fiction | Part of the journey is the end

2. Thor & Jane

On Indigarr, King Yakan said, "God of Disaster, we thank you."

Everyone laughed loudly while Thor supposed he deserved that after accidentally destroying their temple.

Thor received two screaming Indigarrian Goats named Toothgrinder and Toothgnasher as thanks from Yakan for saving his people.

Quill, Nebula, Groot, and Rocket's faces soured at seeing the goats and Gamora was suddenly glad that she wasn't with the Guardians so she didn't have to deal with the screaming goats.

"Oh wow...those goats are loud. Good luck," Sam told the Guardians.

"They're adorable!" Mantis gushed.

"I love them!" Drax added.

"See! Mantis and Drax like them," Thor told the rest of the Guardians.

"Absolutely not. Those goats are getting kicked off of the ship," said Nebula.

Thor tried to apologize about the temple, but King Yakan wasn't interested in hearing about it and reminded him to take the goats, "No backsies."

"That man just wanted to dump the goats and leave. Very passive-aggressive. I respect it," said Kate.

"He's making the rest of us deal with it in the process," Quill complained.

"They brighten up the ship," said Thor.

"The ship doesn't need brightening up!"

"Aw. They are beautiful," Thor said. Korg agreed and said they screamed a lot.

"I don't care if they're beautiful!" said Nebula.

"Agreed," Quill said.

Thor, Mantis, and Drax looked scandalized. Groot was playing his game and wasn't paying attention to what was happening while Rocket just wanted the screaming to stop.

Cut to the goats screaming on the Benatar. "We need to find the damn remote so we can download the distress signal!" Quill said.

Thor and Loki paled slightly. The last time the Guardians followed a distress signal, they found the remains of the Statesmen and Thor's unconscious body.

"Retrace your steps. Where did you put the remote?" Thor asked. "One of your goats probably ate it!" Quill replied. "Goats didn't eat the remote. Don't be ridiculous," Thor replied.

"Exactly, why would you even say that?" Thor said.

"Are you serious? Look at the goats, Thor!" Quill exclaimed.

"Well, I ain't digging through their crap," Rocket said.

"I'm in favor of kicking the goats out so I don't have to hear their screaming anymore," said Rocket.

"I love them! They should live with us forever!" Drax said while holding one of the goats in a chokehold.

Drax rapidly nodded.

"No," Nebula, Quill, and Rocket said.

Quill found the remote. One of the goats kicked the table Rocket was standing on causing him to fly back.

"Look out for Rocket, he's tiny," said Rhodey. Rocket bared his teeth at him and Rhodey rolled his eyes.

Jane thought Thor's new friends were...interesting. Loki could feel a headache forming at the sight of the Guardians and Thor together.

Steve's lips twitched into a smile; he liked the Guardians and they agreed to take him to Vormir so he could punch the Red Skull. It's not like he had anything else to do now anyway since he was retired, so he might as well spend his time doing the one thing he did best—punch Nazis. Besides, he never got much time to travel for leisure, so he decided to skip exploring Earth and go to space for a while. Younger him couldn't have imagined that humans would eventually walk the moon, let alone that he would be friends with aliens and go to space.