The Princess And The Maverick Vol 2

by SORARULES23

More than a year after Rapunzel and Orion left Corona for separate journeys. Both the Princess of Corona and the Maverick have returned with new friends. Nee challenges to face. Worlds to see. A Kingdom to defend. All the while preparing for the biggest challenge they'll ever face that is soon to come. (A sequel to The Princess And The Maverick: What If?)

9. A Galactic Road To Knowhere

WE'RE BACK FOLKS! 🎉🎉🎉

And I wanna make one thing clear. Whatever happens in the upcoming Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 3 film. No, I haven't seen it. But when I do, I want everyone to know that no matter what we see in the film, I will NOT change the plans I have for my characters and the ones from the third film won't change, no matter how the third GOTG film ends. 👌

Now that I got that out. I wanna say that this chapter will include not only the characters from Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. But also a famous walk around level from the Square Enix GOTG video game.

"I'll give you a hint. When you've got 'Knowhere' to go. You've at least got somewhere." Maverick hinted. 😉

What kind of hint is that? What movie did you steal that from?

"Who says it's a movie? Maybe my sister writes good poetry." Maverick teased. 😏

Ugh. Whatever. Let's go deal with the comment section before I get an ulcer.

SPYRO 101: Thank you! Yeah Rocket had it rough. I might add the flashbacks from the new film to this one. But we'll cross that bridge later. Also Drax is a guy with an interesting reputation. Who knows how many ladies find him attractive. Lady Hellbender isn't the only one. But I digress. Yep Zurg's still out there and they'll find out soon enough. Well if they picked Groot, just like the alternate choices in the game. Lady Hellbender would've figured it out quickly and set a trap for them just as they would've tried to bust Groot out. Because as Rocket stated, Groot can't pretend to be a monster. So things would've been a disaster anyway. But this chapter sure isn't and I thank you once again for your assistance. 👍

RustyPete12: Oh yeah. He sure is. I made sure the emotions weren't too forced. Oh trust me. Drax is not someone to talk about concerning attempts to woo a woman. Let alone a savage one. Also Lightyear wasn't horrible. I just didn't like it. But as I said before, check it out and draw your own conclusions. If you end up loving the film. I'll wish I were you. Lol. Thanks again for your support. 😁👍

Alright! Now that we're all here!

LET'S GET DANGEROUS! 😎

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A Galactic Road To Knowhere.

Down in Lady Hellbender's Fortress...

The Guardians of the Unknown were busy trying to escape along with the prisoners they freed. Maverick. Verum Rex. Shift. Rocket. Drax. Groot. Rapunzel. Eugene and Lance were busy running next to Buzz Lightyear. XR. Mirra and Booster towards the east hall away from the dungeon.

Two of the Hellbender guards came from a corner to shoot at them. But Verum Rex jumped and ran across the wall to leap and kick one guard to the face while Maverick teleported and delivered two neon punches that slammed the second guard through the wall.

Once they made a curve towards the north hall. They saw a lobby of several different doors. Two on an upstairs platform and three below it.

"This way!" Buzz yelled as he ran ahead and the team followed.

As they were running, the team looked up and saw a swarm of red round attack drones coming towards them. Maverick flicked and waved his hands. Causing them to incinerate due to his flame abilities. And they kept running as the ashes fell.

But as they made it to the lobby. Twenty Hellbender brutes came from out of the doors with electric clubs. The team halted to see them and were ready to fight past them. But seeing the armor means that only a few of thr members will make it out without injuries.

Mostly Maverick and Verum Rex.

"Hey Spike. Now would be a good time to use that Heartbinder from ToonTown." Maverick whispered as he was standing next to Verum Rex in a defense pose with the others.

"Really? You really think that might be the best choice." Verem hissed back quietly.

"I don't know who you're talking about, but you might want to settle with it, and fast." Rapunzel whispered as well while holding her weapon at the ready as she looked at the forces that outnumbered them.

"Come on, Spike. The guy is unrealistically strong. Fast and enthusiastic about his veggie fetish." Maverick whispered as he insisted

"So are you." Verum insisted.

"Grilled veggies. There's a difference." Maverick hissed

"fiiiiiine!" Verum exhaled as he took out a Heartbinder with a spinach can emblem in the middle of it.

Then Verum Rex activated it. Causing a wave of green stars to swarm around the team as they were caught off guard. Then the star waves formed a can of spinach. That cracked open as a legendary cartoon figure in a white sailor suit and a squint eye with bulgey arms.

This sailor...Was Popeye the Sailor.

"Alright, where's the auction? I got a couples of knuckle sammiches to sell." Popeye muttered as he held his fists up in a fight manner while looking at the Hellbender brutes.

"Okay...What?" Eugene inquired.

"Dude. The studio made his movie. We can use him legally." Maverick responded as he broke the fourth wall. Then he looked at the Readers. "What?! We can!"

Rapunzel gasped, eyes widening in excitement at seeing the toon.

"Oh my God….. It's Popeye, the Sailor Man!" Rapunzel squealed excitedly, being a big fan of this toon.

"Squaked!" Pascal exclaimed joyfully on her shoulder as he loved the Popeye cartoons.

Rapunzel watched Popeye a lot at Orion's Mansion. Among other things.

"Oh, no one told me he was comin." Popeye muttered while his lips weren't moving and he looked to where to start throwing punches. "I guess I'll have what he's throwin."

Then Popeye spun his pipe as he launched himself and threw a punch towards the first brute. Which caused the brute to slam into the second. Then Popeye landed and balled the two brutes into a bowling ball and rolled it professionally into five more brutes

"Oh two spares, should've aimed higher." Popeye muttered as he ran over as the next brute tried to smash his electric club into Popeye's back, but it broke in half. "Oh the pleasure is all spine."

Then Popeye punched the Brute away.

"Of you're wondering. Most of the Looney Tunes. Hanna Barbara and 1940s classics all live in the inspiring city of ToonTown. The Disney capital of Mickey's homeworld of the federation." Shift explains to Rapunzel while Popeye finishes up the Brutes

"And I'm only finding out about this now? You are so taking me there in the future!" Rapunzel gushed while excited at the fighting Popeye was doing.

As soon as Popeye finished off most of the brutes. He smacked the last brute with his spinning two fists that spun like a conveyor belt's wheel.

***MULTI PUNCH!***

The brute's head jagged multiple times as the punches kept landing.

"How are those stars, did the fog cleareded up?" Popeye jested as he kept punching. "Oh look, a shootin star. Make a wish! WHAM!"

***PUNCH!***

Popeye sent an uppercut to the last Brute's jaw which sent him. Up through the ceiling.

Then Popeye landed in front of the team. And he waved to the tune of his theme.

"There's none that is finder~ When you have a heartbinder of Popeye the Sailor Man!~" Popeye sang before he tooted his pipe.

***Toot Toot!***

Then Popeye vanished into a wave of light.

"He does that every time I use him." Verum Rex sighed.

"That... Was...EAAK!" Rapunzel shouted in pure excitement. "That was one of the best fights I've ever seen! Do you have any more heartbinders for other toons!?"

"Nope. Just that one." Verum Rex assured.

"Kay...That was weird..." Mirra muttered at the whole thing.

"Were those supposed to be muscles or tumors?" XR inquired

"Don't know what that was. But don't care, it took care of the competition so let's scram already!" Rocket insisted as he ran for one of the doors.

"Rocket don-" Verum Rex held his hand out.

But then Rocket went for one of the doors. Suddenly the floor slit open below them and everyone screamed as they fell through a door hole. And then they all grunted as they landed somewhere dark.

"I am Groot!" Groot yelled in the dark.

"How was I supposed to know which one was the right door?!"

"Where are we anyway?!" Booster called out.

Suddenly a red light came on as everyone stood up together and saw where the red light was coming from.

"Oh flark..." Maverick cursed the situation they were in. "Does anyone see a way out?"

"I see a bright light." Drax said, trying to block the blinding light.

"Well, don't go towards it." Maverick warned as he and the others looked up.

They looked towards the source of the light which was on a higher platform, which was located across a large drop from where they were standing in front of. Inside of a cave, where Lady Hellbender stood on the platform, looking down at the team with an angry look.

"Guardians of the Unknown! How many times do I have to kill you?!" Lady Hellbender said loudly, stomping the butt of her staff on the ground.

"Stall her, Ryan." Shift whispered to Maverick.

"The audacity, that you thought you could rob ME." Lady Hellbender said with a vicious bloodthirsty smile.

"Contrary to what this all looks like, We weren't really trying to rob you. We just wanted the two Space cops you had in your basement." Maverick called out from below.

"And now that we have them, we have no intention of doing any further damage. Let us go and we will compensate for what's been done so far." Verum Rex negotiated.

While this was going on. Shift was scanning the room for a way out. She saw nothing until she noticed a weak point. A crack on the ceiling above the pit, which leads outside.

"Do you know what I did to the last people who thought I was easy prey?" Lady Hellbender asked in a menacing tone.

"You let them go?" Maverick guessed.

"Ryan, there's a weak point on the ceiling. But it's gonna take several hard blasts to break through it." Shift whispered to Maverick.

"Lady Hellbender, let us settle this honorably." Drax called out as he stepped forward. "I will face you in combat."

Lady Hellbender scoffed at the offer.

"Honorably? Your offer is worthless, Destroyer." Lady Hellbender rejected the offer. "There is no escaping my wrath."

"I can work with that." Shift said, summoning her keyblade.

"Dweller! Feast upon them!" Lady Hellbender roared, and from the pit in front of them.

Then suddenly. A giant spiked tentacle came up from the pit and slammed into the ground to the side of the team, making them stagger before the tentacle retreated back into the pit. A moment later, a giant squid-like monster with four tentacles floated from up the pit. It was larger than any squid known on Earth. Big enough to cover their gummi ship if it could. This creature was the Dweller-In-Darkness.

"Okay thats..." Eugene gawked at the size.

"A true monster!" Drax declared.

"Well let's make it truly dead!" Rocket cocked his gun.

Just then. Rapunzel Eugene. Lance. Started firing at the monster. Rapunzel had shifted her frying pan into a laser pistol. While Eugene and Lance had their own space guns. Rocket was using his best gun to shoot at the Dweller.

"Team! Set your lasers from stun to kill!" Buzz told Mirra, XR and Booster as they all launched their space wings and flew up in the air blasting at the Dweller who shrieked.

Buzz flew in loops around the tentacles of the Dweller as he was showing off his acrobatics and shot at the tentacles with his laser. Buzz even ran across one and shot at the tip before flying off before it could swat at him. Mirra was busy shooting at the forehead with her laser while using her Tangean phasing ability to phase right through the swatting tentacles that waved around.

Meanwhile, Shift, Groot and Drax were busy looking for a point of attack. While Booster and XR were laying down suppressing fire.

Soon the Dweller roared angrily as it smashed its tentacle down. But Verum Rex and Maverick dodged as Maverick ran up the tentacle. And did a spin slash into the Dweller's side of its head to make it smash into the wall. And then he flipped back and shot five large fireballs into the ceiling.

***BLAST!***

The fireballs cause the ceiling to crack a bit more. The team looked up and saw what Maverick was up to.

"Ooooh..." Rapunzel realized as well.

Then the Princess narrowed her eyes as she noticed the monster was about to smash another tentacle down on the team. But then Rapunzel's lashed a hair strand around the tentacle and she pulled it. Causing the Dweller to be yanked as it hit its head against the edge of the cliff. Then Rapunzel jumped on top of the Dweller's head.

"Rocket! When I give the signal! Shoot at my frying pan!" Rapunzel yelled out as she held her frying pan up.

"Don't you mean shoot at the scutty squid?!" Rocket inquired.

"Trust me!" Rapunzel insisted as she remained steady on the floating Dweller.

Shift saw what Rapunzel was up to. So she ran up the side wall and kicked off doing flips and tricks before she waved her hands to cause bolts of lightning to hit the monster's eyes. The Dweller became agitated as it rose and floated up in a frenzy. Then Rapunzel flung her frying pan up in the air.

And it spun as it was heading towards the ceiling.

"Now!" Rapunzel yelled down to Rocket.

Rocket shot a missile towards her frying pan. And both the pan and missile collided into the ceiling.

***BLAAAAST!***

The blast created a wave of vibrations that shook the ceiling. And caused it to crack further. Then Maverick landed over to Drax.

"Drax, can your skull of steel survive a brick?!" Maverick asked.

"My bones are not made of steel!" Drax said, taking him literally. "However, my bones should be hard enough to break through solid boulders if necessary!"

"That's all I needed to hear!" Maverick remarked before he looked at Groot. "Groot?! Stand over at the left corner and work on restraining the two tentacles on that side!"

"I am Groot!" Groot shouted in acknowledgment as he extended his arms and created vines to restrain the two tentacles closest to him.

Once the two tentacles were trying to sweep the floor. They got caught in the vines and Groot yanked to corner them. Causing the Dweller to smack into the side wall. Then Maverick constructed a neon trampoline.

"Drax. Leap and smash the ceiling!" Maverick exclaimed.

"Yes!" RAAAAAAAGH!" Drax roared as he ran.

Drax then Jumped on the trampoline and launched himself up hard into the veiling as he slammed his shoulder into the weak point and smashed through.

Causing the rocks to fall on the Dweller down below in large builders. Causing its skull to crack open. And then...Rocket launched five missiles from the air as Shift sent five bolts of lightning and then.

***BOOOOM!****

The Dweller blew to bits and scattered all throughout the pit. Much to Lady Hellbender's horror of watching her beloved creature be destroyed.

"NOOOOOO! WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOU MY DWELLEEEER?!" Lady Hellbender screamed in bloody anger.

"PRO! TEC! GET US OUT OF HERE!" Maverick screamed into his communicator.

Then suddenly everyone including Buzz and his team were beamed up onto the gummi ship as they finally got out of there and flew into the Solar Flare.

Lady Hellbender exhaled with a burning wrath in her eyes as she glared up at the open sky. Determined to have the heads of the heroes that dishonored her name, brought chaos into her palace, and killed her beloved Dweller. She won't let this slide, that's for sure.

"Your bones will soon be mine! GUARDIANS OF THE UNKNOWN!" Lady Hellbender declared.

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Later on board the Solar Flare…..

The Guardians were all up on the bridge in the upper deck while Buzz and his team were in the lower deck. Rapunzel was checking her frying pan and was impressed to see that it was not damage or scraped at all.

Eugene was combing his hair to get the dust out while Lance was looking around nervously fiddling with his thumbs as he noticed the rest of the team seemed tence.

After Verum Rex flew into hiper space and got them out of that sector. He leaned back in his seat and looked at the others.

He shifted out of his armored form and looked around at the team. Shift and Maverick were already changed back into Friday and Orion. As Orion was busy texting some important info on his phone.

"So…That went well, huh?" Eugene spoke up.

"Went well? We all look like backyard hustlers!" Friday snapped.

"Lady Hellbender won't let this slide, that's for sure." Yozora stated with his arms crossed.

"I have not seen any slide for her to use." Drax said, taking the words literally. "But what I do know is that Lady Hellbender will no doubt hunt us down by any means."

"Who gives a scut? We got off that mudball with Lightyear's squad didn't we?" Rocket retorted

"A squad that you forced us to shoot our way out to get." Friday argued.

"Doesn't most of our missions involve shooting, punching and kicking?!" Rocket shot back.

"Lady Hellbender is not fragile as the Heartless!" Drax dejected.

"Yeah, that's right. Cause if she was, we'd walk out with her loot." Rocket snorted.

"Point being is that we pissed her off and now she's on the list of possible future antagonists." Orion sarcastically stated.

