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It was only a short while before Ultron and Carol returned to Dr. Fylo Montone's office. By then, he had a set of a couple ingredients arranged on the desk. When she noticed Carol and Ultron enter the room, Wanda tilted her head in Ultron's direction.
"So where have you two been?" Wanda asked.
"I found Carol molesting a raccoon," Ultron replied.
Carol glared at Ultron and balled her hands into fists.
"Oh, for fuck's sake, Ultron," Carol snapped, "I did not molest that raccoon!"
Within an instant, Pietro, Wanda, Ultron and Thor burst into laughter, much to Carol's chagrin.
"Relax, Carol," Thor assured Carol, "he was just joking."
Carol folded her arms.
"It was not funny!" she objected.
Giving Carol a soft smile, Ultron ruffled her hair before turning his attention to Dr. Montone.
"So what do we have so far?" Ultron asked.
Dr. Montone gestured everyone in the office towards the ingredients.
"So far," Dr. Montone explained, "I have the Trae Root and Dorra Juice. However, we will have to travel to Clarvis to obtain the Marca Leaves, Bozzen Berries and Brakka Sap. You up for a scavenger hunt?"
"Marca Leaves, Bozzen Berries and," Pietro murmured, trying to commit the three items to memory, "Brakka Sap? Do you have any pictures of those?"
Ultron realized from Pietro's question that he faced an issue: back on Earth he had the entirety of the World Wide Web at his disposal to instantly know anything relevant. Coordinates, ingredients, architectural designs, witty social media references, but out here in a galaxy where he would be traveling to different worlds entirely he lacked that limitless knowledge.
Sure, he was still smart as any advanced artificial intelligence could be, but his main body could only carry and record so much data. More importantly he'd lack some critical information on possible dangers they might encounter.
Not having enough clues, Ultron tilted his head towards Dr. Montone.
"Perhaps you have an idea on what the ingredients are like and how to get them?" Ultron asked, "and while you're at it, why don't you inform us of what dangers we have to keep an eye out for?"
Dr. Montone snapped his fingers in a split second.
"I can tell you that there are predatory creatures in Clarvis we should watch out for," answered Dr. Montone, "but I recommend we take extra caution if we come across them."
Carol embraced herself to Ultron's leg while fidgeting nervously.
"Are they all…aggressive?" Carol stammered.
"Not if you leave them alone," Dr. Montone shook his head.
"How bad could they be?" Quicksilver asked, and immediately became the focus of Thor and Ultron's glares, "what?"
"If we get jinxed, I'm voting that we leave him behind," Ultron muttered, shaking his head.
Ultron pointed one thumb at the speedster, and Thor nodded in agreement. Still, Dr. Montone gathered the equipment and stashed them into his messenger bag.
"Come with me," Dr. Montone advised.
Dr. Montone led Carol, Ultron, Thor, Pietro, Wanda, Lania and Vision out of his office and down the elevator until they reached the lobby. When they stepped outside, Lania turned in a different direction, much to Vision's confusion.
"You're not going?" Vision asked.
"I need to return to Nova Corps," Lania explained.
Vision stared as Lania left the group in a moment of silence.
"Take care," he said, although no one heard him.
Dr. Montone led Ultron, Carol, Vision, the Maximoff twins and Thor aboard his spacecraft.
"Say, Doc," Ultron began before bumping his head against the ceiling of the cockpit.
"Ow," he quickly lowered himself down to fit, "what's the maximum FTL speed on this?"
"You're intrigued by my ship?" Dr. Montone paused.
Ultron shrugged.
"I'm from a world where the most we have are some rocket propelled ships that don't go real far."
"Ah, well in that case, word of warning: if the inertia field collapses, do make sure you're seated," Montone advised, "if you're aren't, well…have you ever seen a solid turn into a liquid?"
"Uh…no?" Wanda swallowed, double checking her seat's safety harness.
"I thought that applied to water," Carol objected.
"Oh! Clarification, have you ever seen something besides ice turn into water?" Montone chuckled.
Wanda blushed a bit, having realized that while she had been so busy contemplating the implications of the doctor's question she'd forgotten a basic chemical process called melting.
Then again, envisioning a human body melting could be a valid excuse for a minor oversight.
Once Ultron buckled into his seat, he gestured Carol to sit next to him before putting on her safety harness. Pietro and Thor settled into their seats while Vision sat next to Wanda before they all buckled up. Dr. Montone sat in the cockpit seat and put on his safety harness before he turned on the ignition. Minutes later, his ship took off into space.
Carol pulled out her clipboard from her handbag. She set it on her lap and pulled out a piece of paper and a pencil before she started drawing.
"Uh, Carol?" Ultron mentioned, "I don't think we're going to be on this ship all day."
"Not to worry, Ulti," Carol assured Ultron, "I won't take long."
Carol kept adding details to her sketch, which started to resemble Garrus Vakarian giving a female Commander Shepard oral. But of course, she had to angle her clipboard case so no one in the cabin would see what she was drawing.
Ultron couldn't help but shrug while Carol continued drawing. By then, she was halfway finished with her rough sketch, even if the finished product remained in her mind. Little did she know, Wanda eyed her with a skeptical expression.
As Carol began to fill out the lines of her sketch, she noticed a brief flash of silver and grey…
"Quicksilver," Ultron droned, looking at the speedster who did his best to look innocent.
"What? Was curious is all," Pietro shrugged, "good anatomy by the way, Carol."
Carol tilted her head towards Pietro, giving him a blank stare.
"Good what?" Wanda stared at her brother and then towards Carol's paper.
Wanda scanned Carol's mind, only to find images that would be found in a porn site. Carol blushed without warning, let out a startled yelp and hugged her clipboard case to her chest.
