Listen to the song Funkytown by Lipps Inc. I cant get that damn song out of my head.
"Speech"
"Speaker/Phone"
"Thought"
Sound effects!
Avengers compound common room (Toni POV)
"Ok so here is the main common room we mostly just relax in this area." I say giving my follower a tour of the facility.
"I have no need for such trivial things." Proxima Midnight answers.
"You say that now but you have been eyeing the pool table real hard." I say raising an eyebrow.
"I'm was just curious about it..." She trails off still looking at the game.
"Well I can show you how it works later." I say flashing a quick grin.
It has only been twenty minutes after we left Asgard but I already have a good read on who Proxima Midnight was. The universe was filled with people who have been trained since birth to be killers kind of like Nat. Prox most likely had a similar training when Thanos probably took her to become one of his children.
One of the many issues with being raised like that is when they find themselves in non combative situations, they act like curious children.
"Same thing happened with me..."
"I'm going to need your measurements for gear, is that spear you preferred weapon?" I ask gesturing to the large weapon she carries.
"I am trained in many forms of combat but this is the best in my arsenal." She says twirling the spear.
Nodding she followed me through the rest of the compound to such fancy locations like the bedrooms, the pool, combat training center, kitchen and the armory. But once we reached the armory door we both heard loud metal on metal sounds accompanied by frantic running around.
"Nat do we need the rocket launcher or the grenade launcher?" I hear Roger's say.
"It doesn't matter, just take both." Nat says back.
"Miss Romanoff how will we be getting to Asgard?" Vision asks.
"Wanda knows the circle portal thing right, we can just use that." Nat answers.
"Nat the amount of power needed to cross the universe would be massive. We would need every sorcerer in Kamar-Ta to pull that off." Wanda says very correct.
"She's right you know, the amount of power to traverse the universe is costly." I say sliding the door open.
Nat was standing in the armory wearing armor plating over her usual spy outfit while holding a mini gun, thing probably felt like carrying a feather with her enhanced strength. Cap is standing next to her holding the previously mentioned weapons with a sack labeled grenades hanging from his belt. Vision was floating off to the side looking tired with Wanda in the same mood next to him.
"Quick recap. I kicked his ass and he ran like a bitch. Now meet your new coworker Proxima Midnight, former daughter of Thanos." I say gesturing to the tall horned woman standing behind me.
For Prox's part she just nods slightly.
"Hay Nat! Jen and I can't find the nuclear arsenal codes, but we did find something labeled Extreme Dangerous so we grabbed that!" Clint yells coming down the hallway holding five quivers of arrows while Jen was behind him carrying a weapon that would atomize a good chunk of the building.
"Put that back before you destroy my building!" I yell at the duo.
As heart warming as this was, it was also was mildly annoying because these idiots couldn't enter the armory restricted sections without Jarvis or Friday allowing it. Said AIs who were very silent right now probably because they knew I would be annoyed.
"For further clarification of events follow me to the conference room." I sigh out turning to leave, but stop as I see Bruce walking down the hallway with Thor and Loki.
"Sister we must speak!" Thor yells.
"Just to ensure there is no confusion, this is Thor's idea." Loki adds inspecting his nails.
"Whatever this is can wait... Wanda where is your brother?" I ask not seeing the brother who was practically attached at the hip to her.
"Not sure but I should probably call him." she says pulling her phone out.
Stark Industries RD front desk same time (Pietro POV)
"Listen for the last time, I cant explain why I need access." I say ready to pull out my hair.
"Then I'm sorry but you are not authorized to enter the facility, please come back with the proper permission." A jello woman says with a strained watery smile.
I had run over to Stark's mad science house to find anything that would help but I was stopped right at the front desk by a this goo lady. for the last half hour she has blocked my path and refused to open the huge metal doors leading to the back. Running through my options while jello looked about ready to call security my phone rings.
I'm a barbie girl, in a barbie world! blared my sisters ringtone.
"Yes sister? I'm in the middle of something." I say glaring at my blue opponent.
"Toni is back so drop what your doing." Wanda says hanging up right after.
"Your lucky I have to go, but mark my words. Ill be back one day!" I yell getting ready to run back to the compound.
"Then hopefully next time you have proper permission." she says with a smug look on her goo face.
Avengers compound meeting room 2 hour later (Toni POV)
"Any questions?" I ask after explaining what happened on Asgard.
"I'm assuming Thanos is coming to earth, how long do we have to prepare?" Rogers says with a grim look.
"Prox any idea?" i ask the horned woman standing in the corner.
