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The final gauntlet (2 of 6)
Gamora killed Thanos at the start of Infinity Wars. But last issue Eros convened a meeting of galactic players to reveal that Thanos had arranged for his mind to be uploaded to someone else, and they suspect it was Gamora. Hela sent the Black Order to steal Thanos' body from them. They were successful but the head is missing. Groot and Star-Lord arrived late in time to see the Black Order send the gathering into a black hole. Beta Ray Bill, the Cosmic Ghost Rider (Frank Castle), Captain Marvel (Phyla-Vell) and Moondragon (these last 2 from an alternate universe) were the only survivors. And these 6 formed the new Guardians Of The Galaxy.Now drunk Peter Quill has rung up Kitty Pryde of the X-Men on Earth to bitch about it all. He tells her he still loves her and wants her back. She reminds him she's married to Colossus now. He apologises for missing the wedding. She asks why he isn't calling Gamora instead. Peter says she killed him (IW#1) and Kitty says that happens all the time in the X-Men, so get over it. He should sober up and go find her and defend her. And also he should do something about the Black Order and Thanos' body.Hela and the Order are looking for Thanos' head. We last saw Gamora throw it in front of the assembled Infinity Watch to prove she had killed the Titan. Now the Order have come to demand that the Collector hand it over to them. He denies knowing anything about it, but then says he'll tell them where it is if they'll make a deal. Hela comments that Death made him (and the other Elders Of The Universe) immortal (in Avengers Annual #16), but as a Death Goddess herself she can break that pact. So the deal will be tell her where the head is and she'll let him continue living. Taneleer Tivan directs them to the Negative Zone. (It isn't clear whether *any* of his statements are true.)In Quill's new ship the Ryder Phyla-Vell and Heather Douglas are trying to sleep in each other's arms when Peter comes in with some spare clothes (belonging to ex-GOTG Gamora and Drax). He's plagued by nightmares of Gamora killing him but then walks into an argument between the Rider and Groot with Bill trying to restore peace. Groot complains that Rider cut pieces off him which then grew into vicious baby Groots who go around stabbing everybody (and can only say "I am Stab"). Rider attacks Groot but Heather and Phyla, still trying to get some sleep, enter the room and Moondragon launches the Dragon Of The Moon from her tattoo and it smashes Rider against the wall.The shock reverts him to Frank Castle and he gives Star-Lord a potted history of his conversion from Punisher to Cosmic GR in an alternate future (see Thanos (2017) #13-18). Then he reveals that the argument between him and Groot is because Groot (and Bill) want to save Gamora but Rider wants to kill her. Quill claims to be neutral, and the others can go pursue their own choices. Castle takes him up on it and leaves. Groot says they've got to stop him killing their friend, but Peter points out that only he and Groot know where Gamora is. And anyway she's already dead. (I don't (yet) understand this. Last *we* saw of her in IW#6 Warlock let the Infinity Stones send her where *they* wanted to, and she wound up looking after a newly-reborn Magus.)Now we discover that some of the other chars were rescued from last issue's black hole. Gladiator and Eros (scarred and in the Shi'ar version of a wheelchair) are on a Shi'ar starship. Eros has reconvened the meeting. G-Type and Plutonia II (members of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard who weren't in the black hole disaster last issue) are there along with Cosmic Ghost Rider and a Kree soldier, and several other indistinct forms.Then Wraith (who also fell in the hole) steps out of the shadows. He takes an instant dislike to Rider (because the flaming skull reminds him of the signet ring of the man who killed his parents - see Annihilation Conguest: Wraith #2). He thinks they should concentrate on finding the Black Order and Thanos' body. Gladiator says the Shi'ar are looking for them, and Eros says that frees them to hunt down and kill Gamora.This is agreeable to a new member of the team, Gamora's sister Nebula (presumably finished with her villainy in Asgardians Of The Galaxy). She also suggests how they will find her, by 'questioning' her ex-lover - Richard Rider, Nova.


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Faithless (2 of 6)
Star-Lord's father J'Son is Patriarch of the new Universal Church Of Truth and he's trapped Peter Quill and most of the other Guardians Of The Galaxy aboard his Cathedral flagship. Only Groot and Moondragon were left in the Guardians' ship the Bowie, plus the dying Rocket Raccoon.Now Heather Douglas wants Rocket to let her into his mind so she can learn *why* he is dying. Rocket reluctantly shows her how he was born in the galactic insane asylum Halfworld as 1 of a bunch of pets designed to calm the patients down. Then the doctors abandoned the planet to the robot staff, who later genetically/surgically modified the animals into more-humanoid sentient versions and left the running of the place to *them*.We see a montage of some of his subsequent adventures:- Meeting Hulk in space (Hulk #271). Fighting with his love Lylla against Killer Clowns and Blackjack O'Hare and his Black Bunny Brigade (RR vol 1). Fighting the Phalanx with Bug and Mantis (Annihilation: Conquest). Fighting the previous UCT with Adam Warlock, Drax The Destroyer, Gamora,  Quasar (Phyla-Vell) and Star-Lord (GOTG vol 2). Fighting Kraven The Hunter (RR vol 3). Fighting alongside Groot (almost any time).He says that the Guardians became his family (and Groot his best buddy). After the Infinity Wars it was just they 2 and Star-Lord left on the team. It was then that Rocket felt the Halfworld robots' changes breaking down and his body dying. He was too proud to let his friends see him like that so he sneaked away back to Halfworld without telling them. (But Gamora located him and was secretly guarding him so that he could die in peace.)Groot won't let him off that hook so easily. He's angry that Rocket wouldn't ask for their help. And that he's given up and accepted death without a fight. Rocket replies that he's agreed to help them against the Church - what more do they want?! But he's not much good in his current state so he unveils his secret weapon - a giant Transformer-lookalike robot suit.On board the Cathedral Beta Ray Bill, Captain Marvel (Phyla-Vell), Gamora and Lockjaw have been 'converted' to the cult but J'Son has left his son with free will. The Patriarch shows them the engine room where tubes full of captured super-beings provide the power for the ship. The converted Cosmo the Space-Dog greets fellow canine Lockjaw.They are also extracting psychic 'residue' from their victims so that in the future the Church has come from they will be able to kill Death. Patriarch shows Peter a cocoon like the 1 used by Adam Warlock in his many resurrections. But J'Son says this *isn't* Warlock (presumably it's the Magus), and he also shows him a large room full of such cocoons.


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The final gauntlet (4 of 6)
The latest version of the Guardians Of The Galaxy have followed Gamora to Halfworld, the birthplace of Rocket Raccoon. They are here to save her from others who are after her because they believe she has been taken over by dead Thanos. Current Captain Groot sends Beta Ray Bill, Moondragon and Phyla Vell out of their spaceship while Star-Lord (Peter Quill) buries himself in a bottle.But Gamora has spotted them arriving and shoots at them. (She doesn't know the GOTG's current ship and personnel.) Bill responds by hurling his hammer Stormbreaker. Gamora dives out of the way and it returns to his hand. She's ready when he throws it again, and when it comes back to him this time Bill finds it coated with little bombs - which Gamora detonates remotely. She's about to attack him with a big gun and a sword ...... when Groot comes out of the ship and snares her with a long tendril. *He*'s someone she recognises so they hug. He explains they're the Guardians now. She explains she thought those people were here to kill Rocket. Then *he* explains about Thanos' will saying he's uploaded his consciousness into someone, and Eros has organised a team to find her and kill her because they think it's *her*. Gamora thinks the consciousness thing is a lie Thanos left to sow distrust.Groot says it doesn't matter. They have to get her away from Halfworld for Rocket's sake before Eros' mob track her here. Groot agrees with Gamora that he doesn't like what Rocket is doing, and he promises they'll come back when the Thanos thing is over. And we see Rocket's paw at the window of nearby a building bristling with cannons. Gamora agrees and they fly away.Groot introduces her to the new ship The Ryder (named by Peter after Winona of that name). Quill himself insists on handcuffing her, in case she really is Thanos. (He's still smarting from when she killed him in Infinity Wars.)But then Nova (Richard Rider) crashes through the side of the ship. He's come to warn them about Eros' Dark Guardians looking for Gamora. Then he sees her with them and realises he's led the foe right to her. Indeed outside we see Cosmic Ghost Rider, G-Type, Gladiator, Nebula, Plutonia II, Wraith and some Kree soldiers. They tell Star-Lord to surrender Gamora, because his ship has no weapons. But he indicates the folks with him - living weapons.Gladiator eye-blasts The Ryder. Groot takes them to a planet to land on but the blast crippled the landing gear. If mechanical genius Rocket were here he could fix it. But instead Beta Ray Bill flies out and supports the ship down to the ground.Quill won't un-handcuff Gamora and tells her to stay out of the fight. The others go out to face the enemy. Bill fights Gladiator. Star-Lord vs G-Type. Phyla-Vell vs Nebula. Moondragon and the Dragon Of The Moon take on Ghost Rider. Groot and Star-Lord just hit Kree. Meanwhile it's unclear who Wraith is attacking, and Plutonia is just flying around. And Gamora is trying to break her handcuffs.CGR blasts the Dragon with hellfire, and Moondragon feels the pain through her psychic link. Heather Douglas' cry distracts Phyla who falls to a blast from Nebula. Star-Lord runs to her aid, but Nebula gets a blade to his throat. However Gamora has broken free in time to blast *her*. But then a stray eye-blast from the Bill/Gladiator fight hits Gamora's leg and she falls. Nebula is up and about to kill her 'sister' when Peter interposes himself and takes the blast. Everyone stops fighting as he dies (maybe) in Gamora's arms.


