I'm back after realizing how boring it is focusing on one story instead of multitasking myself.

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Chapter 4: Freedom

Deep within one of the Kyln's structures was a chamber with cocoons scattered around held suspended in the air by a string of an unknown organic material. They were in many sizes with some small enough to fit in the palm of a hand while others were the size of skyscrapers. One particular cocoon began to move side to side slowly at first but gradually got faster until the string that was holding broke letting it fall to the ground. The cocoon started to crack and a dark blue hand broke through it. A bright light began to shine from within the cocoon illuminating the chamber until it finally exploded.

A male humanoid figure was crouched down on the floor on one knee while smoke covered his body. He then stood up revealing long blue hair that seem to glitter as if stars were embedded on it. His body was colored dark blue and his eyes shone with a terrible glow to it. The figure scanned his head around looking around his surroundings before smiling. "So you thought to imprison me in the same prison my former master built?" He said to himself as he began to float above the floor he was standing on. "You are surely mistaken..."

At that same moment, "Bob" sensed something was very wrong and whatever it was, it wasn't good. Peter looked up from his bed at his friend wondering what was making him look so worried. "What's the matter Bob? You look pretty spooked."

Warden Riker was walking behind someone who wore a white coat over a shirt colored green on the right and yellow on the left. She also had on a black skirt that went down to her knees. She was green skinned with black flowing hair and wore a white hairband. The most distinguishing look she had was that of her two insect-like antennas on her head. "This better be important Dr. Brandt, I have other matters to attend to at the moment." said Riker.

The woman turned around to look at Riker smiling with her eyebrow raised up. "Really, you have something more important to do than work? May I ask who's the lucky girl?"

Riker scowled at her comment. "Let's not get carried away with ourselves doctor."

Brandt giggled and both of them walked into a lab where Brandt pressed a button causing holographic projections to appear in front of them. Brandt went to the middle of the display and moved around the holograms with her hands. "I was studying some of the prisoners' DNA and I found something really interesting about our recent addition."

"Go on." said Riker.

"It would be best if I showed you." Brandt pulled up a hologram of "Bob"'s DNA and Riker narrowed his eyes as he saw the diagram of the double helix structure as the base pairs were constantly switching in and out with other pairs coming in, the process never seemed to end until Dr. Brandt froze the image of a base pair about to replace another. "Their DNA was constantly mutating itself and I made sure to find any other races that were similar but to no avail."

"But why do this?" Riker asked.

"It must be a survival mechanism so that when it goes to a different environment, it will adapt to the environment." Brandt answered.

Alarms began to blare bringing Riker and Brandt out of their conversation. Riker went to an intercom in the room and pressed a button. "This is Riker, what the hell is going on!?"

A voice came on and the sounds of gunfire and the screams of men was in the background. "Sir, we got a situation here! We got someone here attacking us with powers and he's tearing us apart!"

"That's impossible, we have the tools to detect even the slightest hint of any anomalies like that unless..." Riker looked toward the window where a view of space was shown. "... he was inside this whole time. We have an Omega class prisoner escaping men! Our number one priority is to make sure he never escape at all cost!"

The being smiled as he float past the numerous bodies that he just killed. "That wasn't bad for a little workup." He then find himself passing through the holding cells of prisoners and he looked into a particular cell where a strange orange and green life form was staring at him along with the person who trapped him here in the first place. "Well, well what do we have here? It seems our roles are reversed this time with you locked up and I free."

The man stood up and went up to the bars. "How did you get your shell?" Peter questioned.

"I don't have to explain everything to an insignificant pest like you."

"Really, then how did an "insignificant pest" like me beat you and drag your sorry ass here?" Peter then felt a hand wrapped around his throat choking the life out of him and "Bob" tried to help but the being fired a dark energy blast making him crash against the wall.

"I could end your life here but that isn't good enough." The shadowy being released his grip on Peter who was coughing and breathing heavily on the ground. "Instead you get to watch as I lay waste to the universe and there's nothing you can do to stop me unless you intend to sacrifice more lives like before." Peter brought his face up looking angered.

"Oh did I struck a nerve? How rude of me." the being chuckled. The sounds of guards running towards them could be heard from the cell and the dark figure decided to leave. "Someone will stop you whether it's me or not." said Peter.

