mikaela2015: I was laughing at that too. XD
GhostWriterGirl-1: Thank you. As for the toe, I don't wanna know. XD
stephanieeiche10: The songs are mostly 60s or 70s in the two movies.
KuriMaster13: Definitely.
Here's chapter 9 everybody.
Chapter 9: Eternity.
At Ego's palace, Peter was looking at the planet's surroundings while Gamora was trying to contact Rocket and Daranak.
"So I guess this could all be mine someday." Peter said, but Gamora didn't listen.
"Rocket? Rocket, are you there? Daranak? Daranak, answer me." Gamora said, trying to contact Rocket and Daranak, but doesn't receive a response.
Peter then approached Gamora and places his hands on her arms.
"What are you doing, Peter?" Gamora asked.
"Dance with me." Peter said.
"I'm not going to dance with you." Gamora said.
"This is Sam Cooke, one of the greatest Earth singers of all time." Peter said.
Peter pulled Gamora and the two started to dance to the song 'Bring It on Home to Me' by Sam Cooke. Peter then made Gamora twirl around before they look at each other once more. Peter then remember what Drax once told him back at the Milano.
"Drax thinks you're not a dancer while Salzer is." Peter said.
"If you ever tell anyone about this, I will kill you." Gamora said.
"When are we gonna do something about this unspoken thing between us?" Peter asked, trying to persuade Gamora that she felt something for him too.
"What unspoken thing?" Gamora asked, confused at what Peter asked.
"This, Cheers, Sam and Diane, a guy and a girl on a TV show who dig each other but never say it because if they do, the ratings would go down sort of thing." Peter said.
"There's no unspoken thing." Gamora said, denying she has a thing for Peter.
"Well, it's a catch-22, because if you said it, it would be spoken and you would be a liar. So, by not saying it, you are telling the truth, and admitting that there is." Peter said.
"No, that's not what I..." Gamora started before letting go of Peter and stopping the dance. "What we should be discussing right now is something about this place. It doesn't feel right." Gamora said, changing the subject on Ego's planet.
"What are you talking about? You're the one who wanted me to come here!" Peter said, not liking what Gamora said.
"That girl Mantis, she's afraid of something." Gamora said.
"Why are you trying to take this away from me?" Peter asked.
"I'm not trying..."
"He's my father. He's blood." Peter said, cutting Gamora off.
"You have blood on Earth and you never wanted to return there." Gamora said.
"Again, you made me come here! And Earth is the place where my mother died in front of me." Peter shouted.
"No, it's because that place is real, and this is a fantasy." Gamora said, comparing Earth with Ego's planet.
"This is real! I'm only half human, remember?" Peter asked.
"That's the half I'm worried about." Gamora said, talking about Peter's half Celestial status.
"I get it. You're jealous because I'm part-god, and you like when I'm the weak one." Peter said, becoming arrogant.
"You were insufferable to begin with. I haven't been able to reach Rocket or Daranak. I'm gonna go outside, and I'm gonna try and get a signal." Gamora said before starting to leave.
"You know what? This is not Cheers after all! This is whatever the show is where one person is willing to open themselves up to new possibility, and the other person is a jerk who doesn't trust anybody! It's a show that doesn't exist! That's why it would get zero ratings!" Peter yelled.
"I don't know what Cheers is!" Gamora yelled.
"I finally found my family. Don't you understand that?" Peter said.
"I thought you already had." Gamora said, referring to the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Gamora leaves Peter and goes outside to spend some time alone. She use the Godslayer to cut some nearby plants as their constant noise was bothering her.
"Damn it." Gamora sighed.
Gamora then hears a noise behind her before getting up to her feet and look behind to see a M-ship in the sky. She looks at the M-ship as it flies towards her. Gamora went wide-eyed as she realized it's Nebula piloting the M-ship and she runs for it just as Nebula fires the M-ship's guns at her as she yells furiously. Gamora however evade the shots and jumps off a cliff and lands hard on the ground.
