Chapter 37

"It's called cornering a mouse," I thought with annoyance when I woke up at some scrap yard.

Strange. In theory, I should have been split into small particles, as it happened to all people, but something apparently went wrong and contact with the energy of the Tesseract does not work as everyone thought. Hmm, if the artifact doesn't kill, as happened to me, then what happens to people? Where do they disappear to? Then I looked up to see if it was day or night.

— What the f***am I?! I blurted out.

Now there was something round hanging above me, glowing and shimmering with blue color. After that, I decided to look around.

— Where am I at all?! — everywhere there was a pile of garbage from some scrap metal, and after a hundred meters there were buildings made of the same kind of various metals.

Is this really Earth? Or did I somehow find myself on another planet? That's just something I don't remember a single celestial body with such signs in our Solar system. Or am I a bad "astroluch" that does not know such banal things. But one thing I know for sure, there are no such vortices on Earth, and there is not even such a pile of various garbage there! Well, for the reason that it would have been stolen long ago.

But the fact is that there is no such thing on Earth, because my drones flew all over it and I didn't notice something like that. I thought that nothing could surprise me, but the next moment I shoved this thought far away, because from the side of strange metal structures, a real, fucking FLYING shuttle was heading towards me! At least, that's exactly how I imagined it.

So, I'm definitely on another planet. And there is definitely life here. But is she friendly or not… Well, they won't shoot at me from guns right away, will they? I, on the other hand, do not pose any danger in appearance, since I do not have any (visible) weapons with me. Moreover, by their standards, I should generally look like some kind of barbarian who somehow got into their territory.

Soon this flying object flew to my place of residence and landed on a more or less flat surface. Something similar to a hatch descended from behind and humanoid creatures in strange spacesuits began to come out. By the way, I'm kind of on another planet, but my body is functioning normally, that is, I can breathe and not suffocate.

-? №"3№&^*&? - one of them said, but I didn't understand anything, so I tried to show it with gestures.

It seems that they were still able to figure out that I do not know their language, because soon they put some kind of device in my hand. It looked like an ordinary oval-shaped decoration. They pointed at my ear, at the device. I was not a fool and understood what they wanted from me, so I put this thing on my left ear. It is unclear how, but it has firmly fixed itself there and now it will not fly off even when running.

— Do you understand me now?" the same one who asked me the first time asked me.

"Yes," I nod.

"Name yourself and the planet you came from," he said.

— My name is James, I arrived from... - I somehow don't want to name the planet from where I came from — they might still come and want to capture me, but I immediately dismissed this idea. How will they find it by the name alone, which they came up with on it? Most likely, they themselves have some kind of designations-they came from Earth.

"There is no planet with that name in the registry, Earthman J-Mis —" he consulted his device, which looked very similar to some kind of holographic tablet, " Tell me the number of your planet.

- Um... - and how can I answer? — You see, my planet does not have any number or designation, since our technologies do not yet allow traveling through space.

- I understand, from the "distant",-my interlocutor nodded to something, - Come with us to our ship — we will take you to our ruler.

- To whom? - I asked — - And in general, where am I now?

"I think we can answer your questions while we're flying," another humanoid said. I'll call them that for now, because I can't see their faces because of their spacesuits.

So, what we (I) have. Firstly, this is really another planet and it is called Sakaar. Secondly, Sakaar is located exactly between a large number of wormholes that almost completely surround the garbage planet. And what? I haven't noticed anything but garbage around yet. So I decided to call it that.

A certain Grandmaster ruled here, whose apartments were visible after a minute of flight. It was a huge tower, which the Sakaars mistakenly called a castle. The structure itself had no clear outlines or even symmetry. But it attracted different faces that were built around the tower. There was also something similar to the colosseum nearby.

The Sakaars themselves were in no hurry to share some important information with me, but only told me well-known facts that everyone on this planet knows. Somehow I did not take offense at this or express my indignation in any other way. Moreover, he would have done so himself, because there was no trust in an unknown creature that came from nowhere.

Therefore, we sat down on the landing site for ships in silence. They also went out and also went to their ruler. Along the way, I met different creatures, similar to humans, but at the same time different. Well, they were all humanoids, but the color, cover and much more were different. When I saw the bald green men with sharp big ears, I couldn't believe my eyes.

After asking his attendants about this, he received the answer that these are Skrulls — a race that has the ability to take the form of any creature. They used to live on the planet Skrullos, but because of the war with another race called the Kree, it was destroyed, so many Skrulls became refugees and scattered throughout the universe in search of refuge. They are safe here, since the territory of the Grandmaster is neutral and any military conflict is very severely punished.

— We have arrived, J-Mis, — the Sakaarean, whose name I didn't even bother to ask, informed me, — Further entrance is allowed only to invited guests, - he explained.

— And how can I talk to your ruler? I asked the question, but the thought was already spinning in my mind: "When did they manage to invite me?".

"The Grandmaster will choose the manner of communication himself, so you don't have to worry about that," the Sakaarean replied, " And now it's time for us, goodbye to J — Mis from Earth.

— And you don't get sick, — I saluted, — And why do you always cover my name?.. he muttered to himself.

Now I was standing right in front of the door, behind which the ruler of this planet is supposedly located. I hope that chelov ... this creature is normal and without any quirks.

- Oh, okay, - I sigh and knock on the door.

"Come in," a voice said, and I opened the door, going inside.