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(𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐒)
CHAPTER FIVE-----▹

It had been a perfectly planned entrance really, "Peace in our time."  two bots, smashed through the glass on either side of Ultron. The fight started and they were all being knocked around, everything exploding into chaos all at once. Leigh fired off several shots, but got knocked through the air by one of the bots, and was momentarily breathless from the air being literally knocked out of her. 

"Tony I am going to kick your fucking ass," Leigh muttered to no one in particular, "All. I had to do was get through tonight, and then I was finally going to get a break and now I'm fighting off homicidal death bots." she a bot whizzed by her head, "I hate my job." she groaned.

The brunette pushed herself up from her back, whisking her hand, slowing down several of the bots, as Natasha continued to shoot at them. Leigh took this time to tear the wires away from each bot she had slowed, and Clint tossed the shield back to Cap, which he used to take out the final one,  "That was dramatic." Ultron spoke, and Leigh threw a death glare in Tony's direction. 

Broken glass crunched under Leigh's feet, as she shifted her weight from foot to foot, "I'm sorry, I know you mean well. You just didn't think it through," Ultron paced back and forth, Steve took a step forward, and Leigh found, Nat and Maria's side, "You want to protect the world, but you don't want it to change." Ultron whirred. 

"Who says?" Leigh asked, mostly to herself, "How is humanity saved, if it's not allowed to evolve?" Clint met Leigh's eyes from across the room, making sure she was ok, "With these? These puppets." Ultron picked up one of them, "There's only one path to peace. The Avengers' excitation-" Ultron was cut off as Thor's hammer smashed the bot, "I had strings but now I'm free." the sound was almost like an eerie singing. 

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"All our work is gone." Bruce spoke, "Ultron cleared out, he used the internet as an escape hatch." Leigh leaned against one of the tables, "Ultron." Steve scoffed, "He's been in everything, Files. Surveillance. Probably knows more about us, than we know about each other." Natasha stated, "Damn. That's just sad." Leigh noted. 

"He's in your files, he's in the internet. What if he decides to access something a little more exciting?" Rhodey asked, "Nuclear Codes." Maria breathed, "We are so fucking screwed." Leigh muttered, "What, the hell were you thinking?!?"  Leigh exclaimed, "We need to make some calls, assuming we still can." Rhodey spoke.

"Nuke? He said he wanted us dead." Natasha quipped when Cap cut her off, "He didn't say 'dead' he said 'extinct.' " Leigh shook her head still wondering what the two literal mad scientists were thinking. "He also said he killed somebody," Clint spoke taking a step forward. "There was no one else in the building," Maria noted, "Yes there was." Tony tapped the hologram into view, "What?" Bruce questioned stepping closer to it, "This is insane." 

"Yeah, that's the insane thing here. Totally." Leigh said, and Clint, Nat, and Maria simultaneously sent her the 'shut the hell up, you're not helping look', "JARVIS was the first line of defense. He would have shut Ultron down. It makes sense." Steve spoke, "No, Ultron could've assimilated JARVIS. This isn't strategy, this is rage."

Thor strode across the room, picking Tony up by his throat, "Woah, Woah, Woah," Steve tried, "It's going around." Clint quipped, "Come on. Use your words, Buddy." Tony said, "Only Tony would call a literal God who's strangling him, 'Buddy" Leigh spoke, watching everything play out. "I have more than enough words to describe you, Stark."

"Thor. The Legionnaire." Cap spoke, Thor set Tony down, "Trail went cold about 100 miles out, headed north. And it has the scepter. Now we have to retrieve it again." Leigh ran her hand through her hair, "Genie's out of that bottle. Clear and present is Ultron." Natasha crossed her arms, "I don't understand. You built this program. Why is it trying to kill us?" 

"That is what I've been asking myself this whole time," Leigh murmured, Tony chuckled, and everyone seemed to look at him in disbelief, "You think this is funny?" Thor asked accusingly, "No. It's probably not, right?" he asked, and at this point, Leigh was about to go hide behind Maria like a child. 

"This is very terrible. It's....so terrible." he laughed, "This could've been avoided if you hadn't played with something you don't understand." Thor spoke lowly, "No. no. I'm sorry. It's funny." Tony said, "It's a hoot. That you don't get why we don't need this." 

"A murder bot? You think we need a murder bot?" Leigh asked, and the look that shot at her literally put her one step closer to hiding behind Maria. "Tony maybe this is not the time." Bruce warned, "Really? That's it? You just roll over, show your belly, every time somebody snarls?" Tony asked, "Only when I've created a murder bot."

"We didn't. We weren't even close. Were we close to an interface?" Tony asked, "Well you did something right. And you did it right here. The Avengers were supposed to be different than SHIELD." Steve deadpanned. "Anybody remember when I carried a nuke through a wormhole?" Tony asked, Leigh, moved to stand behind Maria avoiding everything else.

"No, it's never come up." Rhodey shook his head, "Saved New York?" Tony asked, Clint, caught Leigh's eyes, "Are you ok?" he mouthed, and she shrugged, "A hostile Alien Army, came charging through a hole into 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 looked around, "How are you guys planning on beating that?" Leigh looked down at her hands, no matter how angry she was at the moment, the man had a point, superpowers or not, that was a whole other level. "Together." Cap stated, "We'll lose." Tony replied, "Then we'll do that together too." If this was any other moment Leigh would make a comment that they were finally starting to sound like a team.

"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." Steve said, "Alright then." Leigh finally spoke up.

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"What's this?" Tony asked, "A message, Ultron killed Strucker." Steve said, "Ultron killed who now?" Leigh asked entering the room, "Strucker." someone answered and she nodded. "And he did a Bansky at the crime scene, just for us." Tony spoke, "Oh. How lovely." Leigh added, "This is a smoke screen. Why send a message when you've just given a speech?" Natasha asked, "Strucker knew something that Ultron wanted us to miss." Steve pointed out.

"Everything we had on Strucker has been earased." Natasha pointed out taping away on the keyboard, "Not everything." Steve pointed out.

They started to dig through the written files kept in dusty boxes, "Well these people are all horrible." Tony began, "Wait, I know that guy." he reached out for the file, "From back in the day, he operates off the African Coast. Black market arms." Tony explained, "Black Market arms? Sounds lovely, why am I here again?" Leigh asked, "There are conventions. All right? You meet people. I didn't sell him anything." Tony clarrified.

Leigh rolled her eyes, and leaned against the table flipping through a different file, "He was talking about finding something new. A game changer. It was all very Ahab." Tony finished, "This?" Thor asked motioning towards, a photo, "Ah, it's a tattoo, I don't think he had it." Tony said, "No, those are tattoos, this is a brand." 

"Oh yeah, it's a word in African dialect meaning 'theif'. In a much less friendly way." Bruce spoke from in front of a computer. "What dialect?" Steve questioned, "Wakanda." he replied, "If this guy got out of Wakanda with some of their trade goods." Tony trailed off, "I thought your father said he got the last of it." Steve said, "Fathers say a lot of things they don't mean." Leigh quipped. "I don't follow." Bruce spoke, "What comes out of Wakanda?" Leigh motioned to the SHIELD as they spoke, "The strongest metal on earth." 

"Where is this guy now?"