3rd Person POV (Nikita Maximoff)
= Sokovia =
Pietro speeds into a police station
"We're under attack! Clear the city! Now!" Pietro yells. Pietro speeds out but no one pays attention. Pietro speeds in, shooting a gun at the ceiling. "Get off your asses."
Wanda and Nikita stand in the middle of the city. Wanda's red wisps are controlling everyone to leave their houses and evacuate the city
Nikita looks around, making sure the girls were safe
***
The sun rises over the city as citizens flee Sokovia
Ultron-Bots start clawing their way into the city, flying around. The bots explode things and shoot lasers, wreaking chaos everywhere
As the Ultron-Bots wreak havoc, the Avengers and the triplets start fighting back in order to protect the citizens
"Go!" Captain America yells to people
An Ultron-Bot lands next to him and shoots him
"Get off the bridge!" Wanda yells to fleeing citizens
"Go!" Nikita yells, running through the street. "Now! Get out of here!"
Hawkeye shoots his arrows at Ultron-Bots
An Ultron-Bot draws a huge laser gun and shoots. Wanda puts a red forcefield up in front of her and the people behind her. Nikita warps over to stand with her sister
"Run!" Wanda yells to the people
The Ultron-Bot continues to shoot at Wanda and she is thrown to the ground, her forcefield breaking. Nikita warps and ends up behind the Ultron-Bot, roundhouse kicking the legs out from under the bot and the bot smashes its face against the cement ground
Elsewhere, the other Avengers fight. Pietro speeds through the city, destroying multiple Ultron-Bots
Nikita sprints over to Wanda as Wanda stands up
"Are you okay?" Niktia asks her sister
"Yea." Wanda says, pushing her hair over her shoulder
Then, the ground starts to rumble. Then...it starts to split. The bridge starts to collapse and then is fully demolished as the city starts to levitate
Wanda and Nikita share a look, the younger girl scared out of her mind
"Do you see the beauty of it?" Ultron's loud robotic voice asks from in the sky and everyone looks up. "The inevitability. You rise, only to fall. You, Avengers, you are my meteor. My swift and terrible sword. And the earth will crack with the weight of your failure. Purge me from your computers, turn my own flesh against me. It means nothing. When the dust settles, the only thing living in this world will be metal."
Sokovia lifts into the air and the city rumbles
"Tripp!" Wanda yells to Nikita, motioning for her to run over to her. But instead of running or warping, Nikita is pulled by Wanda's telekinesis over to her
Wanda catches Nikita, wrapping an arm around her body when she was pulled over. Wanda holds onto a stable structure -- in this case a car that didn't look like it was going anywhere -- with her grip tight on her sister who was unable to hold anything
With the city steady in the air, Nikita warps away to fight Ultron-Bots. Pietro speeds through the city, demolishing more Ultron-Bots
People run through the city for cover
"Avengers." Captain America's voice comes over the comms. "We're leading the civilians to the Town Hall. Try to meet us there."
Captain America walks through the demolished area and sees a familiar face
"Rodgers." Black Widow says, walking over
"Romanoff." Captain America greets
Wanda slows to a stop next to Captain America
"Is that my jacket?" Black Widow asks, looking at Wanda is the red leather jacket
"She's with us." Captain America says
"That still doesn't explain the jacket." Black Widow says
Hawkeye runs over and stops
"Fighting these robots is getting us nowhere." Captain America says
"The air's getting thin," Hawkeye says. "We go up much higher, people will start dropping."
Wanda looks around
"There are people in the city still hiding." Wanda tells the group
"Get them out." Captain America says and Wanda turns to leave. "Barton."
"I got her six." Hawkeye says, turning to follow Wanda
Wanda and Hawkeye run
"And us?" Black Widow asks
"We fight robots." Captain America says
Black Widow extends her electric rods, ready
Pietro speeds in with a severed robot arm
"Today?" Pietro asks. "We fight robots today?" He asks as Nikita warps in. "Or is next month better for you?"
