Boom! Boom! Boom!
The massive silver drill bit split through the loose soil, cleverly avoiding the branches extending from Ego's main body as it sped toward the planet's core at over three hundred kilometers per hour.
"Very good, truly very good." Aaron looked at the 3D structure of the route ahead displayed on the screen and nodded solemnly. "This is much faster than I expected. We should be able to dig through before nightfall.
I'll take a nap first. Keep up the good work and wake me when we get there.
But remember, don't touch those veins. It'd be bad if Ego noticed something."
"Yes, Master." Supersonic, now in human form, gripped the controls, his glowing yellow eyes fixed tightly on the screen before him.
"So one day, all of this could be mine." With music looping in the background, Peter Quill stood on the balcony and gazed out at the fairyland-like world, feeling absolutely wonderful.
He had reunited with his Old Father, Ego, awakened the Celestials genes within his body, and become a half-human, half-god being.
On top of that, he had gained the legal inheritance rights to a beautiful planet. He had gone straight to the pinnacle of life, so how could he possibly keep himself from getting carried away?
After all, compared to being the son of a god, the title Star-Lord was just a tiny bit low-rent.
"Rocket, Rocket, are you there?" Gamora called Rocket through the communicator nearby, but heard nothing except static.
How could she have known that Rocket and Yondu were already on their way to Ego's Planet?
Rocket had simply been too anxious and chosen the fastest option: interstellar jumps. Yondu had not even had time to stop him.
For mammals, making more than fifty jumps at once was harmful to