"All our work is gone", Banner said, "Ultron cleared out. He used the Internet as an escape hatch".
"He's been in everything. Files, surveillance. Probably knows more about us than we know about each other", Natasha said.
Madison noticed that her father looked very uneasy for some reason.
"He's in your files, he's in the Internet. What if he decides to access something a little more exciting?" Rhodey asked, holding his shoulder.
"Nuclear codes", Hill said, picking glass out of her foot with a pair of tweezers.
"Look, we need to make some calls, assuming we still can", Rhodey told Stark.
"Nukes? He said he wanted us dead", Natasha said.
"He didn't say 'dead'. He said 'extinct'", Steve clarified.
"What? Like we're dinosaurs or something?" Madison quipped.
"He also said he killed somebody", Clint added.
"There wasn't anyone else in the building", Hill told him.
"Yes, there was", Stark said.
A broken down JARVIS appeared in Stark's lab.
"This is insane", Banner said, looking at the carnage.
Steve sighed. "JARVIS was the first line of defense. He would have shut Ultron down. It makes sense".
"No. Ultron could have assimilated JARVIS", Banner told him, "This isn't strategy. This is..."
"Rage", Madison finished.
Thor stormed into the lab and grabbed Stark by the throat.
"It's going around", Clint quipped.
"Come on, use your words, buddy", Stark taunted.
"I have more than enough words to describe you, Stark", Thor said.
"Thor!" Steve snapped, "The Legionnaire".
"Trail went cold about 100 miles out, but it's headed north. And it has the scepter", Thor told them, "Now we have to retrieve it, again".
"Genie's out of that bottle", Natasha said, "Clear and present is Ultron".
"I don't understand. You built this program", Dr. Cho said, turning to Stark, "Why is it trying to kill us?"
Stark smiled and started laughing.
"You think this is funny?" Thor asked him.
"No. It's probably not, right? This is very terrible?" he asked, his tone dripping with sarcasm.
"This could have been avoided if you hadn't played with something you don't understand", Thor told him.
"No. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It is funny. It's a hoot that you don't get why we need this", Stark said.
"Tony, maybe this might not be the time", Banner interjected.
Stark turned to him. "Really? That's it? You just roll over, show your belly every time somebody snarls?"
"Only when I've created a murder bot".
"We didn't. We weren't even close. Were we close to an interface?" Stark asked while Banner nodded his head and shoulders.
"Well, you did something right. And you did it right here", Steve said, "The Avengers were supposed to be different than SHIELD".
"Anybody remember when I carried a nuke through a wormhole? Saved New York? Recall that?" Stark asked.
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One Second and a Million Miles
Fanfiction[Fourth in the "Madison Barton" series] Steve and Madison are officially broken up, but that doesn't mean they'll let it get in the way of them doing their jobs. This time however, instead of a crazy God trying to end the world, it's a rogue AI tha...
