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  Ego’s orbit [July 2015]

  –Jack Sullivan–

  The distaween their previous l; location and Ego’s main body was not long or rather, the far more probable thing was that the ship they were in, was just much more advahan the normal spaceships. It should be, sidering it owered pletely by iergy.

  The spatial manipution ihe ship robably a direct result of iergy manipution but it had none of the fihat he had read about, in the libraries of Kamar Taj, well, the restricted se of Kamar Taj. He was given access, after he had a problem himself to be strong enough to bee the Sorcerer Supreme, in a reality where freaks of nature like the A One and Stephen Strange did.

  Seriously, he was strohan like half of all Sorcerer Supreme that existed before the A O she had raised the bar so high that it would be all but impossible to bee the Sorcerer Supreme and surpass her in, strength, diplomacy, and more importantly, the sheer length for which she protected the p.

  Man, he was really going to miss her when she iably died, something of a “fixed” point in time, acc to her. She was the stro protector of Humanity but she was also the dam that held back the river that was human potential. Unless and until she left, the true potential of the geion of humanity would never get the ce to show itself, and acc to the mad woman, she didn’t have the strength to defeat Thanos.

  No, not magical prowess but the strength of mind. The mi required to defeat Thanos in a way so that the Abstracts of the universe were fulfilled.

  He shook his head, his mind once again going on a ta, as they watched the ship gh a wave of golden light that passed over all of them. His brows furrowed as he watched Thor’s intangible, invisible shroud of lighting bee visible for a moment and his body to be covered in his barriers, they were just much brighter than their normal settings.

  Gamora had a slight purple sheen on her body, with Drax’s body bulging with veins showing. Rocket’s brain glowed a bit and Groot’s body began sprouting multiple saplings instantaneously.

  His gaze met Thor’s who didn’t react much to the wave of light so he didn’t reaegatively as well. He was sure that Ego would be with them soon enough. Judging by the reas of everyone’s bodies, the robably had something to do with figuring out the powers of everyone on the ship.

  It was not present in the movies but hey, things could ge. He was sure that this way, Ego must have firmed that Quill had firmed Celestial's parentage, allowing him to go ahead with his pn.

  A moment ter, Ego arrived in the room they were occupying, with a noticeably more fused Quill in tow. The smile on Ego’s face was all the answer he needed about what the wave was and what the sequences of that piece of information were.

  “Sorry for that, folks. It’s just a part of the security measures. Now, why don’t we?” Ego talked to them with a smile as the ship began desding on the p. If he focused his gaze, he could see the faint outline of a face, with mountains and rivers and all the textures they created.

  Soon, the ship nded in the middle of a forest, with nothing in sight. They all alighted the ship, only for some of them to be shocked as they saw a literal pathway, appear from the ground, with stairs and ominous blue lights and everything.

  “Now, this will take you all to yuest quarters, Rexo” Ego told them before he snapped his fingers, causing a piece of the ship to detach itself and then float in front of them, eventually turning into a small robot with humanoid features. “-Rexo here will guide you. Now, if you will excuse me, we have some family things to discuss,” Ego put his hands over Quill’s shoulder as he led Quill away from all of them.

  Damn that bastard.

  He took one look at the so-called Rexo, who was still smiling but now the smile looked much more ominous, and at the passage that led to the so-called “guest quarters”. Yeah, right. More like some dungeon.

  Now, he could have taken some aggressive route and attacked Eght on the spot but the knowledge that any sort of energy manipution would set off the Celestial stopped him. Besides, wasn’t Ego’s brain deep in the p as well?

  “Lead right on, Rexo,” He decred cheerfully as he he robotic being to go ahead. Thor followed suit, without any question, but he could feel the gres from the rest of the Guardians but knowing that he was their best shot at survival and als enough tle them all into submission, they gingerly followed in his footsteps.

  Surprisingly, it was not a dungeon with ambush attempts awaiting at the edge of the staircase, which was not a staircase at all. It was aor that activated as soon as Drax, the st person in their liepped foot on it. It whisked them quite deep into the p ahem now into the huge hall that expanded as far as his eyes could see.

  It would seem that Ego’s body did not have the pesky limitations of having an inner and outer core with molteal c through the yers.

  No, the perks of being one of the very few beings capable of anding iergy itself meant that Ego could create whatever he wanted, only limited by his imagination, and looking at the very sterile hall, his imagination was g indeed.

  Only a few beds, with ste units and white hospital lights, littered the massive hall. He could see a very sparse kit but he had a hunch that this space was created like, very retly, possibly just for them.

  “These will be your temporary Living quarters,” Rexo annouo them before the little bastard dipped its head at them before just melting into the ground.

  “Oh shit” Rocket swore as he backup several steps from the white goo which then disappeared into the simirly white ground, the spot wobbling for a moment before it returo its pristine white fl/

  “What the? Are the little freaks everywhere?” Rocket drew a ically oversized gun of some sort and poi at the floor while jumping on Groot’s shoulder who simirly looked warily at their surroundings.

