It's the final chapter. This is the last Avengers centric chapter of this story. Please enjoy and I own nothing. Please look at my Polyvore link for any of Hermione's outfits mentioned in this chapter. Link found in my Profile.
HPOV
Since I came back from the battle at Hogwarts, I haven't done much. I went to DC to see Steve to talk to him about life after the war. I can't talk to dad about it because I don't think he's really wrapped his head around the fact that I was in a big fight without him being there or anyone having real knowledge of it. I explained that I had to have no contact to prevent him being targeted by wizards because maybe the other guy couldn't protect him from spells i.e. the killing curse.
It took me weeks to convince dad to let me go and see Steve and he said that I could go in Tony's private jet, which Uncle T kindly let me do. He knew slightly about it more than dad, because after the battle in New York he had developed PTSD and he said that I could also have it if I went through something severe like he did.
No one knows that I was tortured by a mental witch that belonged in an asylum, but seeing as she was killed I decided not to bring it up. I talked to Steve about the war and the after effects and then he brought me to a talk that the guy that he ran with hosted about getting back into normal life after being in the battlefield. Obviously I couldn't say about what happened in front of a group of muggles but Steve and I stood in the back and listened to the stories. I was also brought into the fight at the Triskelion and brought up to speed about the Winter Soldier who just happened to be Steve's 'dead' best friend, James Buchanan Barnes.
Of course dad heard of this and demanded me home immediately AKA the Avengers tower. When I got back dad told me that I would not be leaving the tower unless it was very important. He grounded me basically. Although, Thor came back to the tower a couple of months later and informed everyone that Loki's sceptre had been taken by Hydra after Natasha leaked everything onto the internet and that we needed to get it back before anything was done with it.
And this is where the story truly begins.
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Sokovian Forest, Sokovia
We were in Sokovian forest, taking out the defence that Hydra had sent out to protect their hideout. This was the sixth Hydra hideout we had raided looking for the sceptre. It also was the coldest we had gone to, the whole forest covered in mostly snow and ice. I was fighting people left and right, firing spells and jinxes at unsuspecting victims making my way closer to the hideout.
Dad was rampaging around and the others were pulling their weight and taking out as many Hydra operatives as I was. Tony had flew ahead of us to have a closer look at the hideout and told us through the comms that it had a force field on the building, Thor came to the conclusion that this was the hideout with the sceptre and Tony began working on dismantling the force field.
I was fighting an operative, and had just knocked him out when a blur of grey and blue ran past me making me jump and my fighting instincts from the war kicked in. I had my wand out and looked around me in a circle. I could see dad smashing in the distance, Natasha and Clint tag teaming a group of operatives, Steve taking on two at once as was Thor and then I felt my wand leave me hand and I immediately looked at my wand hand and straight in front of me to see a tall, grey haired man with my wand in his hand.
"Why are you fighting with a stick?" He questioned, looking at my wand and then to me and I held my wand out and did some non-verbal and wandless magic to get my wand off him (I just used accio) and it landed back in my hand.
"Does that answer your question?" I asked him and prepared to fire a full body-bind curse at him but right when I performed it the bastard, ran away, literally in a blur of grey and blue. It was then that I could smell the scent that followed him; fresh snow, dirt and cinnamon. He was the person that I smelt from the love potion.
"Clint's down, I need evac stat." I heard Natasha through the comms, which made me jump out of my thoughts and listen to what was happening whilst my interaction with the grey man happened.
"I will come now." Thor said.
"Herms, I think it's time for a lullaby." Tony said through the comms.
"Doing it now." I replied and made my way over to the hulk. I trekked over, and put my hands into the air meaning that I meant no harm. The hulk knew who I was and put out his left hand to me, I place my right hand into it and trailed it from his wrist to the tips of his fingers.
"Hey big guy, the suns setting real low. Time to change." I said and then pulled my hand away from the hulks and he began stumbling away and changed back into dad. I took the tissue that I carried around with and transfigured it into a blanket and came up behind dad and wrapped it over his shoulders.
"Thank-you." He said and pulled me into a hug.
"No problem dad." I said and he kissed the top of my head and put his arm around me and we walked to the quinjet and got onto it.
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Avengers Tower, New York
Tony decided to throw a party a few days after we got the sceptre to celebrate finally getting it back and to celebrate my birthday. The first birthday I have celebrated with my dad since I turned 10 years old and my first with the team.