"Psychopath!" Gamora said as she sees the M-ship turns around.
Gamora runs once more as Nebula continues to attack her as she runs into a cavern. Gamora tries to regain breath before she has to run once more as Nebula fires the M-ship before piloting it into the cave. She still continue to fire the guns regardless. Eventually, Gamora falls off another cliff and the M-Ship crash and catches fire, trapping Nebula. Gamora then sees a giant gun that had broken off the craft and use her Zehoberei strength to grab it. Nebula sees what Gamora is about to do and tries to get herself free. However, Gamora managed to hot wire the gun before firing it at the M-ship. She continue to fire until the ground gave way and the M-ship to fall into a hole. Gamora drops the gun and looks at the hole to see the flaming M-ship and Nebula screaming as she tries to get out, but can't as she is pinned down by debris. Gamora then dislodge the debris and drags Nebula out, just as the craft explode, sending Gamora and Nebula flying back by the shockwave and crash violently to the ground. The two women then look at each other before Nebula furiously attacked her sister.
"Are you kidding me?!" Gamora furiously asked.
Gamora tried to counter Nebula's attack but grabbed her by the throat and pointed a knife at her. However, Nebula couldn't kill Gamora and let's her go.
"I win. I win. I bested you in combat." Nebula said with anger.
"No. I saved your life." Gamora said, trying to catch some air.
"Well, you were stupid enough to let me live." Nebula said.
"You let me live!" Gamora countered.
"I don't need you always trying to beat me!" Nebula said.
"I'm not the one that just flew across the universe just because I wanted to win." Gamora said.
"Do not tell me what I want." Nebula said.
"I don't need to tell you what you want! It's obvious!" Gamora countered.
"You were the one who wanted to win. And I just wanted a sister!" Nebula said, making Gamora silent. "You were all I had. But you were the one who needed to win. Thanos pulled my eye from my head and my brain from my skull and my arm from my body because of you." Nebula said, recalling the times she lost her practice fights to Gamora and the torture she went through with Thanos as a result.
Gamora was in silence, now feeling bad as the two sisters were still on their knees near the burning wreckage of the M-ship.
Back at Ego's palace, Peter was lying on a couch listening to the song 'Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)' by Looking Glass on his Sony Walkman thinking about today's events and what he said to Gamora. He was unaware of Ego's presence.
"You all right, son?" Ego asked, gaining Peter's attention. "I saw your girl stomp off a little earlier in quite a huff."
"Yeah." Peter muttered.
"It's fortuitous you listening to this song." Ego said, recognizing the song Peter is listening too.
"You know... Brandy?" Peter asked.
"By Looking Glass? A favorite of your mom's." Ego replied.
"Yeah, it was." Peter said.
"One of Earth's greatest musical compositions. Perhaps its very greatest." Ego said.
"Yes!" Peter said.
"You know, Peter, you and I, we're the sailor in that song." Ego said. "He came on a summer's day. Bringing gifts from far away." Ego said, reciting the lyrics. "Like the child I put in your mother or the freedom you brought Gamora." Ego said, making Peter understand a little. "Brandy, you're a fine girl. What a good wife you would be. My life, my love. My lady is the sea." Ego reciting more of the lyrics. "The sea calls the sailor back. He loves the girl, but that's not his place. The sea calls upon him as history calls upon great men, and sometimes we are deprived the pleasures of mortals."
"Well, you may not be mortal, but me..." Peter said.
"No, Peter, death will remain a stranger to both of us as long as the light burns within the planet." Ego said.
"I'm immortal?" Peter asked, not believing he's immortal like Ego.
"Hmm-mmm." Ego responded.
"Really?" Peter said, still not believing Ego.
"Yes! As long as the light exists." Ego replied.
"And I can use the light to build cool things like how you made this whole planet?" Peter asked.
