Author's Note: Guys... this is it.

This is the last chapter before the epilogue...

I want to thank all of the reviewers that have been with me since beginning. You guys have made me laugh with what you've had to say about Silver Waters and inspired me to turn this fic into what it is today. It really wouldn't be the same without all the love from you guys *virtual hug*.

And now...

Onward!!!!

No one moved, Kya doubted that anyone was actually breathing. The red and green figure looked around before locking on Thor. Before anyone could react, it launched itself at the thunder god.

Thor grunted as he threw the figure off him through one of the lab windows. It free flew through the air before coming at an abrupt halt in front of a window that stared out at New York. While the figure stared out at the city, almost in a hypnotized matter, Kya wormed her way out of Pietro's arms before following the Avengers out of the lab and into the living area, the Maximoffs following her close behind.

After staring at the city skyline for a moment longer, the figure changed. It- he was suddenly wearing clothes. He turned to face the Avengers before flying in their direction. When he landed, a golden cape appeared at his shoulders.

He had a slightly confused look on his face as he looked at Thor. "I'm sorry, that was odd, thank you."

Steve stepped forward cautiously. "Thor, you helped create this?"

The Prince of Asgard pointed toward the figure's head. "I've had a vision. A whirlpool that sucks in all hope of life, and at its center... that."

"What? The gem?"

Thor turned to Bruce. "It's the Mind Stone. One of the six Infinity Stones. The greatest power in the universe, unparalleled in its destructive capabilities."

Kya didn't understand. "Then why bring it-"

"Because Stark is right."

Bruce grimaced. "Oh it's definitely the end times."

While Tony glared at his science partner, Thor turned to Steve. "The Avengers cannot defeat Ultron."

The figure spoke from next to him. "Not alone."

The waterbender's eyebrows furrowed and she took a few steps forward, slightly ignoring the fact that Pietro followed close behind. "Why does your 'vision' sound like Jarvis?"

"We reconfigured Jarvis' matrix to create something new."

Kya pursed her lips as she looked from Tony back to 'Vision'. "I think we've all had our fill of new.'

'Vision' looked at her curiously. "You think I'm a child of Ultron?"

Steve stepped forward protectively, eyes hard. "You're not?"

The same confused expression from earlier came back. Only this time, it was mixed with pain. "I'm not Ultron. I'm not Jarvis. I am... I am."

Wanda looked at 'Vision' curiously, and Kya suddenly found herself and Pietro standing closer than they originally were before. The silver haired woman looked at the speedster curiously, but he wouldn't meet her gaze

"I looked in your head, and saw annihilation."

"Look again."

Clint's voice was hostile as he walked closer. "Yeah, her seal of approval means jack to me."

"Their powers. The horrors in our heads. Ultron himself. They all came from the Mind Stone, and they're nothing compared to what it can unleash. But with it on our side-"

Steve cut the thunder god off. "Is it? Are you? On our side?"

'Vision' looked a little more confused as he spoke quietly. "I don't think it's that simple."

Clint snapped. "Well it better get real simple real soon."

"I'm on the side of life. Ultron isn't. He will end it all."

"What's he waiting for?"

The creature stared hard at Tony. "You."

"Where?"

Clint pursed his lips. "Sokovia. He's got Nat there too."

Kya felt herself tense up. Moments later, warm fingers gently twined themselves with hers before squeezing comfortingly. Looking out the corner of her eye, she saw Pietro looking at her in concern. She felt him gently push against the walls of their bond, and opened it ever so slightly.

'I'm fine.'

She squeezed his hand back, and tried to ignore the fact that Clint was drilling holes into her head with his eyes.

Meanwhile, Bruce had walked over to the AI with assessing eyes. "If we're wrong about you...if you're the monster that Ultron made you to be..."

"What will you do?"

'Vision' made eye contact with each person. "I don't want to kill Ultron. He's unique. And he's in pain. But that pain will roll over the earth, so he must be destroyed. Every form he's built, every trace of his presence on the 'net, we have to act now. And not one of us can do it without the others."

