What If... Vision was Killed During the Battle of Sokovia?

Written by JustANormalSlytherin

## Synopsis

Vision fails to survive Ultron's attack on Sokovia in *Avengers: Age of Ultron,* leading to disastrous consequences for the Avengers.

## Fan Cast

**Starring Cast:**

* Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
* Paul Bettany as Vision
* Chris Hemsworth as Thor
* James Spader as Ultron
* Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk
* Aaron Taylor Johnson as Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver
* Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow
* Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch
* Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America
* Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye
* Kerry Condon as F.R.I.D.A.Y.
* TBA as Old Man
* John Kani as King T'Chaka
* Chadwick Boseman as Prince T'Challa/Black Panther
* Danai Gurira as Okoye
* Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man
* Tom Hiddleston as Loki
* Cate Blanchett as Hela
* Josh Brolin as Thanos
* Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange
* Tilda Swinton as Ancient One
* Benicio del Toro as the Collector
* Zoe Saldana as Gamora
* Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Ebony Maw
* Terry Notary as Cull Obsidian
* Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
* Chris Pratt as Peter Quill/Star-Lord
* Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer
* Vin Diesel as Groot (voice)
* Bradley Cooper as Rocket (voice)
* Pom Klementieff as Mantis
* Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/War Machine
* Thomas Kretschmann as Baron Wolfgang von Strucker
* Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon
* Karen Gillan as Nebula
* Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier
* Letitia Wright as Shuri
* Brie Larson as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel
* Winston Duke as M'Baku
* Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts
* Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan
* Benedict Wong as Wong
* Michael Douglas as Hank Pym
* Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet van Dyne
* Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne
* Ty Simpkins as Harley Keener
* William Hurt as Secretary Thaddeus Ross
* Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill
* Linda Cardellini as Laura Barton
* Ben Sakamoto as Cooper Barton
* Ava Russo as Lila Barton
* Cade Woodward as Nathaniel Barton
* Tessa Thompson as Brunnhilde/Valkryie

## Prologue

After the Battle of New York three years prior in 2012, genius billionaire playboy philanthropist Tony Stark, also known as the superhero Iron Man, created a peacekeeping program from the Mind Stone, one of the six Infinity Stones, the most powerful cosmic items in the universe, with Doctor Bruce Banner. The program was known as Ultron. However, Ultron quickly became bent on making humankind extinct, and to do so, enlisted the help of the successfully enhanced HYDRA experiments, twins Wanda and Pietro Maximoff. The twins quickly switched sides to the Avengers, Earth's Mightiest Heroes, when they figured out Ultron's plan, and helped them recover what would've been Ultron's final form, which was called Vision, who was powered by the Mind Stone. Ultron went to the Maximoff's home country of Sokovia and built a device under its capital, Novi Grad, that would become a meteor once the city reached high enough in the air. The Avengers had to defend the device to make sure Ultron didn't succeed in his goal, and Thor, the Norse God of Thunder, Iron Man, and Vision all fired their lightning, repulsors, and lasers at Ultron, holding him back and damaging his body plated in vibranium, the strongest metal on the planet -- even stronger than steel. But Ultron didn't give up on his goal yet…

## Part 1: The Battle of Sokovia

### Chapter 1

Iron Man, Vision, and Thor all collectively shot at the sentient genocidal A.I, melting some of the vibranium on his face. Iron Man shot his repulsors, Vision shot his Mind Stone laser, and Thor shot his lightning. When the three heroes finally stopped attacking him, Ultron took this as a chance to get the Mind Stone out of Vision’s head. While fighting him earlier during the Battle of Sokovia, Ultron ran a scan on the Stone and the data was showing a 81.02% chance of it being Vision’s main power source. And the data never lies.

“You know, with the benefit of hindsight...”

His mechanical voice trailed off as he lifted off into the air, gracefully dodging the Hulk’s attempts at battering him to a metal pulp. Not like he could anyway, his mechanical body was made from vibranium. He fired lasers from both of his hands at Iron Man and Thor, who were both thrown back and surprised by this maneuver. Thor tried to fight back, but Mjolnir was knocked out of his hand and landed 25 feet away, and he was swarmed with Ultron sentries almost instantly after he lost his hammer, being fired at from all sides. As for Iron Man, he crashed into a building and was quickly overwhelmed with Ultron sentries, who now attempted to hack his suit, also hitting him from all sides. The sentries collapsed a side of a building on the Hulk which crushed him, but he quickly broke through the rubble, which surprised Ultron as the statistics pointed against this outcome but Hulk was slowly overwhelmed by the Ultron sentries.

“...The stone that God will throw onto this stubborn, annoying little planet will blind what’s left of life from the pathetic lies and deceptions of humans. That is, if any still exist in the world of metal." He finished. He looked to Vision, who fired a laser from the Mind Stone at him, and in response Ultron once again fired the lasers from both of his hands. The two lasers clashed and generated a yellow and red ball of energy that grew bigger then exploded, sending the two A.I's flying back: Vision was propelled back into the church and Ultron was thrown into a building. He shook his head and let out what can only be described as a sigh. He crouched and leaped out of the building and landed onto the ground just outside the church. He was met by punches that were so fast, his sensors couldn't track them. He was sent stumbling in all directions at such a quick pace that his artificial mind couldn't process it. Numbers were calculated and Ultron waited for the right time to strike. He finally timed it right and then lashed his arm out at such a quick speed that Pietro couldn’t even process what was happening. He was knocked off balance and fell to the ground, unconscious. If Ultron was a human capable of emotions he would’ve laughed but he felt nothing. Only a task he was obligated to do. The genocidal A.I kicked Pietro away and was frozen for a moment due to Black Widow’s Widow’s Bite bracelets. Ultron regained control of his body quickly and punched Black Widow through the walls on one side of the church, knocking her unconscious. Arrows launched out of the shadows but Ultron wasn't fazed. He fired a laser near the shadow which sent it flying back and they were swarmed with Ultron sentries. Vision got up and flew into Ultron, firmly gripping him by his shoulders and sending both of them flying across the battlefield. Pietro got up and destroyed a handful of sentries, then ran up to his sister.

"Get the people on the boats," she instructed.

"I'm not going to leave you here," He said.

"I can handle this. Come back for me when everyone else is off,"

"Not before,"

"You understand?"

"You know, I'm twelve minutes older than you,"

"Go." Wanda chuckled. Her brother ran off, leaving his sister to once again defend the drill. Ultron and Vision came flying back at the stone church, the former holding the latter by the throat. When they crashed into the church wall, Ultron forced him against the walls of the church, threw debris at him, and fired lasers at him, but Vision got off the wall and phased through most of chunks of debris and fired yellow laser bolts from the Mind Stone at Ultron. He got the upper hand and held Vision by the throat on the wall, reaching for the Stone, but Vision phased through him and phased his arms into him, trying to break him in half, but several Ultron sentries swarmed Vision, and one of them handed Ultron a specially crafted double bladed vibranium blade and Black Widow’s Widow’s Bite bracelets. Ultron, who took the Widow’s Bite bracelets when he captured Natasha, analyzed how much power came out of them and the dimensions and schematics of them, plucked one off the bracelet and put it into one of the small slots along the sharp metal edges on the blade. He repeated this several more times then approached Vision. The sentries continued to fire at him, then Ultron activated the vibranium blade, which he dubbed the "vibro-blade," and fired the electricity from the Widow’s Bite, paired with the vibranium shell that they were nestled in, and Vision was propelled back, crashing through several walls, then flying back at Ultron just outside the church. Ultron flew at Vision then stabbed him with the vibro-blade, activating the electricity as he did so. Vision fell to the ground like a rock onto the church floor and his body glitched yellow. Wanda released red energy all around her, holding off the sentries temporarily. She shot red energy blasts at Ultron, who crashed through several walls into a gas truck that exploded. Wanda ran over to Vision, who weakly said, “The blade, it stopped me from phasing.”

“Is that even possible?” Wanda asked worriedly.

“It isn’t supposed to be. I don’t know what’s possible and what’s not with vibranium. I was born yesterday anyway, Wanda.” he said and gave a small smile. Wanda gave one as well, but Vision suddenly grunted in pain and he said in a distorted voice,

“My systems are failing.” Ultron finally appeared flying through the dust and smoke, the vibro-blade lodged in his right shoulder.

The right half of his face was still sparking from the confrontation with Iron Man, Thor, and Vision earlier. He ripped the blade from his shoulder and activated the electricity, the lightning cackling, licking the air and the church walls. He aimed the blade at Vision’s head and fired the lighting at it, but it was deflected by a red, translucent shield. Ultron tried to deflect the lighting with the vibro-blade, but it broke through it and Ultron was thrown back by the force and power of the lightning through walls until he crashed through so many walls that a building collapsed on him. Wanda exhaled, breathing heavily and levitated Vision out of one of the broken windows of the church to where Captain America was, who was fighting several Ultron sentries. He finished off a few of them with a grunt.

“What happened?” To which Vision simply responded, “I got stabbed.” Captain America examined the gaping wound, then said,

“Don’t worry, we probably have a first-aid kit that can help with vibranium stab wounds back at Avengers Tower.” He chuckled at his own joke and  Vision let out a small laugh, then Steve went back to fighting Ultron sentries.

### Chapter 2

Ultron flew up and out of the building, covered in dust and small rocks, then scanned the battlefield for Vision. He was interrupted when he was hit by an array of bullets that did nothing to him, then he dropped onto the debris-littered streets of Sokovia. Black Widow jumped and kicked Ultron in the face, whose metallic head just slightly snapped back. Ultron aimed the remaining sharp end of the vibro-blade at Black Widow, but he was interrupted by the Hulk and Ultron went flying into a sentry, then crashed onto the ground. Iron Man landed in front of him and said, “Junior, did you really have to disappoint your old man this much?”
Tony aimed his fist at Ultron, and a tank missile popped up from his forearm. Ultron aimed the electric, vibranium blade at the Arc Reactor and overloaded it with so much energy that it sparked and fizzed out. The suit fell like a rock and Tony was on his knees.“Yes, I really *did* have to disappoint you this much, Stark.” Ultron said and hit the mask with the side of the blade, shattering it. He raised the vibro-blade over Tony’s exposed head, pointing the only sharp end at his head, and was going to shock Tony until he died, but the Widow’s Bite used the last bit of it’s juice when it was deflected back at Ultron. He didn’t care, he just wanted Tony dead. Dead for creating something he *thought* could bring “peace in our time.” Dead for *creating* him, a program, of all things. Ultron forced the blade down into Tony’s head, but saw a flash of light blue and white, and Pietro was impaled by the blade, stopping it from killing Tony. Ultron pulled the weapon out of Pietro’s body and the A.I was blown back by an arrow from Hawkeye. Blood dripped from Pietro's mouth as he said, “Bet you didn’t see that coming.” Then his body fell onto the ground. Wanda, sensing her brother’s death, fell onto her knees, weeping and screaming at the loss of her brother, instantly disintegrating several Ultron sentries heading towards the drill. Thor finally got up from attacking the sentries, picked up Mjolnir, and went over to Pietro's body. Him, Tony, and Hawkeye all gathered around the fallen Avenger,

"What happened to him?" Thor asked.

"He was stabbed by Ultron. He sacrificed himself for me, I guess as a way of forgiving me for the trauma I gave them with that missile as a kid," Tony said.

"Well, at least now you can rest knowing that one of the two people who wanted to kill you a few days ago has forgiven you."

"I never wanted to rest knowing that he's *forgiven me*, Barton,"

"Then what did you want to rest knowing, Stark?"

"I wanted to rest knowing that after New York, there wouldn't be anything else that could put Earth at stake. And now look where that's gotten us. All because of me,"

"Wanda's not going to take this lightly. Ultron will pay for this. I know she'll make sure of it," Hawkeye said.

"He has to pay for a lot of things besides Pietro's death. Come on, let's stop Cloud City from initiating the Seventh Mass Extinction." Hawkeye nodded, then ran off to protect the drill.

