Hey, everybody. Back with another chapter.
Glad you all have been enjoying this so far. Think you'll really enjoy this. May not be too long of a chapter, but should be good. BTW, just to avoid confusion between Spider-Man and Star Lord, I'm going to refer to Star Lord as Quill, and Spider Man as Peter. Also, FYI, I'm going to refer to the Benatar's super fast travelling as "hyperspace", just for fun and as a nod to Star Wars.
First, to address something I have been asked in multiple reviews, so I'm just going to clarify. Wanda and Vision are NOT having an affair. Wanda is not the kinds of person to cheat on her husband, even after being separated for so long. The reason for Cisco's vibe at their wedding back in Worlds Collide, Heroes Clash, and why Tony said Vision disappeared in the last chapter, will be explained in the next chapter.
Let's get to it.
Guest 1: Some of the Avengers may go to different Earths after Thanos is defeated, but not all of them. Ross will show up again, but I don't think I'll have him do this.
the mysterious Mr.E: That is an interesting idea, but it doesn't fit with the current plan I have. As for including Supergirl and the Legends, they will show up soon. I have not watched a single episode of Black Lightning, and know nothing about him, so I don't have any plans to include him anytime soon.
Guest 2: I chose to have Cicada attack CCPD since the trailer for last night's episode showed it, and I thought it was a good time to bring in Sam.
Flash 217: Oliver will face Thanos again. As for Eitri making him a new weapon: you'll have to wait. I do not plan to change the location of the Soul Stone. I have a few candidates for Oliver's new love interest already, though your idea of having him join the Guardians is an interesting one. Wolverine will make an appearance in this story, but just a cameo. As for your question regarding the last story of the MACU, I can't tell you. I myself haven't even figured out when I'm going to end the MACU. But, I will tell you that the end of the Thanos arc will not even be the halfway point. I intend to continue the MACU for quite a while.
Chapter 3- The Guardians
Amidst the calm of space, a single ship races in the direction of the Statesman's distress signal. It's the Benatar.
On board, Peter Quill is singing along to the song "Rubberband Man". In his seat next to Quill's, Rocket yawns before asking loudly, "Why are we doing this again?"
"It's a distress signal, Rocket. Someone could be dying," Gamora says.
"I get that, but...why are we doing it?" Rocket asks.
"Because we're nice," Quill responds. He then looks at Rocket with a grin and adds, "And maybe whoever it is will give us a little cheddar cheese for our effort."
"Which isn't the point," Gamora butts in.
"Which isn't the point," Quill repeats before adding, "I mean, if he doesn't pony up…"
"We take his ship," Drax finishes.
"B-b-b-bingo!" Quill says. Gamora looks back at him reproachfully, and he tries to dismiss it.
"We are arriving," Mantis calls from behind Quill.
"Alright, Guardians. Let's not forget, this could be dangerous, so let's put on our mean faces," Quill says. He then hears beeping from behind him, and looks back to where Groot is sitting, playing an old video game he found on the ship.
"Groot, put that thing away now. I don't want to tell you again," Quill says. When Groot doesn't listen, he turns around again and calls, "Groot!"
"I am Groot!" Groot responds in a stereotypical snotty teenager tone, drawing exclamations from most of the rest of the team.
"You got some acorns on you, kid," Quill says.
Rocket, in an irritated tone, turns around to face Groot and says, "Ever since you got a little sap, you're a total d-hole. Now keep this up, and I'm gonna smash that thing to pieces!"
As Rocket finishes, Quill sees they're almost there, so he pulls back on the throttles. The Benatar slows down, then drops out of hyperspace, right into the middle of a debris field.
The Guardians look around, stunned, at the sight before them. Spaceship debris and bodies float around the Benatar, evidence to a great catastrophe.
"OMG," Quill whispers.
As the team looks around, Gamora lowers her head a bit. A nasty feeling is creeping up on her about who the culprit might be.
"Looks like we're not getting paid," Rocket says.
Suddenly, a body hits the windscreen, drawing cries of surprise from everybody. Rocket yells, "Wipers! Wipers! Get it off!"
Suddenly, something else hits the windscreen. They quickly realize it's a man in a tattered green outfit. More than that, he's conscious, thanks to the mask on his face. He motions with his hand several times, asking for them to get him inside.
The Guardians hurry, and manage to get the man inside. To their surprise, he brings the body that hit the windscreen with him.
As the man gets his mask off, he collapses to the ground, heaving. Gamora kneels down next to him, concerned. "Are you alright?" she asks.
