The Guardians were in the Milano, beaten and bashed. Drax came out of the medical bay after leaving Jason to the care of the med-bots, Rocket was anxiously waiting outside
"How is he?"
"He is fine, just minor bruises and a bullet wound nothing serious"
"Is he awake?"
"No..he is resting"
"that's good, poor guy deserves it"
Rocket and Drax made their way to the meeting room
"how's Red Hood?" Gamora asked
"he's fine how's Quill"
"he'll be here shortly"
A moment later Quill showed up and the meeting
"so where to now?" Drax asked
"I say we lay low for a while, Jason and Groot are in no condition to fight" suggested Gamora
"nah, just Groot" said Jason from behind
"Jason?! You should be resting" said Rocket
"my suit was specially built by Arsenal, the bat, and enchanted by Raven it heals wounds on the go and in another two minutes I'll be fully healed"
"well thank god for that" said Quill
"but before anything we have to be prepared for another run in with the Joker" said Rocket
"how?" asked Gamora
"by making more anti-laughing serum " said Jason
"good call" Rocket said
"But how do we make more?" Drax asked
Jason plugged his helmet in the main computer and patched Arsenal through
"hey Jason"
"hey Arsenal"
"ok...who's Arsenal?" Rocket asked
"Arsenal was once known as Red arrow, and was the apprentice of the Green arrow until he went missing for 8 months, then while Jason was chasing the Joker he became a Titian" Quill explained
"ok good to know, now how can arrow boy help us make the cure?" Gamora asked
"because..Arsenal perfected the cure, the Bat wont admit it but he needed Arsenal's help"
"ok so you want more of the cure huh Jason?"
"yeah.."
"sure I'll give it to ya, but...Raven's still weak"
"we got something that'll help" said Gamora
"what is it?"
"a pill that helps regain strength"
Arsenal grabbed Raven who opened a portal with ease this time
"that was easy" Raven said
"yeah..it took longer last time" Jason said
Rocket threw the pill through the portal and Raven ate it and her face brightened up alot
"i feel great! thanks" Arsenal sent the box of anti-laughing serum through the portal and Rocket took it.
"Thanks Arsenal"
"any time Jase".
The call ended,
"this should be enough to last a life time" Rocket commented
"so where to now?"
"the Joker took the boom box" Quill said
"or did he?" said Red Hood as he took out the boom box and threw it to Quill who caught it
"If this is the real one then what did the Joker take?".
Meanwhile in Ronin's flagship "here's the crypto cube big man" said the Joker as he presented the fake boom box to Ronin who opened it and a mini Joker popped out of it laughing, Ronin crushed the box to pieces and threw the remains on the ground
"you bring me this insult!" shouted Ronin as he pointed his universal weapon at the Joker ready to blow him up, when he laughed and said
"oh my dear Ronin, we don't need the crypto cube to know where the Guardians will go next.."
"what do you mean clown"
"i mean big man, that I got a glimpse of the coordinates on the crypto cube and it pointed to a floating city about north west from here called Attilan"
Ronin sighed in victory " at least you are the most useful servant I have...not to mention you did take take out the Guardians...very well we'll go to Attilan"
"oh and big man, in case this plan fails, I want to set a backup which requires me to abduct a certain someone from my universe who hates Red Hood with his help he'll kill the Guardians"
"very well, do as you please" said Ronin
The Joker went into the armory and grabbed a dimensional storage pocket and went to his earth and came back with his prisioner trapped inside the dimensional storage pocket.
"is it done?"
"yes big man".
'he still thinks i'm working for him, once I start phase 2 of my plan, I'll get Red Hood to do my dirty work of eliminating Ronin while I seize control, hahahahahahahah' the Joker thought to himself.
