Phase Three: MARVEL's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 by Alex Irvine

Author:Alex Irvine [Irvine, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2017-09-05T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Riding high from his game of catch with Ego—and the dawning realization that his origin was truly extraordinary—Peter stood on a palace balcony looking out over the fabulous gardens of Ego’s planet. “So I guess this could all be mine someday,” he mused to Gamora. He had music playing, a classic.

Gamora was trying to find out where Rocket was. She had a transmitter and had been calling him every hour or so, but hadn’t gotten a response. Now she tried again. “Rocket? Rocket, are you there?”

Static crackled from the transmitter and she gave up. Peter walked up and put an arm around her. “What are you doing, Peter?”

“Dance with me,” he said. The music had him feeling romantic. He was half Celestial; he could create energy with his hands; he could hold an Infinity Stone! Life was grand.

“I’m not going to dance with you,” she said.

“This is one of the greatest Earth singers of all time.” He put her hand on his shoulder and started moving, and she began to dance with him. At first she looked uncertain, but he twirled her gently out and back, and she warmed to it. Now she was looking steadily into his eyes. “Drax thinks you’re not a dancer,” he said.

“If you ever tell anyone about this,” she answered, “I will kill you.”

He paused. “When are we going to do something about this unspoken thing between us?”

“What unspoken thing?”

“This…‘guy and a girl on a TV show who dig each other but never say anything because if they do the ratings would go down’ sort of thing.”

Gamora had no idea what he was talking about. She never did when he talked about Earth stuff. “There’s no unspoken thing,” she said.

“Well, it’s a catch-22,” he pointed out. “Because if you said it, then it would be spoken and you’d be a liar, so by not saying anything you are telling the truth and admitting that there is.”

“No, that’s not what I’ve—” She pushed him away. “What we should be discussing right now is…something about this place. It doesn’t feel right.” She walked back inside.

Well, that killed the mood, Peter thought. He followed her. “What are you talking about? You’re the one who wanted me to come here!”

“That girl, Mantis. She’s afraid of something.”

“Why are you trying to take this away from me?” Peter was starting to get upset. Did she not see how important this was to him? How awesome it was to find his father after more than thirty years of missing him?

“I’m not trying—”

“He’s my father. He’s blood.”

“You have blood on Earth,” she said. “You never wanted to return there.”

“Again, you made me come here! And Earth is the place where my mother died in front of me.”

Gamora had no tolerance for the way people fooled themselves sometimes, and she wasn’t going to let Peter get away with it now. “No, it’s because that place was real, and this place is a fantasy.”

“This place is real! I’m only half human, remember?”

“That’s the half I’m worried about.

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