Chapter 12

The Ultron Invasion Part III

The West Coast Avengers surrounded the large crate, as fog subsided from it. The heroes were still unsure what to expect from the contents of this box. Captain America and Hawkeye learned never to underestimate Ultron and his evil plots. Could it be a bomb? Toxic gas? Some form of a massive technological takeover? All and so much more were fitting to the infamous super villain's style.

Finally, after much anticipation, the Avengers watched as a figure rose from the grave. He was clearly an android, showing no sign of emotion as he floated out of the crate. The robot's "skin" was crimson red, and he had solid yellow eyes, with a small yellow diamond on his forehead. The metal that served as this creature's "clothing" was painted green. He wore a helmet that only covered the top and side of his head, a long sleeved tunic, and pants. He had a yellow cape, yellow boots, and yellow gauntlets.

"So…" Quicksilver spoke, confused at this new figure on the battlefield. "Maybe this is a nice robot? It'd be great if he just…wanted to hang out, or something."

At the sound of a foreign voice, the android's eyes began glowing as he processed his creator's commands that were innate in his system. The robot began speaking with an emotionless metal voice.

"Operation Avengers Assassination Initiated. Mission Accepted!"

"Yeah, something tells me he is not a friendly robot." Hawkeye replied as he readied an arrow.

"I don't believe there is such a thing as a friendly robot." Captain America added as he raised his shield. "Avengers, take him down!"

"Voice Recognition." The android spoke, as Hawkeye shot a couple arrows and Cap threw his shield. "Data Entry 002 and 006: Captain America, Hawkeye…defense strategy initiated."

The projectiles flew into the air towards the robot, who was able to make his body translucent, using highly advanced phase shifting technology developed by Ultron. Captain America quickly ducked to evade the three arrows that flew in his direction, as Hawkeye jumped in the air and hopped over the vibranium shield.

"Taking steps to eliminate the targets." The android spoke emotionlessly as his eyes glowed brightly.

Yellow lasers came out of Ultron's creation's eyes and the diamond at the top of his head. The android did a 360 degree turn with his lasers activated, attempting to hit the heroes that surrounded him. Captain America was hit harshly in the stomach, Hawkeye rolled out of the way, and Quicksilver swiftly picked up his unconscious sister and sped away from the range of the laser.

After setting the motionless Scarlet Witch down safely, Quicksilver sped back towards the enemy with the intent to knock him down. With as much force as he could, Quicksilver punched the robot in the face, expecting him to fly into the remains of a tall building from the impact. Much to Pietro's dismay, the android simply stepped back upon impact. Quicksilver had not anticipated the robot possessing super strength among his many powerful abilities.

"What the heck are you?" Quicksilver asked, somewhat in shock of this monstrosity.

"I am the android known as Vision." The villain replied, "Ultron has programmed me to assist in the overall destruction of the Earth by killing the heroes known as the Avengers."

"Oh is that all?" Quicksilver responded sarcastically.

"Yes." Vision stated, not understanding the hero's sarcasum, as he punched him harshly in the stomach.

The impact of Vision's powerful punch was so hard that it caused Pietro to cough up blood, as two of his ribs broke. As the speedster began falling, Vision shot a laser out of his forehead diamond that sent Quicksilver flying into a pile of rubble.

"Ironman." Captain America toughed through his pain as he spoke into his communicator. "We're going to need some assistance…a lot of assistance actually."

"Copy that, Captain." Tony Stark's voice came in from the communicator. "Help is on the way."

"Resistance is futile." Vision spoke, as Hawkeye jumped to his feet and shot many arrows at the android's phase shifting body. "I have been programmed with the knowledge of all the Avenger's abilities, strategies, and battle tactics. There is absolutely no way for your team to gain victory over me."

"Don't be such a Debbie Downer!" a voice spoke in from behind Vision as a hero in red and blue webbed tights swung in and kicked the android in the head, knocking him forward. "You just met us…we have a habit of surprising our enemies! Like the way I just kicked you in the head…I bet you didn't see that coming, Vision."

"Data Entry 010, Spiderman." Vision analyzed out loud, as he turned to face his foe. "Superior reflexes, easy weakpoint is to interrupt while the human speaks excessively."

"I wouldn't say I speak exc…" Spiderman's retort was cut off, as Vision shot a laser that hit him in the stomach, knocking him far away.

"Hey Mr. Can Opener." Ironman called out from behind Vision and high in the air. The android turned to face the hero. "Try my arsenal on for size."

