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𝙸𝙼𝙰𝙶𝙸𝙽𝙴, ┊ 014
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𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒐

━━━━━━━━  𝓞n the Quinjet they had finally arrived to Norway where Ultron would be taking his permanent body with him. Melody adjusted her suit as Steve spoke to Clint over the radio. Melody climbed onto her sleek electric blue motorcycle, the lights lit up before her; "Aquaria, power on." Kai nodded to Melody who turned to Natasha who to sat upon her bike.

"Sagon careful." Kai placed his hands on her handlebars.

"I always am." She smiled up at him.

"Come on love birds." Natasha called out with a smirk, Kai sent a glare her way as Melody focused on her bike.

"We got a window. Four, three . . . give 'em hell you two." Clint called out from the front of the jet before hovering over the streets and letting the two women drop down.

The two skimmed through traffic, Melody rode behind the red head as Natasha led the way. Her emerald eyes narrowed on the familiar red, white and blue shield on the pavement. "I'm always picking up after you boys." She teased.

"They're heading under the overpass, I've got no shot." Clint informed the duo.

"Left or right?" Melody called out, her bike now next to Natasha's.

"Hard right . . . now."

Melody and Natasha made a sharp right seeing the truck in the distance. Natasha nodded to Melody signalling for her to take the right of the truck where she would take the left. Natasha threw Steve's shield towards him and used it to knock off Ultron.

Melody's bike sped up as did Natasha's only for Ultron to pull up boulders up from the pavement blocking their way, Melody's eyes narrowed on the block of rock as it exploded in front of her.

"Sending, Kai down, in three, two, one . . ." Clint announced as the nymph dropped down hovering on a wave almost like a skateboard; over traffic.

Melody watched as Steve was thrown off the truck onto a car before it was flipped over into oncoming traffic. Melody sped up, her arm stretched out to take hold of Steve's, "In coming, Cap." Melody alerted the soldier who gripped onto her forearm jumping in the air and landing on the back of her bike. "That was so cool." She gushed glancing back to Steve.

"Yeah, eyes on the road." Steve smiled at the girl's excitement.

"Kai, can you draw out the guards?" Natasha asked over the mic.

"Is that even a question?" He asked rhetorically. He sped to the back of the truck and hovered there, "Hey, metal heads." Kai smirked before he took off the sentries following in pursuit.

"Drop me off here?" Steve asked Melody who nodded speeding up before pressing on her breaks landing on a wheelie sending Steve soaring through mid air onto Ultron sending him down on the truck.

"Whatever you're going to do, do it now." Clint informed them.

"I'm going in, Mel can you keep him occupied? Cap, seems a bit busy." Natasha asked before jumping into the back of the truck onto the cradle.

"I thought I was?" She tilted her head before speeding up in front of the truck, "Uh, he's right behind you guys. Clint, Nat?" Melody warned the two looking up into the sky.

"The package is airborne. I have a clean shot." Clint stated.

"Negative. I am still in the truck." Natasha denied.

"What the hell are you . . .?" Clint began to question.

Natasha huffed as she said, "Just be ready, I'm sending the package to you."

"How do you want me to take it?"

"Uhh, you might wish you hadn't asked that." Natasha answered.

"Nat, we gotta go." Clint says, just as the cradle falls into the Quinjet and is yanked away by Ultron."Nat? Does anyone have eyes on Nat?" Clint panicked.

"Negative." Kai ripped apart the final legion, his eyes darted around the sky not seeing the familiar red head.

"If you have the package, get it to Stark! Go!" Steve demanded.

"I'll look for her!" Melody announced before switching gears and searching for the red head.

"Mel!" "Don't!" Kai and Steve exclaimed in unison.

Melody's ear piece began to give out, "Guys?" She called out with furrowed brows, "Steve? Kai? Anybody?" She called out over the engine of her bike. She glanced over her shoulder, "Uh-" She began only for her bike to hit the pavement, her body flying forwards off the bike. A groan left her lips as she looked up seeing her bike now on the floor covered in scrapes. "Aqua." She whispered with sad eyes.

"You'll do just fine." A voice echoed behind her. Melody whipped her head around seeing Ultron staring down at her. "Let's go for a ride." He said gripping onto her wrist before his metal hand met with the side of her head knocking her out.

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          𝓑ack at the lab stood a very irritated Clint Barton and Kai Merlin. The two men had expressed how they should send a search team after both Natasha and Melody seeing as how they'd both be locked up in the same place, more then likely. Where as Tony shrugged off their concerns stating how Ultron needed to be fix before they could do anything or formulate a plan.

It didn't help that the Maximoff twins were there sending some of The Avengers on edge.

"I'm gonna say this once." Steve declared.

"How about 'nonce'?" Tony re marked sarcastically.

"Shut it down!" Steve demanded.

"Nope, not gonna happen."

"You don't know what you're doing." Steve argued with the two.

"And you do? She's not in your head?" Bruce remarked.

Wanda sighed turning to Bruce, "I know you're angry."

"Oh, we're way past that. I could choke the life out of you and never change a shade."

"Banner, after everything that's happened . . ." Steve began.

"That's nothing compared to what's coming!" Tony argued.

"We need to find Melody and Natasha." Kai argued, irritated with the arguments.

"No, you don't know what's in there!" Wanda exclaimed.

"This isn't a game . . ."

"The creature . . . !" Pietro sped over whilst the group argued amongst each other and yanked the connecting tube away from the cradle.

"No, no. Go on. You were saying?" He taunted, just as a bullet flew up from under the glass floor below him. Within seconds he fell through, Clint standing above him.

"Pietro!"

"What? You didn't see that coming?" Clint mocked.

Steve ran forwards only to be forced back by Tony's shock blast.

