Andi had opted to sit down on the floor since most of the space was occupied, and that landed her next to Clint.

"I bet it's a trick," Clint was saying to Thor when Andi sat down.

"Oh no, it's much more than that," Thor replied with a laugh as he accepted a bottle of beer from Steve.

Clint made a face. "Ah, whosoever be he worthy shall haveth the power," he spoke in a mocking tone. "It's a trick!"

Thor pointed to the hammer, and Andi realised what they were talking about. "Please, be my guest."

Clint looked around briefly with some uncertainty, and suddenly all eyes were on him. He looked to Thor with a raised eyebrow. "Really?"

"Yeah," Thor grinned, clearly amused. He didn't think anyone could lift the hammer. Andi didn't know the story to that but she could guess, based on what she could see and hear.

From beside her, Clint stood up, handing her the drumsticks he held in his hand, before he walked over to the hammer that was kept on the table.

"Clint, you've had a tough week, we won't hold it against you if you can't get it up," Tony called out with a smirk, causing Andi to nearly choke on her drink.

Clint went ahead and placed his hands on the handle of the hammer and pulled with all his might, but as Andi watched, she saw that the hammer didn't even move by an inch.

"I still don't know how you do it," Clint said with a sigh of defeat.

"Smell the silent judgement?" Tony asked, looking at Clint.

Clint stood back and gestured to the hammer. "Please, Stark, by all means."

Andi looked from Clint to Tony, amusement in her eyes. So this was going to become some kind of competition? She wondered why it was that nobody could lift the hammer, but she guessed that it had something to do with what Clint said earlier. Only the worthy could lift the hammer. Or maybe it had some sort of spell on it.

Tony got up from his seat and took Clint's place at the handle of the hammer. "Never one to shrink from an honest challenge," he said, which earned some disagreeing murmurs from the others seated there. "It's Physics," he continued, gripping the hammer and beginning to pull. No matter how hard he tried though, nothing worked.

Minutes later, he was trying with the glove from his Iron Man suit, and the man that was initially a stranger to Andi — whom she now learned was named Rhodey — joined Tony with an Iron Man glove of his own, and even then, they were unable to lift the hammer.

A couple more people tried — and Andi could have sworn that she saw the hammer move a little when Steve tried it — but then the guys were all done. Natasha didn't want to try it, and neither did Hill or Doctor Cho. Which left Andi. And quite frankly she didn't think they would even look at her.

"Maybe our youngest recruit should give it a whirl," Clint chimed in, nodding to the hammer from beside her.

"Oh, no, I—"

"Come on, give it your best shot," Natasha added with a small smile.

Andi was not strong, not by any means. Being experimented on had given her powers, but none of those included enhanced strength. Still, with everyone now urging her on, Andi decided, why not?

She got up and walked to the hammer, glancing around nervously before she placed her hands on the handle. It at first seemed way too heavy to ever move. But then she realised that the hammer was, at the end of the day, made of a metal. And apart from plants and spirits, metal was something she could control.

So, Andi let go of the handle and instead held her palm out to hover over the hammer. She concentrated, and saw it beginning to vibrate, but whether it would lift into her hands, they would not yet find out, because something interrupted their evening. A high pitched whine sounded all throughout the room, causing Andi to lift her hand to her ear instead, as if she could block out the sound.

Everyone else seemed to hear it as well, and they all reacted differently till the sound suddenly stopped. And then there was the sound of a mechanical clinking, against the tiled floor of the room.

Andi followed the sound to see the source, just as everyone else's heads turned in the same direction. It seemed to be a kind of robot. Only, it was only half completed, and seemed barely able to walk. It was trailing oil across the floor — if that was oil — and it also seemed to be saying something.

"Worthy..." It said in a deep, mechanical voice, stopping in the middle of the room and turning to face them all. "No, how could you all be worthy? You're all killers."

"Jarvis," Tony called out, but there was no response. All of them were now on high alert, and Thor had reached for his hammer.

Instead, the robot replied. "I'm sorry, I was asleep. Or I was... a dream. There was this terrible noise... And I was tangled in... strings."

Steve and Tony both rose from their chairs, and Andi instinctively stepped back because she had no idea what was going on.

"I had to kill the other guy," the robot said. "He was a good guy."

"You killed someone?" Steve asked, staring the robot down with an intense, but confused gaze.

"Wouldn't have been my first call," the robot replied. "But down in the real world, we're faced with ugly choices."

Almost everyone had risen to a standing position now, taking a defensive stance. The word 'kill' woke everyone up.

"Who sent you?" Thor asked.

Instead of replying, the robot played a recording. It was Tony's voice.

"I see a suit of armour, around the world."

And suddenly, Andi remembered that he and Bruce had been hard at work in the labs for the past three days. But... this couldn't have been what they were working on, could it? Something had to have gone wrong.

"Ultron," Bruce whispered, seemingly realising who they were dealing with.

The robot — Ultron — seemed pleased to be recognised. "In the flesh. Or, no, not yet. Not this Chrysalis. But I'm ready. I'm on mission."

"What mission?" Natasha asked, keeping the thing distracted. Andi vaguely heard the sound of a gun being loaded.

"Peace in our time," Ultron responded. And then, before anyone could do anything, the wall behind Ultron erupted as three more robots flew through.

Andi was too stunned to move out of the way, despite one of the robots coming hurtling toward her. With Steve standing beside her, he kicked up the table to act as a shield, but the robot pushed through it and it sent both Steve and Andi sprawling back onto the floor.

Gunshots sounded and Andi lifted her head groggily to see Thor smacking one of the robots away with his hammer. Andi wanted to help but she had no idea how. One of the robots had now smacked Tony aside, and Andi watched as he landed on a book shelf, and the thing collapsed on him.

Andi finally got to her feet as chaos erupted around her. Steve had now managed to jump onto one of the robots, while Thor dealt with another, slamming against the wall and knocking the head off with his hammer.

Andi's gaze travelled to one of the other robots, that had taken the scepter. Another was busy firing at Natasha and Bruce and since the other two were being taken care of, Andi believed this was more urgent. She held her hands out in the direction of the robot that was still firing at Natasha, because no bullets seemed to be able to penetrate it, and wisps of a deep purple colour left her hand, moving toward the robot and surrounding him. Robots were made of metal, after all.

With a simple gesture, Andi pulled her hands apart, and the purple mist surrounding the robot acted similarly, pulling the robot apart and letting it fall to the floor in pieces. Andi dropped her hand to see Natasha staring at her, and she turned around to realise that the other robots had been dealt with already. All that was left, was Ultron, and everyone was looking at him now.

"That was dramatic," he said, attempting to walk. "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? There's only one path to peace. The Avenger's extinction."

At that, Thor had enough, because he threw his hammer and destroyed Ultron's body into pieces. The hammer soon flew back to his hand, and they all witnessed the lights flickering in what was left of Ultron's body. And he managed to get a few words out too.

"I had strings, but now I'm free." And only then did the lights in his body fade away completely.