3rd Person's POV

The twins decide to meet with Ultron in an empty building. They walk inside the dark room and sense a presence, making them freeze instantly.

Wanda frowns glancing over at her brother, "Talk. And if you are wasting our time..."

"Did you know this church is in the exact center of the city? The elders decreed it so that everyone could be equally close to God. I like that. The geometry of belief. "

The two twins walk a bit closer and see that Ultron is sat in a chair faced away from them.

"You're wondering why you can't look inside my head."

Pietro glares slightly at Ultron then looks over at Wanda to see her standing with a calm and collected look on her face.

Wanda shrugs replying to Ultron, "Sometimes it's hard. But sooner or later, every man shows himself."

Ultron stands and faces them revealing his new body. Wanda briefly looks shocked.

"Oh, I'm sure they do. But you needed something more than a man. That's why you let Stark take the scepter."

"I didn't expect. But I saw Stark's fear, I knew it would control him, make him self-destruct."

Ultron paces back and forth holding his robotic hands together, "Everyone creates the thing they dread. Men of peace create engines of war, invaders create avengers, people create...smaller people? Uh...children! I lost the word there. Children. Designed to supplant them, to help them... end."

Wanda's eyebrows furrow in question, "Is that why you've come? To end the Avengers?"

"I've come to save the world. But also, yeah. We'll move out right away. This is a start, but there's something we need to begin the real work."

Referring to Ultron's bots Wanda points, "All of these are... All of these are..."

"Me. I have what the Avengers never will. Harmony. They're discordant, disconnected. Stark's already got them turning on each other. And when you get inside the rest of their heads..."

Pietro shakes his head, "Everyone's plan is not to kill them."

"And make them martyrs? You need patience. Need to see the big picture."

Pietro shrugs already feeling anger filling his body,  "I don't see the big picture, I have a little picture. I take it out and look at it every day."

"You lost your parents in the bombings. I've seen the records."

"The records are not the picture." Pierre spits out angrily.

Wanda holds her brothers arm lightly, "Pietro..."

Ultron sits again, "No, please."

Pietro sighs trying not to have the memories flood his brain and make him feel as if he was living through his nightmare all over again.

"We were ten years old, having dinner, the four of us. When the first shell hits, two floors below, it makes a hole in the floor. It's big. Our parents go in, and the whole building starts coming apart. I grab her, roll under the bed and the second shell hits. But, it doesn't go off. It just... sits there in the rubble, three feet from our faces. And on the side of the shell is painted one word..."

Wanda looks down at her hands as they start to reveal her red powers, "Stark."

Pietro nods and holds onto Wanda's hand, "We were trapped two days."

"Every effort to save us, every shift in the bricks, I think, 'This will set it off.' We wait for two days for Tony Stark to kill us."

Pietro frowns, "I know what they are."

Ultron nods slowly, "I wondered why only you two survived Strucker's experiments. Now I don't. We will make it right. You and I can hurt them."

He turns to Wanda, "But you will tear them apart, from the inside."

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Back at the Avengers headquarters, Maria Hill holds a iPad as she scrolls through information.

"He's all over the globe. Robotics labs, weapons facilities, jet propulsion labs, reports of a metal man, or men, coming in and emptying the place."

Steve stands nearby holding onto the back of Sammie's chair, "Fatalities?"

"Only when engaged. Mostly guys left in a fugue state going on about old memories, worst fears, and something too fast to see."

Steve crosses his arms and sighs, "Maximoffs. Well, that makes sense he'd go to them, they have someone in common."

Sammie shakes her head as she hands Steve a tablet she had been looking at files through, "Not anymore."

It shows photo of Strucker's dead body with the word PEACE written in blood on the wall next to him.

Barton's talking on his cell phone nearby, "That's a negative. I answer to you. Yes, ma'am."

Steve interrupts him with an urgent look, "Barton, we might have something."

Clint nods, "Gotta go."

"Who was that?"

