Chapter Fourteen - What now?
I asked Jessi to checked me over. Luckily I only had bruised ribs, I got away lightly for someone who doesn't have superhuman strength. I ran a hot bath and slipped in a sigh of relief escaped my lips.
"Dr Cho told me to bring these into you, said they would take the edge off." Thor spoke as he entered the bathroom "She also said the big one would help you sleep." he held out some pain killers. i took them first with the glass of water. He put the sleeping pill on one side along with the glass and sat on the edge of the bath.
"How do you fair my love?" he inquired.
"I hurt." i answered "But despite the fact that I along with my friends and family were attacked ragamuffin legionaries and a crazy computer program. I'm still kicking." I smile softly at him.
"Do we have a plan?"
"Captain Rogers has declared that we narrow down the possibilities of where Ultron could have gone." i hummed as everything relaxed and the cuts no longer stung. "But he has declared that I make sure you get some rest. While the others are hurt you seemed to have sustained more injuries."
"We as soon as I have finished, I will do that." Which I did. I finished and dried my hair before taking the sleeping pill and climbing into bed.
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The next morning i felt much better than the night before. I was still sore but i had regained most of my strength. I looked through what we had and I noticed something, a signature, it was the size of the data. I found my Dad.
"He has data size." He jumped hearing my voice and turned around to face me.
"He tried to hide it and he almost succeeded but I'm just that good." I handed him the tablet.
"Reign I..."
"I'm not in the mood. We need to find and stop Ultron and whoever else gets in our way. That is our main focus right now." he nodded and gulped slightly
"Guys." I turned my head to Steve "I think we have something." I followed him out and we all assembled in the lab. He handed Thor the tablet I peeked over. Well shit.
"What's this?" Dad asked
"A message. Ultron killed Strucker" Thor shoved the tablet to my Dad so he could see the picture on the screen. Strucker dead on the bed with the word peace written in blood behind him.
"And he did a banks on the crime scene, just for us."
"This is a smoke screen. Why send a message when you've just given a speech?" Natasha wondered
"Strucker new something that Ultron wanted us to miss." Steve suggested
"Yeah, I bet he...yeah. Everything we had on Strucker's been erased." Natasha confirmed looking at the computer.
"Not everything." Steve replied ugh, paper work. We sifted through boxes that we had gathered
"Know associates. Baron Strucker had a lot of friends" Steve breathed opening up another box.
"Well these people are all horrible." Banner commented looking through a file
"Wait I know that guy." Dad says taking the file "From back in the day. He operates of the African coast. Black market arms." Steve gave him a disapproving look.
"There are conventions, you meet people. I didn't sell him anything. He was talking about something new, a game changer" Thor had a picture I snatched it off him.
"Son of a bitch. This is Ulysses Klaue."
"You know him as well?" Steve questioned
"Yeah. He's public enemy number one in Wakanda. See this this is a brand, it's wakandan for thief, a few decades back he stole a substantial about of well that." I pointed to his shield "Vibranium."
"That's impossible. I thought your grandfather said he got the last of it." I snorted and they looked at me weird.
"What I am about to tell you cannot leave this room. Promise?" They agreed I sighed
"Wakanda is not much of the third world country it makes it out to be. a couple of millennia ago before anything was there a meteorite containing vibrainum crash-landed, sometime after that five tribes settled on the land and continue to be there. It's actually a prospering city far advance from the rest of the world, their main source is..."
"Vibrainum." Dad breathed I nodded "I don't know how grandpa laid his hands on it but it's not scarce. If this is what Ultron was trying to hide, then we need to find him."
"Do you think you could?" Bruce asked
"He's managed to evade the everyone in Wakanda for nearly 30 years. They have the best tech on the world, you honestly think I can do what they can't in a matter of hours?" I folded my arms
"Yes." the all replied
"Fine, I'll try but I have to let my uncle know if we do find him. He needs to face justice." I sat down at the computer.
"What does your uncle have to do with anything?" Natasha questioned
"He's the King of Wakanda. My Mom was his sister." I answered as I began typing. It took me a while but I actually managed to do it.
"Shut up. No way." i breathed
"You found him?" Thor asked
"Yeah, even I don't know how exactly but I did. He's still in Wakanda, living right under my uncle's nose."
"Upload the coordinate into the jet and suit up." i nodded and did. We arrived and I had sent a message to my uncle telling him of what was going on.
"It's a thing with me. Stark he's a sickness." Ultron spat.
"Oh Junior , you're gonna brake your old man's heart." Dad commented as we landed
"If I have to." Ultron replied
"No one has to break anything?" Thor offered. It could have worked if this wasn't a physical program living in a robot.
"Clearly you've never made an omelette." Ultron responded
"He beat me by one second." Dad added
"Ah, yes, he's funny. Mr Stark, It's what? Comfortable? Like old times?" Pietro Maximoff glanced down at the missiles below.
"This was never my life." Dad shot his head slightly.
"You two can still walk away from this." Steve offered
"Oh we will." Wanda sassed.
"I know you've suffered." Steve says and Ultron scoffs.
"Captain America, God's righteous man. pretending you could live without war. I can't physically throw up in my mouth, but..." Ultron trailed off.
"If you believe in peace then let us keep it." Thor suggested
"I think you're confusing 'peace' with 'quiet.'" came the reply
"For a robot with a messed up peace program you have a lot of sass." I stated "What is the vibranium for?"
