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.
"There are more than a dozen extinction level events before even the dinosaurs got theirs." Ultron said in a voice that was bordering on exasperated. "When the Earth starts to settle, God throws a stone at it. And, believe me, he is winding up. We have to evolve, don't you understand that? We need to evolve, it is necessary, there is no room for the weak." Ultron said as he looked down at the cradle, his hand stroked it in a loving fashion. "No room for the weak."
"And who decides who's weak?" Pietro asked while Wanda took advantage of Ultron being distracted to free Cho from her mind control.
"Life," Ultron laughed. "life always decides." Ultron was about to continue when a beep was heard. "There's incoming," He said. "the Avengers are making their move, we have to start making ours."
"That's not a problem." Helen Cho said, drawing Ultron's attention to her. She quickly cut off the upload of Ultron into the creation in the cradle.
Ultron sighed right before he blasted her, Wanda gasped as Helen fell to the floor. Pietro reacted quickly and picked Wanda up into his arm before he ran away at superspeed while carrying her, Pietro was able to hear Ultron call after them but he didn't stop. Once they were at a distance that was far enough away from Ultron and safe enough to stop, Pietro put Wanda down before pulling her into a hug.
"Are you okay?" Pietro asked in a concerned voice while stroking her hair.
"He… he's going to kill us all." Wanda cried into his shoulder. "He's going to kill us all. It's all our fault."
"Wanda, please, please calm down." Pietro all but begged.
"I can't," Wanda said as she pushed herself out of his hug, she shook her head several times as she grabbed her head hard in an attempt to slow down her thoughts, "we need to stop him, we need to stop him before it's too late. We need… we need the Avengers!" She suddenly blurted out.
"The Avengers?"
"Yes, yes!" Wanda quickly nodded. "They will help us, I know they will."
"Are you sure?" Pietro asked.
"I don't know about all of them, but I know at least one of them that will do whatever it takes to stop Ultron." She said in a confident voice.
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