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Chapter 14 - Blatant Truths

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"I'll take Natasha, Clint, and (Y/n)," Steve directed the statement towards Tony.

"Alright, strictly recon. I'll join you as soon as I can," Tony stated, his Iron Man armor forming around his body.

"If Ultron is really building a body-"

"He'll become more powerful than any of us. An android designed by a robot," (Y/n) agreed, "Truly devastating to humanity."

"You know, I really miss the days when the weirdest thing science ever created was me," Steve sighed in frustration.

"I'll drop Banner off at the tower," Fury joined the conversation, "Mind if I borrow Ms Hill?"

"She's all yours. What are you gonna do?"

"I don't know. Something dramatic I hope," Fury shrugged casually.

I said goodbye to Laura and the two kids sooner than I would have liked, promising to visit again as soon as I could. I reminded Laura of the name suggestion I had, and she was able to get the baby to kick as we were leaving. After the goodbyes, the Avengers loaded onto the quinjet, taking off to South Korea where Cho's labs was located.

"Doctor Cho!"

The Doctor was propped up against a few of her cupboards, bleeding out from a wound on her stomach Steve knelt down beside her, using some towels that were lying around to stop the blood flow.

"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."

"Steve go and find Ultron," I lowered myself to my knees, "I can handle this. Stay safe."

Steve nodded at my orders, adjusting his shield on his arm and running off. I moved my hands above Cho's wound, casting a few of the spells that came to my mind that would help her. Healing and magic didn't work well together, there were laws you couldn't break unless you went dark.

"He talked about you," Cho winced, her hand grabbing mine, "He said you were a creature that he wanted. He wants your blood, your genes, he wants part of you in that body, so it can do what you do as well. After he got his body, he was going to come for you. You need to leave."

"I'm not going to leave you here," I insisted, heart racing with anxiety at the new development. I knew Ultron was interested in what I was, but I didn't think he would be willing to kidnap me.

"There's already help coming, you need to go, or he'll be even more powerful. Go!"

I rose to my feet hesitantly, giving Cho one last lookover before I ran out of the compound and onto the street. Raising my hand to the com in my ear, my eyes preened for any signs of Ultron in the sky.

"What do you guys got?"

"A truck from the lab, crossing the highway."

I jumped up, a shield forming under my feet. Pushing myself forward and onto the road with the traffic. The truck was relatively easy to find, disobeying normal traffic patterns. That and, Steve was already on top of it, the red white and blue uniform drawing my attention to him.

Ultron shot off the door Steve was hanging onto, making him fly off and onto the car behind him. While Ultron's attention was on Steve, I flew myself into the back, somersaulting so I didn't injure myself.

Immediately the smaller guard bots began shooting at me. I ducked out of the way, picking up a broken off pipe from one of the doors and swinging it against the bot. It hit the side of the truck, deactivating.

"I want her alive!" Ultron yelled, the shots coming towards me stopping.

"I'm right behind you (Y/n), go help Steve. He's on the train," Nat yelled through the com. Bracing myself for what I knew was going to be a painful impact, I jumped out of the truck and onto the train Steve was fighting on.

I swiped my hand to the right, Ultron's metal body following the motion forcefully. His bright red eyes turned to me, narrowing.

"You are not of this world, and yet you-"

A blue streak ran past the robot, making him pause in his potential monologue. Two bars slammed down in an X in front of Ultron, stopping him from nearing me and Steve. The twins. Ultron regarded their betrayal for a moment, then flew out through the front of the train, hitting the driver on the way. I sprinted to the front, pointer and middle finger on the driver's neck. Dead. Swaying when the train jerked to the side, I groaned in frustration. We had turned down an unfinished track.

"How to stop this, how to stop this," I muttered to myself, flicking a few of the brake switches. The train swerved off of the tracks and into the town, "Wanda I need help!"

After my call for help, the train slowed down exponentially, the front window covered in a red mist. I looked back at the Sokovian girl, smiling. Grudges wouldn't help us defeat Ultron.

CHHH

Glass sprinkling over my face and hair, I screamed out in shock as a hand grabbed the back of my uniform, pulling me out of the train. I swung my hand behind me, trying to hit whatever had grabbed me. Hitting solid metal, I winced. Waving my hands in a few rapid motions, I attempted to aim a spell in the direction of Ultron's minion. Nothing, I missed.

"I'm caught!" I yelled into the com, struggling as it was ripped out of my ear and thrown to the ground.

A sharp hit to my temple knocked me out cold.

