A few minutes earlier

"Sing it, Drax!" said Star Lord as Drax was dozing off. Actually, the one one singing along was Gamora. Rocket was waking up from a nap of his own, Groot was playing Space Invaders, and Mantis was bobbing her head to the beat of "Rubberman" as it played throughout the ship.

"Why are we doin' this again?" said Rocket, yawning. "It's a distress signal, Rocket, someone could be dying!" Gamora shot back. "Yeah, I get that," he replied. "But why are we doing it?"

"Because we're nice!" said Peter Quill. "And whoever it is might give us a little chedda' cheese for our little effort..." he continued, rubbing his fingers together.

"Which isn't the point!" Gamora corrected immediately afterward.

"Which isn't the point!" Peter imitated. "I mean, if he doesn't pull me up..."

"Then we take his ship!" Drax finished.

"Exactly!" Rocket followed.

"B-B-B-B-B-Bingo!" Peter finished, afterwards shaking his head at Gamora to alert her disapproval that that isn't the case. Well, maybe it is...

"We are arriving," Mantis interrupted, looking at her screen.

As they prepared to exit the jump point, Star Lord spoke up.

"Alright, Guardians," he said. "Don't forget, this might be dangerous, so let's put on our mean faces." Mantis gritted her teeth to look meaner.

Meanwhile, Groot was continuing to play his game.

"Groot, put that thing away, now," Quill ordered. "I don't wanna tell you again." Groot, being a teenager right now, ignored him. "Groot!" Quill said to get his attention.

"I am Groot," he shot back with a disrespectful tone. The Guardians were taken aback for a moment. "You got some acorns on you, kid!" Peter shot at him.

"You know," Rocket scolded, "Ever since you got a little sap, you've been a total D-hole!" Groot merely glanced back. "Now keep it up, and I'm gonna smash that thing to pieces!" Rocket finished.

They exited the jump. And to everyone's shock, and Gamora's dismay, they saw Sanctuary II. Thanos' flagship.

"Okay," Rocket said. "Turn around!"

"I think I agree with him!" Peter said back. He looked at Gamora. "But I also kinda don't."

"Wait," Gamora said. "There's an escape pod nearby." She looked at Quill. "We need to help!"

Quill took a deep breath. "Alright," he said. "Let's go."

They turned left, in the direction of the pod. As they grew nearer, they saw three humans inside. One of them, who was wearing a mask, opened a hatch at the top of the pod and began waving. Peter had already got some gear on and had a cable to reel them in. He exited the ship through a hatch on the top.

Suddenly, heavy fire began coming from the Sanctuary. The masked man turned, and held up his hands the the cannon fire froze in mid-space. He motioned for his comrades to go as Quill waited. No time to reel them in. Quill rocket jumped over and grabbed the other two men, who had oxygen masks on. When the hooded man saw that they were safe, he sent all of the cannon fire back at the Sanctuary. Who the hell is this guy? wondered Starlord. The man jumped aboard the Milano as the lowered the platform and closed the hatch. Thanos' ship was clearly crippled at this point, and the three men were inside the ship. One of them had long, black hair, the other dark blonde hair with a beard, who was also wearing an eye-patch and what looked like a form of armor. The third wore dark robes and a cape. He had a grey mask with a singular black eye-slit that ran from one side to the other, and it had a red highlight on the top stretching over its entirety, with a smaller one on the bottom with another red line stretching from that point to the bottom, along with red highlights along the sides of the mask. He had two cylinder-shaped objects hanging on either side of his belt, as well.

"Thank you," the masked man said as the one with an eye-patch was laid on a table. He spoke with a commanding voice. "We probably wouldn't have survived if not for you."

"Well, that was some plan, then, Revan!" the black-haired one said sarcastically. He spoke with a sophisticated British accent. The masked one, who seemed to be named Revan, merely shook his head in response.

The Guardians jumped back into a nearby Jump Point to escape Thanos, and the three men were given food and blankets. After a few minutes of peace and quiet, Star Lord spoke up. "Who are you?" he asked.

They were saved. Revan and the two Asgardians were safely aboard the stranger's ship. They were all given blankets and soup as the crew discussed what to do. Eventually, the man who brought them in (who appeared to be the captain) spoke up.

"Who are you?" he asked them. He was young, maybe in his late twenties to early thirties, with orange-ish brown hair and a beard.

"My name is Loki," Loki said. "This is Revan, and my brother, Thor," he continued, pointing at each of them.

"That was Thanos' ship, wasn't it?" spoke a green-skinned woman with black hair that had red highlights. Revan could sense the emotion that came when she spoke his name. Sadness, anger, hate, and lust for revenge toward him...

Just like what Revan feels when he thinks of the Jedi. "Yes," Loki answered.

"Why was he attacking you?" said the captain.

