Tinley was very much on board with the plan, though it seemed a lot of people were raring to go on the assault team. They needed the time machine to be fixed. If they stopped Ultron here and now, it would be great, but the lives lost, the destruction, it would take years to rebuild and go back to some example of normalcy. And she didn't want that. She wanted to strike a blow. Show Ultron that a small rebel brigade took him down and did so in the past and present.
"I'm fine with that, but we need more people on the time machine team. Banner, you can join the assault. And Captain Marvel and Scarlet Witch. I know it would be asking a lot and even more, have vendettas they want to be settled, but we need this machine set up if there is any hope of bringing them back. I won't force anyone to go where they do not wish to go, but I also want everyone to consider the big picture."
As the others trickled back, along with Doctor Doom, Tinley shook her head, but ultimately understood. Heroes and villains alike united against a common enemy. "Not about to turn down more allies, but I say that's enough help from the bad guys. Unless someone wants to reach out and find Loki? Red Skull? Hell, ask for Deadpool, see which side of the alignment spectrum he's on today. No? Then let's go kick Ultron's ass."
Location: Underneath Mount Bashenga - Wakanda --> New York Sanctum - New York Skills: N/A
The bickering between the wizard and psychopathic supervillain-killer-guy was oddly juvenile in Roman's mind as he watched the two bicker. His expression was completely blank as he seemed like he couldn't quite decide how to react or feel about the two bickering with each other in the lab. He debated for a long few moments if perhaps he should say something to them about the size of their egos or something, but quickly figured it would be left better unsaid. He hadn't exactly been the most helpful on this mission and couldn't really talk on the fact of egos. That and, you know, Doom is kinda a terrifying man who could probably kill him in less than ten seconds. The mere thought of which chilled Roman to his core, and left him happy whenever they seemed about ready to head back to the Sanctum.
Back at the Sanctum, Roman listened quietly as they started splitting off into groups, watching as Cass volunteered to go with the assault team, Roman wanted to go with them to try to help protect one of the few people he truly cared about. Yet after the last mission, he knew full well that he would not be of that much use, and soon talked himself out of it. He looked in her direction for a few long moments, wondering if perhaps he could approach his friend, but felt he didn't really have a right to do so after being responsible for Bonnie's death. Turning away and back towards the team that was going to be building the time machine, he knew full well that he was going be best-suited working on this team. "I'll stay here and work on the time machine. Just ah, all of you on the assault team come back alive, yeah?" He said to them, before letting out a sigh and turned away again. Already thinking of what they might need to do for the time machine.
"If you were sorry or cared at all, then you wouldn't be alright working with half the people who have joined us in the last few hours and want them dead," Flynn responded a bit coldly towards Cass, still not really dimming down with the flames. He shot a glare at her, and at the rest of the group who had walked into the Sanctum. He wanted nothing to do with anyone in the room since just about every single one of them saw nothing wrong with this and that was a big issue.
However, he did know one thing, he'd only have to deal with one of said group of people if he went for one of the two groups above the other, and that would be the time travel group. The fire finally extinguish itself, and he looked at the others. "I'll go with the group to the past, however excuse me for being a bit blunt considering everything that could possibly go wrong with both groups. But what exactly do you guys think you need to do in the past? I mean, you've got the date, you've got the place, but no one has specified what the hell is actually needing to happen."
New York Sanctum - New York: July 15th, 2021 - 9:20 P.M.
This is in no way finalized or GM endorsed or anything! I've highlighted PCs with the blue color - please just use this as a reference point to see how the proposed teams stand.
Time Travel Squad
Invisible Woman
Doom
Shuri
Strange
Niah
Roman
Flynn
Raynor
Explosions + Assault Squad
Banner
Scarlet Witch
Vision
Marvel
Cass
Maria
Tinley
Before her death, Bonnie had tried to keep tabs on Niah's emotions and comfort the younger Sci-Tech grad whenever possible. She didn't have powers like the rest of them - Bonnie hadn't been able to create force fields or burst into flames, yet her absence was still felt. The Invisible Woman though stepped up to fill that particular void. Susan walked over to Niah and gave her a slight hug. "Hey, don't worry about it, this plan we'll work, and it'll be alright, don't worry about it too much, okay?" Doom was watching her, a slight smile concealed behind his metallic mask.
