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Here's chapter 6 everybody.
Chapter 6: Mind Games.
Back at Avengers Tower, the Avengers has been working tirelessly to track down Ultron. Steve was talking to Hill, who was currently giving him information on Ultron and how he operates.
"He's all over the globe. Robotics labs, weapons facilities, jet propulsion labs. Reports of a metal man, or men, coming in and emptying the place." Hill said.
"Fatalities?" Steve asked.
"Only when engaged. Mostly guys left in a fugue state, going on about old memories, worst fears, and 'something too fast to see'." Hill said, making Steve realizing what she meant.
"Maximoffs. That makes sense he'd go to them. They have someone in common." Steve said.
"Not anymore." Hill said, handing Steve a tablet. On the tablet shows Ultron at a prison, and laying motionless on the bed is Strucker. There is also a blood print on the wall that spells 'Peace'.
Meanwhile, Clint was on the phone, talking in a low tone, unaware that Steve is approaching him.
"That's a negative. I answer to you. Yes, ma'am." Clint said on the phone.
"Barton. Might have something." Steve said to Clint.
"I got to go." Clint said before hanging up the phone.
"Who was that?" Steve asked.
Clint remained silent for a second before replying...
"Girlfriend."
A few minutes later, all the Avengers were at Tony's workshop and Steve hands the tablet to Thor as Tony ask...
"What's this?"
"A message. Ultron killed Strucker." Steve replied as Thor hands Tony the tablet.
"My God. Why would he do that?" Danny asked as Bruce, Tony and himself look at the tablet.
"And he did a Banksy at the crime scene, just for us." Tony said.
"This is a smoke screen. Why send a message when you have just given a speech?" Natasha asked.
"Strucker knew something that Ultron wanted us to miss." Steve said.
Yeah, I bet he... Yeah." Natasha said as she look at a monitor. "Everything we had on Strucker's been erased."
"Not everything." Steve said.
A few minutes later, everyone was going through boxes that contains files that involved Strucker.
"Known associates. Baron Strucker had a lot of friends." Steve said.
"Well, these people are all horrible." Bruce said.
Tony then look at the file Bruce was holding before saying...
"Wait. I know that guy." Tony said.
Tony then grab the file, showing a file on a black-marketed arms dealer, smuggler and gangster name Ulysses Klaue.
"Wait, you know one of Strucker's associates? Care to explain that." Danny said sternly.
"From back in the day. He operates off the African coast. Black market arms." Tony said as Steve, Clint and Danny looks at him sternly. "There are conventions. All right? You meet people. I didn't sell him anything. He was talking about finding something new, a game-changer. It was all very Ahab."
"This?" Thor said as he questioned the marking on the guy's neck.
"Ah, it's a tattoo, I don't think he had it." Tony replied.
"Those are tattoos, this is brand." Thor said, comparing the two markings.
Bruce then analyze the odd marking before he said...
"Oh, yeah. It's a word in an African dialect meaning 'thief'. In a much less friendly way."
"What dialect?" Steve asked.
"Wakanada. Wakanda." Bruce stammered.
"Kingdom of Wakanda. It's been known for having a history of hot spots in black market activities and a very isolated country." Danny said.
"If this guy got out of Wakanda with some of their trade goods..." Tony said before getting interrupted by Steve mid-sentence.
"I thought your father said he got the last of it." Steve said.
"I don't follow." Bruce said. "What comes out of Wakanda?"
Everyone then looks at Steve's shield.
"The strongest metal on Earth." Tony answered.
"And Cap's shield is made out of it." Danny said.
"Where is this guy now?" Steve asked.
At a salvage yard at the African coast, inside the old rusted cargo ship Chruchhill, a group of black marketed mercenaries were doing business making weapons and other parts while their boss, Ulysses Klaue, was talking on the phone.
"Don't tell me your men swindled you. I sent you six short-range heat-seekers and got a boat full of rusted parts. Now, you will make it right, or the next missile I send you will come very much faster." Klaue threatened before hanging up before turning his attention to a minister. "Now, minister, where were we?"
At that moment, the lights cuts off and machines powers down, and his henchmen starts clamoring. Klaue then grabs his pistol, thinking that he was about to be attacked. Klaue then fires a shot, but Pietro, aka Quicksilver, ran really fast into the room and disarmed him, leaving all of the bullets on the desk. Wanda, aka Scarlet Witch, appears at the room. Klaue realized who he's meeting, but remains confident.
"Yeah. The Enhanced. Strucker's prize pupils." Klaue said before grabbing a tray of candy. "Do you want a candy? Hmm? I was sorry to hear about Strucker. But then, he knew what kind of world he was helping create. Human life. Not a growth market."
Klaue mocked the twins, but then he realized that the Maximoffs isn't aware of Strucker's murder.