Loki summoned the Tesseract out of thin air. Revan tilted his head in curiosity.

"The Tesseract..." said the green-skinned woman. "Yes," said Loki. "The what?" said the captain.

"It contains the Space Stone," said the woman. "Damn..."

"What?" asked the captain. "He's doing it," she replied. "He's collecting the Stones himself."

Revan was sitting in silence. He never even took his mask off to eat. He just... sat there. He noticed a large, grey-skinned man with no shirt and red tattoos was staring at him. He stared back. He then shook his head. He saw another woman with pitch-black eyes and two antennae staring at him as well. Loki, the green woman, and the captain were discussing the current events.

Revan decided to take his mask off and eat some soup. He unveiled his hood and removed his mask to reveal a middle-aged man with dark, unkempt hair down to his neck, along with a short beard. He had some sort of scar on his face, though it didn't look like it was from a blade or something along those lines. Judging by its shape, it may have come from his mask. A few minutes later, the captain spoke to him.

"Hey," he said. "Revan, right?" Revan nodded back. "My name's Star Lord, captain of this ship, and that's Gamora," he continued, pointing at the green woman. "So, you answered the distress signal, too?"

"Something like that," Revan replied. "How did you manage to rescue these guys?" inquired Star Lord.

Revan thought. "Well, I basically snuck on board and jumped Thanos and his men," he said. "Nothing much to it." He paused to take a bite of his soup. "Definitely an odd bunch, though," he finished.

Gamora looked confused. "The Black Order?" she questioned. "Do you even realize who they were?"

Revan shrugged. "A slight inconvenience?" He only needed a few seconds to deal with them, after all.

"They're the best that Thanos has at his disposal," she explained. Revan looked up. "His..." Revan was quite surprised. "Best? Them?" He chuckled to himself. "Maybe I should have attacked Thanos!"

"Thanos is quite beyond them, I assure you," Gamora said. "But shrugging aside the Black Order is quite a feat in and of itself."

"Not to mention," spoke Star Lord. "He just took out Thanos' flagship all by himself!" He looked at Revan. "How?"

"I have a particular set of skills that makes me a nightmare for people like him," Revan replied hurriedly. "Now, can we discuss the matter at hand, being Thanos collecting the Infinity Stones? For instance, does anybody have any idea where Thanos may be going next?"

"Knowhere," spoke Thor for the first time in some time.

"Well, he must be going somewhere," said the antennae woman. "I agree," added Revan. "We can't give up this soon!"

"No, no, Knowhere is a place," said Star Lord. "We've been there! It sucks..."

"What makes you think he's going there?" asked Revan.

"Because," Thor answered. "For years, the Reality Stone has been safely stored there with a man called 'The Collector'."

"If it's with the Collector, then it's not safe," Star Lord shot at him. "Only an idiot would give that man a Stone."

"I second that!" Loki said.

"How do you know he's not going after one of the other Stones?" Gamora asked.

Thor paused, then spoke. "There are six Stones out there," Thor explained. "Thanos already has the Power Stone because he stole it last week, when he decimated Xandar." The Guardians felt disturbed at this. "He attempted to steal the Space Stone from me," he continued. "But Revan here helped stop that. Thank you, by the way." Revan nodded back. "The Time and Mind Stones are safe on Earth. They're with the Avengers."

"The Avengers?" Star Lord asked.

"Earth's Mightiest Heroes," Thor replied.

"Like Kevin Bacon?" asked the woman with the antennae on her head.

"He may be on the team," Thor replied. "I don't know, I haven't been there in a while."

"As for the Soul Stone," Thor continued his speech. "Well, no one's ever seen that, no one even knows where it is! Therefore, Thanos can"t get it, hence he'll be going to Knowhere to get the Reality Stone. Your welcome!"

"Then we have to go to Knowhere now," said Gamora.

"Wrong!" Thor and Revan both spoke at the same time. Revan gestured for Thor to go first.

"Where we have to go," Thor said. "Is Nidavellir."

"That's a made-up word!" the grey-skinned one said.

"All words are made up," Thor replied philosophically.

"Nidavellir is real!? Seriously!?" the rat exclaimed. Why can that thing talk? Revan thought.

"I mean, that place is a legend!" it continued, laughing. "They make the most powerful, horrific weapons to ever torment the universe!"

Come to think of it, the rat kind of reminded him of HK-47, both being lovable psychopaths. At least, he assumed the rat was lovable...

"I would very much like to go there, please," the rat finished.

"The rabbit is correct, and clearly the smartest among you," Thor said, chuckling a bit himself.

"Rabbit? the rabbit - or, rat, or, whatever the hell it was - questioned.

"Pardon me?" Loki said. "Well, you're not bad yourself, Loki," Thor replied. Loki sighed and shook his head.