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The final gauntlet (6 of 6)
Last issue the Guardians Of The Galaxy (Beta Ray Bill, Groot, Moondragon, Phyla-Vell and Star-Lord) plus Nova (Richard Rider) and the Inhumans' dog Lockjaw were too late to stop Hela and the Black Order taking Eros away. It turns out that it is *he* not Gamora who has the uploaded consciousness of his dead brother Thanos. They took him to Knowhere to transfer that consciousness to Thanos' body, which will unfortunately kill Eros.Now the heroes team up with Gamora and their foes Gladiator, Nebula and some Kree cannon fodder (contrary to last issue's appearances it seems Cosmic Ghost Rider went with Hela and gang) to stop the resurrection of Thanos. Lockjaw follows the 'scent' and teleports them to Knowhere.As soon as they arrive Moondragon manifests the Dragon Of The Moon from her tattoo and sends it with Bill's hammer Stormbreaker to carry Hela into space(?). But the Eros-Thanos transfer has already begun. And the Black Order are supported but a horde of Thanos' multi-armed Outriders. Star-Lord details Beta Ray Bill (whose hammer returns), Gladiator and Nova to fight the Order and the others to hold back the Outriders while he deals with Thanos. But Gamora claims her erstwhile boss for herself, and Peter Quill contents himself with the Ghost Rider.Bill reminds everyone to beware of Proxima Midnight's weapon that created the black hole that swallowed them in #1. PM approaches with that very weapon, but Phyla-Vell uses her Captain Marvel powers to blast it to follow Hela. Star-Lord is shooting his element gun at the traitorous ex-GOTGer, the far-future Frank Castle, who was reduced to a flaming skeleton by Hela last issue. But the Rider can't fight back and begs him to stop. He says it was only Hela's power that was holding him together now, and with her gone he collapses into a heap of non-flaming bones.But we see him arriving in Hell in his non-flaming CGR form. And he meets the Johnny Blaze GR who currently rules the place. (A caption says this plotline will be continued in Avengers #22.)Gamora has fought through Outriders to reach Eros and Thanos, and now Star-Lord races after her. Eros is transfixed before his brother's body with light streaming from his eyes into Thanos who coruscates with energy. Gamora is obviously intent on killing Eros before the transfer is complete. Peter begs her to look for a non-lethal solution. They've just spent several issues stopping others from killing *her* because they thought *she* was Thanos. Now she's going to do the same thing to Eros. But she replies that in the previous situation *she* would have killed her - and she rams her sword through Eros' chest.She apologises to her 'uncle' as he lies dying. Eros takes it all philosophically - and dies.Thanos breaks free of the restraints that had been holding his body up. But he staggers about and speaks like a drunk Hulk. The transfer was obviously *not* complete. Hela clambers back onto the stage with Proxima's black hole cannon. She's very angry and fires it, but Beta Ray Bill deflects it and it strikes Thanos.Quill orders Lockjaw to take the team off the station immediately. Hela tries to save Thanos but the missile explodes and the resulting black hole takes Thanos, Hela and Knowhere into itself. (We don't see what happens to the Black Order and the Outriders.)The (fairly-)good guys have all ported to a nearby planetoid where congratulations are in order. Phyla asks Heather Douglas if she's OK (does this mean she's lost the Dragon Of The Moon?). Groot asks Peter about still being the captain, but it seems like Quill's taking the job back. Gamora asks Pete why he risked his life to save her (#4) after she killed him (Infinity Wars). He says he never hated her for that - he was angry with himself because in spite of it all he loves her. Gamora doesn't know how to take this.Later the players go for a drink in a galactic pub. Star-Lord says things will probably continue to be hairy even with Thanos gone, so he proposes they all become the Guardians. Gladiator declines because he's got to go back to being the Majestor of the Shi'ar. Nova has to go back to being in the Nova Corps. Moondragon says she and Captain Marvel are still in, even though she obviously hadn't consulted Phyla. Nebula apologises for trying to kill Gamora before she too goes, but Gamora is obviously happy to see her 'sister' leave.That leaves #1's core team without the Cosmic Ghost Rider but *with* Gamora back again. And Lockjaw seems to be hanging around (handy now they don't have a spaceship).But Phyla asks "What about Rocket?". Cue the next storyline.


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7: Let's talk politics
The Empyre event is over and the Kree/Skrull Alliance is a new force in the Galaxy. And the 2 Guardians Of The Galaxy teams, split over the death of Peter Quill, have reorganised slightly after their confrontation in #4-5. Groot had defected from Gamora's team to Rocket Raccoon's, and the 2 versions of Moondragon/Heather Douglas had merged and stayed with Phyla-Vell on Rocket's team too. This leaves only Drax and Gamora possibly still working with Blackjack O'Hare and the Prince Of Power.Now Rocket's gang in the Bowie are heading to a meeting of the Galactic Council. We see Groot, Hercules, Moondragon and pilot Phyla-Vell. Rocket's in his cabin drowning his sorrows in drink over Star-Lord's death (Groot claims he's collecting his thoughts). Heather and Phyla (both from another timeline) are conversing mentally. Phyla is angry that her wife merged with this reality's Heather without consulting her 1st.Marvel Boy enters the cockpit wearing what he claims is the full dress uniform of the 18th Kree Diplomatic Gestalt (at least in *his* timeline). He is to represent the Utopian Kree, who are not part of the Alliance, at the meeting at its new venue the Proscenium under construction in a non-affiliated area of the Galactic Rim. Phyla points out he's dressed like Adam Ant, and Noh-Varr realises she's right. The Punk-styled Groot is the only 1 who doesn't get the reference. Hercules says he roadied for the band. Noh of course has researched Earth culture in depth.Marvel Boy says that his 'entourage' should stay on the Bowie as backup for both of them when things go wrong (ignoring questions about 'both'?). He enters the Proscenium to meet Nova, the representative from Earth, who also recognises the Dandy Highwayman look. Richard Rider asks how the relationship with Hercules is going. Noh says they're taking it slow. Richard is a stand-in for Carol Danvers because Captain Marvel is half-Kree and might be accused of bias. They run into Lani Ko Ako of the Sisterhood Of The Badoon who recognises Nova Prime, hero of the Annihilation War. The other introduces himself as Noh-Varr of the Utopian Kree otherwise known as Marvel Boy. Lani finds 2 'Novas' confusing so Marvel Boy is better. But she doesn't understand why he's dressed like Adam Ant.They enter the meeting room. Super-Skrull/Kl'rt of the Alliance is chairing the meeting and greets the 3 newcomers, especially Nova who was his comrade in the Annihilation War, and brings the meeting to order. Nymbis Sternhoof of Kymellia points out that Emperor Stote of the Zn'rx is absent, and accuses his traditional enemy of plotting in secret somewhere. Captain Val-Lorr of the Kree half of the Alliance says he's gone to the toilet, but the Rigellian Mentacle says that a surface scan of Stote's thoughts suggested otherwise. Oracle-2 of the Shi'ar, also a telepath, objects that the Pan-Worlds Treaty forbids telepathy in such negotiations, and Nova 2nds the objection. Zoralis Gupa of Silnius, representing the Galactic Rim Collective, wonders if the Pan-Worlds treaty is still valid when the aim of this conference is to decide the new rules.Lani Ko Ako agrees that the treaty needs amending, especially to relax the rules on biological weapons. Empress Victoria of Spartax takes the opportunity to snipe at the Kree who weaponised the Brood by creating a Brood King (as revealed in X-Men (2019) #8-9). Val-Lorr protests that it would have been alright if it hadn't been for interference by those pesky Earth mutants. Nova assures them all that the X-Men have the situation under control. (They're speaking across Peacebringer, a Chitauri diplomat-drone, who keeps silent.)Marvel Boy butts in to say that the Utopian Kree are concerned about the Skrull astro-nuclear Pyre weapon that the Alliance was going to use on Earth's Sun (in Empyre). Kl'rt chooses his words carefully. He says that their Emperor Hulkling was raised on Earth and has an Earther husband (Wiccan) and friends (the Young Avengers amongst others). He would *not* give such an order. (He omits to mention that the Skrull ex-Empress R'klll *did* give the order disguised as Hulkling.) The Kree/Skrull Alliance will always be humanity's ally, for as long as Hulkling rules.Noh-Varr points out that the Alliance's Kree Imperium wants their opposition the Utopian Kree to surrender or die. Val-Lorr forces himself to say that the Emperor wants peace for all Kree. Marvel Boy expects no less from Teddy Altman as a fellow YAer and attendee at his wedding. But what will happen if he *loses* the throne. Super-Skrull profoundly hopes that day never comes. Kree Val-Lorr advises MB to *pray* that day never comes because then the Imperium will use every weapon they can lay their hands on to destroy the Utopians. Kl'rt suggests that could have been put more diplomatically.Nova proposes they leave the Pan-Worlds treaty as it is and that the Alliance decommission all forbidden weapons and submit to independent inspection. Empress Victoria 2nds it. Noh-Varr votes for it and then heads to the restroom to 'wash the stink off' ...... where he finds Stote the Zn'rx with a large hole blasted in his side. He gasps out that the attacker shape-shifted, and it was the delegate from ... and then of course dies before he can name his killer. Val-Lorr enters and assumes MB did it. He fires a gun ... but the bullet reverses direction and drills through the shooter's brain. Noh examines the gun but can tell it is now functioning correctly. Super-Skrull busts in and accuses Marvel Boy of 2 murders.He carries MB back to the meeting room and tells the others what happened. Nova Prime asserts his authority under the still legal Treaty (so we know which way the vote went), but Lani points out that Marvel Boy's Earth hero status means Richard Rider can't be impartial. Oracle-2 suggests that they all have their biases. Kl'rt asks where they can find a law official affiliated with no side, perhaps the only surviving being of their race.(I would have thought any Elder Of The Universe might do for the 2nd criterion, but instead) Nova calls on his and MB's backup ... the GOTG led by drunk Ranger Rocket (last of his kind).After the next issue blurb there's a flashback epilogue. Rocket is telling Groot to tell the others he's collecting his thoughts when a rainbow of light takes them away, and then brings them back. Rocket says that was the doing of Bifrost, the Asgardian Rainbow Bridge. He says they've been on a strange island for some time. Groot suggests they don't tell anyone else about this. And they don't.


