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Planet Spartax:In a high rise, several politicians discuss the current pressing matters while, outside, citizens protest. They realize the people are unhappy, because a promise was made to them and the promise was not fulfilled. One politician, Glogug, accuses the others of lying to the people.
They did no such thing, another person, Togth, shrugs. They allowed the people to elect a new king, and they did. Because he is nowhere to be found, Glogug points out. And whose fault is that? Togth smirks. Glogug points out that they elected him without even consulting him. As is allowed in their planetary system’s by-laws, she replies. Instead of being given a king, they were terrorized by the Black Vortex! Glogug rants. Instead of stability, they live in fear of their planet being destroyed like the Kree homeworld. Instead of Spartax taking advantage of the hole left behind by the destruction of the Kree Empire—
Togth asks if he needs some time to compose himself. Where is their newly elected king? he shouts. Where is Peter Quill? And what is he doing that is more important than ruling his planet?
The answer lies somewhere in a space bar, where Peter is busy kissing his fiancée, Kitty Pryde. Making out in a bar. How romantic, she jokes. He thinks they should get married here. She knows he’s only half joking and, if she said “yes,” he would. Maybe? he replies. No, she smiles. So where are they getting married, Kitty Pryde, soon to be Kitty Quill? he asks. When are they getting married? she replies and adds she is keeping her name. They need to get married on Earth, right? he asks. Her mom and all.
She reminds him she’s Jewish. When her mom find out he’s not, she is going to kill him. Even if it means teaming up with Doctor Doom or Kang and whatever, she is going to find a way to fly out here and destroy him. Verbally, she adds. Peter believes he can handle verbally. Kitty assures him he can’t. Has she told the X-Men yet?
Hey, Quill! a drunk Rocket Raccoon shouts. Heads up! They look up to sees a news screen announcing that the newly elected president of Spartax, Peter Quill, is missing. What is this? Kitty asks while Peter stammers. Rocket chuckles Quill is missing. That sucks. He knew this happened? Kitty asks. That he’s missing? No. That he was elected present of a planet! she shouts, exasperated. Oh well, that he kind of knew.
He knew, Rocket tattles. He was hoping it would go away. Because he is a male, Gamora adds darkly. Was he running from it? Kitty demands. Peter assures her it just kind of happened. Surprised, Kitty demands who did this. He has no idea. This is not how that works, she protests. Now she is the expert on how to get elected president of a planet? he asks. Defensively, she states on Earth it takes lots of time and money and vetting and long campaigns. That sounds insane Drax comments. “I am Groot,” Groot agrees.
Out here, it just kind of happens, Peter shrugs. So she would be First Lady of a planet? she wonders. He tells her he is not going to be president. Why not? And lose all this? he asks. That moment, the alien woman at the table next to them vomits out a small being, then falls over.
Suddenly, Spartax guards walk in address him as President Quill and informs him he is needed on Spartax. He refuses. He didn’t campaign for this. The guard points out that he can bring this up with the Council. They are simply the royal chaperone guard. They are here to get him home safely.
So he is their president? Peter asks. When the guard gives an affirmative, Peter orders them to piss off. The guard refuses. He is the president elect. He hasn’t been sworn in, so he has no authority over them. They are asking for his cooperation. If he refuses, they will bring him in by any means necessary.
That is all he needed to hear, Drax grins. “Have at thee!” Peter holds him back. That guy is just doing his job. Kitty offers to phase them out. The chase will still be on, Peter points out. Gamora adds he will have to deal with this like an adult. He’d really rather not, Peter sighs, but then decides he’ll go. They all will.
The order was just for him, the guard replies. Peter points, out Kitty is his fiancée. The guard tells him to pay her, so they can be on their way. He clarifies this means they are engaged to be married. And Drax is his secretary of defense. Drax bristles at this, until Peter explains it means he gets to go to war with people. And Gamora is his legal counsel. Unamused, she points out she is a being of cosmic power. His cosmic consigliere, Peter corrects. Rocket is his secretary… of raccoon / Spartax relations, Groot is his secretary of agriculture and Agent Venom… his body guard, Flash decides. So they are his cabinet.
When they are on their way, Kitty asks what’s going on. Peter replies they are going to go there, politely decline, fill their ship up with little royal bath soaps and go back to guarding the galaxy. What if it isn’t that easy? Kitty worries. Then she gets a princess wedding that he won’t have to pay for, Peter jokes.
Soon, Counselors Togth and Glogul welcome Peter to Spartax and inform him the people, meaning an incredibly large crowd, are expecting him. Ushered inside, the Guardians are silent. The two smiling advisors are sure Peter has some questions. Yeah, like how did that happen? Peter demands. Togth informs him he was elected, he took on his father’s corruption, stood up to him and helped oust him from power. He is seen as a hero, Glogul adds.
Chastened, Peter insists he can’t. Why? he is asked. To guard the galaxy? Now he can lead it! One would think it is a much more effective way to achieve his noble goals.
Peter becomes pensive and they keep on pressing, pointing out what he could achieve within the system. The Kree and Skrull Empires are no more. The Spartax Empire is on the cusp of becoming the true center of the galaxy. Imagine what he could do with that!
Soon, a servant leads Kitty through the palace to her quarters. Kitty admits she isn’t the handmaiden type. Smiling, the other young woman assures her she is to be the First Partner of Spartax. There are customs she will have to grow accustomed to. She shows Kitty the huge sumptuous quarters to be hers until the inauguration ceremony.
Rocket is ecstatic at being bathed by a pretty servant. Gamora meditates in the gardens. Groot happily converses with the other trees in the park. Drax beats up the guards, calling it training.
Flash Thompson looks down from the balcony of his rooms. A servant asks if he can get him anything. Would he like a closer view of the royal city? Flash demurs. He was just remembering coach in high school told him he was never going to leave Forest Hills. He’d really like to call him now. The servant muses how to arrange this. But conversations with less evolved planets need to be signed off by the president…
That moment, the ground rumbles. Flash activates his alien symbiote and asks if this is normal.
Elsewhere, the two advisors address Peter’s ruse to bring the Guardians here as a council. Why not really do that? Turn the Guardians into his galactic Council? Hesitatingly, Peter replies he appreciates their point but he just isn’t that kind of guy. He’s the other guy; the guy railing against the system. He can’t be the guy in the system. Glogul bluntly tells him that sounds like a rather immature life philosophy. He knows, Peter admits.
They try to talk him into it when they too hear the rumbling, as do the others. They run to the window and see another planet hanging very closely above the royal city…


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Spartax:The skies are red and the ground is shaking, as another planet has moved into Spartax’s orbit. Star-Lord orders the advisors to get to safety. Can they have one day of not crazy? Rocket Raccoon complains to him. Peter snaps, he didn’t do it. Crazy follows him, Rocket claims.
Floating in the air, staring upward, Gamora explains the planet is the Kindun. That is the living planet controlled by he who hates her adoptive father, Thanos. He has come here for revenge. He has come here for her. Why is he here? Peter asks. Kitty asks what he did. Wasn’t him, he replies. This time.
Gamora explains he is here because the images of their Spartax arrival were broadcast across the galaxy. He is here because they are here. She flies upward.
Advisor Togth blames Peter for bringing this here. He points out, technically, they brought him here. Look! Rocket shouts.
A horde of beings come flying from the planet. It’s the Chitauri. She will end this, Gamora announces as she flies upward, sword drawn.
Peter tries to reach Drax via comm but he is already battling the Chitauri, along with the Spartax royal guard. Kitty and Peter join the fight. Peter shouts they need a plan. Plan number one: no one die! Plan number two: they need to split up, some of them stay here, and the rest…
He sees Agent Venom has also joined the fight. He tells him to help Drax and the royal guard against the Chitauri, while he, Kitty and Rocket will back up Gamora.
Are these aliens? Agent Venom asks. Aren’t they technically all aliens to him? Rocket snaps. Flash apologizes. He meant bad guys. Yes, they are the bad guys, Peter agrees, as they are surrounded by an entire horde.
Gamora has reached the orbit of Kindun the living planet and breaks through the Chitauri defenses.
She comes… she is inside him… the embodiment of Kindun tells the Chitauri. No matter what she says or does: Do not let up their attack. He wants to see her burn as she watches Spartax ripped apart.
Gamora floats above him and addresses him. Now! he shouts and the Chitauri open fire on her.
In the Spartax royal gardens, a giant Groot finds Chitauri.
Rocket tells the others he hates them. He should be at the beach, yet here he is. Agent Venom tries to make a joke, when lightning hits them. They need to take the fight to the source, he realizes and tells Star-Lord they really need to go up there and help Gamora. Yeah, can’t let her have all the fun, Rocket adds. “Blam, murdered you!” he tells a victim. Venom specifies they can’t let her face it all by herself. This battle feels like a distraction, Star-Lord agrees. He orders Drax and Groot to fight the Chitauri on the ground with the royal Guard. The rest of them are going up.
Star-Lord liberates a glider form a Chitauri and Kitty, Agent Venom and Rocket join him as he steers upward. Do they have a plan here? Kitty asks, or does he need her to take over— He can handle a sudden planetary invasion, he assures her.
On Kindun, Gamora goes down. The personification of the planet orders the Chitauri to stop. He wants to see her dying breath. He wants to show it to Thanos, as recompense for what he has done to them.
However, Gamora gets up, none the worse for wear. She orders him to listen very carefully. The only reason she hasn’t cut his head off is that his anger towards her is misguided. She understands he is mad at her father, the Mad Titan Thanos, but she is not her father’s daughter. If she were, she would not allow him to live this day. Everything within the sound of her voice would be dead. So she’s going to give him one last chance to take the planet and leave. Free himself of this pain he has toward her. Free himself and find a new reason to live. Because if he can’t, he will force her to take his life. But if that’s what he wants, she’ll grant him his last wish.
Kindun’s face becomes distorted with rage and he bellows: “Kill her!” Gamora quickly disarms her attackers and again offers him one last chance. Leave. She begs him.
In the meantime, her friends try to cross the distance between the two worlds, only to notice the distance is suddenly growing. Kindun is moving away.
A moment later, a swarm of Chitauri moves past them, retreating. Guardians both on the ground and in the air are surprised at this uncharacteristic move.
