Tony's chest felt like ice.

"Close the hole!" Said Strange.

Was he serious? "The kid is still out there!" Tony yelled.

"Yeah, and we will be too, along with all the oxygen unless we shut that hole!" Strange yelled back. But Tony was responsible for Peter's life. He knew that the kid could last for at least eight minutes, and suddenly he was so glad he had thought to include the backup oxygen, but the kid was still going to be stranded in space. Tony sealed the hole and then turned to Doctor Strange.

"Turn the ship around," Tony said.

"Does it look like I know how to drive this thing?" He asked.

"We are not leaving him there," Tony said. His conscience couldn't take that.

Dr. Strange sighed. "What do you want me to do about it?"

Tony clenched his fists, and if it weren't for the Iron Man gauntlets his nails would have been cutting into his palms. "I don't know! Aren't you supposed to be a wizard!?" He yelled.

"You're the tech genius, why don't you figure out how to fly this thing?" Strange said.

Tony grit his teeth and flew over to what appeared to be the control panel. He would have to figure it out and save the kid. There was no alternative. He couldn't let himself imagine an alternative. Strange flew over and looked at the panel as well. He sighed.

"How long do we have to get to him?"

Tony took a breath. "About seven minutes."


"Incredible," the grey one said. Everyone looked at him. "It's like a clone of Quill." Quill and Peter looked at each other.

"They don't really look that similar," said the green lady.

"What do you mean?" said the grey guy. "They look exactly alike. And they share a name." Peter and Quill looked at each other again, Peter furrowed his brows and Quill rolled his eyes. The grey guy stepped closer to Peter and stared at his face and then at Quill's. "I'm going to have trouble telling you apart."

Peter cleared his throat. "What did you say your name was?" The grey man cocked his head.

"I never mentioned my name," he said.

The raccoon rolled his eyes. "He's Drax, I'm Rocket, that's Gamora, Mantis, and you know the moron," he said gesturing to everyone.

"Hey!" yelled Quill indignantly.

"I am Groot," said the plant.

"Right," Rocket nodded, "he's Groot."

Peter put up a gloved hand in a wave. "Uh, nice to meet everyone." Everyone nodded.

"It is nice to meet you, too," said Mantis.

Quill put his hands up. "Hold on, I still have some questions. Like, a lot of questions."

"Yeah," said rocket, "like what's a humie doing out here?"

"Yeah," Quill said. "Last I checked you guys still hadn't gotten farther than the moon."

Peter was a bit confused, considering Quill was also human, and Peter also wondered why he was out here, but he shrugged. "So this alien came to New York and he was trying to steal a necklace from a wizard so obviously we— Mr. Stark and I— were trying to stop him— the alien not the wizard— and he brought the wizard onto his ship and so we chased after him and Mr Stark told me not to but this new suit is really intuitive so I kinda snuck on and we were fighting the alien and—"

Quill put his hands up in a gesture to stop talking as everyone stared at Peter.

"Wait, wait, wait did you say wizard?" Quill asked.

Peter shrugged. "Yeah, that's what Mr Stark said. He looked like a wizard too, he flew through the air and had a long red cloak and a fancy green necklace that the alien was trying to steal."

Everyone stared at him again. Rocket whistled and moved one of his claws in a circle around his ear.

"Wha— I'm not crazy," Peter said.

"Okay, so you snuck onto this alien's ship, then what?" Asked Gamora.

"What's with that anyway?" Asked Rocket. "Why are you sneaking onto so many ships?"

"Just— I mean, two isn't a lot," Peter said. I mean, it was a lot for him, but probably not for aliens.

"What happened?" Gamora asked again, trying to get him back on track.

"Er, right, so we snuck on, and the alien had the wizard floating with all these weird, like, these glass knives almost, sticking in him, and then we rescued him and a hole blasted into the ship and the alien got sucked out and died, but also I got sucked out, and didn't die because Karen kept me alive and I fell to that planet we we're just on," Peter said.

"Who's Karen?" Asked Gamora.

"She's the lady in my suit," Peter explained as if that made perfect sense. The Guardians looked warily at each other.

"Told ya he was crazy," Rocket said.

Peter rolled his eyes. "Look, I just need a ride back to Earth so I can make sure Mr Stark and the wizard and his necklace are all fine. Can you give me a lift?"

Gamora looked at him a second longer. "Why was this alien trying to steal a necklace?" She asked.

Peter shrugged. He really didn't have time to get the details, he was kind of busy. "I dunno. It was green and glowy, probably magical. Probably pretty valuable. Why do most people steal valuable things?"

Gamora nodded and seemed slightly more interested. "This alien, do you remember his name?" She asked.

Peter thought for a moment. "Ebony Maw, I think."

Her eyes widened slightly. "You killed Ebony Maw?"

