In the Quinjet, a traumatized Bruce was sitting quietly. Steve, Thor and Natasha were also trying to shake off the traumatizing visions they had.
Maria Hill: The news is loving you guys. Nobody else is. There's been no official call for Banner's arrest, but it's in the air.
Tony Stark: Stark Relief Foundation?
Maria Hill: Already on the scene. How's the team?
"Not great." The team answered.
Tony Stark: Everyone's...we took a hit. We'll shake it off.
Maria Hill: Well for now I'd stay in stealth mode, and stay away from here.
Tony Stark: So, run and hide?
Maria Hill: Until we can find Ultron, I don't have a lot else to offer.
Tony Stark: Neither do we. [he ends the call and switches off the monitor; to Barton, who's flying the Quinjet] Hey, you wanna switch out?
Clint Barton: No, I'm good. If you wanna get some kip, now's a good time, cause we're still a few hours out.
Tony Stark: A few hours from where?
Clint Barton: A safe house.
[The Quinjet lands outside a large farmhouse and they all walk towards the house]
"This looks so peaceful," said Luna.
"It is." Clint replied with a smile.
Thor: What is this place?
Tony Stark: A safe house?
Clint Barton: Let's hope. [they all enter the house] Honey, I'm home.
"Thank you, Clint." Steve said, "You risked a lot by bringing us to your home."
Clint simply nodded.
[Barton's heavily pregnant wife, Laura, walks in from the kitchen]
Clint Barton: Hi. Company. Sorry I didn't call ahead.
Laura Barton: Hey.
Tony Stark: [Laura kisses Barton; to Thor] This is an agent of some kind.
People chuckled. Natasha and Clint share a subtle knowing look for Tony wasn't wrong about Clint's wife.
Clint Barton: [introducing his wife to the team] Gentleman, this is Laura.
Laura Barton: I know all your names.
[They all look at her awkwardly]
Most laugh at their awkward faces.
Clint Barton: Ooh, incoming. [Barton's children, Cooper and Lila, run in]
Lila Barton: Dad! [Barton picks up his daughter]
Clint Barton: Hi, sweetheart! [kissing the top of his son's head] Hey, buddy! How you guys doing? Ooh...
Tony Stark: [to the others as they watch with surprise] These are...smaller agents.
Many laugh at what Tony said.
Clint Barton: Look at your face! Oh, my goodness!
Lila Barton: Did you bring Auntie Nat?
Natasha Romanoff: Why don't you hug her and find out?
Natasha smiled softly.
Harry couldn't help to admire her way with the children.
Taskmaster was jealous at having to see the small little girl hug Romanoff. Why on earth would he be jealous? She's the enemy!
[Lila rushes towards Natasha, who picks her up in her arms]
Many smiled at the heartwarming scene.
Steve Rogers: Sorry for barging in on you.
Tony Stark: Yeah, we would have called ahead, but we were busy having no idea that you existed.
Clint Barton: Yeah, well Fury helped me set this up when I joined. He kept it off SHIELD's files, I'd like to keep it that way. I figure it's a good place to lay low.
Laura Barton: Honey. Ah, I missed you.
[Thor looks down at the LEGOs he stepped on.]
Natasha Romanoff: [touching Laura's stomach] How's little Natasha, huh?
[Thor accidentally stepped on a Lego which Steve noticed and to his amusement, Thor swept it away with his foot.]
The Great Hall laugh at that.
Laura Barton: She's…Nathaniel.
[Natasha bends towards Laura's pregnant stomach]
Natasha Romanoff: Traitor.
Many chuckled.
[Lila looks up at Thor.]
"She knows," Clint laughs.
"And I'll leave after this." Thor joked and more chuckles followed.
[The hallucinations brought on by Wanda continue to creep up in Thor's mind and he walks out of the house]
Steve Rogers: Thor.
Thor: I saw something in that dream. I need answers, I won't find them here. [Thor uses his hammer to fly away; Steve turns to enter the house when he hears Peggy's voice from Wanda's vision]
Peggy Carter: We can go home.
Steve sighes as he looks down.