"You mean his head - you cannot rip off his dead," Doom obnoxiously corrected Maria. The innocent smile of watching Susan had changed into one of smug satisfaction - of course, it wasn't like anyone could actually see his face in order to notice that. They could probably sense the superiority he radiated though, as Doom was well known for being egotistical.
"I'll work on the machine," Shuri informed Tinley. "Technology is my specialty... And I owe it to the world to try." Despite being one of the youngest people in the room, Shuri's maturity and poise always seemed to shine through her words. It was understandable though - she was raised as royalty. Her life was never entirely her own, as she had to consider the wellbeing of an entire country depending on her. Now the world depended on her.
"I will remain here as well - to protect the machine and the Sanctum," Strange added. He then tossed the sling ring to Tinley, trusting that they would be able to successfully operate it in order to get to Ultron's place of operations.
"Guess I'll stay with the nerds," Raynor muttered. They already had so many people wanting to go on assault, so he figured he would stay behind and maybe be able to shed some light on the situation. At the very least, he wanted to go back in time and do whatever needed to be done in order to bring Sparky back.
"I can help to work on the machine and go with the time traveling group as well with Victor."
Captain Marvel nodded. "Great. Let's go then, boss," she told Tinley. Vision gave Tinley the coordinates for Ultron's headquarters - ironically, the Stark Tower in New York City - and he waited for her to open up a portal so they could all go through.
Meanwhile, Strange decided to answer Flynn's question as it had not been openly discussed yet. "In order to prevent the creation of Ultron, and given the time and location Dr. Bautista determined, we need to prevent Hank Pym from one day creating the device," he surmised. The problem with that of course was that they needed Ultron to rescue loved ones from the Quantum Realm. Strange conveniently did not remind them of that. The lives of the few did not merit dooming all of humanity.
Cassandra looked at Flynn for a moment and glared at him, she of course didn't like the idea of having to work with three villains that had tried to take over the world numerous times in the past. But Ultron was the one who ultimately won and they all had lost in the end as well. "I don't like working with them either, but we don't have anyone else to turn to so yes I would be fine making a deal with the devil to stop Ultron." Cassandra said towards him, and she really did want to slap him, but decided not to before turning and made her way towards the assault team. She looked over towards Roman and Niah, it was probably the last time she would see them as well. "Good luck, all of you."
Hearing the coordinates were at Stark Tower made her shake her head slightly the last time that she was there was with the whole OMEN thing, as she crossed her arms over her chest. Strange tossed Tinley a sling ring that would get them there instantly looking over at Vision for a moment. "So where in the tower can we cause the most damage anyway, and aside from Ultron and all of his drones who else should we expect what kind of defenses?"
Maria Smith
Location: New York Sanctum - New York Skills: (Captain Marvel's Flash Precognition/Cosmic Awareness/Hyper-Cosmic Awareness)
Maria looked towards Doom for a moment and rolled her eyes slightly, his comment rubbed him the wrong way before making her way over towards the others who were going on the assault team. Her attempt at using Captain Marvel's powers to Cassandra's question was pretty fuzzy and she didn't see who would be at Ultron's base of operations. "I tried seeing with your awareness powers, but didn't get what I wanted though." Maria said while looking over towards Vision.
"Are you going to be able to fight? We banged you up pretty badly.." Maria asked the android and then at everyone else who was going to be going. Maria looked towards the time travel group and gave a slight nod towards Roman, and left for a moment as she walked over and gave Niah a hug, it was probably the last time she would see her. "Good luck as well." Maria said towards Niah and the others before walking back to the others.
