Chapter 10
Chapter 10
Morag; 2014
Oliver, Rhodes and Nebula, hidden behind a ruin, could see Peter Quill aka Star-Lord dancing and humming "Come And Get Your Love" in the ruined monument where the Power Stone was The Guardian of the Galaxy was dancing and humming like an idiot.
"So he's an idiot?" replied Rhodey, in a low voice.
"Yeah," Nebula replied.
"That's the Quill I remember," Oliver added bitterly.
Then, while Quill was dancing, he was punched in the head from War Machine and fell to the floor, unconscious.
"Sorry Quill, it's not personal," said the archer of Earth – 1 to the stunned man.
Nebula searched Quill's wallet for a long tool.
"What's that?" asked Rhodey.
"The tool of a thief," replied Thanos's daughter.
She used the tool to open the door that led to the Orb containing the Infinity Stone. As she was about to return, Rhodey grabbed her by the arm.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa…This is the part where spikes come out with skeletons on the end and everything…" he exclaimed.
Oliver rolled his eyes, while Nebula looked at him with a frown.
"What are you talking about?"she replied.
"When you break into a place called the temple of the Power Stone, there gonna be a bunch of boobytraps…"
"Ignore him! Ignore him, go ahead!" Oliver intervened, motioning Nebula to enter the ruined temple.
Then he gave an exasperated look at War Machine.
"Seriously, you watch too many movies. Nebula knows this place. If there were any traps, she would have told us," he thundered at the Avenger.
Then they both joined Nebula who were watching the orb surrounded by a force field.
"I guess that's it, the Power Stone, how do we take it?" asked the archer.
In response, Nebula forced her hand into the force field, melting the outer plating on her arm. She successfully grabbed the orb and put it in the bag.
She looked at her metallic arm before addressing the two men:
"I wasn't always like this."
"Me either," replied Rhodey.
"Me either, I wasn't always like that," Oliver added, looking at his bow and his archer's outfit. "Nebula… you and I have a lot in common. I know what it's like to be forced to become a killer."
Nebula had told Oliver all about her past. The archer understood it perfectly. He himself had been forced to become a killer for his survival, before becoming Green Arrow.
"We work with what we got, right?" added War Machine.
Then he threw out his helmet, and all of them resumed their combinations to join the Quantum Realm.
"Sync up," said War Machine. "3… 2… 1…"
Oliver and War Machine shrank and disappeared, while Nebula remained frozen, unable to leave. Her eye shot out a holographic light and collapsed to the ground.
Aboard the gigantic Thanos ship, the 2014 Nebula showed her father future images of her double. The holographic images of Kara and Oliver appeared before him. Gamorra and Ebony Maw saw all that too.
"… We find out the Stones in the past, we gather them together, and we use it to bring back all those we lost," said the voice of Kara. "And after that, we may be able to return to our Earths."
"Their Earths?" Gamorra confused.
"The Multivers, interesting," Thanos replied with a cheerful air. "Maw, go much further in her memory."
Then images showed Supergirl and the Avengers defeat Thanos in the Garden. The Hulkbuster push the Titan to the ground screaming with rage:
"…MURDERED TRILLIONS!"
"And even more!"said the voice of Oliver Queen.
"You should be grateful!"replied Thanos simply.
As an answer, he had received the fist of the Hulkbuster in his face. Supergirl was coming towards him, her eyes angry.
"GRATEFUL?"if she cried. "FROM WHAT? TO HAVE KILLED OUR FRIENDS AND OUR FAMILIES? IN YOUR DREAMS!"
Then the 2014 Thanos looked at Supergirl's picture hitting her future dub, with a neutral look.
Then came the moment when the Avengers had interrogated the Titan on the Stones of Infinity. He replied:
"Gone, reduced to atoms."
"You used them two days ago," said Bruce Banner's voice.
"I used the Stones to destroy the Stones. It nearly… killed me. But the work is done. it always will be. I am… inevitable."
Then the picture stopped. Gamorra turned to his father in 2014.
"What did you do to them?"
"Nothing. Yet." replied Thanos in a calm voice. "They're not trying to stop something I'm going to do in our time. They're trying to undo something I've already done in theirs."
"The Stones," Gamorra realized, stunned.
Thanos turned to her, with a look of triumph.
"I found them all. I won. Tipped the cosmic scales to balance."
He stroked her daughter's hair, and she immediately knelt down in front of him.
"This is your future," said Ebony Maw, who did not lose sight of what he saw.
"It's my destiny," replied Thanos solemnly.
Then the image resumed.
