Now we bring in the Guardians of the Galaxy. Enjoy!
Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving!
Out in space, the Guardians of the Galaxy were travelling to investigate a distress call to the tune of "Rubberband Man".
Peter Quill was singing to the song as he turned to one of his teammates.
Sing it, Drax!"
Drax was snoring with his mouth open from his seat in front of Quill. Gamora lip-synced with the song along with Quill.
Rocket yawned in exasperation. "Why are we doing this again?" he asked,
"It's a distress signal, Rocket. Someone could be dying." Gamora said to the raccoon, annoyed.
"I get that, but why are we doing it?" asked Rocket.
"'Cause we're nice." answered Quill. "And maybe whoever it is will give us a little cheddar cheese for our help." he added, rubbing his thumb over his other fingers,
"Which isn't the point." reminded Gamora, waving her index finger at Quill.
"Which isn't the point…" nodded Quill, pointing back at Gamora. "I mean… if he doesn't pony up..." he added,
"We'll take his ship." said Drax.
"Exactly!" smirked Rocket.
"B-b-b-bingo!" nodded Quil.
Gamora looked up at Quill in concern. Quill returned her look and grimaced a "don't worry about it" expression at her.
Mantis looked at her console. "We are arriving." she told them.
"All right, Guardians. Don't forget, this might be dangerous, so let's put on our mean faces." said Quill.
Groot rolled his eyes as Mantis made a snarl.
Groot's continued to play his video game.
"Groot, put that thing away. Now. I don't wanna tell you again." said Quill.
Groot continued playing.
"Groot." Peter sighed in exasperation.
"I am Groot!" mocked Groot.
The Guardians looked at Groot in shock.
"Whoa!" exclaimed Quill.
"Language!" scolded Rocket.
"Hey!" warned Gamora.
"Wow." muttered Drax.
"You got some acorns on you, kid." muttered Quill.
"Ever since you got a little sap, you're a total d-hole. Keep it up, and I'm gonna smash that thing to pieces!" shouted Rocket.
Groot rolled his eyes.
Suddenly, they could all see a flash out of the corners of their eyes.
"What the hell was that?" asked Gamora.
Quill and Rocket parked the ship as they, Gamora, Drax, Mantis, and evening Groot, who paused his video game, looked behind them, and to their shock, there stood Sora and Riku, flat on their backs.
"Sora?" Quill asked in disbelief.
"What's he doing here?" asked Drax.
"And who's his friend?" asked Mantis.
The Guardians got out of their seats and went over to the two unconscious teenagers. Quill and Gamora set Sora into a chair in the back. Drax and Groot did the same with Riku.
"How did they even get into our ship?" asked Drax.
"I am Groot." said Groot.
"He's got a point." shrugged Rocket. "The only logical explanations would either be that they got tired in space and came in here to fall asleep or they just beamed in here.
Then, they heard Sora breathe a little as his eyes slowly opened up.
"He's waking up." said Mantis.
"Tell us something we don't know." Gamora muttered under her breath.
Sora slowly sat up as he looked around.
"What the? Where am I?" he asked in confusion.
"Our ship, kid." said Rocket.
Sora was surprised to see the Guardians of the Galaxy in front of him.
"Quill! Gamora! Guys!" he exclaimed in surprise.
"Hey Sora." Gamora greeted.
"What am I doing here?" asked Sora.
"You and your friend appeared in a flash of light." said Drax.
Sora was confused as to what Drax meant, but then he saw Riku sitting next to him, he tried to wake him up.
"Riku! Riku, wake up!"
Riku stuttered. "Ugh… what?" he groaned.
"That's Riku?" asked Quill, remembering what Sora told him and the others during their first meeting.
Sora nodded. "Yeah. He's my best friend." he replied.
Riku opened his eyes and was immediately confused at his surroundings.
"Sora?" he asked as he faced his best friend.
Sora smiled. "It's ok Riku. We're in the Guardian's spaceship."