Elsewhere in the Milano, Gamora picked up a distress signal coming towards the Milano and told Quill who suggested they land on that floating city when lockjaw an Inhuman dog teleported on the Milano taking Gamora and Quill with them leaving the rest of them in shock. "I know that dog" said Red hood "what is it?" Rocket asked "it's called Lockjaw, the Inhuman's pet" "inhuman?" "I'll explain later". The Milano landed on the city and Drax, Rocket, Groot and Jason got out and looked around only to find the city was empty but full of crystal statues "geeze this place looks like a ghost town" said Rocket, Drax withdrew his axe "Drax the destroyer fears no ghost". Rocket slapped his forehead "i mean mr literal that it's empty". Rocket looked around and saw statues made of what he thought was crystal "say..now that there's no one here we should empty the city of a few treasures " "we cannot take these statues". "well...we could use the extra credits" Red hood suggested "HA! see he gets me" said Rocket as he jumped on one of the statues and chipped off a piece of the crystal when Jason picked up a life sign coming from the statues "ah, Rocket...I'm picking up life forms" "cool where?" "from the statues...". Rockets eyes widened as he saw the statues came to life and threw Rocket to the ground, the statues charged "theses statues look pretty cheesed off" said Rocket as he blasted one of the statues, Drax withdrew his knives "I will finish off the remainder of their cheese", Drax slashed at one of the statues while Red Hood kept shooting with his machine gun. Moments later a man appeared "stop this my minions cease this attack" almost instantly the statues stopped attacking "apologies for the attack, I was expecting someone else" said the man "ooook and you are?" "I am Maximus the magnificent supreme ruler of the Inhumans" 'something about this guy seems familiar' Jason thought "do you know him Jason?" Rocket asked "sounds familiar but I cant quite put my finger on it" "hey! you promised to tell me what an inhuman was" "I am better suited for that task my little friend" said Maximus "many thousands of years ago on a planet called earth a group of pre-historic humans were tested upon by a group of kree, they gave us our power, please...follow me I will explain everything" said Maximus. As the group reached a lab of sorts they saw a containment chamber with a person known as Black bolt within it, Maximus explained that not even Black Bolt could withstand the dreaded plague which haunted the Inhumans, but he found the cure to it. Then behind them Star Lord, Gamora, Lockjaw and a lady with long long hair appeared obviously teleported "hey! it's gammy, Quill and some lady having a weird hair day" "that's Medusa, queen of the inhumans" said Jason, Medusa didn't pay attention to Jason and stared at Maximus "Maximus the mad where is my husband Black bolt? the king" "Wait a sec! Maximus the Mad?! I know you now!" said Jason as he withdrew his pistols and pointed them at Maximus "badguy?" Rocket asked as he pointed his gun at Maximus "yup". "You've deceived us? why?" Drax asked "it was nothing personal friend, I had to do something to keep you interfearing form the completion of my latest invention" he said as he picked up a helmet on his desk and put it on "behold complete and total MIND CONTROL!" laughed Maximus as the containment chamber door opened and Black bolt got out "destroy them my brother!" Maximus commanded, Black bolt started to advance and the Guardians took cover behind a table but Drax charged "you shall not hurt my friends" he charged at Black Bolt "No wait Drax that's not a good.." Jason was interrupted when Black bolt grabbed Drax's arm and tossed him out of the room sending him crashing through the walls and into the royal hall "idea" continued Jason. Jason, Gamora and Rocket leaped over the table while Quill thought of a plan and got an idea, Jason and Rocket kept shooting Black blot and Gamora tried to slash him but Black bolt released a shock wave that knocked them all out, "Now my puppet! get rid of that one!" said Maximus as he grabbed hold of Jason and threw him out the nearest window, unfortunately Rocket regained consciousness and saw his friend being thrown out the window "NOOO!" Rocket shouted, Jason however managed to grab hold of a ledge but Black bolt stood above him "now my brother finish him!" said Maximus, Black bolt was about to step on Jason's hand but Rocket shot his back "get away from my friend!" said Rocket, the distraction allowed Jason to jump up and knock Black bolt inwards, then, Black bolt stopped his attack and Jason saw Quill with the mind control helmet and Maximus escaping. "Alright Guradians lets move out!" said Quill. The Guardians along with Black bolt and Medusa and Lockjaw moved into the Royal court yard where there was thin fog present and Black bolt held his hand to stop the advance as he sensed danger, Jason could see the statues and