Niah nodded at Susan. She was determined to have this work. It had to. She had to fix everything that had gone wrong. If she told Pym about the secondary protocol, she could only hope he could fix it. They had to bring Sparky and Ryanor from the quantum realm. She also knew there would be no way to stop Pym from making Ultron after his wife went into the quantum realm and got stuck. So there was no other option. They would have to prepared to take Ultron out with a different secondary protocol. One that would fry him.
When Maria gave her a hug she leaned into it. She needed it. "Come back." She said before Maria pulled out of the hug. If she could change the past. If this worked. Her hand reached up to her necklace. There was a chance that she could change even more. Niah knew she would be in the past. She knew this would work, but the outcome was what she was worried about.
Tinley took the coordinates from Vison once everyone had picked out their teams. Two teams, two missions. Both critical in bringing down Ultron and saving everyone they knew and cared about. Every mission was important, she knew that, but this was more. This was vital. It would pave the way for the future and solve the problems of the past. They had to get it right or there would be further consequences and she didn't know if she had the strength to handle that.
Before she inputted the code to open the portal, she faced her team. Some friends, some enemies, but her team. All working together to take down Ultron. "This is it. Everyone knows where they are going and what we need to do. It is critical that we succeed. We have lost too many people and I will not stand by and let Ultron think he's won. We will prove him wrong. We will show him never to underestimate us. Mutants, Inhumans, mutates, and regular humans alike. We will bring him down. For Sparky, and Novikova, and Spider-Gwen, and Bonnie, and Tempest, and everyone else in the world that was taken from us. Do it for them and do it for yourselves. Let's go kick some ass." With that, she opened the portal with the coordinates and prepared to step inside.
Roman let everybody say their goodbyes and make their peace with each other. He let them go about their speeches and whatnot about how they needed to succeed on their mission. It wasn't that he thought himself superior to the group, or that he felt such like he was in charge. Rather, it was the fact that the young man did not feel like he had much of a place to wish them luck. Not after he had been the cause of one of their teammates dying in the field. Not when he was basically useless on the previous mission they had come back from so recently. He simply didn't want to go interact with everybody. Instead he wanted to get to work on their time machine, to get results and unfuck their world.
While everybody was busy with their discussions, Roman's datapad was already in her hands. Tapping away at, he was already trying to get a jump on the whole making a time machine thing. He wanted to get started with some of the calculations he could use to help everybody move the project along that much sooner. He didn't much envy the idea of staying here any longer than they had to. Each passing second was another which Ultron could've found them within. The last thing they really needed was for the tin can man himself to show up and ruin all of their lives. That would certainly put a dampner on their plan to unfuck their timeline.
Flynn essentially just glared at Cass, and honestly really wanted to punch someone. With what she was saying, he was close to either punching her or hitting her with a fireball, he hadn't decided which yet. All that mattered was that at the moment, they were with a horrible group of people, and no sane person would be perfectly fine with this. Then again everyone else was basically crazy at this point, so who would expect anyone to actually make any sort of rational decisions. This was going to end horribly, he was almost positive of that one.
He was still staying fairly quiet, feeling like Cass didn't really deserve a response from him, and he rolled his eyes slightly at the fact that Tinley felt the need to give a big speech of sorts. It was ridiculous in his mind, but he didn't really do much about it. There wasn't anything really to do. Strange's response didn't really answer the question in full, what were they supposed to do in the past to stop Pym from creating Ultron. Flynn had an idea though that he wasn't going to share with the others, at least not yet. He was planning on just killing Hank Pym.
New York Sanctum - New York: July 15th, 2021 - 9:30 P.M.
Just as a reminder as to who is on what team!
Time Travel Squad
Invisible Woman
Doom
Shuri
Strange
Niah
Roman
Flynn
Raynor
Explosions + Assault Squad
Goose
Banner
Scarlet Witch
Vision
Marvel
Cass
Maria
Tinley
The Vision instantly started doing the math and calculations as Cass asked him where they would be able to cause the most damage. "Stark Tower is powered by a submerged arc reactor core," he then said robotically. "If the core were to malfunction, it would lower a majority of Ultron's defenses - I calculate 87%. Miniaturized arc reactors perform as emergency generators throughout the tower and could be used as explosive devices with a predicted success rate of 96%."
