The Lost Asset

Maybe the Asset should have been more careful around the unstable space alien stone. Its mission was clear: eliminate the defiant scientists, secure the monolith, and retrieve any related files. That doesn't make this its fault. But it does make this its problem. When the stone suddenly liquefies and engulfs it with a sploosh, leaving nothing behind but its gun.

Elsewhere, a boy clad in an academy uniform makes his way toward a department store closed for the night, intent on meeting something significant inside. Some time later, the Asset, disoriented, gets spit out into a dressing room of all things. With hangers clattering, clothes scattered, and a broken bench underneath it; it must decide what its new mission is.

(Or: Winter Soldier gets transported to the Umbrella Academy Universe via Kree Monolith and ends up fighting a different fight.)