"Hello!? Helloooooo!" Peter kept calling out to see if there was anyone else around him. He kept walking around trying to find anyone who could help. It hd been what felt like a few hours since he woke up in this strange place, however it was very difficult to tell time when the sky was always an unchanging orange colour. He tried to remember what had happened before he woke up in this place but it was all a hazy memory. He remembered that he had been on a alien planet fighting…. Someone. Mr. Stark was there. He thought he remembered there being a wizard, and a woman with antennae, but that seemed too weird to be true.
He kept walking around, trying to find anyone or anything that could help him figure out where exactly he is. After a few more hours of walking he got tired and decided to sit down. "Okay lets recap" he said out loud. "You were on an alien planet with Mr. Stark, there were others there. One of them was green, and another one might have been a very large bug who may have tried to lay eggs in me like in those old sci-fi movies. We were fighting some bad guy with a golden glove, kind of like Micheal Jackson. And then, we … lost?" Peter was still unsure of his story. He really couldn't remember anything. The last thing he remembered with perfect clarity was him jumping out of a school bus to go investigate that big space donut. "Maybe that space ship has something to do with it. Maybe we got abducted and dropped off on this weird planet. That makes sense, right?" Peter still wasn't sure. None of this seemed real. He wasn't sure what to do next. There seemed to be no one here with him. But he had to do something. There was always something you could do to fix a terrible situation.
Peter let out a large yawn. He decided to lay down and get some rest. "I'll figure out what to do when I wake up." He said. And with that he let himself fall asleep in this strange world.
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Shuri was trying to make some improvements to her blasters. She went to pick it up but when she did it she lifted it very high in the air, because they seemed much lighter then they used to. Shuri was still adjusting to her new found strength after she had taken the serum from the herb. She also found that she had a lot more energy that before, able to run faster and longer than she has ever been able to before. I could get used to this, she thought to herself.
As Shuri worked she continued to put thought into vision. Why wasn't T'Challa there? He should have been there. The heart-shaped herb allows you to contact you dead relatives and loved-ones, and T'Challa was dead, so why wasn't he there? After a while she decided to ask someone about it. After she woke up from the vision, she first asked the Shaman about it, but he said that the heart-shaped herb works in mysterious ways, so he wasn't any help. She knew her questions her could not be answered by science, because if they could then she would have already answered them. She would need to talk with someone with experience in the more mystical realms. The closest person to that in Wakanda would have to be Thor. Shuri made her way to the area of the castle where the Avengers were staying.
The Avengers had been using Wakanda as a temporary base of operations. They couldn't go back to there headquarters in New York State because they would be arrested. They had been operating mission from Wakanda in the weeks since the battle. The world still needed superheroes, especially after everything that had happened. They had to deal with some minor super villains trying to do everything from taking over a government to stealing high-tech weaponry from secret facilities. It seemed to help the world knowing that the Avengers were still out there helping out.
Right now, Steve, Natasha, Rhodey and Rocket had gone to deal with a small terrorist cell that had somehow gotten there hands on some Hydra tech from a few years ago. Rocket had joined them because he had a lot of anger that he needed to expel, and he turned out to be a useful asset to the team, thanks to his tech wizardry, and the fact that a foul-mouthed, machine gun wielding racoon is pretty distracting in the middle a fight.
Thor and Banner were the ones left in Wakanda, so Shuri made her way to speak with them. They siting at a table eating there lunch when Shuri found them. Bruce was the first one to see her and quickly stood up and tried to greet her awkwardly. Bruce had been a little awkward around her, mostly because he wasn't exactly sure how to treat the royal family in Wakanda. "Your Highness" he said with a mouthful of food.
Shuri let out a small giggle. "It is okay, Dr. Banner, you can sit down." Shuri went to sit down with them and turned towards The God Of Thunder. "Thor, do you know anything about the afterlife?"
Thor seemed a little surprised. "We Asgardians believe in Hel, where souls go after they die. My sister, Hela, is the goddess of Death…"
"Well then maybe she could help." Shuri interrupted. Thor seemed confused. "When I took the serum made from the Heart-shaped herb, I had a vision of all of my deceased ancestors. All of the former Black Panthers were there except for my brother. I wan't to know why. If your sister is the goddess of Death then she must know what happened to him."