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3: Forever. If we wanted.
Star-Lord was killed (but we know it's temporary of course) last issue defeating the reborn Olympian Gods. Now Rocket Raccoon returns to Halfworld with Hercules to bring the bad news to Drax, Gamora and Groot.I think we see the meeting from Groot's POV because we see his speech as it must seem to him, while the others only say "I am Drax" etc which he is able to interpret through familiarity. From him we understand that the 3 of them are unhappy that Peter Quill (and Rocket) sneaked off in the Bowie to help Nova (#1) when they'd agreed not to. So they're intending to give him a hard time about it. But they're worried that he hasn't contacted them for days, especially Gamora now that she and Peter are lovers.When the Bowie lands and Rocket steps out with Hercules he shamefacedly gives them the bad news. Gamora cycles through a range of emotions before striking Rocket until Hercules drags her off. She then tells the pair to go away, and Groot has to watch his best friend leave in the spaceship.Now we return to more normal storytelling.Next day Drax is meditating on fragmentary memories of playing the saxophone in his old Earthly identity Arthur Douglas when Moondragon walks in. He tells her he was trying to figure out if the Church Of Universal Truth actually brought him back from death or just created him from scratch (#9 of the previous series). He understands that both Arthur and the original Drax are alive in the Soul Stone (Infinity Wars #6), so where does that leave him? Whatever the connection, does he have to be whatever *they* were? Heather Douglas replies that she's been thinking a similar thing about herself.Drax tells her that Gamora will be angry if she finds her here, because Moondragon also went with Nova on the mission that killed Peter. Heather says she *isn't* that Moondragon (from an alternate timeline), she's Arthur's daughter from this timeline. She has a dark past, and her love Phyla-Vell is dead. Now along comes this new version (as a result of Infinity Wars) who's the perfect heroine, married to the equally-perfect alternate version of Phyla. And the Guardians accepted her as 1 of their own.Drax believes her when she says she's his real daughter, but repeats that *he* may not be her real father. She links minds with him and makes his fragmentary memories whole again. And they are both satisfied.It's the day after that and Moondragon is staying with Drax. Gamora is lying on the bed she shared with Peter reviewing her memories of him, especially the time together between last series and this when he suggested they could stop adventuring to be together. She's been numb since she heard he was dead. One of the straight-jacketed Loonies of Halfworld has told her that the Guardians must leave now that they are no longer assisting with the recovery of Ranger Rocket (as they call him). But then he assessed her and wondered if *she* might need to stay for therapy. And now she absent-mindedly cuts her finger on her knife.She remembers Peter wondering if they *wanted* to give up the hero life, and now she wondered if he was really talking to the Galaxy he guarded rather than her. Gamora learned early that Death was a person, and that Evil was Thanos. Now she wonders who personifies the Galaxy. And we see an image in her mind which is the Master Of The Sun that Peter sees in his dreams.Drax informs her that their new spaceship is ready. They 4 are in their fighting togs and ready to be the Guardians Of The Galaxy again. But this time Gamora says they'll work for money, and she puts their CV out on interstellar Mercnet ...... where it's picked up a day later by a man in an 'illegally parked escape shuttle near Efrara-2'. He reports to his boss, the only other occupant Blackjack O'Hare, that Gamora and the Guardians Of The Galaxy are offering their services. Blackjack emphatically turns the idea down. He doesn't want anything to do with Ranger Rocket because he barely survived their last meeting, and he blames Rocket for his divorce. The guy responds that there's no Rocket in the 4 members listed, which O'Hare takes as confirmation of the rumours that Rocket was dying.The shuttle is the home of Blackjack's new venture Black Bunny Solutions. The minion is a  disgraced aristocrat who calls himself The Prince, but asks Mr O'Hare not to call him Your Highness because Blackjack is his mentor. They have a client who wants a 6-sentient team so BJ tells The Prince to hire the Guardians. He then calls Castor Gnawbarque III (who looks very much like a beaver) to enquire what the job is. Castor says he wants Rocket Raccoon killed.


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13: We're super-heroes
The Guardians Of The Galaxy have settled into their new role as the official super-hero team of the Galaxy.Throneworld II is the capital planet of the Kree/Skrull Alliance. It has been built within the shattered Hala, once the homeworld of the Kree, but named after the Skrulls' old Throneworld (Tarnax IV). But now it's being invaded by 4 Progenitors who seem to be here to try out a new mutagen on the Kree populace. Emperor Hulkling is organising an evacuation and has sent a message asking for help from the Galactic Council's Proscenium station.Super-Skrull has received the message and has added it to his situation board. (We also see the Snarkwar on the Utopian Kree border (current SWORD series), X-Men handling political unrest on Chandilar (????), Iron Man dealing with Korvac's attempted apotheosis (current IM series), and a missing survey team on a newly-discovered world on the Galactic Rim (see below).) He in turn contacts Nova telling him to make it the Guardians' priority. Nova says they don't take orders from him, they're independent like the Avengers. But he was on the way to Hala now anyway and Peter Quill and others will join him there. However he also asks to be kept posted on the Rimworld situation ...... and we catch up with some Guardians already there on Cauldron, Rimworld #360-3715. Captain Marvel (Phyla-Vell), Drax, Marvel Boy (Noh-Varr) and new addition to the team Quasar (Wendell Vaughn) are searching for the Galactic Rim Collective survey team on this newly-discovered habitable world. Drax finds them impaled on stakes and burned. And Noh spots Skrull writing on the stakes. They report back to Kl'rt who translates the Ancient Skrullian as "Believe in the flame", a sign of an ancient Skrull cult of the Secret Fire. Super-Skrull calls on Wiccan, the Alliance's Court Wizard, for magic insight ...... but Billy Kaplan is busy with his husband Teddy Altman fighting the Progenitors. Hulkling has just killed 1 of the android-seeming aliens with floating heads. He used his magic sword Ekz'el-Zorr, the Sword Of Space, which disrupts other magic, so he guesses these guys are a mixture of science and sorcery. Another 1 sprays him with mutagen with affects his Kree half. Wiccan creates a protective forcefield and casts a healing spell.Then Nova and his contingent of Guardians (Gamora, Groot, Moondragon, Rocket Raccoon and Star-Lord) arrive. A 3rd Progenitor evaluates their threat-level and sprays them with napalm, which Gamora and Rocket take as an insult. Rocket responds with his latest big gun which blows the foe up and impresses Gamora. The Raccoon says he's getting too old to mess around. Large Groot tackles the 1 that mutated Hulkling but the even-larger alien has him at a disadvantage. Star-Lord shoots his ally with his Element Gun and the essence of sunlight, soil, water and fresh air causes the plant-being to grow and bloom and send roots/branches to destroy the android from inside. Now Moondragon mindscans the remaining Progenitor and declares it afraid. Nova grabs its floating head and takes it out of range of its body which disintegrates. He then takes the head into space and sends it on its way home with a message that this Galaxy is off-limits.Nova reports back to Super-Skrull that the crisis is over, and Wiccan has cured the Emperor. Gamora has a quiet word with Peter Quill. She still hasn't forgiven her lover for running off and getting seemingly-killed (#1-2). And now he's returned (#9) having spent over 100 years in another dimension, but he's changed and distant from her. Peter admits that he still feels that Morinus is his home, and drops the bombshell that he has a son back there. And Nova gets an update from Phyla-Vell on Cauldron ...... where they've tracked the prehistoric fire-cult which murdered the survey team. She says they need a spy rather than a super-hero. Quasar takes the hint and clangs his quantum wrist-bands together to be replaced by the female Quasar, Avril Kincaid. She explains for the benefit of Marvel Boy and us readers that she and Wendell worked out how to do a quantum swap like Mar-Vell and Rick Jones of old. As an ex-SHIELD Agent she fits the spy-bill.They are looking down on a meeting of the Brethren Of The Forgotten Flame before a huge statue of a Skrull. They could all be Skrulls in different shapes but they seem rather to be a mixture of alien races (but no Kree as far as I can see). Skrull Sister Talionis welcomes all those who want the Alliance gone and their own Empires back. But they seem also to all worship the Secret Fire and the same Elder God known as He-Who-Waits. Soon there will be signs and it will be time for the sacrifice. Captain Marvel reports all this to Nova on Throneworld II ...... where Moondragon is probing the mind of a dead Progenitor. She discovers that they came to study the Kree again because of the new Alliance. But she wonders how they heard about it because they'd ignored the Kree for millennia. Someone must have told them. Hulkling considers this an act of war. Then a loud voice from within a magical lightning storm declares "Then let it be war." He strikes Hulkling and Wiccan with bolts of lightning, dismissing the former as the so-called King Of Space, and also Nova and Star-Lord who now claims to be Master Of The Sun. More lightning strikes Gamora, Groot and Rocket and he scrambles Moondragon's mind. An armoured hand picks up Hulkling's Star-Sword and the holder is revealed as Dr Doom.


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18: Then it's us
Continued from LAST ANNIHILATION: WAKANDA.Dormammu has invaded this universe, replacing Ego The Living Planet with his own giant head and sending Mindless Ones to attack 5 planets. Hulkling and Wiccan have defended Hala of the Kree and Skrullos (of the Skrulls of course) with help from SWORD. The Intergalactic Empire Of Wakanda went to the aid of the Shi'ar's Aerie. And the Guardians Of The Galaxy are split between Spartax (of the Spartoi) and Chitauri Prime, which is where this issue opens.Last issue Dormammu possessed all the Chitauri but Dr Doom sent an army of robots under his control against them. Now he leads his contingent of Guardians (Drax, Groot, Moondragon and Star-Lord) through a portal to the planet where he forms them into a mystic pentagram. (Apparently Gamora was supposed to be the 5th point of the diagram but she chose to go to Spartax last issue instead so Doom has to take her place.) Then he causes his 'bots to absorb all Dormammu's mystical power from the Chitauri and channel it into *him*.Now we switch to Spartoi where Dormammu's much larger pentacle of planets enabled him to add a huge body to his planet-sized head (last issue again). Nova plans to rocket into him and punch his face. Gamora in her space-fighter refuses to let him go it alone. But then Doom's tactic kicks in and Big D feels his power waning. At the same time a strange-looking spacecraft warps in. Pilot Rocket Raccoon explains that it's a the really big gun he talked about (last issue) with a huge bullet made of Krakoa's antimagic mysterium (and delivered here by Manifold). (For the back-story on this see the CABLE: RELOADED 1-shot.)Doom's 5 continue siphoning power from Dormammu himself. But now Doom sends the other 4 away. Groot and Star-Lord end up inside the gun-ship where Rocket has been joined by Gamora and Nova. Rocket explains this is all part the plan he and Doom cooked up, and he mentions that Drax and Moondragon have been sent to join Phyla-Vell (last seen with Hercules and Marvel Boy on Hala in the LA: WICCAN & HULKLING 1-shot). Gamora as gunner will aim the shot. Peter Quill grabs a handle to pour his elemental power into the gun. Nova is in the gun barrel to help accelerate the bullet to light speed. The 3 re-affirm their 'family' love. (Groot doesn't actually seem to have a role, and we never see why Drax and Moonie were required on Hala.)They fire the bullet which punches through Dormammu's planet-sized head, banishing the weakened villain back to his Dark Dimension. The fragments of Ego (and the big body) form a new asteroid belt in the Spartax system (with a hint that his sentience may yet return).And on Chitauri Prime Doom welcomes Sister Talionis (the Skrull whose ancient fire-cult enabled Dormammu to possess Ego in the 1st place (#13-15)). We learn that this was all part of *their* even-bigger plan. Her reward is control of the Chitauri which she plans to use to 'free' the Skrulls from their Alliance with the Kree. Doom has a very large amount of Dormammu's power bound in his armour, which he will use when the time is right. (Apparently he had also intended for Hulkling to lose his Sword Of Space, but it got mended in LA:W&H. And he hadn't unsettled the Krakoan mutant nation as much as he wanted (in SWORD #7).)All that's left is an epilogue in Gosnell's Bar on Dolo-Mayan. The Guardians are all there, apart from Doom who Rocket is correctly suspicious of. Nova compares notes with Quasar (Wendell Vaughn). Hulkling and Wiccan smooch. Sober-these-days Hercules still intends to visit fun places with Marvel Boy. Heather and Phyla plan a 2nd honeymoon, and Storm invites them to Arakko (or Mars as we know it). The Galaxy's quiet and we leave everyone in a big celebratory full page panel. (Including the Prince of Power, Blackjack O'Hare, Mur'Gnn, Abigail Brand, Manifold, M'Baku, Super-Skrull, Mantis and a quantum-image of alternate Quasar Avril Kincaid.)


