Rogers and I land on the rooftops of a more impoverished neighborhood while facing the hospital that's sitting on top of the river. It breaks my heart that these people can live so close to such a technology advanced and cutting edge healthcare facility and they won't ever be able to step foot inside of it. The whole community can come together and pool in their whole life's savings and only be able to pay a portion of one patient's bill. Well, as much as I would like to do something about it. There's not much I can do for these people at the moment besides try and keep them safe from world-ending threats like Ultron.
Rogers and I begin running towards the hospital, using the rooftops as our pathway and soon we arrive inside the building. What we stumbled onto can only be described as a massacre. All the hospital staff were either long dead or had just died as we arrived because a lot of the bodies are still warm but none have a pulse. The only one that's still alive and fighting for their life is Dr. Cho. Rogers runs up to her to check if she's alright while I continue to scan the area to see if there's anyone else who still has a fighting chance.
"Dr.Cho!" Rogers gets down to her level as he tries to check on her condition. She's been shot in the shoulder and bleeding. Rogers is applying a rag over the wound to stop the bleeding as I finish up my scan.
"He's uploading himself into the body." She pants heavily from the pain of taking an energy blast to her shoulder.
"Where is he?" I walk over to check on her condition as Cap and I make eye contact.
"T-the real power is inside the Cradle. The body, its power is uncontainable. You can't just blow it up. You have to get the Cradle to Stark." Rogers tries to comfort her before getting up. "First, I have to find it." He turns away to begin running towards the exit while communicating with Barton from the air.
I turn to Dr. Cho and produce some basic first aid from my utility belt to patch over her wound to keep pressure over the opening. "This won't be as good or smooth as your tech but it'll be better than nothing. Please survive this, it'll be over soon. I'll get in touch once we can avenge your people." I attached a simple bracelet on her wrist that can monitor her vitals for hours before losing power. This way I can teleport back to her if she starts going under. I can't have one of the brightest minds in the medical field go to waste like this. There's still so much I need to bring together and Dr. Cho is a vital part of it. I get back up on my feet and begin to run after Rogers.
"You guys copy that?" Rogers asked over the radio as I try to make my way out of the large and confusing building.
"There. It's a truck from the lab. Right above you, Cap. On the loop by the bridge. I got three with the Cradle, one in the cab. I could take out the driver." Barton calls out over comms as he continues to be our eyes in the sky. "Negative! If that truck crashes, the cradle could level the city. We need to draw out Ultron." Somehow Rogers had already arrived at the highway above the building. He jumps on to the truck that went below him and soon received a blast from Ultron.
He clings on to the door as it swings open and it soon comes back in just to be blasted again. This time launching Rogers into the air for a few moments before he lands on a still attached door that's scrapping the road. "Well he's definitely unhappy! I'll try and keep him that way" He tries to stall and buy time for me to catch up while we all come up with a plan to stop Ultron. "You're not a match for him" Barton spoke over the comms as he maneuvered closer to the truck. "Thanks Barton." Rogers tries to sound more energetic from the lack of positive reinforcement.
"He's right Cap, you're not his match. But we are." I swing from under the bridge as I launch myself from my swing into a jump. I land on the side of the truck causing it to tilt back and forth slightly. Ultron shot out a blast at Rogers to make him hit the windshield of the car behind us but I caught him with my web before he landed. I swing my arm over towards the driver cab causing Rogers to be pulled over and land on top of the truck. Ultron appears from behind the truck and floats towards the roof before landing in front of Rogers. "You know what's in that Cradle? The power to make real change, and that terrifies you." I leap from my position and land behind Ultron as I sandwich him between Rogers and I.
"I wouldn't call it a comfort." Rogers throw out a punch and Ultron easily took the punch like it was an nothing. I follow suit and begin landing my own punches and FUCK! Just how strong are Rogers' hands because it hurts punching metal. But I can't quit now especially not while I'm with the avengers. I continue to throw my punches and hit where Rogers can't land. Even then Ultron seem unbothered and more annoyed than anything else. Steve launch his shield at full force into the chest of Ultron, lodging the vibranium deep inside of the droid. Normally this would incapacitate a person or even cause death but Ultron just toss the shield away like an annoying piece of garbage.
