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"What, Nebula, are you trying to go against me?"
Ronan asked coldly, looking sideways, the hammerhead of his Omniweapon slightly raised, as if he would kill Nebula on the spot if they disagreed.
Especially after being empowered by the Power Stone, Ronan's confidence was now overflowing, and he believed he could effortlessly kill his opponent.
"No, that's not what I meant."
Although Nebula was not afraid of his intimidation, she still shook her head quickly, and at the same time raised her hand to point at the mechanical parts that had been surgically implanted into her eyes and body, saying with some agitation:
"Even if I don't say it, you must have seen what Thanos did to me through my body, right?"
"So, as long as you promise to kill Thanos, I will willingly become a sharp blade in your hand, helping you destroy a thousand Planets..."
"Very good."
Ronan nodded in satisfaction upon hearing this, "It seems you are much more reliable and smarter than your sister Gamora."
"So, are we going to destroy Xandar next?" Nebula asked, a little eager to try.
Unexpectedly, Ronan shook his head with a cunning look, "No, we're going to Earth first!"
"Huh? Earth? Didn't you say..."
"That's right." Ronan interrupted confidently, "Now that we've fallen out with Thanos, he might send troops directly to Xandar to intercept us..."
"So if we go to Earth now, we can collect the Tesseract scattered there, which will take my strength to the next level, and we can also let Xandar and Thanos's army fight first, allowing us to reap the benefits!"
"Ah, this..." To be honest, Nebula really wanted to laugh now.
What is arrogance?
Ronan's current state was undoubtedly the most accurate portrayal!
Nebula had heard from Thanos before that there were many powerful Guardians on Earth.
Later, Thanos even launched a probing attack on Earth through Loki, hoping to assess the threat level of those Guardians.
Who would have thought that the result would be somewhat unexpected.
With only a few Avengers taking action, the entire Chitauri Legion, including Loki, was annihilated.
Even the mind stone that Thanos lent to Loki was seized by the Earthlings.
This simple probe, Thanos could be said to have lost both his wife and his army!
It was precisely because of this that even though Thanos had long known that there were two infinity stones on Earth, he had still not chosen to act against Earth without absolute certainty.
However, it was laughable that Ronan, who had just obtained the Power Stone, directly set his sights on Earth, which in Nebula's view was simply courting death.
But this fool was still gloating there.
Utterly stupid!
However, Nebula naturally wouldn't irritate Ronan at this time, so she immediately gave a thumbs up and praised him against her will:
"Brilliant, truly brilliant... This feint will definitely make everyone, including Thanos, run around in circles."
He who would be destroyed, first be made mad!
Nebula subtly glanced at the Power Stone, which was emitting a purple light, embedded in the hammerhead of the Omniweapon, and a hint of greed flashed in her eyes.
With this Power Stone, she should be able to get revenge on Thanos, right?
"Hahaha..."
Ronan tightened his grip on the hammer handle of his Omniweapon and laughed loudly, not without pride, "Now, with the Power Stone in hand, both Earth and Xandar will eventually submit to my feet!"
"And once I get the Tesseract, even Thanos won't be able to stop me from ascending to the position of Universe overlord!"
In fact, Ronan had a considerable selfish reason for choosing to attack Earth first.
Because as early as a decade ago, Ronan had visited Earth.
However, that time was a remote operation initiated by the Kree Empire to prevent the renegade Kree scientist Mar-Vell (whose Earth name was Dr. Wendy Lawson) from using the Tesseract's energy to build a 'hyperspace engine' to help the Skrulls escape the Kree Empire's pursuit.
The result was that Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers, who had recovered her memories, scared the entire fleet into retreating with a display of her 'Binary Form' superpowers.
For the arrogant Ronan, this was the biggest and most difficult-to-swallow humiliation of his entire career as The Accuser!
So now that he had the opportunity, he had to regain the face he had lost in the past.
Let the revenge begin with 'Annihilator' Carol Danvers!
...
In Nowhere.
Bang bang bang—
"You bastard, how dare you betray me?"
Yondu Udonta punched Star-Lord in the abdomen, who was being held by two of his subordinates, and roared angrily, "And you tried to keep my 4 billion for yourself?"
"Don't you know, when I picked you up from Earth, those guys on my ship all wanted to eat you, they had never tasted an Earthling before!"
"In the end, it was I who saved you, I who stopped them from eating you, so you are alive today entirely because of my mercy..."
However, Star-Lord seemed to have long been accustomed to his intimidation, and interrupted with a look of disdain, "Enough, my God, Yondu, are you ever going to stop?"
"It's been more than twenty years, why do you always bring up these old things whenever something happens, as if not letting your subordinates eat me back then was some great deed... Have you ever thought, what normal person would think about eating people every day?!"
"If you don't eat me, do I still need to thank you?"
"You kidnapped me from Earth, causing me to grow up without family or relatives, and now you want me to be grateful to you? How can there be such a reason!"
Meanwhile, Rocket Raccoon, who was also restrained by the Raiders members, and Drax, who had been fished out of the pool, whispered like two spectators watching a show:
"Oh, Quill is really miserable, he almost got eaten, I'll never call him a dumbass again!"
"But he clearly is!"
"I am Groot (Drax is right)."
"Alright, Drax, then we'll just say it quietly in private from now on..."
