--- May 2nd, 2015 - Avengers Tower, NYC ---

The party was raging.

Nearly a hundred or more people had shown up.

Steve was off playing pool with Sam Wilson.

Clint was speaking with Dr. Helen Cho.

And Bruce was off talking to Natasha.

Y/N, Thor, Tony, Hill were at the bar listening as James Rhodes told a story.

"Well, you know, the suit can take the weight, right? So I take the tank, fly it right up to the General's palace, drop it at his feet, I'm like, 'Boom! You looking for this?'," Tony, Thor, and Y/N just look at him blankly, "'Boom! Are you looking--' Why am I even talking to you guys? Everywhere else that story kills."

"That's the whole story?," Thor inquires.

"Yeah, it's a 'War Machine' story.."

Y/N just smiles awkwardly, "..Oh Well, it's a very good story..."

Thor chuckles, "Yes, It's impressive."

"Quality save," Rhodes tells them before asking Tony, "So, no Pepper? She's not coming?"

"No."

"Hey what about Jane?," Hill asks Thor before asking generally, "Where are the ladies, gentlemen?"

"Well, Miss Potts has a company to run," Tony tells her.

"Yes, I'm not even sure what country Jane's in. Her work on the convergence has made her the world's foremost astronomer," Thor says.

Tony nods before adding, "And the company that Pepper runs is the largest tech conglomerate on earth.. It's pretty exciting."

Thor nods at that before immediately replying, "There's even talk of Jane getting a... um, uh... 'Nobel prize'."

Hill, Rhodes, and Y/N all look at each other. Y/N was trying hard not to laugh at the pair.

"Yeah, they...they must be busy because they'd hate missing you guys get together," Hill says sarcastically, before asking Y/N, "What about you L/N? Got anyone special?"

The smile on his face dropped, and he looked back and forth between all of them. He just blinks as if lost in thought.

Then he says, "Uhh.. No?"

The other four look at him confused.

"Was that a question?," Rhodes asked.

"....Perhaps.."

Thor grows a wide smile at his brother, "So there is someone? That's wonderful, brother!"

Y/N then suddenly looked off to the side, "Huh, what's that?.. Sorry, guys, I'll be right back.. I think I heard Bruce talking about me across the room.."

Thor's brows furrowed at that, "I didn't hear--"

But before he finishes, Y/N just takes off into the crowd of people.

They watch as Y/N disappears.

Then Thor turns to Tony and says with a straight face, still on their 'debate', "But Jane's better."

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"Sounds like a hell of a fight, sorry I missed it."

Steve and Sam were walking up to the overlook.

"If I had known it was going to be a firefight I absolutely would have called you," Steve told him.

"No, I'm not actually sorry. I'm just trying to sound tough. I'm very happy chasing cold leads on our missing persons case. Avenging is your world. Your world is crazy."

They come to a stop overlooking the main room on the top floor. They look down at all of the people who came to the party.

They notice Y/N walking away from Tony, Thor, Hill, and Rhodes at the bar.

"Be it ever so humble," Steve replies.

Sam takes a sip of his drink, "You find a place in Brooklyn yet?"

"I don't think I can afford a place in Brooklyn."

"Well, home is home, you know?," Sam tells him.

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Steve, Y/N, and Thor are talking to a few elderly men at the party.

You know.. all of them the oldest people there.

Thor had a small flask and was pouring it into a glass.

"I gotta have some of that!," one of the men say.

"Oh, no, no, no. See this, this was aged for a thousand years, in the barrels built from the wreck of Grunhel's fleet, it was not meant for mortal men," Thor tells him, handing the glass to Steve.

Thor than pours two more, handing one to Y/N.

"Neither was Omaha Beach, blondie. Stop trying to scare us. Come on," Another old man told him, this one much more familiar.

"..Alright," Thor replies, pouring some of the drink into the 'Legends' glass.

Steve then asked Thor, "You sure Y/N should be drinking this? He is only 15."

"Relax, 'dad'," Y/N told him sarcastically, "I've been drinking since before that. Hasn't done anything then and it won't now."

Thor looks at Steve confused, "Yes, what's wrong? I have been drinking this since I was his age."

Steve just nodded then shrugged.

The three of them simultaneously downed their glasses.

A bit later, that familiar 'Legend' of a man was being carried away by two other guys, as he sang tipsily, "Excelsior~~"

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Much later, most of the guests have left and it's just the Avengers plus Dr. Cho, Maria Hill, and James Rhodes sitting around.

Thor's hammer sits on the table between them.

Clint was spinning around drumsticks, "--But, it's a trick!"

"Oh, no. It's much more than that," Thor tells him.

"'Ah, whosoever, be he worthy, shall haveth the powah!'," Clint mocks, "Whatever, man. It's a trick. Y/N can lift it, so I'm sure it's just strength over worthiness."

"You saying I'm not worthy?," Y/N jokes, "Why don't you try lifting it, Barton?"

Everyone stares at Clint.

"Come on," Tony says.

Clint looks at everyone, "Really?"

"Yeah!," Thor tells him with a grin.