Before the group in space can go after them, Gamora appears before them to inform them it is over. What did she do? Star-Lord asks. She told him to leave. High fives for Gamora, everybody! Peter suggests. The most dangerous woman in the galaxy just kicked an entire planet off their lawn!
Rocket is disappointed and demands they blow up that planet. Kitty tells him to calm down. Peter suggests they return to Spartax to help, then turns to Gamora and thanks her.
She must leave, she announces. She has become a threat to their safety. Peter assures her nobody blames her. They are all a threat to all their safety. It’s kind of their thing, Rocket adds helpfully. Looking away, Gamora explains she now has the power to find and destroy Thanos and, until she does, until the galaxy knows she has done that, she cannot let what almost happened today ever happen again. She cannot let them be attacked for the legacy she carries with her. Please relay this to Drax and Groot. She does not believe she could look into Groot’s eyes and say that to him. She finally looks at them, tears in her eyes. She loves them all so much. They have no idea how much. Then, she is suddenly gone, in a flash of lightning.
Later on Spartax, the two advisors praise Peter for already saving them after one day. Peter tries to point out the Guardians may have caused this, but is told they are not responsible for an enemy’s action. A crisis occurred and was averted. He acted like a true leader in front of his people. Could they give him a minute or two? he asks. They leave, calling him “President Quill.” He protests halfheartedly, then looks down in defeat.
Kitty joins him as he wonders what to do. What does he want to do? She asks simply. He wants to lie on a beach with her and stare at her… But seriously, what does he do? And what the hell did Gamora just do?
Kitty reminds him that she’s been on a misfit team of superheroes since her Bat Mitzvah. People come and go. People have to come and go. Personal stuff has to be worked out sometimes. She will come back. As for him… She came out here to be with him. And whether that’s being a space pirate or being here, either way she’s in. She wants to help him find a way to be as happy as he has been making her. So, King Peter, or janitor Peter or space-pirate Peter… as long as he thinks it’s the best version of him… but it’s on him. He has to decide. He has to decide what’s next…


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The Negative Zone:(If you know anyone from here, you’ve made a huge life mistake somewhere):On a throne sits its self-styled ruler, Annihilus. He is joined by a holographic transmission of the Brood Queen, who observes that their secret gathering of the kings and queens of the galaxy seems to be missing some key figures. Where is everyone else?
Annihilus recounts it’s just the two of them. King J’son of Spartax has been removed from his throne. The Supreme Intelligence of the Kree has been destroyed with his home planet. Gladiator of the Shi’ar has decided to ignore the invitation. And he does not and never will trust the Chitauri. So it is just them. Interesting turn of events, the Brood Queen muses. So, the galaxy: how shall they split it up? Annihilus begins to grin.
The Milky Way(home to a lot of things. Including you and your stuff):Ben Grimm aka the Thing soars through space deciding he needed this. This feels right. This is what he always wanted, anyhow. This was the original life goal. He wanted to be out here. He trained his whole life to pilot a ship out here. Not his fault, God or Galactus or whoever had a different plan. A little Fantastic Four detour, but he’s here now. And call him crazy – everyone has – but he’s loving it. Except the one thing: everyone out here is trying to kill him.
With his blaster, he faces a Chitauri spaceship. The Chitauri aboard recognize him as one of Earth’s Fantastic Four. And he has declared war on the Chitauri by stealing form them. The captain gives orders to strike him dead but he wants the head as a trophy.
What took them so damn long? Ben suddenly asks and the Chitauri face the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy - Agent Venom, Drax, Groot, the new Star-lord (Kitty Pyde) and their leader Rocket Raccoon.
Kitty informs Ben they were waiting for him at the rendezvous point. This the rendezvous point, Ben insists. This isn’t even close to the rendezvous point, Rocket snarls. And why is he flying around with one of Rocket’s trademarked rocket packs? He told him he could, Ben reminds him. Not the good one! Rocket shouts.
Venom reminds them that they have more pressing issues. A swarm of Chitauri exits their ship to attack. They gonna do the thing? Rocket asks. Let’s do the thing, Kitty agrees.
The Chitauri elder gloats that this will be their greatest moment. The destruction of the Guardians.
What is this? the Thing asks, as Kitty propels herself toward the Chitauri. The thing, Rocket replies, as Kitty phases through the Chitauri, their blasters and finally through the ship, managing to destroy it.
As the other Guardians take care of the rest of the Chitauri, Agent Venom explains that, when Kitty phases through things, it disrupts technology. But why doesn’t she phase through her clothes? Rocket informs him that Venom is covered in alien goo and he doesn’t question why (to Flash’s face). Drax opines Kitty is a fine warrior. He likes her, too, Rocket agrees. He likes their new Star-Lord. Drax wonders how the old one fares. The fancy boy king? Rocket scoffs. He can keep kissin’ his furry grunton. On both sides.
Spartax:Former Star-Lord and current king Peter Quill finds himself in boring trade negotiations and desperately wishes he were somewhere else. No wonder his dad went insane, he decides. He went insane by boredom. He decides that as king he should be able to leave. They all can kiss both sides of his saved grunton.
As he begin to get up, everyone stares. Is there something he’d like to say? Councilor Golgug asks. After an embarrassed silence, Peter replies he was going to step out for a minute. Step out to where? Golgug asks. When Peter has no reply, Golgug promises they will be done soon. Peter sits down again. Just another few hours, Golgug promises. As he can see here, military expenditures in the southern region account for more than 63 percent of the entire planet’s…
Inside the Guardians’ ship, the team is gathered around a small, metal object they liberated from the Chitauri. They argue whether or not to open it. It could be a bomb, Kitty points out. What if it’s cake? Rocket shoots back. How many cosmic artifacts of immeasurable cosmic import do they need to almost die from before they learn they live in a galaxy filled with cosmic artifacts of immeasurable cosmic import? Drax sighs. Gee, one Infinity Gauntlet and they all run crying for their mommies, Rockets snaps. ‘I am Groot,’ Groot points out. Rocket tells him to be quiet.
Ever wonder where the rest of it is? Ben asks and clarifies he means the Infinity Gauntlet. Where is the Infinity Suit of Armor and who is wearing it? And in a galaxy where that question is unanswered still, what are the Chitauri hiding? They look at each other then back away from the object.
Rocket still insists they need to open it. Kitty suggests they do it on an uninhabited moon. Why did they steal it, if they didn’t know what it was? Flash wonders. Because the Chitauri had it, and anything they have is bad news for others, Rocket explains.
They need to bring it to experts, Drax decides. Experts they can trust. Except they don’t know any! Rocket snarls. Experts? Ben asks. People they trust, Rocket clarifies. The Avengers! Flash shouts. He always says that, Rocket hisses. They ain’t going to Earth with something like this. Those monkeys still use paper to wipe their gugooli holes.
Kitty knows a place they can take it. Ain’t nothing coming to mind, Rocket replies. Kitty smiles and makes a ‘c’mon’ gesture. What? he gestures. She smiles more broadly. No. He turns away. Kitty begins to look angry. No! he snaps. She smirks triumphantly. No! he shouts. What is he missing? Flash wonders. I am Groot! Groot realizes happily. NO! Rocket spits.
Spartax:In the Royal Gardens, a pink-tentacled alien tries to convince Peter of the advantages of a procreatic union between them. He needs to make his own mark on the galaxy, she presses. He should do that by procreating with her right now! Her arms capture him in an embrace as she promises to show him something from her planet’s population customs. She licks his face and he grimaces in disgust.
Cue for the Guardians to land. When they see the scene Rocket laughs and Kitty glares. Well, this is a surprise, Peter greets them. ‘I am Groot!’ Groot cries with open arms. Sure, he is happy to see him, Peter remarks, but the last time he saw them the other half of this motley crew told him to take his planet and shove it in his— Drax interrupt that it is good to see him. He looks heavy.
Peter greets Kitty who turns away, still pissed off by what she saw. Okay then, Peter asks as they bring the object. What’s this? It’s not his birthday (he thinks). It’s none of his business if they ask him, Rocket pouts. Flash translates that they took something off the Chitauri. And they don’t have the tech to see what’s inside without opening it. But if the open it and it’s the Infinity jockstrap, Ben remarks…
Peter promises to have the science council give it a look. Glogul worries it might be a Chitauri trap. A guard points to the sky, announcing they were followed. Rocket protests, then realizes there is indeed something in the sky falling fast.
The guards try to get Peter to safety but he seems to know something they don’t. He runs toward the site of impact, followed by the others, and together they find a badly beaten Gamora. She groans and apologizes. She tried to stop— it took all her power just to escape. The destroyer of worlds is here.
They look at who did that to Gamora, a tall, blue-skinned Kree woman floating above them.


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HalaHome world of the KreeThe crown jewel of the galaxy:Home to the most advanced civilization in the universe. The Kree’s power was felt in every facet of every planetary system in the galaxy. Without the Kree, the galaxy would have perished under cosmic threat long ago. Without the Kree, so many planets like Earth would have buckled and fallen. They saved them from invasion, saved them from themselves, that is until the Guardians of the Galaxy helped destroy it.
Now put themselves in her skin. She was on a mission for the great Supreme Intelligence in the far reaches of the galaxy. She served as an Accuser and Punisher for a school of Badoon, who were trying to enslave a lesser culture of Queega. When she returned home, everything she has ever known, everyone she has ever loved, gone.
She is the only survivor of the great Kree warriors. She is the last Accuser. She is Kree. She trained from birth in the lava jungles of Restrogr. She hunted her first opponent on behalf of the empire at age eleven. She joined the honored ranks of the Accusers by passing a test of blood and courage, handed down from three thousand generation of Kree. She protected the galaxy on behalf of the Supreme Intelligence in every way she was asked to. She is Kree. And because of them, the Kree are no more. A society as pure and noble as the Kree, wiped out! The foundation of this great galaxy, broken! Did they actually think they could run from planetary genocide? That there would be no consequences? She is Kree. She is Hala. She is all that is left.
And they will atone! the Kree woman Hala swears, as she pushes her weapon into the ground causing a shockwave that fells the Guardians.
Kitty phases through Hala in an attempt to short-circuit any tech she is wearing, but to no avail.
Peter shouts at Kitty to get out of there and asks if anyone caught what the crazy lady was yapping about. He doesn’t speak Kree, but he thinks she’s mad and wants to kill him. Rocket sarcastically tells him he’s good and reminds him how they narrowly escaped the destruction of the Kree home planet. Crazy Lady is taking it out on them.
