[DISCONTINUED] The Child of Hope (MCU x Male "Superman" Reader)

Tear Them Apart

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--- May 2nd, 2015 - Avengers Tower, NYC ---

The Avengers plus Rhodes, Hill, Dr. Cho were gathered in Bruce's Lab.

Well nearly all of them anyway. Thor wasn't with them momentarily.

Y/N was examining the Legionnaire that housed Ultron's consciousness. Tony was glancing over at a case that was now wide open and completely empty. Everyone else was scattered around the room.

"All our work is gone," Bruce said, "Ultron cleared out, used the internet as an escape hatch."

Natasha added, "He's been in everything. Files, surveillance. Probably knows more about us than we know about each other."

"He's in your files, he's in the internet," Rhodes recites before asking, "What if he decides to access something a little more exciting?"

"..Nuclear codes," Hill says as she looks up from pulling glass out her foot.

"Look, we need to make some calls, assuming we still can."

"Nukes? He said he wanted us dead," Natasha says.

"He didn't say dead. He said extinct," Steve corrected.

Clint adds, "He also said he killed somebody."

"But there wasn't anyone else in the building," Hill says.

"Of course there was," Y/N tells them, tossing the Legionnaire head back onto the table.

He then tapped on a screen over to his right. Then, in the center of the room, the now-destroyed 3D image of JARVIS' consciousness pops up in front of them.

Bruce steps closer to it when he sees it, "This.. This is insane.."

"JARVIS was the first line of defense..," Steve says, "He would've shut Ultron down, it makes sense."

"No, Ultron could've.. 'assimilated' Jarvis. This-This isn't strategy, this is... rage," Bruce says, clearly knowing so from.. personal.. experience with rage.

Suddenly, Thor barges into the room and grabs hold of Tony by his throat, holding him up. He steps through the hologram a few feet, causing it to dissipate.

"Woah, woah, woah! It's going around," Clint says.

Tony, now grabbing at Thor's hand, struggles but eventually gets out, "..Come on. Use your words, buddy.."

"Thor!," Steve shouts, "The Legionnaire."

Thor eventually drops Tony to his feet, causing him to stumble back a bit. But Thor was still glaring on the Iron Man.

"Trail went cold about a hundred miles out but it's headed north, and it has the scepter. Now we have to retrieve it. Again," Thor announces, still glaring straight at Tony.

"The genie's out of that bottle. Clear and present is Ultron," Natasha says.

"..I don't understand...," Dr. Helen Cho mutters, "..You built this program. Why is it trying to kill us?"

Instead of an answer, Tony starts laughing.

Next to him, Bruce starts to shakes his head at him somewhat violently to get him to stop. Everyone else in the room looks over at them.

Y/N near scowls at Tony, "You think this is funny, Stark? This isn't the time for shits and giggles, not after what just happened less than half an hour ago."

"..No. It's probably not, right? Is this very terrible?," he replies sarcastically before adding with even more sarcasm nearly breaking out into laughter again while looking over at everyone in the room, "Is it so... is it so... it is. It's soo.. terrible."