The desert was quiet.
There was a cave up on the mountain, and it was quiet too. There was a room inside that cave, filled with plants, a small waterwheel, and lots of sunlight. A man clipped an uneven stem off a plant. He had on special goggles that allowed him to zoom in drastically. He placed his scissors down on the table and stood up. Looking out into the oasis around him, his placed the palm of her hands together and closed his eyes. "Oooooommmmm." He said calmly. "Bruce." A voice said. "Wha?" the man's eyes widened and he whipped around to see a group of people standing in the doorway of his "garden". "Oh come on, that's the Hulk? The big scary monster?" Pym asked. "I could beat him up." "No, no, no!" Bruce said in a panicky way. "Get out. Get outta here! Please, for your own sakes you have to get away from me!" "Nuts, anyone?" Hawkeye said calmly. "Yeah," Aisha agreed. "And a side of paranoia." "Bruce, it's me, it's-" Bruse interrupted Tony. "Get out of here, Stark!" "Bruce?" Betty asked, walking to the front of the group. "It's okay. Breathe." "Betty…?" Bruce asked, calming down. "Well he's sort of scary." Pym stated, and then frowned. "I guess." "Shut up, Pym." Azari shot. "Shh, it's okay, breathe." Betty instructed, taking Bruce's hands. "Let it go. We don't want you to get angry." Bruce sighed. "What happens when he gets angry?" James asked Tony. "Anger makes the Hulk come out." He explained.
Once again, everyone sat around in a circle, a teapot hanging over a fire in the center. "You can't be here. It's too dangerous." Bruce explained, holding a steaming cup in his hands. "The Hulk is too dangerous." "It's okay, Bruce." Tony said. "We just had to get out of the city." "Can the Hulk defeat Ultron?" James asked quickly. "James!" Tony said. "The Hulk doesn't care about Ultron, boy." Bruce said, frowning. "He just wants to be left alone. You're all in danger. I have to stay here I have to keep the Hulk inside. When the Hulk comes out…bad things happen." Bruce said, and looked around at them. "The Hulk won't help you. And neither will I."
Azari walked out of the cave, rubbing his finger against the wall of it, creating electricity. Outside, Torunn sat on the edge of the ledge, her feet hanging off, Pym stood ontop of a big rock, Hawkeye messing with another one of his arrows right beside him and Aisha sitting on the ground next to him. "So where do you think we'll go now?" Azari asked, walking up to them. "Tony wants us to hide but-" "He's right." Torunn agreed. "We have to run, we have to hide we can't beat Ultron." "Torunn, you were the one who wanted to beat him up so badly back in Ultra City." Aisha pointed out. "What happened to your pride? Your adrenaline? Your 'gotta do it' attitude? Your Asguardian…ness." "Aisha's right. We can defeat Ultron." James agreed from his place standing ontop of the cave way above them. "And we have to. We can't hide anymore, Torunn. If we don't stand up to Ultron, who will? If we don't protect people like the Scavengers, who will? We have to make a stand. The longer we wait the more powerful Ultron becomes. He'll never stop hunting us. He'll never stop coming after Tony. We have to stop him." James jumped down from the top of the cave in total Captain America style. "We owe it to our parents; we're all that's left of their legacy. The Hulk is the strongest one there is, right? If the Hulk won't go to Ultron, then we'll bring Ultron to the Hulk. Okay, Hawkeye said that Ultron is wired into every one of his machines. If we fire up the ship so that Ultron can sense it, he'll come running." "I think that's the most words you've ever said in a row." Pym stated. "Okay, remember when I called Bruce nuts? You got him beat." Hawkeye stated. "I know we can do this." James said, watching them. "We can do it together." "No!" Torunn jumped up and ran over to them. "I can't!" and then she flew off into the cave, leaving a trail of dust and roaring thunder behind her. "She'll be okay. She just needs time." James said, and then looked at everyone else. "Are you in?" "To do something that would bring Ultron here, purposely, who wants to and will kill us if this plan does not go right?" Aisha asked. James looked at her. Aisha shrugged. "Yeah, I'm in."
"I hope your right about this." Azari stated.
"That makes two of us." James replied. Azari was kneeling in front of the cords in the ship, and was about ready to fire it up. Azari let his electric field spring out around him, he took the cords and placed them together, electricity sparking everywhere and everyone else covering their faces. The ship started up and then hovered there in the air.
Ultron, of course, saw this on one of his screens hovering around his podium. The Iron Avengers awoke quickly, and fell off towards the desert, in search of the children.
"No!" Tony cried, running over and seeing the ship running. James, Azari, Pym, Hawkeye and Aisha all stepped out of the ship and stood ontop of it. "James, what have you done?" Tony asked. "What are parents would have." James replied. "Now…who wants to go tell the Hulk?"
No one answered.
Bruce grabbed James up by his shirt and slammed him into the cave wall the minute James told him. "You did WHAT?!" he yelled. "Bruce, stop!" Tony protested, trying to pull Bruce off of James, but it wasn't working. The three were all tussling around, Tony trying to pull Bruce off of James, Bruce trying to choke James, and James trying to break free. Aisha and Azari watched them, Hawkeye leaning on the wall beside them. "Should we, you know…do something?" Azari asked. "Dude, it was his plan." Hawkeye replied. "Totally, dude!" Aisha repeated in a surfer accent. ''Cause we're like, surfers now all of a sudden, like, right, dude?"
It was around sundown. It was quiet, and Torunn walked to the edge of the cliff and collapsed on her knees. "Father, please help us." She pleaded. "I'm scared. Scared for my brothers and sister, for Tony, for Hawkeye. They need me. If you ever cared for me, please help me now. Help me save my family! I'm begging you. Lend me your strength!" her last words echoed on the wind. She waited, but heard nothing in return.
In Ultra City, the robots were trying to pull her sword out of the ground. Of course, it wasn't working. Until the sword pulled itself out of the ground. It twisted around, lashing the robots around it and making them explode. It zoomed up, cutting through another one and causing another explosion. It flew out of Ultra City and landed right there in the ground in front of Torunn.
Tears streamed down her cheeks and she smiled. "Thank you, father." She called. "Thank you."