hit it's target which happened to be the driver of the train and the train cockpit.
Harry jumped into action and kicked Ultron hard in the chest, Ultron flew backwards, crashing through some train doors and bouncing off the top of a car. He straightened himself in midair and flew off, deciding that fighting was no longer something he wanted to do.
Harry teleported to the train cockpit just as Steve climbed in through the broken window. Harry quickly cast some spells on the driver to stabilise him long enough for him to get help.
"Harry," Cap said. "we're about to go off the path."
"I know." Harry said as he finished up with the driver who would still need medical attention but this way Harry was able to focus on the train. "Oi road runner," Harry said to Pietro. "civilians in our path." Pietro, who decided to ignore the name that Harry had just called him, nodded before speeding off out of the train. Harry then looked at Wanda and pushed down any feelings he had so he could focus on the situation at hand. "Can you help stop this?" Harry said.
Wanda didn't respond, she focused and allowed her hands to glow red, she pushed her hands down, slowing down the train and causing it to make a screeching sound. Harry jumped out the train and stayed in the air, he grabbed the train and used his own strength to help slow it down. A few moments later the train had grinded to a halt.
Harry breathed a sigh of relief as he floated back down to the ground.
"You good?" Steve asked.
"I'm good." Harry nodded. "Cap, how's the driver?"
"Looks like he could use some help." Cap answered, Harry climbed into the train and continued his healing of the driver. Once he was done he turned to Steve. "Help get him out." Harry said as he went off to look for Wanda and Pietro.
"Nat," Harry said into his communication device. "is everything good?"
"So far," Natasha's voice replied. "the package has been dropped off to Stark. Do you still need my help?"
"Stay there for now but be ready in case I need something." Harry said before ending the call. He found the twins, Pietro was panting as Wanda was rubbing circles on his back.
"I'm okay," Pietro was saying. "I just need a minute."
"You can have one." Harry said as he walked up behind them, the two turned to see him. "Are you both alright?"
"Yes," Wanda nodded, ignoring the feelings that rose up when she saw him, there would be time for that later. "the cradle, did you get it?"
"It's being taken care of, it's with Stark, he'll take care of it." Harry replied.
"No he won't." Wanda said, shaking her head and looking scared.
"Look I know Stark can be a bit of a dick but he's not crazy." Harry said.
"He will do anything to make things right." Wanda replied. Harry's eyes widened in realisation.
"What's going on?" Cap said as he arrived on scene.
"Stark," Harry said into his communication device. "Stark you had better answer. Nat? Barton? Steve can you get into contact with anyone?"
"Negative." Steve shook his head after trying and failing.
"Ultron can't tell the difference between saving the world and destroying it, where do you think he gets that?" Wanda asked.
"She's right, Ultron's flaws are because of Tony." Harry replied to Steve. "Alright everyone grab on." Harry said.
"What?" Pietro asked.
"You can stay behind if you want but those who are coming will grab on now." Harry said, Cap placed a hand on Harry's shoulder as Harry gave the twins a questioning look.
"Come on Pietro." Wanda said, grabbing Harry's arm.
"Fine." Pietro sighed before grabbing Harry's arm. Harry teleported them away and they landed in Avenger's tower. "Whoa!" Pietro exclaimed as he shook his head.
"It's worst the first time," Harry said as he began walking and the others followed him. "Bucky." Harry said upon spotting Bucky.
"You guys are back?" Bucky asked.
"Where are the others?" Harry asked.
"Stark and Banner are up in their lab, Romanoff and Barton arrived a while back." Bucky said as he began following them. "What's happening?"
"That depends on how far Tony's already gone." Harry replied as they came across Natasha.
"What are those two doing here?" She asked upon seeing the twins.
"I'll explain later." Harry said as the group entered the lab with Natasha following them in. "Oi Stark," He said when he saw Banner and Bruce working on the cradle. "having fun?"
"I'm going to say this once," Steve spoke. "shut it down."
"How about none-ce?" Stark replied.
"Tony, shut that down now." Harry said.
"You guys don't know what you're doing." Steve said.
"And you do? She's not in your heads." Bruce said as he pointed to Wanda.
"I know you're angry..." Wanda spoke only to be interrupted.
"Oh I am far past angry, I can choke the life out of you without changing a single shade." Bruce said, he was not exactly happy that she had nearly cost him everything he had worked for in order to control the Hulk by making him attack a city. He really didn't want to imagine how much damage could have been caused if Harry didn't stop it.
"Hey," Harry whispered to Pietro as the others began arguing. "would you mind?" Harry said as he gestured to the cradle with his head. Pietro smirked before he began zooming around and unplugging every thing he could.
"No go on," Pietro said when he stopped, the cradle began losing power. "you were saying." Any further response was cut off by the sound of a gunshot, the glass that Pietro was standing upon shattered and he fell down to the ground below.