[Instead of going inside, he turns and walks away.]
[Laura checks Barton's wound that Pietro had give him]
Clint Barton: See, you worried for nothing. Can't even feel the difference, can you?
Laura Barton: If they're sleeping here, some of them are gonna have to double up.
Clint Barton: [Barton laughs] Yeah, that's not gonna sell.
Laura Barton: What about Nat and Dr. Banner? How long has that been going on?
Clint Barton: Has what?
Laura Barton: [Laura laughs] You are so cute.
"I know." Clint said looking smug, Natasha rolls her eyes at her best friend.
Clint Barton: Nat and… and Banner?
Laura Barton: I'll explain when you're older, Hawkeye.
Clint huffs at his wife teasing him.
Clint Barton: Oh. Okay.
Laura Barton: It's bad, right? Nat seems really shaken.
Clint Barton: Ultron has these allies, these uh, kids, they're punks really. They carry a big damn stick and Nat took a serious hit. Someone's gonna have to teach 'em some manners.
"Oh really?" Pietro, Wanda and Taskmaster looked at Clint.
Laura Barton: And that someone be you. You know I totally support your Avenging, I couldn't be prouder. But I see those guys, those "Gods"...
Clint Barton: You don't think they need me.
"We need you. You are our lucky charm." Tony sincerely spoke for the team. Clint smiled at the team.
Laura Barton: I think they do. Which is a lot scarier. They're a mess.
Clint Barton: Yeah. I guess they're my mess.
"Unfortunately, we are," They agree with Laura.
Laura Barton: You need to be sure that this team is really a team and that they have your back. Things are changing for us. In a few months time, you and me are gonna be outnumbered. I need-- ...just be sure.
Clint Barton: Yes, ma'am. [he kisses her, then as Laura places her arm around his waist she touches his wounded side]
Most decided to look away at their sweet ad intimate moment between them.
Laura Barton: I can feel the difference.
[U-Gin Genetic Research Lab, Seoul, Korea - as Cho enters her lab, she sees Ultron]
Ultron: Scream, and your entire staff dies. I could've killed you, Helen, the night we met. I didn't.
Many were scared for the doctor.
Dr. Helen Cho: Do you expect a thank you note?
Ultron: I expect you to know why.
Dr. Helen Cho: The Cradle. [she hears her own recorded voice] "This is the next thing, Tony."
Ultron: This...is the next me.
Dr. Helen Cho: The regeneration cradle prints tissue, it can't build a living body.
Ultron: It can, you can. You lack the materials. You're a brilliant woman, Helen. But we all have room to improve. [Ultron uses the scepter to mind-control Cho]
Everyone paled as Clint snarled, "And now he has her under control."
[At Barton's house, with a Natasha sitting in the bed only for the scene changes to Ohio 1995]
Natasha stiffens for she knows what she and they did at that time.
Clint and Steve notice the change in Natasha but Clint gave her a look at her if she was okay.
She stiffly nods.
[It shows a sunny day at the park. It zooms in on a young teenager with messy black hair, lighting bolt scar on his face, wearing round circular glasses. His emerald green eyes looks at his surroundings seeing the children play and many parents happily with their children.]
"Uh… Harry why are you in Ohio?" Ron asked his best friend.
"Dursleys," He simply answers.
[An eleven blue dyed haired girl with forest green eyes looked at the boy who was sitting alone in the swings and decided to sit next to the empty swing next to his. They didn't talk until she pulled him up and motioned with her head to play in the park. They played until it was time for them to leave. She was already sitting on her bike when she looked back at him.]
Harry bitterly smiles for this is one of the best memories he'd ever had. Natalia didn't treat him differently compared to all those who have ever been in his life. She treated him as any teenage boy.
Natasha couldn't believe the boy she played with in her youth was here with them in person sitting few feet away from her. It was the only time she felt like a regular kid.
Many who were raised with traditional etiquette as a pureblood couldn't help to envy Potter and the girl playing as any kid.
Natalia: Natalia.
[When, she turned around the teenager smiles and tests out her name.]