"I-It's nothing!" Carol lied.
"Surrrrre," Ultron drawled, clearly unconvinced, "also, good work on Vakarian's fringe."
Unknown to Wanda, when Pietro had been peeking at her work it had given Ultron the chance to catch a glimpse of his own.
"Ultron, please tell me you didn't look at it!" Carol snapped, her face turning red.
Ultron chuckled softly.
"Carol, I have access to the internet," Ultron reminded Carol, "do you realize just how much porn is on there? Believe me, a few drawings is nothing to some of the stuff I saw when I was first stretching my legs."
Carol stiffened in a split second. She merely forgot Ultron could easily access porn sites and she suspected he might've caught a glimpse of her other explicit work.
"Your first act after wrecking the tower was to go and view this…porn?" Thor asked, befuddled.
Ultron stared back at him silently.
"I have seen things," he said in a serious voice.
"I swear," Carol warned, "if you dare tell the other Avengers about this, I will make you regret it!"
Pietro let out a playful scoff and Ultron shook his head in disbelief while Carol stashed her drawing into her clipboard case. She figured she would have time to finish it later. A couple or so hours later, the ship arrived at Clarvis.
Montone brought the ship down over a vast canopy of a multi colored jungle.
"Okay…just need a landing spot…" Dr. Montone said to himself.
"One thing Sci-Fi writers never seemed to get was that big jungle planets don't have convenient wide fields for space ships to land in," Ultron commented.
"Here!" Dr. Montone interrupted.
Montone brought the ship towards a vast river with wide, flat banks on both sides where he set the ship down.
"Perfect."
Once Montone landed the ship, he turned off the ignition while Ultron, Thor, Carol, Vision, Pietro and Wanda unbuckled their safety harnesses and stood from their seats. Dr. Montone gathered his equipment and led them outside the ship. He gestured them to follow him through the forest when Carol heard rustling in the bushes.
"Uh, what was…" stammered Carol.
Dr. Montone extended his hand, cutting off Carol before she could finish her sentence.
"Shh!" he warned in a quiet tone, "be careful of the zawks."
Wanda tilted her head to the side.
"What is this? Dr. Seuss?" she paused.
Fylo let out a quiet sigh.
"They're basically flying saber-toothed creatures," he clarified.
"Do they happen to travel in swarms?" Wanda asked, tensing up as her eyes turned upward.
"Yes, why—" Fylo trailed off as he saw, hanging above them, dozens of winged forms clinging to tree branches and staring down at them.
"Don't…make…a move. They can sense movement," Fylo whispered.
As the zawks began to hiss and spread their wings, Thor gave Fylo a withering glare.
"Can they also detect you talking?" he asked rhetorically, getting out Mjolnir as several of the zawks dove towards them.
Just as Thor prepared to unleash a burst of lightning and Ultron moved to shield Carol, a red barrier of energy sent the aerial predators bouncing back. Wanda held up both of her hands, her eyes glowing red as well as her hands as she maintained a dome barrier around the group.
"Can you keep this up while we move?" Fylo inquired.
"For a while," Wanda affirmed, "so please, more moving?"
Nodding in agreement, Ultron held Carol in his protective embrace as Wanda led everyone through the forest, maintaining her barrier along the way.
"Okay then…Marca Leaves, Bozzen Berries and Brakka Sap," Fylo recited the list of ingredients, "Marca Leaves should be the easiest, they come from the Marva Tree which is usually identified by the pigment alterations in its bark in response to local temperatures."
"So…a tree that changes color whenever it gets warmer or colder," Ultron summarized, already running scans, "what color would it be in a temperature like this?"
"Usually warmer colors including red, orange—" Dr. Montone trailed off.
"Got it," Ultron pointed to a tree which stood out form the other nearby plant life with its bright orange bark and golden brown bark and leaves.
"Good eyes," Pietro commented.
Ultron released Carol from his embrace, allowing her to examine the tree.
"So," clamored Carol, "how many leaves do we need?"
"First," reminded Thor, "how should we get to the leaves?"
Ultron and Vision exchanged glances in a moment of silence.
"With your permission," Vision offered, "Ultron and I would like to volunteer for the task."
"Ah, of course, be my…" Fylo trailed off as Vision lifted himself into the air and floated up towards the leaves with Ultron following behind him.
"Is that green and orange gentleman…flying without any form of propulsion?" Fylo paused.
"Just roll with it," Pietro clapped him on the shoulder, "I'll go look for the other stuff."
"Pietro—" Wanda began before her brother vanished, leaving only a rustle of leaves and branches behind him, "going to have a very long talk with him."
"Worry not," Thor began to spin Mjolnir, "I may not be quite as fast, but if he encounters any danger I shall aid him."
He then flew up into the air, leaving Montone with Carol and Wanda for company.
"Can…you two also fly?" Fylo asked after a few moments of silence.
Carol shook her head.
"Sorry, but I can't," Carol sighed before she tilted her head towards Wanda, "Wanda, what about you?"
"Can…float," Wanda answered hesitantly, "I'm still working on flying like Thor or Vision."
Vision and Ultron soon returned, each with an armful of leaves.
"Didn't know how much you'd need so…we played it safe and brought as much as we could," Ultron explained to Fylo.
Just then, a gust of wind almost knocked the leaves out of their grasps, revealing that Pietro had returned, scratching his head.
"Uh…just remembered: I don't know where the other things or, what they look like," he hesitantly added, "or what they're even called."
Wanda shook her head.
"Saw that coming," she muttered.
Fylo collected the leaves and carefully stashed them into a bag. Without warning, they saw lightning bolts flash from the trees in the distance.
"Uh, guys?" Carol stammered, "do you think Thor is in trouble?"
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