"So you are like a Prophet. You can see the past and future. Now wonder you are important for the Avengers." Hank finally said.
"Well, watching the timeline isn't my only power." John replied as he got up to leave. He didn't want to speak more of himself. Scott's friends had already arrived and were surprised to see everything had been resolved. John offered them jobs too in Umbrella. They were happy to be able to join such a huge company and get paid like a normal person.
He returned back home with Bee as the arc of Ant-Man was over pretty fast. After the thing with Ultron he would never let anyone get the better of him in any way. About the new protest that had started he didn't care. Umbrella will just wash off the responsibility saying it was already on Mars when they had arrived. If the protest still insists he will take measures.
John was waiting for the first move of Ultron and he had a feeling that it would arrive soon. He was looking forward to it.
The days went like normal and it was October now. Mars had finally started the process of colonisation little by little. Umbrella had sent many people by now. The spaceships were on the other end of the planet so the people never saw the world engine or any other spaceship. Tony and Bruce finally informed that they have developed vibranium nano armour for both of them.
Wayne's new hellbat armor was made of Vibranium and Tony had a new bleeding edge armor, similarly made of Vibranium. John was happy to see such a huge leap so fast. Even Ryan said that he was researching a new kind of suit for himself which could make his body shrink.
On a fine day in October as John was working in Disney about the new superhero movie he got a reminder by the system.
[Ding
Warning
The world engine and a scout ship is losing it's sentience. Please look into it.
Warning.
The world engine and a scout ship is losing it's sentience. Please look into it.]
"What?" John almost shouted and ran. The people who were working got scared by the sudden reaction of John as they thought they made some mistake but after he ran away they realised it was something else. They were just curious of what had happened that triggered such a reaction from John.
John directly ran to the roof. He directly transformed into Victor Stone and opened the boom tube to Mars where the spaceships were located. By the time he reached Mars the system had informed that both the spaceships had lost sentience and were now out of his control.
When John reached he saw that both the spaceships were high up in the air. The scout ship was about to open the phantom drive and vanish. John saw this and directly shot at the scout ship. This was the first time he lost a comrade in arms in his whole life and he was very angry. Even though he hadn't much talked with any of the spaceships he considered them his friends. Now he just lost two in a single go.
John was furious so he didn't hold back as he directly shot at the scout ship. The world engine was going high up in the air and it had opened the phantom drive yet. John's shot directly damaged a part of the hull of the spaceship as he had just put full power in the proton cannon. Even though the hull was damaged the scout ship was able to open the phantom drive and vanish. A damaged scout ship could never travel safely using the phantom drive. The ship would be destroyed no matter what.
John took another aim to the world engine as this world engine too was out of his control. As he took the aim to shoot, the world engine too vanished from his sight opening the phantom drive. John had a solemn face now. He had a hunch of what had happened but he needed to make sure. He opened the boom tube and returned back to Earth on the same roof.
After reaching he transformed himself back to John and opened the FOCUS.
"Avengers. We have a situation. Meet me at the headquarters." John said. After a few minutes a boom tube opened and John walked into it. After he emerged from the boom tube he saw almost everybody had come while others were emerging from the boom tubes. Victor was operating the mother box to bring all of them in.
"What happened?" Arthur asked.
"We lost a scout ship and a world engine. FOS no will relay the video of it." John said.
"What? What did you say? We lost a World engine and a scout ship?" Tony and Steve almost shouted. They had stayed on Mars for quite a long time and they had a good friendship with the spaceships. Now suddenly out of nowhere they lost two of their friends.
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"What happened?" Wayne asked
"GAIA had tasked the spaceships to be scattered in the non-human region to look after the animals of Mars and thus most of them were separated. I got the information from FOS that we just lost two spaceships. FOS was able to blast a spaceship as it was leaving. The ship opened the phantom drive and escaped though I am sure it wouldn't be able to survive the travel. But the world engine successfully escaped. GAIA and FOS weren't able to track it." John said as he lied a bit here but this was closest to the truth. He still didn't want anyone to know that he could transform himself to other characters when required so he brought out the name of FOS.
Tony clenched his fist when he heard that. He loved machines. Especially the machines which he had given life to. Now they lost two.
"How did this happen?" Steve asked.
"Two unknown men came flying by in suit towards the spaceships very fast and before both of the spaceships could react the two men touched the spaceships. The next moment they lost connection to me and were taken over in a matter of seconds. I am sorry they didn't survive this sudden attack. My calculation tells me that this was the work of another AI. Possibly Ultron." GAIA said.
"So they were real men in suits. Did Ultron transfer himself to a living being? Is that even possible?" Banner asked.
"It is possible if they reconfigure the med pods." Dr. Helen who too came for the sudden meeting said.
"Huh! So Ultron now could transfer himself to human beings in med pods. Don't Umbrella have full inventory and control of all the med pods?" Barry asked.
"We do but we lost a med pod for a few days in one case in Japan last month. Umbrella was able to get back the med pod but said that the records on the med pod suggested that it was operated on two people. It never mattered to anyone but I guess now we know what had happened. Ultron was able to reconfigure and insert himself into two men." Victor said as he was scouring the internet for information.
"Let me guess these two men were chosen for colonisation on Mars." Tony said.
"Yes. Probably this had happened. After reaching Mars they were able to make a cheap exoskeleton suit for themselves. Ultron knew it couldn't hijack any spaceship so it approached a diabolical way to get to Mars. He must have known about the Kryptonian spaceships on Mars from the government's files. " John said.
"And after reaching the two spaceships they were able to successfully erase the sentience of the spaceships. This was one last desperate shot to get away from here as he would never get anything on Earth. We are too powerful and John had already taken measures to resist Ultron. Now the question is where is the world engine now?" Vision, who hadn't spoken yet, finally said.
"Hal. Inform the green lanterns to scour the galaxies for the world engine." John said.
"Already informed the Guardians. They are taking the matter seriously as AI had once plagued Oa." Hal replied.
"I know. The whole incident of the Manhunters faced by Oa once." John said as before the lanterns there were Manhunters who were tasked with the work instead of Lanterns. But later the Guardians understood that at the end AIs could do only so much, and they didn't understand actual emotions. So they decommissioned Manhunters later. In the future when the Green Lanterns were at play, the Manhunters rebelled and Oa suffered from the attack.
"The manhunters? Who are those?" Clint asked.
"A story for another day. Right now we need to search for the world engine before he does more damage." Wayne said. As they were talking there was an alarm at the headquarters.
"What happened? Did Ultron come back?" Pietro asked.
"The world engine has appeared in the exosphere near Earth. Ultron has appeared." GAIA said.
"Huh. Ultron could have escaped easily and come back much later. Why did he come back now?" Wanda asked in a confused manner.
"No idea. There must be a deeper plot to it." Tony said.
"Whatever it is. We need to prepare ourselves. Since the world engine has appeared, Vision now has a physical entity to purge Ultron away from the internet. This might be our last chance in defeating Ultron. He doesn't know of your existence yet. So he might not have calculated your presence." John said.
"Yes." Vision replied.
"The world engine is coming down to earth. From the location it's coming down it's probably Sokovia. The same place where it all began." GAIA said.
"So everything is coming full circle." John murmured.
"We need to go to Sokovia and stop whatever he is planning." Wayne said. "Avengers, we have a mission to finish."
/There. This is for those people who are screaming that I went against everything that I built in the whole story. Some of you really don't have a single minute of patience and jump to conclusions in a single chapter. Great /
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