"Only in limited sectors of the galaxy, Orion. Think about it. Lady Hellbender won't cause a direct assult on any planet or sector own by the Nova or the Galactic Alliance. Or even the Unite Galactic Federation." Yozora pointed out. "She knows that if she does anything stupid, Lady Hellbender will violate the treaty made with those with all galactic governments and her right to be an independent system will be stripped from her."

"Meaning she's a stalemate for now." Friday understood. "Plus she doesn't know who we are or who Ryan is under our armor. So she won't go after Multicorp."

"Uh…What about us? We weren't wearing any masks. Man I should've grabbed em before we left!" Lance held his hand up asking.

"What about you? As far as she's concern you humies's just tagged along drawing all the fire while we did most of the work." Rocket shrugged sarcastically.

"Really?" Eugene deadpanned.

"Do not worry, Princess, her lizard, Fitzherbert and his sidekick. Lady Hellbender won't waste her bounty chasing you don't. She will only hunt after the ones who have caused the damage directly." Drax pointed out.

"Sidekick?!" Lance exclaimed while Eugene chuckled.

"Still we've provoked her and this won't go well in our report to Ko-Rel." Orion said as he was thinking.

"Unless we make it sound juicy- I mean believable. Tell her that during the sell, short jeans and Lancer here almost got eaten by a gorfrog and I shot at it to safe them, thus starting a fire fight." Rocket suggested.

"Oh sure. Because we look so appetizing." Eugene said sarcastically in reply.

"Maybe they didn't have the right wine to go with us." Lance said sarcastically with a smirk.

"I have a good question. Is Lady Hellbender able to travel through the Multiverse?" Rapunzel asked.

"Flark no! She doesn't even know about the Multiverse. I'm sure if she did, she would've tried to cage a Heartless and probably marry one." Rocket assured sarcastically.

"I don't wanna imagine what the internet would do with that image." Orion shuttered at a fourth wall thought.

"Still something's bugging me about all of this." Yozora said as he was thinking.

"Lady Hellbender can't do what bugs do." Drax dejected as he took it literally.

"Dude we're way pass her right now." Orion deadpanned.

"Not only was Buzz's team was given a false lead on a missing ranger. He was also given a star shard instead of a crystal fusion which caused him to crash on our world. Commander Nebula let alone Star Command would never make a mistake like that." Yozora said while thinking.

"Could it be that there's someone on the inside of Star Command committing acts of sabotage?" Rapunzel asked with a serious look.

"Achem. I think I know who!" They heard as they turned to see XR rolling up the stairs to the upper deck.

"I am Groot?" Groot asked Rocket if XR was serious or not.

"Of course the droid isn't bluffing. They can't lie, why do you think I never hired one?" Rocket answered

"Here's what I know. I did a check up with Star Command's efficiency status and noticed a few important details are off. Like a delay in rocket fuel shipments. Bad intel mixing in other people's messages. Pickle jars next to the coffee maker, who does that?! Anyhow. All of our efficiency staff are the LGM's but the main operating system is being run by a B-56 annalist droid." XR answered.

"Are you kidding me!?" Friday exclaimed in bafflement and annoyance. "B-56 droids have been outdated for years now! Star Command should be using one of the newer more efficient models!"

"You think this droid is somehow responsible for the recent problems?" Rapunzel asked.

"Or whoever set up the droid. I don't think those things are smart enough to keep a suprise party a secret." Friday snorted.

Just then. Buzz and Mirra walked up to the upper deck to check on their conversation.

"Found out anything important?" Buzz asked.

"Yeah did you know you're HQ has a B-56 droid operating the efficiency system?" Yozora revealed.

"What!? Are you kidding me!?" Mirra exclaimed in bafflement and annoyance. "B-56 droids have been outdated for years now! Star Command should be using one of the newer more efficient models!"

"I feel like I heard that from somewhere before." Eugene whispered to Lance with a humorous smirk.

"Can you contact the commander for me?" Buzz requested while looking serious.

"Sure thing." Yozora turned to thr console and selected Commander Nebula as a contact.

Once the call was made. The Commander answered as he was displayed on a live cam feed on the window screen.

"Lightyear?! Guardians?!...Forge." Commander Nebula addressed while he seethed at Orion who waved his fingers humorously at the commander while he was scratching his chin with a middle finger.

"Commander. We've had it rough on Seknarf-9 but we managed to grt my team back." Buzz stated.

"Good good! Does this mean you have more info on themissing rangers?" Commander Nebula asked.

"Maybe. We've also found potential evidence of a sabotage." Buzz stated in a serious tone.

"Did you know your efficiency system is being run by a B-56 droid?" Mirra revealed with her arms crossed.

"WHAT!? ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?" Commander Nebula shouted in anger and annoyance. "B-56 DROIDS HAVE BEEN OUTDATED FOR YEARS NOW! STAR COMMAND SHOULD BE USING ONE OF THE NEWER MORE EFFICIENT MODELS!"

"Is there a recurring fever innspace we should know about?" Lance whispered to Eugene with the same smirk.

*"What was that?!"* Booster called out from down stairs in the lower deck.

"We'll tell you later! Best not to repeat fate!" XR answered back.

"In the mean time help yourself to whatever's left in the fridge!" Orion added.

***Buuurp!***

*"Already did! Thank you!"* Booster answered back.

"Lightyear! I want you and your team back at HQ pronto!" Commander Nebula ordered Buzz. "We've got secure that outdated junkheap before it levels Star Command with any further damage!"

"You got it Commander." Buzz saluted.

"We'll be there faster than you can say home improvement." Mirra added with her salute.

"Home improve-" Orion almost said.

*'We've arrived at Star Command HQ.'* PRO announced as the floating head quarters came into front view of the ship.

"At least she didn't say Shaggy Dog." Orion muttered a fourth wall break.

Star Command HQ looked like a giant flying saucer, with a large two prong purple antenna on one side, three large green wings on the other side, and the Star Command logo on the outer rim of the structure.

"Wow. Star Command looks so cool." Rapunzel commented as she looked out the window as they got closer to the HQ.

"Prepare for docking." Yozora announced as he got the ship in closer towards the HQ docking station.

They needed to get to the bottom of this outdated droid and fast. Hopefully they'll gain more info on whoever is kidnapped the ten missing Space Rangers.

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Inside Star Command HQ...

Yozora, Orion and Friday along with Rapunzel, Eugene and Lance were following Buzz, Mirra and Booster down on of the halls of Star Command while Rocket, Drax and Groot remained on the ship. Mostly for Rocket to do some tinkering which he requested.

While they were walking Mirra was telling Rapunzel about some of the marketing regarding the floating headquarters.

"What gets me is that the toy model they made for this place is a bath toy. I mean if this place was a submerine or an underwater HQ I'd get that, but if it's meant to float and make one that floats." Mirra chatted on.

"Yeah, right." Rapunzel said in agreement. "If they were going to make a toy model of this place, they should have made one that can hover off the ground, and move left and right, and up and down."

"Yeah? That's actually a common thing. You don't have toys like that on your planet?" Mirra asked.

"Afraid not. Our world hasn't advanced far enough to have invented double A batteries yet, let alone an RC car." Rapunzel admitted to Mirra.

"Dang. I'm guessing it was scary for your first flying on a ship?" Mirra grinned.

"Are you kidding? It was one of the most exciting moments I ever experienced!" Rapunzel beamed with a big smile, before her smile became slightly teasing. "My boyfriend and Lance on the other hand looked like they saw a ghost."

"Ha! It wasn't a ghost we saw! It was our entire life for your information." Lance smugly replied.

As in their lives were flashing before her eyes.

"Lance, Buddy? Do me a favor and let Rapunzel run with the first one next time." Eugene pinched the bridge of his nose.

"So uh, Rapunzel. I heard a rumor that you were locked in a tower for eighteen thousand years before you gained the power of the sun to bust out. Is that true?" Booster asked with a curious and invested mind.

Kinda like a fan boy.

"Well, I already had the power long before I left the tower. It was only after meeting Eugene that I worked up the courage to sneak away." Rapunzel replied to Booster's question.

"Still. How were you able to stay sane after sitting up there for thousands of years?" Booster said, looking concerned.

"Uh, Booster? I was only there for eighteen years." Rapunzel corrected the excited Space Ranger.

"Ooooh! Right. Hehe. I knew that." Booster nervously chuckled.

"Than why did you have me stay up all night working on blueprints for a 'bring-the-thosands-of-your-life-back-inizer'?" XR inquired.

"Oh that wasn't for Rapunzel. That was for...Um...The other princess named uh...Parunzel?" Booster lied.

Rapunzel just giggled, knowing that Booster was trying to lie and save face.

"Well, I'm sure it was a nice gesture." Rapunzel said, giving Booster a light pat on the back.

"Awe. Well. I tried to make everyone's years the best." Booster smiled down at her.

"Don't use his gift yet. I'm still working on making sure it doesn't blow anyone's eyes out." XR whispered up to Rapunzel who shuttered in response.

Just then three LGM walked over to Rapunzel and Orion, while holding a Maverick poster in their hands.

"May we have you and your sister's autograph?" One of the LGM's asked while holding the poster out.

"Auuutograaaph..." The other two responded as they handed Orion a pen.

"Anything for folks who make green an easy color." Orion accepted as he wrote his name on the poster and handded Rapunzel the pen.

"I'd love to." Rapunzel said with a smile before writing her name on the poster. "There you go."

"Thaaaaank yoooou." All three LGM's replied with smiles before walking all.

"I already a poster of me that glows in the dark. Be on the lookout for when your poster's made, Sister." Friday nudged Rapunzel's playfully.

"I'll be sure to keep an eye out for them." Rapunzel said with a wink.

The team went up to a door at the end of the hall. Where Commander Nebula was standing with two Space Ranger law droids floating in between him. Looking serious and ready to arrest the culprit.

"Lightyear. We've overheard about Lady Hellbender putting a bounty for the Guardians here. I'd take it she was pissed over you busting your team out?" Commander Nebula grinned.

"Well that and we had to take one of her monsters down out of self defense." Buzz shrugged with a smirk.

"Hehe. I bet she's singing some new notes." Nebula snickered before he shook Rapunzel's hand "Welcome aboard Star Command HQ, Princess Rapunzel. If we had better circumstances we would've met under political situations."

"The circumstances could have been better, sure. But it's still nice to meet you, nonetheless." Rapunzel said with a polite smile while shaking Commander Nebula's hand.

"Well we're just about ready to bust this outdated traitor. Unfortunately it's taking a long time to hack the locks on the door." Commander Nebula gestured to the door behind him.

"Why not just shoot the door down? I'm sure your insurance covers for it?" Eugene asked.

"Are you off your soda pop, tourist?! Any open fire power on this end could trigger the automatic airlock systems!" Commander Nebula exclaimed at Eugene.

"Yeah, let's not go down that route." Eugene muttered nervously to Lance.

"Yeah, I don't want a repeat of Total Recall." Lance muttered back nervously.

"Haven't you tried bypassing the UHMS matrix and trigger a failsafe ignition protocol within the room's operate security?" Orion asked.

"Not that simple, Sonny. Let the pros take care of this one." XR said confidently ad he cracked his fingers and began to hack the terminal. And he muttered. "Alright let's see. I'll...Bypass the UHMS matrix and triggering a failsafe ignition protocol...and bingo we're in!"

Then the doors slid open. And inside the room was a bunch of computer monitors that resembled security monitors, and an old space fax machine. Not to mention a bunch of empty oil cans. In front of the monitors was a rusted brown droid with the face of a crash test dummy. And it was in a wheel chair. With its neck slanded as the chair had mechanical arms of its own to operate the terminal.

This was the B-56 droid. And it resembled Steven Hawking.

"Ah. That old." Eugene quipped as Pascal look disgusted at the robot.

***'Sending octamean soap bars to kitchen and Sclurf N Turf nuggets to the bathroom storage.'*** The B-56 stated in a blank robotic tone, like Seven Hawkings.

Then the droid turned to see everyone standing there.

***'Greetings. Commander. Rangers and Tourists. How may I h-h-h-h-eelp you?'*** The B-56 droid greeted blankly while short circuiting it's voice slightly.

"Save the formalities for your mother in law at the cellphone shack, Droid! We know it was you that's been sabotaging Star Command!" Commander Nebula snapped as he pointed a finger at the droid.

***'That does not compute.'*** The B-56 Droid responded.

"Give it up, scrapheap." Buzz said warningly, pointing his laser at the droid.

"We know you've been purposely sabotaging Star Command and its operations." Booster said with his own laser pointing at the droid.

"And now we've got some dirt in your eye." Mirra glared with her own laser ready.

"So you can confess with or without your inner wires all over the floor!" XR threatened.

***'Awe snap. Busted. Look, I don't really work here. The droid who did was sent on vacat-cat-cat-cation. He told me to take the job and do-do-do-do it this way. So I would be paid triple in the bulk.'*** The B-56 droid replied.

"Who paid you sabotage us!? Answer me!" Commander Nebula barked out in an order.

***'By the one called Torque.'*** The B-56 answered.

Buzz and his friends groaned in response.

"Ugh not that lame brain again." Mirra exhaled.

"Of all the crooks, it had to be that walking ulcer." Buzz facepalmed himself.

"Couldn't have been some black market intern instead? No? Fine." XR crossed his arms.

"If you're wondering. Torque is on his list of frequent antagonist." Orion whispered to Rapunzel. "The guy's known best for terrorism. Smuggling illegal arsenal. Unpaid parking tickets. Eats bunnies and steals toilet paper from the mens room. Basically anything to make him unlikable."

'Which is impossible considering his played by Brad Garrett' PRO pointed out as he broke the fourth wall.

'Oooh! I liked him in Monk!' PRICE beamed.

"Okay. I can understand him being wanted for terrorism, but stealing toilet paper?" Rapunzel whispered back.

"Well a couple of years back, a rare disease broke out on Planet Covid. Everyone was in lock down at home. They got around into stocking up on supplies and all the stores ran out of toilet paper. Which became a big bracket for online scalpers. Torque, he made thosands in that bracket." Orion whispered back before he whispered to the Readers. "Before I don't get any hate mail. My author's family suffered as well."

"That makes a lot more sense now." Rapunzel said with a nod and narrowed eyes. "But what does he gain from sabotaging Star Command Headquarters?"

"Because Torque was paid by someone else to do it." Booster realized.

"Which means whoever paid Torque also has all the missing Rangers." Buzz narrowed his eyes.

"How much you wanna bet your old itch, Zurg did it?" Yozora figured.

"I would wager all my life savings that that madman is behind all this." Buzz snarled, fury in his eyes.

"As much as this will take an atomic dump into Rocket's ego. I can't help but agree. Most of your other villains isn't that convoluted enough to pull a scheme like this." Orion said in agreement.

"Except for maybe Buzz's evil clone but then again he's almost always involved with Zurg so if it was him. Zurg definitely has to be alive to be involved." XR droned on.

"Alright. I'll make some phone calls and run a trace on where the thugish mustard seed might be." Orion turned to do some typing on his gummiphone.

"Troops! Secure that bot!" Commander ordered the droid cops.

***'You're coming with us'*** one of the droid ranger cops declared as they slapped laser handcuffs on the B-56.

***'I should never had quit singing class.'*** The B-56 sulked.

Then as the cops left to send the droid to the prisoner holding sector. Orion got on read on Torque's location.

"Got a read. He's on Knowhere." Orion revealed.

"You mean he's no where at all?!" Booster gasped.

"No Booster. Knowhere. The giant town spaceport on the edge of the universe." Mirra clarified.

"What kind of place is this 'Knowhere'?" Rapunzel asked.

"I'll tell you on the way." Friday assured. "Just make sure you leave anything small and valuable out of your pockets when we're there."

