The whole team walked into the ship, minus Bruce, and took in their surroundings. Workers were all over the ship, shouting in another language that Thea couldn't understand. They all seemed to be in a hurry and rushed around the ship trying to complete their job.
Thea heard a voice in the background of all the chatter, an almost metallic voice, auto-tuned in a way. "Don't compare me with Stark!" The voice roared. Thea then heard grunting and groaning paired with load banging. She could only assume this was from someone falling or being pushed. The voice then said more calmly, "It's a thing with me..."
Tony growing closer than all of them, clad in his Iron man suit. Thea could now see where that voice came from, Ultron. Ultron was a large metallic man, almost like the Iron man suit, if it was alive and fluid in motion. Red eyes pierced through the dark room and the metallic voice said again with more malice in his voice before, "Stark is... he's a sickness!" Ultron said this while throwing his arm in a downward motion.
Out of nowhere, Tony chimed in saying, "Ah, junior." He landed in front of Thor and Steve with a clunk on the metal ground. "You're gonna break your old man's heart."
Ultron turned around and focused his attention on Tony, along with two others, the Maximoff twins. Ultron walked casually toward Tony and noted staying, "If I have too." Thea noticed Clint slowly making his way toward the group and noted that it might be a good time to make herself known, in order to distract them.
Thea approached from behind them and crossed her arms saying, "I would appreciate it if you didn't kill him, I kinda need him." The two twins whipped around and stared at the brunette haired teenager.
"Nobody has to break anything," Thor said trying to force their eyes off of Thea, and it worked. Ultron took a few more steps toward Tony, Steve, and Thor while also saying, "Clearly you've never made an omelet." Over her earpiece, Thea heard Tony say to the group, "He beat me by one second." He said this in an almost taunting manner.
Thea held a hand to her earpiece and continued the conversation by saying, "I don't think Ultron has ever made an omelet either...I mean isn't he only a few days old? When did he have time to make an omelet while also trying to rule the world?"
Not fazed by Thea's comment both twins made their way over to the main group while the male twin said with a heavy accent, "Ah yes, he's funny. Mr. Stark." He held malice in his voice. He went on by saying, "It's what? Comfortable? Like old times?" On the last line, he glanced down towards a couple of missiles. Tony caught on to his meaning and glanced down too, "This was never my life." Tony said.
Steve stepped forward, sensing the tension in the room, "You two can still walk away from this." The female twin, whom Thea would later find out was named Wanda, called out in a heavy accent, "Oh we will."
"I know you've suffered." Steve imputed toward the twins. This made Ultron groan at what he was implying. He chuckled out, "Captain America...... God's righteous man." His voice grew darker and more serious with the next comment, "Pretending you could live without a war."
Thea could tell this hit a nerve with Steve as he clenched his jaw. Ultron went on and gestured with his hands while saying, "I can't physically throw up in my mouth, but...."
"If you believe in peace, then let us keep it." Thor interrupted.
Ultron changed his demeanor once again and straightened his head upright. "I think you're confusing 'peace' with 'quiet'."
Thea inquired, "Uh-huh, what's the vibranium for?" Ultron directed his attention back towards Thea for a moment before he sidestepped so he could see both Tony and her at the same time.
Ultron opened his arms in a welcoming way and noted, "I'm glad you asked that because I wanted to take this time to explain my evil plan." He made a circular motion with his hand and clutched it tightly as soon as he finished talking. This caused a blue glow to wrap around Tony's suit and made him get lifted up into the air and pulled closer to Ultron.
Ultron produced repulsor like lasers from his fingertips and shot Tony back into a metal wall. Tony quickly shook off this hit and flew at full power towards Ultron. Thea stared at them fighting and flying around the room for a moment before she realized that she should join the fight. Thea saw Steve and Thor battling Ultron's robot minions, Thor got rid of his rather quickly. But one of the twins speeded over towards Thor, catching him off guard.
Steve was still fighting after the speedster rushed by, but he quickly finished the robot. He tried to force his way to the other twin, but before he could red mist flew out of her hands and pushed him backward.
So that's who Tony was worried about.
Taking her distraction as a win, Thea bounded toward Wanda's turned back. Purple mist flowing out of her hands like a fountain; it wrapped itself around her body and forced her still. This seemed to catch her off guard, but once she realized what was happened she used her own powers to force herself free.
