Tripp Maximoff // Avengers //

Avengers: Age of Ultron - Meeting Ultron

3rd Person POV (Nikita Maximoff)

= Sokovia = 

Pietro is handing out items to people in the middle of the city

He hands a prescription to an old man 

"Those the right ones?" Pietro asks 

"Yeah." The man answers 

"The doctor will refill it." Pietro tells him. "No more insurance issue. I made a house call." He grabs a soccer ball and turns to face a woman. "This is for your brother." 

"Thank you." The woman says 

Pietro holds up a thin dress

"And this...is not for your brother." Pietro tells her 

"Oh, no." The woman says politely. "This is too much--" 

"Is every girl in Sokovia getting a dress from Paris?" Wanda snarks at her brother as her and Nikita pass by 

"At least Gertti's looked warm." Nikita snarks as they walk past, her accent thick  

The woman gives Pietro a look and he scoffs

"They're kidding." Pietro tells the woman 

Pietro makes his way over to his sisters as they walk 

"I am going to look over that you taunt me to make sure that you do not get more hurt." Pietro says, grabbing Nikita by the shoulder 

"What you are talking about?" Nikita asks, spinning around to face her brother 

"Your hands." Pietro says. "Give them to me, Tripp." 

Nikita gives him a glare

"You are not funny like you think." Nikita tells him 

Pietro gives her a mocking smile before pulling gloves out of his pockets. He gently lifts up one of Nikita's limp hands and covers it with a warm glove, doing the same to the other hand as well

"And you are not powerful like you think." Pietro retorts

"I can teleport and see into the fated future." Nikita shoots back in a low voice, the two siblings had had this bickering argument many times before as Wanda rolls her eyes while they talk 

"By 5 seconds." Pietro says, finishing putting the gloves on Nikita's hands. "Not impressive."

"Watch out, brother." Nikita says. "Those five seconds could save your life one day."   

"Whatever. You both are jealous you're not getting a dress." Pietro says to his sisters, bringing the conversation back to where it was originally supposed to be as he drops Nikita's hand to her side

"If you keep stealing you're going to get shot." Wanda says and Pietro rolls his eyes. "I mean it. At speed nothing can touch you but standing still--"

"Do you think I want to be?" Pietro asks. "You said wait, I'm waiting. I don't know for what. We had Stark, helpless, all these years and you--"

"Costel!" The woman Pietro was talking to earlier exclaims, running over to her brother. "Costel where did you go?" 

"The church." Costel says. He looks at the triplets. "The man says you need to come to the church?" 

"What man?" Wanda asks, taking a step in front of her younger sister

"The...Ironman." Costel says

The triplets share a look 

***

The triplets walk over to the abandoned church. Wanda leads the way with Nikita right behind her. Behind the two girls is Pietro, constantly checking their surroundings

A figure sits cloaked with its back to the triplets

"Talk." Wanda orders the figure sitting in the middle of the room. "And if you are wasting our time..."

"Did you know this church is in the exact centre of the city?" The man says. "The elders decreed it so that everyone could be equally close to God. I like that. The geometry of belief. You're wondering why you can't look inside my head."

"Sometimes it's hard." Wanda answers. "But sooner or later, every man shows himself."

"I'm sure they do." The man -- no, machine -- says, standing up. "But you needed something more than a man. That's why you let Stark take the sceptre."

"I didn't expect, but I saw Stark's fear." Wanda says. "I knew it would control him. Make him self-destruct."

"Everyone creates the thing they dread." The machine says. "Men of peace create engines of war. Invaders create Avengers. People create smaller people? Um...children." He says with a laugh. "I lost the word, there. Children designed to supplant them, to help them end."

"Is that why you've come? To end the Avengers?" Wanda asks

"I've come to save the world." The machine says. "But also... Yeah."

The machine leads the triplets underground to a room with a bunch of robots

"We'll move out right away." The machine says. "This is a start, but there's something we need to begin the real work."

Nikita looks around, scanning the area

"All of these are..." Wanda starts, looking around

"Me." Machine says. "I have what the Avengers never will. Harmony. They're discordant. Disconnected. Stark's already got them turning on each other. And when you get inside the rest of their heads..."

"Everyone's plan is not to kill them." Pietro says and Wanda rolls her eyes

"And make them martyrs?" Machine says. "You need patience. Need to see the big picture."

"I don't see the big picture. I have a little picture." Pietro says. "I take it out and look at it, every day."

"You lost your parents in the bombings. I've seen the records." Machine says

"The records are not the picture." Pietro says

"Pietro." Wanda and Nikita say, trying to get him to shut up

"No, please." Machine says, motioning for Pietro to continue

"We were 10 years old. Having dinner, the five of us." Pietro says, looking at his sisters. His eyes land on Nikita. "You get up to use the bathroom and...the first shell hits, two floors below, it makes a hole in the floor. It's big. Our parents go in and the whole building starts coming apart." Nikita looks down as her brother talks. "I grab Wanda, roll under the bed. I tried to find Nikki but... the second shell hits before I could move. But it doesn't go off. It just sits there in the rubble. Three feet from our faces. And on the side of the shell is painted one word."

"Stark." Wanda says, her eyes flashing red

"We were trapped for two days." Pietro says

"Every effort to save us, every shift in the bricks, I think, 'This will set it off.'" Wanda says. "We wait for two days for Tony Stark to kill us."

"We finally get rescued and we find Nikki covered in glass." Pietro says, looking at Nikita. "Her arms were so bloody we thought they had been chopped off...but they weren't."

"From my elbows down is paralyzed." Nikita speaks up, finally looking up from the ground with her arms still limp at her sides. "They do not move and they do not feel. I thought I died...but turns out I was only waiting to be killed by Stark."

"I know what they are." Pietro says

"I wondered why only you three survived Strucker's experiments." Machine says. "Now I don't. We will make it right. The three of us can hurt them." He looks at Wanda. "But you will tear them apart...from the inside." 

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