Chapter 84: Age of Ultron Part 2: Hunt for Ultron
After getting some of the remains up to the lab, those who were tech savy got to work figuring out if Ultron was truly defeated, but Spyro already the answer to that, knowing Ultron was still alive and kicking as he isn't one to stop, not even knowing the term stop. Spyro had run all the scans that Tony asked for, but looked back to the girls, seeing them safe made him smile as he knew they can take care of themselves, but against bigger and tougher opponents, he didn't want to risk it as they are still new to being Keyblade Warriors and their training had only gotten started.
"All our work is gone." Banner said. "Ultron cleared it out and used the internet as an escape."
"Of course he'd use the internet as an escape." Spyro said, walking over to the empty husk. "Only way he can escape."
"And he was in our files and surveillance." Natasha said. "He probably knows more about us than we know each other."
"He's in your files, he's in the internet, what are the chances he goes and accesses something a bit more exciting." Rhodes suggested.
"What does he mean by that?" Pinkie asked, popping up from the roof and spooking him.
"He means nuclear launch codes." Spyro answered. "Just one of those is enough to decimate a city, cause any surviving people to get radiation sickness."
"But, he said he wanted us dead." The woman doctor said.
"Not dead, extinct." Steve replied.
"And he said he killed somebody." Barton pointed out. "Spyro, didn't you say he killed JARVIS?"
"That's exactly what he said." Tony said, pulling up an image of JARVIS's coding, showing it was destroyed.
"This is insane." Banner said.
"He was our first line of defense." Steve said. "He would have shut Ultron down, it makes sense."
"It doesn't." Bruce said. "Ultron could have assimilated JARVIS, this isn't strategy, this is rage."
A moment later, Thor came walking in and he looked upset, walking over and grabbing Tony by the throat and lifting him up into the air, looking very angry.
"Thor, let's use our words here pal." Tony said, struggling to talk.
"I have more than enough words to describe you Stark." Thor said.
"Thor, the Legionnaire?" Steve asked, the god of thunder putting the billionaire down.
"Trail went cold a hundred miles north." Thor answered. "It has the scepter. Now we need to retrieve it, again."
"Genies out of that bottle." Natasha said. "The new threat here is Ultron."
"I don't get it." The doctor said, who is known as Dr. Cho after being introduced to her. "You made this program, why is it trying to destroy us?"
With that question, Tony started to laugh, making everyone worry for him as he sounded like he has lost his mind.
"Dude, this is no time to be laughing!" Rainbow Dash said.
"You're right." Tony said, putting on a straight face. "Now is not the time to be laughing."
"This all could have been avoided if you hadn't played with something you didn't understand." Thor said.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Tony said. "It's funny because it who did you don't get why we need this."
"Tony, maybe this might not be the time." Bruce said.
"Really?" Tony asked, looking annoyed with his friend. "You're going to roll over everytime someone snarls?"
"Alright, enough!" Spyro exclaimed, getting them to stop fighting. "The point is, Ultron is out there now and he has the scepter, bickering and fighting one another is not going to help us get it back. Tony made the program to help protect earth from another alien invasion, which ended up backfiring as now we have a Terminator wannabe out there, doing who knows what."
"So what, how are we going to handle this?" Tony asked. "And an alien invasion when it comes again?"
"Together." Steve replied.
We'll loose." Tony said.
"Then we'll do that together as well." Steve said.
"Steve is right." Spyro chimed in. "We're all friends here. Yes, we make mistakes and we make things that might end up trying to kill us, but if we work together, we can overcome anything. Right now, we need to find Ultron and stop him before anything happens. It's a big world out there, let's see if we can make it a little bit smaller."
Tony and the other people who were good at tech got started on trying to locate Ultron so they can stop him and get the scepter back, the young prince praying that he could find the staff before it got out of hand. At Sokovia, the twins were approaching an old abandoned church that they were told to go to, informed that whoever contacted them wanted to talk about the Avengers and how he could help them, so they went into the building and saw someone wearing some kind of robe or cloth over them to mask their identity.
"Talk." Wanda said. "And if you're wasting our time-"
"Did you know this church was built in the exact center of the city?" The man asked, surprising them. "The elders decreed it so everyone is equally close to god. I like that, the geometry of belief. You're probably wondering why you can't look inside my head."
"Sometimes it's hard." Wanda replied. "But sooner or later every man shows himself."
"Oh, I'm sure they do." The mystery man said, standing up and removing his cover to reveal he was actually Ultron in a brand new body, surprising the twins. "But you needed something more than a man. That's why you allowed Stark to take the scepter."
"I didn't expect." Wanda replied. "But I saw Starks fear and I knew it would control him, make him self destruct."