Before the shield could get far from the truck it gets pulled back at full speed from the use of my webs. I whip the shield into the back left shoulder of Ultron causing him to lose some mobility and control of that limb. He's finally had enough and blasts me away with a ball of energy. He also shot at a bunch of cars to cause them to flip in the air. Being shot into the air I could just change my momentum to get back into the fight but I allow my body to follow the fall so I can shoot my webs at the airborne cars, nearby pillars and support beams to make a net instead. My body tumbles and rolls over onto the street for a short while before my momentum comes to a halt. I spring myself up from the concrete to check on the now suspended cars. I help the civilians lower their cars and help any that are stuck before turning to check on the direction of the now long gone truck.
"Barton, where's Cap?" I launch myself towards the last direction of the truck so I can start building up my momentum."I got two bougies on my six but Cap and Nat are now by the train." Oh fuck me. Try my best to speed up and catch the train as fast as I can, using the jumps and tricks I've practiced in this life and in the games. Soon I caught up to the speeding train but only by landing on the side of the last car. I try to catch my breath when my tingles go off, pointing me to the front of the train. A ray of energy had been shot through the train and exiting the cockpit, but what's more important is the end of the tracks that's approaching fast for a speeding train that won't stop. Ultron soon flew out of the train to go after Romanoff and Barton. I leap forward to land on top of the train before running at my fastest speed to reach the cockpit.
Once I arrived at the cockpit, apparently the Maximoff twins had decided to switch teams and are trying to help us now. But just because we gained some new teammates doesn't mean the train is slowing down by itself any time soon. The track is now less than a few minutes away and the brakes will not work in time. Without coming up with a plan yet and feeling my obligatory spider stretching scene. I jump down to the front of the train and cling on to the train with the back of my body as I plant my feet down into the tracks.
"AHHH!!!" I let out a scream of pain while shooting my webs to anything that's on the side of the track to help me slow down the train. However this isn't enough for the train to slow down as I take a wooden log to the chest just right before the train derails and runs into the concrete road. My shoes continue to rapidly erode and heat up from the friction of me trying to stop this massive vehicle. "There's civilians in front of us." Steve turns to the twins but Pietro has already disappeared to help move the civilians out of the way. "Can you help stop this?" Wanda summoned some of her energy to apply brakes on to the wheels of the train to help slow it down even more. My eyes begin to widen with fear as we quickly approach a building. But just as we're about to smash into the concrete wall the train comes to a screeching halt. Leaving me with just a few inches away from the wall for breathing room.
I breathe out a sigh of exhaustion as I embrace the cold hard flat wall in front of me. Ahh so nice and cold. I normally wouldn't be able to tell how mundanely hot or cold a surface is because I can't feel through my suit. But my now-bare feet are very pleased with having an ability to cool down. After a few minutes of catching my breath I press my body against the wall to push back the train just a few inches before crawling up the wall and out of the sandwich that I was in. I walk over to Rogers and the twins and they give me a look of astonishment and amazed. "We need to get to the tower. Stark isn't responding." Rogers looks at me while still trying to mess with his ear piece. "Great! Do we have a second jet with us?" I try to smile positively before remembering that they can't see my face.
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I know I should've just opened up a portal into the avengers tower but I wanted to buy a little time for Vision to be born. And I also needed to pick up some food to eat. My body became very hungry once we left the train wreck and I knew I wouldn't last the flight back home without eating something. Sure I mean I could just refill my battery and heal my feet with my ring of power but that doesn't really do anything for my webs. Plus I didn't want to waste a trip to Korea and not grab some food. I would much rather eat something fat and juicy delicious fried chicken than drink a boring ass protein shake.
Anyways, there's one thing I'm very curious about. Just how will this version of Vision come to be if he no longer has the mind stone that gives him most of his overpowered abilities. I mean he'll still have the personality of both Jarvis and Ultron encased in a 3D printed vibranium bonded body but he doesn't have the infinity stone. Anyhow it's been a long flight over the evening and we finally arrive at the Avengers tower. The moment we finally landed, Rogers had us rush the building to find Stark and Banner.
