A.N:Hope you enjoy!
In Korea, Cho is using the Cradle to create a new body for Ultron.
"It's beautiful. The Vibranium atoms aren't just compatible with the tissue cells, they're binding them. And SHIELD never even thought-" Helen said.
"The most versatile substance on the planet and they used it to make a Frisbee." Ultron interrupted her. "Typical of humans, they scratch the surface and never think to look within." Ultron uses a laser to break open the scepter's blue gem, and a yellow gem that was inside floats out and lands in his hand. He places it in the head of the body.
"What is that gem?"
"I don't know but it's beautiful." Ginny said, many girls agree with her as they look at the gem in awe.
But sadly many took notice Vision having a similar looking gem on his forehead, with one of them being Dumbledore.
Back at the Barton's farm, the team was getting ready for their mission.
"I'll take Natasha, Alex and Clint." Steve said.
"Alright, strictly recon. I'll hit the NEXUS, I'll join you as soon as I can." Tony said.
"If Ultron is really building a body..."
"He'll be more powerful than any of us. Maybe all of us. An android designed by a robot."
Many seemed horrified at the idea of the robot becoming more powerful, while the Purebloods scoffed thinking they could easily deal with it.
"You know I really miss the days when the weirdest thing science ever created was me." Steve said.
"I'll drop Banner off at the tower. Do you mind if I borrow Ms. Hill?" Fury asked.
"She's all yours, apparently." Tony replied.
"What are you gonna do?" Steve asked.
"I don't know." Fury replied. "Something dramatic, I hope."
Meanwhile, Clint was saying his goodbye to his wife.
"I'm gonna finish re-flooring that sunroom as soon as I get back." Clint said.
"Yeah, and then you'll find another part of the house to tear apart." Laura chuckled.
"She's not wrong." Natasha chuckled.
"No. It's the last project. I promise." Clint assured as he kisses her.
Later, Laura watches them fly off in the Quinjet. Meanwhile with Thor and Selvig, they enter a cave.
"This is it." Selvig said. "The Water of Sight."
"In every realm, there's a reflection. If the water spirits accept me, I can return to my dream, and find what I missed." Thor said.
Everyone looks incredulously at Thor, why would he want to go back in that dream?
"The men who enter that water, the legends don't end well." Selvig said.
NEXUS Internet Hub, Oslo, Norway.
"A hacker who's faster than Ultron? He could be anywhere." Tony said to the Tech, as he type on the computer. "And as this is the center of everything, I'm just a guy looking for a needle in the world's biggest haystack."
"How do you find it?"
"Pretty simple. You bring a magnet." Tony replied as he starts playfully singing as he continue typing. "Oh, I'm decrypting nuclear codes and you don't want me to. Come and get me."
Everyone laughed while Alex grimaced at hearing Tony sing.
Back at the cave with Thor and Selvig, Thor is now in the water and goes back in his vision with Heimdall.
"Wake up!" Heimdall said as Thor starts getting electric charges going through his body.
"Thor!" Selvig exclaimed
Thor start having vision and heard Ultron. "Extinction." Then he sees more... the Avengers, the destruction of Earth. He then sees the the Infinity Stones and their vessels.
"What are these stones, if you don't mind me asking, my boy?" Dumbledore asked, stroking his beard.
The Avengers, many Muggle-born, look at him in disbelief, while Thor was flabbergasted at being called a boy.
"Did... Did he just called Thor a boy?" Alex asked.
"He did." Clint laughed..
"Now listen, I'm literally much older than any of you, so I'm not a boy. And we have no obligation to answer your questions, so stop asking them." Thor said, Dumbledore have a grandfatherly smiled but deep down he was annoyed at not receiving an answered as it seems like he might not be able to get those people on his side...
Back in Korea with Dr. Cho, the Maximoff twins and Ultron.
"Cellular cohesion will take a few hours, but we can initiate the consciousness stream." Helen said as she walked over the computer and types. "We're uploading your cerebral matrix... now."
"I can read him." Wanda said. "He is dreaming."
"Robot can dream?" Dean wondered, confused.
"I wouldn't call it dreams." Helen said. "It's Ultron's base consciousness, informational noise. Soon..."
