Disclaimer: I don´t own any of the movies, books or series, featured in this Fanfic.
Author´s Note: I have changed a few things concerning the characters, like age, relation and species.
But not that much. You´ll see.
Warning: Major Characters Death.
Enjoy!
Prolog: A Gentle West Wind
In the near future
West of the United States
Together they entered the room, from which the man was about to commit a great sin.
Genocide.
But Captain America and his wooden companion wouldn´t let that happen.
They would rather die.
"Stop that machine!" Steve Rogers commanded.
Slowly, the man turned. His face seemed like a mask, but was his real one. It was red and skull-like and thus the reason for his name: Red Skull.
He smiled, it was predator like.
"I can´t and neither can you. It´s too late for the Mutants."
Groot tried to strike the man with an elongated branch, but it went through him.
"You couldn´t really think that I was here." The hologram laughed, before vanishing.
Steve ran to the control panels. There was a map of the world with millions of red dots, each showing a Mutant, a target. He tried to find a way to stop the firing of the missiles.
But there was none.
Desperate, he looked up at the Mutant.
"He was right, I can´t stop it."
But his silent friend only looked at him sad.
He couldn´t save the Mutants… unless…
With new hope he ran to the steering section.
"I´m going to fly this aircraft into a mountain."
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And while the Captain was steering the plane into their deaths and talking to his girlfriend via radio, the tall wooden creature was climbing out of the plane to stand on top of it.
Standing tall, keeping his balance with his root like feet, he spread his arms, as if he wanted to embrace the whole world.
"We are Groot!"
Seconds before the aircraft crashed into the mountain, he dissolved into spores.
When the dust settled, the spores were still whirling in the air.
And a gentle west wind blew, caring them all across Panem.
A.N.: I promise the next chapters will be longer. Around 2K words.