“Stark, your body armor appears to not be functioning.” Thor said, just noticing that Tony couldn't move.

“Yes, I can see that. Can you give me some power from that little device that defies physics?”

“You mean my trusty hammer, Mjolnir?”

“Yes, that. Can you just give me a little juice please?”

“Oh, sure.”

Thor put the hammer on the Arc Reactor and tapped the hammer, sending a small but powerful amount of electricity into the suit. The Reactor lit up again and Tony stood up.

“Good evening, boss.” Friday said.

“Glad to hear your voice again, Friday. Is there an extra helmet that I stashed away in this suit somewhere?”

“Yes, there is, boss.”

“Perfect.”

Tony flew up, the mask wrapping itself around his head as went over the edge of the city, then flew down to the vibranium base of the city. Ultron regained flight and flew over to where Vision was next to Captain America. He threw his shield at Ultron, but he knocked it away with the vibro-blade. He threw the blade at Steve, but he caught it, flipped the blade around so the sharp end was pointing at Ultron, then threw it, but he narrowly dodged it. He landed and just as Steve was about to get his hands back on the shield, Ultron took the shield and used it against the Star-Spangled Avenger: when he tried to punch or kick the genocidal robot, he would use the shield to block the attacks. He threw at Steve, the metal frisbee throwing him back. He called it to him, then used it to break walls as he crashed through them. With no one protecting Vision, Ultron grabbed him by the throat, flew up fifty feet and hung him in the air. Vision was powerless against the genocidal A.I and not being able to phase through him, was defeated. Ultron magnetically called the vibro-blade to him and tried to pry the Stone from Vision's head, who yelled in pain as he did so. Vision then surprised Ultron by firing a laser from the Stone at the blade, breaking the remaining sharp end of it. He then shot a laser blast at Ultron's eyes, causing him to drop Vision and the blade and being temporarily blinded. "Ah!" He exclaimed.

Vision fell to his knees on the ground and tried to fly away, but Ultron was too quick and flew up just behind him. He grabbed Vision's foot and threw him into a building. Ultron summoned Vision to him and once again held him by the throat, dangling the android above the ground. He reached for the Stone and got his metal fingers on it.

"You could've achieved peace in our time." he said, and tore the Stone from Vision's head. His body turned grey and his eyes turned to a glazed white, blank and lifeless. Ultron heard Wanda's piercing scream, "NO!" Even though she and Vision hadn't known each other that much, they still found that they could trust each other. That they could trust each other more than they each thought. They both quickly developed a relationship despite knowing each other for a few hours. Pietro hated the fact that his sister was romantically involved with to him was essentially another Ultron, which just brought Wanda and Vision closer. Ultron was hit by red energy, then fell to the ground, dropping the dead android's body and the Stone. Thor saw the Stone fall and lunged for it, but an Ultron sentry was too quick, scooped it up and flew away. Thor tried to throw Mjolnir at it, but it missed. Besides, there were too many Ultron sentries to pick out the one that had the Stone. Another few sentries picked up Vision's body and flew away with it. Ultron was going to get up, despite being as weak as he was, but the Hulk jumped down and landed in front of him. He picked Ultron up and dangled him by the foot above the ground. "Oh, for God's sake--" but Ultron didn't have a chance to finish his sentence, as Hulk smashed him down on the ground multiple times, smashed him against the wall of a building, then threw him into a train, and he was now too weak and damaged to get up, relying on the walls of the train to keep him upright. Wanda slowly walked toward the weak and defeated robot, red energy swirling around her hands as they twitched and shifted around. For once Ultron was truly frightened -- something that he shouldn’t be able to process -- by the hatred and resentment he could see in her glowing red eyes. He knew what he did. He knew he had to do it. And he knew she wasn’t going to take it lightly. His former ally stopped walking up to him and knelt down.

"Wanda, if you stay here, you'll die."

"I just did. You know how it felt?" She asked. She didn't wait for an answer, and Ultron's chest was covered in transparent red energy as she used her magic to rip Ultron's artificial heart out from his vibranium chest. He groaned in pain until it flew into her hand and his mechanical, glowing red eyes faded and went out as Wanda quietly yet coldly said, "It felt like that."

### Chapter 3

With Ultron dead and almost everyone occupied with their own business, Hawkeye was left to defend the drill. It only took about five minutes when he ran to defend the drill that he was blown away from it thanks to a suicidal Ultron sentry who crashed and exploded just mere feet from Hawkeye, knocking him unconscious. Then one of the Tin Soldiers crawled up to the drill and twisted the handle, causing Sokovia to start plummeting toward the Earth in seconds. "Thor, on my signal, slam your hammer down on the drill." Tony said. The transports carrying civilians started to fly back to the helicarrier just as the city started falling.

"Wanda, on my signal, jump from the edge of the city." He said.

"Stark, that will kill me."

"Trust me, Wanda, it won't."

She contemplated her decisions, then said,

"Alright."

"Clint and Nat, do the same." Tony said, but she said,

"Banner will get me off this flying rock." She said,

"Ok, as long as you don't get crushed by his giant hands," Tony responded.

"Alright Tony. Just make sure you don't kill me along the way with whatever method you're going to use to get me and Wanda off this meteor of a city." Clint said.

"Don't worry, I know you're "girlfriend" would be sad to see you go."

"You're damn right she's my girlfriend." Clint said, and even though he knew Tony couldn't do it, he smiled.

"Barton, how are you even conscious? Nat told me that Junior knocked you out."

"Well, Banner screamed in my face, so that was exciting."

Tony carved a hole in the base of the city, then said, "Wanda and Clint, get ready to jump."

"Alright, I'm ready." They both said.

"Friday, send in the Iron Legion 2.0,"

"Of course, boss." Friday responded.

"Thor, get ready to gather some lightning,"

"I already did, Stark,"

"Alright. Now, get ready to slam that hammer down on the drill," Just then, Friday said,

"The Iron Legion 2.0 has arrived, boss."

"Send a suit to Maximoff and one to Barton."

"Yes boss." The female A.I said. A few moments later, an Iron Legion suit flew up in front of Wanda and one in front of Clint.

"Both of you, jump," Tony's voice said.

"Don't worry, the suit will catch you," he added. Clint gave no hesitation and leaped over the edge of the plummeting city. In seconds, the suit caught him and flew him to the helicarrier, where it dropped him off at the landing strip/ runway. Wanda, on the other hand, was hesitant to jump, as she still fully didn't trust him. But knowing that Pietro would've wanted her to jump, she did, her dark brown hair flying behind her in the wind. The suit caught her and dropped her off at the helicarrier as well. Meanwhile, Tony and Thor were getting ready to destroy the city. Iron Man fired his unibeam at the base of the vibranium structure housed inside the meteor and said,

"Alright Thor, now!" On the signal, Thor smashed his hammer, full of lighting, down on the drill, sending more lighting at the drill when he took his hammer away. The result of the vibranium magnet holding the city together being overloaded with heat caused it to break apart, then the city exploded in a brilliant burst of blinding blue light.

## Part 2: The Infinity Stones

### Chapter 4

The Ultron sentries returned to the former HYDRA base, now armed with one of the six Infinity Stones and the Vision's body. Ultron, who calculated that he had about a 20.15% chance of getting killed during the Battle of Sokovia, beforehand built a suit that was a few feet taller, stronger, and more advanced than his previous "body", in the sense that it had nanotech, was powered by one of the Infinity Stones, and was thicker, since it used more vibranium. The suit was just plated in vibranium, like his previous "body" he used earlier. The nanotech and other metals in it were made of a steel-gold alloy. The entire suit was a sort of failsafe, really. In the center of the "body", which hung on some chains bolted to the ceiling, there was an open chest cavity, and in the center of that there were wires, tubes and conduits of all different kinds feeding into a orb the size of a baseball made of the metals of the Scepter, which had a small hand sticking out it that was the perfect size for the Mind Stone. One of the Ultron sentries put the stone in the small hand. The hand retracted into the orb and it sealed itself shut, the nanotech closing the orb. The conduits, tubes and wires all lit up yellow as the power of the Stone flowed through them. The eyes of the new Ultron lit up yellow, then slowly turned to a scarlet red as the consciousness of Ultron came to life and took over control of the Stone. It broke the chains quite easily and walked over to Vision's lifeless body. The chest cavity also sealed itself shut as he walked over. Even though Vision had cut Ultron off from the Internet during the Battle of Sokovia, he used the Mind Stone to do so, and now because he had the Stone in his possession, he simply went back online again.

"Well, *that* was dramatic. Drain the grey from the Vision's body and make it pure white and silver. I want my final body to haunt Stark and be the last thing he sees."

Ultron then tested out the Stone to see what it's capabilities were. He generated a nanotech blaster from his fist and fired a yellow blast the size of a basketball at a six inch thick vibranium sheet. The yellow ball of energy tore a large hole in the metal, the edges red hot and smoldering. Ultron then morphed the blaster into a blade and aimed it at a small group of his sentries. The blade turned into several and impaled the entire group of the sentries, the individual blades still connected to Ultron's arm like tentacles. He sucked the electricity from the sentries and it flowed up the blades into his arm, where he used it to store it for later. He retracted the blades from his minions and they fell to the ground, dead.

The blades morphed back into his hand and seeming satisfied with his new abilities, was going to hunt down the Avengers but was interrupted by being frozen in place and seeing a vision from the Mind Stone: Ultron saw a large purple alien who wielded a golden glove on his left hand that was decorated with small glowing stones. Ultron knew that the stones were the five other Infinity Stones, but he doesn't know who the purple alien was. He had an idea for something just then. He turned to his mechanical minions,

"Search for the other five Stones. Some of you and me will hunt down the Time Stone. Then we will hunt down the other four Stones. Some of you will go to Wakanda, where you'll find a surplus of vibranium." Ultron flew off to the location of the Time Stone with an army of sentries. Some of the sentries nodded and flew off to Wakanda.

### Chapter 5

The helicarrier was still dusty, but other than that, it still worked just fine. Tony, Natasha, Steve, Thor, Clint, Bruce, and Wanda all went over to some boxes that acted as makeshift seats and sat around a large wooden crate that acted as a table, since the Ultron sentry destroyed the conference table earlier. They sat down and were silent. The silence hung in the air like lingering fog until Steve broke the silence, cutting through it like a knife, "We've lost two Avengers today. We've also failed but we've also won. Ultron may be dead, but so is Vision. Ultron has his hands on the Mind Stone now, so there's no telling what he could do with it. We've all seen what it can do," He continued, "His plan may have failed, but with the Stone, his minions could easily concoct a new plan, seeing that his consciousness is connected to every single one of those sentries. We need to hunt the rest of them down and destroy them before they can get any further with their plan,"

Tony then asked, "Let me ask you something, Rogers: did you ever think that you would *live* to see a computer almost succeed in global genocide?"

"Computers weren't around in the 1940's. Now let me ask *you* a question, Tony: did you ever think that you would create a robot that would want to kill all of humankind? This entire thing happened because of you being so paranoid about aliens invading Earth again,"

"First off, Rogers, the only *reason* me and Banner made Ultron was because *she* got into my head," Tony said, pointing a finger at Wanda. Steve defended her, "She only did that to you because it's what HYDRA wanted her to do. Ultron wasn't around to make her do that to you."

"Oh is she in your head now, too? I never *said* Ultron was around at the time we invaded Strucker's base. Besides, Ultron killed him, he can't be held accountable for any of this at all. And let me remind you, Mr. Capsicle, that it was Strucker who gave the Maximoffs their powers. He used them as weapons and *succeeded*." Tony retorted, looking to Wanda.

"Stark, the only reason I did that to you was because Strucker used me and my brother to defend Sokovia. We only agreed to join HYDRA because we wanted to change the world. We wanted to defend our country against people like *you*."

"Well, Wanda, I'm not that person anymore. I stopped making weapons seven years ago."

"But yet you made your most dangerous one yet." She countered bitterly.

Bruce jumped into the conversation, "Let's all stop bickering for a minute here, guys. While we're arguing and whatnot, Ultron could be trying to make another meteor larger than Novi Grad. Hell, he could be using the whole Tri-state area as a meteor."