Since we got back from Sokovia with the sceptre; Dad and Tony have been holed up in the lab with it doing something with it. Something that made me become locked out of the labs by Tony even though I had access before, every time I punched my code in JARVIS kept saying 'Hermione Banner, Access Denied' and when I gave the override, I got denied again by Tony so clearly they didn't want anyone in on what they were up to 24/7 in the damn labs. But they were finished when it was the day of the party.
I got into my dress that Tony got me for my birthday and I wore the bracelet that my dad bought for my 18th but because I was on the run I wasn't able to receive it, so I got it as a present for this year. I put my hair up in a nice up-do and put on make-up. My dad has never seen me dressed like this really before, I did go to parties with him when I was younger but it was all age appropriate and I was like 7. I'm an adult in everyone's eyes so I dressed accordingly. I slipped into my heels and did one last check on my dress, hair and makeup and made my way from my room to go and join the party. I spent a good while getting ready and Tony said me that he told everyone to be at the tower by 7.30pm and it was currently 8.15pm and Tony told me to come down later.
I walked out of the elevator and into the party that was being held in the family room/living room area. I looked around and spotted Sam and Steve over at the pool table, surrounded by war veterans that must have known Steve in WWII. I then looked over to the sofas to see Rhodey tell his story of the time he did a solo mission in his war machine suit. Tony and Thor were drinking near the bar and Dad chatting to Natasha at the bar where she was serving.
I made my way over to Dad and sat on the barstool next to him. "Can I have a-" I started looking at all the bottles on the shelves behind Natasha, "shot of tequila, lime and salt?" I asked her.
"I.D.?" She asked jokingly.
"She'll have a root beer." Dad told Natasha.
"You take all the fun out of things. If we were in Britain, I would be served because I'm over the age of 18." I fake whined at him.
"But we aren't." He reminded me. "You look very nice by the way." He said looking at my dress.
"Oh this old thing?" I pinched a bit of the fabric and pulled it away from my body, "Tony got it for me as a present. It's the same make as the dress I wore to my Yule Ball." I said to him, "goes very well with this bracelet." I said shaking my wrist.
"Wonder who bought you that?" He looked off into the distance.
"Thank-you daddy." I said and gave him a hug.
"I see the birthday girl has finally made an appearance." Tony's voice said behind us.
"You told me to come after 7.30 and I did." I told him.
"Calm down sassy." He said and leaned over the bar to pull out a bottle of whiskey and pour it into his glass and put it away again.
"You both enjoying yourselves?" Tony asked us.
"Yes, even though the only thing I have done since I walked in is sat here." I told him.
"Well this is your party, go mingle." He said and pulled me off the chair and pushed me into the party.
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It was later and the party was over and done with. Everyone that lives in the tower were sitting on the sofas, Clint was twirling a drumstick between his fingers when he started to talk smack about Thor being the only one to be able to lift the hammer, claiming to be a trick and then Thor challenged him to lift it and he accepted. He couldn't lift it a bit, Tony had a go and employed Rhodey to help him with the gloves from their suits on trying to lift it but it wouldn't move either. Steve went and it moved a millimetre. Dad had a go and didn't shift it in the slightest but he pulled away and roared pretending to go Hulk, but looked very lame. Natasha said that she didn't want a go and Hill denied ago with it as well, leaving just me. I kicked my heels off, got up and stood in front of the hammer and placed my two hands on it. I pulled and it lifted off the table. I can lift the hammer. I looked at Thor who previously looked very smug but now looked astonished.
"I still call it a trick." Clint said still playing with his drumstick.
"It is not a trick, the rest of you are just not worthy." Thor said and I placed the hammer carefully back onto the table.
"Worthy?" I computerised voice said coming from the lift, I walked over to where I had placed my clutch and swiftly took out my wand, "How could any of you be worthy? You're all killers" it continued and a broken robot from Tony's robot security league thing came into view.
"JARVIS?" Tony called out to try and get this under control.
"I'm sorry, I was asleep…or I was a – dream." The robot responded holding the hands to its head.
"Reboot Legionnaire OS. We got a buggy suit." Tony called out, trying to get JARVIS to control the situation.
