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Chapter 4- Heroes vs. Machines
There was another blast and the roof crumbled and started falling on them. Wanda raised her hex shield and defended everyone from the falling debris. When the pieces stopped falling, the shield faded. Five Ultron Sentries flew in with raised palms.
Before any of them could fire though, Thor fired his lightning bolt and they were all destroyed.
That moment, the front door was blasted down. Wanda raised her shield again to protect everyone from the debris.
The Terminators walked in. Unlike the T-800 that had been sent back to kill Tony, these did not have living tissue over them. They were walking machines with red optics. Each of them carried plasma rifles in their hands.
One of them fired and Steve blocked with his shield before throwing it at the attacker. It flew back by a few feet and Steve caught the shield on return.
Thor fired a lightning bolt and it vaporized a few of them. They fired their rifles and Wanda raised her hex shield to defend before projecting its energy outwards, sending them flying back.
Natasha fired her Glocks and the bullets made one of them stagger back. Sam and Rhodes ran into the adjacent room to get their suits.
Bucky ducked to avoid being hit by a shot as Natasha continued firing at them. One got too close and Thor swatted it away with Mjolnir.
Clint fired an arrow at one of them but it wasn't affected. As it got closer, Clint smacked it across the face with his bow and its face tilted to a side but it was still unaffected. Before it could punch him, Pietro rammed into it at full speed, sending it flying off.
"Move faster, old man", he said with a smirk and sped off to fight others as Clint sighed and shook his head.
As another attacked, Clint fired his arrow. This one was laced with an explosive tip which exploded as soon as the arrow hit the Terminator, sending it flying off.
Wanda fired at more, sending them flying off and destroying some. Bucky punched one on the face and tried to do so again but it grabbed his hand.
Bucky kicked it on the foot, making it kneel and then head-butted it before hitting its arm with his other hand, making it let go. He then punched it repeatedly on the chest before sending it flying off with a flying kick.
One of them kicked Steve in the abdomen, making him stumble. It then grabbed him by the throat but Steve kicked in on the knee and hit its arm with his shield, freeing himself. He then gave it a roundhouse kick and it was sent back by a few feet. He then threw the shield at another one and it was sent flying off.
Bruce finally turned into Hulk and roared at the top of his voice before swatting away some Terminators. They fired at him with their plasma rifles but he was unaffected. He did a thunderclap and they were sent back by many feet. Some were even destroyed by it.
Steve bashed another one with his shield, sending it down. As it tried to get up, Steve smashed it many times, finally taking it down.
One of them was kicked away by a flying figure. It was Sam, now dressed in his Falcon suit. He fired his Steyr SPP pistols, making some of them stagger away. Rhodes arrived too in his War Machine armor and fired a rocket which blasted some of them away. As one neared him, he fired his Mini-Gun at it point blank, taking it down.
Wanda used her telekinesis to lift up two of them and rammed them into each other before throwing them both into several others.
Thor flew forwards, Mjolnir raised. He rammed into one of them and smashed it through the wall, throwing it outside among others. He then slammed Mjolnir onto the ground and the resulting lightning bolt vaporized many of them.
Hulk leapt out and with raised fists roared, "HULK SMASH!"
It then slammed its fists onto the ground and the machines were sent flying off. The Ultron Sentries then arrived to reinforce the Terminators.
Fortunately, they were far less durable than the Terminators. Natasha walked out and with some well-aimed shots, managed to take one down while Steve threw his shield at another so hard that it cut off its head before returning to his hand.
The Terminators tried to fire their plasma rifles while the Ultron Sentries fired their repulsors at the same time. Thor deflected with Mjolnir, Hulk was unaffected and Steve defended himself and Natasha with his shield.
Bucky walked out with his own plasma rifle and hit some Terminators, sending them staggering back. He had another weapon with him though. He tossed the rifle to Natasha who then fired at the Terminators while he fired his M203 Grenade Launcher, sending the Terminators flying off.
Clint arrived and fired another arrow with an explosive tip which got another Terminator. He then fired a standard one at an Ultron Sentry and it was out.
Thor flew into the air, grabbing one of the Ultron Sentries, and then in a rotatory motion, threw a lot of Ultron Sentries into different directions. As they fell down, they shattered.
War Machine and Falcon flew out, firing at the Ultron Sentries, destroying them. Wanda defended everyone with her hex shield before firing at the Terminators with her hex blasts. Pietro sped around, hitting them with super speed punches.
Suddenly, a missile hit their base and it was destroyed.
"THE TIME MACHINE!" Steve called out in despair.
Two HK-Aerials were in the air. They fired lasers and plasma cannons which the heroes blocked or dodged. Hulk leapt up at one of them and punched it repeatedly. He then ran towards the back and with powerful punches, destroyed the back wings, causing it to crash to the ground as Hulk leapt off.
Thor landed on the other and hit it with Mjolnir, summoning a powerful lightning bolt which destroyed it.
Landing between the Terminators, he roared, "I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF MACHINES!"
He then slammed Mjolnir hard on the ground and a very powerful lightning bolt descended from the skies, vaporizing all of them as the ground on the other side shattered.
By then, Rhodes and Sam had destroyed the Ultron Sentries and landed amongst them.
"Our base is gone", Natasha said.
"And the Time Machine along with it", Steve said in despair.
"What do we do now?" Bucky asked.
"I need to go back in time now", Steve said.
Rhodes protested, "No Steve-"
"The method you all suggested is clearly not working", Steve shot back, "The T-800 may succeed, but it will take millions of innocents along with it. What will we do then?"
No one had an answer to that.
"Okay", Clint said on everyone's behalf as Steve's method was accepted, "But our Time Machine is gone. So how're we gonna send you back?"
"This was not the only Time Machine around, right?" Thor asked.
"No, I don't think so", Pietro said.
"There might be a few more around", Wanda said.
"But where?" Sam asked.
"We do know the location of one of them", Natasha said, "Ultron's castle."
"Okay, this is crazy", Rhodes said, "We can't storm his castle. We're all going to die."
"But if I go back in time and succeed", Steve said, "Then none of this will ever happen."
"No", Rhodes said, "The risk is too great."
"I don't see any other option", Thor said. With a sniff, Hulk said, "Steve right."
Rhodes looked at Natasha, Bucky, Clint and Sam. All of them supported Steve. Wanda and Pietro too.
"Well", Rhodes said to Steve, "What do we do?"
"We storm his castle", Steve said.
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