Here is the next update. I'll be making Jason even more like Reaper from Overwatch in this one, and he will have similar abilities.
I only own my original characters, nothing else. I also don't own the name the Reaper.
Jason now sat in a room in the Milano, staring at the Reality Stone with his mask in his hand.
"What can it do?," Gamora asked from the door.
"It is capable of changing matter into dark matter," he answered. "It feeds of the life-force a host like a parasite. It does many other things as well. I'll be using it against Ronan."
"Ohh no you're not!!," she said and attempted to grab it.
Jason just shot it and the container was destroyed and the Aether was unleashed. He walked over to it and reached out. Slowly, the fluid and everchanging power force seeped into his body, changing his skin to black and parts of his armor glowed red and his eyes turned all black. His body began to dissipate into black smoke and then he vanished.
Gamora frantically searched everywhere for him and then he reappeared behind her and was actually able to scare her a little.
"Bastard!!," she yelled then she noticed that his skin and eyes were back to normal. "What the-?"
"I'm immortal, remember? It's life draining powers have no effect on me. Thousands of years ago, I used this Infinity Stone to be a bounty hunter, it's what gave me the title of Reaper."
"It was still reckless!!"
"I've done far more reckless things on my very long life."
"...Just how old are you?," she asked out of curiosity.
"Probably close to 20,000, give or take."
She looked astounded, but then remembered that Thanos was far older than even that.
"Hey lovebirds!!," Rocket yelled over the intercom. "We're here!"
"We're on our way, rat!!!," Reaper yelled then he pressed his lips to Gamora's one last time and then they both vanished in black smoke and reappeared next to Groot and Rocket.
"Whoa!! Where did you guys come from?!!"
"Long story," Gamora said then she fired non-damaging rounds at the Ravager cruiser in front of them, just to get their attention.
"Attention, idiots!!," Rocket began as Drax got onto the roof with a weapon not even Jason had ever seen. "The maniac on top of this ship is carrying what's called a Hadron Enforcer. A weapon of my own design. Now if you don't hand over our friends right now, he's gonna put a hole in your ship. A very big hole."
Jason was now very nervous about this little plan and tried to stop it.
"You have until the count of three!! One...two...-"
"ROCKET!!!," Quill yelled over the coms from the other ship. "We worked out everything here!! We're fine!!"
"...Hey Quill?," Jason said. "Tell my sister I said hi."
He got an eyeroll from even Groot at this.
Sometime Later
Quill and Emily had just finished explaining how they got Yondu from killing them and Rocket was not impressed.
"You call that 'worked out'?!!!," he yelled sitting down on box as Groot sat to his left and Gamora to his right and Drax across from him. Quill stood in front of them with Emily standing behind him and Jason leaned on a wall behind Gamora. "We go after the guys that just beat us senseless?!"
"Oh you call that senseless?!," Peter said. "What about your plan to rescue us by blowing us up?!"
"We were only gonna blow you up if they didn't turn you over!!"
"Well how were they supposed to do that when you only gave them the count of three?," Jason asked.
"Well sorry I didn't have time to figure out the minutia of the plan!!," he argued.
"I am Groot," Groot said taking his side.
"Yeah, they are ungrateful!!"
"So how are we gonna beat Ronan and his band of freaks?"
"I have a plan," Quill stayed.
"You've got a plan?!! First of all, you're just copying me from when I said I had one."
"It's not that rare of a thing for people to say, Rocket."
"Well I still think you don't have a plan!!"
"I have...part of a plan!!!"
"What percentage of a plan?," Drax asked quietly but Gamora and Emily glared at him.
"You don't get a voice in this after the nonsense you pulled on Knowhere!!!," Emily yelled.
"I just saved you and Quill!!"
"We've already established that blowing them up is not saving them," Jason stated, still as calm as ever.
"When did we establish that?"
"Just ten seconds ago!!!!," Gamora yelled.
"Sorry I wasn't listening. I was thinking about something else."
"Well they're right!! You don't get a say in this!!," Rocket agreed. "But back to the point, what percentage of a plan do you have?!"
"I don't know. Like...12%."
"12%?? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
"That's a fake laugh," Quill said.
"It's real!!!," Rocket yelled.
"Totally fake."
"That is the most real, authentic, hysterical laugh of my entire life because that is not a plan!!!!"
"Yeah its hardly a concept," Gamora said and Emily nodded in agreement.