Drax booms this will not stand. She will cease this attack or suffer the wrath of the Guardians of the Galaxy! The Thing agrees that’s one way to say it, but back on Earth they have a little saying and he thinks it’s completely appropriate here. It’s clobberin’ time! he shouts as he belts Hala. She knew he was going to say that, Kitty grins.
Hala is down. Aaand they are welcome, Ben states with a bow. Drax is impressed. So is Ben, though he hates hitting a broad. Kitty tells him not to be sexist. Ben defends his actions. She was gonna kill them. Calling her a broad is sexist, Kitty clarifies. Ben has to wrap his head around the notion that calling her a broad is sexist but hitting her isn’t.
Rocket muses he had a dream about this lady. Several of them were there, plus Mantis and she was attacking them…
The Royal Guard wants to whisk Peter to safety. Oh now they show up, he scoffs and orders them to get medical to help for Gamora and Groot. The guards are obtuse. Peter tells them to throw the lady into jail, they insist on killing her for attacking him. She gets her day in court! Peter shouts. The guards protest she forfeited that right. Okay, who here is the elected king of the planet? Peter fumes. They are all unaware that Hala has regained consciousness.
Drax admires her spear. Kitty asks him to put it down. They are surrounded by itchy trigger fingers and he doesn’t know how it works. Even as he wants to assure her of its safety, it emits a burst of energy, injuring Drax and shocking the others. Venom shouts at him to drop it. Kitty figures he can’t and tries to get to him, but is hurt by the energy. Peter shouts her name but the royal guard keeps him from getting to her. The guards open fire on Drax, even as Peter gathers up the unconscious Kitty.
Hala shouts an order in Kree and the weapon returns to her hand. The next energy burst fells them all, though Hala has to help a little with Drax, who is still conscious.
That done, she turns to the unconscious Peter Quill. She pulls him up. She promised herself if she could avoid killing him before she destroyed the planet she would. And she has. She knows all about him. Half Spartax, half Earth. He is accused and found guilty. He will be punished. An eye for an eye. A planet for a planet. But because it is the great Kree homeworld she is speaking of, his punishment will be both of his homeworlds. He will watch the planet Spartax ripped apart as she watched hers. And then she will turn toward Earth…
Later, Peter awakes to find himself helpless in an escape pod in space near Spartax, utterly helpless…


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Knowhere:The edge of the universe:Located inside the decapitated head of a Celestial:(The rent is insane)
At the market place, arms seller Frunta is accosted by a muscular, tall, pale yellow being and claims he does not know what he wants. Annoyed, he tells the stranger to leave before he calls the Cosmo Dog on him. Or he is going to give him some demonstrations of his latest weapon systems. He means it!
Drax the Destroyer, the stranger repeats. He is Yotat. The Destroyer of Destroyers. Frunta supplies Drax with weapons, he adds. Frunta denies this. Yota warns him that every lie from now on will mean one limb less for him. Frunta corrects he sells Drax weapons. He doesn’t supply. He sells a lot of weapons to a lot of species.
Yotat repeats he wants Drax. Frunta stammers he wants him not to be here. Yotat asks where Drax and the Guardians are. Frunta offers him a weapon of his choice if he leaves.
Yotat’s lackey interrupts, pointing out that the news shows the planet Spartax is under attack. The Guardians are there.
Yotat decides Frunta has been no help at all and decapitates him. He tells his henchmen to grab all the stuff in the shop. They are headed to Spartax. And, if that tall Kree warrior is the one ripping Spartax apart, he may have found his life mate…
A small, hooded creature stands in the entrance hissing; the queen would have words with him. The henchmen aim their weapons. Yotat demands, whose queen? Queen of the Brood, the Brood reveals. He asks what the Queen wants. The Brood grins.
Peter Quill awakes helplessly in a lifepod in Spartax’s orbit. There are neither controls nor a communication system. Angrily, he shouts his name and situation. Can anyone hear him? He realizes he is talking to himself.
Spartax:The Kree Accuser Hala is making short work of the royal guards and demands who will officially surrender the planet to her? When a huge ship is about to attack, she literally jumps it and then destroys it with her energy lance. Hala smirks.
More royal guards try their luck with more weapons. She easily takes off into the sky.
Nearby, Kitty Pryde awakes and groans. She sees Hala dancing in the sky as she dodges the many blasts. Kitty turns toward Rocket Raccoon and phases him away through the ground.
Hala dispatches of some guards. She kept her promise, she announces and turns to where the Guardians lie, to find there is nobody there. Where are they? Hala screams.
Kitty, in the meantime, has phased all of them into an underground room. Rocket comes to and announces this hurts. Kitty asks him to give her a moment. Even with her phasing power, Hala messed her up pretty bad. She feels flu-ish. Funny she doesn’t look fluish, Rocket jokes, then apologizes for the bad joke. How can she love and hate him so much at the same time? she sighs. That is the magic of him, he replies.
Kitty insists they need Peter. They don’t need Peter! he snaps. This is his team. He has this. No one has anything, Kitty retorts as she checks Flash’s pulse. Peter is the king of this planet and it’s being ripped apart. Get over this weird ego crap he has going on and let’s get to work! she orders.
She tries to get the Thing to wake up. He’s probably dead, Rocket points out. He’s breathing, Kitty replies. Rocket clarifies; he meant Quill. Logically, Kitty points out, Hala wants him to see his world destroyed, so she has him hidden somewhere. She tries to wake Drax up. Drax automatically goes for her throat, then apologizes. Rocket, in the meantime, has managed to find Quill with his scanner. He’s in orbit.
While Kitty and Rocket banter, Drax remarks that Gamora is in a bad way. He is not great either, Flash mutters, though nobody cares.
Kitty announces they have to get their ship or another ship and get Peter. The others agree, save for Drax, who plans to rejoin the battle. Kitty cuts him off. He’s not going up there to get his ass kicked again. They get Peter, make a plan and bounce this bitch into the sun. Let’s do that exact damn thing, Ben agrees grimly.
A little later, they are back topside. Seeing the broken ships, Rocket is close to crying. Kitty asks if he can get one running. Of course he can! She tells him to go. He points out she seems to be leading here but he is the leader of this team. Okay, he’s the leader, she agrees. Go! As long as they are clear. Rocket tells Groot to follow him. While the rest of them hide in the shadows like cowards, Drax protests.
They storm to one of the ships to get it ready. Kitty orders Venom to cover for them and the others follow.
Inside, Kitty wonders whether that thing is spaceworthy, while Ben muses loudly they need seatbelts. Rocket tells him to grow a pair.
Venom joins them and they take off. Kitty tells Rocket to cloak the ship, to be informed they are not high enough. How high do you have to be to cloak a ship? she wonders, to be told he supposes this ship is not as good as the ones they have on Earth.
Then they notice Hala flying toward their ship. Ben gets up and announces he’s got this. Cloak the ship the second he shows her what time it is and come back for whatever’s left of him.
No! Gamora who is halfway out of the ship announces. She is hers!
She jumps out to meet Hala.
The two meet in the air and soon Gamora falls. The Guardians watch horrified as Hala stands triumphant. She shouts at the Guardians that their cosmic warrior has failed them again. It doesn’t matter how they hide themselves. She knows where they are headed.
She flies toward the capsule, where she has stashed Peter, and breaks it apart… but he is already gone and the Guardians’s ship is flying into space. Hala screams in frustration.


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The Guardians’s ship:Drax angrily demands they have to go back for Gamora. They have to do a lot of things, the Guardians’ current leader Rocket Raccoon replies. Drax wanted them to get Quill; he got him Quill.
Peter agrees, even as Kitty is trying to take care of his wounds. They have to go back right now, he insists. There is a crazy woman ripping his planet apart! They caught that, the Thing points out wryly. And they left Gamora to die! Drax shouts.
Spartax:Where Gamora was left to die (depending on your point of view)The injured Gamora drags herself up and is horrified at the destruction surrounding her. Hala lands nearby and demands where is he. Where is King Quill? Where are her Guardians?
Coughing, Gamora promises Hala will die for what she has done today. She sees it differently, the Accuser replies as they charge at each other.
The Guardians’ ship:Drax tells Rocket that Gamora would never leave him behind. Rocket snarls, and he would never dive off a moving spaceship to fight a fight he knew he couldn’t win! Which is exactly what Gamora did!
Ben points out she took the hit so they could rescue prince pretty-boy over there. Peter calmly orders Rocket to turn the ship around. Not until they have a plan that doesn’t involve all of them dying for something they didn’t do, Rocket insists. Rocket, Peter repeats warningly. ‘Your glackin’ highness,’ Rocket mocks. ‘I am Groot,’ Groot interjects anxiously.
Ben asks, they didn’t actually blow up the lady’s homeplanet like she says they did, right? He is answered by three angry ‘Nos’ and an equally angry ‘I am Groot.’
Peter explains they couldn’t stop his father from destroying the Kree homeworld. That is what they are guilty of. They didn’t stop it. Kitty protests they didn’t know his dad was going to do that or that he was even capable of doing it. They didn’t stop it, he repeats stubbornly, and now he is in charge of this planet that is being punished. Spartax is burning and she is coming for Earth next. She flat-out told him.
Well, he didn’t need extra motivation for stopping her, Flash observes, but it’s nice she is going out of her way to give it. He orders Rocket to turn the ship around or he’s gonna take it from him. They need a plan! Rocket shouts. A real plan. They go back now, they die! And that don’t help no one. All the others glare at him. Peter quietly announces people are dying right now and orders him to turn the ship around.
On Spartax, Hala is getting the better of Gamora. She throws her into a building. Inside, the people are running in panic. Let’s do this again, Hala announces. Where is King Peter Quill? Gamora just groans. Hala hits her and repeats her question.
He is right here! Peter, flanked by Venom, Rocket, Drax and Groot announces. How can he help her? She commends his courage. She will honor his spurt of bravery with a quick death. The Guardians have been accused and now they will be punished.
Peter points out she has the wrong people. He didn’t destroy her world. It was his father, Drax adds. Hala points out J-son was one time king of this world and Quill’s father, so it appears her goals are unchanged.
Peter continues that, by punishing a world that rejected J-son, she is not punishing him or teaching him a lesson. He is probably watching from wherever he is and laughing his ass off. Powering up, Hala decides that is a chance she is willing to take. Peter swears then shouts: Kitty, now!
