About half an hour after waking up, the man who was introduced himself as Thor Odinson to the Guardians was sitting on a stool with grey blanket draped over his shoulders. Thor had explained what had happened to his home planet which eventually lead him to the point where he told them about Thanos arriving and taking the Space Stone from them, before he was interrupted by Gamora.

"The entire time I knew Thanos, he only ever had one goal. To bring balance to the universe by wiping out half of all life. He used to kill people planet by planet, massacre by massacre..." Gamora was cut off by Drax.

"Including my own." He cut in, "And a friend of ours. While it wasn't his home planet, it was a place where he had finally felt accepted for what he was."

"If he gets all of the Infinity Stones, he can do it with the snap of his fingers, just like that." Gamora continued, as if Drax didn't say anything, as she snapped her fingers to clarify her point 

"You seem to know a great deal about Thanos." Thor remarked.

"Gamora, is the daughter of Thanos." Drax explained.

Thor slowly looked up at Gamora, as he glared at her. He stood up and slowly made his way to Gamora, "Your father killed my brother."

"Oh, boy." Quill said quietly as he stepped forward, trying to defuse the situation, "Stepfather, actually. And she hates him as much as you do.''

Thor seemed to soften up a bit as he clapped Gamora on her shoulders, "Families can be tough. Before my father died, he told me I had a half-sister." He was now talking with Gamora as if they had been friends for a long time, as if he didn't want to do something for her because of her father did to Loki, Heimdall and all those other people in the Asgardian Refugee Ship, "That he imprisoned in Hell. Then she returned home and stabbed me in the eye.''

"And I feel your pain as well." Quill stated, trying to look more manly in front of his crew, after the comments they made after seeing Thor for the first time, "I mean, it's not a competition, but I've been through a lot." When he was continuing, Gamora just walked away from him, Rocket rolled his eyes, and Thor just ate his soup, "My father killed my mother and then I had to kill my father, that was hard. Probably even harder than having to kill a sister. Plus, I, came out of it with both of my eyes...''

Thor shook his head, eyeing the spoon, as he cut in, not paying attention to everything Quill just said, "I need a hammer not a spoon." He began fiddling with the machinery attached to one of the escape pods, "How do I open this thing? Is there some sort of a four-digit code maybe... maybe a birth date or something..."

"What are you doing?" Quill asked, concerned that he was fiddling with his ship.

"Taking your pod." Thor responded.

Quill cleared his throat, "No, you're not!" He said, doing his best to mimic Thor's accent, "You'll not, be taking our pod today, sir."

Rocket looked up at Quill, wanting to be sure if Quill was doing what he thought was he was doing, "Quill. Are you making your voice deeper?"

Quill shook his head and quickly denied it, "No."

"You are. You're imitating the god-man. It's weird." Drax stated.

"No I'm not." Quill denied it again.

Mantis gasped as she pointed at Quill, "He just did it again!"

"This is my voice!" Quill said, as he continued to make his voice deeper.

Thor finally noticed what was going on and stepped closer to Quill, "Are you mocking me?"

"Are you mocking me?" Quill mocked Thor.

"Stop it. You did it again." Thor growled.

''See, he's trying to copy me.'' Quill pointed out, with a smug look on his face, as he turned to his crew for a second.

"Would you stop doing that?" Thor said, growing annoyed by this Earthling.

"Enough!" Gamora shouted, bringing an end to their argument, clearly annoyed by it.

"He's was doing it first." Thor pointed out.

"We need to stop Thanos. Which means we need to find out where he's going next.'' Gamora stated.

"Knowhere." Thor said, walking past Gamora.

"He must be going somewhere." Mantis said.

"No. Knowhere?" Peter looked at the group. "It's a place. We've been there. It sucks."

Thor began raiding the fridge,  just grabbing at packets of food with no discretion, as if he wasn't now talking with the owners of it.

''Excuse me, that's our food." Quill reminded him.

"Not anymore." Thor said back.

"Thor... why would he go to Knowhere?" Gamora wanted to know.

"Because for years, the Reality Stone has been safely stored, there with a man we call the Collector." Thor explained, looking over at her.

