It had been a long time since the Guardians or any of the Heroes of Earth had any real adventure of their own, well, maybe not for the Guardians with the whole Black Zetsu problem and all which is story for another time. With Thanos and Ronin as well as the Joker and Black Zetsu gone the universe was safe again with only minor annoyances by the Reverse Flash and all the second rate villains like Lex Luthor and Bane. But little did anyone know that the following three to four days would give rise to a fierce conflict and eventually war on Earth...

"I'M SO BORED!" Rocket declared as he fell face first on his bed in his quarters of the Headquarters of the League of Heroes.

"Tell me about it! It's been ages since we did anything fun!" Peter exclaimed as he paced around Rocket's room

"Is there anything fun we can engage in on this planet?" Drax asked

Then Agent Venom burst thought the door shouting "Guys! Batman's got something for us!"

"FINALLY!" Rocket shouted as he jumped to his feet

"So what does the Bat require us to do this time?" Gamora asked

"Why don't you ask him himself when he shows up!"

"Woah woah! woah! the Bat's coming here in person?!" Quill asked excitedly

Ever since the Marvel and D.C universes combined into one perfect Earth there had been some changes to the the chain of command within the H.Q of the Heroes of America, with the exception of the Teen Titans and the X-Men who were not part of it and remained a separate group. The most powerful Heroes of the two Universes were nicknamed the Alphas as they made most of the decisions, examples of Alphas would be Batman, Superman and Captain America. Since the H.Q was based in Washington D.C the Alphas rarely met up with the other Heroes or Betas as they were referred to. The Heroes of America also had its own Espionage unit combining S.H.I.E.L.D and Checkmate. Its Research and Science division combines S.T.A.R labs, Mercury labs, Wayne tech, Stark enterprises and Queen consolidated. Everything in the H.Q is high tech and Very advanced, Rocket might have made some adjustments to the security after Silver's landing. The Alphas still operate in their main cities like Gotham or New york but since Washington is so far away the Alphas rarely have time to visit and even if they had time they'd only visit for pressing matters.

"Yeah he is," replied Agent Venom as he walked out of the door.

Moments later the Guardians were at the briefing area where they found Batman waiting for them.

"Ah! Guardians, I was waiting for you,".

"what have ya got for us?" Rocket asked as he crossed his arms.

"the League has picked up an anomaly up in space. Usually we'd just dismiss it as an asteroid and send send Lantern to check it out in case but this time however the anomaly is emitting an unusual amount of radiation that you are familiar with" explained Batman as he pulled took up a remote and pressed a button on it which revealed an image of the anomaly in deep scan.

The energy surrounding the anomaly was purple in color, Batman pressed it again and a small cylinder platform appeared and on it was something that looked like a meteor fragment, Batman took it and handed it over to Quill.

"Can you identify this?".

When Quill touched the shard he felt a familiar aura around it that he thought that he'd felt before. Then his spartaxian cryptocube glowed bright which only confirmed Quill's suspicion, the fragment was coated in radiation from an Infinity stone, the purple power stone to be exact.

"I can, this fragment is coated with an Infinity stone energy signature from the power stone" Quill said sternly.

"woah...hey wait a sec! Didn't Raven destroy Thanos with her powers?" Rocket asked.

"yeah..." Ranger said.

"not much is know about the battle between Raven and Thanos, but I'll find out what happened" said Batman.

"no need to Bats, she told me" Red Hood countered.

"what did she say?".

"She told me that she finally got rid of Thanos when she got rid of the Infinity Gauntlet, which by the way is safe in Azarath, the stones however were seperated and sent throughout the cosmos" he explained.

"Guardians your mission is to find that asteroid and recover that Infinity stone, to support you on this mission an Alpha member has agreed to assist you on this mission." said Batman

"who?" Drax asked

"You'll find out soon enough, in fact, he's already at the Milano. Dismissed," said Batman

The Guardians made their way to the Milano and noticed that the Alpha was already there.

Jason and Rocket already knew who it was

"well well well, Wolverine...," said Jason as he smirked

"well if it isn't old claws himself" Rocket taunted with a sly smile

"Can it bub!" Wolverine said as he snarled "ah..what the heck, good to see ya to Rocket," he continued

They then went inside and activated the ships main thrusters and locked on to the asteroid. However when they got there, the Asteroid was not what they thought what it was. It was a huge planetoid which bore upon it's surface signs of conflict and war as a small percentage of the entire planet was missing, presumably blown off by a huge space laser of sorts. However there was one evident sign on it's surface that caused Jason and Roy worry.

"what the krutech is that?!" Rocket said in shock

"That...Rocket my friend, is the Apokolips" Jason replied