Harry: Natalia.
Just like his onscreen and offscreen self repeated her name.
[The scene changes to Los Angeles 2001]
Natasha eyes widen and hopes it's not another memory of hers for she knows what happened on that day.
She really hopes the team doesn't think too lowly of her.
[A young man of 21 years of age is seen wearing a black trench coat. He has messy hair, green emerald eyes and seemed fit if his white shirt indicates its snugness to his body like a second skin.]
Anybody who knew James would've had a whiplash for they knew the person resembles James. Of course he would resemble James for Harry is his son.
Harry couldn't believe that's his future self . His onscreen looked fit compare to his scrawny self at the moment.
Many girls couldn't help to gaggle at admiring the young man before them.
[The young man had a determined look and made his way inside the building. Once he entered he saw many scantily clad women openly admire their physique.]
"Harry Potter !" Many important women and Remus in Harry's life shouted at him.
"Harry why didn't you take me?" Ron asked him only for Hermione and Mrs.Weasley to scold him.
"Young man what are you doing at such place?" Molly looking stern at him.
Harry looked so lost but he blames his future self for leaving him in this predicament.
Most of the males were making plans in going to such place.
Female stripper: Hey there, cutie! Want a private dance?
[She gave a shake of her shoulders, which made her pink bikini covered assets jiggle quite distractingly at him. ]
Harry: N-no, that's okay,
"What! Seamus looked scandalized. "You refuse her! Why?"
Harry shrugs.
Many of the women sigh in relief that probably Harry isn't so lost.
[He is seen to politely refused any attempts to be talked into buying a private dance and instead enjoyed the girls who performed on stage.]
The announcer: Give it up for Ruby!
[ He applauded politely as the next dancer was introduced, but he looked lovestruck. She had long, beautiful red hair, was short and slim with curves. He looked captivated by her as if she is a walking goddess among mortals. He was hypnotized by her performance. ]
Natasha who looked relief that she wasn't going to appear only to have an internal panic.
Just like his onscreen self, Harry couldn't help to also admire the goddess.
The Avengers were having mixed emotions at seeing their teammate at such place. Steve obviously looked away. Clint was glaring at anyone who dare disrespect Natasha. Thor didn't know whether to look or help out Clint. Bruce side glance at Natasha's performance. Tony was openly admiring his badass teammate.
Many unruly men, women and teenagers were catcalling only for a certain boy who lived hexed them.
[ A young Natasha seemed to be observing until her forest green eyes landed on guy with the untidy black hair and the glasses was really, really handsome, but the even bigger reason that Natasha zeroed in on him was how he looked at her while she danced as if she was the rarest gem compared to the other men who were eye-fucking her. This guy looked ready to bring the stars be layed at her very feet.]
Natasha: Hi, stranger.
[She gave him the throatiest and most seductive voice she could manage. With how his eyes widened, she had to think it had worked.]
Natasha:What's your name?"
Harry: Harry. I'm Harry.
Natasha: It's wonderful to meet you, Harry.
[Natasha purred at him.Slipping into the role of the flirty stripper was easy for her, trying to keep her cover since many will be suspicious if she didn't offer a private dance but it had never been this fun.]
Natasha:I saw you watching me while I was on the stage, and I noticed how much you enjoyed my dance. Any chance you want to come keep me company in a private room? We won't have to worry about anyone else, and—
Harry: Yes!
[He surprised her with just how eager he looked as he cut her off. ]
Harry:Yes, please. I'll buy a private dance with you. I don't care how much it costs.
"Harry!" Once again came the scolding.
"Harry, I don't think you're parents wanted you to waste your money on a…a." Remus trying to reason with Harry.
"That's future me!" Harry yells out. "Stop scolding me for something I haven't done."
"Of course Saint Potter would have a private dance with a gorgeous woman." Draco bitterly glares at Potter.
"I don't think you should call him Saint Potter for what's he's doing right now." Blaise tells the Malfoy heir. Who in return glares at the Zabini heir.