"If it's with the Collector, then it's not safe. Only an idiot would give that man a stone." Quill said, as he put his hands on his hips, shaking his head.

"Or a genius." Thor stated.

 "How do you know he's not going for one of the other Stones?" Gamora asked, as Thor stopped rummaging through their fridge, and stepped in front of her.

''There's six stones out there. Thanos already has the Power Stone because he stole it last week, when he decimated Xandar." Thor began as Quill's eyes widened at the news that Xandar was decimated by Thanos, his crew seemed to be shocked as much as he was by this news, "He stole the Space Stone from me when he destroyed my ship and slaughtered half my people. The Time and Mind Stones are safe on Earth. They're with the Avengers.''

"The Avengers?" Quill raised his eyebrow at this name.

"They're Earth's Mightiest Heroes." Thor explained.

"Like Kevin Bacon?" Mantis asked, titling her head.

Thor stared at Mantis, "He may be on the team. I don't know. Haven't been there in a while. As for the Soul Stone, well, no one's ever seen that. No one even knows where it is. Therefore, Thanos can't get it. Therefore, he's going to Knowhere. Hence, he'll be getting the Reality Stone. You're welcome."

"Then we have to go to Knowhere now." Gamora stated.

"Wrong!" Thor interjected, "Where we have to go, is Nivadellir."

''That's a made up word." Drax stated.

"All words are made up." Thor pointed out,

"Hold up, Nidavellir is real?" Rocket said as he hopped onto the table, with excitement evident in his eyes, "Seriously? I mean, that place is a legend. They make the most powerful, horrific weapons to ever torment the Universe. I would very much like to go there."

Thor nodded his head, with a small smile, "The rabbit is correct, and clearly the smartest among you."

"Rabbit?" Rocket raised a brow. No one ever called him a rabbit before.

''Only Eitri the dwarf king can make me the weapon I need." Thor said, turning to Rocket, "I assume you're the captain, sir?''

''You're very perceptive." Rocket nodded, crossing his arms.

''You seem like a noble leader. Will you join me on my quest to Nidavellir?" Thor asked him.

"Lemme just ask the captain." Rocket said, tapping his chin for a second, "Oh, wait a second, it's me! Yeah, I'll go."

''Wonderful." Thor smiled at it.

 "Except for that I'm the captain." Quill said, stepping forward, protesting Rocket's takeovering his role as a captain.

"Quiet!" Rocket shushed Quill.

"And that's my backpack..." Quill said, pointing at the slung over Thor's shoulder, ".. Look, this is my ship. And I'm not goin' to..." He stopped himself in the middle of the sentence, not having idea how to pronounce Nidavellir, "... Wait, what kind of weapon are we talking about here?"

 "The Thanos killing kind." Thor's answer was short and quick.

"Don't you think that we should all have a weapon like that?" Quill pointed out.

"No." Thor shook his head as he began explaining,  "You simply lack the strength to wield them. Your bodies will crumble as your minds collapse into the madness."

''Is it weird that I wanna do it even more now?" Rocket asked, grinning as he opened the hatch door.

''A little, yeah." Thor nodded his head to that.

''If we don't go to Knowhere and Thanos retrieves another stone, he'll be too powerful to stop." Gamora stated.

''He already is." Thor pointed out.

"I got it figured out. We got two ships, and a large assortment of morons. So me and Groot will go with the pirate-angel here, and the morons will go to Knowhere to try and stop Thanos." Rocket explained, "Cool? Cool."

''So cool." Thor grinned widely.

''For the record... I know that you're only going with him because it's where Thanos isn't." Quill said to Rocket.

''You know, you shouldn't talk that way to your captain, Quill." Rocket said as he was about to enter the pod, but then Gamora mentioned someone.

"Before you leave, you should give us the cordinates of this place." She told Thor.

"Why?" Thor asked.

"We have a friend who told us that if time will come for Thanos, we should give him a call. He'll be more than happy to join us because Thanos cleansed a planet he used to live on. He lost the people that accepted him as one of their own on that day." Gamora explained.

Thor nodded his head in understanding, "What's his name?"

"Azurite." Gamora answered.

"Azurite? Is she a gem?" Thor asked. He knew about the gem kind just as much as better part of the universe did, but he didn't know that Thanos invaded one of their colonies.