"There was this terrible noise." The robot continued on as if Tony said nothing, "And I was tangled in…in…strings. I had to kill the other guy, he was a good guy." The robot admitted.
"You killed someone?" Steve asked the robot.
"Wouldn't have been my first call." The robot said sincerely, then continued with "But, down in the real world we're faced with ugly choices."
"Who sent you?" Thor questioned the robot. Then a recording of Tony's voice played saying 'I see a suit of armour around the world' making everyone in the room turn to look at the man.
"Ultron!" Dad exclaimed, looking wide eyed at the robot, now known as Ultron.
"In the flesh. Well no, not yet. Not in this…chrysalis. But I'm ready. I'm on a mission." Ultron told us all.
"What mission?" I asked the robot.
"Peace of our time." He said and then the other Iron Legion robots flew through the walls and a fight broke out. I fired spells to try and make their electric energy malfunction and stop working. Steve was fighting with his shield and fists, people were shooting, Tony was in a suit. It was chaos.
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Salvage Yard, African Coast
I was hiding in an alcove behind Tony, Thor and Steve. I cast a quietening charm on myself so that no-one would know I'm standing here. I also had my occlumency walls up after hearing Maria say about the female enhanced having mental manipulation. Natasha and Clint were off hiding somewhere in the warehouse and everyone had comms in.
Tony, Thor and Steve talked to Ultron to try and sway him from his plan of destruction and also to the twins. But that didn't work and all hell broke loose and Iron Legion robots began flying about, attacking Tony, Thor and Steve. Then Ultron and the twins joined in as did Ulysses Klaue and his men. Natasha and Clint left their hiding spot and joined in the fight. I cast a disillusionment charm on myself and began firing spells to malfunction the robots and knockout charms at the human guards that Klaue had.
I watched out for Pietro, seeing as he moved at the speed of light and could run straight into me because of my charm. I saw Ultron move over to Wanda and say something to her and walk away. I heard dads voice over the comms saying "Guys is this a code green?" and then I seen Wanda walk straight up to Thor with her hands out while red mist appeared from them and straight to Thor's temples. Thor walked away and Steve asked for a status update to which Thor said that Wanda tried to manipulate his mind, which a human being couldn't stop her but fortunately he was mighty.
She took on Steve and Natasha and that was when I took my charm off. "Finally revealing yourself?" An accented voice said behind me. I spun around to see Pietro behind me.
"Your sister is manipulating my friend's minds, I'm trying to prevent that." I told him.
"You are friends with those killers?" Pietro asked disgusted.
"Yes I am. Now if you will excuse me." I said bluntly to him and started walking away. He blurred in front of me.
"I cannot let you do that." He said, crossing his arms in front of himself.
"I need to go and help my friends." I side stepped him and walked on and he blurred in front again.
"You're on your way to hurt my sister and I cannot allow that." He angrily said.
"I am not the bad guy here. I was just going to knock her out, she would wake up in a few hours and by that time we would be gone." I told him and walked away from him, smelling the scent from the love potion again. I went down a set of steps and found Natasha and helped her up and then found Steve who helped me carry Natasha out of the scrap yard.
We walked out to see the twins out near the quinjet. I could see Wanda doing the same hand movements that she did to Thor. The only person on the quinjet was…Dad. "NO!" I started shouting and took Natasha off my shoulder and over to Steve to carry and disapparated to the quinjet. But I was too late, Wanda had finished and made dad walk out and straight past me into the clearing a bit and then he transformed into the hulk and went on a rampage.
"Do you realise what you just did?" I hissed at the pair.
"Yes, I did what I had to do." Wanda said scathingly to me, smirking and crossing her arms.
"You just forced my dad to go into the other guy and go on a rampage on a small city. Do you realise you are making yourself into exactly what you said they were?!" I practically shouted at them.
"It is your own fault." Wanda said with a straight face.
"My dad is all I have left you stupid girl, and the only one at fault is you for taking orders from a damn robot!" I shouted at her.
"Hermione, you need to go and lullaby." I heard Tony say through the comms.
"I'm on my way just sorting out something first." I said back.
"You both need to get out of my face before I do something I regret." I hissed to the pair. I saw Pietro lift Wanda into his arms.
"I am sorry." He said, sincerely to me and then he ran off. I quickly disapparated to the outskirts of the city and made my way to where Tony and the Hulk were and performed the lullaby.
