Part III

Chapter 3:

Ultron

Evyn leaned against the wall going through her thoughts and humanity in itself. She lifted her head seeing Thor dressed in his usual clothing. "You know, I was thinking Thor. Why no one could pick up your hammer. Other than not being worthy…" She look over at Thor who stopped in his tracks to listen to her. "Humans…no matter how much I envy them…they are worse than demons. They choose to do evil with no reason other than selfishness."

Thor looked at her. "I take it this is one of these situations."

"He lied to you. In a sense." Evyn sighed. "He tried to do right, but brought evil."

Thor nodded and walked off towards the lab with the half-devil right behind him. He made his way over to Tony and easily lifted him up by his neck.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Bruce called out, reaching to stop Thor, but was stopped by Evyn who had the sheath of her sword pointing at his neck.

"It's going around." Clint called out looking at Thor and then at Evyn.

"Come on, use your words, buddy." Tony chocked out looking at Thor.

"I have more than enough words to describe you, Stark." Thor stated glaring at Tony.

"Thor! The Legionnaire." Steve called out walking over.

Evyn put her sword away and walked over to Thor just as he placed Tony down shoving him.

"Trail went cold about 100 miles out, but it's headed north." Thor explained. "And it has the scepter. Now we have to retrieve it, again."

"Genie's out of that bottle." Natasha sighed. "Clear and present is Ultron.

"I don't understand." Dr. Cho stated looking at the broken robots, then over at Tony. "You built this program. Why is it trying to kill us?"

Evyn frowned hearing Tony laughing. She stood up straight glaring at him. "You got to be…"

"You think this is funny?" Thor questioned.

"No." Tony stated turning to Thor. "It's probably not, right? This is very terrible. Is it so…It is, it's so terrible." Tony stated with a small giggle.

"This could have been avoided if you hadn't played with something you don't understand." Thor hissed out.

"No. No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, it is funny." Tony stated walking up to Thor, glaring at him. "It's a hoot that you don't get why we need this."

"Tony, maybe this might not be the time." Bruce muttered.

"Really? That's it?" Tony snapped glaring at Bruce. "You just roll over, show your belly every time somebody snarls?"

"Only when I've created a murder bot." Bruce stated.

"We didn't. We weren't even close." Tony countered. "Were we close to an interface?"

"Well, you did something right. And you did it right here." Steve stated looking at Tony. "The Avengers were supposed to be different than Shield.

"Anybody remember when I carried a nuke through a wormhole?" Tony asked looking around.

"No, it's never come up." Rhodey stated with a shrug.

"Saved New York?" Tony asked again. "Recall that?"

"Stark, if this is about a Thank you, then you already got it after that." Evyn snapped.

"No, it's not about a thank you. A hostile alien army came charging through a hole in space. We're standing 300 feet below it. We're the Avengers. We can bust arms dealers all the livelong day, but that up there, that's…that's the endgame." He look around at everyone in the room again. "How were you guys planning on beating that?"

"Together." Steve stated looking at Tony with worried eyes.

"We'll lose." Tony countered.

"Then we'll do that together, too." Steve stated. "Thor's right. Ultron's calling us out. And I'd like to find him before he's ready for us. The world's a big place. Let's start making it smaller.

In Sokovia, the Maximoff twins made their way up to the old church in the center of town. Pietro look at his younger twin.

"You sure, about this?" Pietro asked looking at his sister.

"Not entirely, but yes." Wanda nodded opening the gate and walking in. Looking around, she spots a figure on the chair waiting. "Talk, and if you are wasting our time…"

"Did you know this church is in the exact center of the city? Ultron asked from his seat. "The elders decreed it so that everyone could be equally close to God. I like that. The geometry of belief." There was a long pause before he spoke up. "You're wondering why you can't look inside my head."

"Sometimes it's hard." Wanda stated. "But sooner or later, every man shows himself."

Ultron stood up revealing himself to the twins. "I'm sure they do. But you need something more than a man. That's why you let Stark take the scepter."

