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· 。ﾟ୧ ⋆. 𝗩𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡. ₊˚.༄
ACT ONE  ━━━  CHAPTER FIVE,
❝ he's unique and he's in pain ❞

          𝓟ietro sped the three of them to a market where they saw the Avengers fighting Ultron on the television. Lucrecia looked at her siblings who were already looking at her. Pietro saw the look on both of his sisters' faces and he grabbed both of their hands before speeding to a moving train where Ultron was.

It seems that they got there in time as Ultron and Captain America were having a wrestling match. Pietro sped between them, breaking their little fight. Ultron stepped towards Pietro but got stopped by metal bars that had a red mist around them.

Ultron turned around to see Wanda with her hands infront of her as they glowed red. Steve turned around in his seat to look, he went to stand up but got pushed down by a violet mist.

"Stay. Don't move." He looked up to see Lucrecia infront of him with violet mists coming from her fingertips to his torso which was now surrounded by the violet magic. Steve tried to move but was stuck, he guessed that she made him frozen once again.

"Please, don't do this." Ultron begged.

"What choice do we have?" Wanda replied. Ultron turned to where Pietro was and sent a blast towards him, the teenager moved out of the way with his supernatural speed which made the orange blast hit the end of the train as it created a hole.

Ultron looked to the youngest Maximoff and sent the same blast at her and Steve but she quickly placed her hand infront of herself and created a force field to protect both herself and Steve. The blast hit the barrier and jumped back to Ultron, his own blast hit him back in the chest as he flew out of the train.

Due to her being distracted by Ultron and him trying to kill her, she lost focus on the magic she placed on Steve which made him free and able to move again.

"I lost him! He's headed your way!" Steve informed his team as he sprinted to the train driver. Steve shook him but he didn't wake up, he was out unconscious.

The train left the train tracks and went to the road which made the train shake as the people inside of it screamed in fear. Lucrecia held onto a pole beside her to pretend her from falling.

"Cap, you see Nat?" Lucrecia could hear Clint Barton's voice asked from the earpierce.

"If you have the package, get it to Stark! Go!"

Clint asked another question which Steve yelled a "Go!"

Lucrecia appeared beside the American hero which made him jump, she saw that the train was heading towards a group of civilians.

She turned to Steve, "We're going to hit them. We have to stop the train, now."

Cap nodded and looked to her siblings, " Civilians in our path." Pietro sped out to bring the people out of the way. "Can you two stop this thing?" He asked the two enhanced.

Lucrecia shared a look with her sister as they both nodded. Pietro was speeding infront of the train and moved people out of the way so that they wouldn't get hit. The train broke through a wall as a large object hit Steve and sent him to the ground.

Lucrecia's eyes glowed violet as she extended her arms and placed a force field around everyone in the train, lines of violet mists travelling from her fingertips to each individual person. Wanda used her powers to stop the train and Lucrecia used her telekineses to make some people that Pietro missed move away to pretend getting run over.

The train finally stopped and the people inside of it rushed out.

The sisters got out of the train and rushed to a tired Pietro. Wanda sat stood infront him and placed her hands on his shoulder as Lucrecia kneeled infront of him and grabbed his hand. Pietro raised his hand, "I'm fine. I just need to take a minute."

"I'm very tempted not to give you one." Steve came up to them. Lucrecia stood up and faced him, her sister standing beside her.

"The Cradle. Did you get it?" Lucrecia asked him, he took his eyes off Pietro and looked at Lucrecia. Steve's face softened when he looked at her, it was strange to him. He barely knew this girl, why was he feeling like this?

"Stark will take care of it." Just as he said those words, he regretted it since Lucrecia's face dropped and she stepped away from him.

Lucrecia glanced at Wanda then back to Steve, "If it's Stark then no, he won't."

Steve was silent for a while, he was debating what to say. He knew that Tony's weapons killed their parents but there was never actually any evidence or confirmation that it was Tony himself that sent those bombs.

