Closer...
So close…
As the gate to Tony Stark's villa came into view, Pietro and Wanda's breathing grew slightly ragged with tension.
One by one, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents on patrol were swiftly stabbed through by disguised Chitauri elite soldiers who seemed to appear out of nowhere. Bright red blood painted the white walls.
Pietro and Wanda exchanged a determined look before pushing open the door, which was splattered with gore.
The sprawling villa was now in full view.
"Excuse me, but who are you…?"
Holding a watering can she had just used, Pepper Potts, Tony Stark's personal assistant and the current second-in-command of Stark Industries, stared in surprise at the two strangers who had just walked in.
"We're here for revenge."
Pietro raised the weapon he had brought from the Black Quadrant's armory. The dark barrel was aimed at Pepper, whose eyes had widened in shock. A blast of surging blue energy shot out instantly!
Whoosh!
BANG!
The blinding light made Pepper instinctively close her eyes. The watering can, still half full, crashed to the floor, splashing water everywhere.
"Do you know what it means to trespass on someone's property without permission?"
"Oh, and you might want to add attempted murder to your list of crimes."
Iron Man, Tony Stark, descended from the sky. His heavily modified armor still sported its eye-catching red.
"Tony! Look out!"
Pepper's warning was cut short. Just as Tony struck a cool pose, he felt something grab his leg and slam him hard into the wall of the villa!
CRASH!
Debris and dust filled the air. Tony, who was practically embedded in the wall, shook his head to clear the dizziness.
"Super-powered individuals again, huh?"
"Damn it, I'm going to get a Superhuman Registration Act passed through Congress sooner or later."
Grumbling, Tony pried himself out of the wall and his gaze fell easily on the woman with the crimson mist swirling around her arms.
"J.A.R.V.I.S.?"
"Did I know her before?" Seeing Wanda's attractive figure, Tony's first thought went to the romantic debts he'd racked up over the years. As for the man next to her? Tony automatically ignored him.
"No, face recognition indicates you have not met this woman before today." The ever-reliable J.A.R.V.I.S. answered honestly.
"Can you analyze her powers?" Tony's expression became serious.
"Analyzing, but the results will not be immediate, sir."
"Hey, Tony! What's going on?!"
Bruce Banner, who had rushed out of his lab, was bent over, arms on his knees, panting heavily. He looked up to find everyone staring at him.
"Bruce Banner? The Hulk?" Pietro's face fell. He hadn't known the Hulk was here. Wasn't the Hulk supposed to be uncontrollable?
"He's mine! You go kill Tony Stark!" The self-appointed Wanda flexed her arms, and the swirling crimson mist transformed into a giant hand that grabbed the gasping Bruce Banner.
Wanda, who had been involved with HYDRA for so long, knew that striking first was the best defense.
"Understood." Pietro did a few small boxer's steps, and before he finished speaking, his figure vanished.
CRACK!
While J.A.R.V.I.S. was still calculating the location of the suddenly-gone Quicksilver, Tony felt like a heavy truck had just slammed into his waist. He was sent flying, crashing through three flowerbeds in a row.
"No! Tony!" Pepper, who was watching from the side, was filled with extreme worry.
"ROAR!!"
After a long time, Bruce Banner was finally able to communicate with the Hulk again. His skin gradually turned green, and his growing size and muscles made it even harder for the Scarlet Witch to contain him with her energy.
"Is his power speed?"
Tony, who had been covering his waist, painfully stood up from the wreckage with grass and flowers on his head. J.A.R.V.I.S.'s analysis was still a step too slow.
"J.A.R.V.I.S., can your analysis keep up if you have a physical reference point?"
"I can try, sir." J.A.R.V.I.S.'s voice was still unperturbed.
"Throw me your makeup mirror! Pepper!" After shouting this, Tony was once again pummeled by Pietro. The extreme speed meant his body's reactions couldn't keep up.
"What?" Pepper, who was worried about Tony taking a beating without fighting back, was startled.
"Hurry! Now!"
Tony didn't have time to explain as he took another beating. If his new Iron Man armor wasn't made of a stronger alloy, his internal organs would have been displaced by now.
"I got it!"
Seeing the urgency in Tony's voice, Pepper ran into the living room and frantically rummaged through her purse for her makeup mirror. "Tony! Catch!"
Pepper threw the mirror toward Tony with all her might.
"J.A.R.V.I.S., prepare."
Tony, who was on the ground again, didn't get up. Instead, just as the mirror was a few feet away, he fired a laser at it!
SMASH!
The small mirror shattered into countless tiny fragments, exploding around Tony along with the powder!
WHOOSH!
A beam of ultraviolet light shot from Tony's palm, reflecting off the mirror fragments. It bounced off mirror to mirror. The innumerable reflections were captured with perfect clarity by J.A.R.V.I.S.
At the same time, Pietro, who had stepped into this field of reflected light, was completely exposed to J.A.R.V.I.S. Because his feet and body were blocking the light's reflection. J.A.R.V.I.S. couldn't analyze Pietro's speed, but it could analyze in real-time where the reflections were being blocked.
Wherever the problem was, Pietro was there.
"Got you, little golden-haired rabbit." The downed Tony smiled with a look of triumph and blasted his repulsor beam in the direction of the reflection's anomaly!
BOOM!!!
"What?!"
Completely caught off guard, Pietro was sent flying by the blast!
"Pietro?!"
Now it was Wanda's turn to worry as she continued to strain against the Hulk.
"How…?" Pietro's clothes were scorched as he struggled to get up. He hadn't been able to stop in time and ran head-on into the repulsor blast.
"I think it would be hard for me to explain that to someone of your intellect."
"Perhaps you can understand it like this."
"Because I'm Tony Stark."
"Because I am Iron Man."
A disheveled Tony staggered to his feet, raising his right hand. The repulsor in his palm was aimed at the struggling Pietro on the ground.
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