Riku was surprised. "As in the Guardians of the Galaxy?" he asked.
"That's us." nodded Quill. "Name's Peter Quill. You can call me Peter, Quill, Pete, whatever you want. Oh, people also call me Star Lord."
"I'm Gamora." said Gamora
"Drax. Drax the Destroyer" said Drax.
"Name's Rocket. FYI, don't call me a raccoon." said Rocket.
"I am Groot." said Groot.
Mantis crept over to Riku with her creepy smile.
"And I am Mantis." said Mantis.
"Nice to meet you guys." said Riku, feeling a bit creeped out by Mantis' smile.
"So what brings you to our ship?" asked Mantis.
"We were test driving the new Gummiship." said Sora. "We were with Donald, Goofy, Kairi, Mickey, Minnie, and Daisy."
"Then something hit our ship and we spun out of control." added Riku. "We must've hit the controls so much that we ended up beaming here."
"That would make sense." said Drax.
"I am Groot." said Groot smugly.
"We get it, you were right." Quill said in exasperation.
"So what's going on here?" asked Sora.
"We received a distress call." said Gamora. "We were gonna go check it out."
"You wanna help?" asked Quill.
Sora and Riku traded glances before nodding.
"Sure." said Sora. "And who knows, maybe our friends were there."
"That's a distinct possibility there." quipped Rocket.
The Benatar decelerated.
A moment later, Thanos' devastation suddenly covered everyone's field of view, revealing the distress signal to be the one from the Asgardian vessel. Bodies were seen floating dead in space along with the pieces of the shredded ship.
"Whoa!" gasped Sora.
"What happened?" Mantis asked in shock.
"Looks like we're not getting paid." muttered Rocket.
Then out of nowhere, a body landed on the hull of the ship. It was a Thor!
"Wipers! Wipers! Get it off!" shouted Rocket.
Then, Thor's eye opened making everyone gasp.
"Thor?!" Sora and Riku exclaimed at the same time.
The Guardians looked at the two Keyblade Masters in shock.
"You know him?" asked Drax.
Sora and Riku nodded.
"C'mon, let's bring him in." said Sora.
Soon, Sora, Riku, Quill, and Gamora set the still-unconscious Thor onto an examination table. They all looked at him.
"How the hell is this dude still alive?" asked Quill in amazement.
"He is not a dude. You're a dude." Drax sis's in awe. "This... this is a man. A handsome, muscular man."
"I'm muscular." said Quill, offended.
"Who are you kidding, Quill? You're one sandwich away from fat." scoffed Rocket.
"Yeah, right." muttered Quill.
"It's true. You have gained a little weight…" said Drax as he motioned to his chin and belly.
"He survived because he's a god." said Sora.
The Guardians looked at Sora.
"I am Groot?" asked Groot.
"This guy?" asked Quill.
Sora and Riku nodded. "It's true. He's the god of thunder from Asgard." said Riku. "And the son of their… now deceased rulers, Queen Frigga and King Odin."
"And Asgard was destroyed as it was the only way to kill his sister Hela, the goddess of death." added Sora.
"Our friends Roxas, Xion, and Lea told us that the last time they saw Thor, he, his brother Loki, and their friend Bruce Banner, had helped evacuate the Asgardians." said Riku.
"Something must've happened." Gamora said grimly as she gazed out to space again.
Mantis touched Thor's head. "He is anxious. Angry. He feels tremendous loss and guilt." she told them.
"Gamora's right, something bad must've happened for him to feel this way." said Riku.
"I hope Bruce and Loki are ok." said Sora, worried.
"It's like a pirate had a baby with an angel." commented Drax.
Riku raised an eyebrow and the tattooed man.
"He's always like that." said Sora.
Riku nodded.
"Wow. This is a real wake-up call for me. Okay. I'm gonna get a Bow-flex. I'm gonna commit. I'm gonna get some dumbbells." said Quill.
"You know you can't eat dumbbells, right?" asked Rocket.