Panting, the man says, "I've been out there too long. My air supply was running out."
"Drax, get him something to drink!" Gamora orders. Drax hurries to find a drink.
As Gamora gets the conscious man to a seat, Quill, Mantis, and Rocket examine the seemingly dead man, who is now lying on a table. Quill checks for the man's pulse, and his eyes widen. "This guy's still alive! How the ****?" he exclaims.
"He's Asgardian," the conscious man pants. This draws some looks.
A moment later, Drax returns with a drink. Gamora helps the man drink, and once he's finished, his breathing has eased up.
"Thank you," the man says before moving to stand by his unconscious friend.
"Can you wake him up?" he asks.
Quill nods, then looks to Mantis and says, "Wake him up."
Mantis nods, then bends down over his head. She lowers her hand to his forehead, and her antennae glow as she says, "Wake."
Suddenly, he surges up from the table, causing the rest of the Guardians to draw their weapons. The first man, however, hurries up to him and rests a hand on his shoulder. "Thor! Thor! It's alright. We're safe," he says.
He turns to the man, gasping a few times, then looks back at the Guardians. "Who the **** are they?" he asks.
The man turns to face them. "Thank you for rescuing us. My name is Oliver Queen. This is Thor. Now, who are you?"
"We're the Guardians of the Galaxy," Quill says.
"Well, then. You may be just what we need. The universe is in danger," Oliver says.
(Short while later)
Oliver and Thor slowly sip on some soup the Guardians have provided for them, having just finished explaining what happened with Thanos' attack.
From her spot at a viewport, Gamora says, "The entire time I knew Thanos, he only had one goal. To bring balance to the universe by wiping out half of all life. He used to kill people planet by planet. Massacre by massacre."
"Including my own," Drax adds.
"Makes Malcolm Merlyn look like a little prankster," Oliver mutters. Quill looks at Oliver, finding it surprising that he's so unfazed by someone being as evil as Thanos.
Turning around and moving to rejoin the group, Gamora says, "If he gets all six Infinity Stones, he can do it with the snap of his fingers. Like this," finishing by snapping her fingers to emphasize the point.
"You seem to know a great deal about Thanos," Thor muses.
"Gamora is the daughter of Thanos," Drax adds.
Both Thor and Oliver look up at Gamora, who looks ashamed. It's clear to Oliver that she views Thanos the same way Thea views Malcolm. As someone she is ashamed to be related to.
Thor doesn't seem to think the same way. He stands up and angrily says, "Your father killed my brother."
Thor stalks over to Gamora. "Easy, Thor," Oliver cautions, standing up just to be ready in case Thor lashes out.
Quill steps forward to defend her and tries to calm Thor down. "Adopted father, actually. And she hates him as much as you do," he says.
Thor looks at her for a few moments before resting a hand on Gamora's shoulder and saying, "Families can be tough. Before my father died, he told me I had a half-sister that he imprisoned in Hel. And then she returned him and stabbed me in the eye, so, I had to kill her."
Oliver almost snorts in amusement at that. Thinking about that really makes him put his problems with his family in perspective.
Quill moves to say something, but before he can, Oliver stands up. "Thanks again for rescuing us. But we need to be going," he says.
"Why?" Quill asks.
Thor looks at Oliver and nods, then heads toward the Benatar's pod. "I need your pod," he says.
"Why?" Quill asks.
"Because, I need to leave so I can stop Thanos," Thor says, as if it's obvious.
"If we're going to stop him, we need to find out where he's going next," Gamora says.
"Knowhere," Thor says.
Oliver feels confused, not having heard of that place yet. Mantis pipes up and says, "He must be going somewhere."
Quill steps forward and asks, "No. No. Knowhere?" He then looks at Mantis and says, "It's a place. We've been there. It sucks." He then looks back at Thor, who is taking some of the food out of a cabinet and protests, "Hey, that's our food."
"Not anymore," Thor replies without even looking at Quill.
"We'll send you a check," Oliver says, drawing a look from Quill.
"Thor, why would he go to Knowhere?" Gamora asks.
"Because for years, the Reality Stone's been safely stored there with a man called the Collector," Thor responds.
Oliver rolls his eyes. The Collector, he has heard of. Only because the Grandmaster has mentioned him. "Really, Thor?" he asks.
Quill seems to share Oliver's opinion of the Collector. "If it's with the Collector, then it's not safe. Only an idiot would give that man a Stone," he says.