The being stopped and turn his head around smiling. "What can they do against a former herald of the planet eater himself?" The being continued to float away until Peter couldn't see him anymore.

Riker showed up with a squad of Omega Core guards. "What happened here?" Riker asked Peter.

"You just missed him." Peter answered and Riker punched the wall in frustration."Damn it!" he yelled.

"Sir, we got a report saying he left the Kyln faster than the speed of light, he's gone sir." said a guard.

"All right then, notify all nearby planets of the escaped prisoner and tell them to not engage him." Riker ordered a guard who ran off to do what he said.

"Perhaps I can be of assistance warden." said a voice. It was Gladiator but instead of wearing prison clothes, he was wearing a red and blue bodysuit with a yellow belt and a Delta-like symbol with an opening on the bottom left. He wore a red cape with yellow bordering around it and a collar that was high as his head.

"Gladiator!" Riker gasped but his face changed from shock to anger. "So if you were here this whole time then why didn't you do anything!? With your strength, you could've stop him!"

Gladiator crossed his arms in front of him. "My power alone is not enough to stop him and the rest of the Imperial Guard are currently dealing with another task."

"Then what would you suggest Gladiator?" Riker asked. "There is one here who has managed to stop the herald of Galactus before, he can aid you." Gladiator answered. "Where is he then?" Gladiator pointed to the cell where Peter and "Bob" were in. "You're looking at him."

Peter sat down in a chair where a table was laid out with Gladiator and Riker sitting as well. The room was dark except for a lamp above the three and the windows were darkened making it hard to tell who was on the other side. "What kind of information can you tell us about this guy?" Riker questioned.

"Where's Bob?" Peter asked concerned about his friend.

"Bob, what are you talking about?"

"Bob is the one that was knocked out in Peter's cell and he's a friend." Gladiator explained.

"So it's a he now, I suppose that would be better than calling him an it. He's being taken care of by Dr. Brandt, I'm sure you remember her given your history together." said Riker.

Peter rubbed his head sheepishly. "Yeah I'm pretty sure dumping her counts as history."

"Let us get back on to the topic at hand. Peter or should I say Star Lord, how is it that you beaten someone as powerful as a herald of Galactus by yourself?" Gladiator questioned.

"I don't go by that name anymore and his name is the Fallen One as far as I'm concerned. He is or was a herald of Galactus. Practically the first one ever from what my sources can gathered and he's fueled up with dark energy instead of the usual cosmic radiation. Even Galactus admitted he was just too much for his taste and imprisoned him on an uninhabited planet for who knows how long. The Fallen One didn't take the betrayal very well and broke out trying to get back at Galactus. I went in to stop him and I did but not without paying a price for it."

"What do you mean by a price?" said Riker. Peter looked up to him. "I killed a planet and its inhabitants."

"Bob" groggily opened his eyes and blinked a couple of times covering his face from the light glaring down on him.

"Oh good you're awake." said a female voice. He turned his head to the right to see a green female humanoid with strange looking... things on her head. "You took a pretty hard hit to the head when they brought you here but you should thank your healing factor for that."

She was sitting in a floating chair and she pushed herself away to go to her desk typing in her computer before floating back towards "Bob". "So I hear the legendary Star Lord named you Bob since that was all he could come up with." she sighed annoyingly giving "Bob" the impression she was talking about Peter and they knew each other.

"Ughh, how did I even survive that man's idiocy?" She saw "Bob" tilting his head in his confusion and she smiled. "Sorry about that "Bob", just thinking out loud here and that reminds me."

She got up closer. "You really need a new name but what to call you?" she scratched her head deep in thought. "How about umm, Adapto?" "Bob" shook his head. "Morpho?"

"Bob" shook again. "Your DNA is pretty unique so-" She clapped her hands in realization. "Hey I got the perfect name for you! How about Deoxys? Would you prefer that?" She asked excitedly.

He thought for a moment before eventually agreeing by nodding his head at the new name. Deoxys sounded perfect to him.

I'm bringing in Mantis who was a member of the 2008 Guardians of the Galaxy team and she was a member of the Avengers. The dress she was wearing was homage to her classic costume. There is also a comic run called Legendary Star Lord so I made a reference to that. Speaking of cocoons, know who else is famous for that?

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