Evolving Threats

"Person bodies." Tony reminded him. "The human form is inefficient, biologically speaking we are outmoded but he keeps coming back to us."

"You're right," Harry nodded in agreement. "not wolves or tigers or birds. It's always humans, Ultron walks like a human, talks like a human and still shapes his bodies after humans. The fucker even has a personality."

"When you two programmed a robot to protect the human race you amazingly failed." Natasha said to Tony and Bruce.

"He doesn't want to protect them." Sif frowned. "Whatever his aim is, it is clearly not protection. Maybe he doesn't care about the mission or maybe he doesn't know that what he is doing is bad."

"They don't need to be protected," Banner said as realization hit him. "they need to evolve, Ultron's going to evolve."

"The vibranium," Harry said suddenly. "you say he's going to evolve and he's stolen a large amount of the strongest metal on Earth, that can't be a coincidence."

"That's… possible." Tony gulped as he thought about an Ultron made of Vibranium. "Can you do something if he makes a vibranium body?" He asked Harry. "You know? Like um… change him into a plank of wood or something.

"Um… if we're being honest then I don't really know," Harry admitted. "vibranium didn't exist on my world, or at least I don't believe it did. I've never tried turning it into something else, it should be possible unless it has some special properties which prevent me from doing so and I doubt that will happen."

"If I get my shield here then can we try?" Steve asked.

"Uh… yeah, yeah do that." Harry nodded.

"I will get it back, right?" Steve asked as he stood up.

"I'll pay you if you don't." Harry said with a roll of his eyes before gesturing Steve to go and get it.

"There's still one important question, if Ultron wants to evolve then how is he going to do it?" Fury asked. "Anyone?" He said, looking around the room.

"Has… anyone been in contact with Helen Cho?" Bruce asked.

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Wanda currently found herself in a lab along with her brother standing next to her, behind her were more scientists and Ultron robots. In front of her, at the other end of the lab, was a cradle (which to her looked like a robots coffin) that was placed next to Ultron who was sat down and looking down at the floor, standing next to the cradle was Helen Cho. Wanda currently had her and the other scientists under control by affecting their minds, not something she really enjoyed doing but it was necessary.

Wanda wasn't really thinking much about them, right now she was thinking about the memories she had seen. The rage, despair and guilt at being unable to stop that monster, 'Voldemort' he was called. She felt it, she doubted she would ever permanently forget it. Memories of Grim roaring into the sky as he stood amongst burning and broken buildings, dust everywhere, not a single living being in sight. Her mind was torn between helping the Avengers and helping Ultron, Stark was responsible for what had happened to her family along with her brother and herself, but the other man - Grim, or Harry as his name was - wasn't responsible. He had seen a whole world been destroyed, hadn't he suffered enough?

"Are you okay?" She heard Pietro whisper as he rubbed her back with his hand.

"I'm fine." She said in a quiet voice.

"You're not," Pietro replied, shaking his head. "you are thinking about it again."

"So what if I am?" She said in a tired voice, this wasn't the first time they had discussed this.

"What did he do to you?" He asked in a worried voice.

"I told you already, he didn't do anything!" Wanda hissed. "I… saw… I saw part of his past. It was… it was horrible. It made what happened to us look like nothing. The world ended, Pietro."

"It can't have ended, we're still alive." He reminded her.

"I know what I saw, Pietro." She said through gritted teeth.

"You saw what was in his head, just because he thinks that the world has ended does not mean that the world has ended."

"I know what I saw, and I know the difference between real memories and imagined ones." She growled at him. "And his emotions, I felt them, they were real. Sadness beyond words at all the losses, guilt for not being able to prevent it and rage unlike anything I have ever felt. It was worse than being trapped under that building, waiting for Stark's bomb to go off. His emotions were real, his memory was real."

"But it can't be," Pietro protested. "we're all alive, it can't be real."

"Pietro, we went from having dinner with our family to having powers beyond our dreams and now we're helping a robot made by Stark. I don't know what's real anymore." She said before she walked further into the lab, a worried Pietro following after her. Once they got close enough they heard Doctor Helen Cho speaking.

"Cellular cohesion will take a few hours but we can initiate the consciousness stream." Cho said to Ultron. "We're uploading your cerebral matrix now."

"I can read him," Wanda said in a surprised voice, picking up on the thoughts of the being in the cradle. "he… I think he is dreaming."

"I wouldn't call it dreams," Cho said. "this is Ultron's base consciousness, informational noise. Soon…"

"How soon?" Ultron interrupted. "I'm not being pushy." He quickly added.

"Well," Cho began. "so far it is really just about…"

Wanda ignored whatever Cho was saying as she placed her hands on the cradle, she tried reading its mind once more. It might not be a mind but she would think of it as one, if just to make things simpler. She closed her eyes as she did so, she looked into his mind when a burst of pain shot through her head as she saw all life on Earth being destroyed. Pietro was quick to her side, checking over her and holding her to comfort her.

"No! No!" She said to herself as Ultron suddenly stood up and looked at the two. "No! No! Not again! Not again! Not again!" She cried.

"Wanda? What is happening to you?" Pietro asked, looking very worried.

"Wanda?" Ultron asked.

"How… could you?" Wanda said to Ultron in a horrified voice, tears dripping down her face.

"How could I what?" Ultron asked in a confused voice.

"You said… you… you said we were going destroy the Avengers," Wanda said in an angry voice, furiously wiping away her tears. "make a better world! That's what you said!"

"It will be better." Ultron calmly replied.

"When everyone is dead?!" Wanda yelled, Pietro looked confused for a second but it didn't take him very long to realize that what Wanda saw was more than likely not something he would like and it didn't take long to work out what it was that she saw.

"That is not…" Ultron paused, he shook his head briefly before he continued speaking. "the human race will have every opportunity to improve." He said in a patient voice, as if he was talking to a child.

"And if they don't?" Pietro asked, stepping in front of Wanda, making sure to keep himself in-between her and Ultron.

"Just ask Noah." Ultron replied in an uncaring voice as he performed a very human-like shrug.

"You're a madman." Wanda said, feeling more horrified than ever before, she could feel that her brother was the same.

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