Observer POV
Within Water, a man stood, eyes turned inwards, while sparks of lightning flew around the pit he was in.
It was Thor, and inside the Water of sight, he was able to regain the Visions he had, while Wanda controlled his Mind.
Selvig stood outside the pit, watching with worry at his friend, who was flinching inside the Water. He knew of the legends, and no man who ever had stepped into these Waters came out fine.
Thor, inside the dream, wandered around the feast, searching for his old friend and Mentor. "Wake up!" Heimdall screamed as he suddenly appeared before him, holding his head. The Visions began once more, as pictures of the scepter came into his Mind.
More electricity struck him, and Ultrons Face came into view, transforming into a new Body. And on his forehead, there was…
The vision snapped back to the scepter, and something struck its gem, as the blue outer hull exploded and the same yellow gem came into sight, as on Ultrons' forehead.
Even more Strikes of lightning began to hit him, as the yellow stone began to fly through time and space.
He saw Ultron in his early, broken form, Tony Stark's face, and Earth destroyed by a giant rock.
Suddenly, there was something next to the yellow stone, a purple rock, which exploded, and another gem, a purple one, appeared. Next came the Eather, transforming into a red gem, and then the Tesseract, which exploded, revealing a blue one.
They all began to float into place as a golden glove appeared from the background, making it look like they were placed at the knuckles of said gauntlet.
But then he saw a face, one he had never seen before, and heard a single sentence.
"Wake up Tenno"
U-Gin Genetic Research Lab, Seoul, Korea:
Dr. Helen Cho stood behind Ultron, fixing a cable to his head. "Cellular cohesion will take a few hours, but we can initiate the consciousness stream."
She went over to the Cradle and began to activate the process. " We're uploading your cerebral matrix...now." And as soon as she did, Ultron felt a slight pull on his consciousness, a good sign, he hoped.
"We are still not seeing anything out here. Are you sure that he knows where we are?" Wanda asked Ultron over the comms, still standing guard outside on the lab's roof.
"He did find you the last time, didn't he? Did he say something to you, something strange or out of place?" Ultron asked while closing his eyes.
"I really would have loved to see that punk, want to prove that I'm faster," Pietro cut in, while patrolling around the city blocks, running from watch post to watch post.
"I'm sure you will get to see each other sooner than you think," Ultron appeased him.
"I remember now, he said he wanted to help me, he knew my Name. That's why I mistook him for one of Stark's puppets and attacked him." Wanda mumbled, lost in thought.
"Oh, well, that's something," Ultron replied, while checking the security feed. "There is incoming, the Quinjet, we need to move."
He said as two of his drones came in to transport the Cradle. "That won't be a problem, I will personally watch over the transport," Cho said as Ultron unplugged himself from the Cradle.
"Pietro, get back here and bring Wanda down to the Truck. I will be in your vicinity. Proceed with the Plan"
After some time, Steve reached Cho's personal laboratory, only to find it empty. "Guys, it seems we are too late, he's already gone," he said through their intercom.
"Copy that," Clint replied while looking at his sensors for anything noteworthy around.
"We've got a private jet taking off across town, no manifest, that could be him," Natasha said, tipping away on her monitor.
"There, it's a truck from the lab," Clint suddenly said, his eyes fixed on it.
"Right above you, Cap, on the loop by the bridge," he continued, giving Steve the instructions, while looking at the scanner,
"It's them, three in the back, with a big scan-shielded box and the kids, one more drone in the cab. Dr. Cho nowhere in sight, I could take out the driver."
Steve was climbing up the ladder of the traffic ring while taking in the situation. "Negative, if the truck crashes, we could injure bystanders, we're inside a city after all, you're not going to fire that Gatling gun in open traffic, we need to draw out Ultron," He commanded.
Inside the truck, Wanda stood with her hands braced against the interior wall, crimson energy already faintly bleeding between her fingers. Beside her, Pietro leaned casually against the frame, while his eyes were fixed on the outside feed, streaming from Ultron's drones on his pad.
"Company," Pietro said with a grin as the truck shook.
The roof caved in a bit, followed by steps, as they neared the doors.
Captain America had dropped onto the vehicle. Almost immediately, as he reached for the doors, red energy slammed into him, blasting them outwards. Steve caught one reflexively, the impact shaking his arms and making him lose the shield, while Wanda stepped forward with glowing red eyes.
But before she could strike again, she saw something in the corner of her eyes and looked upwards.
The Liset was plummeting down at her, pushing her back inwards with the air pressure from the descending ship.
It even damaged the drones inside, as they were flung against some boxes in the back, which in turn slammed against their joints, some even getting decapitated. The opening turned, and Rhino jumped out of it, landing on the roof, before the Liset went off again.
"There he is," Pietro quipped as he stood up, pushed into a corner by the wind, and vanished, appearing right beside Rhino atop the truck, throwing a punch.