"Ultron employs a variety of criminals, however the majority of them are not permitted in Stark Tower," he continued. "The main defense would be a variety of artificial intelligences, including Danger and Jocasta." His eyes then darted over towards Maria as she asked him whether he would be able to fight. His body had been slowly conducting repairs for the damage that they had dealt to him. "I am at 54% capacity." The synthezoid didn't seem too concerned about going off to fight, but then again, emotions seemed to be a hard concept for him to grasp.
"I want the cat," Wanda then said, eyeing Goose.
"Mrow?" Goose said, walking over to Wanda and looking at her.
"When you see the machines, you destroy them, okay? Be a good murderous kitty."
"Mrow..." he said, nodding his head before he started rubbing up against Wanda and purring. Wanda then picked up the kitty and let him perch on her shoulder, before going through the portal after Tinley with a stony expression. Captain Marvel gave a salute to the rest of the people here, before she went on through and Banner awkwardly shuffled, knowing that he would pretty much be taking the backseat while the Hulk drove.
Once everyone going on the assault team had gone through the portal to Stark Tower, the portal would automatically close behind them. Doom had gone on over to Roman, sizing him up briefly and smirking underneath his mask. "Who are you supposed to be?" he taunted. The Invisible Woman rolled her eyes, but didn't say anything - it was a losing battle, trying to get Doom to be nice to other people. Old dogs couldn't learn new tricks.
Raynor went over to Flynn, figuring he would let the science nerds get to things. Dr. Strange had gone off to handle some mystical matters for the moment, retreating farther into the Sanctum. Shuri was making sketches, trying to figure out how to incorporate vibranium into a design for a functioning time machine - something that was either completely possible or completely impossible. She loved achieving the impossible through science.
"So, what are we going to do about Pym?" Raynor muttered, glancing at his fellow knucklehead. "Whatever we do... It keeps Sparky safe," he then added, more or less telling Flynn his conditions.
Now, making a functioning time machine is going to take a while... And no one really wants to post for countless rounds about trial and error. The genius squad is now off the normal passage of time. We'll just let this round include all of the work to make the machine and get it ready to go. Next round, you guys get to go back to the past - so make sure to have a date, time, and location picked out!
Stark Tower - New York: July 15th, 2021 - 9:30 P.M.
Once through the portal, the group would find themselves on the sidewalk outside of Stark Tower. The iconic letters were no longer illuminated, but the tower itself glows red from just about each and every window. Ultron drones are swarming around the building, shining search lights down below. They have about three minutes before one of the drones spots them, so they'll need to get inside the building quickly. The only obvious entrance is the front entrance and it requires a code to be entered on the keypad in order to open the doors. The sling ring won't be able to get them inside either - there seems to be some sort of interference that is preventing it from forming a portal inside the tower.
"Allow me," the Vision said, inputing a code and the screen flashed red. "... The code must have been changed..."
"Yeah, screw that," Captain Marvel muttered, before blasting the doors with her powers. It wasn't the most subtle entrance, but it was an entrance nonetheless. "Let's go inside, shall we?"
Location: New York Sanctum - New York -> Stark Tower Skills: Season Manipulation
Cassandra looked towards Vision and nodded slightly, hitting the arc reactors would be their best bet then which was a good enough plan for her anyway. "Alright then we hit the arc reactors and upload the virus at the same time." Cassandra said, and listened towards Tinley and nodded, she wanted to make sure that Ultron would become crippled as much as possible. As soon as Tinley opened up the portal with the sling ring she stepped through the portal. Looking up at the tower before her reminding her of her last mission with the X-Men during the whole OMEN thing which was pretty bad with them being attacked by Sentinels there as well.
Seeing all of the Ultron drones in and around the tower was really bad as well, looking at the others for a moment, she closed her eyes as she started to concentrate and used her powers to make it winter. Hoping that it would at least mess with the drone's scanners, and would make it harder for them to detect the team, Maria decided to do the samething as well. When Maria used her powers on Cass she instantly felt very dizzy. "Hopefully it will do more and slow them down.." Cass said as she slowly walked into the tower's main entrance with everyone else as soon as the door was opened.
