AS THE DOORS OF THE JET STARTED TO OPEN Carson stood up from his seat and walked over to Natasha, helping her stand. He threw one of her arms over his shoulder and gripped it with one hand and placed his other hand around her waist making sure she didn't fall. She looked up at him and smiled weakly, she still wasn't fully recovered but she was getting there.

They all stepped off the jet and made their way over to Clint's house and entered. Clint brought over a stool for Natasha and Carson gently placed her down and once she was comfortable he turned to make his way over to where the others stood a bit further into the room. But as he was turning around, Natasha grabbed his hand making him turn back to face her.

"Thank you." She said in a tired voice, giving him an appreciative smile. "I guess you actually can be nice sometimes." Carson chuckled at her comment.

"Shut up Romanoff, I'm always nice." He grinned before giving her shoulder a playful but light push. He re-joined the others.

"Honey? I'm home." Clint called out. Not long after a pregnant woman came from around the corner and made her way over to Clint.

"Sorry about the company, I should've called ahead." Clint said while giving the woman a peck on the lips followed by a hug.

"This is an agent of some kind." Tony mumbled to Carson and Thor.

Clint put his arm around the woman and turned to face everyone. "Gentlemen, this is Laura."

Laura waved and gave everyone a welcoming smile. "I know all of your names."

"Ooh. Incoming." Clint said as two children ran into the room.

"Dad!" Lila beamed as she jumped into his arms.

Clint gave the girl a kiss on the head and he lifted her up before ruffling his sons hair up. "Hey buddy! How are you guys doing?"

"These are.. smaller agents?" Tony said, just as confused as everyone else.

"Did you bring auntie Nat?" Lila questioned with an excited look on her face.

Natasha stood up with a huge smile as she walked over to the girl. "Why don't you hug her and find out?" She picked Lila up and pulled her into a tight hug.

"Sorry for barging in on you." Steve apologized.

"Yeah, we would've called ahead, but we were busy having no idea that you existed." Tony commented.

"Yeah, well, Fury helped me set this up when I joined. He kept it off S.H.I.E.L.D.'s files and I'd like to keep it that way." Clint replied while putting his arms around Laura and Cooper.

Natasha put Lila down and walked up to Laura with a smile. "I missed you. How's little Natasha, huh?"

"She's... Nathaniel." Laura said scrunching her face, giving Natasha a sorry look.

Natasha leaned down, her face opposite Laura's stomach. "Traitor" She whispered.

Thor looked around before making his way out of the house. Everyone gave each other a confused look before Steve followed Thor outside.

When Carson moved over to the side he accidentally stepped on one of Lila's toys which caught her attention, she walked over and looked up at him. Carson looked down at the girl and gave her a small smile. He never really know what to do around kids, they were just so difficult.. and messy... and annoying... and actually kind of scary sometimes.

Lila continued to look and him then looked down at his foot that was still on her toy. Carson followed her gaze and looked down too, once he realised what he was stood on he quickly moved it out the way. "Oh, Um.. sorry?" Lila smiled and picked up her toy then wandered off upstairs.

Natasha giggled watching the encounter. "It's quite funny watching you around kids y'know?"

"You're lucky you're not doing so good Romanoff." Carson rolled his eyes and took a seat next to Natasha on the couch. Natasha smirked and placed her legs across his lap and leant back into the couch. Her eyes began to close as she soon got comfortable and started to fall asleep quickly because of how drained she was.

From here on, everyone drifted through out the property doing their own thing. Clint and Laura went upstairs to their room, Thor had left, Bruce went upstairs to have a shower, Steve and Tony went outside and began chopping some wood to help Laura out.

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Carson came back downstairs after having a shower, rubbing his wet hair with a towel while walking into the kitchen where everyone else was scattered around.

"You know, I could've sworn I heard-" He stopped when he saw Fury in the kitchen, washing dishes. Nick turned around and gave Carson a nod. "Fury." Carson finished his sentence.

"Hello Mr. Swan, I'm glad you could join us." Fury said placing a glass on the counter.

"It's just Carson man, what's with being so formal?" He said furrowing his brows. "Also, I could've sworn you died." Carson added while picking up an apple and taking a bite out of it.

"I did die. In fact, I'm still dead." Fury stated cocking a brow.

"Ah right, gotcha." Carson responded before mimicking his lips being zipped shut.

"Anyway so as I was saying, Ultron took you folks out of play to buy himself time. My contacts all say he's building something. The amount of vibranium he made off with, I don't think it's just one thing." Fury carried on the conversation they was all having.

"What about Ultron himself?" Steve asked.

"Oh, he's easy to track. He's everywhere. The guy is multiplying faster than a Catholic rabbit." Fury uttered. Carson let out a small chuckle, before taking another bite out of his apple. "It still doesn't help us get an angle on any of his plans, though."

"Is he still going after launch codes?" Tosk questioned.

"Yes, he is. But he's not making any headway." Fury replied while cutting into a loaf of bread.

"I cracked the Pentagon's firewall in high school on a dare." Tony boasted before continuing playing darts. Carson made his way over to the table and sat across from Natasha. She leaned over the table and stole his apple for herself just as he was about to take another bite. Carson raised his eyebrows at the red head, to which she just responded with an innocent smile before she took a bite out of the apple.

"Well, I contacted our friends at the Nexus about that." Fury announced.

"Nexus?" Steve asked confused.

"It's the world internet hub in Oslo. Every byte of data flows through there. Fastest access on Earth." Bruce filled everyone in.

"So what'd they say?" Clint asked, fiddling with one of the darts.

"He's fixated on the missiles. But the codes are constantly being changed."

"By whom?" Tony asked, moving closer to the board to grab the darts.

"Parties unknown." Fury responded.

Natasha sat up in her chair. "Do we have an ally?"

"Ultron's got an enemy. That's not the same thing."

"Still wanna know who it is though." Carson mumbled.

"I might need to go visit Oslo, go find our unknown." Tony said, leaning against the doorway.

"Well, this is good times boss, but I was kind of hoping when I saw you... you'd have more than that." Natasha complained looking at Fury.

"I do. I have you."

Carson furrowed his brows and then rolled his eyes.

"Back in the day, I had eyes everywhere. Ears, everywhere else And here we all are back on Earth, with nothing but out wit and our will to save the world."

"Care to elaborate on that?" Carson asked wanting to get to the point. He really couldn't be bothered listening to an 'inspirational' speech.

"Outwit the platinum bastard." Fury answered bluntly.

"Careful Fury, Steve doesn't like that kind of talk." Carson smirked.

"You know what, Carson?" Steve said as he leant against the wall. Everyone in the room let out a series of chuckles except from Fury who didn't understand the reference, not that he was bothered anyway.

"So, what does he want?" Fury asked everyone.

"To become better. Better than us. He keeps building bodies." Steve stated.

"Person bodies. The human form is inefficient. Biologically speaking, we're outmoded. But he keeps coming back to it." Tony told them all.

"When you two programmed him to protect the human race, you amazingly failed." Natasha commented, earning a smirk from Carson.

"They don't need to be protected. They need to evolve." Bruce pointed out. "Ultron's going to evolve."

"How?" Carson asked leaning forward.

"Has anyone been in contact with Helen Cho?"

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Two chapters in one day? Kinda proud ngl