Kitty emerges from the rubble and grabs Hala’s lance phasing it out of her grip. Then she phases Hala’s legs into the ground and lets go. While she is stuck and in agony, Drax hits her. Next, the Thing is dropped on her, taking her out one and for all.
Moments later, they find the badly injured Gamora. They get her to awake. Peter announces he can’t believe she was willing to fight for him. He thought she hated him now. She does but not that much. He tells her she is a rock star. She doesn’t know what that means.
Venom breaks apart Hala’s lance. Kitty tells everyone to stick to the plan. Get Gamora to the ship and Peter back to the capitol. Peter continues that they need the royal guard back in shape, emergency relief for the citizens and rations… and tell the people the danger is over. He doesn’t know how to thank them. Kitty points out he’d have done the same for them. Let’s fix his planet and then they can—
Fix it? a new voice remarks. He was hoping to watch it burn. He is Yotat, the Destroyer of Destroyers. He’s been looking all over the galaxy for them and finally he is here and part of their—
They are kind of in the middle of something, Rocket interrupts and fires his weapon at him. ‘So… you’re dead!’ He turns to the others. Back to the plan. The others stare ahead and look worried. Rightly so, as Yotat and his henchmen are unharmed.
Yotat repeats what he said and adds finally his timing is perfect. He gets to contribute to their last day. Drax has had enough and tries to attack but Yotat blasts him and the others away.


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A very ruined area of Spartax:He hates to kick a Spartax king when he’s down, newcomer villain Yotat announces, but they kind of all brought this on themselves. He and his henchmen fire at the surprised Guardians. All their butting in where they don’t belong, all their gallivanting across the galaxy, pretending they know what’s best for everyone… Did they think they could do whatever they want and there would be no cost? Well, this is the comeuppance. This is the day it all comes due.
Yotat grabs the unconscious Drax, announcing he will give him a warrior’s death. And that is more than he deserves. But he wants his buddy Quill to see this… he wants the galaxy to see this.
“Please, don’t do this!” Peter Quill pleads. Is he begging? Yotat asks surprised. He didn’t think the Spartax knew how to beg. Peter points out his world is falling apart because of this Accuser. These people need their help. He asks Yotat to let his beef with Drax and the Guardians go for now and help them. Please!
That’s right, Yotat recalls. Quill is half human. That’s where the begging comes from. How can he stand there and not help? Peter demands.
Because he thinks, Quill, the Guardians and the Spartax are disgusting, is the reply. A feeling that just about everyone in the galaxy shares, by the way. Look how long his planet has been under attack and no one in the entire galaxy is coming to help. The Spartax think themselves above everybody, but look at them now!
That was his father, not him, Peter points out. Does he have any more good begging in him or can he pull off his friend’s head for the galaxy to see? Yotat asks. Peter grins. No. That was all the time they needed.
Venom tackles the puzzled Yotat from behind. It’s called getting a second wind, Peter spells out, and he wouldn’t beg him if he had Mets tickets (He doesn’t, does he?)!
Hey kids! Rocket grins. He’s got a big homemade weapon here all charged and recalibrated to big boom. Anywhere in particular? The face please, Peter grins. Rocket fires at Yotat and hopes he killed him. Peter wants to make sure he’s down. Drax announces he’s got this and tells the others to look after the innocent. Rocket looks after the splintered apart Groot. Drax hits Yotat in the face.
The others try to help the civilians. Some of them recognize Peter as king and ask how he could let that happen. He didn’t let that happen, Kitty assures Peter. Except he did, he replies darkly.
Drax keeps on hitting Yotat, who suddenly gets the upper hand. He informs Drax he’s bad for business and he really doesn’t like him. However, Drax gets help from the Thing and Venom.
In the meantime, Spartax jet fighters come flying in. Peter asks Kitty who that guy is. She explains they met him when Peter was busy being king. Funny story, actually.
Flashback / Kitty’s story:Three months ago, the Guardians were on Knowhere to stock up on supplies and show Ben Grimm around, teach him what which street vendor to eat at and the like.
Suddenly, an explosion comes from one of the shops. Yotat holds the vendor by the throat and demands his cut. As he keeps threatening the vendor, his victim suddenly phases through his grasp, thanks to Kitty who glares at Yotat. A moment later, Drax kicks him in the back and Rocket fires a rocket at him. Yotat recognizes Drax and announces he has declared himself as his—
That’s where the Knowhere Corps (Cosmo, Moondragon, Bug, Mantis and Prism) come in. Cosmo (telepathic Russian space dog and Knowhere security chief) thanks the Guardians as the Corps take over. Moondragon halfheartedly invites them to dinner.
For some reason, Yotat fixates on Drax and vows to kill him. Drax returns the feeling. Ben suggests he be the bigger man, something, Drax points out, is not possible.
Present:Kitty muses that, after they found out all the crimes Yotat was into, they should have finished him.
The Thing, in the meantime, beats Yotat down with an ‘It’s clobberin’ time!’ as he joins Drax, who complains he is not a fan of this war cry. It will grow on him, Ben assures him.
The Royal Guard wants to take Peter to safety. He refuses and orders them to arrest Yotat and that Kree Accuser. They look at where Kitty left her stuck in the ground and realize Hala is on the loose. However, she is soon found and taken care of.
Gamora, while unconscious, is still alive luckily. When she awakes some time later in a hospital, she finds Baby Groot next to her.
In the meantime, Quill is meeting with the council, discussing to return Hala to what’s left of the Kree Empire. Peter is against it but is told it is already decided. He thought he was in charge here. He is informed the council holds him accountable for the attacks on the planet. Pete shouts they set him up and, ironically, he was going to quit, but he wanted to at least wait until this was settled! Kitty holds him back and phases them both away and outside. The councilors decide that he and the Guardians are now enemies of the galaxy.
The Guardians all meet inside the ship. When Rocket complains he is hungry, Ben jokes that there is a restaurant at the end of the universe, but nobody gets it, not even the other Terran members, causing Ben to wonder if he is the only one here who reads.
In the Negative Zone, Annihilus congratulates the Brood Queen for manipulating the Spartax to turn against their king. Now it’s time to make their moves, Annihilus decides. The Brood Queen warns not to repeat the mistakes of the past. What did she have in mind? he asks. She grins…


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Alien sewers:A cadre of Badoon soldiers marches past. Kitty Pryde peers at them from a hidden point, then tells her partner Peter Quill that they have a window. Let’s go! Peter doesn’t move, not even when she repeats her order. He’s okay here. She reminds him they are in the subterranean poop hole of a Badoon prison planet outpost. Can he do whatever this is later? He lost a planet, Peter states and remains sitting. He’s really doing this now? she asks. She asked him to talk about this to her in about ten safer places.
He lost his friends, Peter continues. And he lost her. She’s right here, Kitty points out. He looks at her and repeats he lost her. They have to do this later, she repeats. He doesn’t know what he’s supposed to be doing. She sits down next to him silently.
He hasn’t commented on her new look, she tries to change the subject, referring to her outfit that consists mostly of yellow pouches. No, he replies. Absolutely no. No to the outfit or commenting on it? She asks. Does she think this is his first trip around the Andromeda Strain? No to her trap. Asking what he thinks of her outfit is a trap? she sulks. No, a trap over an open Chitauri Shurg pit is a trap. This is a huge krutackin’ trap. He’d rather talk to Thanos about his moisturizing regime than talk to her about her clothes. Well, clearly he doesn’t like it, she sulks. Peter tells her she is an amazing woman. She’s a teacher, a scholar, a warrior and she’s trying to make the galaxy a better place. But she cannot dress herself to save her life.
How dare he? she seethes. She asked. What’s wrong with her outfit? she demands. He said no. She sulks while he begins to grin. Like he dresses so great, Kitty pouts. Neither blue nor Indiana Jones is his color. He points outs she started dressing in his clothes the moment he left the team. Kitty claims she was keeping his brand alive… She tried to steal his look, Peter interrupts. Until she realized he hadn’t done laundry since the Kree-Skrull war, she adds.
His brand is bigger than the two of them, he claims. Well, she’s been a superhero since she was 13, Kitty sighs. And the fact that she hasn’t been able to pull a look together in all this time is maddening to her. So she hates what she’s wearing too? he asks. Of course she does, she snaps, she’s not blind!
Are they fighting about this for real? he asks. Of course not, she replies. She needs him ready. Is he ready to go now? Did she actually use that terrible outfit to snap him out of his funk? Worked, no? He gets up and announces she’s making him dizzy. She reminds him they are in the middle of an extraction and he is moping around. He lost a planet, Star-Lord points out. Yeah, she caught hat part.
They move on as she continues that what happened on Spartax wasn’t his fault. He was king when it happened, Peter insists. Dude, he’s gotta move on.
As they move through the sewers, she continues the problem is he overshot. Then she shushes him. They are here! In the sewers below them, a group of armed Badoon walk. Despite her protests, he shoots them. Angrily, she tells him she could have phased close and taken them out quietly. He apologizes. His head isn’t in it.
Anyway, Kitty continues, he was too successfully, as the badass renegade Guardian of the Galaxy. So successful, they tried to co-opt him into being a legit leader type. When he took the gig, he overshot. So he shouldn’t have taken the gig? Peter asks. She didn’t say that.
More Badoon come and they fight them while continuing the discussion. He thought she was disappointed in him for taking the gig. The fight over, they run on. Kitty reminds him she said at the time she supported him. She was disappointed in him for not using the same badass, renegade Guardian of the Galaxy kick-assery when he overshot. He was letting them puppet him and it was hard to watch. He corrects her that he was trying to act like an adult, trying to listen and learn. Well, it was hard to watch, Kitty repeats. He should have come in there swagger first. That was what the planet needed. That’s who he is. Instead, he overshot and missed. So now it’s time to get back to the basics. Space pirate, galactic Guardian that answers to no one but his own conscience, right here, right now.
Suddenly, they hear Badoon voices and very soon face a group of them, including a very large one. Too many to blast their way out, Peter figures. He suggests running. Kitty points out they could let the Badoon take them where they want to go instead. No way they’d do that if they know who they are looking for, Peter retorts. Kitty points out she’s been doing this since she was 13. She knows when to run and when to do the other thing. The big Badoon hits Peter, who passes out.
