Finally, I can bring you the promised story about „my Big Bang" . It's slightly similar to the Collector's , but I don't remember it much, I wasn't in the mood to rewatch it and I made up my own. Thanks to Marvel's entities (not really in the original concept) and Dan Brown's books The Da Vinci Conde and The Lost Symbol. Yeah, it's weird, but it's true, he brought me to my ideas. And you may finally partly know, what's this all about Jenna. But the other part, her mother, remains mystery and will be revealed another time. Well... but it won't be such surprise, if you think about it. To me, it makes already sense.

But don't be mad if you are physicist or something, I'm not and I know nothing about space, it's just fantasy and some made-up words.


„What? What the heck is he talking about?" Rocket spoke, but Jaenna stared at Tivan. She didn't know what he meant exactly, but the truth was, she should die. She was dying and then woke up somewhere in space. Could it be described as falling through the armful of Death? But not that she wanted to open up to him. She opened up to Peter because she trusted him most of all beings around, and she didn't trust the Collector even for one tenth of the credit she gave to Peter. She didn't like that spark in his eye when he looked at her at all. It was like recognition, but not of actual her. Of something... far more frightening.
"All right, Tivan, that would be enough. We are here because of the deal and we either carry it out or find another buyer!" Gamora said firmly and stood right in front of Jenna. And the Collector smiled in his strange and bit scary way, nodded and turned his eyes to her.

"Well then. Please, show me what did you bring."
Peter reached for his bag and pulled out the Orb. In fact, this was the first chance to see what was this all about even for Jenna. And she found out, that if she herself came across this thing, she would not consider it anyhow special. It was slightly bigger than a billiard ball, silver and carved. A space paperweight, for all she knew. Little trashy. She would probably not place it on her desk.

But the Collector looked on that ball almost with a pious respect and very eager expression flashed through his face for a heartbeat. As if they put a glass of water in front of someone, who wandered the desert for a month. Or an unheckable computer in front of Tony Stark. Then he carefully took it and placed it under the watchful eyes of them all into some holder. Although Gamora looked more impatiently than curious, perhaps she hoped in the fastest possible verification of their offer, consideration of the price, payment and getting out.
But the weird mechanical holder suddenly made 90-degree turn and spread and the space paperweight revealed it was no paperweight. It unfolded to the two halves and purple light shone from the inside.

"What is that?" Jenna couldn't remain silent.
"Funny that exactly you are asking."
"Why's that?"
But the Collector didn't answer and just smiled little smugly and very scary again.
"Now it's clear at the first sight what is that," he encouraged the others to answer instead, but no one said anything. The Collector theatrically rolled his eyes.
"None of you creatures suspect what did you bring to me?"
"It looks... powerful? And like a stone. Ronan pried for it," Peter tried. Maybe he did suspect, but no one was evidently acquainted with reality.

"Well, all right. I assume it's only fair to apprise you with nature of this... stone before closing the deal. After all, I noticed it's not out of the matter," he again winked on Jenna and then looked into that purple light emerging from thing really looking like a small stone surrounded by a waving fog of energy, went to a panel next to the desk with the holder, pressed several buttons and set an image of space on a holo screen behind him into motion.

"That will be quite a show, Groot," Rocket growled mockingly. The raccoon was probably as impatient as Gamora, but the Collector just shot a glance at him and Jenna felt a tension of entirely different kind. She still had to turn back to that glow. It's completely natural for a person to want to do a huge stupidity near some dangerous situation with only his own thoughts around. Get over the railing of a bridge, jump from a tower after the climb, put the hand into flames while staring into a fireplace, or touch a rotating circular saw. Most of the regular people would not do it, of course, and they would maybe even deny their thoughts about it, but they're therein, tucked deep down with this innate human perversity.
But this wasn't that case. It didn't flicker in her head to do a fatal craziness. For the briefest moment, she just felt it to be not perverse but natural.

"Surely you've heard at least a little about the creation of the universe. Point zero. Singularity, as some civilizations call it."
"The Big Bang," Jenna noted when she shook her head to focus on Tivan's words again. She really had heard about it. She even watched one Big Bang, maybe one whole series. But now it was like a different life.
"Precisely. And it can be depicted also as the first death. The first end, first death, following by expansion... beginning and life."

Everybody was just puzzled and the Collector stepped aside from the screen, where several stones floated on a black background - the purple one and five others. Yellow, blue, red, green and orange.
"I... don't get it," Peter said. He apparently had the same knowledge about the origin of the universe as Jenna, thus terrestrial, maybe with few local scraps on top of that, and it didn't make sense even to her. There was nothing before the expansion. Let alone the end.

"Religion, science, myths, they all are telling the same story of the same creation, mister Quill, creation, think about that word, only from another perspective.
Hardly anybody knows how it really happened. Maybe because it sounds too incredibly, maybe because they would have to admit the existence of much bigger power than they can imagine, but so it is."
"And this stone is connected with it?" Peter continued to not understand, but it seemed that Gamora figured out or knew from the beginning. After all, she worked for a man who had been after it.
"It's the infinity stone."
The Collector nodded like in a bow.

"What is infinity stone?" but Jenna was like Peter. In fact, she had no problem with admitting the existence of much bigger power. A lot of people around her life worshiped the god or Jesus and she got used to their concept, even if she wasn't the believer. Nor could she, as she already knew two "gods". But this was clearly something else. Or not? Didn't he just say, that religion was telling the same story as he was going to tell them, just from a different perspective?