"Well," Peter tilted his head slightly. "It was more like space killed him, but yeah. Did you know him?"

"Wait," Quill said, "who's Ebony Maw?"

"One of Thanos's sons, a member of the Black Order," she said. "That necklace must have been an infinity stone."

Quill sighed. "More infinity stones. I guess this means we're going to Terra."

Everyone was quiet.

"Okay cool, quick question, what's an infinity stone?"


By the time Stephen and Tony figured out how to turn the ship around, they also figured out that they weren't in their home solar system anymore. "How did that happen?" Tony asked.

Stephen shrugged. "Best guess is we went through a rift of some sort," he said.

"A rift?" Tony asked incredulously.

"Yeah, like a wormhole," Stephen said. Tony scoffed and Stephen raised his eyebrows. "You're telling me you've fought aliens and Norse gods and met a wizard but you have trouble believing in a wormhole?" Stephen asked.

"No," Tony said, "I'm just wondering how my life went so wrong that I think nothing of traveling through a wormhole in space."

Tony looked at the screen, paused and then looked through the large window in front of him in confusion.

"What is it?" Stephen asked.

Tony looked at the screen and then the window again. "This is where he fell out," Tony said. They could even see the frozen corpse of Ebony Maw floating not far off, "but the kid…" he took a breath. "I don't see him." He clenched his fist on the dashboard. "He's not here."

Stephen looked out the window. "How long has it been?" he asked.

"A little over six minutes," Tony said.

Stephen looked out the window again. "There's a planet over there, maybe he found a way down?" He suggested.

Tony nodded. "Right, yeah, there's gotta be a way to scan for life forms or something, uh…" he pressed a few buttons and suddenly the screen was filled with strange symbols of an alien language. Tony swore. "You wouldn't happen to be able to read this, would you?" Tony asked.

Stephen looked at it and shook his head. "No, but I might know a spell that can translate it," he said.

Tony let Strange work his magic and hoped and prayed to every god listening, including Point Break, that it would work, and that the kid would be okay. Finally Stephen stopped and looked at the screen. He seemed to read it, and pressed a few buttons and then looked at the screen again.

"Any life forms?" Tony asked hopefully.

Stephen hummed. "Yeah," he said.

Tony's heart leapt. The kid was fine, and they could go get him and bring him back home where he belonged, and everything would be okay and Tony wouldn't have the death of another child to plague his guilt.

"But none of them are human," Stephen said.

Tony's heart dropped into his stomach. "A-are you sure? Check again."

Strange kept looking at the screen. "None of them are human, Tony."

Tony's hands shook, his breathing got less even. "He-he's got powers, maybe it doesn't show up right," he rationalized. "What does it say?"

Stephen frowned. "There are three different species on the planet," his voice quieted, "but there are several of each. Nothing unique," he said.

Tony paced. "How is that possible? If he's not down there," he gestured to the planet, "he should be out there!" He yelled, gesturing out the window.

Stephen looked at the screen and pressed a few buttons. "Maybe he got picked up," he said.

Tony stopped and joined him at the monitor. "What did you say?"

"There's a trace of energy leading away from the planet. It's fading but it's still there. I'm thinking it might have been a ship. Maybe he's on it," Stephen said.

Tony paused. "Are you saying he was abducted?"

Stephen shrugged.

Tony grit his teeth. "Can we follow it?" He asked.

Stephen looked at the monitor. "It's fading fast, but if we start now I think we could catch up to it."

Tony immediately sat down and flew the ship in the direction Strange told him to. "When we catch them I'm gonna beat them so hard they'd wish the were amoeba. Abducting alien motherf—"


Peter sat in a sort of living room area with Star Lord, Gamora, Mantis, Drax, and Groot. "So this guy Thanos wants all the stones, so he can kill half the universe, and he already has one?" Peter clarified.

"Yes," Gamora said. "The Power Stone. And if this wizard truly has the Time Stone, we need to protect it, keep Thanos from getting it."

Peter nodded. "Alright. Makes sense."

"Now, what doesn't make sense," said Quill, leaning forward and pointing at Peter, "is what you were doing earlier. Like climbing on walls and shooting that stuff—"

"Spider web" Peter said.

"Right, that. Is that all part of your suit? That seems more advanced than I remember Terra being."

"Well, the web is. The climbing is just me. When the last time you went to uh, Terra?" Peter asked. Sure his suit was state of the art, but the original Iron Man suit was made years ago, and that was at least similar.

"Uhh," Quill though for a moment. "At least 26 years ago, give or take."

Peter's eyes widened. "26 years?!" When was that? Early 90s? Peter hadn't even been born yet. Or like, even close to being born yet.

"Yeah," Quill said. "What happened while I was gone?"

Shoot, there was a lot. Like, enough to fill 16 movies. And several spin off TV shows. Where should he start? "An alien invasion, for one thing," Peter said. "Chitari."

