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Chapter 23: Sam

"I think you're about to meet them." I cross my arms and stand back as they all walk out of the cell, "The Guardians of the Galaxy."

I notice immediately that Drax is holding Groot in a small pot. I'm kind of curious how that happened.

"What took you so long?" Drax asks as Rocket give Gamora back her sort and Star-Lord his guns.

"Hey Nova," Star-Lord says noticing me. "Long time no see."

"There's no time to waste." Rocket cuts him off., he takes off running down the hallway as we follow him. "Let's go."

Spider-Man begins to swing as he makes our way down the corridors. "So guys what's our plan?"

"One of us takes one of the Chitauri fighter ships and uses it as s decoy," Star-Lord explains.

"We can send the entire fleet into chaos," Drax adds.

"And we can get out of here without being blown to bits." Star-Lord wraps it up.

That's good. They accounted for not dying.

"Just us against them?" Spider-Man clarifies. "No biggie. There's got to be someone we can call."

"The Chitauri run the entire galaxy," Star-Lord explains. "There's no one else. It's just us."

"You guys seem to have this under control," Webs comments, his tone hinting at his desire to leave the fight before it even begins. "So I'm going to head home and-"

"If we don't stop these crazies, you ain't going to have a home to go home to!" Rocket reports sharply.

"Nova, he's your friend, he's your responsibility to watch." Star-Lord motions over his shoulder to where Spider-Man tries to catch up to us.

He must have stopped to look at something… going to get himself killed…

He turns sharply down another hallway and we skid to a stop as Korvac's hologram sits in waiting for us.

"Surrender is no longer an option, Guardians. Prepare for your end." Korvac's hologram informs us.

His hologram disappears as the Chitauri march into sight, formation after formation of foot soldiers.

On a command, they all ready their blasters and point them towards us.

"Ah… game over." Webs mutters to himself.

Beside me, Star-Lords pulls out his guns.

"Guardians," Rocket addresses. "Let's kick some tail."

Star-Lord rushes forward with Gamora and Drax as I start to blast from where I was hovering.

"Dude, who are these guys?" Webs calls up to me as I keep a steady stream of blasts aimed for the Chitauri.

I look around to see Star-Lord blasting his way right behind their lines to get behind some Chitauri for the element of surprise.

"Star-Lord," I begin, with the slightest nod in his direction as I blast one of the Chitauri that he missed. "Half-earthling, half-alien royalty, armed with his amazing element gun."

"Gamora," I go on as she runs by Star-Lord in the other direction, "widely known as the most dangerous warrior in the universe, skilled in the use of every weapon."

I blast more Chitauri as Spider-Man falls into the rhythm of the fight. Webbing up Chitauri as they get close to him and dodging their blasts.

"Drax the Destroyer," I turn my head to see him pick something up to throw at the Chitauri swarming him. "Loose cannon - great fighter - glad he's on our side."

"Rocket Raccoon," He's the last one to name. "Imagine if Wolverine was a master strategist raccoon with a laser gun and a rocket pack."

Rocket lands from a short burst of flight and glares in my direction. "What did you call me?"

I land on the ground and look at Webs for a second. "Oh, but he's not actually a raccoon, I mean his alien species just happens to look exactly like raccoons."

"Thank you." Rocket approves.

I shove off the ground and get back into position above everyone as I blast Chitauri two or three at a time, depending on how close they are.

I land in the middle of a group of Chituari and blast them as Spider-Man makes his way over to help.

"Who brought the house plant?" Spider-Man asks as he lands beside me.

"That's Groot," I forgot him. He was in the pot after all.

I put my hands together and blast multiple Chitauri at once.

"I'm sorry did you just say 'Groot'?"

"I am Groot."

Spider-Man bounces out of the way as I take to the air again to get a good view of the situation. The Chitauri just keep coming.

"Space, aliens, starships?" Spider-Man lists as he jumps over Chitauri and takes them out one at a time. "This is the coolest day of my life!"

I keep close, I don't want to have to hear it if he gets hurt. Especially since Star-Lord told me to watch him.

"What does this 'Korvac' want exactly?"

"I don't know." I blast more frequently to keep up with the Chitauri, it's hard to keep an eye on him and fight like I usually would with the Guardians. "He's a crazy cosmic dictator!"

"Uh, it seems like we're overpowered. We need to call Earth! We need real heroes, the Avengers! I mean, no offense, but this is a raccoon, a-a green lady, a monster guy, and-and a-a twig in a pot!"

Where did he disappear to?

"Oh please," Gamora answers him.

He's close to her.

"Oh, I promise you," I float over as I cover for myself. "These guys are the-"

Ouch, the floor is hard.

Note to self… learn to cover yourself properly.

"You wouldn't know what a real hero looked like if they just saved your butt from Chitauri laser fire." Rocket reports.

Figures he'd take that comment personally.

I rub my back as I get back to my feet. I'm further away from the center of the action.

I'll just pick off stragglers.

"Hey, kid," Star-Lord is behind a close by corner. "Just so you know, if' you're a friend of Sam's you can consider us a friend too."

