Author's Note: Oh look at that, I actually updated.

Without further ado.


"But it's a trick!"

Kya rolled her eyes and smiled. Clint, who seemed to be partially drunk, was doubting the whole 'He who be worthy shall lift the hammer' thing. It's been a while since the party started dying down, and only Kya, Maria, James, and a sleeping Dr. Cho remained.

Thor seemed nonchalant as he sipped his beer. "No no, it's much more than that."

Clint scoffed, and his voice dropped a few octaves. "Whosoever be he worthy shall haveth the power... Whatever man! It's a trick!"

A sly grin spread across Thor' face, and he used his hand to indicate to Mjölnir. "Please, be my guest."

Kya smirked as she looked at her surrogate father... who looked surprised.

"Really?"

The waterbender bit her lip as Clint got up and walked around the table before gripping Mjölnir's handle. In the back ground, she heard Rhodey snicker. "This is going to be beautiful."

Kya shook her head fondly. "Papa Bird, you've had a tough week. And just so you know... we won't hold it against you if you can't get up."

Clint laughed and wrinkled his nose in her direction speaking to Thor. "Y'know I've seen this before right?"

Kya was supposed to go with Clint to New Mexico when Mjölnir first crashed to Earth. But there was an emergency on the Islands and Nick let her go there instead of New Mexico.

Clint tried - and failed - to lift the hammer. "I still don't know how you do it!"

Bright blue eyes looked at Tony as he smirked. "Smell the silent Judgement?"

The Archer raised an eyebrow and indicated to the Asguardian Hammer. "Please Stark, by all means."

Tony stood up with a whole lot of swagger, unbuttoning his jacket as he sauntered toward Mjölnir. "Never one to shrink from an honest challenge."

Kya leaned against Maria and smirked. "Exhibit A being every one night stand you've had up until you and Pepper finally got together."

The billionaire gasped and slapped a hand to his chest in mock hurt. "Moonie I thought you loved me!"

The waterbender giggled as Maria wrapped an arm around her surrogate niece's shoulder. "I do. Remember when I sent that expensive wine from Venice?"

Tony chuckled and wrapped his hand around Mjölnir's handle. "Yes I do... Pepper and I enjoyed it a lot by the way."

"I'll send you the address of the vineyard."

"Thank you. Anyway... It's just plain physics. Right so, if I lift it, I then get to rule Asgard?"

Thor chuckled. "Yes of course."

Tony cracked his neck. "I will be re-instituting Prima Nocta."

But of course, when Tony tried to use said method, the hammer didn't move a centimeter.

Eveyone giggled into their drinks - or in Kya's case Maria's shoulder - and Tony let go of Mjölnir.

"I'll be right back."

Moments later, he came back with a glove from his Iron Man suit. Unfortunately, even with the thrusters booming, the hammer didn't move. The loyal hammer didn't even move when Rhodey put on his War Machine glove and - tried - to help Tony lift the hammer.

"Are you even pulling?!"

Tony's clipped tone shot back at his long time friend. "Are you on my team?"

"Just represent! PULL!

"ALRIGHT!"

Needless to say, nothing happened.

Poor Bruce went up next, but the only thing to come out his efforts was a terrible impression of his better/worse half.

Steve was up next. He pushed his sleeves up as he got up from his spot next to Natasha on the couch and went to pull. Kya's bright blue eyes widened when she saw the hammer lift by a centimeter. She wasn't the only one who noticed, as Thor suddenly looked very nervous.

But alas, the hammer didn't leave it's spot on the table.

"Tsunami? Widow? Any takers?"

The silver headed girl wrinkled her nose and shook her head while her surrogate mother smirked. "Oh no no, that's not a question I need answered."

Tony stood next to Clint and Rhodey. "All deference to the man who wouldn't be king, but it's rigged."

Clint nodded. "You bet your ass."

Maria mock gasped and pointed at the archer. "Steve, he said a bad language word!"

The super soldier's shy school boy side showed up as he sounded both amused an embarrassed. "Did you tell everyone about that?"

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

The thunder god smirked and stood up from the couch. "Yes well, that's a very, very interesting theory. I have a simpler one."

He picked upMjölnir and threw it in the air in a cocky manner before catching it. "You're all not worthy."

The room was filled with playful disagreements and booing when suddenly, an ear piercing noise filled room.

A voice that sounded straight out of a horror movie followed. "Wwwwwwooooorrrrrtttthy."