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On Elysion-3 there's a faction of the Kree who call themselves the Utopians. Klee-Varr and his wife are worried about their son who is having nightmares. They think it's about the Kree Civil War. Klee-Varr tries to reassure him that the Imperium has declared a ceasefire and anyway it's far away so they're safe. But the boy says it's something else, and nowhere is safe. Outside we see they are ruled by a Supreme Intelligence and they share a mission to create a Utopia. But they've heard rumours that the Imperium has new allies and a new Emperor. (For a brief description of recent Kree history see my Comments.)But all this is moot because a city appears in the sky over the colony raining destruction upon them. A figure floats in the sky telling them that their universe has changed. The era of (relative?) peace has been replaced by a time of fire, lightning and monsters. And nowhere is safe.The Guardians Of The Galaxy are on Rocket Raccoon's home Halfworld. Peter Quill has them celebrating the Earth harvest-time custom of Thanksgiving, and he's imported a turkey. Rocket has been cured of what was killing him in the previous series and he's now mellow. He wears a suit and has accepted the appellation Raccoon. Drax, Gamora, Groot and Peter are also ready to settle down here. But Moondragon and Phyla-Vell were warriors in their home universe and crave battle here.Just then Nova (Richard Rider) arrives from space to ask for their help against the new threat who he says are the Gods Of Olympus reborn (after being killed in the Avengers: No Road Home mini-series) (and the floating guy was Zeus). Their New Olympus moves in and out of this dimension finding targets to loot of treasure and blood to fuel the city. The Nova Corps was wiped out (again) by the Universal Church Of Truth in our last series, leaving only himself and young Sam Alexander. So now he needs to recruit a new team to defeat this new menace.Phyla and Heather Douglas are up for it, but Gamora says she and the others just need to rest. They're not a suicide squad anymore, they're a family who need some family time. Rocket contradicts her and volunteers but Drax and Groot try to talk him out of it. Richard has to concede the original group have saved the galaxy more than enough times so he agrees to take only Captain Marvel and Moondragon.In bed with Gamora that night Peter can't sleep. He remembers the Master Of The Sun giving him the Star-Lord powers and a mission in life, and it affects him even though he knows it's a false memory. (Strictly speaking that origin in Marvel Preview #4 is attributed to another Peter Quill/Starlord in universe-791.) And he slips out to answer Nova's call ...... where he finds Rocket waiting for him outside Quill's starship Bowie. RR reminds Peter that they 2 and Groot were the original partnership that led eventually to the Guardians. They broke out of galactic prison together (in the 2003 Thanos series) but Rocket doesn't think the reborn teen Groot remembers that so it's just them 2 now. And besides he doesn't sleep well either.On the way to Nova Corps HQ the Rock Peter dictates a text message of apology to his lover. Rocket chides him for not at least sending a video message but Peter's excuse is that he's wearing his Star-Lord mask. And his reason for *that* is that he can now use it to fly the ship by remote. But he knows it's really so she can't talk him out of gallivanting off as a Guardian. His pal decides to give him some support - to paraphrase "We're Ranger Rocket and the Legendary Star-Lord. Who else can do the job?".But when they get to the Rock they find that there's at least 1 other person who's joined the team - the alternate-timeline Kree Noh-Varr. Who, since there's already a Nova on the team, will use 1 of his earlier codenames Marvel Boy. He lists his amazing attributes (humility not being 1 of them) and says he feels responsible for their Utopian victims.Rocket and Phyla ask Richard if he can't muster a bigger force, eg Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer, Beta Ray Bill. Rider says he *did* get all those guys together but to beat back an invasion from the Cancerverse via the Negative Zone (Annihilation: Scourge event). Nova died there but Annihilus brought him back to life. He didn't call on the Guardians then because they were healing/recovering from last series, but now he's giving everyone else a break.Richard adds that he's also worried about something bigger than the Olympian threat. The Kree Civil War may be paused but on the orders of an unknown new leader. The Skrulls are more active, again with no known reason. And the Shi'ar may be trying to replace their Majestor Gladiator with a younger version (Kid Gladiator of the X-School?). Nova thinks someone may be pulling the strings behind the scenes, but no-one but him seems to have noticed. (This is presumably a reference to Empyre.)He's worried that nobody will stand against this if not them. Which brings us at last to the title (and the title page) of this issue as Peter Quill says "Then it's us".The team make a plan. Rocket deduces where the Gods will strike next. He suggest that they attack New Olympus and destroy it's ability to dimension-hop. 1 of Marvel Boy's weapons is a 'pocket battlefield' which creates an area with different physics. He confirms that he can use it as a time-bomb that can create a black hole if necessary. Moondragon says she can mentally keep them hidden while they sneak in, but she'll need a distraction to make sure ...... so Captain Marvel and Nova confront Zeus when he next appears, flanked by Apollo and Persephone(?). Nova as representative of the Law orders them to surrender and come quietly. Zeus of course refuses so battle commences. Nova socks Zeus, Peresephone blasts Phyla-Vell, and Apollo plays his lyre at them.Moondragon concentrates as Quill lands the Bowie in New Olympus. She senses only 4 other Gods have yet returned to life:- Artemis, Athena, Hermes and Hephaestus. They arrive without being detected even by robot guards created by Hephaestus the metalsmith. Marvel Boy detects 2 power sources which might be what they're calling the Dimension Rotor. As the self-declared most powerful of the gang he'll take the most likely big source, and Moondragon goes with him to make sure he remains undetected. Rocket and Star-Lord can investigate the smaller source. But Peter tells Rocket to stay with the ship to guard the 'singularity bomb'. The Raccoon reluctantly agrees.As things progress Hermes meets up with Artemis, Goddess Of The Hunt, whose highly-developed senses can detect no intruders but whose instincts tell her something's wrong. As God Of Boundaries (traditionally true but not mentioned by Marvel before) he too feels that a boundary has been crossed, and he zooms off to investigate. He quickly searches the whole city and literally runs into Marvel Boy and Moondragon knocking them down and out.Without Heather Douglas' shielding Zeus immediately becomes aware of the trespassers in his city, but Captain Marvel grabs him to stop him going there. He responds by generating lightning at her. Apollo shoots solar fire at Nova, apparently via his lyre. Star-Lord is pinned down by Hephaestus' robots, and more of them converge on the Bowie. Hermes concentrates on stopping Moondragon from thinking, until Noh-Varr morphs a wristlet into a gun and blasts him with it. Then he and Heather limp towards their destination.The robots break into the spaceship, and Hephaestus hears the Guardians talking about the singularity bomb and tells his 'children' to bring it to him. Rocket helplessly watches them carry it away. Marvel Boy and Moondragon finally reach the large power source and discover Hercules in shackles.