"Everyone creates the thing they dread." Ultron replied. "Men of peace create engines of war, invaders create Avengers, people create... smaller people, uh, children, that's it. Lost the word there, children. Designed to supplant them, to help them... end."
"Is that why you've come?" Wanda asked. "To end the Avengers?"
"I've come to save the world." Ultron replied. "But also, yup. Destroy the Avengers."
"Then it's a good thing I came when I intercepted the communication." May said, appearing from behind a pillar. "I'd like to help you do that."
"And... you are?" Piedro asked, immediately on guard.
"Names May." She replied. "I'm an enemy of the Avengers. I came to hunt down some rocks, but with the Avengers, it'll be impossible to get to them without being noticed. Plus, with Spyro and his friends here, it's made my life a whole lot harder."
"Then we'll make it easier for you." Ultron said.
He then started walking away from the three of them and towards the old Hydra research base, the three companions following the genocidal robot to the lower section of the base where it was revealed he was busying himself with making his own personal mechanical army, impressing May while the twins looked confused.
"We'll move out right away." Ultron said. "This is a start, but there's something we need to begin the real work."
"And what would that be?" May asked.
"All in good time my friend." Ultron replied.
"Are all of these you?" Wanda asked.
"Of course." Ultron replied. "I have what the Avengers will never have, harmony. They disorganized, disconnected. Stark already has them turning one each other, and when you get inside their heads-"
"The plan is not to kill them." Piedro said.
"And make them martyrs." Ultron added. "You need patients. You need to see the big picture."
"Getting into Spyro's head won't be easy." May said. "He is very powerful, makes him near impossible to break. He adapts, he observes, he achieves the impossible. With his friends, when they combine, he is near invincible."
"Yeah, well, I don't see the big picture." Piedro responded. "I have a little picture, I look at it everyday."
"You lost your parents in the bombing." Ultron said. "I know, I've seen the records."
"The records are not the picture." Piedro said, looking to his sister. "We were ten when we lost them. The first shell hits two floors below us as we were having dinner, and makes a hole in the floor, a big one. Our parents go in and the whole building comes falling apart. I grab her and roll under the bed, but it doesn't go off. It just, sits there three feet from us and on the side of the shell was one word."
"Stark." Wanda said. "We remained under there for two days to be rescued, believing every shift would set it off, waiting for Stark to kill us, but it never happened. All we want now is to make him suffer."
The room was silent for a moment, Ultron taking everything in from what the twins said, but for May, it was something else, feeling something click inside of her as she remembered when she was trapped under the rubble, waiting to die when she was rescued by Malefor, forever grateful to him for saving her, but she then heard something, going back to the memory of when she was trapped, hearing Spyro call her name as he was nearby, digging to her before being rescued. Ignoring the memory, she looked to Ultron as he slowly approached them, saying how he was planning on tearing the Avengers apart as she made her own plans for getting what she needed from her new ally and how to get it. Back at the Avengers tower, Tony was busy with figuring out how to locate him while Spyro was busy with his friends, teaching them some new battle techniques to help protect them from Ultron and his mechanical army, which Spyro knew he was going to make right as Steve walked in with Barton close behind, ending the early morning session to go and see what they had found.
"It seems Ultron has enlisted the Maximoffs." Steve said. "They're working with Ultron getting weapons and other kinds of gear. Also, Ultron killed Strucker."
"But why get rid of Strucker?" Spyro asked. "Did he know something we didn't?"
"Maybe, but everything on Strucker has been erased." Natasha said, trying to pull up his file.
"Not everything." Tony said.
He then pulled out a bunch of files that he had about Strucker, his known associates and other kinds of things that made him seem very horrible, but then Spyro found something, a file on Ulysses Klaue, making his spine shiver.
"Oh boy." Spyro said, showing the file to Tony. "Ulysses Klaue, black market arms dealer stationed in South Africa, real nightmare this fellow."
"Yes, and he said something about a game changer." Tony said.
"Looks like he's got a brand on the back of his neck." Twilight said, making Rarity and Fluttershy shiver.
"Oh, how barbaric." Rarity said. "Why would they brand someone like that?"
"To mark him." Spyro replied, taking the picture. "I recognize it. It means 'Thief' in the Wakanden dialect."
"Wakanden?" Twilight asked. "What do you mean?"
"Wakanda is one of the most technologically advanced civilizations on the planet." Spyro answered. "Famous for their use of Vibranium, the hardest metal in this world."
Everyone was looking at him, mystified at ow he knew this information without even being told, making him mentally face smacking himself as he blurted out information only certain people knew.
"How did you know that?" Tony asked.
