It's not what it seems

7

The plan was simple, the preparations were not. Why not? Because I had to make Gamora look like a normal human. Which wasn't easy, not at all. Especially since Gamora didn't seem to like it. "This is itching," she said. "I know it is, I've worked with it a lot." "You have?" "Yeah, but mostly not this much." "Mostly?" "Okay, never this much... but, it's necessary I mean... you're green." "I know I am." "And we need to make you look like a human," I sighed, "Which is going to cost me a lot of make-up. And a lot of work... really, guys don't understand how expensive this stuff is." "That's because most of them don't use it." "I like how you say most of them." "That's because I got my doubts about Taneleer Tivan." "Who?" "Taneleer Tivan, also known as the collector, likes to collect everything in the universe." "Like, objects?" "And living creatures." "Humanoids too?" "Yes." "Creepy." "He is a creep for sure." "How did you meet him?" "Oh well, that's a long story." "I suppose we have enough time for it." She sighed, "That might be true. Well, it started with an object called the orb. A guy I "worked for" at the moment, called Ronan, wanted this orb. But I had other plans, in secret I made a deal with the Collector to sell the orb to him. So, Ronan send me to retrive the orb, and I thought it was going to be an easy job, never had I been so wrong. I encountered some problems."

"I went to Xandar, because that is where a certain guy named Peter Quill, brought the orb to so he could sell it to the Broker. Only, Peter couldn't sell it because he mentioned Ronan wanted the orb and people were afraid of Ronan. And with good reason." She sighed. "So, Peter still had the orb, when I was waiting for him outside of the shop. Where I tried to well... flirt with him to make my job a bit easier." "Yeah, I know how that goes." "Only, he didn't really fall for it, I took the orb, but he was fast and he caught me. So we fought until Rocket and Groot got into it because Peter had a high bounty on his head. We we're caught by the Nova Corps, who send us to the Kyln, a prison. There we met Drax, who hated me back then and wanted to kill me, but I was saved by Peter, whom I had told I was going to sell the orb, and he wanted a share in the money. So together with Rocket and Groot we made an escape plan, in which Drax joined us."

"We then went to Knowhere, the severed head of a Celestial being, where we'd meet the Collector. Uh, we waited for him in a café, where Rocket and Drax got themselves drunk and started to fight. Peter and I stopped them from killing each other, after which Drax temporarily left the team. Not long after that Taneleer's helper, aka slave, Carina walked in to fetch us for her "master"." "Wait, what were Peter and you doing before all that?" "We were talking, I was cleaning my sword." "Sword?" "I have a sword." "Well that's.... medieval." "So?" "Nothing. Swords are nice. So, just talking?" "Well, he allowed me to listen to his music, and he tried to seduce me and... I slammed him into a railing telling him that I knew about his reputation and that I wouldn't fall for him." "That's all?" "Yes, that's all." "Okay, please continue."

"So, we followed Carina to the Collector's collection. Were we handed the orb to Taneleer, or actually, Peter first dropped it and then handed it to him. He then opened it in front of us, telling us about the power it contained. But then Carina saw her chance to escape from the collector by using the Infinity stone the orb contained, so she touched it and there was an explosion." "Sounds like what Tony would describe as a party." "What?" "A joke... even though he likes to blow up stuff at parties. So, that's the story of how you met that Collector guy?" "It is." "What happened after?" "You really want to know?" "Well yes, it was just starting to get interesting."

"Okay, so, I had the idea to bring the orb to the Nova Corps, but Peter and Rocket didn't agree to this, because they thought that the Nova Corps would lock us up again. So we got angry at each other and we went back to that café, where we found Ronan's troops waiting for us because Drax called him. So, we had to fight them, and of course, Nebula, my... sister, was there." "Sister?" "Not by blood, but yes. So, well she hated me at the time and she chased after me, chased me out of Knowhere in a pod that wasn't supposed to be in open space, it broke down, I almost died, but was saved by Peter, who called the Ravagers. The Ravagers raised him, but were looking for him because he betrayed them. So, they wanted to kill us, but we managed to come to an agreement with them and then Rocket and Drax almost blew us up. But, we stopped them, went back on the Milano, Peter's ship, were we... well, we listened to Peter's "plan" and-." "Wait, what do you mean with "plan"?" "Well, it actually was just twelve percent of a plan, which is barely even a concept, but, well we decided to just try it. So, we attacked the Dark Aster, Ronan's ship, kind of crashed into the Aster, where we had to fight some of his troops and where I fought Nebula again."