"Eitri the Dwarf can make me the weapon I need," Thor said. He turned to the rabbit. "I assume you're the captain, sir?" he said to it. The rabbit was going to speak when Revan interrupted. "Starlord over there clearly said that he was the captain," he said, then pointed at his own eyes. "Observe."

"Well, anyway," Thor continued. "Would you like to join me on my quest to Nidavellir?"

"Yeah, I'll go," the rabbit said after shooting a dirty look at Revan.

"Wonderful!" Thor replied, smiling.

Thor was about to take a backpack when Revan spoke up.

"And no one is going to Knowhere, either," he said. Star Lord looked pissed off. "Sorry, who's the captain here?" he said, putting a hand to his ear. Revan walked over and stared him in the eye. Starlord stood his ground. "I tore down an empire that seemed near invincible and stopped another empire from conquering the galaxy, all within a span of a few years," Revan said. "I've killed beings that don't need an Infinity Stone to crush a planet or throw a moon at someone. I'm assuming you saw what I did with Thanos' ship?"

Starlord swallowed his spit. "Point is," Revan said. "I know what I'm doing." He walked away to explain his reasoning.

"The reason no one is going to Knowhere," he said. "Is because, if we go, we risk Thanos gaining two Infinity Stones."

Thor seemed confused, as did the rest of the ship. "There's only one Stone on Knowhere," Loki said.

"Yes," Revan said. "But judging by the sudden anxiety that she felt," he pointed at Gamora. "When Thor said that no one knows where the Soul Stone is, I'm very much willing to bet that she knows where it is."

Gamora looked down. Some of the ship looked at her, others at him. Gamora looked up. "How could you possibly know that?" she asked. "I can sense emotion," he answered. "Among other things."

"Me too!" the woman with antennae said excitedly. "I'm sorry," Revan said, looking at her. "Who are you?"

"My name is Mantis," she replied.

"I also sense a very strong bond between all of you," Revan continued. "Especially you two." He pointed at Star Lord and Gamora, suddenly realising what he just said. Then he thought of Bastila. He quickly shut out the thought. He left that life behind. He wasn't planning on returning to it, either.

"Uh, anyway," Revan continued. He had clearly made Star Lord and Gamora uncomfortable. Frankly, so was he. "Any one of you could also be used as leverage against her, so really, any of us except myself, Thor and Loki shouldn't be going for that reason alone. Secondly, this conclusion seems rather obvious. There is a big possibility that this is a trap, as well. Assuming Thanos isn't an idiot, of course, which I doubt."

There was a moment of silence. "I'm assuming this weapon will be useful in the coming fight, Thor?" asked Revan. Thor laughed. "Of course!" he replied. "The weapons of Nidavellir have been crafting god-killing weapons for millennia!"

"Hey," said Star Lord. "Don't you think we should all have a weapon like that?"

"No," Thor replied. "You simply lack the strength to wield them. Your bodies would crumble as your minds collapsed into madness."

"Is it weird that I wanna do it even more now?" said the rabbit. Yeah, that thing is a psychopath. "Hmm, a little bit, yeah," Thor replied.

"So we all go to Ni- that place, then?" said Star Lord. Revan thought for a moment. "I'm confirming, not asking approval," he finished, raising his finger.

"How capable are these Avengers of protecting the Stones?" he said. Star Lord threw his arms up. "Very..." Loki said with disdain. Revan chose to ignore it. He thought for a moment. "I think the best course of action is to go to Earth. We can rendezvous with the Avengers and fight Thanos together."

"Alternatively, we could go to Titan," Gamora said. "It's Thanos' home planet, and the most likely location for him to meet with his minions with the Stones. It's better for us to catch him off guard than for us to be on the defense."

Revan thought. He didn't like it, but something was telling him it would go well. As a Force-user, he could look into a vague outline of the future. He closed his eyes and tried to focus. Everyone stared as he stood in silence with his eyes closed.

He saw... Thanos... on some sort of desert planet. He saw... people fighting him there. It was there that it split. On one side, he saw many of them fighting. On the other, only a few. He saw... unexpected help. He saw... victory, in the horizon.

He reopened his eyes. "We go to Titan," he said. Gamora looked at Star Lord. He nodded back, his head looking down.

"Alright, then," said the rabbit. "We got two ships. Me, the angel-pirate and Groot will go to Nidavellir." So the tree had a name? This keeps getting weirder and weirder...

"The rest of you morons go to Titan. Get the picture?" it finished. "Any objections?" Revan said and looked around. No one spoke. "It's settled, then. You three go to Nidavellir, and the rest of us will go to Titan and set a trap for Thanos."

Star Lord had a quick word with the rabbit, and the trio left for Nidavellir in a small pod. The rest set course for Titan.