"How soon?" Ultron interrupted. "I'm not being pushy."
"At least he has some manner." Terry said.
"We're imprinting a physical brain. There are no shortcuts. Even if your magic gem is..." Helen said as Wanda walked closer to the Cradle, and start to read Ultron's mind, sees a vision of global annihilation, which horrifies her and she screams and falls back into Pietro's hold.
"What the fuck!?" The witches and wizards where clearly not expecting that.
"That's what you saw." Tonks said looking at the screen horrified.
"How could you?" Wanda asked, shakely.
"How could I what?"
"You said we would destroy the Avengers, make a better world." Wanda said.
"It will be better."
"When everyone is dead."
"That is not..." Ultron paused. "The human race will have every opportunity to improve."
"And if they don't?" Pietro asked.
"Ask Noah." Ultron replied.
"Who?" A pureblood asked.
"You're a madman." Wanda told him.
"There were more than a dozen extinction level events before even the dinosaurs got theirs. When the Earth starts to settle, God throws a stone at it, and believe me, he's winding up. We have to evolve. There's no room for the weak."
"And who decides who's weak?" Pietro asked, while Ultron was distracted Wanda breaks the scepter's hold off of Cho.
"Life. Life always decides." Ultron said, when he suddenly received a notification. "There's incoming... The Quinjet. We have to move."
"That's not a problem." Helen said as she cancels the upload to Ultron's consciousness, which annoyed Ultron.
"Ugh." Ultron blasts Cho, as Wanda and Pietro immediately took off running. "Ah, wait, guys!" Ultron's robot start blasting Cho's technicians. "They'll understand. When they see they'll understand. I just need a little more time." He said as he unplugs himself from the Cradle, and with the help of his robots he takes the Cradles out of there.
Many around the Great Hall gasped worriedly for Cho and her techinicians.
Steve and Alex gets drop off closed by Dr. Cho labs.
"Two minutes. Stay close." Steve said.
Moments later, they ran inside the lab and they finds Cho on the ground.
"Helen!" Alex said as he run over to her along with Steve. They noticed her injury.
Poppy frowned at seeing her injury. "This doesn't look good." She said worriedly.
Helen grunted. "He's uploading himself into the body."
"Where?" Steve asked.
"The real power is inside the Cradle. The gem, its power is uncontainable. You can't just blow it up. You have to get the Cradle to Stark."
"First I have to find it." Steve replied.
Helen nodded. "Go."
The two left Helen after tending to her wound and sprinted out of the lab. Steve started speaking into his earpiece.
Poppy along with many others sighed in relief at them tending her wound.
"Did you guys copy that?"
"We did." Clint replied, who was inside the Quinjet with Natasha.
"I got a private jet taking off, across town, no manifest." Natasha informed. "That could be him."
Clint looked at the highway and spotted a cargo truck. "There. It's a truck from the lab. Right above you, Cap. On the loop by the bridge." Alex and Steve began climbing up the ladder to the overpass. "It's them. I got three with the Cradle, one in the cab. I could take out the driver."
"Negative! If that truck crashes, the gem could level the city." Steve responded. "We need to draw out Ultron."
Alex looked around and saw the cargo truck coming towards them. "They are coming!"
They waited for the right moment before jumping off and landed on the top of the truck. Alex landed perfectly while Steve did so awkwardly and fell over the edge. He fortunately grabbed onto the edge.
"Hold on." Alex yelled as he went over to help.
Inside the truck, Ultron heard the commotion and realized they were on to him.
"No, no, no, no. Leave me alone!" Ultron yelled as he shot a beam from his arm. The shot open the truck's cargo door making Steve dangled from it.
"He looks like a child throwing a tantrum." Sam said, as many laughed.
The door closed but Ultron blasted it off its hinges, Steve leaped off and grabbed onto the side of the truck.
"Well, he's definitely not happy." Alex remarked as he helped Steve up.
"You guys are no match for him." Clint said through the comms.
"Thanks, Barton."
Ultron got out of the truck and levitated over them.
"You know what's in that Cradle?" Ultron asked before shooting a beam at them, Steve deflect it using his shield. "The power to make real change, and that terrifies you."