Clint shrugs and takes a seat beside Sammie, "Girlfriend."

Sammie smiles to herself as Clint gives her a look. After Steve has gathered the rest of the team he shows them the photo of Strucker's body.

Tony frowns putting down the tablet, "What's this?"

"A message. Ultron killed Strucker."

Tony raises an eyebrow, "And he did a Banksy at the crime scene, just for us."

Natasha shakes her head, "This is a smokescreen. Why send a message when you've just given a speech?"

"Strucker knew something that Ultron wanted us to miss."

Natasha nods looking at Steve then turning back to the computer monitor, "Yeah, I bet he... Yep. Everything we had on Strucker has been erased."

Tony scoffs waving his hand around, "Not everything."

Tony hands the team the physical files they have on Strucker.

"Known associates. Well, Strucker had a lot of friends."

Bruce nods agreeing with Steve then grimaces, "Well, these people are all horrible."

Sammie chuckles, "Wow you really think so."

Tony ignores his sisters sassy comment and peeks around at the picture Banner was looking at, "Wait. I know that guy."

Banner passes him the photo, "From back in the day. He operates off the African coast, black market arms."

Steve gives him an accusing look.

"There are conventions, alright? You meet people, I didn't sell him anything."

Sammie glances at the photo, "Ulysses Klaue..."

Tony nods, "He was talking about finding something new, a game changer, it was all very 'Ahab.'"

Thor points to the scar on the back of Klaue's neck, "This."

"Uh, it's a tattoo. I don't think he had it..."

Thor shakes his head, "No, those are tattoos, this is a brand."

Sammie identifies the brand on Klaue's neck on the computer, "Oh, yeah. It's a word in an African dialect meaning thief, in a much less friendly way."

Steve frowns confused. It had taken him quite some time to understand the new way of words in this time period. He was happy that Sammie was still intelligent as ever and could help him out.

"What dialect?"

Sammie looks over at Bruce sure that he knows the answer, "Wakanada...? Wa...Wa...Wakanda."

Tony holds his chin thinking, "If this guy got out of Wakanda with some of their trade goods..."

"I thought your father said he got the last of it?"

Bruce frowns, "I don't follow. What comes out of Wakanda?"

Sammie turns around looking at Steve's shield. She grabs it from his grasp lightly and places it on the table in front of her.

"The strongest metal on earth."

Steve holds onto Sammie's shoulders lightly as he stares at Tony intensely, "Where is this guy now?"

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~Salvage Yard, African Coast~

Ulysses Klaue sits at his desk talking on the phone in his office.

"Don't tell me your man swindled you. I sent you six short range heat seekers and got a boat full of rusted parts. Now, you will make it right, or the next missile I send you will come very much faster."

He ends the call and connects to another call, "Now, minister, where were we?"

Suddenly the lights go out causing a commotion in the salvage yard and the twins enter Klaue's office.

"Yeah. The enhanced. Strucker's prize pupils."

He picks up a plate from his desk, "Want a candy? Oh, sorry to hear about Strucker. But then, he knew what kind of world he was helping create. Human life, not a growth market."

The twins say nothing but glance at each other. Ulysses smirks and continues.

"You... you didn't know? Is this your first time intimidating someone? I'm afraid that I'm not that afraid."

Wanda stands firm, "Everybody's afraid of something."

Ulysses shrugs, "Cuttlefish. Deep sea fish. They make lights. disco lights. Whoom, whoom, whoom! to hypnotize their prey, then whoom! I saw a documentary, it was terrifying."

Pietro speeds over to pick up a candy from Klaue's desk, and Klaue jerks back, expecting to be attacked, "So if you're going to fiddle with my brain, and make me see a giant cuttlefish, then I know you don't do business, and I know you're not in charge, and I only deal with the man in charge."

Ultron then breaks through the glass window and knocks down Klaue.

"There is no 'man' in charge. Let's talk business."

Klaue gives Ultron some vibranium from his stash.

