Ash's POV

"Hmm...?" I groggily opened my eyes to find myself in what appeared to a small room a little bit bigger in size than a broom closet. Beyond the doorway that was in front of me, it looked to be inside of an old, rundown church.

"Owwww..." I got up, only to find that I was still bruised, curiously confused since my regeneration should've kicked in by now. I tried to rub my wrists to find, not only were they cuffed together, but two solid discs of silver metal were set over the radiation absorbing tags and a clinking sound when I moved my legs to stretch them out made me aware of the cuff around my ankle that kept me chained to a pipe on the wall.

"What the?" I desperately tried to pry the discs off my tags, but they stuck on no matter how hard I tried to pull them off. Trying to make my hands burn up also proved ineffective when no heat whatsoever came out when I tried.

"They won't come off and your powers have been suppressed." I looked up and leaned back in horror at the sight of Ultron in a robotic body, one most likely made in a HYDRA lab from the familiar-looking model I had been working with while working with the Scepter and Ultron's programming.

"How...?" I questioned fearfully, knowing I was now at a severe disadvantage and had to be careful with what I said and did.

"Platinum. Your Polynium-based cell structure doesn't react too well to non-reactiveness. A necessary precaution I had to take."

My questioning expression must've signaled to him that I didn't understand how he could know about my extraterrestrial biology when he had told me before that he knew nothing about me when he held up a familiar-looking, rectangle-shaped pendant with a USB sticking out of one end of the rectangle.

"Nat..." I whispered, realizing that she must've had that drive hidden on her for a reason I still didn't understand were it not for what Ultron said next,

"Apparently your friend thought it was a good idea to try and keep aliens off of the exposition radar, but unfortunately she couldn't get everything off the Web." He tossed the pendant aside before walking closer, making me try to scoot away again.

"I'm not here to hurt you." He stated as he unlocked the chain from the wall but left the cuff on my ankle.

"Then why take me?"

"Because you're not part of the problem my mission is to fix." He looked away at the end of his sentence like he was hearing something I couldn't and told me, "If you'll excuse me, we'll be having visitors soon."

Before he tossed in my uniform and closed the door, plunging the little space into darkness for a split second before my night vision kicked in. I grabbed a hold of my uniform and managed to pull the lower half of it on but since my hands were still bound together, I was unable to pull the top half of the jumpsuit on and just tied the sleeves around my waist, glad to have it back at least.

Figuring it would be best to wait until the right moment to escape, I sat back against the wall and listened to my surroundings before my gaze fell to the USB necklace Ultron had tossed in with me. Picking it up, I fiddled around with the chain and was wondering how Nat managed to keep most information on me and my species in this little contraption right before my thoughts were interrupted by a heating feeling in my head and hands as small growls came out of my mouth, my hands twitched around violently, and something wet leaked from the corner of my mouth. My fit was over within a few seconds and left a pounding feeling in my head before I wiped my mouth on my sleeve to see that whatever it was was glowing and warm, even against my heat resistant skin.

"What the...?" My thought was interrupted again when I heard a heavily accented voice outside speaking,

"Talk, and if you are wasting our time..."

"Did you know this church is in the exact center of the city? The elders decreed it so that everyone could be equally close to God. I like that. The geometry of belief." Ultron's voice answered back and I quietly crawled to the door to peek through a slit between it and the frame to see that Ultron was sitting in a large throne-like chair in the center of the building with a cloth hiding his form and in front of him were two people, a man and woman who looked to be related.

The man had bright white hair and a stubble and was wearing a large jacket with a checkered arrow pattern down the sleeves and dark pants. The woman had long reddish-brown hair and wore a red jacket over a black dress and black boots with arm guards on both arms.

I felt a slight tinge of a familiar power coming from one of them when Ultron questioned,

"You're wondering why you can't look inside my head."

"Sometimes it's hard and I sense another is here, but sooner or later, every man shows himself."

Before he stood up, making the cloth fall to reveal his robotic form to the two of them, startling them slightly.

"I'm sure they do. But you needed something more than a man. That's why you let Stark take the scepter."

