Find Me / Save Me (Bucky x Reader)

Thirty-Two

All of a sudden Thor barges in and grabs hold of Stark by his throat, holding him up. I find myself smirking. Serves Stark right.

"Come on. Use your words, buddy." Tony reacts to Thor's anger.

"I have more than enough words to describe you, Stark."

Steve steps in, as usual. "Thor! The Legionnaire."

Dropping Stark from his grasp to my disappointment, Thor turns to Steve. "Trail went cold about a hundred miles out, but it's headed north, and it has the scepter. Now we have to retrieve it, again."

"The genie's out of that bottle. Clear and present is Ultron." Natasha says as she gets up from her chair.

Dr. Cho, who I hadn't even noticed was still here speaks up softly. "I don't understand. You built this program. Why is it trying to kill us?"

Tony starts laughing. It takes all my restraint not to punch him right then and there. I feel (Y/N) move a little in my arms and it brings my attention to her.

"Hey." She whispers softly.

"Hey doll." I smile back at her and help her sit upright on my lap. She turns her attention to Tony upon hearing his laugh.

"You think this is funny Stark?"

"No. It's probably not, right? Is this very terrible? Is it so... is it so... it is. It's so terrible."

"This could've been avoided if you hadn't played with something you don't understand." Thor said, his own anger in check now.

"No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It is funny. It's a hoot that you don't get why we need this."

"Tony, maybe this might not be the time to—"

"Really?! That's it? You just roll over, show your belly, every time somebody snarls." Tony looks at Bruce incredulously.

"Only when I've created a murder bot."

"We didn't. We weren't even close. Were we close to an interface?"

"Well, you did something right. And you did it right here. The Avengers were supposed to be different than SHIELD." Steve spoke up, he glanced a look my way and took a deep sigh when he noticed (Y/N) was awake.

"Anybody remember when I carried a nuke through a wormhole?"

The whole group collectively sighs and groans.

"No, it's never come up." His best friend jokes.

"Saved New York?"

"Never heard that." Rhodes continued.

"Recall that? A hostile alien army came charging through a hole in space. We're standing three hundred 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 end game. How were you guys planning on beating that?" Tony was scared, more than he cared to let on. I could see that. Did the others see it too?

"Together." Steve simply replies.

"We'll lose."

"Then we'll do that together, too."

All of sudden (Y/N) speaks up, for the first time everyone notices she's awake. "Ultron is calling us out. And it's not just us. It's the human race."

Everyone faces pale a little. Collectively they let her words sink in. We stayed quiet for a second, until Steve finally spoke up softly. "How do you know that (Y/N)?"

She got up from my lap to her feet. Outstretching her hand, she helped me up. "I can't explain it. I don't understand it much myself. But we're somehow connected. He showed me."