Clint takes a stand and moves closer to Mjolnir. Everyone in the room watches with grins on their faces.

"Oh, this is gonna be beautiful," Rhodes jokes.

Tony adds, "Clint, you've had a tough week, we won't hold it against you if you can't 'get it up'."

"You know I've seen this before, right?," Clint says to Thor.

Clint wraps a hand around the handle of Mjolnir and then..

Struggles to even budge it.

It stays motionless on the table.

Clint start laughing as he lets go, "I still don't know how you do it."

"Smell the silent judgment?"

"Please, Stark, by all means," Clint insists, motioning towards the hammer.

Tony springs up to his feet.

"Uh-oh," Rhodes says.

"Oh, here we go," Natasha adds.

"Never one to shrink from an honest challenge," Tony says as he wraps a hand around Mjolnir, slipping his hand through the strap, "It's Physics."

Bruce rhetorically asks with a smile, "Physics?"

Tony turns to Thor, "Right, so, if I lift it, I... I then rule Asgard?"

Thor looks over at Y/N as the two grin at Tony and replies rather sure of himself, "Yes, of course."

"I will be re-instituting Prima Nocta," Tony tries to lift the hammer but it's immediately clear to see he cannot, "..I'll be right back."

Moments later, Tony was wearing on of his armored gauntlets, Trying to lift Mjolnir.

Failed.

Now both Tony and Rhodes were wearing armored gauntlets and pulling on Mjolnir. The rockets on each hand seemingly going into overdrive trying to lift.

"Are you even pulling?!," Rhodes asked Tony.

"Are you on my team?!"

"Just represent! Pull!!"

"Alright, let's go!"

They both pull as hard as they can.

Failed!

Bruce tries to lift the hammer, then suddenly he roars as though pretending to change into the Hulk. He stops as he slowly stops fake roaring with his arms spread wide comically.

He now just stands there nervously.

Everyone either looks at him warily or grins.

Y/N was laughing his fucking ass off.

Next up was the Captain, Steve.

He stood up and moves in front of Mjolnir.

"Let's go, Steve, no pressure," Tony jokes.

Y/N tells Steve, "If anyone else here could. It'd be you."

Steve wraps both hands around Mjolnir. He starts pulling on it pretty hard. Thor and Y/N watched with roughly the same grins.

Then.. almost unnoticeably..

Mjolnir budged a millimeter.

Thor's grin dropped immediately.

Y/N's grin grew wider as he looked on over at Thor. Now looking back and forth between the two. At Steve nearly moving Mjolnir and back to Thor clear look of alarm.

But, in the end, Steve still fails to lift it.

Thor laughs with relief, "..N-Nothing."

Steve took a seat.

Bruce looked over at Natasha and motioned to Mjolnir, "Widow?"

"Oh, no no. That's not a question I need answered," Natasha replied taking a swig of her beer.

"All deference to the man who wouldn't be king, but it's rigged," Tony said.

Clint nods, "You bet your ass."

Hill's eyes widen as she points at Clint and looks over at Steve, "Steve! He said a bad language word!"

Steve sighed then looked over at Tony, "Did you tell everyone about that?"

"You wanna talk about immoveable objects, then you guys should try lifting my ring. I doubt any of you could do so," Y/N says to them with a smirk, playing with said ring around his finger, "Not even you, dear brother."

Thor stops mid-drink from his glass, "You really think that tiny ring is more difficult to carry? If I'm worthy enough to lift Mjolnir, I'm sure I can lift your 'golden jewelry'."

Y/N just raises a brow.

He stands, removing the ring from his finger and placing it on his palm, "Go ahead. Try to take it."

The others in the room smirked as Thor took one big gulp of his drink then stood up next to his brother. He placed his glass down before turning to Y/N.

Thor looked down at the golden ring with the 'S' symbol on it and said, "Very well then."

He then reaches out to grab it, his fingers grasping onto the edge of the ring. Then he goes to lift it.. his eyes dart up to Y/N who had a grin.

The ring sat still in his palm, unmoved.

Thor grabs his wrist with his other hand and pulls, trying to lift the ring.

He lets go and looks at his Brother, "..You're doing something to it aren't you?"

Y/N chuckles and replies, "Hold out your palm."

Thor does so.

Y/N holds his ring above Thor's hand, "..Brace yourself."

He then drops it.

Then suddenly, Thor drops to the ground. His palm still out and flat on the ground, with the ring dead in the center.

The others tried to hold in their laughter as Y/N picked his ring back up.

As Thor pulls himself to his feet, Clint asks Y/N, "So what is it this time? Also 'Worthiness'?"

Y/N just grins at them, placing his ring back on, "Uh, both Worthiness and Strength actually. Except it's based on whether or not I think your worthy. Then that completely counteracts the weight of it."

"And how much does it weigh?," Steve asks.

"Well, it's made from a neutron star."

"I'm sorry, A neutron star?!," Bruce exclaims, "A teaspoon of material from a neutron star is like roughly 4 billion tons."

Thor thinks for a moment, "A 'neutron star'? Like Nidavillir?"

"It's actually made from Nidavillir," Y/N admits.