"You don't know what you're talking about. Stark's not crazy." was Steve's answer.

"He will do anything to make things right," Wanda spoke up, her eyebrows furrowing.

Steve didn't answer. Instead, he looked away, trying to avoid Lucrecia's disbelief expression. Somehow, her feelings affected him and he hated it. He hated how he was already hooked on this girl who he doesn't even know.

"Stark, come in. Stark. Anyone on comms." Steve spoke to his team but it seemed that none of them answered him.

Lucrecia looked down to the ground as she nibbled on the side of her cheek. "Ultron can't tell the difference between saving the world and destroying it. Where do you think he gets that?" Steve turned his head to the side, looking at Wanda but not exactly.

Steve sighed and pressed his lips together, looking away from the triplets. Wanda looked at her sister and nodded her head to Steve, gesturing for her to talk to him. Lucrecia rolled her eyes and walked towards the older male.

A hand on his shoulder made Steve jump a bit and turn his head to Lucrecia whose mouth held an innocent smile. He relaxed when he saw that it was just her, Steve watched as she walked infront of him.

Lucrecia lifted her head to look up at him as she tilted her head, her smile now gone. "Steve." The way she said his name made a feeling of fluttering erupted in his stomach.

"Lucrecia," Steve replied softly, looking down at her 5'6 figure.

"You have to understand why we don't trust Stark. If you were in the same position as us, you wouldn't trust him too." Lucrecia stated which made Steve sigh and look to the ground.

Lucrecia looked over Steve's shoulder and looked at her siblings who were watching them. Wanda gave her a mischievous smirk and Pietro raised his eyebrow at Lucrecia, the girl had to prevent scoffing at them.

Lucrecia turned her attention back to Steve after sending both her siblings a hard glare. "Steve," the said man lifted his head to look at her. "Please," she pleaded, placing her hands on his large biceps. The feeling of her touch nearly made him collapse, he was down bad.

Steve turned his head to the side, not wanting to fall into her trap. He knew exactly was she was doing and he bets that she was enjoying every second of it. Truth is, she was enjoying it . . . but so was he.

"Okay."

Lucrecia blinked at him, she wasn't expecting him to give up that easily. The Maximoff raised her perfectly shaped eyebrow at him as she tilted her head in confusion. "Okay what?"

Steve gulped, seeing how close they were. They were three inches to a kiss and their chests were touching. "I'll bring you- sorry, not just you- as well as your siblings with me. You and your siblings can talk to Tony if you want to."

Lucrecia giggled at his nervousness, it was obvious that he's never actually done this before. Steve's cheeks turned red as he silently scolded himself for being so awkward in his head.

"Say yes." Her sister's voice spoke in her mind. Lucrecia ignored her sister since she was going to say yes with or without her siblings telling her otherwise.

Lucrecia gave him a sweet smile, "Sure."

Steve nodded his head and cleared his throat, stepping back before looking back to where Wanda and Pietro were standing. Steve grew even more embarrassed when he realized that the two of them were watching the interaction between their sister and himself the whole time, Wanda had a smirk on her face and Pietro was glaring at him.

"Get up. You three are coming with me." His voice was demanding, Lucrecia found it hot.

Steve started to walk away, not waiting for a response. Lucrecia winked at Wanda before grabbing his hand, stopping him from leaving.

Steve turned to her and looked at their connected hands. "We don't need a jet or anything, don't worry," Lucrecia informed him, a small smile on her lips. Oh, how he wishes that he could kiss those pink lips.

His eyebrows furrowed in confusion at both her statement and when her lips turned from a smile to a smirk, Wanda and Pietro went up to them. Steve was even more confused when Wanda placed her hand on Lucrecia's free hand that wasn't connected with Steve's and Pietro placed his hand on Lucrecia's shoulder.

Lucrecia turned to Steve, "Hope you don't throw up."