The voice was followed by a dragging noise. The Avengers looked to see what looked like a bunch of parts from the Iron Legion mashed together to look like a marionette from Hell limp into the room.

"Worthy... No... How could you be worthy? You're all killers."

Without taking her eyes off the disfigured robot, Kya addressed the billionaire genius. "Tony?"

Said man was trying to get to his AI through his phone. "Jarvis?"

The robot spoke again. "I'm sorry, I was asleep. Or... I was a dream?"

Tony was still trying to connect with Jarvis. "Reboot. Legionnaire 06's got a buggy suit."

"There was this... terrible noise. And I was tangled in... in strings. Had to kill the other guy. He was a good guy."

Steve's face was grim as he glared at the robot. "You killed someone?"

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

As the thing limped closer, Thor - who had a death grip on his hammer at this point - asked it. "Who sent you?"

A recording came from the robot, and Tony's all too familiar voice came through. 'I see a suit of armor around the world.'

Bruce's face paled as he looked at Tony. "Ultron."

The thing, Ultron, spoke. "In the flesh... Or no, not yet. Not this... Christmas. But I'm ready. I'm on a mission."

Kya eyes narrowed. "What mission?"

What he said next sent shivers down her spine.

"Peace in our time."

The next thing anyone knew... four other rogue Iron Legion broke through the wall.

Just like how all hell broke loose.

(Author's Note: I was going to end the chapter here... BUT since I've been depriving you guys for so long... I decided to make the chapter a little longer than usual ;). Onward!)

Kya ripped all of the moisture in the air around her just as Steve kicked up the table that everyone was sitting at as a shield. But that didn't do a lot to block the blow the iron legion. The man out of time went flying back over the railing. The silver haired woman wrapped a tendril of water around the rogue robot's neck before decapitating it.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Natasha leading Bruce up the stairs as well as the robot that was aiming at them.

Not thinking twice, the waterbender impaled the machine head with an icicle.

Quickly spying Dr. Cho trying her best to hide from the legless robot crawling towards her, Kya quickly bended the mosture to go inside the robot making it explode. She turned on her heel to guard the good doctor just in time to see Steve destroy what looked like the last robot excluding Ultron Prime.

It almost sounded like Ultron was rolling his eyes. "That was dramatic. I'm sorry, I know you mean well... You just didn't think it through. You want to protect the world, but you don't want it to change."

The android limped towards a broken iron legion robot before lifting its head up. "How is humanity saved if it's not allowed to evolve? With these? These puppets? There's only one path to peace... The Avengers' extinction."

He crushed the head he was holding. Hearing enough, Thor threw Mjölnir at Ultron, shattering him to pieces.

"I had strings, but now I'm free... There are no strings on me... strings on me.."

With the once cheerful song from Pinocchio ruined for her, Kya and Dr. Cho followed the rest of the Avengers to Tony's lab.

Bruce walked over to the computer and typed, looking for past data, and found nothing. "All our work is gone. Ultron cleared out, and used the internet as an escape hatch."

Steve spat the android's name. "Ultron."

Kya leaned against the railing next to Natasha, keeping quite while her surrogate mother spoke. "He's been in everything. Files, surveillance... probably knows more about us than we know about each other."

Rhodey's voice was grim. "He's in your files, he's in the internet... what if he decides to access something a little more exciting?"

Maria's face was just as grim. "Nuclear codes."

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

Nat raised an eyebrow. "Nukes? He said we wanted us dead."

Steve shook his head. "He didn't say dead..."

Kya stood up straighter. "He said extinct."

"He all said he killed somebody." Clint pointed out.

"But there wasn't anyone else in the building." Kya looked at her surrogate aunt before walking over to help her remove the remaining class from her foot before healing it.

Tony's voice was a cross between mournful and dejection. "Yes there was."

Moments later, a computerized version of Jarvis appeared in thin air.

Or what was left of him anyways.

Bruce approached the broken hologram, looking both scared and astonished. "This is insane."

The super soldier's face was impassive and his arms were crossed. "Jarvis was the first line of defense. He would've shut Ultron down, it makes sense."

Bruce shook his head. "No. Ultron would have assimilated Jarvis. This isn't strategy..."

Kya stood up and stepped towards the hologram. "It's rage."

Dressed in his full battle armor, Thor stalked towards Tony before lifting him up by his throat.

Clint winced. "Looks like it's going around."

Ever the comedian, Tony spoke to the god of thunder in a joking tone. "C'mon, use your words Buddy."