Rogers: "I'm gonna say this once."
Stark: "How about 'nonce'?"
Rogers: "Shut it down!"
Stark: "Nope, not gonna happen."
Rogers: "You don't know what you're doing."
Banner: "And you do? She's not in both of you guy's head?"
Wanda: "I know you're angry."
Banner: "Oh, we're way past that. I could choke the life out of you and never change a shade."
Rogers: "Banner, after everything that's happened-"
Stark: "That's nothing compared to what's coming!"
Me: "I can agree with you on that"
Wanda: "You don't know what's in there!"
Rogers: "This isn't a game-"
Wanda: "The creature-"
Pietro uses his speed to run around destroying the lab equipment, cutting off power to the cradle. "No, no. Go on. You were saying?" Barton shoots the glass where Pietro is standing to destroy it, allow Pietro to fall through. I let out a little chuckle as I was waiting for that to happen.
Wanda: "Pietro!"
Barton: "What? You didn't see that coming?" He aims a gun at Pietro's head now that he fell down on his ass next to Barton.
Stark: "I'm rerouting the upload." Rogers throw his shield at the computers and the shield begin bouncing around the lab causing sparks to fly off. Stark summons a glove and send Rogers flying with a blast to the chest. He turns around to summon more of his armor. Wanda tries to charge up some energy but Banner move around to grab her from behind. "Go ahead, piss me off." Barton finally arrive up stairs to aim his gun at me. I shoot a ball of web into his gun barrel while Rogers had already gotten back up to throw a punch at Stark. Before the punch could make impact, Stark's chest armor fully materialize and he let out another repulser blast just as Rogers punch land on him. They're both sent flying away. Wanda tries to break Banner's hold by sending some energy through herself and push him back. She turns around tries to summon more energy but I send a shit of webbing to bind her wrists together. "We all need to stop this!" I shoot at Banners wrists too to pin him to the floor. Just then Thor bust into the room and summons a storm of lightening above the cradle. He hits the cradle with the stream of electricity for a few moments before stopping. Everyone stood still watching in silence, just waiting to see what's going to happen next.
BOOM! Thor is launched backwards as the cradle's doors are blown open from within. "Noo!" I let out a scream because I needed that technology for my own plans in the future. A newly created red metal man is now crouching over the cradle and slowly rising up while we all stare in silence. He looks around the room before landing his eyes on Thor. Suddenly out of nowhere he launches towards Thor and Thor flips him over and out of the room. He crashes through the laboratory glass but stabilizes himself just right before hitting the outside window. Thor and I jump after him. We land just a few feet away from Vision to continue observing him from a safe distance. The rest all gaved chase too with Rogers being the first to arrive on the floor where Thor and I are. We both put out our hands to hold them off as Thor and I observe this metal man with intense caution.
We allow the metal man to continue floating in the air as he watches the world and his reflection for a few moments. Thor sets down his hammer on the glass table and approaches the man as he slowly descends from the air. My eyes wander away from Vision and land on Thor's hammer. While vision begins to speak his first words with Thor I walk over to the hammer to try out my luck. "Thor. You helped create this?" Rogers walked closer to examine this new man that had just popped out of the cradle. "I had a vision. A whirlpool that sucks in all hope of life, and at its center is that-" Thor attempts to point at the gem in Vision's forehead but all that's there is a glowing blue triangle holding a powerful source of badassium.
SQUEAK!
TINK!
The handle of the hammer tilts over and pings on the glass table causing everyone to turn towards the sound. I look around and realize that everyone is staring at me. "Something wrong?" Then my eyes land on Vision's forehead. "Ohh ah that doesn't look quite right. I can explain." I try to back away but Thor marches towards me. "What did you do?" He grabs onto my shoulders with great strength. I'm starting to panic and want to spill out everything but my tingles aren't sensing any danger. Thor's eyes begin to shine slightly as a smile curl up on his face. "I-I just got curious. I didn't think anything was going to happen." Rogers let out a cough. "Can we get back to business. Thor why did you help create this?" Thor turns to look at Rogers before letting go of my shoulders.
