Chapter 31 -
The Avengers all sat in the Quinjet as it flew to Sokovia, the twins were coming as well, not that any of the Avengers voiced any issues with that. Everyone had their game face on as they mentally prepared themselves for Ultron. Harry sat between Wanda and Natasha, something that was not lost on him.
"We're approaching Sokovia." Stark said as the twins each put in an ear piece so they could communicate with the other Avengers.
"Alright listen up," Cap said to the Avengers.
"What is he doing?" Wanda whispered to Harry.
"Pep talk." Harry whispered back as he gestured to Steve so she would pay attention.
"Ultron knows we're coming." Cap continued. "The odd are we are going to be riding into heavy fire, that's what we signed up for. The people of Sokovia, they didn't." Wanda and Pietro shifted slightly at those words but otherwise tried to keep their faces blank. "So our priority is to get them out, keep them safe. All they want is to live their lives in peace, but that's not going to happen today. But we can do our best to protect them, and we can get the job done. We'll find out what Ultron is building and clear the field. Keep the fight between us. Ultron thinks that we're monsters, that we are what's wrong with this world, this isn't about beating him, it's about whether he's right." Cap said, he sat down after having finished his talk.
"I thought you were the leader." Wanda said to Harry.
"Cap was always better at the speeches than me. Plus a good leader knows when to listen to others." Harry replied.
"Is that another line you stole from Daphne?"
"No...or at least I don't think so, so many different people have said and done so many different things, it's hard to be original sometimes." Harry shrugged. "Also I don't steal lines, I give full credit to those who I heard them from."
"Shouldn't you say something fearless leader?" Natasha raised an eyebrow.
"Fine." Harry sighed before standing up, the whole team looked at him. "Well...Cap pretty much summed it all up. We believe that we're right, Ultron believe that he is right. This fight is not just proving that we're better than a robot army, it's proving that we believe in what we're doing enough to go against a robot army and win. It's proving that the Avenger's are not just a group of super powered individuals that are going around and doing what we want.
We fight for the people. Not the government, not politics, not money. The people. When we fight out there, do not hesitate because the enemy will not hesitate. We are the Avengers, if we can handle invading alien armies then we can handle Ultron. Don't fight just as yourself, fight as an Avenger and take the son of a bitch down." Harry nodded to the group before sitting down. "No offence meant Tony." Harry added to Tony.
"All the offence taken, but good speech." Tony replied. "Until the end." He added to himself in a silent whisper.
"Has anyone been in contact with the Sokovian government?" Harry asked.
"Yes," Bruce nodded. "but I don't know what they plan to do. I tried to make them see how serious it was and I know that Fury's probably contacting them if he hasn't already done it. But I'm not sure if they're doing anything or if they can do anything in time."
"Yes, I see what you mean. Besides Fury's capabilities are quite limited at the moment."
"Who is this Fury?" Pietro asked.
"The leader of Shield," Natasha answered. "he's a good man."
"A man who would be very useful to have on our side but there's a problem," Harry continued where Natasha left off. "a while ago one of shield's agents committed a massive crime, it later turned out that the agent was being influenced by the person in charge of her mental evaluations. The person has also influenced other agents and the world security council, the idiots, took that as an opportunity to try and claim that Fury doesn't have any control and is not as good as he used to be."
"Why would they do that?" Wanda frowned.
"They're not happy with me or Fury." Harry admitted. "A lot of their members were corrupt and members of an illegal organisation known as Hydra. I discovered that and ended up getting rid of a lot of people both in and out of the world council and that's frightened them. Fury's supporting me so they're trying to get rid of him first, they've managed to suspend him a few months ago along with agent Hill but if we're lucky then they might get their jobs back in time to actually do something to help us."
"Finger's crossed." Steve nodded.
"Alright, Stark, you said you wanted first crack at Ultron." Harry said as he glanced at Tony who nodded in confirmation. "You'll get it, take Vision with you, the two of you remember the plan right?"
"Yep, you?" Tony said to Vision.
"I do." Vision nodded.
"Good, the rest of us will be focusing on taking out the Ultron bots and helping the people." Harry replied. "Remember to stay in contact with each other. If any of you see anything you think could be important then don't hesitate to point it out."
"You think we can win so easily?" Pietro asked as he raised an eyebrow.
"It won't be easy." Harry said instantly. "It's never easy, if it was then everyone would do it. You just have to decide if you think it's worth the effort. Do you?"
"Yes, I do." Pietro said instantly.
"Then you'll be fine." Harry said. "How about you?" Harry asked Wanda.
"I do." She nodded, thought not as fast as Pietro.
"Alright," Harry said as he waved his hand around her. He then began repeating the action on everyone else. "I'm placing locator charms on you all. This way I can instantly know your locations, call me if you need help." He then waved his hands around Pietro's trainers. "This will keep them from getting worn out when you run." He explained.