"I did my research." Spyro answered, pulling up a tablet to have a look at it. "And by the looks of it, Klaue is still in Africa now. If my hunch is correct, Ultron will be heading there now, to get himself some Vibranuim. If we move quickly, we can catch them."
They all then went to the Avengers jet, piling in to go after him and immediately set course for the African Coast, where there was a lot of old cargo ships that were being used for a base of operations for the weapons smuggler, but when they arrived, Spyro could sense that Ultron and the twins were there, but also one other, May. Spyro had his friends go with Barton and Natasha to provide them with some support while he, Tony, Steve, and Thor went in the front entrance, keeping to the shadows until they were ready.
"It's worth Billions." They heard Klaue said, presenting the Vibranuim to the Twins and to the killer robot.
"And now so are you." Ultron said, a notification coming up in the arms dealers phone. "It's all under your Dummy Holding? Finance is so weird. Like I said, keep your friends rich and your enemies rich and find out which is which."
That one sentence seemed to trigger something, clicking in him as he suddenly realized something.
"Stark." Klaue said, Ultron looking annoyed. "Tony Stark use to say that... to me. You're one of his."
"I am not one of his!" Ultron said, grabbing his arm. "You think I am one of Starks puppets, one of his hollow men. I mean, look at me, do I look like Iron Man? Stark is nothing!"
Ultron then karate chopped his arm off, glowing hot enough to cut it and cauterize the cut, disarming Klaue.
"Yeah, the author went there." Pinkie said, confusing everyone near her.
"Pinkie, what are you talking about?" Natasha asked.
"Take it from us, you're better off not questioning her." Rainbow Dash said. "She's a random one."
"Oh, sorry, I'm sorry." Ultron said. "I'm sure that's going to be ok. I'm sorry, it just, I don't understand, don't compare me, with Stark!" He then kicked Klaue down some stairs, which his minion then ran after him to get away from the killer robot. "It's a thing with me, Stark he's a sickness!"
"Aw, junior." Tony said, making the four enemies turn to see him, Captain America, Thor, and Spyro come into the room. "You're going to break your old mans heart.
"If I have to." Ultron replied.
"Do we have to break anything?" Thor asked.
"Clearly you never made an omelet." Ultron replied.
"Beat me by one second." Tony said.
"Ah, this is fine Mr. Stark." Piedro said, looking around. "Feel at home here?"
Spyro looked around and saw all of the illegal weapons and munitions that Klaue had gotten his hands on, seeing the massive amounts of fire power.
"This was never my life." Tony replied.
"You two can still walk away from this."
"Oh, we will." Wanda replied sarcastically.
"Look, we know the two of you have suffered." Spyro said, trying to reach them.
"Ah, Captain America." Ultron said. "Gods righteous man. Pretending you can live without a war." I can't physically throw up in my mouth, but-"
"If you believe in peace, then let us keep it." Thor said, trying to diffuse the situation.
"I think you're confusing peace with quiet." Ultron suggested.
"What's the vibranium for?" Tony asked.
"I'm glad you asked." Ultron relied. "Because, I want to take this time to explain my evil plan."
As he said, that, he used his magnetic gauntlets to subdue Tony and blast him, the billionaire charging Ultron and engaging him, while multiple robots coming down from the ceiling and engaging Spyro, Steve, and Thor, but Spyro managed to destroy his robot with ease, crushing it with the Force before rushing the twins, but May got in the way, their Keyblades clashing against one another before the two of them leapt off the catwalk and onto the ground, where the two of them unleashed a fury of spells and attacks, being careful not to set off the explosives as his friends handled the robots. However, moments later, some Grublins popped out of the ground and surrounded everyone, but the ponies called their Keyblades and attacked the grublins and provided support for their friends however they could. On the ground, Spyro had just dismissed his original Keyblade and called May's old one, the two Keyblade warriors duking it out on the ground, exchanging hits and blows against one another until they each nailed each other in the stomachs, pushing them away from the other as they were both out of breath, gunfire going off behind them, but neither one flinched.
"You're stronger than we last met." May said. "Before, you couldn't take me without your friends to fuse with you."
"Yeah, well, I picked up a few new tricks." Spyro replied. "Like the one with your Keyblade purifying you."
"That will never happen." May replied. "My heart is too far gone. Nothing will save me."
"I have to at least try." Spyro said, walking to her. "May, I was wrong about you. You aren't a lost cause. I know you're still in there. Please, wake up, come back to us." He approached her, which she held up her Keyblade, but her arm started to shake, looking down to see tendrils of darkness fighting against tendrils of light, shocking her as she tried to figure out what to do, but looked up to see Spyro swinging her old Keyblade. "WAKE UP!"