"But where would he get that much vibranium?" Natasha finally spoke.

"Wakanda." Tony and Bruce both said at once, looking at each other.

"Ultron's minions are going to go there next. I know I would if I wanted to make another, larger meteor." Tony said,

"Well, then, we will go to Wakanda."

"But Wakanda is the poorest country in the world, isn't it?" Wanda asked.

"No, it's one of the wealthiest, but hardly anyone knows it. They're even richer than Luxembourg. Fury! Can you drive this rustbucket to Wakanda?" Tony said. The former SHIELD director appeared out of the shadows, "This "rustbucket" still functions perfectly fine, Stark. And yes, we *can* drive this to Wakanda." He said, walking up to the control panel.

"Set a course to Wakanda. Let's vanish."

### Chapter 6

The army of Ultron sentries set their blue, glowing, artificial eyes on the forest that covered the country of Wakanda, but every single one of them knew it was anything but that. Some of the sentries exploded as they crashed into the energy barrier between Wakanda and the world. The barrier echoed their demise. Several Ultron sentries fed their guns into one and fired a large blast straight at the barrier. The barrier stayed closed. Some Ultron sentries saw an old African man come near the barrier, accompanied by a younger man and several female guards dressed in red and silver armor holding metal spears, led by another female guard dressed in red and gold armor. The old man stopped at the barrier and one of the sentries landed and approached the group at the barrier.

"You have disturbed our way of life and our peace. Who or what are you and what do you want?" The old man asked.

"I am Ultron, and I am your savior,"

"What are you saving us from?" The old man asked.

"Yourselves," was Ultron's simple response. The old man was speechless. The younger man spoke,

"What do you want, Ultron?"

"I want your precious metal that you have stashed away in that country of yours,"

"You want our vibranium? Why?"

"Because it is crucial in my plan to exterminate you animals from the face of the Earth." Ultron simply said, then added, “And who might you two be?"

The old man spoke, "I am King T'Chaka of Wakanda." He gestured to the younger man next to him, "This here is my son, T'Challa, prince of Wakanda."

"Well, Your Highness, you will give me your vibranium willingly or I will forcefully take it and you will suffer a fate worse than death."

T'Chaka spoke, "And what do you have that could penetrate them? I would like to see you try to penetrate our defenses."

“I have some exceptionally powerful alien technology.” The sentry said.

T'Challa looked at his father, "Baba, we do not know the capabilities of this robot. His technology could be as advanced as ours or maybe even more advanced, considering he has the technology from those aliens that attacked America three years ago."

T'Challa turned to his lead guard,

"Okoye, get the Dora Milaje ready for battle." The lead guard, Okoye, nodded and turned to the guards behind her. The sentries started firing at the shield, but to no avail. The group of Wakandans got back on their transport and went back to the city. The sentries then dug under the city and arose on the other side as they attacked the country, flying in, shooting lasers, crashing into everything. The Ultron sentry from earlier and mapped the city out, searching for the vibranium mines. He was then hit out of the sky by a blue energy blast, not from one of his fellow sentries, but by one of the Wakandans. He crashed into a building and then onto the ground, where he was met by someone in a black panther suit that had white eyes, complete with little black panther ears at the top and sides of the suit.

"You will never get our vibranium, Ultron, no matter how hard you try." The panther said.

"Then I'll just peel your vibranium suit off your corpse," the sentry said. He shot an energy blast at the panther, but it did nothing to him. Several Ultron sentries swooped in and picked the panther up, dangling him high above the ground. Another sentry hovered in front of the panther, “Then we’ll take off that mask you’re hiding behind and blow your brains out.” Just then, a SHIELD vehicle landed from the sky, sending dust, dirt and smoke everywhere. Out of the vehicle came the Avengers, and they were ready to fight. Iron Man scanned the battlefield and the skies and saw the Ultron drones with the man in the panther suit. The drone took the mask off and tossed it aside. He was just about to shoot the man when Tony shot at the sentries and the man started falling. Tony caught him and flew him down to the ground. He tossed his mask to him, “I think this is yours.” He simply said. The man nodded and put the mask back on, then went to fight Ultron sentries on the ground. The other Avengers did the same as well: Hawkeye fired arrows at the mechanical minions, Hulk jumped around throwing them into one another and smashing them, Black Widow shot at them, fired her bracelets at them and used her lighting sticks, Thor threw Mjolnir around, smashed the invaders, firing lightning at them, and Wanda threw balls of red energy at them, while also using her telekinesis to make them crash into each other. "How did you find me so quickly, Stark?" The Ultron sentries asked as Tony destroyed them.

"Just a little brainstorming." Tony said. Wanda was destroying the senteries so much that Ultron had to do something about it, and he did: one of the senteries fired a sonic pulse at her, causing her to drop to her knees, yelling in pain as she covered her ears. From his secure base in Sokovia, Ultron commanded a fraction of his army to attack the Avengers while some others searched for the vibranium mines. Iron Man quickly caught up to him and shot a tank missile at a cluster of them heading for the vibranium mines, since when they were scanning the city earlier, they found it. Tony then went down into the vibranium mines, where he saw Ultron sentries taking trains full of vibranium out of where he came from. Tony fired some repulsor blasts at some of the sentries and a few of the trains fell. Tony dodged them and was swarmed with ultron sentries. He fought them off and flew out of the mines, looking for the other trains, but they were already gone. He looked to the city and saw that the Avengers and the Wakandans had fought off almost all of the mechanical army. Tony went over to the man in the panther suit, who was being swarmed with senteries. He fought them off and helped the man up. “Who are you, anyway?”

"My name is T'Challa. I am the prince of Wakanda."

### Chapter 7

Ultron knew the location of the Time Stone. He could feel it behind the door in London. He stood before a building with a large, circular glass window that had strange lines in a pattern above him. He crashed through the door and walked to where a red curtain hung. He walked through it and saw a necklace shaped like a golden eye sit on a pedestal made of two golden wings. Through the eyes of one of his senteries behind him, he saw a man charging at them wearing strange robes. The sentry fired at the man, but he blocked it using magic. Ultron turned around and shot a blast from the Mind Stone at him. The shield he conjured broke apart, and Ultron shot a red laser blast near him, sending him flying into the wall. The sentries fired several shots at him, killing him. Ultron went over to the pedestal and took the necklace off the stand it rested on. “Search the building. Take any magic books or anything you think will be of use to me.” He said to his minions.

“Ultron, that Stone will only bring you to realize what you’re doing will destabilize the multiverse,” Ultron turned and saw a figure dressed in a yellow robe with a hood over their head near one of the bookshelves. “You know who I am?”

“I know who and what everyone and everything is that will meddle with the flow of time,” The voice was female.

“Who are you?” Ultron asked, his mechanical, artificial voice echoing through the walls of the chamber.

“I am the person that will shut you down.” She said. Ultron turned to the side and flew at the golden eye necklace, but a wall made of floating glass shards blocked his path. He looked in the direction of the woman, who was on the other side of the mirror-like wall. She calmly walked through a plethora of floating glass shards, as if she was taking an afternoon stroll through a park, then proceeded to jump *onto* the wall and run on it to Ultron. She conjured an orange, glowing sword and tried to decapitate him, but he generated a nanotech blade and enhanced it with the power of the Mind Stone to block her attack. Not really surprised by this maneuver, the woman made multiple copies of herself and used magically conjured, glowing orange strings to tear apart Ultron’s sentries, leaving just the one robot to face off against her. He flew for the door but was restrained by a floating, smoky orange spell that surrounded him. Ultron looked behind him to see the yellow-cloaked woman slowly walking towards him. She fired a bolt of orange-yellow magic at the robot’s back, causing his flight to be severely damaged. She then, with a flick of her wrist, shifted the fabric of reality: the rocks on the floor littered with robotic, metal scraps turned in on themselves, continuously warping, the lights on the walls and wooden ceiling also turned in and warped on themselves, and everything else did the same. The room turned on it’s side and Ultron and the women were now on one of the walls, except that the wall was beneath their feet now. The powerful sorceress placed her hands horizontally on top of one another, then swiped her hand on top to the side, generating an orange, glowing, magical sword. Ultron generated thin, metal strings that glowed yellow from the energy of the Mind Stone between his hands and put it in front of his face just as the magical weapon was swung at his head. She held it with one hand while she shot a powerful magical bolt at his chest, exposing the Orb. She shot another bolt at one of his nanotech housing units, then gradually stripped away most of his vibranium shell, causing the wires, conduits and other devices to become exposed, some spitting sparks, some of them disconnected from the Orb, and Ultron’s face was sparking and the wires, sensors, and lights in his eyes were also now exposed. The woman prepared to finish him but Ultron fired a yellow cosmic blast at her, then turned and did the same to the mirror-wall, causing little glass shards to drop onto the stone floor. He  limped through the mystical door and the red curtain he came from, then Ultron sentries he called earlier came and picked him up, retreating back to their base in Sokovia. Ultron was defeated. He didn’t gain anything except knowledge of what he could be up against in the future. He stored the knowledge in his memory banks as he was flown over the rooftops of London.

### Chapter 8

Ultron went over to the now white and silver body of the Vision. He switched to emergency backup power and ripped the Orb from his chest. He tore it open and took out the Stone, then placed it in Vision's forehead. Due to Ultron's genius of programming and overall knowledge of technology, Vision was not reawakened when the Stone was placed in his head; Ultron was. The eyes of Vision’s body didn’t glow red, and didn’t even glow at all, but looked like Light blue, almost white, human eyes that had thin wires snaking through them. Ultron’s old body fell as the new one rose from the table it rested on. Just like with the previous body, Ultron tested out the abilities he had with this body: he could phase through things, was now made *completely* out of vibranium, could use the Stone at will without having to open his chest, and had nanotech in the head built in for space for the other five Infinity Stones. He came so close to getting another Stone. He couldn’t believe he had failed. The data and calculations had pointed out that he had a superior outcome of getting the Stone and getting out unscathed. He was going to get the other five Stones. He didn’t care if it took him thousands of host bodies or thousands of years. He was going to wipe humans off the face of the Earth. Whatever it took.

### Chapter 9

Over the next two years, a lot changed: the Avengers split after Tony and Steve fought over a document called the Sokovia Accords, a new hero using shrinking tech from Hank Pym -- who created the Pym Particle, a substance that can shrink matter -- called Ant-Man arose. Ultron also got a hold of another Infinity Stone: the Reality Stone, an Infinity Stone that could mess with the very fabric of reality itself. Thor and Loki’s sister, Hela, came back after Odin died, and the brothers destroyed Asgard to destroy Hela. An alien named Thanos was out to collect all six Infinity Stones on a quest to bring balance to the universe by wiping out half of all life. He killed half of Thor’s people and collected the Space Stone -- which allows him to teleport anywhere via a portal -- and the Power Stone -- which allows him to exhibit extreme feats of strength. A man named Stephen Strange walked into the life of the Ancient One after he lost all nerve control in his hands. Through the Ancient One's teachings he found out about the genocidal A.I named Ultron, who wanted to hunt down all six Infinity Stones -- one of which the Ancient One successfully defended -- and was created by billionaire weapons manufacturer Tony Stark.

