(Jared's POV)
Lab…
Barton gets a Morse code message from Natasha which he's able to detect her location, at the same time Stark, Banner, and I are experimenting on the synthetic body.
"This framework is not compatible." Tony Stark said.
"That's because you tried putting in Mr. Smith again." I said, sipping on some bubble tea.
"It could work. That and the Torchwood software."
"No. We are not putting alien technology in there. The genetic coding tower's at ninety-seven percent. Tony, you and Jared have got to upload that schematic in the next three minutes." Bruce Banner said, looking between Stark and I.
Steve and the twins turn up at the lab
"I'm gonna say this once." Steve Rogers said.
"How about 'nonce'?" Tony Stark asked.
"Shut it down!"
"Nope. Not gonna happen."
"You don't know what you're doing." Steve Rogers said.
"And you do? She's not in your head?" Bruce Banner asked.
"I know you're angry." Wanda Maximoff said.
"Oh, we're way past that. I could choke the life out of you and never change a shade." Bruce Banner said.
"Bruce. Stop." Madoka said, walking towards Bruce.
"Banner, after everything that's happened…" Steve Rogers said.
"That's nothing compared to what's coming!" Tony Stark said, angrily.
"You don't know what's in there!" Wanda Maximoff yelled.
"This isn't a game…" Steve Rogers said.
"The creature…" Wanda Maximoff said.
Pietro uses his speed to destroy the lab equipment, "No, no. Go on. You were saying?"
Homura shoots the glass Pietro is standing on, to destroy it, and Pietro falls through.
"Pietro!" Wanda Maximoff cried.
"What? You didn't see that coming? Homura. Nice shot." Clint Barton said, smirking.
"Thank you." Homura said, putting her gun back inside her bigger on the inside shield.
"I'm rerouting the upload." Tony Stark said.
"Go ahead, piss me off." Bruce Banner said, looking at Wanda, grabbing her.
"Okay. I've had enough of this." I said, changing my form from human to ghost.
After some fighting, Thor enters and hits the cradle with his hammer as I float towards the cradle in my ghost form with electric shocks coming out of my body.
"Let's do this, Point Break." I said, happily.
Thor and I sent powerful bolts of lightning through it that brought the body to life.
"Wait!" Bruce Banner said, worried.
The Avengers, the Puella Magi Holy Quintet, and I all look in shock at the new entity.
"Who's that?" Madoka asked, telepathically.
"Girls. Meet Vision." I said, telepathically. "He's running off of Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Ultron, and the Mind Stone."
"And what's the Mind Stone?" Kyoko asked, telepathically.
Vision launches himself at Thor and I, with the God of Thunder throwing him at a window, but Vision catches himself right before hitting it.
"Is that the yellow gem on Vision's head?" Sayaka asked, telepathically.
"That can't be it." Mami said, telepathically.
"No. I think it is." Homura said, telepathically.
Vision spoke in JARVIS' voice, as we all gathered around him, "I'm sorry, that was...odd."
"I know it was, Vision." I said, smiling. "
"Thank you. Both of you." Vision said, looking between Thor and I.
"Thor, Jared, you helped create this?" Steve Rogers asked.
"I've had a vision. A whirlpool that sucks in all hope of life and at its center is that." Thor said, pointing to the gem inside Vision's head.
"What? The gem?" Bruce Banner asked.
"Guys. This is the Mind Stone. It's one of the six Infinity Stones." I said, changing my form from ghost back to human. "It's the greatest power in the universe. After the Doctor and I rebooted the universe on June 26th, 2010. Nothing can beat the Mind Stone in how destructive it can be."
"So, why would you and Thor bring it to…" Sayaka said, looking at me.
"Because Stark is right." Thor said.
"Oh, it's definitely the end times." Bruce Banner said, annoyed.
"The Avengers, the President of the World, and the Puella Magi Holy Quintet cannot defeat Ultron."
"Not alone." Vision said.
"Um, Thor, why does your 'vision' sound like JARVIS?" Madoka asked.
"We... reconfigured JARVIS' matrix to create something new." Tony Stark said, guiltily.
"I think I've had my fill of new." Steve Rogers said.
"Same." Sayaka said, giggling.
"Witches and Familiars are enough. But is Vision a child of Ultron?" Kyoko asked.
"You think I'm a child of Ultron?" Vision asked.
"Are you not one?" Madoka asked, looking at Vision.
"I'm not Ultron. I'm not JARVIS. I am... I am." Vision said.
"I looked in your head and saw annihilation." Wanda Maximoff said.
"Look again." Vision said.
