Thread:Almondheart/@comment-33208273-20180912101949/@comment-33208273-20181107090615

Fanfic "Civil Union" comes out in 20XX/XX/XX!

Synopsis: (basically the Avengers version of my brainmade movie, Operation Shendak) Movie Director Leyenar Oh plans to bring Ultron to justice...in the most unexpected way! Will she succeed, or will it end up in the most disastrous results?

~A Cut Scene Meant For Almondy~

"Show me the play."

Nervous glances were shared before Steve said, "Well, we haven't exactly got a script yet."

"Then tell me what it's about," Nat said amicably, picking up her champagne. She waited patiently, no trace of her earlier anger at being interrupted in her expression.

"You mean the story?"

"Yes."

"Right..." Steve nodded, then turned to his left. "Ultron?"

Ultron balked. "Uh." There was no escaping the limelight—Natasha was watching intently, as were Steve and the others. Even Tony was looking at him with a mixture of pleading and intrigue, and Ultron wished he could tune out the other eyes and the garish room until it was just the three of them. And that was when inspiration struck. "It's about love."

"Love?"

"Yeah," he said, nodding to himself. "Love overcoming all obstacles."

"What kind of obstacles?" Natasha said.

He thought for a moment. "Loneliness," he said eventually, "and duty."

"The struggle between head and heart," Steve added.

"Doing what you know is right and what you know is wrong," T'Challa said.

Tony helpfully added, "And it's set in summer."

"In New Orleans." Ultron said. "When an iron forged knight, and a..."

"A star spangled soldier." Steve gave him a wide-eyed side glance, and he smiled.

"An iron forged knight and a star spangled soldier," he continued, "fall in love. But they cannot be together."

"Because the knight has to go to war," Clint said, but Ultron corrected him.

"Not just any war—a highly secretive intergalactic war, one he's been specially trained for. So he goes to the soldier and he asks her if he'll wait for him." He looked at Steve as he spoke; "He wants to be mad at him, but he realizes that he has no choice, and that he never knew he would fall in love with him so fast." Nat's eyes widened minutely, and the corner of her mouth twitched.

"Is that it?" she said, sounding unimpressed. "Even I can tell that is not an exciting love story."

"There's more," Ultron said, putting out a hand to stay her. "What the knight doesn't know is that the soldier is already expected to marry someone else."

The spy raised an eyebrow. "Who?"

"A beautiful, wealthy, and deadly spy," Sam said. "The woman who trained the knight for this secret war."

"But he doesn't know this," Ultron said, picking up on Sam's idea, "not at first. When she finds out, though, she tries to send the knight away earlier—"

"So the knight sends the soldier a message," Steve interrupted, "asking him to run away with him!"

"Which he agrees to," Tony agreed.

Ultron decided to round up the plot before it go too farfetched; "And so they meet in the middle of a summer's night—with the whole of the spy's henchmen looking for them—and sneak away to live happily ever after together."

Natasha mulled over what she'd heard. "And how would the knight get a message to the soldier?" she asked. "Surely if he's been sent away early, they would have no time to correspond?"

"He has a high-tech arc reactor!"

Everyone turned to Clint. "A what?" Peter asked.

"I don't know," he said, shrugging. "Maybe he just...thinks of him and the reactor writes it in mid-air, or something."

Eagerly, Tony nodded, adding, "And the message appears on the nearest surface."

"Which is also how the spy finds out they're in love," Ultron finished.

“It’s full of excitement, espionage, forbidden love and drama.” Clint cried.

“Not to mention there are explosions, mechanics, and laser lighting!” Tony chimed in.

Still thoughtful, Nat turned her gaze to Steve. "I take it Steve is the soldier?"

"I am," he said proudly.

"I'm the knight!" Scott declared, quickly raising his hand.

"Fine. Then I'll be the spy." Maria Hill smirked at Ultron. "I always wanted to try my hand at playing a narcissistic—"

"I'll be the reactor," Wanda cut in, "writing whatever Scott tells me to wherever I can."

"I'm Leitron, the knight's secretary robot." said Ultron. "A robot who will become somebody great, the absolute ruler of a technology-infused alien race known as the Phalanx."

"Don't you think it needs a little something else?" Natasha said, bringing everyone's attention to her. "Like... a death?"

Immediately, everyone protested. "Nobody comes to the Avengers Mansion to be reminded of death," Wanda said. "They come to live out their dreams, their fantasies, to be reminded that they can and should be happy."

"Exactly," Ultron agreed. "And what's better than seeing love overcoming all adversaries?"

The Russian studied them all a moment longer, her eyes lingering on Steve. Tony's heart hammered in his chest, but before he had time to wonder at that, Nat lowered her hand, and, with a single nod, said, “I like it.”