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14: Doom's will be done
Last issue the newly-official Guardians Of The Galaxy split into 2 teams to handle 2 separate problems, with Super-Skrull coordinating from the Galactic Council's Proscenium station. Captain Marvel (Phyla-Vell) led Drax, Marvel Boy (Noh-Varr) and Quasar (currently the female Avril Kincaid version) to investigate a missing science team on newly-discovered Rimworld #360-3715. They found them dead and an ancient Skrull fire-cult preparing for the coming of their deity. Nova led Gamora, Groot, Moondragon, Rocket Raccoon and Star-Lord to the Kree/Skrull Alliance's capital Throneworld II. There they helped Emperor Hulkling and his husband Court Wizard Wiccan to fight off an invasion by Progenitors. But then Dr Doom turned up and laid waste to the team before taking Hulkling's Sword Of Space.He claims to need it to defend the universe against a menace that is coming. But Teddy Altman revives and punches Doom in the armoured jaw before summoning his sword back into his hand. The others recover too, but only to see Victor von Doom use an old mind-swap trick (that he learned from Ovoids way back in his 3rd app in Fantastic Four #10) to swap bodies with Hulking. Doom's body evince's Teddy's confusion while Doom uses Hulkling's shape-shifting to give his green face the appearance of a metal mask.His 1st action is to stab Wiccan through the chest. But he had correctly realised that the magic sword wouldn't physically harm a friend but its magic-disrupting power would remove Billy Kaplan's superpower. He then uses the sword to deflect a blast from Star-Lord's Element Gun to destroy Rocket's latest big gun, only to be hit by Gamora's equally-large weapon. But she hadn't aimed to kill Hulkling's body, and the AI in Doom's armour overrides Teddy's control to stop an attack by Nova. Doom and his armour stand back-to-back to face all foes.Meanwhile on the other planet Skrull Sister Talionis tells her followers (who seem to be a mixture of alien races, not just Skrulls) to expect the prophesied coming of He-Who-Waits which will be signalled by the conjunction of 3 stars and a sacrifice. The team contact Super-Skrull who informs them that Talionis is using very-old Skrullian names for 3 stars which had supposedly magical properties. And the planet they are on is uniquely situated to see the stars in conjunction. The team wonder at the coincidence of a perfectly-habitable world being newly-discovered in just the right place. They consider possibilities, 1 of which is that the planet is mobile. At which point it announces itself as such a world, Ego The Living Planet. And it starts to attack them.Back on Throneworld the battle continues. While holding off Nova's blasts with a force-shield the Doom armour (continually shouting slogans like "I am an extension of Doom's will. Doom's will be done.") fights Groot (continually of course saying "I am Groot."). Weaponless Rocket watches in frustration as Doomling breaks Gamora's weapon with an extending arm while parrying more Star-Lord blasts with the sword.Moondragon appears to be still unconscious but in reality she's playing possum to avoid being hit again by Doom's telepathic scrambler. Instead she offers mental advice to her team-mates to play on Victor's pride. They suggest that Doom switched bodies because his own isn't very good in a fight. And that he chose shapeshifting Hulkling because it enabled him to emulate the stretching ability of his arch-enemy Mr Fantastic. V von D prepares to prove them wrong by switching minds back ...... which is when Moondragon strikes. Teddy's mind and body are indeed reunited but Doom ends up switching bodies with Rocket. Doom is indignant (and for some reason can't do another swap), but he soon regains his composure and accepts the situation for now. Everyone knows that he'll find a way out eventually, and maybe use Rocket's body to kill them all on the way, but for now they need to  work together against the coming foe.The other team are fighting tentacles of Ego, who claims to be the herald of the menace. Noh-Varr uses his Nega-Gauntlets to quantum-swap the 4 onto their space ship Almond, the successor to the Bowie (destroyed by the Olympian Gods in #11). He says that he had a spare pair of Gauntlets here (and the other Gauntlets are now left behind on the planet). Avril asks if she should use *her* Quantum Bands to trade places with the other Quasar, Wendell Vaughn, but Phyla doesn't think it would do any good.Down on the planet Talionis exhorts her followers to slash their wrists (presumably not fatally) to offer up blood to their god. But as the ceremony proceeds the minions are wracked with pain. Talionis tells them that their agonised deaths will bring the god into this universe. (And like many cult leaders she claims that she would love to join them but unfortunately someone has to stay alive to welcome the god.) And our team see the planet turn black, and they liken it to an egg about to hatch.Moondragon is now in mental contact with them and explains the situation to *her* team. Doom-Raccoon claims that he didn't know exactly what would happen but this is obviously the menace he expected after he detected a shift in the balance of reality. The others want to throw him in jail for sending the Progenitors to attack Throneworld. Doom denies that and Moondragon says he speaking the truth. Peter Quill suggests, with Emperor Hulkling's permission, a cunning plan. Everyone knows that Victor von Doom is a man of his word, so he offers Doom his body back if he swears to become a temporary Guardian for the duration of the emergency. And it looks like Victor is going to accept.


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10: I think I had this album
Last issue we found out what happened to Peter Quill/Star-Lord after he 'died' in #2, and it ended with him returning to 'reality' to find Nova (Richard Rider) and Rocket Raccoon facing a large black dragon. This issue goes back to the end of #8 to show how they got there.That issue ended with the Galactic Council in the Proscenium learning that someone called Knull is destroying planets across the Galaxy. Now they have combined information transmitted from those worlds with ancient myths and a composite transmitted image to deduce that he is a god from the void before the current universe. The computer that summarised all this has had a meltdown.The Galactic Representatives and the Guardians Of The Galaxy (Marvel Boy and Nova are in both sets) are discussing the situation. GOTG's resident demi-god Hercules doesn't recognise Knull. Super-Skrull of the Kree/Skrull Alliance says they've been losing planets for over a week. He mentions an investigation into 1 such planet (as seen in Venom: Empyre's End 1-shot) which reported attacks by large black space-dragons. The attacks appear random and there's no telling what the true target is. Victoria of Spartax tells them she's just been informed of such a dragon destroying 1 of her Empire's colonies and now heading for Spartax itself.Nova takes some of the Guardians to help evacuate that planet. Telepathic Moondragon coordinates the effort but reports that they've only saved 30,000 people so far and there are already 2 billion dead. The dragon in space is shedding bits of itself which rain down from the sky killing people. Rocket adds that he's just seen an escape shuttle hit while it was loading up with refugees. Nova joins him there and Rocket opines that the stuff looks like what makes up Klyntar symbiotes like the 1 that Flash Thompson wore (when he was a Guardian as Agent Venom).Suddenly the Raccoon detects a familiar scent and they both race off to discover a bearded and confused Peter Quill with the big black dragon in the sky behind him (ie the end of last issue).Peter remembers what has happened to him and how the Master Of The Sun made him a genuine Star-Lord. He learned that his Element Gun could do whatever he could imagine and willed it to do. He fires it at the dragon which backs off. There follows a confused reunion where Peter realises that what has been nearly 150 years for him has only been weeks for the Guardians. He thought they were all long-dead, and they thought he died. Moondragon and Phyla-Vell join them, and Heather Douglas says she can read the dragon's mind - more emotions than thought. It is a being of hate and cruelty. It has up to now been 'playing with its food' but now it's coming for the kill. Peter expands his explanation that he's spent all these years in Morinus, the Land Beyond The Sun. He learned mystical things, and that the element gun is a prism that he can focus his self through. So saying he concentrates and starts glowing like the Sun.But unfortunately he returned without his jet pack so he has to ask Nova for a lift into space. Moondragon's astral form and Captain Marvel accompany them leaving Rocket alone on the ground. Star-Lord, who now has his old facemask, sends the other 2 to attack from the sides while he and Nova enter the belly of the beast.The dragon, like all its kind, is in contact with Knull, and the ancient god welcomes them in. His darkness separates Nova from Peter and engulfs them both. It even invades Moondragon via her telepathic link, cutting Peter and Rich off from outside help, and its tendrils wrap Phyla. Soon all but Quill are subdued.Star-Lord now realises that he's been sent here for a purpose, to save the planet of his father J'Son and his sister Victoria and to help his friends. And to confront the self-styled Master Of The Dark in his new mode as a Master Of The Sun. He fires his gun at the manifestation of Knull and his 3 allies are freed. MD and CM each blast a wing as SL and Nova's energies erupt from inside the dragon. And the beast is blasted to tiny black smithereens.Heather declares the remains are inert and that Peter can maybe do the same to Knull himself. Rocket reports that the SWORD space station is broadcasting to the Galaxy that Knull is on Earth and has sealed the planet off. But Quill says he can't go *there* yet because he'd only be bringing another danger with him. He reminds them that (in #2) he stole the power of the Gods of Olympus (and took them with him). But he left Morinus because they've got half the power back and now they're after him for the rest. He needs to deal with them 1st.We see the Olympians returning to this reality.


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17: Dormammu is in control
Continued from SWORD #7.Dormammu has invaded from his Dark Dimension by replacing Ego The Living Planet with his own giant flaming head. And then he sent an army of Mindless Ones (and related things) to attack various planets (not Earth).1 of those planets was the Kree Throneworld II (being rebuilt from the ruins of Hala) where in SWORD #7 the Kree hero Captain Glory was killed and Hulkling, the Emperor of the Kree/Skrull Alliance, was severely wounded and his magic Star-Sword was broken. Abigail Brand and her SWORD troop came to his rescue. Manifold portalled him to the SWORD medics and the team stayed behind to fight the foe.In the Galactic Council's Proscenium diplomatic hub Rocket Raccoon and Dr Doom have gathered a group of other Guardians Of The Galaxy (Drax, Gamora, Groot, Moondragon, Nova and Star-Lord) to discuss the situation. Dormammu's forces have also hit Skrullos, Spartax and the Shi'ar's Aerie, but none of the 4 planets are really of strategic importance so there must be some other reason.Doom suggests there might be a 5th world which would form a pentagram with these 4, and they might have mystic significance. Aerie of the avian Shi'ar represents the sky. Skrullos of the mutable Skrulls represents water. Hala is a world that died in fire. The Spartoi of Spartax have recently reverted to their ancient astrological beliefs. He reckons that the completed magic symbol will make Dormammu's presence in this universe even stronger. The planet occupying the right position is Chitauri Prime which Doom identifies with soil, and the proud non-Council Chitauri would never have asked the Council for help.Rocket still fancies shooting Dormammu in the head - they've just got to build a big enough gun. But in the meantime he and Doom have come up with another plan. They're going to send a team to Chitauri Prime using a time machine to get there early enough. Rocket himself is going to rouse the Earth heroes. Nova will go to join Mantis, Quasar and Super-Skrull on Spartax while Drax, Doom, Gamora, Groot, Moondragon and Star-Lord head to the 5th planet. There Doom will use his magic to counter Dormammu's.Richard Rider doesn't trust Doom and asks why Star-Lord isn't going to his own homeworld Spartax. But Peter Quill says Rocket's plan feels right to his new 'cosmic awareness', and Rocket asks Nova to trust *him*. Groot and Moondragon agree, but Rich still doesn't like leaving his old friends Pete and Gamora at Doom's mercy. However Gamora says she trusts *Richard*'s instincts so she's going with him to Spartax. They try to persuade Peter to come with them but he's adamant so that's how the team splits.Doom's time platform takes them to a Rigellian spaceship hiding in an asteroid belt around the Chitauri homeworld. He reveals that while he was at the Hellfire Gala (in SWORD #6-7) on Mars, now called Arakko, he contacted a delegation of Rigellian Colonizers and made a deal with them.But now Moondragon senses that Chitauri Prime has already fallen to Dormammu who now controls the whole population. Doom says he expected that - their hive social structure means that once he infected the Queen the rest were automatically his. But this Colonizer ship can create robotic units out of asteroid material, and he has adjusted it to spew out an army of Doombots slaved to his will. The Doombots rain down on the planet and start slaughtering the Chitauri. The Guardians begin to think that Rich Rider was right.Meanwhile Gamora and Nova have arrived at Spartax in the GOTG ship the Somerville and contact Quasar (Avril Kincaid). She's been fighting Mindless Ones for an hour and now it's time to use her Quantum Wristbands to trade places with Quasar (Wendell Vaughn). There are also Rimworlder ships in the skies, and Mantis reports that traditional enemies the Kymellians and Zn'rx have joined forces and are on their way to help. SWORD forces are on Skrullos as well as Hala and apparently the Intergalactic Wakandan Empire is aiding the Shi'ar. Super-Skrull is here and has circumvented his vow to Emperor Hulkling never to kill in war by treating this as a diplomatic mission which falls outside his pledge.As the 2 newcomers join the battle Gamora tells Mantis that she's tried contacting the Avengers but someone's blocking the signal (from SWORD #7 we know that it's Abigail Brand for her own devious reasons). But she can now hope that if Wakanda is involved then maybe Black Panther will bring them.At that point an enormous version of 1 of Dormammu's magic gateways appears in space. Nova asks Quasar if he's in contact with Galactus but Wendell says Thor killed him for going back to his world-eating ways (in #6 of Thor's current series). Nova says he heard that Galactus and Ego once (Ultimates 2 (2016) #8-9&100) joined with some others as the Eternity Watch and that a boost of Galactus power enabled the Living Planet to grow a proportional body. Well it seems that Dormammu now has that power and his planetary head and body now step through the gateway.To be continued in CABLE: RELOADED 1-shot.