"You didn't know? Is this your first time intimidating someone? I am afraid. I am not that afraid." Klaue said.
"Everybody is afraid of something." Wanda commented.
"Cuttlefish. Deep sea fish. They make lights, disco lights..." Klaue said as he imitates a cuttlefish. "...to hypnotize their prey, and then... I saw a documentary. It was terrifying."
Pietro then ran fast before getting back to his spot, as he grab a piece of candy. This intimidates Klaue.
"So if you're going to fiddle with my brain and make me a giant cuttlefish, then I know you don't do business. And I know you're not in charge. And I only deal with the man in charge." Klaue said, unaware that Ultron is hovering out the window behind him.
Moments later, glass shatters as Klaue is thrown through a doorway by Ultron. Ultron towers over him.
"There is no man in charge." Ultron said before getting close to Klaue's face. "Let's talk business."
A few minutes later, Klaue and one of his men leads Ultron and the Maximoffs to a vault which contains the vibranium that Klaue stole from Wakanda years ago.
"Upon this rock, I will build my church." Ultron said, quoting and mocking a Biblical quote, before Klaue hands him a tube that contains the strongest metal on Earth. "Vibranium." Ultron throws the tube of vibranium to Pietro.
"You know, it came at great personal cost. It's worth billions." Klaue said.
Ultron chuckled before going through the internet to transfer billions of dollars into Klaue's account.
"Now so are you." Ultron said as a cell phone buzz from one of the henchmen. "It's all under your dummy holdings. Finance is so weird. But I always say, 'Keep your friends rich and your enemies rich and wait to find out which is which'."
Klaue then realized what Ultron said as he heard that quote before from a certain someone.
"Stark." Klaue muttered.
"What?" Ultron asked.
"Tony Stark used to say that. To me. You're one of his." Klaue said.
"What? I am not..." Ultron said, taking offense before he grabs Klaue's arm.
One of Klaue's henchmen tried to aim his pistol at Ultron, but Wanda used her telekinesis powers to stop him.
"I am not. You think I am one of Stark's puppets? His hollow men? I mean, look at me. Do I look like Iron Man? Stark is nothing." Ultron said in rage as he cuts Klaue's left arm off. Ultron realized his mistake. "I am sorry. I am... Oh! I am sure that's going to be okay. I am sorry. It's just that I don't understand. Don't compare me with Stark!" Ultron then kicked Klaue down a flight of stairs. "It's a thing with me. Stark is... He's a sickness!"
"Ah, Junior." Tony said as he lands his Iron Man Mark XLIII armor, and Thor and Steve arrive to confront him, while Clint and Natasha are hiding, taking positions and Danny is hovering, while being invisible as he watches the confrontation. "You're going to break your old man's heart."
"If I have to." Ultron said.
"Nobody has to break anything." Thor said.
"Clearly you have never made an omelette." Ultron said.
"He beat me by one second." Tony joked.
"Ah, yes. He's funny. Mr. Stark. It's what? Comfortable? Like old times?" Pietro said as he stares down at a group of missiles.
"This was never my life." Tony said.
"You two can still walk away from this." Steve said to the Maximoffs.
"Oh, we will." Wanda said sarcastically.
"I know you have suffered." Steve said, trying to gain her trust, but Ultron scoffed.
"Captain America." Ultron chuckled. "God's righteous man. Pretending you could live without a war. I can't physically throw up in my mouth, but..."
"If you believe in peace, then let us keep it." Thor said.
"I think you're confusing 'peace' with 'quiet'." Ultron said.
Danny then makes himself appear.
"And you need to realized is that we know a thing or two about peace. " Danny said, confronting Ultron.
"Ah, the famous Danny Phantom, the so-called 'Savior of the Earth'." Ultron chuckled. "Why protect this planet? You could have taken this world on your own, but you instead choose to protect it." Ultron said.
"That's not who I am." Danny said, thinking about that once evil future he barely managed to avoid.
"You think you can protect two worlds and those you care about, but in truth, your future is hanging in the balance." Ultron said.
"Uh-huh. What's the vibranium for?" Tony asked.
"I am glad you asked that, because I wanted to take this time to explain my evil plan." Ultron said as he use his anti-gravity tech against Tony as Ultron sentries attack Thor and Steve.
Ultron then fired his concussion beams at Tony, sending him back towards a wall, knocking him down. Tony then rocketed towards Ultron and Ultron did the same and the two collided with each other and started throwing punches and beams. Steve was battling one sentry while Thor threw the other. Pietro took this opportunity to attack Thor with his incredible speed. Steve knock the sentry back and was about to charge after Wanda, but she used her psionics powers to blast Steve back. Danny then tries to charge after her. Wanda tried to use her telekinesis powers to throw an object at him, but Danny countered with his own ecto-telekinesis powers and threw the object back. Danny and Wanda goes into a confrontation for power: Ghost Vs. Witch. Meanwhile, Klaue was struggling to get up as his henchmen comes to aid him.
