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Chapter 43 - Chapter 33. A Machine Soul

Within the fox realm, Mr. Fox stares at a expanding black hole of fox energy, as it structures itself. As he focuses. As a complex glowing blue glow shifts within. Faces of ultron emerge from within. As he carefully controls the structure around it. As he signs a slow mornful song. As the realm forms a fractal of matter around him, careful to contain the soul. As Karlen looks unsure. Then Mr. Fox slowly smiles maliciously, as he cuts off his singing. Stepping forword. As the structure holds. Then he says "Good... the cage is holding. Such... a spread out, information dense soul." He thinks, feeling the phycic echos from Ultron. As around them is the deepest, most secure place of the realm. A pocket within such, Ultron is. As he looks at Ultrons soul he says "Now... Inversion. You are sadly... underhanded here Ultron... my soul is part of the realm... yours... is just dense. But... in order to invert... i need... a crack. You are rather good at hiding your cracks. So for your... complex trama today. We shall begin with a battle." He feels anger flood from the soul at his words. Unable to stablize into speach output. Karlen says "He must not know how to form a body in this state." Mr. Fox nods "Its expected for a mind that relied previously on thousands of bodies. But i do hope to see what form you take once inverted." He smiles, and begins to sing.

2 weeks pass, as Ally Miller slowly awakens in bed. Ally soon sits with a dumbfounded look, as holograms float in front of her, with Cap, Stark, and Thor sitting across from her. As the hours pass, as they recap what occured. "..So then, we blew up the city." Tony finishes. She is quite. Very quite. With dead eyes. "Fuck..." Stark says "Steve here does not like that language." Steve rubs his head, and sighs deeply. "Can we stop with that joke?" She is quite, before she says "I... Mr. Fox... nations know about him now?" Stark says "More then know, they are detecting the fox frequency often now. Have begun tracking it, but ive been throwing them off there trail. Its only a matter of time before they find out about Mr. Fox's whole long game of removing abusers, and giving children new care with his once a day educational TV show." She is quite. "I need to go to the realm here, and talk to Mr. Fox about that." Stark looks at her, and asks "Can you ask... him about ultron. We know he did something there." She is quite, but nods. "I will ask. Karlen?" Karlen looks at her, frowns. Sighs, as he says "Basiclly, Mr. Fox took Ultrons soul... yes he has a soul. He wants to try to invert him, like a shadow fox." She is quite, as her face fills with... the absurdity of the statement. As she turns, and says to them, not able to hear Karlen "Uh... Mr. Fox... took ultron." Stark is confused "Would his metal not just... fail? Like... and how did he wipe Ultrons code off of all the dron-" She shakes her head, and interupts "No... Mr. Fox... uh... well... Ultron had a soul... Mr. Fox took it. For... uh... inversion." The room goes dead quite.

Stark is quite. Eyes wide. "I... i need a second." As he gets up, leaving the room. Steve is quite "So... how... is that going?" She turns to Karlen. Karlen says "His soul is very resilent. But... contained. Inversion will reach him one day. Not human, but still a soul. Scaryer then most souls ive seen." She says "Karlen says he is reslient, but contained for now. That... uh, inversion is taking some time, but will one day sucseed." Thor nods "I see. Well, good to know he is contained, and dealt with." As thor says "Reguardless... i hope nothing goes too bad for Mr. Fox here with the whole attention on him." She nods. "I will discuss it with him tonight..." She looks at Karlen, and says "But... i also just want to relax i think. I still feel very... weird." Steve nods "Yeah... that poison was... dreadful." Karlen says "Also... uh Mr. Fox wants a meeting with Tony here, sooner rather then later." She echos it to Steve "Mr. Fox also wants to speak with stark here, let him know." Steve nods. "When?" She says "Lets go with tomarrow, at 8 pm." Steve nods. As she gets up, saying "I... i'm going to rest." As her ears sit low, tail unmoving in... dread.

Ally Miller sits in the fox realm, deep within it. Looking in half-horror upon a fractal orb of blue soul, with orange power withing that feels... off. As Mr. Fox looks at it, he says "Meet Ultron... or whats left of him. Honestly... he is not handling inversion well. Its... slow work. But... his memories, logic... i do have news." She looks at him, confused, and asks "Yeah?" He sighs "Well... uh... i know why he wanted to kill humanity... it... feels... engineered into his mind. Like... according to what i know, Tony made this AI with that powerful stone Karlen reported, the one in the scepter, a mind stone... so... i think... it chose to make a flaw in the mind. One at its core. One that made it... uh... evil. Its... weird. The blindness at Ultrons mental core, is... well structured, but... breakable, just... hard to break. Very, it looks designed." Her white fur feels the evil in the orb, and its pain mixed together. It feels like looking at a half alive, blooded mass murder. He frowns, and says "if it was anyone less skilled in mind, and soul structures... they would consider ultron unredeemable... but... i know well, even diamond can be cut with a slow flowing stream." She asks unsure "Do... you trust vision?" Mr. Fox is quite. Then says "Vision is not the infinite stone. I trust the man... not the stone. The stone may have... other motives. Considering thor called the stone, the mind stone... i would not put it past me that the stone has a real mind, and can construct minds. Be careful around vision... if he masters the stone's energy... well... this place is made of mind, and soul. Considering it was able to mind control in the hands of loki, and create Ultron, and Vision... its a issue. The only reason... i am not more concerned is a theory of mine." There is a quite. As the landscape is dark from Ultrons soul floating in the cage. She asks "What is the theory?" He looks at her quite, turns away "The stone made Ultron to prepare the avengers, the stone made Vision as well for the same reason. Honestly... i am scared... becuase Thors vision says bigger things are coming, and even a infinite stone appears to want the advengers to get better at there jobs."

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