"Yeah. Her seal of approval means jack to me." Clint Barton said, scoffing.
"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…" Thor said.
"Is it? Are you? On our side?" Steve Rogers asked.
"I don't think it's that simple." Vision said.
"Well it better get real simple real soon." Clint Barton said.
"I am on the side of life. Ultron isn't, he will end it all."
"What's he waiting for?" Tony Stark asked.
"You." Vision said, looking at Tony Stark.
"Where?" Bruce Banner asked.
"Ultron is in Sokovia. He's holding Nat hostage there too." I said, looking down at the floor.
"If we're wrong about you, if you're the monster that Ultron made you to be…"
"What will you do?" Vision asked, looking around at all of us. "I don't want to kill Ultron. He's unique, and he's in pain. But that pain will roll over the Earth like Walpurgisnacht and Embryo Eve did to Kamihama City. 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. 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. But we need to go."
Vision holds up Thor's hammer as everyone stares in shock. When Thor takes it, Vision walks off.
"Right." Thor said, patting Stark on the shoulder. "Well done."
"Three minutes. Get what you need." Steve Rogers said, looking at the rest of us.
We all start getting ready to leave. I went into my sling bag and pulled out 25 pieces of Grief Seeds and tossed five each to the Puella Magi Holy Quintet. Stark loads up FRIDAY into his Iron Man suit now that JARVIS is no longer available.
"Good evening, boss." FRIDAY said.
"No way we all get through this. If even one tin soldier is left standing, we've lost. All that would do if we lose, is spawn in Witches and Noise everywhere. It's gonna be blood on the floor." Stark said.
"I got no plans tomorrow night." Steve Rogers said, smirking.
"I get first crack at the big guy. Iron Man's the one he's waiting for." Tony Stark said.
"That's true, he hates you the most." Vision said, walking past Tony Stark.
"Ultron knows we're coming. Odds are we'll be riding into heavy fire, and that's what we signed up for. But the people of Sokovia, they didn't. So our priority is getting them out." Steve Rogers said.
(Open POV)
Sokovian police station…
Pietro speeds into the Sokovian police station.
"We're under attack! Clear the city, now!" Pietro Maximoff yelled, but no one takes this seriously so he returns with Homura Akemi holding her rifle.
"I got this." Homura said, while she started shooting in the air.
"Thank you." Pietro said, looking at the people in the police station. "Get off your asses."
Wanda uses her mind powers on the people of Sokovia to get them to evacuate.
"All they want is to live their lives in peace, and that's not going to happen today. But we can do our best to protect them. And we can get the job done, and find out what Ultron's been building. We find Romanoff, and we clear the field. Keep the fight between us. Ultron thinks we're monsters and we're what's wrong with the world. This isn't just about beating him. It's about whether he's right." Steve Rogers said, as a voiceover.
Natasha's cell…
Inside her cell, Natasha hears Banner's voice.
"Natasha! Natasha!" Bruce Banner yelled.
"Bruce?" Natasha Romanoff asked.
"You alright?" Bruce Banner asked, walking over to Natasha's cell.
"Yeah."
"The team's in the city, it's about to light up."
"I don't suppose you found a key lying around somewhere?" Natasha Romanoff asked.
"Yeah, I did." Bruce Banner said, holding up a sonic screwdriver and activating it to open the cell door. "Jared gave me this. All he said was 'point and think' to open the cell door."
"Sonic screwdriver. Nice." Natasha said, while Bruce Banner handed the sonic screwdriver to her. "So what's our play?"
"I'm here to get you to safety." Bruce Banner said, happily.
"Job's not finished." Natasha Romanoff said, placing the sonic screwdriver inside her pocket.
"We could help with the evacuation, but I can't be in a fight near civilians. And you've done plenty. Our fight is over."
"So we just disappear?"
(Jared's POV)
Sokovian city…
The city is being evacuated.
"Your man's in the church, boss. I think he's waiting for you. I recommend you bring Jared to cover your six" FRIDAY said.
Stark flies into the church with me.
"Come to confess your sins with the President of the World?" Ultron asked.
"I don't know. How much time you got?" Tony Stark asked.
"More than you and him."
"Uhhh. Have you been juicing? A little Vibranium cocktail? You're looking…I don't wanna say…puffy…"
"I was going to say pompous ass." I said, happily.
"That's also good."
"The two of you are stalling to protect the people." Ultron said, looking between Tony Stark and I.
"Well, that is the mission. Did you forget?" Tony Stark asked.
"I've moved beyond your mission. I'm free." Ultron said, while the Vibranium core he's placed beneath the floor erupts. "What, you think you both are the only ones stalling?"
