010 ↠ Mr. Roboto
Ophelia's friend pulled through and sent her Ulysses Klaue's location. Once she had that, she gave it to the others and before she knew it, they were in a quinjet on their way to a salvage yard off the African Coast.
The flight there was filled with questions about Romeo and Ophelia knowing the man. They asked and asked but they gave vague answers. How they know the arms dealer guy is their business, and their business only.
The young brunette wasn't sure how to feel about actually going in with the rest of the team. She said she wasn't going to take any kind of action, she was only there to help Romeo, but now that she knows Ulysses Klaue is involved, she needs to get in there.
So after the whole team (with the exception of Bruce) got on the ship where Klaue, Ultron and the Maximoff's are located, they took different paths in the ship to reach the people they're looking.
"This ship is hot and stuffy" Ophelia fanned a hand over her face.
"It's humid" Romeo added as he took a corner on the bridge and walked ahead of Ophelia. They could hear Tony's muttering through the comms they were equipped with.
Soon the duo heard voices and quietly quickened their pace. They got as close as they could without being seemed, and Romeo took a peek around a wall, while Ophelia got on the ground so she can also take a look.
They saw their old buddy, Ulysses Klaue, Ultron has a hold on the man's left arm, and three people in the background.
"Those are the Maximoff's" Romeo whispered.
"You guys are there? Don't do anything, wait for us!" Tony told them.
Ultron took a sudden slash at Klaue's arm and it fell with a sickening thump, to the ground.
"Ewie" Ophelia scrunched her nose in disgust "I'm going in" she pushed herself up and brushed her hands on her thighs.
"Stay back!" Natasha hissed through the comms.
"Mi dispiace, non parlo inglese" Ophelia muttered before adjusting her small backpack and walking out.
"She's going to get herself killed" Steve muttered.
"I already have an eulogy prepared" Romeo answered.
"I don't know anything about the medical field, but if you put that arm in ice, the doctors can reattach it or something" Ophelia spoke up as she stood at the end of the bridge.
Heads turned her direction but she didn't pay any attention to the ones she doesn't know. She kept her gaze on Klaue.
"This is a private meeting" Ultron told Ophelia but she ignored him.
"You might want to wrap that up" she pointed at her left arm when she spoke to Klaue "stop the bleeding, prevent infection"
"What are you doing here?" He asked the young woman.
"What do you think?" She swung the small black backpack to her front and pulled out a scarf as she slowly walked across the bridge. She let the scarf drop, but she still held it in her hands "I hear you like cuttlefish"
"Screw you, Verona!" He pointed a finger at her. She simply smirked "where's the other one? What are you doing here?"
"Who are you?" Wanda Maximoff asked, but Ophelia ignored her.
"You got it mixed up, Ophelia, our friend is scared of cuttlefish. Not the other way around" Romeo stepped around the wall and walked to the bridge.
"I know. I just like to mess with him" she threw the scarf at Klaue and he caught it with his one good hand. His only hand.
"Ophelia Verona" Ultron spoke up once he found her file in the system "is all this true?" He pointed at something he's seeing in his head.
"I don't know, I can't look into your mind" she gave him a dirty look "now if you don't mind, I'm trying to have a conversation with a friend. Unless you want to chop off more of his body parts?"
"No. No chopping" Klaue shook his head as he struggled to tie the scarf around his arm.
"Eunuchy, snip snip" Romeo made scissors with his fingers and opened and closed them.
Ophelia walked closer to Klaue and tied the scarf for him "you know this will be the only act of kindness you'll see from me, right?" She pulled tight at the scarf, causing the man to wince.
"What do you want?" He asked her.
"Where is he?"
"You're going to have to be more specific than that"
Ophelia poked the tender flesh on his arm and he cried out in pain "where is he?"
"The question here is, where is him!?" Klaue shouted. Ophelia stopped putting pressure on his wound.
"He's not here. But he says hello" she smiled "now, I know you know where he is. So tell me, Uly, where is he?"
"I don't know!"
"Yes, who are you looking for? Your search history-" Ultron began.
"Listen, Mr. Roboto," Ophelia turned to the tall robot standing near her "I have no beef with you. So collect your children and leave. Let me continue intimidating my friend here, okay? Grazie"
"I'd listen to her, Junior. She's kinda moody" Tony said as he flew in and landed across the bridge. Steve and Thor right behind him.
Everyone turned around to face the three Avengers that joined the group.
"Oh you have to be- you're working with them now?" Klaue motioned at the Avengers.
"Its temporary" Romeo and Ophelia answered.
"Yeah? Did they take in the mercenary?"
"I told you he's not here" she told him "now, Uly-" she grabbed his injured arm and dug her fingers into his skin, bringing him to his knees in pain "where is he?"
Ulysses Klaue quickly glanced over at the Avengers but Ophelia grabbed his face with the other hand and made him look at her.
"They're not going to help you. I'm going to ask you again, Ulysses, where is he?" She demanded.
Romeo looked around saw that they're receiving a lot of attention and questioning looks. Something they don't need because they have their own problems and they don't want them involved.
"Eway areway ettinggay ookslay" Romeo told Ophelia.
She let out a series of whistles and hundreds of colorful origami birds flew across the ship and surrounded Romeo, Ophelia and Klaue. The birds flew around them, preventing anyone from looking in or out.
"Did they just block us out?" Ultron sounded hurt and offended.
"I'm just as hurt as you, Junior" Tony answered.
Inside the fluttering circle of paper birds, Ophelia let go of Klaue and looked down at her fingers to see them covered in blood.