Maria Smith
Location: New York Sanctum - New York -> Stark Tower Skills: Power Absorption (Cass's Season Manipulation)
Maria listened to Vision and nodded slightly not that she really actually cared about the robot that killed Spider-Gwen in the first place, at least they would just be dealing with more robots then any of the other villains that didn't decided to join them, and they were far away from the tower. "Awesome, more terminators and cylons to kill." Maria said, she wanted to just kill every single robot there was especially Ultron more than anything. She looked towards Tinley for a moment she still blamed her a little bit for Novikova's death, didn't say anything to her, before stepping through the portal.
Maria looked towards Cassandra for a moment before taking off her glove, when Cass nodded she went over and took some of her powers, and started to test the ability first. And made it winter as well, Maria quickly stepped forward and made her way into the tower as soon as Captain Marvel opened the door for them.
"My thought for Pym is warning him about the secondary protocol. He didn't know there was one. If he can edit the code so instead of going psycho it self destructs that would be ideal. Then we get everyone back from the Quantum Realm, and Ultron doesn't happen. I also need to make sure I send off the postcard." God it bugged her, that postcard proved she would time travel, but the paradox surrounding it hurt. Fixing the timeline so Ultron didn't happen would cause her to have never written the postcard. She pinched the brow of her nose. Theoretically, she would remember both timelines but there had to be a way to fix it so everyone was happy. Niah looked at Raynor and Flynn. She wanted them both to be happy. Wanted both of their partners to be alive and well and to not have suffered. God, she wanted all the suffering all of them had had to be fixed. She couldn't do that though. She couldn't see a path that made everything okay again. Nothing would bring them all back she was going to have to choose who would live again. Her heart twisted and she turned away from Raynor and Flynn not wanting them to see the emotions she was certain were playing on her face.
"Shut up Doom. If you're not going to help go sit in a corner and stop hindering. Niah snapped at the dying man. "Carter, figure out how to code devices to keep track of us on the other side. You'll have to set it so it brings us back to the future to here in the Sanctum preferably, but there won't be a return device on this side if all goes right because we won't have built it. Susan can help with the biometrics side of things." Another frustrating snag, would that even work? Or would they be stuck in the past? Turning to Shuri. "We will need to travel to San Francisco. I'd say the early morning of March 5th, 1984 is our best bet. I sent the card in mid-afternoon that should give us plenty of time." She wished she had had more time to learn about the history of Pym and what might be different about March 5th 1984 and any other date they could have picked. Niah took a spot next to Shuri to discuss options for building a time machine that would work by sending them one direction and the handheld things Carter was working on would bring them back. She would cite pages from Pym's books as needed.
Flynn was continuing to not really pay too much attention to just about anyone else. They were starting to talk about the science or whatever it was behind creating a time machine, and all of it went straight over his head. It didn't matter though, he was still somewhat set in his course of action, and then Raynor walked over and spoke to him. Thinking for a moment, he decided might as well tell someone who might understand his thinking, "...I don't care what the others say about it, what are the odds they'll be able to just walk up to Pym and get him to fix the code or something? No... I was leaning towards just killing Pym before he creates Ultron and being done with it..."
"That dooms Sparky - she's trapped in the Quantum Realm without Ultron," Raynor muttered. "What's your solution for that?"
"...I don't know, kill Fury?"
The Asgardian thought it over for a moment, before he nodded slightly. "Okay then...." he agreed. Sure, he had no idea what the ramifications on the timeline would be but he had to assume that the X-Men would be able to handle Loki in New York if Fury wasn't around to assemble the Avengers. "Do you know where Fury is? Would be convenient to off them in the same trip."
"I believe he would have been working with SHIELD back then still, just not as the Director or anything like that."
"Oh, fun. Pym was with SHIELD back then too - maybe we'll get lucky then and they'll both be in San Fran."
