Minutes after Clint left you sensed someone else sit down next to you and when you opened your eyes you were unsurprised to find Pietro sitting next to you again. He smiled at you but didn't say anything. You closed your eyes again and tried to relax.

Before long you were approaching the capital of Sokovia. Steve started to explain the importance of getting the citizens of the city to safety, even if none of you actually needed to be told that. But you understand the need for the pep talk. It reminded all of you why you did what you did. It wasn't for glory. It was for the people.

While Bruce was tasked to find and save Natasha, Tony, Vision and Thor were tasked to find and deal with Ultron.

The rest of us worked to clear the city. Wanda proved to be extremely useful with that. Her powers allowed her to 'encourage' people to leave peacefully. It was going good. But then something happened and there were robots everywhere. They popped out of the ground and began attacking.

You saw Clint firing arrow after arrow, saw Wanda shielding the people with her power and watched Pietro tear through robot after robot. Then the ground began to shake. You braced your knees to keep your feet, staring around trying to figure out what was happening.

Then the voice of Tony's new AI came through the comms, "Sokovia is going for a ride."

It sent ice through your veins even as you used water to leak into the joints of a robot and rip it apart. Then Ultron's voice was everywhere.

"Do you see the beauty of it? The inevitability. You rise, only to fall. You, Avengers, you are my meteor. My swift and terrible sword. And the earth will crack with the weight of your failure. Purge me from your computers, turn my own flesh against me. It means nothing. When the dust settles, the only thing living in this world…will be metal."

"Cap, you got incoming." Tony said.

Through the comms came a grunt, "Incoming already came in. Stark, you worry about bringing the city back down safely. The rest of us have one job, tear these things apart."

Pietro slid to a halt next to you, breathing hard, as Steve kept talking, "You get hurt, hurt them back. You get killed…walk it off."

Pietro gave you an amused grin before he took off again. You headed in the direction of Clint and Wanda, taking out every single mini-Ultron in your way. You caught sight of Clint again, shooting with deadly accuracy. But even from a distance you could tell that he was tiring. And he was about to be overrun.

You increased your sprint to him. And then Wanda came out of a building and she was glorious. She tore the machines apart in seconds. You slid to a stop behind the car that Clint was using as cover. Nodding at him when he looked at you before he looked around the area, seeing if there was anything left.

"All right. We're all clear here." Clint said into the comms.

"We are not clear! We are very not clear!" Steve responded back.

The three of you moved forward as Clint said, "All right, coming to you."

There was a whoosh and Pietro was picking up his sister and calling back to Clint who had nearly been knocked off balance, as Pietro took off again, "Keep up, old man!"

Clint pulled his bow back, shaking his head and said, "Nobody would know. Nobody."

"Clint!" You said in admonishment, amused nonetheless. The two of you started jogging towards the others.

"The last I saw him, an Ultron was sitting on him. Yeah, he'll be missed, that quick little bastard. I miss him already." Clint muttered as you went.

"You like him and you know it," you said with a laugh in your voice.

"He's a smart ass," Clint said.

"And we don't know anyone else like that at all do we."

"Oh shut up." Clint said.

You caught up with the others, immediately working to take out the remaining robots and then working with the others to send people to safer locations. You heard the desperation in Tony's voice as he tried to tell Steve there wasn't a good solution. Steve continued to insist that we needed to get the people to safety.

Then you heard Nick Fury's voice, "Glad you like the view, Romanoff. It's about to get better."

From the clouds, a helicraft pulled up, we all stared at it as Nick's voice came through again, "Nice, right? Pulled her out of mothballs with a couple of old friends. She's dusty, but she'll do."

As the craft pulled alongside the flying city Steve shook his head and grinned as he said, "Fury, you son of a bitch."

You snorted as Fury whistled, "You kiss your mother with that mouth Cap?"

Large barge like ships deployed from the craft and moved over to the city. Pietro shook his head as he looked at the lifeboats from next to you.

"This is S.H.I.E.L.D.?" He asked.

Steve stepped up, "This is what S.H.I.E.L.D. is supposed to be."

He nodded, "This is not so bad."

You all moved into action to start directing people onto the boats and to safety aboard the carrier. More Ultrons showed up. Tony and Rhodey started to attack them in kind.

Then Tony was calling everyone back to the church. You jogged in with Clint and Wanda, as Pietro stopped in front of you, touching a hand to his sister's arm as he looked between the two of us, "Are you good?"

We both nodded and Wanda said, "Yeah."

Natasha showed up, Bruce moments behind and Tony pointed to the drill in the middle of the church, "If Ultron gets a hand on the core, we lose."

Nodding, you reached your power out, gathering up the water you touched and pulling it to you. Focusing in on Ultron as he demanded to know how you could possible stop him.

Tony's voice rang out, "Well, like the old man said…together."

They attacked and everyone moved into action. Each of you took down countless robots and more just kept coming. But then suddenly, Ultron was beaten back and they all turned and tried to run. As Rhodey and Vision dealt with the robots trying to leave the city. Steve turned to the rest of you.

"We gotta move out. Even I can tell the air is getting thin." He nodded to you, Nat, Pietro, Wanda, and Clint, "You guys get to the boats. I'll sweep for stragglers. Be right behind you."

"What about the core?" Clint asked.

"I'll protect it." Wanda said as you all looked at her, "It's my job."

Clint stared at her for a long moment before he nodded, then he said, "Nat? This way."

They took off in one direction while Steve took off in another. Pietro stopped in front of his sister and she looked at the both of you.

"Get the people to the boats," she told us.

"I'm not going to leave you here." Pietro insisted.

"I can handle this," Wanda insisted, ripping apart a Ultron as is appeared, "Come back for me when everyone else is off. Not before."

You heard Pietro's grunt of frustration as he turned away.

"You understand?" Wanda demanded before he could take off.

Pietro rolled his eyes with a grin as he turned back to his sister, "You know, I'm 12 minutes older than you."

Wanda chuckled as she said, "Go."

Pietro turned to you, "Come on, let's go."

He wrapped an arm around you and took off. It was exhilarating. He set you down near the last two boats, telling you to get on. You looked around, listening as the others talked to each other through the comms verifying that everyone was off the city.

Pietro's hand was on your arm as you heard the automatic gunfire and you both turned towards it. Ultron had managed to find a fighter jet and was firing. Your eyes moved along the path where he was shooting and you felt as your heart seized.

In the direct path of Ultron's weapon was Clint, who had a kid wrapped in his arms. You were too far away to do anything, and besides your powers would be useless against the machine guns attached to the jet.

"Clint…" you sobbed out watching as he turned his back, intending to use his body as a shield for the child. Then Pietro was gone from your side.

Your breath was stuck in your throat as you tried to see through the dust the guns had kicked up. As it started to settle, you saw as Clint stood, somehow still alive and uninjured. Then you saw the car that had protected him.

You watched as Pietro, stumbled, the blood blooming on his body. When he collapsed to the ground you heard and felt the primal scream of pain that came from the church where Wanda still was. There was a brilliant red flash that you knew was her power as she screamed her grief.

Your eyes stung as you watched Steve run over to Pietro, Clint and the child. As Clint picked the child up again, Steve lifted Pietro's body and they both came over to the boat. You sat down heavily, watching as Clint handed the child off to his mother before he came over to an empty seat and collapsed into it. He waved off a medic and just laid down on the seat, muttering about it being a long day.

The city started to fall. And you listened as Thor and Tony organized their efforts to destroy the falling city before it destroyed the world. When it exploded, your breath caught. It was finished. You had won. But you had also lost so much.