"What do you me-"

Steve got cut off when they suddenly appeared in the Avengers tower. His lips parted as he looked around, his eyes stopped at Lucrecia who was straightening her shirt. "How- How did you do that?"

Lucrecia shrugged, "I can teleport. I thought you knew when you and that Maria girl looked through me and my siblings' files?"

Steve completely forgot that she could read minds and go through memories. Steve shook his head, indicating that he didn't know. Lucrecia let out an "oh" and stepped closer to her siblings.

"Alright, uh, let's get going. Follow me."

Steve walked away, he closed his eyes for a bit before opening them and silently telling himself that he should focus on the real problem.

Pietro followed behind him but Wanda and Lucrecia stayed behind the two boys. Wanda looked to her sister, "So . . ."

Lucrecia pursed her lips and looked at her, "What?"

Wanda had a teasing smile on her face, "You and Steve, huh?"

Lucrecia scoffed and rolled her eyes at her sister, "Really?"

"Yes, really. You look cute together, imagine how the kids would look."

"Kids? What are you talking about?" Lucrecia frowned and looked away from Wanda. She did not want to have this conversation, especially not with Wanda.

Wanda nudged her, "Oh, come on! I know you like him, I can see it in your eyes. Plus, I can feel what you're feeling, remember?"

"Wanda-"

"Don't worry about him not liking you back. He totally does, it's obvious."

"Wanda!"

"Lucrecia!"

"We are not having this conversation. Not now, not ever." Lucrecia snapped at her older sister who just shrugged and smirked.

"Whatever you say." Wanda mocked. Lucrecia shook her head at her sister's childish antics and went to walk beside Pietro who placed his arm around her shoulder.

Wanda smirked as she looked at the trio infront of her, more specifically the two lovebirds.

"Just you wait and see, дорогая сестра." [Translation: dear sister]

          𝓐fter a very awkward elevator ride, the four of them reached the room where Tony and Bruce were in.

"I'm going to say this once." Steve made his and the triplet's presence known.

"How about "nonce-ce"?" Tony replied sarcastically which got an eye roll from Lucrecia.

Steve was currently not in the mood for Stark's sarcastic foolishness. "Shut it down!" He shouted, gesturing to the cradle where Bruce was standing by.

"Nope, not gonna happen."

The triplets looked around the lab, a little bit fascinated by the technology.

"You don't know what you're doing."

"And you do?" Bruce asked him before pointing at Wanda and Lucrecia, "She's not in your head? Or maybe her sister?"

At the mention of Wanda, the said girl revealed herself from behind Steve. "I know you're angry." Wanda starts but Bruce interrupts her before she could say anything else.

"Oh, we're way past that. I could choke the life out of you and never change a shade." Bruce threatened with a straight and unbothered face. Medium-sized violet orbs formed on Lucrecia's hand at the threat towards her sister, her hands pointed towards Bruce, ready to charge it at him.

Steve, and everyone else in the room, saw what Lucrecia was doing and became alert, he placed his hand infront of Lucrecia to stop her from sending the blast towards his friend. Lucrecia looked at the hand infront of her before looking to Steve who shook his head, she sighed and placed her hands down but not before placing a barrier on Wanda.

Steve looked back to Bruce, "Banner, after everything that's happened-"

"It's nothing compared to what's coming!" Tony cut him off.

"You don't know what's in there," Wanda informed the two scientists.

Lucrecia adds to her sister's statement, "It's dangerous! You have no idea what Ultron's real intentions are."

"This isn't a game!"

All of the yelling and fighting annoyed Pietro so he decided to speed around the group and to where the cradle was and unplugged it, he stopped beside Bruce, holding the plug as Banner looked at the cradle and Pietro in shock.

"No, no. Go on." Pietro taunted as the machine started powering down.

When no one said anything, Pietro glanced at the three Avengers in the room. "You were saying?" Just as he said those words, a bullet shot under where he was standing as the glass he was standing on broke and he fell.