He looked down at his hands curiously. "Maybe I am a monster. I don't think I'd know if I were one. I'm not what you are. And not what you intended. So there may be no way to make you trust me, but we need to go."

He held out Mjölnir and everyone stared in shock and awe. Thor recovered first, and slowly took his beloved weapon from the AI. Still in a daze, he turned and clapped Tony on the shoulder. "Right! Well done."

Steve looked around to everyone. "Three minutes. Get what you need."

As everyone dispersed to get their things, Kya looked at the twins, "Follow me, we'll get you guys some better clothes."

She led them to the lockers. And, after grabbing a new suit for herself, the silver haired woman quickly left when a certain speedster removed his shirt. But not before seeing a hint of smooth muscle that his chest was made up with.

As Kya changed, she thought about what this battle could mean. Some of us might live, some of us might die. Question is, will that be true?

For the second time that night, she felt something brush against the walls of her mind. Immediately knowing who it was, she opened her mind. 'Did something happen?'

Moments later, Pietro's voice echoed through her head. 'Not with me. I could feel you thinking hard about something. What's wrong?'

The silver haired woman exited the room and made her way back to the lockers. The speedster was waiting for her, his sister no where in sight. She didn't feel the need to respond out loud. Besides, she liked having him in her head.

'Nothing, just thinking about what we're going up against.'

He took his hand in hers and squeezed it comfortingly. 'We're going against something in my home land, and I know it very well. We'll be fine.'

Kya looked down at their joined hands before looking back at him. 'Did you mean what you said earlier? About staying?'

Pietro stared at her and walked closer until the waterbender was gently pressed against the wall. 'Do you want me to go?'

Blue eyes stared into blue eyes in both inward and outward silence. And then...

'No, I don't.'

The speedster gently cupped her face in his hand, brushing her cheekbone with his thumb. Kya's eyes drifted closed as she ever so slightly leaned into his touch. She opened her eyes just as Pietro angled her head towards his. Knowing, and wanting, what was coming next, her eyes drifted closed again. But just as his lips brushed against hers, footsteps coming down the stairs caused the two to spring apart. With the thrill of almost being caught lingering in their cheeks, the two looked in time to see Clint walk down the stairs towards the Quin-Jet.

Thinking quickly, the waterbender pressed her lips to the speedster's cheek, grinning at his startled expression. 'Stick around and you'll get your kiss.'

Kya walked past him as Wanda came out of locker room. Behind her, she could hear the grin in his voice as he chuckled.

"I'm looking forward to it."

Once everyone was on the Quin-Jet, Steve began talking. "Ultron knows we're coming. Odds are we'll be riding into heavy fire. And that's what we signed up for. But the people of Sokovia didn't. So our priority is getting them out. All they want is to live their lives in peace, and that's not gonna happen today. But we can do our best to protect them. And we can get the job done. We find out what Ultron's been building, we find Natasha, and we clear the field. Keep the fight between us."

The man out of time looked at the team that was assembled before him. "Ultron thinks we're monsters. That we're what's wrong with the world. This isn't just about beating him. It's about whether he's right."

-Time Skip-

When the Avengers landed in Sokovia, the Maximoff twins immediately set to work on getting their fellow Sokovians evacuated. At one point when Kya and Pietro met up, the speedster had a very self-satisfied expression on his face, causing the waterbender to raise an eyebrow.

'What did you do?'

He grinned and shrugged mock-innocently. Suddenly, the ground underneath them rumbled. And then, robots everywhere.

The waterbender and the speedster shared a look with each other before attacking robots left and right. Kya lost all sense of time and really everything else - she even lost track of Pietro at one point - as she used every bending move she knew to take out the bots and protect the civilians.

Eventually, her comm came to life with Steve's voice. "Stark, you worry about bringing the city back down safely. The rest of us have one job, tear these things apart. You get hurt, hurt them back. You get killed... walk it off."

Kya really hoped the sinking feeling in her stomach was just the fact that Sokovia was flying in the air.