"Father greatly underestimated Asgards power and he wont make that mistake again with Terra. Right now he is gathering information, ground forces, weapons, ships and looking to improve his remaining children. Thanos's power has never seen defeat so he will bring everything at his deposal if only to wipe away his humiliation. He will search out the other stones to increase his power as well." She says like she is stating a fact.
"Toni can you make something like an early warning system in orbit to help?" Nat asks making me avert my eyes.
"Uh sure I'll get right on that..." I say finding an interesting spot on the ceiling.
"Toni what did you do?" Nat asks getting everyone to stare at me.
"I may or may not have a satellite array in orbit that shoots a concentrated thermal energy blast. It may or may not be controlled by a new AI who is a little trigger happy." I say spinning a paperclip on the table.
"Back on topic. Toni has defense covered so we need people ready for the invasion. Proxima Midnight how does Thanos know where the stones are?" rogers asks.
"Each infinity stone has a unique energy frequency, the power stone was nearest to him then the space stone. I believe the reality stone was his next target after Asgard." she says adopting a thinking pose.
"That will be a whole new level of bad if Thanos can bend reality like a ball of silly putty." I say massaging my head.
"We know where the reality stone is." Thor says reminding everyone he is here.
"Yes Thor had some of his friends take it off Asgard for safe keeping." Loki adds.
"Before I say where it is we must talk." Thor says crossing his arms.
"What could possibly be more important right now?' Nat says with a frown.
"Sister... Asgard needs a strong leader and it pains me to admit this but I'm not nearly strong enough to replace my father. It is with hope that I come here and ask you to take your place as Queen of Asgard and defend our people." He says getting up and bowing down to me.
The room was dead silent as many jaws hit the table and floor of the conference room at what was just said. Loki just slams his head on the table showing his thoughts on the matter. Everyone waited for my response to this but I already knew what to say.
"Ya how about fuck no. Not just no but I added a fuck there to really drive the point home in that tungsten hard skull of yours." I say glaring down at Thor.
"Thor what did I say." Loki says not picking up his head.
"But sister I beg you to reconsider!" He shouts standing up.
"NO! and the fact your withholding the stones location to bring up this stupidity is low. Asgard was doing fine without Odin, even when Loki was galivanting around nobody even noticed. Plus the news Asgard not only held back Thanos but made him retreat will stop even the dumbest of people from attacking." I say already done with this conversation.
"Fine I will end this for now but I never intended to withhold the stones location... I had Lady Sif and Volstagg take the stone to a man known as the Collector that resides in a lawless place known as Knowhere." He say hanging his head low.
"Good now we have an advantage. We get a team together to get the stone before Thanos gets his purple little fingers on it. Prox how long do you think we have before Thanos goes to Knowhere?" I ask.
"with the damage you inflicted on him... At least 30 galactic standard days to to heal and travel to the stones location. He will not enter into combat unless his condition is optimal." she says with a smirk.
"Good we will use the space stone to travel to Knowhere and collect the reality stone. Ill need a team ready in 23 days to come along just in case. Rogers I'm calling every enhanced I know to the compound, your job will be to train them for a war." I say as serious as possible trying to convey what was about to happen.
"You can count on me Toni." Rogers says giving a nod.
"Any volunteers for a trip to space?" I say to the room.
"You know I'm in." Nat says.
"I wish to accompany you." Vision says.
"Loki and I will be on this journey." Thor says.
"Fine. I wish to see this Collector myself." Loki adds probably planning something devious.
"Nope space is not for me." Clint says.
"Same here, I prefer to stay on the planet I was born on." Pietro says shivering.
"I did always say traveling would be fun." Wanda says with a smile.
"Ill stay here with Cap and help." Wilson says.
"I've had enough space to last a lifetime." Bruce says.
"No." Was Jen's simple answer.
"Alright ill get our kits together and prepare accordingly, meeting over." I say walking out to my workshop.
Milano starship 20 days later (Gamora POV)
"Gamora were getting close to Terra so could you calm down and sit." Peter says but I ignore and continue pacing.
There were to may questions as our trip to Peter's original world drew closer. the whole universe was talking about the one person in history to beat the mad titan Thanos in combat.
"What are they like? some altruistic hero or an evil far worse that Thanos himself? Do I need to offer something to kill my former father and end his insanity?" These are some of the highlights of the journey.
"If I beat this Terran then I can kill Thanos, first thing we must do is challenge this person to a death battle." Drax says nodding to himself.
"Ya sure, just try that. Remember to tell us where you want to be buried." Rocket says sarcastically.
