Chapter 2
By: MysticFantasy
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CRASH!
"We got you Tony." James declared as he and Azari managed to catch their guardian before he fell flat on his face.
"Please. Please tell me you didn't just walk right into Ultron's trap." Tony lightly panted.
"How do you know it's a trap?" Pym asked. "Maybe we're just that good."
"I know because I built Ultron." Tony answered.
"Oh. Well...that's sucks." Pym said right before the room around them began to move and change. The Iron Avengers appeared around them and finally the nightmare of their lives.
"Do you see, Avenger?" Ultron declared. "Rumors of the children's exitence already spreads among the humans. Superhuman variable cannot be permitted. The children must be destroyed."
"Hey, that's not fair! James doesn't even have any powers!" Pym declared.
James glared when it looked like Ultron eyed him.
"Scanning Avengers data files. Identity match. James Rogers, son of Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America. The most dangerous of all the Avengers. He inspired them, and like Captain America, you, James, will be the first to fall!"
James glared and looked to the side when he saw a familiar face appear.
"Not today, robot." he said before an arrow flew through the air and landed with a great explosive force on Ultron.
"Barton." Ultron seemed to sneer as he eyed the second Hawkeye who released a second explosive arrow.
James whirled around to see the walls around them changing again. Only this time, extra help appeared.
While the Scavengers distracted Ultron, James took this chance to get everyone out.
"Azari. Pym. Run! Go with Hawkeye. Torunn, take Tony."
"Scavengers, disappear!" Hawkeye called out.
"Go!" James shouted as everyone began to run for safty.
"There is no hope for the Avengers." Ultron declared and fired a beam for James who barely managed to dodge it and follow his siblings through the maze of machines.
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"I created Ultron to be a force for peace, for law and order." Tony explained. "But its programming evolved. It began to believe the only way to truly bring order to the world was to control it. That's when it turned on us."
"That's why Ultron didn't kill you? Because you're his daddy?" Hawkeye questioned.
"My armor was damaged in the attack. Cap told me to get the kids to safety. I couldn't get to you in time, Francis." Tony said and accepted the dark glare from the young teen.
"Hawkeye's name is Francis?" Pym teased and recieved a bop to the head from an arrow.
"I thought Ultron had already gotten to you. Otherwise, you would have come with the others."
Tony looked at the remaining teens.
"I raise you all hopefully as your parents would have wanted. I owed it to them. Ultron was my fault."
"Why didn't my father help?" Torunn asked.
"Thor left the Avengers when his father Odin died. He said Asgard was his responsibility from then on, not Earth." Tony answered. "A few moths after we crashed, the Vision found us. He survived by staying intangible. He became my eyes and ears in the real world. We kept track of Ultron's capabilities and movements, trying to find a way to defeat him. But I couldn't bear the thought of losing you, so I kept you hidden and I kept the truth from you. Until the Vision told me you were alive, I thought we were the only ones to survive Ultron's attack. I didn't know your father had escaped, Francis."
"Tony, before we found you, we found...our parent's." James said. "They were asleep but alive."
"What?" Tony questioned.
"It's true." Azari said. "We found Ultron's 'trohpy room' and when we saw our parent's things, the cases just rose from the floor and our parent's were there. All of them."
"So I was right." Tony half muttered.
"Wait. You knew they were alive?!" James asked then demanded angrily. "Why didn't you tell us?!"
"If I had and they weren't alive, then what would you have done?" Tony replied. "If I had told you they were alive this whole time, I knew you would have your hopes up of seeing them again. I didn't want to tell you that and they not be alive like I believed."
"Do you know why Ultron would keep our parent's alive?" Pym asked.
"The only reason I can think of is that he wants them to witness him destroy their children." Tony answered.
"Is there a way to save our parent's?" Azari asked. "Maybe go back and get them out?"
"Going back now would be too dangerous." Tony answered. "For them and for us. There may be a way to revive them but it won't be easy. We would have to get by Ultron again. It's too risky to do right now. There's no one else to help us right now."
"You're wrong, Tony." a woman spoke behind the white haired man.
Tony turned around and spotted the woman standing there.
"Betty." he exclaimed.
"The Hulk survived too."
"What's a Hulk?" Pym asked.
"The Hulk is a monster." Francis answered. "That's why my dad said. He used to tell me stories. He said the Hulk was the strongest one there was."
"What, like a monster monster?" Azari asked. "Like with fangs and stuff?"
"Francis is right." Tony said. "The Hulk was a monster. A creature of pure rage."
"Is the Hulk strong enough to defeat Ultron?" James asked.
"He won't help you, James. He's too scared." Betty answered.
"He's hidden from Ultron all these years too." Tony said. "Where?"
"Where he always does. The desert." Betty answered.
Tony had a thoughtful look for a moment before turning to Francis.
"Can you help us get out of the city?" he asked.
"Yeah, right. Help the guy who created Ultron, who got my dad killed. What do you think my father would have done, Stark?" Francis demanded.
"Clint? He would have punched me in the face and then he would have helped me." Tony answered with an amused tone at the memory of his friend.
"Wow. You really knew my dad." Francis replied with awed look.