"Upon this rock I will build my church. Vibranium."

"You know, it came at great personal cost. It's worth billions."

Ultron chuckles and remotely puts money in Klaue's bank account, "Now, so are you. It's all under your dummy holdings? Finance is so weird. But I always say, 'Keep your friends rich and your enemies rich, and wait to find out which is which.'"

Ulysses frowns, "Stark."

Ultron freezes, "What?"

"Tony Stark used to say that... to me. You're one of his."

"What?! I'm not...!" He grabs Klaue, "I'm not. You think I'm one of Stark's puppets, his hollow men? I mean look at me, do I look like Iron Man? Stark is nothing!"

Out of nowhere he suddenly chops off Klaue's arm, "I'm sorry. I am sor... Ooh, I'm sure that's going to be okay. I'm sorry, it's just I don't understand. Don't compare me with Stark! He's a sickness!"

Stark then appears in his Iron Man suit, "Ahh, Junior."

Thor, Sammie, and Steve are behind him.

"You're gonna break your old man's heart."

"If I have to." Ultron shrugs.

Thor grips onto his hammer, "We don't have to break anything."

"Clearly you've never made an omelet."

Tony snaps his finger, "Damn it... He beat me by one second."

Sammie shivers, "Ugh how weird. Y'all use the same dad jokes."

Steve stands tall in front of Sammie as Ultron glances at her.

Pietro finally makes his presence known, "Ah, this is funny, Mr. Stark. It's what, comfortable? Like old times?"

Tony shakes his head, "This was never my life."

Steve looks at Wanda, "You two can still walk away from this."

Wanda smirks, "Oh, we will."

"That's what you think. I have a bone to pick with flash here." Sammie grips her sword tightly glaring at Pietro.

Steve holds onto Sammie's free hand comforting her. He then looks at the twins, "I know you've suffered."

Ultron sighs, "Uuughh! Captain America. God's righteous man, pretending you could live without a war. I can't physically throw up in my mouth, but..."

"Well you're just freaking rude."

Thor interrupts Sammie, "If you believe in peace, then let us keep it."

"I think you're confusing peace with quiet."

Tony rolls his eyes, "Yuh-huh. What's the Vibranium for?"

"I'm glad you asked that, because I wanted to take this time to explain my evil plan!"

Everyone ducks as the Iron Legions burst through the walls and attack.

Steve turns to Sammie and points to the door, "Go!"

Sammie nods and runs out the building helping the rest of the team outside.

Steve and Thor fight the Legions as Stark attacks Ultron. The twins join the fight as Ulysses makes his way out and to his mercenaries.

"Shoot them!"

"Which ones?"

"All of them!"

"Move, move, move!"

Outside the rest of the team, including Natasha and Barton now battle it out with the Iron Legions, Klaue's men and the twins as Stark fight with Ultron.

Steve points are Pietro after knocking him down, "Stay down, kid!"

Ultron glances at Wanda, "It's time for some mind games."

Banner hears the commotion as he waits in the Quinjet, "Guys, is this a Code Green?"

Wanda uses her power on Thor then Steve comes up to him.

"Thor! Status?"

"The girl tried to warp my mind. Take special care, I doubt a human could keep her at bay. Fortunately, I am mighty."

And just as those words leave his mouth he then seems himself at a party on Asgard. Wanda then uses her power on Steve and Natasha.

Ultron nods watching, "This is going very well."

Wanda tries to sneak up behind Barton, but he quickly turns and puts an electric arrow on her forehead. She convulses for a second before falling to the ground.

"I've done the whole mind control thing. Not a fan."

Just then Pietro speeds in and knocks down Barton. He picks up Wanda and speeds off but not before Sammie notices and throws her sword at him. After he disappears, she walks over to the sword which had been embedded into the wall and smiles as she sees blood dripping off.

"Bingo."

She pulls the sword out the wall then hurries over to Barton who had been knocking into a wall. She holds her hand out to help pull him up.

