Moments later Pietro set Jade back on her feet. She managed to stay upright, though she still wanted to throw up. Jade put her hand against the nearest wall and leaned her weight onto it.
"You good?" Pietro asked holding his hand out to catch her if she fell. Jade raised a finger to him.
"Give me a sec," She breathed. "I'm still getting used to traveling that way." Wanda gave her a small smile.
"It takes a while," She said. Jade straightened and looked at the pair.
"There for a second I thought you guys were going to leave me," Jade said. Pietro looked at the ground then back to his sister.
"We figured we got you into this mess we should probably help get you out," Wanda answered. Jade nodded her head.
"Thanks, I appreciate you not leaving me."
"Don't mention it," Pietro said. Jade looked around. They were in a corner of a small market place. Nobody seemed to take notice of the oddly dressed trio. Jade looked a mess, and she knew it.
Wanda's hair had that wind blown look about it. She tried to fix it by running her fingers through it, but it did next to nothing to help the tangled mess. Pietro looked over his shoulder and, using his speed, took an orange out of the nearby basket. He started to peel it and Jade raise her eyebrows at him.
"Oh, sorry," Pietro said. Before she could blink Pietro was holding out another orange to her. "Here you go."
"That's not what I meant," Jade said taking the orange. "I was going to ask if you paid for it." Pietro handed another fruit to Wanda and she began to peel it.
"If I had money do you think I would be hanging out with you?" Pietro teased. "I didn't think it would matter. I've never met someone from Hydra who would care." Jade gave him a weak glare than began to peel the orange.
"I'm not Hydra," She muttered under her breath before shoving a piece of the fruit in her slowly ate the orange and Pietro gave her a smug grin.
"What's that?" Wanda asked moving toward a small tv across the alley. Jade and Pietro looked at each other then followed. On the screen was a live news feed. It showed two men on top of a moving semi truck. It appeared to be Ultron and Captain America.
"Go Captain," Jade smiled to herself after watching Cap getting a solid hit. Pietro turned to look at his sister. A silent conversation passed between the two. "So?" Jade asked motioning with her hands.
"So what?" Pietro asked.
"Are we going to help?" Jade demanded. Pietro looked back at Wanda. He gave an exasperated sigh then nodded. Jade gave a huge smile. "Alright, but no more of that carrying me like a bride stuff. I'll ride on your back."
"No you won't," Pietro argued.
"Why not?" Jade asked putting her hands on her hips. "That way you can carry both of us and I think it would help my motion sickness." Pietro rolled his eyes.
"Whatever, lets just go." He turned around. Jade jumped on his back and wrapped her arms around his neck. "You're really light." Pietro said in amazement.
"Nah," Jade reasoned. "I'm just short, and phasing takes a lot of energy." Pietro didn't respond and they were off in a blur.
The next thing Jade registered was being thrown onto a seat. Jade bolted to her feet and looked around. They were on a train, that much she was sure of. Ultron was looking at Pietro and the Captain was on the floor. Jade looked at Wanda, who waved her hands and two railings blocked Ultron's path. Jade ran to Steve's side.
"Jade," Steve confirmed.
"Captain," Jade replied helping Steve to his feet.
"Please, don't do this," Ultron said to Wanda.
"What choice do we have?" She asked him. Ultron snapped back around and shot a laser blast toward Pietro. He ducked, but the laser went straight through the front of the train. The train lurched and Jade fell onto the seat behind her. Ultron flew out the hole and Steve bounded to the front of the train. Jade followed and looked out the front.
"Oh no," She said looking at the end of the track. The train sped through the barrier and Jade fell backward onto the ground.
"Do you have the package?" Steve yelled. At first Jade thought he had lost it, then she realized he was talking to the person in his ear. "Get to Stark. Go!" Steve turned around and helped Jade to her feet then they speed walked down the car to the twins.
"Civilians in our path," Steve said to Pietro. Pietro got the message and disappeared. "Can you stop this thing?" Steve asked Wanda.
"I can try," She said. Steve nodded then went to the front of the train to block falling debris. "Get ready," Wanda said to Jade. Jade reached over and clung to a nearby pole. Wanda brought her hands back and red power enveloped them, she then thrust her hands down. The power leached through the floor and the train jerked. Wanda pulled back like she was playing tug of war with the ground with both hands.
