Chapter 14
I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.
- Morgan Freeman
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"What the heck man?!" I asked out loud but my voice was not heard by him as we were in the bloody space. So instead I made a construct that said [What The Heck Man?!]
He seemed taken off guard by my construct for a moment before creating a construct of his own, [Who Are You?]
[My name is Green Lantern, I am a Quirk User from Earth, I followed the ship after learning it was escaping after a skirmish with the Avengers] I waited a moment for him to stop reading it, [Who are you?]
[I'm Quasar, I am an Avenger, I was asked by Captain America to search for the Shi'ar ship. I have heard of you, but I do not know what a Quirk User is,]
[Quirk Users are those with an active X-Gene, possessing abilities beyond the means of common man...] I waited a moment before writing [I am going to create a bubble around us so we can talk, this writing with constructs is getting on my nerves]
He nods his head and I WILL into existence a green bubble that allows us to talk while in space. "Hello… Great it works," I said with a smile, I wasn't 100 percent sure it was gonna work, I had never tried to have a conversation in space. "So care to tell me what is going on here?"
"We are… currently unclear. You are supposed to be a mutant right? Are you with the X-Men?" he asks but I shook my hand negatively before replying.
"No, I have met them a few times and fought alongside them, but I am not a member of their group." I said before he put his hand up,
"I need to inform the Avengers about the Shi'ar ship, give me a minute," he said before taking out a card that had a large 'A' on it "Quasar to Avengers West. I also have Green Lantern here with me, he claims to have followed the Shi'ar ship himself. We failed to intercept the starship when it warped into hyperspace. The good ol' sun flared up and obliterated the trail so I couldn't follow. Really sorry about that. Unless anyone has a better plan, I'm going to stick around here a bit, see if you can determine if the solar activity was coincidental, or triggered by the hyperspace opening. Quasar out." he informed his team.
While he was doing that I sent a similar, informative message to Milo. "Green Lantern to Kars. I have stopped the asteroid from colliding with Earth, but encountered a starship, it's Shi'ar origin. I have Quasar of the Avengers with me, it could be an invasion scenario, inform Rogue, and after making sure she (Laura) is safe, group with the Avengers West Coast. Green Lantern out"
{{Am I correct to assume Sir is trying to sound extra professional, rather than discoursing with Milo as he regularly does, because he is in the presence of the so called 'Protector of the Universe'. If so, Milo would have said something along the lines of 'Stop being a hero worshiping ass-hat and act like yourself'}} my Ring tells me (AN: One of his Top 3 Marvel Heroes is Quasar)
{...} I was honestly left speechless. At least until another solar flare comes at us.
Quasar's and my energy auras easily protected us, but the force behind the flames was far stronger than it should be for the medium-sized yellow star that is our Sun.
"Is it just me, or is the Sun acting up like a doping induced handicapped kid beating up the competition in the special olympics."
"What?"
Oh right, South Park hasn't come out yet. "Is the Sun supposed to be that hot?"
"I have no clue, wait- I think there was some manned solar observatory outside mercury orbit. If my memory serves right it should be called Starcore. If anybody knows records about the Sun's activity, they do." Quasar said
"Let me see what I can find then…" I said as I asked to Ring to access Starcore's data
{{Scanning… Scanning… Scanning… Starcore Station has been found… Data found… Data Retrieved…}} Ring informed me as I willed the Data Sheets into our view
We took a quick look, and it showed that there have been several major flares this week and that it has been disturbing the normal activity of the Sun's Corona (Sun's Outer Atmosphere).
{{Sir, Milo has sent a voice message, would you like me to put it through.}} The Ring informed me while Quasar and I were discussing what could be causing this.
{Yes please,}
{{"Yo Lantern, got the message, informed Rogue about it and she is flying HER (Laura) to the safe house 3 (Safe House At Kansas), after she comes back, we will go to the Avengers Mansion and will see what we can do. And as you put it so army like, Kars Out."}}
A few seconds after Milo's message, Quasar got one from Peggy Carter.
"Quaser here, hi, Peggy! Sup?" he said, forgetting for a moment that we are near the Sun and it takes 8 minutes for radio waves to travel the distance.
Peggy's message: [-- Received a call from Avenger on leave, Starfox. He says that someone's tripped the proximity alarms around Captain Mar-Vell's Tomb World. I told him we'd send someone if we could. You're our fastest Avenger, if you can spare the time take a look. Also bring Green Lantern with you if it is possible, you may need the extra help.] (AN: Captain Mar-Vell is dead right now)
"Hmmm… Mar-Vell's my predecessor as Protector of the Universe You heard the boss lady. Do you think you can keep up with me?"
I nearly snorted, "I should be the one asking that,"
He smirks "Alright then… Race ya." And he flew away…
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-- A Few Minutes Later, A Tiny Moon In Orbit Around the Saturn --
"Shit" I said as I was a good 45 seconds slower than the SInestro Lantern look alike.