"Seriously, we are doing all the heavy lifting." Nikita says
"Tripp, you and Wanda stay together, yes?" Pietro tells her
"Yes." Nikita says and Pietro speeds away
"Tripp?" Captain America asks at the name
"It's a nickname." Nikita says before she warps away
Black Widow looks at Captain America
"Both of my jackets?" Black Widow says
"Let's go." Captain America says
***
Nikita and Wanda, along with Hawkeye, continue to fight Ultron-Bots in an alley
"Cap, you got incoming." Ironman's voice says through the comms
"Incoming already came in." Captain America groans through the comms. "Stark, you worry about bringing the city back down safely. The rest of us have one job, tear these things apart. You get hurt, hurt them back. You get killed...walk it off."
Wanda uses her red wisps to pull Ultron-Bots apart and destroy. Then, she helps a person run to safety. Hawkeye shoots exploding arrows at the Ultron-Bots above them in the sky whereas Nikita takes care of the bots on the ground
Nikita warps around, kicking the bots from behind. She warps in between two Ultron-Bots who both raise their weapons and shoot at her. But she warps away quickly and they end up destroying each other
Hawkeye looks up to see about 10 more Ultron-Bots making their way over to the alleyway and shooting as they approach
"Go, go, go!" Hawkeye yells, grabbing for Wanda and Nikita's arms. However, an explosion sends them flying in through the window, but Nikita had warped away in the explosion
Nikita ends up on the street, stumbling face first into a wall as a blast of the explosion follows her teleporting. Well, almost face first. The only thing that had saved her was Pietro speeding in and grabbing her by the waist, speeding her out
Pietro skids to a stop and puts her down, both breathing heavily as they lean against a wall
"Where's Wanda?" Pietro asks
"With Hawkeye." Nikita tells him through gasps for breath, her accent lacing through her voice. "There's much people here, we cannot do this."
"Do not think about that." Pietro tells her, holding a hand to her cheek. "We have to help as many as we can. Let's go."
Pietro speeds into the city as Nikita warps, both destroying more Ultron-Bots as they make their way through
Nikita warps around skittishly, ending up wherever and kicking Ultron-Bots before teleporting away again
She then ends up in her original starting point where Hawkeye is shooting arrows at Ultron-Bots
Hawkeye shoots another bot. Nikita teleports around the bots, causing them to destroy each other. Hawkeye gets hit with something and ducks for cover behind a car. Nikita warps over and ducks down too, there were so many Ultron-Bots
Just then, Wanda pushes her way through doors, destroying Ultron-Bots with her red wisps and slamming more Ultron-Bots into the ground. She vaporizes the rest of them
Nikita and Hawkeye look at her, standing up from their hiding spots
"Impressive." Nikita tells her sister who shrugs in response before looking at Hawkeye
"All right, we're all clear here." Hawkeye tells the team through the comms
"We are not clear!" Captain America's voice exclaims through the comms. "We are very not clear!"
"All right, coming to you." Hawkeye says
Pietro speeds in, grabbing Wanda
"Keep up, old man!" Pietro yells as he speeds out
"That ever annoy you?" Hawkeye asks Nikita, gesturing to where her siblings disappeared
"Not really." Nikita says. "See ya." She says, giving him a nod before warping away and following the trail her brother sped down
Pietro speeds him and Wanda into the center of the city and Nikita warps in next to them. The three immediately start fighting Ultron-Bots
"Hold your fire!" A police man yells and the police stop firing
As the triplets fight the bots, Pietro is hit with a stray bullet, to which he gives an annoyed look to one of the officers
***
Pietro and Nikita continue to speed and warp through the city
"The next wave is gonna hit any minute." Captain America says. "What do you got, Stark?"
"Nothing great." Ironman says. "Maybe a way to blow up the city. That'll keep it from impacting the surface, if you guys can get clear."
