New York, a New Life Furnace Plan

Huff... huff!

Tony Stark watched the two of them barely make it onto the plane. Wanda panted heavily. The beautiful woman looked utterly disheveled, her clothes covered in mud and her expression guarded.

Tony Stark set the plane to autopilot and donned his armor, leaving only his face exposed.

"Relax, Wanda. That guy sent me..."

He walked over to Vision. This powerful hero, who in a sense had quite a few ties to him, lay on the floor in an extremely weakened state. His Vibranium body had been pierced straight through by something.

Wanda understood Tony's implication. Her guard lowered somewhat, but did not disappear completely. Over the past year or so, she had experienced things far beyond what the other Avengers could imagine.

Those people who appeared and vanished so mysteriously seemed to desperately covet the Mind Stone embedded in Vision's forehead. There was simply no predicting what form they would take or what identities they would assume when they struck.

"Who was the enemy? Hydra?"

Tony asked. The so-called trio led by Mercenary Tao had told him that the group attacking New York consisted of Hydra members. He judged that the people who had attacked Wanda and Vision were most likely part of the same group.

Wanda was not sure either. As she used magic to stabilize Vision's condition, she searched through her memories.

"Maybe. Or maybe not. Those people... were strange..."

Wanda walked to the plane window and looked down at the dark earth below. Every now and then, flashes from explosions could still be seen.

The group that had appeared last was not the same one that had attacked them earlier. They were fighting each other as well.

She was already having trouble figuring out where all these people had come from.

Tony Stark secretly brought