Chapter Fourteen: The Creation of the Vision

Annabeth P.O.V.

Annabeth watched anxiously out the window as the quinjet landed. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw a Cradle and a glimpse of what looked like a human body. But she noticed one person was missing.

"Where's Nat?" Annabeth asked Clint. He looked crestfallen. "She… got captured." Annabeth winced. "We'll get her back. Don't worry."

Annabeth, Bruce and Tony wheeled the Cradle into the lab. Inside it was a bright red humanoid body with a glowing yellow stone in the center of its forehead. Annabeth stared at it. "Is that…"

"Yep." Tony confirmed. "That was what the scepter was protecting. Now it's inside that guy's head."

"Well, then we've got to get it out!" Annabeth said urgently. "Bruce, how do we destroy this? Isn't it made out of the strongest substance on the planet?"

Bruce nodded. "I can work on tissue generation, if Tony can fry whatever operational system Cho implanted. Annabeth, you can run algorithms on how to destroy metal." Annabeth agreed and was walking over to the computer when Tony said, "Yeah, about that."

Annabeth and Bruce looked at him. "No." Bruce said. Annabeth raised his eyebrows. "You're not seriously thinking-"

"Yes, he is." Bruce said. "You have to trust me." Tony pleaded.

"Uh, I would, but I feel like your common sense generators are fried." Annabeth said. Bruce shook his head. "Yeah, I kinda don't."

"Our ally? The guy that's protecting the military's nuclear codes? I found him." Tony brought up an image of JARVIS's consciousness. "Hello, Doctor Banner. Hello, Miss. Chase." JARVIS said.

Tony pointed his remote at JARVIS. "Ultron didn't attack JARVIS because he was angry. He attacked him because he was scared of what he can do. So JARVIS went underground. Scattered, dumped his memory. But not his protocols. He didn't even know he was in there until I pieced him together."

Bruce shook his head, smiling disbelievingly. "So you want us to help you put JARVIS into this thing." Tony looked shocked.

"No, of course not! We're going to help you put JARVIS into this thing." Bruce shook his head again. Tony persisted. "We're out of our field here. You know bio-organics better than anyone."

"And you're just assuming JARVIS's biological matrix can beat Ultron's." Bruce said. "JARVIS has been beating him from inside without even knowing it. This is the opportunity. We can create Ultron's perfect personality, without the homicidal glitches." Tony said.

Annabeth couldn't believe what she was hearing. "I believe it's worth a go." JARVIS put in. Bruce threw his hands in the air.

"No, I'm in a loop! I'm in a time loop; this is exactly where it all went wrong!" Annabeth walked right up to Tony.

"Look, Tony, I don't know what that woman showed you, but you can't let her get into your head. You've got to think this through." Tony shook her off.

"I know, I know. I know what everyone's going to say. But we're mad scientists. We're monsters. You just gotta own it. It's not a loop. It's the end of the line." Annabeth massaged her temple.

"No. Not today. I'm not going to stand for this. Bruce, you can do what you want, it's your choice. But I'm not ready for another Ultron. We've already got one to deal with, and that might not be enough." She stormed out of the lab to find Percy.

. . .

She found Percy on the third floor, swimming in the pool. "Percy!" She called. "I need you." There was a pause, and then, FLOOM! Percy sprang out of the pool, not even wet, and in his full clothes. Annabeth couldn't help smirking. "You are such a show off."

Percy tried not to grin. "Takes one to know one. What's up?" Annabeth told him what Tony Stark was doing. He gritted his teeth. "That idiot. For a genius, he sure is a slow learner. Shall we go stop him?"

Annabeth nodded grimly. "I guess we have to. Let's go tell the others." They walked down the halls to try and locate Steve, but on the way Percy caught a glimpse of a newsreel.

It showed Percy and Steve fighting Ultron, but Percy in his suit. "It appears that someone new has joined the Avengers!" The announcer was saying. "The self-proclaimed 'Tsunami' appears to be able to control water, though no one is really sure who this new person is." Then it flipped to a picture of Annabeth in her suit fighting HYDRA agents in Sokovia.