"Well, unfortunately my sister turned out to be evil and wanted to take over the entire universe, so I had to kill her before she could do that."
"Oh" Shuri responded, a little shocked. She thought that she had a strange family when she had a cousin that she never knew about try to kill her brother. But Thor had to deal with an evil sister, and she also knew about his brother who had caused an alien invasion in New York.
"Maybe it has something to do with the infinity stones." Bruce interjected. "I've had a bit of experience with the mind stone, and those things do not work like anything else we know of."
Shuri recalled when she was trying to get the mind stone out of Vision's head. She also saw that the readings from it were unlike anything she had ever seen. "What are you suggesting, Dr. Banner?"
"I'm not sure. But I think I know someone who might have the answers."
"Who?"
"This guy I met in New York before I met up with you guys. I think his name was Wong or something. He knew a lot about the infinity stones. If anyone on Earth has the answers, it's him."
"Well then we must make our way there." Thor said, triumphantly. "Come on, we can use the bifrost to travel there quickly."
"We should get any equipment we might need before we go. It could be dangerous" Shuri said. Thor agreed. They left to get ready for the trip. A smile started to cross her face. If Dr. Banner is right, then perhaps there is a chance that whatever happened can be reversed. After all , if there is one thing she has learned from these awful past few weeks, its that the infinity stones can do almost anything.
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Tony and Nebula had been traveling for about a week and a half. They had to go slow because it was not safe to go too fast, or to make too many "jumps" at a time, and because they had to conserve fuel.
Tony and Nebula had been getting to know each other fairly well over the days they have spent together. At first Nebula wasn't very talkative, and found Stark very annoying, but she was slowly starting to warm up to him, although she would never admit it. She understood his pain. He lost everyone, and yet the worst of it was that he was still alive. Nebula felt the same way about Gamora and the guardians. She should have been the one to fall victim to Thanos' "snap", not the guardians. She should have been her that Thanos had killed, not Gamora. Gamora had always been the better one, better at fighting, better at being a hero. Nebula wasn't sure what being a hero meant. All she wanted was to get revenge on her father for everything he had done to her. The only person she ever loved was her sister. Now Gamora was gone, the Guardians Of The Galaxy were gone, and she was stuck here in their space ship with a wounded Terran.
There were eating a meal in silence when Tony an alarm started blaring. "What the hell is that?" Tony asked, and then all of the sudden there was a large bang heard through out the ship. They both raced to the cockpit.
"Dammit!" Nebula yelled. "We were hit by a piece of debris on the port wing. We need to get it repaired before we can get to Terra."
"Terra?"
"Earth!"
"Well there must be some sort of space roadside assitantance, right?"
"There is a station not to far from her. If we make it there then they can repair our ship."
"How will we get there if our ship is damaged? I don't suppose there is a tow truck space ship"
Nebula paused for a minute. "Come with me." She said, leading him down towards the airlock. "You said you were an engineer on Earth. Well you will need to fix the engine on the wing so that it will take us to the station." Nebula placed one the space suits on him and it instantly covered him with the energy field that would protect him from the vacuum of outer space. "This will keep you safe out there."
"How am I supposed to fix it? I know nothing about alien space ship!" Tony protested.
"You managed to build a suit of highly-weaponized armour out of bunch of spare parts in cave." Tony had told her about his adventures on Earth during there travels. "No fix this damn ship so we can make it to your God forsaken planet." She said as she pushed him towards the airlock. Tony reluctantly got in and attached the tether to him so that he would not float away. And then all of the sudden he was pulled into space.
Once the rope tightened, he saw the damage. Tony moved closer. "Whatever hit us did a real number on you." He said, talking to the ship. He saw that what appeared to be the engine was leaking some kind of fluid. "That can't be good." He summoned what was left of his nano-bot suit to create a laser that he could use to wield the hole in the engine. It wasn't a very big whole, just a small gash. It took a few minutes to wield it back together.
"It looks like the engine is operational now. You can come back inside." Tony heard Nebula say through the radio that was installed in the space suit. Tony made his way back to the airlock and got inside. He took off his space suit and went up to the cockpit.
"That should last long enough for us to make it to the station." Nebula said. After a moment she quietly added "Good job."
"What was that? Does the Tin Woman have a heart?"
"I will kill you." Nebula responded sharply.
They set a course for the station and slowly made there way there.
