Chapter 170: Guardians of the Galaxy prelude.

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Steve Rogers was commanding the Avenger inside the city. The infected inside the city were herded into a separate location and were blocked off by the Avengers and the Templars.

She-Hulk joined in to save the people, and also numerous heroes hidden in the city.

Even with Thor clearing out the red fog by sending it to space, the number of the infected was still rising. 10 minutes after the virus was released into the city, more than 200,000 people were infected by the virus.

"Cap. The CDC is on the line. What should I do?" Natasha asked using the communication earpiece.

"Let Peggy handle it. I mean. Director Carter." Steve replied and bonked an infected head with his shield, knocking her out. "Also, don't hurt the infected people. Just knock them out."

He noticed by her petite figure and undeveloped body, she is just a teenager. However, all of her hair had fallen because of the virus, leaving her with a shiny red head.

"Noted. Also, does anyone have eyes on Ryan Knight?" Natasha asked the group.

"No!/Nay/Nu-uh." The team replied all at once.

Hulk ripped the road from the ground, and madeshift it into a cage, containing the infected people coming toward him. "You're lucky I couldn't smash."

"Something is not right," Steve muttered.

"What is it Cap?" Barton, who was nearby, asked. He shot a net arrow and captured multiple infected people, restraining them from creating havoc.

Captain's instinct was telling him that Ryan should have contacted them by now. "Unless…"

"He is in a battle." Tony interjected and said Captain's America thoughts out loud. "JARVIS, run a full satellite scan on the city. Again. Find him."

"Sir, something else has happened." JARVIS said.

"What is it?"

"I lost contact with the Avenger tower."

Tony stopped mid-air and looked at the Avenger Tower from afar.

"Cap. I think. I know where Red Skull is." Tony said solemnly. However, Tony gritted his teeth as he doesn't know where Ryan is. "One down, One more to go."

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Inside the Avengers Tower.

"Impossible. You're just a normal man." Red Skull said agitatedly as he looked at Ryan. Even he didn't have the antidote for the virus, and was just bluffing previously. And Ryan said he had created the virus antidote in just 10 minutes?

"You were away from the Earth for a long time haven't you. I am anything but normal." Ryan replied. He needs to activate the antidote at the top of the Avenger Tower for it to be spread throughout the city. Then he added, "Wait. Did I just insult myself?"

Red Skull didn't allow him to think for an answer and shot him with an energy beam from his arm. Ryan avoided the blast easily, but the cannon blast didn't stop and slammed into the wall, causing a tremendous explosion.

Both Ryan and Red Skull were surprised with the strength of the cannon Red Skull had shot out.

"It looks like the batteries were more powerful than I thought." Red Skull muttered to himself. The Anulax batteries from the Sovereign planet were incredibly powerful. Ryan didn't lose the chance and analyzed the power source instantly.

Then, Red Skull shot out multiple green plasma blasts that were highly corrosive towards Ryan.

Ryan moved ubiquitously using martial arts footwork named the Heavens Pathway, and avoided the entire blast. However, he wasn't the true target that Red Skull was aiming at.

The blast hit the thin steel thread that Ryan used to tie up the Blood Brother. It corroded the metal, making the restraint on the alien brothers loosen up.

"HMPHHHHH!" The Blood Brother flexed the muscles in the entire body, increasing their size, and snapping the metal wire off.

"The same trick won't work on us again!" The Blood Brothers shouted. They split into two during the attack this time. One of them attacked the higher side, while another one attacked his lower side. They cut off Ryan's escape route and made it impossible for him to avoid using only martial arts.

However, Ryan shot out his ice blast on the alien attacking from up high, making him freeze and fall onto his brother down below. "Ack!" Both of the Blood Brothers screamed in pain.

"At least buy me some time you pathetic aliens." Red Skull ordered while diminishing the aliens. The Blood Brothers eyes lost their clarity and emotions, making them act automatically on instinct instead.

Red Skull's eyes actually shook after Ryan had made easy work of his infamous galactic mercenaries. He had brainwashed the simple minded Blood Brother when they came to collect his bounty and recruit them into his ragtag band of misfits.

After all, Hydra and brainwashing are synonyms with each other.

He waved the staff of Dormammu, and chanted a short incantation this time. Then, a small rift that leads to the Dark Dimension opened up, and a few golems owned by Dormammu walked out from the rift.