It connected, but the only sound was Pietro's fist as it broke.
"Oh, Fuck, what are you made of?" Pietro swore as he dashed around, to instead kick at his leg, breaking his shin, making him scream in pain.
"You're not really the brightest one, are you?" Rhino said as he, in turn, pulled back his fist and aimed it at his face, but he dashed away before he could be hit.
"Still faster than you," he said, as suddenly Rhino dashed forward and grabbed him by the neck.
"It isn't really that useful when you decelerate to normal speed now, is it?" Rhino responded in kind.
Pietro tried to escape and even threw further punches and kicks, but against Rhinos Iron Skin, it just made his bones shatter even more while bruising his skin.
"I think that's enough," Rhino said while pressing a pressure point on his neck, making him fall asleep instantly.
He took him by the hair and threw him into the container, before pulling himself inwards.
There he was met by an angry Witch, charging up her attack.
"You are nothing against me, strange man," she said with a victorious grin, as she shot her illusion hex at him.
But this time, as it connected, nothing happened. "You really thought the same trick would work on me twice?" Rhino asked as he dashed forward and punched her in the stomach.
"Last time I was unprepared, but this time I won't underestimate you," he said as she curled into a ball.
After catching her breath, she threw a hex at his face, shattering his iron skin. She then ducked out of the way as one of the hardly demolished drones shot at him.
It pushed him outside the container, making him fall onto the street, where he crashed into multiple cars like an eight ball, finally coming to a halt as he was flung against a concrete pole.
"Well, that was unexpected."
He said as he stood up and activated Rhino's charge, running after the truck while activating Iron Skin on the way.
He reappeared in a blur behind Black Widow, who was racing along on her bike, having picked up Steve's Shield, now on his trail.
Steve, in turn, was hanging by a thin cable, his body being pulled continuously over the fast-moving street.
"Steve!" Natasha shouted, seeing the furious Vanda charge up one of her attacks while looking his way.
Rhino was already on the move, rushing past Steve, taking his arm along the way, as Wanda fired her attack, nearly missing her target.
Rhino rushed next to the truck, looked for his next target, and then threw Steve on top of the container.
Black Widow took the shield and vaulted it back onto the truck, tossing it cleanly at Steve.
The fight exploded once more, as Wanda jumped through the roof, standing face to face with Cap.
Then Clint spoke through the intercom, "Guys, I think I've found him", before the Quinjet took a sharp turn and went up into the sky.
Down on the ground, Steve was fighting Wanda on top of the truck as Rhino charged into the front window, took out the drone sitting there, and pulled the brakes.
Wanda and Steve nearly lost their balance at the sudden deceleration, but both managed to catch themselves in their own way.
While Wanda stumbled forward, Steve found footing faster, using the momentum to slap his shield at Wanda, landing a hit square in her face.
Natasha went behind the truck and shot down the remaining drones, „I'm going in. Cap, can you keep her occupied?"
„What do you think I've been doing?" he responded, dodging a hex.
She jumped off her bike, landing next to Pietros' sleeping body. She looked around and there it was, a big, black, elongated box. Natasha went over to the controls and shocked the system.
The lock sprang open, and Natasha lifted the top. "Guys, we might have a problem here. Clint, do you copy, were did you find Ultron?"
Previously inside the Quinjet:
High above, while watching his Team and the new guy fight the twins and some drones on the Truck, Barton heard a loud thud as something fell onto the jet with enough force to stagger the engines.
He heard metal being torn off, and the Quinjet's systems suddenly flickered.
"Guys, I think I've found him, he's entering the Quinjet," he spoke into the comms while typing away on the scrambling displays, not even sure if his distress call went through.
He took a sharp turn, the cockpit chair holding him in place, performing a barrel roll midair, while trying to shake Ultron off his hull.
But everything was in vain, as he was suddenly slammed back into his seat, the jet taking a sharp left turn that produced more G-force than a human could withstand for long.
"Sleep," Ultron's voice suddenly spoke up next to his ear, as his face appeared next to Clint's. His fingers were connected to cables leading to the back of the ship, probably the connections he used to take over the jet's right engine.
Clint resisted further, but Ultron just smiled as he curled his fist tighter, and the jet turned even harder, black dots appearing all around, the blood no longer able to find its way back into his head anymore.
Once he let go of the controls and folded into himself like a card house, Ultron pulled him off the chair and bound him, after which he took his position at the cockpit, straightening the flight path.
Reaching his destination, Ultron landed the stolen Quinjet at Dr. Helen Cho's laboratory, sticking his head out of the lowering ramp.
Cho emerged from within the compound, her eyes unfocused, never having left the lab's perimeters.
"Doctor," Ultron proclaimed with a smile as she came inside. "We have work to finish." She responded, while two drones came up behind her, pushing the Cradle.