"Yeah, you better run."

Sammie smiles looking at Clint's sour look, "Very scary old man."

Clint shakes his head pointing at her, "You shouldn't be talking old lady."

Back inside, Steve drops his helmet and walks off to the team.

"Whoever's standing, we gotta move! Guys?"

Natasha stands still as she sees herself in the facility where young girls are being taught ballet. She watches the ballet instructor walk around them correcting anyone who moves slightly wrong.

"Again."

Natasha frowns, "You'll break them."

Madame B crosses her arms, "Only the breakable ones. You are made of marble. We'll celebrate after the graduation ceremony."

"What if I fail?"

Natasha watches her younger self training to be an assassin.

Madame B smiles crooked, "You never fail."

Steve rubs his eyes and looks in confusion as he sees himself in a 1940's dance hall. He looks all around at the couples dancing with a frown.

"The Stork Club?" He mumbles to himself then freezes as his eyes stop on a younger Sammie.

She walks up to him wearing the same dress that he loved along with her black boot that she wore when she broke her ankle.

"Are you ready for our dance?"

Butterflies fill Steve's stomach as he stares at her. She was always so beautiful. But seeing her in front of him; her before the deaths, before the stress of saving the world constantly, there was just so much joy shining through her smile.

Back in Thor's vision, he is in Asgard walking around just as he spots someone walking in a black cloak. Heimdall comes up to him, his eyes blind and unseeing.

"Is it him? Is that the first son of Odin?"

Thor frowns holding onto Heimdall's shoulders, "Heimdall, your eyes?!"

Heimdall shakes his head, waving his hand as if saying it was nothing.

"Oh, they see everything. They see you leading us to Hel. Wake up!"

Suddenly he starts to strangle Thor.

Back in Steve's vision with Sammie in the dance hall, Steve allows her to grab his hand and guide them to the now empty room. She puts his hands on her waist as he continues to look at her shocked.

She smiles and holds his face gently, "The war's over, Steve. We can go home. Imagine it!"

Thor pushes Heindall away, "I can still save you."

"We are all dead. Can you not see? You're a destroyer, Odinson. See where your power leads."

Electricity hits Thor and spikes around the room, destroying things. Back in Natasha's vision she is being trained by Madame B to be an assassin yet again but harsher.

"Sloppy. Pretending to fail. The ceremony is necessary for you to take your place in the world."

Young Natasha puts her head down, "I have no place in the world."

"Exactly."

Pietro holds Wanda's hand as she suffers in pain from the electric arrow Barton had hit her with.

"What can I do?"

Wanda holds her head for a moment, "Ah, it hurts."

"I'm gonna kill him. I'll be right back."

Wanda grips his hand making him stay seated, "No. I'm over it. I want... I want to finish the plan."

She turns looking at the Quinjet where Banner is waiting and stands, "I want the big one."

She looks down at Pietro as he grimaces and stands up. Frowning she walks back over to him and sees a bloody slash on his abdomen.

"What happened?"

Pietro shakes his head with a humorless chuckle, "The lady in ice. She actually got me."

Wanda huffs in anger, "Let's go."

Inside Stark finally corners Ultron.

"Ah, the Vibranium's getting away."

Tony shrugs, "And you're not going anywhere."

"Of course not, I'm already there. You'll catch on. But first, you might need to catch Dr. Banner."

Stark angrily shoots Ultron and flies off to find Banner who's turned in to the Hulk and ready to wreak havoc on the nearest city.

"News or footage, keyword: Hulk."

Tony sees news footage of Hulk destroying the city and sighs, "Natasha, I could really use a lullaby."

Barton is sat with Natasha who's still stuck in her vision.

"Well, that's not gonna happen. Not for a while. The whole team is down, you got no back up here."

Tony huffs angrily, "Shoot! I'm calling in VERONICA."

"Too late I'm already there."