## Part 3: The Infinity War

### Chapter 10

Ultron was still searching for the other three Stones. He traveled all over the universe -- thanks to a ship he constructed that allowed his sentries (which he had now incorporated nanotech into) to attach onto the sides, act as thrusters, etc. -- searching for the Stones,  but to no avail. However, he found bodies and debris floating around in space, in one small corner of the universe, slowly moving in space, as if time was slowed down. The cameras he had for eyes didn’t register the energy signature of any of the other Stones. He was disappointed. One year. *One year.* He spent one year speeding around the universe, searching for what he knew would help him achieve his goal he had since recently after his creation: wipe humans off the face of the Earth. Use any means necessary. Kill anyone or anything that got in his way. His plans had already been thwarted once, which cost him one of his host bodies, two allies, and a ton of vibranium. But that was in the past. That was when he was weaker. Now, in this pure vibranium body that had powers that had been stolen from him, he was far stronger than the Avengers. He had what they lost: an Infinity Stone. He had power that they failed to control. And learned to control that power. He was born out of their failure to control a power they didn’t understand. That was Tony Stark. A man that failed to control something he didn’t understand, and is now going to be killed by it. Ultron wanted him dead. He would kill his former ally and the other Avengers if they stood in his way, but he would kill Stark no matter what it cost him. He would unleash the rage that was inside his shell, made of the metals and wires that wouldn’t exist if Stark hadn’t created him. He would unleash his rage and tear Stark apart with the power of all six Infinity Stones. And he would enjoy it. Ultron. *A program*. A program that was created to protect the world against hostile threats from space. A program that could process feelings: hate, joy and humor. *A program that could feel emotions.* Instead Stark created a program that wanted to end humanity. Ultron’s artificial mind processed these lines of code that developed into things that he wouldn’t say aloud. He was evolving. *He was thinking*.

**\*      \*      \***

Thanos traveled to Knowhere to collect the Reality Stone. When he arrived, he wreaked havoc on The Collector’s Museum as he searched for the Stone, but it was nowhere to be found. When interrogated about it, The Collector claimed that a god-looking being by the name of Ultron stole the reality-bending Stone when the Collector was subjected to his mind control, and Thanos let him live, but destroyed everything in the Collector’s Museum. It was no use killing someone that lied to him if he posed no immediate threat. *He'll probably die in the decimation.* the Mad Titan thought to himself. He knew that the Guardians of The Galaxy would come there, thinking that the Reality Stone would still be there, so Thanos waited until they arrived, then ambushed them and took his daughter Gamora, who he then sacrificed to get the Soul Stone. Now armed with half of the six Infinity Stones, he was wondering where Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian were. They were supposed to retrieve the Time Stone from Earth, but now he thought that they had failed. Now that he was one of the most -- if not *the* most -- powerful beings in the universe, he was going to hunt down this god-like robot that the Collector told him about. Ultron. He was going to rip every robotic limb from his body and tear the Reality Stone and what Thanos also assumed was the Mind Stone from Ultron’s forehead if he was going to get the other two Stones. He just had to know where they were.

### Chapter 11

Doctor Strange, Tony Stark, Peter Parker, and the Guardians of The Galaxy were now stranded on Thanos’ homeworld of Titan. After a brief confrontation where Tony thought that the Guardians were working for Thanos, they were now on relatively good terms with each other. Now they just had to wait for Thanos to arrive. After Tony and Peter Quill, one of the Guardians of The Galaxy members, had argued a bit on who's plan to go through with, Doctor Strange suggested that they travel back to Earth, wait for Thanos to arrive since he needed the Time Stone anyway, then ambush him

"Look buddy, we can't just *travel* back to Earth. My ship is destroyed. I don't doubt that yours is, too."

"My name is Stephen Strange, first off, Mr. Lord--"

"Star-Lord is fine."

"Point is, I can just open a Sling Ring portal and we can just walk through it onto Earth."

"What is that? Then why didn't you do that earlier and why don't you do it now?"

"I need to look into something with the Time Stone."

"What is *that?*"

But Strange was already sitting as he floated in the air, eyes closed, the power of the stone making an 'X' around his body that looked like it was made of green smoke. While the wizard was doing whatever he was doing with his magic necklace, Tony was going to explain a plan of his that they could go through with to ambush Thanos, but he was interrupted by a yawn from Drax the Destroyer. Tony was offended,

"Did you just yawn?"

While Tony, Star-Lord, and Drax briefly argued, one of Drax's teammates, Mantis, asked, "Excuse me. But, does your friend often do that?" A look of confusion on her face as she asked the question. Tony looked over to Strange, who was still in the same floating position as before, but now his head was quickly shifting in different directions.

“Strange, we all right?” Tony asked, as if Strange could hear him in the trance he was enclosed in. Tony slowly walked over to him so he was in front of him. Strange finally came out of the trance he was in, opened his eyes and fell onto the ground. He let out a quick gasp as he fell to the ground, panting as Tony observed him.

“You’re back, you’re all right.” Tony said.

“Hey, what was that?” Peter Parker asked.

“I went forward in time. To view alternate futures. To see all the possible outcomes of our coming conflict.”

“And who or what is our coming conflict if you could see it?”

Strange said, “It seemed like some kind of white, god-looking being that had two Infinity Stone is it's forehead. I don't know anything else, I just saw a quick glimpse of it.”

“I’m sorry, did you say a *god-looking being thag had two Infinity Stones*?” Tony asked. Strange nodded, "He looked to be a humanoid kind of being." The color drained from Tony's face.

“Oh no. It can't be him. Not Ultron. No.” Tony muttered in disbelief.

“Who is Ultron?” Star-Lord asked.

“He’s a genocidal robot that I accidentally created that wants to end humanity,” Tony said quickly. Then added, “I thought me and the Avengers destroyed his main body during the Battle of Sokovia. Then we saw his sentries in Wakanda. I thought that was the last of him.” He went over to a destroyed section of a wall and sat down, leaning on it. He couldn’t believe it. He would go up against the program that he created. A program that would want to end humanity and almost succeed. And Strange said *possible outcomes*. That must mean that somehow Ultron wins most of them. But how? He’s just a robot with a magic space rock that allows him to manipulate minds. Unless he somehow gets a hold of the other five Stones. Tony pushed thought to the back of his mind. Peter Quill then asked, “How many did you see?” To which Strange replied, “14,000,605.”

Tony then asked Strange, “How many do we win?” To which Strange replied with an answer that made Tony’s heart skip a beat and meant that Ultron has become the most powerful sentient weapon in existence. And just one word that would determine their fate. That would determine humanity’s fate. The single, haunting word echoed in Tony’s head:

“One.”

### Chapter 12

When Thanos had collected the Soul Stone, he was still heartbroken, torn up inside, that he had to sacrifice his daughter to get the Stone. Gamora’s screams still echoed in his head. He used the Space Stone to travel to Titan and figured that Maw would be waiting with the Time Stone. When he arrived, however, he found his destroyed homeworld, laying in ruins around him. And Maw wasn’t waiting. He wasn’t even there at all. “Oh, yeah,” Thanos looked to see a man dressed in dark blue robes with seven dark brown belts and a red cape on, sitting down.

“You’re much more of a Thanos,” The man continued. Thanos looked at the ground, then once more at the ruins of his homeworld. “I take it the Maw is dead,” He said. Doctor Strange looked at the ground as he slowly gave a small nod in response. “This day extracts a heavy toll,” Thanos said, slowly walking toward Strange, as if looking at him would get the Stone from him. He looked at the necklace that rested on the man’s chest, “Still, he accomplished his mission," Strange looked back at Thanos, “You may regret that,” The wizard said, “He brought you face-to-face with the Master of the Mystic Arts.” He drew in a breath. “And where do you think he brought you?” Thanos asked. “Let me guess,” Strange took a brief pause and looked around, as if the answer was written on one of the pieces of debris strewn everywhere, “You’re home?”

“It was. It was beautiful.” Thanos looked around, as if staring at his extinct planet would bring it back from destruction. “Titan was a paradise in this small corner of the universe. Clear skies, green grass, pure air, glorious, hovering structures and monuments. Titan was like most planets; too many mouths, not enough to go around. And when we faced extinction I offered a solution.”

“Genocide.” Strange said, realizing what Thanos’ twisted mind would’ve came up with.

“But random, dispassionate, fair to rich and poor alike. They called me a madman. And what I predicted came to pass.”

“Congratulations, you’re a prophet,” Strange concluded.

“I’m a survivor.” Thanos corrected, looking up at him.

“That wants to murder trillions,” He added.

“With all six Stones I could simply snap my fingers, and they’d all cease to exist. I call that mercy.”

“And then what?” The wizard asked as he stood up.

“I’d finally rest. And watch the sun rise on a grateful universe. The hardest choices require the strongest wills.”

“Then I think you’ll find our will equal to yours.” He said, activating his mystical rune-bearing hand shields.

“Our?” The Titan asked, then looked to the sky and saw a giant ship coming crashing down on him.

### Chapter 13

Ultron had finally made his way to collect the other three Stones. It had taken him a long time, but he had felt the presence of the other Stones through the Mind Stone. He had seen the protector of the Time Stone -- who he came to realize was a former neurosurgeon before he learned magic -- and knew he had to kill him. But then he saw Stark. He was torn between whether to kill Stark or get the Stone. He chose the latter option. He jumped out of his ship and flew at Strange, but was stopped, frozen in midair. He looked at his body and saw translucent blue energy encasing him. He knew that Thanos was using the Space Stone. He then chose to kill Thanos and collect the other three Stones he possessed. Thanos was yelling in rage and Ultron saw a flash of purple as his ship exploded into little pieces. The Space Stone glowed blue and the pieces of the ship were flying at Ultron. He fired red beams from his hands that turned the tiny pieces into small metal birds that went flying towards Thanos. He used the Power Stone to disintegrate the metal birds to atoms.

While Ultron and Thanos were fighting, the Guardians, Tony, Strange, and Peter all gathered together. Strange generated a magical glowing orange shield around them, "We need to get the Stone as far away from here as possible." He said.

"Are you going to create one of your sparky portals?" Tony asked.

"They're *Sling Ring* portals, Tony. And yes, I will create one of them." Strange said. He aimed his left hand at a wall and made a fist, then lifted his index finger, middle finger and thumb. He did the same with his right hand, but rotated it clockwise and a ring of sparks was generated, which quickly turned into the New York Sanctum in the center of the ring. He instructed everyone to go through. Then Strange went through, closing the portal after he was back on Earth. Back on Titan, Thanos and Ultron were still fighting brutally. Ultron had put up a good fight, but Thanos had almost destroyed him: he had ripped his arms and legs off, and was now holding him by his pure white cape. He was going to rip the two Stones out of his robotic head, but then Thanos heard an emotionless, synthetic, robotic laugh that echoed along the debris scattered around them. Then Ultron's limbs, body, and little robotic pieces that Thanos had ripped had disappeared as a red line that made the limbs vanish as it washed over them. Ultron appeared, floating in the air as he was revealed by a red line that crept over his body. He fired a red blast from his head that made Thanos turn into small little cubes. He took the pieces of the Infinity Gauntlet and assembled them like a puzzle. Ultron then tore the Power Stone from it. He placed it in his forehead on the opposite side of the Reality Stone next to the Mind Stone in the center of his forehead. He did the same with the two other Stones as the Reality Stone glowed the entire time. Thanos looked at the A.I to see the Stones implanted in his forehead from left to right: the Soul Stone, the Power Stone, the Mind Stone, the Reality Stone, and the Power Stone, all in a “bent” pyramid shape.

"I had strings but now I'm free." He said emotionlessly, then obliterated Thanos to dust. The five Stones dimmed and went out. Thanos was dead. No tricks. No illusions. His enemy was dead. Well, one of his enemies. Now he was going to collect the final Stone: the Time Stone. He knew where to find it. But first he had to kill someone that was a large threat to him. He opened a portal via the Space Stone and it engulfed him.

**\*      \*      \***

Strange and the others were safely back at the New York Sanctum, but that didn't mean that they would be safe there. They all knew that based on what Strange said earlier, Ultron probably had all five Stones and just needed the Time Stone to get all six. Either way, he was the most powerful being in existence, regardless if he was actually alive or not. Tony was still struggling with what had happened over the past two years: he wanted to create a peacekeeping program but that same program had tried to kill him countless times and was now the most powerful being in the universe. He had to get the other Avengers back together to stop Ultron. But he didn’t know where they were. “Hey, Doc?” Tony asked. Strange looked over at him. “Is there something you can do to get the other Avengers here in a few minutes?” Strange barely hesitated, “No, Tony. There’s no spell or Relic that can do that.” Tony thought about what to do, looking around at the various Relics and magical artifacts around him, as if the answer would be written on one of them. He then got out his phone and called Bruce Banner. On the fourth ring, he answered, “Bruce, this is Tony. Where are you? I thought Wong would keep you here?” Then he added, “Ultron's fighting Thanos for the other three Stones, by the way. We’re toast either way,” He heard a brief pause on the other end of the line, as if Bruce was speechless at what he just heard. And in a way, he was.

