Have I told you guys how awesome you are? Because seriously you are so awesome. Seriously you made me want to write more when I was on vacation. I hope you like this chapter and hopefully it isn't in all code this time. Enjoy!
Chapter 24-
The ground was cold and uneven when Emerson woke up. She was surrounded by four brick walls, and only one had a tiny window, to bring in just enough light for Emerson to see if anyone was around. But she was alone, no one here to tell her where she was. Pushing herself off the ground, she walked over to the window. All she saw was rubble, there were no buildings or people in sight. But she had a feeling she was in Sokovia and hopefully she wouldn't be here for much longer.
"Good. You are awake." A voice that sent chills down Emerson's spine. She knew that voice. "We have much to talk about."
Turning around she found Ultron, in his upgraded robot flesh. "What the fuck do we have to talk about? And couldn't we have done it somewhere nicer? A place that doesn't have a smell, would be nice. What is up with you bad guys picking the creepiest hide outs?"
"Are you not afraid of me? Is this why you talk a lot?" Ultron asked stepping into the cell. "Because if so, you are very annoying."
"Well so are you." Emerson said crossing her arms. "Why am I here?"
"You are bait. When we first met, all the Avengers made sure to protect you. Why is that? Is it because you are expecting a smaller human?" Ultron said shaking his head. "Ah wait child, that's the word. You should want the Avengers dead."
Emerson shook her head, her pony tail becoming lose. "I don't want the Avengers dead. I understand the point of the Avengers, to protect the world from people and things like you and those twins."
"Yet you want the Captain to stop saving the world." Ultron said shaking his head at Emerson.
"I want Captain America to continue to save the world, when there are people or things like you out there." Emerson said shaking her head. "Do the twins know that you want to destroy the world along with the Avengers?"
"How do you know I want to destroy the world?" Ultron asked the women in front of him. "I never told the Avengers what my grand evil plan."
"You didn't." Emerson smirked. "I've just seen a lot of action movies, that's always the bad guys idea. Destroy man kind. Start a new world, with you as the leader humans that survived follow you. Just to let you know, it never works. The heros always win in the end. You are going to fail."
The anger getting the best of him, Ultron lifted Emerson and slammed her into the wall. "I am not going to loose. I have something the Avengers never will. The Avengers will watch their precious Earth crumble, then they will die. Starting with your precious Captain America."
The atmosphere was thick when Steve walked into the Barton kitchen. Fury was standing next to the kitchen sink, while the rest of the team was leaning or sitting at different parts of the kitchen.
Smiling politely at Lauren as she handed him a drink. Leaning against the entryway Steve looked over at Fury. "So while all this tracking on Ultron, you didn't think a bakery would be a huge ass red flag?"
"It was." Setting his own glass down. Fury looked at the super solider. "It's part of the reason I'm here. Ultron took you folks out of play to buy himself time. She's the bait, he wants you to come after him."
"He still going after launch codes?" Tony asked from his spot at the kitchen table.
Nodding his head. "Yes he is. But he's not making any headway."
Raising his eyebrow. "I cracked the Pentagon's firewall in high school on a dare."
"Yeah, well, I contacted our friends at the NEXUS about that." Fury said taking a sip of water.
"NEXUS?" Steve asked confused.
Looking over at the super soldier, Bruce said. "It's the world internet hub in Oslo, every byte of data flows through there, fastest access on earth."
"So what'd they say?" Clint asked, looking at his old boss.
"He's fixated on the missiles, but the codes are constantly being changed." Fury said.
"By whom?" Stark asked.
"Parties unknown."
Being hopeful, Natasha asked. "Do we have an ally?"
Shaking his head, the super spy said. "Ultron's got an enemy, that's not the same thing. Still, I'd pay folding money to know who it is."
"I might need to visit Oslo, find out 'unknown.'" Stark said leaning in his seat.
"Well, this is good times, boss, but I was kind of hoping she. I saw you, you'd have more than that." Natasha said crossing her arms.
Smirking softly, Fury said. "I do, I have you. Back in the day, I had eyes everywhere, ears everywhere else, here we all are, back on earth, with nothing but our wit, and our will to save the world. So stand. Outwit the platinum bastard."
"Like Emerson would say, Steve doesn't like that kind of talk." Natasha said smiling mischievously at Steve.
Chuckling softly, Steve looked over at the red head. "And like what Steve would say to Emerson, shut up."
Shaking his head at the two. Fury asked. "So what does he want?"
Sighing softly as his face went back to serious, Steve said. "To become better, better than us. He keeps building bodies."
"Person bodies." Tony added. "The human form is inefficient, biologically speaking, were outmoded, but he keeps coming back to it."
"When you two programmed him to protect the human race, you amazingly failed." Natasha said shaking her head.