"I asked for a solution, not an escape plan." Captain America says
"Impact radius is getting bigger every second." Ironman says. "We're gonna have to make a choice."
"Cap, these people are going nowhere." Black Widow says. "If Stark finds a way to blow this rock..."
"Not till everyone's safe." Captain America says
"Everyone up here versus everyone down there?" Black Widow asks. "There's no math there."
"I'm not leaving this rock with one civilian on it." Captain America tells her
"I didn't say we should leave." Black Widow says. "There's worse ways to go. Where else am I gonna get a view like this?"
"Glad you like the view, Romanoff." A man, Nick Fury, says over the comms. "It's about to get better." A large aircraft raises into the air. "Nice, right? Pulled her out of mothballs with a couple of old friends. She's dusty, but she'll do."
"Fury, you son of a bitch." Captain America says
"Ooh! You kiss your mother with that mouth?" Fury teases
"This is S.H.I.E.L.D.?" Pietro asks as lifeboats fly towards the city
"This is what S.H.I.E.L.D. is supposed to be." Captain America says
"This is not so bad." Pietro says
"Let's load them up." Captain America says and they start to get to work
"Yes!" Another Avenger's voice -- Rhodey -- comes through the comms as he destroys an Ultron-Bot. "Now this is gonna be a good story."
"Yup. If you live to tell it." Ironman snarks
"You think I can't hold my own?" Rhodey asks
"We get through this, I'll hold your own." Ironman says
"You had to make it weird." Rhodey mutters
Captain America, Black Widow, and Nikita help usher people onto the lifeboats
"This way!" Nikita tells the people, warping through them in spurts. "Keep going!"
The people get to the lifeboats with Black Widow helping them onto the structure. Elsewhere, Hawkeye and Wanda do the same thing
"Thor, I got a plan." Ironman says through the comms as he flies through the air
"We're out of time." Thor says. "They're coming for the core."
"Rhodey, get the rest of the people on board that carrier." Ironman says
"On it." Rhodey answers
"Avengers, time to work for a living." Ironman says
The Avengers, Vision, and triplets meet up in the church. Each triplet came from a different angle: Wanda came in from the left with Hawkeye, Pietro sped in by himself from the front, and Nikita came in from the right with Captain America
Nevertheless, the separated triplets quickly closed in and grouped together
"Are you girls good?" Pietro asks his sisters
"Yeah." The girls answer
"Romanoff." Ironman says. "You and Banner better not be playing hide the zucchini."
"Relax, shellhead." Black Widow says. "Not all of us can fly."
Black Widow and Hulk arrive moments later
"What's the drill?" Black Widow asks
"This is the drill." Ironman says, pointing at the metal and vibranium structure in the middle of the church. "If Ultron gets a hand on the core, we lose."
Ultron flies over and the group sees him
"Is that the best you can do?" Thor yells
Ultron lifts his hand and hundreds of Ultron-Bots start making their way over
"You had to ask." Captain America says
"This is the best I can do." Ultron says. "This is exactly what I wanted. All of you against all of me. How can you possibly hope to stop me?"
"Well, like the old man said... Together." Ironman says
Hulk roars
Everyone starts fighting the Ultron-Bots: Hawkeye shoots arrows, Captain America slams them with his shield, Black Widow electrocutes them, Hulk and Thor smash them, Ironman shoots them with lasers, Vision destroys them, Wanda pulls them apart using her telekinesis, Pietro speed punches them, Nikita warps around body slamming them with the element of surprise
Ultron and Vision get into a fight. Vision, Thor, and Ironman all blast Ultron with power. Ultron starts breaking apart and falls to the ground
The other three stop
"You know, with the benefit of hindsight--" Ultron starts but Hulk hits him and sends him flying
The Ultron-Bots scatter and launch themselves off the floating city
"They're trying to leave the city." Thor says
"We can't let them, not even one." Ironman says. "Rhodey."