"This is getting troublesome." Ryan furrowed his brows as he saw the dark dimensions rift. Luckily , the rift closes quickly after spouting out 30 4-meters tall rock golem. The golems had V-shaped eyes, and it charges an immense amount of power.

It shot a blue particle accelerator beam toward Ryan at the same time while the Blood Brothers were distracting him.

"F*uk." Ryan cursed and activated his flame gauntlet. He aimed it at his side, and didn't hold on to the recoil. He blasted himself away from the attack pathway and slammed into the interior walls of the Avengers tower.

Red Skull smirked, and re-started his incantation. His finished incantation will create a dome that will separate New York City from the physical realm, and into the Dark Dimension, to pay him for his borrowed power.

Kamar Taj sensed the dark magic, and wanted to intervene. However, Dormammu tried to breach the Earth's defense line from the start of the incident, making Ancient One a little occupied.

However, she wasn't worried.

"I have been slacking since he was here. Now I have to move my tired bones." The Ancient One said playfully while she faced Dormammu. Her forehead glowed with the markings of the Dark Dimension.

Master Kaecillus was helping the Ancient One to battle the Dormammu forces. He saw the marking on her forehead, and realized that she had been drawing power from the Dark Dimension – something that she had forbidden the other Masters of Kamar Taj to do.

Dormammu has a burning fire around his skull-like face, wearing dignified armor, and was leading his own army.

"Damn, his strength is greatly cut out from the movie." Ryan muttered as an eyeball was floating around the Ancient One. He used the moment he crashed into the wall to check in with Kamar Taj as he noticed that the incident had been getting out of control.

"Hmm? Why are you here? Focus on your own battle. Don't mind me here." The Ancient One said to the peeper and prepared to deactivate his peeping magic with one hand. "Also, you don't have to hold back on this one."

The Ancient One removed the peeping eyeball from the Kamar Taj sanctum, and focused on fighting the 100 meter tall Dormammu.

Ryan was solemn. "I guess. Marduk needs to show up now."

He split his body into two, and left his shadow clone to assume his Marduk Persona, the Dragon God that had been staying low for a long time. He was only immobile for 5 seconds to prepare underneath the debris that had fallen onto him.

However, Marduk wasn't going to help him at the tower. His clone will go and support Kamar Taj instead. The Ancient One smiled when he appeared, and didn't say anything.

Near the Avenger Tower.

A certain web-slinging spider had arrived at the tower after she got Ryan's message. She saw Ryan had crashed into the walls and had been buried by the debris. Intense anger boiled up inside of her.

"You BALDIE SKULL!" Gwen yelled and turned on the instant killing mode. She jumped through the Blood Brothers, avoiding their hand that was going to grab her by centimeters, and kicked the Red Skull in the head.

He crashed a few meters back, falling inside the crowd of the Mindless ones. However, this time he didn't stop chanting.

She avoided the attack of the Mindless Ones agilely, and shot her web at the head of two of the golem. She crossed her hand while pulling the web, making the golems shoot at each other, destroying them into bits of rocks and scattered on the ground.

Her four metal spider arms spinned like a meat grinder, and destroyed a few Mindless Ones that were blocking her way.

Then, she landed near the debris and pulled Ryan out from it. "Are you okay? Are you injured?"

"Gwen. Take this." Ryan gave her the antidote that he created with the miniaturized mobile lab on his back. This time, he could actually show the lab to the public, as it was given to him by his godfather after their work on the quantum tunnel that will allow them to enter the quantum realm was completed.

"This-" Gwen's eyes shook as she instantly knew what Ryan needed her to do.

"Don't worry. The others are coming here. Go help the people first, then come back to kick his ass." Ryan said playfully and decided to no longer hold back, whether magically or technologically.

For the first time ever, he debuted his new suit. Nano-material started to appear out of nowhere, creating an armored suit around his body. Then, a black trench coat with blue lining appeared. His ice gauntlet and fire gauntlet were rearranged by the nano-material, removing their limited strength that Ryan had set up, and unleashed their might to the world.

Ryan's face was bare, and his blond hair fluttered in the wind. Gwen was a little stunned, and her heart throb after seeing Ryan's stunning figure.

"Gwen?" Ryan snapped her back to reality.

"Ahh. The antidote. Right." She said and jumped from the hole in the wall, and climbed the Avenger tower from the outside.

She needed to reach the Ganali device that was on top of the tower. Kai was the creator of the device, and it could create a cloud all over the city and disperse the antidote at the same time.