"Pietro!" Wanda screamed.
"I'm rerouting the upload." Tony said, his words caused Cap to throw his shield in an attempt to stop him, the shield bounced off lots of different equipment. One Iron Man gauntlet flew to Tony's hand, he fired a blast at Steve. Harry intercepted with a magical shield, Bucky and Natasha got into fighting stances as Harry fired a stunner at Tony but Tony dodged at the last minute and fired another blast at him just as an Iron Man chest piece flew onto Tony's body but his blat was blocked by a shield Natasha made.
The fighting was interrupted as Thor came into the room, all eyes turned to him, Thor didn't say anything, he quickly jumped on top of the cradle.
"Thor?" Harry asked but he wasn't given a verbal response, Thor raised his hammer and summoned lightning to it.
"Wait!" Banner said but was ignored as Thor thrust his lightning down and began charging up the cradle. Once he was done the cradle exploded open, sending Thor flying back, a purple creature came out of the cradle. Human shaped with a yellow stone on it's forehead, Ultron's perfect body.
It looked around for several seconds before it's eyes landed on Thor who had just got back to his feet, it lunged at Thor, Thor caught it and tossed it away. It flew through one of the glass windows in the lab but stopped before it crashed into the penthouse windows. It began looking at it's own reflection just as everyone arrived in the penthouse, preparing for a fight. Harry brought Leviathan out and held it in his hand. When Thor arrived in the penthouse he put Mjolnir down on a table. He gestured for the others to stand down.
"I'm sorry," Ultron's creation said as he flew bac down to the floor and his body changed into a green colour. "that was odd." He said and Harry easily recognised Jarvis's voice.
"Thor, you helped create this thing?" Steve asked as the creation sprouted a cape and wrist gauntlets after looking at Thor.
"Yeah, what the fuck were you thinking?" Harry asked.
"I've had a vison." Thor said. "A whirlpool that sucks in all hope of life and it's centre was that." Thor pointed to the gem in the creations forehead.
"What is it?" Harry asked.
"It's the mind stone, one of six infinity stone," Thor answered. "the greatest power in the universe, unparalleled in it's destructive capabilities. It's the second one we currently have." Thor said, glancing at Natasha.
"The Aether." Harry said with realisation as Natasha's eyes widened.
"The reality stone." Thor corrected.
"Why would you give it to..." Steve gestured to the creation.
"Because Stark was right." Thor replied.
"Oh shit." Harry cursed under his breath.
"Oh it's definitely the end of time." Bruce said out loud.
"The Avengers cannot beat Ultron." Thor said.
"Not alone." The creation spoke next.
"Why does your vision sound like Jarvis?" Steve asked.
"Good, I thought it was just me who thought that." Bucky said.
"We reconfigured Jarvis's matrix to create something new." Tony explained.
"Yes but what sort of 'new' are we dealing with this time?" Harry asked.
"You think I'm a child of Ultron?" The creation asked.
"Are you?" Harry raised an eyebrow.
"I am not Ultron, I am not Jarvis either...I am...Vision." Vision replied.
"I looked in your head and saw annihilation." Wanda said.
"Look again." Vision replied.
"Her seal of approval means jack to me." Barton scoffed.
"Their powers," Thor gestured to the Maximoff twins, "the horrors in our head, Ultron himself even, they all came from the mind stone. With it on our side..."
"Is it?" Natasha asked. "Is it really on our side?"
"I don't think it's that simple." Vision replied.
"Mate, it's about to get very simple real soon." Harry said as he held Leviathan up. "Who's side are you on?"
"I am on the side of life, Ultron isn't. He wishes to end it."
"What's he waiting for?" Natasha asked, beating Cap by a second.
"You." Vision replied.
"Where?" Bruce asked.
"I...I think I know." Wanda said. "He had mentioned Sokovia, it's where we are from and I saw glimpses of it when I read..." She gestured to Vision. "...his mind."
"How do we know she's not lying?" Barton asked.
"Her right index finger and lip twitches slightly when she lies." Harry answered that question. "Am I right?" He asked Pietro.
"He really does know you." Pietro laughed, Wanda slapped him on the arm.
"If you're lying and on Ultron's side," Harry said to Vision. "then I don't care how, I will end you, no matter how long it takes."
"I believe you." Vision replied. "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 would 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..." Vision turned to Thor and held out Mjolnir "...But we need to go." He said.
Everyone looked at Vision in shock, finding it hard to believe that he lifted the hammer, Thor absently took his hammer back before Vision walked off.
"Well...well done." Thor said as he tapped Tony on the shoulder.
"Yeah, well I can do that too. Alright guys, three minutes." Harry said to the group. "Get what you need."
"Can I talk to you?" Wanda said to Harry as the other Avengers went off to get ready. Harry paused, he glanced at Natasha, Natasha looked between the two before giving Harry a small nod.