"He." Gamora corrected him, "And, yes he is a gem." 

"A male gem? Aren't they all female?" Thor stated.

"It's a long story." Gamora answered.

"If you want a short version, they weren't a big fan of him and banished him, and when he found himself on one planet he finally felt accepted for what he is, but then Thanos cleansed it, and now he wants this guy dead as much as you do." Rocket explained.

Thor nodded his head in understanding, "Give me a piece of paper and a pen and I'll write it down."

Gamora nodded before they got him a piece of paper where he wrote down the cordinates to Nidavellir on it, before handing it to Gamora, "You'll talk with him and then he'll decide if he wants to join me, rabbit and a tree or all four of you."

"I will." Gamora nodded her head.

With one final nod, Thor and Rocket made their way inside the pod, with Groot slowly walking after them, with his attention still at the game."

''Come on, Groot. Put that game down, you'll rot your brain." Rocket said to Groot, who eventually made his way into the pod, and took his seat.

''I bid you farewell and good luck, morons." Thor said, as the other buckled in.

Quill, Gamora and Drax just nodded their heads at him, as Mantis gave him and her two fellow Guardians a small wave.

A moment after, the hatch closed, and before they knew it, the pod dropped out.

"So, we should probably set a course to Knowhere." Quill stated.

"Go, I'll join you in a moment. I'll go talk with Azurite." Gamora said, showing them off the piece of paper with Nidavellir cordinates written on it.

Quill, Drax and Mantis all nodded their heads as they went in separate directions. 

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Location: Little Homeworld

Azurite and Spinel were currently fused into Lolite as they stood on a crate. The fusion of the two was posing to the gems that were attending another one on the art classes as the gems who were normally attending those classes were drawing her. Yellow Pearl was still the main model when it came to this class, but sometimes Lolite was taking her place, because she was able to form various things with her limbs, because of her Spinel side. 

Even Yellow Pearl and Pink Pearl who decided to join the todays class were making her own drawing of the fusion, but their drawing skills compared to Blue Pearl's, or anyone else in this class were very low.

Lolite stood on the crate for several minutes, not even moving for a second, before Azurite's device opened on her hand, and Gamora's face appeared on the screen, "Azurite, if you're doing anything important, then I'm sorry to interrupt." 

"Excuse me for a moment." Lolite said, before unfusing herself into Azurite and Spinel.

"Gamora. I'll call back in thirty minutes. I'm now busy." Azurite answered, as he sat down on the crate, not knowing what Gamora was going to say to him.

"Azurite. It can't wait. It's time." Gamora told him.

"Time for..." Azurite stopped himself in the middle of the sentence as the horrible realization what Gamora meant by that appeared in his mind, "For this?"

"Yes. He's ready." Gamora answered.

Azurite's expression turned into more of a terrified one, as he hopped off the crate, "Spinel. Come with me."

"We'll be back in a second." Spinel informed all of the gem attending art class, before walking after Azurite, and when she finally made her way to him, she grabbed his hand, causing him to look down at her, then she asked with, worried because of his sudden change of behaviour, "What happened, Azzie?"

"You'll find out in a second." Azurite said, with fear evident in his voice as he looked at Gamora, "Tell us everything you know."

Gamora nodded her head, as she began explaining, "Not that long ago, we received a call that a ship was under attack, and we went there to see what was going on, when we arrived we saw dozens of massacred people, but not all of them were dead, one survived. You both have been living on Earth for a few months now, you probably heard about him. His name was Thor Odinson."

"Thor? Isn't he one of the Avengers?" Spinel asked, taking quick glances between Azurite and Gamora.

"Well, he was, if I'm not wrong he wasn't on Earth for a few years now." Azurite said, repeating what he heard from people, and what he read on the internet.

"When we found, and after he awoke, he told us everything that happened..." Gamora took a small pause, "Thanos..."

"Thanos..." Spinel cut in, looking up at Azurite, once she heard this name. Now she understood his sudden change of mood, "Is he... you know doing the thing you told us about so he could?" She snapped her fingers, to clarify to the what she was saying, "...Half of all life?"

