chapter 24 combo

"At least that'll give our boys some breathing room to pull back. Of course, now we're in her sights!", Steve shouted as they kept moving. "We've got to at least drive back towards the coastline... give ourselves the escape route.".

"If she doesn't keep following us first...", Peggy admitted. "Then we pray there's a small naval task force that might drive her back if we can't do the job.", Steve said.

Peggy replied, "All the same, we must wound her best as we could!", hearing the angry shouts and the stomping run of

Eris behind them, and the couple ran to the forest, holding their slingshots, with a signal, the couple split up left and right,

heading deeper and deeper into the forest, yet that didn't stop Eris as she ran, destroying trees and boulders in her way, and even creatures too.

Eris came upon the first tipline, and shouted as she fell, creating a indentation into the ground, and

Steve shot his third ball at Eris's leg, bruising her knee, causing Eris to look at Steve, roaring with anger as she got up, running after Steve when a third ball by

Peggy was impacted on her neck, nearly causing her to choke, creating a bruise on her neck where she wouldn't even shout anymore in a matter of hours.

Eris snarled, turning on her way to Peggy, running when she got caught by the second tipline, falling into a mess of boulders, scraping her skin, and Steve laughed,

"Nice shot, Peggy!", as he reunited with Peggy, now having two last balls in their slingshots.

Peggy smirked, "Turns out slingshot targets are pretty much the same as gunshot targets, just less deadly.",

before hearing familiar sounds of planes, and they looked up to see RAF planes, "Yes, God Hail the King!", with a grin.

The RAF planes went to shoot at Eris as she shouted, getting up, ignoring the pain, angry as she went to grab boulders, throwing them at the couple and the planes crazily, not having any aim.

"Well, it annoys her but certainly doesn't do much.

Maybe if we had one of those railguns the Germans have, hitting her a point blank might do the trick.", Steve said as he shot his second to last shot at

Eris, striking her in the chest.

The giantess growled in pain as she clutched where she got hit while the fighters kept buzzing her from a distance.

"Yeah, well, we don't have any railguns, and we're down to our last shots...", Peggy bit her lip.

Steve whispered, "We're still having the third tipline.", and Peggy nodded, exhaling, "Watch my back.",

before running off, and went around the forest, watching herself as Eris kept throwing more boulders at the planes, growing slightly more clear in the mind as she slowly is piecing together that she's between a hard place and a locked place,

successfully hitting a few RAF planes, the pieces scattering off into the forest, igniting a fire swiftly.

Peggy stood on the highest spot, and shot a ball at Eris's spine, shocking her out, and Eris screamed, turning around, seeing

Peggy, and Eris ran at her, and then the third tipline caught her, and she fell, crashing into a chasm of mud and boulders.

Peggy smirked, and nodded at Steve in the distance when a roar of anger sounded out as Eris dived for Peggy, her hand swatting her off like a hard-pitch slap, and

Peggy shouted as she fell into the growing fire, memories of Steve rushing through her mind as she hit something, getting unconscious yet the fire both did and didn't consume her, with the Super Soldier Serum and the

Quantonium discovering and talking to something deeper in her DNA, a gene called the X-Gene, making her impervious to fire yet able to become a human torch herself.

"Peggy!", Steve shouted as he took his final shot and struck Eris right in her left eye when she had turned to look back at him.

She cried out in pain as she covered her eye before more planes unleashed a torrent of rockets that struck her in the chest.

Her earlier strike from Steve's slingshot made the pain even worse before she started to run away towards the direction of Rome.

'This isn't over, American!', Eris shouted as Steve heard, but his focus was completely on getting to Peggy.

Steve tried to stomp out the growing fire, splashing water from the forest river, running and calling out for

Peggy, horror and fear in his heart, memories of her rushing through his mind, barely noticing the 5th regiment coming from the distant hillside, with the

RAF planes going for the ocean to direct the naval ships to see if they have water cannons to douse fires.

Steve noticed an unnatural sight, and gasped in terror as he got closer, seeing the silhouette of Peggy in the fire, and he screamed out for her,

"Peggy!", running to her, and the combo of her powers sensed Steve, and her fire power turned off, leaving her intact, incredibly flawless, with no burns

Steve dropped to his knees, picking her up, speaking,

"Please, Peggy, please be alive!", listening hard to her chest, and tears of relief came out as he sobbed,

hearing her strong heartbeat, and saw that her breathing is deep as if she's in a coma, exhausted.

Steve took a deep breath before Peggy suddenly started to cough, getting some smoke out of her lungs, it seems like, as Steve backed up a bit.

"Peggy...", he gave out a long sigh as he was trying to calm down while Peggy was trying to finish clearing out her lungs.

Peggy panted, fluttering her eyes open as she took deep breaths, looking up at Steve while held in his arms on his lap, "Steve?",

shocked to feel no pain, yet eventually, she will have a bruise from that swat-slap from Eris, "I...I'm alive?".

"Yeah...", Steve nodded. "I don't know how... you... you were on fire...

I don't know if we're just too big or something, but... I've never seen or heard anything like it...".

Peggy blinked in surprise, "I was on fire, and I lived through it?...My god...I thought I was to die...",