A/N: I'm sorry guys. I've been meaning to get this chapter out but things kinda just keep falling sideways with family emergencies and work. I'm really, truly going to try and update at least once a week. This story is completely written so it's really just a matter of editing it and posting it. Again guys, I'm really sorry and thank you for sticking with this story even though it seems kinda hopeless, lol. :D

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Steve grabbed his shield that was sitting on a chair and attaching it to his back. "I'll take Natasha, Clint, and Katherine." Steve said to Tony as he walked in.

"Alright. Strictly recon. I'll hit the Nexus." Tony said. "I'll join you as soon as I can." They walked towards the main door side-by-side.

"If Ultron's really building a body…" Steve began.

"He'll be more powerful than any of us." Tony said, stopping to turn to the other man. "Maybe all of us. An android designed by a robot." Steve looked at Katherine as she walked towards them, rocking back on his heels.

"You know, I really miss the days when the weirdest thing science ever created was me." The Super Soldier said.

"I'll drop Banner off at the tower." Fury said as he pulled his coat on. "Mind if I borrow Ms. Hill?" He asked Tony.

"She's all yours. Apparently." Tony said to him. "What are you going to do?" Fury took a step before turning back to Tony.

"I don't know. Something dramatic, I hope." Fury said before walking away. Steve and Tony looked at each other before looking at Katherine.

"At least he's honest." She said, shrugging her shoulders.

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Dr. Cho's lab was destroyed and the woman was lying slumped against the wall. "Dr. Cho!" Steve called her name as he ran over to her. She sat up fully, breathing heavily. Steve knelt down next to her, grabbing a rag to apply pressure to the wound on her chest.

"He's uploading himself into the body." She said, looking at Steve and Katherine.

"Where?" Katherine asked, kneeling down on the other side of the woman. A small shake of the head told Katherine that Dr. Cho didn't know. She stood up and Steve moved to follow her but Dr. Cho held his arm as strongly as she could to get his attention. He turned back to the woman. "The real power is inside the Cradle. The gem, its power is uncontainable. You can't just blow it up. You have to get the Cradle to Stark."

"First I have to find it." Steve said to the woman.

"Go." She said, releasing his arm.

"Did you guys copy that?" Katherine said as she jogged out of the lab, her finger on her comm with Steve right behind her.

"We did." Clint answered.

"I got a private jet taking off across town." Natasha said. "No manifest. That could be him."

"There." Clint said, seeing something Steve and Katherine couldn't. "It's a truck from the lab. Right above you Cap. On the loop by the bridge. You got three with the Cradle, one in the cab. I could take out the driver."

"Negative." Steve answered while he was climbing some stairs to get onto the road, Katherine switching places with him so that she was behind him. "That truck crashes; the gem could level the city. We need to draw out Ultron."

"This should be fun." Katherine said to herself as she watched the truck coming. "Are we seriously going to do this?" She asked Steve and the man looked at her before running across the small highway to jump and land on the truck. "Apparently." Katherine said to herself as she jumped as well, landing solidly on her feet, manipulating the wind to help her stay upright. Steve rolled by Katherine, grabbing the back of the truck to hang by the doors. The woman yelped in surprise when the doors were blown open by Ultron. Steve managed to hang on as he was slammed into the body of the trailer. He was able to push off and get the door closed again before Ultron blasted both doors completely off. She watched as Steve flew into the air before falling. She looked over the edge to see Steve had landed on one of the doors that was barely hanging.

"Well, he's definitely unhappy. I'm gonna try and keep him that way." Steve said.

"You're not a match for him, Cap." Clint said through the earpiece and Katherine, even with the situation they were in, couldn't help but laugh.

"Thanks, Barton." Steve said quietly. He stood up, only to be blasted back into a car that was driving behind the truck. Katherine knelt down at the edge and looked down at Ultron standing in the doorway. She powered up before throwing a fireball at his head. Of course, the damage was minimal. He turned to her and she rolled backwards quickly as he shot an energy blast at her. She rolled onto her feet and jumped slightly when Steve landed beside her.