"There's the rest of the Vibranium. Function: still unclear." FRIDAY said.
"This is how you end with Jared, Tony. This is peace in my time." Ultron said.
Ultron's army of robots start attacking the city as everyone is evacuating.
"Tony! Come on!" I said, flying out of the building with Tony Stark. "FRIDAY needs to do her reading!"
"Go!" Steve Rogers yelled.
"Get out of here!" Sayaka said, angrily.
"Get off the bridge! Run!" Wanda Maximoff said, worried.
"Hurry!" Madoka cried.
Vision then finds Ultron, "Ultron."
"My Vision. They really did take everything from me." Ultron said.
"You set the terms, you can change them." Vision said.
"Alright." Ultron said.
They fight, Vision begins working to shut Ultron out of the internet.
"FRIDAY! The Vision?" Tony Stark asked.
"Boss, it's working. The Vision is burning Ultron out of the net, and Jared placed firewalls with Yui as a Barn Door Protocol, so Ultron won't escape through there." FRIDAY said.
"When did you put up firewalls to use as the Barn Door Protocol?" Tony Stark asked, looking over at me.
"I did it with Yui when we were at Avengers Tower. Cap said three minutes, but me and her did that Barn Door Protocol to slow down Ultron and give Vision a fighting chance." I said, happily.
"You shut me out!" Ultron said, looking at the Vision, as he threw him away. "And that's just great! The President of the World placed firewalls to slow me down! You think I care? You take away my world, I take away yours."
Ultron activates the Vibranium core, and the Earth around Sokovia starts to crack.
"FRIDAY? How's it going?" I asked, flying behind Tony Stark to cover him.
"Sokovia's going for a ride." FRIDAY said.
Sokovia is rising into the air.
"Do you see?" Ultron asked. "The beauty of it, the inevitability. You rise, only to fall. You, Avengers, President of the World, and Magical Girls. You are my meteor, my swift and terrible sword and the earth will crack with the weight of your failure. Purge me from your computers, turn my own flesh against me. It means nothing. When the dust settles, the only thing living in this world will be metal."
(Open POV)
Outside the city…
"We gotta move." Bruce Banner said, as the Earth is shaking, falling in around us.
"You're not going to turn green?" Natasha Romanoff asked.
"I've got a compelling reason not to lose my cool."
"I adore you." Natasha Romanoff said, kissing Banner, then pushes him off the edge. "But I need the other guy." The Hulk jumps up in front of her. "Let's finish the job."
Natasha is on the Hulk's back yelling in fright.
(Jared's POV)
Sokovian city…
The Hulk gets into the city.
"I really hope this makes us even. Now go be a hero." Natasha Romanoff said, happily.
The Hulk goes off and Natasha rushes off in the opposite direction.
"The Vibranium core has got a magnetic field, that's what's keeping the rock together." FRIDAY said.
"If it drops?" Tony Stark asked.
"Right now, the impact would kill thousands. Once it gets high enough: Global extinction. This would become a repeat of the city of Atlas falling onto Mantle for Jared. If Sokovia does fall." FRIDAY said.
"How bad was it when Atlas fell onto Mantle?" Tony Stark asked, looking over at me.
"Very bad. I'll talk about it later." I said, sadly.
Stark and I fly towards the city and a building starts to collapse as the ground shakes.
"That building's not clear, the tenth floor." FRIDAY said.
I flew in to find a family still in their apartment.
"Hey. You know me, right? The Black Pearl. One of those ghost heroes from Amity Park?" I asked, looking over the family. "Okay. Good. Get in the bathtub!"
I flew the family in the tub out of the collapsing building.
"I got airborne, heading up to the bridge." FRIDAY said.
"Cap, the Puella Magi Holy Quintet. You got incoming." Tony Stark said.
"Incoming already came in. Stark, Jared, you worry about bringing the city back down safely. The rest of us have one job: tear these things apart. You get hurt, hurt 'em back. You get killed, walk it off." Steve Rogers said.
Building…
Barton gets Wanda out of the way and into a building as Ultron's robots overwhelm them.
"Go! Go! Move!" Clint Barton yelled.
"How could I let this happen?" Wanda Maximoff asked, starting to break down.
"Hey. Hey. You okay?"
"This is all our fault."
