Gamora and Thanos were aboard Thanos's ship and Thanos brought a little cup of food and held it out to her.
"I thought you might be hungry." Thanos said.
Gamora took it, the hurled it across the room where it banged against his chair with a loud clack.
"I always hated that chair." Gamora said.
"So I've been told. Even so. I'd hoped you'd sit on it one day."
"I hated this room. This ship. I hated my life."
"You told me that too. Every day. For almost twenty years."
"I was a child when you took me."
"I saved you."
"No. No. We were happy on my home planet."
"Going to bed hungry. scrounging for scraps. Your planet was on the brink of collapse. I'm the one who stopped that. Do you know what's happened since then? The children born have known nothing but full bellies and clear skies. It's a paradise."
"Because you murdered half the planet."
"A small price to pay for salvation."
"You're insane."
"Little one, it's a simple calculus. This universe is finite, it's resources finite. If life is left unchecked, life will cease to exist. It needs correction."
"You don't know that!"
"I'm the only one who knows that. At least, I'm the only one with the will to act on it. For a time...you had that same will...as you fought by my side. Daughter."
I'm not your daughter. Everything I hate about myself you taught me."
"And in doing so, made you the fiercest woman in the galaxy. That's why I trusted you to find the Soul Stone."
"I'm sorry I disappointed you."
"I am disappointed. But not because you didn't find it. But because you did. And you lied."
Then a large metal door opened. Thanos and Gamora stood there as a set of inner doors made of interlacing metal slide away. Inside, Nebula was suspended horizontally in the air in the middle of the room.
"Nebula." Gamora said.
Nebula had been partially disassembled still living, yet still slightly connected to each of her parts.
"Don't do this."
"Some time ago, your sister snuck aboard this ship to kill me." Thanos said.
"Please don't do this."
"And very nearly succeeded. So I brought her here. To talk." he said and curled in both the power and space stones, causing Nebula's already extended pieces to stretch further outward.
Then she started to scream.
"Stop. Stop it. I swear to you on my life. I never found the Soul Stone." Gamora said.
Thanos signaled a nearby servant who tapped on a control pad. Nebula's voice said, "Accessing memory files" and a sort of hologram of Gamora's face shuddered to life.
"You know what he's about to do. He's finally ready, and he's going for the stones. All of them." Memory Nebula said.
"He can never get them all." Memory Gamora said.
"He will!"
"He can't, Nebula. Because I found the map to the Soul stone and I burnt it to ash. I burnt it." Memory Gamora said and the memory ended.
"You're strong. Me. You're generous. Me. But I never taught you to lie. That's why you're so bad at it. Where is the Soul Stone?" Thanos said said to Gamora and kept torturing Nebula for several seconds, Gamora wincing at her screams.
"Vormir!" she said and he stopped and Nebula gasped in air.
Then Gamora went to her and caressed her face.
"The Soul Stone is on Vormir." she said.
"Show me." Thanos said.
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