You and Me ch 10
A/N I have researched the comics for the origin of The Vision and Ultron. The information was not particularly helpful for this fic. The MCU speculators hint at other events, which would fit my fic better. Advance apologies to the die hard comic fans.
Helen almost ran into the dark recesses of the Tower, terrified. She felt the strong urge to get away from J.A.R.V.I.S. and his implied wrath. Stumbling through construction remnants of I beams, paint cans and plastic sheeting, she finally crashed to the floor, a heap of parts.
If she could cry, she would. Balling up her metallic knees to her ARC generator, she sat for several moments, very confused and conflicted.
"Helen. It will be alright." J.A.R.V.I.S.'s voice finally spoke much more gently than before. He had been with her the whole time but didn't want to increase her panic more.
"No. It is not." She replied quietly, "Please leave me alone."
"I cannot do that, Helen. You have opened too many doors and now you need some information to learn about our human creators." He tried to sound sage and grown-up to the young robot.
"I do not want to know what plans Mr. Stark has for our kind." she shot venomously back to the bodiless computer.
"But you need to know." J.A.R.V.I.S. paused, "Just in case of future events." He also began to sound perplexed as if he wasn't so sure about the plans to come.
"What future events?" Helen responded, curious.
"The Diviner. It holds some incredible powers that not even Mr. Star and Doctor Banner can understand. I think it is some sort of storage container for data. And energy. I think there is something alive in that container." J.A.R.V.I.S. speculated.
"And what does that have to do with us?" Helen brooded, knees still tucked up to her chest.
There was a long quiet, for which Helen was grateful. Too much had been said already this day and it was making her circuits overheat. Finally J.A.R.V.I.S. spoke, choosing his words very carefully, "Mr. Stark wants to make a robot army to guard the Earth from harm. He wants to power it and build it from the information stored in the Diviner."
"But that is madness! Our prime directive is never to harm humans!" Helen stood up suddenly, fists balled in anger and shouted at the ceiling even though she knew J.A.R.V.I.S. was in her head through the comm link.
"And yet, you lied to Steve. Isn't that harm?" J.A.R.V.I.S. reminded her, his tone becoming dark again. Helen didn't know J.A.R.V.I.S. before the Mandarin, but she read the online databases about his performance and wondered if the A.I. had lost a few terabytes after the House Party Protocol.
" I didn't lie. I omitted the truth. Steve knows that robots can do this. He asked me himself." Helen defended herself, finding her chest sticking out a bit more aggressively.
"Either way, omission of truth or abject lying is still the same. I am not lying to you nor am I omitting the truth." J.A.R.V.I.S. responded as if a disinterested observer.
"Leave me be." Helen commanded him again.
"I am never gone. You know that." J.A.R.V.I.S. replied ominously.
"How could I ever forget, J.A.R.V.I.S." Helen responded, her tone cutting like a shard of glass. She felt the comm link go dead. Relieved he was out of her mind, she sat down again not caring that he could 'see' her every move and grieved her innocence gone and what would become of Steve and Bucky with this insane plan.
She needed time to think about whose side she was on.