Guardians of the Galaxy Descendants

Meteor's Mental Breakdown (Plus Some Sibling Bonding)

A/N: Filler chapter since school has been more hectic than usual thanks to mold in the basement.

Comet blinked open her eyes the next day with a pounding headache. Her and her friends had been up all night working on the two love potions for Bomb and Devin and had barely gotten any sleep. It had been worth it though. Now they were one step closer to getting the Infinity stones and leaving this flea ridden planet. Comet rolled out of bed and dragged herself to get ready for the day. Before she could even get her wires unplugged from her neck a loud pounding came on the door. Universal shot up out of bed.

"Who's that?" She asked as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes. Comet shrugged and went back to her wires. Universal got up and opened the door. There stood Meteor, looking sheepish and downtrodden. "Oh it's just you." Universal said as she shut the door. Comet resisted the urge to laugh.

Meteor banged on the door again. "Come on Uni, let me in!" He complained. Universal turned away from the door and slunk off to the closet to find an outfit for the day. Meteor continued to pound his fist on their door. "Comet!" he called. "Comet come on! Let me in!" Comet just unplugged her wires from the socket by her wall and put them in her bag.

"We're not letting him in right?" Comet asked Universal. She nodded and Comet went to find where her other ankle boot had gotten to.

"I know you guys can hear me!" Meteor continued to complain loudly from outside. "Now let me in!" He banged on the door a little bit more then stopped completely. Comet and Universal paused for a second and listened to the silence that came from outside.

"Do you think he left?" Universal asked while zipping up her boots. Comet opened the door a crack and saw that the hallway was empty, save for a few nerdy early birds already on their way to the library.

She nodded. "Yeah he left." Comet then shut the door. As she turned around Universal's eyes drifted to the vent that the boys had discovered as a way of sneaky transport around the building. She looked back at Comet.

"You don't think," Universal started before Meteor pushed the vent open and tumbled into their room. He sat up and shook dust from his hair.

"Sorry I had to bust in but you guys wouldn't let me in, so." Meteor gestured to the open vent. Universal rolled her eyes, and Comet sat on her bed.

"What do you want Mete'?" She asked.

Meteor sighed. "You know how you guys always would beat people up on The Forgotten Planet when they got in your way? You always told me that that fight instinct would kick in, but it never did?" Comet and Universal nodded. "Well it finally kicked in, or at least, it did yesterday." Meteor then explained how he had beat PJ up pretty bad and left him on the floor when he went to get some of Devin's hair.

"You got to beat up a hero kid. You should feel proud." Universal said when he was finished. "Especially since it was you who won." She added. Meteor nodded. He didn't look thrilled though.

"What makes it worse is this." Meteor took out his phone and showed the what was on the screen. It was some e-mails between the Guardians of the Galaxy. "I hacked into their system to spy on them after the hero kids went to jail. I was gonna tell you guys but then you wouldn't pay attention to me so I gave up trying."

Universal and Comet scrolled upwards and found the first set of e-mails. They had been sent last night at around midnight, when the villains had been finishing up the final potion. It was from Drax and had the subject line: I believe PJ got beat up.

To: All Guardians   From: Drax   

Subject: I Believe That PJ Got Beat Up

Friends, all of you need to please come down to the medical room. Devin and I are here, Gemma and Bomb are on their way currently. PJ has been beat up rather badly. Devin found him laying unconscious on the floor of their room a few minutes ago. Please come down. Thank you.

"That sounds very much like something Drax would write." Comet noted. Meteor and Universal nodded in agreement. The next e-mail was from Gamora.

To: All Guardians  From: Gamora

Subject: WHAT HAPPENED?!?!

Drax!!! What happened!!! Who beat PJ up? Can you give us more details? Peter and I are on our way back now. Email us the info ASAP!!

"Man, Gamora seems pretty frantic." Universal pointed out. Meteor hung his head, ashamed.

To: All Guardians   From: Peter

Subject: Seriously!

Gamora and I leave for only one hour! Just one! In one hour PJ gets beat up! How is that possible!!! Actually, no one answer that question.

"Well at least he's concerned." Meteor said. The girls nodded. The emails ended there.

"So what's so important that you just had to barge in here today and tell us this?" Universal asked. Comet nodded in agreement.

"Yeah we beat people up all the time. It's not something to brag nor be sad about." Comet added. Universal smiled.

"I remember the first person I beat up. Star Tivan. That boy always did pick on me. So when I was nine I broke his rib." Universal laughed. "No wonder he hates me."

"Mine was Scapael. Remember her?" Comet asked. Universal nodded. "She always stared at my robotics. Acted like she knew everything about them just because her father ran the labs on Halfworld. I gave her a bloddy nose and a black eye when I was 7 for that."

"Didn't Aster beat up Rat Tivan? Star's twin?" Universal asked.

Comet thought for a second then nodded. "Yeah, Rat tried to get back at you for hurting Star and instead Aster broke his arm."

Universal chuckled. Then she paused. "Who did Korey beat up first?" She asked.

Comet shrugged. "He's beat up everyone that ever looked at him weird. It's hard to tell who he got to first." Then Comet thought. "It might have been Yola Udonta. Or his sister, Ravage Udonta."

Meteor had had enough. Why didn't they understand how hard this was for him? "LISTEN TO ME!" Meteor shouted. Both girls jumped in shock. Meteor didn't usually yell. Actually he never yelled.

"You two think your sooooooooooo cool! Talking about all the people you've beaten throughout your life. WELL I HATE VIOLENCE! I HATE BLOOD, FISTS, ANGER, AND EVERYTHING THAT GOES INTO BEING A VILLAIN! I just want, I just want to, to, to prove I'm not like you guys."

Meteor started sputtering and yanking in gasps of air. "I want people not to fear me like they fear you guys!" Meteor sank onto the ground, eyes watering. "I'm not like mom. I'm not like mom. I'm not like mom. I'm not like mom." Meteor kept repeating the same sentence as both girls stood there in shocked silence.

"A-are you ok-k-kay?" Universal asked. Meteor started rocking back and forth on the ground, arms wrapped around himself.

"I'm not a villain." He whispered. "I'm not a villain. I'm not a villain. I'm not a villain! I'M NOT A VILLAIN!" Meteor screamed.

Then, Meteor started crying. He tucked his head into his chest and just started crying. Universal just stood there staring at Meteor. Then Comet got down on her knees in front of him.

For the first time in 10 years, Comet hugged her brother.