"Is everybody hanging up on me on this?!"
"I am Groot."
"So what's its better than 11%!! What the hell does that have to do with anything?!," Rocket said.
"It's also better than no plan at all," Jason pointed out.
"Thank you Groot, thanks Jason," Quill said. "Groot and Jason are the only two of you that have a clue."
Just then, Groot began nibbling at a leaf on his left shoulder. Then Jason began scratching at his face with the sharp clawlike gloves he wore, cutting his face up good, thankfully he had healing factor.
"Guys come on!! Yondu is going come in here any second and he is going to be expecting this big plan of ours!!
...You know what I see when look around? Losers."
Everyone looked at him with confused and slightly hurt faces.
"I mean, folks who have lost stuff," he quickly cleared up, then everyone nodded in understanding. "Boy we have, haven't we? Our homes, our families, chance at a normal life. Sometimes life takes more than it takes, but right now, life's giving us a chance."
"To do what?," Drax asked.
"To give a shit. I for one am not going to stand by and watch as Ronan destroys millions of lives."
"But Quill," Rocket said and everyone looked at him. "Fighting Ronan...it's impossible. You're asking us to die."
"...Yeah, I guess I am," he said back.
After a moment or two of thought, Emily walked over to Peter.
"Peter...I have killed so many people...few were innocent. I have lived my life full of regrets and guilt. Then I met you and whenever you talked to me, you always helped me see the light. If you say that we have a chance to do some good for once...then I'm with you. All the way," she said and then Gamora stood up.
"I too have lived a life of guilt and regret," she said. "And I have always been surrounded by my enemies. If we are gonna die...then I will be honored to die alongside my friends."
Drax was the next one to stand up.
"You are an honorable man, Quill," he said. "I will fight beside you. And in the end, I will see my family again."
"I am Groot," Groot said then joining them.
"...Oh...what the hell? I don't got that long a lifespan anyway," Rocket said getting up on the box and all eyes were on Jason, who only for a moment seemed hesitant.
"...I have been alive for 20,000 years," he began. "I have killed probably billions of people, guilty and innocent alike, seen horrors beyond imagining. But I have never seen anything that we are seeing now. You say that we've been given a chance? That's something I've been waiting for my whole life. Since I met you guys, I've rethought my life, and now...now I believe that we can do this. But only if we do it...together."
He got up from leaning and walked over to them. He looked at Gamora and saw that she was smiling at him, and he returned it.
"Well, there you go. Bunch of jackasses standing in a circle now," Rocket said and Jason shook his head.
"We better get to work then," Star-Lord said.
Soon afterwards, Yondu and the Ravagers came in and they explained their plan.
They explained to them how the Stone works and how dangerous it was. They were to ambush Ronan's ship, the Dark Aster head on, and they would draw out the fighters so Quill, Jason, Emily, Gamora, Groot and Drax can infiltrate it, along with Yondu. Quill will contact the officer who arrested him, hoping that the Nova Corp will help them as Ronan intends to destroy their homeworld of Xandar. Rocket would aid the Ravagers against the fighters in the Milano.
"Once we're inside, Ronan will seal himself inside the bridge," Gamora said. "So Emily and I will head to the generator room and disrupt one of the cores and it'll open the door."
"Luckily, Ronan does not know that I wield an Infinity Stone as well," Jason said. "It'll get me inside the bridge and I'll face off against him. Keep him distracted until they can get the doors open."
"And then I will use the Hadron Enforcer to kill Ronan," Peter said.
"We still need one thing," Rocket said then pointed to some guy with a cybernetic eye. "That guy's eye!!"
"No, no. We don't need the guy's eye."
"No, I'm serious. It's important to me...hahaha."
Jason rolled his eyes and then everyone left to ready themselves for war.
Peter had just finished getting ready when Emily came to his door.
"You scared?," she asked.
"...Yeah, I actually am. You?"
"Oh yeah, especially since we're dealing with an Infinity Stone. I just wanted you to know, in case we don't make it...I love you, Quill. I always have."
He got up and walked over to her and pressed his lips against hers again, and she returned it.
"I love you too," he said back. "Let's make sure not to die though, right?"
She nodded and put her helmet on and they were both ready.
Back with Jason, Gamora had come in with a red Ravager outfit, and saw him sharpening his swords, then they vanished as he sheathed them, along with the sccabards.
"I had heard that the Dark Elves has the Aether," she said.