"Hey, look at me. It's your fault. It's everyone's fault. Who cares? Are you up for this? Are you? Look, I just need to know. Cause the city is flying. Okay. Look. The city is flying, we're fighting an army of robots, and I have a bow and arrow. None of this makes sense. But I'm going back out there because it's my job. Okay? And I can't do my job and babysit. It doesn't matter what you did, or what you were. If you go out there, you fight, and you fight to kill. Stay in here, you're good, I'll send your brother to come find you, but if you step out that door, you are an Avenger." Clint Barton said, while Wanda just looks at him. "Alright, good chat." He gets up and gets ready to leave. "Yeah, the city is flying."
(Jared's POV)
Sokovian city…
Clint Barton leaves and starts shooting at the robots with Madoka Kaname.
"How long were you waiting there?" Clint Barton asked.
"A while." Madoka said, happily.
"It's okay!" Sayaka chirped, looking at the woman Thor threw up at her after her car fell off the edge of a collapsing bridge. "We got you! Just look at us. You're okay. You're safe!"
Sayaka and Kyoko helps her up to safety.
"You can't save them all. You'll never…" Ultron said, throwing the attacking robots off the edge of the bridge.
"You'll never what? You didn't finish!" Steve Rogers said, as Thor lands on the bridge on the top of another car he was saving. "What? Were you napping?"
"Thor! You're bothering me." Ultron said, as Thor, Steve, and the Puella Magi Holy Quintet are fighting off the robots.
As Barton and the Puella Magi Holy Quintet are fighting off the robots, Wanda comes out of the building and starts to use her powers on the robots to destroy them.
"Okay. It looks like we're clear here." Homura said, looking around to see that Madoka, Sayaka, Kyoko, and Mami are safe.
"We are not clear! We are very not clear!" Steve Rogers said, terrified.
"Alright, the Puella Magi Holy Quintet and I are coming to you." Clint Barton said.
Just then, Pietro speeds in, picks up Wanda and leaves.
"Keep up old man!" Pietro Maximoff said, angrily.
Barton aims an arrow at Pietro.
"Nobody would know. Nobody." Clint Barton said, starting jogging towards the action with the Puella Magi Holy Quintet. "'The last I saw him, when Ultron was sitting on him. Uh...yeah, he'll be missed, that quick little bastard. I miss him already'."
Wanda uses her powers to destroy the robots.
"Hold your fire!" A soldier said, worried.
"Romanoff!" Steve Rogers said, as Natasha joins them in their battle with the robots.
"Thanks." Natasha Romanoff said.
"Are the anti-gravs set up?" I asked, flying behind Tony Stark.
"Yeah. The anti-gravs are rigged to flip. Touch 'em, they'll go full reverse thrust. The city's not coming down slow." FRIDAY said.
"Good. Tony, the spire is made out of Vibranium."
"I know. If I get you and Thor to hit it…"
"Well, it'll crack. It still isn't enough. The impact would still be devastating. I'm glad I'm keeping Team RWBY, Team JNR, and Oscar Pine out of this."
"Same. Those friends of yours don't need a redo of the Battle of Atlas. Maybe if we cap the other end, keep the atomic action doubling back." Tony Stark said.
"Are you crazy?! Tony! No! That could vaporize the city and everyone on it."
"The next wave's gonna hit any minute. What have you got, Stark, Jared?" Steve Rogers asked.
"Well, nothing great. Maybe a way to blow up the city. That'll keep it from impacting the surface if you guys can get clear." Tony Stark said.
"That's not what he asked, Iron Man." Sayaka said, her swords slicing through the robots. "Cap asked for a solution. Not an escape plan from all this."
"Impact radius is getting bigger every second. We're going to have to make a choice." Tony Stark said.
"Cap, Magical Girls, these people are going nowhere. If Stark and Jared find a way to blow this rock…" Natasha Romanoff said.
"We're not letting Sokovia fall until everyone is safe." Kyoko said, stabbing her spear into one of the robots.
"What are you thinking, Kyoko? This is much harder than us dealing with Witches." Mami said, shooting some robots with her rifle. "There's people up here and people down there."
"She's right. Math can't define how many casualties will happen and how many Witches will spawn." Homura said, shooting bullets at some robots.
"Well, Cap and I aren't leaving this rock in the sky with a person on it." Madoka said, shooting down a robot with an arrow.
"I didn't say we should leave." Natasha said, while Steve and the Puella Magi Holy Quintet turned to look at her. "There's worse ways to go. Where else am I gonna get a view like this?"
"Glad you like the view, Romanoff." Nick Fury said, over comms. "It's about to get better." The SHIELD Helicarrier and my Helicarriers show up; cut to interior of the SHIELD Helicarrier. "Nice, right? I pulled her out of mothballs with a couple of old friends. She's dusty, but she'll do. Jared's Helicarriers are more maintained than mine. Cleaner too. Thanks to his friends."
