THE MISSION TO STOP ULTRON commenced. Upon further investigation, the Avengers found out Ultron was working with the Maximoff twins from the HYDRA facility. Ultron also murdered Strucker while he was in custody.
The team found out about how Ultron wanted vibranium, and Tony brought up a black market arms dealer he met with in the past, Ulysses Klaue. He normally operated at a Salvage Yard in the African coast.
The Avengers were now off to Africa.
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ULTRON AND THE TWINS stood idly by as Klaue took a cylinder of vibranium from the hidden compartment on the ship.
"Upon this rock, I will build my church." Ultron quoted Matthew 16:18.
He grabbed the cylinder from the arms dealer, "Vibranium." and tossed it to Pietro.
"You know, it came at a great personal cost. It's worth billions." Klaue told the machine.
Ultron chuckled, using his connection to the internet to deposit the payment into Klaue's offshore account. "Now, so are you. It's all under your dummy holdings."
Ultron shook his head, "Finance is so weird. But as I always say, 'Keep your friends rich and your enemies rich and wait to find out which is which.'"
Klaue turned to Ultron after hearing his statement, "Stark."
"What?" Ultron asked.
"Tony Stark used to say that. To me. You're one of his." Klaue replied.
Ultron began to laugh, "What? I'm not..." he grabbed Klaue's arm, which prompted his men to go for their guns.
Wanda used her powers to keep them from drawing their weapons as Ultron continued.
"You think I'm one of Stark's puppets? His hollow men? I mean look at me. Do I look like Iron Man? Stark is nothing!" He exclaimed at Klaue, bringing his heated arm down at Klaue's, cutting it off.
Klaue groans in pain, missing an arm and stumbling back.
"I'm sorry. I'm...Oh! I'm sure that's gonna be okay. I'm sorry. It's just that I don't understand. Don't compare me with Stark!" Ultron shouted again, and kicked Klaue down the steps.
Ultron shook his head, "Stark is...He's a sickness!"
"Ah, Junior." The three heard a voice from above.
Tony dropped down wearing his Iron Man armor. Steve, Thor, and Y/N walked up behind him. "You're gonna break your old man's heart."
Ultron turned to the Avengers. Wanda and Pietro stood beside the machine.
"If I have to." Ultron shot back.
"We don't have to break anything." Y/N told Ultron.
"Clearly you've never made an omelette." Ultron replied.
Tony turned to Y/N, "He beat me by one second."
Y/N had his hand by his karambit knife, "I've made an omelette before, douchebags."
"Ah, yes. He's funny. Mr. Stark. It's what? Comfortable?" Pietro looked over at the missles below, "Just like old times?"
"This was never my life." Tony said.
"You two can still walk away from this." Y/N called out to the twins.
"Oh, we will." Wanda commented.
Steve spoke to them, "I know you've suffered."
Ultron scoffed and let out a chuckle, "Captain America. God's righteous man. Pretending you could live without a war."
Steve stood quiet as Ultron continued, "I can't physically throw up in my mouth, but..."
"If you believe in peace, then let us keep it." Thor interrupted.
"I think you're confusing 'peace' with 'quiet'." Ultron rebutted.
"Uh-huh. What's the vibranium for?" Tony asked.
"I'm glad you asked that because I wanted to take this time to explain my evil plan." Ultron said, then used his magnetism ability to pull Tony towards him.
More of Ultron's sentries dropped down and began to attack the Avengers as Ultron took on Iron Man himself.
A sentry tried to grab Y/N but he threw it over the railing. Another one was fighting Steve, and Y/N ran to it and stabbed into it's neck with his knife, cutting wires.
Thor was nearby fighting robots as well, but Pietro used his super-speed to push him back. Steve ran towards Wanda, who simply launched the Avenger back using her powers.
Steve fell back near Y/N's feet, and the young Avenger looked at Wanda in front of him.
"You can still walk away from this." He spoke.
"Not a chance." She swirled red around her fingers.
"Then I'm sorry." Y/N charged at her, but Wanda used her powers to hold him in place again. He should've known she'd do that trick again.
She threw him over the railing, landing on his side on the floor.
Y/N got up, only to get pushed back by a super-speeding Pietro. Y/N landed on a pile of crates. "Jesus..."
Pietro kept on running. He punched Steve and time seemed to slow for him as he watched Mjölnir fly by. He tried to grab it, but was pulled back and launched down below.
Pietro stumbled back up, but was knocked back down by Steve. "Stay down, kid."
Nearby, Ultron was speaking to Wanda through a sentry. "It's time for some mind games."
Amidst the gunfire from Klaue's men and blasts from Ultron's sentries, Thor walked through a corridor. Wanda snuck up behind him, using her mental manipulation on the demigod.
"Thor. Status." Steve spoke through his earpiece.
"The girl tried to warp my mind. Take special care. I doubt a human could keep her at bay. Fortunately, I am mighty." Thor reported back.
That didn't last long, though. Thor was given a nightmarish vision back in Asgard.
Nearby, Steve took down one of Klaue's men. Pietro knocked Steve down using his super-speed, where Wanda began to manipulate his mind too.
He had a vision of being back in the 1940s, but he was alone. He didn't have that dance with Peggy.
Wanda also gave Nastaha visions of her time back in the red room training to be a Black Widow. It's a memory Natasha tried to forget.
Y/N countered an attack by one of Klaue's gunmen and stabbed him in the side. He kicked him over a railing.
"Steve? Do you copy?" Y/N called out, but there was no response.
Y/N heard footsteps behind him, and quickly unholstered his pistol. He couldn't bring his arm up, as Wanda used her powers to freeze him in place.
"This again?" Y/N groaned. "You won't get into my mind."
"Everybody's afraid of something." She replied.
"Unless you use your magic to make me see clowns, you're outta luck, hun." Y/N bluffed.
Wanda grinned, and put her fingers near his temple. She tried to make him relive his nightmare, and it wasn't anything she expected.