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  Space [June 2015]

  –Jack Sullivan–

  “So, he just gave this to you?” he asked Yondu incredulously, holding a small regur box that glowed with streaks of white and blue, something that was given to Yondu which would broadcast Yondu’s current location to Ego who would then e to pick Quill up.

  Apparently, Yondu had a bad feeling about deliveriery to Quill so he never really tacted Ego about Peter aoo never tacted Yondu about it but the mae that Ego had given Yondu, to info about their location, still worked, and why wouldn't it, it was built by a celestial.

  The weakest and possibly dumbest, least threateniial but a Celestial all the same. A species standing at the pinnacle of the universe, capable of matter and energy manipution at wholesale rates.

  “Ya, look, the man paid really well and while I wouldn’t go so far as to say that Quill was worth that sweet sweet bounty, the weight on my sce wasn’t worth any bounty. So, if you people are going to deal with that monster of a man, be my guest. I will be far away from wherever that happens,” Saying his piece, Yoed Mino, not meeting Quill’s heavily disappointed gaze.

  Well, they had all they wanted, a way to stage the final flict, only if it were that simple. He remembered from his now spotty knowledge that Ego was traveling on a rather advanced spaceship, as an avatar, along with Mantis, when he found Quill. They then travelled to Ego’s main body.

  If they activated this, they would, at best, get the avatar ing to their location. They would have to somehow trick Ego into taking them all on his main body and he was unsure if that would be the right course to take because he was sure that Ego would sehe energy tration in both himself and Thor as soon as he set his sights on both of them.

  It would also not be hard for them to assume that Ego knew about Thor Odinson, the Prince of Asgard but that was for ter. First, they had to meet Ego’s avatar a him to reveal the location of his true body.

  Now, it ossible to somehow deceive Ego into takier to his main body but that would require some ag araint from Quil, both of which he was short of. He also had no time to waste here.

  Every minute wasted on not reag Nidavellir, Thanos got closer to having a w, Infinity Gau.

  “Well, we got what we wanted. When do we leave? Know any uninhabited star systems nearby?” He asked the Guardians and the only answer he received was silence as Quill rushed out of the ship, probably running after Yondu.

  He sighed at that. Of Course, the main character must have his emotional moment with his father figure, dysfunal as Yondu might have been.

  He looked at Thor, “inform me when he is ready to leave,” He had something actually productive to do in the meantime.

  Thor nodded, not stoppiing, even for a moment, for all the time he had been in the Mino. God, the man could eat, and not even put on a ton of weight as a result. Some Godly bullshit.

  He ehe lower level and after creating a cube all around him, he floated mid air, cross legged as he took out the tainer in which the Power Stone was kept by Xandar. If he could get even novice level profi wielding the freaking Power Stone, his power levels would skyrocket so much that even dealing with Ego single handedly would not be much of an issue.

  The events in the movie might even happen because Quill khat his father was dangerous but he didn’t know Ego’s role in the death of Quill’s mother. That was the reason Quill would rebel against his father, disorienting Ego enough that he didn’t notice the big ass bomb that nted right o his brain, allowing the Guardians of the Gaxy to kill the weakest Celestial ever.

  Still, he wasn’t keen on depending on Quill of all people for their pn to succeed, so practice with the Power Sto is.

  He pressed his finger on the taihat kept the Power Stone sealed and frowned when it beeped red. That was odd, Irani Rael had assured that his bio credentials had been updated into the Master Log. he tried again and frowned harder when the same red beeping happened, only at a much faster pace.

  His eyes narrowed at that. Did they actually lie to him? What was she thinking?

  He didn’t know and didn’t care as well, he was going to use the Power Stone as a on on his side. It made no se to use such a potent on in his fight against Thanos, especially sihanos was going to use them and they k.

  He created a sharp barrier and was about to force it open when, at the st moment, the barrier fizzled.

  He sighed, resigned, and frustrated as he dispelled the cube and shoved the tainer into his dimensional space.

  “Damn that woman,” he muttered to himself as he realised her game. He did tell her that Thanos was seeking all the Infinity Stones in a bid to replicate his sughter that he was only doing one by one for now.

  But it was just his word for that. She might have given up the Power Stone because she had no way of effectively tering him. He didn’t eveo hurt ao take the Powerwer Stone from them and that pyed a major part in her decision as she begrudgingly handed over the Infinity Stoo him.

  But that didn't mean that she trusted him any more than Thanos, it would seem. Because if she did, she wouldn’t have lied about the access. Now, he was more than sure that if he breached the tainer forcefully, it would act as firmation for her that he sued Thanos just as an excuse to get the Infinity Stone from her.

  And it might even backfire on him, as instead of warning her allies about Thanos and the threat he represeo the entire universe, she might broadcast that the Green Guardian from Earth, was in possession of an Infinity Stone, giving him enemies instead of allies.

  “Shit,” He swore once again as he realised that he was quite literally carrying just a dead weight on him, with no effective and safe way of using the Power Stone. He could have tried using the Power Stone using his barriers and see how it would interface with his powers. He had some ideas about creating makeshift vessels to house the Infinity Stone, mainly because of his power to shape his barriers and also his capacity to ent his barriers with dimensional energy, allowing him to quite literally carve different properties on his energy barriers.

  As, that would not be happening with the Power Stohe powerup he could get from the Power Stone would be legendary but he wahe support from the rest of the gaxy more. That was worth more than just one juiced up batant.

  Besides, in the worst case sario, he could throw any caution to the wind and use the Stoh his barriers, if it looked like Thanos was going to win. If that was going to happen anyway, why would he worry about any potential injury from using an Infinity Stone?

  Frustrated with one aveo an easy powerup closed down, he headed to the upper levels. Maybe, Quill had e bad they could get out of this pce.

