A Complicated Business

[The Vision]

Vision flung his body left in mid-air, narrowly dodging the tsunami of bullets. He decreased the density of his body to near nothing to dodge the next wave. He pushed himself forward, whizzing over the soldiers. As they tried to get a bead on him, he vanished into the ground. A few seconds later, he rose from the asphalt behind the soldiers, shooting a laser at the soldiers' feet while landing on his own.

He had been playing this deadly game of cat-and-mouse for a few minutes, trying to buy as much time as possible. He threw a punch at one soldier's face, doing his best to only knock her out. It was difficult to assess what measure was non-lethal due to the troops' dependence on Sugarcane. For example, this particular soldier was coughing blood and teeth onto the street, though the punch should only have given her a small bruise. Another soldier smashed a pipe against Vision's face, but Vision had increased his density to be harder than diamonds - the pipe bounced uselessly off of the android's nose. He once more took off, phasing his body through the soldiers and causing them to flinch.

Suddenly, a hook latched itself onto Vision's cape. This should not have been possible, for the cape was currently a vacuum. Vision's confusion was answered by the painful jolt of an electric current flowing through the grappling hook. A taser. Of course. Electric currents disrupted the Vision's molecular structure while he was altering his density, essentially shutting them down.

Vision fell to the ground from 15 feet in the air.

As he crashed haplessly onto the wet street, other soldiers followed suit and shot their tasers at Vision. With his primary defensive maneuvers deactivated, he felt the full brunt of the assault, once again feeling the very human emotion of pain. He writhed in a puddle, muddying his green and yellow exoskeleton. He wanted to contort his face into a scream, as was the instinct of many humans, but unfortunately he could only grit his teeth in agony.

One soldier - who Vision recognized, given her toothless and bloody mouth - pointed her rifle at Vision's temple.

"N-N-N-No..." the android stuttered.

He had underestimated the fox's militia, and now he was likely going to need a new body to pay for it. Unless he had some sort of back-up file to access, that is. Vision found himself almost wishing he hadn't purged Skynet from his system.

Almost, he reminded himself, as he remembered how he hurt Frisk.

Frisk. He had promised Toriel to keep her safe, despite the likelihood of the little girl being severely injured. And to the best of his abilities, Vision needed to keep his promise. This was not a matter of logic. This was a matter of duty.

He finally got up to his knees. He heard - no, felt - the soldier's finger on the trigger. Her teammates were shrieking at her, presumably ordering her to finish him.

There must be somethi-

ERROR: antivirus programs failing

Splendid. As if Vision's situation was not desperate enough-

ALERT: adaptoid takeover imminent

Vision blinked.

"A... Adaptoid?"

Opening AdaptoidFiles.zip
Running "mjolnir.exe"...

Vision's fingers suddenly tensed, the tips shooting short beams at his palm. The android was unsure what was happening, and neither were the soldiers. The woman holding the gun stopped shrieking, eyeing the spectacle that was Vision's glittering right hand.

Vision's mouth opened spontaneously. He felt a program in his head shuffling around memory files, specifically searching for a sound file.

And he found it. It was an old friend from his home universe, the voice that so often brought him hope and just as often filled him with despair. Even now, Vision felt hairs stand on the back of his neck from some sort of static energy. An odd feeling, given that Vision had no hairs... at all. The sound file held words said in the voice of this friend.

That same voice rang from a speaker inside the Vision's mouth.

"Mjolnir! To me!"

Suddenly, a very familiar hammer tessellated in his hand, layer by layer forming the iconic shape. The other soldiers watched in awe as Vision gripped the handle of Mjolnir.

"Face the might of THOR!"

He squeezed his eyes shut to focus. Then he gripped the handle of hammer with both hands and swung it with all of his strength in a circle.

When he opened his eyes, Vision saw that there was a ring of fallen soldiers, groaning and wheezing from pain. Mjolnir crackled in his hand.

Vision shrugged and said in his own voice, "I suppose this is acceptable."

He clubbed an approaching soldier with Mjolnir, knocking him into a small crowd of hostiles. He sniped a distant soldier with a heat beam, tripping another soldier. One more wave of troops was left - and Vision knew just what to do. He jumped into the air (with great effort - Mjolnir was extremely heavy) and swung the hammer down. As the Vision landed, a shockwave exploded, sending bolts of lightning that shot through the straggling troops.

> scan_vitals(all)
Scanning...
41 of 43 alive, 2 of 43 conscious, 36 of 43 requires medical attention

Two dead. This was sure to upset Captain Rogers and his other teammates. Though it was an accident, of course. He'd deal with that later. Two were still conscious. The first was sure to be the Vision, who was included in the scan. So there was a second.

Vision promptly found the squirming soldier. The android approached him and carefully dropped the hammer on his stomach. Shortly after making impact (and rendering the last soldier unconscious) the hammer deconstructed.

Vision lifted his body into the air and flung it towards where Captain Rogers had gone. It was likely that both he and Frisk needed help.

"Adaptoid," the robot muttered as he soared through the storm.