'It wasn't against lizards this time, but it will work regardless.' Ryan thought secretly.

He aimed his ice gauntlet toward the mindless ones, and shot out an ice blast that was near the absolute zero. All of the Mindless ones froze at the same time, including the Blood Brothers that were going to attack him.

All of them was incapacitated at the same time! Red Skull had to avoid the blast by stopping his incantation and rolling away. Otherwise, he will lose with only one move!

He stood back up, and waved the staff toward the Mindless Ones. The scattered rocks shivered and slowly, the Mindless Ones that had been destroyed built themselves back up. A tiny wisp of Dormammu's flame appeared, and the ice instantly melted from the other Mindless Ones.

Ryan floated in the air, and smiled softly.

"I expected that. Come. Let me enjoy the fight."

Dormammu was using Red Skull to descend, and Red Skull was using Dormammu for his conquest. Ryan noticed this, and wouldn't let either of them get their aim. He aimed his fire gauntlet this time. But instead of fire, lightning came out from the gauntlet.

"ARGHHHH!!!" The Blood Brother and Red Skull screamed in pain after the lightning travelled through the melted ice, shocking every opponent on the floor at the same time.

"JARVIS?" Ryan muttered when Red Skull and the others were distracted.

"Sir. I have gotten back full control of the Tower. However, the Arc Reactor was too unstable. The explosion is imminent."

"How much time?"

"Less than A minute before the reactor goes critical."

"I see. Let Tony handle it."

Red Skull grinned when he saw Ryan's attention was on the arc reactor. "You have only two choices. Whether to see New York blown to bits. Or stop me."

"I choose to stop you. As the others could handle the Reactor."

"The others?"

Red Skull saw two figures coming into the tower with extreme speed at this time.

BAM

His head was knocked by an unbreakable shield, and he fell backward…Again.

"Don't cut off your comms next time." Tony warned sternly.

"He is tracking your location through the comms. I couldn't risk it before I took back the tower." Ryan explained himself.

Steve Roger confronted the Red Skull, his mortal enemy.

"Captain Rogers. Always the Hero." Red Skull instigated.

"Surrender the antidote Skull. Or-"

Ryan interjected before Steve could go further. "Cap. I already finished the antidote. Ask him to surrender the staff instead."

"Or-... SURRENDER THE STAFF SKULL." Steve rearranged his threat, and summoned his fire gauntlet instantly this time. The gauntlet had allowed him to feel the terrifying magic power inside the staff. He knew he would lose if he didn't do his best from the start of the battle.

Tony flew right towards the arc reactor, and started to study the explosion.

"I couldn't stop it. But I can keep the explosion here." Tony said.

"Do it." Ryan ordered.

"Ahh. My tower." Tony said sadly. The explosion will destroy the upper part of the tower, making all of his work inside gone.

Gwen had reached the top of the tower and started the cloud device. The antidote was administered toward the citizens of New York, and the virus incident was resolved.

"Gwen. Move away from the tower. As far as you could." Ryan said through the suit.

"Okay. Meet me back at the penthouse. Don't you dare go back to Washington tonight." Gwen said before she jumped from the top of the Avenger Tower, and followed Ryan's order.

"Why does everytime Captain America fights with Red Skull, an explosion will come out?" Ryan said playfully and kept the Mindless Ones from going near the fight. The Blood Brothers had been incapacitated early, and they were lying down lifelessly on the ground.

Red Skull knew that his time was up. He couldn't finish the mission now with the Avenger coming by. He stared at the flying Ryan hatefully for a while, and slammed the bottom of his staff on the ground.

A terrifying blast of dark magic swept everything away. The Mindless ones were destroyed, Captain America shielded them from the blast, but he was pushed backward, Tony was knocked out into the wall.

Ryan created a fire wall that burned the dark magic before getting to him. Red Skull grinned and took the gap to run away.

"I'll be back." Red Skull said. He swung his staff and floated with the blood brother. He jumped through the hole in the wall with the brothers in tow.

"Ugh. Evacuate. NOW!" Tony said urgently as the arc reactor was going to blow! His head was hurting from the blast, and even his nose was bloody.

Ryan picked up the Captain and flew outside with Iron Man.

Tony wanted to continue pursuing the Red Skull, however he saw that Red Skull was entering a spaceship, and it blasted toward space instantly.

"Damn it!" He cursed. Now, A new threat against the earth was added. As if the previous ones weren't enough.

