Hey, everyone! I'm back with another chapter of Ultimate Alliance What if?! Let's begin!
I DON'T OWN ANYONE IN THIS SERIES!*
We see a strange ship coming down towards Earth in Yew York in the year of 1988. The pilots manage to shot it down, but it crashed down near Grand Center Station. When the police came towards it, came out a little kid. Turns out, the kid was Peter Quill!
Officer: What the... Is that a kid?
Watcher: Not just a kid, but Peter Quill. A son of Earth and the stars whose pain and loss now threatens to destroy the very world he once call home. And the entire universe along with it.
Soon, Peter use his cosmic power to case chaos!
Watcher: Time. Space. Reality. It's more than a linear path. It's a prism of endless possibility, where a single choice can branch out into infinite realities, creating alternate worlds from the ones you know. I am the Watcher. I am your guide through these vast new realities. Follow me and ponder the question... "What if?" Six months earlier, the Ravagers were dispatched to abduct Peter Quill from his home world. But young Quill's captor couldn't bring himself to turn him over and chose to raise him as his own. At least, that's how the story often goes. But in this universe, Yondu never had his change of heart. So he turned Peter over to his father, the Celestial being known as Ego. Ego called it the Expansion, a long-held dream to remake the universe in his image. And with his son now at his side, he had all the power he needed to bring it to fruition.
Back to Peter, he was destroying most of New York. But it wouldn't go without noticing. It was being watch by Peggy Carter and Howard Stark at Project: Pegasus!
Peggy: Orbital Intelligence has retraced his steps across dozens of nearby solar systems,all destroyed, consumed by a wave of cosmic radiation within 24 hours of his arrival.
Howard: And I thought my kid was a pain in the ass.
Peggy: Tony has spunk. This kid has an entire nuclear arsenal coursing through his veins.
Howard: With that kind of firepower, I don't know that there's a person on Earth who can stop him.
Peggy: Not one person working alone, but a team, made up of the best our little planet has to offer.
Howard: You forgetting we're in the middle of a Cold War? All that We Are the World garbage doesn't really play outside of MTV.
Peggy: This boy has already torn though midtown Manhattan in a matter of minutes, Howard. At the rate he's going, our planet won't last a day. We need help.
Howard: [sighs] Okay. Who's on the roster?
First, we see Hank Pym with his daugter, Hope, having lunch.
Hope: Um, there's no vegetable.
Hank: [sighs] The potato chips are the vegetable.
Hope: Seriously? [leaves table] [sighs] And you're supposed to be a scientist?
Hank: And you're supposed to like potato chips. [sighs]
[phone ringing]
When Hank picked up the phone, it was Howard, and he immedianty handed up. But Howard call him again.
Hank: You know, for a genius, Stark, you're pretty slow on the take.
Howard: [on phone] Listen, if you don't wanna talk to me, that's fine. Just do one thing. Turn on the TV.
Hank: What?
Hope: [watching TV] Dad? You should see this.
When Hank saw what's on the TV, he change his mind.
Hank: Sned the plane.
Howard: [on phone] On step ahead of you.
[rumbling]
Howard: [scoffs] Typical. Hey, honey. You wanna go to work with Dad?
Soon, the two were at Pegasus, and Hank brought his Ant Man suit with him.
Hope: Whoa! This is where you work?
Hank: [chuckling] No, no. Used to work, sweetie. Not anymore.
When they were deeper in the base, Hank saw his old friend, Bill Foster, or Black Goliath!
Foster: Things must be real bad if they had the balls to call us in.
Hank: Foster. Great. Now I know it's a disaster.
Foster: Always a pleasure. What's the matter? Didn't wanna spring for a sitter?
Hank: You know damn well I don't have anyone to leave her with, thanks to this place.
Peggy: [walks in] Let's save the fighting for the battlefield, shall we?
Hope: [sees strange people walking towards them] Wow. Who's the guy in the armor?
Turns out, the person was King T'Chaka, the Black Panther!
Peggy: King T'Chaka of the African kingdom of Wakanda. They don't typically involve themselves in global affairs, but...
Hope: Aliens?
Peggy: Yes, aliens.
Howard: [walks in] Your highness, [shakes T'Chaka's hand] it's a pleasure. Your father was a great ally to us during the war.