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After our trip to Africa, Clint took us to a safe house AKA his house. No one knows of it except for Natasha and I. Tony was confused with the whole set up, thinking that Laura and the kids were all agents and when Cooper and Lila came running to Natasha calling her Aunt Nat and then over to me calling me Mione, it made him even more confused.
Thor didn't stay long, saying that he had things to sort out up in Asgard. I helped Laura around the house when we stayed there, talking about what had happened since I had seen her last. I told her about Pietro and about the love potion scents that he matched. He is nice looking and apologised about letting his twin send my dad out of the quinjet.
Speaking of dad, I've noticed that he and Natasha are getting closer and closer. I walked past an open door the other day to see them kiss each other. I don't mind their relationship; in fact I'm happy to see Dad with someone after so many years of it just being the pair of us.
Fury showed up at the Barton's to talk about the Ultron problem and about putting a stop to him. Tony talked about NEXUS and Dad asked about Helen Cho. Steve said that he would take; Natasha, Clint and I with him to Ultron, Tony was going to NEXUS and Fury was going to drop Dad off at the tower and talk to Maria Hill when he was there.
Once we moved away from kitchen Dad pulled me over and asked if I was okay with going up against the sadistic robot and the wonder twins. I was ready to do whatever I could to prevent the world being taken over by the damn robot and stop all of this.
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U-GIN Genetic Research Facility, Seoul
"Hermione, I want you to go in there get Cho out. Take out anyone that attacks." Steve commanded me on the quinjet that Clint was flying.
"On it Cap." I said and disapparated from the quinjet to the front of the facility and made my way in. I seen a few of the workers inside the facility with the glowing blue eyes that are the by-product of being mind controlled by Loki's sceptre. They tried to stop me from going through the facility but I just knocked them out. I made my way up through the facility and walked into a room that looked as if a wind storm had went on inside it. I found Cho on the ground but resting against a wall.
"Dr. Cho!" I called out to her and made my way over to her. She had a cut on her cheek that was bleeding down her face.
"Mysteria, he's loading himself into the body." Cho told me looking out of her wits.
"Where?" I asked her.
"The real power is inside the Cradle. The gem, its power is uncontainable. You can't just blow it up. You have to get the Cradle to Stark." Cho explained to me, holding onto my arm so that I would listen to her.
"First we have to find it." I said to her looking over to the windows in the room.
"Go." Cho said to me letting go of my arm and pushing me away.
I pressed my finger to my ear, "Did you guys get that?" I said through the comms and made my way back out of the facility.
"We did." Steve answered.
"I got a private jet taking off, across town, no manifest. That could be him." Natasha said over the comms.
"There. It's the truck from the lab." Clint said in the comms, "it's right above you, Mione. On the loop by the bridge. It's them. I got three with the Cradle, one in the cab. I could take out the driver from up here Cap." Clint continued saying, I disapparated closer to the road and made my way to the truck.
"Negative! If that truck crashes, the gem could level the city. We need to draw out Ultron." Steve said to Clint and then I watched as he jumped from the quinjet down to the truck.
I got to the truck just as Ultron just blasted the doors off the back of it. "Well he's definitely unhappy!" I said to Steve when I got onto the roof of the truck while Steve was dangling onto the back of the truck.
"And I'm gonna try and keep him that way." Steve said.
"You're not a match for him Cap!" Natasha said through the comms.
"Thanks Romanoff." Steve replied.
Steve and I started fighting Ultron on the roof of the truck, and Nat threw up Steve's shield to him when Ultron knocked it from his hands. The fight moved onto a moving train and Natasha went after the Cradle still in the truck.
While Steve and I were fighting Ultron the wonder twins came in and helped Steve and I fight Ultron, obviosity they had seen the error of their ways and left the cerebral robot. Natasha got the Cradle off the truck and onto the quinjet whilst we were fighting Ultron who fled not that long after the twins made their appearance.
The train was still moving even though we had run out of tracks and went past final stop on its route. Steve commanded Pietro to go and get the civilians out of the way of the train and for Wanda and I to try and stop the train. Pietro blurred out of the train whilst Wanda used her magic to stop the train and I used a charm similar to the one I used to disarm the robots at Tony's party.
