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"Dude, don't call us plucky. We don't know what it means.

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" i looked at the skies
running my hands over my eyes"

BLAKE SQUEEZED ELLIE'S hand. After leaving Knowhere, Peter was determined to find Gamora. Ellie had retrieved Gamora's silver sword and put it in safekeeping to repair. They had landed on Titan, where Peter detected one of Thanos's ships.

They had watched the ship crash onto Titan and waited not even a couple minutes before they attacked the part of the ship that detected the heat waves of four figures.

Blake rolled one of his small power grenades down the walkway to the group of people.

Ellie ran in, pulling out one of her daggers.

"Thanos!" Drax yelled, throwing his knives.

Ellie caught sight of a blonde-haired ponytail behind a metal mask trying to get up from the floor and decided that was her target. Threw a string of electricity at the blonde but was shocked when the girl had disappeared, only a trail of blue was in her sight. She felt a wisp of wind past her and then felt herself get thrown. She landed harshly on her back and got up with a groan.

"God my back is gonna feel like shit tomorrow." Ellie groaned. The blonde girl appeared in front of her again, holding her hands out.

"I don't want to hurt you," The girl said, her mask coming down. Ellie furrowed her brows at the girl's strange accent.

"Ellie!" Mantis called, struggling to walk as she was wrapped in a strange webbing. Ellie ran from the blonde, rushing over to her older friend.

"What happened?" Ellie asked, using her dagger to start tearing into the web.

"Everybody stay where you are. Chill the eff out." Peter called, holding onto a person in a red metal suit, pointing his gun at their head.

Ellie helped Mantis walk over to where everyone was after she finished freeing the alien woman. Drax was being pinned down by a guy in another metal suit, his hand which glowed blue was aimed at Peter. Blake's hands and neck were pinned against bars by a red fabric. The blonde from earlier held her hands out to Peter, cautiously looking between him and the person he was holding. Finally, another man held out his hands, one of which was holding an orange magic shield in front of him.

Peter tapped the button at his neck to make his mask shrink away before aiming his blaster at the man pinning Drax.

"I'm gonna ask you this one time. Where is Gamora?" Peter asked.

"Yeah. I'll do you one better. Who's Gamora?" The man in the red suit asked, his mask shrinking away to his neck.

"I'll do you one better. Why is Gamora?" Drax asked the man, causing Ellie to hit her forehead with her hand, shaking her head.

"Tell me where the girl is or I swear to you I'm gonna French fry this little freak," Peter said, pointing his blaster at the red suit he hand in his hold.

"No!" The blonde shouted.

"Let's do it. You shoot my guy and I'll blast him. Let's go!" The man pinning Drax challenged. A large gun morphed from the metal in his other hand.

"Do it, Quill! I can take it." Drax said, staring at the glowing blue power that shone from the end of the gun.

"No, he can't take it!" Matis shouted

"He can't!" Ellie agreed.

"He definitely can't," Blake added.

"They're right. You can't." The other man chimed in.

"Oh, yeah? You don't wanna tell me where she is? That's fine. I'll kill all four of you and I'll beat it out of Thanos myself. Starting with you." Peter said to the person in his hold.

"Wait!" The blonde yelled again, her fingers starting to glow a light blue.

"Wait, what, Thanos?" The man with the glowing shield asked. "All right, let me ask you this one time. What master do you serve?"

"Master?" Blake questioned.

"What master do I serve?" Peter asked, confused and angry. "What am I supposed to say, "Jesus"?"

The older men looked at each other.

"You're from Earth?" the girl said, gesturing to Peter, Blake, and Ellie.

"I'm not from Earth, I'm from Missouri." Peter retorted quickly.

"Yeah, that's on Earth, dipshit." The man in the red suit said as he lowered his hand. "What are you hassling us for?"

"So you're not with Thanos?" The red suit in Peter's hold asked weakly. It was then that Ellie realized that the girl and the person with Peter must be younger, about her and Blake's age.

"With Thanos?" Peter questioned in disgust. "No, I'm here to kill Thanos. He took my girl. Wait, who are you?"

The person in Peter's hold's mask came off. "We're the Avengers, man."

"Oh, so you're the ones that the hot godman told us about," Ellie said, pointing her finger at them.

"Who?" The man with the magic shield asked.

"She means Thor," Blake added, nodding his head with a sigh.

"You know Thor?" The other man asked as Peter let go of the boy.

"Yeah. Tall guy, not that good-looking, needed saving." Peter said, causing the boy and the blonde to furrow their brows.

"Where is he now?" The shield man asked.

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AFTER INFORMING EACH group about everything that happened, they all walked out of the ship, looking around Titan.

"So, what's all your abilities?" Peter Parker or Spider-Man asked the other two teens.

"I can manipulate electricity, harness electricity, and create electrical shields," Ellie replied.

"Sick," Peter Parker chuckled, not noticing the falter in Ellie's expression, but the blonde or Annabelle Banovia caught it, she knew that look. Hell, she lived that look.

"What about you?" Annabelle asked Blake, distracting Ellie from falling into her thoughts.

Blake gave Ellie's hand a short squeeze, also noticing her expression. "Oh, I don't have anything. Just my blasters and aero-rig. Same thing with Quill, he used to have powers, but after he killed his dad for killing our mom and then almost killing us, he didn't have them anymore."