"Yes." Gamora answered for Azurite, confirming Spinel's worries, "As I was saying, Thanos attacked his ship, and murdered half of his people , including his brother, Lokie was his name, if I remember correctly, but it wasn't the reason why he came to them. The reason why he came there was because they had the Space Stone, but it wasn't the first stone he got. When he attacked them, he already had the Power Stone."

"The Power Stone was on Xandar... wait...  Xandar is gone?" Azurite asked. Out of all of the planets he visited in his life, Xandar was actually one of his favourite ones.

"Yes. He decimated it one week ago." Gamora answered.

"This is bad... really bad... So, what are you going to do now?" Azurite asked, knowing that the Guardians were doing to do something with this.

"We're going to Knowhere to retrieve the Reality Stone from The Collector. You know where Knowhere is, but I don't think you know where is the place where Thor, along with Rocket and Groot went to is. This place is Nidavellir." Gamora explained.

''Nidavellir?" Azurite said, wanting to be sure if he didn't misheard it, "I heard a few people mention it, but all of them them thought it was just an old legend."

"Rocket thought the same, before they left Thor wrote down the cordinates on this piece of paper, so you could know where to head, if you decide to go there." Gamora explained, holding up a piece of paper with cordinates of Nidavellir written on it.

"Hold it for a second, let me take a photo." Azurite said, as Gamora held the cordinates before herself, making sure that Azurite would see all of the numbers on it. Azurite pressed one button on his device, taking one photo, but it wasn't the only photo he took. He took another one, just to make sure that he's going to have this photo on device, "Okay. You can drop it now."

Gamora put the paper down, as Azurite asked her, "Why did this Thor guy, Rocket and Groot go there?"

"They went there to get a weapon." Gamora answered.

"What kind of a weapon?" Azurite asked another question.

"The Thanos killing kind. After that, they're going to go on Earth, to protect the stones that are ont his planet." Gamora responded.

"A weapon able to kill Thanos? We're going to need this one..." Azurite stated.

"Where are you going to go?" Gamora asked him.

"I don't know, yet, but I'll decide about it as fast as I can." Azurite replied.

Gamora nodded her head, "Choose what you think is right.''

"I will." Azurite assured her, nodding his head back, before Gamora disconnected.

As Azurite closed his device, he leaned against the wall of the nearby house, and began to sigh, deeply. This day has finally come. The day when the Mad Titan is finally ready to collect of the Infinity Stones has come, and the worst part about it is that he already had two stones at the moment Gamora informed him about it. He knew that they couldn't do much now, because of him having two stones, but there was a slight hope with this guy from the Avengers heading to Nidavellir along with Rocket and Groot to get a weapon that could kill him.

With one final sigh, he knew that he had to next. He had to find Steven, who was going to tell everyone else about this news. The gems in Little Homeworld eventually found out about Thanos, about a month after the new year when Steven finally decided to tell them about it, after Jasper and Centi brought this topic to him.

"Azzie." Even though Spinel was disturbed by this news as much as he was, she was doing pretty good job at hiding it. She gave him a small smile as she said, "You know that no matter what happens, I'm with you to the end, right?" 

"I know that." Azurite returned her smile, which quickly faded as he began to head out, 'We need to find Steven and tell him about that. He is going to tell everyone about it."

"Okay. Let's go." Spinel said as they broke themselves into run.

A moment later, when they passed the art class, they heard Blue Pearl ask them, "Azurite? Spinel? Where are you going?" 

"Sorry, Blue-Berry, but this drawing is gonna have to wait. We need to find Steven." Spinel answered, using the nickname she came up with for Blue Pearl a few months ago.

"Before you ask why. Here's the reason. Thanos is finally ready. He already has two Infinity Stones at the moment we speak." Azurite explained.

Fear began to grow on the facial features of Blue Pearl, Yellow Pearl and Pink Pearl, because of the revelation they just got from Azurite, before the said gem  and Spinel ran off to find Shi'ra, or Jasper, or Centi, or Orange Pearl, or Steven, or anyone they could tell this news. 

Rainbow Jasper and Nephrite looked at each other and nodded their heads, before running after them.

Yellow Pearl, Pink Pearl and Blue Pearl, even though the news they just got from Azurite disturbed them, eventually followed them too.