"Thank you." Pietro nodded as he examined the trainers.
"You're welcome." Harry replied as he stood up and returned to his seat, he began relaxing and calming his mind so he could think better once they got there.
Eventually the jet landed and the Avenger's walked out, they looked around and didn't see anything wrong, not yet at least.
"Alright, time to get these people out of here." Harry said. The others nodded, Stark and Vision flew off into the air along with Thor, Pietro rushed off while Banner stayed by the jet, waiting for trouble to start before he began hulking out. Harry and the others began moving off on foot.
A while later the night began clearing up and the Avenger's were still evacuating civilians even though there was still noticeably less people. They all knew that a fight could break out within moments, and were ready for it to start soon.
"Anyone got eyes on Ultron yet?" Harry asked the group using his communication device.
"Not yet." Pietro replied. "Still evacuating the people."
"Got him, he's in the church, heading there now." Tony replied.
"I am also heading there." Vision replied.
"Good luck with that." Harry said as he continued helping with the evacuation.
A few seconds later the peace was finally broken when an army of Ultron soldiers began flying in from the skies and rising out of the ground. The people of Sokovia began running and fleeing in terror.
"Let's go." Harry said as he flew into the air. He tossed Leviathan, his axe curved in the air and took out three Ultron bots before it flew back to him.
Harry shot several spells at other Ultron bots in the meantime, each bot destroyed upon getting hit. Harry felt his magic flare and became aware of an Ultron bot flying towards him from the back. He blasted two more bots, he dodged out of the way of the Ultron's attack at the last moment. The robot didn't get to follow through with his attack because Leviathan came and crashed into it. Harry quickly pulled it out of the robots body before the robot could fall to the ground.
Harry looked down to see Wanda shielding against some blasts while Natasha returned fire with her own powers, Clint provided back up and was shooting down any robot they could. Harry flew down and hovered above them as he began blasting robots.
"Can you guys handle this?" Harry asked after blowing the head off of one.
"We're good." Natasha nodded.
"I'm going to go, call me if you need anything and I'll teleport back." Harry said before flying off, he flew away and began blasting any and all Ultron bots he could see.
He flew above one alleyway and saw four Ultron bots moving towards a family of three that were crawling away on the floor, he swooped down and levelled out just before hitting the ground. He flew towards them, he chucked Leviathan and took out two of them. The other two turned their arms into plasma cannons and began firing at him, he knew that it'd be harder to dodge in this alleyway to he decided to reduce his size and transformed into a raven.
He flew towards them, he did a barrel roll to avoid two blasts. When he got close enough he transformed back and kicked the two in midair before landing, he fell to the ground and rolled to his feet. He turned to the family that were staring at him in a combination of fear and awe.
"Grab on." He said as he conjured a rope for them, he turned it into a portkey and handed it to them. Once they each had a hand on it he activated it and the family was sent to safety. Harry flew back up into the air after summoning his axe to his hand, he saw three Ultron bots flying towards him. He aimed his axe at them and sent an ice beam which froze them all in the air, when Harry stopped the blast the Ultron bots were incapable of flying and fell to the ground.
Harry reached his magic out for life signs and flew towards the closest, a group of Ultron bots were trying to attack a group of twenty or so people. Harry flew towards them, he landed in front of the people and span his axe around before jabbing the head in the direction of the Ultron bots, sending a blast wave out and destroying twenty Ultron bots while also knocking over some cars and shattering glass windows.
"You all okay?" Harry asked the group.
"You are Raven!" One of them blurts out.
"I am indeed," Harry said as he conjured a bunch of portkeys for them. "take these." Harry said as he handed them four portkeys, teleporting five away at a time.
Harry was about to fly when suddenly the ground started shaking, causing Harry to stumble forwards.
"Is anyone else feeling that?" He heard Natasha through his ear piece.
"I can taste that." Harry replied before flying up into the air. "What the..." Harry trailed off when he saw cracks appear on the ground and begin spreading in different directions. Dust rose from the cracks as the ground began to shake and rise. "Stark, what the hell is happening?!" Harry yelled into his earpiece.
"It's Ultron!" Tony responded. "He's lifting the city! He's created a device using the vibranium he stole."
"What happens if we don't stop him?" Harry asked as a group of twenty Ultron bots flew towards him.
"If it drops after a few more minutes then a lot of people will die," Tony replied just as Harry blasted four into pieces. "if it get's high enough then everyone will."
"Well we don't want that," Harry said as he created a shield around him to protect him from the Ultron bots, the bots began punching and striking the shield, Harry let them keep going as the shield was building up in power with each hit. After a few seconds Harry spread his arms as if to push the energy out, the shield burst and blasted the Ultron bots away. "and we will stop that. Stark, you're the genius here, try and figure out a way to bring the city down safely. Is everyone else doing good?"