"Lightyear. Take your team and go with the Guardians to Knowhere. Locate Torque and bring him in for questioning. Also be careful. Lady Hellbender more than likely has hired bounty hunters already there. So try to keep the grease down." Commander ordered and cautioned.

"Yes sir." Buzz said as he and Mirra gave Commander Nebula a respectful salute.

"We won't let you down, sir." Mirra said as the two ended the salute.

On that note. The team left Star Command and went back to the ship to inform the other members of the team about the situation.

Of course Orion knew Rocket would be in denial of Buzz and everyone else's theory.

---

Later on board the Solar Flare...

Everyone including Buzz and his team were seated on the Gummi Ship bridge as Yozora was driving the ship. After hearing about what happened and where they were going. Rocket was exactly responding the way everyone expected.

"Uh uh! No way! I told you all! Zurg is air pudding!" Rocket exclaimed looking around at everyone from his seat.

"I am Groot." Groot responded.

"I know there's no air in space! I was being hypothetical!" Rocket yelled.

"More like pathetical." Friday muttered which made Orion snicker.

"No one else but Zurg would go to great lengths and detail to tare Star Command down." Buzz insisted.

"Who else would it be?" Booster inquired with a shrug.

"You guys are space cops for cryin out loud! You can't have a law abiding system this big without makin so many enemies! This is more than likely some ex employee who wants to get back at everyone." Rocket pointed out.

"Rocket, easy! I think we've all stated our different theories about who's behind this." Rapunzel said, trying to prevent an argument. "But either way, someone is holding these rangers hostage. We have to find them and stop whatever twisted plans have been set in motion."

"Agreed. Whoever we discover will be determine the victor of this argument." Drax declared.

"I can live with that." Rocket shrugged.

"Approaching Knowhere in view now." Yozora announced.

Suddenly the colossal skull shaped world was seen floating over the galactic empty vastness of space. This skull was as big as a planet. Old and ancient but solid for it to be treat for habitation like any planet in the galaxy.

This giant head of a once cosmic celestial being was left out in space. To be used for the purpose of being a world outside of all galactic regulations.

"Oh my... Is that planet a giant skull?" Rapunzel asked with shock and awe.

"Pretty much. Knowhere is the lasting space sport at the edge of this known universe and home to the top black market deals you can find." Orion stated like a commercial announcer.

"And surprisingly good noodles." Friday added with enthusiasm.

"So, it's a well-known place for criminals." Rapunzel muttered.

"Gee sounds like a fun place to visit." Eugene said sarcastically.

"Maybe if we were still criminals." Lance muttered to him with a smirk.

"Oh flark all of you! You know what Black Market means in unregulated space?! Free! As in no red tape! No need for declare commerce or permits to make a quick unit!" Rocket dejected.

"Normally I'd be insulted by anyone spitting in the face of law and order. But the baboon is right." Buzz pointed out. "This sector is outside of every galactic regulation so what they do here isn't illegal."

"Exactly. Wait. What's a baboon?" Rocket inquired.

"Basically you can play cops and robbers in the park but if you play it at the bank you've got ten years." Orion humorously added as they ignored Rocket's question.

"So it's a world where anything goes and everything is allowed." Rapunzel concluded. "I think Jack Sparrow would love this place then."

"Pretty much. So far only law around here are the founders of this place." Rocket stated.

"Who? The current American government?" Eugene snorted.

"No jackass. The Tivan Group. prestigious and notoriously rich powerful group in the criminal underworld of the galactic community. Ran by the one guy who thinks he's almost as rich as Forge here. The Collector." Rocket revealed.

"The Collector? Who's that?" Rapunzel asked.

"It may be a suprise to everyone. But the Collector collects crap for his collection. When he's not running his personal criminal empire. Mostly rare valuables like Mystical gems. Weapons belonging to old school tyrants. And even devices that were famous for almost destroying the galaxy. Or just indangered specimens." Rocket stated.

"Yes. And at the Collector's museum. You can actually see the body of Thanos there on display." Drax revealed.

"Thanos' body is there?!" Rapunzel gasped in shock.

"How the hell would he have gotten his hands on that?!" Eugene asked in shock.

"Here's a better question. Why would anyone want to keep his corpse around?" Lance asked.

"That place is like the Ripley's Believe It Or Not Emporium. I wouldn't be surprised if the body of Kang is in that place. Or at least one of the Kangs." Orion shrugged.

"Thanos' body was smuggled out by some of the Ravagers who came to fight Thanos' army in Wakanda. We let them have the body. Especially since no one is armed enough to steal the body from the Collector and his organized criminal empire." Friday stated.

"Just how strong is this Collector and his forces?" Rapunzel asked.

"He's not Maverick strong. But he is stronger than your local galatic militia. Hell he's has enough to go to the war with the Nova Corp. He'd lose but he'd deliver enough damage before he'd bite the dust." Rocket answered.

"Look, Zel. For now The Collector is not a threat. He's just a glorified comic geek admiring the toys on his shelf. As long as he stays that way. No one's in danger." Orion assured.

"The Collector is no angel. But he helps balance out Knowhere's economy and allows other galactic refugees and outcasts to do business in town." Friday added.

"Do you think he could help us find out who's holding the missing Space Rangers hostage?" Rapunzel asked.

"No. These kinds of activity doesn't gain his attention." Friday answered.

"Basically if he can't cash it and if it doesn't mess with the cash. He don't care." Rocket stated.

"I am Groot." Groot pointed out. Translated: "Cosmo might care."

"Yeah, that boy's too good for the noise outside his window." Orion agreed.

"Who's Cosmo? Someone related to The Collector?" Rapunzel asked.

"Ha! Good one!" Rocket laughed a bit imagining The Collector being related to...Well if you've played the video game and saw the holiday special. You know.

"No. Cosmo is the chief of security around Knowhere. He keeps everything in line. Even if it's a lawless town." Yozora explained.

"If that's the case, would this Cosmo know where we might be able to find Torque?" Rapunzel asked.

"Our point of going here exactly." Yozora grinned as the ship flew further in.

The Solar Flare flew in through the eye of the skull of Knowhere. Rapunzel and Pascal admired the giant drills and advanced industrial work that was going on in the background. Some of the drills were even bigger than the ship. Maybe even bigger than all of Corona.

---

Then as the ship flew across the large buildings under the roof of the skull interior. The city of Knowhere itself. All looking like piles of metal cubes in different colors fused together with neon and holographic signs and billboards.

"What you're looking from those grills the mining colony of the Tivan Group. Hundreds of years ago. They sent workers to mine the organic matter within the skull." Friday revealed.

"Ew I know. But it makes sense." Mirra added with a little teenage wit.

"Also this entire skull used to belong to an ancient celestial being." Booster revealed.

"A celestial being? You mean some kind of god?" Rapunzel asked with slight awe.

Orion made an O with his hand in parenthesis.

"Smaller 'G', Zel. The Celestials are the oldest race in the universe. They were around long before the creation of any universe. Some people called them God's cosmic employees. Cosmic entities with vastly powerful matter and energy manipulation far beyond anything we can think of. But Celestials can die much easier than gods. In fact many say this old bag was killed by a god." Orion explained.

"Woah..." Rapunzel muttered in awe. "It still baffles me something that big was alive at one point. Have there been celestials that were even bigger?"

"Goldie. Any bigger than this could probably blow our eye sockets just to look in." Rocket remarked.

"Yeah but you gotta wondered what kinda person found this skull and was like 'Oh Look. The severed head of a giant celestial being. Let's drill holes into it and live inside. I'll build a hotel where the dendrite spines used to live'? Wierdos." XR chatted.

"They wanted the brain tissue. And spinal fluid. And the bone. Very rare, very valuable. The market place and city came way after. Along with noodles." Mirra said while waving her hand nonchalantly.

"So basically, Zel. We're standing in space California. We're every thug, crook and homeless fish in the galaxy can start business. And where tourists can say 'oooh look at that' while losing their wallets. So whatever you do. Leave everything small valuable in the ship because even the kids are better pick pock experts than Sly Cooper." Orion told Zel and advised everyone.

"Who's Sly Cooper?" Rocket inquired.

"You're possible paternal grandpa." Orion answered.

"You do seem to know quite a bit about this place." Rapunzel said, having a slightly suspicious look and a smirk. "Have you been here before?"

Orion gave Rapunzel a one eyebrow look. "Yeah Zel. I came here to sell babies. Eat kittens and talk about how fat everyone's mom is." He said sarcastically.

"My mother was a very heavy woman." Drax commented.

"Mine too." Booster beamed.

"Everyone's heavy in your world." XR deadpanned.

"Actually Spike and I originally came here because we had to split the Infinity Stones in six different locations." Orion explained why he was really there.

"We gave the reality stone to the Collector. The Space Stone to Asgard. The Power Stone to Nova Prime. Doctor Strange already had the Time Stone. We gave the Soul Stone to Zeus." Yozora listed.

"While I hold on to the Mind Stone." Orion stated.

"You're holding on to the mind stone? Why?" Rapunzel asked.

"The Avengers gave it to me. At least until 'experts from SWORD' find a way to fix vision. But after that story I told you about West View and how the Scarlet Witch went bad shit crazy afterwards. Attacking Kamar-Taj and trying to use the Darkhold to find variants of her sons." Orion reminded Rapunzel.

'Exposition~ Exposition~ Punch it out A.S.A.P~' PRO and TEC sang to the tune of Ol To Joy.

"Oh blow it out you're ears, Apple and Microsoft!" Orion responded to them.

'We don't have ears.' PRO deadpanned.

"Long story short. I'm holding on to the stone until the Avengers find Vision. Or rather White Vision." Orion explained and looked to the Readers. "If you've seen the show Wandavision and the film Multiverse Of Madness. You know what I'm talking about."

"Well, hopefully, they'll be able to find Vision and bring him home." Rapunzel said before a thought came to her. "But if he is operating on his own and has his memories back, why would he still need the Mind stone?"

"The stone is technically his other half. Bruce and Tony believes that if the Stone is somehow restored to Vision. He could gain back his personality and feelings towards Wanda and probably help us find her." Orion explained.

"Didn't you tell us that Darkhold temple rained down on her?" Rocket inquired.

"Only because she caused it to fall. I didn't find a body when I went back. So she's definitely out there." Orion answered and broke the fourth wall. "And more than likely setting up a plot for a future chapter."

"Alright whatever keeps the lights on for...that." Rocket shrugged.

"Alright everyone where's landing now." Yozora announced as she ship parked at the docking station.

"I'll head down to streets to keep an eye out for Torque. Booster. Mirra and XR are with me." Buzz stated as he unstrapped and stood up from his seat.

"You're with me and Friday. We'll head down to Cosmo's place to see if he has any info." Orion stated.

"I'll search the rootops." Yozora declared as he shifted into Verum Rex and walked out.

"Groot and I will be searching Mantlo's Bar. And latter the mods shop. Just to see if Terk stopped for a drink and bought the latest code breakers on sale." Rocket announced as he rubbed his hands in excitement.

"I am Groot." Groot corrected that his name is Torque not Terk.

"Meh. Whatever." Rocket shrugged.

"I will accompany you both." Drax said as he stood up looking at Orion. Friday and Rapunzel. While Pascal cralwed up Rapunzel's shoulder.

"Kay. Glad you all have plans. It's good to have em. What about us?!" Eugene exclaimed.

"I don't know. Stick around us maybe?" Friday shrugged teasingly.

"You two can be our tour bus. Fitz sits at the back instead of Strongbow, so I won't be accused of Red on Black crime." Orion quipped as they were walking out together.

"Oh, Ryan." Rapunzel said with a smirk and eyeroll before getting serious. "Alright everyone. Let's get this done."

Once everyone exited the ship. Everyone stepped down from the exit hatch and down the steps. Buzz. Booster. Mirra and XR went down in one direction while Verum Rex went down another. Rocket and Groot went straight ahead while Orion lead his group of the team.

Rapunzel looked around seeing all of the spot lights over all the other ships. And saw all of the Knowhere security guards walking around. The guards were wearing black metallic torso armor and yellow fabrics around their limbs. Black gloves, matching boots and white helmets which hover their mild horse like faces and their elf like ears. The Princess even saw the steam coming out from around the station and Pascal changed dramatically to look like the colors of the guards. Which made Rapunzel giggle a bit at him. Eugene and Lance was fascinated as well.

"I don't think we're in Corona any more." Eugene remarked as they were walking.

Rapunzel saw the different species of aliens walking around and chatting. Some of their features that most humans would call ugly actually fascinated her. Aliens with feathers and beaks. Aliens with Antlers and hoves. Some with two heads. The Princess felt like she was walking around in a Star Wars film.

"It's best not to stare." Friday whispered as she noticed Rapunzel, Eugene and Lance staring at the locals.

"Right. Sorry." Rapunzel said, looking forward as they continued on their way.

"I'm pretty sure these whateverians would more than likely get the same stares if one of them stepped down in our planet." Eugene pointed out.

"We used to get the same stares back during our first visit to Vardaros." Lance smugly reminded.

"Only from folks who didn't know we were single." Eugene hissed.

"I'm still single." Lance argued humorously.

Just then they went up to a security gate. With a neon sign that read *'Welcome to Knowhere.'*

"If you're wondering why that's in English. We casted a spell on all Guardians members to read and translate all languages, as if it's all in English." Friday explained. "Anyone who joins the team gains this ability."

"Really? That's amazing." Rapunzel said excitedly.

"Yeah, it definitely beats having to put all the effort into learning a new language." Eugene said with a smirk.

"And perfect timing too. I still don't know how to say Taco in Spanish." Lance said.

"How do we find this Cosmo?" Drax asked Orion.

"We head to his tower on the far side of the market." Orion pointed to a giant tower with a spinning globe structure straight ahead.

"That's where he keeps an eye on everything." Friday added.

"Excuse me. We need to speak with Cosmo. Is he at the tower?" Orion asked one of the guards standing at their post.

"Should be. You know the way? Head straight through the market. It's down this elevator. Can't miss it." The guard answered in his very deep metallic voice.

"Alright. Thanks." Orion responded as he gestured the team to come on over and he activated the panel on the elevator.

Which was a circular platform in the middle of the entry station. It began to lower down while showing a glass window of the streets of the city. And building structures that look like a colorful version of Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro.

"One of the things that make Knowhere acceptable is that every kind of alien race is allowed to walk around this town looking like anything and everything. Out here, prejudice isn't real." Friday pointed out.

"It's why no one noticed your boots went missing. They'll assume they're in town looking for the local strip club." Orion teased while pointed down to Rapunzel's bare feet.

"Oh sure. Just because I prefer to be barefoot automatically means I'm looking for a place to take off all my clothes and dance naked." Rapunzel said sarcastically with an eye roll and smirk. "Do you actually know any girls who do that?"

"Meh. Me and Ryan met a few. Three of the ones who were at our wedding probably are still here." Friday shrugged with a smirk. Referring to their past threesomes.

"Ironic that the kids lost their virginity before we adults did. Caligula's probably rolling in his grave right now." Eugene quipped.

"Don't worry, I'm sure it'll happen eventually." Rapunzel said, giving her boyfriend a wink.

"Don't toy with my inner manchild, Blondie." Eugene responded with a blush.

"Who said I was?" Rapunzel smirked with a suggestive sway of her hips as she stood on tip toes of her bare feet.

"Lord or whatever runs this place, give me strength." Eugene squeaked quietly.

Then the elevator stopped down at the bottom where strait ahead was a crowded market area. Full of stalls and venders with hologram signs. Selling all kinds of items and souvenirs. Most of them were useless for them but probably useful for others.

"Here we go. Keep on eye om your things. These kooks are a bit 'hands-on' if you know what I mean." Orion advised as he lead them across the market.

Rapunzel accidentally pumped into a blue alien with horns.

"Pardon me." The alien responded.