"Pietro!"

Pietro grunted as Clint Barton stepped on his leg to prevent him from standing up, "What? You didn't see that coming?" He smirked cockily.

The cradle made a beeping noise which made Tony look back at the screens behind him, "I'm rerouting the upload."

Steve glanced at Lucrecia before throwing his shield as it bounced around the room, Tony's Iron Man hand attached to his hand and he sent a blast towards Steve which made him fly back from the impact.

Lucrecia sent a blast towards Tony as the rest of his suit attached to his body, due to being distracted with Steve, Tony got hit by the violet blast making him grunt as he fell back into the table behind him.

Red mists formed on Wanda's hands but before she could do anything else, Bruce put her in a headlock. Wanda's gasp caught Lucrecia's attention.

"Go ahead, piss me off."

Clint came up from below and cocked his gun, he aimed it at Lucrecia who was about to send a violet magic orb towards Bruce. Clint didn't hesitate to shoot the girl, the bullet hitting her shoulder.

Lucrecia screamed in pain and fell to the ground, she laid on the floor as her face scrunched up in pain.

"Lucrecia!" Wanda yelled as she witnessed the whole thing. Steve was on the ground after Tony hit him with another blast, he turned to where the two girls were as his eyes widened at Lucrecia who had tears going down her eyes from the pain of being shot.

Wanda, now furious, used her magic to make Bruce let go of her, she turned around and sent a blast towards him.

Both Wanda and Steve rushed to Lucrecia who had a lot of blood on her injured shoulder, the youngest Maximoff yelled out a cry when Steve touched her injured shoulder.

Wanda took a hold of her sister's hand as her free one floated above the injury, a red mist starting to cover it as Lucrecia's pain started to fade away. Steve had his hand on her arm, Lucrecia noted how worried he was.

Thor burst into the room, he jumped on top of the cradle and raised his hammer, lighting appearing. After enough lighting was conjured up, he pointed it to the cradle.

Wanda and Steve helped a panting Lucrecia stand up as they all watched Thor. The machine powered up to full as Thor moved the hammer away, nothing happened for a moment until the cradle blew open.

Thor was sent flying back from the impact as a red figure jumped out of the cradle and landing on top of it ever so gracefully.

All of them either looked at the robot in curiosity, shock, surprise, or disbelief . . . or all.

The robot stood up straight and looked at each and every one of the people in the room, his expression nothing but confusion. His gaze landed on Thor before he jumped at him, Thor acted quickly and threw the red robot past him as he broke the glass of the room they were in.

He stopped flying before he could break the glass of the building, he stared at the city in wonder. All of them watched him as he lifted his hand up and stared at his reflection.

Wanda placed her arm around Lucrecia's waist as they both went down the stairs and where everyone else was. Pietro sped to them and he immediately noticed blood on his youngest sister's shoulder. Pietro looked at Wanda for an explanation but she just gestured that she'll explain later making him nod and hold Lucrecia's hand.

The red robot landed beside Thor, "I am sorry. That was . . . odd." He looked in Thor's direction before giving the god a type of nod, "Thank you."

He looked at Thor's cape and made his own out of thin air.

"Thor. You helped create this?" Steve asked him.

"I've had a vision. A whirlpool that sucks in all hope in life, and at its center is that." Thor pointed at the yellow gem that was on the red guy's forehead.

Bruce stepped forward, "What? The gem?"

"It's the Mind Stone. It's one of the six Infinity Stones. The greatest power in the universe, unparalleled in its destructive capabilities." Thor informed them.

"Then why would you bring-"

"Because Stark is right." Thor cut Steve off. Lucrecia raised her eyebrows at his, scoffing quietly.

"Oh, it's definitely the end times," Bruce commented sarcastically.

Thor ignored his fellow teammate, "The Avengers cannot defeat Ultron."

"Not alone."

"Why does your Vision sound like Jarvis?" Steve questioned, gesturing to how 'Vision' sounds like the A.I. that Tony created.

