Invaders: United Volume 1 05

Fallen Allies is an issue in the series Invaders: United

Chapter 5 - Fallen Allies
Deadly Battleground,

Germany,

May 24, 1942, 6:05

The Invaders, along with dozens of Allied soldiers, storm the german beach which has been made into a Nazi fort. Steve Rogers, Brian Braddock, and Bucky Barnes all take cover behind some sandbags. Namor is somewhere else leading a platoon of soldiers and the Human Torch is flying up above the clouds, occasionally coming down to throw fire at Nazis.

"Captain," a soldier yells at Rogers over the sound of a german machine gun! "We're running low on ammo! If we're going to storm the fort, we should do it now or never!"

Captain America turns to Bucky. "Are you ready?" Bucky nods and Captain gives the go-ahead. At once, all the Allied soldiers start firing up at the fort, giving cover for the ones that are running up to the wall. Steve Rogers and Bucky both jump over the sandbags at the same time and start firing and running.

"I need to reload," Bucky shouted. As he was putting a new clip in, a rifle was launched from the fort and blood started pouring out of Bucky's shoulder. "Captainn...?" Bucky fell to the sand.

"NO!" Captain America was all of a sudden oblivious to everything going on around him. He didn't notice as a dozen troops were shot down. He didn't notice when the Humn Torch was shot down out of the sky and landed inside the Nazi occupied fort. He didn't even notice when Namor was shot and fell into the ocean. All he saw was his best friend laying stone-cold in his arms. All he felt at that time was sorrow. Sorrow and anger; and because of that anger, he didn't even remember single-handedly winning that battle for the Allies, or the ride back to Britain with Brian, or the funeral for Namor and Jim. But he remembered Bucky's. Sorrow, anger, and sorry for those stupid enough to cross him.

To Be Continued...