Kai Romanoff

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" All our work is gone. Ultron cleared out. He used the Internet as an escape hatch." Bruce said as they sat in the lab.
" Ultron." Steve sighed.
" He's been in everything. Files, surveillance. Probably knows more about us than we know about each other." Nat said.
That made Kai nervous.
" He's in your files, he's in the Internet. What if he decides to access something g a little more exciting?" Rhodey asked.

" Nuclear codes." Maria said.
" Nuclear codes. Look we need to make some calls, assuming we still can." Rhodey said.
" Nukes? He said he wanted us dead." Kai told them.
" He didn't say dead he said extinct." Steve corrected.
" He also said he killed somebody." Clint added.
" There wasn't anyone else in the building." Maria said.

" Yes there was." Tony said showing them a hologram of a destroyed JARVIS.
" What? This is insane." Bruce looked at it.
" Jarvis was the first line of defense. He would have shut Ultron down. It makes sense." Steve said.
" No. Ultron could have assimilated Jarvis. This isn't strategy. This is-rage." Bruce said.

Suddenly Thor walked into the room with his armor on and straight towards Tony. He picked Stark up by his neck.
" It's going around." Clint said.
" Come on, use your words, buddy." Tony strained.
" O have more than enough words to describe you, Stark." Thor told him.
" Thor. The Legionnaire." Steve said.
Thor put Tony down before answering.
" Trail went cold about a 100 miles out, but it's headed north. And it has the scepter. Now we have to retrieve it, again." Thor reported.

" Genies out of that bottle. Clear and present is Ultron." Nat said.
" I don't understand. You built this program. Why is if trying to kill us?" Dr. Cho asked.
Instead of answering Tony just started to laugh.
" He broke, we've done it. We've finally made Stark go looney." Kai said.
" You think this is funny?" Thor asked.
" No. Its probably not, right? This is very terrible. Is it so-it is-its so terrible." Tony laughed.

" And I thought I was bad in these situations." Kai sighed.
" This could have been avoided if you hadn't played with something you don't understand." Thor said.
" No-you know what, I'm sorry- it is funny. It's a hoot that you don't get why we need this." Tony told him.
" Tony, maybe this might not be the time." Bruce warned.
" Really? That's it? You just roll over, show your belly, every time someone snarls?" Tony asked.
"Only when I've created a murder bot." Bruce said.

" We didn't. We weren't even close. We're we close to in interface?" Tony asked while Bruce nodded.
" Well you did something right. And you did it right here. The Avengers were suppose to be different than S.H.E.I.L.D." Steve told him.
" Anybody remember when I carried a nuke through a wormhole?" Tony asked.
" No, it's never came up." Rhodey said.
" Saved New York?" Tony asked.
" Never heard that." Rhodey shook his head.
" Recall that?" Tony asked.

" The point Stark?" Kai asked.
" A hostile alien army came charging through a hole in space. We're standing 300 feet below it. We're the Avengers. We can bust arms dealers all the live long day, but that up there that's- that's the endgame. How were you guys planning on beating that?" Tony asked.
" Together." Steve didn't hesitate.
" We'll lose." Tony said.
" Then we'll do that together too. Thor's right. Ultron is calling us out. And I'd like to find him before he's ready for us. The worlds a big place, let's start making it smaller." Steve told them.

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Nat sat next to Kai as they searched the web for Ultron.
" It pains me and makes me so incredibly proud at the same time that you're smarter than me." Nat told her.
" You've got the looks, I've got the brain. That's what makes us the best team." Kai smirked.
" We've got something. A message, Ultron killed Strucker." Steve said handing Thor the iPad. 
Thor handed the iPad to Tony and Kai and Nat looked over at it.

" And he did a Bansky at the crime scene, just for us." Tony said.
" Hm it's kinda like art." Kai said looking at it.
" This is a smoke screen. Why send a message when you've just given a speech?" Nat asked.
" Strucker knew something that Ultron wanted us to miss." Steve said.
" All our files on Strucker has been erased." Kai said typing on the computer.

