"i think we're here." strange said as they approached the planet titan.

dakota looked at the consoles and buttons on the ship. "i'm not quite sure this thing has a self-park function." she said, scanning all of the buttons.

"get your hand into this steering gimbal." tony said to peter. "this was meant for one big guy, so we gotta move at the same time."

"we might wanna turn." peter said, turning to dakota, who was controlling a wheel of sorts. she used all of her strength to turn it, grunting from its weight. "we're gonna make it." peter was convinced as the ship neared the ground.

dakota tilted her head. "i think you're overestimating my skills here.." she said.

the two starks lifted their helmets back up as a good third of the ship's hull was knocked off upon collision. strange stepped between them and peter, creating a shield around them to protect them from the undoubtedly rough landing.

the ship, now reduced to less than half of what it was before, plowed through the dirt before stopping, leaning slightly to one side. they were on titan.

"let me just say," peter said, swooping down to the floor, "if aliens wind up implanting eggs in my chest or something, and i eat one of you, i'm sorry."

tony pointed to him. "i don't wanna hear another single pop culture reference out of you for the rest of the trip. you understand?"

peter shook his head. "i'm trying to say that...something is coming."

a grenade rolled into their view, and the group barely looked at it for a second before getting thrown back as it exploded. dakota recovered from the fall by doing a somersault of sorts and landing with one hand on the ground, lifting her helmet back up as she did so.

once she was refocused, a blade was immediately thrown at her. she managed to dodge it, looking around to see who had thrown it. she held out a blaster, her eyes landing on drax the destroyer. his eyes widened slightly as a large energy beam flew out of her hand, knocking him to the wall.

"two can play at that game!" she heard star-lord say, holding out his gun. before she could turn to defend herself, dakota was knocked to the wall by one of peter quill's blasts.

meanwhile, a frightened peter frantically crawled backwards from mantis. "ah!" he screamed. "please don't put your eggs in me!" in a panic, he shot a web at her, pinning her arms to her body.

quill then began to fight with the other peter, but found himself unable to counter his fast reflexes. peter extended his spider legs to leap away, only stopped when a cord wrapped around the legs, sending him rolling across the ship deck.

drax, who was struggling with the cloak of levitation, grunted. "die, blanket of death!" he muttered.

tony, who had been put under a magnet by quill, pulled free. the cloak pulled free of drax, just in time for tony to put a foot on the man's torso, holding him down. his hand pointed at his head, ready to fire.

quill grabbed peter, holding him in a head-lock, his gun pointed at his head. dakota stood between her father and quill, one arm pointed towards drax and the other pointed at quill, almost daring him to even try to hurt peter.

strange stood on the other side of dakota, the group forming a square. mantis struggled to her feet, still trapped in webbing. 

"everybody, stay where you are," quill said, "chill the f out!" he powered off his helmet, looking to tony. "i'm gonna ask you this one time. where's gamora?"

tony retracted his own helmet. "yeah, i'll do you one better. who's gamora?"

"i'll do you one better." drax said from the floor. "why is gamora?"

dakota retracted her helmet. "okay, i'll do you one better, how is gamora?"

her father shook his head, turning to her. "that's not funny."

the girl shrugged. "i thought it was."

"no, you don't count." he said. "you started laughing in the middle of a funeral because you remembered a meme you saw on facebook."

quill, fed up, continued. "tell me where the girl is, or i swear to you, i'm gonna french-fry this little freak." he pointed his gun closer to peter's head.

"go for it, i'll blast you." dakota said, extending a canon from her arm.

tony nodded, angry. "let's do it! you shoot my guy, i blast him. let's go!" his own nano tech canon extended, pointed straight at drax's face.

"do it, quill!" drax said. "i can take it."

mantis shook her head. "no, he can't take it!"

"she's right." strange said, completely deadpan. "you can't."

"oh yeah?" quill said. "you don't wanna tell me where she is? that's fine, i'll kill all four of you and beat it out of thanos myself!" he gestured to peter. "starting with you!"

strange blinked. "wait, what-- thanos? alright, let me ask you this one time: what master do you serve?"

"what master do i serve? what am i supposed to say-- 'jesus'?"

tony furrowed hs brow. "you're from earth?"

quill shook his head. "i'm not from earth. i'm from missouri."

dakota shook her head in bewilderment by his stupidity. "yeah, that's on earth, dip-shit. what are you hassling us for?"

peter looked up at quill. "so, you're not with thanos?"

the man shook his head. "with thanos?! no! i'm here to kill thanos. he took my girl- wai- who are you?"

peter's helmet deactivated as he looked up at him. "we're the avengers, man."

mantis gasped. "you're the ones thor told us about!"

tony turned to her. "you know thor?"

quill nodded. "yeah. tall guy, not that good-looking," peter gave him an incredulous look, seeing as thor was extremely good-looking, "needed saving."

"we thought.. banner told us thor was dead." dakota said, shocked.

"where is he now?"