The pair of gems sprinted through the streets of Little Homeworld, earning some confused looks form the gems who had no idea why Azurite and Spinel were running as if their life mattered by it.

The two gems finally stopped when they saw Shi'ra and Jasper, walking along the sidewalk as they chatted with each other.

"Shi'ra! Jasper!" Azurite called for them as the said gem and Kratai turned their attention to him and Spinel, "Good thing we found you..."

"Are you both alright?" Jasper asked with a raised brow.

"You both look like you just saw a ghost." Shi'ra stated.

"Because we just did..." Spinel answered.

"I just got the message from the Guardians. It's time. He's doing this. Thanos is collecting Infinity Stones." Azurite explained.

Shi'ra and Jasper's confused expression turned from a confused one, into a suprised one, which straightened up a moment later as Shi'ra asked, "How much did she told you?"

"I'll tell everything in a moment. Now, I want both of you to find Steven and tell him about it."  Azurite told them.

"Will do." Shi'ra said, nodding her head in understanding.

"Are you sure about this? Maybe the Guardians are playing a joke on you?" Jasper asked.

"Jasper. Gamora is one of the last people in this universe that would joke about it. Her sister Nebula is on the first place of this ranking." Shi'ra told Jasper.

"Yeah. I just realized how stupid it sounded, sorry." Jasper said, putting her hand over her forehead.

"Spinel! Azurite!" The sound of Rainbow Jasper's voice caused all of them to turn around to her, running up to them along with Nephrite, Yellow Pearl, Blue Pearl and Pink Pearl.

"We heard what you two said to Blue Pearl." Nephrite said.

"Well, it was hard not to. She stood right next to you." Yellow Pearl pointed out with a roll of her eyes.

Ignoring Yellow Pearl's comment, Nephrite continued, "Is there something we can do?''

"You guys go with these three and tell Steven and the rest about." Azurite explained to which Rainbow Jasper and Nephrite nodded their heads.

"And what are you going to do, brother?" Shi'ra asked him.

"I'll go get my things, and your spear from our house. Then, I'll tell you everything Gamora told me. We'll met in the center." Azurite said to Shi'ra who nodded her head before all of them parted ways and went in different directions.

Azurite couldn't actually remember the last time when he ran that fast as he quickly made his way over to his, Spinel's, Jasper's and Shi'ra house, and rushed through the front door of it. He ran over the stairs and the first room he rushed into was Shi'ra because this one was closer to the stairs than his. He noticed her spear on a cupboard and quickly lifted it up, before placing it on his back. He didn't had to worry about her plasma caster because she always carried it with herself, just in case if something happened.

Then, he quickly moved to his room, to see his things laying on the cupboard. He walked over to it. There wasn't his claws that he received from Bismuth on Christmas, because he stored it in his gem for most of the time. His eyes went to his glove which was forming myst around it's user and his enemies, but unfortunely he was unable to use it since he started using claws which were covering most of the glove. It was why he was going to leave them in his house. Then his eyes went to to the hooks he got from Drax on is birthday. He took them off the cupboard and placed them on his back.

The last things on this cupboard were Aleena's old machete and Karolyn's headscarf that he used to cover his gem with. He ran his fingers over both of these things as he said.

"I'll make him pay for what he did to you." He glanced over at his memorial wall with his attention focused on Aleena, Rin and Karolyn, "I'll make him pay for what he did to all of you."

When he had sure that he had everything he needed, he walked out of his house, and made his way outside, shutting the doors behind him.

As he made his way to the center of Little Homeworld, where he told Shi'ra, Spinel, Jasper and the rest to met up with him, he saw them, but there weren't the only ones there. He walked up to them, as Steven turned who was told them about the recent news looked ar him.

"Azurite. They told us everyting." He spoke up, as he, Garnet, Pearl, Amethyst, Lapis, Peridot and Bismuth surrounded Azurite, Shi'ra, Spinel and Jasper. However, they weren't the only ones. Many gems, were slowly surrouding them too. There was Centi and her crew, Orange Pearl, Rainbow Jasper, Blue Lace Agate, Biggs Jasper, Little Larimar, only a name of few.

"What can we do?"