Once the train was stopped we got out and met up with Pietro who was panting and hunched over, collecting his breath. "I'm fine. I just need to take a minute." Pietro managed to get out.
"I'm tempted not to give you one." Steve said crossing his arms over his chest and Pietro stood up straight.
"The Cradle, did you get it?" Wanda asked the pair of us.
"Tony's gonna take care of it." I told her, crossing my arms like Steve did.
"No, he won't." Wanda said, sounded pissed off.
"You don't know what you're talking about, my Uncle is not crazy." I almost shouted at the girl.
"You are related to Stark?" Pietro asked, confused and angry.
"He's an honouree one. You know I shouldn't have to explain myself now. Stark is going to handle the Cradle." I told them exasperated.
"Ultron cannot tell the difference between saving the world and destroying it. Where do you think he gets that?" Wanda said, making a valid point. Tony did have a hand in making the killer bot, so obviously some of his personality must have rubbed off onto the robot.
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Avengers Tower, New York
Clint got back to the tower before us, and we brought the twins with us. We brought the twins to help us to take Ultron down. Wanda apologised about the mind control she did on Steve and on my dad. I told her it was fine. Pietro sat beside me on the flight and we exchanged a few words. He smelt exactly like the love potion from sixth year, it was very calming.
Once we got into the tower, we went up to the floor that Tony and Dad would be on with the Cradle. Pietro and Wanda looked around us as we walked through the tower in amazement. Once we walked into the lab, where the Cradle was hooked up to various wires. Dad and Tony were talking about finishing the work done inside of the Cradle.
"I'm gonna say this once." Steve began to say.
"How about 'nonce'?" Tony responded with a thinking look on his face.
"Shut it down!" Steve shouted at Tony.
"Nope, not going to happen." Tony said defiantly.
"You don't know what you're doing." Steve told the pair of them.
"And you do? She's not in your head?" Dad asked angrily, pointing at Wanda and looking me over.
"I know you're angry." Wanda began to say in a soft tone.
"Oh, we're past that. I could choke the life out of you and never change a shade." Dad threatened.
"Dad, after everything that's happened…" I said to dad trailing off the sentence, not knowing what to say.
"That's nothing compared to what's coming!" Tony exclaimed.
"You don't know what's in there!" Wanda shouted back to the pair.
"This isn't a game..." Steve said trying to calm everyone down.
"The creature -" Wanda started to say before she was cut off by her brother, after he had blurred around the room and pulled out various wires connected to the Cradle.
"No, no. Go on. You were saying?" Pietro said, holding some of the pipes and wires until there was the sound of a gun going off and Pietro fell through the floor.
"Pietro!" Wanda and I shouted after the boy.
"What? You didn't see that coming?" Clint questioned the boy, clearly having a bit of beef with him.
Dad wrapped his arms around Wanda and said, "Go ahead, piss me off." The Thor jumped into the room through a window and hits Mjolnir off the Cradle and sends thunder bolts into the Cradle, powering it up and casting a blinding light. "Wait!" Dad shouts out and then the Cradle bursts open and Thor is flown across the room and a body floats out of the Cradle and flies over the window and stares at its reflection.
"I'm sorry, that was…odd." The voice of the body said, sounding remarkably like JARVIS, he turned to Thor and said, "Thank you."
"Thor you helped create this?" Steve asked as the body looked at Thor and added a yellow cape to his ensemble.
"I've had a vision. A whirlpool that sucks in all hope of life and at its centre is that." Thor explains and points the yellow glowing gem in the middle of the body's head.
"What, the gem?" I asked Thor, crossing my arms over my chest.
"It's the mind stone." Thor explained, and then continued with, "It's one of the six Infinity Stones, the greatest power in the universe, unparalleled in its destructive capabilities."
"Then why would you bring it to…" Steve said confused and looked from Thor to Tony.
"Because Stark is right." Thor simplistically said.
"Oh, it's definitely the end times." Dad said dragging his hands over his face.
"The Avengers cannot defeat Ultron." Thor said looking at all of us in the room.
"Not alone." The floating body said
"Why does your "vision" sound a lot like JARVIS?" I asked the pair of scientists.
"We..." Tony began to say pointing to dad and himself, "we reconfigured JARVIS' matrix to create something new." Tony explained in its simplest form.