"Alright, let's go." Harry said as he guided her to a corner of the room, he waved his hand and cast a privacy spell. "We won't be heard now."
"That's good, I...I want to apologise." She said. "I know that me and my brother caused you all problems, but we never wanted this."
"Ultron offered you something, didn't he?" Harry asked, she lowered her head slightly. "He wanted to help you get revenge on Stark I'm guessing, what did Tony do to you if you don't mind me asking?"
"When I was ten, I was having dinner with my brother and my parents, everything was fine then the first shell hit two floors below us. It made a hole in the floor, our parents went in, Pietro grabbed me and the two of us hid under the bed. The building was collapsing, the second shell came, it landed a few feet from us. We wait...we waited for so long, for it to go off but it didn't. Anything that people did to help us risked setting it off. We waited for two days, two days we spent looking at a shell with Tony Stark's name on it, waiting for it to kill us."
"I'm sorry," Harry said sincerely. "you hate Stark, I get it."
"Do you?" She asked. "Do you really?"
"Yes, you're not the only one who has suffered because of the murderer of your parents." Harry replied, causing any further response of Wanda's to be lost. "The man who murdered my parents, he tried to kill me a few times since. Do you know the difference between him and Stark?"
"No." She shook her head.
"He was evil, he tried to kill because he wanted to. Stark isn't evil. Wait," Harry said when he saw she was about to interrupt. "just listen for a sec. Those shells, Stark didn't fire them, yes he supplied them but he didn't fire them. When Stark used to sell weapons he was an ignorant rich boy, he didn't know about what his weapons were doing, he was just an inventor who was enjoying his life. A while back he was kidnapped, he saw what his weapons could do, do you know what he did after realising how much damage he was causing?
He stopped, his weapons company stopped being a weapons company, he changed. He invented the Iron Man suit and decided to spend his time helping people instead of just shipping out new weapons. I know he regrets everything he's done, that's why he tries his best to be a hero now. I have no doubt that he'd sacrifice his life if it meant that other people would survive, even if it was you and your brother. He's an idiot but he has a good heart."
"You think I should just forgive? Just forget?"
"I think you should remember, if you want to forgive then that's up to you." Harry replied. "Either way, you think we can put it on hold until we put it on hold till we deal with Ultron?"
"Very well," She agreed, that was reasonable after all, she couldn't waste time with her grudge on Stark when the whole world was at stake. "but one more thing, I'm getting memories. Memories that aren't mine."
"Can I see?" Harry asked as he gestured to her head.
"You can read minds too?" She asked, surprise in her voice.
"Yes, can I?" Harry asked. She nodded her consent, "Alright just focus on the memories." Harry looked into her mind and viewed the memories she was referring to. "Alright, the house is Greengrass mansion. You...or Daphne I suppose, lived there. That blonde boy you punched was Draco Malfoy, nice right hook by the way and yes he deserved it. That boy, his name was Dylan, he was your brother. Born on your twelfth birthday, you loved him so much, he was an adorable kid."
"Is...is he Pietro?" Wanda asked, that would make thing even more complicated.
"No, Pietro doesn't have magic at all." Harry answered. "Powers from the mind stone like you but not magic. As for your other memories, they were from our time in Hogwarts."
"Hogwarts?" She asked. "I know that name."
"It's the school we went to. Look, once we deal with Ultron I will gladly sit down and talk to you as much as you want about this but for now I need you to focus on Ultron, can you do that for me?"
"Okay, but one more question, who am I? Am I Wanda Maximoff? Am I Daphne Greengrass?"
"I think...that's up to you." Harry smiled at her. "But I'm going to give you some advice that Daphne Greengrass once gave me."
"What's that?"
"Don't be someone you're not for the sake of others, artists don't let other people draw their paintings for them so don't let other people decide your life for you. Be who you want, that's all I can say. I don't know if you're Daphne reincarnated or if you're the original with a memory problem. I can help you with your questions, but only you can decide who you are." Harry gave her a small smile before walking off, there would be more time for that later. But for now he would have to focus on Ultron.
Omake:
"You have more applicants for me?" Fury asked.
"Yes, I don't know why I bother but I do." Harry nodded. "Alright well first of all, we have Luke Cage. From Harlem, bullet proof and super strength.
"We already have bullet proof people with super strength." Fury replied.
"We can't have another?" Harry asked.
"No, mix it up."
"Fine," Harry sighed. "okay how about Danny Rand, also known as the immortal Iron Fist, martial art abilities even though the way he fight is dramatic looking and over the top. He also has a special fist that essentially punches harder than any human has a right to punch. A hit from it could cause a lot of damage and..."
"Hold up...it's just the one fist?"
"...Yes..."
"If I wanted one punch man on the team then I would've hired him. Is this guy one punch man?"
"Not...really. Okay I'll be back later." Harry said before walking out.