"They still it from me about 6,000 years ago," he answered. "Took Malekith a milenium to control it like it do, only I can do it better. Then Odin's father, King Bor, had his men hide it somewhere where I couldn't even find it. But enough of that, you ready?"
"Yeah, are you?"
"As one can ever be."
He began to walk out and then Gamora grabbed his arm and this time pressed her lips against his and he returned it.
"For luck," she said to him.
"I was already feeling lucky but I'll take a little more," he said and she rolled her eyes and as they walked, Yondu stopped them. He then handed him some units and Jason nodded in thanks and Yondu walked away disappointed while Gamora looked confused. "Me and him and most of the Ravagers has a bet going on whether or not Emily and Quill would get together. It was just Kraglin and myself who though they would. I've already received a lot of units in my many accounts."
"Men..."
They then caught up with the rest of their little band of misfits as Quill played a song called Cherry Bomb.
"This is a dumbass plan," Jason said and some of them nodded in agreement.
"Hey you said as long as we do it together, we'd succeed," Star-Lord said. "Well...here we are. All together."
"I guess actions will have to speak louder than words, Munch-Boy."
"That is again nothing like Star-Lord."
"Children, can you fight later so we can save the galaxy?," Emily asked.
They nodded and Quill flew them out just as they reached Xandar and the battle began. It was chaos as the necrocraft fighters began swarming the Ravagers. They fought and died killing them, soon though, they realized there was just too many. Then yellow blasts came from below and they looked down and saw that the Nova Corp has decided to aid them.
"Mr. Quill, this is Denarian Saal, we're here to help," the head Nova soldier said over coms. "For the record, I advised not trusting you. Prove me wrong."
"They got my dick message!!!," Quill yelled and the. He and Yondu took the opening given to them and flew towards the Dark Aster.
All of a sudden, a necrocraft hit Yondu's ship.
"Ah!! I'm going down, boy!!!," he yelled through the coms to Quill. "I'll see you at the end of all this!!"
Then his ship dove down towards the surface and crashed. Just then, Jason saw that they were nearly there.
"Hey, it's now or never!!," he yelled and they charged right into the Dark Aster.
They got out to see almost pitch black inside.
"Does Ronan hate paying his electrical bill or something?"
Groot then did something no one expected. He raised his hand up and then tiny fireflies began to come out and they lit the ship up enough for them to see, and it was also quite beautiful to see.
"Where did you learn to do that?," Drax asked.
"Pretty sure the answer is 'I am Groot,'" Quill said as they began walking to the generator room.
"I just want you to all know, that I appreciate you willingness to forgive me after my recent blunders. It feels good to once again have...friends. You, Quill, you are my friend."
"Oh thanks man," he said to him.
"These two siblings here. They are my friends," he continued, and they nodded at him. "This dumb tree here, he is my friend. And this green whore-."
"Oh you must stop/Watch your mouth!!!," Gamora and Jason yelled then the blue woman from before, Nebula, appeared.
"Gamora," she said. "How could you? You were always weak. You stupid, traitorous bi-!!"
She was stopped when a bazooka missile hit her and they turned to see Drax's bazooka smoking.
"Nobody talks to my friends like that."
"Okay...Gamora, let's get going," Emily said and she nodded and they ran out and Peter and the others ran out towards the bridge.
Then they encountered a familiar face, at least to Quill. A tall, dark skinned man with a massive gun and machines in his head, Korath the Pursuer.
"Star-Lord," he said and then Peter smiled.
"Finally," he said then sprang into action.
He activated his mask and Jason did the same as he got out his swords and attacked Korath. He swung and sliced at him skillfully. Korath was able to block and counter his attacks and being stronger than him, he was able to hit him in the face and stun him, making him drop the swords.
"Draco Payne's infamous blades," he said. He then shot at them and they were destroyed. "What a waste. Now you will die, Jason Payne."
He tried to shoot him again and succeeded, butbthen noticed that the shots went straight through him in a puff of smoke.
"What?"
"I...am...the Reaper!!!," he yelled then half his body disappeared and became black smoke and he flew towards him, shooting his pistols at the same time.
While he was fighting him, Peter used his jet boots to slide down and shoot the soldiers with Korath and Drax began slicing and stabbing atthen, tossing them all over the place. Groot used his superior strength and size to slam them down and then throw them, usually for the others to go after them.