"Not alot of things scare me." Alex said as he throw a baton at Ultron, it hit the robot and Steve tossed his shield next. Ultron was irate and shot more beams out of his hands, Alex evaded his attacks and kicked Steve shield, this time it get stuck in Ultron's chest.
"What scares you?" Marlene asked, but Alex didn't answered as he just keep staring at the screen.
"Stop it!" Ultron growled as he pulled the shield and threw it into the street below, He shot another beam at Steve, this time knocking him back. Alex face Ultron as he threw a punch but Ultron grabbed his wrist. Steve quickly recovered and leaped onto the back of Ultron, putting him in a chokehold. Ultron threw Alex aside and started fighting Steve, Alex grabbed onto the edge before he could fall off.
"We got a window. Four, three... give 'em hell." Clint told Natasha as she's drops off of the Quinjet on a bike and rides towards the truck. On her way, she picks up Steve's shield.
Girls around the Great Hall cheers at seeing their favorite woman in action.
"I'm always picking up after you boys." Natasha said.
"They're heading under the overpass, I've got no shot." Clint spoke through the comms.
"Which way?" Natasha asked.
"Hard right... Now." Natasha crossed a small road before turning into an alley and heading for the freeway. Once closed to the truck she tossed the shield to Steve and he hit Ultron's face with it. He escaped his hold only for Ultron to blast him off the truck on onto the hood of an oncoming car.
Alex managed to get back on the truck and jumped on Ultron and the robot had enough and grabbed Alex by the arm and threw him off the truck. He crashed onto a vendor kiosk as he felt on the ground. Alex groaned as he slowly get up, seeing the truck speeding away along with Natasha evading Ultron bots.
Everyone winced.
"That got to hurt." Credric grimaced.
"It did..." Alex nodded.
Natasha after having dodged Ultron's attacks, is forced to take the stairs. "Out of the way, coming through! Sorry, coming through!"
Meanwhile, Steve managed to get back onto the truck with the help of a car and started pummeling Ultron with his fists and shield. "Come on!" He said as he continues his battle with Ultron.
"Clint, can you draw out the guards?" Natasha asked.
"Let's find out." Clint replied.
"Beep beep!" Natasha said as she sped past the pedestrian.
Everyone laughed at that.
Clint shot a Ultron with the jet's gun before the sentries started to fly out of the truck. They accelerated towards Clint, who flew up to get them as far away from the scene. Steve manages to throw Ultron off the truck, but Ultron quickly recovers and tackles him onto a passing train.
"Heading back towards you. So whatever you're gonna do, do it now." Clint spoke.
"I'm going in. Cap, can you keep him occupied?" Natasha asked.
Steve panted as he continues his battle with Ultron on a speeding train. "What do you think I've been doing?"
Everyone chuckled lightly.
Natasha accelerated towards the truck and she leaped off of the bike and landed inside the truck. She walked up to the Cradle and saw that the upload was halfway. Suddenly the truck was lifted up by two sentries and flown into the sky. Natasha stumbled back but caught herself before she can fall out.
"The package is airborne." Clint said as he spotted the cargo. "I have a clean shot."
"Negative. I am still in the truck." Natasha replied.
"What the hell are you-"
"Just be ready," Natasha interrupted him. "I'm sending the package to you."
Clint sighed. "How do you want me to take it?"
Natasha started cutting the straps holding the cradle. "Uhh, you might wish you hadn't asked that."
Meanwhile, Steve was fighting Ultron when out of nowhere, a blur ran by and pushed Ultron back. He looked around, and metal bars from inside the train bent in his direction, blocking his pathway as he was hit by bullets. He turned and saw Wanda and Alex at the other end.
The audience cheers when the twins and Alex come to the aid of Steve. Wanda frowned, not knowing what to make of their cheering when they had been so quick to judge her earlier.
"How did you managed to catch up to them?" Hannah asked Alex.
"I borrowed a bike." Alex shrugged, many frowned at how nonchalantly he talk about stealing.
"Please. Don't do this." Ultron said.
"What choice do we have?" Wanda asked.