"It might take you a few million years of practice before you get really good at it. But, yes!" Ego replied, making Peter amazed and shock.
"What! Get ready for an 800-foot statue of Pac-Man with Skeletor and Heather Locklear." Peter said.
"You can do anything you want." Ego said.
"I'm gonna make some weird shit." Peter said.
"But you know, Peter, it is a tremendous responsibility. Only we can remake the universe. Only we can take the bridle of the cosmos and lead it to where it needs to go." Ego said.
"How?" Peter asked.
Ego responded by using his Celestial powers to light up his hand. Peter did the same as the two watch their light.
"Come with me." Ego said, unknowing that the conversation was overheard by Mantis in fear.
Mantis immediately ran to the living quarters where Salzer and Drax were sleeping at.
"Salzer, Salzer! Salzer! Wake up, we need to talk!" Mantis said, waking Salzer up.
"Whoa, whoa, Mantis, what's going on?" Salzer said tiredly.
Mantis however ran to Drax as she tries to wake him up.
"Drax, Drax. Drax! Drax! We need to talk." Mantis said, waking Drax up.
"I'm sorry. But I like a woman with some meat on her bones." Drax said.
"What?" Mantis said, confused on what Drax said.
"I tried to let you down easily by telling you I found you disgusting." Drax said.
"No, that's not what I..."
Mantis gets cut off as she sees Drax gagging as if he was throwing up.
"What are you doing?" Mantis asked.
"I'm imagining being with you physically." Drax said.
"Drax, I don't like you like that. I don't even like the type of thing you are." Mantis said.
"Hey! There's no need to get personal." Drax said.
"Drax, stop being mean to Mantis!" Salzer said as she is now fully awaken.
"Listen! Both of you! Ego's gotten exactly what he wanted. I should have told you earlier. I'm stupid. You two are in danger." Mantis warned.
"Okay, one, you're not stupid. Two, what do you mean Ego has exactly what he want and that we're in danger?" Salzer asked in concern.
Meanwhile, at the caverns, after forming a unlikely alliance, Gamora and Nebula was walking through the cave to find their way out when they noticed some light.
"What is that?" Gamora asked before she and Nebula head towards where the light is.
Back at the palace, Ego takes Peter to the room where he showed the showcases to him and the other Guardians earlier.
"Now, you need to readjust the way you process life. Everything around us, including the girl. Everything is temporary. We are forever." Ego said, comparing Peter's and himself's immortal status with the other Guardian's mortal status.
"Doesn't eternity get boring?" Peter asked.
"Not if you have a purpose, Peter, which is why you're here. I told you how all those years ago, I had an unceasing impulse to find life." Ego said as he shows Peter the same showcase of his avatar form meeting a figurine of a Krylorian girl. "But what I did not tell you was how, when I finally did find it, it was all so... disappointing." Ego said, making Peter look at him after that statement. "And that is when I came to a profound realization. My innate desire to seek out other life was not so that I could walk among that life." Ego said before looking at Peter in the eyes. "Peter... I have found meaning."
Ego then touch Peter in his forehead to hypnotized him, making his pupils go bigger. He gasped at what he sees.
"I see it. Eternity!" Peter said, seeing the Cosmic Entity Eternity.
Back at the cavern, Gamora and Nebula reach the area in the cave where the light was coming from. As soon as they enter, the two sisters becomes wide-eyed at what they see.
"Oh my God." Gamora said in shock.
Gamora and Nebula were seeing a huge pile of skeletons. Thousands of them, each of a different species and Gamora's feeling that Ego was hiding a secret from them appeared to be right.
"We need to get off this planet." Nebula said in shock.
The way Peter describe the unspoken thing sounds like Danny and Sam, don't you think? Also, since Peter is half human-half Celestial, technicality that would make him a Halfa. Anyway, what will happen when Ego's true intentions and self will be discovered? Find out next time in the next chapter. Please review. :)