"I've been better." Harry heard Bucky reply.
"I get it," Harry replied as teleported to the ground and blasted two more Ultron bots. "but right now we have two priorities. Keep the people safe and destroy these robots. Rip them apart, crush them, do whatever the hell you want but destroy them. Today we're going to get hurt, no way around that. It's just like any fight, make sure they're more hurt than you. And if you get killed...I will bring you back to life just to kick your arses."
"Harry," Natasha called on his ear piece. "I could do with some assistance."
"Coming!" Harry said as he teleported over, using the locator charm to know her location. He teleported next to her and found her blasting several Ultron bots with one hand while using the other to hold up a shield to protect against their plasma blasts. He also couldn't help but notice the group behind her.
"I've got them but there are civilians in the building behind me." Natasha said and Harry looked at the big building behind him. "Would you mind?"
"Not at all." Harry said, he put a shield around the group before he teleported into the building. He spread his magic out to look for life signs, he detected seven life signs so far. Three in the lover level and three life signs a few storeys up and one in the highest level of the building. Harry teleported to the first two, he looked around and found a woman, a small boy and a cat. "Hi." Harry said before grabbing them and teleported them outside to the other group.
Harry teleported back into the next three where he found two parents and a child, Harry teleported them outside just like those before and then Harry teleported back into the building. He landed in the top apartment when he saw two Ultron bots trying to grab a woman who was screaming and running away, Harry quickly blasted the two before they could react. He grabbed the screaming woman and teleported her outside to the rest. He looked around and saw that Natasha had dealt with the Ultron bots.
"You alright?" Harry asked as he began making portkeys for the group.
"Fine for now." She nodded while Harry began portkeying the group away. "Do we have an endgame? What exactly is the plan here?"
"Stop Ultron and save the world."
"That's more of a goal than a plan."
"It's both. But for now just focus on getting these people out of here. Where's the rest of the team?"
"Thor's working along with Barnes and Rogers," Natasha answered. "Hulk is off doing what Hulk does best. The Maximoff brother is zooming around, and Barton's with Wanda."
"Right, where are they?"
Wanda crashed into a building through a window along with Hawkeye, he quickly reached the nearest wall while she crawled after him. She saw him looking calm and composed, she did not, her mind felt like it was going to explode. All this destruction and terror, all of it because of her. Because she pushed Stark just for her revenge, this was all her fault. People were going to die because she pushed Stark into making Ultron.
She couldn't help but think of the memories she possessed of Daphne, the coolheaded blonde wouldn't be panicking right now. But then again if he had truly acted like Daphne then she wouldn't be in this situation because she wouldn't have been stupid enough to get someone to create a murderous robot then help said robot.
"How could I let this happen?" She said, unable to believe how stupid she had been.
"Hey, hey are you okay?" Hawkeye asked.
"My fault...this is all my fault!" She said.
"Hey, look at me, you're fault, my fault, who cares?" Hawkeye said, causing her to look up at him. "Are you up for this? Are you? Look I just need to know because the city is flying...the city is flying...and we're fighting an army of robots and I have a bow and arrow. None of this makes sense."
"I..." Wanda was about to reply but let out a small scream when a few holes appeared in the walls from blasts that come from outside, Hawkeye wasn't fazed and quickly shot an arrow through one of the holes.
"But I'm going back out there because it's my job, okay? And I can't do my job and babysit. It doesn't matter what you did and what you were, if you fight you fight to kill. If you stay in here then you're good, I'll send your brother or Raven to come and find you. But if you step out that door, you are an Avenger." Hawkeye paused to see that his words were making an impact. "Okay, good talk." He said before taking three arrows and nocking them in. "The city is flying." He said to himself once more in disbelief before he kicked the door open and rushed out flying.
"Hello." A voice said, causing Wanda to gasp, she turned and saw Harry kneeling in front of her.
"What are you doing here?" She asked in a shocked voice.
"I'm not actually here," Harry confessed. "I'm a mile away fighting off Ultron bots. What you're looking at is an illusion and it is quite hard to maintain while fighting so I'm going to quickly speed things up, I felt something wrong with you, what is it?"
"I did this!" She cried, tears sliding down her face. "This was all because of me. I pushed Stark into doing this by showing him his worse fears! All of the suffering and chaos is my doing!"
"No it's not." Harry replied instantly. "You have part of the blame yes but so does Tony because he chose to start working on Ultron without talking to the team and Ultron is also to blame, he is doing this, you didn't make Ultron decide to start killing. Every single person in the Avengers have done something that they regret at least once in their lives, me included. You can escape, you can hide or you can do what I call a 'Tony Stark' and try to make up for your mistakes."