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15: Hope you survive the experience
10 days ago (ie last issue) some of the Guardians Of The Galaxy saw Ego The Living Planet covered by a black shell by worshippers of an ancient Skrull fire cult. (Actually their priestess sacrificed them all to cause it.) Now Drax, Gamora, Groot, Hercules, Quasar (Avril Kincaid) and Rocket Raccoon (who's back in his own body after the swap with Dr Doom last issue) in their spaceship the Almond (named after Marc Almond of Soft Cell) are waiting with a lot of craft from the Galactic Rimworlds Collective to see what will hatch from the egg, which resists all scans and weaponry. Gamora updates us with where the rest of the team are. Moondragon's involved in the Korvac affair by long-distance telepathy with Phyla-Vell as her anchor here (see Iron Man #8 where she helps her protégé Hellcat). Nova and Star-Lord are off on a diplomatic mission. And Mantis is coming to join them on the Tennant (continuing the British 80's pop theme of their spaceships this is probably named after Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys rather than say Dr Who David Tennant). (She says nothing about Marvel Boy.)Peter Quill and Richard Rider are in the shuttle-craft Sommerville (see what I mean, Jimmy Sommerville of the Communards) bickering. Nova questions the wisdom of recruiting long-time major super-villain Dr Doom (again last issue), but Peter counters with Super-Skrull who the new officially sanctioned team sort-of works for. Rich points out that the Kree/Skrull Alliance Emperor Hulkling has *him* under control, while *no-one* can control Doom. Quill asks what other options they had:- Stick him in a jail he'd be bound to escape from? Kill him while he was in Rocket's body?But what Rich is really irked about is that his pal didn't tell him about the son he had during his century-plus stay in other-dimensional Morinus (all in #9). And his irk increases when he hears that Peter named the boy Rocket, with Richard not even a middle name. Peter changes the subject to remind Nova that his time in Morinus gave him cosmic senses and he knows that Doom was telling the truth (last issue) - there's something very bad coming.They now arrive at the SWORD satellite above Earth where they've been invited to the Hellfire Gala. Nova's concerned about the way the mutant nation of Krakoa has been making big moves in space politics even though they're good things:- Ending the Snarkwar. Saving the Shi'ar throne. Controlling the Brood. He also wonders why Peter's sister Empress Victoria of Spartax allowed *him* to represent her world here. Quill says the Royal Astrologers seem to like Star-Lord's star charts these days (possibly something to do with the astrological feel to his Morinus adventure) but *he*'s just looking forward to catching up with ex-lover Kitty Pryde who he hears is now a pirate (in the Marauders). Apparently Doom and Marvel Boy will be at the party, though we won't see them this issue. (Noh-Varr is representing the non-Alliance Utopian Kree.) Super-Skrull won't be there for the Alliance because of bad blood between Krakoa and the Kree/Skrull royal family.After bitching about having to make nice with villains like Doom and Kl'rt, Nova isn't happy to see Magneto with SWORD commander Abigail Brand as their welcoming committee. Magneto declares that (most of) the nations of Earth having granted him amnesty for his past crimes but Nova claims that doesn't absolve him from crimes against aliens. He refers specifically to the symbiotic duo tiny Mister One and large Mister Two, who Magneto remembers dying (way back in 1977's Captain America Annual #4) in 1 of his schemes. Nova now reveals that they were Shi'ar Subguardians (trainee members of the Imperial Guard), an early prototype of the Warstar combo, and he intends to arrest Erik Lensherr for their murder.Brand and Quill try to calm things down but a fight commences. Magneto magnetically hurls a dropship at Nova who uses the Nova Force to cut it in 2. But then Magneto scrunches the 2 halves up and slams them together around Nova, who just switches his Force to electromagnetism and separates them again. Then he rockets in for a high-speed punch on the jaw. Brand has called in security (Marvel Fandom Wiki lists Forearm, Random, Risque and Slab as recognisable members) and orders the pair to stand down. She also suggests to Nova that he's clutching at straws if he thinks the Shi'ar will risk their friendship with Krakoa over this ancient event.Everyone leaves Magneto and Nova to admit to each other that they both were too quick to anger. Erik asks Richard about the Guardians new role (since #13) as 'Avengers of space'. Rider says the cash-strapped Galaxy can't afford a new Nova Corps now (and *he* can't afford to see another 1 destroyed) so the cheaper Guardians are in. Erik wonders if there's another reason why the Guardians agreed to do the job. He recalls earlier times when people with powers like himself used them in service of what they believed were the right causes. But they learned that things were more complicated and usually compromise was the best solution. Rich agrees that maybe he's hankering for the simpler life of a super-hero. And for compromises he mentions Dr Doom and Super-Skrull and adds Annihilus who he killed to save the universe but who then saved his life.So now they prepare for the next day's Hellfire Gala where Nova and Star-Lord will appear in SWORD #6 with Dr Doom and Marvel Boy.2 days later we find that the Almond is still orbiting Ego and the Guardians (Gamora and Rocket with Quasar (Wendell Vaughn) replacing Avril Kincaid) are discussing the news from the Gala (in particular SWORD #6) about Mysterium and something they don't name. Mantis is in the Tennant on the other side of the planet with Drax and Hercules. Then Ego starts to hatch and out pops a planet-sized head of Dormammu - heralding the event called The Last Annihilation.


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11: Here we make our stand
Despite discovering last issue that the returned Star-Lord could be a major weapon against Knull in the King In Black event, the Guardians Of The Galaxy decide instead to fight the Olympian Gods who are chasing Peter Quill.Nova (Richard Rider) reminisces about the planet Daedalus 5 which Annihilus used the power of enslaved Galactus to destroy (in the Annihilation series). He, Star-Lord, Gamora and their forces evacuated as many of the planet's inhabitants as they could, but many more were left behind. 2 of Galactus' former Heralds, Red Shift and Stardust, died that day.Now he's brought the Guardians to that dead planet to make their stand against the Olympians. Meanwhile he's phoning in a therapy session with his psychiatrist on Halfworld who he's been describing the past events to. The doctor is supportive and continues to bolster Richard's sense of self-worth. Nova says he's called in backup, and others of his current Guardians team are seeking weapons in the starship Bowie. (We see Groot, Hercules, Marvel Boy and Rocket Raccoon there, and Captain Marvel (Phyla-Vell), Moondragon and Quill on the planet.)The doc is worried about how Richard feels about Peter returning from the dead. Apparently Quill spent over a 100 years in another realm Morinus, without ageing, and is now a souped-up Star-Lord. Richard is glad to have him back but he has unanswered questions ...... which the requested backup Gamora wants answers to too, as she drops in (literally) from a spacecraft in the sky. She was angry enough when her love ran off with Nova without telling her and got himself killed, after swearing to her that they could give up adventuring and settle down together (#1-2) - so angry that she quit the team. Now he's back after apparently years of not contacting them. Peter doesn't help things when his mind confuses her with the female Aradia he met during that time. So she hits him ...... and then ignores him in favour of preparing for the foes. The craft lands and disgorges members of her alternate GOTG, Drax and the Prince. She mentions that Blackjack O'Hare (Rocket's arch-frenemy) is too busy to come.Phyla chides Moondragon for obviously mentally eavesdropping. Heather Douglas claims she's worried about Peter and Gamora's mental state, but she can't 'read' them. Gamora has her thoughts tightly controlled, and trying to scan the new Star-Lord is like looking at the Sun. Phyla is still angry that her wife, the Moondragon/Heather from their alternate timeline, merged mind and body with the Moondragon/Heather from this reality. She says that *her* Heather wouldn't invade her friends' privacy.Heather takes them to a memory of when she proposed to Phyla and gave her a ring. But Phyla still can't trust that it's *her* Heather she's 'talking' to. They come from a world of true heroes, but on this world heroes are conflicted and she fears it's corrupted her lover. But her Moondragon says she merged to help this world's copy, and that Heather surfaces to remind her that she lost *her* Phyla (at the hands of Thanos in GOTG(2008)#24). Phyla can't deal with it and walks away.Peter tells Rich that he remembers his past on this world but he also has obviously fresher memories of his more recent life on Morinus. He's changed such a lot that he doesn't remember the person he was in that past. Richard then apologises for bringing Peter back from where he was obviously happy, but Peter says he would have found *some* way of getting home whatever. (And this is *not* how it happened. There's no sign of Nova 'calling' for Star-Lord in #10. And Peter decided to leave Morinus in #9 to lead the Olympians away from that place.)The Bowie arrives with the extra weapons. But at the same time so do the Olympians with thunder and lightning blasting the sky. Pilot Groot struggles to land the starship as the others try to persuade him to abandon ship with them. But the Bowie explodes and crashes.The Olympians are after Quill because he stole their godly power (#2). They have regained much of it but Zeus says they want the rest back, before resuming their conquest of the universe. Star-Lord vows to stop them, and the rest of the Guardians back him up.


