What If...?

Time.

Space.

Reality.

It's more than a linear path.

It's a prism of endless possibility,

where a single choice can branch out into infinite realities,

creating alternate worlds from the ones you know.

I am the Watcher.

I am your guide through these vast new realities.

Follow me and ponder the question...

"What if?"

We've seen this before,

a universe in the final days of destruction.

But this particular story...

This, this one breaks my heart.

Here they come. We got 90 seconds.

Start the clock.

We got 30 seconds until their signals reconnect with the hive.

All clear down below. Eighteen seconds, Clint. Clint?

That's not cool, guys.

No, don't say it.

What? "Need a hand?"

Come on. I feel like you should know me by now.

Puns aren't really my style.

We're getting rusty.

Couple more seconds and the Sentry signals would've

alerted the Ultron hive mind to our location.

Which is... where, exactly?

Home, sweet home.

Well, what's left of it anyway.

So you really think the secret to taking down Ultron is here?

It's Russia, Hawkeye.

Secrets were the national pastime.

The end of the world began with one man's dream.

I see a suit of armor around the world.

He saw a world of peace.

With the Mind Stone, Tony Stark created Ultron.

But Ultron only saw one path to peace.

The elimination of all life.

From puppet to puppet master, Ultron required one thing.

An organic body to call his own,

one that fused the powers of man, machine, and mind into one.

In your universe, the Avengers stole the Cradle

and used it to create the hero, Vision.

But in this universe, Ultron got his wish.

With the infinite power of the Mind Stone, Ultron began to lay waste to the planet.

Ultron's going after the nuclear codes.

I don't know if we can hold him off.

We have to take out the satellite network.

He can't launch the nukes without them.

You don't... You don't have to do this.

I made you for peace.

It's evolution.

Only a primitive mind would fail to see the distinction.

Which is why you have to die.

Emergency order 3-Alpha.

Code Red.

We're too late. He did it.

Laura...

At last, peace.

But the age of Ultron was only beginning.

Fascinating.

Wow, I see everything.

There are worlds beyond my own.

Worlds that need... me.

I'm going to bring about peace in our time

to every corner of the universe.

Listen, Skynet, I've seen the killer robot movie

and I gotta say, I really don't think it needs a sequel.

You have spirit.

You can't win.

I already have.

It... is done.

At last.

The realization nearly broke the machine.

With his mission complete,

Ultron was now just a program without a purpose.

The victor without a war, sentenced to spend all of eternity...

alone.

Who... Who said that?

Basking in the boundless silence of his universe,

Ultron ascended to a previously unattainable level of consciousness.

He became aware of another.

He became aware of the...

I see you.

There are universes beyond my own.

I have seen everything that has ever happened.

Ever will happen. Ever could happen.

And yet, what the hell is this?

If a hunger like that were to be unleashed upon the multiverse...

I will find you.

Even I cannot imagine the horrors that might follow.

No, no, no.

Even that machine is not as invincible as it might think.

There is still hope for this universe.

One last hope.

Oh, boy.

Welcome to the KGB archives.

Okay.

Have you ever seen Raiders of the Lost Ark?

Ever seen that?

Love that movie.

Your countrymen never heard of PDFs?

Hard copies are harder to steal, easier to destroy.

But code, code is slippery, and it never dies.

Yeah, I think we learned that the hard way.

So, where do we start?

Just pick a box.

Yeah.

Oh...

Clint? Clint?

Is this my color?

Come on. Don't try to make this fun, Nat.

My will-to-live meter is flatlining, okay?

Oh, you're so close.

The answer is right there.

I can show them. I can intervene.

I could save the multiverse and so many, many lives.

I will find you.

Come on. Look. Look.

The answer is right there.

Huh? Yes.

Ah, yes!

This is pointless.

Wait. What are you...

Don't sit down. Get up.

Get up, come on. You're human.

You keep hope against the worst of odds.

Hey, Clint, come on.

If we wanna take down Ultron, we need an AI that can combat his code.

- Yes, I know, but it's not here. - It's right there.

Sorry to break it to you, Nat,

the Death Star plans are not in the main computer.

The answer is right there.

We're gonna find it. It just takes time.

What are we going to avenge when we're 90?

You're frustrated. I get it.

I'm not frustrated. I'm not.

I'm tired, okay?

We've all lost so much.

And I'm not sure there's anything left worth fighting for.

He's already taken over every program on the planet.

Yes, yes. Every digital program.