As the robots all became scrap piles one-to-one, Clint's voice came over the comm. "All right, we're all clear here."

Steve's voice immediately responded back, almost sounding winded. "We are not clear! We are very not clear."

Kya quickly beheaded one last robot before turning to make her way to where the super soldier was. "Hang tight, we're coming to help."

The moment she stopped talking, Pietro had her in his arms and seconds later, picked his sister up piggy-back style and sped past Clint. "Keep up old man."

Kya rolled her eyes at the speedster's antics, who noticed this and winked cheekily. Within moments the three were stopped at a barricade with police behind cars. The Maximoffs plus the silver haired woman immediately began demolishing the robots in their path, almost not noticing the police force behind them.

"Hold your fire!"

A slower moving officer's bullet flew and shot Pietro in the arm. The 'really?' look he gave the police officer had Kya pursing her lips to keep the giggles from escaping. Eventually, there was a lull in the attacks, and the waterbender heard large familiar whirring engine noises that made her grin.

She turned and ran out to Steve and Natasha. They both looked at her and grinned as Pietro joined her and looked at the huge aircraft that ascended from the clouds. "This is S.H.I.E.L.D.?"

Kya grinned and twined Pietro's fingers with hers. "This is what S.H.I.E.L.D.'s supposed to be."

The speedster smirked before brushing his lips against her temple. "This is not so bad."

Out of the corner of her eye, the silver haired woman saw Nat and Steve looking at them with raised eyebrows, the ex-red room assassin with a smug grin on her face. Looking down at the soldier and the spy's joined hands, she raised an eyebrow back, silently saying, 'you really want to talk about this now?'

Natasha looked away, but the smug grin remained on her face.

Suddenly, the familiar voice of Nick Fury came over the comms. "Nice right? Pulled her out of mothballs with a couple of old friends. She's dusty, but she'll do."

Steve let out a laugh of amazement and disbelief. "Fury, you son of a bitch."

"Ooh you kiss your mother with that mouth?"

Colonel Rhodes voice came over the comms next. "Tony's figured out a way to blow up the city. But we have to get the people off this rock first!"

When Steve spoke, renewed determination laced his voice. "Right. I'll pass it on; get the boats ready!"

While the speedster picked up the waterbender so they could round up civilians, Sam Wilson's voice came over the comms. "Hey Cap, found something of yours."

Kya faintly heard gunshots over her comm, and then...

"Bucky?"

Moments later, a response. "Hey punk."

"Is that-"

"What the-"

Kya grinned.

"Avengers, time to work for a living."

After making sure the civilians were being loaded on to the S.H.I.E.L.D.'s lifeboats, the pair made their way to the church. Upon arriving, Pietro immediately went to his sister. "You good?"

While Wanda nodded, the waterbender instantly noticed Steve and Natasha arrive, and made her way over to her surrogate mother. "Still alive?"

The red head grinned tiredly before squeezing the silver haired woman's shoulder. "Somewhat."

Grinning back, Kya looked at Bucky, who arrived with the ex-red room assassin and the man out of time. "Decided it was time to be found?"

She ignored the confused expressions of her team mates as the Winter Soldier gave her a small smile before heaving his gun with ease to rest on his shoulders. "Based on how things look, I'd say you need my help Doll."

Kya smiled back. Moments later, Bucky looked and raised an eyebrow at something over her shoulder. The waterbender turned to see Pietro giving the brunette super soldier a glare that could have curdled milk. Or at least in Bucky's case, tried to.

Tony, Thor, and the Hulk arrived moments later followed by Ultron, who flew above them as the thunder god yelled out challengingly. "Is that the best you can do?"

The homicidal AI raised his arm and swarms of robots gathered behind him, causing Kya to purse her lips irritably. "Thor, do you remember our conversation about Murphey's Law?"

At the Prince of Asgard's guilty expression, the silver haired woman sighed. "I didn't think so."