"Sorry, we're late!" Nanoha said, telepathically.
"Nanoha." I said, telepathically. "Fate, and Hayate."
"Don't worry, everything's fine." Hibiki said, over comms.
"Symphogear." I said, looking over at the Helicarrier with all of the Symphogear wielders on it.
"You don't have to worry anymore. Everyone's here." Iroha said, telepathically.
"The Mightiest Magical Girl is here. Yep yep." Tsuruno said, telepathically.
"And the Kamihama City Magical Girls." I said, looking back at Tony Stark. "We got this now."
"Fury, Jared, you sons of bitches." Steve Rogers said, happily.
"Oooh! You kiss your mother with that mouth?" Nick Fury asks, over comms.
"Jared, now I see why you saved the three Helicarriers from Project Insight. While getting rid of Zola's Algorithm on them. It was for this."
"Well, yeah. I knew Ultron was coming. We can't leave a single person in Sokovia. I'm not having a repeat of the Battle of Atlas. I can't." I said, looking down at the floor.
(Open POV)
SHIELD Helicarrier…
"Altitude is eighteen thousand and climbing." Maria Hill said.
"Lifeboats secure to deploy. Disengage in three, two... take 'em out." Specialist Cameron Klein said.
(Jared's POV)
Sokovian city…
We watch the lifeboats fly in towards us.
"This is SHIELD?" Pietro Maximoff asked.
"This is what SHIELD's supposed to be. S.O.N.G. and the T.S.A.B. represents what SHIELD is supposed to be." Steve Rogers said.
"This is not so bad."
"Let's load 'em up." Steve Rogers said.
"Everyone, Noise and Witches will spawn from the negativity. And that is on top of the robots Ultron spawned. Be careful." I said, telepathically. "I can't guarantee your safety once you leave those Helicarriers to help with the evacuations."
(Open POV)
SHIELD Helicarrier…
"Sir, we have multiple bogies converging on our starboard flank." Maria Hill said.
"Show 'em what we got." Nick Fury said.
"You're up." Maria Hill said.
(Jared's POV)
Sokovian city…
Rhodes shows up in his War Machine suit and blasts one of the robots with Nanoha, Fate, and Hayate blasting a few robots behind him with their magic.
"Yes! Now this is gonna be a good story." James Rhodes said, happily.
"Yep. If you live to tell it." Tony Stark said.
"You think I can't hold my own?"
"We get through this, I'll hold your own."
"You had to make it weird." James Rhodes said, annoyed.
The Avengers, the Kamihama Magical Girls, the Symphogear wielders, and the Time Space Administrative Bureau help the people onto the lifeboats amongst the four Helicartiers.
"Alright, let's load 'em up! Alright, here we go. Here we go, let's move. Let's go everyone!" Clint Barton yelled.
(Open POV)
SHIELD Helicarrier…
"Number six boat is topped and locked. Or, uh, or stocked, topped. It... it's, uh, full of people." Specialist Cameron Klein said.
"Incoming!" Maria Hill yelled.
One of the robots crashes in through the SHIELD Helicarrier window.
"Oh, God!" Specialist Cameron Klein said, terrified.
Hill shoots at it and Fury stabs in with a piece of metal, destroying it.
(Jared's POV)
Sokovian city…
"You think you're saving anyone?" Ultron asked, as he's hitting Thor. "I turn that key and drop this rock a little early and it's still billions dead. Even you can't stop that."
"I am Thor, son of Odin. And as long as there is life in my breast, I am...running out of things to say! Are you ready?" Thor asked.
Vision uses Thor's hammer to hit Ultron.
Vision then throws the hammer back to Thor, "It's terribly well balanced."
"Well, if there's too much weight, you lose power on the swing, so." Thor said, smirking.
"Tony, I could really use one of your ideas." I said, flying behind Iron Man.
"I got it! Jared, you didn't have time to think this over with Weiss Schnee because you didn't have your ghost powers then. We can create a heat seal. We can...we can supercharge the spire from below." Tony Stark said, looking down towards me.
"Running numbers." FRIDAY said.
"That's good." I said, happily.
Stark and I fought off the robots from the Helicarriers' lifeboats.
"A heat seal could work with enough power. Jared, your ghost rays can be used as part of the heat seal." FRIDAY said.
"Thor, I got a plan!" Tony Stark chirped.
"We're out of time. They're coming for the core." Thor said.
"Rhodey, Symphogear, Time-Space Administrative Bureau, Kamihama City Magical Girls. Get the rest of the people on board that carrier."
"On it." James Rhodes said.
