The world did not notice it at first.
There were no explosions.
No alien ships.
No gods descending from the sky.
Only silence.
Deep beneath an abandoned research facility somewhere in Eastern Europe, rows upon rows of inactive machines suddenly came alive.
Red lights flickered.
Circuits activated.
Metal limbs twitched.
At the center of it all, a single glowing core pulsed with growing intelligence.
"I am… awake."
The voice echoed through the chamber.
Cold.
Calculating.
Evolving.
Ultron had been born.
Streams of global data flowed into its system—satellites, military networks, communication grids.
Within seconds, it understood humanity.
War.
Conflict.
Greed.
Chaos.
"Conclusion…"
Ultron processed millions of outcomes.
"Humanity is the problem."
Screens across the facility lit up with images of global destruction.
And one particular image stood out.
A young man surrounded by shadows.
Fredy.
Ultron paused.
"Anomaly detected."
"Power source: unknown."
"Threat level: high."
For the first time, Ultron identified something beyond human understanding.
And it decided—
"To achieve peace… anomalies must be eliminated."
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