"Let's not tell anyone else what we're going to do... Since how much do you want to bet they'd stop us or something?"
Raynor chuckled slightly. "No wonder you betrayed OMEN. Alright, punk. We'll do this the dirty way."
"Not gonna lie, a little surprised that SHIELD didn't seem to care about that whole thing, but honestly. What SHIELD thinks doesn't exactly matter, since SHIELD no longer exists. The ends justify the means if you ask me, so when they get that machine up and running and we go back let's see if we can find Pym and Fury before they do."
Location: New York Sanctum, New York -> Stark Tower Skills: N/A
A bit miffed that her speech seemed to fall on mostly deaf ears, she opted to continue on. She didn't care anymore. She had a goal in mind and that was the eradication of Ultron and preventing him from getting what he wanted. If it meant her death, so be it. The others would live on in her stead and those who had fallen before will be brought back. She felt a twinge of nerves about the others on the time machine mission. She hoped they didn't fuck it up.
She entered the portal to Start Tower. Vision with them, he entered the code. The screen flashed red and it appeared like he might have betrayed them. She would have loved to gouge his other eye out, but Captain Marvel blasted a hole entrance for them. "Subtle, but doable. Let's go kick Ultron's ass then." She followed along, prepared to unleash the hell that had been building up since all of this started.
The man stood silently as everybody went about their business, then turned his attention away from the others and towards his tablet. Immediately the man was engrossed with the work he had on there. He started with the basics, trying to figure out what each step of the process would require. Though it wouldn't be long before he recognized he was wholly unequipped to solve this problem on his own. Looking towards the others, Roman went to ask for help as his mind was already working away at the issue.
Then turning back to his work at hand, he became quickly engrossed and never noticed Doom approaching him. Hearing the sudden voice, Roman looked up in surprise as he hadn't been expecting the villain to approach him. "The guy who doesn't need to hide his face behind a mask." Was all Roman said towards Doom before moving towards Niah. Looking over at the woman, Roman let out a small sigh of irritation. "Doom is a bit of an ass. Anyways, I'm not convinced on how safe Time Travel will be, I think I could probably get some designs up for a form of suits, gadgets, gear and such that might facilitate us surviving the trip a bit better." He suggested towards Niah, looking at her to see how she felt about his suggestion.
Baskin Robbins - San Fransisco: March 5th, 1984 - 10:00 A.M.
The 1984 Squad
Invisible Woman
Strange
Niah
Roman
Flynn
Raynor
After what felt like an eternity of trial and error, they managed to produce a functioning time machine. Partnered with the machine were specialized battle suits, though Strange declined to wear his, preferring his Cloak of Levitation. They did not have enough resources in order to send everyone back in time, so Doom and Shuri ended up staying behind in 2021. For Doom, the reason was obvious - he was neutral at best and pure evil at worst. They had only needed him to help them build the time machine. Shuri then remained behind since they needed someone in 2021 that was a competent fighter and could make repairs to the machine if needed. This left Niah, Roman, Flynn, Raynor, Susan, and Strange to go back in time - to attempt to end the Age of Ultron before it could even begin.
"... I believe we miscalculated the coordinates," Strange mused as they landed in 1984, crashing to the ground. While they had gotten the date, time, and general location correct, they ended up inside of a colorful ice cream establishment called Baskin Robbins. Their white, red, and black custom suits made them stand out like a sore thumb and Strange's cape had flown off of him and was going around the store like an excited dog, meeting new people.
Raynor couldn't help but chuckle slightly. "Wow..." he shook his head. "I'm getting huge Scoops Ahoy vibes from all this," he mused. "Hey, doc, any chance you could get us all a change of clothes?"
"I'm Doctor Stephen Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts, Defender of the New York Sanctum, and Sorcerer Supreme," Strange prefaced, the top of his lip twitching slightly as he fought back a smile. "I believe I can arrange something." He then started waving his hands around in intricate patterns, as the poor employee behind the counter stared at them with a slack jaw, and Strange transformed everyone's outfits into ones appropriate for the time period.