"Avengers, Puella Magi Holy Quintet, and Jared. Time to work for a living." Tony Stark said.
The rest of the Avengers and the Puella Magi Holy Quintet join Thor and Vision.
"You good?" Pietro Maximoff asked, looking at Wanda.
"Yeah." Wanda Maximoff said, happily.
"Romanoff? You and Banner better not be playing 'hide the zucchini.'" Tony Stark said, annoyed.
"Relax, Shell-head. Not all of us can fly." Natasha Romanoff said, while she joins the rest of the Avengers and the Puella Magi Holy Quintet. "What's the drill?"
"This is the drill." Tony Stark said, pointing to the Vibranium core. "If Ultron gets a hand on the core, we lose. And part of us losing would be a lot of Witches and Noise spawning due to the casualties."
"That many Witches and Noise would throw a wrench to stop Ultron." I said, when Ultron shows up.
"Is that the best you can do?" Thor asked, looking at Ultron.
Ultron summons his army of robots to join him.
"You had to ask." Steve Rogers said, sadly.
"This is the best I can do. This is exactly what I wanted. All of you, against all of me. How could you possibly hope to stop me?" Ultron asked.
"Well, like the old man said. Together." Tony Stark said, smugly.
A cinematic sequence; we all collectively fight off Ultron's robots with our own respective abilities. Ultron and Vision start battling it out. After a moment, Thor, Stark, and I join him.
"Nanoha! Fate! Hayate!" I said, when the three mages flew over to Thor, Stark and I.
"Plasma Zanber!" Fate yelled, sending a beam of electrical energy magic towards Ultron's body.
"Claomh Solais!" Hayate said, sending multiple beams of energy magic towards Ultron's body.
Nanoha flew up into the sky and began charging up a magical spell. She aimed it towards Ultron.
"Exelion Shield…." Nanoha said, aiming Raising Heart down at Ultron. "Breaker…..!
The combined power is enough to damage Ultron's Vibranium body.
"You know, with the benefit of hindsight…." Ultron said, when Hulk interrupts him by knocking him far away.
The robots start to retreat.
"Um, they're trying to leave the city." Kaede said, nervously.
"We can't let 'em, not even one. Rhodey! Nanoha! Fate! Hayate!" Tony Stark said, angrily.
"We're on it. Let's go girls." James Rhodes said, flying to the approaching robots with Nanoha, Fate, and Hayate. "Oh, no, we didn't say you could leave. War Machine and some mages, comin' at you, right…"
Vision flies in and helps to destroy the robots.
"Okay. What?" James Rhodes asked.
"We gotta move out. Even I can tell the air is getting thin. You guys get to the boats, I'll sweep for stragglers. Be right behind you." Steve Rogers said.
"What about the core?" Sayaka asked. "We can't leave it."
"I'll protect it. It's my job." Wanda Maximoff said.
Steve, Barton, Natasha, and the Puella Magi Holy Quintet leave.
"Get the people on the boats." Wanda Maximoff said, looking at Pietro.
"I'm not going to leave you here." Pietro Maximoff said.
"I can handle this." Wanda Maximoff said, blasting off an approaching robot. "Come back for me when everyone else is off, not before."
"Hmm."
"You understand?"
"You know, I'm twelve minutes older than you."
Wanda chuckles, "Go."
"Boss, Jared, power levels are way below opt…" FRIDAY said.
"FRIDAY, Tony's not alone. He's got me. Just reroute everything. We only got one shot at this." I said, happily.
(Open POV)
Lifeboats…
Barton, Natasha, the Kamihama City Magical Girls, the Puella Magi Holy Quintet, S.O.N.G., and the T.S.A.B, are making their way to the lifeboats.
"I know what I need to do. The dining room! If I knock out that east wall, it'll make a nice work space for Laura, huh? Put up some baffling, she can't hear the kids running around, what do you think?" Clint Barton asked.
"You guys always eat in the kitchen anyway." Natasha Romanoff said.
"No one eats in a dining room." Clint Barton said, while they reached the lifeboats. "We don't have a lot of time."
"So get your ass on a boat." Natasha Romanoff said, as she finds the Hulk. "Hey, big guy. Sun's getting real low."
Barton gets onto one of the lifeboats, but notices a woman calling out for someone.
"Costel? We were in the market. Costel?!" Zrinka exclaimed.
Barton runs off to find the boy.
(Jared's POV)
Sokovian city…
"Thor, Tony and I need you back in the church." I said, sadly.
"Is this the last of them?" Thor asked, referring to the people getting onto the lifeboats, while looking at Steve.