"Jason, go!!," Peter yelled. "We've got this!!"
He hesitated for a moment as he did not want to leave his friends, but nodded and ran towards the bridge. Korath tried to make chase, but Drax tackled him and threw him against a wall.
He punched him in the gut then the knees and then roundhouse kicked him in the face.
"You will never make it to Ronan."
As they fought, Death Watcher and Gamora reached the generator room, but Nebula stood in their way once again thanks to her body mods healing her.
"Nebula, please...don't do this," Gamora said.
Nebula wouldn't listen though, and she just swung at her, and Gamora dodged and she parried it and the back kicked her in the face. Then Emily fired her flame thrower at her and Nebula jumped away from it.
"Didn't know you had that."
"Don't use it often," she said, then she fired her gun at Nebula, who dodged it again. "Go! Get that door open!! I'll handle her."
Nebula yelled and ran at them both and aemily fires again and swung her gun at her. Then they got into a lock.
"Let me guess...you still want my title."
"Damn right I do," she said to her.
"Try and take it then."
Nebula pushed her to the ground and then began to try to stab her but she then got kicked in the side and Emily used her jet pack to fly them both up and then she dropped her and dove down at her and shot her once again. She flew away and then grabbed her with her grapple, pulling her to her and then roundhouse kicking her in the face.
Nebula quickly recovered and grabbed her by the neck with his robot arm.
As they fought, Gamora had been able to open up the doors to the bridge so Jason was now able to fight Ronan.
"I expected more."
"Well...I've always been more of a team player," she said then Nebula turned to Gamora who then kicked her away and got out her sword. Nebula came at them both and they blocked her electro blades.
Outside, the Nova pilots had created a grid shield blockade to keep the ship in place and in the air. But this merely annoyed Ronan.
"Enough of this," he said. "Necrocraft pilots, initiate immolation initiative."
The pilots did as he said and began to fly down towards the city and began to attack the people.
"They're heading down towards the city!!," a Nova pilot said. "Denarian Saal, should we break formation?!"
"No!!," he ordered. "Hold your positions!!"
As they began causing mayhem on the surface of Xandar, they then began falling out of the sky in flames.
"Don't worry, Saal," Rocket said. He and the rest of the Ravager ships had followed the ships down and began taking them out. "We've got the people covered down here. Just keep the Dark Aster up there with you."
"Can't believe I'm taking orders from a hamster."
Back with the guys, Drax was still fighting Korath while Quill and Groot fought off other enemies. Groot grabbed one and slammed him to the floor then kicked him at another. Drax and Korath began punching at each other and Drax slammed Korath's head into a wall and left quite a mark on the wall. He then responded in kind and began slamming the maniac's head into it as well. Quill activated his jet boots and flew towards two soldiers and shot them then two others came at him. He got them with the thrusters on his boots. He was now on the floor and sliding across it, shooting numerous of the guards dead. He then got up and blocked and wacked at a guard with his guns, shooting him in the process as well, then shot one last one that had dove towards him, knocking him back dead. Quill turned and saw Drax punching Korath completely into a wall and punch him down to the floor. He grabbed him and pressed him against the wall and grabbed at one of the machines on his head.
"Finger to the throat means death," he told him then ripped the machine off and Korath fell dead with sparks coming out of his head. Drax turned and saw Quill looking at him. "Metaphor."
"Sorta," he said.
They turned to see a whole bunch of other guards coming at them. Groot walked in front of the two and turned his arm into a large vine and impaled the middle row of guards. He then began wacking back and forth, back and forth, yelling as he did so. It began to become scary as Quill and Drax were used to seeing him being such a gentle giant, but we're glad that he was on their side. Once they were all dead, Groot's arm went back to normal and he turned and grinned widely at his friends.
"Xandar!!," Ronan yelled on the bridge as the ship began to put pressure on the blockade. "You stand accused!! Your wretched peace treaty will not save you now!! It is the tinder on which you burn!!!"
He then fired a blast of purple energy from his hammer, which had the Power Stone on it and broke the blockade and the Dark Aster began crushing Nova ships, including Saal's. They all fell and crushed many Ravager ships and Rocket began flying back up.
