Promise

Chapter 6: The Maximoff Twins

Pietro and Wanda Maximoff walked into the Sokovian church, looking at some chair in the center of the area, where someone was sitting with their back facing them. Wanda spoke first, "Talk. And if you are wasting our time-"

"Did you know this church is in the exact center of the city? The elders decreed it so that everyone could be equally close to God. I like that. The geometry of belief." Wanda stepped closer to the voice curiously, as she wasn't able to get inside his head. Ultron already knew as he spoke up again, "You're wondering why you can't looking inside my head."

"Sometimes it's hard. But sooner or later, every man shows himself." Wanda states with a hard expression. But then Ultron stands up, the falling as he faces them, agreeing with her. "Oh, I'm sure they do. But you needed something more than a man. That's why you let Stark take the scepter."

"I didn't expect.." She nods up at him. "But I saw Stark's fear. I knew it would control him, make him self-destruct."

" Everyone creates the thing they dread," Ultron shrugs. "Men of peace create engines of war, invaders create avengers, people create..." He thinks, "Smaller people?" But then he exclaims, "Uh...children! I lost the word there. Children." The Maximoff twins watch him curiously, and a bit amused, as he continues. "Designed to supplant them, to help them...end."

"Is that why you've come?" Wanda questions, tilting her head a bit. "To end the Avengers?"

"I've come to save the world!" He states, beginning to walk away, but then turns to the two with a nod. "But also, yeah."

Ultron brings the two to his hideout, under Sokovia. "We'll move out right away." He gestures around them, "This is a start. But there's something we need, to begin the real work."

The twins glanced around at the Iron Legions, all working almost too well. "All of these are..." Wanda trails off, not finding the words.

But Ultron quickly says, "Me. I have what the Avengers never will. Harmony. They're discordant, disconnected. Stark's already got them turning on each other."

Wanda then noticed a girl, couldn't be much older than 14, with some blood staining her blonde hair from the wound on her forehead, probably the reason she was tied to chair unconscious. "Who is she? I recognize her from Stark's fear."

"Oh, her? She's nothing. Just another way from me to get Tony Stark." Ultron shrugs her off, before looking back at Wanda. "But once you get inside the rest of their heads-"

"Everyone's plan is not to kill them." Pietro says disappointed, but mainly annoyed. Ultron moves back over to them, "And make them martyrs? You need patience. Need to see the big picture."

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

"You lost your parents in the bombings. I've see the records." Ultron states with a nod but Pietro just adds, "The records are not the picture."

"Pietro.." Wanda looks at him but Ultron stops her, "No." Then looks at Pietro to continue, "Please."

"We were ten years old, having dinner, the four of us. When 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. I grab her, roll under the bed and the second shell hits. 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..." Pietro trails off and Wanda finishes bitterly, "Stark."

"We were trapped for two days." Pietro states and Wanda continues, "Every effort to save us- every shift in the bricks- I think,'this will set it off'. We wait, for two days, for Tony Stark to kill us."

"I know what they are."

"I wondered why only you two survived Strucker's experiments. Now I don't. We will make it right." He gestures at the unconcious girl, "With Tony Stark's daughter, and you two." He points at himself and Pietro, "You and I can hurt them." But then Ultron looks at Wanda, "But you will tear them apart. From the inside."

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As Ultron and Pietro were about, Wanda found herself drawn to the unconscious girl. The young girl, Tony Stark's daughter, Wanda knew there was something about her. But she couldn't figure it out, and all Ultron mentioned was that she didn't know who her father really was.

So the enhanced brunette made her way over to the kid, close enough to get into her head. But when her eyes glowed scarlet, she clutched her head with a pained grunt, seeing flashes of many things. But all were of one night.

The Maximoff girl saw images of a burning building, watching the girl run in yelling one word. It was obvious she wanted to save just one person. But as the images went on, it was clear that she lost that one person.

Then, when the images changed, she saw a flash of blue before Pietro snapped her out of it.

Pietro looked over his shaken sister, "What? What'd you see?"

Wanda looked up at him, then back at the kid. "She's like us."