Chapter 3: Cosmology

[Renekin Skywalker]

"Well, as I may or may not have said before." Gambit says, "Several of us were sucked into a problem with the timelines that need to be resolved. We found out the problem was in this general vacinity. No-one explained why that to me."

[sasqaricious]

Tally does not take the chance to punch her foe while she is not acting. But can not resist the one thing. "Well at least I did not get hit!" Before turning to martyr and saying "My apologies, guess I have been hanging with X-EEE too long. But such is life. My name is Tally but you can call me Aura!"

[dakota]

sabertooth was confused. He was still on edge, but his desire to gut Drax had simply vanished. And being on edge always made him irratable. " someone best soon figure this mess out."

[doc]

All of the Guardians begin to look ashen and sad. Starlord answers with a voice devoid of emotion. "Yeah, I think we know what you're talking about. You better follow us. Cosmo? Give us a passport direct to the briefing room." The dog wags its head as a portal opens up. The Guardians begin walking through.

Thanos raises a solitary eyebrow and follows.

[sasqaricious]

Tally not saying a thing gets in line and starts to follow through the portal. Not sure if the others will follow or not sure if it is the right thing to do. But either way she does follow through.

[Renekin Skywalker]

Retrieving his staff, and collapsing and pocketting it, Gambit walked through the portal, wondering how many of these he'll end up going through before he's done with it. He wondered if someone would actually fill him in with what's going on and why this space head station is so important.

[dragonblaze99]

X-23 fallows but stays alert for ambush


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[dakota]

Seeing X-23 already on her toes, Creed smirked. He pulled at the slice in his top, showing the wound acrossed his chest already a puckered scar. " I lose more shirts this way..." he sputtered, staying fairly close to Blink as she passes through the portal.

[doc]

Drax huffs at Creed. "That's why I don't wear shirts anymore." as his own wounds close.

The team is now in a large briefing room area, where two women are waiting, with coffee cups ready for everyone including the Exiles and Thanos.

Starlord raises an eyebrow at the green skinned woman with antennae.



"You couldn't have used your mentat Precog skills to tell us to avoid an avoidable fight, Mantis?"

Mantis smiles slightly. "It wouldn't have worked. Drax still would have attempted to kill the alternate Thanos. Certain things cannot be avoided, like gravity."


The other woman rushes to Martyr, her voice filled with concern "Phyla, you're hurt."

Martyr brushes her aside. "I'll be fine Heather. We've got bigger issues to deal with." As she and the others sit down.

[doc]

The other Guardians sit at the large table, leaving plenty of room for the Exiles to take a seat. Jack flag removes his mask as well, revealing his stunning facial features (PB: 19) and smiles.

Starlord fully removes his helmet and gestures to the dog. "Cosmo, bring up Knowwhere's data logs so we can let our new friends what the D'ast hell is going on."

Cosmo's psi-speak is clear in your head as the dog's eyes glow. "Da, Commerade Quill, uploading into holo-emitter."

A holographic map of the Fault is projected at the center of the table. "The Inhumans lit up their damn bomb, even though we damn well warned them not to." Starlord starts. "and it damn near destroyed all damn creation, if we hadn't interfered to try and save not just our timeline, but all of them from getting smashed together."

The following figure is then projected onto the display



"Our teammate, Adam Warlock, then did something impossible, miraculous, and damning at the same time. He managed to graft on a dead timeline onto ours to prevent the fault from consuming creation."

Martyr interjects. "Unfortunately, this had bad consequences."

Gamora nods. "He restored a future that he himself had destroyed, a future where he himself became corrupted by his power, and he became his own worst nightmare..."

The screen changes


"The Magus" Thanos finishes.

Moondragon interjects. "Albeit a version with better hair than usual." Phyla gives her a cold look and she squirms.

Drax drives his knife into the table as he glares at Thanos. "Give me one D'ast reason I shouldn't rip his heart out right now?"

"Oh, I wish you could kill me. In my reality, Death scorned me - denied me mortality forever. As you could imagine, such a spurning left me most...distressed. I fear I killed my entire Earth in my sorrow. That is the corruption in my timeline I wish to correct. In the correct version of my timeline, I die at the hands of the only being to ever defeat me - Mar-Vell, thus preventing my madness and humanity's destruction."

Jack Flag rolls his eyes. "See, this? This is why I hate the cosmic stuff."

Starlord clears his throat. "At any rate, the Magus has risen, and in our first encounter, we were unable to subdue him."

Rocket Raccoon is cleaning his weapons on the table. "Meaning he kicked our tails from here to the Kiln."

Starlord sighs. "Yes. He has the Universal Church of Truth's entire massed forces - their archbishops and templars are powerful battle sorcerors - not Sorceror Supreme levels, but enough to be a threat, and the Magus himself is..."

Groot bellows "I AM GROOT!"

Thanos rubs his chin. "He slaughtered your team the first two times and you were only able to save yourselves from death each time using time travel? Impressive strategy."

Starlord shudders. "Yeah. First time he killed Gamora and Phyla, the second time, it was actually worse. We were barely able to reverse that one."

"So, we are up against not only the power of the Magus, but the battle hardened zealotry of an army of empowered religous fanatics. Interesting." Thanos actually laughs, bringing comfort to no one.

Mantis perks up an eyebrow. "I fail to understand the humor."

Thanos smiles. "It is ironic amusement. I look at you, self-styled heroes, defenders of Life" He gestures to everyone at the table. "But Magus, which you view as evil to the core, is a being of drive, ambition, purpose -LIFE itself, unencumbered by morality or doubt. You are poised to strike at that, and I find it amusing. Even moreso that the spawn of Mar-Vell has turned her back on her birthright in order to embrace a pact with Oblivion. I think he would have been ashamed of your choice." He stares dead-eyed at Phyla, who actually flies out of her chair.

"How dare you speak of my Father-?"

Thanos cuts her off. "Your father was the one being in all creation that Thanos of Titan ever feared." Thanos's voice is almost filled with Nostalgia and...reverence? "Mar-Vell of the Kree is one of a rare few beings in the Universe with the capacity to straddle equally the balance of Eternity and Death, Oblivion and Infinity. Only Norrin Radd and his master, mighty Galactus himself, have ever shown such capacity. He held the balance of life and death and understood it better than any mortal creature, before or since - that you clearly forsook that path amuses Thanos of Titan."

Jack Flag shakes his head and looks to Starlord. "Is there some cosmic Wikipedia I can go to get the translation for what the hell he's talking about?"

Starlord shrugs. "That kind of stuff is above my pay grade. My plan is that we need to find a way to get to the bad guys, shoot them, and come home in one piece and save the universe."

Rocket Raccoon smirks. "All in a day's work."

[Renekin Skywalker]

Gambit looks at Starlord, then Titan then all the others in turn as they exposit. Cards were absently shuffling, as he often did.

However, they hadn't addressed a specific concern in his mind. "If you can repeatedly go through time to fight your teammate, why did you not go back in time to stop the Kree and their bomb?" He asked, pulling out a random card, looking at it idly and putting it back.

[dakota]

Sabertooth bared his fangs slightly when he smirked towards the GotG members. " Do you always whine like this? " He shook his head.

[sasqaricious]

Aura stands there mostly looking in awe as all of this is way over anything she has learned before or since.

[doc]

Starlord answers Gambit. "We could before, we can't anymore. It was a one....well, in our case, two shot deal. Neither of which worked."

[dragonblaze99]

"then we must fix this worlds time line to get back to ours" X-23 states "their for how d we go about it"


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