As he struck her over the eye again, the sky above started to turn to night, purple and blue lightning above crackling across the heavens as May collapsed to the ground, coughing a bit before looking up, her yellow eyes turned back to green as she looked up at him.
"Spyro?" She asked, getting up. "Is... is it really...?"
"May." Spyro said, dismissing the Keyblade.
However, before he could hug her, he felt like someone was trying to mess with his mind, feeling the chaotic energy coming from Wanda trying to mess with her mind, but he focused his thoughts, making it difficult for her to see while also showing her his memories, revealing to her who he was, his life, and everything that had happened to him, his happiness with his friends, the battles and struggles he has faced, even everything about Equestria, which seemed to cause her to stagger backwards, falling to her knees as she looked to him.
"You... you have no fear." She said. "How? Where is your fear? You're torment? Your regrets?"
"Simple." Spyro said, turning to face her. "I have none. My only regret is not getting to May before Malefor did." He then turned to face his friend, whose eyes turned back to yellow as she ran away. "Someday, I'll get her back."
He looked down and saw that Wanda was gone, leaving him alone on the ground, wondering how he was going to save May when he noticed his friends, all seemingly affected by whatever Wanda did to them.
"Spyro, we got a problem." Tony said. "Hulk is on the loose and I need Natasha and Fluttershy here now."
"Yeah, not going to happen for a while." Barton said. "The whole team is down. I'm afraid you have no backup."
"Not exactly true." Spyro replied. "Tony, I'm going to help Barton get everyone to the jet. Can you slow Hulk down long enough for me to get there?"
"I'll do what I can." Tony replied.
Spyro then helped Barton with getting the team out of the beached ships, getting them back to the jet one after the other, but as he helped get the last one onto the jet, Spyro saw how badly in shape his friends were, but saw Fluttershy was in tears, her eyes both red from the spell Wanda did to her and from the crying, so he just put his hands on the temple of her head, and concentrated with the Force, feeling her fear and despair and relieving it. After a bit, Fluttershy stopped crying and looked relieved, looking up to Spyro and seeing he was helping her to overcome whatever happened to her and hugged him, still crying a bit as she did.
"Oh Spyro." She said. "I... I..."
"Hey, it's ok little butterfly." Spyro said, hugging her back. "You're ok now. you're safe."
"Spyro, we got a very, very big problem here." Tony said.
"Don't worry Tony, I'm on my way." Spyro replied. "I managed to break the spell that Wanda used on Fluttershy, we're on our way to you now to help with Hulk."
"Yeah, Hulk has been subdued." Tony said. "Literally had to drop a building on him just to snap him out of it. But the authorities are trying to cage up Hulk. I need you to create a little cloud coverage here, if you know what I mean."
"Right, in my way." Spyro said, he and Fluttershy ending the hug. "Barton, get this bird in the air!" Spyro then grew his wings and flew out of the jet, heading straight for the city, seeing all the chaos and destruction that was caused by a rampaging Hulk and Iron Man in his Hulk buster suit, the local authorities trying to seize him as people ran away from him, the entire army ready to open fire on the downed Hulk, who was turning back into Bruce Banner. "Can;t have you harm one of my friends now can I? Let's hope this spell works." He raised his hand and a dark shadow appeared in it, clouds coming from the sky and mixing with the shadowy orb making dark clouds. "Dark Fog!"
He thrusted his hand down and a torrent of dark clouds flew down onto the ground, obscuring their view and making it virtually impossible for anyone to see anything, giving Tony the chance to get Bruce out of there and into the jet as it flew over head. Everyone managed to get into the jet and then took off, heading away from the city as the clouds disappeared and restored visibility, but as they were flying, Spyro looked at everyone and saw how shaken up they were, his friends looking like they had seen a ghost, all looking to Spyro like he was a walking dead man, but they all rushed over and hugged him, though Rainbow Dash tried to keep her cool, he could see she was shaking pretty badly from what she saw. As it was turning into night, the effects of Wanda's mind warp started to fade, everyone coming out of it, but still looked shaken, including Bruce, who was worried that he had harmed someone while as the Hulk, but from what one of Tony's employees told him, there were no warrants out for his arrest yet, but they were still up in the air about it, indicating they needed to find a safe place to lay low for a while, which Barton had the perfect place,which was his home, so they set course for his home to lay low and rest for a while.
Elsewhere, at a genetic research lab in Seoul, Dr. Cho was walking to her office and passed through the automatic doors when she saw Ultron, her blood going cold as soon as she saw him.
"Scream and your entire staff die." Ultron threatened, keeping her quiet. "I could have killed you that night. I didn't."
"Do you expect a thank you note?" Dr. Cho asked.
"I expect you to understand why." Ultron replied, looking to the regeneration cradle.