"I didn't expect," Wanda started looking at Ultron closely. "But I saw Stark's fear. I knew it would control him. Make him self-destruct."

"Everyone creates the thing they dread." Ultron pointed out with a shrug. "Men of peace create engines of war. Invaders create Avengers. People create…smaller people? 'Children'. I lost the word, there. Children designed to supplant them, to help them end."

"Is that why you've come to end the Avengers?" Wanda asked.

"I've come to save the world." Ultron stated. "But also….yeah." He shrugged.

At the Hydra compound, Ultron lead the twins to the main workshop where robot and mechanical part were spread apart.

"We'll move out right away." Ultron explained. "This is a start, but there's something we need to begin the real work."

Wanda look around and said slowly, "All of these are…."

"Me." Ultron finished. "I have what the Avengers never will. Harmony." He explained. "They're discordant. Disconnected. Stark's already got them turning on each other. And when you get inside the rest of their heads…"

"Everyone's plan is not to kill them." Pietro interrupted with a sigh.

"And make them martyrs?" Ultron asked flying towards the twins. "You need patience. Need to see the big picture."

"I don't see the big picture. I have a little pictures." Pietro stated bluntly. "I take them out and look at them, every day."

"You lost your parents in the bombings. I've seen the records." Ultron stated.

"Don't remember our parents. Uncle and aunt died that day." Pietro corrected with a snarl. "The records are not the picture."

"Pietro." Wanda whispered grabbing his arm.

"No, please." Ultron said looking at the elder twin.

Pietro look at his sister and explained. "We were 10 years old. Having dinner, the four of us. Uncle was telling us stories of our parents again. Like he always did…when the first shell hits, two floors below, it makes a hole in the floor. It's big. Our uncle and aunt go in and the whole building starts coming apart. I grab her, roll under the bed, and the second shell hits. But it doesn't go off. It just…sits there in the rubble. Three feet from our faces. And on the side of the shell is painted one word."

"'Stark'." Wanda stated looking at Ultron.

"We were trapped for two days." Pietro stated.

"Every effort to save us, every shift in the bricks, I think, 'This will set it off'. We wait for two days for Tony Stark to kill us." Wanda stated.

"I know what they are." Pietro muttered.

Ultron looked at the twins closely. "I wondered why only you two survived Strucker's experiments. Now I don't. We will make it right. You and I can hurt them. But you will tear them apart. From the inside." He explained looking at Pietro then at Wanda.

Evyn leaned against the table with a sigh, looking at the rising sun when Steve walked in with a tablet in his hands. She sat up straight, watching Steve handing it over to Thor while Tony walked over to get a glimpse of the tablet.

"What's this?" Tony questioned.

"A message. Ultron killed Strucker." Steve explained looking at Tony.

Tony caught the tablet just as Thor shoved it into his chest. Flipping it over he looked at it. "And he did a Banksy at the crime scene, just for us."

"This is a smoke screen." Natasha explained looking at the picture. "Why send a message when you've just given a speech?"

"Strucker knew something that Ultron wanted us to miss." Steve muttered.

"Yeah…I bet he…." Natasha trailed off looking at the computer screen. She typed a few things and let out a sigh. "Yeah. Everything we had on Strucker's been erased."

"Not everything." Steve stated looking at the group.

Evyn raised her eyebrow at that. "What you mean?"

Steve waved everyone to follow him.

Evyn sat on the table looking through the box and through the files that Steve showed them reading each one carefully.

"Known associates. Strucker had a lot of friends." Steve pointed out.

"Friends. Didn't know he knew that word." Evyn muttered opening a file and then closing it.

"Well, these people are all horrible." Bruce stated opening another file.

"Wait." Tony stated looking at the file that Bruce is holding. "I know that guy." He took the file from Bruce looking it over. "From back in the day. He operates off the African coast. Black market arms." He handed the photo over to Thor.

Evyn leaned over to look at it.