Ultron scowled, and turned back around to shoot at Pietro. He leaped away, as Ultron's beam shot into the front train car. The blast incapacitated the train conductor. Ultron then flew out of the train.
Steve ran into the front car, "I lost him! He's headed your way!" He went to check on the conductor, and realized she was down.
Alex looked through the hole and saw the barrier signaling the end of the tracks.
"We got a problem." Alex said, as Steve looked at where he was looking.
Clint flew closer to the cargo truck. "Nat, we gotta go." He went reverse and opened the air-stair. Natasha finished freeing the Cradle and planted a C4 on the truck wall. She held onto the cradle as it slid out through the back and towards the Quinjet.
The truck was blown up as Ultron suddenly grabbed Natasha by the foot and pulled her off.
Everyone looked panic and start to be worried for her.
Clint looked back and saw a glimpse of Natasha being taken by Ultron. "Nat!" He exclaimed. "Cap, you see Nat?"
"If you have the package, get it to Stark! Go!" Steve replied.
"Do you have eyes on Nat?" Clint asked, once more.
"And you say I care." Natasha teased him, only to receive a bitch face from him.
"Go!" Steve replied as Clint reluctantly takes off in the Quinjet.
The train crashed through the barrier at the end of the tracks.
Steve looked back at the twins. "Civilians in our path."
Pietro nodded, and dashed out of the train car. Alex looked at Wanda. "Can you stop this thing?"
While Pietro used his speed to move civilians out of the path of the incoming train, Wanda used her powers on the tires of the train, and it began to brake. Steve and Alex held on as the train was getting into a complete stop. The train finally stopped in the middle of a Korean street market.
Everyone let out breaths they hadn't known they'd been holding.
Wanda got out of the train and went over to Pietro, who was catching his breath. Steve got out of the train, as Alex took the time to help some of the passengers out of the train before walking back to the group.
"I'm fine." Pietro said to his sister, catching his breath. "I just need to take a minute."
"I'm very tempted not to give you one." Steve said, walking up to the twins.
"The Cradle, did you get it?" Wanda asked Steve.
"Stark will take care of it." Alex said.
Wanda's expression changed. "No, he won't."
"Tony might be crazy, but he's not that crazy."
"Hey!" Tony pouted.
"Well... He's not wrong." Clint shrugged.
"He will do anything to make things right." Wanda replied.
"Stark, come in. Stark." Steve said through his comms. "Anyone on comms?"
"Ultron can't tell the difference between saving the world and destroying it." Wanda looked at Steve and Alex. "Where do you think he gets that?"
The Great Hall become silent at what she just said.
After Clint has taken the Cradle back to the Avengers tower, they were now in the lab as Tony walked in.
"Anything on Nat?" Bruce asked.
"Haven't heard." Tony replied. "But she's alive, or Ultron'd be rubbing our faces in it."
"This is sealed tight." Clint said.
"We're going to need to access the program, break it down from within." Bruce said.
"Hm. Any chance Natasha might leave you a message, outside the internet, old school spy stuff?" Tony aske Clint.
"Please, Stark, who do you think I am?" Natasha raised an eyebrow, of course she would find a way to send a message to Clint.
"There's some nets I can cast." Clint replied as he leaves. "Yeah, alright. I'll find her."
"I can work on tissue degeneration, if you can fry whatever operational system Cho implanted."
"Yeah, about that."
Bruce stared at Tony for a moment. "... No."
"You have to trust me." Tony said.
"Kinda don't."
"Our ally? The guy protecting the military's nuclear codes? I found him." Tony said as he brings up the 3D image of Jarvis's consciousness.
Everyone's eyes widened.
"Wait! Isn't that...?"
"Hello, Dr. Banner."
"What!?" Many exclaimed.
"How's Jarvis still alive? I though Ultron destroy him?"
"Ultron didn't go after JARVIS cause he was angry. He attacked him because he was scared of what he can do." Tony explained. "So JARVIS went underground. Okay? Scattered, dumped his memory. But not his protocols. He didn't even know he was in there, until I pieced him together."
Even if they don't understand technology, they thought what Jarvis did was clever.
"So, you want me to help you put JARVIS into this thing?" Bruce asked.