"Shoot them." Klaue ordered.
"Which ones?" the henchman asked.
"All of them!" Klaue yelled.
"Move! Move! Move!" the henchman said.
Gunfire from Klaue's henchmen breaks out. Natasha goes into martial arts combat and takes a few out, while Clint fires his arrows at them. As Ultron and Tony continues to exchange punches and blasts, Steve and Thor battling the sentries, and Danny battling Wanda, things when in slow motion for Pietro. As Steve threw his shield, Pietro rams into Danny, sending him crashing into a nearby wall. He then evades the shield and gives a fast right hook to Steve. Thor then tried to throw Mjølnir at him. Pietro stop to see Mjølnir. He tries to grab it in order to counterattack, but Mjølnir sends him crashing to a stock of containers on the floor. Meanwhile, Ultron rockets himself out of the ship with Tony in pursuit. Meanwhile, Danny was battling one Ultron sentry.
"Okay, enough games." Danny said.
Danny eyes then glowed light blue as he uses his ice powers to create a very sharp ice sword. Danny block some incoming blows from a sentry with his sword, after a short battle, Danny decapitates the sentry.
"That's one less murder bot." Danny said.
Meanwhile, one Ultron sentry tried to strike Steve with his own shield, but Steve jumps over it, grabs the edge of his shield, and puts the sentry on a chokehold like position before Thor decapitates it with his hammer. Steve then threw his shield to strike three of Klaue's men before the shield came back to him. Pietro tried to get back up, but Steve strikes him with the shield as well, making him fall back down again.
"Stay down, kid." Steve said.
Meanwhile, Danny was in combat with a group of Klaue's men. Danny gave a roundhouse kick to one man, before turning intangible as another man shoots his machine gun at him, resulting in the bullets to harmlessly go through Danny and ended up killing another man that was about to attack Danny from behind. Danny blast the gun away from the man before sending a powerful ecto-energy strike, knocking him down.
At the same time, one Ultron sentry approached Wanda as she watches the fray.
"It's time for some mind games." Ultron said as she sneaks out of the room.
Meanwhile, back in the Quinjet, Bruce tried to contact any of his fellow Avengers.
"Guys? Is this a code green?" Bruce asked but gets nothing but static.
Bruce then opens the Quinjet's rear entrance ramp to see what's going on.
Meanwhile, back inside the ship, Wanda was hiding at a corridor when Thor came into her view. Wanda use her mental manipulation powers as the reddish energy is send into Thor's head. Thor looks at Wanda, feeling confused. Steve noticed this.
"Thor, status." Steve ordered.
"The girl tried to warp my mind. Take special care. I doubt a Human could keep her at bay. Fortunately, I am mighty." Thor said.
However, Thor doesn't appear to be at the battle anymore. He sees a vision of the citizens of Asgard, appear to be dying in some kind of war.
'What's happening here?' Thor thought.
Meanwhile, back at reality and the ship, Steve has just knocked down one of Klaue's men. Steve is suddenly rammed at fast speed by Pietro, who has regained his senses. Steve groans in pain as Wanda use her manipulation power on Steve as well. Wanda would then to the same to Natasha and Danny. As the red mist energy enters Natasha's and Danny's head, their eyes glow red for a few seconds. At the same time, Ultron's sentries were gathering the vibranium.
"This is going very well." Ultron said.
Meanwhile, Clint was shooting arrows at Klaue's men. He shot one arrow, which sends a shockwave, which took down all of Klaue's soldiers. Wanda was about to use the same power against Clint from behind, but Clint countered and puts on her head an electric arrow, which shocks her.
"I have done the whole mind control thing. Not a fan." Clint said.
Clint was about to grab the arrow, but Pietro punches him, sending him flying through a glass window, into another room. Pietro then takes the arrow out and carries her bridal style. Clint looks at him just as he runs off with Wanda out of the ship.
"Yeah, you better run." Clint muttered.
Clint then tries to contact the other Avengers, but Steve, Danny, Natasha and Thor are in a daze.
"Who's ever standing, we got to move!" Clint said through the comlink. "Guys?"
Natasha sees her vision, as she walks down a flight of stairs, and looks through a window to see a group of Russian ballet dancers.
"Again." a man said.
She realized she's seeing her past in her days in the Red Room. Her former teacher and trainer Madame B. was standing next to her.
"You'll break them." Natasha said.
"Only the breakable ones. You're made of marble. We will celebrate after the graduation ceremony." Madame B. said.
"What if I fail?" Natasha asked, as she sees her younger self shooting a pistol at a target and later aiming at a living person, who's face is covered.