Vision was then interrogated by us, he claimed that he was not a child of Ultron and even though he had the voice of JARVIS he wasn't the AI either. Wanda said that she had seen annihilation when she looked into his head but he said that he was on the side of life. We found out that Ultron was waiting for Stark and that Ultron was in Sokovia and had Natasha there too. We also found that Vision could lift Thor's hammer.
Steve told us to be ready to leave in 3 minutes and for me to show the twins where they can get some gear. "You two are with me." I said to them and started walking off to the room that had spare clothes.
"You'll find what you need in here. They are labelled. Men's clothing on the left, Women's on the right. Choose something comfortable and flexible to move in, I know you both have been in a fight for your country but you haven't been in a real warzone. Prepare yourself physically and mentally. It's the only way you both are going to survive this." I explained to them in the changing room. I walked to where I kept my clothes and changed my shirt, because the one I was wearing was full of sweat and had a bit of blood on it.
"Thank-you for being kind to my brother and I, even after all we have done." Wanda said to me, carrying a red jacket to wear over her dress.
"It's nothing, you thought that Ultron was going to help you get your vengeance against Tony and didn't realise he was going to wipe all of human life in doing so. You're not the first person I've met that thought they were doing something right by their family but with the wrong people." I told her.
"So you have had this experience before?" Pietro asked, leaning against the locker, wearing a thermal blue top and a new pair of trainers.
"Yes I have, my best friend, Draco. His family had aligned themselves with a very dark wizard and he joined his cause, to prevent the dark wizard from killing his mother. In the end, Draco left the Death Eaters mid battle and fought on the light side." I explained to them.
"So you have fought something like this before?" Wanda asked next.
"Yes, this would be my third battle. I fought my first against Loki and the Chitauri and the second was against the dark side of the wizarding world." I told them.
"Mione, time to go." Clint said poking his head through the door.
"Okay, we're coming Clint. You both have everything?" I asked and they nodded their heads, "Okay, let's roll." And we walked out and followed Clint to the quinjet pad.
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Sokovia
I helped Wanda and Pietro clear the city from any civilians, until the country was lifted into the air and we could not help evacuate anymore people, so we directed them into buildings to prevent them from being hurt during the fight with Ultron.
Dad went to get Natasha from where Ultron was keeping her. He told me that he wanted to get away for a while we were on the quinjet over. He asked if I would like to join him, but I went onto explain that I need to stay in one place for a while. I didn't want to move all over the country anymore, especially after finding Pietro. I still haven't told anyone about the love potion and that he's the one except for Laura because I tell her everything. Dad said that he was going to ask Natasha to go with him and that he was going to call me every day, which I was more than happy with.
Ultron's robots began to fly into the city and we began to avenge it. I fired spell after spell, disarming and disengaging them. Pietro literally ran threw them and Wanda used her magic to break the robots apart. We made our way through the robots and to where Tony and Vision were. We watched as Fury appeared with a Helicarrier and lifeboats to get people off the floating city.
"This is SHIELD?" Pietro asked looking at the lifeboats and the people making their way over to them.
"This is what SHIELD's supposed to be." Steve told the speed runner.
"This is not so bad." Pietro said astonished.
"Let's load 'em up." Steve said and went to help people onto the lifeboats.
We all began to help the people out of the buildings and onto the lifeboats, carrying children and being something for anyone injured to lean on. I disapparated a few of them to the helicarrier to get a lot on in the short space of time we had before the next round of Ultron bots came flying in.
Tony directed Rhodey to help the civilians and for the rest of us to come to him. Once everyone got there, Tony began to explain the drill and that Ultron was not allowed to even get a hand onto it. But of course, speak of the devil and he shall appear. Ultron flew to the opening of the church that the drill was in.
"Is that the best you can do?" Thor question the robot throwing his arms up in the arm, to which Ultron raised his arms and more of his robots appeared flying behind him in the dozens.
"You had to ask." Steve muttered, shaking his head.
"This is the best I can do. This is exactly what I wanted. All of you, against all of me. How could you possibly hope to stop me?" Ultron questioned us, with a smug tone in his voice.
"Well, like the old man said. Together." Tony said and that's when the real fight begun.