"No, of course not! I want to help you put JARVIS in this thing." Tony said, Bruce shakes his head. "We're out of my field here. You know bio-organics better than anyone."
"And you just assume that JARVIS' operational matrix can beat Ultron's?"
"JARVIS has been beating him from inside without knowing it. This is the opportunity, we can create Ultron's perfect self, without the homicidal glitches he thinks are his winning personality." Tony explained. "We have to."
"What the heck! Haven't you learn anything with what happened with Ultron!" Marlene exclaimed, with others agreeing with her.
"I believe it's worth a go." Jarvis said.
Bruce shook his head. "No, I'm in a loop! I'm caught in a time loop, this is exactly where it all went wrong."
"I know, I know." Tony said as he walked over to Bruce. "I know what everyone's going to say, but they're already saying it. We're mad scientists. We're monsters, buddy. You gotta own it. Make a stand." Bruce shakes his head. "It's not a loop. It's the end of the line."
Back in the Sokovia base, Ultron sentinels continued their work. In a corner, Natasha slowly regain her consciousness as she opened her eyes.
Many sighed a breath of relief once they saw Natasha was okay.
"I wasn't sure you'd wake up." Ultron said as he disassembled one of his drones. "I hoped you would, I wanted to show you something. I don't have anyone else." Natasha stared at him as he continued. "I think a lot about meteors, the purity of them. Boom! The end, start again. The world made clean for the new man to rebuild." He stepped away from the table and walked towards the cell. "I was meant to be new. I was meant to be beautiful. The world would've looked to the sky and seen hope, seen mercy. Instead they'll look up in horror because of you. You've wounded me. I give you full marks for that. But, like the man said, "What doesn't kill me..." He was suddenly impaled through the head and ripped in half. As Ultron's upgraded form stepped over his now- mangled former body as Natasha crawl backward.
Everyone were startled.
"Shit! I didn't expect that."
"...just makes me stronger." He finished as he lock her in a cell.
Bruce and Tony continued their work on the cradle, and were getting closer to successfully integrating J.A.R.V.I.S into the body.
"This framework is not compatible." Tony said.
"The genetic coding tower's at ninety-seven percent. You have got to upload that schematic in the next three minutes."
Steve, Alex and the twins turn up at the lab.
"I'm gonna say this once." Steve said.
Tony looked up at the group."How about 'nonce'?"
The wizards and witches gasped in outrage.
"Hum... Mr. Stark?" Tony turned towards the Ravenclaw. "You do realised that's something you say to someone who's attracted to children."
Tony eyes widened as he looked around before looking back at the team. They all shrugged, how would they know that?
"Good to know..." Tony grimaced.
"Shut it down!"
Tony shook his head. "Nope, not gonna happen."
"You don't know what you're doing." Steve said.
Bruce looked at Steve. "And you do?" He pointed at Wanda. "She's not in either of your head?"
"She didn't do her magic mojo on me." Alex replied.
"Magic mojo?" Rose asked, amused, while many look offense at that.
"What did you want me to call it. I might know about magic in my 'childhood' but still it's a long way back." Alex shrugged.
"Is it even magic she's using?" Tracey said.
Wanda walked out from behind Alex. "I know you're angry."
"Oh, we're way past that. I could choke the life out of you and never change a shade."
Many looked shocked at what he just said, not expecting that from him.
Steve walked closer. "Banner, after everything that's happened-"
"That's nothing compared to what's coming!" Tony shouted.
"You don't know what's in there!" Wanda retorted.
"This isn't a game-"
"The creature-"
Pietro stood quiet amidst the arguing, thinking of how he was going to handle it. He used his speed to run over the cradle and its power supply, unplugging it.
"No, no. Go on." Pietro dropped the plug. "You were saying?"
Suddenly, Clint shot the glass Pietro was standing on, he fell though and landed by Clint.
"Pietro!" Wanda exclaimed.
"What? You didn't see that coming?" Clint jested.
Clint and Wanda share a sad look, Alex intertwines his hand with Wanda's and squeezes it, which makes Wanda smile, happy that he is always there for her.
Meanwhile, the rest of the hall stared at Clint with wide eyes, how could he shoot at a kid?