"I am Groot." Groot adds not looking up from his game device.
"Hey no cussing!" peter says.
"He's a teenager, cussing is most of his vocabulary." Rocket says laughing.
"I don't understand?" Mantis says being confused by almost everything.
Beep. Beep. Beep.
"This is Starlord speaking." Peter says answering the COM.
"Put my sister on you buffoon." Nebula says losing her nonexistent patience.
"Nice to see you too..." He says deflating a bit.
"Nebula how close are you?" I ask.
"Right behind you, any idea where we start looking?" she asks.
"Peter is the only one from Terra so I was hoping he would know." i say looking at our leader.
"Please remember the last time I visited Terra, I was a child. But we shouldn't have a problem entering because the tech is way less advanced then most of the universe. the only place we've been is the moon and that took months just to fly there." Peter says looking at the planet as we got closer.
"Orbital defenses?" Nebula asks.
"As I said not advanced enough." He says.
"Hay the ship just picked up a signal broadcasting on all frequency's coming from around the planet, should we listen?" Rocket says getting our attention.
"Put it on."
"Attention incoming space craft, you have 60 second to turn around and leave to a distance of twenty thousand kilometers or you will be fired upon. this message will repeat." A female voice says in a monotone voice.
"No orbital defenses idiot!" Nebula yells.
"Rocket try to make contact with whomever that is now! Gomora, Drax get to the turrets and get ready to fire." Peter yells getting the ship ready to evade an attack.
I ran over to the turret controls with Drax as Rocket was running through a long list of signal codes to try to reply but time was running out. In the distance we could see platforms begin to appear and start to glow probably powering up whatever weapons the woman was talking about.
"Attention incoming space craft, you have 30 second to turn around and leave to a distance of twenty thousand kilometers or you will be fired upon. this message will repeat." The woman says again.
"Got it they should hear our response." Rocket says.
"This is Star-Lord of the Guardians of the Galaxy we come in peace. Please allow us entry to the planet. We are searching for someone who is said to be on this planet." Peter says quickly.
"And who are you looking for?" the woman says not changing tone.
"Uh were not sure but this person defeated the Mad titan Thanos. We would like to ask them for assistance." Peter responds as the glow in the distance grow even brighter.
"Give me a moment to contact my Master, Move from your position and I will vaporize you." She says.
"That was close." Peter says with a heavy exhale.
"We could have taken them." Drax says.
"I am Groot..." Groot says and for some reason I agreed.
"Exactly! So shut it Drax!" Rocket adds.
"Any ideas Gamora?" Peter asks.
"We should follow along for now, or at least until we find what we came for." I say honestly noy sure what will happen.
"Permission granted for entry, proceed to the given coordinates or you will be vaporized. If you enjoyed your customer service experience please give a review with my master. Thank you for Interacting with J.O.C.A.S.T.A. your friendly planetary defense AI. The monotone voice says as coordinates flash on the screen.
"Friendly my ass." Rocket says.
Everyone was quiet as we followed the coordinates that hopefully wont get us all killed.
Avengers compound 10 minutes earlier (Toni POV)
"Ok now try throwing it." I say to Prox as she handles her new spear.
The last couple of weeks were used for outfitting the team with new flashy weapons for our outer space adventure. Right now Prox and I were testing a new Vibranium Spear specifically designed for her with a ass load of features, her favorite so far was when the tip heated to 22000 Celsius and could cut through almost anything. Two hours of testing in the compound training room showed that I'm amazing at my job and should be praised more.
BOOM!
She managed to blast through the multiple layered target and imbed the spear in the wall showing her immense strength.
"Now press the blue button on the wristband." I say examining the readings.
She does as I say causing the spear to wabble and shoot back to her hand with great speed, an effortless catch and twirl later she gives a grin at her new weapon.
"So how's it feel?" I ask already knowing the answer.
"Perfectly balanced and surprisingly light, truly you are a master of your craft." she says stowing the spear on a magnetic holster strapped to her back.
"Yup I am pretty amazing." I say with no small amount of pride.
"Boss we have a call from J.O.C.A.S.T.A. coming in." Friday says.
"Put it through." I sigh out.
"Master I have a two crafts attempting to access the planet, they are calling themselves the Guardians of the Galaxy and are looking for you." my youngest child says in her normal monotone.
"Wait a good looking for me or a bad looking for me? because there is a massive difference." I say wondering if I need to kill any UFO's today.
"They are requesting assistance from you to presumably kill Thanos." She clarified.
