Become a Homelander and a Marvel superstar

"I am Groot." The little tree-man nodded beside him and delivered the final blow.

"Shut up, Groot! Whose side are you on?!" Rocket jumped up and down in a fit of rage.

"That old bastard is just being nosy!"

"Seriously! I have a hundred ways to deal with those gilded idiots!"

Rocket jumped onto a rock, pulled out an energy gun from behind his back, and struck an extremely arrogant pose towards the sky.

"As long as those glittering sissies dare to show their faces in front of me..."

"...I'll show them what the wrath of the galaxy's number one bounty hunter is like!"

"I am Groot." Baby Groot suddenly raised his head and pointed to the sky.

"What's wrong, Groot?" Rocket looked in the direction he was pointing.

"Sizzle—sizzle—"

Jessica's communicator suddenly rang; it was an emergency call from Friday, the artificial intelligence aboard Homelander One.

"A large number of unidentified starfighters have been detected leaving warp drive and entering the atmosphere of Ego at full speed."

Azu raised an eyebrow, stepped forward, and said, "Switch the camera over here."

"Buzz—"

A holographic light screen unfolded in front of everyone.

The image is captured by the deep-space radar of the Homelander 1 spacecraft.

Outside the atmosphere of Ego Star, countless golden points of light appeared.

Densely packed, like stars falling from the sky.

The camera zooms in.

Thousands of golden unmanned combat aircraft, in attack formation, were swooping down on the atmosphere of Ego Star like a swarm of bees.

"Oh, shit..."

Rocket was still holding the gun, maintaining that arrogant pose, but his expression had frozen.

"Is this the 'group of petty, gilded bastards' you were talking about, Mr. Rocket?'" Jessica shoved the camera right in Rocket's face.

"It seems they really miss you... There must be at least three thousand of them, right?"

"Maybe...maybe four thousand..." Rocket chuckled dryly, his ears drooping. "Aren't they just wasting their time? Is it really worth it for a few batteries?"

……

At the same time, inside the Temple of Igor.

Above the dome is a flowing nebula pattern, as if the entire universe is spinning in this room.

Ego's human avatar, a handsome old man with a thick beard, gently tapped Star-Lord Peter Quill's forehead with a finger.

"Can you feel it, Peter?"

In Igor's view, this was a father's teaching to his son, and also a divine enlightenment to mortals.

"This power... it flows in your veins."

"This is light."

"This is the essence of life."

"And you are the only child who inherited my genes and can connect to that 'light'."

Quill was in a state of extreme excitement and confusion.

His eyes had turned pure black, and countless star-like points of light shimmered within them.

He felt his body expanding and his consciousness extending infinitely, as if he had become a part of this vast universe.

"I saw it..."

Quill muttered to himself, his voice so ethereal it didn't sound like his own.

"Eternity..."

"Yes, forever. We will be everywhere."

"Your friends, your family... they will all die and turn to dust."

"And we still exist."

"This is the difference between gods and mortals; we are far more noble."

Quill's expression was conflicted, Gamora's face flashing through his mind, as did Yondu, who had raised him.

"But..." Quill murmured softly, "...you said you loved my mother."

"Oh, my little lily..."

Igor sighed, a look of nostalgia on his face.

"Yes, Peter. I did love her."

"Her singing voice, her smile..."

"I even returned to Earth three times for this."

"I know that if I go back a fourth time... I'll never be able to leave her again."

"I would abandon my mission, so... I did what I had to do."

"But... when I put the tumor into her brain, I was really sad... I knew it wasn't a good idea..."

"You killed my mother?!"

The dazed look in Quill's eyes shattered the moment he heard about the tumor.

His pupils returned to their original color, and then a raging fire ignited in his eyes.

"I know this sounds cruel, Peter," Igor said, still lost in his own logic, "but it's for..."

"Bang bang bang bang——!!!"

His response was a series of ferocious gunshots.

Quill suddenly drew his dual pistols from his waist and frantically pulled the trigger at the "benevolent father's" face.

Without hesitation, without wasting words.

That was the hatred for killing one's mother!

That was the greatest pain of his life!

"You killed her!!!!" Quill roared.

The energy blast instantly riddled Ego's human body with holes.

But instead of bleeding, those wounds turned into blue specks of light.

The shattered body rapidly reformed in the light.

Igor stood up again, his face contorted with rage.

"What a pity, Peter!"

"I had hoped to accomplish this grand goal with you."

"Since you're unwilling to cooperate..."

Igor suddenly waved his hand.

"Whoosh—!"

A blue energy tentacle emerged from the floor of the hall.

They pierced Quill's chest in an instant, as if they were alive, pinning him firmly in mid-air.

"For the next thousand years... be a battery to provide me with divine power!"

"Aaaaaahh ...

Quill let out a piercing scream.

"Let's begin! Expansion!!"

Igor opened his arms and shouted wildly.

As divine power was injected, the temple shone with a blinding light, and then the entire planet began to tremble violently.

……

Outside the temple.

"What's going on?!"

Gamora steadied herself and shouted loudly.

"An earthquake?" Rocket asked, puzzled.

"No! It was that old bastard who did it!"

Azu looked up at the temple emitting a dazzling blue light.

"Beep beep beep—!"

Jessica's wrist communicator rang again; this time it was an emergency call from Skynet.

"Sir, the seed in Missouri has sprouted."

The holographic projection unfolds.

In the video, an energy substance resembling blue jelly is seen gushing out wildly from the ground.

Like a flood bursting its banks, it instantly swallowed up the surrounding trees, houses, and cars...

Meanwhile, on Earth, Wanda, who had been guarding the town, was forming hand seals, and crimson chaotic energy surged out like a raging tide, desperately suppressing the blue torrent.

"All mages! Reinforce the barrier!!"

Dozens of Kamar-Taj mages around them chanted in unison, and layers of golden Vishanti magic circles piled up like a giant lid, attempting to trap the destructive power underground.

But the power of the gods is not so easily suppressed.

"Click—"

As divine power continued to flow in, the golden magic circle began to tremble and crumble.

Outside the sealed circle.

The heroes of Walter were already on high alert.

"But now Jam is going to eat people..." Steve Rogers raised his shield, his expression grave. "Everyone! Establish a defensive line! If anything leaks out, whatever it is, open fire!"