He awakes somewhere else with Kitty, who admits that went poorly. So how long has she been a hero again? he asks sarcastically. She got him out of there, didn’t she? After he lost a tooth, he complains. Again, they find Badoon looking for them and they are hiding. She lost her gun, Kitty finds. He lost a tooth, he reminds her.
Peter shoots down a Badoon flier and they make a run for it. They emerge in a prison camp full of emaciated, suffering prisoners. Kitty orders Peter to give her the gun. He tells her to stick to the plan. The plan sucks, give her the gun! Does she have to take it from him? she threatens when he hesitates. He asks her what she plans to do. She plans to shut this all down. By herself? He inquires. This is a concentration camp, she replies. It’s a prison planet, he points out. They knew that. That’s why they snuck in here. This is a concentration camp! Kitty shouts with tears of rage. She grabs the gun. He stick to the plan. She’ll distract them.
She air-walks upward then fires the element gun at a watchtower. When she has the guards’ attention she shouts “chag sameach, mother &%$%/!”
A guard glider fires at her. The blast phases through her and hits another glider. As that one falls, Peter gets onto the glider.
While Kitty distracts the other guards, Peter addresses the prisoners, telling them to get to the airfield and get the ships and go.
Some prisoners recognize and thank him. He asks if they know where the high-risk political prisoners are kept. A moment later, he is taken out by a huge Badoon.
Kitty is finished but can’t find Peter anymore.
Peter awakes to find himself in a Badoon arena and is informed that he is sentenced for death for crimes against the Brotherhood and the Sisterhood of the Badoon.


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The moon shines down over the reddish night that covers the city. The intergalactic warrior known as Gamora closes her eyes as she stands on a rooftop. She looks over to the Triskelion, then goes wide-eyed as a voice calls out 'What's the plan, Gamora?' Gamora looks up to see Monica Rambeau a.k.a. Specturm of the Ultimates and Jeanne-Marie Beaubier a.k.a. Aurora and Walter Langkowski a.k.a. Sasquatch of Alpha Flight hovering over her. 'You're doing recon to get into the most secure building in the world?' Spectrum asks as she uses her powers to keep America and Sasquatch aloft on energy platforms. America points out that the Triskelion is already on lockdown, thanks to Gamora, while Aurora tells Gamora that she must know that Captain Marvel put together a taskforce to find her after her last little outburst. 'Actually, looking at her face right now, I'm not entirely sure she did know' Sasquatch tells his former girlfriend. 'Earth soldiers, I beg you... do not force my hand' Gamora replies.
Aurora tells Gamora that she is forcing their hand by being here. 'You know that' Sasquatch tells her, while America points out that Gamora shouldn't even be on this planet. 'We didn't sucker punch you just now. We could have' Spectrum tells Gamora. 'We should have' America mutters. Spectrum asks Gamora to surrender, but the deadly warrior responds by rushing forward across the rooftop and leaping up towards Spectrum, staff at the ready, Spectrum fires a blast of energy which Gamora deflects into Sasquatch, striking him in his chest and causing him to fall from the energy platform onto a rooftop below. Gamora then pushes Spectrum aside and kicks Aurora in the face, but this enables America to leap forward and slam her fist into Gamora's face, causing Gamora to spit up green blood.
America hover over Gamora as she slams into the rooftop, while Spectrum, Aurora and Sasquatch gather themselves, and Spectrum unleashes a powerful blast of energy that slams into Gamora, knocking her back into some equipment. Shocked, America turns to Monica and asks her if she killed Gamora. 'I hope not. I'm actually a fan of hers' Monica replies. 'That really hurt' Sasquatch remarks as he rubs his chest, and Monica smiles as she tells him that he just got smacked around by the most dangerous woman in the galaxy. 'Don't make fun. What this woman has been though...' America begins as she leans in close over Gamora, who suddenly opens her eyes and leaps to her feet, pushing America aside. Aurora tries to stop Gamora with a flash of light, but Gamora dodges the flash, which strikes Sasquatch as Gamora flips over the top of him, and lands in front of Spectrum. Gamora then spins around and rakes her staff across Sasquatch's back, before leaping across the rooftop.
Monica watches Gamora, and appears to hesitate, before she grits her teeth and unleashes another powerful blast of energy, some of which appears to slam into Gamora, while the rest of the blast is re-directed to Aurora, striking her in her shoulder. America looks over to Aurora, as does Sasquatch, who clutches his own wound. Gamora falls backwards through the air, but by the time Spectrum and America rush to the edge of the rooftop, Gamora has vaished. 'Does she fly?' America asks Spectrum, who announces that, according to the intel, she doesn't. 'Does she turn invisible?' America enquires. 'Do you think I run her fan page?' Monica retorts. Aurora walks towards Sasquatch who has his back turned to her, and after she tells him that she is sorry, he declares that he is not talking to her for the rest of the day.
At that moment, Gamora is clinging to the fire escape on the outside of the building. She swings into a bedroom and looks down at a child, sleeping in his bed. Suddenly, the child wakes and wipes his eyes. He looks up at Gamora, who holds a finger to her lips, indicating she wants him to stay quiet. He looks at her, wide-eyed as she walks past his bed. She turns in the doorway and glares at the boy, who pulls the bed sheets up over his frightened face. Gamora makes her way through the apartment, when suddenly, from the shadows, America appears and slams her fist into Gamora's face for the second time, sending her crashing into the room of the boy's parents, who sit up in fright. 'I feel bad' America announces as she walks over to Gamora. Spectrum climbs into the bedroom through a window and agrees. 'Yeah, that wasn't fun'. America reveals that if she was in Gamora's shoes, she'd be doing the same thing. 'Yeah' Monica replies, before instructing America to grab Gamora.
Gamora opens her eyes a short time later and finds that she is being held in a large clamp-like device, with a mask over her mouth. Wide-eyed, she sees Carol Danvers a.k.a. Captain Marvel standing before her. 'Sorry, Gamora' Captain Marvel remarks, suggesting that one day she might think back on this and realize that she gave her no choice. 'The Earth cannot have you running around breaking into government installations, pounding on good men and women, looking for Thanos' Carol points out. Carol sits close to Gamora, 'Having a monster like Thanos as your father...I can't even imagine if this ewas me and how I would handle it' Carol tells her, adding that she meant what she said – she is sorry she did not tell her Thanos was on Earth, but that she knew this, right here, is all that would have come of it. 'And I was desperate to spare you that. But... I have an update... Thanos is no longer on Earth' Carol informs Gamora.
Gamora is in the brig on the Alpha Flight Space Station as Carol reveals to her that Thanos escaped from custody during the bedlam of the super hero civil war, and she doesn't know how, or who helped him. Carol tells Gamora that if she knows anything that could help them with the investigation, she would sure appreciate it. 'But beyond that – you can relax. He's not here' Carol assures Gamora, adding that as far as the two of them are concerned, she has a solution. Carol announces that she pulled every string in the galaxy and that Shi'ar transport is going to dock with the Alpha Flight Space Station and will take her wherever she wants to go – just not here. 'The other solution is you get held on Earth for crimes against the United States government' Carol warns Gamora. Gamora looks at Carol as she tells her that in the trial, they will discover that they know each other and that she was being easy on her.
Carol stands up as she tells Gamora that this is for the best, and suggests she goes and finds Thanos and stops him, to free herself of this pain. 'And if we ever do see each other again, I hope it's as friends' Carol remarks. Carol then salutes Gamora, before she flies out of the AFSS back into space. Gamora narrows her eyes.
Shortly, an announcement sounds over the AFSS communications system, reporting that the Shi'ar convoy have arrived and that all hands are to report to battle stations. Lieutenant Commander Abigail Brand meets with Gladiator, who introduces himself to her. Brand does the same, and informs him that Captain Marvel sends her regards and apologizes for not being here to greet him in person. Imperial Guard members Oracle, Warstar, Manta, Titan, Astra and Impulse can be seen standing back from Gladiator. 'You have the Lady Gamora?' Gladiator asks. 'Oh, no small talk' Brand remarks, before motioning to the bound Gamora. 'Here she is. All yours' Brand declares, while Aurora and Sasquatch stand behind Gamora. Gladiator tells Brand that there was talk of other Guardians, but Brand explains that Captain Marvel was hoping to take him up on his offer of getting them all off-planet, but that she couldn't make it happen.
Gladiator announces that he is confused. 'It is no big deal. At the time, she thought she could convince the -' Brand starts to explain, but Gladiator motions at Gamora and  tells Brand 'No. This'. 'What?' Brand asks, puzzled. 'This is not Gamora. Gamora's skin is a completely different hue'. Brand removes the mask over “Gamora's” mouth and, wide-eyed, curses. The green-skinned woman exclaims 'Oh my God! Thank God, finally!' before Brand addresses her as Crewman Berman and asks her where Gamora is. 'She figured out how to -' Berman begins, before Brand connects to the communications system and orders all hands to stations once again, and announces that the AFSS is in hard lockdown. 'I repeat, this satellite is in hard lockdown. No ships in or out. Gamora has escaped! Do not engage her! Do not attempt to recapture her!' Brand instructs the crew. Sasquatch and Aurora look around the chamber, while Gladiator flies outside. Brand reports that Gamora is a lethal warrior and a serious threat to everyone on the AFSS.
Brand then turns back to Berman and asks her how long she has been trapped in their instead of Gamora. 'I'm so sorry! I tried to warn you. I couldn't speak in that -' Berman begins. 'How long?' Brand asks, but Berman tells her that she doesn't know. The Imperial Guard members look around at each other, while Impulse reports that he is confused. 'If Thanos is no longer on Earth, why would -' he begins, but Berman explains that Gamora doesn't believe it.
At the Triskelion, night has settled over the city, and several SHIELD agents are on patrol around the building. 'I mean, God forbid we get overtime. I just don't understand how this building is a safe place to work after everything that has gone down here' one of them tells the others. 'They pulled this crap at Project Pegasus once' another reveals, adding that is why they are in full battle gear, not in case of emergency, in case the ceiling falls on them. 'Well, then I want battle pay' a third remarks. 'Is there such a thing as battle pay?' another asks. 'No, I made it up' the other explains. 'Well, I think it's a good idea'. Suddenly, there is an explosion behind the SHIELD agents. One of them walks in towards the fire, while the others rush about. 'Emergency stations! Put the building on lockdown. Again!' one of the agents reports.