A streak of blue flashed in front of Thea and ended up by Steve. Steve got knocked back by this flash. The fighting continued for a while, Tony and Ultron were nowhere to be seen, Thor was at his wits end with enemies and Captain just hit the speedster with his shield telling him to stay down. Thea was too caught up in the fight to notice the girl had gone missing.
"Shit!" Thea said to herself. Steve shook Thea out of her thoughts by speaking in the earpiece, "Thor, status?"
Thor answered back in his accent, "The girl tried to warp my mind." He grunted and Thea heard a thump and groan come from the other end of the earpiece. He continued, "Take special care. I doubt a human could keep her at bay."
Seeming almost cocky with his tone of voice Thor added on, "Fortunately, I am mighty." I glanced around, trying to find Thor to see if he was actually fine and I found he was stuck in a daze. He looked around the room, his eyes were glassy and his body posture was alert.
Thea hastily hit her earpiece to warn the others. "Thor's down guys," Thea paused her speech before she caught Thea's eyes, "I'll take care of her."
Steve yelled into my earpiece, "No! Don't get yourself hurt! Someone else will take care of it!"
Thea ignored his warnings and plea's for her to stop and continued onward towards her. Steve was suddenly rammed by the speedster and left laying on stairs, the girl making her way towards him.
"Shit! Shit! Shit!" Thea cursed, running as fast as her legs could take her. The female twin rapidly made her way up to Natasha and used her powers on her too. Thea was too late to save any of them. All of the people hit with her magic were stuck in some sort of daze or trance.
Thea managed to finally catch up to her sneaking behind Clint, who was unknowingly standing there. Thea's powers pushed out of her body, through her hands out to catch Wanda. The dark mist stopped her before she could do any damage to Clint.
Thankfully, the noise she made when she got caught was enough to make Clint turn around and realize. Thea pulled Wanda in closer, hoping that the farther away she was from Clint the farther she was from hurting anyone else. She forced her way out of Thea's powers yet again. Thea pulled down one of the nearby walls in order to contain or at least slow her down. She appeared out of the rubble in front of Thea and before Thea could react to her, she used her powers on Thea, causing her to fall into her trance.
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Darkness was what Thea saw. Darkness...and then...a single light, flickering in the distance.
Thea reached forwards, towards the flickering light that seemed to be calling her. Her hand, however, caught Thea's attention. She glanced up from her fingertips up to her shoulder and down her other arm. Thea's skin was purple. Thea turned her hands over and over, The shining in the distance grew, however, causing Thea to look back up. The source of the light was a single black stone...Thea reached out to try to touch it, looked back down at her hands and realized...This wasn't real.
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It had been almost a week since Thea had last been seen. Almost a week since Peter and Thea fought. Peter desperately wanted to apologize to Thea, but couldn't figure out a way to talk to her.
Thoughts rolled around in Peter's head when she didn't come to school. Maybe she switched school without telling me. Or maybe she got kidnapped by that man who took her. The last thought seemed unlikely, but with everything that was going on it seemed more likely the more Peter thought about it.
Today Ned seemed more excited than usual. He practically bounded over to the table Peter resided in at lunch. When Ned reached Peter, he slammed down onto the seat and gasped dramatically. "Did you hear?!" Ned said while folding his hands together on the table. Peter's eyebrows raised a hair and he questioned him, "Hear what?"
Ned looked appalled by me asking this, "The Avengers got back together! I heard from a little birdy that they have to take down a killer robot Tony Stark made." He said this last comment as a whisper, eyeing the room from side to side. A look of realization hit Peter, it was the reason Dark Matter was gone. She was back working with Tony Stark.
~ Author's Note ~
All rights to Spider-Man and original plot goes to the Marvel franchise and their fantastic movies and comics. I own new story lines and new characters, like Thea Quinton.
Soooooo this chapter had quite a bit in it...... we saw a major hint in the plot of Thea and her background. I mean I wouldn't be surprised to see if you find out what is it........
Not much Peter in this chapter too, sorry about that. This chapter was mostly focusing on the storyline and how Thea fits into it all. I plan on having 1 to 2 more chapters revolving around Age of Ultron.
How are you liking the story so far? What are your theories? I would like to know.