T'Chaka: Yes, I understand he even donated some Vibranium to your efforts.
Howard: We made a shield out of it and lost it in the Arctic. But other than that, things turned out pretty well.
That's when a plane carrier came landing in the base.
Hank: Hey, how'd the Commies snag an invite?
T'Chaka: Gorbachev wanted the target contained before he reaches Moscow. So he sent the Winter Soldier, the world's most deadly assasin.
When Peggy saw him, she was in shocked of who she was thinking of.
Peggy: [gasps]It looks just like him, Howard. Just like Bucky.
Howard: I'd heard the rumors. But even it they're true, the man we knew is long gone, Peg. And we have bigger fish to fry.
Soon, the four suited up into their suits and were heading towards a space ship.
Peggy: Satellites indicate an alarming rate of cosmic radiation emanating from the hostile's path. He's on the move, heading towards Coney Island.
Howard: And if we don't get there and take him out now, the entire Eastern Seaboard won't be inhabitable for the next half century.
Foster: And we even gonna be able to intercept him in time? New York's a long way from the Mojave Desert.
When they reach the space ship, a woman was putting the Tesseract in the ship. Turns out, the woman was Dr. Wendy Lawson, Mar-Vel!
Mar-Vel: Not in my ride.
Peggy: Dr. Wendy Lawson, US Air Force. She's spearheading our joint reaserch into the Tesseract.
Ant Man: That uniform doesn't really look like air force.
Mar-Vel: It's not. It's Kree Starforce
Ant Man: What?
Mar-Vel: Long story. I'll explain on the way.
Soon, the Avengers were off! Couple hours later, they've reach the Coney Islands.
Ant Man: This kid puts on quite a show.
Peter was currently at the Amusment Park on Coney Island, looking a prize plushes.
Black Panther: From my perch, he does not look all that threatening.
Mar-Vel: [on coms] Looks can be deceiving, your Highness.
Black Golaith: You'd think the leader of a technological superpower that masquerades as a Third World country would appreciatw that.
That's when Peter leviated a orange raccoon plush and blew up the stand with the rest of them!
Black Panther: I see your point.
While they were dealing with Peter, Mar-Vel was at his ship.
Mar-Vel: I'm at the crash site. Moving in to secure the pod ship now. Everyone in position?
Black Golaith: Relax. I got the perimeter.
He then grew to a massive size!
Ant Man: You've been juicing, Foster? I seem to remeber you maxing out at 21 feet.
Black Golaith: I made some adjustments, Hank. I figured it's the end of the world. Go big or go home.
Black Panther: If you two are finished mesureing your statures, I have eyes on the target. He appears to be enjoying himself on this titl-a-whirl.
Mar-Vel: If you can isolate the kid, you should be able to trap him in the photon grid.
Ant Man: You cover the trap. i'll handle the boy. [runs over to Peter in his small size]
Black Panther: Are you sure you do not want any backup?
Ant Man: No. I'm great with kids.
He then sends his ants to Peter's cotton candy.
Ant Man: What's the matter, kid?
Peter: What?
Ant Man: Something bugging you?
Peter: [tosses cotton candy away] [gasps] [jumps off] [yelps]
Soon, Ant Man chase Peter with his ants towards the Hall of Mirrors. While they were doing that, Mar-Vel was checking out Peter's ship. Now, Peter was in the Hall of Mirrors, and Black Panther place a laser shooter in the middle of the hall, and it sliced off Peter's blushes head, making him mad.
Black Panther: Resistance will only make this more difficult, my young friend.
That's when Peter destroyed the Hall of Mirrors with a single thought in his rage, and started to attack Black Panther.
Black Panther: Well, that went poorly.
Soon, the fight has begun. It lead to Black Golaith trapping Peter in a water holder, but he blew it up and attack him. Soon, the Winter Soldier was about to fire at Peter with the jet, but was stop by Mar-Vel.
Mar-Vel: Pull back, Killer. If the Cube in that jet blows, there won't be a planet left to save.
Peter then fired his power at the jet, but the Winter Soldier moved out of the way and the attack hit Mar-Vel! Black Golaith caught her from falling, and now the Avengers were at a stand still.
Black Panther: Does anyone have a plan?
Ant Man: I've got a plan. Retreat.
Soon, they got onto the jet, but Peter hold it in place! That's when a sports car came charging at Peter!