Maximus as well as Ronin the accuser and the Joker step out of the fog, "missed me red face! haha!" taunted the Joker "Ronin!" growled Drax "Maximus what have you done!" Medusa demanded "Just what you wanted! I've formed an alliance with the Kree! I give them an invincible army and in return Attalan becomes part of the kree empire with myself as supreme ruler of course", Star lord sighed "is...is that what he told you? he cant do that! Ronin's an outlaw even among his own people" "you cut a deal with the one guy in the galaxy besides the Joker that's crazier than you!" Rocket continued "aww It's nice to be be noticed! haha!" Joker smirked "no..no you're lying! Alpha primitives! attack!" commanded Maximus. The statues charged and the Guardians and the Inhumans intercepted, Rocket and Jason kept the bullets and lasers coming, Drax and Gamora kept slashing at the statues and Quill blasted them with ice and the Inhumans kept fighting, Medusa fell to her knees "urgh! the plague has weakened us" she said Ronin's hammer came in contact with Black bolt's hands as he made an attempt to snatch it "you inhuman, you cannot hope to withstand the power of my universal weapon" said Ronin, Black bolt fell to his knees and Maximus and Ronin had a quick conversation in which Maximuns was betrayed and was blasted with Ronins universal weapon, Ronin took the mind control helmet form Rocket "hey! I need that", Ronin ignored him and spoke again "Black bolt...you will order your pet to take you to the crystal chamber, and take Quill with you" "hey! what did I do?!" "I owe you a..what did you call it, a dance off" "and I will keep the crypto cube" Ronin continued, the Joker lent in close and whispered "yo big man, maybe you should take the one with the red helmet with you as well, he's trouble AND not to mention he did break out the Guardians out off your ship" "you're right, PLUS I will take that one as well" Ronin continued as he pointed to Red Hood, but he was missing "huh? where'd he go?!" Ronin demanded. Rocket looked around but didn't find Jason 'I hope he's ok..." he thought, "never mind him, when my ship reaches a safe distance I will order Black bolt to scream, ridding the universe of this unclean city and the Guardians of the galaxy" Ronin and the Joker were teleported away and the Alpha primitives suddenly vanished "so let me get this straight 1) Jason's missing and 2) we're all going to be blown to atoms because Ronin's gonna make a guy yell?!" "Maximus you developed a cure for this plague maybe if you give it to Black bolt then he could resist the mind control" Medusa pleaded, Maximus took out the cure and looked at it but he threw it on the ground and it shattered "I'D RATHER BE VAPORISED THAN BOW TO MY BROTHER YET AGAIN!" he laughed and ran away, the Guardians and Medusa gasped then Rocket thought 'where are you Jason? what's your plan?' . Meanwhile Jason was on the top of the tallest building and was in the range of the crystal chamber entrance and switched helmets, which in turn switched his body armour to the one he had when he made a quick switch from being the Arkham knight to the Red Hood even his helmet matched the suit in order to gain more accuracy, he took out his Sniper rifle loaded it with electro-shots cocked it and lay on the roof with the 18 x scope set on the entrance. Meanwhile the Guardians made it towards the entrance "we've got to get that head gear off of Black bolt" said Medusa "oh so now you wanna mess with his antenna thing?" "oh I doubt you'll even get the opportunity to try" said Maximus as he came out of the crystal chamber with his army "ALPHA PRIMITIVES! ATTACK!" he ordered and they charged, Drax knifed the one behind him, Gamora sliced two in front of her, Medusa took care of the six in front of her and Rocket took out eight with a rocket blast from his blaster, then Maximus used his powers to disarm Drax and steal his blade and pushed Rocket down, Maximus loomed over Rocket with Drax's knife in hand he knelt near him and raised the knife to kill him "good bye rodent!", on the roof Jason pulled the trigger on his Sniper and the bullet swirled in mid-air and hit Maximus in the chest and gave out a shocking amount of volts that knocked him out "huh?", Rocket's comm buzzed "Rocket here" "look behind you and look up" "JASON! you're safe" said Rocket as he spotted Jason on top of the building with his sniper shooting the Alpha primitives, Rocket teamed up with Gamora "who's shooting them down?" Gamora asked "Jason duh he's on the roof". Minutes later the Alpha primitives crystal skin broke off to reveal the citizens of Attalan underneath, Drax roared and scared off the people, Starlord came out with Black bolt and Lockjaw "yup I totally saved the day again". The Guardians were escorted to the royal palace and they requested that Lock jaw bring them abord Ronin's ship and they agreed, "next stop Ronin's ship and...Revnege..."said Red Hood "you said it pal.