Yondu Udonta slapped Star-Lord hard, roaring angrily, "Don't give me that, kid, I know you too well, you don't really care about Earth, you're just afraid... I can feel the cowardice in your heart, that's the real you."
"Wait a minute, Yondu."
At this moment, Gamora, who was restrained by the Raiders members, quickly spoke, "Please listen to me, Ronan now has a powerful weapon called the infinity stone. With it, Ronan can easily destroy any Planet, so..."
But before she could finish speaking, Yondu Udonta interrupted her fiercely, "Little girl, I don't need you to remind me what that thing in his hand is."
"Then you should know that we must get it back from Ronan as soon as possible." Gamora said with some excitement:
"Otherwise, countless civilians will die, whether on Xandar or Earth... We have to warn them that danger is coming."
"Tsk tsk tsk." Yondu Udonta ignored Gamora and turned to Star-Lord, "Kid, is this how this little girl brainwashed you?"
"You're truly disappointing, to be so stupid."
"Since that's the case, as Captain, I must make an example of you, to let my subordinates know the consequences of betraying me."
As he spoke, Yondu Udonta gently whistled, and a red light shot straight towards Star-Lord's throat, hovering less than five centimeters from his neck.
It was Yondu's most terrifying killing weapon—the Yaka Arrow!
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute."
Facing a dead end, Star-Lord remained calm and resourceful, saying, "Yondu, if you kill me now, then you can forget about making the biggest deal of your life."
"Kid, if you're still talking about that infinity stone, I advise you to save it... Because no one can steal anything from that madman Ronan!"
"No, Yondu, that's just because you don't have a secret weapon."
Star-Lord swallowed, then slightly turned his head to look at Gamora, and continued, "She is Thanos's adopted daughter sent to cooperate with Ronan, so she knows everything about Ronan... including his fleet and the deployment of his subordinates' forces, and so on."
Gamora also reacted at this moment and continued Star-Lord's words, "That's right, even someone as strong as Ronan has weaknesses. As long as we can seize the opportunity, it won't be difficult to get that infinity stone back."
Yondu Udonta remained silent for a long time, seemingly weighing the truth of what the two said. The scene suddenly became silent, and the atmosphere became tense.
Fortunately, after more than ten seconds, Yondu Udonta's face regained its smile. As he retracted the Yaka Arrow, he changed his previous fierce demeanor and enthusiastically embraced Star-Lord, "Hahaha, I knew you always had guts, that's why I kept you by my side."
"Come on, tell me about your plan..."
Looking at the two suddenly arm in arm, like father and son, Rocket Raccoon whispered to Drax, "My God, I can't believe that idiot named Yondu would believe such nonsense?"
"Doesn't he know that Ronan just beat us to a pulp?"
"No, I wasn't beaten to a pulp, I was just knocked out." Drax corrected him with a serious expression.
"The point is..." Gamora whispered, "We successfully convinced these Raiders to help us fight Ronan's army. Now we just need to figure out whether the Dark Aster's next stop is Earth or Xandar."
"And then?"
Rocket Raccoon persisted, "Are we really going to help that idiot named Yondu get the Power Stone back, so he can sell it to another even more evil guy for 4 billion or even more?"
"We'll talk about that later, and we actually have a more suitable custodian than Xandar."
Karl's figure reappeared in Gamora's mind. If even Xandar was no longer safe, then she could only entrust the Power Stone to this powerful Earth Guardian for protection.
"Everyone, the Cosmic Orb fell into the wrong hands because of us. We must now stop Ronan from going on a rampage... Because we have all tasted the pain of losing family and loved ones, losing a normal life, so this time we must fight, we absolutely cannot stand by!"
"But Gamora..."
Rocket Raccoon reminded her somewhat dejectedly, "With our strength, it's impossible to stop Ronan. You and Quill are playing with fire, and we'll all die in the end."
"Our wisest choice right now is to immediately run to the other end of the Universe as fast as possible, only then... No, it should be said that only then can we live out our lives peacefully before that psychopath who likes to play war like a game spreads war across the entire Universe!"
Gamora did not refute, but nodded noncommittally, "Rocket, you're right, but what I want to tell you is that I've lived for so long, and before, I only dealt with enemies. Perhaps this time... I can live and die with my only friends."
A simple sentence, but it touched everyone's heart.
After the escape and life-and-death flight they experienced together, even Rocket Raccoon, who was the most sarcastic, had already come to regard the others as his and Groot's friends.
And their only friends!
So in the eyes of these desperate 'losers', death might not be the most terrifying thing for them!
This time, Rocket Raccoon finally stopped arguing and shrugged indifferently, saying:
"Whatever you want, I wasn't going to live much longer anyway, so let's, us idiots... try to be heroes for once?!"
"Please, Rocket, can you not make the atmosphere so tragic?" Gamora rolled her beautiful eyes, then said with some excitement:
"Things might not be as difficult as we imagine, I mean... if Ronan's target this time is Earth, then maybe we don't even need to act... Huh? Where did The Collector's building go?"
Just as Gamora raised her hand to point to the area where the exhibition hall was located behind her, preparing to tell them her thoughts, she suddenly froze.
Because the hundred-meter-tall building that had originally stood there had mysteriously disappeared?
But it was clearly just there!
Wait, could Mr. Karl have done it?