  He let his barriers spread all around him and as they breached the floor below him, he realised that Rocket was right. The fl was not a sierial, it was billions of small things ing together to create the entire space.

  Nanotech, or some other iergy manipution?

  Never mind that.

  He created a rge barrier around all of them, turning to Thor who uood his message and nodded, holding Mjolnir in one hand.

  “So, I assume Quill knows nothing then?” He turo Gamora who sported a flicted look on her face but still nodded. He turo Rocket and GFroot who looked very fused, “Rocket, I assume you know that Quill’s father is the bad buy here?”

  Rocket scowled fiercely and then reloaded his gun, which was somewhat redundant since he retty sure that the entire gun was pletely energy based, judging by the intense white glow that made Rocket’s face glow menagly.

  “Drax, follow Rocket’s lead,” He ordered Drax who that, and thehe barrier fade away.

  “Rexo?” He called out, unsure if anybody would answer or not.

  It had been a little bit over half an hour sihey were separated from Quill. This much time should be more than enough fo to give Quill the whole they were gods spiel and try and turn him into a celestial battery.

  He received no reply. He shared a tense look with Thor who ched Mjolnir just a tad bit tighter. Movement caught his eyes as he turo the entrance of the hall, which had just now closed up. The white lights in the room were now repced with red as Rexo, with a vastly different form rose up from the ground, t over all of them, with its humanoid features being the same as before.

  The rest of the body was now over 10 ft tall with energy bsters glowing menagly on each hand, with multiple such ons just waiting to be unleashed on them, resting on Rexo’s back.

  “Tony warned me that the robot uprising will e sooner rather than ter,” He muttered to himself, surprising himself with a quip before he waved his hand, creating a rge barrier around them, before he created a rge drill above the barrier, in the dire of the surface.

  It might have shortehe amount of work they o be done if he had just tuno the chamber where Ego kept his head but that would tip him off and there was no guarahat Ego was distracted at the moment or not. So, with a negligible wave of his hand, they rocketed upwards, with the drill w overtime to dig through the surprisingly hard rock, even as another barrier sheet ftteo ridiculous levels slicked straight through Rexo’s current body, before repairing the same thing a huimes over, creating a sliced Rexo, if you will.

  What the fuck was the material made of, Titanium? He thought to himself as he felt the resistance being signifitly more than he imagi to be. He still couldn’t let his full powers out on dispy because he did not wao turn tail and run.

  With his ability to manipute iergy, there was no telling where he might run off to and hide, with Quill in tow. He might just win that way because as far as he could tell, the e to each of the “seeds” he had pnted was not bound to the distan any way. So, all he needed was another battery, Quill, and he would win, voi.

  Well, not on his watch, he thought to himself as with a shower of dirt, they burst out of the nd, only for a sea of green to immediately assault all their barriers. He could sehe pulse of iergy that made him falter momentarily as the pnts mao eat through some of his barriers before he turhem into the cutting variety and began ag as the gardener of this pce.

  He hadn’t expected Ego to take such drastic measures. Save for a couple dozen people in the universe, not many could fidently stand against iergy being actively elled against them, not without outside prote and he was still one of them. Even then, 3 of his 7 yer barriers were shredded upon tact with the pnts.

  Thor and the rest were still looking around, with his barriers keeping all of them safe and secure. His barriers told him that the pnts were trying to bury them all, bato the same hole from where they burst, with Rexo somehow still alive.

  Duh. Bullshit nanotech.

  He narrowed his eyes as he let the pnts take them a bit below before he cast a spell, something that would be so btant to someone like Ego, that it might as well be him shouting fo to e attack them. That was why he had refrained from casting any number of spells that he could have cast on Quill that would have updated him about Quill’s current status.

  His neapped to the left as he could feel two massive, one dwarfing the other, energy signatures, a bit underground but still reachable to the surface.

  He waited a bit as, with another ic pulse, the pnts redoubled their efforts to chew them all alive. He could feel Thor’s tent lighting, bubbling under his body, just dying to let loose and char everything around Thor to ash.

  e on! e on!

  His eyes widened as he received the sed ping, firming something for him and also making things very much easier for him. He let loose his powers, not quite transf into his powered up state but close as he ged the shape of his barrier, c the rest of the Guardians in another unit while he created a small regur blo the ground, right in front of Thor.

  “Do it,” He o Thor who reared Mjolnir's back, lightning fshing across the surface of the ented Uru hammer before he smmed the hammer on the block with all his might. His back arched as the entire area around them was now just a molten pit as Thor’s lightning had ied everything around them to the point not even ashes were left.

  He turned around, his vision tinged with blue, to see Rexo’s dying form, flickering in and out of solid forms, apparently on the verge of death.

  “Oh, you poor thing!” He pitied the clearly very artificial creature and raised his arm. With the gesture, the barriers around them molded to his wishes, f a ball of energy right in front of his palm, crag with lightning.

  “Sorry, the robot uprising is postponed, indefinitely,” Well, the dialogue delivery was not as impactful as he wa to be as the ball of energy was bsted from his hand, carving a deep tren the ground, leaving molten va behind them.