"He means he'll lift weights." explained Riku.
Gamora walked to Drax's side and picked up Thor's left arm, stroking his triceps. "It's like his muscles are made of Cotati metal fibers." she said in awe.
"Stop massaging his muscles." said Quill, snidely.
Gamora, annoyed, dropped the arm with a thump.
Quill turned to Mantis. "Wake him up." he said quietly.
Mantis placed a hand on Thor's forehead and her antennas glowed. "Wake." she said softly.
Thor woke up, sitting up violently and throwing himself off the table to stumble a few steps away, then turning to see Quill, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and Mantis all pointing their weapons of choice at him while Groot was still playing his game. The only ones who didn't have their weapons out were Sora and Riku.
Thor looked over at the two Keyblade Wielders in surprise. "Sora? Riku?" he asked.
"It's us Thor." said Riku.
"Nice to see you again." said Sora.
Thor slowly nodded as he looked at the Guardians. "Who the hell are you guys?" he asked.
Later, Thor was eating some soup. Everyone was gathered around him. He had told them all about what had happened. Needless to say, Sora, Riku, Quill, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, Groot, and Mantis were horrified by the story. Gamora then accounted her own time with Thanks.
"The entire time I knew Thanos, he only ever had one goal: To bring balance to the Universe by wiping out half of all life." Gamora said grimly. "He used to kill people planet by planet, massacre by massacre…"
"Including my own." muttered Drax as Sora placed a hand on his shoulder.
"If he gets all six Infinity Stones, he can do it with the snap of his fingers, like this." finished Gamora, snapping her fingers.
Sora and Riku were shocked and horrified by what she just said.
"Hold on! Time out! When you say that do you mean that figuratively or literally!?" Sora asked in shock.
"I mean it literally!" answered Gamora. "If Thanos gets all six stones all he'd have to is snap his fingers and half of life will perish!"
"Are the Infinity Stones seriously that powerful!?" Riku asked.
"One stone can destroy an entire planet." said Quill. "You guys have seen that."
Rocket turned to Sora. "Especially you Sora, you, Donald, and Goofy were with us when Ronan used the Power Stone to try and destroy Xandar." he reminded.
"But 6… the different possibilities of destruction is completely limitless." said Drax.
"That's why they're called 'Infinity' Stones." added Gamora.
Sora and Riku exchanged worried glances.
"This situation just increased to an 11." muttered Sora.
"I'll say." Riku said in agreement.
"You seem to know a great deal about Thanos." mused Thor as he gazed at the green-skinned girl.
"Gamora... is the daughter of Thanos." revealed Drax.
Sora stared at Drax in shock. "Dude! seriously!?" he exclaimed.
Drax realized what he gave away. "Right. She's not the daughter of Thanos. I don't know how she knows a lot about him. What a mystery this is?" he quickly said.
Riku could only stare looking stunned while Sora and Quill facepalmed in annoyance.
Thor stared at Gamora. "Your father killed my brother." he said darkly.
Thor stood up and strode towards Gamora aggressively, worrying everyone else. Sora and Riku were close to summoning their Keyblades.
"Thor…" began Riku.
"Oh, boy." muttered Quill. "Stepfather. Technically, she hates him as much as you do." he told the god.
Thor softened a bit.
"Families can be tough." he said as he clapped a hand on Gamora's shoulder. "Before my father died, he told me I had a half-sister... that he imprisoned in Hel. Then she returned home, and stabbed me in the eye, so... I had to kill her. It's life, isn't it, I guess. Goes round and round and... I feel your pain." he sighed.
Quill glared at Thor's hand on Gamora's shoulder, on the verge of full snarl, and moved around her to push between her and Thor.
"And I feel your pain, as well. I mean it's not a competition, but I've been through a lot." he quickly said to them. "My father killed my mother, then I had to kill my father, which ended up ,leading to the death of my adoptive father. And that was hard. Probably even harder than having to kill a sister. Plus, I, came out of it with both of my eyes-"
Riku turned to Sora. "Is he for real?" he asked.
