CHAPTER FORTY:
WE WON

THEY MADE THEIR WAY TOWARDS Steve's direction and for the moment it was calm. They ushered injured civilians into any safe buildings that they could. Olivia made her way over towards the part of the city Steve was in, her heart breaking at all the injured people that he was ushering inside. The next time Tony tried to create some kind of bot, she was going to make sure she was watching over it so that it didn't become evil.

     "What do you got, Stark?" Steve asked.

    "Huh? Nothing great." Tony sighed in response. "Maybe a way to blow up the city. That will keep it from impacting the surface, if you guys can get clear."

     "I asked for a solution, not an escape plan." Olivia turned her head towards Steve's voice and made her way towards it.

     "Impact radius is getting bigger every second. We're gonna have to make a choice."

     "Cap, these people are going nowhere." Natasha's voice grabbed her attention as Olivia grew closer to Steve. "If Stark finds a way to blow this rock. . ."

     "Not till everyone's safe."

     "Everyone up here versus everyone down there? There's no math there."

     "I'm not leaving this rock with one civilian on it." Steve argued.

     Natasha paused. "I didn't say we should leave." This caused him to turn and look at her. Natasha shrugged. "There's worse ways to go. Where else am I gonna get a view like this?"

     "Glad you like the view, Romanoff. It's about to get better." Nick Fury's voice made Olivia pause in her steps. She turned her head, mouth going agape as a Heli carrier appeared in front of them. "Nice, right? Pulled her out of mothballs with a couple of old friends. She's dusty, but she'll do."

     A wide smile fell on Steve's lips. "Fury, you son of a bitch."

     "Ooh, you kiss your mother with that mouth?"

     Steve sighed, turning his head before spotting Olivia. "You did this."

     "Guilty." Olivia shrugged. Olivia turned her head towards Natasha and made her way over to her, quickly pulling the woman into her arms. "I thought I lost you."

     "Please," Natasha scoffed, pulling away from her with a smile, "you can't get rid of me that easily." Olivia pressed her lips against Natasha's and Natasha smiled as she kissed back before the two quickly turned away. They still had a mission to complete.

     Pietro appeared beside of the three, a smile on his face. "This is S.H.I.E.L.D?"

     Steve nodded. "This is what S.H.I.E.L.D.'s supposed to be."

     Pietro smirked. "This is not so bad."

     They watched the lifeboats line up against the edge of the land before Steve said, "Let's load them up." Immediately they all started directing the people towards the lifeboats, all of which quickly got filled up before a new one replaced the full one. As they continued to fill up the boats, Tony's voice came over the coms.

     "Thor, I got a plan."

     "We're out of time." Thor denied. "They're coming for the core."

    "Rhodey, get the rest of the people on board that carrier." Tony ordered.

     "On it."

     "Avengers, time to work for a living."

     One by one all of the Avengers made it towards the church where the core was being held. Olivia had shifted into her wolf form, allowing Natasha to climb onto her back and she quickly ran towards the building. When she arrived, she bowed slightly, allowing Natasha to jump off. She stayed in her wolf form as Natasha asked, "What's the drill?"

     Tony pointed towards the core. "This is the drill. If Ultron gets a hand on the core, we lose."

     They all turned, watching as Ultron flew down a few feet away from the church, still floating in the air. Thor yelled, "Is that the best you can do?!"

     Ultron raised a hand and an entire new wave of bots appeared. Olivia slowly turned her head to look at Thor, letting out a growl. Steve sighed. "You had to ask."

     "This is the best I can do." Ultron told him. "This is exactly what I wanted. All of you against all of me. How can you possibly hope to stop me?"

     Tony looked at the group before looking back at Ultron. "Like the old man said. Together."

And then the real fight begun. Olivia was tearing away at any of the robots that flew near her. Steve was using his shield and strength to fight against them. Natasha was using her electrified batons and her guns. Wanda was using her chaos magic. Pietro was speeding around the entire church, shattering the bots by a single punch. Clint was using his bow and arrows. Thor was using his hammer. Vision was ripping them apart by phasing. Tony was flying around in his suit. Bruce (or Hulk) was using either his hands or teeth to tear them apart. They were all fighting differently but at the same time they were all fighting in sync.

Suddenly Ultron flew in the church, grabbing onto Vision as he began to fight him. He managed to get him pinned against the church wall but Vision was quick to use his mind stone, blasting Ultron out of the church and following him out as he continued the stream of golden fire. Thor and Tony both joined his side with Tony using his pulsars and Thor using lightning. When the three pulled away, Ultron stood up, half of his face melted.

     "You know, with the benefit of hindsight―︎" But he didn't get to finish, for Hulk appeared and simply hit him away. Hulk turned towards the other robots and let out a roar, sending them flying away.

     "They'll try to leave the city." Thor warned.

     "We can't let them, not even one. Rhodey."

     "I'm on it."

     Olivia appeared from behind one of the pillars, back in her human form with her suit on her body. She ran a hand through her hair as she came to a stop beside of Steve. Natasha and Clint stood in front of him. "We gotta move out." Steve told the three. "Even I can tell the air is getting thin. You guys get to the boats. Olivia and I will sweep for stragglers. Be right behind you."

     "What about the core?" Clint asked.

     Wanda, who was standing beside of it, nodded her head. "I'll protect it." She met Clint's eyes. "It's my job." Clint nodded.

     "Your ass better be on one of those boats." Clint said, pointing at Olivia. "Nat."