[Natasha giggled. This boy (obviously English, with the accent) was far too innocent! Any of these other girls, the ones who actually did this for a living, would have bled him dry if he'd said something like that. ]
Natasha:Then let's go, you adorable English muffin.
[She took him by the hand and helping him out of his chair. He blushed at the nickname, and that made her giggle anew.]
Harry blushed for he has never had such nickname from the opposite sex.
Ginny was glaring at the the woman who took her Harry.
Sirius in his dog form made a some approval bark.
Natasha realized the man she had intimate moment was also the same man who played with her in their youth. To know the his current younger self will realize the horrible truth.
[One month later, The Barton Homestead]
[Natasha is seen to be in the Barton's bathroom and glances at something in the sink and grabs it. Opens the door to see Clint and Laura looking worriedly at her.]
Natasha: It says positive. I…I … it shouldn't be possible I was sterilized.
Many wondering why would she be sterilized.
Laura: I already made a doctors appointment just to be sure. Probably they did try and did it wrong.
[Natasha can be seen with a look of denial. ]
Clint: Laura and I will be there for you. It doesn't hurt to just check with or without .
[He nods at her midsection. ]
Natasha: Thank you.
[Laura made her way and offer her comfort and Clint decided to join the hug.]
[Two weeks later]
[The scene is shown with Natasha laying down as a doctor is rubbing gel on her midsection and used the transducer to check on the ultrasound for the baby fetus. Laura and Clint are also in the room. ]
Doctor: Congratulations Ms. Rushman you're pregnant.
[Clint and Laura eyes widen in shock but still looked at their unmoving friend.]
Natasha:Um… Are you sure?
[She nervously asks the doctor.]
Doctor:Yes. The baby is right here.
[She points on the screen is seen the baby fetus looked like a small peanut. {
Natasha: I'm pregnant.
[Her unshed tears are seen as she lovingly stared at her midsection and happily smiled at her friends. ]
"Wait! You're telling me that my older self and you had a child. Natalia?" Harry asks her.
Natasha couldn't bare to look at him and nods.
"Where is our child? Please tell me that what we saw early isn't what really happened?" Harry who was having a turmoil of emotions. He looked one second at cursing at the ones responsible for hurting Natasha but also at his own kid.
A kid. He never put too much thought in having a family not when Voldemort is still around but he always wished for it.
Natasha looked at those green emerald eyes were filled with rage. "Yes."
Harry in his anger had to ask,"Where was I? When you needed me? Did I …I … leave you on your own?"
"I don't know."
Harry felt gutted like all those times he took a punch from his cousin felt nothing compared to what he has seen and heard. He couldn't help to think he left her on her own all alone when she needed him. Where was he? His future self seemed lovestruck, he shared the same look his father had for his mother whenever he looked at his parents photographs.
"Why don't we talk about it more after the film," Dumbledore suggests. Harry and Natasha looked at each other and nod.
Natasha's team/ family/ friends and Harry's close friends were worried for both individuals.
Having truths come out.
[Natasha and Banner are still experiencing the after effects of Wanda's hallucinations; Banner walks out of the bathroom and sees Natasha waiting outside]
Bruce Banner: I didn't realize you were waiting.
Natasha Romanoff: I would've joined you, but uh, it didn't seem like the right time.
Harry openly glared at Banner. Banner felt like he was watched noticed a pair of green eyes glaring at him. He knew at that moment why the said person was glaring. He uncomfortably moved a bit in his seat and try not to notice.
Bruce Banner: They used up all the hot water.
Natasha Romanoff: I should've joined you.
Taskmaster really wanted to shoot Banner now. He didn't know why but who cares at this point.
Bruce Banner: Missed our window.
Natasha Romanoff: Did we?
"Yes, I hate to break it to you, but that ship has sailed, wrecked and sunk to the bottom of the ocean!" Narcissa shouted only for many eyes turned to look to see Lady Malfoy.
Malfoy forgot to see this side of his wife made him remember they deserve a break from everything and maybe talk to her about going on a another honeymoon. Just the two of them. No dark lords, no crazy relatives and no son whining about Potter or his ruffian friends and especially no nosy Headmaster.