"Prox know anything about Guardians of the Galaxy?" I ask.
"Hmmm oh yes the band of vagabonds that my sister joined when she defected from father. they are practically harmless compared to any of your associations." She says with an air of superiority.
"J.O.C.A.S.T.A allow entry and send then to the compound, if they go anywhere else blow them out of the sky." I say walking out of the training room motioning Prox to follow.
"As you say Master." J.O.C.A.S.T.A says carrying out my order.
"My sister Gamora will attack me on site, she's smart but her emotions get the better of her sometimes." Prox informs me as sha adopts a contemplative pose.
"Oh how fun... fine lets get that out of the way quick." I say rubbing my forehead.
Walking to the front of the compound I have Friday call Nat and Rogers to meet me there as a small show of force, one can never be to carful in situations like this. Proxima decided be sneaky and lean on a tree facing away from the landing area to as she said surprise her sister which could only end in disaster. We only had to wait about ten minutes before two ships began landing on my damn grass and not the vary obvious landing zone made of concrete. The back of the first ship opens and the first to walk out was a average looking humanoid with brown hair followed by an extremally attractive green skinned woman.
"And who do I have the pleasure of addressing?" I ask the two of them.
"I am Star-Lord leader of the Guardians of the Galaxy and this is my second in command Gamora." the brown haired one says.
His posture was anything but formal even if he was trying his best to sound official and his so called second in command was eyeing me like she was figuring out every way to kill me quick.
"Nice to meet you Star-Lord and Gamora, what brings you to our planet?" Rogers says ever the polite one.
"News from across the galaxy says someone from this world defeated the Mad Titan Thanos, we need to talk with them." the green one says barreling through and loosing any polite attitude she had.
"Your lookin at her, what do you want?" I say in a nonchalant tone.
"You are the one..." She says in a tone on disbelief which was rude.
"Ok green bean if your going to be a bitch about it then hop back into your ship and fuck off." I say with a dismissive wave.
"Ok, Ok, I think we need to calm down and start over. We are not here to fight, we just came to ask for help killing Thanos once and for all." Star-Lord says obviously the more social of the two.
"Oh Gamora, always too blunt, then again I'm not one to talk. It seems not much has changed since the last time I saw you my dear sister." Prox says deciding to join the conversation without leaving her hiding spot.
That made Green freeze solid with wide eyes as she unconsciously slipped a folding sword down her hand and flips it out taking up a defensive stance. Star-Lord seeing this happen pulled both his guns out aiming at us like that would do anything to two super humans and a Goddess. Someone yelled trap and both ships emptied with a circus of people from a tree person to a bipedal racoon brandishing there weapons in our direction. The second ship opened with a blue cyborg running out holding a shoulder cannon far to big for her frame.
"What was this! Some trap made by Thanos to lure me here! Come out Proxima and face me!" The green one yells flipping out another sword.
"Oh both my sisters have come here, how are you Nebula? Last I heard you betrayed father with that idiot Ronan." Prox says reveling herself from behind the hiding spot with a smirk.
Two war cries later Prox was attacked by her sisters with high powered canon fire and a flurry of sword swings all at once but she was quick for her size. she dodged and weaved through both attacks while pulling out her spear to counter with the blunt end as to avoid killing her attackers. Green was skilled but Prox waited for an opening and slammed the spear right into her stomach almost causing Gamora blow chunks right after. Spinning the spear around she tossed it at blue and hit the shoulder cannon blowing it up pushing Nebula away with the explosion.
"Gamo-" Star-Lord starts to yell but is cut off when my hand lifts his body by the neck.
"Stand down or I snap his neck like a twig! Prox quit playing around!" I shout already tired of this but it works as the others put there weapons down.
"Now you going to follow us into the building and we will talk like civilized adults." I say trying to avoid a bigger headache.
"I will not follow orders from anyone in league with Thanos, Proxima being here is proof enough." Gamora says practically spitting out the words.
"Calm down sister, I no longer work for our father. I have found someone far more worthy to follow." Prox says motioning to me.
Even only knowing Prox for a short time I knew she was not one to play with her words, so her two sisters adopted or otherwise definitely knew that. the look of surprise on Green and Blue respectively as her words sunk in was interesting to say the least, funny enough the Blue cyborg actually looked like she blue screened. With the situation defused I drop Star-Lord on the ground and try to continue the conversation.
"Now that that's settled come inside and we will talk further." I say turning around seeing Nat and Roger still standing where they have been since the start of this.
"A lot of help you guys were." I say walking past them.
"I think I offered plenty of moral support." Nat says.
