Whiplash- Book 3

Chapter 17

Quill says and makes a face. "Where is he now?"
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Meanwhile- NIVADELLIR:

"This is plan? We're gonna hit him with a brick?" Rocket asks as they walk up to a mold, quiet frankly, shaped like a box.

"It's a mold. A king's weapon. Meant to be the greatest in Asgard. In theory, it could even summon the Bifrost," Eitri spoke as he looks at Thor.

"Did it have a name?" The might god of thunder asks.

"Stormbreaker..." Eitri replies.

"That's a bit much," Rocket mumbles.

"So how do we make it?" Thor questions.

"You'll have to restart the forge. Awaken the heart of a dying star," Eitri says as he turns around and stares at the cold and motionless sphere.

"Rabbit, fire up the pod..."
Meanwhile- TITAN

"The heck happened to this planet? It's eight degrees off its axis. Gravitational pull is all over the place," Quill says as he holds up, what looked like, a spirit level, but measured the planets axis. Mantis jumps joyfully in a low gravity spot as Tony speaks.

"Yeah, we got one advantage. 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, get what we need. Definitely don't wanna dance with this guy. We just want the gauntlet," Tony says.

He notices Drax yawning in the middle of him explaining.

"Are you yawning? In the middle of this, while I'm breaking it down? Huh? Did you hear what I said?" Tony asks him, irritability.

"I stopped listening after you said, "We need a plan."" Drax confesses.

"Okay, Mr. Clean is on his own page," Tony says towards Quill.

"See, "not winging it" isn't really what they do," Quill shrugs.

"Uh, what exactly is it that they do?" Tony asks.

"Kick names, take ass," Mantis says 'fiercely'.

"Yeah, that's right," Draxs agrees quietly as he settles into a stance facing the Avengers.

Tony pauses, he just realized how hopeless this is.

"Alright, just get over here, please. Mr. Lord, can you get your folks to circle up?" Tony asks as he points to Quill.

"'Mr. Lord'. Star-Lord is fine," Quill says as he motions to Drax and Mantis.

"We gotta coalesce. 'Cause if all we come at him with is a plucky attitude..." "Dude, don't call us plucky. We don't know what it means. Alright, 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," Quill says as he points to himself, confidently.

Spider-Man follows the conversation back and forth like a squash rally.

"Tell him about the dance-off to save the universe," Drax says excitedly.

"What dance-off?" Tony asks, his interest peeking a bit.

"It's not a... it's not... it's nothing," Quill says as he puts a hand up towards Tony.

"Like in Footloose, the movie?" Peter asks with a questionable face.

"Exactly like Footloose. Is it still the greatest movie in history?" Quill asks the boy, excitedly.

"It never was," Peter shrugs as Quill gives him a cold look.

"Don't encourage this, alright?" Tony whispers to Peter.