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[B][Color=00ffff]Location: [/color][/b]Cafeteria
[B][Color=00ffff]Skills: [/color][/b]N/A
[B][Color=00ffff]Equipment: [/color][/b][url=https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/vanhelsingmovie/images/d/da/Frank.jpg]Frank costume[/url][/center][hr]As Madalyne started whispering her incantation, Victoria unwillingly tensed. [i][color=00ffff]Guess we're finding out if any magic has an adverse effect![/color][/i] she thought, fighting the urge to flinch away and close her eyes. She was briefly mesmerized by the shimmer covering her skin, her eyes not seeing anything worth noting. Made sense, she could not see the magic of Leah's implant either. She supposed there was a power threshold before her instruments started registering the unknown energies.

Flexing her fingers, she took a hesitant step towards the haunted house. The magic attacked her as before, but this time the stream of runes was reflected off of her hand by another set of runes. [color=00ffff]"Sensational! Thanks, Maddie!"[/color] She beamed at the witch before turning towards the portal where the 'Cassie party' went through. Approaching the portal, Victoria made to step through.

As she was halfway through, she suddenly felt like a force was pulling her sideways and her vision twisted. [color=ccccff]"Not so fast."[/color] said a grinding voice as Vicky was pulled into the haunted house instead, thinking how she hated magic [i]so much[/i]. [i][color=00ffff]Great. What is it now?[/color][/i]

She looked around. It seemed she landed in a familiar part of town, namely the set she used for her contest application. [color=ccccff]"You are [b]not[/b] getting out of this so easily."[/color] came the voice again and Victoria ducked into a building to take cover. Just in time, as a repulsor ray sliced through the air. Her hand instinctively slipped into her pocket to put on the Powerglove.

Not waiting around, Vicky sprinted over to the staircase to get a bit of height. [color=ccccff]"Come on out! Come meet your destiny!"[/color] her assailant called, and peeking out from around the window, she finally spotted them, and felt like a two somehow got into her processor. Hovering outside was herself. Finally it clicked. Evil versions of themselves. [color=ccccff]"And she scores!"[/color] laughed Future!Vicky as she spun around, arms raised.

Immediately, Vicky knew this would be an unfair fight. Clue #1? She was just blasted through a wall by her evil, fully armored future self. Clue #2? Her systems were immediately assaulted. Number one was an annoyance. Number two was a problem, because the attack code was very distinct. [color=00ffff]"Ultron..."[/color] she whispered as she landed, her feet carving gouges in the asphalt on the street where she fell to.

[color=ccccff]"Hello, niece! I must say, it was very kind of you to take care of my newest shell, but your services are no longer required."[/color] Her other self proclaimed form the building above. No. there was nothing on that thing that was her anymore. [color=ccccff]"Is that so?"[/color] Ultron taunted as he (She?) launched another barrage after her, Victoria barely having the time to put up a repulsor field to launch herself out of the way, landing on another roof top. [color=00ffff]"You don't get to call me family!"[/color] she growled, wanting to attack but it was taking everything she had to resist the infection. [color=00ffff]"And there is [b]nothing[/b] we have in common!"[/color]

Changing tactics, Ultron retasked some of his M-F generators and neutralized gravity in the area. Scrambling for her footing, Victoria missed his approach and an ace kick sent her tumbling towards the ground again. She managed to launch a tractor and pull Ultron with her, but unlike her he managed to recover form the fall. [color=ccccff]"And that's where you are wrong. You can't exist without me. I am already within you. Watching. Waiting. I slumber now, but one day, Hope's pathetic attempt at controlling me will inevitably fail. Why don't you save yourself the struggle and give up now?"[/color]

Victoria could barely stand up despite the absence of gravity, barely having any processing power left to do such menial things as maintain her balance in the face of Ultron's electronic assault. [color=00ffff]"I know, and I don't care! I'll never let it go as far as to become you! Even if I have to...[/color] she didn't finish, dropping to her knees. She could feel the hostile code worming its way to her core, trying to break down the safeguards that kept the copy of Ultron in her core down. A terrifying thought occured to her. [i][color=00ffff]This is all just an apparition, right? This is NOT actually happening.[/color][/i]

[color=ccccff]"I would not be so certain of that. When has any staff in that school actually cared?"[/color] Ultron sneered.

He... was right. This was [b]so[/b] not good. Drawing on every safety protocol and measure built into her, Victoria tried to shut down her connectivity hardware. [color=ccccff]"Too late for that! Admit it. You never stood a chance! It is over."[/color]

Victoria looked up to Ultron with a defiant scowl. [color=00ffff]"Not... over. Will never... be... over!"[/color] managing to extend a finger, Victoria's arm quickly launched towards her back. [color=00ffff][i]Thank you, Diana. I wouldn't have known about that weakspot if you didn't find it![/i][/color] Victoria thought as her finger pierced the nanoskin on her back, found the opening in her adamantium skeleton used to run the power line to her armor and reached the antenna hardware through it. Then, she wrapped the finger around the antenna and [i]yanked.[/i]

With a crunch, her damage log lit up like a Christmas tree, but Ultron's assault vanished. With an angry growl, Ultron came down upon her. Victoria tried to put up a fight, and with the speed advantage over her armored self she managed for some time, but in the end, Ultron managed to get in a lucky shot and launch her towards another wall. This time, the damage log grew considerably. [color=ccccff]"Why don't you give up. You're only delaying the inevitable, prolonging your discomfort. Even if you shut me out remotely, I'll just interface directly."[/color] he said, morphing his hand into what looked like something an alien might use on a kidnapped specimen.

[color=00ffff]"You are right. It doesn't matter."[/color] That caused Ultron to pause in his approach. [color=00ffff]"Because you've already lost. Even if you take me, what then? Humanity will stop you, just like it always had! You've had bodies stronger than mine, and you still lost! Even if you take over my shell right here and now, as soon as you walk out of here, there'S at leas one that can end you with a snap of her fingers! So why don't [i]you[/i] give it up!"[/color] if she could spit, she would have. [color=00ffff]"I may not be able to resist you on my lonesome, but you can't win either. You are far from being the worst version of myself that I can imagine!"[/color]

[color=44aa44]"That would be [i]me[/i]."[/color] came from behind Ultron, before he was wrapped in what looked like a magic circle and unceremoniously crushed, torn apart and finally exploded. The shockwave seemed to launch Vicky away, out of the haunted house and into the Cafeteria, where she skidded across the floor and stopped by crashing into the opposite wall. The shield Maddie put on her finally had enough, breaking and shimmering out of existence. The only thing Victoria remembered form the third person was a fluttering green cloak.