"It's alright." Rapunzel assured as she kept up.

Eugene accidentally pumped into a floating orb droid made of glass like a bubble with gears inside.

***'Hey. Watch it, Twerp.'*** The robot said in a metallic blank tone.

"How?" Eugene inquired as they walked by.

They saw a vendor with a bunch of hollow images and a pink squid waving his tentacles in the middle of it all. The squid had many eyes as it was chanting someone's fortune. This was one of the fortune tellers.

"I had my fortune told by this lady once. She said my life would become like a cosmic storm." Orion pointed out as they walked by.

"Well, whoever that lady was, she wasn't wrong." Rapunzel said with a smirk.

"She left out the part about me being super rich and able to cook one hell of a chimichanga." Orion shrugged.

"Friday! HEEEY FRIDAY!" They heard a girlish sqeale and looked over to see where it came from.

The group saw a girl in a green and black outfit jumping and waving at them. She wore a skintight black and green suit that covered her from her neck to her ankles. And she wore knee high boots. And the girl had pink skin with black raven hair down her back. She had two antannas standing up from her head like hair strands or tentacles. And her eyes were green like marbles without pupils. In spite of her looks she was very pretty. And she had history with Friday and Orion.

"Mantis?!" Friday gasped lightly with a smile

"Well I'll be go to hell! Come here you!" Orion called over.

"Eak!" Mantis squeaked as she ran over and hugged both Orion and Friday as they hugged back.

"Oh it's so good to see you." Friday gushed and inquired. "Ran away from the priests again?"

"Nah. They're some where in the crowd. Still having those midnight circle jerks, Ryan?" Mantis asked Orion with a sweet innocent-like tone.

"Ahchem..No. My wife uh..." Orion srammered and cleared his throat as he muttered. "Friday filled in that area for me."

"Not every midnight." Friday hissed quietly as she blushed a bit.

"Guys this is Mantis. The Priestess of Pama from Lamentis. She was the one we stood before at our wedding." Orion said to Rapunzel, Eugene and Lance as he introduced Mantis to them.

"Hi there. I'm Ryan's sister, Rapunzel. And this is my boyfriend, Eugene, and our good friend, Lance." Rapunzel introduced herself and the two boys.

"Hey. Nice to meet another intergalactic friend of nightlight bug zapper here." Eugene said with a joking tone.

"It seems like you three have some interesting history going on, huh?" Lance said with a smirk.

"Oh no. No where near as our other possibility." Mantis chimed and giggled a bit before she looked at Rapunzel. "Did you say Rapunzel? As in Princess Rapunzel or Maveress Rapunzel?"

"MAVERESS?!" Eugene gawked im shock.

"Oh I can see the alternate realities of everyone I meet. It's part of my priestly celestial abilities." Mantis emphasized as she enthusiastically flexed her arms and mocked a deep voice with those last words.

"That's quite the ability you have there. And it's just Princess Rapunzel. Although I would love to meet Maveress Rapunzel someday." Rapunzel said before turning to the gawking Eugene. "Turns out, when Ryan was helping Doctor Strange with something, they met a girl who could travel to other Multiverses. And they ended up in one where they met a version of me that actually became the Maverick."

"What in the- you're other you is a- HOW AM I NOW HEARING THIS?!" Eugene exclaimed causing a lot of aliens to look towards him and he looked around. "WHAT?!"

Then all the other aliens looked away resuming their business.

"I would've told you but you're scared of horror films let alone horror stories." Orion remarked.

"It happened during a horror story." Friday explained.

"And it made one hell of a split box office hit." Orion broke the fourth wall.

"Are you kidding me? Please, I can handle any scary horror stories thrown my way." Eugene said with his arms crossed, wearing a confident smirk and eyes closed.

"Ki Ki Ki Ma Ma Ma..." Lance whispered in his ear with an echo.

"AHHH!" Eugene screamed and recoiled from Lance, turning towards him quickly but landing on his ass.

"I suppose Friday the 13th doesn't scare you either?" Lance asked with an amused smirk.

"Grrrh! I'm gotta find the next humanoid spider and hire him to surprise you tomorrow morning." Eugene grumbled as he stood up.

"Why would a Earth based day and date scare him?" Drax asked Orion.

"It's the name of a violent movie. I'll show you later." Orion answered.

"Intriguing. I do adore violence and the art of it." Drax smiled a bit.

"Hi. I don't know if we met yet. I'm-" Mantis started talking to Drax before her eyes and the tips of her antenna started to glow green and she walked right up to Drax. "Oh no... No, no, no! That's not-! Oh, you poor-"

"Oh my gosh." Rapunzel said with with a concerned look.

"Ok, things just got a bit weird." Eugene said weirded out by the sudden turn of events.

"Really, it only just got weird now?" Lance joked, even as he too was weirded out.

"No! He's lying! I mean- Oh, flark..." Mantis said in her trance before leaning towards Drax and whispering in his ear. "Where the Cotab take root, the broken promise of home will be mended."

Mantis took a step back.

"Remember." Mantis said before her eyes and antenna stopped glowing, looking to be coming out of her daze.

"Mantis? You okay?" Friday asked, putting a hand on Mantis' shoulder, snapping Mantis out of it and making her look towards Friday with a smile.

"Oh hey, Friday! You look less stressed!" Mantis exclaimed happily.

"Thanks..." Friday said with an awkward smile.

"Don't worry. It's always weird the first time." Orion whispered to Drax.

"Uh, Ryan? What just happened?" Rapunzel asked, concerned and also confused.

"That is a future deus ex machina right there. Hints for a later plot in this story. Basically she saw a future possibility for Mr Clean here." Orion broke the fourth wall before he gave Rapunzel his straight answer.

"So, she can see a person's possible future?" Rapunzel asked with slight awe. "That's pretty cool."

"Oh thanks! Yeah sure it's cool. but it's a major headache for most people. They don't have a mind built like my kind though." Mantis piped.

"Celestial Madonna!" The group hears someone call out to Mantis.

"Flark." Mantis groaned before she turned to see two old, bald, pink skin men with beards and wearing strange white loopy robes. These two were the priests of Pama.

"Hi guys!" Mantis greeted them with a strained cheerful tone.

"You should not be... In this place..." The first priest said with a serious look.

"Actually, I'm exactly where I need to be... I think." Mantis said with slight hesitation at the end after looking at the guardians. "No. Yes. This is where I need to be. Or needed to be? Am needed. Yes. Wait. Why are you here?"

"You cannot keep leaving the sanctuary. It's not safe. There are... Rumblings in the galaxy." The first priest said with a concerned look.

"When aren't there "rumblings in the galaxy"?" Mantis said with a laugh, which earned an annoyed, serious look from the first priest. "Okay. If you're gonna keep making that face..."

Mantis then turned back to the group and pulled Orion and Friday into a group hug.

"It was nice seeing you two again, Orion and Friday." Mantis said before ending the hug before addressing Rapunzel, Eugene, Lance and Drax. "Your highness. Your Jeans. Vance. Green meanie. Kay, bye!"

Mantis ran off with the two priests following after, missing the gawking offended looks of Eugene and Lance and the giggling of Rapunzel.

"I like her." Rapunzel chirped.

'Before you ask. No. She's not one of the ladies Mav had a threesome with.' PRO deadpanned.

'You can see why.' TEC mused.

"So, Drax, are you disturbed in any way by whatever she did?" Eugene said after he cleared his throat to change the subject.

"I am unphased by the psychic's prediction nor do I understand what she saw." Drax said as they continued walking.

"I thought she was very nice." Rapunzel said with a small smile.

"Oh sure. Even if there's a bag full of cats under the straight stims." Eugene jested.

"Mantis is kinda like Michael Stuhlbarg's character from Men In Black 3. Except she's a little more stable, or at least by this universe's definition. And she's an empath." Orion explained.

"What's an empath?" Rapunzel asked.

"She's like a telepath, but instead of reading and controlling other people's thought. Mantis can read and control other people's emotions." Friday explained.

"Kay that's pretty cool." Rapunzel said.

"Pfft! You don't need that to change someone's feelings. You need only need one of the three things. Drugs. Tragedy. Or women." Eugene jested.

"And money." Orion shrugged.

"Luckily I got the latter." Eugene mused.

"I didn't know you were rich, Eugene." Rapunzel teased referring to what Orion said.

"I meant the elephant in the room as in you. The lady. My lady." Eugene deadpanned looking exasperated.

"Oh, you think I'm an elephant?" Rapunzel said with false anger while trying not to smirk and ruin the facade.

"What no I-" Eugene almost said.

"You clearly called her an elephant when clearly she is not." Drax pointed out in literal terms.

"Come on work with me, Blondie!" Eugene exclaimed in frustration.

Rapunzel couldn't hold it in anymore and broke into a fit of laughter.

"It's okay, Eugene. I was only kidding." Rapunzel laughed.

---

As Eugene facepalmed himself. The group came up to a red asteroid looking building that resembles a bar pub. Which it actually was. The neon sign near the entrance read 'Mantlo's Bar'. And Rocket was seen from the side window talking to another alien while enjoying a drink. Along with Groot who waved at the group before he went back to his drink. Rocket noticed them and made a what's up gesture.

"Is that Rocket over there?" Rapunzel asked curiously.

"Yeah I'd figure he'd there. The guy's got kidneys probably made of titanium because no furry can drink as much as him and live." Orion stated humorously.

"Rocket prefers to go to Mantlo's whenever he's on Knowhere. He's said it makes him feel safe to socialize and stretch his 'bullet haze', whatever that means." Friday shrugged.

"Well, I'm glad he at least has some places that make him happy." Rapunzel said with a sheepish smile. "Just hope he doesn't get into any trouble."

"Zel. That's the only place he won't get into trouble. That pub is like the Snuggly Duckling to him. If it was Solomon's Temple. Which is why it's best we don't bother him. 'Priests of Ammo' only he says." Orion remarked as they walked by.

"Well, then let's continue our search for Cosmo." Rapunzel said as they continued walking.

"It's not really a search. We know where he is. At his tower." Drax responded.

"It's just a figure of speech, Drax." Friday said.

*"Moonballs! Get your moonballs here folks!"*

They walked by someone vender selling what looked like glowing colorful pastry balls. They all were three round pastries on individual sticks and in different colors. All glowing and in perfect patterns.

Rapunzel's smelled a wiff of that stuff and she immediately loved it.

"Oh my... It smells just like ice cream and donuts. Could I get some?" Rapunzel asked her brother with big eyes.

"The one pair of pearls my healing factor has no effect one." Orion remarked as he went up to the vender and laid his unit card on the counter.

The vender looked like a humanoid bird with a hairnet and green feathers. In fact he looled more like an alien ostrich.

"I'll have two of the sour vortexs." Orion ordered two for himself and two for Drax. "Also two cherry comets for the big guy."

"And I'll have one cosmic crystal and one milky way. Zel, Eugene, Lance. Order which colors you want. He'll know which to give you." Friday ordered and let's Rapunzel take her turn on which two moonball sticks she'll want.

"Okay." Rapunzel said with a giddy feeling as she looked at her options. "I think I'll go with one pink and one blue."

"I think I'll have a blue and a green." Eugene ordered his.

"I'll have the same thing as him." Lance said, pointing at Eugene.

"Also if you can send two cases of the same flavors over to my ship at docking station 39-C. I'd really appreciate it. And I'll pay full price." Orion added.

"Coming right up." The vender answered casually as he bent over to pick out everyone's flavors they asked for.

"So, what new? By that I mean the latest gossip." Orion asked as he waited.

"Did you hear about Seknarf-9? Some freaks in metallic suits busted into the Monster Queen's fortress and slayed one of her pets." The vender answered what he's been hearing.

"You don't say?" Orion responded while sounding interested as he shared a look with the others.

"I've heard she put up a substantial bounty for their capture too." The vender stated.

"Almost all the crazy ass psychos wear can opener tights these days. Anything specific about them? We're they with anyone?" Orion asked casually as he wanted to make sure Rapunzel and the others weren't on the hunt like the Maverick. Shift and Verum Rex."

"No. They asked but from what everyone's been saying. The Monster Queen is only interested in collecting the heads of these armored freaks.

Much to their relief. It was good to know that Lady Hellbender is true to her nature. She may want revenge. But she's only after the bigger game.

Orion's ability to read people's hearts let him know this guy was telling the truth.

"Alright. Here you go." The vender handed out everyone's moonballs.

"Thank you, sir." Rapunzel said before taking a bite out of her treat, instantly humming in delight. "Oh my God, this is so good!"

Eugene and Lance studied their snacks before taking a bite as well, their reactions being similar to Rapunzel.

"Wow. This is incredible. First time eating food from another world and it's pretty good." Eugene said before taking another bite.

"I know right? I was actually worried our first time eating something on a new world wouldn't have turned out as well as this." Lance commented as he ate his snack.

"Like what? Growing a second head?" Orion snorted. "Or boobs?"

Some of them laughed while Drax was in deep throught as he was holding his snack. And he turned to the group.

"Excuse me everyone. I have other matters to attend to." Drax said before he started to walk away.

"Is something wrong?" Rapunzel asked out of concern.

"It is not your business, Princess. Do not wait for me." Drax said calmly before he walked away.

Rapunzel was surprised and rather recoiled from the tone Drax had before he walked away.

"The heck was that about?" Eugene inquired.

Just then a big muscular red guy in a gray with a bald winkled head and sideburns bumped into Eugene's side before walking off.

"Watch it, Skiny Tarren." The big red guy spat as he walked away.

"You watch it, blood clot!" Eugene said back.

Can you believe that guy?" Orion snorted while turning to Friday. Only to see just some random alien with antlers standing there with no response but a squall in his voice. Orion looked around and noticed Friday wasn't there with them. She must've slipped away. "And my wife is awol too. Well jokes on her cause the kids are still with me at least."

He was referring to Rapunzel. Eugene and Lance. Still this wasn't the first time Friday disappeared in the streets. She often does this when she thinks she found a lead on something they're looking for or if they're being followed. Orion assumed the former.

"Wherever both Drax and Friday went to, I hope they're okay." Rapunzel said with a worried look.

"Friday's fine, she tends to disappear more than Will Smith's relationship status. She's all about two things. Thunder and the art of stealth." Orion stated as he continued walking and they followed him.

"Yeah, you're right. Nothing could keep Thunder sis down." Rapunzel said with a smirk before it fell. "What about Drax, though?"

"That I'm not sure. For an illiterate literal. He's hard to read even with a blue pin." Orion admitted.

As they were walking. They walked past a bunch of other venders. Advertising signs. Tourist sights. Even slot machines.

*"Lottery ticket! Get your lottery tickets! You can't win if you don't play!"* A robotic holographic face from a white projector with digital lottery tickets on display said as they walked by.

"Same goes for losing." Orion muttered.

"Question. How often does the streets get violent?" Eugene inquired as he noticed a line for a Vanir Troll fight match.

"Are we talking 9/11 violent or meter maid violent?" Orion asked for specifics.

"Either of those. Whatever those are." Lance enthusiastically asked.

"Not very often. For a lawless town. People are too scared to piss off Cosmo's guards. Especially with his extreme mind bending abilities." Orion answered as they walked.

"Sounds quite intimidating. What are he and his guards like?" Rapunzel asked.

"You saw his guards at the engry gate. In fact they're the ones patrolling like less dramatic Roman troops." Orion gestured at the guards patrolling the streets. "Don't ask what's other the masks. They could all look like Don Knotts."

"I'll remember not to ask." Rapunzel muttered in agreement. "And what about this Cosmo?"

"You'll see soon enough." Orion assured.

---

Just then they past by a giant crystallize tree. Called Yggdrasill. The World Tree. Or at least that's what the sign said. The guardian of wisdom and fate.