Remembering where she was she stoically returned to her usual self.
Many not used to seeing this side of Narcissa Malfoy were baffled but also didn't think she was watching the film of the future.
Bruce and Natasha cringed.
Bruce Banner: The world just saw the Hulk. The real Hulk, for the first time. You know I have to leave.
Natasha Romanoff: But you assume that I have to stay? I had this, um, dream. The kind that seems normal at the time, but when you wake...
Bruce Banner: What did you dream?
Natasha Romanoff: That I was an Avenger. That I was anything more than the assassin they made me.
Bruce Banner: I think you're being hard on yourself.
Natasha Romanoff: Here I was hoping that was your job. [she moves closer to him]
Bruce Banner: What are you doing?
Natasha Romanoff: I'm running with it, with you. If running's the plan, as far as you want.
Bruce Banner: Are you out of your mind? [Banner turns away from her]
Natasha Romanoff: I want you to understand that I'm...
Bruce Banner: Natasha, where can I go? Where in the world am I not a threat?
Natasha Romanoff: You're not a threat to me.
Bruce Banner: You sure? Even if I didn't just... there's no future with me. I can't ever... I can't have this, kids. Do the math, I physically can't.
Natasha Romanoff: Neither can I. In the Red Room, where I was trained, where I was raised, um, they have a graduation ceremony. They sterilize you. It's efficient. One less thing to worry about. The one thing that might matter more than a mission. It makes everything easier. Even killing. [she hesitates a moment] You still think you're the only monster on the team?
Many gasp for many of the females were crying openly for her.
"You're not a monster, Natalia. They are those people who took everything from you. I promise you we will find Sirius." Harry tells her as gently placed a hand on her shoulder only to tense until she relaxed. He sat down next to her and took her hand in his.
Bruce Banner: What, so we disappear?
[Steve and Stark are chopping wood outside Barton's house]
Tony Stark: Thor didn't say where he was going for answers?
Steve Rogers: Sometimes my teammates don't tell me things. I was kind of hoping Thor would be the exception.
Tony Stark: Yeah, give him time. We don't know what the Maximoff kid showed him.
Steve Rogers: "Earth's Mightiest Heroes." Pulled us apart like cotton candy.
Tony Stark: Seems like you walked away all right.
Steve Rogers: Is that a problem?
Tony Stark: I don't trust a guy without a dark side. Call me old fashioned.
Steve Rogers: Well let's just say you haven't seen it yet.
Tony Stark: You know Ultron is trying to tear us apart, right?
Steve Rogers: Well I guess you'd know. Whether you tell us is a bit of a question.
Tony Stark: Banner and I were doing research.
Steve Rogers: That would affect the team.
Tony Stark: That would end the team. Isn't that the mission? Isn't that the "why" we fight, so we can end the fight, so we get to go home?
Everyone's jaws dropped as Rhodey said, "Damn!"
Steve Rogers: Every time someone tries to win a war before it starts, innocent people die. Every time.
"I believe it is both ways." Steve said.
"Both of us had merits and flaws in our arguments." Tony agreed.
Laura Barton: [Laura interrupts them]I'm sorry. Mr. Stark, uh, Clint said you wouldn't mind, but, our tractor, it doesn't seem to want to start at all. I thought maybe you might...
Tony Stark: Yeah, I'll give her a kick. [to Steve as he turns to leave; referring to his pile of chopped wood] Don't take from my pile.
Many in the Great Hall laugh at that, release the tension.
"I don't think he would need too," Rhodey replied.
[Stark enters the barn and walks over to the tractor] Hello, Deere. Tell me everything. What ails you?
"Are you…talking to a tractor?" Colin asked.
"Tony is weird like that," Natasha answered the student's question.
Tony had a look of offense in his face as he looked betrayed by Romanoff, who she was trying not to make eye contact.
[Fury shows up from the other end of the barn]
Nick Fury: Do me a favor. Try not to bring it to life.
Tony Stark: Ah, Mrs. Barton, you little minx. I get it, Maria Hill called you, right? Was she ever not working for you?
