Guardians of the Galaxy, Plus Ultra!
"Let me tell you a little story."
A young Izuku Midoriya watched television with his mom as the screen showed All Might, greatest hero on Earth and the symbol of peace, saving a family from a fire.
"I come from a world where 80% of the population has powers, or quirks, as we like to call them."
The next scene showed Izuku having a devastated look on his face as a doctor sat in front of him in the hospital. His mother looked at him in sadness, while the doctor had a look of indifference.
"Sadly, I was one of the unlucky few to be born without a quirk, so I couldn't be a hero. And because of this, nobody believed in me, or my dreams."
Izuku was seen laid out on the dirty sand at the playground, with a few scrapes and bruises, while a young Bakugo and his cronies were looking down at him with malicious smirks, with the young blonde kid holding up his hands and miniature explosions appeared.
"I got picked on, brought down physically and emotionally, and I was powerless to stop it."
"And then things got even weirder."
Izuku stood surrounded by a bunch of aliens who were all laughing at him, before they split to reveal a blue-skinned man with a large red fin on his head. The man smirked at him, before placing a hand on his back and showed him a viewing window, where Izuku saw the vastness of space.
"I found myself abducted, and now I'm in space."
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The next scene showed an older Izuku, looking to be about 19-years-old, lying down on a bed in a jail cell, where he was surrounded by four other individuals.
A green-skinned woman with long black and violet hair, and yellow circles surrounding her eyes named Gamora, a teal-skinned muscular man with red tattoos across his arms, shoulders, and chest named Drax, a raccoon in an orange and black jumpsuit named Rocket, and what looked like a walking, talking tree named Groot.
"Now I'm not just in space, but in space jail with this merry little band of misfits." Izuku said with a sigh.
"Wow...that story was...pretty pathetic." Rocket said simply.
"I am Groot." Groot said with a shake of his head.
"What? It is." Rocket retorted with a shrug.
"I do not understand. How are we band if we have never played music, or have no instruments on our persons?" Drax asked curiously.
Gamora sighed with an eye roll. "I am surrounded by idiots."
/
All five of them stood in a line up as they were being processed in the jail cell with a Nova Corps officer looking over each of their rap sheets.
"Izuku Midoriya, aka Star-Lord, the Rogue Ravager."
Izuku was flying over buildings thanks to his rocket boots, and shooting at multiple alien mercenaries were firing at him. He landed down on one building where another alien was about to shoot him, but he pointed his gun and fired a cold blast at him, freezing him solid.
"Gamora, adopted daughter of the Mad Titan Thanos."
Gamora was surrounded by multiple alien mercenaries, before she deployed her retractable sword and sliced at all of them, killing them with ease.
"Drax the Destroyer."
Drax gave a battle cry as he brandished two large knives and sliced up a few alien mercenaries, before grabbing one by the throat and throwing him right through the wall.
"Subject 89-P13, otherwise known as Rocket."
Rocket stood on top of a table, facing down a bunch of alien mercenaries, who were just laughing at him, thinking that he was no threat. Rocket just smirked, before reaching back and pulling out a large gun. Before the mercenaries could retaliate, Rocket gunned them down with a volley of laser fire, laughing loudly.
"And Groot, the last Floral Colussus."
Groot smashed his hands to the ground, causing a bunch of wooden vines to sprout from the ground and ensnare more alien mercenaries heading right towards him.
The Nova Corps officer chuckled at each of them. "Man, what a match made in heaven, with you lot." The officer said sarcastically.
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Izuku stood inside what appeared to be a tomb, where at the center of it was a cubed object, with glowing alien writing all over it. When Izuku grabbed it, a bunch of aliens with guns came in and pointed their weapons at him.
"Whatever this thing is, it's something that a lot of bad people want." Izuku said as he placed the cube on the table with everyone surrounding it.
"They won't stop hunting us." Gamora said cautiously.
The five of them were in the cockpit of Izuku's ship, the Milano, flying through space as multiple ships were on their tail and firing at them.
"And someone worse is coming for that thing."
"Oh, great. As if that's all we need right now." Rocket complained. "Who could possibly be worse?"