~*~

I was cold, waking up. Even though my race was better at regulating and handling more drastic temperatures. Freezing concrete was beneath my back, the low heat crawling down my spine.

"You were injected with a few paralyzing agents," Ultron's voice breached my ears, "I was hoping you'd wake up, I don't have anyone else now. And you, you have intrigued me. We're so similar, and yet we see humanity in two completely different lights."

"We are nothing alike," I grunted as I tried to move my legs, the limbs not registering the orders my brain was giving them, "You're a maniac, a murderer."

"And you are aren't?" Ultron laughed, "Yet, you stand out. More understanding of the dark side of humanity. I hacked into government files, surprising I know, they have your eye on you. Plans, ideas, theories."

"You're lying," I grit out, refusing to believe the blatant truth.

Even if there was a small part of me that knew the government of the time would never understand that I wasn't there to be experimented or to cause harm, the larger part of me understood that I was playing my cards right by protecting people, and I had options if they ever turned on me.

"I was not created to be a liar," Ultron sighed in disappointment, "I was created to help people see. I think a lot about meteors, the purity of them. Boom! The world made clean for the new man to rebuild. I was meant to be new. The world would've looked to the sky and seen hope, seen mercy. Instead they'll look up in horror because of the Avengers. They've, you've wounded me. I give you credit for that. But, like man said, 'What doesn't kill me-'"

Something reached out and tore Ultron apart. My body jerked slightly, the paralysis wearing off slightly. I scrunched up my nose, wiggling my fingers. The metal pieces of the dead Ultron fell to the ground, useless.

"'Just makes me stronger'," a new and improved Ultron stood proudly in front of me, a syringe in his hand. Putting all of my energy into moving my limbs, I cried out as my hand swatted the needle away, "So much will, but there's no use."

My body jerked one last time when the needle was stabbed into my neck. After that, everything went numb again. Internally screaming, I grunted in an attempt to move my- well, anything.

"I never did hear your answer. Why do you feel the need to help a race so far below your own? It can't be out of pure kindness."

"They aren't that far below my own, below me," I breathed out, the will to fight draining, "You and I, we're more comparable to them than both of us realize."

Ultron hummed, sliding his arms my legs and back. He moved me from the concrete toa large slab. It was painfully similar to an operation table.

"You tell me the government wants to experiment on me, yet you're doing the same thing," I laughed bitterly at the hypocrisy Ultron held.

"I suppose you're right," Ultron acknowledged what I said with no emotion, "I am a, what did you say? A maniac? At least I'm honest. Let the experiments begin."

Shutting my eyes tightly as to not see anything I didn't want to, I remembered back to my astral projection lessons. I never particularly excelled in that area, but I was average. And average was fine if it meant I could leave my body and get to the other Avengers.

A pulse ran through my body, its energy separating from the world around me. Another pull and I was out. Looking over the scene in front of me, I was relieved when I saw the only thing Ultron was doing at the moment was a blood sample. It would get worse, I was aware of that.

I pictured Stark Tower in my mind. The lights, the city, the people. I could feel my spirit being drawn towards it, just what I needed. As I flew above my current location, I stopped, eyes squinting to observe my surroundings. I had a general idea of where I was.

Allowing myself to be pulled again, I left my physical form. Nearing the large Avengers building I slowed down, phasing through the glass.

I arrived in the lab where Tony was tirelessly working. When he spotted me he swore loudly, dropping a glass beaker.

"How did you get here?" He questioned, hand over his heart, or rather, his arc reactor.

"I'm not really here. This is my astral form, my soul or spirit basically. The point is that I know where I am, and where Ultron is going to hit."

"Your astral form," Tony put a hand through my stomach, giggling. I rolled my eyes in annoyance.

"Tony," I snapped, "There are more important things to focus on right now."

At this point, the other Avengers had come in to see what the big commotion was. Steve seemed elated when he saw me.

"(Y/n)," he ran towards me, running straight through me.

"Look, I don't have the time to explain what an astral form is and how I can do it. Ultron is in Sokovia, I don't know exactly where, but it's in a town with a church in the middle-"

"I know where that is, we met him there," Wanda cut in, not surprising me at all. I knew there was good in those kids, and I knew Steve was too good to deny them a place on the team.

"Good. Find me soon because he's starting experiments and I'm lucky to not feel the pain right now," I turned to Tony, glancing inside of the cradle, "And Tony, I'm not sure how this will turn out, but it's a good use for the stone."

With that I was pulled back, still numb and half conscious. Allowing myself the release of unconsciousness once again, I prayed to Atreya that the Avengers would make it in time. For me, and for Earth.