"Don't call my wife that ever again." Clint warned.
"Noted." Tony nodded.
Nick Fury: Artificial intelligence. You never even hesitated.
Tony Stark: Look, it's been a really long day, like, Eugene O'Neill long, so how's about we skip to the part where you're useful?
Nick Fury: Look me in the eye and tell me you're going to shut him down.
Tony Stark: You're not the director of me.
Nick Fury: I'm not the director of anybody. I'm just an old man, who cares very much about you.
Tony Stark: And I'm the man who killed the Avengers. I saw it. I didn't tell the team, how could I? I saw them all dead, Nick. I felt it. The whole world, too. It's because of me. I wasn't ready. I didn't do all I could.
Everyone sympathized a bit with Tony as he said that. He had tried to play God, but he only wanted to protect the friends and family he cherished.
Nick Fury: The Maximoff girl, she's working you, Stark. Playing on your fear.
Tony Stark: I wasn't tricked, I was shown. It wasn't a nightmare, it was my legacy. The end of the path I started us on.
Nick Fury: You've come up with some pretty impressive inventions, Tony. War isn't one of them.
Tony Stark: I watched my friends die. You'd think that'd be as bad as it gets, right? Nope. Wasn't the worst part.
Nick Fury: The worst part is that you didn't.
[Royal Holloway, University of London - Thor, dressed in casual clothes, waits for Selvig as he leaves the building]
Erik Selvig: I like the look. If you're going for inconspicuous, though, near miss.
Thor: I need your help.
Erik Selvig: It's nice to be needed.
Many agreed with the doctor.
Thor: It's dangerous.
Erik Selvig: I'd be disappointed if it wasn't.
A few people laughed.
[Back at Barton's house, Fury meets with the rest of the team]
Nick Fury: Ultron took you folks out of play to buy himself time. My contacts all say he's building something. The amount of Vibranium he made off with, I don't think it's just one thing.
Steve Rogers: What about Ultron himself?
Nick Fury: Ah. He's easy to track, he's everywhere. Guy's multiplying faster than a Catholic rabbit. Still doesn't help us get an angle on any of his plans though.
Tony Stark: He still going after launch codes?
Nick Fury: Yes, he is, but he's not making any headway.
Tony Stark: I cracked the Pentagon's firewall in high school on a dare.
Nick Fury: Yeah, well, I contacted our friends at the NEXUS about that.
Steve Rogers: NEXUS?
Bruce Banner: It's the world internet hub in Oslo, every byte of data flows through there, fastest access on earth.
Clint Barton: So what'd they say?
Nick Fury: He's fixated on the missiles, but the codes are constantly being changed.
Tony Stark: By whom?
Nick Fury: Parties unknown.
Natasha Romanoff: Do we have an ally?
Nick Fury: Ultron's got an enemy, that's not the same thing. Still, I'd pay folding money to know who it is.
"I believe it was me." Vision said.
Tony Stark: I might need to visit Oslo, find our "unknown."
Natasha Romanoff: Well, this is good times, boss, but I was kind of hoping when I saw you, you'd have more than that.
Nick Fury: I do, I have you. Back in the day, I had eyes everywhere, ears everywhere else. Here we all are, back on earth, with nothing but our wit, and our will to save the world. So stand. Outwit the platinum bastard.
Natasha Romanoff: Steve doesn't like that kind of talk.
Steve Rogers: You know what, Romanoff? [Natasha smiles mischievously at him]
Everyone chuckled.
Nick Fury: So what does he want?
Steve Rogers: To become better. Better than us. He keeps building bodies.
Tony Stark: Person bodies. The human form is inefficient, biologically speaking, we're outmoded. But he keeps coming back to it.
Natasha Romanoff: When you two programmed him to protect the human race, you amazingly failed.
"I mean she's not wrong," Hermione said.
Bruce Banner: They don't need to be protected, they need to evolve. Ultron's going to evolve.
Nick Fury: How?
Bruce Banner: Has anyone been in contact with Helen Cho?
"He is already there! Damn it!" Steve said.
"I know. Unfortunate." Clint agreed.