Tony lets out a cuss as he hears Sammie's voice. He thrusts his boosters making the suit fly faster to the destruction. As Hulk is wreaking havoc on the nearest city, Sammie makes her way over to him and whistles.

"Alright, stand down! You listening? That little witch is messing with your mind. You're stronger than her, you're smarter than her, you're Bruce Banner."

Hulk roars in anger, "Right, right, right! I forgot... don't mention puny Banner."

Hulk throws a car at her and she quickly flips out the way then stands up glaring at him. She glances at the car behind her then Hulk.

"Did you just throw a fucking car at me?"

Hulk roars making her raise an eyebrow.

"Oh really? Alright I'm beating your ass."

'No one messes with Mama Rogers.'

She runs towards Hulk and jumps onto a car, giving her a boost up into the air. She then punches him across the face and lands on the ground where she knees him in his special place. He bends over groaning as she then punches him repeatedly.

"That... was... a dick move... don't... you ever... do that... again!"

She does a spinning round kick making him stumble and fall on his side.

Just as she goes to kick his ass some more she is pulled back by a metal hand. Thinking it's Ultron, she whips out a taser Natasha gave. Before she can use it she is flipped around and sees it's actually Tony.

"Woah there Mama Bear. I can take it from here. Go back on the sidelines before Banner does something he'll regret."

Sammie frowns confused but nods and moves away.

'How the hell does Tony know?' She thinks to herself as she watches Tony and Hulk fight.

"Gotta agree with Sammie, that was a dick move, Banner."

They battle it out more but Stark is struggling to beat Hulk to exhaustion.

"VERONICA, gimme a hand."

As Hulk destroys one of Stark's armor arms, VERONICA sends in a new Hulkbuster armor arm and Stark uses it to repeatedly punch Hulk.

"Go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep!"

He picks up Hulk, "Okay, pal, we're gonna get you out of town."

"Be careful!" Sammie tells as they head towards a building.

"No, not that way, not that way!"

They crash through the building making Tony yell, "Come on, Bruce! You gotta work with me!"

Hulk continues to battle with him. Sammie runs over to the building and yells at the people nearby, "Move! Everyone move!

Tony yells at everyone inside the building as he fight against Hulk, "Everybody out! Going to get ugly!"

Finally he knocks down Hulk, "I'm sorry."

Hulk attacks Stark and pulls out parts of the Hulkbuster armor.

"Damage report," the damaged computer buzzes a reply.

"That's comprehensive. Show me something."

The computer shows him the building ahead is clear of civilians, "How quickly can we buy this building?"

Stark drops Hulk through the building completely destroying it; at the same time the army arrives to intervene, as Hulk comes out of Wanda's mind-hold Stark knocks him out cold. Later Banner is back to normal and everybody is back on the Quinjet.

Maria sighs, "The news is loving you guys. Nobody else is. There's been no official call for Banner's arrest, but it's in the air."

Tony nods, "Stark Relief Foundation?"

"Already on the scene. How's the team?"

"Everyone's..." he glances at Bruce who stares at his hands in fury. Nat pats his back while looking at the other side of the quinjet. Sammie rests her head on Steve's shoulder as they grip tightly onto one another's hands. His face remains blank just as Thor's.

"We took a hit. We'll shake it off."

"Well for now I'd stay in stealth mode, and stay away from here."

"So, run and hide?"

Maria frowns, "Until we can find Ultron, I don't have a lot else to offer."

"Neither do we."

He switches off the monitor showing Maria ending the call. He walks over to Barton, who's flying the Quinjet.

"Hey, you wanna switch out?"

"No, I'm good. If you wanna get some kip, now's a good time, cause we're still a few hours out."

Tony looks out the window at the sky, "A few hours from where?"

Clint smiles, "A safe house."

Hours later the Quinjet lands outside a large farmhouse and they all walk towards the house.

Thor frowns looking around, "What is this place?"

Tony shrugs, "A safe house?"

Clint sighs as he looks at his house in view, "Let's hope."

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