Thor was not amused. "I have enough words to describe you Stark."

The waterbender quickly ran to his side and clamped a hand on his broad shoulder. "Thor!"

The prince of Asgard looked at the tiny woman he considered a sister before setting the billionaire down none to gently.

Steve approached the trio. "The Legionnaire?"

Thor shook his head. "Trail went cold 100 miles out, but it's headed north. And it has the scepter. Now we have to retrieve, again."

Natasha's mouth was a thin line. "Genie's out of that bottle. Clear and present is Ultron."

For the first time since coming down to the lab, Dr. Cho spoke. "I don't understand... You built this program, why is it trying to kill us?"

Tony did the LAST thing he should have done.

He laughed.

Bruce looked at his science partner out of the corner of his eye and shook his head frantically, trying to stop him from digging his grave deeper.

Thor's voice was angry... and rightfully so. "You think this is funny?"

The billionaire turned around with an expression on his face that made him look like he was teetering on the edge of sanity. "No. It's probably not right? Is this very terrible? Is it so... it's is, it's so terrible."

The god of thunder's jaw clenched. "This could have been avoided if you hadn't played with something you don't understand."

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

Kya walked in between the two men to keep them separated as Bruce tried to reign Tony in. "Tony maybe this isn't the time-"

Said man quickly turned on his heel to face the other scientist. "Really?! That's it?! Just roll over and show your belly every time someone snarls?"

Bruce looked at Tony with a deadpanned expression. "Only when I've created a murder bot."

It was clear that the billionaire was less than pleased. "We didn't. We weren't even close. Were we close to an interface?"

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

Tony wasn't done. "Anybody remember when I carried a nuke through a wormhole?"

Rhodey rolled his eyes. "Nope, never came up."

"Saved New York? Recall that? A hostile alien army came charging through a hole in space. And we're standing 300 feet below it. We're the Avengers. We can bust arms dealers all day... but that up there? That's the end game. How were you guys planning on beating that?"

Kya raised her chin a little higher. "Together."

Tony looked at the waterbender with a blank expression on his face. "We'll lose."

The man out of time came up and placed a supporting hand on Kya's shoulder. "Then we'll do that together too."

Squeezing the silver haired woman's shoulder comfortingly, Steve turned to address the rest of the Avengers. "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."

-Time Skip-

When Kya finally relented to sleep, her dreams took her to a small apartment she's never seen before.

-Dream-

The waterbender looked around the apartment in confusion.

Where am I?

Why am I here?

A child's laughter brought her attention to a family of four eating dinner with each other. Looking at the children closer, she recognized them to be the two enhanced; Pietro and Wanda Maximoff. Only difference being that the little boy's hair was a warm, chocolate brown color. Not the lovely shade of silver his hair possessed when they first met.

I'm in Sokovia then. This must be a memory from the twins childhood... But why am I seeing it?

An explosion a little to close for comfort shook the apartment and the tiny family occupying it. Kya then knew exactly 'when' she was.

The bombing of Sokovia.

The next shell hit the apartment. Little Pietro grabbed his sister and the two rolled underneath the bed pushed into the corner.

Their parents weren't so lucky.

Kya and the twins watched in horror as the twins parents' mauled bodies fell with the bomb to the next floor, and the floor below that. Another bomb fell three feet from the twins' face, one word loud and clear imprinted on the side.

Stark.

Kya heard little Wanda whimper and try to move closer to her brother without moving to much, in fear of setting the bomb off. One look at their small, traumatized faces clouded with fear... and the silver haired woman felt her heart break.

-End of Dream-

Kya darted up from her bed with a gasp. Chi Chi immediately flew to her mistress's shoulder and rubbed her furry head against the waterbender's cheek comfortingly.

Bright blue eyes clenched shut to stop the tears that were gathering from escaping as she pressed a shaking hand to her mouth.

"I'm so sorry Pietro... I'm so sorry."

Little did she know, about an ocean away, Pietro Maximoff was clutching the side of his head with his hands. The screams of the silver haired goddess that has been haunting his mind echoed in his ears as an older woman who was controlled the child version of the silver haired goddess like a dark puppet master.

Author's Note: Whaaaaaat? Kya and Pietro already have a mental bond with each other? I wonder how that could have happened *insert evil grin here*.

I'm sorry that the update took so long guys. I wish I could say that I'm going to be updating a little more frequently since Spring Break's coming up, but I can't because I'm going somewhere that doesn't have internet access.

Hope you like the chapter, your reviews make me smile :).