A/N Hey guys sorry I was late on updating I was super busy and didn't have time to write when I thought I did. Sorry about that.

Chapter 4: We're the Avengers, Man

(Jason)

They paced around the ship for what was probably only about two hours but felt like days. Frank tried Iris-Messaging, but no one really expected it to work. The gods probably didn't have any control in Space. They'd have to depend on themselves for the moment.

Jason could only hope that they were keeping Vision safe for the time being.

Finally, Peter said, "Hey, what's going on?" Jason looked out the window and saw the rapidly approaching surface of a planet.

"I think we're here." Doctor Strange said.

"You think?" Piper said sarcastically. She'd been a bit cold towards him ever since he dropped the whole 'wizards-know-about-demigods' thing. It was a bit of a shock, but Jason had gotten over it.

"I don't think this rig has a self-parking function." Tony said. "Get your hand into this steering gimbal." He said to Peter Parker. "Close those around it. You understand?" He said urgently.

"Yep, got it." Peter replied and did what Tony told him to do. "Jason, be ready to use the winds to slow our decent." Tony said to him.

"I'll try." Jason said helplessly. "But honestly, I don't know how our powers work out here." Tony nodded grimly then turned back to Peter.

"This was meant for one big guy, so we have to move at the exact same time."

"Okay. Okay. Ready."

The ship was heading straight for what looked like a colossal game of jacks. Jason readied his hands. "Tony. Tony! Tony!" They were getting nearer and nearer.

"Uh, Mr. Stark, we might wanna turn. Turn, TURN!" Peter said urgently. Tony armored up and the ringship turned, but also clipped the edge of the huge jack.

Spider-Man put up his helmet at the same time. Frank jumped so hard he turned into a bulldog and back again.

Strange stepped in and threw some magicky-shield winds around them, expecting a rough landing.

The ship was now reduced to about half a ship, plowed through the dirt and rocks, and finally stopped, leaning slightly to one side. Strange helped Tony to his feet.

Jason helped Piper up and they stumbled out of the ship along with Frank.

Jason looked around. The planet looked deserted, covered in dust and ruins. Jason had a horrible vision that this was probably what Earth would have looked like if Gaea had won.

Spider-Man descended from above like a… well, like a spider.

"Let me just say, if aliens wind up implanting eggs in my chest or something, and I end up eating you, I'm sorry." Piper snorted.

Tony pointed at Peter. "I don't wanna hear a single pop culture reference out of you for the rest of the trip, you understand?"

"Hey, can we go to the Mos Eisley Cantina in a bit?" Piper joked.

"You too." Tony pointed his finger and them as well.

"I'm trying to say that…" Peter began. "Something is coming." Everyone immediately went into battle position but a grenade rolled right in the middle of all of them.

Jason drew his sword but the grenade exploded and they all got thrown well back.

Jason struggled to his feet and readied his sword. Frank turned into a bear. Three people ran out and started attacking everyone. One had some sort of mask on, another one was blue with red veins sticking out, and the other looked sort of like a cross between an insect and a human.

The guy with the mask starting shooting everyone, and Jason deflected some off his sword. "THANOS!" The blue guy yelled and threw a knife and Doctor Strange, who deflected it.

Blue dude caught his knife again and threw it at Jason. He caught it in his hand and pocketed it. "I'm keeping this." He flew over the guy with the guns and started fencing more. Peter attacked as well.

Doctor Strange sent his magic cloak in blue guy's face, nearly smothering him. Mask dude flung them away and started fighting with Iron Man, until a magnetic disk pinned Tony to the ground.

Peter was rapidly crawling away from Insect Girl who looked worried. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, please don't put your eggs in me!" In panic he shot webs at her (it?), pinning her arms to her side.

Mask dude flew at Spider-Man again and knocked him to the floor. "Stay down, clown! Also, dude, where'd you get a bear!" Frank turned back into a human and shot an arrow at Mask guy. He dodged.

Blue dude was still struggling with the cloak of levitation. "Die, blanket of death!" Jason would've laughed if he wasn't fighting someone himself.

Tony pulled free of the magnet and the cloak pulled free of blue guy. Iron Man pointed his hand at Blue guy's face and pinned him to the floor.

Mask guy had Peter in a head lock, gun pointed at his face.

Doctor Strange had a magic orange shield pointed to protect himself, and Insect Girl struggled to her feet, still covered in webbing. Frank pointed an arrow at Blue Guy as well.

Everyone stood frozen.

"Okay, everyone stay where you are, chill the F out." Mask guy said. He powered off his mask, and Jason got a surprise. He looked like an earth person, the first that Jason had seen besides him and his friends.

"Alright, I'm gonna ask you this one time." Not-mask-guy said. "Where is Gamora?" Jason would have put his head in his hands.

Tony de-helmeted. "What? Well, I'll do you one better. Who is Gamora?"

"I'll do you one better. Why is Gamora?" Blue guy said, still trapped on the ground.

"Tell me where the girl is, or I swear to you, I'm gonna French-fry this little freak." They guy threatened, pointing his gun at Peter.

"Let's do it!" Tony said, powering up his nano-tech arm. "You shoot my guy, I shoot yours, come on!" Tony's arm-cannon looked weirdly like an electric shark about to eat Blue Guy's face.

"Do it, Quill!" Blue guy said. "I can take it."

"No he can't!" Insect Girl said.

"She's right, he can't." Doctor Strange said, completely dead-pan.

"Oh yeah? You don't wanna tell me where she is?" Quill said angrily. "That's fine, I'll kill all of you and beat it out of Thanos myself, starting with you." He squished his gun to Peter's face.