     "What he said." Natasha said.

     "I can take care of myself." Olivia rolled her eyes, waving the two off before running with Steve in order to see if there was anyone else. When they couldn't find anyone else, the two met up with Thor.

     "Is this the last of them?"

     "Yeah." Steve nodded. "Everyone else is on the carrier."

     "Let's get this show on the road, boys." Olivia smiled.

     Tony's voice filled their ears, talking to Thor. "You know, this works, we maybe don't walk away."

     "Maybe not." Thor agreed.

     "Think positively people." Olivia tried.

The sound of approaching gunshots grabbed their attention. The three turned in time to see Ultron flying their jet, machine gun going off in a straight line right for them, going right between them sending the three flying back. She felt a bullets graze her thigh and side, causing her to curse under her breath. She turned her head to see where Ultron was heading, and her heart stopped when she saw Clint with a boy in his hands.

     "Clint!" She yelled his name, forcing herself up from the ground when the gunshots stopped and the dust cleared. She ran towards his direction with Steve following her and Thor flying towards the church. However, she stopped dead in her tracks. Tears sprang to her eyes as a hand covered her mouth. Pietro lay on the ground beside of Clint, bullet holes filling his body from where he had protected Clint and the kid by moving a car in front of them. "Oh, God."

When Clint looked up and shook his head, her heart broke. Steve picked up Pietro's body as Clint went over to the little boy and gently picked him up from the ground. Olivia couldn't move herself so Clint reached out and grabbed her hand, pulling her towards the lifeboat. He handed the child back to his mother before laying down on a row of seats with Olivia sitting on another. Pietro's body lay lifeless on the floor of the lifeboat and she couldn't stop staring at it. She ignored the medic that came to check on her, waving him off even though she was bleeding in multiple places.

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After Natasha's failed attempt at getting Bruce to turn back around, she walked into the room where Olivia was pulling out the last bullet from her body, watching as the brunette sighed in relief as her body immediately healed. She turned her head and offered Natasha a small smile. Natasha made her way over to her, taking a seat beside of her. The two shared a quick kiss before pulling away, Olivia brushing a hair from Natasha's face.

     "Nothing?" She whispered.

     Natasha gave her a sad smile. "No."

     "He'll come back eventually. Maybe it's a good thing. It gives him a little break." Olivia shrugged her shoulders.

     "Yeah, maybe." Natasha nodded.

The two women made it over towards the training area, smiling as they watched Amethyst and Ivory train with one another. Their powers were coming along really well. The two eleven year old girls stopped and turned their heads when they could feel someone watching them. Wide smiles immediately fell on both of their faces when they saw Olivia and Natasha. The two girls ran towards their mothers, Amethyst jumping into Olivia's arms as Ivory jumped into Natasha.

     Amethyst pulled away, a smile on her face. "Did we win?"

     "Hell yeah, we won." Olivia smiled, pressing a kiss to her cheek.

     "No more evil robots?" Ivory hoped.

     Natasha smirked, shaking her head. "No more evil robots." She ruffled the girls hair.

After the battle of Ultron, a new compound had been built. One that was much larger and much easier to get lost in. Once the two allowed their daughters to go and play, they walked down one of the halls, staring out the window where they could see Steve saying goodbye to Tony. Olivia placed her head on Natasha's shoulder and Natasha placed her cheek on top of Olivia's head.

     "Oh, did you see?" Olivia asked, causing Natasha to hum. She pulled out her phone, playing a video of Clint's new born son that Laura had sent her. "Nathaniel Pietro Barton. Named after two amazing people."

     Natasha smiled. "Fat."

     "One of out tech boys flagged this." Fury's voice caused the two women to turn their heads. "Splashed down in the Banda Sea." He showed them the tablet. "Could be the quinjet. But with Stark's stealth tech, we still can't track the damn thing."

     Natasha nodded. "Right."

     "Probably jumped out and swam to Fiji. He'll send a postcard." He started to walk away.

     "'Wish you were here'." Olivia joked. "Did you plan this, Fury? Did you know that all of this. . ." She motioned around her. "Did you know what was gonna happen?"

     "You never know." Fury walked back over to them. "You hope for the best and make do with what you get. I got a great team."

     Natasha gave him a sad smile. "Nothing lasts forever."

     "Trouble, Ms. Romanoff. No matter who wins or loses, trouble still comes around."

     The two stood there for a moment, both of them lost in their thoughts and only coming out of them when Steve's voice grabbed their attention. "You two wanna keep staring at that wall, or do you wanna go to work? I mean, it's a pretty interesting wall."

     Olivia smirked as she turned towards him. "We thought you and Tony were still gazing into each others eyes." They walked over to him.

     "How do we look?" Natasha asked, taking the tablet from him as they kept walking.

     "Well, we're not the '27 Yankees."

     "We got some hitters." Olivia hummed.

     "They're good. They're not a team."

     Natasha lowered the tablet. "Let's beat them into shape."

     They walked through the double doors, coming to a stop at the railing. On the floor below stood Wanda Maximoff, Sam Wilson, James Rhodes, and Vision. The group all turned towards the trio. Steve looked at every one of them before opening his mouth, "Avengers―︎"

END OF PART FOUR!
This book is coming along well I must say. Anyways, this is the end of part four of this book! I hope you're enjoying the story so far! As usual, this story is going to be placed on hold until another part of another story is completed or another story all together is finished!