a simple encounter

mind tricks

I woke up a few hours later, around 7 am or so. I wondered why Tony or Banner didn't come to wake me up like usual but after a bit of thinking, I remembered last night's events. I stood up from my bed and went into the bathroom to splash some cold water on my face and get ready for the day. I had a feeling that today would just be filled with planning our attack on Ultron. Who knows how far he is now that he's had a night to begin his plan. I quickly got dressed then headed downstairs. I entered the kitchen only to see Thor and Helen enjoying breakfast together. I guess she stayed the night with Thor. I smiled to myself and knew that I would get to hear about all the details later. Knowing that my best friend was happy made me happy. I exited the kitchen with an apple in hand and ended up running into Steve and Maria talking.

"Hey, guys. What's new?" I ask in hopes that there was an update on Ultron.

"Well, Ultron's all over the globe. Robotics labs, weapons facilities, jet propulsion labs. There are reports of a metal man, or men, coming in and emptying the place. No civilian casualties but there were also reports of what we are lead to believe is the Maximoff's" Maria says

"The Maximoff's?" I ask

"Twins. They were subjects in Strucker's human trials. We first encountered them in Sokovia when retrieving the sceptre and that's how Clint got injured. Pietro Maximoff has enhanced speed, too fast to see. Wanda Maximoff has telekinetic and telepathic abilities, she also is capable of energy manipulation. After looking at the reports it seems like Ultron got to them before we could." Steve replies

"They sound like a handful," I say in shock from what I had just heard.

"Indeed they are," Steve says confidently

I smiled at Steve and Maria as I headed to go find Clint so we could start working. I found him on the phone down a hallway. He was talking quietly but not quite enough so that I couldn't hear him.

"That's a negative. I answer to you. Yes ma'am," Clint says into the phone.

"Hey, Barton let's head to the lab. We might have something," I say, getting his attention

"I gotta go," He says into the phone while looking over at me, He then quickly hangs up.

"Who was that?" I ask, being nosy.

"Uhh girlfriend," He said

We both walked side by side and headed to the lab to regroup with everyone.

As we entered the lab I saw Steve pass Thor a tablet.

"What's that?" Tony asked

"A message. Ultron killed Strucker," Steve replied

I looked over Tony's shoulder while he was looking at the tablet. It was a picture of Strucker laying in a prison bed, written on the wall in what I assume is Strucker's blood it said "Peace"

"And he did a Banksy at the crime scene, just for us," says Tony referring to the popular street artist.

"This is a smokescreen. Why send a message when you've just given a speech?" says Nat

"Maybe Strucker knew something that Ultron wanted us to miss," I say

"Yeah, everything we had on Strucker's been erased," Nat says while checking the systems files

"Well, technically he didn't get everything," I say

I start to make my way down to the room where Tony stored all of his physical files. Everyone grabbed a box and started to look through for everything we had.

"Baron Strucker had a lot of friends. Well these people are all horrible," Banner said while reading one of the files

"Wait I know that guy," Tony says while looking over Banner's shoulder.