Thorax: Cavalry Drone

Defeating the Squid

The front man was Steve. He led the charge. The others waited on a nearby hill. Steve would distract the HYDRA agents by having their whole attention. That meant the Howling Commandos could advance without any notice.

Thorax strapped himself onto a zipline. Dugan patted him on the back.

"You an alien?" Dugan asked. The others groaned.

Thorax paused. "Kinda."

Dugan smirked. "Could ya shapeshift into the colonel?"

That's another point to Morgan. "I don't want to." Dugan chuckled. "He'd find out!"

"It'd be funny though!" Dugan excused.

Thorax huffed.

Falsworth whistled. That's the signal. Thorax leapt down. The cold wind was already blowing strong, but as he fell through it everything came even faster.

They smashed through the window of the HYDRA office. His fellow commandos shot at HYDRA agents. Thorax charged in, grabbing the shield.

"You!" Red Skull growled.

Thorax threw the shield at Steve. "Heads up!"

Steve grabbed it. "Thanks!"

Red Skull ran. Steve and Thorax chased him.

==TCD==

Red Skull started shooting back at them. The Tesseract powered weapon fired at the walls, missing them. Fellow soldiers came in. Thorax pulled them aside, doing his best to save his team.

Steve went back to chasing him. Red Skull turned a corner. Steve threw the shield. It bumped around the corner, making a loud metallic clang down the way. The two men chased.

A HYDRA soldier stepped out from the corner. He held up two large flame throwers. Steve dived behind a door. Thorax shifted into a tiny rat, falling to the ground. He rushed ahead and behind the HYDRA agent. He turned into his natural form, kicking the HYDRA agent in the head.

Gunshots came up from down the hallway. Thorax shifted back into a person. Steve stepped out. The HYDRA agent was on fire, down on the ground.

Steve hummed. "Does your gal think that's weird?"

Thorax stared down at the body. "She's into it."

Steve was saved from answering by Peggy Carter. She led the charge of more soldiers coming round the way. He walked past Thorax to meet her.

Peggy locked eyes with Steve. He ignored the other soldiers, keeping his focus down on her. Staring at her like none of this mattered, like it was just her, because to him it's probably true. For that one shining moment, the other person on planet Earth was Peggy Carter.

It seemed he came to a conclusion fast. That wouldn't have happened to Thorax. Thorax, personally, would keep staring at his wife until his wife decided to move. Steve decided to say something else.

"You're late."

Peggy took that with grace. If Morgan said that to Thorax, he might start crying. From joy, anyway, but still crying. "Weren't you about to-"

"Right." Steve went off running. Thorax joined him. He needed to. HYDRA needed to be stopped. He shifted into a fly.

The shield had kept the doorway open. Steve pulled it out. He stepped in before the doors shut.

Thorax shifted back into a person again. Steve sighed. "You don't have somewhere else to be?"

"Somebody needs to have your back." Thorax changed into Steve. "Turns out I'm equipped for that."