ʜɪꜱ ꜱᴀᴠɪᴏʀ ━ Bucky Barnes/Avengers

24: relapse

"Peace in our time."

The walls behind Ultron was destroyed as more of him blasted through. The next thing I knew I was pulled to the ground with the feeling of my back against someone's chest who I assumed to be Bucky's. Glass shattered everywhere and the Avengers engaged.

Bucky and I crouched together as he dragged me under a table away from the chaos as much as possible.

"I need to find Dr. Cho!" I tell Bucky through the noise. He looks into my eyes in hesitation, but he nods his head, pushing away his worried thoughts. We separate as I try to sneak my way to Dr. Cho, who I found was hiding behind the grand piano by the city view window.

She gets startled as I tap her in the shoulder, "Dr. Cho, we need to get you out of here." I whisper to her. She nods her head hurriedly.

Before we could even escape, a bot creeps up in front of his with its hands out, preparing to fire. As I shield Dr. Cho from whatever harm was about to come, Tony suddenly jumps on top of it, trying to shut it down.

I grab Cho by her hand, "Let's go." I lead her towards the elevator in attempt to get her to safety, but another Iron Legion blocks the way, aiming his palm at us. I push Cho away, knowing we weren't going to have enough time to dodge it.

The blast releases from it's burning palm, and I recoil it back with my own blast of ice, unfortunately, it was too quick and strong to do anything. The next thing I knew I was being sent a couple of feet into the air, my aching back landing on the hard ground, with shattered glass scattered all over, but all I felt was the burning sensation on my shoulder.

I search for Cho as I groan in pain, finding her hiding by the stairs looking at me in fear. I gesture her to go, though hesitating, she runs away to safety.

"Diane!"

I hear Bucky's voice hurry over to me. I sit up, supporting my shoulder as I see my skin redden.

Bucky kneels beside me, "Diane, are you okay?"

"I'm fine," I hissed after touching my burn, "It's nothing." Gently, I hover my palm over it and temporarily treating it with ice. It could only ease the pain I was feeling for a couple of hours, but I felt damaged.

"Are you sure?"

I nod my head, assuring his worried eyes, "I'll manage." Still, he wraps my other arm around his neck and wraps my waist to lift me up.

"That was dramatic." Ultron spoke once everyone had destroyed the bots, centering himself in the room,"I'm sorry, I know you mean well. You just didn't think it through. You want to protect the world, but you don't want it to change. How is humanity saved if it's not allowed to...evolve?" He picks up a dismembered bot by its head, "With these? These puppets? There's only one path to peace: The Avengers' extinction."

Suddenly, Thor launches his hammer at him, quickly crushing him into pieces.

Ultron started to sing eerily until he was fully gone,"I had strings, but now I'm free. There are no strings on me, no strings on me."

All of us were left shocked, looking around at the area scattered with metal debris. As far as I knew, no one else was hurt. That was a relief.

I look over where Tony stood, his silence confusing me like the rest of us. No one understood his face then, maybe except for Banner, but it was obvious he had something to do with this.

• • •

"Let go of him Thor, The Legionnare."

As Steve commanded Thor to put Tony down, Thor informed us of any leads of where Ultron could have gone. I'm guessing he suspected Tony as much as I did.