Back with the girls, Gamora was now being electrocuted by Nebula's blades. She screamed in pain as she slowly began to come out of it. Then she pushed her back and Death Watcher began punching her in the face. She brought out the blades on her bracers and swung at her as Nebula evaded or parried them. As she swung, Nebula got behind her and stabbed her jetpack, disabling her flight abilities. Gamora then grabbed her by the shoulders and threw her away from Emily who immediately went after her. Emily put her blades away and grabbed Nebula's head and punched it down and then kneed her right in the face. She picked her up and then threw her at Gamora and she roundhouse kicked her and she flew towards the wall just as the wall blew as a fighter crashed against the ship. Nebula then began to slide down, but her cybernetic hand got caught between broken pieces of debris. Gamora ran to the hole in the wall and reached out for Nebula.
"Nebula!!," she yelled. "Please, help us stop Ronan!!! You know he's crazy!!"
"I know you're all crazy," she said then stuck her hand and I broke off and she landed on a Ravager ship and then she was gone.
"We'll get some other time," Death Watcher said, pulling Gamora back inside and headed towards the bridge.
Back at the bridge, Ronan watched with pride and pleasure as Xandarians and Ravagers alike began dropping out of the sky.
"You monster," a voice said behind Ronan.
He turned to see Jason Payne there and smirked when he felt the power within him.
"Reaper. You now wield an Infinity Stone now as well. This'll be fun."
"Not for you."
They charged at each other and Jason began shooting at him, but the shots didn't affect him or just simply bounced off of him. Jason used the Reality Stone to extend his body into could only be considered darkness and he shot it at Ronan, who merely created a shield of purple energy to protect himself. The Reaper then began to build up that darkness into a small ball and was about to unleash it, when Ronan shot an energy blast at him, making it explode in his face. He was pushed far back and the explosion sent out a wave of energy then shattered and cracked the walls of the bridge and some debris fell and his mask was damaged slightly, showing part of his left cheek and the right side of his mouth.
"This is the Power Stone, you fool," Ronan said walking over to the center of the bridge where the Reaper has ended up at. "It is the one that gave birth to the other five. The Reality Stone is useless against its power. And now I shall take the Reality Stone from you and with it, I shall be one step closer to curing this galaxy."
He brought out a small orblike container and used the Power Stone to begin the transference. The Aether then slowly and painfully began to leave Jason's body and he screamed in pain from the process. Ronan simply smiled at this as it finished to go into the container.
He then grabbed him by the chest and grabbed his mask, and saw his pain filled and bruised face.
"I would seem that your healing factor has been taken as well," he said. "Too bad for you."
He then punched him hard in the face and with a yell, threw him away towards the entrance. Then he saw Drax the Destroyer there, along with Groot and Star-Lord, who had the Hadron Enforcer on.
He fired it and there was a massive explosion where Ronan was at.
"You did it!!!," Drax yelled as Groot picked up an unconscious Reaper.
But he spoke too soon as Ronan began to get up, with only a crater in his outfit. He turned his hammer in hand as Gamora and Death Watcher came in and they all were pushed back except for Emily, who now was in the air, forcefully being moved closer to Ronan.
"I took your brothers immortality when I removed the Aether from him. He is mortal now. I know not how that has happened, but I believe it is only fair that I do the same to you."
He took his hammer in hand and touched her in the chest and it began absorbing some type of energy from her and she screamed in pain.
"Emily!!!," Quill yelled. He charged at Ronan, who then threw her down and Ronan pushed him back.
He was then punched in the face by Drax and he lifted him up by the throat.
"I was mistaken," Ronan said to him. "I do remember killing your family. Their screams were pitiful!! I-."
He was then interrupted by Rocket crashing the Milano into the bridge. He was thrown from it and knocked unconscious.
This crash had caused enough damage for the Dark Aster to begin to fall from the sky and to the surface.
Quill and Gamora grabbed Emily and Jason and held them in their arms as Groot brought Rocket and Drax to them. He could see that they were gonna die, and he looked to his new family and then looked at Emily, and he knew what he had to do.
He then began to grow and become and a massive ball of wood and vines, thickening as protecting them all from harm.
"No, Groot!!," Rocket yelled having awoken as Emily did as well. "No!! You'll die!! Why are you doing this?!! Why?"
Groot then stroked Rocket's furry face with a vine.
"...We...are...Groot," he said slowly. He looked at Emily one last time and then closed his eyes, accepting his fate.
Then the ship came crashing down on top of the city. Buildings were smashed down as the ship broke apart and then the heroes were scattered around the ground.
Here is where I'll stop but I will get the next one up as soon as possible. See ya later.