"Pfft! What a glorified outsourced knock off." Orion snorted at the World Tree.

"What do you mean?" Rapunzel asked, gesturing to the tree. "What is this, anyway?"

"That is a fake tourist attraction. The real Yggdrasill is what Thor's folk and the Vikings called the Nine Realms all together in a cosmic tree-like freeway. Asgard. Alfheim. Vannaheim. Asgard. Midgard as in Earth. And the other four I'm missing." Orion explained.

"Wow. That's pretty cool." Rapunzel said.

"Yeah but it's pretty common for something big. The World Tree can only take you to nine different realms and Knowhere's not one of them." Orion clarified.

'but Somewhere is one of them!' TEC jested.

'Don't get bitch slapped.' PRO deadpanned.

Just then they walked by a balcony setting of the best tourist attractions of all of Knowhere. The Rift. A large void of white and silver cosmic nothing. In perfect view for everyone to see.

The edge of everything in this universe and possibly all the Multiverse. A place where you could get lost staring at the infinite light year miles of total oblivion. It's 'nothing' at its best.

"Ah. Now there is a real sight to see. The Rift. What you're looking at there. Is the edge of everything." Orion stated as he gestured towards the Rift.

"Woah! That looks so... It looks like it could go on forever." Rapunzel said in awe.

"And yet there's nothing else out there. But just an endless fall. I never tried to fly through there. I'm too scared shitless to see what happens. I could end up losing my directions after I go a mile. Or worse, I could end up in Jimmy Carter's house and have his monkey lips on mine ." Orion shuttered in response.

"Couldn't you just send one of your flying camera drones out to check for you?" Rapunzel suggested.

"I did. I lost the signal immediately. I'm still working on building a drone that'll handle the cosmic shift through the rift. But it'll take just a little more time to finish." Orion stated.

Just then Lance got excited seeing something around the corner.

"Hey Eugene, Eugene! They got one of those metal container games with a hanging claw and prizes at the bottom!" Lance pointed over.

"You mean a claw machine? Yeah see em. Not interested in a plush space squid." Eugene waved it off.

"They don't just have those, Monfrere. But also exclusive prizes. Like a golden comb." Lance revealed enthusiastically.

"What?! Sorry. Blondie one sec I gotta see this!" Eugene's eyes lot up as he ran with Lance.

"Hear. Go crazy. Not my kind of crazy." Orion tossed a bag of units their way and Eugene caught it.

"Don't wait up for us!" Lance yelled.

"Only a little! As in not at all!" Eugene exclaimed as they ran off.

Orion shook his head in amusement.

"Zel? Your man's a few tacos short of a combo platter." Orion remarked.

"That's okay. It's just part of his charm." Rapunzel said with a giggle and eyeroll. "He really loves his comb collection."

Just then Rapunzel looked over at the left end of the balcony railings and saw Drax leaning against it as he was currently looking out among the Rift. As if he was lost.

"Hey, look. It's Drax." Rapunzel said as she noticed him. "What's he doing?"

"Either he's admiring the view or reflecting on some past plot points. Or both." Orion shrugged as he walked over

Orion leaned against the rails on the left side of Drax while Rapunzel came over to the right. Drax wasn't bothered by them there. Because the view took away all the bother of distractions.

"Hey, Drax. Are you okay?" Rapunzel asked softly, looking up at him as he gazed out into the endless void in front of them.

Drax didn't refuse to answer but spoke directly as he faced the Rift.

"Do you believe that this is the edge of the universe, Princess Rapunzel?" Drax spoke in a soft tone.

"That's a good question." Rapunzel said as she thought about her answer while looking towards the Rift. "It just might be. But then again, there is so much that is unknown, especially to me."

"Have you ever had one of those urges to fly right through?" Orion asked Drax.

"I do not know. I lack the appropriate appendages for flight." Drax admitted.

"Well I don't mean just this. I mean... Other times. You're staring at the sky. Or...The ocean. Or the open road leading towards the sunset over who knows what out there. Or maybe just a cliff. Did you ever had the sudden urge to just..." Orion said as he made a whoosh noise with his hand mimicking speeding off into the air. "Just whatever you can do to get away from it all?"

Orion was referring to the times he used to have suicidal urges. Back when he was a sick patient. Or an orphan on an island missing his family.

"That would be foolhardy." Drax answered camly.

"Yeah that's...why you actually don't do it...But a part of you still wants to." Orion explained as he was staring off into the Rift.

"Did you, ever have urges like that?" Rapunzel asked Orion with concern.

"Many times. And my variant Lash did too, but…..My days of wanting to end it all happened when I was a young stranded alien on an island. Wanting to jump in the water...cause everyone else was down there." Orion explained in somewhat of a gloomy tone as he shrugged a bit. "Not to mention those days when I would wake up with a new disease only to be vaccinated and hope it would never come back. Only for something new and worse to come up much sooner than before. It felt like it would be quieter to stop the show than to wait for the painful noise at the end of the tape."

"Oh, Ryan." Rapunzel breathed at this with a sad look, as she was concerned for her brother.

"So yeah. My rare swiss army disease was a shit show. Like, Yakoff Smirnoff opening for the Spin Doctors at the Iowa State Fair, shit show." Orion expressed with his witts. "But like all shows they all have final seasons. My life finally began after that one got canceled."

"I am uncertain of what most of what you say means. But it favors you greatly that you did not end your life. No one should die without meaning, Orion Forge." Drax stated before he looked out. "My wife, Hovat, and my daughter Kamaria...They both died without meaning."

"Drax..." Rapunzel said with remorse in her voice and expression.

"I think I know what you mean, Man. When my Mom and Dad...Trish...The Dark Mongers attacked our ship...They also died for no reason." Orion understood as he was looking out. "At least...Not for a good one. I'll never agree that it was good for them, to be torn apart like that. But at least they're in a better place. Right?"

Granted Lash had them killed because he was desperate to stop a dark future. But it wasn't the only way. Orion always believed that. He understood why. But he'll never agree that it was the only way. Regardless of any small or large amount of evidence.

"In Katathian religion, we believe that in order to reach the rich afterlife of Ultath, one must live a life filled with purpose. Failure to do so results in banishment to the eternal barren lands of Sarduth." Drax said before he closed his eyes. "My family. Was cast out of paradise."

"You think your family might be beyond this rift?" Rapunzel guessed.

"Yes. I come here to feel close to them. Speak to them. Perhaps you think that sounds foolish." Drax said as he was looking at it. And he felt a little ashamed to be seen as vulnerable.

"No. I don't think that's foolish at all. I think it's kind of sweet that you do this to try to be close to them." Rapunzel said softly as she gave him a small reassuring smile. "I don't know if your family really is beyond this rift. But wherever they are, I'm sure they found their paradise, and that they're looking forward to seeing you again after you've lived your purposeful life."

"Perhaps..." Drax with a nod.

Then Orion thought of something concerning the afterlife.

"Back on earth we have like twelve different major religions. Some of them are very obnoxious and inconsistent. But...A lot of them believe that good people go to Heaven when they die. And they get to reunite with their lost loved ones in an endless paradise." Orion stated.

"This Heaven sounds pleasant." Drax gave Orion a small sad smile.

"Yeah it does. Thinking of my folks up there with Trish giving them a hard time. It got me halfway through the war with Syndicate XIII." Orion admitted as he looked out. "That and I hate for Lash, for everything he put me through."

"Ah. You desired revenge." Drax guessed as he kind of admired that.

Orion sighed as he looked down for a second and looked back out.

"I guess I did." Orion admitted in a whisper.

He remembered how close he came to killing Lash. Especially how close he came to killing Ajax for what he turned Orion into.

"When Ronin murdered my family. For a long time, I believed that they're wasted lives would be redeemed if I took revenge on him. But...after hearing rumors that he still lives. I'm not sure." Drax said as he was looking down.

"But you did kill Ronin, right?" Rapunzel asked. "I mean, I can't imagine anyone could walk away with their lives if Drax the Destroyer was set on taking them down."

Drax looked at her briefly before he sighed looking out.

"In all I heart I believe. I want to. Perhaps I agreed to join the team to be sure...Or maybe I worry if it wasn't enough. Either way the rumors may be indecisive. But as long as Ronin isn't striking terror around the universe. It'll have to be enough." Drax wondered as he placed his hands on the rails.

"Well, I think your family has long since been redeemed." Rapunzel said as she put her hand on top of his. "And not just because of vengeance against Ronin. But because of all the good you've done and will do on the team."

Drax thought of what Rapunzel said. And had no reason to doubt. But there were some buried feelings he wanted to release. And he wanted to speak to his family in order to do so.

"If you do not mind, Princess. I would like to be alone now." Drax requested.

Rapunzel gave him a warm smile. "Of course, Big Guy." She gently patted his shoulder as she and Orion turned to leave.

"You know where to find us." Orion assured.

And as they were walking away. Drax looked back to them.

"Orion Forge." Drax called to get his attention.

"Yeah?" Orion looked back.

"I hope your parents. And your sister found their way in Heaven." Drax said out of respect and sympathy.

Orion smiled and nodded before he turned to walk off with Rapunzel. That conversation may have been a little painful to do. But it was needed. And in the end it felt good.

Orion rarely talked about his family in his younger days. Especially since Rapunzel had to keep her knowledge of knowing it all a secret. But Orion soon found peace through it all. Not just from all of the good he's done and the people he's saved. But because of Rapunzel. The Princess who helped fill his empty void by being his sister. Especially his wife Friday. The woman who was there for him from the start.

So far family is the reason Orion continued living. He only hopes that Drax will have the same comfort soon.

---

"Whew. I could go for a drink right now." Orion exhaled. "Something to wash and burn the angst away."

"I think I might have a double of what you're having." Rapunzel said with a slightly joking tone.

"That depends. What was the strongest drink you've ever had? And how often did you puke?" Orion quizzed her.

"I think it was this nice sweet wine I tried during a toast back at the palace." Rapunzel said in thought with a blush formed on her cheeks. "I drank a whole bottle. Eugene said I was a bit tipsy that night and when he and Cassandra helped me to my room, I apparently started doing a... Strip tease."

"The ***k?!" Orion gawked as he looked at Rapunzel in shock. "Were you disrobing yourself during a banquet or as you were leaving it?"

"It was after they helped me to my room! Apparently when I started stripping, Eugene and Cassandra immediately left my room, leaving me alone after taking any sharp objects I had with them." Rapunzel explained while her blush got even darker. "And... By the time I calmed down, Eugene came back to help me to bed. But before that... I was completely naked... Giving a painting of him a lap dance."

"Woah. Load the fan ink and ready yourself, Deviantart." Orion said to the readers with a look of awe before he looked at Rapunzel. "I'm just glad I didn't fly to your windows at the time. Folks would've thought I was Caligula under the mask."

"Yeah, I think I would have died of embarrassment if that happened." Rapunzel said as her blush started to fade. "Thinking back, I think this was actually before we met. Before I got my long hair back."

"Yeah, well remind me to use the knockout gas if you ever get slammered again. You can borrow my straight jacket in my closet if you ever feel the urge to present your birthday suit." Orion quipped as they were walking.

Just then Eugene and Lance walked back over to them with a few prizes.

"Hey, Cosmic Sibs. Did I miss anything?" Eugene greeted as he was combing his hair with the new golden hair comb he won over at the crane machine.

"Nothing a bottle of jagermeister and therapy won't solve." Orion remarked.

"So. What did you both get?" Rapunzel asked while optimistically trying to change the subject with a toothy nervous smile.

"Ah well after we got Eugene's prize comb. I got myself this new prized watch. Took me several tries though." Lance said as he held his wrist out to show his new watch.

The had a digital screen with several holograms displaying out of it. As well as a shining silver metallic base with a black leather straps and lights on the ends as well. It definitely fits the tone of space.

"Oooh, that looks so futuristic." Rapunzel said in awe, looking at the watch. "Does it do more than just tell you the time?"

"Pfft. Sure! Lot's of futuristic sci-fi and stuff. That I can't wait to show you all after I..." Lance muttered the last few words.

"You have no idea how it works do you?" Orion deadpanned.

"No he doesn't. He could barely get an electric toothbrush to work." Eugene answered in a deadpan manner.

"Hey! That thing always sounds like it's gonna chop my teeth to bits!" Lance whined about an electric toothbrush.

"Riiight. Anyhow. Let's keep moving. Cosmo's tower is close." Orion suggested as they resumed walking.

Just as they were walking. They passed by a couple of more stalls. But also saw a building with a hologram of the Collector's head under a neon sign that read the Collector's Emporium. Which was on the main walkway towards Cosmo's tower straight ahead.

But due to the secondary walkways around the Emporium going into directions towards two different shopping districts. Orion knew there wouldn't be enough time to waste all day shopping and stopping. Only a little bit more time but not all day. So he decided to take the shortcut which was through the Collector's Emporium.

"Alright. If you guys want. We can take a short cut through the Collector's Emporium. Otherwise it's an extra ten minute walk to Cosmo's tower from here." Orion said to see what they wanted to do.

"Sure. If it'll save us time." Rapunzel said with a nod.

"As long as I don't see any space spiders or Liberian ghosts in a box. I'm good." Lance agreed.

"Alright. Let's see his pet rock Collector's junk." Eugene mused.

And as they walked in through the main entrance they heard a calm music playing in the background. But they immediately were staggered and somewhat horrified by the ticket booth. Or rather what was operating it from behind the glass.

It looked like a giant greenish gray face was scrunched into the ticket booth, with tickets stuck to the window.

Definitely what someone would look like if his daily supplements were twinkies.

"Ah, welcome, welcome, welcome! You, lucky traveler, have arrived at the illustrious Emporium! Private collection of Taneleer Tivan." The ticket seller said to the group. "The premier, premier, premier exhibit of wonders in the Galaxy! Most would hoard these treasures. But not Mr. Tivan. He is so, so, so generous, he wishes to share them with the common people. Would you, you, you like to take the tour?"

"I hope he's not one of the exhibits." Eugene muttered in disgust.

"We're just passing by actually. So we'll take the express tour. And maybe a small stop at the gift shop." Orion answered for them.

"Very very very well. Knowhere is after all a busy busy busy place. That will be sixty units. You all enjoy enjoy enjoy the tour." The ticket seller responded.

"No prob. Come on guys." Orion gestured for them to go on ahead as they got their tickets for the express hall.

Once they went through the entry with their ticket scanned. They all saw the different displays from left to right. Down a hall which had the exit straight ahead. Even so there were more than a dozen interesting things on display.

Rapunzel saw why Orion spoke with interesting discernment about this Collector. Because she saw some items that were either unrecognizable but dangerous. Or some items that were recognizable and more than equal to potential danger. And yet the security cameras with small lasers on them told her why it was hard for anyone to steal from the Collector. Especially considering the unbreakable shield barrier they went through on the security gate. Plus the floating drone orbs that were floating all over above them. Able to do who knows what to any would be burglars or criminals or renegades that would dare try to cross the Collector.

"Is that...A Thor Frog?" Eugene pointed at one display.

Rapunzel. Orion and Lance looked over to see a frog inside hopping around and ribbeting like a real frog. Dressed as the God Of Thunder himself. Even Pascal thought it looked weird.

"Oh yeah. I remember that story. Loki tried to send Thor's soul into the body of a frog using a norn stone. Thor managed to break the spell and got back to normal. But the frog he was sent in still has his power and a tiny hammer." Orion explained the frog in the display.

"Wow. And here I thought he was just a tiny obsessed fan." Eugene remarked and grinned at Pascal. "Wanna hook up with him later?"

Pascal rolled his eyes with a squeal in response.

"That must have been very embarrassing for Thor." Rapunzel commented.

"Believe me. He banned all conversations about it from Asgard's dinner table." Orion remarked with a snicker.