" Not everything." Steve said.
Nat and Kai looked at each other.
" And they called us crazy for keeping them." Kai said.
" The Russian do have a few helpful tricks." Nat nodded.

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They searched through hundreds of boxes filled with paper files.
" Known associates. Strucker had a lot of friends." Steve said looking at the files.
" Well these people are all horrible." Bruce sighed.
" Wait. I know that guy. From back in the day. He operates off the African coast. Black market arms." Tony said flipping through his file.
Steve gave him a disappointed look.
" There are conventions. All right. You meet people. I didn't sell him anything. He was talking about finding something new, a game changer. It was all very Ahab." Tony explained.

" This." Thor said pointing at a picture.
" Ah it's a tattoo, I don't think he had it." Tony said.
" No, these are tattoos. This is a brand." Thor said.
" Oh yeah. It's a word in an African dialect meaning thief. In a much less friendly way." Bruce said.
" What dialect?" Steve asked.
" Wakanada. Wakanda." Bruce said.
Kai's eyes widen.

" If this guy got out of Wakanda with some of their trade goods-" Tony started.
" I thought your father said he got the last of it." Steve said.
" I don't follow. What comes out of Wakanda?" Bruce asked.
" The strongest medal on earth." Tony said as they looked at Steve's shield.
" Where is this guys now?" Steve asked.

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Kai stood behind Clint at a salvage yard on the African coast.
" Don't compare me to Stark! It's a thing with me. Stark is-he's a sickness." They heard Ultron say.
" Ah Junior. You're going to break your old man's heart." Tony said landing behind him.
" If I have too." Ultron said.
" No one has to break anything." Thor said.
" Clearly you've never made an omelet." Ultron said.
" He beat me by one second." Tony said.

" Ah, yes. He's funny. Mr. Stark. It's what? Comfortable? Like old times?" Pietro asked.
" You two can still walk away from this." Steve told them.
" Oh we will." Wanda said in a fake nice tone.
" I know you've suffered-" Steve started.
" Captain America. Gods righteous man. Pretending you could live without a war. I can't physically throw up in my mouth but-" Ultron scoffed.
" If you believe in peace than let us keep it." Thor cut him off.

" I think you're confusing peace with quiet." Ultron said.
" Uh huh. What's the vibranium for?" Tony asked.
" I'm glad you asked that, because I wanted to take this time to explain my evil plan." Ultron said before bringing them close then shooting them back.

Kai heard shooting and saw men shooting at them.
" Ugh another day, another anonymous kill." Kai sighed, took out her gun and started shooting them back.
" Now this-this reminds me of Budapest." Clint said.
" You're delusional-it was nothing like this." Kai shook her head as they both kept shooting.

Suddenly all the men were down. Kai made her way to search for Nat when she came face to face with Wanda. Before she could even do anything, Wanda put her hands up and her eyes flashed red. Then red fog filled Kai's brain and she fell back.

She braced herself for the impact of the ground but if never came. Something-no someone had caught her. Kai looked up and saw Harry holding her.
" Ha-Harry." Kai said.
" Hello darling. Did you miss me?" Harry asked her.
Kai just nodded as Harry lifter her back onto her feet.
" I missed you too-but there's someone who wants to see you." Harry told her.

He grabbed her shoulders and turned her the other way. Standing there was her parents.
" Mom? Dad?" Kai asked.
They smiled. Then a man walked between them and towards Kai. She stumbled back when she noticed it was Dreykov.
" It's time to come home, мой ребенок." Draykov told her.
( my child)
" No-no-" Kai turned back for Harry.
But he was out of reach and now he was with Hermione, Ron, Fred, George, Ginny and Sirius. They all held disappointing and hurt faces.

Her parents grabbed both her arms and pulled her back. And as much as Kai struggled she couldn't escape them. Draykov stood over her with a cruel smirk. Then he repeated the words he told her every time she use to go into surgery while in the red room.
" This will only take a minute." He told her.