"Daphne...she wouldn't have been so stupid." Wanda said, looking down at the floor. Harry looked at her, he was silent for a few moments before speaking.
"Just because I think Daphne was perfect doesn't mean that she was," Harry gave her a small smile. "she had a temper and she was passionate about things she believed in. But can I tell you something, you...you might be Daphne reincarnated but you will never be the same Daphne." Harry said, Wanda looked at him with a surprised expression. "You two are not the same, you don't have the same life experiences and I am sorry if...oh son of a bitch!" Harry cursed suddenly causing Wanda to jump. "Sorry, got hit by an Ultron, anyway, I'm sorry if I was making you feel like you had to be another Daphne for me. Don't...don't be another Daphne, be Wanda Maximoff."
"What?" She breathed out.
"Don't live trying to live up to my expectations, live trying to be the best you can be. Now I'm going to cut this off so I can focus on fighting, but I want you to answer yourself one question, what would Wanda Maximoff do?" Harry asked. Wanda was about to say something when Harry slowly began disappearing out of view.
"How many goddamn robots are there?" Harry groaned as he flipped over a car, he landed and rolled forwards before hitting one Ultron bot with a high knee that took off its head. He turned around as three Ultron bots flew towards him, Harry waved his hand and a sent a car flying at them. The car crashed against the three in midair and landed on top of them as they crashed to the ground. Harry blasted the car/Ultron pile, causing a massive explosion.
Harry ducked a right hook from one Ultron bot and placed his hand on its chest before sending lighting at it, blasting it backwards into a group of other Ultron bots. Harry sent more lightning and destroyed the group. His magic flared and he quickly turned around and put up a shield with his left hand to block some plasma blasts, one managed to get through before he got his shield up and struck him in the chest. Harry was forced to take a step back but managed to shrug it off and keep his shield up.
Harry summoned Leviathan to his right hand, as the group of Ultron sentries kept firing. Harry pushed with his left hand and sent the shield forward enough so he had more room to move, he pulled Leviathan up into the air before slamming the head down onto the ground. Ice spread out from the head and began moving towards the Ultron bots, the ice crawled up their legs, freezing them in place. Harry aimed Leviathan at the frozen Ultron and sent a blast that smashed them all into pieces.
Harry looked around and saw that the area he was in was nearly empty, the only problem now was about the five Ultron robots he saw charging towards him. Harry span his axe around in his head, and gestured them to bring it. As they got closer they were blasted into pieces by a red beam, Harry smirked just as Natasha hovered down next to him.
"Anymore Ultron's?" Harry asked.
"Don't think so." Natasha replied.
"Alright we're all clear here." The pair heard Barton through the ear pieces.
"Us too." Harry replied.
"We are not clear!" Steve responded. "We are very not clear!"
"We're coming." Harry said.
Natasha grabbed on to his shoulder and Harry teleported the two to Steve's location where he found Steve and Bucky fighting a group of Ultron bots. Bucky had just smashed one of them in the head after Steve decapitated another with his shield. Natasha thrust her arm out and sent three tentacles out of her palm, the tentacles crawled up three Ultron bots then began squeezing their heads. Harry teleported closer and decapitated on Ultron bot with Leviathan before removing the legs of another.
Harry hit the legless Ultron bot with a delayed explosive spell, he grabbed the bot and tossed him at another Ultron. The bot exploded and took out the other Ultron with it. Harry glanced to his left and saw Steve bounce his shield off of three Ultron bots before it landed on the floor near him, Steve began engaging two Ultron bots in hand to hand combat as four more flew towards Harry.
Harry raised Leviathan into the air before bringing it down and slamming it on Steve's shield, a shock wave from that sent the Ultron bot's flying away. Harry flew up into the air and began firing spells when he saw a silver blur arrive, when the blur slowed down he saw Pietro slide to a stop just as he let go of Wanda who instantly firing red blasts at Ultron bots. Harry grinned before he continued sending spells at the bots. He summoned Cap's shield to his hand.
He saw a line of Ultron bots flying towards him, Harry span in a circle and tossed the shield at the Ultron bots, thanks to his super speed the shield managed to cut straight through the bots before it crashed into a car. Harry saw two Ultron bots near the car, he sent a spell at the car, it blew up and took out the two bots while sending the shield back into the air. Harry summoned it to his hands.
"Buck!" Harry said, he tossed the shield downwards. Bucky ran and jumped off a car before catching the shield with his left hand, he span in midair and threw it straight at an Ultron bot, it bounced off the bot then struck another when Steve grabbed it in the middle of a flip and slammed it down onto another Ultron bot.
A few minutes later all Ultron bot's in the area were gone. Harry gave the group a small nod, Wanda along with Bucky and Pietro began helping any nearby civilians.
"The next wave's going to hit any minute," Steve said into his ear piece.
