Something To Marvel At :||: Steve Rogers

4.7 'Something Dramatic'

Pietro 'Quicksilver' Maximoff played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson

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"I'll take Natasha and Clint," Steve placed his shield against his back, the magnet in his suit holding it in place.

"Alright, strictly recon," Tony checked his watch. "Iz and I will hit the Nexus."

"I'm going with Steve," I walked down the stairs, all suited up, meeting my brother's gaze.

He glanced between Steve and me before sighing in defeat. "Make sure she's safe, Rogers."

"Always," Steve assured him, joining me in the doorway.

Fury pulled on his coat. "I'll drop Banner off at the tower and pick up Ms Hill."

"What are you going to do?"

"I don't know," The Black man grinned devilishly under his eyepatch. "Something dramatic, I hope."

The team filed out the door, Clint saying goodbye to his wife. I plopped into the pilot seat. "Alright everyone, buckle up, we're heading to South Korea." Clint appeared beside me a moment later with a frown. I grinned at him sheepishly. "I miss flying my own aircraft."

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Clint took over as Steve and I dropped from the ship onto the walkway of Dr Cho's research facility. The building was built in the middle of the harbour and had white floating walkways leading from the shore to reach it. The building looked like a mosaic dome checkered with mirrored glass.

When Steve and I got inside, the place had been ransacked. Light fixtures dangled precariously from the ceiling, chairs and desks overturned, and paper floating around everywhere. A groan from my right had us spinning around. Dr Cho was struggling to push herself up into a sitting position using one hand, while she clutched her abdomen with the other.

"Dr Cho!"

She gasped for air as we crouched beside her. "He's uploading himself into the body."

"Where is he?" Cap demanded.

She shook her head, not knowing enough of his plan to figure out where he was going. I placed my hand over hers, feeling the blood that was leaking from her insides and taking control of it. Keeping my mind and breathing steady, I focused on regulating her heartbeat, directing the blood to continue flowing past the injury.

"I'll call an ambulance," I told Steve, already tapping at invisible buttons in my suit. "You go after Ultron."

"Wait!" Dr Cho reached out and grabbed Steve's wrist before he could properly stand. "The real power is inside the cradle. The gem, its power is uncontainable, you can't just blow it up. You have to get the cradle to one of the Starks."

Steve and I glanced at each other one more time before he took off. "Did you get all that?" Cap's voice came over the comm in my ear, where I would be able to stay connected to the action.

"Yeah," Clint answered.

"There's a personal plane taking off across town. No manifest, that could be him?"

"That's a truck from the lab," Clint spoke again. "Right above you, Cap. Got three with the cradle and one in the cab. I can take out the driver."

"No," I shouted, startling Helen out of her drowsy state. I could hear the medical sirens approaching. "Crash the truck and the gem could cause catastrophic damage."

"We need to draw out Ultron," Steve advised.

The emergency responders didn't take very long to get to the scene. They seemed surprised at my presence but immediately got to work, kneeling down beside me to take a look at the wound. Dr Cho translated as I told them to treat the injury as though she was bleeding out. Confused, they packed the wound and I slowly released Dr Cho's bloodstream from my influence, the bandages and pads instantly turning red.