Mar-Vel: Citizen, get out of there, now!
When Peter started to shot at the car, but the car dodged the attacks. Then the car created illusions of a giant robot, then the car transforms into a robot as well! Turns out, the robot was the Autobot Mirage!
Mirage: [he and his clones charge at Peter] One, two, three!
Peter: [blast at clones]
Mirage: [as clones disappear] Oh, there it is! [kicks Peter] Ka-pow!
Peter then crashed into a tent!
Mirage: Whoo-ho! [punches air] Now that's what I'm talking about!
Peter got up and started to attack Mirage!
Mirage: [dodges attacks] Whoa! Guys, a little help!
Then the others Autobots came in. There was Bumblebee, Arcee, Wheeljack and Optimus Prime!
Optimus Prime: Autobots, stop the child!
Soon, the four were shooting at Peter, and he was attacking at them!
Bumblebee: [shooting at Peter] [man voice on radio] Not so fast!
But before Optimus could slice him with his sword, lightning came crashing down at Peter! Turns out, the lightning was from Thor!
Black Golaith: Who the hell is that guy?
Peter: Wow. Is it really you?
Thor: If you are referring to your doom, then yes.
Peter: Bummer. I thought you were the dude from Van Halen. [passes out]
Thor: I'm... Van what?
Soon, they locked Peter in a secure vault.
Thor: Jotunheim was the first to fall. Asgard soon thereafter. One by one, the armies of the Nine Realms perished at that boy's hands. Until this realm, Earth, was all that remained.
Optimus Prime: He also took Cybertron, my home.
Mirage: But, on the plus, he took down Unicron. Destroyer of worlds, and Lord of the Undead. That's good, right?
Peggy: Right? [to Thor] Well, surely, if you've come all this way, you must have a plan in mind?
Thor then pulls out a strange plant in a vile.
Thor: The Celestial seedling. Ego has used them to implant his essence on planets across the universe. I recovered Earth's on my way here from a place called Missouri.
Bumblebee: [female voice on radio] What a lovely place.
Mar-Vel: So that's how he's doing it. He consuming these planets.
Arcee: That explains it.
Thor: The seedlings are the fuse of Ego's Expansion, a fuse that must be lit.
T'Chaka: By the child. That's why he is here.
Howard: So, why don't we just shove this thing down the garbage disposal? Problem solved.
Wheeljack: It's not that simple. Seedling are protected by a veil of cosmic energy. Only a Celestial origin can penetrate it.
Thor: The robot nerd is right.
Wheeljack: I wouldn't call me a nerd.
Hank: Well, lucky for us, we have one in custody.
Meanwhile, Hope was dancing and listening to her music on her Walkman, while she was using her dad's card to get threw the base, until she reached Peter's cell.
Hope: Whoa! [sees Peter] [unplugs headphones] [sings] To fight and... You know it. To never Surrender To never... Come on. [chuckles]
Peter didn't get it. That's when Bumblebee came in.
Bumblebee: [playing song] [male voice singing on radio] To never surrender
Hope: Yeah, you get it, big guy.
Bumblebee: [squats down] [to Peter] [male voice on radio] Forgive my intruden, little man. [southern African voice on radio] I'm sorry for the way I was acting. [female voice on radio] I was just [male voice on radio] protecting my friends.
Peter: It's fine, big guy.
Hope: What's you name?
Bumblebee: [male voice on radio] My name is [Clarlie's voice on radio] Bumblebee.
Peter: Nice to meet, Bumblebee. I'm Peter Quill.
Hope: And I'm Hope. [to Peter] Not really an alien name for you.
Peter: But it's a cool song, though. It's always been one of my mom's favorites. Or at least it was.
Hope: My mom loved it too.
Peter: That her Walkman?
Hope: Um...
Peter: It's just, you're holding on to it pretty tight.
Bumblebee: [teenage male voice on radio] You had one?
Peter: Yeah. If I still had mine, I'd probably be doing the same.
Hope: You know, you don't seem so bad, given where you're from.
Peter: Hey, what's wrong with Missouri?
Hope: Missouri? My dad said you were an alien.
Peter: Dude, feed me a corn dog and call me Springsteen, because I was born in the U.S.A. Why else do you think I'd fly 10,000 light years to get here? In a ship, by the way, with no tape deck. I'm just trying to get home.