Red Skull escaped the solar system through the fixed wormhole to make his way to Knowhere – the severed head of the Celestial that had become an outlaw region in the galaxy.

Ryan instantly created an ice dome on the Avenger Tower when he went outside.

BOOOM

The top half of the Avenger Tower was destroyed from the explosion, creating a blinding white light that illuminated the entire city in the night. The Ice dome protected the residents nearby from the debris. Ryan contained the explosion by adding more and more ice, until the pressure slowed down.

People who were infected started to regain consciousness, and were weakened from the effect of the virus. However, they were glad that the Avenger's had managed to cure them.

"My…My hair!" Kamala, the infected that was bonked by Captain America, was in tears after finding out she had become bald. A lot of people in the city were in tears, but they didn't blame the Avengers for it. After all, the culprit was known to everyone in the city.

"Wait. the antidote. Does that mean?" The people become horrified after realizing about the matter. Red Skull wanted to exchange the antidote with their Vice President. If the antidote is there…that means.

Citizens ran toward the Avenger tower instantly, to check up on the situation. As the communication in the city was down, they had to see it with their own eyes.

Ryan knew he had a lot to answer, but he wanted to rest after the chaotic night. His Shadow clone was actually destroyed in the battle against Dormammu, and he was low on magic storage as he kept sending it to the clone during the fight.

He wanted to go home. But then, he heard the voices of people calling for him from the street.

"He's OKAY. OUR PRESIDENT IS OKAY!"

Ryan had a wry smile on his face, and waved at the people. "If President Ellis know about this, I wonder if he would cry again."

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Red Skull had retreated from Earth using his top speed. The small spacecraft only has three people in it, and he planned to meet with his other crew in the galaxy.

However, after his third jump, the spaceship was stopped and stuck in a tractor beam.

"It's them again!" The Blood Brother's said in horror after seeing the figure of the giant ship that had been hunting them before.

"Doesn't matter. Now, we can take over the ship." Red Skull said in an arrogant voice.

With the staff he gets from Dormammu on Earth,he schemes a plan to take over the Arcadia without even knowing the futility of his action.

His true plan on Earth was to trade the life of the people in New York for a synthetic soul stone container. He wanted to absorb the power of the soul stone, but without the sentient consciousness that had been keeping him on Vormir all of this time.

Now, he had copied the data on the Tesseract that the Avenger had, and could locate the Soul Stone after he inserted the parameter to his enhanced galactic scanner that the rest of his crew were making.

Inside the giant ship with giant skull bones at its front.

Dawn Everstar smirked as he sensed what the Red Skull wanted to do.

"Too bad for you. The only reason you can escape from Earth. Was because Ryan needed the people of earth to feel the urgency of an intergalactic threat."

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Sitting on a throne somewhere in the universe, the Mad Titan decreed to his daughters.

Nebula and Gamora were kneeling toward the throne, and waited for the order.

"I have sensed the Soul Stone somewhere in the universe. Gamora. You will find it, and bring it to me."

" I understand father."

In Knowhere, a raccoon and a walking tree were drinking at a bar.

"Pfff." Rocket sputtered out his drinks.

"100,000 units! For the whereabouts of a man! Holy SHIT. We got an idiotic employer Groot."

"I am Groot."

"I know what I said." Rocket was dissatisfied with being admonished by the tree.

"Let's see. The employer name. Is…." He scrolled down on the mission request.

"Dawn Everstar? Who the hell is he?" Rocket asked out loud. Suddenly, a human man in a red jacket that was drinking nearby almost choked on his drink.

"Dude. Lower your voice if you don't want people to kill you." Peter Quill saved Rocket quickly.

"Urgh. Get your hand off me. Who is he anyway?"

"He is the most notorious man in the universe at the moment, and even destroyed multiple chitauri ships by himself. He fought the Spartax, Kree, and the Skrulls, and came out unscathed. Even Xandarians are afraid of him." Peter Quill recounted the short track record Dawn had experienced in his short one month in the galaxy.

"Ahh. This Adam Warlock guy is fucked up now." Rocket grinned. He didn't feel sympathy toward the target and decided to find the guy quickly.

"Why don't I join you? People call me Star Lord, and I am sure I can be of service." Peter Quill said while scheming how to take the bounty from the racoon.

After an intense argument, the trio were moving toward Xandar. To the place where Adam Warlock was first located.

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