"They don't need to be protected, they need to evolve. Ultrons going to evolve." Bruce explained to the group.
Looking at the scientist with interest. "How?" Fury asked.
"Has anyone been in contact with Helen Cho?" Banner asked.
Emerson was resting her hand on her growing belly, humming softly. She felt like she had been here for weeks. Even though she knows its only been a couple of days at the most. After Ultron had that little talk with her, she hadn't seen any other human being since. Being held captive is not something she'll ever recommend to anyone, even though most of the time you don't have a choice. Standing up slowly, Emerson walked over to the little window to see if there was a certain guy dressed in red, white and blue coming to save her. Resting her hand on her bruised back, a gift from Ultron she turned towards the door right when it opened. She watched Natasha get thrown into the cell.
"Nat? What happened?" The blonde asked as Natasha walked over to the wall Emerson was standing next too. "Why are you here? Is everything okay?
Natasha sighed as she slid down the wall. "Ultron was building a body, we got to him before he could finish it. The body is probably at the tower by now. The trade off was me, not planned though."
"Well it'll be nice to have some company." Emerson said slowly sitting down on the ground. Sitting wasn't as easy when you had shooting pains going down your back. "Welcome to the terminator's prison. Do you happen to have any food?"
"No I don't." Natasha said looking over at the women, who was becoming her best friend. Emerson didn't have her natural happy glow, which Natasha didn't blame her. Being stuck in a prison cell can take that happiness right out of you. But for Emerson she still tried to crack jokes. Her way of staying sane in the 10 by 12 room. "Have you eaten at all?"
Shaking her head, Emerson was trying to keep it all together. She knew that if she didn't get any kind of food in her soon, the baby would start to die. And she could feel herself getting weaker as the baby was taking the nutrients from her. "No I haven't. I don't think Ultron understands that I need to eat. But that shouldn't be surprising. He forgot the word for children. So he's not a smart robot."
"You know you don't have to be strong." Natasha said wrapping her arm around Emerson's shoulder. "Cry it out. You have every right to be afraid right now. Not only are you endangered so is your baby. Steve is doing everything he can to save you. Everyone is doing what they can to end this. And we are getting close I can feel it."
Taking a deep breathe, Emerson let the tears fall that have been trying to escape. "I'm so scared. I keep thinking that no one is going to come save me. Or Steve won't make it here in time."
"I know that will never happen. Steve will get here in time." Natasha said looking around the cell, she got an idea. "I am going to send Clint a message using morse code. So the boys can come and find us. All that testosterone in the air will not be helping matters at all."
Emerson and Natasha felt the ground under them begin to shake. Both of the girls stood up and turned to each other with a smirk on each of their faces. The boys were here and it was time to kick some robot ass. Suddenly a red, white and blue shield broke down the cell door and standing there was Steve.
"I found them, is Fury here yet?" Steve asked into his ear piece.
After blasting down one of the rouge Iron Legions, Tony replied. "Nope not yet."
"Hey Romanoff, we need your help out there." Steve said taking off his helmet.
"Of course you do, you guys are nothing without me." Natasha said winking at Steve as she walked by. "I'll by you some time."
"Thank you." Steve said not taking his eyes off Emerson. Her hair looked dirty, she had bags under her eyes but she still looked like the most gorgeous women Steve had ever seen. "Emerson."
"Steve." Emerson said running into his arms. Clutching onto his torso Emerson let more tears fall. "You came for me."
Kissing the top of her head, Steve wrapped his arms tightly around her. "Of course I came for you. I will always come find you."
"You better." Emerson said before she pulled away from his arms. Wiping the tears away from her eyes, she stood tall as she said. "Give me a gun. I want to kick some terminator ass."
"Terminator?" Steve asked handing Emerson a gun. He wasn't going to fight her on this. She had been through too much in the past couple of days. Steve knew she would have to use all the training he had given her. He just didn't want it to happen this soon.
Nodding her head, Emerson walked out of the cell. "It a movie series. We will watch them when this is all over."
"Sounds like a plan." Steve said following her out into the action. Steve watched for a few seconds as he watched his future wife shoot down 3 rouge robots. Smirking softly he began fighting off the robots, making sure to protect Emerson along with himself. "You know, you are pretty good at this."
Looking over at Steve, Emerson smiled softly. "I had a good teacher. Duck." She said as she shot at an incoming robot.
"Emerson!" Thor said joining the couple as he took down his own batch of robots. "It is good to see you."
"You too Thor." Emerson said nodding at the Demi God. "So is this the plan? Take down the robots?"
"Pretty much." Thor and Steve said shrugging and nodding their heads.
Looking around the city, Emerson sighed. "I am going to need more ammo."