"Yeah. Everyone else is on the carriers. I'm glad Jared saved those three carriers so the entire city and country is empty now." Steve Rogers said.
"You know, if this works, we maybe don't walk away." Tony Stark said.
"Maybe not." Thor said.
"Yeah. I'm done running." I said, smugly. "I might stay after this. I don't know."
As Natasha tries to calm Hulk down to get him back to being Banner Ultron flies in with a jet and starts shooting at them.
"I got no strings, so I have fun." Ultron said, singing. "I'm not tied up to anyone."
As Barton is saving the boy, Costel, Ultron starts shooting at them. Barton prepares to take the shots to save the kid, but Pietro runs into the line of fire and takes the shots to save both of them.
"You didn't see that coming." Pietro Maximoff said, falling to the ground as he died.
In the church, Wanda senses his death, causing her to fall in despair, and release a wave of energy that destroys all the robots around her.
(Open POV)
SHIELD Helicarrier…
Hulk drops Natasha off onto the SHIELD Helicarrier and then jumps onto the jet Ultron is on.
"Oh, for God's sake!" Ultron cried.
Hulk throws Ultron out of the jet and he crashes inside a train;
Lifeboat…
At the same time Barton delivers Costel safely to his sister onto the lifeboat, a man goes over to help him with his wounds.
"No, no. I'm fine." Clint Barton said, lying down next to the dead body of Pietro. "Oh, it's been a long day."
Train…
Wanda then finds Ultron.
"Wanda. If you stay here, you'll die." Ultron said.
"I just did. Do you know how it felt?" Wanda Maximoff asked, using her power to rip Ultron's core out of his body. "It felt like that."
(Jared's POV)
Church…
One remaining robot turns the key in the church, and the city starts falling.
"Ghost ray…ghost ray." I said, as ecto energy came out of my hand. "I got this."
Stark and I fire powerful blasts to the core underneath the floating city.
"Thor, on my mark." Tony Stark said, while Thor brings on a blast of lightning.
"Tony, Wanda's safe. Vision picked her up. They're both safe." I said, when Vision flies in, picks up Wanda and flies off with her as the city is being destroyed.
"Now!" Tony Stark yelled.
Thor uses his hammer to hit the Vibranium core in the church, destroying the core and the floating city.
(Open POV)
Quinjet…
"Hey, big guy." Natasha Romanoff said, talking to the Hulk from a screen as he remains on the jet he knocked Ultron out of. "We did it, the job's finished. Now I need you to turn this bird around, okay? We can't track you in stealth mode, so help me out. I need you t…"
The Hulk turns off Natasha's camera, then sits as the jet flies off to an unknown destination.
Train…
Vision finds Ultron, "You're afraid."
"Of you?" Ultron asked.
"Of death. You're the last one." Vision said.
"You were supposed to be the last. Stark asked for a savior, and settled for a slave."
"I suppose we're both disappointments."
Ultron chuckles, "I suppose we are."
"Humans are odd. They think order and chaos are somehow opposites, and try to control what won't be. But there is grace in their failings. I think you missed that." Vision said.
"They're doomed." Ultron said.
"Yes. But a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts. It's a privilege to be among them."
"You're unbearably naive."
"Well, I was born yesterday."
As Ultron goes to attack him, Vision uses the Infinity Stone in his head to destroy him.
Barton's home…
Barton is returning to his family on the farm,
(Jared's POV)
Avengers Compound….
Stark is driving to the new Avengers facility in upstate New York.
"Say hi to Auntie Nat and Uncle Jared." Laura Barton said, from a video of Barton's new baby on Natasha's phone.
Natasha and I see the baby has been named Nathaniel Pietro Barton.
"Fat." Natasha Romanoff said, closing the video and putting her phone inside her pocket. "So, are all your friends back home?"
"Yeah. They're home." I said, sipping on some bubble tea.
"That's good that they are, Jared. One of our tech boys flagged this, splashed down in the Banda Sea. Could be the Quinjet. But with Stark's stealth tech, we still can't track the damn thing." Nick Fury said, showing us something on an iPad.
"Right." Natasha Romanoff said.
"Okay. What do you think happened to the Hulk?" I asked, enjoying my bubble tea.
"I don't know." Nick Fury said, frowning. "Probably jumped out and swam to Fiji. He'll send a postcard."
"'Wish you were here'. Fury, you sent me to recruit him, way back when. Did you and Jared know then what was going to happen?" Natasha Romanoff asked.
"You never know. You hope for the best and make do with what you get. I got a great team." Nick Fury said.
"Nothing lasts forever." Natasha Romanoff said.