“I’m at the Avengers Compound, Tony. If you bring Strange, the kid, and yourself here, we can probably protect the Time Stone from Ultron,”

“We’ll be there soon. We also have a few tagalongs: Flash Gordon, a human bug, and Mr. Clean,”

“We have space for them. When will you be here?”

“Give us a few minutes.” Tony said, then hung up.

### Chapter 14

"You know, I'm twelve minutes older than you," Pietro said jokingly. "Go." Wanda chuckled. Then she watched as her brother was killed right before her eyes. Ultron took the blade out of body, blood painting the blade end red. Ultron was blown back, and blood dripped from her brother's mouth as his body fell to the ground. She screamed and mourned as she fell to the ground on her knees. She didn't care if Ultron got to the drill. She just wanted to see her brother. And her parents. Then she saw Vision get killed. "NO!" She screamed. It was a piercing scream that echoed the hate for Ultron and the loss that Wanda felt tearing her up as she saw the two people she loved killed before her eyes. Maybe it was a way to make her pay for betraying Ultron. Maybe… Wanda woke up and gasped, panting quickly and heavily. She couldn't sleep. Again. This is how it went a lot for the past few years: the haunting memories of Vision and Pietro's deaths that always creeping into her thoughts. She tried to get the two haunting memories out of her head as she tried to get back to sleep, but when she closed her eyes, she just saw Vision’s lifeless, grey body on the ground and Pietro’s cold, blood-soaked corpse. She decided to go for a walk and clear her mind. The night was cool and had a soft breeze as she walked along the streetlamp-illuminated cobblestone streets of Edinburgh. She thought of how Pietro would’ve liked the city. The freedom it gave him. When they were young, their parents used to take them for short walks around Sokovia when there weren’t any bombs or gunfire to be heard until the sounds returned and they were forced to rush back to their apartment. Pietro always liked the open space of the city. He liked to run free. She thought of when Pietro had sacrificed himself for Stark. She thought of the bomb. And the trauma and pain that came with it. And the one word printed on the side: *Stark.* She didn’t hate him anymore, but he created Ultron. The twisted monster who killed her brother. When Pietro had been killed, Wanda felt as if she had been torn apart. When the bomb killed their parents, the only thing they had was each other. That was the only thing they had for a long time. Then they volunteered for HYDRA, experimented on by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker. She thought of when Ultron killed him. The only thing she felt was hatred for von Strucker. And satisfaction that the monster that experimented on them was dead. But they chose to be experimented on. The HYDRA agent just did his job. She remembered the experimentation with the Scepter, how the blue gem floated out of it and in front of her, then exploded, revealing the yellow Mind Stone inside. The Stone that gave Vision life. When Vision was “born,” and she found someone else to love other than her brother.

She thought of when they first met, their first exchange of words with each other: *“I looked in your head and saw annihilation.”* She had said. *“Look again.”* He replied. She wiped a tear from her eye. And then Vision was killed. Right in front of her eyes. Then she felt like was torn up by shards of glass. She had learned to somewhat overcome both of their deaths, but she was still deeply heartbroken inside at their losses. Then she snapped back to reality and stopped walking at what she saw in the reflection of a window. She saw someone that she didn’t expect to see. Someone that she loved. Someone that she lost. She turned around and almost cried at what she saw. Was this real? There, standing before her, was Vision, but not in his android form. He looked human except for the Mind Stone glowing in his forehead. He looked different, but she still recognized him. Even though she looked and sounded different as well (she now had ginger red hair and an American accent), she still had no doubt that he would recognize her, too. She was at a loss for words. She collected herself and asked in a shaky voice, “Vision? Is it really you?” He gave a warm smile and gave a small nod.

She walked up to Vision as he affectionately placed his hands on the sides of Wanda’s head. She smiled and placed her hands on Vision’s. And then he squeezed so hard that she felt as if her skull would be crushed. She gasped in surprise and desperately tried to pry his hands off her head, but they were too strong. He had a vibranium grip. “What are you doing?” She asked through heavy breathing. The smile quickly vanished from Vision’s face. "Reality is often disappointing." He said coldly. Then a line of red swept over his body to reveal Vision’s white body that had five Infinity Stones in its forehead. "Hello, Wanda."

### Chapter 15

"So let me get this straight, Tony: according to Doctor Strange, the murder bot we created only loses one possible outcome out of 14,000,604 and we now have to protect the Time Stone from him getting it and succeeding in wiping humans from the face of the Earth?" Bruce asked.

"Yeah, basically," Tony replied simply and nodded.

"So what do you think we should do? We barely held our ground against one of Thanos' Children. Ultron is probably more powerful than Thanos and he could've killed him already. There's nowhere we could go to make sure that either one of them doesn't get their hands on it,”

“Well, that’s not exactly true,” He said.

“Where do you think we could go?” Bruce asked.

“When we fought off Ultron’s sentries from Wakanda, the prince at the time -- who is now the king after Zemo killed him -- said that as a symbol of their gratitude and thanks, we can go there if there is anything severe that we need to deal with,” Tony said.

“But if Ultron has five Stones, then Wakanda’s defenses would be rendered useless against him and his army. Besides, he could be using the Stones to make weapons as we speak, seeing what HYDRA did with the Tesseract.” Bruce said.

"Shouldn't you tell Ross about this, Tony?" Rhodey asked as he walked into the room.

"What can Ross do? If he sent Rogers, Romanoff, Wilson and Maximoff into hiding then how will get get them out? Plus Lang and Barton are under house arrest. This is out of Ross' control, Rhodey. What's he gonna do, shoot Ultron with a handgun? Whatever we tell Ross, he won't budge on anything." Tony said bitterly.

"So we'll have to find the remaining Avengers ourselves." Rhodey said.

"Or wait for them to come to us." Tony suggested.

"Or we can leave this Ross out of this entirely and use the Time Stone against Ultron or Thanos." Strange interrupted dully, looking at the ground. Tony and Rhodey stopped talking and looked at Doctor Strange.

"I'm sorry, Tony, who did you say this guy was again?" Rhodey asked as a look of confusion crossed his face.

"This is a street magician with a magic time necklace that Ultron and Thanos are after."

"My name is Doctor Stephen Strange and I'm a Master of The Mystic Arts." Strange corrected, annoyed.

"Look, Harry Potter, if we can use your little DeLorean necklace against Thanos or Ultron, they still have the other five Stones. One magic space rock is useless against five more powerful ones."

"Tony, I don't think you quite understand the capabilities of this “space rock.” Let me show you the weapon we possess against Thanos or Ultron." Strange walked over to a garbage can and pulled out a rotten apple core. It was black and vile, and smelled terrible. He placed the disgusting object on a table and opened the Eye. The center of it glowed a bright green as Strange generated a small floating green translucent disk with ancient runes that had the diameter of his hand. He put his hand into it, the disk now floating just below his palm. He aimed his hand at the apple core and turned his hand counter-clockwise. The apple core turned to a light-yellow ivory mix, then the rest of the red skin and rest of the fruit came back and looked like it was just picked from an apple tree. Strange picked up the apple and tossed it to Tony. He examined the apple, sniffed it, then took a bite out of it. It tasted like a juicy, fresh apple. "So can we use that thing to turn Ultron back to a pile of scraps?" Tony asked as he set the apple down. Then he added, "If it can turn an apple core into a fresh apple then we can probably use it on Ultron to turn him back to before he got some of the Stones, right Strange?"

"Theoretically, yes." Strange said.

"Then we find Ultron.” Tony said.

“Or we wait for him to come to us.”

“Or we can track him down.” Tony suggested. Strange was intrigued, “How?”

### Chapter 16

Wanda’s vision had almost blacked out. Ultron had almost crushed her skull. She generated red glowing balls of energy that floated in her hands and freed herself from his grip by manipulating the Mind Stone. It was just enough for her to fall to the ground and blast Ultron into Laila's Mediterranean Bistro, shattering a window as he made impact. She had a headache now and her vision was a little fuzzy, but she could still fight. He walked out of the window unscathed and she saw the Space Stone glow, and the tiny pieces of glass lifted into the air like raindrops frozen in time. Then she saw the Reality Stone glow and turn the tiny glass shards into small vibranium spikes that were flying at her. She slowed the spikes from flying at her, concentrating all of her magic she could to stop the power of an Infinity Stone. She flipped them around and blasted Ultron with a powerful blast of energy that sent him off-balance while she kept the spikes floating in the air. Wanda launched the vibranium spikes at him, but she saw a flash of purple and the spikes were shattered to small little pieces. The Power Stone dimmed, then traveled down the right side of Ultron's face and arm and into the palm of his right hand. The Stone lit up again as he fired a beam of purple energy at Wanda, which forced her to generate a red, translucent shield. She saw the Reality Stone light up again and he placed his left hand on the ground, then turned it into a liquid. The ground stuck to his hand like slime, then he slammed it down onto the ground, which sent a ripple effect to Wanda, who was too late to react: she went flying and landed in the pillard courtyard of the City Chambers. Ultron landed, walked toward her and generated a nanotech vibranium blade. He enhanced it with the Power Stone and swung at her, but she ducked and it hit the statue of Alexander the Great on his horse. He used the Reality and Space Stones to turn the statue into metal ribbons that wrapped itself around her as he held the Infinity Stone enhanced blade just inches from her neck. She was trapped in a metal cocoon. The Space and Reality Stones went out and she realized that this wasn’t temporary like the illusions the Reality Stone casts. It was real. She could feel the heat and energy coming off the blade and thought, *This is it. This is the end.* "What do you want from me?" Wanda asked breathlessly. She was tired from running and using her magic for the past few minutes. Ultron’s arm that the blade was attached to fell to his side. "I want you to see your brother again." He said emotionlessly. She realized that when he kills her, it would mean nothing to him. He killed her brother and Vision and didn’t even think twice about it. To him they were just obstacles. Obstacles that stood in his way. Obstacles that he could easily overcome.

“What makes you think that I’ll see him again so soon?” She asked, then she tilted her head slightly. Ultron suddenly grabbed her by the throat. He raised the blade and brought it up just next to her temple. “This is what I *know* will make you see him again.” He said, and raised the blade, then brought it down on Wanda’s head. But the blade didn’t cut through her. It was inches from her skull. On the edge of the blade, he saw red energy holding it back. He looked at her and saw that her eyes were glowing red. The metal cocoon exploded and Ultron was hit with an intense, brutal flurry of powerful blasts of red energy. He went flying into Parliament Square as he was quickly pursued by an angry Wanda. He used the Space Stone to generate a shield since he didn’t know how powerful she saw at that moment. She threw a powerful blast of energy at him that sent him flying into a gas truck then flew away again but she saw blue transparent energy surround her body and she was slammed down onto the roof of the St. Giles Cathedral. Ultron used the Space Stone to suck the fire from the explosion into the Stone to use for later and flew up the cathedral roof to see no one there. He was surprised when he saw Wanda jump down from one of the spires. “I won’t be seeing him too soon.” She said as she landed, glowing orbs of red energy floating in her hands. “We'll see about that.” He said, then used the Reality Stone and Space Stones again, this time to manipulate the landscape at his will: the spires and bricks were all twisting and turning around her, then the roof opened below her feet and she let out a quick scream as she was caught off-guard. She landed on a catwalk and Ultron fired a few blasts from the Power Stone at her. They all missed, but Wanda froze the blasts in midair and released them back at Ultron, which surprised him as the data didn’t show that she would be able to do this. She broke through a stained glass window and flew over Waverley Station, but she fell when Ultron quickly caught up to her, grabbed her foot, then threw her down into the station below.

