"You know, of all the ways for the world to end, I figure this is only the second or third worst."
The comment is light and bone dry, like maybe she's commenting on how beautiful the weather's been the past three days. Conversation for the sake of conversation. But the list of topics has considerably narrowed over the last - what, five or six weeks? Ever since it all went to hell.
Ever since Ulton won.
At least - at the very least - the team had been able to stop Sokovia from crashing into the earth. But Ulton had a back up plan. Twenty sentry units in a factory on the other side of the world, working around the clock to get new units up and running while the Avengers were busy in Eastern Europe. They'd been completely blindsided. The only thing they could do was scatter in teams of two and go radio silent, hoping that at least one team would survive. Maybe find a way to stop Ultron. It was a big maybe. But it was better than nothing.
Which brings them to the sad little cave they've been holed up in, waiting for some semblance of cloud cover to come back so they can continue their trek north. It's literally never this nice in Eastern Europe. It would be funny if it wasn't starting to get so annoying. Natasha's head tips to the side a little as she looks over at Steve with a half smile. "I think the first is - "
He sentence clips off abruptly when she hears the familiar sound of one of the Ultron sentries moving through the sky above. They have the patrols timing down to a matter of twenty seconds now. But more importantly - they know exactly how long it takes for the sentries to upload information back to their mainframe. Thirty seconds.
She gestures for Steve to go first, and then holds her hands up to indicate she wants to use the shield as a spring board. There will be at least two sentries. If he can get her up there to start taking out the first one, it'll call out the second so he can throw the shield at it.
Maybe. Maybe today's the day their luck runs out. But they're both determined. And she'll be damned if she gets taken out by a robot before she makes it to Siberia.
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for abide - ultron won au
The comment is light and bone dry, like maybe she's commenting on how beautiful the weather's been the past three days. Conversation for the sake of conversation. But the list of topics has considerably narrowed over the last - what, five or six weeks? Ever since it all went to hell.
Ever since Ulton won.
At least - at the very least - the team had been able to stop Sokovia from crashing into the earth. But Ulton had a back up plan. Twenty sentry units in a factory on the other side of the world, working around the clock to get new units up and running while the Avengers were busy in Eastern Europe. They'd been completely blindsided. The only thing they could do was scatter in teams of two and go radio silent, hoping that at least one team would survive. Maybe find a way to stop Ultron. It was a big maybe. But it was better than nothing.
Which brings them to the sad little cave they've been holed up in, waiting for some semblance of cloud cover to come back so they can continue their trek north. It's literally never this nice in Eastern Europe. It would be funny if it wasn't starting to get so annoying. Natasha's head tips to the side a little as she looks over at Steve with a half smile. "I think the first is - "
He sentence clips off abruptly when she hears the familiar sound of one of the Ultron sentries moving through the sky above. They have the patrols timing down to a matter of twenty seconds now. But more importantly - they know exactly how long it takes for the sentries to upload information back to their mainframe. Thirty seconds.
She gestures for Steve to go first, and then holds her hands up to indicate she wants to use the shield as a spring board. There will be at least two sentries. If he can get her up there to start taking out the first one, it'll call out the second so he can throw the shield at it.
Maybe. Maybe today's the day their luck runs out. But they're both determined. And she'll be damned if she gets taken out by a robot before she makes it to Siberia.