Then he passed by one display that made him frown before he looked away and walked by. Rapunzel was concerned at first. Until she looked over and saw why he frowned. And she looked on in horror

Upon display it looked like a life size accurately made statue of the mad titan himself. Thanos. In his full armor. Along with the Infinity Gauntlet station in another display next to him.

Only this wasn't a statue. This really was Thanos. His body.

"Is this really... Thanos?" Rapunzel asked, a nervous feeling coming over her at the sight of it.

"Yeah. The Darkseid of the Marvel Universe. They had to reattach his arm after I damaged the package." Orion remarked.

"I still don't understand how anyone would want to keep his corpse around. What if some nutjob decided to bring him back to life and needed his body to do it?" Rapunzel asked with a look of worry.

"Better that he collects dust here than for someone to dig him up in some Buck Rogers' based graveyard. Besides if I had my way. I'd cremate him and feed his ashes to my toilet." Orion stated with his arms crossed looking at Thanos.

"I'd be all for that." Rapunzel said with a nod.

"Unfortunately it's not my call. Sure I'm the Maverick and can make my rules. But if I do anything, I'll provoke the Collector into a war." Orion stated in a serious tone.

"Is he sentimental enough to risk innocent lives either way?" Eugene asked while looking ridiculed to hear that. "Better yet would he 'collect' his own mother if he thought he would make a grand?!"

"Oh you have no idea. Besides pissing Lady Hellbender off was one thing. But the Collector. He has artifacts and powerful objects collected at his disposal, powerful enough to even kill me and put the Multiverse at risk." Orion stated and assured." Trust me. For now, Thanos is better off rotting here like a stuffed Barney."

"If you say so." Rapunzel conceded with a nod.

---

After that, they made it to the exit. Rapunzel felt uneasy seeing the body of one of the Multiverse's biggest threats. She can't imagine what it's like to face him while alive. Thankfully he's dead. And he can't hurt anyone ever again.

Just then as they walked out of the Collector's Emporium. Lance caught a whiff of something smelling very good from one of the food stalls.

"Mmmm...I smell a nice date for my stomach." Lance hummed with a big smile as he walked over to it.

"Mmm. I don't know what I'm smelling. But it smells really good." Rapunzel said as she took in the smell of whatever food was at the stall.

"Let's stop for a bite. This will be our last one before we reach the tower." Orion suggested optimistically as he walked over to the large food stall.

"Sounds good to me." Rapunzel said with a big smile.

"Like I could say no to food." Eugene said optimistically.

As they made it up to the food stall. They saw an alien that was behind the stall was green and resembled something between an insect and a reptile. If you've played the video game you know what he looks like. With the green skin. Black stripes and patterns with a white chef's hat and white apron.

The guy also had a grunty burp-ish voice. But it's common around these parts.

"Yo Brank! How's the bank?!" Orion greeted with a street tone as he fist bumped the alien.

"FOOORGE! How's my favorite customer?! I see you've brought guests. Hello, my name is Brank the taste buds wonder of Knowhere. How are you all enjoying your visit?" Brank the alien chef greeted them.

"Hello. I'm Rapunzel. Nice to meet you. And our visit has been good." Rapunzel said.

"Yeah. I got myself a new comb and my buddy here got a watch he can't understand." Eugene said with a smirk. "I'm Eugene, by the way."

"And I'm Lance." Lance said before smelling the food. "Oh boy, that smells so good."

"Thanks. My wife said the same thing about me. Hahaha! So are you all hungry?" Brank asked them.

"I could definitely eat. What's on the menu?" Eugene asked.

"Today's special is a double star port platter with a side of noodles and a foom pie for dessert." Brank announced.

"Perfect. We'll each take a platter. With the works." Orion remarked.

"The noodles might be a little spicy for a tarren. You sure you all can handle them?" Brank asked.

"Are you kidding? We can eat anything spicy without breaking a sweat." Eugene bragged.

"Give us what you got. And hold nothing back." Lance said smugly.

"It's your stomach." Brank shrugged. "Enjoy your meal."

"Thanks Brank. You're a prince. Stay that way, I mean it." Orion grinned as he said goodbye while they went and found a table to sit at near the outdoor food court.

Sort of like those tables you would see at the malls. Orion and the others sat around and got their meals out.

Orion took out what looked like his order as everyone got their orders as well. And Orion held out what looked like a brown pretzel like dinner roll.

"First thing you'll wanna try is a choga dog. Made from what I consider to be a space turkey in a herb crust. It'll taste similar to a summer sausage." Orion stated what the first item was as he ate his.

"Okay, Ryan. Here I go." Rapunzel said, taking a bite of her choga dog, eyes lighting up in delight. "Wow. This is amazing."

Eugene and Lance took bites from their choga dogs and had similar reactions.

"My God. This is one of the best things I've ever tasted." Eugene said in joy.

"If this keeps up, we may never look at earth food the same way again." Lance said.

The choga dog had an unexpected crunch but it was sure welcoming. As they finished their choga dog. Orion took out the noodles. Which wasn't like the noodles folks would often see at a Chinese restaurant. Instead it was like a fried rice ball in a yellow hush puppy coating.

"Not...What I expect the noodles to look like." Lance gave it was weird look.

"Well it's too bad fortune cookies are only on Earth. These are made from the fresh Jo-Ad grainery added with a Kree Puff Pepper coating. And volla. Space noodles. I have to warn you though. It is very spicy. And only a tongue like mine could ever handle it." Orion remarked.

"Pfft. Being a kid with a flamethrower tongue I'd figured." Eugene scoffed.

Then Eugene and Lance tried theirs out and they loved the taste. But as they were close to finishing theirs off. They could finally taste the spicy wave that hit their tongues.

"Ah. Well that's not so bad." Eugene shrugged.

"Yeah it's actually got a nice sensation with the heat." Lance smiled.

Five seconds later...

"AAAAAAAAH!" Both Eugene screamed loudly as smoke came out of their mouths from how spicy the food was and started frantically chugging from their water bottles until there was none left. After which they slammed their bottles down, panting from the heat.

"For God Sakes! It feels like something bit me!" Eugene panted out, still feeling the effects of the spicyness.

"Oh, mother of Mercy! I think my tongue was burnt off!" Lance exclaimed, holding his mouth.

Rapunzel on the other hand has flexible taste buds. It would only take real fire to burn her tongue. And Orion, his fire power protects him from the intense sensation of spice.

Rapunzel and Orion were eating their noodles fine, while Lance and Eugene ran over to a nearby fountain and dunked their heads into the water.

***Splash!***

Some of the aliens walking by gave them some weird looks.

"Noodles?" A fish walked by and asked Orion.

"Noodles." Orion answered with amusement.

"I really don't see what the problem is. This is very good." Rapunzel said with Pascal nodding in agreement. "Sort of reminds me of the time I sampled exotic hot peppers from a Hispanic merchant. Eugene and Lance reacted like they are now."

'Whimps!' PRO and TEC teased.

"I can't feel anything because of my mutated spice ability." Orion shrugged as he kept eating. While referring to his heat ability.

***FLAMING BUUUUURP!***

Orion let out a burp which exhaled fire out of his mouth. Almost like a dragon.

"WOOO! operator, we got a 10-80 down in uptown!" Orion quipped as he pumped his chest.

"For a moment there, I thought you were going to breathe fire and say you couldn't even feel it." Rapunzel giggled.

"I didn't. I could even walk through hot grease and not feel a thing." Orion shrugged as he finished off his noodles.

"You could probably take hot lava baths and not bat an eye." Rapunzel joked.

"I gotta be honest. Call me a wuzz if you want. There's only one heat test I've not done yet. And that's flying into the sun. I actually don't wanna try." Orion admitted.

"Yeah, let's not test that, even if you are functionally immortal." Rapunzel said with a cringe.

"Close to the back door immortal, actually. I can still age and my kryptonite is a strong pure source of darkness." Orion emphasized.

Then he noticed Eugene and Lance exhaling as their faces were drenched and they panted as they looked out of breath.

"That was a solid heat dance you just did. Total 6 out of 10 degrees." Orion teased.

"Wow. Good thing it wasn't 10 out of 10, or both your faces would have melted off." Rapunzel said with a laugh.

"Okay. Go on. Have your laugh, Blondie." Eugene said with an eyeroll. "But someday, you will encounter something too spicy even for you."

"If that day does come, keep whatever it is as far away from us as possible, or we might just drop dead." Lance said, shuddering at the thought.

"Well this next food item might repair your pride." Orion unwrapped the next item as they did the same to their meals.

Which was a Ka-Bop. And not like a dish on a stick. This looked more like a closed red crab claw with spikes all around it. But they weren't sharp at all. In fact it felt like holding a steak cut in the shape of a grab claw.

"Now this is my favorite, though it's best not to mention it in front of some folks that are close to the reptilian family. Anyhow, this is a Ka-Bop. It's like a garlic grilled kielbasa. Rolled in a shrimp herb crust. The meat is from a Ramshroon. Which is a mix between a moose and a gator. It contains the same amount of protein as beef and only half of the fat." Orion stated what the Ka-Bop is. "Just be careful not to waste the sauce inside on you. It'll corrode."

"Okay. Here we go then." Rapunzel said before she, Eugene, and Lance took bites from their Ka-Bops, and they instantly loved it. "Oh my... This tastes like heaven!"

"This is by far, the best thing we've had here!" Eugene exclaimed as he continued eating the food.

"Why didn't we start with this to begin with!?" Lance asked dramatically as he ate.

Pascal tried his small piece out and changed into its color as he exhaled and squealed in great delight.

Orion even was eating his with sweet satisfaction. There were no words to describe how good this tasted to them.

Once they were finished they all exhaled as Orion took out his dessert item.

"Now these may not be moonballs. But it definitely is a favorite around the kids. Foom pies." Orion held his last food item up. "It's like the dessert among the meal and no. It's not made from Fing Fang Foom. It's a pastry with space fruit inside. Adding with a natural green food coloring for flavor. Straight out of a zark peach."

"Ooh, let me at it." Rapunzel said, taking a bite, and she was loving it instantly. "It's so sweeeeeet!"

"Wow, even the desserts here are unbelievable." Eugene said after taking a bite of his own dessert and he sure enjoyed it.

"My taste buds are on cloud nine." Lance said in a daze of bliss as he ate.

Even Pascal loved it. So far there wasn't a food item they didn't enjoy. Even if Eugene and Lance almost lost their tongues with the noodles.

Orion made sure to order a shipment of the same food items using the online app. So the cargo can be sent to his gummi ship.

"And that's what I call sweet satisfaction on overwatch." Orion said as he finished his meal and exhaled while leaning back. "Bet none of you were expecting space food to be like this, huh?"

"No I was not." Rapunzel said with satisfaction.

"Uh uh." Pascal squeaked as he shook his head.

"I will admit. I was skeptical about trying the food here." Eugene said, rubbing his stomach.

"But I'm glad to see we didn't have anything to worry about." Lance said.

"Totally. Much like earth you just gotta know what's good for you and what's really edible. Besides earth practically made scorpions edible." Orion shuttered at the last part before he took up all the trash in the bag and tossed it in a public garbage receptical. "Whelp. Cosmo's tower is up past that checkpoint entry. Follow me and whatever you do. Don't mention peanut butter. Don't say anything negative about his balls."

'Not the way that sounds.' PRO clarified quickly.

'He means the kind that bounces.' TEC added.

"What, does he like to bounce a ball for fun?" Rapunzel asked while confused.

"It's best if I show you." Orion insisted as he was leading them towards the check point leading towards Cosmo's Tower.

---

Once they made it up to the security gate of Cosmo's Tower. Or at least the bridge to the main docking yard of it. This was the main entrance being guarded by Cosmo's main security. By the look of things something has happened to cause them to beef up security.

The group saw a bunch of guards. One of the guards with Antlers walked up to Orion as they came up to the checkpoint.

"Bridge closed. Go away." The guard snarled.

"It doesn't look closed." Orion said while looking confused by the bridge still open on the other end.

"See suit? Knowhere Security Guard. Super Official." The guard said as he asserted his title of authority.

"Oh I couldn't tell. By that outfit I thought you were a girl scout." Eugene jested.

"Shhh." Orion shushed him. "What seems to be the problem?"

"It's not your business. Leave." The Guard threatened.

"How about you answer probably before I add a strike with a blank spot on your record." Orion threatened with a serious tone.

"We don't work for you." The guard growled.

"That's what you think, Kid." Orion retorted as he held his identification card up.

The guard backed down and gasped in fear. Much to Rapunzel, Eugene and Lance's surprise.

"Mr Forge? Forgive my arrogance. I assure you. We're only following protocol. Cosmo had us lock the bridge down due to a break in. Several of our troops were shot down by an unknown asailent." The Guard nervously replied.

"Alright. I'll have an elite task force sent in to take care of the problem. Carry on with your orders. And next time, bite your tongue until you need it." Orion assured but sternly added as he walked off.

"Yes sir." The Guard nodded and sighed in relief.

"Come on, we'd better take the alley." Orion said as he gestured towards the alley.

Rapunzel quickly followed Orion along with Eugene and Lance as she walked up to her brother looking amazed and surprised. Which was starting to become a pattern at this point.

"How the heck did you get those guards to stand down for you?" Rapunzel asked in awe.

"Who's company do you think funded to update the security and get all of these cranky ass grunts hired and badged?" Orion hinted.

"Oh I see." Rapunzel said with a knowing smirk. "They know not to cross the guy who pretty much writes their paychecks."

"My Grandfather wrote their paychecks a lot before I did. The security around Cosmo's district wouldn't be what it is if it wasn't for Multicorp working to keep tabs on Knowhere. So far Cosmo is the only one who doesn't work for me. Well him and the Collector's crew." Orion explained.

"But you and Cosmo have a mutual respect for each other, right?" Rapunzel asked.

"Yeah. Something like that. I mean somebody's gotta run this place while I live a bajillion different lives across the stars." Orion shrugged.

Then Orion led them down the alley and across a back walkway platform with a ramp that led through a hatch towards the back door of a brain matter yard.

"Alright. The stuff through there is gonna smell like an extremely salty piece of ash. So whatever you do. Don't walk through with your mouth hanging open." Orion warned them as he shifted into his Maverick suit while he inserted the back door's code.

"Okay. Keep our mouths shut." Rapunzel muttered, still slightly confused.

Then as the back door slid open. Everyone was weirded out to see what looked like a container yard of gathered brain matter. More like the stuff that they drill for from the skull crust of Knowhere. All of it looked like open containers of gray guts. And they were all over the place. As if it was like a maze. The stuff didn't smell bad actually. But some bits of them were floating around in the air and Orion warned them not to let any get into their mouths.

"Alright. Lets scout ahead for spoilers, Kiddies!" Maverick beamed as he floated up in the air.

'Yaaay!' PRO and TEC cheered. Even though PRO sounded nonchalant.

"Ryan wait!" Rapunzel yelled but he zoomed off across the yard.

"Follow the arrows! You can't miss em!" Maverick echoed as a neon arrow was projected in a corner.

Something Maverick constructed to help them through the maze.

"Greaaat. Now the whole team ditched us, but at least the kid left us a trail of breadcrumbs." Eugene sarcastically remarked as he sniffed a bit. "That is bread right?"

"Ugh! That sure don't taste like it." Lance coughed a bit from getting a bit of crusted brain matter vapor in his mouth.

"Oh come on guys. I'm sure Ryan knows what he's doing." Rapunzel said optimistically.

"Just so we're clear! I have no idea what I'm doing! They didn't add it to the script! So I'm just winging it!" Maverick echoed over. And did a little fourth wall break. "But the key to survival is to avoid using phrases like 'it's quiet too quiet' and 'everything's gonna be alright'!"