"There are conventions. All right? You meet people." Tony stated looking at Steve. "I didn't sell him anything." He looks over the file again before speaking. "He was talking about finding something new, a game-changer. It was all every Ahab."

"This?" Thor asked pointing at the tattoo on his arm.

"It's a tattoo, I don't think he had it." Tony stated.

Evyn leaned over the boxes to look at the tattoos they're talking about. "Wait…that's not a tattoo."

Thor nodded his head and point at the man's front neck. "Those are tattoos." He then pointed at his side neck at a burn like mark. "This is a brand."

Bruce turned around and looked up the brand, before speaking up. "Yeah. It's a word in an African dialect meaning 'thief'. In a much less friendly way."

"What dialect?" Steve asked.

"Wakanada." Bruce stated and turned around trying to pronounce the word. "Wakanda."

"If this guy got out of Wakanda with some of their trade goods…" Tony muttered to Steve.

Steve leaned in with narrowed eyes. "I thought your father said he got the last of it."

"I don't follow." Bruce stated walking over to them. "What comes out of Wakanda?"

"The strongest metal on Earth." Tony stated.

Evyn followed Steve's gaze to the shield, then up to Tony.

"Where's this guy now?" Steve asked turning to Tony.

"Africa?" Evyn hummed looking at Steve. "It's just a guess."

"This the place." Evyn muttered pulling her hood up. "Gross."

"Won't be here too long. Come on." Tony stated getting geared up.

"Banner, you stay here." Steve stated looking at Bruce.

The doctor nodded his head. "Alright."

Evyn sighed. "Let's go get Stark's illegitimate robot child."

"He is not…well okay you might be right." Tony hummed flying towards the ship.

"Stark. He's a sickness!" Ultron hissed.

"Aw. Junior." Tony sighed lowering himself down onto the walkway of the ship with Thor, and Steve behind him.

Evyn carefully walking on the lower deck below them getting a good eye on Ultron and the twins.

"You're gonna break your old man's heart." Tony added looking at Ultron.

"If I have to." Ultron stated looking at Tony.

Evyn shifted closer to the shadows drawing her guns out slowly. Her long black trench coat swaying slightly as she shifted.

"Nobody has to break anything." Thor stated.

"Clearly you've never made an omelet." Ultron stated looking at the three heroes.

"He beat me by one second." Tony stated turning his head slightly to Thor.

"Yes. He's funny. Mr. Stark." Pietro stated walking forward looking at the older male. "It's what? Comfortable?"

"Is it me or does he sound like someone we know." Tony muttered looking at his two companions.

"Focus." Evyn hissed through the coms.

Pietro shifted his eyes slightly downwards to the missiles, narrowly spotting Evyn's hiding spot. "Just like old times."

"This was never my life." Tony stated following Pietro's gaze to the missiles.

"You two can still walk away from this." Steve stated taking a few steps forward.

"Aw, we will." Wanda cooed looking at Steve with a small smirk on her lips.

"I know you've suffered." Steve noded.

"Her smirked looked like…" Tony muttered.

"Focus." Evyn hissed again.

Ultron made a disgusted sound and shook his head. "Captain America. God's righteous man. Pretending you could 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 called out.

"I think you're confusing 'peace' with 'quiet'." Ultron pointed out.

Tony hummed at that. "What's the vibranium for?"

"I'm glad you asked that." Ultron stated with a happy tone. "Because I wanted to take this time to explain my evil plan."

Evyn watched as Ultron pushed Tony back with a last while two robots attacked Steve and Thor. She got her guns read, watching Tony and Ultron fight in the air. She turned her head and punched one of the smugglers, using the blunt end of her guns she started to whack them and knock them out. "Play time?"

"Yup." Clint hummed.

"Great." Evyn smiled and kicked one of the smugglers hard shooting another one in their leg.

"Thor, status." Steve called out.

"The girl tried to warp my mind." Thor explained. "Take special care. I doubt a human could keep her at bay. Fortunately, I am mighty…."