"Um, we aren't open for another hour..." the employee mumbled. "So... you guys need to leave."
"Sorry for the interruption, we do not mean to intrude..."
The startled employee then fell to the ground with a thud, having fainted. Doctor Strange sighed slightly. "Shall we then? Dr. Pym should be at the nearest S.H.I.E.L.D. facility - which I believe is the Hub."
"Let's get going then."
"So how are we getting there - magic? Since I highly doubt you can just take an Uber over," he quipped.
Stark Tower - New York: July 15th, 2021 - 9:40 P.M.
Explosions + Assault Squad
Goose
Banner
Scarlet Witch
Vision
Marvel
Cass
Maria
Tinley
TLDR: 17 drones remaining
As the climate suddenly changed from the middle of summer to a thick winter, snow started rapidly falling down. The drones surrounding the building picked up the sudden fluctuation in the atmosphere and with all of the data they had collected throughout this nightmare, they were able to calculate the high possibility of some sort of super powered individual causing the winter storm. While Cass and Maria had attempted to hide them from the drones with their winter storm, they instead essentially put a spotlight on the team.
"Oh, subtle is my middle name, lady," Marvel told Tinley with a smirk. Light was pooling around Carol's hands like flames and with Dr. Banner shuffling in awkwardly next to her, it was hard to believe that he was the ex-Avenger and not her.
"I am not picking up any alarming transmissions," Vision offered, having been scanning the frequencies.
"Fantastic," Scarlet Witch rolled her eyes, as she glanced around the lobby. It was more or less what you would expect for the former base of operations of Stark Industries. There was a desk in the middle with a computer and a collection of coffee cups. The elevator was on their left and seemed to require some sort of key card or code to operate it, but on the right was the staircase. Stark Tower was over ninety stories tall and given Ultron's vanity, it was safe to bet that they would need to get to the top floor. "Toaster, where in this building do we need to go?" Wanda asked, her eyes narrowed slightly.
"The weapon is kept on the roof of this building - Ultron will be on the penultimate floor."
"So since we can't trust the elevator, since tech in this building is prone to kill us, we... Oh you've gotta be kidding me, the stairs?!" Banner explained. Sometimes, his transformation into the Hulk was rather predictable. Punch Banner, get a Hulk. Take Banner's lab away from him and discredit him, the Hulk comes out. But on other occasions, Banner's temper got the best of him and he just screamed as he shifted into the other guy in moments, his shirt ripping away as the green monster replaced the scientist.
"HULK HATES STAIRS!!!!!!!!!"
"Hey big guy, why don't you go outside and smash some drones, huh?" Captain Marvel suggested, motioning outside. Her idea couldn't have come a moment too soon as the glass walls in the lobby shattered completely as the drones flew inside. The snow wasn't really slowing them down too much and there were about thirty drones in total. The Hulk let out a roar and jumped, crushing about seven drones beneath him all on his own, but unfortunately the green brute wasn't too intelligent and he just kept on punching the already defunct machines.
Goose sort of rolled his eyes towards the Hulk, more or less saying I'm better than you, before the tentacles shot out of his mouth and wrapped around one of the drones, flinging it into another drone and they both exploded. The kitty then licked his lips triumphantly.
"Bah, I always hated technology," Wanda muttered, trying to pull a few of the drones down but she just couldn't get a grip on them. Captain Marvel was ripping drones apart with her bare hands, smirking and having a good time as she did so. The Vision was trying to take down his robotic brethren as well, but he kept on phasing uncontrollably, likely from the extensive damage already done to him.
Location: New York, Stark Tower Skills: Enhanced Condition & Hand To Hand Combat
Cassandra entered the building and looked around at the barren lobby for a moment, she didn't like the idea of using the elevator or even the stairs either. "Well the stairs will be loads of fun going up." She said taking a moment as she looked at the snowstorm she and Maria had made, but then he sudden sound of glass shattering as thirty Ultron Drones came bursting into the lobby. Rolling her eyes slightly before running over to he closest drone.