Hope: [smirks]
Bumblebee: [spy radio channel] Looks like we're going rouge.
[alarm blaring]
Peggy: Security breach in the detainment facility.
Hank: [as the others ready up] [looks in his pockets] Where are my particles? And where's Hope? And where's my key card?
Mirage: Wait, where's Bee?
Turns out, Hope used the particles to shrink the cell with Peter in it and carry it away. Soon, she was a good distance from the others, so she could put it down, use her hairclip to open the cell, and grew it back to normal size.
Peter: [gets out] Whoa! That was crazy.
Hope: [giggles]
Bumblebee: [transforms into veichle mode] [opens passager door] [cowboy male voice on radio] Come on, little boy. We're getting outta here.
Hope: [gives Peter her walkman] Here. I want you to have this.
Peter: What? No way. This was your mom's.
Hope: Look, it's a long ride to Missouri, and she'd be glad to know I'm sharing.
Peter: [takes walkman] Thanks, Hope. I owe you one.
That's when the others came to where the three were!
Hank: Hope! Come on. I think they're down here.
But when they got there, Peter and Bumblebee was gone.
Hank: [runs towards Hope] Oh! Hope. Thank God. You okay, sweetie? Did he hurt you?
Hope: Hurt me? Peter? He's a kid, like me, dad. I was just trying to help him get home.
Hank: Home? Like his home world?
Hope: No, it's Missouri.
Soon, they got Hope to tell them everything.
Hope: You guys are making a mistake. Peter's not behind all this. It's his dad. He says he's, like, a weird alien space god or something.
Howard: Yeah. Great. Blame the absentee father. I get this enough from my own son.
Optimus Prime: And I imagin Bee is with him?
Hope: Yeah. He wants to help him.
Arcee: Yeah, that happened before with the human she calls herself Claire.
Optimus Prime: Wheeljack, contact Stratosphere. I want him to find Bee.
Wheeljack: Good idea. If we could find Bumblebee, we could find the boy.
Optimus Prime: Mirage, go on the road to Missouri. Bee couldn't have gone far.
Mirage: Right on it, boss man.
Hank: Sweetie, we really need to find your friend. Did he say anthing more specific about where he might be headed.
Thor: This is taking too long. I will find the boy and destroy him and the seedling myself. [about to leave]
Howard: Hey, Lightning Boy, we kind of have a team thing going on here.
Thor: And I have a duty thing going on here, Mustache Man. To see to it that the boy submits to Asgardian justice.
T'Chaka: Which entails what, excatly?
Thor: Eternal flagellation, impalement, some light maiming. You know, standard stuff.
Foster: We can't just let you take him. We need to study him.
Bucky: We need to kill him.
Hope: [gasps]
Bucky: He's a threat, even without the seedling.
Wendy: Well, what do you know? He speaks.
T'Chaka: And who would've thought? He advocating murder.
Foster: It's a bit on the nose, if you ask me.
Thor: Nevertheless, his logic is sound. So long as the boy lives, this planet will never be safe. And is that not what we're here to ensure?
Hope: That's right. You're here to do the right thing. And Peter deserves our help as much as anyone. [to her dad] You want me to tell you where he went? Then you have to promise me you'll help him. You know that's what mom would've done.
Meanwhile, the two were reaching Missouri, and Peter was not looking happy. That's when-
?: [in Peter's head] Peter. Peter.
Peter turned up the volume so he won't hear the voice.
Bumblebee: [moves set a little bit up]
Peter: [moves headphone] Hmm?
Bumblebee: [male reporter voice on radio] You good? Need a snack? Gotta go leak?
Peter: No. [puts back headphone] I'm good.
Turns out, the voice in Peter's head was Ego!
Ego: Why can't he hear me? Why can't I connect with my son?
Computer: According to his ship's logs, the vessal was compromised by an enemy combatant before sustaining catastrophic damage.
Ego: Where?
Computer: Earth.
Ego: Well, then I guess I'll have to finish what he started myself.
Soon, the Avenger got a reading from the computer showing that Ego was on the way, with the seedling glowing as well!
Howard: We've got incoming. Another alien vessel about to make landfall, right outside.
Foster: Oh, man.
Howard: Well, guess that's the dad. The girl was right.