The train screeched to a stop. Jade loosed her grip on the pole and watched as people scrabbled for a exit. Wanda made eye contact with Jade and they both went for a door.
"Pietro!" Wanda called when she saw her brother. Jade followed Wanda and went with her to check on Pietro.
"I'm fine," He breathed holding a hand up. "I just need to take a minute." He sat down and breathed heavy.
"I'm very tempted not to give you one," Steve said from behind them.
"The cradle," Wanda said, ignoring Steve's statement. "Did you get it?"
"Stark will take care of it," Steve assured them. Jade heard Pietro groan and she looked down at him.
"No he won't," Wanda said quietly. It took Steve a moment to reply. Jade looked between the two.
"You don't now what you're talking about. Stark's not crazy," Steve said. Pietro snorted and Jade glared down at him.
"He will do anything to make things right," Wanda said. They looked at each other for a moment before Steve looked away and talked to the ground.
"Stark, come in," Steve said. He must not of got a reply because he said Tony's name again. "Any one on coms?" Steve asked.
"What have we done?" Jade heard Pietro mutter to himself.
"Ultron can't tell the difference between saving the world and destroying it," Wanda said to Steve. "Where do you think he gets it?"
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"This is a bad plan," Jade said to nobody as the group walked down the hall to Stark's lab.
"Try to be optimistic," Pietro whispered sarcastically to her. "You never know, Stark might see our point and stop to think before he does something irrational." Jade snorted at his response and together they walked through the door and into the lab.
"I'm only going to say this once," Steve loudly stated.
"How about nonce?" Tony quipped back.
"Shut it down," Steve ordered. Jade stood beside Wanda and watched the situation start to play out.
"Nope," Tony said walking down toward them. "Not going to happen."
"You don't know what you're doing."
"Do you?" Bruce said. "She's not in your head?" He pointed at Wanda.
"I know you're angry," Wanda said stepping beside Steve.
"Oh, we're way past that. I could choke the life out of you and never change a shade." Bruce's statement sent chills down Jade's spine. Pietro was about to move into action, but Jade gripped his wrist and shook her head. To her amazement he didn't move. Jade's eyes darted between the two three people, she found it hard to believe it was only a day ago that they in this very room disusing Tony's last project, Ultron.
"Banner, after everything that has happened." Steve was cut off by Tony.
"What about everything that's coming?" Tony demanded. After his statement everyone started talking. Jade looked up and saw Pietro rolled his eyes. A blur passed before Jade's eyes. Pietro had instantaneously pulled out all the cords and tossed the last one on the floor.
"No, no, no," Pietro said when everyone stopped arguing to look at him. "Keep talking." He barely finished his sentence before plunging through the floor.
"Pietro!" Wanda yelled running to the hole in the floor. Jade ran with her. Before Jade knew what happened Steve threw his shield and then was blasted onto the floor and Wanda had an arm around her neck.
"Banner," Jade said her eyes widening at the man that had her friend in a head lock.
"Stay out of this Jade," He said. Wanda tried to struggle out of his grasp, but Banner tightened his hold. "Go ahead make me angry," He said in her ear.
"Let her go," Jade said holding a hand out. Jade didn't want to pick a fight with the Hulk, but she wasn't going to let him hurt Wanda. That was out of the question. When Banner didn't release his hold on Wanda the two girls made eye contact. Jade got the hint and moved into action.
Bolting forward she went through Wanda and grabbed Banner around the stomach. Air escaped his lungs and he was pushed backwards. Jade phased through him as soon as he let Wanda go and Wanda turned around and hit him with some of her red energy. He fell backward and hit the ground.
"You good?" Jade asked Wanda keeping her focus on Bruce. The man scrabbled to his feet and took a defensive stance.
"Ya," Wanda answered. "Thanks." Bruce opened his mouth to accuse Jade, but Thor flew in before he could utter a word.
Thor landed on the cradle and lifted his hammer. Blinding lightening illuminated the room and hit his hammer.
"No!" Jade yelled. She saw what he was going to do half a second to late. Thor brought this hammer down; striking the cradle.
Silence. For a moment there was complete silence. Then something erupted from the box.
