Heartbeat (A Beautiful Thing - SpideyChelle book 2)

Landed

Tony POV

"Underoo's get in here now" I scream to Peter, ordering him to help us fly the doughnut which is now shrouded in complete, absolute darkness.

"Yes, Mr Stark" he screams back optimistically in the most "Peter Parker" way possible. I turn quickly to meet him at the door and make sure Michelle is not there with him. I love her very much but I need to involve in her in as little as possible. She needs to be protected, kept safe. Nothing must happen to her.

We have to move the ship together. I watch at the front as a vast landscape appears from out the tunnel. It has a reddish glint to it but is mostly a sunset orange with cavernous crators interrupting the glossy surface. This was Titan.

"Turn, turn, turn" Peter yells as we go crashing into some rocky structure, not so glossy after all I guess.

We had crash-landed on this planet, very ungracefully if I do say so myself, but we were here none the less. I hear Peter and Strange gasp in relief although that feeling is short-lived as we hear a sharp band come from the other side of the ship. And with that sudden bang, it seemed we had friends.

They were looking for a man named Gamora, or maybe it was a woman I had no way of knowing.

Anyway, they held us captive for a while but after Strange put them back in his place with his very eloquent term of phrase (Seriously what master do you serve? Could he get any more Shakespearian?) they were on our side. On our side for good. How could they not be on our side - this was Thanos we were talking about.

Michelle POV

I heard voices, new voices. Peter had told me to stay put but that was very hard when everything was telling me to go out and investigate the strange voices. I waited about 30 seconds until I could not sit on those boxes any longer and I pushed the steel door to get out.

The ship wasn't very big at all so I instantly jumped up on to the wall and intended to hide there in case they intended to attack at any point. They didn't look menacing though : one was quite obviously human, the rest not so much. Tony and Strange seem to look relaxed and they had lowered their guns - time for me to introduce myself I thought.

Fear builds inside of me as I hear them start talking about Thanos; this is not helped by the fact that I thought I could just go up to them and start talking. I may be SpiderGirl but really I was just MJ. Awkward, awkward MJ.

"Hey, I'm Michelle," I swing down and interrupt their conversation

"Peter Quill"

"I am Mantis"

"I am Drax, I am the strongest most handsome guy of them all I and I have come to avenge my family by killing Thanos"

MAJOR TIME SKIP BECAUSE IM BORED AND WANNA GET TO THE JUICY STUFF

Peter POV
We waited and waited for what seemed like years for Mr Stark to get the guardians to comply to his slightly delusional plans. However, whether I liked them or not, Mr Lord was now on my list of coolest superheroes. He had a dance battle with an alien in order to gain an infinity stone, like what.

With every passing moment, I felt a burning desire to become closer to MJ. My spidey senses were tingling and I felt like I had to protect her. In fact, it wasn't a feeling, it was something I knew I had to do and letting her get hurt would be the biggest failure of my life. She was the best thing in my life and I was not about to let that slip through my fingers

Michelle POV
Before I knew it we were back on our feet, holding the purple grape down. Fear bubbled inside me when I thought of Peter, I would much rather something happen to me than him. All he wanted to do was do well; make people happy. He was the light of my life.

Nevertheless, I did not have time to think about Peter all too much as Tony calls us to help him get the infinity gauntlet off of this bastard. I could see the hurt on his face when I came over with Peter. But what was I gonna do, sit still and look pretty- uh no thanks. I was pretty sure my help would be valued as well seeing as they were both men and well, I'm not trying to discriminate but I was pretty sure a woman could do it better.

Taking the fear I felt from looking at the menacing figure stood close to me, I pulled with all the strength I had in hopes of freeing the golden metal from the giant outstretched hand. I noticed Peter was holding right on the soul stone. It was red and glowing; almost like it was burning into his skin. He kept holding on until he suddenly  yelped in pain, ripping a shallow breath, dry from the back of his throat.

"Peter, what's up?" I yell over the struggling cries of Thanos.

Both Tony and I look to Peter instantly as we notice the crimson patches of dried skin, callousing his hands. He doesn't hear me and keeps pulling as he winces from the burns, It looked painful but it would have to wait as we continued to pull mercilessly at the glove.

That's when Quill enters the situation. He comes toe to toe with Thanos asking for answers about Gamora- the girl they were asking about earlier. Thanos doesn't give the answers he wants as Nebula and Mantis further perpetuate the situation in hand. From all, I could grasp it seemed that Gamora had been killed in exchange for the very stone burning Peter. Quill screams in pure emotional agony as Tony tries his best to prevent the inevitable

And just as we had separated metal from the skin, the mad Titan coils his had pulling his fingers back into the golden glove. We had lost. My first priority was Peter though. I rush back to him as he catches Mantis who had flown from Thanos's head as soon as Quill had thrown the punch.

"Peter, you ok?" I say still moving closer in the heat. I don't get a response at first and the instant worry sets in, niggling itself into a pit in my stomach. I look to the heart monitors Tony gave us and it is beating worringly fasr