Marvel in Quarantine

GOTG Meet iPhone X & AirPods

Triggers: None. Ships: Peter x Gamora. Characters: Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel, and Tony Stark.

Dear rip-off space Avengers,

We down here on Earth are currently quarantining because of a global coronavirus pandemic (not that you know what that is Mr. Clean and Bug-Girl, don't worry about it). Anyway, a little blue, angry, murderous bird told me your tech is seriously outdated (who's smarter now, Build a Bear)! So, as a little gift to you to keep you occupied, I have sent a slightly old phone (please tell me you know what that is) and AirPods, which are just earbuds without the wires that rich people own.

Anyhoo, Apple got rid of the home button, not that that means anything to you, so just swipe up to start her up. I sent the instruction manual too, hopefully the killer mean greenie is clever enough to walk you all through it. Bluetooth connects the AirPods. Put them in your ears, and don't push them in too far, Tree!

Well Mr. Lord, hope you and the team enjoy. Don't bother to write back, none of us want to hear from you anyway.

With utmost regards (not really),

Tony Stark

PS Morgan and Nebula say hi.

"Stark is as loving as always," Peter Quill said sarcastically, after reading the letter aloud to the team. Captain Marvel had just handed it to them as well as a couple small, white boxes after being forced to deliver it by Rhodey, who in turn had been forced to deliver it by Tony. After handing it to Peter, Carol grumbled about never making her a mailman again or there will be consequences. Then, she waved at Gamora and Mantis and flew off into the vast void of space to who knows where. Probably safe to assume not Earth.

"Ooh, ooh! Bug-Girl is me!" Mantis said gleefully, clapping her hands together. "The Metal Dude remembers me!" 

"Iron Man," Peter mumbled. "But seeing as he didn't bother to get any of our names right, call him Plastic Turd for all I care." Of course, Drax burst into laughter at that, and Peter shook his head at 'Mr. Clean.'

"Well, I think Mr. Stark got me and my sister quite right," Gamora observed, snatching the letter from her boyfriend's hands. "We kill and we're blue and green. Crude and to the point. Like us." 

"I am Groot," Groot chimed in, wanting to make his voice heard.

"Yeah Groot, I know you're the tree, so that makes me...a Build a Bear? What the hell even is that?" Rocket exclaimed, glaring at Peter.

"Hell if I know, don't look at me!" Peter cried, throwing his hands up.

"Intelligent as always, Quill," Rocket snarled under his breath. Groot and Mantis giggled.

Meanwhile, Gamora had opened up the little white box, and pulled out what was called-- "The iPhone Ten," she read aloud. "Well, here's the instructions. Apparently it doesn't just call, it is like a video game, a communicator, and a music player all in one!"

"Bullshit," Peter said, looking at it with wide eyes. "The world is too cruel for something that amazing to exist."

"Tell that to this 'Apple,'" Gamora replied dryly, flipping the thin, rectangular metal iPhone X in her hand. She swiped up, and the screen lit up. "Hello," it read. Everyone gasped.

"It talks!" Drax yelled. "The demon box talks!"

Gamora, after carefully following the instructions, swiped up again to enter the home screen. Everyone gasped again. She clicked on the little square showing a gray gear called 'Settings' and entered in a passcode.

"Let's do Guardians are better than Avengers!" Peter said excitedly. 

"There's not enough room for that, idiot," Gamora snapped back. "Let's do the number and alphabet one--that looks the most secure."

"Quill sucks," Rocket said immediately.

"Screw Rocket," Peter answered.

"I am Groot," Groot suggested.

"Turd!" Drax exclaimed.

"Guardians rule!" Mantis chimed in with a smile. 

Everyone looked at her and nodded, and Gamora set the password to 'guardiansrule.'

Next, they looked through the games Tony had put on the phone. Groot particularly liked the one called 'Candy Crush' and he quickly got a very high score. Mantis's favorite was 'Angry Birds' where you shot crazy bird bullets at these mean green pigs who stole their eggs. Drax loved something called 'Fortnite' where he could kill all the other players and name himself 'DraxTurds.' Gamora enjoyed 'Solitaire' where she played cards with herself and got faster and faster at finishing each round. Rocket's favorite was a game called 'Among Us' where he really liked being the imposter and killing everyone, or quickly sniffing out who the imposters are if not him. 

Peter's favorite app, however, was not a game. It was the camera icon and the little rainbow flower icon, which he used to take pictures of his family and then look at pictures of his family. No one ever bothered to check them except him, and he privately loved looking back at them with a big smile on his face. 

And then of course there was the music! Hundreds of songs were on the app with the little eighth note icon, hundreds of them! Most of them were 80s songs, which the group greatly appreciated. Once they figured out what Bluetooth was, they quickly started using the AirPods (they named them 'Fancy Rich Earbud Things' in the phone), and soon started fighting about whose turn it was to use the AirPods. Mantis tried to make a schedule, but Peter and Groot would just steal them, Gamora and Rocket would get into huge fights with anyone who tried to take them, and Drax would just lose them. So yeah, she gave up and it just became a free for fall. 

All in all, the Guardians of the Galaxy loved their new phone and AirPods. They would never admit it, but they were secretly very glad that the very annoying Tony Stark sent them an iPhone X and a pair of AirPods.