"We reconfigured Jarvis' matrix to create something new," Tony said, walking towards Vision.

"I think I've had my fill of new."

"You think I'm a child of Ultron." Vision assumed, looking at Steve.

Lucrecia looked at Steve as he replied with a "You're not?"

Vision shook his head as a no, "I'm not Ultron. I am not Jarvis. I am . . . I am."

Lucrecia couldn't control her mouth, "Huh? What?" She asked, tilting her head at the robot with her eyebrows furrowed.

All the attention was at the triplets now, Wanda stepped forward towards Vision. "I looked in your head and saw annihilation."

Vision looked at her, "Look again."

Clint scoffed, "Her seal of approval means jack to me." He insulted which made Lucrecia step towards him in anger. Anger for both shooting her and insulting her sister.

"Listen here you dumb, brain-dead bitch! Watch you mou-"

"Don't make me shoot you again!"

Pietro looked at Clint in pure anger, "It was you who shot her?!" He asked angrily, speeding directly infront of Clint.

Clint did his hardest not to jump and he placed a sarcastic pout on his lips. "Yeah, I did. What are you gonna do, speedy? Huh? Speed around me to try and make me dizzy?" He scoffed, shaking his head.

Pietro placed his hand around Clint's throat, "Oh, I'll do so much worse than that. I-"

"Pietro! Enough!" Lucrecia cut him off, gripping his arm tightly. She wanted to see what would happen next but she figured it wasn't the right time for this since the Avengers were in the room.

The male Maximoff hesitated before finally letting go of the archer, Clint stepped away from him as he massaged his throat.

Throughout the argument, Steve went closer to them and eventually landed beside Lucrecia. Just as he was about to speak, Thor decided to take this time to speak.

"Their powers, the horrors in our heads, Ultron himself, they all came from the Mind Stone. And they're nothing compared to what it can unleash. But with it on our side . . ."

Steve gave a small glare to Thor, annoyed that the god interrupted him. "Is it?" Steve asked before looking at Vision, "Are you? On our side?"

Vision didn't answer for a moment, he was thinking whether or not he was on their team or not. "I don't think it's that simple."

"Well, it better get real simple real soon," Clint told him which made Vision look at him before looking straight ahead.

"I am on the side of life. Ultron isn't. He will end it all."

Lucrecia tilted her head at him, "So . . . you're on our side, then?" She asked him.

Vision turned to her, "Precisely." He nodded.

Clint opened his mouth to say something but Lucrecia held her finger up as a violet mist travelled its way to him, he backed away in panic. She turned to the man who had shot her and gave him a nasty glare. He shut his mouth and the mist started to back away back to Lucrecia.

Tony rolled his eyes, "What's he waiting for?"

"You."

"Where?" Bruce asked.

Clint glanced at the triplets, "Sokovia." At the mention of their home, their heads shot up. "He's got Nat there, too."

Bruce stepped closer to Vision at the mention of his crush (though he won't admit it). "If we're wrong about you, if you're the monster that Ultron made you to be . . ."

"What will you do?"

Bruce stayed quiet, not having an answer.

Vision slightly looked up, "I don't want 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 it without the others."

Vision was walking around the circle that the group had formed and stopped right beside Steve. He looked at his hands, "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 to make you trust me."

He picked up Thor's hammer, Mjolnir, and turned to him. "But we need to go." Vision pointed the hammer to Thor, waiting for him to get it but Thor just looked at the hammer and Vision in surprise and confusion.

Everyone in the room, except for the triplets, looked at Vision in shock and surprise. Thor awkwardly took the hammer from Vision as he walked away like nothing ever happened.

Thor slapped the hammer, still not over the shock. "Right." He slapped Tony on the shoulder, walking away as well. "Well done."

All of them just stood there, looking at where Thor went off to.

Steve was the first one to speak up, "Three minutes. Get what you need."

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