"Disgusting" she scrunched her nose in disgust.
"You two finally lost it!" Klaus panted from the ground.
"We would've let you go if you had told us where he is" Romeo spoke up.
"I told you-"
"You don't know, yeah, you said. Problem is I don't believe you. Now if you don't want to end up meeting with your favorite fish, I suggest you speak now!" Ophelia snapped.
"You're going to make cuttlefish out of your flying papers?" Klaue nodded at the birds rapidly flying around them. Suddenly some of them fell down in shreds.
"They're fighting. See? Someone took a shot and it hit the paper birds" Romeo explained to the man on the ground.
Ophelia kneeled down to have a better look at Klaue "you can't hear them fighting because the rustling of paper around us, but as soon as I call them off, we will be smack in the middle of the crossfire and we can get hit. Like I told you, the merc isn't here. Now answer the question before I throw you over the rails and you can take a swim with the fish"
"You wouldn't risk reading out water in here, not with your new friends out there" Klaue told her.
"You're right. That's why Romeo can read out the fish, give it a few modifications and make it able to breathe out of water"
Romeo bagan to hum the Jaws theme song. Ulysses Klaue stared at the young adults. He knows them and knows how crazy they can get, more so when the mercenary is with them. But he's not there. He wondered why he isn't with them, but can only assume that he's the one who told them where he is.
He locked eyes with Ophelia and debated with himself whether to tell her what she wants to hear or take his chances and run through the wall of flying paper birds and risk getting multiple paper cuts. He went for the latter.
"Really?" Ophelia sighed when she saw Klaue run out of the protective barrier.
"He really doesn't like that fish" Romeo noted.
Ophelia let out a series of whistles and the birds dispersed and unfolded themselves from birds as they blocked the door Klaue was going to use to escape.
"I swear Uly, I will stab you if you don't talk" she threatened the man once he saw he has nowhere to go.
"Why do you care do much?" He asked her.
"Just tell me, WHERE IS KEANE!" She shouted. Some paper flew around her and folded into very sharp spikes pointing at him.
"Last I heard he was in Egypt!" He shouted back.
"Doing what?" Romeo questioned.
"Very important stuff over there. One can only imagine what kind of artifacts he's after" Klaue smirked.
"When did you hear this?" Ophelia asked.
"Two days ago. Best go now if you want to catch him. Or send the merc, you can hang out with your new friends for the small time they have left" he laughed. Ophelia grew mad and whistled. All the papers banded together and pushed Klaue through the door and down the stairs.
"We should move. We're standing in the middle of a fight" Romeo told Ophelia but she didn't hear him.
She pressed a hand to her forehead and looked down "what is he doing in Egypt?" She quietly asked.
Suddenly, both Romeo and Ophelia found themselves on the ground, slightly disoriented.
"What the hell was that?" Romeo sat up and tried to locate what was it that pushed them to the ground. Ophelia sat up and rubbed the left side of her head.
Something zoomed pass them again and then it came to a stop in front of them "you two are new" Pietro Maximoff told the two people on the floor.
"Picking on the new kids. Great" Ophelia mumbled. Before anyone could say anything else, gunshots flew across the area.
"Now he's shooting at us!" Romeo yelled.
"Thanks for the commentary!" Ophelia yelled back and tried to protect herself from stray bullets.
The Avengers fought the men shooting and Ultron's robots. Ophelia and Romeo were in the middle of everything and were frozen. They don't know what to do, only to take cover from the bullets.
Mjölnir flew across them and Pietro smiled when he saw it fly by. He grabbed hold of it and found himself being pulled by the hammer.
Ophelia and Romeo witnessed the whole thing "I don't know what just happened, but please let it happen again"
"Are you two just going to sit there?" Natasha yelled at them from across the bridge.
"Why is your suit glowing like Tron?" Romeo asked her. She ignored them and continued fighting.
Wanda Maximoff slowly and quietly approached the pair still on the ground, and twirled her hands around as a red aura conjured around them and she aimed it at their heads.
It flew at their heads but what she didn't expect was for it to bounce back and not affect them in any way. They felt something and knew that the girl tried to mess with their heads.
Wanda went to do it again but Ophelia grabbed her hand and threw her to the ground. She pulled a knife out and held it at Wanda "you try messing with our heads again and I'll cut your hands off!" She hissed.
Ophelia felt herself being pushed back and when she stood up, Wanda was gone.
"I swear, all I did was blink and she was gone" Romeo commented.
"Its that road runner" Ophelia muttered.
Shots were aimed at them and Ophelia yelped. Romeo took something out of his pocket and threw it at the men shooting at them. There was a puff of black smoke, followed by coughing and then bodies fell to the ground.
"What was that?" Ophelia panted.
"Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder" Romeo answered "I asked Fred and George to add something to make people pass out"
"Huh" she smiled, impressed by how much he's learned in three years.
"Whoever is standing, we got to move" Clint's voice came through the comms.
"We're sitting, does that count?" Romeo asked.
"Get up" Clint told them and they did so.
The once chaotic ship, is now quiet and empty. Romeo and Ophelia walked around and saw robots and human bodies on the floor.
Romeo stopped when he saw Steve lying on the ground, moving his head around.
"You okay there, Mr. America?" He kneeled down beside him. He only groaned in response.
Ophelia ran to Thor who is in a similar state at Steve. Natasha is also going through the mind games Wanda put the others through.
"Help me bring them back to the jet" Clint told Romeo and Ophelia.
"You're okay" Ophelia softly told Thor as she grabbed his arm and helped him up "you're okay" she repeated "stai bene"
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