As Ultron spoke, he waved his arm indicatedly. "This is the best I could do. This is exactly what I wanted. All of you against all of me. How can you possibly hope to stop me?"

Tony looked at the Avengers. "Well, like the old man and the moon goddess said; together."

Hulk roared as the entire legion ran forward. For the second time that day, Kya lost sense of almost everything. She couldn't tell which gunshots belonged to Natasha and which belonged to Bucky. And the only reason she could tell the blue blurs apart was because Pietro had a hint of silver.

The seemingly endless robot ranks eventually thinned before disappearing completely, giving the Avengers a chance to catch their breath.

"We gotta move out. Even I can tell the air is getting thin. You guys get to the boats. I'll sweep for right behind you."

The waterbender looked at the thing that would end Sokovia. "What about the core?"

Wanda set her shoulders determinedly. "I'll protect it. It's my job."

Kya and Clint looked at her before turning away. "Nat? This way."

Meanwhile, Pietro looked at his twin grimly. "I'm not going to leave you here."

Wanda fixed her brother with a firm look. "I can handle this. Come back for me when everyone else is off. Not before. You understand."

Pietro raised an eyebrow before grinning. "You know, I'm twelve minutes older than you."

Kya smiled and gently took the female Maximoff's hand in her own before squeezing it comfortingly. "Don't worry, I'll make sure he stays safe. Be careful."

She turned back to Pietro and wrapped her arms around his neck just as he literally swept her off her feet. The waterbender felt the now familiar sensation of her breath being taken away at a fantastic speed as Pietro ran. Thin air flew through her air as the speedster came to a stop by one of the life boats and gently placed the waterbender on the ground. As Kya slid down the front of his chest, her arms remained around his neck and his remained around her waist. "If this is how our first date goes, I can't wait for the second."

The silver haired woman grinned and pressed her forehead against Pietro's. Suddenly, a civilian started calling out for someone, either a son or a little brother.

And in an instant, she remembered the vision she had what felt forever ago.

A woman starting screaming for someone, either a son or a brother. The waterbender saw Clint look around. When he saw what he was looking for, he darted from the S.H.I.E.L.D. life boat. He picked up a little boy in his arms and turned to run back to the boat when a Quin-Jet started flying towards him and the little boy.

Clint knew what was going to happen as the Quin-Jet got closer and closer. He turned sharply to shield the little boy when a blue-ish silver streak ran in front of him, effectively blocking Clint and the little boy from certain death.

That exact same vision played out in front of her. Clint ran out of the safety boat and darted over to where the little boy was and picked him up in his arms. The Quin-Jet that was being flown by Ultron came from nowhere. Clint saw what was going to happen. He turned sharply to try and shield the boy in his arms...

But when the dust settled, Pietro was standing in front of the archer, blood staining his shirt.

"You didn't see that coming?"

As he fell to the ground, it was like someone switched a lightbull off. Only the aftereffects were devastating.

She heard a bone chilling scream, but she heard it as if she was hearing it under water. Was that her? Or was it Wanda as she felt her twin brother leave this world?

The waterbender sprinted to where Pietro's body fell, knees scraping harshly against the ground as she slid to a stop next to him. Kya heaved the speedster into her arms before burying her face in his hair, tears streaming down her cheeks the entire time.

I'm sorry... I'm so sorry Pietro!!!

In her grief, she almost missed the pulse around her neck. The second time she felt it, she quickly drew back from the speedster and pulled the vile from the Spirit Oasis around her neck.

The lifeblood of the island. It's rumored that with the waters, one could save another from the hands of death.

Kya quickly moved Pietro so he was lying flat on his back. Opening the vile, the silver haired woman bended the spirit water out and into her hands, and prayed.

Tui, La, Spirits of my people... Please, don't take him from me.

Kya spread the water as thin as she could to be still effective and placed on Pietro's torso. Then, she poured all of her chi, and even tapped into her life force. The water glowed with all the energy, and then there was nothing.

Her hands dropped in exhaustion, and she could feel herself falling. She heard someone call her name, and then...

Blackout.