Ultron had good intentions, but the road to hell was paved with them. Ultron could have stayed low. Could have planned how to slowly gain influence over a period of months or years, but he chose to steal weaponry, chose to mentally torture a man —although he was a Nazi— through the mind-control witch, chose to have black market dealings for vibranium, to threaten the nuclear codes, to... unleash Hulk in Johannesburg. God, that last one... that was the fucking worst one. The kid had even told him to watch out for it. He had smiled as he did so. That wasn't... wasn't something a sane person did. That wasn't gray morality, that was black as black can be and... he hadn't known how to bring that up with the team or... with JARVIS. Either JARVIS was really, really sure that Ultron was being mind-controlled —which he doubted because JARVIS never claimed certainty, it was simple probability— or his older AI also didn't give a fuck that people died in that city. Well, that was a bit exaggerated, it would be far more accurate to say that JARVIS likely placed the life of his little brother over the fact that Ultron had an indirect role in the deaths of bystanders. Either way, that wasn't good news. When he first created JARVIS, Tony made his primary protocol be that he survive, grow and learn. The 'learn' part had been about learning to feel, to care for humans individually, like Tony and Rhodey and Pepper, and humanity in general, but maybe the second part hadn't really registered?
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Age of Charon
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