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Chapter 34 - Chapter 34. Ultron

The robot turns twards them "No. How could you be worthy? You're all killers." Its voice is tired, male, confident. But with a robotic tune to it. She frowns deeply, unsure. "Stark." Steve asks. "JARVIS." Stark asks. "I'm sorry, I was asleep. Or... I was a-dream?" Stark moves to a tablet he is holding "Reboot, Legionnaire OS, we got a buggy suit." Quitely, unsettled. The robot continues to speak, oddly... living "There was a terrible noise... and I was tangled in... in... strings. I had to kill the other guy. He was a good guy." Karlen floats slowly "Something... is wrong... thats not a robot." She is confused backing away. "I... sense... its..." Karlen is quitely confused. They stare silently. Unsure, as Steve says "You killed someone?" It responds "Wouldn't have been my first call. But, down in the real world we're faced with ugly choices." Thor asks unsettled "Who sent you?" The robot plays a recording of Tony's own voice "I see a suit of armor around the world." Bruce, and Tonys faces shift "Ultron." Bruce says uneasy. "In the flesh. Or, no, not yet. Not this... chrysalis. But I'm ready. I'm on a mission." Ultron, the robot replies. Natasha asks "What mission?" It responds "Peace in our time. But for that..." Then... a dart lands on Ally's neck, she shifts, as she feels it pearce her neck, as she feels all funny. As she breaths rapidly, and black substance forms, covering her body. But then fails as it destablizes, like smoke. She falls to the ground, breathing rapidly, as her ears twitch... and tail shutter... and then she falls unconscious rapidly. "I need a little fox out of the way to start." As then the walls explode behind Ultron, and several Iron Legion bots barge into the room.

Cap immediately kicks a table, making it block the bots as they approtch, but it knocks him down. Natasha begins to shoot, as Thor hits one with his hammer, sending it the other way. Tony is knocked to the ground, as one flings him into a book shelf, Rodies is knocked thru glass to another level. Thor flies up, and punts another robot down a hallway. As elsewhere in the cayous another fires shots at hawkeye, as he dives under a bar. Natasha, and Banner move to hide under a diffrent bar, as they are battered with shots of plasma from replusors. Stark notices one of the robots reaching the sceptor floating in its scanner, and taking it. As he slowly gets up from the ground. Stark reaches and grabs a screwdriver, as Natasha grabs one of the pistols. Steve jumps up onto one's back, as he begins to punch it. Only for it to push him into a wall. Its absolute mayhem.

Natasha, and Banner make a run for it. As steve falls to the ground. Barton dodges repulsor blasts, as Stark makes a run for a robot, Jumping on top of one with no suit, and going at it with a screwdriver. Thor elsewhere, blows a robots leg off with his hammer, and throws it off a balcony. Stark is busy, as Stark tries to get to the right wire to make the robot fall, panicing slightly. Cap grabs a split-in-half robot, as he calls on thor, as thor smashes it to bits. Stark finally manages to deactivate just one robot, as it falls to the ground. Gitching. Natasha continues her fire fight, as Barton throws cap his shield, and cap catches it, throwing it at a robot, splitting it in two. As all but the ultron one are left in the room. Ally lays unconchess on the floor, as Maria Hill stays near her. "Stark! Ally... she is not looking too hot." Ultron says "That was dramatic." Thor says "What did you do to Ally!" He says "A little thing to get her out of the way is all. But i'm sorry, I know you mean well. You just didn't think it through. You want to protect the world, but you don't want it to change. How is humanity saved if it's not allowed to...evolve?" It picks up one of the robots heads, and says "With these? These puppets?" As it crushes its head. It drops it "There's only one path to peace: The Avengers' extinction." As thor throws his hammer, angry, and destroys this robot. As it glitches, on the ground it sings "I had strings, but now I'm free..."

Time Passes. Bruce looks over a computer "All our work is gone. Ultron cleared out, used the internet as an escape hatch." Dr. Helen Cho says "Ally is not looking too great, she is with Dr. Helen Cho, but the poison he injected with her, very potent. A virus designed to kill her. Bypass her superhuman characteristics." Stark says "He made it in the labs here just for her. H-How is it?" He asks with genuine concern. Dr. Helen Cho shakes her head "She is alive, her cells are fighting. If she was human, or less superhuman then she is, she would be dead. Her body is clearing it up with... impossible methods the medical team does not understand, winning, but it will take at least 2 weeks, perhaps more." Natasha says "We don't have that time. He's been in everything. Files, surveillance. Probably knows more about us than we know about each other." James Rhodes says "He's in your files, he's in the internet. What if he decides to access something a little more exciting?" Hill looks up in horror "Nuclear codes." Rhodes says "Nuclear codes. Look, we need to make some calls, assuming we still can." Natasha says "Nukes? He said he wanted us dead." Steve replies "He didn't say dead. He said extinct."

Clint says "He also said he killed somebody." "But there wasn't anyone else in the building." Maria Hill replies confused. Tony shakes his head "Yes there was." Stark grabs a small plate, and brings it out. As in the center of the room is the broken messy remains of JARVIS, rendered. Bruce says in horror "This is insane." Steve says "JARVIS was the first line of defense. He would've shut Ultron down, it makes sense." Bruce replies "No, Ultron could've assimilated Jarvis. This isn't strategy, this is... rage." *BANG*, as thor barges in angry. Grabs tony by the throat, and puts him to a wall. Barton says "Woah, woah, woah! It's going around. Calm down." Tony says, finding it hard to breath, "Come on. Use your words, buddy." Thor says "I have more than enough words to describe you, Stark." Cap redirects "Thor!The Legionnaire." Thor drops tony to the ground "Trail went cold about a hundred miles out but it's headed north, and it has the scepter. Now we have to retrieve it, again. The scepter we spent months finding! Worse... You, Stark... you caused Ally's Injury." Stark breaths hard on the ground, guilty faced. Dr. Helen Cho speaks, looking at the debree "I don't understand. You built this program. Why is it trying to kill us?" 

Tony chuckles... its... uncanny, strained. Banner shakes his head at tony, disapproving, as tony chuckles more. "You think this is funny?" Thor states in calm anger. Tony replies "No. Its probably not, right? Is this very terrible? Is it so... is it so... it is. It's so terrible." It makes them feel unsettled. Thor sighs, and says "his could've been avoided if you hadn't played with something you don't understand. Worse... you hurt one of us, all of us with this." Tony shakes his head, saying "No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It is funny. It's a hoot that you don't get why we need this. Now... i did not want it to be this way. But..." Bruce says "Tony, maybe this might not be the time to--" Tony says, angry "Really?! That's it? You just roll over, show your belly, every time somebody snarls." Bruce yells in anger "Only when I've created a murder bot!" Stark replies "We didn't. We weren't even close. Were we close to an interface?"

Steve says firmly "Well, you did something right. And you did it right here. The Avengers were supposed to be different than SHIELD." Stark replies calmly "Anybody remember when I carried a nuke through a wormhole? Saved New York Recall that? A hostile alien army came charging through a hole in space. We're standing three hundred feet below it. We're the Avengers. We can bust arms dealers all the live long day, but, that up there? That's... that's the end game. How were you guys planning on beating that?" Captain... replies simply "Together." Tony replies "We'll lose." Cap replies "Then we'll do that together, too." They stare at each other. Then they turn, as the Captain says "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."

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