That vision! She was the cause of it. I thought realized to myself as their conversation continued,

"I didn't expect..." The woman seemed a little off-put but continued anyway, "but I saw Stark's fear. I knew it would control him. Make him self-destruct."

"Everyone creates the thing they dread." Ultron strode around the room, passing by the room I was being held in as he began to list off, "Men of peace create engines of war. Invaders create Avengers. People create... smaller people? Children. I lost the word, there. Children... designed to supplant them, to help them... end."

"Is that why you've come? To end the Avengers?" The woman asked.

"I've come to save the world. But also... yeah." Ultron came back over to me and I stumbled back as he opened the door to haul me out by my collar even as I struggled.

"Keep ahold of her," He shoved me toward the man and woman, "She'll be of use to us yet."

"She's a child." The man protested before the woman raised a hand to my temple and I felt a flow of energy before she tried to say,

"No, she's-"

"An alien," Ultron cut her off before explaining, "She was a liability before so I brought her here until I realized that she could be a valuable asset given the...circumstances."

"What 'circumstances'?" I finally managed to speak up.

"Let's just say... an old friend wants to say 'hello'."

My eyes widened at that as he began to walk away and gestured for us to follow him so I walked with the man holding onto my left arm and the woman holding onto my right arm.

What is your name? I heard the woman's voice in my mind and I looked up at her to see her eyes were glowing red.

Ash. I thought answered before she introduced herself as well,

Wanda Maximoff and he is my twin brother Pietro.

And Pietro's voice joined into the mental conversation,

Are you really an alien?

Yes.

Why are you here? Wanda's voice asked and I considered the question before answering honestly,

Trying to find a home.

Wh-?

"We're here." Ultron cut off Wanda's question as we arrived at our destination; the HYDRA base the team took down recently.

Once we all got inside, I asked,

"Where is he?"

"He's over there." Ultron pointed to a worktable in the distance where, on top of all the tools and weapons, lay a red bushy-haired boy with pale gray skin and wearing a torn and shredded HYDRA uniform.

"Xavion!" I bolted out of the twin's grasp without a second thought over to him as I surveyed his injuries.

"Xay! Xay can you hear me?" I tried to shake him awake with my cuffed hands as tears welled up in my eyes before I angrily wiped them away and demanded, "What did you do to him?"

"You mean what did they do to him?"

"'They'?"

"That's right, your so-called 'team' did this to him, a member of your own people and your best friend nonetheless."

"No... N-no they they would never..." I tried to convince myself he was wrong.

"Are you sure about that?" Ultron nodded his head to a monitor with a slightly cracked screen where a video started to play. Wiping my eyes, I walked over to the monitor and watched as several figures drove, flew, and ran through the woods around this base, taking out anything and anyone that got in their way, eventually it turned to a fiery blur on the screen.

Xavion...

The figures shot at Xavion as he flew around them and fired several shots at them until someone managed to hit him.

"No!"

Xavion's position in the air wavered as he attempted to retreat, but was hit again and sent careening to the distance, a trail of black smoke streaming behind him until it faded out and the screen went black. I stared at the empty screen with tears streaking down my face from my unblinking eyes as Ultron's voice sounded from behind me,

"They are the real threat, to their own people and to yours."

So many emotions bubbled up within me but at the forefront; anger. Anger that they would do this to my friend, at the possibility that they would do this to the others of my kind hiding on this planet if we presented ourselves as dangerous, that they would hide this from me, and so many other things.

I slowly walked back over to Xavion as he still lay unconscious and I took the collar that was around his neck and swiftly broke it off, holding it in my hands for a few seconds before completely crushing it with my bare hand before asking,

"What do you need me to do?" I seethe before letting the pieces fall to the ground.

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AN- Sorry for the missed chapter post last week, but in addition to my little sister's party followed by my phone being taken away, I was having some writer's block when it came to how I was going to have Ash and Ultron's interactions play out and how it would affect the movie's storyline. I will still be doing my best to post a new chapter every Friday or weekend for the three books I am currently working to write: this story and my "Guardians of the Galaxy OC Insert" on my GeekyGirl183 account and "Rise of the Shadows" on my MCSMGamerGirl Wattpad account.