Tony, being Tony, threw a party a few days after the Avengers recovered Loki's scepter. Hermione, being Hermione, decided to sit in a corner studying next year's textbooks for the duration of Tony's party. Unfortunately, everyone was being too loud for Hermione to concentrate, so she had no choice but to socialize. She ended up listening to Tony's friend Rodey recount one of his adventures.

"Well, you know, the suit can take the weight, right? So I take the tank, fly it right up to the General's palace, drop it at his feet, I'm like, 'Boom! You looking for this?'," Rodey finished. Tony and Thor didn't seem too impressed.

"It would have been quite easy to avoid violence in that situation," Hermione responded.

"Why do I even talk to you guys? Everywhere else that story kills," Rodey replied.

"It's a trick," Clint announced. It was a few hours after the party and the Avengers, along with Dr. Cho, Rodey and Maria Hill were eating Chinese food and debating Milnor's enchantment.

"Oh, no. It's much more than that," Thor replied

"I've read about similar spells and objects," added Hermione. "Like Godric Gryffindor's sword."

"Uh, 'Whosoever be he worthy shall haveth the power!' Whatever man! It's a trick," Clint scoffed.

"Well, please, be my guest," Thor invited Clint to try to lift the mythical hammer.

Hermione found amusement in watching Clint, Bruce, and Tony try to lift the hammer. They all failed miserably. Tony had tried to use the gauntlet from his armor and even enlisted Rodey's help after his second attempt failed. Then, it was Steve's turn. The patriotic superhero had managed to make the hammer budge, prompting Thor to look worried for a moment. A look of relief passed over the Asgaurdian's face once he realized that Steve couldn't lift Milnor.

"The handle's imprinted, right?" Tony guessed. "Like a security code. "Whosoever is carrying Thor's fingerprints" is, I think, the literal translation?"

"That's a very interesting theory," Thor replied. "I have a simpler one, you're all not worthy." The other Avengers groaned in protest.

Suddenly, a high-pitched screech echoed throughout the tower. Everyone covered their ears in pain.

"Worthy, no. How could you be worthy? You're all killers." Hermione looked across the room to see a damaged Legion bot that was tangled in wires.

"Stark?" Steve questioned.

"Jarvis?" Tony asked.

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

"Reboot Legionnaire os," Tony ordered. "We got a buggy suit."

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

"You killed someone?" Steve asked.

"Wouldn't have been my first call, but in the real world, we're faced with ugly choices," the robot replied.

"Who sent you?" Thor asked.

"I see a suit of armor around the world." It played what sounded like a recording of Tony's voice.

"Ultron," Bruce realized.

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

"What mission?" Natasha asked.

"Peace in our time." The Iron Legion attacked.

"All our work is gone," Bruce stated. "Ultron cleared out, used the internet as an escape hatch."

"He's been in everything," Natasha added. "Files, surveillance, probably knows more about us than we know about each other." Hermione hoped that there wasn't anything about the Wizarding World in her files. Being muggle-born and an Avenger, other wizards would be glad to blame her if their world was ever exposed.

"He's in your files, he's in the internet. What if he decides to access something a little more exciting," Rodey suggested.

"Nuclear codes," Maria realized.

"Nuclear codes," Rodey conformed. "Look, we need to make some calls, assuming we still can."

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

"He didn't say dead," Steve replied. "He said extinct."

"He also said that he killed somebody," Clint recalled.

"But there wasn't anyone else in the building," Maria countered.

"Yes, there was," Tony responded. He pulled up a fractured orange hologram.

"Jarvis," Hermione realized.

"This is insane," Bruce said.

"JARVIS was the first line of defense," Steve reasoned. "He would've shut Ultron down, it makes sense."

"No, Ultron could've assimilated Jarvis," Bruce replied. "This isn't strategy, this is rage." At that moment, Thor marched into the lab and lifted Tony by the throat.

"Use your words, buddy," Tony said.

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

"Thor," Steve cut in. "The Legionnaire?"

"Trail went cold about a hundred miles out but it's headed north, and it has the scepter. Now we have to retrieve it, again," Thor reported.

"The genie's out of that bottle," Natasha replied. "Clear and present is Ultron."

"I don't understand," Dr. Cho remarked. "You built this program. Why is it trying to kill us?" Tony began laughing while Bruce shook his head at him, trying to get him to stop.

"You think this is funny?" Thor asked angrily.

"No. It's probably not, right?" Tony replied. "Is this very terrible? Is it so...is it so...it is. It's so terrible."

This could've been avoided if you hadn't played with something you don't understand," Thor stated.

"This isn't the time to argue," said Hermione. "We need to focus on stopping Ultron."

"No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It is funny. It's a hoot that you don't get why we need this," Tony responded.

"Tony, maybe this might not be the time to," Bruce trailed off.

"Really! That's it? You just roll over, show your belly, every time somebody snarls," Tony snapped.

"Only when I've created a murderbot," Bruce responded timidly.

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

"Well, you did something right. And you did it right here. The Avengers were supposed to be different then S.H.I.E.L.D.," Steve interjected.

"Anybody remember when I carried a nuke through a wormhole?" Tony asked.

"No, it's never come up," Rodey replied.

"Saved New York?"

"Never heard that."

"Recall that? A hostile alien army came charging through a hole in space. We're standing three hundred feet below it. We're the Avengers. We can bust arms dealers all the livelong day, but, that up there? That's...that's the end game. How were you guys planning on beating that?" Tony asked.

"Together," Steve answered.

"We'll lose."

"Then we'll do that together too. Thor's right. Ultron's calling us out. And I'd like to find him before he's ready for us. The world's a big place. Let's start making it smaller."