Bruce turned to Wanda grabbing her from behind, "Go ahead, piss me off."

Kai sighed rubbing the bridge of his nose as he watched the team fight each other. "I hate land." He muttered.

A figure in a red cape slid into the room. Thor. He jumped and landed on the cradle raising his hammer in the air, lightening struck the silver object before he slammed his hammer down sending a powerful bolt of lightning into the cradle.

"Wait!"

A body appeared before them, the group looked at him in confusion before he jolted forwards stopping once he saw his reflection in the window.

"I'm sorry, that was . . . odd." Vision explained before turning to Thor, "Thank you."

"Thor, you helped create this?" Steve questioned the God.

"I've had a vision. A whirlpool that sucks in all hope of life and at it's center is that." He pointed to the yellow stone adoring Vision's forehead.

"What, the gem?" Bruce inquired.

"It's the Mind Stone. It's one of the six Infinity Stones, the greatest power in the universe, unparalleled in its destructive capabilities." Thor explained to the group.

"Then why would you bring it to . . ."

"Because Stark is right." Thor said surprising everyone.

"Oh, it's definitely the end times." Bruce muttered.

"The Avengers cannot defeat Ultron."

"Not alone."

"Well, this just gets better and better. Anyone forget the two other Avengers. Small brunette, snarky red head? Nope, just me? And why are we listening to Ultron 2.0?" Kai rose a brow.

"You think I'm a child of Ultron?" Vision turned to Kai who shrugged.

"You're not?" Steve asked.

"I'm not Ultron. I'm not JARVIS. I am . . . I am."

"Yeah, didn't understand that." Kai rolled his eyes boredly.

Wanda turned to Vision ignoring Kai, "I looked in your head and saw annihilation."

"Look again."

"Yeah. Her seal of approval means jack to me." Clint piped up.

"Their powers, the horrors in our heads, Ultron himself, they all came from the Mind Stone, and they're nothing compared to what it can unleash. But with it on our side . . ."

"Is it? Are you? On our side?" Steve asked stepping forwards.

"I don't think it's that simple."

"Well it better get real simple real soon." Clint remarked.

"I am on the side of life. Ultron isn't, he will end it all." Vision said simply, unfazed by the team's hostility.

"What's he waiting for?" Tony asked.

"You." Vision nodded.

"Where?"

"Sokovia. He's got Nat and Mel there too." Clint nodded.

"If we're wrong about you, if you're the monster that Ultron made you to be . . ."

"What will you do?" Vision asked looking to the group, "I don't want to kill Ultron. He's unique, and he's in pain. But that pain will roll over the earth, so he must be destroyed. Every form he's built, every trace of his presence on the net, we have to act now. And not one of us can do it without the others. Maybe I am a monster. I don't think I'd know if I were one. I'm not what you are, and not what you intended. So there may be no way to make you trust me. But we need to go." He said lifting Thor's hammer towards him with ease.

The six looked wide eyed to Vision who walked away leaving a dazed Thor as well. Tony glanced between the team in pure confusion.

Thor nodded, "Right." He walked over to Tony and patted his shoulder, "Well done." He said before exiting the room leaving the stunned six behind.

"Three minutes. Get what you need." Steve announced.

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         𝓒old liquid dripped down Melody's forehead. She sighed at the feeling before hearing rattling in the distance. Her tired eyes blinked rapidly before she hazily looked up. Bars stood tall in front of her. She groaned placing the palms of her hands onto the dirt covered ground.

"Mel, is that you?" A voice whispered from the opposite side of the stone wall. "Mel?"

"Whose there? Am I . . . dead?" Melody whispered in fright. "Muña?" She called out placing her dirtied hands against the stone wall, her eyes wide and lips parted.

"It's Nat." Natasha answered, Melody frowned. "Mel, you still there?"

"Yeah - I'm here. Where are we?" She whispered rubbing at her arms which were covered in scales due to her suit.

"He took us here. Ultron." She hissed. "Can you see me?" She asked digging her fingers through the small hole between the stone wall. Squinting slightly seeing a shadow.

"No." Melody looked around her cell coming to a halt, "Are you dead?" She whispered looking frantically around the cell once again her hands raised ahead of her trying to locate the red head.

Natasha shook her head though she couldn't see it, "I'm behind the wall, they separated us. That son of a bitch."

"Language." Melody whispered sternly.

Natasha shook her head scoffing, a small smile on her lips.

Melody brought her cracked watch in front of her as she clicked on numerous buttons, 'Error.' The voice said as Melody shushed it quietly, 'Error.'

"What the hell are you doing in there?" Natasha whispered looking around seeing if anything or anyone was near.

"I'm trying to call for help." She answered, 'Error' Melody slapped her hand over the watch, "Please be quiet, Mr. Watch sir." She panicked hearing metal clinking in the distance. 'Error.'

The noises became more clearer by the second.

"Mel, turn. It. Off." Natasha gritted out.

"I can't, he won't listen." She panicked, her eyes locked on the figure approaching her cell. "Natasha?" Melody called out as she hit the off button on her watch, receiving no response she looked wide eyed to the wall, "Nat?"

'Error.'

"I heard you the first time!" Melody hissed.

'Powering off, good-bye.'

A sigh of relief left her lips. Hearing metal clamp with metal Melody's eyes widened seeing a metal hand wrap around the bars securely. The bars before her were ripped from it's hinges.

Melody swallowed thickly before crawling further into the cell backwards, "Come any closer and I'll rip your metal parts off and shove it where the sun doesn't shine. I'd say the appropriate term but if Steve were here, he wouldn't be too happy with my choice of words." She stated holding her wrist to her chest, staring at the shadowed figure. It stepped into the small light, Melody's lips parted in disbelief;

"Bucky?"

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