"The cradle." Cho said.
"This is the next me." Ultron said.
"The regeneration cradle reprints tissue." Cho pointed out. "It's can't print a human body."
"It can." Ultron replied. "You can. You just lack the materials." A moment later, one of his drones walked up with a container of Vibranium, the doctor knowing what he had in store. "You're a brilliant doctor Helen. But there is still room for improvement."
As he said it, one of his drones walked up behind her, which she turned around, but the scepter was fully charged and the tip of the scepter was touched against her chest, feeling the manipulative power of the scepter flow through her veins and into her eyes, fully under Ultrons control to do his bidding. Back at Bartons home, everyone was adjusting well enough, though the Mane Six and Rosy were a hit with Barton's daughter, which was a surprise to everyone that Barton actually had a girlfriend and had kids, the daughter immediately liking the ponies as they liked her, Pinkie playing with her to keep her entertained while everyone else either flew to the clouds to rest, went tot he forest to think, or even took a bath or shower to wash away the muck and grime. Spyro however was outside and on the roof, lying back and looking to the sky, watching as Rainbow Dash was flying around trying to find a cloud she could lie on and get a nap in, thinking about their next move when everyone felt like they were ready for it. He then felt a disturbance in the Force, looking to his left as he saw Rosy Force jump onto the roof, walking over to him with an unhappy look in her eyes.
"Dad, can I ask you something?" Rosy asked.
"You just did." Spyro replied jokingly, chuckling a bit, but saw that she was serious. "But in all seriousness, what's eating ya?"
"It's when you were fighting May." She replied. "Before Wanda started to mess with my head, I noticed a change in May when you struck her, like there was light inside of her again. What changed?"
"Her Keyblade." Spyro replied, calling it and letting her put her hoof on it. "This blade belonged to her and it still has a strong connection to her. This is the key to saving her."
"Seriously dad?" Rosy asked, looking disappointed with him for the pun.
"Sorry Rosy." He replied. "Still, if her Keyblade can cleanse the darkness in her, maybe if I strike her enough, I might have a chance to purify her heart."
"It's just like I said dad." Rosy said, looking out to the others. "You can still help your friends, you just need to find the right way to do so." She then looked down, though she couldn't see anyone, she could feel that someone was there. "I think we got company."
Spyro sat up and looked down, finding that Steve was chopping wood and Tony was in the barn trying to fix something, but he then saw him come out, he saw Director Fury, smiling to himself.
"Looks like Director Fury is here." Spyro said. "Seems he's here to give us a little help."
"Should we join him?" Rosy asked.
"We might as well." Spyro replied. "We're going to need all the help we can get."
He and Rosy hopped down from the roof right as the director was coming up the steps, landing on the ground and walking in right as Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy came over right as the sun was setting and dinner was being prepared, Bartons girlfriend, Laura, was making dinner with help from Applejack and Rarity so there was food for the ponies while Pinkie kept the daughter busy while Twilight was working on a way to defeat Ultron, but looked disturbed about something. As they were settling in right as the director was helping with cleaning a few dishes while everyone else was either eating or doing something else to keep themselves busy.
"My contacts are telling me that Ultron is building something." The director said. "And he needed you guys out of the way, take you out of play to buy himself time to build it. And with the amount of Vibranium he made off with, I don't think it's just one thing."
"What about Ultron himself?" Steve asked.
"Oh, he's easy to track." Fury replied. "He's everywhere. Guy's multiplying faster than a rabbit in heat."
"Then how do we beat him?" Rainbow Dash asked. "If he's multiplying himself that quickly, how do we beat him?"
"No clue." The director replied. "Still doesn't give us an angle on any of his plans though. Unless someone wants to fill us in on what he knows."
Everyone then stopped what they were doing, looking to Spyro as if he was a bomb ready to go off, his friends knowing he knew a lot more about this world, but knew he couldn't tell them what he knew, otherwise he'd be meddling and could have negative consequences.
"I have a theory about what he's planning on making." Spyro said. "And what he needed the scepter for. Though, I gotta ask, is he still going after the launch codes?"
"He is., but he isn't making any headway." Fury replied.
"I cracked pentagons firewall in high school as a dare." Tony said, bragging about it.
"That's because you're a computer tech genius." Rosy said.
"Well, Ah ain't no tech genius, but I know enough to know there must be a reason Ultron ain't getting them codes." Applejack said. "Maybe it's a message or something."
"Give the orange pony a cigar." Fury said. "I contacted some of my people in the Nexus to check on that."
"Nexus?" Steve asked.
"It's the world internet hub in Oslo." Bruce answered. "Every byte of data flows through them. Fastest access on the earth."