The soldier passes through the flames and enters the Triskelion, stopping under a large warning sign that indicates high security and no entrance. The soldier holds up a strange device which shorts the circuitry and the door to the high security area opens. The soldier walks past what appear to be several heavily-sealed cells, and comes to a stop at the door to one of them. The soldier removes their helmet and protective gear – it's Gamora! She uses that device again on the panel that controls the cell door. It opens and Gamora goes wide-eyed, as she finds the cell empty. The door suddenly slams shut behind Gamora. 'No!' Gamora exclaims, rushing over to the door, she bangs her fists against it. 'No, no, no...' she calls out. 'I told you' a voice announces, as a holographic image of Captain Marvel appears. 'Thanos escaped. I told you the truth. And I told you to leave. In fact, I got you a ride' Carol reminds Gamora, who scowls. Captain Marvel asks Gamora how she cracked their system to find out what cell Thanos was in without them noticing. 'Seriously, that was impressive'.
Gamora grits her teeth and tells Danvers that she made her point. 'I can't let you go, Gamora. You know that' Carol replies. 'LET ME GO!' Gamora shouts, slamming her fist through the hologram of Carol and into the door. 'Open this door!' Gamora screams, continuing to thump on the cell door, while Carol, Monica and America stand on the outside. 'I can't do that' Carol tells her, hanging her head. Monica and America don't look very happy about the situation, either. 'LET ME GO!' an enraged Gamora shrieks inside the cell, continuing to punch the door until her fists bleed. Solemnly, Carol, Monica and America turn and walk away from the cell as Gamora tells them that they can't leave her here. 'YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME!' she screams....


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The Black Vortex – chapter 6
This is the last entry of the Supreme Accuser of the Kree Empire. The final chronicle of Ronan.
Ronan sits in a floating hover chair, writing huge, alien letters onto a giant book page.
The Accuser who disobeyed. On the day the Black Vortex came to Hala.
Ronan’s narration:The three heroes changed by the Black Vortex, Gamora, the young Angel and adult Beast, are attacking the Kree homeworld Hala, whereas their former allies Captain Marvel, Nova and Drax are aiding the Kree in their world’s defense.
Ronan, in the meantime, stands before the Supreme Intelligence, warning him he stands to lose Hala to their enemies. Two Earthling mutants and a daughter of Thanos. But their power is more than even the Accuser Corps can counter. They have been enhanced by this unknown artifact – the Black Vortex.
Also present are Star-Lord, Storm and Jean Grey. Star-Lord interrupts that the Black Vortex is something he has never seen before.
Ronan continues, addressing the Supreme Intelligence. He requests permission that he may pull back the Accuser Corps so that they may submit to the Black Vortex and repay their attackers in kind. The Intelligence denies Ronan’s request.
Ronan warns it they have no hope then. Even Star-Lord agrees with that assessment. They gotta fight fire with fire! Storm protests and the Supreme Intelligence orders them all to be silent. The Black Vortex is not unknown to ten of its four billion minds. Its potential for catastrophe is nigh infinite. If they hold for the Kree fleet to return and defend Hala, likelihood for empire survival is 32.2 percent. If they use the Black Vortex, likelihood of empire survival is… 2.01 percent.
Panicked transmissions of the Accusers under attack come in. Again, Ronan insists and is told that the Supreme Intelligence will stand by its decision. His duty is to obey. They will wait for the return of the Starfang armada.
On Spartax, Kitty and her group (young Beast, Agent Venom, Corsair and Lockheed) arrive at Ma Savage’s orphanage. Ma is trying to fire at a strange creature sitting on the orphanage’s roof. It quickly flies to another part while they wonder what it is.
Venom fires a round at the being. Primitive, the alien scoffs and deflects the rounds by swirling her staff. How did the most powerful artifact of the universe end up in their hands? Kitty asks who she is. Pathetic creatures! the alien scoffs. She is Gara, the last of the Viscardi, an Elder of the universe. And she is here to destroy the Black Vortex!
Hala:Ronan silently muses on how to comply duty with honor. Star-Lord takes him aside and asks Ronan if he really had the chance… Would he submit? Ronan stares at him silently. Right, Peter sighs. Ronan’s lucky he doesn’t mind embarrassing himself for a good cause. Just be ready to make his move!
Star-Lord stalks back toward the Supreme Intelligence and the Black Mirror. He’s gonna be king of the cosmos, baby, Peter shouts. He sits astride the Black Vortex and babbles on, shouting he submits.
The two Accusers stare at him in surprise. Jean asks Storm what he is doing, but Storm has no idea. The Supreme Intelligence gives orders to stop him and the Accusers drag him off the Vortex and away. Ronan takes the chance to sneak past them and submits to the Black Vortex before anyone can stop him. Righteous! he marvels as he stands reborn.
Thane has returned to his followers on Brennan-7 to find them slaughtered, all his flock gone. He berates himself for leaving them and begs their forgiveness. He doesn’t see Czar Doon lurking.
Who could have perpetrated this mass slaughter? Who indeed? Ebony Maw asks as he appears. Thane berates him for mocking him. Ebony Maw claims he feels the same pain. This is an atrocity… Yet perhaps Thane can honor the fallen, in memoriam. He continues that the dead cry for revenge. Thane needs the power Mr. Knife offered.
Thane vows he will find who did this and wash the sin in their blood. His power flaring, he vows that in the name of his flock he will have revenge!
In the orbit of Hala, the Kree, Captain Marvel, Nova and Drax get reinforcements in the form of the altered Ronan, who announces the Kree Empire is under his protection. Surrender or face the hammer of justice!
Beast orders Gamora and Angel to stall Ronan. His replica of space time is almost complete. When it is, all possibilities will be in the pal of their hand. On it, Gamora announces.
Crossing weapons with Ronan, she hisses how dare he. He retorts they have themselves to blame. His judgment beam ignites the guilt deep within her soul. She must have much to atone for. Swatting him back she snaps guilt is for the weak!
While the other Accusers watch, Angel next blasts Ronan. Beast shouts at Angel to keep him at bay. He is almost ready!
Nova, Captain Marvel and Drax watch fascinated, realizing Ronan has submitted to the Black Vortex.
Getting up despite the energy onslaught, Ronan announces they will remember this day. But Angel will not like how they’ll remember him. He hits him in the face with his hammer.
Beast’s analysis is finished. It’s beautiful, he marvels until he realizes it is broken. He broke the fabric of space-time. Everything dies. He is supposed to be a scientist. How could he have been so cavalier? How could he have brought them back? How did he become a monster?! he shouts as he flies away.
Furious, Gamora impales Ronan on her sword. She grabs Angel and vows this isn’t over then flies away.
The Guardians try to help up Ronan, who groans what happened. He did it, Nova announces.
That was the day the Supreme Accuser saved Hala. But not without a price. The Guardians of the Galaxy and the X-Men, their names will live on forever as defenders of Hala. But the name of Ronan will live forever in disgrace. The Accuser who violated the word of the Supremor.
All that remains now of my duty is to face the consequences of my actions. If you are reading my words a hundred years hence, a thousand years, millennia hence, then look around you. If you can see with your own eyes the beauty of Hala, the strength of the Accuser Corps, the nobility of the Kree, then you see with your own eyes the undeniable evidence I was right.
Having finished his writing, Ronan proudly walks away.


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Mexican Standoff
The sky is blue. Some clouds appear, rolling over the hills, where a large, ominous factory is situated. Inside, two scientists are discussing the atom. ‘The atom, General Meltdown, is the heart of the matter. Once, it was thought to be indestructible, immutable, eternal. We know better now. Or worse, depending on your point of view. We know now that atoms can be broken. Into fragments and energy’. Images of atoms appear on monitors, as General Meltdown tells the other man, Dr Neutron, that he knows all this. ‘Don’t you think we should –’ he begins, before Dr Neutron interrupts, declaring ‘Neutron bullets, General, are fired into uranium-235 and shatter the nuclei of individual atoms. The shattered nucleus breaks into pieces of caesium and strontium...and energy is released’ he explains, as the simulation on the monitor demonstrates, adding that it is a great deal of energy.
Dr Neutron continues, explaining that a moderator, in this instance a graphite drum, is used to slow the neutrons down, and boron steel control rods absorb some of the neutrons to regulate the speed of the reaction. Nuclear fission produces enough energy to power a submarine, to light a city...or to destroy a world, and Dr Neutron tells General Meltdown that the annual maintenance shutdown of the RBMK-1000 Reactor No 4 at the Chernobyl power station would be the perfect opportunity.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Chernobyl, on Friday, April 25, 1986 at 1:00 am, two men stand in the nuclear facility, as one asks ‘Are you sure our superiors got it right, Dimitri? Let me see those orders again’. Dimitri tells his colleague, Yuri, that he worries too much, that he is of the old school, and asks him to relax. ‘This is Glasnost! A time when thought and innovation will be rewarded. And we’ve got a serious power problem here’ Dimitri adds, both men illuminated by a yellow light inside the facility. Dimitri states that in 1982 and 1984, they found that if there were an accidental loss of steam to the turbines, there wouldn’t be enough power to operate the reactor’s safety systems until the emergency diesels cut in. ‘Which means in an emergency, we could be in big trouble! Yes, yes, I know that, but – ‘Yuri begins.
Dimitri points out that the new equipment is supposed to correct the problem, to which Yuri asks if it will do that. ‘That’s what we want to find out’ Dimitri tells him. Dimitri explains that they are shutting down the reactor for its annual maintenance check, which gives them the perfect opportunity to test the new system. Yuri asks if this has been cleared properly, and Dimitri assures him that they submitted the plans to the plant designers.
Elsewhere someone moves their first piece in a game of chess – a white pawn, as Dr Neutron tells General Meltdown that the plans were diverted, of course – a ridiculously small bribe to a minor official.
‘They never got back to us...and they didn’t say no’ Dimitri explains to Yuri, who examines something and replies ‘But you’ll answer for this if it fails!’ to which Dimitri adds ‘And get the credit if it succeeds, comrade?’ Yuri just grunts and mutters that they will get started then, before announcing that target output is 700 top 1000 megawatts thermal. Dimitri reports that the present output is 3200 megawatts, and initiates reduction procedure.