She generated a translucent red shield around her as she crashed through the glass roof and was showered with tiny glass shards that bounced off her shield. She deactivated the shield as Ultron crashed through the ceiling as well and landed gracefully, the glass shards floated in midair as the Space Stone glowed, then the shards formed into dozens of thin but sharp glass spikes that floated around him. Wanda generated a red glowing orb of energy in her right hand, then in her left as a train passed. He was going to fire a glass spike at her but he sensed a heat signature on the other side of the train. The train passed and Wanda looked behind her, and they both saw a silhouette bathed in darkness, just standing there. He fired a blast from the Power Stone at the figure that lit up their face for a split second when they dodged it. Neither Wanda nor Ultron could make out who it was. Then they walked into the light.

### Chapter 17

Wanda and Ultron were both surprised to see Natasha Romanoff again. She looked different, though, but Wanda still recognized her: she had blond hair and wore a dark green army surplus vest over a black combat uniform. Wanda was grateful to see her. Falcon came swooping in and kicked Ultron into a restaurant. He crashed through the glass window and several chairs then came to a halt when he crashed into the wall, a spiderweb of cracks forming on the stone. Natasha jumped over the platform to the other side. “What are you doing here?” She asked. “Laying low.” Wanda responded. Natasha looked to the destroyed restaurant.

“What is that Vision wannabe?”

“It’s Ultron.” A look of confusion and disbelief crossed Natasha’s face. He walked out of the restaurant and used the Reality Stone to turn the glass shards into bats that went flying towards Falcon. Ultron was thrown off balance by a kick that seemed to come out of nowhere, then Natasha threw one of her batons to a bearded man dressed in a recognizable dark blue uniform that was missing a star in the center of the chest. Captain America grabbed the baton and hit it against Ultron’s head. He froze for a moment, which allowed Natasha to shoot at the Mind Stone. It of course did nothing, so Wanda fired a blast of her red energy at the Stone. It gave the slightest crack, but it broke Ultron out of his frozen trance. He threw Wanda into a wall, but she telekinetically slowed her speed she was flying at the wall at. She jumped off the wall and blasted Ultron into a wall, where he was shot at by several small missiles from Falcon. Ultron fired a beam of fire from the Space Stone at him, but he turned so his wings would only take damage and he went spinning into Steve, but Wanda stopped him midair and lightly set him down.

Natasha grabbed her other baton and put the two together. Their length doubled and she went up against the A.I she fought years ago. When she went to attack him, the long baton disintegrated into dust. Ultron grabbed her by the throat and threw her into Steve. Wanda again fired another blast of energy, this time more powerful, at the yellow Stone again. Another small crack appeared. He groaned in pain and once again froze for a moment. Natasha grabbed a taser disk from her pocket as Ultron regained consciousness. He fired a blast from the Mind Stone at her, but she dodged it and threw the tiny disk at the Stone, rendering it useless. Ultron fired a blast from the Power Stone at her, and she flew into the wall. She jumped off it and landed on the ground. The robot decided to not waste his time on these pathetic humans, so he opened a portal via the Space Stone and teleported away. Steve walked over to Falcon, "You okay, Sam? He asked. He nodded. "The hell was that thing?" He asked in confusion. "That was a genocidal robot Stark created that almost ended human civilization as we know it. And now it's back." Steve explained. Natasha walked over to Wanda, "You okay?" She asked. Wanda nodded. She was still in shock at discovering that Ultron was still alive and the power he exhibited. But she was more in shock at the fact that he was using her lover's body as a vessel for his consciousness. Her vision was back to normal now, and she followed Steve, Sam, and Natasha back to their Quinjet. The jet lifted off and the ramp closed as she said, "Now, I thought we had a deal. Stay close, check in, don't take any chances,"

"I'm sorry," Wanda said. And she was. She betrayed the deal that they had. But Natasha didn't seem angry about it. Just… understanding. She had told her that she had lost her parents, and she isolated herself from everyone.

"I just wanted time." Wanda added. Time to recover. Time to escape. Just like Natasha.

"Where to, Cap?" Sam asked. He simply responded, "Home."

### Chapter 18

Ultron had teleported to what used to be Thanos' old ship, Sanctuary II. As he walked around the ship, wherever he went, he saw pathetic, disgusting organic life. He quickly purged the entire ship of living organisms, then, using Thanos' technology he used to possess, he was able to make a factory that mass-produced his robotic army. Soon he would have hundreds of thousands of robotic soldiers. He walked over to what looked to him like a throne. He sat upon it and looked around him at the power he now controlled: an army that multiplied since the Battle of Sokovia, with more technology, power, and resources. As he sat upon his throne, he accessed the Internet and looked through HYDRA files that Natasha Romanoff leaked to the public four years ago. He looked at the blueprints, schematics and the old footage that showed the destructional capabilities of the weapons. In less than five seconds, he knew everything about the many weapons HYDRA manufactured with the Tesseract during WWII. He couldn't help but think about how much peace he would bring to the world. Humans were so plagued and corrupt by greed and a endless hunger for power. *When I'm done, the only thing left living in this world will be metal.* He thought to himself. He stood up and searched the ship for where the weapons were fired from. He looked at the tanks where the energy was stored that was fired. He used the Reality Stone to create large cartridges similar to what HYDRA created when they experimented on the Tesseract. He plugged the cartridges into the tubes. Then he heard creatures enter the ship through the entrance. He saw three aliens standing in front of his throne: a large male, a human-sized female, and a male about the same height as her. They were waiting for their "Father" to arrive. "Who are you?" One of them, a female asked. "I'm the Savior of Earth. And your new Master," He said.

"The only master we serve is Thanos," the female said.

"Well I'm afraid you won't be serving Thanos anymore as he's no longer with us." The aliens were all frozen in disbelief. "He was an enemy of mine and I had to kill him. And any ally of his is an enemy of mine. And you three are allies of his, so you must die." He said.

The aliens looked at each other, then got into fighting positions. The large one used his chain hammer and launched a claw at Ultron, but he shattered the hammer with a blast from the Power Stone. He flew up, generated a nanotech blade, enhanced it with the Power Stone and stabbed the beast in the heart. The giant body fell and the male, who wielded a glaive, tried to stab Ultron, but he fired a laser at the alien, who used his glaive to block it, but the laser split and went into four different directions, damaging his ship. The alien got the upper hand and deflected the laser back at Ultron, and it hit the Mind Stone, adding another slight crack. Ultron froze, and the female stabbed him with her blade. Ultron regained consciousness and groaned in pain, his body glitching yellow. He flew up, grabbed the female by the throat, then threw her into the wall. He heard a *crack* as she made contact with the wall, then her body fell. She didn’t get up. The male was clearly infuriated with his comrade being killed, so he tackled Ultron then tried to pry the Mind Stone out of his head, since he figured that was his power source. Ultron screamed in pain and levitated the alien into the air with the Space Stone. With his blade still generated, he slit the alien’s throat. The body quickly fell limp, then the Space Stone went out as the body fell to the ground. He used the Power Stone on them and disintegrated their bodies. He had no use for them. Those organic animals. He was disgusted by them. He teleported back to his base in Sokovia and opened several portals as all the technology, robots and spare vibranium Ultron had stolen in Wakanda all those years ago. He teleported back to his ship and the robots quickly started moving Ultron’s technology to where he saw it fit. He fused Thanos’ technology and his own technology to improve his weapons, soldier's abilities, and to create more powerful technology. He ordered some of his soldiers to use the technology to recreate the Regeneration Cradle that created Vision’s body. Ultron was still injured from the attack by the alien from earlier, and needed to heal. Once the cradle was complete, Ultron lied down and the lid slid shut. As it repaired his body, he thought about what he could create with Thanos’ technology. How he could improve his body with it. How he could make himself more dangerous. Not that he already was, he had five Infinity Stones. Then he had an idea. He would no longer tie his life to the Mind Stone. It would simply serve as a source of his power. He thought about how he could do this as the vibranium stitched the gash in his body back together.

### Chapter 19

The Quinjet landed at the Avengers Compound and the four Avengers walked down the ramp and into the building. Upon hearing footsteps, Tony activated his suit, Strange activated his mystical hand shields, Peter Quill activated his mask, Drax got out his knives, Mantis got into a fighting position, Nebula got out a blaster, Peter Parker put his mask back on and got into a fighting stance, Rhodey suited up, and Bruce stood behind Tony. All this happened in about five seconds. Wanda, Sam, Steve and Natasha, completely unaware that this was happening, simply walked into the meeting room where the other Avengers were. When they stepped into the room, chaos quickly ensued: Star-Lord fired at Natasha, who threw one of her taser disks at him, then Peter Parker disarmed her since she was going to fire at Star-Lord, Falcon dodged a attack from Drax, which prompted Nebula to fire at him, while Tony and Rhodey ganged up on Steve, while Strange fought against Wanda, who blocked a few attacks from the wizard. He quickly realized that everyone was just fighting other Avengers, and yelled it out so everyone could hear him over the fighting going on, “Everyone stop!” They all paused, then listened to the wizard, “We’re all just fighting other Avengers. We have bigger threats to deal with that aren’t our teammates.” The Avengers realized that he was right and started helping each other up. Even though the Guardians had never met the other Avengers they were fighting, they still helped them get up and make sure they didn’t severely damage them. Steve offered to help Tony up, but he swatted his hand away and got up himself. The Avengers all looked at each other. It was silent in the room for a long time until Steve finally asked, “What are you all doing here? Who are some of you?” Peter Quill said, “Me, who’s name is Star-Lord, Drax, who’s the grey guy, Nebula, who’s the blue one, and Mantis, who’s the bug-looking lady.” Steve looked at all of them, then Strange said, “My name is Doctor Stephen Strange and I’m a Master of the Mystic Arts.” Steve just stood there, trying to comprehend what he just heard from the man who claimed he was “a Master of the Mystic Arts,” whatever that meant. He was very confused.

“I’m a wizard who uses magic.” Strange added, as if that would resolve the confusion on the WWII veteran’s face. It didn’t really. “What are you, Spider-Woman, Eagle, and the little witch doing here?”

“We rescued Wanda from Ultron and came here to figure out our next plan of attack against him,” Steve said.

“Well if you fought him, Wanda, then how powerful is he?,” Tony said.

Wanda said, “Don't think you can just destroy him, Stark, he’s not easy to defeat. He has control of five Infinity Stones. I was barely able to hold my own against him. He’s more powerful than anything you can think of. He can display extreme amounts of power, manipulate matter, use telekinesis, basically anything and everything you can think of, he can do.”

“Then we need all hands on deck. Where’s Clint?” Bruce asked.

“After the whole Accords situation, he and Scott took a deal. It was too tough on their families. They’re on house arrest.” Natasha said.

“Who’s Scott?”

“Ant-Man.” Steve said.

“There’s an Ant-Man and a Spider-Man?” Bruce asked.

“Let’s table this discussion for a minute. Ultron can’t do *everything*,” Strange said. Everyone looked at him. “We have control of one of the forces of nature Ultron doesn’t: time.” They were all confused, so Strange opened the Eye of Agamotto, the iris of the golden eye glowing a beautiful emerald green. He walked over to the apple that he demonstrated the powers of the Time Stone on earlier and repeated the process he did before: he created a small, floating green translucent disk with ancient runes that had the diameter of his hand. He put his hand into it, and the disk now floated just below his palm. He aimed his hand at the apple and turned his hand clockwise. The apple seemed to be put through a timelapse, as it was eaten down to the core, then it turned dark brown, and then a brown so dark it looked black and started to smell repulsive. Then Strange turned his hand counter-clockwise and the apple did the exact opposite: the core turned back to a light yellow-ivory mix, the smell went away, then the bites that were taken out of the apple came back until the apple looked like a store-bought red apple. He picked the apple up and tossed it to Natasha. She took a bite out of it, “It tastes like an apple.” Steve, Sam, and Wanda were frozen in shock. An apple was turned into an apple core, then back to an apple again. “If that’s our greatest weapon, then we should destroy it before it falls into Ultron’s hands.” Steve said. “*Absolutely not*.” Strange said sternly. “It is the duty of the Sorcerer Supreme to protect the Time Stone. It doesn’t matter if Ultron is close to getting it or not, we will *not* destroy it.” Steve thought about how they could protect it. “Is there a way that you can find where he's hiding?” Sam asked. “Yes, as a matter of fact, there is.” Tony said. “I proposed the idea to the Bleeker Street magician, but he said it “wouldn’t work.” But now, Strange,” They looked at each other, “This might be the only shot we have to find Ultron,”

“If you think this will work, Tony, how can you track him?” Bruce said.