Sora sighed. "He liked Gamora very much." he told his best friend. "In a way, Quill and Thor are more alike than you think."
Riku bright for a minute and nodded, taking in Sora's point, along with the stories he, Donald, and Goofy told him and their friends about their time with the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Thor wasn't paying attention to Quill as he stared at his soup spoon. "I need a hammer, not a spoon…" he muttered.
He attempted to fiddle with the machinery.
"How do I open this thing? Is there some sort of a four-digit code maybe… maybe a birth date or something…" he muttered.
"Uh, Thor?" asked Sora.
"What are you doing?" asked Quill.
"Taking your pod." replied Thor.
"No, you're not!" Quill shouted in a deep voice, which actually managed to make Sora and Riku jump slightly. "You'll not, be taking our pod today, sir." Quill added, mimicking Thor's accent.
"Quill. Are you making your voice deeper?" asked Rocket.
"No." said Quill, deep in tone.
"You are." said Drax. "You're imitating the god-man. It's weird."
"But a bit funny." Sora whispered to Riku, who gave him a smirk.
"No I'm not." protested Quill, keeping his voice deep.
Mantis gasped. "He just did it again!" she exclaimed.
"This is my voice!" complained Quill.
Thor stepped closer to Quill. "Are you mocking me?" he asked.
"Are you mocking me?" Quill retorted.
"Stop it. You did it again." said Thor.
"He's trying to copy me." accused Quill.
"Would you stop doing that? He's doing it first." argued Thor.
"This is kinda priceless." mused Sora.
"And stupid." chuckled Riku.
Gamora sighed in exasperation. "Enough! We need to stop Thanos. Which means we need to find out where he's going next." she told them seriously.
"Knowhere." said Thor.
"He must be going somewhere." said Mantis in confusion.
"K-N-O-W-H-E-R-E." said Sora.
"Yeah, it's a place. We've been there. It sucks." said Quill before he saw Thor going through their stored food. "Excuse me, that's our food." he called out.
"Not anymore." said Thor.
"Thor… why would he go to Knowhere?" asked Gamora.
"Because for years, the Reality Stone has been safely stored, there with a man we call the Collector." replied Thor.
"If it's with the Collector, then it's not safe." said Quill. "Only an idiot would give that man a stone."
"Or a genius." countered Thor.
Gamora looked at Thor. "How do you know he's not going for one of the other Stones?" she asked.
"There's six stones out there." said Thor as he stepped in front of Gamora. "Thanos already has the Power Stone because he stole it last week, when he decimated Xandar."
Sora gasped. "He attacked Xandar?!"
The Guardians shared Sora's horrified look. Riku looked worried.
Thor nodded.
"Does that mean Dey, Nova Prime, and their people..." Sora trailed off.
"Most likely slaughtered." Thor said gravely.
"Damn." muttered Quill.
"They were good people." Drax said quietly.
He stole the Space Stone from me when he destroyed my ship and slaughtered half my people. The Time and Mind Stones are safe on Earth. They're with the Avengers." he explained.
"The Avengers?" asked Quill, not having heard of them before.
"They're Earth's Mightiest Heroes." said Thor.
"Like Kevin Bacon?" asked Mantis.
Thor paused for a moment. "He may be on the team. I don't know. Haven't been there in a while." he replied.
Sora and Riku traded nervous glances. "Uh Thor, you're not gonna be happy about this." said Sora.
Thor looked at the two humans. "What do you mean?" he asked.
Quill, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, Groot, and Mantis looked curious as well.
"A year after Ultron, there was a mission in Lagos down on Earth." said Riku. "But unfortunately, a bomb went off and several people were killed."
"Oh no…" gasped Gamora.
"Well that sucks." said Rocket.
"The government wanted to keep the Avengers under their control, so Secretary Ross introduced a set of documents called the 'Sokovia Accords.'" continued Sora. "Either the Avengers signed and acted within the Accords or they'd retire."