Annabeth's mouth was open. "How in the Underworld did they get that footage?" Percy shrugged and kept watching the screen. "Another new person has joined, as exclusive footage reveals," The newscaster went on. "And experts have confirmed that the pairs' suits are very similar. Who are these new Avengers, and why are they hiding their faces?"

Suddenly, the television winked off. Annabeth spun around and saw Steve holding a remote. "Sorry," He said. "I didn't think you'd like watching that." Annabeth shrugged. "Bad press is part of being an Avenger, I suppose. Did you need something?"

Steve nodded. "Natasha managed to send Clint a message via Morse code. She's in Sokovia." Percy slapped a hand on his forehead. "Of course! That's super obvious. We had some news too."

Steve listened as Annabeth told him what Tony and Bruce were doing. Anger flashed on his face. "Stark. You'd think he'd learn, wouldn't you? Let's go and interrupt the process, shall we?"

(Percy)

Annabeth, Percy, Steve, and the twins walked into the lab where Tony and Bruce were slowly uploading JARVIS into that body. "I'm only gonna say this once." Steve said.

Tony didn't even look over. "How about 'nonce'?"

"Shut it down!" Steve demanded. "Nope, not gonna happen." Tony replied. "You two don't know what you're doing." Steve said.

Bruce turned around and saw Wanda. He was obviously still ticked off about the whole 'turn into the Hulk' thing. "And you do? She's not in your head?" Wanda looked nervous, understandably so.

"I know you're angry." Bruce turned on her. "Oh, we're way past that. I could choke the life out of you and never change a shade."

Annabeth winced. "Bruce. She's on our side now." Bruce looked at her. "Oh, yeah? And how do you know that?" Percy moved in front of Annabeth. "Oh, no. Don't threaten my girlfriend."

Annabeth moved to the side. "Percy, I'm fine."

"Banner, after everything that's happened…" Steve began in warning tones. "Oh, that's nothing compared to what's coming!" Tony retorted instantly.

"You don't know what's in there!" Wanda said. "This isn't a game." Steve agreed. Wanda continued, "That creature-"

Pietro suddenly sped around the room and destroyed all of the lab equipment. "No, no, go on, you were saying?" An arrow shot out of the ground, made a hole, and Pietro fell through it. Percy looked down and saw Clint with his bow and arrow pointed above him. "Pietro!" Wanda shrieked.

"What, you didn't see that coming?" Clint mocked. "Go ahead, piss me off." Bruce snarled at Wanda. Then, out of nowhere, Thor flew in and pounded the Cradle with lightning. The bar on the side reading the power sped up.

"Thor!" Percy yelled. "What are you-"

The body in the Cradle sprang out of it. The body was red, with gray lines running through it. Percy plunged his hand in his pocket and brought out his steel sword. Annabeth drew her knife. The thing looked around at them all. "I'm sorry, that was… odd." It turned to Thor. "Thank you."

Percy was confused. "Why does that thing sound like JARVIS?" Steve was looking at Thor.

"Thor, you helped create this?" Thor nodded and looked agitated. "I've had a vision. A whirlpool that sucks in all hope of life and at the center is that." He pointed to the gem in the thing's head.

"What, the gem?" Bruce asked. "It's the Mind Stone." Thor replied. "It's one of the six Infinity Stones, the greatest powers in the universe, unparalleled to its destructive capabilities."

Percy stared at the gem. "Now that you say it, I've had a vision about the gems too. It was a lot more blurry and confused but…" Percy trailed off when he saw everyone was looking at him. "Then why would you bring it to…" Steve wondered.

"Because Stark is right." Thor said. Annabeth nearly fell over. "He is?"

"Oh, it's definitely the end times." Bruce commented. "The Avengers cannot defeat Ultron." Thor said.