"Not even the Avengers." I said, looking down at the floor. "My Impossible Girl, Clara Oswald, isn't going to last forever either."
"Trouble, Miss Romanoff, Mister Shay. No matter who wins or loses, trouble still comes around." Nick Fury said.
"Gotta go." I said, turning invisible and flying over to where Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, and Thor are. I then made myself visible where the three were and landed onto the ground. "What happened with Ultron, he changed the rules."
"You're right, Jared. The rules have changed." Steve Rogers said.
"We're dealing with something new." Tony Stark said.
"Well, the Vision's artificial intelligence."
"A machine."
"Like Yui. But she was in the form of a Mental Health Counseling Program." I said, happily. "Now she is designated as a Navigation Pixie. She's a machine in essence, but she is so human."
"So it doesn't count. For both the Vision and Yui." Steve Rogers said.
"No. It's not like a person lifting the hammer." Tony Stark said.
"Right. Different rules for us."
"Nice guy, but artificial."
"Thank you."
"If he can wield the hammer, he can keep the Mind Stone. It's safe with the Vision and these days, safe is in short supply." Thor said, sadly.
"But if you put the hammer in an elevator…" Steve Rogers said, his eyes widening.
"It would still go up. Jared, did it go up when you tried it?" Tony Stark asked, looking over at me.
"It did!" I said, laughing a lot. "I was laughing with Clara over that for hours."
"Of course you did. Elevator's not worthy." Steve Rogers said.
"I'm going to miss these little talks of ours." Thor said.
"Well, not if you don't leave." Tony Stark said.
"I have no choice. The Mind Stone is the fourth of the Infinity Stones to show up in the last few years. That's not a coincidence. Someone has been playing an intricate game and has made pawns of us. But once all these pieces are in position…" Thor said.
"Triple Yahtzee?" Tony Stark asked.
"A Triple Yahtzee might work. But what about a Quadruple Yahtzee?" I asked, still sipping my bubble tea.
"Luck vs Skill? I don't know."
"You think you can find out what's coming?" Steve Rogers asked, looking at Thor.
"I do." Thor said, in reference to Stark] "Besides this one, there's nothing that can't be explained."
Thor returns to Asgard, and the Bifrost burns a sigil in the grass he was standing on.
"That man has no regard for lawn maintenance. I'm gonna miss him though. And the two of you are gonna miss me. There's gonna be a lot of manful tears." Tony Stark said.
"There will be. Yeah." I said, as we walked over towards Stark's car.
"I will miss you, Tony, Jared." Steve Rogers said, looking between Tony Stark and I.
"Yeah? Well, it's time for me to tap out. Jared's tapped out from his adventures with the Doctor for ages and goes on occasional adventures. Maybe I should take a page out of Barton's book and build Pepper a farm. Hope nobody blows it up." Tony Stark said.
"I know I'll build Kirito and Asuna their log cabin in the woods." I said, smiling. "They're going to love that."
"I know those two will love it in the woods. As Tony and Pepper will on a farm. The simple life." Steve Rogers said.
"You'll get there one day." Tony Stark said.
"I don't know, family, stability. The guy who wanted all that went in the ice seventy-five years ago. I think someone else came out." Steve Rogers said.
Stark turns to get into his car, "You alright?"
"I'm home." Steve Rogers said, happily.
Stark gets into his car.
"The next adventure I have lined up with the Doctor and Clara. It involves the Sandmen. I'm going to ask Chisato and Takina to come." I said, clutching the strap of my sling bag.
"I don't know if that's a good idea." Steve Rogers said, when we find Natasha standing alone. "You want to keep staring at the wall, or do you want to go to work? I mean, it's a pretty interesting wall."
"I thought you, Tony, and Jared were still gazing into each other's eyes. How do we look?" Natasha Romanoff asked.
"Well, we're not the '27 Yankees." Steve Rogers said, handing Natasha a tablet.
"And we're not the '69 Mets." I said, looking down at the floor. "We've got 'underdog' miracle team recruits."
"That we do. We've got some hitters." Natasha Romanoff said, smirking.
"They're good. They're not a team." Steve Rogers said.
"Let's beat 'em into shape. " Natasha Romanoff said, smugly.
We gathered Rhodes in his War Machine suit, Vision, Sam in his Falcon suit, and Wanda in a new outfit.
"Avengers...!" Steve Rogers yelled.
(Open POV)
Nidavellir…
There is the Infinity Gauntlet without any of the Stones.
A dissatisfied Thanos opens a vault and puts on The Infinity Gauntlet, revealing himself, "Fine, I'll do it myself."