Friday, noon, April 26, 1986, another nuclear plant worker approaches Dimitri and Yuri, and asks how it is going. Dimitri replies that it is a piece of cake, that the reactor output is approaching 1600 megawatts, and suggests that they break for lunch. Two hours later, Dimitri reports that they are approaching the target output, and switches off the emergency core cooling system. He takes a phone call: ‘Yes Sir? How long, Sir? Yes Sir? Very well’, and orders the others to terminate the power reduction procedure, as that was the local power grid controller in Kiev, and he says they need electricity for a few more hours, and they have been ordered to supply it. Dimitri tells Yuri and the other man that this is annoying, as it means they will be working past midnight in order to complete the test. ‘Hot date, Dimitri? Tell her you’ll see her some other night, comrade. We have our orders!’ one of the other men replies. ‘Very well’ Dimitri mutters, before asking if they should restart the cooling system. ‘Why bother? It’ll only be a little while before we start to shut down again. And the more time we save, the sooner we’ll be home in bed’ Yuri points out.
At 11:10 pm, Dimitri is on the phone once again to Kiev, ‘All right. We’ll take care of it. Sure. No problem’ he tells the controller, before hanging up and muttering ‘Jerk’. He tells Yuri that Kiev are finished, and they can resume power reduction operations again. ‘And about time, too. It’s getting pretty damn late here, and Anastasia will wait for you only so long, eh?’ Yuri remarks.
The chess game continues, as General Meltdown tells Dr Neutron that it cost him merely the assurance that operator Yuri would be given preference for the next single family unit, to insure that the cooling system would remain shut off. He explains that Dimitri was less difficult, as it was his eagerness to spend that night with the beautiful Anastasia that proved his undoing. ‘You see, Neutron, what a greedy, lax, black-market society ours has become, riddled with decadent capitalist ideas. ‘Glasnost is the cause, Dr Neutron! It will be the ruination of Mother Russia!’ he exclaims. Dr Neutron points out that without Dimitri’s laxness, their plan would surely have failed, for as it was, a bottle of schnapps plus some simple conditioning, encouraged operator Alexi to set the regulator improperly – and the game was almost theirs. That was the crucial error.
At 12:28 AM now, on April 27, 1986, the Saturday, Dimitri suddenly notices something: ‘What the hell?’ he calls out, before shouting that the reactor is crashing, that power output is dropping off to almost nothing. ‘What? How can that be? What’s the reading?’ one of the others asks. ‘Thirty megawatts! We’ll never be able to test the emergency procedures now! They’ll have to wait till next year!’ the other explains. ‘We’ll be lucky not to be sent to the Gulag!’ he adds, while Yuri mutters that he told them they should have tried it. ‘I know who they’re going to blame’ he adds. One of the others declares that they have to increase the power output. ‘If we fail –’ he begins, to which Yuri tells him that if they fail, they won’t have to worry about Glasnost for a long, long time. ‘But if we remove the remaining control rods?’ one of the men asks, while another declares that the power levels are rising – 200 megawatts and climbing.
Dr Neutron points out that this type of reactor is very unstable at low power levels and that the gaseous bi-product it creates, xenon-135, isn’t a factor at normal operating levels, but that at low levels, the gas absorbs some of the neutrons that keep the reactor going, and it is very dangerous.
‘We still aren’t generating enough power to start the equipment!’ one of the men calls out urgently, suggesting that they will have to improvise. ‘Switch on the pumps to force more water through the core. That, at least, is part of the original plan for the experiment and will provide an additional margin of safety’ one of the other men points out. Someone shouts that they will have to make manual adjustments to main control of the reactor, and reports that he is getting an emergency shutdown signal from the reactor. ‘Turn it off! The computers simply don’t know how to read what we’re doing!’ another orders.
Dr Neutron tells General Meltdown that, of course the computers understood exactly what was happening, but, as planned, no one listened, and the additional water caused the ratio of steam and water within the reactor core to change with every passing moment, thus increasing the reactor’s instability. The operators having come so far, had little choice but to continue.
At 1:20 AM, Yuri informs Dimitri that the water level is below the emergency mark, and that he is getting a signal that the automatic shut-down system is about to kick in. ‘What should I do?’ he asks.
‘And then began the endgame’ Dr Neutron announces as he moves another chess piece.
‘Override it!’ Dimitri orders, but Yuri tells him that they still don’t have enough power to begin the experiment.
‘Check’ Dr Neutron declares as he moves a piece on the chess board.
At 1:23 AM, one of the plant operators announces that they are as close to ready as they can be. ‘If things go well, we should be able to complete our task tonight. Begin the experiment, Yuri’. Yuri replies ‘With pleasure’ and points out that the sooner they finish here, the happier he will be. ‘Just make certain the automatic trip is turned off so we don’t close things down by accident when the turbines shut down’ the other man declares.
‘And mate’ Dr Neutron adds as he moves his final piece.
‘Yuri! Something’s wrong. There’s too much steam! The water isn’t absorbing enough neutrons! Power’s surging!’ one of the operators exclaims, looking at some computer readings. ‘My God! Button AZ-5! Quickly! All control and scram rods into the core! Hurry!’ Yuri shouts. ‘They’re not going in all the way! They’re buckling with the heat!’ someone points out. ‘Disconnect them! Let them fall free!’ another shouts, clutching at his head, but someone else points out that it isn’t working.
‘Yes, Dr Neutron, the plan progressed like clockwork, each cog doing its bit. Only... it didn’t work. What precisely went wrong?’ General Meltdown enquires. Dr Neutron replies that, at this juncture, he suggested the reactor’s power output did rise to more than 100 times its normal level, and that part of the core went prompt critical immediately, equivalent to about half a ton of TNT exploding inside it. He continues, stating that the second explosion tore off the roof of the containment building. ‘1000 tons of reinforced concrete. You were very impressive general. And not even singed’ Dr Neutron points out. General Meltdown replies that it was certainly impressive, but that it didn’t work, he couldn’t help himself. Dr Neutron reminds the General that he did warn him, that he might not be able to maintain his control during such a strong power surge. ‘Stop calling me General, Dr Neutron! I was stripped of that rank before I was sent here! And the party’s inner circle is going to pay heavily of that’ he threatens.
General Meltdown continues, stating that even though their main goal failed, Gorbachev’s consolidation of power has been slowed by the public relations disaster of Chernobyl, so it is a start. He adds that the next time, they will strike hard enough to bring down this man and cripple his policies that threaten to reduce their nation to a peace-loving, second-rate power. ‘No doubt, General, when you are in charge, things will be different’ Dr Neutron replies, adding that they know now that this approach disperses the radiation too widely for direct absorption, so they will have to try something else – something with more finesse.
Meanwhile, in a small town on the gulf Coast of Mexico, where tourism isn’t a major industry, but residents manage to keep themselves amused. ‘So, gringo, you no like my sister?’ a rather large man in a tavern calls out. ‘How much you mother charge for her services?’ the large man, armed with a baseball bat, then asks. ‘Looks like your father... he been short-changed, Americano!’ another man, with a knife, declares. ‘Ain’t Americano, bub’ the subject of their attention replies as he picks up a barstool, and slams it against the large man’s head, telling him to keep his mother out of this. He then punches another man, asking him if he wants a piece of the action too, and suggests that he better use something larger than that letter opener. Crashes and punches can be heard outside the tavern, while a man sitting at the bar, drinking from a glass asks ‘Sure you don’t want to call of our bet?’
‘Nope’ comes the reply from the man facing off against the locals, as he slams a stool into another man’s face, adding that even if this was a serious exercise in international diplomacy, which it isn’t, he wouldn’t need claws to deal with these suckers. ‘No way I’m buying the drinks the rest of our vacation’ he adds as a broken bottle goes flying past the head of the man at the bar. ‘Whatever you say. It’s your fight. You started it. Enjoy yourself’ the man at the bar replies.
More punches are thrown, and one man is even tossed to the ceiling. ‘I started it? I started it? How d’you figure that?’ the lone man asks. ‘You shouldn’t have made that crack about his sister’ Alex “Havok” Summers, sitting at the bar replies casually, while reading a newspaper. ‘Traditional response, friend of mine. You got something against tradition?’ Wolverine a.k.a. Logan asks. Alex Summers looks around at the destruction in the bar and asks Wolverine if he is finished here. ‘In a minute’ Wolverine replies as he turns his attention to the large man from earlier, and tells him that if he refers to his mother as a “puta” again, he will slice his face off.
As the two friends leave the tavern, Alex points out that Logan doesn’t even know who his mother was. ‘No reason not to treat her with respect’ Logan replies, adding that it is the principle of the thing. They make their way along the sidewalk Logan remarks ‘Got the time-honored Mexican greeting to a gringo out here in the countryside. My duty ta give the time-honored reply’. Havok asks Logan what happens if it sets Mexican – American relations back fifty years. ‘Not my problem, eh? I’m Canadian’ Logan responds, before asking Alex if he has a match. Alex holds up a packet of matches, while Logan unsheathes one claw, which he uses to trim the end of his cigar and tells Alex that this doesn’t count as using his claws, as he didn’t use them in the fight – only used his fists until he could grab the chair. ‘And the barstools’ Alex points out. ‘Tough. Let ‘em off too easy. They shouldn’ta said that about my mother...’ Logan muses.
As he lights his cigar, Logan asks Alex how many days the bet has been on now. Hands in his jacket pockets, Alex replies that it has been three days, and that he is playing it safe, staying out of trouble. ‘This is one wager I’m not losing. The way you chug it down... I’d be broke’ Alex points out, adding that Logan’s cigars alone would kill a lesser man. Logan explains that he didn’t ask for a healing factor, and no matter what he does to it, his body just won’t quit. ‘Gives you an unfair advantage in the lethal consumables department’ Alex remarks. ‘Yup. Women’ll kill you faster’ Logan jokes. ‘No doubt about it’ Alex agrees, adding that picking the lethal ones has always been his speciality. Logan tells Alex to cheer up, and reminds him that he isn’t dead yet.
In a room on the first floor of the building which Logan and Alex are standing in front of, a voice can be heard: ‘I have the potential target under surveillance, and so far I’ve seen no evidence of target’s supposed powers. Are you certain our information about him was correct?’ the person asks. Via a telephone or communicator, another voice is heard, ‘That’s why you’re watching him, idiot. The administrator said to be sure’. The first voice states that they have watched him for three days, and nothing. ‘I was told there was some urgency’ they add. ‘There is. We will have to force the issue’ the second voice says, before being informed that the target is not alone. ‘We are prepared to deal with that contingency’ the second voice replies.
