This is my cross to bear
Ultron.

Or rather, Ultrons.  Everywhere.  They'd taken over the world in less than a day, killing the vast majority of the world's heroes, and crippled or captured many of those who had been left after that.  Only a handful had remained left to fight, but fortunately, among them had been some of the most dangerous to Ultron, including Anya Stark and Toni Rhodes.

But unless action was taken soon, humanity and the Earth was doomed to the Machine Empire of Ultron.

One of the plans drafted was a massive electromagnetic pulse.  One which would shut down any machine remaining on the planet.  It might well send humanity back to the stone age... but it would be an age without the tyranny of machines.  But the power needed to create such a thing did not exist.

Or at least, it only existed in one person.  Toni Rhodes.  All she'd have to do is take some of the mutant power booster drug they'd found a cache of, in their scrambling for a base.

Sure, it would probably kill her.

But humanity didn't have the time it would take to find other solutions.

So she would have to do this, without any of the remaining resistance knowing.  Because they would try to stop her from trading her life for the world's.

She stood at the age of their hideaway, a few steps away from their sensor-shield.  One puff, then step outside.  That was all it would take.