Sitting on his stone throne on Sanctuary, the Mad Titan Thanos looked down upon his forces, with a malicious smile on his face.
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"Look, we may not have chosen to be stuck together, but we're all that we got." Izuku said passionately as he looked at each of them. "Let's face it, we're all not exactly perfect."
The five of them stood along a desert planet, staring down at a large army of alien soldiers, who were all snarling at them with their weapons straight at the five. Izuku gave each of them an encouraging look, which they all returned, before he smirked and activated his visor helmet.
"But I think that's what makes us a force to be reckoned with."
The Galaxy doesn't need heroes.
The five of them stood together as Izuku flew above the army of aliens, with Rocket riding along his shoulders, as they both rained down laser fire and bombs upon their enemies.
It needs...
Drax and Gamora stood back to back as they parried multiple strikes against their enemies, retaliating with their own respective blades, before Groot jumped right by them, then spinning around and lashing out with his extended arms, smacking them all away.
Guardians!
The five of them stood before Thanos, each of them with a stern and determined look on their faces and their weapons pointed right at him, knowing that this was going to be the fight of their lives. Thanos, meanwhile, just held a confident look, not truly seeing them as a threat to his goals.
"I have brought death upon all those who have stood before me." Thanos said smugly. "What hope do you have to stand against my might?"
"Even if all hope does seem lost, we're still here! We're still fighting!" Izuku exclaimed with determination, a look that was shared by all his strange new friends. "Like a hero from my world used to say; "Never give up! Keep pushing forward and face danger head on with a smile!""
"Smiling alone cannot save you." Thanos said as his hands began to glow.
"No...but they do look badass." Izuku said, before they all charged at Thanos, who charged back.
Guardians of the Galaxy, Plus Ultra!
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"Hey, Rocket, what's this thing?" Izuku said as he pulled out a rectangular device that was connected to what appeared to be headphones from a pile scrap metal.
"I snagged it off of this piece of scut called the Collector. It's junk, in my opinion." Rocket said nonchalantly. "All it does is just make this ridiculous music."
Izuku was curious about this thing, so he decided to place the headphones over his ear and pressed the play button.
Ooga-chaka Ooga-ooga
Ooga-chaka Ooga-ooga
"Huh...not bad." Izuku said with a smile.
I'm~ hooked on a feeling
I'm high on believing
That you're in love with me!
Coming Soon!
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Hey everyone, I hope you like this little teaser I have planned for a brand new story that's coming real soon.
And when I say soon, I mean really soon; like, maybe, in the next couple weeks, or probably next month.
I got inspired to write this by three sources of material. One was when I watched season 1 episode 2 of Marvel's What If...? series, where T'challa became Star-Lord instead of Peter Quill, the second is when I started playing two Guardians of the Galaxy games, the telltale game and the 2021 game, and the third is when I read a story by Ultimate 10, where Izuku Midoriya becomes Captain America.
Having Izuku become Star-Lord seems like a crazy and interesting concept that I just had to give it a try. As you can tell by this little teaser, Izuku has a bit of a different attitude than the anime/mange, which is a given considering he gets taken in by Yondu, but unlike Peter Quill, he doesn't embrace the whole thief and criminal life, as heroes have been his inspiration. So, this Izuku is going to be like a blend of himself from the manga/anime, and Peter Quill.
So, just to clarify, this little teaser doesn't even cover a third of what I have planned for this story. The Guardians of the Galaxy have faced all kinds of adversaries and crazy scenarios that I've been coming up with a lot for ideas for how my versions will come against those threats. Not just of those in space, but of those of Earth, too. I can't wait to write the Guardians going to Earth!
Now, just to clarify, the looks on the Guardians aren't all based off of the MCU, rather, they are based off of the looks of various incarnations of them. Rocket and Groot are based off of their looks from the MCU, Gamora is based off of her look in the Telltale game, and Drax is based off of his look from the 2021 video game.
Thanks for checking this out! If you have any questions about this story, don't hesitate to PM me, or write a review.
See you all next time, folks! Stay healthy, stay safe, I'll see you all next time!