"I'm glad you asked because I wanted to take this time to explain my evil plan." Ultron held his hands out and blasted us back. I got up just as Dad attacked, more evil bots appeared, oh it was on. I had a lot of pent up anger that needed to be sorted. I started fighting Ultron and my Dad flew out of the ship, after there gunfire from the Klaus's thugs.
"Thor, Status." Steve ordered
"The girl tried to warp my mind. Take special care. I doubt a human could keep her at bay. Fortunately I am mighty." I felt myself being knocked back and my helmet taken off.
-Vision-
I stood outside of a cafe. I recognise this, it was the cafe my mother and uncle met at the day she died. Just then I saw her, she pushed my in the stroller walking right past me. I followed her across streets till it came to that one.
"Mother? Mother stop don't cross!" I told her but she couldn't hear me she started to cross the road "No! No! Mother!" she crossed the street, saw the car and pushed me out of the way just as I had read and been told about. The car hit her at full speed, she never stood a chance. I ran over to her and dropped to the ground in despair. Her eyes were wide open shock on her face, people ran over to help her but she was already gone.
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"Reign. Come on Reign look at me. Come on smarty pants." My gaze drifted towards Clint. He pulled me up and guided me back to the jet. He laid me down and left, a while later i saw Thor lift my feet and sit down.
"I couldn't save her." I gulped
"Save who?" Thor asked
"My Mom." my voice broke "She walked out into the middle of the road, it came out of nowhere and I still couldn't save her."
"Reign." My Dad knelt in front of me "Reign, it wasn't your fault you were a baby. You were a baby."
"But she pushed me out of the way, that split moment of a speeding car and she pushes me and not both of us. She died protecting me." I started crying. Thor wrapped me up in his arms.
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We landed and exited the jet, holding onto Thor's arm as we made our way up to the house and following Clint.
"What is this place and safe house?" Thor questioned as we made our way onto the porch
"Let's hope." Clint replied and we entered "Honey! I'm home!" a woman who was clearly pregnant came out of the kitchen
"Hi, company, sorry I didn't call ahead." the two hugged and kissed
"This is an agent of some kind." Dad commented
"Gentlemen and Lady, this is Laura." I gave a small wave
"Hi, I know all of your names." there was a heard a footsteps and out came two kids the boy older than the girl.
"Hi, sweetheart. Hey buddy. How are you guys doing." he hugged them both
"These are smaller agents.."
"Shut up Dad." I retort watching the scene. It reminded me of when i was younger and Dad came home from a trip. The greeting and love were still exchanged but the running to meet him hadn't happened since he got off the plane after being in captivity.
"Did you bring Auntie Nat?" the little girl asked
"Why don't you hug her and find out." Nat joked as the little girl ran over and picked her up
"Sorry for barging in on you." Steve apologised
"Yeah but we were busy having no idea you existed." Dad added
"Yeah well, Fury helped me set this up when i joined. He kept it off shields files. I'd like to keep it that way. I figured it's a good place to lay low." Natasha and Laura talked as the little girl came up to us. I knelt down.
"Hi, I'm Reign. What's you're name?" I smiled which she returned
"Lila."
"Oh that's a good name I..." I saw Thor leave "I'll be right back." i followed him out
"Thor? What's going on? Why are you leaving?" I questioned
"I saw something in that dream. I need answers and I won't find them here." he answered coming back up to me he kissed me then pulled away.
"I will return. I promise." he jogged back down the steps swung Mjolnir and left. Laura was kind enough to lend me some clothes and let me use a shower. I braided my hair and went outside to join Steve.
"Care for a plus one?" I ask
"Not at all." I started helping chop wood. Taking my anger and frustration out on it.
"Someone's pissed." Steve commented
"You bet your ass." I stopped "Do you know what I dreamt about?"
"Your Mom." I nod
"I didn't know her. I didn't get to." i shrugged "I was a month old when we went out for the day. I now know that she went to meet my uncle, so he could meet me. She went to run some errands and she stepped out to cross a road when this asshole driving 180mph came speeding round the corner. She had only a moment and she used that to push me out to the other side before it hit her."
"Reign, I'm so sorry." I grabbed another log and swung at it
"I of course remember nothing I had only just been born but I built a picture up in my mind from stories, reports and grainy camera footage. But it's still there. Not once have I been shaken by what happened. But then this bitch comes along and puts me right in the middle of it. I was there. I watched her cross, I shouted at her to stop but it still played out." I chopped another log.
"We're gonna fix this, get them."
"That bitch is mine. No question about it. She took the only pure memory I had of my mother and turned it into nightmare."
"Reign." I stopped and lowered the axe to turn to Lila "Do you wanna read a story with me." I breathed heavily and gave her a smile just as my Dad was coming out.
"Sure." i put the axe down and followed her to the porch. We sat on a rocking chair as Barton and his son Cooper are doing some work on the porch. A little while later, I glanced back to the shed and grinned
"Well, well. If it isn't ghost of kick your..." I stopped looking down at Lila "Nevermind." I got up and walked over to Fury.
"You look sprightly for a dead guy." I joked
"Nice to see you too, Reign." he gave a small smile
"See that, Nick Fury smiled at me. Admit it I'm your favourite Stark." he chuckled "I got a chuckle as well. I'm on a roll. So have you ripped him a new one for creating a psychotic program that trying to kill us all and teamed up with the flash an witch bitch."
"Language!" Clint yelled
"Sorry!"
"You're just lovely these days aren't you sweetheart?" Dad thought outlaid "Are you gonna forgive me?"
"At some point but I'm gonna torture you first." I turned on my heel and walked away
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