"Steve's right," Harry said. "Stark, I could do with some good news right now. I would pay for some good news right now. What do you have?"
"Well, nothing great." Tony admitted. "Maybe a way to blow up the city, that will keep it from impacting the surface, you guys would have to get clear."
"We asked for a solution, not an escape plan." Steve replied.
"Impact radius is getting bigger every second, we're going to have to make a choice." Tony replied, while he was a bit irritated he still understood what Cap was saying as neither option appealed to him either.
"We're not going to be able teleport this many people away from here in time." Natasha said to Harry.
"Even if we could we would need to find a way to get them all in one place and even that might not help if this island drops." Harry replied.
"I don't like it but these people are going nowhere, if Stark finds a way to way to blow this rock..." Natasha started only to be interrupted by Steve.
"Not till everyone's safe." Cap said.
"Everyone up here versus everyone down there, there's no maths in that." Natasha said, she didn't like it anymore than he did.
"I'm not leaving this rock with one civilian on it." Steve replied.
"I second that." Harry nodded in agreement.
"I didn't say we should leave," Natasha said defensively, she realised what the two were saying and she could admit that she didn't really want to leave either. "there are worse ways to go." She shrugged. "Where else am I going to get a view like this?" She added as she looked at the blue sky and white clouds, appreciating this moment of peace in the middle of all the chaos.
"Glad you like the view Romanoff." A voice said, one that all three recognised.
"Fury?" Harry couldn't help but smile.
"Yep," Fury replied. "it's me."
"You finally get them to give you your job back?" Harry asked just as Pietro ran up and stopped next to the group.
"Well they know which they preferred between rehiring me and dying," Fury replied just as the hellicarrier came into view. "I've got the hellicarrier back, Agent Hill is with me and right now we are sending help to you."
"Fury, you son of a bitch." Cap grinned.
"Ooh, you kiss your mother with that mouth?" Fury replied and Harry could just tell that he was smiling.
"This is shield?" Pietro asked as he looked at the hellicarrier with awe, the side of the hellicarrier opened and lifeboats began flying towards the city.
"This is what shield is supposed to be." Cap replied with a smile.
"It's not so bad." Pietro admitted before running off.
"Alright, you guys get those people in." Harry said to the others before they began helping the civilians get onto the lifeboats. Harry flew off towards the hellicarrier to combat the Ultron bots that were trying to take it down by damaging the turbines. As Harry flew over he saw Rhodey in his war machine armour fly in and start blasting the Ultron bots.
"Now this would make a great story." Rhodey said as he fired at the sentries while Harry flew in the opposite direction of Rhodey to take out any that Rhodey may have missed. Harry blasted any sentries that he could and used Leviathan to get rid of those that came close enough to engage in physical combat.
"If you live to tell it." Tony said as he began flying alongside Rhodey and assisted him in blasting the Ultron bots.
"You think I can't hold my own?" Rhodey asked as he dodged one blast and fired back with his shoulder gun.
"If we get through this then I'll hold your own." Tony replied before blasting two robots to pieces.
"You just had to make it weird." Rhodey sighed.
"I would've thought that we'd get used to it by now." Harry commented before blasting seven bots with a wide spread lightning blast. This kept going for some time before Tony spoke again.
"I got it!" He said. "Create a heat seal, I can super charge the spike from below."
"You sure about that?" Harry asked as he destroyed the last few bots along with Rhodey.
"It's the best I got." Tony replied. "Thor, I've got a plan."
"We're out of time, they're coming for the core." Thor's voice replied.
"Rhodey, you're job's to get the people to safety, focus on getting them on the life boats and keep them alive." Harry ordered.
"Got it." Rhodey nodded before flying off.
"Alright Avenger's, time to work for a living." Tony quipped.
"Say's the billionaire." Harry commented before he grabbed Tony and teleported the two near the church, the two flew in and landed next to the core where they found Vision, Thor and Pietro fighting off Ultron sentries. Harry and Thor began blasting them just as Steve and Bucky arrived along with Wanda and Barton.
"What's the drill?" Natasha asked as she teleported in.
"That's the drill." Tony pointed to the core just as Hulk arrived and landed on top of two Ultron bots. "If Ultron gets a hand on the core then we lose."
"Speaking of Ultron." Harry gestured to where Ultron prime flew in, and began hovering above the air.
"Is that the best you can do?!" Thor taunted. Ultron raised an arm in response, that was apparently a signal for the other Ultron bots as what looked like hundreds of bots suddenly arrived out of nowhere and charged towards them.
"You just had to ask." Cap aid with a small glare at Thor.
"This is the best that I can do." Ultron said. "This is exactly what I wanted, all of you versus all of me, how could you possibly hope to win?"
"Well...like the old man said, together." Tony replied, he glanced at Cap who gave him a small smile.