"Not alone." Vision agreed. "Why does your 'vision' sound like JARVIS?" Steve asked. Tony looked almost as confused as everyone else.

"We… we reconfigured JARVIS's matrix into something new."

"I've kinda had my feel of new." Steve looked angry still, though Annabeth was starting to understand. "You think I'm a child of Ultron?" Vision asked.

"You're not?"

"I'm not Ultron. I'm not JARVIS. I am…" Wanda interceded. "I looked in your head and saw annihilation."

"Look again." Vision said simply.

"Yeah." Clint said sarcastically. "Her seal of approval means jack to me."

Thor continued to explain. "Their powers, the horrors in our heads, Ultron himself, they all come from the Mind Stone. And that's nothing compared to what it can unleash. But with it on our side…"

"Is it?" Steve interrupted. "Are you? On our side?" Vision tilted his head. "I don't think it's that simple."

Clint drew his bow. "Well, it better get real simple real fast." Vision did his best to explain. "I am on the side of life. Ultron isn't, and he will end all."

"What's he waiting for?" Tony asked. Vision looked at them all. "You."

"Where?" Bruce asked. "Sokovia. He's got Nat there too." Clint replied. "If we're wrong about you, if you're the monster Ultron made you to be…" Bruce said in warning tones.

"What will you do?" Vision asked. He looked around and saw all of their faces, and seemed to realize that they would destroy them. "I don't want to kill Ultron. He is unique, and he is in pain. But his 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 other. Maybe I am a monster. I don't think I'd know if I were one. I'm not what you are. I'm not what you intended. So there may be no way for you to trust me. But we have to go."

Vision held up Thor's hammer to him. The rest of the Avengers looked shocked. Thor, however, looked like he had just confirmed something. "Right." He said, and patted Tony on the shoulder. "Well done."

Steve turned to them all. "Three minutes. Get what you need."

Annabeth and Percy looked at each other, and dashed off to their rooms. They fenced for as long as they could, grabbed their suits, swords, ambrosia, and nectar. Percy kept a few drachmas just in case he needed to Iris Message someone.

"No way we'll all get through this." Tony told them. Percy and Annabeth were staying by the rest of the Avengers once they had finished grabbing their stuff. "If even one tin soldier is left standing, we've failed. There's gonna be blood on the floor."

Steve looked up from his chair. "I got no plans tomorrow night."

"I get first crack at the big guy. Iron Man's the one he's waiting for." Tony said. Vision walked by and commented.

"It's true, he hates you the most."

They boarded the quinjet for what hopefully wouldn't be the last time, though Percy got the ominous feeling that it was. "Ultron knows we're coming." Steve said, by way of a pep talk. "Odds are we'll be riding into heavy fire. That's what we signed up for. But the people of Sokovia, they didn't. So our priority will be getting them out."

They landed in Sokovia. Wanda used her mind powers to tell the Sokovians to get out. Steve continued in their earbuds. "All they want is to live their lives in peace, and that's not going to happen today. But we can do our best to protect them. And we can get the job done, and find out what Ultron's been building. We find Romanoff, and we clear the field. Keep the fight between Ultron and us. Ultron thinks we're monsters, and that we're what's wrong with the world. This isn't just about beating him. It's about whether he's right."

Percy and Annabeth geared up for the final battle. Because whatever happened today, whatever tragedies happened to the world, they knew that, at least at the moment, the Avengers were a team. And they were going to kick Ultron's podex.

A/N Yeah, yeah. I know what you're all gonna say. "But, you updated yesterday!" Well, SURPRISE! I wanted to update soon, and that's what happened. You know, it's a lot harder to flip through scenes in a fanfiction story than in a movie. Anyway, expect another update tomorrow! I'm planning to finish this story in a week, and then we're on to Civil War! Also, I didn't have Annabeth help create the Vision because I don't think she'd be stupid enough to do that again, even though Vision turned out to be good and everything. 180 followers?! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA-

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To my reviewer Br0kenTh0rn:

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