Mushy… Typical…

"Wow, you guys really love Sam." Spider-Man muses as they come out form the corner and Star-Lord freezes over Chitauri.

"What's not to love?" Star-Lord questions him.

"Well…"

I roll my eyes as I pick off Chitauri.

"We're trapped here," Drax calls out, he's been pretty focused. "We'll never make it out onboard, let's head for the bridge and take the whole ship."

I float over as we start to make our escape. Spider-Man grabs Groot, passing him off to Drax and Star-Lord falls behind long enough to cover us.

Gamora leads us down the corridors and makes a sharp turn. "This door."

Star-Lord takes a single shot and the entire wall is down.

"Is this the way to the cafeteria? I'm starving." Spider-Man jokes.

Does he even know he says this stuff out loud?

"Destroy them!"

There are far fewer Chitauri in the bridge.

It's easy to make them all down.

"Ok, I take back what I said before about you maybe not being real heroes." Spider-Man rubs the back of his neck sheepishly. "Except for the part where you think Nova is awesome, you guys and stick are pretty cool."

"Hey!" I shout at him, holding up my fists.

"Gamora, can you put this puppy on an automatic collision course with the sun?" Star-Lord requests from where he had taken a seat at the controls. "We need to destroy this ship before it can destroy earth."

"It would be my pleasure." Gamora takes a seat next to him.

I watch as they work. I should learn how to pilot a ship sometime.

That would be a good skill to have.

"Hurry it up before you-know-who finds out where we-" Star-Lord is cut off by the sound of transporters firing up.

"Never mind, I think Korvac figured it out." Spider-Man comments.

"You cannot imagine how maddening it is to be distracted by such a motley crew."

"Oh, I can imagine, one time I was trying to study for my biology-" Webs rambles.

"Destroy them all!" Korvac orders.

Does this guy really not have anything better to be doing right now?

"I wasn't finished!" Spider-Man complains.

Another fight - Let's do this already.

I dodge right then left as the team rushes in, I fly forwards to keep up.

Stay high, pick them off.

Make sure a certain Web-Head doesn't get shot.

Easy.

I swoop down and blast a group the Rocket and Star-Lord were dealing with.

Another group drops to the ground from the portals.

They are just going to keep coming.

I fly back to where we've regrouped.

I blast a couple more and look down at Star-Lord.

Make the call, man.

"Guardians! Fall back!" Star-Lord orders.

Thank you.

I lead the group away as Star-Lord puts up a wall of fire to keep our tails covered for as long as he can manage.

He catches up and takes over the lead as I fall behind to cover the back.

I forgot that working with the Guardians can be like a well-oiled machine.

"Ok, so what's the plan?" Spider-Man.

"If we can't crash the ship we have to take out the cannon," Gamora explains.

"The Dark Matter Cannon," Rocket explains. "If he gets that thing in position the earth will be pulled inside out."

"Why Earth?" Spider-Man asks again. "We're just minding our own business."

"You said it before, kid," Star-Lord fields this one. "Earth is home to great heroes. Heroes that are a threat to someone like Korvac."

We stop at a dead end and Star-Lord preps his guns for another round.

"The Avengers, The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, Captain Marvel, Dr. Strange, Hulk, Howard the Duck, Devil Dinosaur," He lists as checks his gun over.

"And…?"

"Spider-Man?" Star-Lord guesses.

"Bottom of this list?" Webs whines.

"I don't know what to tell you, kid." Star-Lord shrugs.

"Nevermind," Spider-Man complains.

Star-Lord looks over at me and I know without him saying a word what he wants me to do.

I have the easiest time maneuvering in space, and I'm the fastest.

With just one person missing from the group, Korvac is not very likely to go looking for me. His attention is going to stay on the group.

"I can take out the cannon." I nod my head at Star-Lord.

"Good Luck, Nova, we'll distract Korvac." Star-Lord dismisses me.

"I'll help! All of my stuff is on Earth!" Webs calls after me.

He swings by me and catches up pretty easily. "What's the plan?"

"I saw a control room not far from here. It's a good place to start." I explain.

"Wow, Nova's got a plan." He teases.

"Yeah well," I land and take a few steps looking into the control room. "Being with the Guardians, it's like I never left." I poke my head around the corner.

Spiderman pushes me a little and I float up so he can also poke his head around the corner and look.

I easily count five; one guard, four techs.

"This time we do an earth team maneuver," Spider-Man suggests.

"Sure." I agree backing up. "Lead the way."

Spider-Man webs one of the closest three in the back of the head and brings him to the ground while I blast the other two.

The guard takes notice and I blast him quickly as Spider-Man takes out the last one.

He quickly goes for the closest computer while I make sure more Chitauri aren't on their way.

I float back over and look over his shoulder.

"How do we stop it?"

"I don't know." I shrug.

"It's sort of like that video game we were playing," Spider-Man puzzles out as I watch. "You know; Space Battle? Except if we don't win…"

"Game over for Earth." I agree.

"I know."

"I can stop it, I know I can."

Is this the same gut feeling as I had with the Godstones?

"It's too risky," Spider-Man argues.

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