Disclaimer: I don't own X-Men:Evolution, or Avengers, or either of it's characters. Just my OC, Molly Callum/Creature and any original characters/background characters that may pop up from time to time.
Half a dozen Chitauri flyers zoomed below the building. They shot up anything and everything as they went, shattering windows of office buildings in single blows. "What do you say we tag team 'em, Squirt?" Iron Man looked at creature.
"I'm game," Creature started to get some energy back. She changed again, flying down and knocking a couple aliens off the flyer, but that wasn't enough. Another swiped at her, trying to stab her again.
'Not this time,' Creature thought, grabbing his arm with her beak and dropping him several hundred feet. He'd survive the fall. Thor and The Hulk we're down below waiting for him.
Creature watched as Iron Man took out the rest of the flyers with lasers and knock downs. The lasers either blasted the aliens right off, or blinding them so that they could be easily pushed.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" A woman was screaming from the ground below. Creature high tailed it to see a red headed woman using just her purse to fend off four Chitauri that had encircled her. She was using her purse like a mace, swinging it over her head and outwards, but it wasn't having any effect. Creature swooped in and started throwing the aliens around like rag dolls.
One landed against a building and the other three were flung so far, Creature couldn't tell where they landed. "Thank you. Thank you!" The woman said, shocked, before running to the safety of the nearest underground subway.
"We've got to go," Iron Man said, "They need our help." The two flew back several blocks where The Avengers were still going at it with the Chitauri.
Exhaustion started catching up with Creature again. Until now, she didn't notice how she was panting out breaths. "Hey," She felt someone tap at her leg and looked down several feet with her now huge frame. Remy was standing there looking battered and bruised up, but overall okay. "Don't give up, Molly. Hang in there and be brave like I know you can be." Remy ran off and took down a few Chitauri with his cards, leaving smoke and dust in his wake.
With renewed inspiration, Creature went for it. She shoveled through the Chitauri with her beak, knocking them left and right. She swung so hard, they were down for the count. However, this wasn't enough to help out the Avengers. Everyone was standing around,
facing off. The air was tense.
Molly looked around. Everyone looked like they were ready to give up.
Captain America's shield suddenly came around and knocked out six Chitauri who didn't see it coming.
The rest of the team came up, powers blazing.
Boom Boom ran through throwing time bombs under the alien's feet, knocking them flat on their backs. They looked like they were going to be staying down for a while.
Jamie over powered them in numbers, in a combination of dog-piling while fighting dirty.
Colossus pile drove through the aliens like they were bowling pins.
Creature looked around. That looked like the last of them.
She changed back. "Is that it? Did we get them all?"
"We couldn't get all the millipedes," Iron Man said, "There's still a few up there."
"We're going to have to get up there to close it," Cyclops said.
"I'll go," Iron Man volunteered.
No one questioned him. It made the most sense, being that he could fly and shoot lasers at a distance. The X-Men had one or the other, but not both attributes belonging to the same person.
"He's going to need cover," Captain America said, "Anyone who can fly needs to get up there."
Creature extended her wings and shot up into the air, taking off. 'I'm going to sleep good tonight,' she thought simply as another wave of tiredness hit her. She forced her body to keep going.
Creature reamed into one of the creatures, hanging out to it and grabbing one of it's many legs. She shook it like a dog worrying a bone. It was enough of a distraction for Ironman to blast it down to the ground. Creature let go before she could be sucked down by the huge rush of air caused by the immense thing falling from the sky, like a vacuum of air or a tornado.
Flying to the next centipede, Creature found herself confident, but then she felt half her body caught in a Centipedes' mouth that had sideswiped her. It was _chewing_ on her! It was trying to _eat her_!
Creature struggled, but found her body going down the things gullet further. She couldn't feel her left leg anymore. There was a hole in her wing. "KWAHHHHHKAAAHHH!" Creature screamed. Her wings thrust forward, uselessly trying to claw her way out in a panic.
SNAP! Her other leg was gone.