"Chitari invasion?" Peter asked incredulously. He looked at Peter again. "Wait did you say the climbing wasn't part of the suit?"

Peter shook his head. "The climbing is all me. Superpowers, man."

Manis smiled. "So Quill is not the only Terran with special abilities!" She said. "Are unique powers normal for Terrans?" She asked.

"Whoa, wait, Quill has powers too?!" Peter asked, grinning like an idiot.

Quill put his hands up. "Sort of, not really, I'm kind of half alien, and it's a really long story, don't want to get into now, all that jazz," he said.

Peter nodded, but his grin remained. "That's cool." He turned back to Mantis. "It's not really normal for humans to have powers, but it's been getting more common, weirdly enough, with the Avengers and all that."

Quill huffed and threw his hands in the air. "Of course Terra gets interesting when I decide to leave it. Alien invasions, superpowers, geez, I left at the worst time."

"About that—" Peter was about to ask him how and why he left Earth when Rocket came in.

"Hey guys, we're being followed. Don't look friendly," he said.

Everyone moved to the cockpit to look at the screen and see who was following them. It was a big ring, sort of like in Halo.Peter thought.

"That's Ebony Maw's ship, it must be Mr Stark and the wizard!" said Peter.

There was a beep. "They sent a message," Gamora said. She tapped a button on the desk and the message played.

"I think you have something that belongs to me," it said.

"That's Mr Stark!" Peter said. He was amazed, Tony was actually flying a spaceship to come get him. Not that he needed it, he was doing just fine on his own, but still, it was kind of reassuring.

"You can either give him back, unharmed and intact, or I can come and take him from you, and I guarantee you will not come out unharmed or intact," He said.

"Dang, this guy's really angry." Quill said.

"He's just a bit overprotective," Peter said. Quill nodded.

"I know what that's like," he said. And he did. Yondu was incredibly protective of him, and despite being quite scary to Quill, he was much scarier to anyone who threatened Quill.

"Guess we'll have to hand the spider-freak over, then," said Rocket.

Gamora hummed. "If this 'wizard' truly has the Time Stone I would like to speak with him. If his knowledge is anything close to Peter's, he'll have no idea how imperative it is to keep it safe, and no idea what's coming for him."

Star Lord hit a button. "Prepare to board," he said. The words "message sent" appeared on the screen. He then hit a button behind his ear and his helmet came on. Peter took this as a sign to put his own mask back on and the group walked towards the hangar bay, where the other ship would be docking and they would all meet Mr Stark and the wizard again.


"Prepare to board," came a voice over the intercom.

"Well," Tony said, his mask sliding over his face, "I guess we're bringing the fight to them."

Luckily, the ship was able to auto-dock and Stephen and Tony stood at the door, ready to board the alien ship. "Why is it that we're always fighting these guys?" Tony said, just as the doors opened.

Inside was a group that consisted of a guy with a mask similar to Ant-Man's (at least, Tony thought it was a mask. For all he knew, that was it's face), a green woman, a large grey man who looked like he could take Cap in a fight, a raccoon in a jumpsuit, a small, anthropomorphic tree, and a girl with antennae.

"Well that one definitely looks like a wizard, so I guess the robot is this 'Mr Stark' you kept talking about?" said the raccoon. Tony was shocked that the raccoon was the first one to speak, but he had seen weirder. He put his palms out, charging up blasts. "That's correct," he said, the mask giving his voice a satisfyingly threatening effect. At this the raccoon drew a gun, and the masked man draw two, the green lady getting out a knife.

Then Spiderman jumped down in front of them.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, guys, they're with me," he said, looking back and forth between the groups with his hands out in a placating gesture. Everyone paused, but lowered their guns, albeit hesitantly.

"I've never seen a talking raccoon before," said Dr Strange.

"Yeah well I've never met a bozo who calls himself a wizard," said the raccoon.

"That's Rocket," Peter said. "This is Gamora, Mantis, Groot, Drax, and Peter Quill. I'm Peter Parker," he added for the wizard's benefit.

"I'm Dr. Strange," said the wizard.

"Oh," said Peter, "we're doing fake names. In that case I'm Spiderman and he's Star Lord."

Tony looked to Quill. "What kind of name is Star Lord?"

"Says 'Iron Man'" Dr. Strange said, rolling his eyes.

Rocket crossed his arms. "Seriously, what is it with Terrans and their ridiculous code names?"

He's got a point. This chapter feels short. hmmm. Well anyway I guess this means I wrap it up next chapter or it becomes long. but not very. I kinda wanted there to be a fite between the Guardians and Team Strange Man (that's iron man and dr. strange combined), but there was no way lil petey would let anyone throw a punch. Don't worry, I'm sure there'll be drama over the stone. sayonara kiddos!