Chapter 1

- Set on knowhere during infinity war -

All Peter could do was watch Gamora pounce on her father. He feared for her life now more than ever as Thanos grabbed Gamora's sword by the blade snapping it in two. She the drove what remained into his neck, making him groan in agony. She could end it all, right here, right now. She took her chance, pulling out the red-jewelled dagger he'd given her as a child. Gamora thrusted the blade into his chest, piercing his heart. She pulled it out, and Thanos looked at his chest in shock.

"Why," Thanos croaked, "Why you daughter?" He fell to the ground as the blood seeped out of his neck and chest. Gamora fell to her knees in tears, Peter was shocked.

"That was quick" Peter said. The Collector began to applaud at Gamora's feat. Something felt wrong to Peter but he couldn't make sense of the whole situation. He started to make his way towards his girlfriend.

"Magnificent! Magnificent! " the Collector squealed. Gamora had done it, she'd killed the mad titan, she killed her very own father.

"Is that sadness I sense in you daughter?", Thanos bellowed, catching everyone off guard," In my heart I knew you still cared. But one can never know for sure. Reality can be disappointing." The familiarity of the room began to fade into flames and chaos. Peter and Gamora looked over at the Collector as he waved his hand, then disappearing into thin air. "That is, that was. But now reality can be whatever I want." Thanos appears unscathed, and his gauntlet flaunting a new red stone. Gamora looked up at him, her faced drenched in tears but she'd spare no more for him.

"You know I'd come", she stuttered. A sense of doom surrounded her.

"I counted on it. There is something we need to discuss little one." Gamora felt something she'd rarely felt, fear and it was stronger than ever before. Stronger than when she was hidding in that shack during her people's genocide. Gamora quickly grabbed the broken end of her sword, attempting to thrust it through her chest.The stub disappeared and the only evidence of it's existence was a small slice on her stomach. She dropped her head, she'd failed. He grabbed her shoulder turning her around to face her friends. Peter watched in horror.

"Thanos!" yelled Drax as he charged at the mad titan. With the slight sway of his gloved hand, Drax was diced into little cubes with the power of the reality stone. Mantis unraveled as if someone pulled a lose string on her shirt, making her whole body fall apart. The only one left was Peter, who was scared for Gamora's life, and he was willing to lay everything on the line for her. He pointed his blaster at Thanos.

"Let her go Grimace!" He yelled aiming his gun at the mad titan's large chin.

"Peter..." she started. He glanced at her, and saw her pain. Tears formed in his eyes.

"I told you to go right" he said keeping his gun aimed at Thanos' head.

"Now? Really?" Gamora cried..

"You let her go" he said moving it so the bullet would go right through his brain. A smile spread across Thanos' face.

"Ah. The boyfriend", Thanos grinned.

"I like to think of myself more as a titan- killing long term bootycall. Let her go!", he shouted out of desperation, "Or I'm going to blow that nutsack of a chin right off your face".

"Not him", Gamora reminded Peter of their conversation from earlier. Peter looked at her keeping his gun trained on Thanos, "You promised. You promised!", she begged him to end her life.

"Oh Daughter, you expect too much of him," he looks down at the Terran, " She's asked hasn't she? Do it". Silence fills the Collector's Museum, as the flames crackle in the distance. Thanos shoves his daughters head inches away from the chamber of Peter's blaster. "Do it!" Tears began to build in Peter's eyes.

"I told you to go right." Peter's voice was breaking, sadness was visible in his voice. He painfully raised the gun to her head.

"I love you, more than anything", she confessed, their faces flooded with tears, knowing this was their last time together.

"I love you too." Peter replied. He couldn't do it, he can't shoot her, she was the love of his life. But he decided that he doesn't get to be selfish when the whole universe is on the line. Peter closes tightly eyes, knowing Gamora is quivering at the end of his gun. He trembles as he pulls the trigger. The only thing that came out his gun were bubbles. Thanos played him. Thanos had won.

"I like him", Thanos approved Gamora's choice in partner. Drax and Mantis turned back to normal as Thanos raised the gauntlet and kept his other on Gamora's shoulder. Suddenly, a flying axe rips through Thanos, covering Peter and Gamora in blood.

"I told you, you'd pay for that.", Thor said emerging from a dark area among the chaos. Rocket was on his shoulder, armed and ready as always. Groot looked over at the bloody mess Thor created. Thanos's head laid apart from his body and blood was still spilled on the floor from the rest of his body. Peter grabbed Gamora as she stumbled to the ground.

"No, no, no", Peter cried, " Hey, stay with me!". He was on the ground sobbing with Gamora's seemingly limp body in his arms. The deep cut stretched along her most of her left side. The rest of Guardians rush over to help. Drax and Thor lifted Gamora out of his arms. Peter sobbed on the floor, he sat in the puddle of blood in shock.

"Quill?", Rocket said as he slowly approached Peter, "we have to get out of here before this place blows". Rocket laid a hand on his shoulder. Peter nodded as he picked him self up, and they boarded the Milano in silence.