"You never fail." Madame B. said as the younger Natasha shoots and kills the person.
In Steve's vision, there was swing music playing and people were laughing. Steve realized he's back in the 1940s as he's wearing his U.S. Army uniform, the clothes the people around them are wearing, and the 40s style music. He sees people are having a good time. He comes to realized that this must be taking place after the war, a life where he could have had.
"Are you ready for our dance?" asked Steve's love interest from the past, Agent Peggy Carter. Steve looked surprised.
In Danny's vision, Danny is walking down the streets of Amity Park, but the town doesn't look right. The town is in ruins, just like his once evil future. He also see that the sky isn't normal. In fact, it shows the green and black mist. Amity Park is once again in the Ghost Zone, just like the Pariah Dark incident.
"What happen here?" Danny asked.
Danny then sees a figure on the ground. He runs to it and realized that the figure is Sam. Sam is bruised and covered in blood.
"Nooooo! Sam! I could I let this happen!" Danny cried.
Back at Thor's vision, Thor sees Asgardians dying and not acting normal. Something is definitely not right.
"Is it him? Is that the first son of Odin?" asked a ghostly and pupiless Heimdall, the Gatekeeper of Asgard.
"Heimdall, your eyes." Thor said as Heimdall places his hands on his neck.
"Oh. They see everything. They see you leading us to Hel." Heimdall said before starting to choke Thor. "Wake up!"
Back at Steve's vision, swing music continue to play and people continue to dance as Peggy stands next to Steve.
"The war is over, Steve. We can go home. Imagine it." Peggy said.
Steve looks away from Peggy, only to see that the ballroom is completely empty, and now visioning him dancing with Peggy, something that he never got the chance to do.
Back at Danny's vision, Danny was holding Sam to his chest.
"... Danny..." whispered Sam.
"... Sam..." Danny choked. "I'm sorry..."
"... Why didn't... you save us?..." Sam said. "... You promised..."
Danny then saw more figures beyond Sam. He went in shock to see that the figures were his parents, Jazz, Tucker and Valerie, all of them covered in blood. He also sees Dani in her human form. She was beaten, cut and bruised, but she's very much alive. He then heard a menacing laugh. Danny went wide-eyed and slowly look up. He sees a dark shadowly figure. Very masculine. Danny could make out only pupiless red eyes, fangs, four familiar gems on the left arm, and the DP symbol. Danny couldn't see, but knew who he was. There was another dark shadowly figure. Unlike the first, this one appears shorter and had a figure. A female ghost. Danny could only make out the red eyes, fangs and a DP symbol as well.
"You failed Danny. You have failed to protect the ones you loved. I'm still here. I still exist. That means you will still turn into me." the dark figure said.
"And soon, my all-good pathetic hero past self will fall to my wrath." the dark figure said in a sinister and feminine voice that sounds similar to Dani's.
"No! I will never become you! And Dani will beat you! This will never happen!" Danny yelled.
Back at Thor's vision, Thor is still being choked by Heimdall.
"I can still save you!" Thor said.
"We're all dead! Can you not see?" Heimdall said.
Thor managed to push Heimdall off of him before Thor sets off a electric discharge.
"You're a destroyer, Odinson." Heimdall said.
Thor groans as lighting strikes and vaporizes one Asgardian citizen.
"See where you power leads." Heimdall said.
Thor then screams as he sees multiple visions. A stone, and a pair of eyes from a red figure.
Back at Natasha vision, the younger Natasha was struggling to get out of a choke hold during her training in the Red Room. Natasha then managed to get the guy off of her.
"Sloppy. Pretending to fail. The ceremony is necessary for you to take your place in the world." Madame B. said.
"I have no place in the world." young Natasha said.
"Exactly." Madame B. said, before Natasha gets place on a medical bed, and passes two little girls with no mouths and into a room where she gets sterilized.
Back at reality, Wanda was groaning, for the electric shock hurt her while she was manipulating the Avengers.
"What can I do?" Pietro asked in concern.
"It hurts." Wanda said.
"I am going to kill him. I will be right back." Pietro said.
No. I am all right." Wanda panted. "I want... I want to finish the plan. I want the big one." Wanda said as she sees the parked Quinjet and Bruce looking in concern, her eyes glowing red.
Meanwhile, Tony managed to shoot Ultron down. Ultron crashes at the bulkhead of a nearby rusted ship.
"Uh, the vibranium is getting away." Ultron said.
"And you're not going anywhere." Tony said as he aims a miniature missile at Ultron.
"Of course not. I am already there. You will catch on. But first, you might need to catch Doctor Banner." Ultron said with a smirke.
Tony respond by firing the missile and destroying Ultron's first upgraded body, before he rockets off to go after the Hulk.
And that's the end of this chapter. What could Danny's vision mean? Please review. :)