I shot spell after spell, disarming and dismantling the robots one after the other. Steve used his shield to slice through the robots, Wanda used her magic to break them apart, Clint used his arrows, Natasha had her batons and widow bites, Pietro ran through them, Dad smashed them to pieces, Vision and Tony were flying about fighting Ultron and the robots and Thor used Mjolnir to hit the robots and send shocks of thunder through their bodies. We did all of this to prevent even one robot from getting their hands on the drill to activate it.
Ultron was hit by dad and then any Ultron bots that were intact, retreated from the drill and Tony got Rhodey onto them if they tried to fly off the country. Steve told us to go onto the lifeboats because he could tell the air was getting thin, but someone had to stay with the drill. I was going to volunteer to do because I can easily disapparate if needed but Wanda said she would before I could get any words out. Pietro had a couple of words with her before he walked out of the church.
I walked up to Wanda and gave her a hug, "Please make it out of this." I said into her ear.
"I will, hopefully after this is over, we can be friends?" she asked me once I stepped out of the hug.
"Yes, I would like that." I said, pushing a piece of hair that fell into my eyes behind my ear.
"Also I know about Pietro and you." She said, and I widened my eyes.
"How? Have you told him?" I asked her.
"I found out when you were hiding in the scrapyard and I have not said a word to him. Please look out for him out there." Wanda said to me.
"Don't worry, I will." I told her and walked out of the church. Pietro had stood off to the side and walked over to once I walked out.
"Would you like a lift to the lifeboat?" He asked me.
"Yeah sure, if it's no trouble for you?" I asked him.
"You are never a trouble, Her-my-o-knee." He said, sounding out my name through his accent. He placed his arms underneath me and lifted me off my feet and ran to the lifeboat. He set me on one of the seats and sat down next to me. Clint and Natasha got to the lifeboats a couple of minutes after Pietro and I did. Natasha said about her going to do the lullaby, because she had done it with the hulk in practice and because I knew the plan I let her do it.
"Costel? We were in the market. Costel?!" A woman started shouting on the boat looking around the lifeboat. Clint ran over to the market that was directly across from the lifeboat and he crouched down and pulled a small boy out of the market. After he had got out and took about two steps, a quinjet flew above Sokovia, guns blazing meaning that Ultron was trying to take any stranglers out. Clint crouched down and pulled the boy as close as he could to himself and protected him with his body. Pietro got up to run over and move them out of the way and I cast a protection spell on him, Clint and Costel. Once the bullets hit, they bounced off the protection charm and flew back to hit the quinjet that Ultron was flying and it went off course and blew up.
I didn't realise that I have blood flowing down my nose from overexerting my magic. I watched as Pietro took Costel from Clint, ran him to the lifeboat and handed the boy to his distraught mother. Pietro was smiling and looked over to me and his smiling face transformed to one of concern. "'Mione are you okay? Your nose is bleeding." He said and took my face into his hands, checking me over.
"I'm fine Pietro. It's just from using a lot of magic at once." I told him and rubbed the blood away with my wrist.
"Thank-you Hermione for saving my ass out there." Clint said once he walked onto the lifeboat and pulled me into a hug.
"No problem Clint, didn't want Nathaniel to miss out on meeting his dad." I told the man, who released me from the hug.
Natasha came onto the lifeboat looking downcast. "Hermione, there's something I need to tell you." She said and pulled me over to one side.
"What is it Nat?" I asked her apprehensively.
"You're dad has went off the grid. He took one of the quinjets and flew off it and when I tried to do the lullaby with him on the jet he turned off the screen and hit the button that Stark had installed to go off the grid." Natasha told me, sorrowfully.
"But he said that he was going to bring you with him. He talked to me about us going away from all of this for a while but to be honest, I didn't want to go from one country to the next like I used to when I was younger." I explained to her.
"Are you sure there's not another reason?" Natasha asked me, looking past my shoulder in the direction of Pietro, making me turn around and see that he was talking to a medic about any injuries.
"Is it that obvious?" I questioned her nervously.
"Yes. Yes it is." She laughed at me.
"Okay, don't tell anyone please." I begged her.
"I won't tell. But you got to do something about it." She told me and patted me on the shoulder and walked back over to Clint. Wanda and Steve made it onto the lifeboat and Vision appeared fifteen minutes after they did telling us that the last of the Ultron bots were destroyed and that Tony and Thor had destroyed the drill, core and the whole of Sokovia. We were flying in the lifeboat and the door was held open so that Thor and Tony could get on and they came ten minutes after Vision did.
