[ xviii. eighteen ! ]
❛ 𝚂𝙾𝙺𝙾𝚅𝙸𝙰 ❜

❝Do you have eyes on Nat and Ana❞

𝐌𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐊𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐀 Ultron held Helen Cho hostage, he had her under his control, thanks to Loki's scepter.
"Cellular cohesion will take a few hours, but we can initiate the consciousness stream. We're uploading your cerebral matrix now", the Doctor explained to him.

"I can read him. He is dreaming", Wanda told her fascinated.

Helen looked at the Witch, "I wouldn't call it dreams. It's Ultron's base consciousness, informational noise. Soon-", "How soon?", Ultron interrupted her, "I'm not being pushy", he tried to assure her.

"We're imprinting a physical brain. There are no shortcuts. Even if your magic gem is-", Dr. Cho answered him.

Wanda touched the box and a terrible feeling run through her body, she screamed as she read Ultron's mind and saw a vision of global annihilation, which horrified her.

Immediately Pietro brought her into a hug."How could you?", she asked Ultron disbelieving. "How could I what?", Ultron asked her not understanding what she wanted to hear.

The brunette Maximoff girl looked at him, "You said we would destroy the Avengers, make a better world."

"It will be better", Ultron said to her.
"When everyone is dead", Wanda shouted at him in anger.

"That is not-! The human race will have every opportunity to improve", Ultron began arguing.

"And if they don't?", Pietro asked with his thick accent. "Ask Noah", Ultron replied to him. Wanda looked at him with fear in her eyes, "You're a madman", she stated.

"There were more than a dozen extinction level events before even the dinosaurs got theirs. When the Earth starts to settle, God throws a stone at it, and believe me, he's winding up. We have to evolve. There's no room for the weak", Ultron resoned.

"And who decides who's weak?", Pietro asked the Roboter, as Ultron was distracted Wanda broke the scepter's hold off of Dr. Cho.

"Life. Life always decides", Ultron answered the Man. Ultron looked up,
"There's incoming. The Quinjet. We have to move."

Cho canceled the upload to Ultron's consciousness. "That's not a problem", Helen spoke up. Ultron blasted Cho and Wanda, Eva and Pietro used that chance and ran off. "Ah, wait, guys!-", Ultron shouted after them, his Iron Legions blasted Cho's intirred technicians.

"They'll understand. When they see, they'll understand. I just need a little more time"

Anastasija sat like so oftend with Natasha and Clint inside the Quinjet, when they heated Steve's voice in their ears.

"Two minutes. Stay close."

They could all hear how he found Dr.Cho inside the lab Steve. The women was heavily wounded when Steve approched her.

"Dr. Cho!", the Doctor sat on the floor, leaning against the wall. "He's uploading himself into the body", she explained to Steve heavily breathing.

"Where?", Steve asked her looking around, but she grabbed his arm.

"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", she said while she tried to fight the pain.

Steve looked at her ,"First I have to find it", Helen looked at him.

"Go!"

Natasha and Ana exchanged looks, Ana kinda liked Helen, she was a nice woman.

"Did you guys copy that?", Steve asked them. "We did", Clint answered him quickly.

Natasha spoke up frome besides Ana, "I got a private jet taking off, across town, no manifest. That could be him", she told them.

Clint looked down, "There. It's the truck from the lab. Right above you, Cap. On the loop by the bridge. It's them. I got three with the cradle, one in the cab. I could take out the driver."

Steve answered quickly, "Negative! If that truck crashes, the gem could level the city. We need to draw out Ultron."

From what they could hear in the Jet Steve just jumped onto the roof of the truck, Ana closed her eyes for a moment. "Please be careful Steve."

She whispered more to herself them to him. Ultron blasted the truck door as Steve tried to enter. "Well, he's definitely unhappy! I'm going to try and keep him that way", Steve shouted.

Anastasija looked worried at Natasha.
Clint spoke up, "You're not a match for him, Cap." After a moment you could hear Steve answer quietly, "Thanks, Barton."

Ultron blasted Steve again as he tried to enter the truck, but Steve managed to get back onto the truck's roof.
Ultron flew out of the truck and confronted Steve on the roof.

"You know what's in that cradle? The power to make real change, and that terrifies you." Steve looked at him, "I wouldn't call it a comfort", he threw his shield at him and they began fight with each other.

Ultron had enough, "Stop it!" He threw Steve's shield aside and blasted him.

Anastasija could sit anymore, she stood up and prepared herselfe to get involved, Natasha was right beside her.

After a couple of minutes Barton turned to her and said, "We got a window." He turned around and slowly opened the doors, "Four, three, give them hell!"

Anastasija and Natasha's sat on a bike and droped out of the Quinjet. The russian's rode directly towards the truck and Ana picked up Steve's shield on her way. As she grabbed it she sighed, "I'm always picking up after you boys".

She could hear Clint's voice in her ear, "They're heading under the overpass, I've got no shot"

"Which way?,the Russian questioned.
"Hard right- Now", Clint directed her.

When she finally reached the Truck Steve and Ultron were still fighting, Ana headed over the truck, she throwed Steve back his shield and he used it to knock Ultron off of him.