"We're gonna die." Lance exhaled as they walked through the maze.

"That too!" Maverick echoed.

---

As they were going through the maze of brain matter. They followed the neon arrows leading them to god knows what. Seeing how it was totally quiet now that Maverick stopped echoing over.

Somehow Maverick's arrows were helping them from getting lost. Or at least more lost than they are now. The reason they were back there was because this yard leads into a secret back entrance to Cosmo's tower. They kinda figure that seeing how the tower was in view when they got there.

"I'm sure if Drax were here he'd say something like 'Are you afraid, Fitzherbert. I am a brute and near invincible. I fear nothing. You however, will perish in this maze.'" Eugene imitated Drax as they went through the maze.

"I don't think he would say that. But that was a very good imitation of his voice." Rapunzel said with a giggle.

"Oh oh! Here's my impression of Goofy. Achem...'Gawrsh, I've heard of the atomic age. And space age. This place must be the garb-age, Ahyuck! Hoo hoo hoo HOO!'" Lance humorously imitated a perfect Goofy.

Rapunzel let out a laugh before she played along.

"Oh, what do ya know, ya big Palooka?" Rapunzel said imitating Donald Duck perfectly.

They were shocked to see how the Princess could pull off a good impression of a duck sounding voice. She almost sounded like a Donald clone.

"Whaaa? How did you do that? Are you secretly part fowl?!" Lance humorously pointed at Rapunzel.

"No. But I may have just run a fowl." Rapunzel joked with a pun.

"HA! Good one Blondie!" Eugene high fived his girlfriend.

"I don't get it." Lance looked confused.

"Alright let me try this one. Achem. 'Look at you flarkin humie. Bet you end up inside one of them processing machines once you step foot in this dump. Now where's my units?!'" Eugene mimicked Rocket.

Rapunzel laughed again.

"Hold on. I got another." Rapunzel said before she cleared her throat and did another perfect impersonation of Friday. "If you don't shut up right now, you'll be singing Soprano."

They laughed at that as they kept following the signs. Then they started hearing the sound of laser fire in the distance. And it was starting to get out. At first they thought it might be the sound of construction work. But it's starting to sound more like fighting.

***BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOM!***

They heard explosions in the distance.

"What was that?" Eugene inquired.

"Uh...Maybe space dynomites? They struck torium?" Lance guessed.

"I think there's a fight going on. A big one." Rapunzel said with a serious look.

Then some letters appeared on the front cargo container in enon writing. *'Whatever you do. Don't let them see you. Let me and the others handle them'* The neon words read for them to see.

"Well, I guess I was right about there being a fight." Rapunzel said with a serious and worried look. "But who is it that Ryan wants us to hide from?"

"I don't know. But let's see while we keep our heads down." Eugene suggested.

As they finally made it out of the maze. They sae a large open area surrounded by crates and spot lights. Right next to a closed gate that leads right into Cosmo's tower.

They saw Buzz Lightyear fighting around the fight while looking cool as his green and white colored suit gleamed almost as well as Maverick's suit. Dodging plasma shots while he hovered and fired his laser at something they couldn't see due to the wall in the way.

Then they saw Shift land like a ninja on top of the wall.

"We gotta get them separated!" Shift yelled out.

"How?! These guys are inseparable!" Booster responded in the background

"I have a plan!" Verum Rex answered as he landed on top of a spotlight. "Mav. Remember the switchblade maneuver?"

"We haven't done that since the Chinese Dragon dogfight." Maverick pointed out.

"Then let's recap." Verum Rex suggested.

Then Maverick and Rex both landed behind the wall. As Maverick started playing some music.

(Intergalactic - Beastie Boys)

Intergalactic, planetary, planetary, intergalactic

Intergalactic, planetary, planetary, intergalactic

Intergalactic, planetary, planetary, intergalactic

Intergalactic, planetary, planetary, intergalactic

Another dimension, another dimension

Another dimension, another dimension

Another dimension, another dimension

Another dimension, another dimension

Another dimension, another dimension

Another dimension

Rapunzel's group could hear slashing and bashing on the other end of the wall. Along with many other fighting sounds like lightning and fire blasts.

Then they heard a psst on the corner with a gap between the wall.

"Psst! Over here!" Rocket waved with a loud whisper towards Rapunzel and the others. He and Groot were hiding in that corner.

"I am Groot." Groot waved as well.

Rapunzel, Eugene, and Lance shared a quick glance before running to where Rocket and Groot were hiding.

"Rocket, Groot. Are we glad to see you two." Rapunzel said with relief before glancing back at the fighting. "What the heck is going on?"

"That's what's goin on. Apparently Lady H hired these grunts to takes us down." Rocket whispered as he pointed at the crack in the wall. Which gave them a good view of the fight.

They saw Buzz. Mirra. Booster and XR takin on a group of yellow aliens with two plasma pistols in their hands.

This group appeared large and broad-shouldered, with four arms, five eyes and two legs. Thru had three thick fingers on each hand and frond-like appendages on the top of their heads. And they possessed strips of brown facial hair just below their mouths, which might not even be hair. And they were wearing a biker-like outfit, complete with red shirt and boots, and a long brown overcoat.

This group was actually Torque and his clone duplicates.

"Come on, Rangers! You and the cosmic boy hand brought the heat in this time! Let's wrap this up so we can all break the ice!" Torque said as the main one.

"Uh ew! When you say it that way it sounds dirty!" Mirra sarcastically responded as she was taking cover behind a metal crate.

"Looks like you can cancel your meeting with Cosmo. Cause we found Torque which is this scut and all his clone doubles your lookin at." Rocket gestured.

"That's the criminal we've been looking for?" Rapunzel asked with a raised eyebrow. "He doesn't look like much of a threat."

"Oh he's not the big deal. Those guys are." Rocket pointed straight ahead.

"Hooome ruuun!" Maverick yelled as he crashed through a metal storage container!

***BAAM!***

"Ow. Hey there's peanuts inside!" Maverick echoed inside the container.

But then suddenly the storage container was kicked by a large red brute and another red brute grabbed it and slammed it into the ground. Then the first red brute jumped and slammed his boots on top to crush Maverick inside as the container was bending.

"Careful that's my punching arm!" Maverick echoed inside the storage container.

These brutes were Garek and Rosson Blood. The Blood Brothers. Hired bounty hunters.

They both had red skin, short white beards, black short-sleeve armor and pants, black boots.

Well, now, don't you tell me to smile

You stick around I'll make it worth your while

My number's beyond what you can dial

Maybe it's because we're so versatile

Style, profile, I said

It always brings me back when I hear, "ooh, child!"

From The Hudson River out to the Nile

I run the marathon to the very last mile

"Yeah. Those guys are definitely intimidating. Who the heck are those guys?" Rapunzel asked quietly.

"Those two tuns of red bricks with no pink brains are Garek and Rosson Blood. The Blood Brothers. Apparently Lady H hired them to take those guys out." Rocket whispered.

"Geez. Just how many people did Lady Hellbender hire just to kill us?* Rapunzel asked with disbelief at the situation.

"Just them and the literal pissants. I'm workin on a secret move right here to knock the flark out of their lungs. But I need to charge it up." Rocket gestured to the big gun next to them as he got back in front to hot wire it.

"Is there anything we can do to help?" Rapunzel asked.

"Yeah. Enjoy the show. Don't get noticed. Not even your vibranium skillet can hurt those losers' feelings." Rocket suggested as he kept tinkering.

Rapunzel. Pascal. Eugene looked back at the fight as the Blood Brothers constructed their armored layers. And XR came in and fired a proton orb into Garek's voice which blinded him.

"CANON BAAAALL!" Booster yelled as he smashed his bottom on top of Rosson which made him collapsed a little

Then Mirra ran right through Garek as she phased through him to stagger him. With her mind stun ability.

"RAAAAGH!" Drax ran in roaring as he slammed into Rosson side while Booster wad on his head.

But Rosson chuckled darkly as he tossed Booster off and he backhanded Drax away, making them both grunt as they fell.

"Hey Blood Sore!" Shift called as Rosson turned. Then a bolt ray of lightning hit his chest making him stagger.

Then Verum Rex rushed in to strike his foot into Rosson's right knee. And Maverick teleported to deliver a double kick slash into the back of his head. Before Maverick grabbed his head with his legs and teleported Rosson away.

Causing the armor layer on Garek to drop as Drax and Booster came to deliver some punches to Garek who kept blocking them.

Well, if you battle me I feel reviled

People always sayin' my style is wild

You've got gall, you've got guile

Step to me I'm a rap-o-phile

If you want to battle you're in denial

Comin' from Uranus to check my style

Go ahead, put my rhymes on trial

Cast you off into exile

Intergalactic, planetary, planetary, intergalactic

Intergalactic, planetary, planetary, intergalactic

Meanwhile Buzz was taking ob multiple Torque duplicates by punching and kicking some aside. With his skilled combat training and flipped back and spun kicked two Torque duplicates and fire three laser shots at three other duplicates.

Mirra and Shift double teamed in taking on five Torque duplicates as they were using their skills to kick their asses. Shift did a triple spin flip slash to knock one down. Whilr Mirra ran across her back to do a combo phase slam by running through another Torque duplicate to grab the back of his head and slam him down.

Jazz and A.W.O.L, that's our team

Step inside the party, disrupt the whole scene

When it comes to beats, well, I'm a fiend

I like my sugar with coffee and cream

Well, I gotta keep it going keep it going full steam

Too sweet to be sour too nice to be mean

Well, on the tough-guy style I'm not too keen

Trying to change the world, I'm going to plot and scheme

Then Maverick was scene as he teleported over with his hand around Rosson's neck and he delivered a big neon fist to his face.

***NEON PUNCH!***

"He's cured! The bloods runnin!" Maverick quipped.

Then Rosson fell and landed on six more Torque duplicates.

"Is it over now?" Rapunzel asked from her hiding spot.

"Almost! Just got ten more lyrics and ass whippin to dish out!" Maverick yelled out to answer her as he was flipping in the air and slashing his keyblades at a bunch of Torque duplicates. "Stop hitting your faces with my slashes!"

Mario C. likes to keep it clean

Gonna shine like a sunbeam

Keep on rappin', 'cause that's my dream

Thank Moe Dee for 'Sticking to Themes'

Now when it comes to envy y'all is green

Jealous of the rhyme and the rhyme routine

Another dimension, new galaxy

Intergalactic, planetary

Intergalactic, planetary, planetary, intergalactic

Intergalactic, planetary, planetary, intergalactic

Intergalactic, planetary, planetary, intergalactic

Intergalactic, planetary, planetary, intergalactic

Verum Rex zoomed over and delivered and caused a gravity spell to make Garek float.

"Now!" Verum Rex called out.

Then Maverick charged up his fire ability to cover Garek in a ball of fire. Then Shift came over with a electrical mallet to jump smash into the fire ball like a base ball. Causing it to slam into Rosson who was about to slam down Booster. But then Drax knocked Rosson's head back to get slammed by the fire ball.

***BAAAAAM!***

The Blood Brothers were then slammed by their combo move and knocked ten feet into a bunch of metal crates. Thus taking care of one problem.

"Awe well. More pay for old Torque." Torque locked his guns with the rest of his crew.

Then the Guardians stood together with buzz and his crew as they stood against the rest of Torque.

"Don't count on it, Torque." Buzz warned.

Then Rocket got his weapon charged up and ready.

"Alright. This should finish off-" Rocket almost whispered.

When suddenly...

***"RUFF!"***

Some kind of loud sonic energy began to make everyone in the area collapse as the Guardians. Space Rangers. Torque. Even Rapunzel was collapsing and groaning.

"Ryan!" Shift called out.

"What...Is...Happening?!" Drax yelled.

Then everyone collapsed. And blacked out. As everything went dark all of a sudden.

---

Inside of an unknown prison facility…

The team woke up in what looked like some kind of advanced prison. Only this prison looked like a bunch of glass boxes, allowing everyone to see who's in front of them, behind, or to the left and right.

Rapunzel began to stir, as she felt several small forms around her and licking her face, making her groggily open her eyes to see a bunch of puppies in astronaut suits in her cell.

"Aww, puppies." Rapunzel cooed as she reached out to pet the puppies, bringing one to sit in her lap as she sat on the floor indian style. "Aren't you guys just the cutest little things in the whole world."

"Yeah, that's my Blondie. Always having a weakness for puppies." Eugene said with a groan to her right, making Rapunzel turn to see Eugene sitting up in another cell to her right.

"Eugene, are you okay?" Rapunzel asked out of concern.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just have this slight ringing in my ears." Eugene said, rubbing his right ear. "What the hell just happened? And where are we?"

"I don't know. It looks like we're in some kind of prison." Rapunzel said before she noticed Drax across from her, with a few of their enemies in the cells next to him. "And it looks like we're not alone.

"You scutts got lucky." Rosson growled from his cell to Drax's right.

"Yeah. We almost murderized ya." Garak said from his cell to Drax's left.

"The word is murdered." Drax corrected.

"That's what he said! Sheesh! No use being pediatric." Rosson snapped.

Which made Drax sighed in disgust while he still was standing in his cell with his arms crossed.

"Well...Crap. First day in space and we're already in the slammer. We're just not good at being civil." Lance muttered as he woke up in a cell facing Eugene's cells

"Hang in there, Pal. I'm sure it's all just a misunderstanding." Eugene said to him while leaning on the cell door.

"You said the same thing in-" Lance almost replied.

"I know I said the same thing in Venice! How was I supposed to know we were hired to steal the Pope's ring?!" Eugene humorously snapped.

"Quiet back there! We're trying to make a point!" Rosson snapped at them.

"Woulda killed the lot of ya. But not you." Garek said to Drax. "Mr Big Words. Nope. Lady H wanted you alive."

"But not too alive!" Rosson chuckled.

"Then you have failed your mission. Miserably." Drax declared.

"Buuuurn!"

Rapunzel heard Maverick say in a street tone before she heard a knock from the cell above her. The Princess looked up to see Maverick was in the cell above. Laying casually on his side while enthusiastically knocking to get her attention.

"You know the last prison I got locked in was the Matinee to 'The Emoji Movie'. Worse hour and twenty-six minutes of my fucking life. Made by people who Blue Sky lobotomized. At least in these cells, they got air conditioning, puppies and best of all. No forced literal shit jokes." Maverick quipped on.

"If you don't shut up there! We're gonna grind your lungs and balls into pulp!" Garak yelled up at Maverick.

"That is just what the Jehovah's Witnesses said." Maverick quipped in response.

"Ry- I mean Mav. I'm glad to see you're alright." Rapunzel said with a smile as she continued petting the puppies in her cell. "Do you know where we are right now?"

"Simple. We are in the last place we see...Before we die." Maverick said in a deep trailer like voice.

Rapunzel and Eugene gave him a blank stare.

"Alright. And the real answer?" Eugene inquired.

"Absolutely no clue. My signals' down in here and my powers aren't working." Maverick admitted."But if Cosmo's kids are here, then maybe this is the Knowhere daycare center. And the DMV."

"Cosmo's kids?" Rapunzel asked as she looked around for them. "Where are they, then?"

Maverick was about to answer before Drax spoke up.

"Maverick. These lackluster bounty hunters claim Lady Hellbender hired them to kill us." Drax spoke up and interrupted.

"Hey! We ain't no slouches!" Garek snapped and remarked. "We're part of the league now. Heh."

"Ha! Which one? The research for cranium inflammation?! And trying not to puke for thinking about how I look?!" Eugene mocked as he and Lance laughed.

But the Blood Brothers looked confused.

"I don't get it." Garek scratched his head.

"No no! Not a league. It's a legion." Rosson corrected.

"What's the difference?" Garek inquired.