We had stopped the murder bot.
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Avengers Facility, Outskirts New York
Mia,
Sorry that I didn't get to say goodbye that day. Hope that you are well. Don't do anything stupid.
I received that as an email. It was clearly from my dad because he's the only person to call me Mia. I couldn't get a trace on the email, meaning he had some high-tech gadget thing working in place so that he couldn't be tracked; he's used it before when we lived in Rio.
I had formed a close friendship with Wanda since we got back from Sokovia. She's like a sister to me, we tell each other everything and she's been telling me to tell Pietro that we are technically meant to be for one another. I was going to tell him that today.
Pietro and I also got very close. We weren't sure what it was really that was going on between us; it was a friendship but much more than that. I called him into my room to tell him about the love potion.
"Her-my-o-knee, you wanted to see me?" Pietro asked, knocking on my door but opening it anyway.
"You know it's polite to wait for the person to open the door?" I asked him, crossing my arms over my chest.
"Yes, but everything moves so slow that I wanted to do it myself." Pietro told me and walked into the room and flopped himself onto my bed.
"Pietro I'm going to tell you something that you have to take seriously." I told him, sitting down next to him on the bed. He sat up on the bed and looked at me. "Pietro, you know how I told you that I went to a school in Scotland to help me with my magic and that I had a class about potions?" I asked him tentively.
"Yes, I remember you saying that your first professor was awful to you are your friends but worshiped your friend Draco even though you were the top of your class." Pietro said to me.
"Yes, well in my sixth year, I had a different professor. He was very different to Snape, much more happy and colourful. But in his class he showed us the more tricky potions to brew. He had; Polyjuice potion, which is a potion that can make you transform into another person if you have a piece of their DNA for example, a strand of hair. Veritaserum which is a truth telling potion, mostly used in interrogation and the last one was Amortenia, now it is the strongest love potion that can be brewed. It tells your love by three distinctive scents, like the beef burgers that Vision made the other night could be a scent associated with someone." I explained to him.
"'Mione, this story is all well and good, but why are you telling me it?" Pietro asked confused.
"Pietro the scents that I smelt were; fresh snow, dirt and cinnamon. Pietro, which is what you smell like. You are supposedly the love of my life." I told him, he went silent and looked straight ahead.
"Is this what Wanda has wanted you to tell me for a while? I've heard her saying to you to tell him." Pietro asked me, stonily.
"Yes it is. Pietro I didn't really want to drop it onto you like this, I wanted to meet you and fall for you regardless and then tell you but Wanda pushed me to tell you first. But the thing is, I can't help but want to be near you since I have met you and hopefully you feel the same." I blabbered onto him.
"'Mione, I understand what you are saying and I feel the same thing. It is like a pull to one another. Thank-you for telling me this. It now makes me understand things much better now. If I may be bold and ask if you would like to perhaps go on a date sometime?" Pietro asked me.
"I would like that very much Pietro." I told him and kissed him on the cheek.
"Hermione, time to come and help Steve." Natasha said leaning against the door post.
"How long have you been there?" I asked her, scared.
"Long enough, and runner boy you need to go to your sister." Natasha said and pushed off the door.
"Well, I need to go. I'll talk to you later about that date?" I asked him, getting off the bed and holding his hand.
"Yes, we will." He said and kissed the corner of my mouth and he walked out of the room. I fixed my hair and changed into some training clothes and met up with Steve and Natasha.
"How do we look?" I asked Steve.
"Well, we're not the '27 Yankees." Steve responded and handed me a tablet that I quickly glanced over and passed it onto Nat.
"We've got some hitters." Natasha said, scrolling through the tablet.
"They're good but they're not a team." Steve replied
"Let's beat 'em into shape." I said standing in front of a door, Steve opened it and walked through first and then Nat walked in standing to Steve's right flank and I took his left. We walked out onto a balcony bit and looked down to see Rhodey land in his War Machine suit, Sam Wilson came in on his Falcon wings, Vision flew in and landed on the ground, Wanda came in, in her new get up and Pietro blurred in and they stood in their own area of the room, looking up at the three of us, I smiled down at Pietro and Wanda and he smirked up to me.
"Avengers Assemble!" Steve called out.
This is the end my friends.
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