Hulk let out a fierce roar as all the Ultron bots got near and surrounded them from all sides, the Avengers leaped into action just as they got close. Cap bashed away any that got close while Bucky alternated between shooting and bashing, Thor used Mjolnir to full effect by smashing when he wasn't using lightning. Hulk easily ripped the bots to pieces, while Barton and Natasha shot any robots they could along with Wanda. Pietro was running around in a blur and destroying any robot he could while Tony flew above the group and blasted the bots with Vision a back up while Harry destroyed any that got close with his axe and blasted the rest.
Harry glanced up and saw Vision fighting against Ultron prime in the air, Vision blasted Ultron with a beam from the gem in his forehead, Ultron was sent flying out of the church while Vision followed after him, not stopping the beam. Harry glanced around and seeing that there was only a few Ultron bots left, he went after Vision and Ultron along with Thor and Tony while the rest of the team handles the Ultron bots.
Tony added his repulsor blasts onto Vision's beam just as Thor and Harry blasted Ultron with lightning from each of their weapons, they kept this going for several seconds. When they stopped Ultron slowly got to his feet, bits of his face and arm were missing and damaged, clearly from the team effort.
"You know...with the benefit of hindsight..." Ultron would have undoubtedly said more if not for the fact that Hulk popped up at that moment and punched him away. Hulk turned to a group of Ultron bots that quickly began running away.
"They're trying to leave the city!" Thor said.
"We can't let them leave, not a single one." Tony said. "Rhodey!"
"We need to move out," Cap said. "even I can tell the air is getting a little thin."
"Cap's right, everyone get to the life boats." Harry said. "I'll go after the rest of the Ultron bots."
"I'm coming with you." Natasha said.
"I got no problem with that." Harry shrugged, perhaps he might have before but now he knew that Natasha could handle herself as she was getting better and better with her powers.
"What about the core?" Bucky asked.
"I'll protect it," Wanda said, surprising everyone. "it's my job." She said, glancing at Barton who gave her a small but proud nod.
"Fine, just do your job and stay ready because I will come back for you." Harry said.
"You might want to get Banner back to a life boat." Cap suggested.
"You're right, there's only a few left after all. We'll get Hulk on the way, the rest of you move." Harry said, the Avengers all nodded and began moving apart from Pietro
"Harry," Wanda said, causing Harry to stop. "thank you." She said, she walked up to him and pulled his hood back slightly so she could kiss him on the cheek. Something which caused Pietro to raise an eyebrow while Natasha just had a small smile on her face.
"Come on lover boy." Natasha said as she looped her arm around Harry's and began leading him away. "I'm glad that you and Wanda are doing good."
"Wait...I'm no expert in women but shouldn't that upset you?" Harry raised an eyebrow.
"I'm not an expert in women either," Natasha shrugged. "besides your love was never in question." She said as she kissed him on the other cheek.
"Hulk," Harry said once he and Natasha arrived next to Hulk who had just finished destroying one Ultron bot with the body of another. Hulk turned to them. "how are you doing?" Harry asked. Hulk grunted.
"Bird man," He nodded in greeting, "pretty girl," he added when he saw Natasha. "want Banner back now?"
"Just for now, don't worry I'm still going to be spending some time with you when we get back." Harry promised. Hulk grunted, he was about to transform back when Harry's instincts suddenly flared. Harry turned around and cast a shield that blocked a large amount of bullets from the Quinjet, it didn't take a genius to realise that Ultron was flying it. The Quinjet quickly flew off, Hulk roared and was prepared to chase after the jet but was stopped by Harry. "Hulk, I'll get it, you go with Natasha."
"But jet!" Hulk gestured to the jet.
"I'll get you a jet to smash the next we meet, I promise." Harry promised.
"Fine." Hulk grunted and began transforming back while Harry flew after the jet.
Harry saw the jet firing below, he glanced in he direction it was going and he saw Barton a small distance ahead holding a child, Barton quickly realised that he was about to get shot. Harry teleported in front of Barton and put up a shield, the bullets bounced off the shield before Ultron flew away. Harry looked behind him and blinked when he saw Pietro behind him while Barton and the child were moved slightly out of the way. He realised that Pietro had moved the two out of the way and was about to sacrifice himself, something that Barton had realised too judging by the stunned look on his face. To be fair, Pietro didn't look like he quite believed it either and suddenly looked very glad to be alive.
"Nice job," Harry said as he patted Pietro on the shoulder. "now get to safety before your sister kills us both."
"You got it." Pietro nodded.
Harry nodded in response, before flying after the jet. He destroyed two stray Ultron bots with his axe before he teleported a small distance in front of the jet, his right hand became covered in lightning as he flew towards the Quinjet. He destroyed the glass window of the jet by blasting it with his left hand before he flew in and punched Ultron in the face with his lightning covered right, Ultron flew backwards and crashed out of the back of the Quinjet before falling down and crashing into a train car.