"Don't know." Rosson shrugged. "And don't care cause we ain't slouches."

"Didn't you tell us though that Madam Heck Bendy was gonna hunt us down all over the universe?" Lance reminded Drax.

"And you are?" Garek inquired.

"I had hoped she'd send a monster. Not these two." Drax clarified while his arms were still crossed.

"We woulda murderized ya." Rosson snarled.

"I repeat. The term is murder." Drax corrected.

"Ugh! Girls girls, you're all pretty! Now could you shut up?!" Shift snapped from the cell on the left of Maverick above Rapunzel's cell.

Which stopped the argument and conversation.

"Fine. But don't worry. There's more coming." Garek glared.

"Did you hear that, Princess Rapunzel? A silver lining." Drax smiled with hope in his eyes for a better fight. Hopefully a monster.

"Uh, Drax? I really don't think more people coming after us to kill us is a good thing." Rapunzel said hesitantly with a cringe.

"Zel. Everything about being hunted down in a life threatening deal is like gold to Drax." Shift sarcastically remarked.

Just then they saw some of Cosmo's guards marching Rocket and Groot from across thr platform in between their cells.

"Ain't never need strategy before neither buddy." Rocket snarled.

"I am Groot!" Groot grunted as he was pushed forward.

"Hey! Keep your mitts off of him!" Rocket snapped as he bit the guards's hand.

"Ow! The little bugger just bit me!" The guard barked.

"I'll do more than that! I'll murderize you." Rocket growled as he walked by Rapunzel's cell.

And they were placed in the two cells in front of Eugene's cell

"Rocket, Groot. Are you two okay?" Rapunzel asked, concerned for the two.

"Yeah yeah. We're cool, Goldie. Don't worry. These scut bags are just keepin us here until questioning." Rocket replied.

"Rocket contacted me earlier saying he had a lead on Torque. So I went and followed. If you're wondering why I vanished." Shift explained.

"Oh. Well, Ryan did say you often did that when you're pursuing a lead." Rapunzel said with a small smile. "How are you holding up?"

"About as well as the rest of us, I guess." Shift shrugged.

"Honestly. I think the holding cells from the Grid had more space than this. Is there a bathroom at least?" Verum Rex inquired as he was pacing back and forth in the cell on the left side of Maverick.

"At least you two head figures are next door. They had the nerves to book me in a cell facing sideburns and his naked upper lips." Rocket snarled as he gestured over at Eugene.

"Hey! This ain't exactly a pleasant view for me either!" Eugene snapped back.

"At least we got the flea powder." Lance muttered with a shrug.

"Scuff." Rocket deadpanned.

"Come again?" Eugene glared.

"I said. Scuff." Rocket prevoked.

"You don't say scoff. You just scoff." Eugene retorted.

"Oh, so now I don't express myself proper like?" Rocket sarcastically replied and waved him off.

"Only because you're so fully wuff!" Eugene replied while adding a wuff.

"Personally I woulda gone with Wuff.! " Maverick shrugged with a wuff.

"Wuff am Groot." Groot added.

"What do you think I was gonna say?" Rocket inquired.

"I thought you were about to say wuff! Wuff!" Drax echoed.

"Okay you you what?! You're so Wuff wuff wuff!" Eugene replied.

"What? You Wuffin fun of me?! I told YOU! I'M NOT! A WUFF-IN ANIMAL!" Rocket exclaimed at Eugene.

"Yeah well WUFF WUFF WUFF WUFFF!" Eugene started barking while Rocket was barking back.

"I AM WUFF!" Groot started barking.

"Guys! Stop Wuff wuff wuff!" Shift started barking.

Then Verum Rex was barking. "WUUUF WUUUF WUFF WUFF WUFF!"

"Guys, WUFF!" Rapunzel exclaimed, trying to stop the fighting, gasping when she realized what she just said.

"WUFF! WUFF!" Pascal barked, shocking Rapunzel even more.

***"WUUUF! WUUF! WUUUF! WUUUF! WUUF! WUUUF! WUUUF! WUUF! WUUUF! WUUUUUUUUF WUUUUUUUF WUUUUUF"***

Everyone started barking. Until...There was a flash of light and suddenly...

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***BARK BARK!***

Everyone appeared around some large round metallic table. And a labrador retriever in an astronaut's suit with his eyes glowing barked into Rapunzel's direction to snap everyone out of the illusion they were kept in.

And the dog growled at them as everyone came to themselves. While the Blood Brother and Torque was still asleep inside some kind of illusion type dream cell.

Caused by the dog in front of them.

But there was no sign of Buzz and his Rangers.

"What the?..." Lance inquired as they looked around at where they were sitting.

Rapunzel was seated with Maverick and Shift at her left side as the dog stood staring at them.

"What sorcery is this?!" Drax groaned as he pushed one of the sleeping Blood Brothers off of him. As both brothers slouched on top of Torque who was also asleep.

"What?" Rapunzel gasped as she regained her senses, looking around the room and towards the dog and puppies on the table. "Where are we?"

"You are of being still on knowhere." The dog replied from a speaker on his suit. While panting.

Though it sounded almost like a telekinetic type speaker. Because his voice had an echo and no static.

"Co-workers? Meet Cosmo. Cosmo? Co-workers." Maverick gestured as he introduced the team to Cosmo.

Yep. Cosmo's a dog. A talking telekinetic dog. What are the odds?

"Wait a minute. You're telling us the Cosmo you've been talking about is a talking dog?" Lance asked in shock.

"Guess the old saying is true. This world's going to the dogs." Eugene quipped.

"Oh my God. He's so cute." Rapunzel said, always a lover of animals, and reached out to pet him, until...

"WUFF! WUFF!" Cosmo barked loudly while jumping back and around, making several of the puppies run off the table and around the room.

"And intimidating." Eugene muttered quietly as Cosmo sat down on the table in front of the group.

"Guardian of Unknowns will tell Cosmo why they broke into Continuum Cortex, or Cosmo will conjure worse psychic gulag." Cosmo said to the team with a threat at the end.

"Hold on. We didn't do anything like that." Verum Rex countered.

"You know us Cosmo. Especially me. Why would we-" Maverick tried to add.

"Do not feed Cosmo cat biscuit, Orion Forge." Cosmo growled at him before he continued. "You recruited Pesty Racoon and Sentient Tree. The two felons who broke into Continuum Cortex before. Can't be coincidence that there have been break in now."

"Alright. One! You have no proof that we did that. Second! After we did do that! We used it once and didn't do it again! And that was only eleven months ago." Rocket argued.

"Time is always repetitive in Cosmo's home. Pesky Racoon admits it was him back then. Who's to say it wasn't him now?" Cosmo snarled.

"You broke into the Continuum Cortex?" Shift ridiculed Rocket.

"We were hired at the time to break into the Vault of Citopia. We couldn't without this mutt's magic back door." Rocket argued. "But like I said. That was way before you hired me and Groot here!"

"I swear to God, Rocket, I can't keep up with you and your long arm of liability sub plots." Maverick groaned as his facepalmed himself with both hands.

"Mr. Cosmo, we didn't come here to cause trouble. We came here to ask for your help." Rapunzel said, trying to reason with the talking dog.

"Rocket and Groot's criminal days are behind them. We've put them under the Nova Regulation: 946 the Space Stray Protocol. So far they haven't broken any law since joining us." Shift explained.

"Then why is Cosmo hearing about Bounty on Guardians of Unknowns' heads. Along with them?" Cosmo inquired.

"Because we were trying to rescue some Space Rangers kept prisoner. But our plan backfired big time." Verum Rex answered.

Then Maverick shifted back into Orion and as he looked directly at Cosmo.

"Look at me. You know me very well. You also knew my Dad very well. Would I even have the gull to piss on your back door? Knowing what could happen? Knowing the responsibility our team has?" Orion emphasized in a serious tone.

Cosmo shook a bit like a dog shaking drops or fleas off before he stared into Orion's eyes and found no fault in what he said. Verum Rex and Shift changed back to their normal forms to show the same honest looks.

"Then who broke into Cortex? Is Cosmo to assume Blood Brothers and Torque did it on their own?" Cosmo questioned.

"I don't think they were on their own. In fact we were just about to come and ask for your help to find Torque. Because he paid a B-56 Droid to sabotage Star Command." Yozora explained.

"B-56 droid? Shouldn't Star Command HQ use newer more efficient droids? B-56 droids were outdated for decades." Cosmo stated.

"Okay. You are officially the fourth person I've heard say that. If someone says it again, I'm gonna turn it into a drinking game." Eugene joked.

"Oh, Eugene." Rapunzel said with an exasperated smile before a thought came to her. "Wait a minute. Where's Buzz and his team? Weren't they with us when the fighting was going on?"

Cosmo looked at one of the guards. "Let them in." He ordered.

The guard nodded and opened one of the side doors as Buzz. Mirra. Booster and XR quickly walked in. As they were worried something happened to Maverick and his team

"Gosh we were so worried about you guys! Are you okay?" Booster asked out of concern as they went over to them.

"We're ok. For the most part." Rapunzel said with a friendly smile. "What happened to you guys towards the end of the fight?"

"Well we've spent the last hour or two trying to explain to Wonder Dog here the whole misunderstanding and he thought at first we were Zurg spies." Mirra explained with a little female sarcasm.

"One can't be too careful when operating Knowhere." Cosmo stated.

"Even with Buzz Lightyear?" Yozora gestured.

"Lightyear has Evil Clone for record." Cosmo reminded.

"Ah. Long story. Different episode." Orion said to Rapunzel and the Readers.

"Someone did hire Torque to double team with Blood Brothers." Cosmo informed them all.

"Pfft! Double team." Orion muttered and stifled a laugh and innuendo.

"Since Space Rangers and Guardians of Unknowns have told same story. Then it appears you're right. And my theory is correct." Cosmo said while panting before he looked at Rapunzel. "Pardon for sending Forge's recruits to psychic cells. Cosmo has very little to trust to protect his pups."

"Oh, it's okay Cosmo. I understand." Rapunzel said with a kind smile. "Sometimes, we go to great lengths to protect our families."

"Da. Except the fight took place during break in to Continuum Cortex. The transport system on Knowhere that uses power of dead Celestial's brain stem to travel through space, time, and dimensions." Cosmo explained.

"Seriously? That's..." Rapunzel started in awe at first, before she became serious. "Then who broke into it this time?"

"It is not known. But mystery assailant retreated through Continuum Cortex. The assailant does not know that Cosmo tracked coordinates all the way back to where he or she originated." Cosmo stated.

"And that would be?" Buzz asked.

Cosmo looked directly at Buzz Lightyear as he narrowed his eyes.

"Planet Z." Cosmo answered.

"Hmmm. Emperor Zurg's homeworld base." Buzz smirked at Rocket.

"You sure there was nobody left in that explosion?" Mirra smirked as well.

"Uuuugh! I HATE BEING WRONG!" Rocket exclaimed and groaned as his head fell face first on the table as he sulked. "It makes me feel domesticated."

"There there..." Orion mused as he patted his back condescendingly.

"So, all the recent trouble, the Space Rangers disappearing. Everything that's happened, was caused by Zurg?" Rapunzel muttered. "But how did he survive the explosion Rocket caused?"

"I've been dealing with Zurg for years. He is nothing if not unpredictable." Buzz stated with his fists balled.

"The bigger question is what would we want with the cosmic freeway Sparky here keeps in his basement and why all for nothing of not to give away his position? Kinda convoluted wouldn't you agree?" XR asked, looking at Orion.

"Very. The guy should've been a politician." Orion agreed humorously.

"Still we can follow him through the cortex if Cosmo lets us." Booster pointed out.

"Hold on, Booster. It's too easy. Zurg probably gave away his position so we could follow him right into a trap." Buzz figured as he was thinking.

"And if we fly the gummi ship over Planet Z surface it could also be a trap waiting for us there." Shift figured as well.

"So either way. We're cornered." Eugene shrugged.

"No...Maybe we are...But not all of us at once." Yozora said while he was scratching his chin, thinking of an idea.

"Do you smell that? It's a strong brain storm bruin." Orion quipped as he figured his best friend was coming up with an idea.

"I don't smell anything except dog fur. Also, if it were to storm brains, that would be very messy." Drax said, taking what he heard literally.

"Figure of speech, Drax." Rapunzel muttered to Drax before addressing Yozora. "What's your idea?"

"I'll tell you. But it's gonna require us splitting up and for Cosmo to let us use the Continuum Cortex." Yozora stated.

"Alright. And I know we haven't earned your trust yet, loyal canine. But the lives of a dozen Space Rangers are at stake and possibly the entire galaxy. But we're going to need to use the Cortex. With your permission." Buzz said to Cosmo.

Cosmo began to ponder while scratching his ear with his hind leg.

"Hmmm...Always catch when dealing with galactic threats. And not fun kind like with ball." Cosmo stated.

***'Ball.'*** A machine on the table replied as it launched a red bouncy ball which Cosmo barked while he chased after and briefly caught it in his jaw. Before he ran back over to Buzz and squeaked it in his mouth. Buzz and the others gave him a weird look.

"Is...That a yes?" Buzz inquired.

"Da. But first Cosmo need to hear Verum Rex's plan to assure Cortex's power is not abused." Cosmo agreed while firmly stating the terms.

"It won't be. You have our word." Rapunzel assured with a smile.

"Alright then. Gather up Guardians and Rangers." Yozora sair as they all gathered around. "This plan will require witts."

"Way ahead of you." Eugene beamed.

"Insanity." Yozora added.

"Organic kind right here." Orion quipped.

"And of course...Explosives." Yozora smirked at Rocket.

"Ooooh...Yeaah..." Rocket exhaled with a sinister smirk.

"Rapunzel? This will be a wild ride. But we will also need your magic hair for this next battle plan. Are you up for it?" Yozora asked Rapunzel.

"I'm always up for it. Just tell me where to fling my locks." Rapunzel said with a confident smirk.

"Plus I'm double in the wits." Lance whispered humorously.

"Who isn't?" XR humorously added.

"Alright. Here's what we're gonna do." Yozora said to everyone as he relayed the plan out to them.

This was going to take their best to take on the sworn enemy of the galactic alliance. And of course the best of Buzz Lightyear. Only this time he and his crew are not alone.

They will see it through. For Infinity and Beyond!

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THAT'S ALL FOR NOW FOLKS!

Did everyone like that Popeye the Sailor cameo?! 😁

As you can tell I've shown the video game version of Mantis. And revealed that Rapunzel has a variant who is a female Maverick from another universe. FYI. It's the same universe where Doctor Strange and America Chavez ended up in from the film Multiverse Of Madness. Why did you think I had the events brought up? 😉

"Don't worry the Scarlet Witch didn't axe her off like the other cameos in the film were." Maverick assured humorously." I repeat. Mavpunzel is still alive and well if anyone's wondering."

Also getting to another topic, if I didn't make it clear before which I didn't. The Capital City of Mickey Mouse Federation is ToonTown. And Mickey the president. No I won't include any of the human characters from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. But that doesn't mean the Toon characters don't exist. 😉

Like what Kingdom Hearts does. I'll change a few minor details to make sure it fits this universe of a Multiverse. Pun intended. 😁

Also yes Moonballs are based on that dango treat from Monster Hunter. I wasn't sure who to call the food stall owner who had the noodles. So I made one up. ️

And yeah Thanos' body making a cameo is meant to be a foreshadow for much later on in the story. Of what I can't say. But all finales have their big showdowns.

And yes Cosmo is a male dog in here just like in the video game if you can tell the scene I copied.

As for what Yozora's plan is. Find out in the next chapter! 😉👍

Thank you all so much for reading. Be sure to fave and follow if you like what you see and don't forget to leave comments to let me know your thoughts.

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