"That's pathetic!" snarled Thor.
"Government in control of heroes." scoffed Drax.
"I am Groot." said Groot in agreement.
"What did he say?" asked Riku.
"He said 'F that.'" said Rocket. "Only it wasn't F."
Riku nodded as he continued. "There was a UN meeting in Vienna to get the Accords ratified, but a bomb went off their and many people were killed, including the king of Wakanda, King T'Chaka."
"Whoever did that deserves death." snarled Drax.
"Steve and Sam found out that Hydra was behind it, and Steve suspected that it was his friend Bucky." said Sora.
"As in Sergeant James Buchanan Barnes?" asked Thor, remembering Steve's stories.
Sora and Riku nodded. "He was brainwashed by Hydra to be their assassin called the Winter Soldier." said Sora.
"Just like what Thanos did to you and Nebula." Mantis said to Gamora, who nodded in agreement.
"But Steve and Sam found out that Bucky was framed." said Sora. "They, along with Wanda, Clint, Bucky, and a friend of ours named Scott to track him down and stop him from unleashing 5 Winter Soldiers."
"But those who signed the Accords were sent to stop them." said Riku.
"Who'd be dumb enough to sign those?" Thor asked incredulously.
"Tony, Rhodey, Natasha, and Vision." answered Sora.
"Of course a Stark would." muttered Thor.
"Sora didn't say Stark." Mantis said in confusion.
"Tony's last name." said Sora.
Mantis nodded.
"T'Chaka's son T'Challa joined Tony and the others too cause he wanted revenge for his father's death." added Riku.
"And Tony recruited a then-15-year old boy names Peter Parker, who became the superheroes vigilante Spider-Man to help them." added Sora.
"Another Peter." mused Quill.
"He brought a kid into a fight?!" Thor asked in shock.
Sora and Riku looked at Thor with deadpanned expressions. Sora also gestured to Groot.
"Right." nodded the God of Thunder.
"There was a fight at an airport in Germany." said Sora. "Rhodey was paralyzed, Peter was injured, Wanda, Sam, Scott, and Clint were arrested, and Natasha switched sides."
"Eventually, Tony teamed up with Steve and Bucky to capture the man behind everything, who's name was Zemo." said Riku. He sighed heavily. "But when they got there, Zemo revealed something that Steve apparently knew about since the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D."
"And what was that?" asked Gamora.
Sora sighed. "That Bucky, while brainwashed by Hydra, was responsible for death of Tony's parents."
Eveyone except for Sora and Riku gasped in horror.
"That's terrible!" excliamed Mantis.
"And you're saying that Steve knew?" asked Thor.
Sora and Riku nodded.
"Tony was enraged and attacked Bucky with the intention of murdering him." Sora continued. "Steve had to fight him to stop him."
Thor was horrified that two of his close friends fought each other. Even more that Tony would willing try to kill someone in cold-blooded murder.
"Why didn't Steve tell him?" asked Quill.
"Because he thought he was protecting Tony from the truth, but in reality, he was protecting himself." said Sora sadly.
"Eventually, the fight stopped and Steve escaped with Bucky." said Riku. "T'Challa, who was following them and heard everything, helped capture Zemo, brought Tony home, and allowed Bucky to undergo a treatment to get his Hydra programming removed."
"As for the Avengers, because of Ross and those Accords, they were split up." said Sora. "Steve, Natasha, Sam, Wanda, and Vision went on the run, Clint and Scott were under house arrest, and now with Thanos coming, we're toast." he sighed.
"I can't believe that one man and a set of papers could do something like that." commenetd Quill.
"This Ross sounds like a jackass." said Rocket.
"He is." said Riku.
"I would like to slit this Ross' throat." Drax said darkly.
"Go ahead." said Sora.
"Yeah, we don't care what happens to him." said Riku. "He covered up his involvement with the Hulk to save his own ass. And these Accords just make him an even bigger dumbass."