  It was not remiss of him that even after Ego had clearly fortified everything to hell and back, energy from one of Thor’s hammer swings was enough to turn an area hundreds of meters into what only be called a molten pit.

  Even still, the energy was still there, as potent as ever. From his calcution, he could do one more attack of that calibre before it fizzled out. Damn, Thor could act as a very potent battery for him in the final battle.

  His thoughts fshed through his mind as the barrier tore through the wind, hundreds of trees that tried to appear in their path before they reached a retively clear patch of nd.

  Well, time to spend the leftover energy then, he grio himself as he let loose the stored energy right into the clearing, under which he could sehe two massive energy signatures. The result was immediate, a mushroom cloud as a huge cavern was revealed to them, remnants of a shield flickering before the forms of Ego and Quill were revealed to them.

  Quill looked like he had been through hell, parts of his face being fked off, revealing sparking blue energy beh while Ego looked at them, a snarl on his face as he thrust both his hands at them. His eyebrows rose as he felt a push, a telekiic push, something that would have easily drowire isnds ba Earth, crashing into his barrier. His barriers tahe attack, with some of the energy being absorbed, the fvour of iergy in his attacks being very distinctive to his senses.

  For someoh so much po sure was g in imagination.

  “Groot, Rocket, get to work,” he whispered to the rest of the Guardians before he dispelled the barriers, dropping all of them in the cavern, with intricate dispys on the walls around them, all of them being 3D with moving characters in various intimate positions.

  Groot nded on the ground with a thud, his roots immediately digging deep, with Rocket firing at all the pnts that once again began attag them. Quill seemed to be dazed as Ego chose to fight him and Thor, at once, by himself.

  Big Mistake.

  He grinned as Thor’s punch ly unched Ego’s head off his body, with a thin line of blue energy the only thing keeping it ected to his body, something that Thor rectified as he smashed the body with Mjolnir, nearly destroying the body, before simir arcs of energy crawled through the ground, emp Ego’s avatar.

  Ego’s avatar was only halfway formed before he was subjected to a barrage of nearly mono molecur bdes that created perfectly sliced cubes of his form.

  Gamora and Drax were trying to reach Quill, something that Ego noticed.

  “No!” Ego’s voice had taken a monstrous hue as he lu Quill, only to be stopped in his pce by a barrier of lightning that surrounded his form, the Prince of Asgard standing in his path.

  The lightning, both kept outside arcs from reag the avatar, stopped the avatar from interfering and also tinuously damaged it, just enough for it to hurt. Some godly mumbo jumbo must be afoot because he could not sense Ego creating any other pulses of iergy, something that he was realising was the necessary trigger for him to do anything with the p, essentially.

  He shook his head. God, what a fool.

  He purposefully let some of the pnts drag Gamora and Drax behind, only letting them be unharmed because he could not let Ego be desperate. Thor was also aware of that so he let the lightning cage dissipate much earlier a one of Ego’s attacks hit him, throwing him bato the ground, arcs of Blue iergy lingering on his form, before his entire body was cuffed to the ground with the same iergy.

  He gulped at that. That kinda looked painful.

  “Useless!” Ego roared once again, the voice seemingly reverberating throughout the p as he waved his hands once again, shing out at Gamora and Drax with arcs of iergy that their barriers barely stopped, rendering them unscious.

  Seeing his rades “hurt”, he seemingly went mad with rage, as a giant Gandum maed all around him, nearly destroying the cavern as he let the avatar rampage all around him. He let Ego secure Quill because as long as Quill was still in his sight, he was all but in his pocket.

  “Begone!” Ego shed out once again, a his Gundam stagger back before he once again puhe ground near Ego, letting the Celestial avatar jump around, attag his avatar.

  He let his anguished emotions show on his face, as well as fear and ay radiate out through his mind, a trick he learned in Kamar Taj used to shadow one’s emotions from emotioing Demons.

  This was good.

  Time and time agai the Gundam get beaten back, before attag Ego with all his might, seemingly. Thor, along with the rest of the Guardians were swept to the side as he bore all of Ego’s attacks, which were heavy but nothing like the ones from Gamma Hulk’s energy leeg abilities that were also empowered by the Scarlet Witch.

  The fool was a celestial but he was er than a human in mind.

  He hadn’t even noticed that Rocket and Groot were both missing, with Groot’s roots allowing him to dig deep into the p. He had full barriers on Rocket and the torso and head of Groot, so he khat they were so far pletely ued.

  Rocket had 3 moon breakers in his possession, something totally overkill but hey, ain’t nothing as overkill if it could kill a universal madman.

  Now, all he had to do was keep Ego occupied and more importantly, feeling that victory was in his grasp, while Groot and Rocket did their job.

  Their pn worked, a grin threateo slip past his carefully structed emotional over his true mind.

  Nothing could g at this point. Victory was in their hands.

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  ‘Fuuuuuuuc–’

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  A/N - Murphy’s a bitch, huh?

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