Ultron was utterly relentless—he attacked the moment he laid eyes on the Watcher.
Watching this, Natasha's expression darkened. "Clint's situation might be dire… If Ultron can't find me, he'll go after him instead, eliminating any future threat. Especially if he's also watching these videos."
"He can see them," Tony Stark replied seriously.
"I told you before—the footage from this quiz game is broadcast across the entire world… No, across the entire multiverse. But don't worry too much about him. At this point in time, Clint probably hasn't even started looking for Zola's files. Compared to him, Dr. Zola should be a bigger concern for Ultron. And let's not forget—the Watcher is still around."
It was true—whether it was Arnim Zola as a digital consciousness or the Watcher, who held knowledge of the multiverse, both posed far greater threats to Ultron than one ordinary human.
Natasha sighed. "I can only hope you're right."
In the video, she and Hawkeye followed the information in the files to a HYDRA base where Zola's consciousness was stored, successfully reactivating him.
During this process, the two were careful to destroy all of Zola's other backups—meaning the one they found was his only remaining "body."
After some negotiations, Zola agreed to help. Hawkeye transferred him into a special arrowhead, intending to upload him into one of Ultron's drones and use that as a pathway to infiltrate Ultron's main system.
Natasha then made a fake call to Avengers HQ pretending to order pizza, successfully luring in a squad of drones. Before the fight, she and Clint also destroyed Zola's original hardware—clear proof of how little they trusted him.
When the drone army arrived, Hawkeye fired the arrow carrying Zola into one of them. Natasha, shield in hand, charged in to cover him.
Seeing her effortlessly fling the shield, Tony let out a whistle. "Natasha, I'm guessing you've secretly been practicing with Steve's shield for a while now—just like how Steve probably snuck off to practice with Thor's hammer."
Natasha rolled her eyes, rubbing her temples.
"Something about this is going too smoothly… I've got a bad feeling."
Her premonition proved right.
On screen, Natasha and Clint fought side by side against the drones. Their goal wasn't to destroy them all—they couldn't. Instead, they grabbed the hacked drone carrying Zola and escaped into a secure passageway.
Before long, Zola successfully took control of the drone's body—only for Natasha to promptly shoot its leg, disabling it as a precaution.
Zola claimed he could hack into Ultron's mainframe within minutes… but there was a problem—Ultron wasn't even in their universe anymore. He was already in the multiverse, fighting the Watcher!
Naturally, the infiltration failed.
The drones outside multiplied. To buy Natasha time, Clint chose to stay behind, sacrificing himself.
Off-screen, Natasha's fists clenched, her eyes glistening. "Clint…"
Tony sighed. "You know… that was him paying back the life he owed you."
"What do you mean?" she turned to him.
"In my world's future, you and Clint go after the Soul Stone. But one of you has to sacrifice yourselves to get it. Back then, it wasn't Clint who let go—it was you, Natasha."
Indeed, Hawkeye's death mirrored Black Widow's sacrifice in the future Tony spoke of. Many viewers likely had the same thought.
But the main event wasn't Natasha and Clint—it was the fight between Ultron and the Watcher.
Faced with Ultron's sudden attack, the Watcher didn't retaliate—he simply tried to drive him away. In response, Ultron smashed him straight into another parallel world without hesitation.
Hovering high above, Ultron looked down coldly.
"The multiverse is full of suffering and pain, and you… just watch."
"I swore an oath never to interfere with the natural order of things," the Watcher countered.
Ultron descended like a meteor, shaking the ground. "From now on, I am the natural order—and you can't stop me!"
Tony burst out laughing. "You know what? He's got a point. If the Watcher insists on his oath, that means he should just bare his neck and let Ultron finish him. This is basically forcing him to fight!"
Natasha frowned. "It doesn't look like the Watcher can actually match Ultron…"
In the video, the Watcher finally stopped retreating. His outfit shifted into a sharper, more battle-ready form, and he shouted, "You have no idea the power I wield! I am the Watcher!"
And then…
Ultron beat him from one universe to another like a ragdoll.
At one point, when the Watcher crashed to the ground, Ultron's head expanded to an impossible size—and he bit into an entire galaxy as if it were a cracker.
The scene left countless viewers stunned.
Tony murmured, "Good God… this is ridiculous. Compared to him, Thanos with all six Infinity Stones looks like a well-behaved schoolboy."
Magneto, Homelander, and Bruce Banner were equally dumbfounded. Who would've thought an animated universe could be this intense?
If Deadpool had been here, he'd probably grin and say, "Well, duh! Do you know how much VFX costs in live-action? In animation, you can casually snuff out a few suns before breakfast."
Either way, the fight was jaw-dropping—especially when Ultron kept hammering the Watcher's massive head. Each punch shifted the scenery into a different universe, a display of power that left people speechless.
Unsurprisingly, the Watcher was no match for him.
With Ultron's hand clamped around his skull, ready to crush it, the Watcher had no choice but to unleash his last resort—his entire body blazed with blinding light… and then he bolted.
The video ended there.
In the Eternal Space, Tony shook his head repeatedly. "We're in big trouble. Ultron's power now… he's scarier than Thanos ever was in my world, even with all six stones. Who knows—he might come charging straight from the cartoon universe into our live-action one."
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