Peggy: [scoffs] Wouldn't I love to have that printed on a T-shirt.
Foster: We have our hands full with just one of these Celestials. How are gonna take on two?
T'Chaka: There is an ancient Wakandan proverb from the days before our tribes united. "One only wins a two-front war by getting out of your enemy's way."
Thor: Meaning?
Howard: If you can't fight 'em both, let 'em fight each other. [on coms] Lawson, tell me you got eyes on that kid.
Optimus Prime: [on coms] How far are you, Mirage?
Turns out, Mirage, Ant Man and Mar-Vel were on their way to get to Peter and Bumblebee.
Mar-Vel: Picking up some cosmic radiation that's definitely not of this world.
Mirage: Just pulling up to where they are, boss man.
Howard: You find him, you bring him in ready to suit up. He may be our only hope of stopping dear old dad.
Turns out, Peter was at the cemetary and saw his mom's tomb.
Mar-Vel: [to Ant Man] You really think a child is going to be so willing to fight his own father?
Ant Man: [chuckles]
Mar-Vel: What?
Ant Man: You're not a parent, are you, Wendy?
Mirage: [hearing the converation] Ew! Get a room you two!
Back to the others, Thor, Black Golaith, Black Panther, Optimus Prime, Arcee, Wheeljack and Peggy were holding the line against Ego from him getting the seedling.
Ego: You've taken something from me. I'd like it back.
Thor then tried to take him down, but Ego pushed him back to his team.
Black Golaith: [scoffs] You got any breath left in there, buddy?
Ego: Hand over the seedling and this will all be over.
Peggy: All this, meaning us? [scoffs] Not gonna happen. So if you've come to destroy us, you're going to be leaving her very dissapointed.
Ego: Destroy you? No. No, no, no. I've come to save you. [powers up] By growing and spreading. Covering all that exists, until every part of you is me.
Optimus Prime: [face plate goes on] You're mad!
He then use the earth to create thousands and thousands of clones of himself!
Black Panther: You don't see that every day.
Black Golaith: Great.
Wheeljack: We're gonna die.
Ego: And if you will not give us back what is ours... [all clones] We will take it from you!
Soon, the battle has begun! When Thor use his hammer to destroy them, Ego created more of them! But then Ego then transforms himself into a mountain with his head on it!
Peggy: [to Howard] We'll hold them off for as long as we can, but Ego's forces are coming. You need to get that seedling out of there.
Howard: Sounds like a job for our resident Terminator. [calls Bucky] Home Plate to Winter Soldier. Do you copy? Winter Soldier, do you copy?
Turns out, Bucky was where Peter was, about to shoot and kill him! While that was happening, the three made it to Peter.
Mar-Vel: Okay, Hank, look. I can use this gravitational control to hold him down, but I'll need you to subdue him.
Ant Man: We're dealing with an 8-year old here, Lawson. We want him to help, we have to make him want to. [starts to walk toward Peter]
Mirage: Yeah. The "Talk to your son" trick.
Winter Soldier: [on coms] The Americans have located the target.
Karpov: [in Russian] Good. Are you ready to comply?
Ant Man: Hey there, kid. I'm Hank. Hope's dad. She has told me a lot about you.
Peter: Everthing that's happening, it's not me, it's him. He has this power to get inside my head.
Meanwhile, the other were ont having any luck with Ego!
Peter: I thought maybe if I came back here, I wouldn't feel so alone. But [sighs] without my mom, it doesn't even feel like home anymore.
Karpov: [in Russian] You have the target in range. Shoot. Shoot.
That's when Howard manage to get to Bucky's coms.
howard: [to Bucky] Stand dow, soldier.
Winter Soldier: Huh?
Howard: I intercepted your handler's transmission. It's just you and me, pal.
Winter Soldier: There is no me.
While they were talking, the others were being piled up my Ego's clones!
Ant Man: I know how you feel, Peter. Since we lost Hope's mom, our home hasn't felt the same either. And to be honest, neither have I. The pain, the anger, the loneliness. I know it can fell like you're drowning in it, but I haven't, and you don't have to either, so long as you let the peole around you pull you out.
Howard: Bucky, when you see that kid, all you see is a target. But I see a future. The life he can lead, the good he can do. And I see it in you too.
Winter Soldier: You don't know me.