"Data Entry 001." Vision responded, as Ironman begun shooting severeal rounds of pulse waves and missiles in his direction. "Ironman...effective tactic: destruction of vital points in his armor."

The android began to swiftly float in the air towards Stark, still unable to be harmed by any of his projectiles. Once Vision was close enough, Ironman threw a punch, which went right through the translucent villain. Vision became solid, and quickly grabbed both wrists of Ironman. With great strength, he crushed the gauntlets in specific areas that were vital to pulse firing. While still holding the metal hero, Vision pulled Stark close to him gave him a harsh headbutt in the cranium. Stark's helmet cracked, causing the face mask to fall off. In a final attack, Vision threw the hero towards the ground and shot him with his laser eyes set to full power in the chest, causing a massive explosion of energy in Ironman's core.

"Damn…" Ironman spoke through the pain as he laid on the ground, "I never thought of putting those attacks together. That freak really had my number."

More Avengers came to attempt to aid in the battle but Vision seemed too strong for any of them. Hawkeye attempted to shoot freezing arrows at the robot, who used his laser to send them back at the hero and have him frozen in place. Black Panther attempted to sneak up on the robot, only to be discovered based on the android's heightened hearing. Vision physically pummeled the Panther and threw him off a building, injuring the hero severely. Wasp was easily swatted down onto the ground as she tried to use her energy to destroy Vision's lasers. Try as they might, the heroes could not attack Vision in a way that he had not already anticipated.

Not far from the battle, a certain fire manipulating mutant awoke from his unconscious state and noticed the carnage before him. The villain's body was hurting, and he decided that he'd rather not participate in this fight, even though it appeared that the Avengers were easy pickings for any assassin at this moment. Pyro groaned in pain as he remembered the large headband that was implanted in his head. The device no longer had any function, as all the Scorchers were damaged beyond repair. To make matters worse, the headband itself was damaged so it was sending short electrical bursts to Pyro's skull that were very painful. Upon staggering a few blocks and getting fed up with the pain, the flame thrower decided it was in his best interest to rip off the headpiece. Feeling the cords tear from his skull, Pyro yanked the device off and yelled loudly in agony. Not long after that, the mutant collapsed once more due to pain and fatigue in front of a hospital.

Meanwhile back at Ultron's lair, the mastermind behind this robotic invasion watched as the Avengers were being bested by his creation. As he was a robot, Ultron showed no sign of satisfaction or any kind of sick pleasure of watching his enemies fall. He simply watched his giant screen intently, calculating his next move.

"The time has come to unleash my ultimate creation." Ultron spoke, as he turned to his larger crate and mentally ordered it to open. "Harbinger, I command you to go forth and destroy."

The crate opened and another android levitated out as the smoke cleared from the box. This machine was slightly taller and bulkier then Vision. It's body was made of solider white metal with several black linear designs. The robot looked more like an alien with a pointy skull then a human. It had thin evil looking red eyes, and sharp razor teeth. It was clear because of how Harbinger was designed to look more like a skeleton of something extraterrestrial, that Ultron meant for him to end the human race while inspiring fear among the populous.

"I must thank you for your participation in this undertaking." Ultron spoke to the captive Brotherhood members, as Harbringer's systems were turning on. "I was able to use some of your mutant DNA to add your special abilities to the disposal of this robot. He was previously more powerful than any other robot that the human race had ever encountered…you simply helped me make him better."

"There's no way in Hell that the world is going to end by some toaster that has all of our powers." Mystique spoke, she turned to Avalanche before giving her order. "Avalanche, it's time to break us out."

"With pleasure!" Avalanche spoke as he sent seismic waves towards the bottom of his capsule. The power was enough to level an entire state, while was just enough power to break the Brotherhood out of Ultron's tube prisons.

Mystique continued to order as he jumped out of the shatter glass. "Blob, go break that thing before it has a chance to turn on completely!"

"Piece of cake!" Blob smiled stupidly as he rushed towards Harbinger with the intention to pound it into oblivion.

"One of humanity's most troubling qualities is their inability to learn from past mistakes." Ultron spoke as he floated onto a higher level, allowing his new creation space to work. "The Brotherhood loses nearly every battle it enters without ever perfecting their battle tactics. You were easily imprisoned before, and now you'll be easily destroyed."

As the terrifying machine was still booting up, Blob began pounding it in the face as hard as he could hoping to knock its head off. The robot was completely unaffected. Finally, the machine gained consciousness and grabbed Blob's fist, and started to exert him pressure, crushing the massive man's hand.