"And from what they told me, he's still fixated on the missiles." Fury said. "But the codes are constantly being changed."
"By who?" Tony asked.
"Unknown." Fury replied.
"So we have an ally?" Natasha asked.
"Or Ultron has an enemy." Spyro said. "Still, we can't fully trust who it is at the current moment. You asked me what I know, here's what I know. It's more like a theory, but I think with that much Vibranium, Ultrons probably going to build himself a body, and indestructible one and with the scepters power fused with it."
"And he believes he's following the mission for peace." Fury said. "Whether he likes to admit it or not, his mission is global destruction."
The room fell silent as he said that, everyone knowing he was right and Ultron was going to destroy the planet, believing himself helping to bring global peace through destruction, which was why he needed the codes. Spyro finished his plate of food and took it to the sink to clean it, listening to everyone talking until he heard his name, looking back.
"So Spyro, you say he's going to build himself a body." Fury pointed out. "How would he accomplish this and why?"
"Well, the why is the easiest thing to answer." Spyro replied. "Machines, like us, are always wanting to be better, we sometimes make them better for our own use. With AI, they are constantly looking to become better, to learn and adapt to their environment. Ultron is no different as with a Vibranium shell, he'd be near invincible. I am also working on something myself, a suit of armor of my own, but it's not quite ready yet. Still, he's wanting to evolve and..." That's when he remembered something, a specific piece to Ultrons evolution that he failed to remember, looking to everyone else as he remembered who he needed to complete his evolution. "Has anyone been in contact with Dr. Cho recently?"
In an unknown section of the research lab, Cho was working on the new body for Ultron, attaching the Mind Stone to the forehead after getting it out of the scepter while the new body was being made for Ultron, who was preparing himself to transfer his consciousness into his new body while May was leaning against the wall of the room, clearly annoyed, but she reached her hand up to her eye, still feeling the effects of the slash from her old Keyblade, still feeling it's sting before looking to her right arm, her mind going back to see the tendrils of light fighting the darkness, feeling as if something had changed in her.
Cellular cohesion will take a few hours." Dr. Cho said. "But we can initiate the consciousness dream." She then hooked Ultron to the machine, which seemed to cause him a bit of discomfort. "We're uploading your cerebral matrix... now."
That was when Wanda walked in, looking amazed, but also concerned.
"I can read him." Wanda said. "He's... dreaming."
"I wouldn't call is dreaming." Cho replied. "It's just Ultrons base consciousness. Informational noise. Soon-"
"How soon?" Ultron asked. "I'm not being too pushy, am I?"
"We're imprinting a physical brain." Cho replied. "There are no short cuts. Even with magic gems."
"Look inside." Wanda heard a voice, turning to her brother and to May, who he seemed to be trying to hit on her, but she just punched him in the balls, dropping him instantly. "Madness breeds madness. See what Ultron sees. See the monster he truly is."
Wanda did as instructed, she touched the cradle and looked into Ultrons memories and thought, but then screamed when she saw the world being destroyed by an incoming meteor that was made by Ultron, staggering backwards as her brother caught her, Ultron and May looking to them.
"H-how could you?" Wanda asked.
"How could I what?" Ultron asked.
"You said... we'd destroy the Avengers, not the planet." Wanda said, her brother looking to the metal man. "Make a better world."
"It will be better." Ultron replied.
"When everyone is dead?" Wanda asked.
"That is not..." Ultron said, about to loose his temper, but caught himself. "The human race will have every opportunity to improve and evolve."
"And if they don't?" Piedro asked.
"Ask Noah." Ultron replied.
"You're a madman." Wanda said.
"Comes with the territory love." May said, walking up to Ultron. "We made a deal, Ultron and I. We help him to destroy the Avengers and the Prince of Light and Darkness, his friends deaths and added bonus, and he helps us acquire the Infinity Stones for my master, helping to free him."
"You're both insane!" Piedro said. "This is insanity!"
"There are more than a dozen extinction-level events out in the world." Ultron replied. "Even the dinosaurs got theirs. When the world settles, God throws a stone at it. And believe me, he's winding up. There is no room for the weak. Humanity must evolve."
"Free her." Wanda heard.
She used her powers and immediately, the power over the doctor was broken, freeing her from Ultrons control.
"And who decides who's weak?" Piedro asked.
"Get ready to run." Piedro heard, not knowing if the voice can be trusted, but got ready anyway.
"Oh, I've all his designs." Ultron replied, but then picked something up, looking to the roof. "Something's coming. The Quinn jet, and the prince. We have to move."
"That's not a problem." Cho said, stopping the upload.
As she did it however, Ultron blasted her and his bots started to blast the personnel, the brother taking the opportunity and picked his sister up, getting them out of their while Ultron was seething in anger from what had just happened.