"Wait, what, Thanos?" Doctor Strange said, obviously confused. "Alright, let me ask you this one time. What master do you serve?"

"' What master do I serve?' What, am I supposed to say, 'Jesus?'"

"You're from Earth!" Tony said, as if just realizing this.

"I'm not from Earth, I'm from Missouri!"

"Yeah, that's on Earth, dip-stick. What are you hassling us for?" Tony glared at Quill.

"So you're not with Thanos?" Peter Parker said, sounding slightly crushed.

"With Thanos?" Quill said, sounding disgusted. "No, I'm here to kill Thanos. He took my girl. Wait… who are you people?" Peter de-helmeted.

"We're the Avengers, man."

"You're the ones Thor told us about!" Insect Girl said.

"You know Thor?" Frank said excitedly. "How'd you find him?"

"Yeah, we do." Quill said, sounding annoyed. "Tall guy, not that good looking… needed saving." He didn't answer Frank's question.

"Well, where is he now?" Doctor Strange asked after a pause.

Eventually the two groups decided to work together. Quill reluctantly let go of Peter, who was now rubbing his neck and glancing at him nervously. Jason learned that the blue guy was Drax and the Insect Girl was Mantis, which seemed like a pretty fitting name. They called themselves the 'Guardians of the Galaxy".

Quill informed them that Thor had gone to a planet called Nivadellir to get a new hammer, along with two other Guardians named Rocket and Groot.

Quill started measuring the planet's tilt. "What the heck happened to this planet? It's eight degrees of its axis. Gravitational pull's all over the place." Jason glanced behind him where Mantis was jumping up and down joyfully in a low-gravity spot.

Piper was examining the planet as well, and Frank was flying over the area as an eagle to make sure there wouldn't be any more surprise attacks.

"Yeah, we got one advantage. He's coming to us. We'll use it." Tony said, and then looked at Jason. "Could you get your eagle friend to get over here?"

Jason whistled loudly. A moment later, an eagle flew back towards them and shape-shifted back to Frank. Mantis jumped.

"All right, I have a plan. Or at least he beginnings of one. It's pretty simple, we pull him in, pin him down, get what we need. Definitely don't wanna dance with this guy. We just need to gauntlet." He glanced at Piper, who was giggling silently. "What?" Then he looked behind him at Drax, who was yawning hugely and was the cause of Pipe's laughter.

"Are you yawning? In the middle of this, when I'm breaking it down? Huh? Did you hear what I said?"

"I stopped listening after you said, 'We need a plan.'" Drax replied. Tony turned to Quill. "Alright, Mr. Clean is on his own page."

"Yeah, 'not winging it' isn't really what they do." Quill said.

"What exactly is it that you do?" Peter Parker asked.

"Kick names. Take butt." Mantis said fiercely. "Yeah, that's right." Drax agreed, facing the Avengers.

Tony looked at Jason helplessly. Jason just shrugged. All yours.

"Alright, just get over here, please, Mr. Lord, can you get your folks to circle up? Jason, Piper, Frank?" Tony gestured to the so-called 'Star Lord.' They all gathered in a circle.

"Mr. Lord." Quill scoffed. "Star Lord is fine." He motioned to Drax and Mantis.

"We gotta coalesce. 'Cause if all we come at him with is a plucky attitude-"

"Dude. Don't call us plucky. We don't know what it means." Quill said. "Alright, we're optimistic, yes. I like your plan. Except, it sucks, so let me do the plan and it might actually be good." Spider-Man looked back and forth between them like a tennis rally.

"Guys, come on, we have to work together." Piper said, in a feeble attempt to get them to pay attention.

"Tell them about the dance off to save the universe." Drax prompted Quill.

"What dance-off?" Tony asked.

"It's not a… it's not… it's nothing." Quill stammered.

"Like in Footloose, the movie?" Peter asked.

"Exactly like Footloose." Quill said excitedly. "Is it still the greatest movie in history?" Jason wanted to face-palm.

"It never was." Peter said. Quill looked at him, disappointed.

"Don't encourage this, alright?" Tony said to Peter.

"Sorry."

"We're getting no help from Flash Gordon here." Tony said, turning to the rest of them as if ignoring Quill.

"Flash Gordon? By the way, that's a compliment. Don't forget, I'm half human." Quill pointed to them. "So the fifty percent of me that's stupid? That's a hundred percent you."

"Your math is blowing my mind."

"You know, technically we're half human too." Frank pointed out.

"Excuse me, but…" Mantis interrupted them. "Does your friend often do that?" Jason turned around to see Doctor Strange in a weird position, intricate bands of energy around his wrists. His head moved back and forth like it was on a time lapse of him shaking his head.

"Strange! You all right?" Tony asked.

"Hey, what was that?" Peter wondered. Strange collapsed on the ground. "I just went forward in time to view alternate futures. To see all possible outcomes of the coming conflict." Doctor Strange said casually like he'd just said, 'I just went to the ice cream shop to get some vanilla ice cream.'

"Well, how many did we win?" Tony asked. Jason felt a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. Somehow, he knew what the answer was before Strange said it.

Doctor Strange looked at them intently. "One."

A/N Dun dun dun! Again, really sorry that I didn't update on schedule. This was sort of a short chapter, so apologies for that. Shout out to reviewers:

ShadeFireDragon (Honestly, I'd really like to, but that would kinda mess up the whole plot. Sorry!"
Br0kenTh0rn (I look forward to reading it! I bet it's gonna be really good, I really like your suggestions but most of them wouldn't have worked with the plot)
Trey Alexander (True. I'll keep that it mind)
DaughterofAthena223(Thanks for all your awesome reviews! You're the best!)