Back on top, Tony began typing into the console. "I'm rerouting the upload."
Steve threw his shield at the Cradle, causing it to bounce around the lab. Tony summoned his gauntlet, aiming at Steve. Steve and Alex dodge the blast. Wanda tried to attack, but Banner quickly grabbed her from behind.
"Go ahead, piss me off."
Amidst the fightning, Thor flew into the lab. He onto the cradle, and began summoning lightning into Mjolnir.
"Wait!" Bruce exclaimed.
Everyone tensed, wondering what was going to happened.
Thor brought his hammer down towards the cradle, overloading it. Everyone looked on in awe at the flashing lights. Suddenly, the cradle broke open. Thor got launched back as the synthetic android rose from within.
The android stood up, and looked around in a confused state. He looked at Thor, and pounced. Thor countered his attack and threw him through the window behind him. The android flew across the room but stopped himself upon reaching the window overlooking the city.
Steve and Thor leaped into the main room, looking at the android. Thor motioned Steve to stay where he was. Everybody else walked in as it floated towards them.
"I'm sorry, that was... odd." He spoke, and looked at Thor. "Thank you."
"Thor, you helped create this?" Steve asked.
"I've had a vision. A whirlpool that sucks in all hope of life and at its center..." Thor points at the yellow stone on the android's forehead. "is that."
"What, the gem?" Alex asked.
"It's the Mind Stone. It's one of the six Infinity Stones, the greatest power in the universe, unparalleled in its destructive capabilities."
Dumbledore along with others suddenly seem more interested, as greed begins to consume them as they crave that kind of power. This didn't go unnoticed, as the Aurors, Amelia, Moody and the Avengers took notice of their look and behavior.
Steve looked at Thor. "Then why would you bring it to..."
"Because Stark is right."
"Oh, it's definitely the end times." Bruce said.
"Hey!" Tony pout making the great hall laugh.
"The Avengers cannot defeat Ultron." Thor stated.
"Not alone." The android said.
"Why does your "vision" sound like JARVIS?" Alex asked.
"We... reconfigured JARVIS' matrix to create something new." Tony answered.
"I think I've had my fill of new." Steve said.
"Tell us about that..." Blaise muttered, making his friends snorted in amusement.
The Vision spoke. "You think I'm a child of Ultron?"
"You're not?" Steve asked.
"I'm not Ultron." He replied. "I'm not JARVIS. I am..." He looked at the group. "I am."
Wanda stepped closer. "I looked in your head and saw annihilation."
He looked at Wanda. "Look again."
"Yeah. Her seal of approval means jack to me." Clint scoffed.
"Not anymore." Clint said, which make Wanda smiled.
"Their powers, the horrors in our heads, Ultron himself, they all came from the Mind Stone," Thor explained. "And they're nothing compared to what it can unleash. But with it on our side..."
"Is it?" Steve asked, looking at the Vision. "Are you? On our side?"
It paused for a moment before speaking. "I don't think it's that simple."
"Well it better get real simple real soon." Clint replied.
"I am on the side of life. Ultron isn't, he will end it all."
"What's he waiting for?" Tony asked.
"You."
"Where?" Alex asked.
"Sokovia. He's got Nat there too." Clint responded.
Bruce get closer to the Vision. "If we're wrong about you, if you're the monster that Ultron made you to be..."
"What will you do?" Vision asked, nobody said anything. He continued. "I don't want to kill Ultron. He's unique, and he's in pain. But that pain will roll over the earth, so he must be destroyed. Every form he's built, every trace of his presence on the net, we have to act now. And not one of us can do it without the others. Maybe I am a monster. I don't think I'd know if I were one. I'm not what you are, and not what you intended. So there may be no way to make you trust me. But we need to go." He said, handing Thor his hammer. Everybody stood quiet, confused on how he was able to carry Mjolnir.
The great hall are shocked as their jaws dropped, they were not expecting that.
"They didn't see that coming." Alex said as Clint groaned.
"Bloody hell!"
"How can he be worthy?"
Thor took his hammer as Vision walked away.
"Right." Thor walked over to Tony and patted his shoulder. "Well done."