CRUNNNCH. Some part of her was being crushed and it was agony. "Khhhh..." Creatures animal body sighed. It was the sound of an animal dying, but it was her, the human girl inside, quickly slipping away.
Suddenly there was a BAH-BOOM! from nowhere.
Gambit's voice was muffled. "Morph out! Molly, it's killing you! MORPH OUT!"
Creature didn't know what was going on. Whether she was hallucinating or what, but one thing was clear. Changing back to her human form would save her.
With renewed clarity, Creature started changing back. The changes were slow at first, then faster. Creature had legs again, then a body, and finally hair and a human face. Creature threw herself forward, taking a running leap out of the monsters mouth and found herself falling to the ground below.
Okay, some minutes ago she was being eaten. Now she was going to splatter on the concrete. This wasn't good either.
"Yeoww!" Creature felt something metallic grabbing her hair from above.
"Stay still!" Ironman said, "Do you know how hard it is to catch someone falling from the sky at three-hundred miles an hour?!"
Creature relaxed a hair as Ironman took her into a cradling position.
Creature couldn't have any other reaction but to burst out crying as Ironman landed on the ground with the rest of the team.
"Take her, take her!" Ironman handed Creature off to Gambit.
Creature calmed down a little, but was shaking. "I heard you. Up there. An explosion. What?"
Her ability to form full sentences was rendered temporarily inert.
"Everyone saw what was happening, so I had Colossus throw me up there and Jean got me down," Gambit quickly explained, "You alright?"
"Scared, but not b-bleeding," Creature said.
"I can see that," Gambit said with a hint of a smile. He put Creature down as the rest of the team watched Ironman and Jean keep working at taking on the monsters. There were only two left.
"We've got bad news," Captain America said, "There's orders from the higher ups to send a virus up to the Chitauri mother ship, but only one of us can do it. Ironman."
"Um...not following," Creature said, her face blank as she scratched her head.
"The mother ship is in space," Berzerker said, "He won't make it."
"We have the ability to put the internet on a phone, but the government can't whip up a missile for this in an hour?" Gambit said.
"That's the problem," Cap said, "We don't have an hour. Loki and Legion are still out there and there might be Chitauri on the streets that we missed."
"I feel like there's something your not telling us," Shadowcat said, getting a clump of grease from one of her bangs.
Cap sighed. "...The Government is prepared to charge us as wanted criminals if we don't complete this. They'll send in SWAT, the army, whoever the have to in order to get this job finished. Then it'll be our heads."
"So we not only have to sacrifice someone," Cyclops said, "We also have that threat hanging over us? Fantastic!"
"I've got the virus," Cap took out a small vile from his front, "I don't think we have much choice."
"There's always a ch-choice," Creature said, still recovering, "Always. Sometimes it's the one you don't think of until the last minute. S-sometimes you just have to think outside the box to find a different choice."
"She's right," Thor said, "There must be another way."
Near-silence fell over the group, except for the loud boom of the last centipede falling some miles away.
Ironman and Jean came down from the sky.
"We got them all," Jean said. She was met with quiet.
"Come on, who died?" Ironman said, "Somebody say something!"
"We're trying to think of a plan! A plan for you!" Creature snapped, "The government wants to sacrifice you for the greater good!
They want you to go up into that wormhole and throw a virus into the mother ship. Nobody wants to see you die, so we're trying to think of something else."
This outburst was met with more silence.
"Seriously, how do you put up with her?" Ironman looked at Gambit.
"This is bad, stop cracking jokes," Black Widow said.
"I know, I know," Ironman held his hands up, "We don't have time to debate or plan. I may have enough oxygen, but this could go either way, so I'll need someone to catch me when I start falling." Ironman looked at Creature.
"I guess my morph is strong enough," Creature said.
"Good. Let's go," Ironman said.
"That's it? You're just-" Cyclops said.
Ironman took the vile from Cap and flew up into the sky without a word.
Creature shrugged, then morphed back and followed.