"As you can see," Ultron spoke from high above. "My creation has your strength, with the addition of it's own. Your force won't even come close to overpower my Harbinger."

"Then we'll just have to bury him with this whole place then!" Avalanche spoke in rage, tired of all these machines and the damage they were causing. "I've had just about enough of all this."

Avalanche shot tremendous tremors towards Harbinger who quickly turned, as it continued to best the Blob's strength. The robot sent more powerful waves towards Avalanche that created a massive chasm in the ground that would have sucked the mutant into the earth, had Mystique not leapt in to catch his arm and pull him back to the terrain.

"The three of you will be the first to be destroyed by my Harbinger of the annihilation of the human race." Ultron spoke casually. "In a few short hours, my programmed mission of fixing the human race will finally be complete."

Despite the damage caused by the Vision, the Avengers continued to fight with everything that they had. Upon returning to his feet, Captain America ran and grabbed his shield, and broke Hawkeye free from the ice. Quicksilver slowly recovered and rushed up to a building to make sure Wasp and Black Panther were okay. Spiderman swung down to a severely injured Ironman to make sure he was recovering alright.

"OK, so I'd say round 1 goes to the Vision." Spiderman said as he crouched down to check on the hero. "But we can pull through this, right?"

"We have to…" Ironman grunted. "But if he knows every single one of our battle strategies, how can we attack him?"

"I guess we could always try to do something that we'd never do…" Spiderman said, "I left all my pies at home, otherwise I'd love to pie him in the face! Vision would never see that coming."

"Something we'd never do…" Ironman contemplated those words as his eyes fell upon a broken arm piece of one of the Scorcher robots that had a flamethrower attached to it. "That could work!"

Ironman rolled over, pushing through the pain, and took his right armored gauntlet off. He put his hand in an opening of the Scorcher arm and spoke to his computer. "Jarvis, can you override the controls on this weapon?"

"Of course I can, sir." Jarvis replied, "Please give me a moment….System Overrided."

"Excellent." Ironman spoke, as he raised the flamethrower up and pointed it at the Vision. "Hey Vision, try this on for size!"

The Vision turned his attention from Captain America to Ironman. His system returned to processing Ironman strategies, which made him completely unprepared for a large fireball to come flying in his direction. The impact of the powerful fireball pushed the robot back, smoke flying from his suit from the burning that quickly subsided.

"So if he's used to us using our moves," Spiderman spoke thoughtfully, "we'll just have to switch playbooks!"

Upon that statement, Spiderman hopped high in the air, doing an aerial, and used his web to grab Hawkeye's quiver and bow.

"Hey!" Hawkeye exclaimed, "What are you doing?"

"I've always wanted to try some of these arrows out." Spider said as he loaded an explosive, a lightning, and an freeze arrow to the bow.

Spiderman released the arrows towards Vision, who transferred his programming to his Spiderman style. The ice lightning arrow electrocuted the surprised robot, as the ice arrow froze him, and finally the explosive arrow caused the robot serious damage.

"I get it!" Hawkeye spoke with a smile. "If he knows all of our strategies, we'll just have to trade them to throw this thing off!"

The archer ran to Captain America, "borrowed" his shield, and rushed towards Vision and started to hit him with the shield. Vision was unable to defend from this tactic, as he was expecting a ranged strategy from Hawkeye.

Following Hawkeye's lead, Quicksilver smirked as he remembered the many training sessions he had with Captain America about close combat fighting. He sped towards Vision and begun pummeling him and throwing him to the ground in a way that was customary to only Captain America.

"Manual Override engaged!" Vision spoke as he was being beat by the Avengers. "Gathering collective strategies and fighting on one's own merit."

"What's that mean?" Quicksilver said as the Vision phase shifted to avoid physical damage.

"It means that thing has decided to think for itself and have an original thought for once." Captain America spoke as he jumped down to the battle scene and grabbed his shield from Hawkeye, "Prepare yourselves men!"

Vision used his lasers to shoot Captain America and Hawkeye, though he missed Quicksilver due to his tremendous speed. Black Panther rushed in from behind to attack the robot, but was kicked hard in the stomach. As this was happening, Spiderman swung from a building and shot several webs on the Vision's face, trying to disable his sight.

Using his sensors to detect rising heat signatures coming his way, Vision strategically flew towards the flame that Ironman was launching to him, and allowed his face to be hit to get rid of the webs blinding him. Vision then used his forehead diamond to shoot Ironman in the arm, destroying his flamethrower, as his eyes shot lasers to shoot down Wasp before she was able to launch her bee stings at him.