"I feel like my role is mostly redundant at this point." Rogers adds.
Avengers compound Recreation room 4 hours later (Proxima Midnight POV)
Life was very odd now.
Father... No Thanos had picked me up from a backwater planet when I was only about five years old and I remember very clearly seeing my people try and fail to repel his invasion. someone had shoved a spear in my hands and and I started fighting for hours and near what I thought would be my death Thanos stopped his creatures from ripping me apart and taken me. My people lived by a simple philosophy that the weak are commanded my the strong and Thanos was the strongest being I had ever seen in my short life. For many years I have killed his enemies and help with the genocide of countless worlds, so much time had passed I even called him father.
Until Asgard.
Perhaps I had grown complacent or I trusted Thanos's word that it would be easy with Odin dead to crush them. Our advance force died before hitting the ground and the main forces were met with warriors of Asgard and walking corpses that killed all who opposed them. The Black Order was sent to kill the real threat waiting for us, that ended in disaster and my blood covering the ground. Coming in and out of consciousness I saw the unstoppable Mad Titan bloody and beaten running away which was thought impossible. So in my cell my mind was made up to follow the woman who had more power than the Infinity stone Thanos wielded with my soul on the line.
But my new master was weird.
It had been a couple of weeks of felling out who this woman was and she very different from what I expected. Where Thanos was a ruler with an iron fist with little care how people perceived him. Stark was blunt but charismatic, forceful yet thoughtful, powerful and a genius with sights on the far future. But in this short I have seen plenty of her odd quirks that made her far from how an all powerful overlord normally acts.
Hence my current predicament.
While Stark is allowing them to help due to there knowledge of Knowhere she was far from trusting them, so she had assigned people to watch them until the mission. My first real order from my master was to watch my sisters and keep them out of trouble while we wait, she told me not to fight them and try to be polite. So in my hast to show my worth I immediately guided my sisters to the recreation room and now we are sitting on the couch while both of them glare at me.
"My death will not come faster with your glares." I say trying to end the oppressive silence.
"What is your game Proxima?" Gamora says with venom in her tone.
"I'm hardly one for games sister." I reply crossing my legs.
"Why did you betray Thanos?" Nebula asks gritting her teeth.
"I only follow the strong and Thanos can hardly be the strongest when he is running away from my master." I say in a firm tone.
"So its true... That woman really did beat Thanos." Gamora says more to herself than me.
"It was a glorious thing to witness, the power my master holds is magnificent." I say smiling.
The silence resumed as they digested my words but I was quickly becoming Bored so I stand making my sisters reach for weapons they didn't have. shaking my head I reach for the device my master showed me yesterday that she described as a great team building exercise. turning on the devise I take three of the control modules and toss one to each sister. They are startled as the large screen shows a word and plays a sound.
"If I am to be stuck watching you we might as well use this device to pass the time." I say sitting down.
"What's a Nintendo?" Gamora asks.
"I have no idea..." I say selecting Mario Kart as master did when she showed me this the first time.
Avengers compound Recreation room 2 hours later (Toni POV)
While most of these idiots are insufferable, Rocket was pretty easy to talk to. The racoon had a very good understanding of engineering and could make a bomb out of anything. His long time companion was a tree person named Groot who was apparently only going to be a teenager for a couple more months while he grows up again. Star-Lord or if we use his less stupid name Peter Quill was a good hearted idiot, Drax was a moron, Mantis was a naive empath, and the two sisters Gamora and Nebula were trained assassins with daddy issues.
While normally I would use more caution when dealing with a new group of people, time was not on our side. Quill told us everything he knew about Knowhere and the Collector who was in possession on the stone. The verbal beat down I gave Thor for giving one of the most powerful objects in the universe to a neurotic weirdo was mean to say the least.
Walking to find the others I was proud of Prox for taking her sisters to the rec room to kill some time. She was coming a long was in such a short time, especially if she was making an effort to not cause trouble.
"DIE SISTER!" I hear Prox yell.
BOOM!
Followed by a blue body going straight through the rec room wall.
Prox soon walked out of the hole with Gamora trying to hold her back. She looked pissed and only had murder in her eyes.
"Hay! what happend?!" I yell getting there attention.
"First place for the whole race and this insect hits me with a blue shell and three red ones! First was mine!" Prox says still fuming.
"I understand... Just don't kill her." I say walking past Nebula's butt sticking out of the wall.
"Is she crazy?" Quill asks as Prox pulls Nebula out of the wall.
"Probably." Cap says in in most recent bout of apathy.