Howard: Steve Rogers did. And the man he knew, the friend he loved, would never take the shot.
That's when Ego used his powers to go get the seedling!
Ant Man: Peter, come back with us. Please.
Peter: [sniffles] [sighs]
Ant Man: Come join our family.
Howard: Bucky, please.
Ant Man: Well, kid, what do you say?
Howard: Bucky.
That's when Ant Man gave Peter a hug and Bucky pulled his gun away and left.
Howard: [on Mar-Vel's com] Hank. Lawson. Did you get the kid?
Mar-Vel: Yeah, we got him.
Howard: We need him back here now.
Mar-Vel: Roger that.
That's when Stratosphere came in flying, transforms from the sky and lands on the ground.
Stratosphere: Ha, ha! Sorry I'm late lads. Gas was expensive.
Mirage: Perfect timing. Let's roll out, guys!
Howard: [chuckles softly] Fifty years later, Captain America is still saving my ass.
That's when Ego manage to take the seedling from Howard and Hope! He manage to do that and was pulling it towards him!
Peggy: If someone doesn't stop that seedling, we are done for!
Arcee: There's to many of them!
Black Panther: I can't break free.
Thor and Optimus Prime: No!
Black Golaith: We're not gonna make it.
But before the seedling got to Ego, the others came in just in time!
Peggy: As if on cue, Wendy!
Mar-Vel: Crusty, jump.
The two jumps off the jet, and Ant Man shrinks them down and lands on a flying ant, Peter grabs the seedling, and the two were heading inside.
Ant Man: We got it! [to Peter] I hope you're right about this, kid.
Soon, the two grew back to normal size and faced against Ego.
Ego: Peter. [chuckles] You're alive! And you... Well, you seem to have fallen in with the wrong crowd.
Peter: This is my home, dad. This is my mom's home. And I can't just let you destroy it.
Ego: That's the mortal in you, Peter. In time, through, you'll come to understand everything dies. Except us.
Peter: How could you say that? My mother, you said you loved her.
Ego: And that I did. But I knew if she were to live, the Expansion, the reason for our existence, would never come to pass. So I did what I had to do, as you must now, Peter.
Peter: [shocked] You killed my mother?
Ego: No, no, no, no. I get it. You're upset. [chuckles] But you know you don't have the power to destroy me, Peter.
Peter: You're right. [pulls out seedling] But you do.
Ego: Peter...
Peter: And with this, a little bit of you will always live inside of me.
He then absords the seedling into himself!
Ego: [grunts] Deep down, I guess I've always known you'd turn out to be a dissappointment. You are human after all.
Peter: [eyes glow blue] Actually, old man, my mom says I'm a Star-Lord.
He then destroy Ego with a powerful blast, along with the mountain and clones! Soon, the battle was over, and everyone was at Hank's place having lunch.
Peggy: It's a recipe, Hank. You're not splitting the atom.
Hank: To be honest, splitting the atom is a lot more intuitive.
T'Chaka: This American libation is surprising delicious. What do you call it?
Foster: Uh, light beer?
Thor: [chuckles] How exotic. Another!
[all laughing]
Wendy: [hands cat to kids] And this little chicky's name is Goose.
Peter: [chuckles]
Wendy: I thought maybe you kids might like to have her.
Peter: Thanks, but I'm more a dog guy.
Wendy: [chuckles]
Hope: Peter, you don't say no to a free cat.
Peter: [chuckles]
Wendy: [to Howard] Hey, any word on Silent But Deadly?
Howard: He's in the wind.
Hank: That mean we should lock our doors?
Howard: I don't think so. Something broke though that day in Missouri. The Winter Soldier may be out there, but I'm pretty sure Bucky Barnes is out there with him.
Soon, they got eating their lunch. After a while...
Thor: [gets up] Many, many thanks to all of you for this fine victory banquet. But I am afraid I must bid thee farewell.
Wendy: Come on. What avout dessert? Hank burnt a pie.
Thor: The boy may have destroyed Ego's corpereal form, but his planet still lives. And the universe will not know peace until I have avenged the ones we've lost.
Foster: So, what, Thunder brother? No invite?
Hank: Perhaps you forgot, Goldilocks, we have sort of a team thing going on here.
Thor: Then I suggest you suit up, team.
Soon, the Avengers got to work on stopping Ego!
End