Ultron held off Ana and Nat as he let a pice of the street fly into the air. So they had to do an emergency stop and take another route. They both drove up the stairs that led them directly back to the Truck.

But on their way they had to drive past many civilians and had to be careful not to hurt anybody.

"They're heading back towards you. So whatever you're going to do, do it now", Clint warned the twins.

"We're going in. Cap, can you keep him occupied?", Anastasija questioned Steve. "What do you think I've been doing?", she heard Steve say a little out of breath.

As the twins entered the truck the Iron Legions head back, pick up the truck and lift it off the ground.

"The package is airborne. I have a clean shot", Clint informed her, Anastasija answered him quickly.

"Negative. We are still in the truck."

Clint was confuesed, "What the hell are you- ?", he tried to ask her but Natasha interrupted him, "Just be ready, We are sending the package to you!", the Russian interrupted him.

"How do you want me to take it?", Clint asked her tensed up.

"Uhh, you might wish you hadn't asked that", the readhead replied to him.

At the same time Pietro, Eva and Wanda turn up on the train to help Steve fight with Ultron. "Please. Don't do this", Ultron bagged the siblings.

"What choice do we have?", Wanda asked him, Ultron blasted his way free and flew off.

"I LOST HIM! HE'S HEADED YOUR WAY!", Natasha and Anastasija got ready for the Transport when they suddenly heared Clint, "Ana, Nat, we got to go!", he told them.

They lookd at each other and immediately both grabbed onto the box. They tried to drobbed the cradle into the Quinjet but they got thrown back when the truck exploded behind them.

"NAT, ANA! ", Clint shouted worried.
"Cap, you see Ana and Nat?", he asked Steve. "If you have the package, get it to Stark! Go!", Steve instructed him.

"Do you have eyes on Nat and Ana?"

"GO!"

Reluctantly Barton quickly took off in the Quinjet.

After Barton has taken the cradle to Stark and Banner. Bruce asked, "Anything on Nat and Ana?", Tony walked past him, "Haven't heard. But they are alive, or Ultron would be rubbing our faces in it.

"This is sealed tight", Barton said to them, Banner touched the box, "We're going to need to access the program, break it down from within."

"Hm. Any chance Natasha and Ana might leave you a message, outside the internet, old school spy stuff?", Tony asked Clint.

"There's some nets I can cast. Yeah, alright. I'll find them", he answered before he went off.

Banner tapped on the monitor, "I can work on tissue degeneration, if you can fry whatever operational system Cho implanted"

Tony looked at them, "Yeah, about that", Tony said while he looked at Bruce. Banner looked back at Stark, "No"

"You have to trust me", Tony tried to convince him as he walked towards him. Bruce walked backwards as he replied, "Kinda don't"

"Our ally? The guy protecting the military's nuclear codes? I found him", Tony explained to Banner.

He broughed up Jarvis's consciousness. "Hello, Dr. Banner", Jarvis greeted him.

"Ultron didn't go after Jarvis cause he was angry. He attacked him because he was scared of what he can do. So Jarvis went underground", Tony explained to Bruce.

"Okay? Scattered, dumped his memory. But not his protocols. He didn't even know he was in there, until I pieced him together", he continued. Bruce looked at him, "So, you want me to help you put Jarvis into this thing?"

Tony shook his head, "No, of course not! I want to help you put Jarvis in this thing", he smiled while Banner shook his head.

"We're out of my field here. You know bio-organics better than anyone", he said to Banner, who looked at him.

"And you just assume that Jarvis's operational matrix can beat Ultron's?"

"Jarvis has been beating him from inside without knowing it. This is the opportunity, we can create Ultron's perfect self, without the homicidal glitches he thinks are his winning personality. We have to", he said convinced that this would work.

"I believe it's worth a go", Jarvis spoke up. Bruce shook his head, "No, I'm in a loop. I'm caught in a time loop, this is exactly where it all went wrong!"

Tony approched him, "I know, I know. I know what everyone's going to say, but they're already saying it. We're mad scientists. We're monsters, buddy. You got to own it. Make a stand", he tried to calm him down.
Banner shook his head again,

"It's not a loop. It's the end of the line", Tony assured him convinced.

On his way to Stark, Steve saw a women laying on the ground, as he approprached her he saw that it was Anastasija. She was unconcussioned and looked kinda wrecked. "Ana, Ana, wake up!"

Steve kneeled down next to her and shook her lightly. After a moment Anastasija slowly opened her eyes. The last thing she could remember was that she fought off the Iron Legion who wanted to capture her and then she fell.

"Steve?", she asked him a little confused. "Yeah, we gotta go", he told her smiling lightly. He held out his hand for her to take and so she did.

"Where is Nat?", she immediately asked him, the Russian was very worried about her Sister.

Steve looked at her, "Ultron has her."
Anastasija sighed worried and looked past him where the Maximoff's Twins and their sister stood and watch them.

"Why are they here? And why is she wearing my jacked?", she asked him confused as she looked at Wanda.

"They are on our side now", he shortly answered her but Anastasija frowned, "Still not explaines the Jacked." The russian had a sceptical look on her face and slowly turned around before they all continued their way to Stark.

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