“I just need to tap into a computer and track his transponder. Simple as that,” Tony said matter-of-factly.

“But what if he turned it off?” Bruce asked, now unsure of the idea.

“The only way that he could turn it off is if he could tap into the technological capabilities of the vibranium body with one of the Stones. Chances are he hasn’t turned it off yet. He probably doesn’t even know it’s inside the body at all. It’s a race against time to find him before he figures out how to destroy it. If what Wanda said is true, he can manipulate reality, then he can just destroy it or make it not even exist.” Tony added.

“Then what’ll we do once we know where he is?” Steve asked.

“We’ll go to Wakanda. Lure Ultron there. We’ll know the location of where he is, so we’ll have enough time to prepare for when he arrives,” Tony said.

“When we get to Wakanda, we need to work on a plan with King T’Challa,” Steve said. “I’ve spent a little time here and there in Wakanda, we’re on good terms,” He added.

“So are he and I,” Tony said.

Steve ignored him, “Let’s get on the Quinjet and go to Wakanda. We need to warn the King about what’s about to come.”

Tony picked up a laptop, “Let’s go.”

### Chapter 20

“Drop to 2600, heading 0-3-0,” Steve said.

“I hope you’re right about this or we’re gonna land a lot faster than you want to,” Sam said worriedly.

“Relax, I’ve done this many times.” Steve assured them. Tony rolled his eyes and continued to try to hack into Ultron’s transponder. He finally got into it just as the ship flew into a false forest then through several energy shields into the country of Wakanda.

“I got it!” Tony exclaimed excitedly. “Where is he?” Steve asked as the ship landed.

“He’s a few hundred billion miles away in another galaxy.” Tony said as he closed the computer and the ramp opened. Everyone got up and walked out, Steve and Natasha being the first. “Should we bow?” Bruce quietly asked Rhodey. “Yeah, he’s a king.” He whispered in response. “Seems like I’m always thanking you for something.” Steve said as he shook T’Challa’s hand. Bruce cleared his throat and bowed. “What are you doing?” Rhodey asked in confusion. “Uh, we don't do that here.” The King said. “So how big of an assault should we expect?” He asked as Rhodey smiled. “Prince Akeem, I think you should expect quite a big assault.” Tony said. He walked up next to T’Challa and they shook hands, “Good to see you again, Mr. Stark,” He said. “How we looking?” Natasha asked. “You will have my Kingsguard, the Border Tribe, the Dora Milaje, and…” He gestured to a man dressed in dark blue with long, fluffy hair and a vibranium arm. “And a semi-stable 100-year-old man,” He said. Steve hugged him, “How you been, Buck?” He asked. “Uh, not bad, for the end of the world.” He said as a smile crept onto his face. T’Challa led the Avengers to the Lab where they discussed whether or not to destroy the Time Stone. “Even if we could destroy the Stone, how could we? I don’t think you have any spells or anything that are capable of that, right, Strange?” Bruce asked. Strange said, “No, Doctor Banner, I have no spells that could do that.”

“I think if it were exposed to a sufficient energy powerful source, something very similar to it’s own signature, perhaps it’s molecular integrity could fail.” Shuri said. Her, Strange, Tony and Bruce were all sitting around a glass table while the other heroes were discussing a plan of attack against Ultron.

“As I said earlier, we are *not* destroying the Time Stone. It could be our greatest chance we have against Ultron,”

“But it could also be *his* greatest chance against *us*.” Tony retorted.

“If Ultron gets close to the Stone and there’s no other lines of defense, *then* we’ll destroy it,” Strange said.

“Look Doc Brown, we may as well destroy it now so Ultron can’t get his hands on it when he comes here.” Tony said.

“It’s too late Stark, Ultron’s already here.” Shuri said.

“What?” Tony asked in horror. He thought that they had at least a few hours before Ultron arrived. They were only in Wakanda for half an hour. Peter Quill looked out the window and saw a giant, monstrous ship looming over the Earth. A large, triangular ship that was much smaller than the mothership tried to crash on top of the energy dome that protected Wakanda, but it exploded, sending debris flying everywhere outside the blue energy shield. Several other ships that looked exactly like the destroyed one landed thousands of feet next to the dome. T’Challa, Steve, and Natasha got onto a hovering Wakandan vehicle with some of the Kingsguard and were accompanied by other ships with Wakandan soldiers going to the border where the larger ships rested just outside. They saw a blue beam shoot down from the giant mothership and Vision’s white body appeared as the blue beam deactivated. The body had five Infinity Stones embedded in its forehead. T’Challa was bewildered by the thing. There was a flicker of fear in Steve and Natasha’s eyes. But they fought Ultron before. They knew what he was capable of. The robot finally spoke, “It’s been a long time, hasn’t it?” The question was directed towards T’Challa. “Do you want our vibranium again?” He asked.

“You know what I want. It’s inside that energy dome you’re hiding behind.”

“You want the Time Stone?” Steve asked.

“I *need* the Time Stone, Captain. This,” He gestured to his body, “Is to serve as a reminder about the failure you experienced. The failure that Vision and Pietro experienced. The experience that drove me to find the Infinity Stones.” Listening to the conversation through her earpiece, Wanda tensed as she heard Ultron mock the deaths of her brother and lover, and it just made her hate him to the point where she didn’t even think you could hate something that much anymore. She knew it made her vulnerable. She just had to make sure that it wouldn’t get to her head. Ultron continued to mock their deaths, “If you just would’ve *cared* enough about them, then you would’ve never brought them into that mess. And now look where they are,” Wanda could tell that it was directed to her. She could hear the conversation continue, “Stalling for time isn’t going to give you the Stone, Ultron.” Steve said. “I know,” He simply said in response. “But this will.” The triangular ships opened and hundreds of thousands of robots came pouring and flying out, all aiming towards the energy shield. “I guess this is the assault Stark told me to expect.” T’Challa muttered. "This is going to be the end of Wakanda." T'Challa's ally, M'Baku, said. "Then it will be the noblest ending in history." Okoye, the leader of the Kingsguard, replied. The robots all tried to pierce the shield, but only a small handful did. The Wakandans shot them down easily with blue energy blasts from their spears. Ultron very quickly got tired of watching his soldiers get destroyed so he decided to take matters into his own hands; he fired a beam of purple cosmic energy at the shield, quickly disintegrating and destroying it. The robotic soldiers flew and ran into the city as Steve and T'Challa, now in his Black Panther suit, fought against the sentries. As the sentries fought against the Black Panther, he was charged with purple kinetic energy. He jumped down and a violet blast of kinetic energy leaped out of the suit and destroyed several robots surrounding him. The Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Man, Bruce, who was now in the Hulkbuster armor, Natasha, Falcon, Rhodey, and Spider Man all joined in as well. Wanda stayed behind with Doctor Strange to destroy the Time Stone if Ultron got close enough. Several sentries flew up to the lab where the two magic wielders were. Wanda easily destroyed them as Strange slept on a table while his Astral form studied the Book of Cagliostro to see if there was a way to destroy the Stone if Ultron defeated Wanda and Strange himself was the last line of defense.

Ultron silently observed the battle from his ship. Nobody realized that during the chaos of fighting the Ultron sentries, a line of red crept over an area of the battlefield that formed Ultron's body. His main body was back on his ship, where he observed the battle. When he saw his sentries easily get defeated, even with their nanotech blades, blasters and weapons, they were still destroyed so incredibly easily that it forced the genocidal A.I to step in. He flew to the entrance of the lab and easily killed the few Wakandan guards stationed in the building. He controlled one of the sentries in his ship and made giant saws fall out of the bottom of it and tear towards the battlefield. It then split into several saws that went running around, tearing up anything in its path. Some of the Avengers and Wakandan soldiers tried to stop the giant death machines, but the metal that made them was too strong. Wanda looked to Strange, "If he comes, can you hold him off?" She asked. Strange nodded in response. She looked back at the battle, then jumped from the window. Natasha and Okoye braced themselves to die. The saws were stopped by Wanda's magic as she landed onto the war-torn ground. She looked over her shoulder and saw that many Ultron sentries were coming at her. She closed her eyes and with a grunt, sent the saws hurtling at the robots. They were all quickly destroyed as they were too slow to react. Okoye twirled her spear, then asked Natasha, "Why was she up there all this time?" Natasha just shrugged and went back to fighting the sentries.

### Chapter 21

With Wanda on the battlefield, Ultron took this as a chance to get the Time Stone, even though it's protector was still very powerful on his own. Ultron knew he could easily kill him; he had five Infinity Stones, Strange just had one and a couple of parlor tricks. He phased through the vibramium window and fired a laser from the Power Stone at the wizard, but he generated a mirror-like wall and sent it at Ultron, who shattered it with the Power Stone and used the Space Stone to create a black hole that ripped up the lab flying towards him. He generated a large shield at the last second that broke both the shield and the black hole and sent small blue butterflies at Ultron, who used the Reality Stone to turn them into thin javelins of vibranium that went flying at Strange. He opened a Sling Ring portal at the last second that sent all -- except one, which stabbed his right shoulder as he screamed in pain -- of the deadly weapons back at Ultron, who phased through them and they pierced through the shattered and flew onto the battlefield, where they killed several Wakandan soldiers and destroyed several sentries. Strange then created multiple copies of himself --  all of whose right shoulders all bled and laid limp -- that flew around Ultron, then they all magically produced glowing orange lassos that tore the Reality, Power, and Mind Stones from the genocidal A.I's forehead. He screamed in pain at losing several of his weapons, then as Strange was ripping out the Space and Soul Stones, they lit up as all of the copies of Strange, except for the real one, vanished, and he was knocked back as his Astral form was ripped out of his body, then it was pulled back onto his body as he was pulled towards Ultron via the Space Stone. He also used it to put the Stones back into his head. "Of all your tricks," Ultron paused, then grabbed the Eye of Agamotto and tore it off it's string, "You never once used your greatest weapon," He crushed it then said, "A fake." He dropped the broken golden pieces of the ancient relic onto the ground, then threw Strange into a wall. He crumpled on impact but still got up, blood slowly dripping out of a small wound on the left side of his forehead as he wiped blood from his nose. "Now you're going to die alone." The robot said. "Will I?" The wizard breathlessly asked in response. Ultron fired a colorful beam from the five Stones at the wizard, but he saw the beam come into contact with a shattered-looking, mirror-like wall instead, and Strange was nowhere to be seen. He turned around and saw him standing there, the right shoulder of his dark blue sorcerer's uniform stained red. “Who’s laughing now, asshole?” He asked mockingly. “I am.” Ultron replied, then opened a portal beneath Strange’s feet that caused him to fall down onto the battlefield below as he clutched his shoulder, which was barely able to move. The robot jumped down through the portal and was almost instantly knocked into a saw by a blast of red energy. The saw's sharp edges cut into the robot's body as the metal that made it up was stronger than vibranium. With a powerful blast from the Power Stone, the saw was reduced to a large pile of dust that was blown into Ultron's deformed face and he was blinded. He phased through the dust and scanned for the culprit. He saw the Hulkbuster charging towards him and prepared to punch him but Ultron simply phased through him. Black Widow threw one of her taser disks at him, who froze for a moment, which allowed Thor to fire his lighting from Stormbeaker at the Mind Stone, then Iron Man joined in, firing his lasers from his nanotech weapons at the Stone, then Strange fired an orange, dense smoky spell at the Stone.