"Or a genius," Thor replies.
"How do you know he's not going for one of the other Stones?" Gamora asks.
Thor turns back to the group. "There are six Stones out there. Thanos already has the Power Stone, because he stole it last week, when he decimated Xandar," he says. The Guardians look around at each other, stunned.
"He stole the Space Stone from us when he attacked our ship and slaughtered half the Asgardians aboard," Oliver adds.
"And the Time and Mind Stones are safe on Earth. They're with the Avengers," Thor continues, even though Oliver still wants to go to Earth, hoping that Barry might still be there.
"Avengers?" Quill interrupts, confused.
"Earth's mightiest heroes," Thor explains.
"Like Kevin Bacon?" Mantis asks.
Oliver face palms and sighs as Thor says, "He may be on the team. I don't know. I haven't been there in a while."
Thor pauses for a second, then continues, "As for the Soul Stone, well, no one's ever seen that. No one even knows where it is. Therefore Thanos can't get it. Therefore, he's going to Knowhere. Hence, he'll be getting the Reality Stone."
"Then we have to go to Knowhere now," Gamora says.
"Wrong. Where we have to go is Nidavellir," Thor says.
"That's a made up word," Drax butts in.
"All words are made up," Thor says as he picks up a backpack.
Rocket climbs onto the table Thor was on. "Nidavellir is real? Seriously?" he asks before saying excitedly, "I mean, that place is a legend. They make the most powerful, horrific weapons to ever torment the universe. I would very much like to go there please!"
"The rabbit is correct, and clearly the smartest among you," Thor says cheerfully.
"Rabbit?" Rocket asks.
"Actually, he's a racoon, Thor," Oliver pipes up.
"I'm not a racoon!" Rocket shouts. Oliver raises an eyebrow.
"Then what are you?" Oliver asks.
"Not a racoon!" Rocket replies hotly. Oliver shakes his head, grinning.
"We have to go. Only Eitri the Dwarf can make the weapon I need," Thor says before looking at Rocket and saying, "I assume you're the captain, sir."
"You're very perceptive," Rocket replies.
"You seem like a noble leader. Will you join me and Queen on our quest to Nidavellir?" Thor asks. Oliver looks at Thor with his raised eyebrow, this being the first he's heard of this quest.
Rocket smirks and says, "Let me just ask the captain. Oh, wait a second, it's me! Yeah. I'll go."
"Wonderful," Thor says with a smile before heading towards the pod. Oliver follows him towards the pod.
"Umm, except, I'm the captain," Quill protests.
"Quiet," Thor says.
"And that's my backpack," Quill protests further.
"Go sit down," Rocket tells him.
Raising his voice, Quill says, "Look, this is my ship. And I'm not going to…"
"You don't need to. We're going without you," Oliver cuts him off.
Quill stops for a moment, kinda glaring at Oliver, before asking, "Wait. What kinda-what-what kinda weapon are we talking about here?"
"The Thanos-killing kind," Thor responds.
"Don't you think that we should all have a weapon like that?" Quill asks.
"No. You simply lack the strength to wield them. Your bodies would crumble while your minds collapsed into madness," Thor responds.
"Is it weird that I wanna do it even more now?" Rocket asks.
"A little bit, yeah," Thor replies as Oliver gives Rocket the look. Rocket is a little too violent, but at the same time, Oliver kinda likes him.
"If we don't go to Knowhere and Thanos retrieves another Stone, he'll be too powerful to stop," Gamora says.
"He already is," Thor says.
"Thanks, Captain Sunshine," Oliver says in a low voice.
"Look, I got it figured out. We got two ships, and a large assortment of morons. So, me and Groot will go with the pirate angel and archer here, and the morons will go the Knowhere to try and stop Thanos," Rocket says before asking, "Cool?"
"So cool," Thor says before he turns and walks into the pod. Oliver follows him. After a brief exchange with Quill, Rocket enters the pod too, with Groot following him, still playing the video game.
"I bid you farewell and good luck, morons," Thor says. Oliver smirks a bit at that, right before Rocket drops the shield back down over the front of the pod, and then the pod drops out of the ship. Once the pod is clear, the engines fire up, and the pod starts heading off for Nidavellir.
As Oliver sits in his seat, he glances at Thor and thinks to himself, You better know what you're doing, Thor.
And, I'll end there. I hope this was a good chapter.
Next chapter will be up in a day or two, and it is one I am really excited by.
Until then, review, and stay tuned!