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5: I'm in your head
After Peter Quill died the Guardians Of The Galaxy split. Groot and Drax stayed with Gamora who blamed Rocket Raccoon for her lover's death, and Moondragon and Phyla-Vell (both from another timeline) went with Rocket. Those last 3 returned to Marvel Boy and Nova (who were with them when Star-Lord sacrificed his life to send the reborn (and nasty) Olympian Gods somewhere else) and Hercules (who they rescued on the same mission). Gamora's bunch were joined by the Moondragon from *this* timeline and they hired themselves out as mercenaries. Their 1st job was for Rocket's enemy Blackjack O'Hare and his associate the Prince Of Power and it involved killing the Raccoon.Another of Rocket's enemies Castor Gnawbarque III is using Galactus tech as a power source, knowing that it will eventually destroy Daggett's World. Concerned citizens called in Rocket's team to stop him. Gnawbarque hired Blackjack's team to stop *them*, with Rocket's death as a bonus. Drax, Gamora and the Prince stopped Noh-Varr from destroying the tech, but at the last second he quantum-swapped with Hercules. Meanwhile Rocket is being conspicuous, with Phyla as inconspicuous backup, while O'Hare has him in his sights from a tree. Othermeanwhile their Moondragon was keeping the team in telepathic contact from Quill's spaceship the Bowie on Daggett's moon. Gnawbarque delayed Blackjack's shot to savour the moment. And this reality's Moondragon suddenly cut the other Moondragon off mentally.This issue begins with a flashback some years to the end of #25 of the 2008 series where the Guardians are mourning the death of this reality's Phyla-Vell, especially Moondragon her lover. Peter Quill proposes a toast and we see Groot, Jack Flag, Major Victory and Rocket in attendance. Mantis tries to console Heather Douglas, but she sees the Dragon Of The Moon in her drink.Another flashback some months ago. Bug (who was also a GOTG member at that wake) finds Moondragon drinking in Gosnell's Bar on Dolo-Mayan. He says he heard the Guardians drank here since Knowhere fell into a black hole (#1 of the previous GOTG series). Heather says she hasn't seen the Guardians in ages, but Bug pulls up footage of the team at black hole time, and there's definitely a Moondragon there. The Dragon Of The Moon tells her this is another Heather Douglas from another reality who was never corrupted by the Dragon, and who actually has another Phyla as a living wife. And it tempts her with the power to redress the balance.Now the alternate Moondragon finds herself trapped in the mind of Earth-616's Moondragon with that Heather manifesting as the Dragon and claiming she's stolen her life. Heather from Earth-TRN707 asks if MD-606 arranged the confrontation of the 2 teams or just foresaw it? MD-606 answers "A little of both". Is she jealous of the life 707 has or does she hate her for not having life as bad as her own? "A little of both." And mental battle commences.In the bar on Daggett's World Phyla is worried about losing contact with Heather. Rocket thinks they should be more worried about their own situation. And Gnawbarque gives Blackjack the go-ahead for assassination.Inside the Devourer-Type Energy Converter Gamora aims a gun at Hercules' head. Her teammates Drax and the Prince are unconscious on the floor. The immortal is unperturbed and talks her down. He convinces her that her anger with Rocket and Nova is misplaced. Peter *chose* death to save Herc and billions of others. Gamora lowers her gun ...... but possibly because she sees the Prince awake and about to hit the godling with his big yellow hammer. Then he grabs Herc by the throat and declares himself the Prince Of Power giving his foe the Gift Of Battle. The Olympian is confused because those were *his* slogans. Then despite Gamora's warning of caution the Prince throws Hercules through some critical machinery.In mindspace MD-707 begs for mercy from MD-606, but our Heather buries her foe's mind deep and promises to look after the life she's taking back. But then 707 reveals she was only testing the limits of 606's power. She had already checked for the existence of a Moondragon in this universe and was prepared for this conflict. And now *she* takes control.Meanwhile O'Hare still hasn't taken the killshot because the tree is shaking. He thinks it's the wind but it turns out to be caused by Groot who wasn't happy with his old friend Rocket being killed. So he switched sides.Gnawbarque also isn't happy in his office. Even more so when he is informed that the D-Type Converter's self-repair system is damaged. He looks in on the situation and sees Marvel Boy gone and a big hairy foe there instead. His assistant says that's the 'hippy' who wanted to see him this morning (last issue), who they threw in the brig. But the brig's now empty.Meanwhile Drax has also woken up and he and Gamora watch as Hercules easily evades more swings of the Prince's mallet until he gets the opportunity to hurl him into the energy containment chamber. The Prince climbs out again but by now a warning klaxon is going off. Herc now 'surrenders' but suggests they all hold on to him if they want to get out of here before the whole place goes up.Back in the office Gnawbarque's even angrier. Then Marvel Boy (who obviously was quantum-swapped into the brig but escaped) enters via a ceiling panel and transfers his quantum wrist-bands to Castor's arms. Then he clashes the bands together, which swaps the beaver with Herc and companions. And the villain is left to experience a huge explosion.Heather-606 is abject in defeat, but Heather-707 isn't here to gloat. As 606 called her she's a superhero from the superhero dimension so she *has* to help her. 707 has everything and 606 has nothing, so 707 is compelled to share. They merge with a kiss and they're suddenly back in reality getting a psychic update from Phyla on the results of the mission. And Moondragon assures her that they're both here and alright.


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2: I know what I'm doing
Last issue some of the Olympian gods returned from their 'death' in the Avengers: No Road Home mini. They are now based in a space-going city New Olympus which can also slip in and out of this dimension. And they've gone on a rampage.Nova asked the Guardians Of The Galaxy for help while they were on R&R on Halfworld after the events of the previous series, but only Moondragon, Phyla-Vell, Rocket Raccoon and Star-Lord agreed to go with him. And they were joined by Marvel Boy.They sneaked into the city intending to destroy the dimension-rotor (that enables the dimension-hopping) with a singularity bomb created by MB. But it all went wrong and Hephaestus' robots stole the bomb from Rocket on their starship the Bowie.I didn't notice that Zeus blasted a big hole through Nova at the end of last issue, and now he's curled up in the foetal position with only the Nova Force keeping him alive. He and Phyla-Vell had been fighting Zeus, Apollo and a 3rd who Marvel Fandom Wiki now identify as Hera (rather than Persephone last issue). Now Captain Marvel faces them alone.Inside New Olympus Star-Lord is shot in the leg by an arrow from Artemis, but he uses his Element Gun to encase her in diamond, depleting its charge. (Rocket's in contact with him and wants to know why he hasn't done that before to make them rich!) He then limps to the dimension-rotor room where he finds Hephaestus with the bomb and a horde of his automatons.At the end of last issue Marvel Boy and Moondragon discovered Hercules a prisoner in the city. Noh-Varr carefully frees him from his restraints. Then the 3 run into Herc's sister Athena whose wisdom he hopes will make her amenable to reason. But she reminds him she's also the Goddess of War, and there's a big cosmic war approaching (probably the upcoming Empyre event). However she does offer them some 'wisdom' in the shape of 3 Tarot cards: the Fool, the Lovers and Death. (All the characters have the heads of owls, her symbol, even Death's beak-headed skeleton.) She says the Fool-Saint will be lost but will return transformed (I think that refers to Star-Lord later this issue), and the Lovers will be united (Heather Douglas and Phyla-Vell on the next page?), but nothing can stop the reckoning.So it turns out that while all this has been going on Moondragon has been mentally aiding her lover Captain Marvel, augmenting her strength, reflexes and perception. She/they is holding her own against the 3 gods. She's just smashed Apollo's lyre, which reduces him to a whining 'child'. Zeus orders a retreat to the city to deal with the other invaders, leaving CM with the choice of following them to Moondragon or helping Nova. She confers mentally with Heather who tells her to do what's right ... and she flies off with Nova.Hephaestus wants Peter Quill to tell him how the singularity bomb operates. He shows Star-Lord that his automatons actually have living beings inside (with eyes and mouth sewn shut) and threatens to turn *him* into 1 such who will then automatically give up the secret. So Peter pretends to submit, but when the god draws close he rips the arrow out of his leg and stabs Hephaestus through the throat, killing him.With the god gone Quill's comms come back to life. He tells his allies that he's going to set a timer to activate the rotor to take the city away and the bomb to go off at the same time. Rocket should get the Bowie ready for takeoff and everyone else should run there. Hercules uses a Hulk-style handclap to blow automatons over, and he makes it to the ship with Marvel Boy and Moondragon ...... and the ship starts to take off. It's Peter remote-controlling it from his helmet (see last issue). He's staying because the bomb timer failed and he has to trigger it manually. But he says he has a plan to survive which involves Zeus who's just arrived. (And like last issue he has a flash of memory of the Master Of The Sun which *this* version of Star-Lord shouldn't have.)The Bowie gets far enough away. The city explodes and disappears. And the Guardians, especially Rocket, mourn the loss of their friend.


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6: Same time next week
For the past 3 issues Nova's been behind the scenes recovering from serious injuries in #2. Now this issue concentrates on him ...... receiving counselling on Halfworld (which means his shrink is wearing a straitjacket befitting a Loony of that planet). Richard Rider avoids telling the counsellor how he always took responsibilities on his shoulders, and how his father always told him not to ask for help. He's only here because Hercules insisted, and he only wants to talk about the last few days on Daggett's World (in the last 2 issues).Richard was still in a healing tank then so he was only along to offer advice. His Guardians Of The Galaxy went there to stop a bad guy using the power of Galactus. But Gamora was angry with him because he got his best friend and her lover Peter Quill killed (#2) so she split off her own GOTG who got hired to protect the bad guy's interests. It ended with half of each team stuck in the bad guy's office (after he had been blown up with his Galactus tech) under attack by robot guards. They agreed a truce, teamed up and fought their way out. (And in the process Hercules and Marvel Boy shared a kiss.)Rider also mentions the tricky situation between Phyla-Vell and *her* love Heather Douglas. They are both from a parallel universe, but last issue Moondragon merged with the Moondragon of this reality (who's version of Phyla-Vell died long ago).But the shrink tries to steer the conversation to more relevant territory by picking up on the mention of Peter Quill's death which Gamora blames him for. Nova says he came to the Guardians for help fighting gods (the reborn Olympians) and Star-Lord died. *He* blames himself because he shouldn't have needed help.But then Richard diverts again to say what happened after he got out of the tank. He went to Gosnell's Bar (mentioned last issue as *the* place to drink since Knowhere got scragged) and ran into Gamora. She agreed to talk to him but eventually they ran out of small talk. But still they avoided the subject of Peter's death, and instead reminisced about the time *they* were lovers during the Annihilation War.She said she didn't love him then, but after he was lost in the Cancerverse (in Thanos Imperative) she found she missed him. She forced Peter to tell her what happened in the Cancerverse, and 1 of the things he told her was that Richard claimed to love her and wanted to find a way to make her happy. And Gamora then fell in love with Richard for believing she ever *could* settle down and be happy. But then he came back, and she found she was only in love with the idea. And in reality he wasn't the type to give up the life of adventure either.But then she fell for Peter because *he* did want to settle down with her, and (after the end of the previous series) they agreed to stay on Halfworld. But then Richard came along and took him away and got him killed. Now Richard protested that *he* loved Peter too, But Gamora said that made it worse, and she left saying she didn't want to see him again.The Halfworld shrink wants to know why Peter Quill was so special to Richard. Nova says Peter always had his back, and in the end that's what got him killed. He repeats that he shouldn't have needed help. The shrink replies that Nova's done so much for the Galaxy that he *deserves* help and love, but Richard is reluctant to agree. The session ends and the shrink says his services are free (paid for by the Shi'ar) to Annihilation War veterans. They agree to meet again same time next week.He flies out to meet Rocket Raccoon in GOTG's starship the Bowie. Rocket advises him to check the newsfeeds under 'Empyre', and Nova learns that the Galaxy has changed while they weren't looking. (And next issue Marvel Boy is ambassador of the Utopian Kree to a post-Empyre conference.)


