"Mad, mad, you must all be mad!" Pean finally lost his composed demeanor. Just as he was about to lose control, the Vice Speaker tugged at his sleeve and mouthed something to him.
"Oh, right! You can't expel me, or the Skrull Empire won't let you off!"
"The Skrull Empire?" Blue Spirit looked at Pean and said, "Even if you want to borrow a tiger's might, there's no need to drag one of the Three Great Empires of the Universe into this, is there? What do you have to do with the Skrull?"
Pean took a deep breath and gradually calmed down. In a rather mocking tone, he said, "Just as I thought, you don't know..."
"What?" Blue Spirit looked at him suspiciously.
"Hmph. You only know that the Confederation Civilization was built upon the remains of an advanced ancient civilization, but you don't know that ancient civilization was actually the Ancient Skrull Empire..."
Blue Spirit's brow furrowed ever more deeply. Pean continued, "It was once an incomparably powerful and prosperous civilization. Even after developing to this day, the Confederation Civilization is not even one ten-thousandth of what they were."
"However, a sudden disaster destroyed their home planet, leaving behind only the surrounding wreckage. The major races of the Confederation Civilization all developed upon those ruins."
"So what? The Skrull Empire left this place long ago. The Andromeda galaxy is not even within their officially recognized territory now..."
"But I am a descendant of the Skrull Empire!" As he spoke, Pean's skin gradually changed from blue to a bluish-green, and patterns appeared over his body. Green Thorn turned to Blue Spirit and said, "Those patterns do seem to be characteristic of the Skrull. Could he..."
"As the library of the universe, you Symbiotes should know that there aren't many races