The drone annoyingly moved to the side of her just as she attempted to punch it, before turning around and managing to land a good punch in the side of it's head denting it. Before Cassandra punched it again directly into the chest plate of the drone her fist coming out the other end before pulling her arm back out jus as the Ultron Drone fell down and then turned to make her way towards the stairs. "We cant stay down here for long." Cass said knowing that they would just send more drones after them.
Maria Smith
Location: New York, Stark Tower Skills: Archery (Cass's Season Manipulation)
As Maria entered the lobby she took out her bow and switched to EMP tipped arrows, as she looked around she would rather use the elevators rather then going up a couple hundred flights of stairs to get to Ultron. Just as the glass in the lobby shattered Maria backed up somewhat as she notched an arrow as thirty drones came flying in. Hulk starting to take down several of them, as her attention turned towards a few targets.
Managing to fire off ten arrows, only for most of them to miss, and three of them were shot, and they suddenly shutdown the moment the EMP charge went off. Maria looked between both Vision and Wanda seeing that the two of them were having trouble smirking slightly before pointing out. "You guys make a cute couple, since you guys are having some trouble, even the cat is doing better right now." Maria pointed out as she watched Goose for a moment as the cat managed to take out two with no problem.
Tinley charged forward with the others as drones came along and followed them. She took out her batons that she had grabbed back at the base. She cast a sidelong glance at Vision, remembering one of her earlier batons she had embedded in his eye. She swung around and hit a drone, knocking it down before she stomped on it with her foot. Hulk hulked out. "I mean, same though. Fucking hate stairs." Soon, he was off and everyone was getting into the fight. Even Goose. Damn cat was useful, she had to admit.
She pressed onward. "If he's up, we go up. He'll be expecting us now and probably ready, but we need to do this." More drones. She threw a baton at one and lit it up, crackling the drone into nothing before she summoned the baton back. She then flipped around and cracked another with the other baton, sending it flying to the side. "As badass as we look killing these things, we need to go onward." She pressed onward, going up the stairs, ready to fry more drones if they bothered her.
Flynn had the plan in the back of his mind, the idea that he and Raynor had to go essentially kill Pym, since in his mind the guy deserved it and didn't deserve to be around. Especially because his creation resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. If Pym wasn't dead in their time, odds were that Flynn would have killed him himself if possible for what he ended up causing, same for Novikova really since she had helped him to finish building Ultron. If this works and he remembers what happened, part of him would just see about killing Novikova anyway or something for all of this.
Flynn rolled his eyes slightly at Raynor's quip about not being able to take an Uber. "Is now really the time to make jokes about that?" he asked, shaking his head slightly at him. He hoped that whatever they did to get to SHIELD it would hurry up a bit, so that way he and Raynor could see about getting away from the others in order to find Pym and Fury themselves. In order to hopefully stop them from causing anymore problems. He was just going along with killing Fury because that's what got Raynor on his side. His main priority was killing Pym, since that would stop Ultron from being created.
Location: Baskin Robbins -> outside Baskin Robbins - San Fransisco: March 5th, 1984 Skills: N/A
Niah started walking toward the Hub after leaving the very confused Baskin Robins employee. "Not an Uber, but taxis exist. Though there might be too many of us to fit in one. There might be bike rentals, but that would require cash cause I'm pretty certain none of our credit cards will be valid." Segways hadn't been invented yet so they probably couldn't do that. Or maybe just public transit, though that would require cash as well. Niah frowned, she had been so concerned with getting to 1984 that she didn't think about paying for sending mail or transport. "None of you happen to know the number for the Hub? We could use a payphone and call them collect."
She grinned at the absurdity of the idea. Yep just call Fury collect and let him know they were there from the future to stop Ultron from taking over the world. Even being the person who was saying it sounded fake. Like some sort of stupid prank call. And Fury wouldn't even be the director of SHIELD at this time, but SHIELD existed. It was a place that people were at right at this moment. It hadn't been destroyed and everyone was still alive. Heck, most people Niah knew weren't even born yet. She wasn't born yet. Her sister was an infant in the Philippians. Daliasy was alive.
