Chapter 5

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DRAX: I'm reading movement. From the third quadrant.
PETER QUILL: Yep. I'm picking that up, too.
QUILL: Let's put it down right here.
(The group enters the COLLECTOR's collection room, which is in ruin. THANOS is threatening the COLLECTOR while the GUARDIANS hide behind the rubble.)
THANOS: Everyone in the Galaxy knows you'd sell your own brother if you thought it would add the slightest trinket to your pathetic collection. I know you have the Reality Stone. Giving it to me will spare you a great deal of suffering.

COLLECTOR: I told you. I sold it. Why would I lie?
THANOS: I imagine it's like breathing for you.
COLLECTOR: Like suicide.
THANOS: So you do understand. Not even you would surrender something so precious.
COLLECTOR: I didn't know what it was.
THANOS: Then you're more of a fool than I took you for. Last chance, charlatan. Where's the Stone?
DRAX: Today...
Peter Quill: Drax. Drax.
Drax: ...he pays for the deaths of my wife and daughter.
Amanda:Uncle Drax, don't.
QUILL: Drax, wait! not yet, not yet, not yet. He doesn't have the Stone yet. We get it, and then we can stop him. We have to get the Stone first. Yeah.

DRAX: No. No. For Ovette. For Camaria.
Amanda:Mantis.
MANTIS: Sleep. (DRAX is knocked out, causing a ruckus.)
QUILL: Okay. Gamora, Mantis, you go right. I'm... (GAMORA moves towards THANOS.)The other right!
(GAMORA attacks THANOS, stabbing him twice, seemingly killing him.)

THANOS: Why? Why you? Daughter... (he falls down, holding his hand out to her, blood pooling out from his neck wound. GAMORA breaks down in tears.)
QUILL: That was quick.
Amanda:Something's wrong ,dad.That was too easy.
COLLECTOR: Magnificent! Magnificent! Magnificent!

(Suddenly, THANOS' disembodied voice fills the room, and the scene disappears- everything is leveled, and THANOS is more than alive. He has the REALITY STONE in the INFINITY GAUNTLET.)

THANOS: Is it sadness I sense in you, daughter? In my heart, I knew you still cared. But one ever knows for sure. Reality is often disappointing. That is, it was. Now... Reality can be whatever I want.

GAMORA: You knew I'd come.
THANOS: I counted on it. There's something we need to discuss, little one.
DRAX: Thanos!
(With a flick of his hand, both DRAX and MANTIS are 'destroyed' in rather comical ways. THANOS grabs GAMORA.)
QUILL: Let her go, Grimace!
GAMORA: Peter...
Amanda:Dad!
QUILL: I told you to go right.
GAMORA: Now? Really?
QUILL: You let her go!
THANOS: Ah, the boyfriend.And my own grandchild.
QUILL: I like to think of myself more as a Titan-killing long term booty call. Let her go.
Amanda:Please grandpa.
GAMORA: Peter...
QUILL: Or I'm gonna blow that nut-sack of a chin right off your face!
GAMORA: Not him.
(PETER hesitates. He does not shoot.)

GAMORA: You promised! You promised.
Amanda:[looks at Quill] Dad?
THANOS: Oh, daughter. You expect too much from him. (To PETER) She's asked, hasn't she? Do it. (he shoves GAMORA towards PETER's gun, egging him on.) Do it!
Quill: I told you to go right.
(PETER and Amanda began to tear up.)
Amanda:Mom..please
GAMORA: I love you and Amanda, more than anything.
Quill:We love you, too.
(PETER pulls the trigger- but a stream of bubbles comes out. THANOS was playing him.)

Thanos: I like him.

(THANOS teleports him and GAMORA away as a stunned PETER watches as his friends recover from their 'deaths'.)
Amanda:MOM!!
(Amanda's voice echoed all over Knowhere. Back on EARTH, COL. RHODES deals with the red tape.)

ROSS: Still no word from Vision?
RHODES: Satellites lost him somewhere over Edinburgh.

ROSS: On a stolen quinjet with four of the world's most wanted criminals.

RHODES: You know they're only criminals because you've chosen to call them that, right, sir?

ROSS: My God, Rhodes, your talent for horseshit rivals my own.

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