Hours later, in their motel room, Logan is a robe and enters the bathroom, while Alex sits up on one of the beds and asks ‘You sure it’s morning?’ Logan replies that he doesn’t know, as it could be afternoon by now. ‘Some night’ he adds. ‘Some fight’ Alex points out, before there is a knock at the door. Alex goes to answer it, but Logan tells him not to. ‘Scent tell me...’ Logan begins, but too late, as Alex opens the door, and finds the men from the bar, covered in bandages, and aiming guns at him.
Alex slams the door, as Logan concludes his sentence ‘...it ain’t room service’, as the men blast the front door down. Alex and Logan leap out the first story window, the men race to the window and fire at them. ‘I thought you said “your sister is a puta” was a traditional greeting?’ Alex asks. ‘Yup. It’s the prescribed return. Said so in the tourist phrase book’ Logan replies as they run towards a woman who is standing near a red convertible car.
‘Hey!’ the woman calls out, as bullets are fired around them. ‘Are you sure you read it right? These guys don’t seem to be taking it in the right spirit’ Alex tells Logan as they enter the car. ‘Nope. Maybe I oughta get a new phrase book’ Logan jokes. Alex takes the wheel and starts to drive away. ‘Hey!’ the woman exclaims. ‘Whups, looks like we forgot something’ Alex remarks. More bullets are fired. ‘Hey?’ the woman utters. ‘You’re kidding, right?’ Logan asks. Alex points out that they can’t just leave her to be shot. As he drives back around towards the woman, Alex adds that he thinks this is her car, and grabs her by her wrist, pulling her into the car as bullets land in a nearby stop sign. They speed off, and Logan points out that the shooting has stopped. ‘Yeah. Guess we distanced ‘em’ Alex suggests.
Out on open road now, Alex asks the woman what a nice girl like her is doing in a place like this. ‘Besides blocking the rear view mirror’ Logan mutters. ‘My lipstick’s smeared’ the woman replies. ‘You have been pulled out of the middle of a gunfight, had your car stolen, been kidnapped by two total strangers... and you’re worried about your appearance?’ Alex enquires. The woman tells him that in her business, a girl has to worry about it all the time. She looks into a small pocket mirror and re-applies her lipstick. ‘Yer a cool one, I’ll give you that’ Logan tells her, while Alex asks ‘What exactly is your line of business?’ Logan tells her that she is still blocking the rear view mirror.
Suddenly, a car approaches from behind, and slams into them. ‘What the heck?’ Alex calls out. Logan turns around to see the dark car behind them and remarks that that this is getting to be more than a friendly little altercation. ‘These guys want to create a full-fledged international incident!’ he exclaims.
Logan notes that the car behind them has a lot of speed for an old jalopy, and Alex decides that it looks like a professional job, before asking Logan if he can see who is inside. Logan asks Alex to slow up for a minute, as the other car has tinted windows. Logan does manage to see one of the men in the car, his face is disfigured and there appears to be a piece of metal attached to his face. ‘Huh. Definitely not one of the hombres we wrestled with back in the cantina’ Logan tells Alex as the black car pulls up alongside Alex and Logan, the strange-looking man leans out the window, and reveals a large weapon, which he points towards Alex and Logan, who supposes that the dudes back at the cantina set them up, and were probably well paid for their trouble. ‘Not that they wouldn’t have done it just for fun. What now?’ Alex asks.
Logan instructs Alex to brake and swing right, which Alex does without hesitating. The black car continues to speed on, while Alex, Logan and the woman start to careen down a slope. Alex tells Logan to keep in mind that this is not only not their car, but a vintage 1957 red thunderbird convertible. ‘So? I think it’s coming down to us or the car!’ Logan points out. The car lands on an evener road, and Alex declares that if it comes to that, then screw the car, before asking ‘We lose that sucker yet?’ Logan glances backwards, and sees that the black car has caught up to them again. ‘Nope’ he tells Alex. ‘Swell’ Alex mutters, while the woman asks them if they can drop her off somewhere. ‘You can keep the car’ she adds. Suddenly, there is a strange noise. ‘What now?’ Alex asks, before the woman tells him ‘Bad news, honey. Something’s poking through the top. I think it’s Darth Vader’, as the man with the disfigured face bursts trough the roof of the black car, and with his body half-out of the top of the car, he starts firing towards Alex and Logan once more. ‘He’s shooting at us!’ the woman gasps as she turns around. ‘Yup. Laser rifle’ Alex tells her as he notices the laser dart past them. ‘Swell! Who is that dude?’ Logan mutters.
Looking rather unimpressed, the woman asks ‘Lasers? Who are you guys? Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, before muttering ‘Oh, Maria...look! Peligro...means danger!’ Up ahead, they see a sign, “Peligro”, while the mysterious man from the car, and several others, all armed with weapons, stand nearby. ‘Oh, for crying out loud, we’re supposed to be on vacation’ Alex declares, while Logan remarks that they are well equipped, whoever they are. Alex drives into the sign, and asks Logan if he is ready to lose the bet. ‘Nope’ Logan replies. ‘Me neither!’ Alex tells him, so Wolverine suggests Alex “gun it”. Alex drives the car towards a rickety old swing bridge, ‘Not much of a bridge’ one of them points out. ‘Relax, it’s not much of a car’ another replies. The black car drives onto the bridge, and planks of wood start to collapse.
‘You see the other guy?’ Alex asks. ‘Must’ve fallen. Breaks my heart’ Logan replies. ‘No, he didn’t! Look!’ the woman exclaims as she stands up in the backseat and puts her hands on Alex’s shoulders, as they see the black car now flying above them. Alex starts to clench one of his hands into a fist, ‘All right. Enough already. You win. The drinks are on me!’ he tells Logan as he unleashes a powerful charge of plasma energy, which strikes the car up ahead.
Alex and Logan get out of the red car, while the woman reaches into her handbag and asks ‘You...you did that?’ ‘Yeah. Plasma bolt’ Alex explains. ‘Heck of a fall’ Wolverine points out as he peers over the edge of the cliff down to the canyon below. ‘But who was he working for... and why us?’ Alex wonders. Logan suggests they ought to ask the guys on the other side of the bridge, while the woman pulls a gun from her handbag. ‘Oh, you don’t have to worry about them... now that you’ve demonstrated that you are, in fact, who we thought you were’ she states as she fires the gun, and bullets land in Alex and Logan. Logan starts to get up, but the woman shoots him again.
There is darkness all around, before Logan comes to, and finds a doctor standing over him in a hospital room. ‘What…happened?’ Logan calls out. ‘Bubonic Plague. Exceptionally virulent strain’ the doctor replies. ‘My… friend? Mi… amigo?’ Logan asks. The doctor tells him that he is sorry, but his companion also had the plague and he was dead when Logan was found, and already been buried. ‘You understand…bodies of plague victims must be buried as soon as possible to avoid contagion’ the doctor explains. The doctor and other hospital staff exit the ward, as one of them remarks that it is a miracle this one is still alive. ‘He won’t be for long. He’ll be dead by morning’ another whispers.
‘Alex dead? No way! He can’t be’ Wolverine thinks to himself, wondering what the rest of the X-Men will say, and what Scott will say. ‘Goddamnit! What’s wrong with me? She shot us. So where’re the bullet wounds? Why the plague?’ Wolverine wonders. He decides that whatever the problem, his healing factor should have kicked in, so he ought to be well by now. ‘Ought to never’ve been sick’ he adds. Logan examines his skin, and uses a claw to pop out a bullet when he realizes that he has seen pellets like this before. He holds it up and tells himself that it is an assassination technique - quiet, deadly and if you’re not looking for it, almost undetectable. ‘Bubonic Plague. How many of these did she pump into me?’ Wolverine asks himself, knowing that one capsule would kill any ordinary human - including Alex. Logan then blacks out.
There were six capsules inside Logan - but even they weren’t enough. Logan makes his way through a town, ‘It was Alex they wanted. Wanted dead’ he thinks to himself. ‘Waited till he showed his power. Till they knew they had the right guy. But who knew about him? And why?’ Logan wonders, while he is being followed by someone who reports ‘It’s him, all right. Still alive’. Someone via communicator replies ‘Unbelievable. Quark pumped enough plague into him to kill thirty ordinary men. But this does confirm our identification’. The person tailing Wolverine listens as the person via communicator states that they have nothing on him in their computer banks, and precious little in hard copy, except that he was supposed to have died in Houston. ‘Looks like a hard guy to kill’ the person following Wolverine comments.
Via communicator, the voice explains that Wolverine’s senses are preternaturally sharp, animal senses. ‘Use extra care in following him’ they add. ‘I could be following in a Mack Truck for all the attention he’s paying now’ the person following Wolverine replies, adding that he won’t notice anything unless it gets in his way. ‘And I know better than that’. The voice on the radio asks where he is headed, and the person following Wolverine replies ‘The graveyard’. ‘Good. He’ll find the grave of his friend and that will be the end of it’ the voice suggests, while Wolverine carries on, stopping when he finds the marked grave that belongs to Havok. He drops down beside it as it starts to rain. He holds onto the headstone, ‘Alex!’ he calls out, before placing his nose against the headstone, he starts to sniff. He removes his sunglasses, and frowns. His frown turns into a growl as he tears the gravestone up out of the ground and roars in fury. He tosses it away. ‘Alex!’ Logan shouts, before unsheathing his claws, and starts to dig into the ground, sending dirt flying up around him.
Logan keeps digging furiously, ‘Urrrgg… Alex!’ he exclaims as he starts to pull the casket up from the ground. ‘Heavy sucker. Not empty. Somebody in here’ Logan decides. He stands over the wooden casket and tells himself that the scent is all wrong. He then slams his fists into the box, smashing the top of it. ‘What the hell?’ Logan calls out as he pulls from the coffin a dummy stuffed with rocks and a man sized piñata. ‘Ain’t Alex!’ Logan declares. ‘Ain’t even a family resemblance’ he jokes, knowing that this means Alex is alive and somebody has him. ‘Good! Because that means I can find him…and it’s gonna be a real pleasure forcing those suckers to give him back!’ the furious Wolverine vows….