Evyn frowned at the trail off as she flipped another smuggler and walking through the lower deck. "Steve, I don't like the sound of that."

"Stay sharp." Steve told her.

Evyn bit her lip looking around. She stopped hearing soft footsteps behind her. She narrowed her eyes when she felt a sudden flinch in her mind, and the devil within growled. She turned around quickly with her normal arm turning into that of her devil narrowly missing Wanda's neck.

Wanda backed off staring at Evyn in pure horror.

Evyn raised an eyebrow at her, crystal blue eyes now red. Her voice slightly deeper as she speaks. "Trust me kid. You don't want to do that." She turned her head slightly to see Wanda gone.

"Soon enough, you're going to go through this too kids." She muttered her body turning back to normal as she walked off.

"Clint, you good?" Evyn later called out looking around.

"Mostly." Clint grunted. "Who's ever standing, we got to move!"

Evyn frowned at the radio silence. "Um…guys?"

"Guys?" Clint called out. "Shit…"

"Stark is taking care of Ultron." Evyn stated walking around. "We find the others?"

"Yeah…"

Evyn looked up to see Steve on the floor without his mask on. "Found Cap."

"Good, think Thor can handle himself?"

"He's a god. He should be." Evyn muttered jogging over to the captain, and grabbing his arm. "Cap."

"Natasha, I could really use a lullaby." Tony stated over the com.

"Oh shit." Evyn muttered looking up then down at Steve.

"That's not gonna happen. Not for a while." Clint sighed. "Evyn, bring them over to the quinjet."

"Got it." Evyn sighed placing Steve's arm over her shoulders and leads him out, keeping an eye out for Thor. "Any eyes on Thor?"

"None yet." Clint sighed. "The whole team is down. You got no backup here."

"Evyn…?" Steve muttered looking at the half-devil.

"I'm calling in Veronica." Tony stated.

"Be careful." Evyn muttered leading Captain out and spotting Thor. "Clint, found our god."

"You think you can carry both?" Clint asked. "I'm already close to the quinjet."

Evyn hummed and made her way up to Thor. "Thor? Thor."

The god of thunder lifted his head up, seeing Evyn in front of him. "Lady Sparda…"

"Can you walk?" Evyn asked.

Thor breathed heavily and slowly got up, struggling a bit. Evyn sighed and gently placed Steve down. She looked at Thor.

"Please. Don't freak out." Evyn pleaded looking at Thor. "That's to you too Barton."

"Why?"

"I can carry them, but it'll be quicker as a devil." Evyn explained, and burgundy lighting coursed through her, as her body shifted from flesh to scales revealing her devil form. She reached down and easily lifted Steve up over her shoulder and took Thor's arm over her other shoulder. She then quickly dashed towards the quinjet.

Clint stood outside of the aircraft waiting for Evyn and Tony to come back. He shifted his eyes over towards the ships, where he noticed a burgundy blue making its way over. He frowned noticing a strange creature holding Steve and Thor.

"No…way…." Clint muttered watching it slow down in front of him gently letting each male go.

The devil form vanished revealing a tired Evyn breathing heavily. She looked up at him with worried eyes. "Hey…"

"I'm taking it that was your…"

Evyn nodded her head. "Yeah."

"And it's the same thing as…."

"Yup."

Clint nodded. "Okay then."

"You good?" Evyn asked standing up straight.

"I'm not the one who had a little witch mess with my mind." Clint sighed. "Did you get…"

"Yeah." Evyn nodded helping Steve inside. "Think I gave her nightmares."

"You changed?" Clint asked setting Thor down.

"Just the arm…but I did see…things I already accepted." Evyn muttered.

Clint nodded and turned his head over to the sound of Tony's Iron Man's suite landing with Bruce. "Okay…time to go."

Welp, that happened. Next is safehouse!

So yeah it really wouldn't be Devil May Cry without a devil trigger, right?

Let me know what you think!

See you next time!

Also, someone special is making a little appearance next.