"I'm on it." Rhodey answers
Rhodey goes to fight the Ultron-Bots and Vision helps, destroying most of them
With no more Ultron-Bots attacking the group, the Avengers along with Wanda and Nikita join in the center of the church
"We gotta move out. Even I can tell the air is getting thin." Captain America says. "You guys get to the boats. I'll sweep for stragglers. Be right behind you."
"What about the core?" Hawkeye asks
"I'll protect it." Wanda says. Hawkeye looks at her. "It's my job."
Hawkeye nods
"Nat. This way." Hawkeye says, him and Black Widow leaving one way as Captain America runs the other
Pietro speeds in
"Get the people on the boats." Wanda tells him and Nikita
"I'm not going to leave you here." Pietro tells her
"I can handle this." Wanda says, shooting a stray Ultron-Bot away
"Can you?" Nikita asks, her desperate and scared voice immediately grabbing the attention of her siblings. She sees that both are looking at her. "Can we? Handle this?"
"We have to try." Wanda says
"What if--" Nikita tries
"We will be fine." Pietro tells her. He looks to Wanda
"Come back for me when everyone else is off." Wanda tells him. "Not before." Pietro rolls his eyes. "You understand?"
"You know, I'm 12 minutes older than you." Pietro says
"Before I have no confidence left, let's go." Nikita tells her brother
"And 26 minutes older than you." Pietro says
Wanda gives him a smile as Nikita just rolls her eyes
Pietro speeds out
Nikita looks to her sister and breathes out shakily
"See you soon." Nikita tells her sister, more of promising herself that she would see her siblings again, before warping out
***
"Costel!" A woman yells for the missing boy. "We were in the market. Costel!"
Hawkeye looks around and sees the child struggling under rubble
"Thor, I'm gonna need you back in the church." Ironman says
"Is this the last of them?" Thor asks Captain America as stragglers board the boat
"Yeah." Captain America says. "Everyone else is on the carrier."
"You know, this works, we maybe don't walk away." Ironman says
"Maybe not." Thor says
Nikita stumbles out of her teleporting and falls to the ground. To save her face from impact, she tucks her head and somersaults. She stands up quickly, looking around
Her eyes land on Hawkeye who grabs Costel
Then, her eyes flash white and they glow: five seconds into the fated future....Hawkeye grabs the kid...Ultron shoots rapid fire...Hawkeye shields the kid with his body....but it is no use and both die from the reigning bullets
Nikita's eyes turn back to normal
"Oh no..." Nikita whispers with a huge lump in her throat
The bullets start firing over the group. Elsewhere, Captain America and Thor try to take cover from the bullets
Hawkeye looks at the bullets head on before turning his body to shield himself. Nikita takes cover behind a car, crouching down and not wanting to witness the fated future she had just seen. A gust of wind shoots past her
With her eyes closed, pain rips through her chest. She gasps, falling to her knees and opening her eyes, looking down at her chest for any sign of injury
But there were no injuries...and that could only mean one thing: phantom pain
Nikita breathes heavily, not wanting it to be true. She stands up, her heart pounding in her chest. With wide eyes she looks over and sees Pietro standing there, riddled with bullet holes and blood, facing Hawkeye. Pietro had pushed Hawkeye and the boy out of the way, saving their lives
"You didn't see that coming?" Pietro's broken and raspy voice snarks one last time to Hawkeye. His body hits the ground in a echoing fashion
"NO!" Nikita screeches in agony, warping over and immediately falling to her knees next to her brother's body, searching his eyes for any sign of life. But the injuries were too much. Pietro's eyes freeze open as a silent last breath escapes from his bloody mouth. Nikita's heart shatters into pieces and her face crunches in agony: for a girl who can literally see into the future as one of her powers...she really and truly did not see that coming...