Annabelle and Peter glanced at each other with wide eyes.

"Drax is really strong and is good with knives." Ellie continued, both of them not noticing the look on the other's faces. "And Mantis is an Empath."

"So, do you lay eggs and shit or do you just call yourself a spider?" Ellie asked Peter, who furrowed his brows in disgust.

"What?" He laughed. "No, I-I don't lay eggs."

"And your body doesn't produce its own webbing?" Ellie questioned further.

"Nope, I made my own web shooters."

"Weird, you would think since you have all the other spider qualities that you would have web coming out of you somewhere." Blake thought aloud.

"The hell happened to this planet?" Quill asked, now finally getting a good look at the planet they had landed on, and pulling the teens attention away from their conversation. "It's eight degrees off its axis. Gravitational pull is all over the place."

Mantis jumped around with the weird gravity causing her to float a bit in some spots.

Peter Parker pointed over at Mantis as he looked over to the blonde, who curiously watched Mantis bounce around.

"Have you never been in space?" Ellie asked them, finding their confusion amusing.

"First time," Annabelle replied nodding her head. "Is it obvious? Pete, over here flipped out when we followed the ship into space."

"I did not flip out," Peter said, nudging her shoulder with his.

"You definitely did,"

Peter shrugged, rubbing his hand on the back of his neck with pink cheeks.

Blake and Ellie glanced at each other with matching smirks on their faces.

"Yeah, we got one advantage," Tony spoke, catching the four teens attention. "He's coming to us. We'll use it. All right, I have a plan. Or at least the beginnings of one. It's pretty simple. We draw him in, pin him down, and get what we need. Definitely don't wanna dance with this guy." Ellie almost yawned at the long explanation, leaning her body against Blake's. From the looks of it, Drax had already yawned at Tony's plan explanation. "We just want the gauntlet." Tony turned to Drax and Mantis as Drax yawned dramatically. "Are you yawning? In the middle of this, while I'm breaking it down? Huh? Did you hear what I said?"

"I stopped listening after you said, 'We need a plan'," Drax replied, shrugging his shoulders.

"Okay, Mr. Clean is on his own page," Tony said, causing Ellie to furrow her brows.

"See, "not winging it" isn't really what they do," Peter told them simply.

The other Peter raised his hand. "Uh, what exactly is it that they do?"

"Kick names, take ass," Mantis replied confidently.

Drax nodded from beside her. "Yeah, that's right."

Ellie sighed, standing herself straight up. "No, Mantis, honey, we've talked about this. It's Kick ass, take names."

"Oh, yeah." Mantis smiled, nodding her head.

"All right, just get over here, please." Tony sighed. "Mr. Lord, can you get your folks to circle up?"

Blake scoffed a laugh. "Mr. Lord," he muttered to Ellie as she snickered quietly.

"Star-Lord is fine," Peter told him, gesturing to Drax and Mantis to come closer to the group.

"We gotta coalesce. 'Cause if all we come at him with is a plucky attitude-"

"Dude," Peter cut Tony off. "Don't call us plucky. We don't know what it means. All right, we're optimistic, yes. I like your plan. Except it sucks, so let me do the plan and that way it might be really good."

"Tell him about the dance-off to save the universe," Drax said to Peter who quickly shook his head.

"What dance-off?" Tony asked.

"It's-It's nothing." Peter stammered.

"Hey," Ellie said sternly, pointing her finger at Peter. "You be proud of that dance-off. That dance-off avenged Groot."

"Like in Footloose, the movie?" Annabelle asked, a bright smile across her face happy she finally beat Peter to a pop-culture reference.

"Exactly like Footloose," Peter answered. "Is it still the greatest movie in history?"

"It never was." The other Peter replied shortly, causing Quill to furrow his brows.

"Don't encourage this, all right?" Tony said to the two teens, grabbing their shoulders and turning them around. "We're getting no help from Flash Gordon here."

"Flash Gordon? By the way, that's a compliment. Don't forget, I'm half-human. So that 50% of me that's stupid..." Peter gestured to them. "That's 100% you."

"Hey!" Blake and Ellie called in offensive tones. Ellie crossed her arms over her chest while Blake threw his arms out.

"I didn't mean you guys," Peter mumbled to them.

"Your math is blowing my mind," Tony commented, rolling his eyes.

"Excuse me," Mantis called, pulling everyone's attention to Doctor Strange, his head moving in all different directions as he meditated in the air. His necklace glowed green between his hands as they were held out in front of him. "But does your friend often do that?"

"Strange, you all right?" Tony called.

Doctor Strange's head continued to spin, the group walking over to him as he groaned. He gasped as he fell to the ground, landing on a large piece of debris a foot below him. Tony grabbed his arm, helping the man stay up as he painted.

"You're back. You're all right." Tony reassured him.

"Hey, what was that?" Peter Parker asked the man.

"I went forward in time to view alternate futures. To see all the possible outcomes of the coming conflict." Doctor Strange explained.

"How many did you see?" Blake asked intertwining his hand with Ellie's.

"Fourteen million, six hundred and five."

"How many did we win?" Tony then asked, dreading the answer.

Doctor Strange took a moment to answer, making Ellie's stomach drop.

"One."