CHAPTER 134

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I patiently waited in a hotel ten blocks away from the Avengers tower, counting the seconds for the A.I Avengers to regroup so that the narrative of this dungeon could continue.

So far, Thor, Nat, and Clit were already in the tower, seemingly waiting for the rest, at least that's what I assumed based on what I could see on my minimap, as for the rest, they were already on their way to the tower, some closer than others.

With a sigh, I hopped to the bed and turned the TV on with my telekinesis.

"Watching TV inside a simulation," I snorted, my snort eventually turning into a laugh, "Oh god," still laughing, I opened the minibar in my room, grabbing some drinks and snacks to eat while I watched TV.

Doritos, Pepsi, and some Oreos, just what the doctor had prescribed.

"Well time to wait," I sighed, focusing on the tv, for now.

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Two movies later, the avengers had finally regrouped, and so, I moved to spy on them, mostly to follow the narrative up close, otherwise, I might lose sight of something, I barely remembered the plot of this movie, besides Ultron going bananas on the world, everything else felt distant so to speak.

Right now, they were all in their living room, doing nothing, in complete silence.

"Who was that guy?" Tony was the first one to break the ice.

"I have no idea," Nat replied, looking at Tony with a small frown on her face, "He let us take the scepter,"

"He did?" Steve asked, with a thoughtful look.

"Yes, when we found him, he was sitting on the floor, right beside the scepter like a beaten child," Clint nodded, and I frowned at that, while accurate, it hurt to hear it.

"Maybe he wasn't our enemy…" Tony sighed, going over to his bar to serve himself a drink.

"Then why did he fight us?" Steve asked, frowning.

"I may or may not have blasted him with a rocket or two," Tony replied, in a rather low tone for him.

"So, Tony antagonized him," Bruce sighed in an irritated manner. "Now it makes sense,"

"Hey… what did you want me to do? I found him inside the base," Tony shot back, hands in the air, "I mean, what else could be inside an enemy base? Besides enemies?"

"Hostages?" Nat replied.

"Yeah, the moment I said that I knew I was wrong," Tony sighed, slumping into his seat.

"So, we attacked a Hydra hostage?" Steve said, in an unsure manner, taking a seat, "I… I don't think so, I mean, he managed to defeat us with ease, and we defeated Hydra with ease… it just doesn't make sense," he was right, I am no hostage, no anymore.

"Maybe he was infiltrating," Clint sighed, "I mean if he wasn't our enemy, and he wasn't a hostage, then he was doing what we were doing, but working for someone else."

"Maybe," Nat nodded.

As they continued to talk, I entered the room and sat on the second floor, where I would be able to keep hearing their conversation and be around when Ultron decided to appear.

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Eight hours later, and a lot of talks about me, Tony and Bruce moved to a lab, to talk about what I assumed was the making of Ultron, which had me so far on an edge, I mean, first time I spend more than a fucking day on a dungeon, as cool as it is, I was getting appallingly bored.

In the lab, Tony and Bruce started talking about AI, and stuff, I really didn't pay their conversation much attention until a line caught my attention, a line I remembered from the movie.

Snapping out my half-sleep trance, I looked at the two and focused on their conversation.

Tony smiled, "Meet the competition." with that said, he pressed a button on his phone, bringing up a 3D map of what's inside the scepter, which would turn into Ultron in a bit.

"It's beautiful," Bruce muttered, taking a step forward to inspect the 3D neural map.

Tony Stark smirked, "If you had to guess, what's it look like it's doing?"

"Like it's thinking. I mean this could be a... it's not a human mind, it…" Bruce muttered, looking a Tony with an unsure look.

"With this… we could make Ultron a thing," Tony nodded, "With this, we could put a suit of armor around the world…" or fuck the world, one of the two buddy, one of the two.

"Tony, that's a big if…" Bruce sighed, "Besides… do we really need Ultron?"

"We do, just look at how this guy defeated us, without even harming us," Tony sighed, "He could've killed many innocents had he been bad, he played us, he took you and Thor out of the game with but a move of his hands, we can't fight enemies like him alone, we were lucky the guy wasn't bad, otherwise, he could have killed us, one by one,"

As flattering as that was, I wasn't sure I could kill the Hulk, maybe yeeting him into the sun would do, but beyond that, the Hulk could and would eventually overpower me.

"Tony he wasn't our enemy, we already discussed that," Bruce shot back, a frown on his face.

"But what if he had been?" Tony replied, "We need, this…"

"The team won't like that," Bruce replied.

"Then let's not tell them, all we need is three days, three days for Jarvis to download the data, and we are good," Tony said, almost begging.

"I… we can try," Bruce sighed, caving to Tony. 

"Good, after all, we need a suit of armor around the world, to face threat like that," Tony smiled.

Yes! Ultron here I come bab– did they say, three days? NO!

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Three days, three fucking days, watching Tony and Bruce working on Ultron, I was… bored beyond human, celestial, and godly comprehension, I was so bored I had counted how many times Tony and Bruce had blinked since I entered their lab.

Tony 52.157 blinks.

Bruce, 49982 blinks.

The point was, I was bored, but soon my wait would come to an end, with Ultron coming to be.

At times like this, I miss the skip button games have, to skip all the non-action-related parts.

I really hope the reward for this dungeon it's worth the absurd amount of time it's taking.