"They'll understand." Ultron said to himself. "When they see, they'll understand. I just need a little more time."
Ultron and his minions then moved the cradle out of the lab, May following close behind as she smiled to herself, please that eveyrthing was going as planned. Outside, Spyro was with Steve, Barton, and Natasha in the Quinn jet, Spyro using his powers to contact the twins and warn them about Ultron, opening his his eyes to see they were glowing purple before fading.
"Ultron was there." Spyro said. "Cap, get in there and find the doctor, we'll stay in the air to make sure he doesn't get away."
They flew to the nearby building and dropped him off and flying in the air, Spyro sensing through the Force that Ultron was already on the move and was watching everything outside of the window, watching the vehicles moving as if waiting to see something to happen.
"You were right Spyro." Barton said. "Ultron is making a body for himself with the Vinbranium, cap called it in. It has a gem in it that has some kind of uncontrollable power."
"I can control it." Spyro said, getting their attention. "I've handled a gem like it, I can do the same with this one."
"You sure you can handle it?" Natasha asked.
"Positive." Spyro replied.
"That's all I needed to hear." She said, looking at all modes of transportation. "There's a private jet with no cargo manifest, that could be it."
"No, that's not it." Spyro answered, closing his eyes and hearing the stone's song, feeling its power as he focused with the Force. "It's moving, on wheels. Moving quickly, and I hear the roar of an engine, I transport truck."
"Well, I see one with the research labs logo on it." Barton said, Spyro walking up to him. "And scans reveal three with the cradle, one in the cab."
"That's it." Spyro said. "Get me in close and I can got on it. Cap?"
"I see it." Steve replied. "Getting to the top now."
The jet flew overhead and both Spyro and Steve jumped onto the roof of the trucks cargo bay, Steve rolling around a bit and hanging onto the door while Spyro was holding his footing on top, getting his lightsaber ready to cut a hole in the roof when the door exploded, Spyro carefully moving to the back and saw the door was hanging on by a thread with the Captain on it.
"Cap, you ok!?" Spyro asked.
"Yeah, dandy." He replied. "He's definitely unhappy. Let's see if we can keep him that way."
Ultron then came up and pushed the avenger onto another car while Spyro watched, reaching out with the Force and picking the captain up, bringing him to the roof of the cargo bay when Ultron came flying up.
"You know what's in that cradle?" He asked, firing his finger cannons and hitting the avengers shield. "The power to make real change. And it terrifies you."
"Wouldn't exactly call it a comfort." Steve said, throwing his shield.
His shield hit him a few times while Spyro just dodged the laser fire, letting the Force guide him until the shield got stuck in Ultrons chest, ripping it out and knocking it out onto the street before hitting the captain int he chest before focusing on Spyro, who ignited his Lightsaber and started to deflect his bolts, using his saber to block the blasts and doing some flips while Captain America dealt with Ultron one on one without his shield. A bit later, Natasha came over and threw the captain his shield, which he used to knock Ultron down and who caused some of the road to pop up to take Black Widow out, but she stopped and changed her course while Spyro and Steve tag teamed the Terminator wannabe, which Ultron knocked the captain into another car before using the ground to flip it over, giving Spyro the chance to attack, swinging and slashing at the death bot, but he dodged and used his finger cannons to try and hit him, but it didn't work as Spyro's Jedi training made it impossible for him to be hit as he dodged the attacks.
"Ah, using your Jedi training for this fight?" Ultron asked, surprising Spyro. "Your friend told me all about your Jedi training and Force abilities. Tell me, which form are you using?"
"Form III: Soresu." Spyro replied. "It's more of a defensive form, mainly used for defense, blocking and reflecting blaster bolts."
"Yes, quite fascinating really." Ultron said. "But it won't save you from attacks from multiple sides."
As he said it, his two opinions flew out of the back and pointed their cannons at him, but he smiled as he twisted the bottom half of his lightsaber, revealing it was a double sides lightsaber that can separate into two, igniting the other half as the robots started firing, Spyro using both sabers to deflect and reflect, reflecting the attacks back to Ultron, who got into the fight, but Spyro just flipped and dodged like it was no tomorrow, deflecting and blocking until the bots and Ultron stopped, Spyro holding both sabers in his hands as he took a stance like Ashoka did when she had two sabers, smiling.
"You think I know only single lightsaber forms?" Spyro asked. "This is Jar'kai, the use of more than one single bladed lightsaber or a double-bladed lightsaber to fight. Though, I did some tweaking with the form to make it both defensive and offensive, combining Form III and Form IV, Soresu and Ataru."