  Unfortunately, Quill hadn’t returned and it was only the uardians, along with Thor. He sighed, once again, and asked the Guardians, “Hey, is there any pce, close by, where we could have a very destructive frontation without anybody close by that could get hurt?”

  “How destructive are we talking?” Rocket, the man (Ra?) with the right questions.

  “Destructive enough to destroy the p we are standing on,” He summarily informed Rocket and there was the sound of crickets in the background as he could feel everyone’s gaze on him. Rocket’s eyes had widened minutely before he adopted a cool expression.

  “Let me look into it,” Saying so, he went to his terminal.

  “What do you mean, pary destru? What is going to happen? Who is Ego?” Gamora asked him.

  “Ego is a–”

  “An asshole, my father, that is. Where is the cube?” Quill came barging into the ship, with tears streaming down his face. Apparently, the versation did not go well with Yondu.

  “Peter, what happened?” Gamora asked him but shrugged her hand off and tinued searg for the unications device.

  Thankfully, he had already kept it in his hands, away from Peter’s grubby hands. He was going to inform that to Peter when Rocket piped up from the cockpit.

  “Got it!”

  He passed Peter as he saw the small p with two moons, named SR-901, with an oxygen based atmosphere, suitable for all the people in the ship currently.

  “Perfect, let’s go,” he ordered Rocket before turning back to the team.

  “Whoa, whoa! Wait a minute, where are we going? And you don’t get to order me around.” Quill said as he marched up straight at him.

  He really didn’t have time for this.

  “Rocket? you take us there on your own or do you need QUill’s help?”

  Rocket hesitated only for a moment before shaking his head and turning back to the cockpit. Well, that was as good as an a;

  “What? Wh-” Quill’s eyes rolled bato his head as he fai the well positioned neck chop, something that he perfected ba Earth to easily subdue multiple baselines humans without any fuss.

  Gamora took hold of Quill and dragged him back to the lower levels, all the while gring at him. Drax helped her with it. Groot only looked on from the background with no apparent opinions.

  “What? He was hoping to meet his father anyway,” It was actually Thor who was looking at him with judgement, strangely enough.

  “You seem to have some preceived opinions about this Peter Quill, for some reason, Green Guardian. Care to share?” Thor said as he flicked the cup of ale at him, which sparked before appearing right in front of him, still sparking with blue electricity.

  He caught the mug on reflex, looking at the arg electricity in shod awe.

  Okay, that was new.

  “My Brother is not the only oh the seidr tricks,” Thor smirked at him as he gestured for him to sit at the table, while the ship jerked a bit as Rocket took them on their way to the deserted p, which was quite close by.

  He sat at the table and took a swig of the ale, and immediately regretted doing so, as he had to fight the urge to spray it all on Thor.

  “I have seen a possible future.” He created a sileng barrier around them before telling Thor.

  Thor’s brows rose at that, “I didn’t know that any human could perform the art of divination.”

  “No, it is not like divination. It is as if I was shown a singur possible future. Something that is already off the rails because of my existe in that future, I saw Victory being in rasp. We were about to win, if not for, if not for—”

  “Quill.”

  He looked up at Thor who looked at him with uanding in his eyes.

  Okay, just what the hell happeo Thor in the past year or so? In Asgardian terms, that was merely an afternoon nap in parison to their lifespan. How could Thor ge so mu that short time span?

  “Yes.” He settled on that single word, his mind w furiously as he tried to make sense of the curreion of Thor. Being stronger with his lighting after redug his dependenjolnir was ohing but learning magic like that?

  And being so much smarter, so much aware somehow, that was some anomaly but before he could properly address them, Thor responded.

  “You said it yourself, Jack Sullivan of Midgard, the future you saw was only a possible one. Something that might ht not even e true. So why base your opinion of people on a future that might never e to be true,” Thor said and he was really struck by the differen Thor.

  Damn, he might have to up his game. At this rate, Thht really end up being the “Stro Avenger”.

  So, he Thor a back to the cockpit.

  “ETA - 4 hours,” Rocket bit out at him.

  He sighed once again at that. He couldn't really expeyoo like him at this point, his stupidity iing his emotions and opinions from his past life about Quill’s stupid as ended up tainting all his iions with the team and most likely, any aintaining any cordial retionship with the team.

  There was nothing he could do, at the moment. All he could do was get this Ego stuff out of his pte and head on to Asgard, oust Loki, and then to Nidavellir, in that order. They couldn't afford to front Odin, a him die befetting Nidavellir in order, because He was not an oppo he could take lightly, even with the new and improved Thor beside him.

  He wondered how Brud Betty were faring ba Earth. If Bruce could get out of his morose mood, they would have arong powerhouse in their camp.

  He just hoped that his existend his escapades across the gaxy didn’t force Thanos to accelerate his pns to gather all the Infinity Stones.

  If he remembered correctly, there were theories floating around in his past life that Thanos only moved to gather the Infinity Stones, in a blitz strike, to make sure that the Universe couldn’t regroup and mount an effective defense, was when both the A One and Odin Borson were both dead.

  Both powerhouses at the pinnacle of the gaxy. Both capable of calling forth power far greater than what baselihanos could deal with. Both with armies at their bed call, with extensive support systems. Both capable of hitting him right at the heart of his operations and both allied, loosely at least.

  If he thought like that, it would make sehat Thanos would avoid having to csh with two uber powerful but so very obviously mortal enemies while he himself was immortal, with no hurry to plete his pn.

  If he thought like that, it would indeed make more sense for Thanos to begin his crusade only whewo giants on the board were dead, something that was ing up very soon, if his memories were correct.

  God, he hoped that the ispiracy theorists from his previous world were right. Otherwise, they might be screwed.

  Royally, at that.

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