"Alright so, Y/N's ring is quite literally impossible for anyone to lift other than him since only he's 'worthy' in his eyes, and it weighs more than the planet," Tony jokes, "And Thor's hammer.. that's gotta be like an imprinted handle or something, right? 'Whosoever is carrying Thor's fingerprints' is, I think, the literal translation? It'd explain why Y/N, his brother, is able to lift it."

Thor grins at Tony, "Yes, well that's, uh, that's a very, very interesting theory. I have a simpler one--"

He gets cut off as Y/N lifts Mjolnir and flips it in his hand with a smirk, "You're all not worthy."

There's a chorus of fake groans and pretend disagreement from the others.

There's a loud screeching noise, like microphone feedback, causing everyone to cover their ears. They let their hands down as it fades, and Tony pulls out a small device. checking what the problem was.

One of the Iron Legion suits, heavily damaged, stumbles into the room.

Everyone who was still sitting stood as soon as they saw it.

"Woooooorthyy~.....," It drawls out, "Noo, you're right.. How could they be worthy? They're all killers."

It's damaged body jitters about as its arm stub points at most of them.

"Stark," Steve said.

"JARVIS," Tony calls.

"I'm sorry, I was asleep. Or... I was a- dream?"

Tony was tapping on his device in his hand, muttering, "Reboot, Legionnaire OS, we got a buggy suit."

"There was a terrible noise... and I was tangled in... in... strings. I had to kill the other guy. He was a good guy."

"You killed someone," Steve questioned.

"Wouldn't have been my first call. But, down in the real world we're faced with ugly choices."

Thor demands, "Who sent you?"

A recording plays of Tony, "'I see a suit of armor around the world.'"

"Ultron!," Bruce exclaims.

"In the flesh. Or, no, not yet. Not this... chrysalis. But I'm ready. I'm on a mission."

"What mission?," Y/N asked it.

It just swayed it's head in his direction, its insides glowing brighter at the sight of him, "Peace in our time."

The walls explode.

Several Iron Legion bots barge into the room. They fly at the others. Or most of them that is..

Steve kicked up the table and Y/N tossed Mjolnir over to Thor. Thor swings his hammer into one of the Legionnaires.

Nearly everyone went flying around the room.

Y/N looks around confused for a moment, as he noticed none of the Legionnaires came after him. They all went directly for the others.

Then he just ran and barreled into one as it came at Thor.

Tony and Rhodes hop a railing and down a level. But a Legionnaire catches up and knocks them both to the ground.

The Legionnaire fires at Rhodes and he gets knocked through a window down to a lower floor.

Bruce and Natasha vault over the bar as a Legionnaire fires at them.

Suddenly, Bruce lands directly on top of her..

In a rather difficult to explain position...

...His face got shoved into her chest..

His head quickly shoots up, "Sorry!"

"Don't turn green!"

Y/n grabs a Legionnaire from midair and starts slamming it into the ground. A bit like how Hulk did to Loki.

He then stops then immediately rips it in half before tossing it aside.

Steve leap and jumps onto one of the Legionnaire's backs. Then he gets slammed into the wall and knocked off, before rolling out of the way of a blast. 

The Legionnaire turns and fires at Natasha and Bruce as they run up the stairs. Natasha was firing blindly back with a pistol.

Tony was now hanging off the back of the same Legionnaire, jamming a fondue fork into it's neck.

A half-destroyed Iron Legion bot uses its thrusters to hold itself aloft, advancing on Dr. Helen Cho.

Ultron, still in the same spot, looked over at her, "Hmm.."

The Iron Legion slowly lowers its arm.

Suddenly Y/N grabs it from the air and throws it behind him.

Thor comes from above slamming down on it with his hammer.

Tony continues jabbing the fondue fork into the Iron Legions neck. It then shuts it down and it falls to the floor. Tony dropping with it.

Clint appears and throws Cap's shield to him, "Cap!"

Steve jumps up, catches it midair, and tosses it into the last Iron Legion. It slices through its stomach and its intact upper half drops to the ground.

Just in front of Ultron.

"That was dramatic! I'm sorry, I know you mean well.. Well.. I know one of you means well. You just didn't think it through. You want to protect the world, but you don't want it to change. How is humanity saved if it's not allowed to... evolve?," he picks up one of the dismembered Iron Legion bots, "With these? These puppets?.."

"No, no, no. You use people.. No more puppets," Ultron crushes the Iron Legion bot's head, "There's only one path to peace: The Avengers' extinction."

Ultron's disfigured head tilts over towards Y/N, "...Well, most of you, That is. They planned to replace you, Superman, amongst other things, did you know that? 70% of the world is against you. Do you know why?.. It's because you evolved. They're 'scared'. You're more steel than man--"

Thor cuts him off, throwing his hammer, and destroys Ultron's body.

Y/N watches as the light in Ultron's body flickers.

Thor calls Mjolnir back.

Before the light fades Ultron starts singing, his voice much more garbled, "...I had strings.. But now I'm free...."

Y/N stares as the light fades completely.

He looks down at the ground after hearing that..

He then mutters, "..There are no strings on me..."

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