"… My father is many things. Liar is not one of them."say voice Nebula.
"... Thank you daughter,"said Thanos. "Perhaps I treated you too harshly…"
Then Thanos watched his double behead his head. Gamorra was shocked, while the Mad Titan remained neutral.
"And that, is destiny fulfilled." he replied in a calm voice.
"Sire," said Maw. "Your daughter…"
With these words, he used his telekinesis power to wrap a chain around Nebula's throat.
"… is a traitor!"
"That's not me…" cried Nebula, struggling to breathe."I could never have betray you… I could never… "
Thanos gently released the chain around his daughter's neck, and took her face in his palm.
"I know. And you'll have the chance to prove it." he said.
On Morag, Nebula was frozen on the ground, her eye was projecting a hologram, then she regained her wits with horror.
"No… he knows!"
She ran to join the Benatar's little shuttle and hurried to talk to a radio:
"Barton? Barton, come in. Romanoff? Come in, we have a problem. Come on! Come in, we have a prob… Thanos knows. Thanos… He knows."
But a gigantic shadow obscures the shuttle. Nebula raised her head to see Thanos' gigantic black vessel, which immediately caught her through a bluish ray.
New York ; 2012
Supergirl saw Steve jump from a building staircase with Loki's Scepter in his hand. Both saw Tony and Scott in a broken car, completely sullen.
"Cap, sorry we got a problem," Tony replied.
"Huh. Yeah, we do."exclaimed Scott.
"A big problem," added Supergirl.
All three told Steve about their mishap with Loki, who had taken advantage of Hulk's appearance to seize the Space Stone and run away through a portal. They had no idea where he had gone. Impossible to get hold of the Tesseract.
"Well, what are we gonna do now?" asked Captain America.
"You know what, give me a break, Steve. I just got hit in the head with a Hulk!" Tony grumbled.
Scott got out of the car and paced angrily.
"You said that we had one shot. This, this was our shot. We shot it. It's shot. Six Stones or nothing."
"You're repeating yourself, you know that?"
"You're repeating yourself! You're repeating yourself! You ruined the time heist…"
"Guys, guys, calm down!"intervened Supergirl, raising her arms in the air. "We'll not solve anything with these bickering."
Despite the fact that they had failed, the Kryptonian was convinced that there was another solution.
"Are there any other options with the Tesseract?"Steve added, still calm.
"No, no, no, there's no other option!" Scott replied, out of him. "There's no do-overs. We're not going anywhere else. We have one particle left. Each. That's it, alright? We use that… Bye, bye. You're not going home. "
"What we need is going to a time when we are sure to find both Tesseract and Pym particles," Supergirl suggested. "That's the only way!"
Tony looked stunned and hurried out of the car and joined Captain.
"Supergirl, you're a genius!" if he exclaimed. "There's another way. To retake the Tesseract and acquire new particles. We'll stroll down memory lane. Military installation, Garden State."
Steve nodded.
"Well, it looks likewe're improvising." he said.
"Steve, what do we do?" asked Kryptonian.
Captain America handed Loki's Scepter to Scott, then signaled to Supergirl.
"Bring the Scepter back to the compound. We take care of the Tesseract."
"Good luck, Cap," Kara nodded.
"Look, if you do this, and this doesn't work, you're not coming back," Scott said, unsure of their plan.
"Thanks for the pep talk, pissant." Tony said sullenly. (Then he turned to Steve.) "You trust me?"
"I do," Steve replied.
Then both took back their combinations of the Quantum Realm and disappeared, leaving Supergirl and Scott alone in the alley.
"I hope they'll succeed," said Ant-Man.
"They will, I'm sure," Supergirl agreed, nodding. "We do what Steve asked us. We return to compound."
Then both of them disappeared into the Quantum Realm.
2014
Nebula had been captured aboard Thanos's ship. And she was being abused by her double of the past.
"You're weak," she spat in disgust.
"I'm you," said Nebula.
And the 2014 Nebula hit his double with a punch in his face. Gamorra walks into the room. At the sight of her sister, Nebula was shocked. She tried an approach to her.
"You can stop this. You know you want to. Did you see what happens in the future? Thanos finds the Soul Stone. You wanna know how he does that? You wanna know what he does to you?"
"That's enough," thundered the 2014 Nebula as he kicked his doppelganger again. (She approached her, holding out a penknife.) "You disgust me. But that doesn't mean you're useless."
She pulled out a golden plaque from the face of her look-alike.
She joined Thanos, seated on a throne, and handed him a Pym particle.
"How do I look?" she asked him.