Harry teleported back to the others where he saw Natasha handing Bruce some clothes while Barton and the others rested.
"Is everyone okay?" Harry asked.
"Fine, how about you?" Natasha asked.
"Good so far," Harry said before placing his fingers on his ear piece. "Wanda, are you alright?"
"The main Ultron is no longer a problem." She replied.
"How did you do that?" Harry asked.
"I removed his heart." Wanda responded and Harry couldn't help but think that was a good idea, Ultron was a little too focused on making the bodies similar to humans so it made sense that he had a heart. Harry was about tor respond when suddenly the lifeboat rose into the air, and the city began falling.
Harry quickly realised that Tony and Thor were now destroying the city and teleported after Wanda, he flew towards her and flew into the broken train car that was floating in the air and saw Wanda floating inside it. Harry flew towards her and scooped her up bridal style, and flew out of the train car.
"Hang on." He said before he teleported the two back to the life boat. When the two landed, he gently placed her down onto her feet, Pietro quickly rushed over and began checking her over.
"Are you okay?" He asked as he pulled her into a hug.
"Pietro." She sighed in relief and hugged him back.
Harry smiled at the pair before walking over to Natasha, the two embraced each other. Natasha sat down and tried to pull Harry down to sit down but he refused, he gave her the universal 'give us a minute' gesture before putting his fingers to his ear piece.
"Any Ultron bots left?" Harry asked.
"Not anymore." He heard Vision reply.
"Good." Harry said before he plopped down next to Natasha who rested her head on his right shoulder. A few seconds later Wanda sat down on the other side of him with Pietro next to her. Natasha raised her head and looked at Wanda who looked back, Harry stayed silent as he felt like he was in-between a rock and a hard place while Pietro looked like he wasn't sure if he should leave or stay to break up any potential fights.
"I get this half." Natasha said eventually after a minute or so of staring and placed her hand into Harry's right. Wanda raised an eyebrow at that along with Harry and Pietro but she eventually placed her hand into Harry's left.
"Deal." She said and nodded towards Natasha who nodded back before resting her head back on Harry's shoulder.
"What...just...happened?" Harry said out loud, his body shivered as his magic tingled.
"Shush, rest now, talk later." Natasha whispered while Wanda leaned back against her seat.
"You are a braver man than me." Pietro couldn't help but say.
"The rules have changed." Cap said as he, Thor, Harry and Tony walked alongside each other in the new Avenger's base.
"We're dealing with something new." Tony added.
"Well the Vision is artificial intelligence." Cap said.
"A machine." Tony agreed.
"So it doesn't count?" Cap asked.
"No, it's not like a person lifting the hammer."
"Right, different rules for us."
"Nice guy but artificial." Tony nodded.
"Thank you." Cap nodded.
"I'm not a machine." Harry grinned, causing Tony and Steve to glare at him.
"If he can wield the hammer then he can keep the mind stone," Thor said. "it's safe with the Vision and right now safe is in short supply." Thor said in a serious voice before a small silence came over the group.
"But if you put the hammer in an elevator..." Cap eventually broke the silence.
"it would still go up." Tony said.
"Elevator's not worthy." Cap smiled and Harry gave a soft snort.
"I'm going to miss these little talks of ours." An amused Thor said.
"Not if you don't leave." Tony replied.
"That is a good way to not miss something." Harry agreed.
"I have no choice." Thor said. "The mind stone is the fourth of the infinity stones to show up in the last few years, it's not a coincidence." Thor said as they walked outside. "Someone has been playing an intricate game and has made pawns of us, once all these pieces are in position..."
"Triple Yahtzee?" Tony asked.
"You think you can find out what's happening?" Harry asked as they all stopped walking.
"I do. Besides this one," Thor gestured to Tony before taking some steps away from the rest. "there's nothing that can't be explained." He said before raising his hammer, he was taken away by the bifrost, leaving a symbol on the grass.
"That man has no regard for lawn maintenance." Tony said as Harry waved his hand over the grass to return it to normal, the three began walking as Tony clicked on a remote. "I'm going to miss him though, and you two are going to miss me, there are going to be a lot of manful tears."
"I will miss you though Tony." Cap said.
"Thanks." Tony nodded before looking at Harry.
"I'm not saying it." Harry refused.
"Ah come on." Tony grinned just as his car pulled up alongside him.
"Fine," Harry sighed. "I will miss you...a little."
"I know you mean a lot so thanks. But it's time for me to tap out." Tony said. "Maybe I should take a leaf out of Barton's book, get a farm for Pepper and hope nothing blow it up."
"The simple life?" Cap asked.
"You'll get there one day." Tony said.
