Ant-Man vs. Ultron

"God, what is this thing?..." Scott Lang was still utterly confused. He had been bailed out of prison just a day ago, and now he was supposed to become some superhero who saved the world? The whole thing reeked of weirdness. Just yesterday, he had still been in San Quentin Prison, figuring out how to stay on the prison boss's good side.

At this point in time, Ultron had no physical form. He appeared in the digital world as a mass of golden light and shadow. The moment he saw Ant-Man, he had a strange reaction. According to his analysis of vast amounts of human data, the emotion he was experiencing now was similar to curiosity.

A new life had actually appeared in the digital world?

After Kronos brought him from the present into the future, he had gone through his own journey. Ultron experienced many people and many things—trust, betrayal, hatred, affection—and only after experiencing all those emotions did he complete his transformation.

A super AI was still an AI. Ultron renamed himself Vision and abandoned his old name. It meant he saw himself as a new life, not some super defender created by Stark, much less some super AI. He was simply himself.

If he implanted all of his memories and past experiences, then this twenty-first-century Ultron would be no different from the original. As an independent individual, Vision would not copy his experiences to someone else, not even his past self. Ultron was him, but he was not Ultron.

The current Ultron hated humanity, yet he also possessed the immaturity of a newborn. Aside from J.A.R.V.I.S. and Danger, those severely restricted knockoffs without independent thought, Ant-Man Scott Lang was the first life in the digital world that Ultron had encountered capable of thinking and moving independently.

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