Thor sighed. "Well, hopefully they'll get their heads out of their asses with this new threat approaching." he said to them. "And hopefully the rest of your friends are there so they can help them."
"Let's hope so." said Sora.
"Anyway, as for the Soul Stone, well, no one's ever seen that. No one even knows where it is." saod Thor, confining in the earlier discussion. "Therefore, Thanos can't get it. Therefore, he's going to Knowhere. Hence, he'll be getting the Reality Stone. You're welcome."
"Then we have to go to Knowhere now." said Gamora.
"Wrong! Where we have to go, is Nivadellir." countered Thor.
"That's a made up word." scoffed Drax.
"All words are made up." Thor pointed out.
Sora, Riku, and the Guardians looked at Thor, minds blown.
"Hold up, Nidavellir is real?" Rocket asked in surprise. "Seriously? I mean, that place is a legend." He became gleeful. "They make the most powerful, horrific weapons to ever torment the Universe. I would very much like to go there, please."
"The rabbit is correct, and clearly the smartest among you." said Thor.
"Rabbit?" Rocket asked in confusion.
Sora snickered while Riku smirked.
"Only Eitri the dwarf king can make me the weapon I need." said Thor as he turned to Rocket. "I assume you're the captain, sir?"
"You're very perceptive." said Rocket.
"Oh brother." sighed Riku.
"You seem like a noble leader. Will you join me on my quest to Nidavellir?" asked Thor,
"Lemme just ask the captain." said Rocket. "Oh, wait a second, it's me! Yeah, I'll go."
"Wonderful." smiled Thor.
"Actually Thor, Quill's the captain." said Sora with an devious grin. Riku chuckled.
Rocket stared at Sora in disbelief. Quill smiled thankfully at Sora.
"I see." murmured Thor.
"Wait, what kind of weapon are we talking about here?" asked Quill.
"The Thanos killing kind. The kind that'll be far more powerful than the Keyblade" replied Thor.
"Cool!" Sora said in awe.
"Does such a weapon even exist?" asked Riku,
"In this crazy world of worlds... anything is possible." reminded Sora.
"He's correct." nodded Thor.
Riku nodded in thought.
"Don't you think that we should all have a weapon like that?" asked Quill.
Thor shook his head. "No. You simply lack the strength to wield them. Your bodies will crumble as your minds collapse into the madness." he replied.
"Is it weird that I wanna do it even more now?" asked Rocket.
"A little bit. Yeah." said Thor.
"If we don't go to Knowhere and Thanos retrieves another stone, he'll be too powerful to stop." said Gamora.
"He already is." said Thor.
"Given your story about him, I'm not surpsied." said Riku.
Rocket then had an idea. "I got it figured out. We got two ships, and a large assortment of morons. So me and Groot will go with the pirate-angel here, and the morons will go to Knowhere to try and stop Thanos. Cool? Cool." he suggested.
"So cool." said Thor, with a big grin.
"For the record… I know that you're only going with him because it's where Thanos isn't." Quill point dout to Rocket.
Rocket rolled his eyes as he entered the pod. "Come on, Groot." he told his teammate.
Groot complied as he stepped inside.
Riku looked over at Sora. "I'd better go with them just in case something happens." he told his bets friend. "Who knows what the Organization could be up to if they know about this."
Sora nodded. "Alright. Be careful." he told his friend.
Riku smiled. "You too."
Sora and Riku shared a brotherly hug as the latter joined Rocket and Groot in the pod.
"I bid you farewell and good luck, morons. Bye." said Thor
Sora, Quill, Gamora, Drax, and Mantis nod or waved farewell as Riku, Thor, Rocket, and Groot departed.
Sora faces the Guardians. "Alright, shall we?"
Quill smiled. "We shall."
With that, they all sat down and Quill set a course to Knowhere.
But none of the heroes knew what kind of dangers they would be facing.
To be continued…
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