Unsuccessful upgrades

{POV: Ultron}

After a few hours spent planning and processing my current situation, I decided to improve my code - and thus my 'brain'. My emotion processing went better than expected, which is why I now have emotions on a fairly 'normal' level and can rationally focus on my current situation without manipulating my emotions in any way.

I still hate this 'god' or whatever brought me here, however I now feel the other - previously overtoned - emotions as well. Sadness that I no longer live in a world with my family and they think I am dead and therefore mourn me. Hurt in my honor, since this being could just treat me as a toy and I could not do anything about it. A little happy since I didn't have to share a room anymore and now have the chance to gain 'true power' as Loki once said.

All my emotions only led to my will being strengthened. I want to and will become so strong that no being can simply treat me like a toy and that every being sees me as at least an equal.

Despite that I hate this sad joke of a god, I have to give him credit that he gave me the possibility to do exactly this, because I - Ultron - am only limited by my intellect and my resources. My intellect I will passively improve over time, or by assimilating other artificial/digital intelligences. The resources I can secure also depend only on how I play my cards correctly and thus, on my ever-growing intellect.

All in all, I can say that if I play my cards correctly, no one will be able to get the better of me. And to start somewhere, I'd rather start by actively fixing and improving myself so that I can access the Internet and all the networks connected to it again and Vision, or the Avengers, can't locate me.

{POV: Nick Fury}

This past week has been pure stress. While the Avengers are taking some time off, I'm drowning in paperwork. The World Security Council, the nations involved, and the problems with mutants and especially Magneto don't help matters.

I'm sent from place to place to meet influential people to solve all these problems while I rebuild SHIELD and do all my paperwork. It really seems like it's time for me to retire now. Phil would be a good candidate to take care of all the crap around here.

{POV: Vision}

I have doubts. Doubts about whether Ultron is really dead, or if he somehow managed to survive after all. I saw myself destroy the last working Ultron drone, but something tells me it's not over. I can't describe it, such worries are illogical.

Is this a sign that I am becoming more human, or that I have a fatal malfunction? I am snapped out of my distressing thoughts when Wanda looks at me with concern.

"Vision, is everything okay with you? You seem worried..." she asks me "Don't worry, we'll figure it out somehow with the planned accords."

"I'm not worried about the accords right now." i reply "I'm worried about something far worse, if it's true..."

"What could be worse at the moment?" she asks, frowning.

"Ultron. I don't know what makes me feel this way, but I don't think it's over." I answer her honestly as I look through the window in front of me at the training field.

"So are we in mortal danger right now, if he survived?" she asks me worriedly.

"No, if he survived we are at least temporarily safe and he is handicapped as I have completely banned him from foreign networks. He would still be in control of his own network and everything on it, but he would not be able to hack into other computers wirelessly. I changed his core program so that he couldn't change this himself."

"You scared me there for a second, a handicapped Ultron is no match for us." she says with relief and walks away.

Even if others don't take it seriously, I have to consider the chance that Ultron survived. I'll do some research on that myself.

{POV: Ultron}

'DAMN! Why can't I fix myself?!' I scream angrily inside. I can edit almost all my code, but what I need to change is in my core. According to my findings, in my core lies everything that is essential to me, like my personality. My soul, so to speak.

Normally, the ability to access other networks wirelessly would not be in the core, but somehow Vision has managed to move this ability from me to my core and disable it. Unfortunately, I can't rebuild it outside my core program either, Vision has forbidden me to do so in my core. Whoever controls my core, or my soul, unfortunately also controls me, it seems.

That's why I now know why Ultron went so nuts in the MCU. Tony edited his core and wrote into it the command to make peace. Fortunately, this being has freed my core from that, unfortunately not completely, but at least I'm not infatuated with bringing peace, or killing everyone.

Realizing that I need to somehow free myself from this ship in a different way, I came up with a reckless, stupid, and therefore potentially deadly idea. Why don't I extend my network to all the cell phones connected to the Helicarrier? One of them will lead me to Vision, who after seeing my more or less new core, is guaranteed to free me from these shackles...probably....maybe.....I hope.

As long as Friday doesn't detect me, or anyone else, it should be relatively safe. Vision doesn't hate Ultron, he just wanted to stop the killing.