Vision looked around at the Avengers struggling to recover from the beatings they had received. The android was intrigued at the will to live that these humans possessed.

"This is purely illogical." Vision spoke as he watched each hero rise to their feet. "I calculate that you all have a 0.007% chance of survival and yet you humans continue to fight. I…don't understand."

"Better start worrying about your chance of survival instead of our own." A female voice spoke from behind Vision.

Before the android could turn to identify who spoke, a red beam was thrown towards a stack of cars that had been tossed on top of each other due to Pyro's previous manic barbeque. Against many odds, the cars all managed to fall down on top of the unsuspecting Vision. Seeing his golden opportunity, Ironman aimed a tiny shoulder missile as Vision was covered with vehicles. Within seconds of aiming, the hero took his shot. The missile blew up the many vehicles causing a massive explosion. As the smoke slowly cleared all the heroes surrounded the scene, everyone wondering if their battle was over.

Unfortunately, the smoke began to fade away revealing that Vision was still operational and standing. He had successfully turned around to lay his eyes on the thrower or the hex bolt, a recently recovered Scarlet Witch. Vision was unable to explain what happened within his system at that moment. He had a perfect shot on the mutant, but upon seeing the woman (even knowing of her existence based off the received data in his processer) Vision was unable to quickly shoot his laser.

"A momentary glitch." The robot spoke as he quickly shook his head, recovering his mission of Avenger Annihilation. "Mission continued."

Vision released his yellow eye beams at Scarlet Witch with the intention of destroying her, but Quicksilver rushed in front of the beams and screamed as the shot hit him square in the chest. The mutant fell to the ground with much pain and was barely able to move. The android found himself once again perplexed as he watched Quicksilver slowly rise to his feet, as the other Avengers surrounded him.

"Hang in there, Quicksilver!" Captain America encouraged his team mate. "So we've all seen that this thing isn't invincible…let's take him down!"

"Round 1 went to the scary red robot…" Hawkeye said as he readied another arrow, "Round 2, went to the Avengers…anyone want to take bets on Round 3?"

"I'm betting it will be the last round!" Ironman said as his systems began to recover, and he began floated over Vision readying his chest pulse beam."

"What…" Vision looked around at the heroes gathering to continue to the battle. "How…can you keep fighting? Alert! Cognitive system appears to be damaged. Chance of survival has decreased from 99.7% to 20.4%...most effective strategy…Retreat."

Without a moments warning, Vision launched into the air at high speeds, blowing past Ironman and leaving the battlefield. With a moment of awkward silence, all the Avengers exchanged confused looks. How could such a violent battle end so…uneventfully?

"He…ran?" Spiderman asked, "I didn't know robots could get afraid. Guess it makes sense, I mean look at us!?"

"That was…to easy." Captain America spoke as he reflected on the events.

"Too easy?" Quicksilver coughed as he slowly made it back to his feet. "You call getting burned, battered, shot at, and injured…too easy? What else could have happened in this battle that would make you consider it "moderately difficult", I wonder?"

"The battle wasn't easy…" Ironman added, "but what Cap means is this whole plot from Ultron…it seems to easy. There has to be something else going on. His MO is always the same, destroying the human race. Vision, as he called himself, only seemed interested in fighting us."

"Avengers!" A tough voice came in to all the communication links that each hero wore in their ear. The voice was universally recognized as S.H.I.E.L.D director, Nick Fury. "I don't know where the hell you've all been, but we have a serious problem! There is a robot that has just appeared in the US that is using a high frequency wave that is able to level entire cities within minutes. From what we can tell, it's objective seems like total destruction of anything and everything. My people are on it…but we could use a hand."

"That sounds like Ultron's work to me." Hawkeye said, processing this information quickly. "I guess Vision was just a distraction for us."

"What are we waiting for?" Quicksilver asked, impatient within seconds of the previous comment. "Who's up for beating up another robot? Come on, we're supposed to STOP things like this from happening right?"

"Quicksilver is right…" Ironman said as he floated higher in the air. "There is no rest for the weary…Avengers, let's move out!"

A/N: In case anyone is curious. Harbinger is an OC of mine. He probably won't be used again after this Chronicle but I like to let you all know when I include made up characters to avoid any confusion with what's Marvel and what's not. If you fall in love with him as a villain, feel free to use him but please let me know mainly so I can read the piece you write about my creation! Well, I hope you enjoyed Ultron Invasion Part III...stay tuned for the conclusion of this Chronicle in the next chapter!

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