"I've had a vision of the mind stone..." Thor looks over at Vision before continuing. "It's one of six Infinity Stones. The greatest power in the universe, unparalleled in its destructive capabilities. But he...he doesn't have it."
Rogers tries to question Thor. "Then why would you bring-"
Thor: "Because Stark is right. The Avengers cannot defeat Ultron."
Vision: "Not alone."
Rogers: "Why does your Vision sound like Jarvis?"
Stark: "We've reconfigured JARVIS's matrix to create something new."
Me: "Uh I didn't think something like that was even possible. I'll take note of this Stark." I look down to scribble something on my left gauntlet.
Rogers: "I think I've had my fill of new."
Vision: "You think I'm a child of Ultron."
Rogers: "You're not?"
Vision: "I'm not Ultron."
Me: "They're not Ultron. Ultron wants to end the world and play as God on a new earth. This guy sounds like he wants to protect the current humans here." Vision looks at me with little curiosity and wonder before continuing. "I'm not Jarvis either. I am..."
Wanda: "I looked into your head." Which I instinctively hold onto my helmet because I've forgotten about that ability of hers while sharing a plane ride with her... "And saw annihilation."
Vision: "Look again." He tries to appear on our side by wanting to show us his cards. However Barton scoffs because of his own personal experience with being under mind control. "Her seal of approval means jack to me."
Me: "What about mine?" I turn to Barton, trying to see what his body language would say about me but Thor intervenes. "They're powers, the horrors in our heads, Ultron himself, they all came from the Mind stone. And they're nothing compared to what it could unleash."
Me: "Not mine. I worked hard for what I have. You guys got a tap from one of the most powerful tools in the universe."
Thor: "...but with it on our side-"
Rogers: "is it? You even said it yourself, that's not the stone." Rogers turns to Vision. "Are you even on our side?"
Vision: "I don't think it's that simple."
Me: "It's much more complicated now..."
Barton: "Well, it better get simple real soon."
Vision: "I am on the side of life. Ultron isn't. He will end it all."
Stark: "What is he waiting for?"
Me: "Us."
Vision: "You."
Banner: "Where?"
Barton: "Sokovia. He's got Nat there too."
Banner slowly approaches Vision. "If we're wrong about you. If you're the monster that Ultron made you to be..."
Vision: "What will you do?
Everyone remained silent from his question. "I will have to use my all to kill you and Ultron." I step closer to examine this version of vision. I start clenching my fists and moving my fingers to get ready for any altercations that might happen.
Vision: "I do not wish 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 without the others." I nod my head and snap my fingers into a gun at that last sentence. "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 for you to trust me. But we need to go." He lifts up the hammer to pass it to Thor. Son of a bitch stole my line. I mean I was going to steal that from him but he stole it from me first.
Everyone stared in awkward silence while I let out a slow clap. "That's one amazing speech man. Glad to have you on our team." Thor awkwardly accepts the hammer because this week he had seen three different people in this room having the ability to move the hammer. Everyone except me has been too stunned from this sudden gesture. "Right. Well done." Thor tries to sound calm and collected while tapping Stark on the shoulder before walking off. "Three minutes. Get what you need." Rogers turn to everyone and assumes his position as the leader in charge of keeping the team together.
As everyone begins to leave to get their war outfits I walk over to Stark. "Hey ah Stark. Do you think I can borrow some of your metal boots? Mine got destroyed in Korea." I lift up my shoes to show him the bottom of my now exposed feet. He lets out a sigh before begrudgingly tilting his head for me to follow him. I try not to show him my excitement as I follow him down to his assembly room. After a few short minutes I walk into the back of the jet with some newly printed metal shoes. They're not as comfortable as my own creations but they'll work for now. Stark usually wears regular clothes under his suit, so he made me pick out a pair of sneakers before printing out some metal casing for me.