Throne Room
A large projection showing the ongoing invasion filled half of his throne rooms screens.
Thanos sat in his throne watching the black order take on the planets defenses that were proving to be quite the challenge for their invading force.
It seems this universe was way different from theirs in terms of technological advancements and specie evolution. Almost all citizens of the planet contained some form of enhanced power or ability.
The queen proved to be a handful as Proxima and cull obsidian were struggling to put her down even though they got support from some of the chitauri still alive in the ship.
She will make a good addition to my children once I have restored balance to their world Thanos thought watching her fight. Her fighting stance and techniques were far superior to his two children and in addition to her power of flight, she would soon either kill or restrain them.
His plan of capturing a green lantern was still viable. It was the only way he could learn everything about this universe and more so where to obtain the anti life equation that he'd use to balance this and every universe in existence.
His attention was suddenly drawn to two figures rapidly approaching the city from out of space, one being a green lantern.
It was only a matter of time before he got what he wanted.
Almerac
Queen Maxima was seething with rage fighting the invaders.
"I shall have all your heads for this!" She had already knocked out Proxima midnight and was currently fighting cull obsidian whose huge and bulky body had an advantage over her constant onslaught of punches.
Her general had regained consciousness moments before and was currently engaging the chitauri leaving room for his queen to handle the other brute.
Dismembered chitauri body parts filled the control room up to the hallways with the occasional shaking of the structure given an idea of how brutal the fight was between Maxima and cull obsidian.
Chitauri battle cries could be heard followed by the sickening sound of flesh ripping in two. The general was a man on a mission and could not fail his queen twice in a day after being knocked out by the brute.
"Status report" he spoke into his earpiece grunting after being hit by a hand canon. He reached into his pocket and got a hold of two combat knives before proceeding to launch them at the alien with extreme precision ending up embedded into its head killing it instantly. He had used the last weapon he possessed.
"A second vessel has breached the city and is engaging the reinforcements. The palace is still under attack and there is a possibility of a breach." His second trusted lieutenant informed.
The second vessel was dishing out serious damage to the city. It's energy weapons obliterated most building it was set upon while the chitauri poured out in large numbers attacking everyone in sight and replenishing the first wave of chitauri.
They had already figured out that these were mindless creatures whose only purpose in this invasion was to overwhelm the soldiers by their sheer number as 90% of them were attacking without any form of combat experience or formation, just knocking, shooting and biting their opponents to death.
"Secure the palace and the control room. Don't let anybody get through. That's an order!"
"Sir!" The lieutenant acknowledged and logged off.
Queen maxima was getting tired of the brutes mechanical hand extension. She did not have her sword with her and any other weapon she picked up literally crumbled on impact with it. She needed to finish this and go help her people. She stood a few feet from him watching and concentrating on her opponent.
Cull obsidian on the other hand was struggling to keep up with her speed and surprising strength but his mechanical extension made up for that.
The moment he saw Proxima being taken out he signaled for all available chitauri to converge on his location so as to secure his partner. This has always been their strategy, whenever one of them gets knocked out, the chitauri retrieves their body to minimize the risk of being captured by their enemy.
From the many planets they conquered Cull had seen that kind of concentration before and it did not bow well each and everytime. She is a psychic he thought almost immediately he started to feel a probe in his mind.
Maxima stretched out her hand. "Stop breathing" came her command.
Cull obsidian felt the sudden urge to stop all movement and just stare at her not breathing in the process. He was panicking in his mind as he had never met a psychic as powerful as her in his time in the black order that is apart from The Maw.
His eyes were watery while his hands clawed at his neck trying to entice it to breathe again but was unable to defy the command.
"You have attacked my home" maxima spoke angry at the the entire universe right now while walking steadily to cull obsidian.
"When I will done with you, there will be nothing left of but your empty shell of a body" with that she punched him so hard that a crack was heard before cull blacked out from the sheer pain of his skull cracking and the lack of air.
He fell to the floor unconcious.
Picking him up by his mechanical extension, she dragged his body out of the control room before flying out of the vessel followed closely by the general who carried Proxima midnight on his shoulder.
"We should return to the palace and interrogate the prisoners of their intentions." The general suggested to his queen. One of them was bound to talk.
Queen maxima punched her way out of the vessel to a view that had her gritting and clenching her fist in anger.
Unlike this vessel that she has just decommissioned, there was another completely intact laying waste to her city and deploying countless chitauri nonstop. Her soldiers held their line, most of them being torn apart by the chitauri.
Both vessels still pouring out countless chitauri since the hatch of the decommissioned vessel was still opened.
"Find out their intentions. I shall make these insects pay with their lives" she dropped cull obsidian and took off flying towards the second vessel.
"Get the interrogation room ready and provide support to our queen" the general spoke into his earpiece and signaled one soldier with a jet pack who assisted him in carrying cull obsidian down to the palace.
"Incoming." Nebula motioned the screen to where the woman who had just defeated Proxima and Cull obsidian was seen flying heading to their vessel.
"Ground her." Gamora ordered.
On the screen the woman was blasted out of the air and went tumbling down creating a large crater where she fell and lay still.
"That's the most powerful weapon here but it won't take her down." Nebula pointed out the obvious. This woman was powerful and not to be underestimated. Following her thought they saw her stirring and pulling herself up from the crater. Focussing on her, they could see a smile crop up her face while looking up in their direction.
"Why is she smiling?" One of the pilots of the vessel asked his partner dumbfounded.
"She won't be smiling after this" the other replied already lining up a shot from their weapon to hit her again.
Nebula and Gamora heard what the two surbodinates were discussing and didn't reprimand them for acting without orders because they wanted to know how much firepower this woman could take. Plus they wanted to wipe that smile from her face.
It was now down to two decisions, they either conquer this planet or lure and trap a green lantern.
Alarms started going off inside their vessel while the crew scrambled to find out what was happening before they were all executed for doing a shoddy job by their commanders.
"This is going to be harder than we thought." Nebula pointed out, motioning for Gamora the screen linked to their main ship in orbit which was under attack.