Chapter 11

All of the bots began to fight their way to the core in the church so they could drop the city. All of the Avengers stood around the core; they would be dammed if the bots got to it.

"What's the drill?" Nat asked as she arrived.

"This is the drill." Tony said pointing to the metal thing in the middle of the church. "if Ultron gets a hand on the core, we lose."

Ultron hovered in the sky just outside of the church.

"Is that the best you can do?!" Thor shouted at him.

Ultron raised his hand and hundreds of bots all ran into the middle of the road, heading for the church.

Steve gave Thor a look. "You had to ask."

"This is the best I can do." Ultron said as all the bots stopped behind him. "This is exactly what I wanted. All of you against all of me. How can you possibly hope to stop me?"

"Well, like the old man said..." Tony looked at Steve. "Together."

All the bots ran at them from all directions and they all jumped into action. They all used their various weapons and powers to stop the bots and shatter them into pieces. Steve and Nat fought hand to hand; Thor hit them with Mjolnir; Vision blasted them with the stone; Abi and Wanda tore them apart; Pietro ran round throwing them; Clint shot them; Tony blasted them and the Hulk smashed them to pieces.

Ultron came at vision but he blasted him back with the gem. Thor quickly joined in hitting him with lightning and Tony started basting him as well. The three of them pushed him backwards and began to melt his metal work. The three of them stopped as he fell to the floor.

Ultron stood unsteadily. "You know, with the benefit of hindsight..." Ultron never finished as the Hulk punched him off.

All the bots began to run away.

"They'll try and leave the city." Thor told the others.

"We can't let them. Not even one. Rhodey." Tony said.

"I'm on it." Rhodey replied as he flew towards the escaping bots and started shooting them. Vision quickly joined him.

"We gotta move out. Even I can tell the air is getting thin." Steve turned and said to the others. "You guys get to the boats. I'll sweep for stragglers. I'll be right behind you."

"You better be." Abi warned him.

"What about the core?" Clint asked.

"I'll protect it." Wanda said to him. "It's my job."

Clint nodded at her before he, Nat and Abi set off for the boats. Pietro ran up to the core.

"Get the people on the boats." Wanda told him.

"I'm not going to leave you here." Pietro replied.

"I can handle this." She said as she ripped a bot to pieces. "Come back for me when everyone else is off. Not before. You understand?"

"You know, I'm twelve minutes older than you." He said with a smile.

"Go." Wanda said returning the smile.

Nat ran off to get Bruce and Abi and Clint made their way to the boats. There was a women yelling for her brother so Abi scanned the wreckage of the city. She spotted the boy.

"I'll be back in a minute." She told Clint.

She ran towards him and blasted a bot on her way.

"Come on. Time to go." She said putting her hands under the boy's arms and lifting him up.

She wrapped her arms around him and started back to the boats where Clint and now Steve were waiting. Ultron had commandeered the jet and was flying towards them.

"ABI!" Steve yelled as the guns from the Quinjet exploded. She tried to use her powers but once again they failed her. She turned away, braced herself and pulled the boy closer to her. With a sudden gust of wind, she opened her eyes to find herself stood behind a truck. Confusion clouded her features as she placed the boy down. She looked over to her side to find Pietro stood there. He smiled at her but his smile was soon replaced with a look of pain as he looked down at his chest.

His chest was littered with bullet holes, the blood beginning to seep through his shirt. He looked up at her again; eyes wide. She let go of the young boy completely, dived and caught the silver haired boy before he hit the ground, kneeling with his head in her lap

"You didn't see that coming." He said with a chuckle and a pained smile. She moved his hair from his face as he looked up at her.

"No... No... No. C'mon Pietro, stay with me. Don't do this to me." She looked at him as he smiled one last time before his head rolled back.

"No...No...No." She let out a choked sob as she lifted two shaking fingers and closed his empty blue eyes. In the distance, she heard Wanda scream and felt a telekinetic pulse. Tears streamed silently down her cheeks as she cradled his limp body against her chest.

She jumped as she felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned to see Steve and Clint holding the young boy she had saved.

"C'mon we gotta get out of here before this place blows." Clint said with a sad expression as he glanced at Pietro's unmoving form. Abi nodded and wiped away her tears with the back off her hand. Steve carefully picked up Pietro's unmoving form. He and Clint set off towards the carrier with Abi slightly behind shaking uncontrollably.

As they walked onto the carrier everyone looked as Steve set Pietro down on the floor next to an empty bench. Abi looked down at her blood stained hands before looking to the boy lying on the floor. If it hadn't been for the bullet holes in his chest you would have thought he was sleeping, in a way he looked peaceful lying there. She shook her head as tears pricked the corner of her eyes once again. He didn't deserve to die, without him they would all be dead. He didn't deserve what had just happened, it should be her laid on the floor, not him.

She looked down once again at her blood stained hands before exhaustion took over her system and she laid down on the empty bench.

"No. I'm fine." She said as she waved off the medic.

"It's been a long day." She muttered as she felt herself start to lose consciousness. As she passed out her hand dropped towards the silver haired boy lying motionless on the floor.