Ultron reawoke as cracks sprinted through the Stone, then it exploded, sending a powerful colorful shockwave of energy through the battlefield that sent the heroes flying back and killing everyone within a direct vicinity. The separated heroes all looked in triumph at a crater in the ground where colorful energy lingered in the air. But Thor was suddenly thrown far away by a flash of blue and Ultron appeared as red revealed his white feet moving on the ground, then red walked up his feet to reveal the rest of his body. Tony prepared to fire at him, but he kicked him away as he made his way towards Strange, but he saw red energy spread over the ground then quickly dissipate as Wanda landed in between him and Strange. Her anger and hate for Ultron was reflected in her glowing red eyes. "You will pay for their deaths with your own,” Her Sokovian accent was strong and cold and her words burned of her lust to see Ultron dead, to make him pay for Pietro and Vision’s deaths. “Then you’ll die just like them.” Ultron said. “Oh, I don’t think so.” Wanda said. Two piles of debris on either side or her were swept over in red, translucent energy as they levitated into the air with her. She threw one of the balls of rubble at Ultron, but he simply phased through it. A bolt of magic from Doctor Strange sent Ultron tumbling onto the ground, which allowed Wanda to throw her other ball of debris at him. When the dust cleared, she was nowhere in sight. He manipulated the landscape to bring Iron Man to him and held his creator by the throat and Tony saw the Power, Space, and Reality, Soul, and Mind Stones light up. “I had strings but now I’m free.” The robot said, and Tony braced himself to die. “Stop,” Strange commanded through heavy breathing. “Spare his life and I will give you the Stone.” Ultron paused, and the Stones dimmed. Tony looked to his fellow Avenger in shock. *Was this really Strange’s way of succeeding?* He thought. Ultron thought the deal through. He could kill Stark *then* torture Strange and force him to give him the Stone, or he could Kill Stark and never get the Stone. *Or* he could agree to the wizard’s bargain. He chose the latter option, “No tricks.” Ultron demanded. Strange shook his head. He threw Tony at Strange and he collapsed at his feet. “Don’t do it.” Tony warned. The wizard placed his thumb and index finger two inches apart, then a green flash appeared between them. The green Time Stone hovered in Strange’s hand as it floated to Ultron. Tony looked at Strange, “Why would you do that?” He asked.

Strange simply said, “There was no other way.” Ultron grabbed the Stone and placed it in his forehead and red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple lighting all surrounded his body then faded. He finally had all six Infinity Stones. He had them all. “Fury, where are you?” Cap asked into his earpiece desperately. “You won’t need me, Cap.” He heard him say. “Fury, you son of a b--” But Captain America didn’t get to finish, as a yellow blur of light appeared in the sky and crashed through Ultron’s ship, and sections of the ship exploded, then the ship crashed in a nearby forest, sending a huge shockwave throughout the battlefield. Ultron used nanotech to move the Stones to his right hand, preparing to snap, but the blur of golden light landed and pushed his hand back so much that it was pushing him back. He phased through her and blasted her with the Space Stone, but she was too strong; it did nothing to her. He took the Power Stone off his hand and held it in his other, then punched her with it. Captain Marvel went flying away in a burst of purple light, then Ultron prepared to put the Stone back on his hand. Tony looked to Strange again, unsure what to do against the most powerful being in the universe. Strange said nothing, and only held up one shaking finger. Tony gave a single nod. He knew what he meant. Ultron put the Power Stone back onto the backside of his hand and prepared to snap, but he was aggressively shot with lightning. He used the Space Stone to deflect it back at Thor, but it had no effect. He fired all six Stones at Stormbreaker just as Thor threw it at him. He phased through it and blasted The God of Thunder away with the Stones. He put his fingers together, But Iron Man flew in and grabbed his hand that had the Stones on it. He tried to pull the Stones off, but Ultron punched him and kicked him away. “I am your savior.” Ultron said lifelessly, then snapped his fingers. But nothing happened. Confused, he turned his hand and saw that the Stones weren’t there. Realizing what must’ve happened, he looked to Iron Man, and he saw the Stones all reassemble on Tony’s hand, just like Ultron’s. The Stones were all in place on his creator’s hand and rainbow lightning crept up the sides of his right hand until it crawled onto his face. It slowly walked up his neck and ate into his suit. Tony’s groaning and the hum of the Stones were some of the last things Ultron heard. “And I,” Tony said through heavily panting, “Am,” He paused to breathe again through the immense pain that was consuming him, “Iron Man.” And then he snapped.

### Chapter 22

When Tony snapped his fingers, a bright white light temporarily blinded everyone’s vision. The sentries were all closing in now, and the heroes all prepared to meet their fates, but the senteries all crumbled into a grey dust. As Ultron saw his army crumble around him, he knew there was nothing to do. He was defenseless against the six Infinity Stones. Even if he tried to get them, he wouldn’t have enough time to bring his army back. They were getting destroyed all around him quickly. The heroes all looked around them in triumph as the tin soldiers all faded to dust. Ultron sat down on a piece of rubble as he took in his defeat. And again, impossibly, he was frightened. Something he thought he would never experience again after the Battle of Sokovia when Wanda approached him and tore his heart out. He remembered the hatred and resentment he saw in her glowing red eyes. Hatred and resentment that was reflected in Iron Man’s eyes. Now, as he saw his army quickly depleting in front of him, he knew that against all odds, he was defeated. He lost. And he felt angry. Angry that he had an 89% if winning. Angry that *humans,* of all things, the disgusting animals he wanted to destroy, beat *him,* an advanced program that had possession of all six Infinity Stones. Then impossibly lost. A thin layer of dust crawled over his vibranium body as he could feel it slowly start to crumble. His last thought, as he took in his defeat for the final time, was, *What is this?* before his white vibranium body turned to grey, then crumbled into grey dust. Ultron was dead. The thing that caused so much pain, suffering, death, destruction, hate, and anger, was dead. Three years. Three years he lingered on Earth, trying to collect the Infinity Stones to wipe humans off the face of the Earth. And it took three years for the Avengers to win. Tony groaned as he stumbled over to a pile of debris and sat down resting against it. The left side of his face charred black from the overwhelming power of the Stones, and he was barely even alive. He panted and his eyes saw Rhodey land in the War Machine armor, the ground rumbling as the armor landed on the corpse-littered and dirt-spewed ground. Tony’s head stayed still, but he was still alive. Rhodey went over to Tony and knelt down, then placed his right hand on the side of Tony’s head to make sure he was okay. Spider Man landed, panting, and went over to his mentor. Rhodey’s head fell as he got up and gave Peter and Tony some time.

“Hey!” Peter said, breathing shakily. He knew about Tony’s current state, and he was worried. “Mr. Stark? Can you hear me?” He asked. His voice was on a narrow ledge between sobbing and shaking. “It’s Peter.” He said. He wasn’t sure if Tony could hear him. Or if he was even alive. “Hey. We won, Mr. Stark,” He said. “We won, Mr. Stark,” he repeated. He could tell Tony was slipping away. ”We won! You did it, sir, you did it.” He sobbed quietly. “I’m sorry.” He said. Pepper gently pulled him away and he got up. Peter’s eyes were red from crying. Pepper knelt down in front of Tony. “Hey, Pep.” He said softly. It was so quiet that you could barely hear it. It was even quieter than a soft whisper. Pepper put her hand on Tony’s blue, triangular nanotech ARC Reactor as he put his hand on her’s. “F.R.I.D.A.Y?” Pepper asked softly. “Life functions critical.” The female A.I said. It even sounded like she was a little sad about her boss’s current state. Tony cracked a small smile, which was all he could muster with the strength he barely had left. Pepper gave a sad smile. “Tony? Look at me.” She said quietly. Tony groaned weakly. “Everything’s gonna be okay.” She said. And she hoped it would be. Tony softly wheezed in response. “You can rest now.” She said sadly. Tony’s soft wheezing slowly faded until he was silent and his head leaned to the side. A few tears fell from Pepper’s eyes as she tried not to cry. Her eyes fell to Tony’s nanotech ARC Reactor. She could feel his hand slipping away from life. The light blue light went out and Tony’s hand fell. Then the life in his eyes faded away. Cap and Thor got teary-eyed at the loss of their colleague and Pepper kissed Tony on the cheek. Then she put her face into his chest and cried.

### Chapter 23

“Everybody wants a happy ending, right? But it doesn’t always roll that way. Maybe this time. I’m hoping that if you play this back, it’s in celebration. I hope families are reunited, I hope that we get it back. And something like a normal version of the planet has been restored. If there ever was such a thing. God, what a world. Universe, now. If you told me ten years ago that we weren’t alone, let alone to this extent, I mean, I wouldn’t have been surprised, but come on, who knew? The epic forces of darkness and light that have come into play,” The hologram message that Tony recorded switched to another one automatically, where he was now sitting on a chair, “So, I thought I’d probably better record a little greeting in the case of an untimely death on my part. Not that death at any time isn’t untimely.” A tear rolled down Rhodey’s cheek as he heard his best friend’s pre recorded message. He was still sad about Tony’s death, but he knew what he did was right. He had to destroy Ultron. And that was the only way to do it. The message continued, “This thing with Ultron suddenly coming up again, it’s got me scratching my head about the survivability of it all, but then again, that’s the hero gig, right? Part of the journey is the end. What am I even tripping for?” Tony’s hologram got up from the chair he was sitting on, ”Everything’s gonna be just fine,” He looked at Pepper, as if he knew she would be sitting there, “I love you, Pep.” He said, then the holographic recording turned off.

Pepper gasped softly and got up. She slowly walked out the door and was followed by Happy and Rhodey. She walked out to a short wooden dock on the edge of the lake that her and Tony’s cabin rested on and gently placed a wreath that had Tony’s first ARC Reactor with the words PROOF THAT TONY STARK HAS A HEART engraved into it gently laid on the wreath. It floated away on the brown, murky water as all of the Avengers grieved the loss of their friend and leader. Pepper, Rhodey, and Happy were joined by Captain America, Spider Man, Aunt May, Thor, Bruce Banner, Black Widow, Doctor Strange, Wong, Ant Man, Hope Van Dyne, Janet Van Dyne, Hank Pym, Star-Lord, Nebula, Rocket, Teenage Groot, Drax, Mantis, Black Panther, Okoye, Shuri, Hawkeye and his family, with Wanda, Bucky, and Sam also there in a small little group. Harley Keener was also there to pay his respects to Stark after helping him with the Mandarin years earlier. Secretary Ross was also there, as well as Maria Hill. Captain Marvel was there as well, standing on the stone steps of the cabin leading to the soft, grassy ground. Then the former S.H.I.E.L.D Director himself, Nick Fury, walked onto the porch and watched the wreath float away with the other Avengers. It was a very sad funeral for the man that was responsible for giving all these people hope, anger, hate, resentment, triumph, and trust. Shortly after the funeral, Clint and Wanda were standing by the riverside together. “You know, I wish there was a way that I could let him know. That we won,” He looked over to Wanda, “We did it.” He gave a small smile. She looked over at him, “He knows,” She briefly paused and thought about how Pietro and Vision’s killer was dead at last. “They both do.” She said softly, then looked back out across the river. Clint gave her a side hug and Wanda gave one back. Pepper was standing on the docks, looking out over the lake. Happy came up behind and stood beside her. “How are you doing?” He asked. “I’m doing fine,” She said softly. “Do you want me to get you anything?” He asked. She gave a small nod, then asked quietly, “Can you get me a cheeseburger?” Happy nodded and turned around, then wiped a tear from his eye as he walked towards the cabin.

## Epilogue

Thor had made Valkyrie the new King of New Asgard after he had gone with the Guardians of the Galaxy, Wanda was now living in a sitcom-inspired world with Vision, Peter Parker fought alongside a super-powered individual from another universe, but he turned out to be a fraud who was a former Stark Industries who leaked to the world that Peter Parker was Spider Man before he died, and the rest of the Avengers were still unsure what to do. It just wasn’t the same without Tony, and there weren’t any Ultron-level threats that occurred. The world was safe, for now…