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12: The time of mercy is past
Last issue the new nasty version of the Olympian Gods returned to get revenge on Star-Lord/Peter Quill, but the Guardians Of The Galaxy reunited to oppose them. Quill, Moondragon, Nova and Phyla-Vell chose a deserted planet Daedalus-5 as the battleground. The alternate Guardians Drax, Gamora and the Prince Of Power joined them there. But in an opening salvo Zeus blasted the spaceship Bowie out of the sky, with Groot, Hercules, Marvel Boy and Rocket Raccoon aboard.Now battle commences. As Star-Lord faces Zeus, Gamora clashes with Artemis, Hera socks Drax, Nova fires at Apollo and Hermes evades Captain Marvel after decking Moondragon. (I don't know where Hephaestus and the Prince are at this point.) Quill takes revenge for his ship by using his enhanced Element Gun to take 1 of the god-father's eyes out. Zeus boasts that he destroyed the Bowie even though his son Hercules was aboard. But he comments that SL doesn't seem bothered about the deaths of his friends. Peter just comments that he knows what a pocket battlefield is ...... and aboard what was the Bowie Marvel Boy has saved himself, Herc and Rocket by enclosing them in the 8-foot cube that is that programmable micro-reality. But unfortunately pilot Groot was out of reach. Noh-Varr also says that in this micro-reality he can make the laws of physics do whatever he wants. So the Lion Of Olympus gets him the fire him like a speeding bullet at his father. As the other 2 exit the pocket battlefield Rocket picks up the smoking head of Groot and tells MB he has a plan.Moondragon is now battling Hermes while Phyla-Vell takes on Hephaestus. Rocket mentally distracts Heather Douglas to ask her to psychically check Groot's lifesigns, which turn out to be weak and fading. But this enables Hermes to enter MD's mind. Then Rocket locates the Prince Of Power who apparently was knocked down in the 1st few seconds of the conflict. The POP claims to be ready to re-enter the fray but the Raccoon stops him by saying he knows his secret - the muscles that he's always boasting about are a side-effect of the purple Infinity Stone known as the Power Stone that Prince Otherone of Noblor swallowed (so that's where that Stone went after the Infinity Wars). He gives the Prince Groot's head and gets him to channel the Power into the wood. And a giant Groot grows up crackling with purple electricity.Now we get a glimpse of Athena somewhere watching all the chars in individual screens and making Tarot-like statements:- The Fool-Saint (Star-Lord) has returned (in #10 from Morinus) transformed (into the Master Of The Sun). Now the Lovers (Heather Douglas and Phyla-Vell) must re-unite to unlock the union of opposites (the 2 versions of Moondragon in #5).Meanwhile speedy Hermes is dodging Captain Marvel's sword but at the same time the God Of Boundaries has broken through to Moondragon's mind where the Messenger God Of Language sports a fork-tongued reptilian head as he drips venom into her psyche. Phyla calls to the Heather who came with her from their alternate universe. But the Heather from *this* universe says she doesn't love *her*, which Phyla can't deny. But she claims that she's willing to try to love the new combination, and Heather lets her in to her mindscape.Phyla says she wants to see their dark side, the Dragon Of The Moon that corrupted Heather-616. Moondragon lets it free in the mindscape and suddenly Hermes is afraid. The Dragon seizes on that doubt and the Greek God finds himself trapped running in a circle. We pan back and see he's running around a letter O. Moondragon mentally informs the God Of Language that he's trapped in the mind of a being beyond language, and we pan further back to see the O is in the word Groot, which itself is part of the statement "I am Groot". And in the outside world Hermes is mindlessly drooling, Groot is his "I am Groot" self once more and the lovers embrace, entwined by the Dragon (and Heather's costume has changed from green to red).Meanwhile Zeus is beating on his son Hercules, whose response is to say he will not break. Athena watches from above as all the other Guardians rally to support him and we see that *all* the other Olympians have fallen. Marvel Boy has crafted a black hole bullet for his gauntlet blaster. Now he intends to combine that power with the Master Of The Sun and the Dragon Of The Moon. Zeus prepares to resist their attack, but Athena chooses that moment to make her move. She restrains him and says that the Age Of War that they were suited to has gone, replaced by the Age Of Peace heralded by the Kree/Skrull Alliance (after the Empyre event). She lets the bullet strike and they are taken away (and presumably the other Gods with them).Peter Quill says he's sent them to a reality with no suns (and therefore no life?). Hercules says his sister will be a capable jailer. Cynical Rocket opines that they'll be back as soon as the current peace collapses, so Gamora says they'd better make it last. And then Super-Skrull arrives, backed by a fleet of starships which he says had been ready to take over if they failed to defeat the Gods. Now instead the fleet can be sent against the King In Black's symbiote dragons, but news from Earth is that Knull's reign may soon be over.But now he brings the Galactic Council's latest decision. The GOTG can't be allowed to continue operating as a gang of mercenaries. With the galactic economy in trouble (after the Empyre and King In Black events) they can't afford to fund a new Nova Corps. But they *can* afford to fund the Guardians.3 months later the team are operating from the Coucil's Proscenium space station. We see the team with new matching uniforms. All current members appear to be involved except for the Prince Of Power, plus Super-Skrull (or at least *a* Super-Skrull) and someone with Quantum Bands - presumably Quasar but *maybe* the POP.


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16: Look upon me and know fear
OK, last issue Dr Strange's old foe Dormammu, boss of the Dark Dimension, finally got his wish to invade Earth-616's dimension. His followers arranged for him to replace Ego The Living Planet, and now he's planet-sized. Or at least his fiery head is the size of the planet. He seems to be doing without the rest of his body.But this issue starts on the Kree Throneworld II being constructed on the ruins of their sacred planet Hala. Hulking, the Emperor of the Kree/Skrull Alliance, and his husband Court Wizard Wiccan are there to help. At least Hulkling is helping directly by using his super-strength to put huge pieces of machinery in place. Then they have to leave the appropriately-named Phor-Mann to deal with some other Emperory business.Teddy Kaplan-Altman has received details from Paibok, his ambassador to the Earth mutant nation Krakoa, about the 2 things they announced at the Hellfire Gala:- The terraforming of Mars, and the super-metal Mysterium that can be used as a Galactic currency. Billy Kaplan-Altman says he's gotten weird vibes about Krakoa since then, as though something bad's happened to someone he's close to.But then something bad happens to *them* as Asgardian-style teleportals pop up around them and their bodyguards. They disgorge Mindless Ones from the Dark Dimension, who do what comes naturally to them - attack the group with their eye-blasts. Wiccan raises a magical force-dome to shield them. He doesn't think he can hold it for long, so instead he casts a mantra-spell to take all the energy the shield has absorbed and return it to senders. But then a large mobile Mindless One's head enters through a portal in the sky.Gamora, Quasar (Wendell Vaughn) and Rocket Raccoon are in the Guardians Of The Galaxy's spaceship the Almond near Dormammu The Living Planet along with ships from many other Galactic powers. Gamora broadcasts a message suggesting they all get away as fast as possible. Quasar exits the ship to attack Dormammu who is doing a supervillain rant. But then the planet-head's giant mouth spews forth a horde of Mindless Ones and mobile heads.In the Guardians' 2nd ship the Tennant are Drax The Destroyer, Hercules and Mantis. As Drax tries his hand at his 1st superhero-style joke the ship is attacked by Mindless Ones trying to punch their way in. Mantis' evaluation of the power of the blows is that they'll soon succeed.But we leave all that for Mars, now known as Arakko, where Nova and Star-Lord are overlooking large statues of I think Apocalypse and his wife Genesis. They too are discussing how Mysterium has rescued the collapsing (after events like King In Black) Galactic economy and raised Earth's status. Sceptical Richard Rider is still waiting for it to be revealed as a scam. Peter Quill had arranged to have catch-up coffee with ex-fiancée Kate Pryde but she's had to cancel.Nova gets alerts about Mindless Ones attacks and they both get contacted mentally by Moondragon from the Alliance HQ the Proscenium. She shows them what's happening near ex-Ego - Quasar fighting Mindless Ones, and  Gamora and Rocket in trouble. Star-Lord also gets a message from his homeworld Spartax where the Astrologers are managing to use Stellar Magic to hold off the attackers. Rich tells Pete to link up with Marvel Boy, Abigail Brand and Dr Doom on the SWORD Station. He's going to use the Nova Force to take a wormhole to Ego.Drax, Herc and Mantis are also battling Mindless Ones in the wreckage of the Tennant, to give other ships more time to escape. They're about to be overwhelmed when Quasar zooms in to rescue them in a quantum bubble. Gamora and Rocket have a Mindless Gun (which is what they're calling the big Heads) in their gunsights when it disappears through a portal. Only to reappear behind them and destroy the Almond. Then Nova shows up the rescue *them*.In Proscenium Moondragon gets a mental report that the GOTG have lost both their ships but Nova is bringing them all home. And most other ships got away. She informs Groot, Phyla-Vell and Super-Skrull. Kl'rt tells them of the attacks on Hala and Spartax, but now also on the Shi'ar world Aerie. And now Skrullos, the birthplace of the Skrulls. He contacts Hulkling and Wiccan on Hala and wants 1 of them to go there. Billy suggests sending the Knights Of The Infinite but Teddy says that they must be openly impartial, so 1 of *them* must go. So Billy offers to go there *with* the Knights. And we learn that Lauri-Ell's on her way to back Teddy up.1 last thing. Hulkling orders Kl'rt to free Captain Glory from the Dreadrock penal colony. They're going to need him.Continued in SWORD #7.