"Maybe next time," he said with a smirk before flying to the door of a ship near Mar-Vell's Tomb. *knock**knock*knock** "Open up or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll bust your door down!"
After seeing no answer Wendell creates a plate of armor on his shoulder and starts flying at the door, the door opens at the last moment and he flies into the ship.
"You all right Quasar?" a red and white wearing man asks
"I'm fine, hope your ship is still okay… Anyway this is Green Lantern" he introduces me and I put my hand for him to shake "And Green Lantern, this is Starfox,"
"Hi, nice to meet you," I said with a smile, trying to remember who this was
"Likewise, also Starfox is my formal name, call me Eros."
"Like the flying baby with the diaper?" I said as I had the Ring scan the ship. The design of an interstellar ship was interesting to say the least.
He frowned "No! Not like that."
{{Sir, I have detected a subtle psionic energy emitting from Eternal designated as Starfox. It seems to stimulate the pleasure center of the brain, to create an arousal in the target.}} the RIng informed me, and I quickly created a giant hand grab Starfox,
"What the heck is going on, Quasar?" Eros said to Quasar, who looked at me with his arms raised threateningly,
"What are you doing Lantern? Let Eros go." he said, and I glared at him, shutting him up,
"This creep is trying to use an aphrodisiac-like psionic power on us," I said as I remembered that this creep was using his powers to practically rape woman left and right.
"WHAT?" Quasar shouted for a second before looking,
"This is a miss understanding," Eros said,
{{The psionic energy the Eternal designated as Starfox is emitting has increased by a factor of 102.2. The telepathic shields are still holding, so are the shield's of the humanoid designated as Quasar}} The Ring informed me, and I started squeezing the giant hand... so he is an Eternal
"AHHH!!!" Eros screamed, until I stopped squeezing.
"Try that again, and I will not stop until you are inside out." I said, and Quasar must have talked with his own version of 'Ring' (Epoch) because he was equally pissed at Eros now.
"Starfox… You will not use that power on an ally again, if you do, I will make sure you regret it. Green Lantern, please let him go," I looked at Quasar, unbelievably. He was letting this piece of shit off the hook, "Starfox is technically an Avenger, we'll deal with him," he said,
I look at Starfox, before squeezing him harder than before. "If you try using that power on anyone I remotely care about, I will rip out your dick, stick it up your ass, then rip out your ass and finally choke you with it, do you understand?"
"Ye- yeah, fine- just let me go!!! Please!" I then let go of him. I stared at Quasar,
"I do not know about you, but I do not feel comfortable working with this man," I told him with a hint of anger in my eyes. The one thing in Marvel that I found sickening is how easily people mess with others' minds, and I refuse to work with someone that so casually tries something like that on ME, especially the rapey kind this fucker just tried.
If it wasn't for the fact that Quasar was here, and the fact that this asshole is somehow an Avenger, I would have thrown him to the Sun.
Quasar contemplates what I said, "Eros, it would be for the best if you go and let me and Lantern deal with the tomb raiders,"
"WHAT? Mar-Vell was my friend, I'm not gonna just up and leave-"
"Eros… Trust us to take care of this, and leave… he said, cutting Starfox off "I will not let any two-bit would be tomb raider disturb my predecessor,"
"... Fine, I am leaving," he said, sending me a glare,
'Look at me wrong again and I'll chop off an arm' I said with my glare,
A few minutes later Eros' starship left the Titan. Leaving Quasar and I alone in there,
"You know, you could have handled that better, right?" he asks me,
"I think I had a lot of restraint considering what he tried to do,"
"Unfortunately, that's his power, it is passive, affects everyone within 25 feet (7.5 meters), andhe does not have total control over it," he explained, which would have been a good argument, except for one thing,
"It does not give him the excuse to use a mental power on me, god knows what he does to woman with that power and 'can't control it' excuse,"
Quasar stifled at that thought, "Let's just take care of tomb raiders," he said and I nodded my head.
"Fine…" I said and a second later yellow tendrils came out of his Quantum bands, it entered the tomb, and a few seconds later came out with two bounded Kree, one male, the other a female. Kree are a blue race with very advanced tech that conquered their entire Galaxy.
"What have we here? Hey I know these two," Quasar said to my surprise
"Captain Atlas and Dr. Minerve! That's funny. I could have sworn the last time we met you promised you'd never venture into my solar system again."
The male Kree growled "The conditions under which I made that agreement have changed, the Kree are at war-"
"RIIIIGHT… Because that's so unusual for a conquering race like Kree." I said with sarcasm dripping off my voice.
"Let me finish!" he growled "This time we are at war with the Shi'ar Empire for the first time in our race's history!" he shouted,
"The Shi'ar?" Quasar asks "Hey let me ask you something…
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Are there Shi'ar in this solar sys-"