In the lower level rest area of the spaceship!
Peter, with a flushed face and reeking of alcohol, his eyes barely able to focus, was still holding his glass and shouting, "I tell you, one day the name Peter Quill aka Star-Lord will echo throughout the galaxy!!!".
Arthur, however, found that he couldn't get drunk no matter what, so he just smiled and nodded, "Yeah, you will."
"Hmm… too bad you won't be here to see it."
Peter shook his head and let out a long sigh, "I actually miss that place a lot. But I'll never go back. Some things are just too hard to face. My mother died when I was only eight… she wanted to hold my hand, but I didn't dare give it to her. I thought that if she couldn't hold my hand, she would never… never… But she left me anyway."
With his head tilted back, leaning on the chair, two tears fell from the corners of Peter's eyes. But suddenly he looked up at Arthur, "You're lonely, I can see it."
"Hmm?"
Arthur took a sip of his drink and looked at Peter in surprise.
"You're lonely…" Peter tilted his head and stared at the floor, "I don't know when you'll really find happiness. I think maybe you're missing a woman. Is there a woman on earth that you're looking forward to?"
"...I don't know."
Arthur shook his head, "I don't know if it's something to look forward to."
"You really are a weirdo." Peter laughed heartily and raised his glass, "To the weird you, my brother… cheers!"
"Yeah, cheers."
Arthur smiled and clinked glasses with Peter, but before he could finish his drink, Peter was completely drunk and slumped on the table.
Seeing Peter slumped in the chair, completely out of it, Arthur blinked, then picked him up and placed him on the bed.
Quietly, he cleaned up the mess on the table, the unfinished food, and the garbage on the floor.
Then he carefully wiped the table and the floor.
After making a full circle in the rest area, he lifted the carpet and checked an array diagram imprinted on the Spaceship.
He smiled slightly, "Just in case."
Then, he found the spray painting tools, summoned the Abomination, and the two of them, one big and one small, began to work together.
After a whole night of work, the repainting of the spaceship was finally finished.
The new paint was orange, which, combined with the overall design of the spaceship, gave it a high-tech look.
Arthur smiled and said to himself, "As for replacing the core computer, that's up to you. Goodbye, my friend. Farewells are always bitter, so I'll spare you the goodbye…"
He turned around and added after a moment of reflection, "But there will definitely be another goodbye… right?"
He exhaled softly, retreated the Abomination, and approached the pitch-black spaceship.
In a flash, he appeared directly in the cockpit.
He started the Spaceship and the flames sprayed steadily as the ship jumped into space and soared upwards!
The ship on the ground became smaller and smaller. Arthur looked back once, then turned around and pushed the engines to their maximum capacity…
In the cockpit of the ground Spaceship, Peter held his glass with a faint smile on his lips, watching the black dot getting smaller and smaller. He lifted his glass before speaking, "Good luck…"
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Abandoned Planet Morag!
The black spaceship landed on the planet. As soon as the engine stopped and before the hatch opened, a figure wearing a black mask, a wide-brimmed hat, and a black trench coat appeared beside the ship.
"What a nice place."
He looked around and made a startling comment.
The planet had long since been abandoned. The surface was chaotic, with jagged rocks and alternating jets of water and fire. Even the drops of water that fell on him were warm.
"If I come back here in the future, I could at least find a place to bathe in a hot spring."
Arthur looked at the gray sky, then released the Abomination, climbed onto his shoulder, and the large figure leaped into the air!
This planet had appeared at the beginning of *Guardians of the Galaxy*, and it had something very important… The Orb! But that was just a decoy; the real secret was that inside The Orb was the Power Stone!
There are six Infinity Stones in the universe, each controlling a different aspect of force: Power, Space, Time, Soul, Reality, and Mind, granting the user unimaginable power.
The reason Thanos could snap his fingers and wipe out half of the universe was that he had collected all six stones and set them into the Infinity Gauntlet, thereby wielding the ultimate power in the universe!
Arthur's sole purpose for this trip was to find the Power Stone.
As long as he got his hands on it, he could thwart Thanos' ambition to collect all six stones. Even if Thanos did show up in the future, he wouldn't have to worry about his finger snap!
The sunset finger snap would be directly nullified!
"This is much more interesting than fighting him with a rifle and energy weapons."
Arthur, looking down from above, directed the Abomination to leap through the air while searching based on the clues from the movie.
The process was not as complicated as he imagined, but it wasn't simple either.
In the movie, Peter seemed to find the Stone quickly, but Arthur took a full three days before finally locating the crumbling building.
On the silent planet, there were no obstructions. Besides the occasional small animals moving around, Arthur encountered no one and reached the Power Stone's storage site.
It was a silver metal sphere, etched with intricate patterns. After carefully observing it for a while, Arthur took out a device and placed it on the ground.
He had only seen Peter use this device in the movie, but during their adventures together, Peter had also gotten him one.
Once placed on the ground, a powerful magnetic force emanated from it. The Orb, originally within a laser barrier, was suddenly attracted with immense force, struggling to break free. Eventually, it shot through the barrier and landed on the device with a whoosh sound.
Turning off the device, Arthur held the Orb in his hands, momentarily unable to believe it. "Has the will of the universe forgotten me? I thought something bad would definitely happen once I got this."
He quickly covered his mouth after speaking.
His experiences had taught him that good things rarely happened, but bad things always did…
He listened carefully, then released The Eye of Horus to check the surrounding area repeatedly, finally confirming, "Nothing happened at all!? The Power Stone is really in my hands? This couldn't be fake, could it?"
He examined the Orb closely. Aside from seeing it in the movie, he hadn't seen it anywhere else. Even if he squinted hard, he couldn't discern any differences.
With a thought, he tried to store it in the Disassembler space, and the stone… disappeared from his hands.
"Emmmmm… It should be real, I guess!"
Arthur's face was filled with uncertainty as he looked at this scene.