Freefalling with You pt 2 Ch 2

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.
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"Okay everyone, time to roll-out!" Cyclops ordered.


Molly got up, but she stopped, mid run, with most everyone else running out around her.
"What morph should I use? I hadn't had time to think about it."


"Just don't turn into anything too big, whatever you do," Remy warned.


The remains of the team rushed out, ready for a big show down.


Creature went with her old reliable tiger morph, rushing out and jumping onto the nearest alien on a low gliding flyer, catching him by surprise. Molly used all her weight to knock the humanoid to the ground, sending him rolling, then jumping off  the flyer and onto him again. The flyer crashed into an abandoned hot dog cart, causing food to fly everywhere and rain hot dogs, ketchup and mustard, and various condiments. Molly licked the mustered from off her face, preparing to tear into the aliens helmet. She clamped on, but it was too hard to get off on her own.


Creature looked over at The Hulk, who was finishing up bashing a few of the baddies unconscious. "Grooowwwlllll," Creature thrummed in his direction. The Hulk stomped over in a few giant strides, ripping the helmet off like it was made of tissue  paper, then tossing the alien against the nearest building, knocking him unconscious. Molly partially changed back enough to talk.
"I knock them down and you take them out, sound like a plan?"


"Good plan," Hulk smiled, showing his gnarly yellow teeth.


Creature changed back to human, turning into a red-tailed hawk in order to get higher up in the sky. She free-fell onto the aliens, one after the other, momentarily blinding them enough to get them off balance so that they fell onto the ground where The Hulk was waiting for them. The plan didn't last long as they soon got wise to what Molly was doing. On the fourth man, He struck at Molly, batting her away with a hand so big it was like getting hit with a slab of concrete against her small bird body. Creature circled to land on top of the nearest building to change back. "Gotta think of something else. Think-think-think!" Creature said aloud.



"You'd better think of something fast before the city goes down the tubes, Squirt," Iron Man landed near her, quickly replacing his palm lasers.


"The  name's Creature," Creature said, annoyed, while she mentally went through flying animals big enough to take down aliens on hover-cycles.


"Whatever you say, Squirt," Iron Man repeated, flying away.


It quickly came to Creature what the best animal for this situation was. It was big, it could fly and no one could mess with it. A pterodactyl.


Okay, it was something she'd never turned into  before and flying around as a huge animal wasn't going to be her idea of fun, but this was a crises and she had no other options. Creature took off into the sky, her shadow now blacking out large parts of the empty city blocks below. The dinosaurs vision was excellent and it had a wingspan big enough to knock d own several aliens from their fliers at one time. It was going to be a cake walk.


Except for the fact that off in the distance, something immensely huge was coming out of the wormhole. Whatever it was, it suddenly  made Creature feel small in comparison. The thing was easily as long as a sky scraper and twice as wide. It looked like a millipede on several injections of steroids. Ah, yes, the giant bug thing from earlier that she'd barely gotten a good look at. Creature's stomach lurched. Not in fear for herself, but thinking of her friends.

Thinking of Remy.


Then, more of the things started coming out of the wormhole. There had to be at least half a dozen of them.


Creature gulped back bile, now sick to her stomach. Was the team going to make it out of this alive?


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"X-Men, do not engage new aliens," Cyclops voice resonated on the minute microphone inside Creature's ear,  "I repeat, do not engage these new aliens. The Avengers will handle them. Just focus on the hovercraft."


"Gurrrrgle," An odd bellow came from Creature's now foreign throat. It wasn't a response,
it was an involuntary noise out of worry.


Creature spotted a few hover craft below. She swooped down, knocking them all off with ease, watching the crafts spin off  into the adjacent office building aimlessly. The explosions they made were both intense and kind of beautiful.


Molly kept flying, not feeling tired. The Pterodactyl body seemed to have plenty of stamina, thankfully.
Creature was going to need it.