"If I can do it then you can too." Harry replied.
"I'm sorry but I don't think being with a world class super powered spy and a super powered reincarnation of your ex at the same time counts as simple," Tony remarked. "also how does that work?"
"I'll tell you once I find out." Harry responded, he was also wondering how it worked.
"Anyway, you'll both get there one day." Tony said as he entered his car. "Are you both alright?" He asked the two.
"I'm home." Steve said as he looked at the base.
"Harry?" Tony asked Harry.
"I'm...happy." Harry smiled.
"Hey Nat," Harry said as he began walking alongside Natasha. "you alright?"
"Fine, how about you?" She asked.
"I'm great."
"I've talked with Wanda," She said as the two stopped and looked at each other. "if you're willing then the two of us would like to be together with you."
"While I don't have a problem with that, what about you and Wanda?" Harry asked. "I mean it's not fair for the two of you and..."
"Harry," Natasha cut him off. "I love you, never doubt that. Part of the reason why I love you is because of how much love you possess, I loved hearing your stories of Daphne because it told me what kind of man you really are. She loves you not just because of her memories as Daphne but also because you helped her truly become Wanda Maximoff. We're both willing to share for you because that's what you deserve."
"I just want you both to be happy." Harry confessed as he gave her a small smile.
"Then you should be happy." She smiled and began walking, Harry shook his head slightly before walking after her. Cap walked alongside the two and handed Harry a tablet. "How do we look?" Natasha asked.
"Well we're not the twenty-seven yankees." Cap said.
"Without the sport please." Harry said as he looked over the information.
"They're good, but not a team." Cap replied.
"Well let's whip them into shape." Natasha grinned.
The trio walked through some doors, they saw Vision along with Falcon in his Falcon suit, Rhodey in his War Machine suit, Pietro sliding to a halt. Pietro was wearing a bullet proof blue-greyish body suit with the same design as the shirt he wore during the battle of Sokovia. He had light weight white metal pads on his shoulders, elbows and knees along with white metal wrist gauntlets that connected to his fingerless gloves metal gloves. His knee pads connected to his white shin pads which connected to his white trainers. All of the white part was made out of a special light but tough metal that Harry had put lightweight charms on.
Wanda floated down to the ground in her new uniform. This uniform consisted of a black leather suit with a red corset, and a red leather jacket over it that had two strips down the front. It also included elbow high black leather fingerless gloves, and tall, heeled boots with red piping on top of them. She glanced at Harry and sent him a wink which he returned with a small smile.
"Avenger's," Harry said out loud "a..."
A.N: Hi guys hope you liked the chapter. Next will be civil war, slight spoiler here but it will be very different from the film in a lot of ways (actually that wasn't really a spoiler...or was it.?..ah well). The next chapter will either go straight into Civil war or perhaps be one focused on Harry's relationship with Wanda and Natasha, I haven't decided yet. Just want to address a few quick things.
* Wanda isn't entirely Daphne nor is she entirely Wanda. She's sort of a combination of both at this point and more will be revealed on that later on because I will want to spend some time in the story explaining more about Wanda's mind.
*As for quicksilver, I was tempted to let him die but I decided I liked him too much. He was great in the short amount of time he was in the MCU, I know why they got rid of him (Wanda, he was too fast) but still.
* Hulk did not go off in the jet because in this universe he doesn't really feel the need to. Because of Harry he actually feels loved and wanted by someone and even Banner likes him more than before, plus Hulk sees Harry as his one and true friend above all else seeing as Harry keeps Hulk feeling equally important as the rest while the other Avenger's just see him as a smash machine. It's been mentioned that Harry has had Banner transforming and letting the Hulk out on a regular basis so Hulk doesn't feel caged in Banner's mind either.
* I know some people like the Wanda/Daphne twist and some don't, that is fair. All I can do is go with an idea and hope that it's liked. If people don't like it then that's fine as everyone has different opinions, and if you do like it then thank you. It's kind of the same with my scene where I have Harry break down in front of Natasha, I did it because I thought it made sense as Harry is an immortal being with years of supressed emotions and see's the love of his life in another girl's body just as he finally moves on from her. It made sense in my opinion for him to be emotional but other's didn't seem to agree. Either way I just want to thank all those have read even a chapter of this story and those that are still reading.
* I'm still deciding on infinity war/end game. On the one hand I could just end the story on infinity war or I could go all the way to endgame, waiting for opinions.
*No omake today but perhaps next time.
* I want to thank you guys for pointing out the bit about Fury in the last chapter, that's my bad and I hope I corrected it in this chapter. To be fair I think it could make sense, I mean it's understandable for the world council to be afraid of the guy who cost them a lot of their members and they would want to start by limiting the guy who is supporting him.
Anyway, thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it and feel free to leave a review.