A moment later, Steve hopped back onto the top of the container right as the jet came and blasted Ultron, who didn't seem happy about that and sent his minions to go after the jet, leaving him with the Avenger and the Jedi knight.
"You think you can beat me?" Ultron asked.
"We're doing a good job so far rust bucket." Spyro replied.
The captain then threw his shield, hitting Ultron and getting it back before knocking him into a support pillar, which he didn't like as he charged at the captain and knocked them both into a moving train, which Spyro leapt over into the gap and reengaged Ultron, swiping and slashing at him, but the machine dodged his attacks and fired his laser into Spyro's chest, intensifying the lasers heat and burning through the fabric, but Spyro just smiled, moving his sabers into the beams and deflecting them back at Ultron, knocking him back and leaving him confused.
"How?" Ultron asked. "That should have killed you."
"You're not the only one with surprises." Spyro replied.
Ultron then tried to scan him, figure out what he had that made it impossible for him to be killed when he detected the metal underneath his shirt, analyzing it, but not finding any matches to known metals on the planet, the signature not even matching Vibranium.
"What are you wearing?" Ultron asked.
Before getting his answer, Ultron was knocked down by something very fast, revealing it to be Piedro who came to the rescue, which Ultron didn't expect and wanted to attack him, but was blocked off by the rails you would use to hold your luggage, finding that it was Wanda who was blocking him, both the Captain and Spyro surprised they were helping them.
"Please, don't do this." Ultron pleaded.
"What choice have you given us?" Wanda asked, looking to Spyro and to the captain.
Annoyed by the betrayal, Ultron tried to blast Piedro, but he ducked out of the way and was fortunate enough to have dodged it, but he hit the conductor and killed him, sending the train on a crash course with the city streets as the tract was ending.
"We lost him." Steve said. "Barton, if you and Natasha are getting the package, get it and get out. Ultron is heading your way."
He got to the front of the train and confirmed the conductor was dead while the train derailed and was skidding uncontrollably along the street.
"Cap, Spyro, do either of you have eyes on Nat?" Barton asked.
"Barton, if you have the package, get out of here!" Steve ordered. "Get it to Stark!"
"Have you guys seen Nat!?" Barton asked.
"No, but I can sense her." Spyro replied. "She's alive. Must have fallen into the water. Get the cradle out of here and get it to Tony at the tower, we'll meet up with you there."
Without waiting to be told twice, Barton took the Quinn jet and took it out of the battle zone, heading straight for Tony so they can see what it was Ultron was up to. Meanwhile, the train was out of control, rolling through the streets as the people ran for safety, trying to find a place to protect themselves from the derailed train.
"Civilians on the street." Steve said.
"On it." Spyro said.
He pulled the screen out on his bracers and tapped them a couple of times, deactivating the gravity field around him and time slowed down, both he and Piedro running out and picking civilians up from off the street that were in the way of the derailed train, putting them some place safe before moving onto the next one, both of them working together while Wanda was using her powers to slow the train. After a minute, the train finally stopped, slowing down until it came it came to a full stop, smoke coming from it as passengers came out of the train, both Spyro and Piedro out of breath as they sat down.
"You... You're very fast." Piedro said, complimenting him.
"Thanks, same to you." Spyro replied, Piedro recognizing the voice.
"Wait, it was you who warned me to run, why?" Piedro asked.
"Because I knew you were angry with Stark." Spyro answered. "For weapons used by a terrorist group that destroyed your home. But Stark no longer makes weapons for sale. He's more into creating clean energy for every city he can."
"Piedro." Wanda said, running up to the two of them, but then saw Spyro and froze. "You? You told me to look into Ultrons mind, didn't you?"
"Honestly, one of the best things I could have done for you." Spyro said, seeing Steve walk up to them, reconnecting the saber hilts and putting it on his belt. "Well, you made it out in one piece."
"I'm tempted not to give them a chance to rest." Steve said, walking to them. "But I'm glad they came along."
"The cradle, did you get it?" Wanda asked.
"We got it alright." Spyro replied. "It's heading straight to Stark."
"No, no he can't be trusted." Wanda said.
"You don't know what you're talking about." Steve said.
"He will do anything to make things right." Wanda said.
"You're right, he will." Spyro responded, drawing eye to him.
"Then you know he can't activate the weapon." Wanda pointed out.
"Oh, he's going to alright." Spyro said, shocking them. "Because whatever is in that cradle, Ultrons creation, becomes his undoing."
"You mean... young knew this was going to happen?" Piedro asked.
"I did." Spyro answered. "The Force revealed to me how to beat Ultron. We have the main component. We only need two more things." Spyro stood up, cracking his back and his neck. "Thor and his lightning... and JARVIS."