From far below, she could see some of the X-Men fighting off aliens on the ground. There weren't anymore fliers in her sight,  so she decided she could go help them.


Unfortunately Molly didn't estimate her larger size versus the small circle of people facing off against each other. Creature started to land, but had to hover because she couldn't land in the center of the group.


So Creature landed beside them several yards away. Fortunately, the distraction of her hovering for those few short minutes gave  the kids the upper hand. Creature stuck her neck out and started tossing aliens against buildings and flying across the street. Unfortunately, Creature didn't have time to look above her. She felt more then saw the Chitauri land on her neck. She definitely felt the spear slicing into her back in a quick, deep gash.


"QQQQRAAWWWWWAAAAAAAAHH!!" Creature cried painfully, shaking her head as she tried getting the alien off of her, but the flying dinosaurs head just couldn't turn wide enough to reach behind. Creature felt more stabs to her back. She started slumping to the ground, feeling helpless. The others were too involved with their own sparring to do anything, but only glance on as she was mercilessly attacked.


"BAMF!"
Nightcrawler teleported on Creature's back, grabbing the Chitauri and teleporting him away. Nightcrawler quickly came back. "You have to change back!" Nightcrawler said.


Creature only looked on as they were still surrounded by Chitauri. They were doing everything they could to disable them, but she was afraid if she changed back, they'd take advantage and that would be it. They would kill her in one fell swoop.


"I'll protect you!" Nightcrawler insisted, "You're stabbed through. You _have_ to change back, Molly."


Creature slowly started making the change, then faster. The second she was human, it took everything she had to change into something else. They'd only been in the fray for, what, an hour? How was she going to last? Creature went back to her pterodactyl form, her DNA had repaired all the wounds. As she changed, Creature watched Nightcrawler staving off any would-be attackers to her vulnerable state with kicks, teleports and pulling their feet out from under them with his tail. She was glad he was on their side.


Creature took to the air again, flying higher then before to see what else was going on. From above, the Avengers were still fighting the giant millipedes and the X-Men had really taken care of the Chitauri so far. Except the millipedes were still  everywhere, sideswiping buildings and going right through them, knocking down whole sky scrapers.


The wormhole the monsters had come through caught Creature's eye. She flew towards it to get a closer look. Nothing was coming out of it at the moment, so it seemed relatively safe to check it out. Creature hovered under it, trying to look inside. She saw stars, of course, since she was looking into a different galaxy. There was blackness and planets, but there was also a big ol' honkin'
spaceship in the middle of everything. It was massive, but it was far away. No matter, it was there. Maybe there was something to it being there.


Creature didn't have time to think about it, because Iron Man reamed into her from behind.
"Sqqrraaaww!!" Creature screeched in annoyance.


"I'm sorry, but did you not _see_ the thing with a million teeth about to swallow you whole?!" Iron Man pointed to the
millipede, flying past them and ready to turn it's massive body around to take another shot at Creature.


"Sqrrrr," Creature gurgled humbly, ducking her head down a moment in embarrassment and then flying away. She went to go find Cyclops. Thankfully, he was on a roof, shooting down Chitauri from above.


"What is it Creature? Make it fast," Cyclops said as she changed back.


"There's a huge spaceship inside the wormhole," Creature said.


"We know," Iron Man landed beside her, the jets on his boots too close for comfort as Creature backed away a few steps, "There's nothing we can do about it from this side, and even if we could, so what? They stopped sending monsters in. It would be pointless to destroy it."


"Not pointless," Cyclops said, "The Professor and Beast think that with a big enough energy source, we can shut down the wormhole. We destroy the ship, that's a big enough explosion."


"Okay, so we shut down the wormhole and then what?" Creature wiped sweat off her face. Her gloves came back slicked in dirt  and grime and a bit of her own bloodspatter from earlier, "That doesn't stop them down there."


"It might," Cyclops said, "I can't explain it now, just keep going."