Disarm • Stark

18. An Absolute Trainwreck & a Worthy Being.

The train is an absolute disaster- no, actually, the train is an absolute trainwreck.

Mazzy had convinced Pietro and Wanda to let her come with them to help on the train by telling them that she was an Avenger and she had killed one of the robots before. Honestly, she thought it would be a lot harder to convince them, but considering the circumstances, they gave in pretty quickly.

So now, Mazzy is on a train fighting evil robots who want to kill her. She grabs a metal bar, which is supposed to be something for the passengers to hold onto when standing up, but Ultron himself had ripped it off, so now it makes a great weapon.

While Wanda and Pietro help Steve, who is on the train, too, stop Ultron, Mazzy has been tasked with doing her best to keep the other robots out of the way.

She watches out of the corner of her eye as Pietro, who looks like nothing more than a beam of light at his speed, sprint toward Ultron and Steve, sending Ultron flying backward and unintentionally knocking Steve back against the wall. Wanda uses what Mazzy likes to call her magical, red energy to block Ultron's path with pieces of the train.

The twins' powers are very cool, in Mazzy's opinion. She wishes hers were as cool as theirs, but all she has is healing skin and abnormal strength. If she could have any superpower in the world, she thinks, she would choose turning invisible, because that would make sneaking around a whole lot easier. Or, maybe, she'd just choose to have every superpower ever. That would be helpful.

For now, though, Mazzy just has to work with what she has. So when one of Ultron's minion bots come flying into the train, shattering a window, Mazzy runs toward it with her metal pole in hand. When the robot tries grabbing at her, she drops to the ground and slides between its legs. When she stands up behind the robot, she shoves the metal rod into the back of its head. The robot drops to the ground, sparking and twitching.

Now that that is dealt with, Mazzy spins around to see what is going on with the others. None of them are moving, but Mazzy is pretty sure that they are exchanging words. However, over the sound of the train and all the chaos within, she can't really make out anything anyone is saying at all. In fact, she can hardly distinguish any noise at all. It all sort of blends together, becoming one obnoxious chorus of unintelligible noise.

Then, out of nowhere, Ultron is shooting a beam of energy at Pietro, Pietro is running off somewhere to dodge the attack, and Ultron is blasting out the side of the train. What the heck happened?

Steve stands up, looking back at Mazzy. He says something— or at least his lips are moving— and then he gestures toward Wanda.

"What?!" Mazzy shouts over the noise, completely confused. Gosh, it would be a whole lot easier if she got to have an earpiece like the real Avengers.

But before Steve can stop and explain again, he's off, running to the front of the train. Mazzy turns to Wanda, raising her eyebrows and holding her arms out at her sides.

"The train's not stopping," Wanda breathes out, a look of worry on her face.

"What?" Mazzy asks again, signing the word along with it.

Wanda turns to look at Mazzy while she's: talking. "The train's not stopping. Ultron— he wasn't shooting at Pietro; he was shooting at the engineer," she explains much more loudly this time.

Although Mazzy doesn't get every word, she gets the message out of it. Basically, this metaphorical trainwreck is going to become a literal trainwreck pretty soon here if they can't stop the train. And that means that all the remaining passengers along with everyone in the train's way will all be dead. And that's a lot of dead people.