** "A human's sacrifice is a domain that God cannot pre-determine and foresee. That is a moment's instinct and wholly a human's decision. It is something only a human can decide on." - Guardian: The Lonely and Great God **
"No..." Nikita whispers in a broken whisper, tears streaming down her cheeks
Elsewhere, Wanda had felt Pietro die as well and she falls to her knees, her red wisps exploding from her body and ripping the Ultron-Bots around her
Captain America runs over and looks at Hawkeye, who shakes his head. Nikita cries over her brother's body, her head hanging over his chest that remained was unmoving
Costel wakes up and sees Pietro dead. Hawkeye lifts Costel up. Captain America kneels next to Nikita, putting a hand gently on her shoulder
"I have to take him." Captain America whispers
Nikita sniffles, unable to control her tears. But she slowly nods, pulling herself off the ground and standing up. Captain America lifts Pietro's body up and shoulders him, walking over to the lifeboats
Nikita slowly follows Captain America and Hawkeye to the lifeboats. Her mind was numb...she couldn't hear anything that was going on around her
Captain America places Pietro's body on the ground of the lifeboat. Hawkeye returns Costel to a grateful woman. Captain America leaves the boat and looks out at the city once more. Hawkeye sits down in a seat next to Pietro's body
Nikita, kneeling next to her brother's dead body, doesn't register a single thing Hawkeye is telling her. She sits there, numb and staring at her brother's face
Only one thought is powerful enough to pierce itself through Nikita's haze: Wanda. Nikita's eyes finally move off of her brother and she looks at Hawkeye
"Wanda." Nikita breathes
Nikita stands up and goes to leave but Hawkeye grabs her by one of her limp wrists. She doesn't feel it at first and stumbles. And since neither of her siblings were there to catch her stumble, she falls to her knees, swinging around slightly to a sitting position facing Hawkeye
"Kid, I don't got the fight in me right now." Hawkeye tells her
"My sister is still out there." Nikita says, wiggling her torso as if to pull her arm away from Hawkeye's grapes. "Let me go!"
"I hate to be the one to say this..." Hawkeye starts. "But the city's about to fall. If you go, you're going to die."
"Let...me...go." Nikita growls through her teeth. She throws her body backwards and the force is enough to pull her arm away from Hawkeye's grasp as she rolls to her back. She jumps up quickly and makes her way to the edge of the lifeboat
Nikita gets to the edge of the lifeboat and jumps off the platform to the city. As she jumps, the drill is hit and the city drops in a free fall. Captain America jumps onto the lifeboat just as it drops. These actions happened at the same exact time. Captain America had just a split second to register that Nikita was jumping onto a falling city and he sticks his arm out. The two collide and Captain America uses his strength to push Nikita back onto the lifeboat
The two fall to the ground. Captain America looks over the side and sees the falling city
"No!" Nikita yells, pulling herself to her knees and standing up. She gets up and looks down at the city. "Why you do that?" She asks Captain America
"I saved your life." Captain America tells her
Nikita's face crunches with tears and she falls to her knees
"I can't....I can't be alone." Nikita says, sobs wracking her body. "I can't be alone..." She cries
"I'm sorry." Captain America tells her, kneeling down to her level. "Your sister could have made it out. Hold out hope, you could reunite on the main aircraft."
Captain America leaves to go help out other people on the lifeboat
Nikita had made her way back to where Pietro's body was laying. She kneels next to him, staring down at his face
Moment pass before the silence is broken
"Pocket." Nikita whispers
"What?" Hawkeye asks, turning his attention to her
"His pocket." Nikita repeats, looking at Hawkeye. "Reach to his pocket."
"Why?" Hawkeye asks
"Just do it!" Nikita pleads, her eyes big with tears
Hawkeye gets up from his seat and kneels next to Pietro. He reaches into Pietro's pant pocket and pulls out a small old folded picture, covering in some specks of blood
"Give to me." Nikita says. "Here." She says, nodding down to the pocket of her jacket since she couldn't receive the paper with her hands
Hawkeye reaches over and puts the picture in Nikita's pocket, still folded and unseen by Hawkeye
Nikita breathes out slowly. Then, she slumps slowly down the floor, passing out
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