"To understand, you need to hear everything from the start. The civilizations and races rise and sink, time goes by, at least for our sense, and most of us will never be able to really comprehend secrets of existence, let alone understand, but this is pre-origin of everything.
At that time... well, time...," he chuckled, „only a creature existed. Let's call her a creature. Being. You maybe know the term convergence, but this was not the convergence as you may see. It was not connection, it was unity. In that "being" everything and simultaneously nothing existed. She was everything and nothing. All-embracing. Everything in her merged into one, she was the only ultimate point and also endless eternity. No one can say how long she existed that way because she contained with all the rest even time, that we also can't define how are we used to, because it existed all at once. After all, some think it remains like that and I am not meant to question it. But make no mistake with the image of being hanging in nothingness. Because she was... the Pre-existence, there was only her. No nothingness around. No nothing. There was no plurality, passing, space, matter, energy, everything was one and the same. Only her. Although, she couldn't be marked as her in that state.
But little by little, she started to realize herself. I'm not able to describe how, no one knows what changed and why this... Allness started to perceive her existence, but it did happen. And once it happened, once she realized that she was, and because she was everything, that she was alone, besides her, nothing formed."

Jenna gazed on the Collector with halfway open mouth and tried to process it. Right, maybe in vain, as chaos swirled in her head. And when she stealthily took a look around, she found Drax not understanding even half Tivan's speech and Groot completely giving up. He rather watched one terrarium with some very odd animal.

"Aaand that is linked with the Orb by...?" Peter encouraged him.
"Imagine there you are. And except you only nothingness. No wonder she started to be so desperate due to the sudden solitude which she couldn't apprehend before. Or that she decided to end it, don't you think? She couldn't stop to be aware of herself, but she could try to end it. And she did."

In that moment, the screen behind him flashed and powerful streams of bright colors shot into the black space.

"However, thereby she disrupted the perfect balance holding the oneness. There always must be a balance, always must be harmony what are we nowadays calling cosmic symmetry, and she disrupted it. The unity was gone. When she touched her essence in her attempt to destroy herself, she tore herself to four pieces. Four contrasting entities who literally ripped themselves off her, replaced her and became the principles of new connected metasystem of our present existence, the convergencial binder of the universe.
Only then she succeeded. But that act of tearing also launched so massive stream of energy, that the four entities scattered far from each other and six mightiest flashes of pure power covered former non-existence and started to expand high and low. Create the space. You know that as the Big Bang," he nodded to Jenna.

"The oneness fell apart and as those four entities exist in opposites, everything that merged began to emerge in opposites too, like the last desperate attempt to preserve the symmetry. And those six mightiest and brightest streams erupting from the new entities upon the dividing and taking certain power with them, crystallized, after the main blast of explosion, when they got far enough and slowed down and when energy and matter started to separate, into the infinity stones," he finished and six colored stones formed of light and colorful vortex again on the screen behind him and hazy figures of unclear shapes floated near them.

"And that being?"
"Her effort was successful. She died."
"So she's dead?" Jenna frowned.
"Dead. And the most powerful entity, because the memory of her all-embracing oneness still remains in her. The memory of her being everything and not being anything without her. You know her as Death."

After that, the Collector looked directly at her. But she refused it. She refused any connection to Death and the fact, that Death should exist in another form that simple... arrest of vital functions. That there should be so fundamental difference between the term death and for example... digestion. And generally, how could it be related to her? Why was he looking at her? He couldn't know anything, he couldn't know it and had to be wrong.
"What?"

"It's true. Death is one of the four entities. One of the main element of all existence. Death, Eternity, Infinity and Oblivion. And their might crystallized into seemingly ordinary shards of stone of space, mind, soul, time, reality and power scattered in all directions and corners. But we know what happened to those stones. They are well-known objects and centerpiece of many desires. Now lost or safely stored in hopefully trustworthy hands.
What happened with entities... that is more interesting. They are not able to show off greatly by themselves, nor grasp their essence as the ancient Onlyness, if I may call her that, could. But they can connect with real beings, live in them for time and at that time know, what they are. And if the time would have come when all four of them shall meet in the full self-awareness and gain the stones..."
"The Big Crunch would follow," Jenna breathed out.
The Collector nodded.

"Perhaps it should be called renewed unity. There will be no collapse. Everything will return into the primordial merger and unicity. But I admit, it sounds scary. Many races long fought against this day. They guarded the stones, feared the entities and only the most powerful ones was able to use them for their dominion over the status quo. Then they forgot their fight and the war of egotistical possession of stones and immeasurable strength and control of space started. But now, my dear friends, as if the memory about creation and real danger was rising from the dust. As if the day approached... can we talk?" his faraway, unworldly voice suddenly switched to very present and even this question was directed to Jenna.
She was ready to run.

"Hey, hey, hell no," Peter intervened because only he might partly understand what was he hinting. Jenna revealed him she had to die despite her gift, so she probably had something in common with Death. And he knew Collector's reputation and his perverted desire to collect anything interesting and lock it to the aquarium, no matter what it was or whether it agreed. And the glitter in his eyes seemed too taken and readable to him. He didn't intend to let him tinker with it even more. They were here because of the deal. And he really wanted to go out.
Therefore, he grabbed Jenna's hand and dragged her one step back. That earned him the attention of the others, even Groot who understood, that the story above his capacity just ended.

"Now, when we know what it is, we should raise the price, but maybe we will be generous and let it on the original level. When you pay, we leave and this stone will stay buried in some pretty-" but he didn't finish where because the pink slave who brought them into the Collector's museum pushed him aside.
She didn't look broken and humble anymore. Mad determination radiated from her, her face twisted into hawk expression and she threw herself to the desk with the holder.
The Collector screamed at her with a sincere fright, but too late.

"No, I will no longer be your slave!"
She jumped for the Orb, infinity stone or whatever it was and clenched it in her hand. Nothing happened for a heartbeat. No one moved, maybe even breathed. Perhaps space stopped.

And then exploded.