We all immediately dispersed. Those of us who were going anywhere near Ultron were to go suit up. I look at Tony desperately.
"I'm sorry Tony but I have-" I start, feeling a desperate need to stop Ultron and to get Pietro and his sister from out of his control.
"I understand. Go with Steve. You'll be more help there anyway." He nods before rushing off to get ready to leave. I don't dwell on anything but move quickly, putting on my suit.
Tony and Steve are talking as I make my way down the stairs, suit on, weapons secured, and all ready to go.
"I'll take Casey, Natasha, and Clint." Steve says.
"All right. Strictly recon. I'll hit the nexus." Tony orders. "I'll join you as soon as I can." Tony says as I stand in front of them, moving to walk along with them.
"If Ultrons Really building a body..." Steve trails off.
"He'll be more powerful than any of us." Tony says. The thought alone is enough to make me shudder. "Maybe all of us." He adds.
"An android designed by a robot." I say in slight amusement.
"You know, I really miss the days when the weirdest thing science ever created was me." Steve admits. Nick passes me and says to all of us,
"I'll drop banner off at the tower. You mind if I borrow Miss. Hill?" Nick asks.
"She's all yours... Apparently. What are you gonna do?" Tony asks.
"I don't know. Something dramatic, I hope." He says.
"Ah, So your usual." I smirk as he walks away from us.
We all board the jet and spend the ride discussing strategy and plans of action. I don't dare go to sleep, terrified that if I do, I'll get nightmares again. I don't want anyone on the team to know of the dreams that have clouded my mind and haunted my nights. We get to the nexus and drop Tony off before we head to the city where Dr. Cho's lab lays.
The morning light rises before we even get close to the destination of Dr. Cho's lab. I think about how Clint's been flying all night. I saunter up to his pilot chair.
"Can I Please drive the jet." I ask Clint as he's flying again.
"No." He says, his voice clipped.
"Please. Come on, I would've done awesome last time." I argue.
"Yes, and the red flashing lights that covered the jet agreed with you."
"That was only because I didn't give Jarvis the right kind of identification. That had nothing to do with my jet driving skills."
"Flying." Clint corrects.
"What?" I ask, looking down at him with an annoyed expression.
"It would be, "with my jet flying skills." Which obviously you don't have if you can't tell the difference between flying and driving." Clint remarks, amusement filling his voice. Should I stop feeding into it? Yes. Will I? Hell no!
"I do so know the difference." I argue.
"Oh yeah?" He asks.
"Yeah! One of them is in the air." I say smugly. Clint bursts out laughing at my childish behavior. I soon follow. When the laughter eventually dies down, I sigh, leaning against his seat.
"Can I Please-"
"No." Clint says sternly. I huff, turning around and sitting in one of the seats.
After a little while we all hear Clint yell out through the jet,
"We're here!"
Steve immediately stands up and gives direction. Telling me, I'll be going with him while Natasha and Clint head to stay in the jet and give a different access point since we aren't sure where Ultron is going to be and what direction he might go if we don't immediately capture him. Which we probably won't. But I have hope.
Clint drops us off and we both climb on top of a building, walking to the edge, getting as close to her lab as possible. I watch the jet fly away.
"Two minutes. Stay close," Steve orders through the coms. He looks at the buildings around us. "Ever building jump?" He asks.
"You mean parkour?" I ask in return, wanting to know if he knows what that is.
"What's par-core?" He asks, genuinely confused. I giggle in amusement.
"Yeah, I've building jumped." I say, bounding off the building and landing onto the next one in a crouched position. I look back to see Steve still standing on the edge.
"What are you waiting for old man?" I ask with a smirk. I watch Steve effortlessly jump off the building and onto the next one, without needing to bend his legs.
"I thought I heard someone say something about old man?" Steve asks, an unusual smug look on his face. I smirk.
"If you didn't hear me then I stick by my statement and I might even think it's time for a hearing-aid." I say. Steve chuckles.
"Let's go." He orders, growing more serious.
We jump and hop building to building until we reach Dr. Cho's lab. We walk in and immediately see how trashed it is.
"Dr. Cho." I say, worried about the scientist who had no powers or weapons of any kind. Besides her brain, she was defenseless.
Steve and I instantly start running through the building, looking around for her or any survivors around the building. The more dead bodies I saw the more I grew worried if she was alright or not. We finally got to one of the last floors and my hope that she wasn't even in the building were growing.
I see a broken wall, one that looked like something crashed into it. Steve and I start heading towards it. I come to a halt and my face pales of all color as I see Dr. Cho laying on the ground at an awkward angle, unmoving.
"Dr. Cho!" Steve yells in alarm. Steve rushes over to her as I follow hesitantly. She notices us and starts breathing erratically. I rush over to them. Steve tries bandaging up her wound as I kickstart her rapid healing. Dr. Cho grabs Steve's hand.
"He's uploading himself into the body." She explains.
"Where?" I ask. She doesn't answer, meaning she doesn't know anything... Steve and I go to leave when she grabs his arm again.
"The real power is inside the cradle. The gem, it's power is uncontainable. You can't just blow it up. You hav to get the cradle to stark." Cho explains to him.
"First, I have to find it." Steve says.
"Go." She says breathlessly. Steve starts running to the closest exit. I bend and smile reassuringly.
"Casey!" He shouts.
"You're gonna be fine." I tell her, my ripples of blue energy, slowly covering her body. She nods and I run, following Steve.
"Did you guys copy that?" Steve asks.
"We did." Clint says.
"I got a private jet taking off across town. No manifest. That could be him." Natasha reports as Steve and I run.
"There. It's a truck from the lab. Right above you Cap, Case. On the loop by the bridge. It's them. You got four with the cradle and one in the cab. I could take out the driver." Clint reports.
"Negative. That truck crashes, the gem could level the city," Steve reports as we climb a latter to get on a building. "We need to draw out Ultron." Steve says as we get on top of a loop above the truck. Steve and I follow it, jumping off the side of the bridge and crashing against the metal of the truck. I slide down but Steve quickly catches me.
"Thank for the save!" I yell over the wind.
I stay on stop of the truck as Steve grasps on one of the doors.
"Leave me alone!" Ultron yells as he blasts the door open, making it swing through the next line of traffic.
Steve tries to get to the next door but Ultron blasts that off as well. I watch with wide-eyes as Steve's in the air before crashing onto the crumpled door that's dragging itself, hanging onto the truck by a hair.
"Well, he's definitely unhappy," I hear through my coms. "I'm gonna try and keep him that way." Steve informs us.
"I'll help." I say.
"You're not a match for him guys." Clint says blandly. I gasp.
"I take much offense to that!" I scold. Steve pauses, focusing on breathing for a moment before saying,
"Thanks for that, Barton."
Steve slowly climbs up the broken door before Ultron blasts him back onto a random persons car.
"... Steve. You alright?" I ask. He doesn't answer but I can hear his heavy breaths in my ear.
Steve jumps from the car onto a garbage truck, he then swings himself onto the truck I stand up and pat his back.
"Glad you're not dead, bud." I say.
"You know what's in that cradle?" Ultron says as he flies up to us. He tries blasting us. Steve and I crouch down just in time. "The power to make real change and that terrifies you two- - it terrifies all of you!" Ultron "explains".
"I wouldn't call it a comfort." Steve says as he flings his shield at Ultron. Ultron gets knocked back, immediately he tries shooting at us.