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Nobodies POV
U-Gin Genetic Research Lab, Seoul, Korea - as Cho enters her lab she sees Ultron. "Scream, and your entire staff dies. I could've killed you, Helen, the night we met. I didn't." Ultron says
"Do you expect a thank you note?" Helen ask "I expect you to know why." Ultron says "The Cradle." Helen says
She hears her own recorded voice.
"This is the next thing, Tony." Helen says
"This...is the next me." Ultron says "The regeneration cradle prints tissue, it can't build a living body." Helen says
"It can, you can. You lack the materials. You're a brilliant woman, Helen. But we all have room to improve." Ultron says
Ultron uses the scepter to mind-control Cho.
....
At Barton's house.
Natasha, Victoria and Banner are still experiencing the after effects of Wanda's hallucinations.
Victoria walks out of the bathroom and sees Natasha waiting outside. "I didn't realize you were waiting." Victoria says
Natasha sends her a small smile.
"I would've joined you, but uh, it didn't seem like the right time." Natasha says "They used up all the hot water." Victoria says
"I should've joined you." Natasha says "Missed our window." Victoria says "Did we?" Natasha ask
"I like you a lot Nat, and maybe you like me too, but I know that your not in a good place to take the chance with me, and I think I have feelings for a criminal, who practically stabbed me in the back two times." Victoria says
"That sounds like you, but what's holding you back." Natasha asks
"With Ultron and everything, I know I have to leave for a while, what happened to twins made me realize that there is a lot of things I have to fix. I have to go." Victoria says, with a small shrug.
"But you assume that I have to stay? What Stark did wasn't your fault." Natasha says
"I-I know but it's my legacy, it feels right." Victoria says
Natasha smiles softly but it falls. "I had this, um, dream. The kind that seems normal at the time, but when you wake..." Natasha says
"What did you dream?" Victoria asks "That I was an Avenger. That I was anything more than the assassin they made me." Natasha says
"I think you're being hard on yourself." Victoria says "Here I was hoping that was your job." Natasha says
She leans close into her. "What are you doing?" Victoria ask
"I'm running with it, with you. If running's the plan, as far as you want." Natasha says "Are you out of your mind?" Victoria asks
Victoria turns away from her. "I want you to understand that I'm..." Natasha says "Natasha, where can I go? Where in the world am I not a threat? I'm Tony Starks daughter, who has the ability to rip into a persons mind and soul." Victoria says
"You're not a threat to me." Natasha says "You sure? Even if I didn't just...there's no future with me. I can't ever...I can't have this, kids, do the math, I physically can't." Victoria says
"Neither can I. In the Red Room, where I was trained, where I was raised, um, they have a graduation ceremony. They sterilize you. It's efficient. One less thing to worry about. The one thing that might matter more than a mission. It makes everything easier. Even killing." Natasha says
She hesitates a moment.
"You still think you're the only monster on the team?" Natasha ask "What, so we disappear?" Victoria asks
"You can even bring Pietro, criminal or not....I just want you to be happy." Natasha says
....
Steve and Stark are chopping wood outside Barton's house. "Thor didn't say where he was going for answers?" Tony ask
"Sometimes my teammates don't tell me things. I was kind of hoping Thor would be the exception." Steve says
"Yeah, give him time. We don't know what the Maximoff kid showed him." Tony says "Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Pulled us apart like cotton candy." Steve says
"Seems like you walked away all right." Tony says "Is that a problem?" Steve ask "I don't trust a guy without a dark side. Call me old fashioned." Tony says
"Well let's just say you haven't seen it yet." Steve says "You know Ultron is trying to tear us apart, right?" Tony ask "Well I guess you'd know. Whether you tell us is a bit of a question." Steve says
"Banner and I were doing research." Tony says "That would affect the team." Steve says
"That would end the team. Isn't that the mission? Isn't that the why we fight, so we can end the fight, so we get to go home?" Tony ask
"Every time someone tries to win a war before it starts, innocent people die. Every time." Steve says
Laura interrupts them.
"I'm sorry. Mr. Stark, uh, Clint said you wouldn't mind, but, our tractor, it doesn't seem to want to start at all. I thought maybe you might..." Laura says
"Yeah, I'll give her a kick." Tony says
To Steve as he turns to leave; referring to his pile of chopped wood.
"Don't take from my pile." Tony says
....
Stark enters the barn and walks over to the tractor.
"Hello, Deere. Tell me everything. What ails you?" Tony ask
Suddenly Fury shows up from the other end of the barn. "Do me a favor. Try not to bring it to life." Fury says
"Ah, Mrs. Barton, you little minx. I get it, Maria Hill called you, right? Was she ever not working for you?" Tony ask "Artificial intelligence. You never even hesitated." Fury says
"Look, it's been a really long day, like, Eugene O'Neill long, so how's about we skip to the part where you're useful?" Tony ask
"Look me in the eye and tell me you're going to shut him down." Fury says "You're not the director of me." Tony says
"I'm not the director of anybody. I'm just an old man, who cares very much about you." Fury says "And I'm the man who killed the Avengers. I saw it. I didn't tell the team, how could I? I saw them all dead, Nick. I felt it. The whole world, too. It's because of me. I wasn't ready. I didn't do all I could." Tony says
"The Maximoff girl, she's working you, Stark. Playing on your fear." Fury says
"I wasn't tricked, I was shown. It wasn't a nightmare, it was my legacy. The end of the path I started us on." Tony says
"You've come up with some pretty impressive inventions, Tony. War isn't one of them." Fury says
"I watched my friends die. I saw my daughters dead body, laying at my feet. You'd think that'd be as bad as it gets, right? Nope. Wasn't the worst part." Tony says
"The worst part is that you didn't." Fury says