"Impressive." She said with a small smile before Ultron floated up out of the back of the truck.

"You know what's in that Cradle?" He asked. Steve grabbed Katherine and turned his back to Ultron quickly, his shield protecting them from another energy blast. "The power to make real change and that terrifies you." Steve released Katherine as they turned back to Ultron.

"I wouldn't call it a comfort." Steve said as he grabbed his shield and threw it. It knocked Ultron off the back of the truck before he floated to stay up, making the energy blast he was aiming at them miss. He came back at them; Steve blocked the energy a few times while Katherine blasted him with electricity and fire. The next time Steve threw the shield, it had gotten lodged in Ultron's chest.

"Stop it." The robot said before knocking his shield away. It dropped right off the truck into the road. Steve was hit with an energy blast that knocked him down to the cab of the truck. Katherine made a wind shield, hitting Ultron with it and knocking him back a few feet. In that moment, Katherine reached down and grabbed Steve's wrist, helping him get back onto the top of the truck. With a blast of wind under his feet, she helped him jump to Ultron's height. He wrapped his arms around his neck, holding on tightly as Ultron shook from side to side, reaching back to try and get him off. The robot was able to get a hand under Steve's arm and slip out from under it. When Steve's feet hit the top of the truck, Ultron grabbed him by the neck. Katherine glanced down when she saw Natasha on her motorcycle. She threw a fireball at Ultron, hitting him in the head. "You really think that's going to hurt me?" He asked, turning to the woman.

"Nope." She said, smirking. "Just a distraction."

"What?" Ultron asked as he turned his attention back to Steve. Natasha threw the shield, which Steve caught on his arm (thanks to the new magnetics Tony made) and hit Ultron in the head, knocking him down to the truck. He used the same magnetic powers he did to Tony on the ship to lift a piece of the concrete up, keeping Natasha from following beside them. He stood up and turned to the two heroes. Katherine hit him with a bolt of lightning before he recovered and blasted them with an energy beam. Steve was knocked onto another car's windshield while Katherine hit the ground hard. She felt her right shoulder pop before and extreme burning pain flared up in the area all the way down her torso. She gasped before sitting up. She heard the sound of metal crunching as Ultron tried to crush Steve with the car he'd landed on but the Captain managed to get away back onto the truck. Katherine reached up with her left hand and touched her comm.

"Nat, I'm gonna need a ride." She said, looking at the support pillar next to her.

'On my way.' She said. The brunette walked over and leaned her dislocated shoulder against the pillar. With a deep breath, she slammed her shoulder into it. The pain flared up worse but her shoulder had popped back into place. Soon enough, the pain should stop. She shook out her arm as Natasha slid to a stop in front of her.

"Need a ride?" The redhead asked with a smirk.

"Yep." She said as she got onto the back of the bike, holding onto her waist as she took off. "Clint," She said to the archer in the Quinjet. "Can you draw out the guards?"

"Let's find out." He said. The women watched as Clint had finally got a clear shot and opened fired on Ultron with the Gatling gun. A moment later, the two guards left the truck to go after the jet. Steve threw Ultron through a support pillar before the robot came back at grabbed the Captain, knocking them both into a train that was passing by the truck.

"I guess I'm hitting the train then." Katherine said to the redhead.

"I guess you are." Natasha said with a small smile.

"They're heading back towards you. So whatever you're gonna do, do it now." Clint said through the comm.

"I'm going in. Cap, Kat, can you keep him occupied?" Natasha asked Steve through the comm before looking back at the brunette behind her. Katherine rolled her eyes, MN was what they called her on missions with Mother Nature would take too much time to say. Clint did it as a joke and it had stuck…

"What do you think I've been doing?" Steve asked, panting.

"I'm on my way." She said, putting her hands on Natasha's shoulders to keep her balance while she put her feet up on the seat where she was sitting. With a blast of air, she managed to jump all the way from the bike to the back of the train. She looked back at Natasha when she landed. "Not bad for a first attempt at that." She said before easily finding the hole that Cap and Ultron made and jumping inside.