Patricide
"My dearest son, Peter Quill, after all these years, I have finally found you!"
Feeling the Celestial Power flowing within Star-Lord at close range, Ego could hardly conceal his inner elation, but he remained outwardly calm, for millions of years had given him a powerful ability to control his emotions.
"Who are you!" Star-Lord, enveloped in flames, stared at Ego, who was piloting a spaceship, and had a guess in his mind, but was very unsure of it.
His divine power allowed him to survive in a vacuum and transmit his voice even in airless environments.
"My name is Ego, and I am your father."
Well, with that one sentence, Ego is doomed.
Looking back at the new decade of Heisei Kamen Rider, it seems to have inherited the patricide plot from Greek mythology. The fathers of the Kamen Riders are very likely to be villains, and almost none of them have a good ending. Kanade Fueki, Banno, and Masamune Dan are examples Star-Lord was recently given a driver by Wei Xiuming, Ego's words are equivalent to voluntarily putting a death trap on his own head.
Ego loosened the reins of his divine power and opened his arms, wanting to embrace Star-Lord.
However, Wei Xiuming had planted a seed of doubt in Star-Lord's mind beforehand, causing the silly guy to subconsciously resist Ego: "Stay away from me, you puppet. My father is not a monster like you."
Seeing Star-Lord's eyes, which seemed to circulate like a galaxy, through the flames, Ego's heart pounded with even greater excitement. This boy, Peter Quill, had not only inherited his power but had also gone a step further, forging his own path.
Star-Lord's ability is evident in his realization that he is merely a puppet.
"I am a cosmic god, an extremely powerful being whose presence here would cause panic..." Ego embellished his true nature as a living planet, then began to appeal to familial ties. "When your mother passed away, I hired Yondu to retrieve you from Earth, but he secretly left you behind. However, you possess my bloodline and the potential to share my Celestial Power. The awakening of your divine power has shown me a direction."
"My mother, how did she die? Was it related to you?!" Star-Lord wasn't one to easily control his emotions, and immediately voiced his doubts to Ego: "Right now, with just a little knowledge, I could remove the tumor from her brain. You shouldn't be unable to do it, so why did you stand by and do nothing?"
Ego's expression changed. "I am deeply sorry about this. Quill —as a god, you shouldn't be controlled by emotions. Your mother fascinated me so much, I loved her so much... so she had to die. I killed her with my own hands. I personally transplanted the tumor into her brain."
"What!" Anger surged from Star-Lord's heart. The understanding he had gleaned from Wei Xiuming's conjecture was that his mother's cancer was caused by her long-term relationship with Ego, and that this person who claimed to be his father had watched his mother die.
But the reality was worse than he imagined; the direct cause of his mother's death was Ego.
"I thought you would understand me. After awakening your power, you have become a member of our race. Human emotions are a burden to you at this time, but you have not abandoned them. Instead, they have influenced your way of thinking."
Ego spoke very seriously, claiming that he was a senior and elder guiding Star-Lord in his conduct after ascending from a poor mortal to a god. Little did he know that his words were hitting Star-Lord's sensitive spots and constantly provoking him.
"I will kill you to avenge my mother!"
Star-Lord roared and unleashed all his divine power, instantly shattering Ego's divine clone.
Although their divine powers originate from the same source, Star-Lord's power is branded after being activated by the driver, making it impossible for Ego to control it with the highest privileges.
I thought you would understand me...
With only half a brain remaining, Ego didn't waste his divine power to reshape a body. Instead, he sent out the coordinates of this place, allowing his true form to come over.
Space distorted, and a planet suddenly appeared in the vast universe.
In an instant, Ego reduced the weight of his body from extremely high to extremely light, using the effect of his own weight to achieve spatial teleportation.
However, the teleportation did have some impact. Originally, Ego was a vibrant and thriving place, with its own ecosystem under the influence of its divine power. But now, all of that is gone. Ego has been dyed a hellish red, like Purgatory.
The crust on the surface of Ego cracked, revealing three fissures. The divine light illuminated them, making them resemble a pair of eyes and a mouth. This unremarkable planet surprisingly showed signs of resembling a humanoid life form.
"Since you are so ungrateful and unwilling to become one of my people, then you shall exist as a divine power battery. I believe that in a thousand years, you will change your mind."
The geological changes on the surface of the living planet Ego revealed a sinister expression.
The collector, who was preparing supplies, stopped what he was doing. He didn't lack things like the brain sample of the god and Cosmic Energy, but he didn't store them here. After Ego appeared, he raised his eyes and looked in the direction where Ego was. His gaze pierced through the layers of barriers and landed on the writhing brain, which was Ego's true form.
The collector then took no further action and continued his efforts to gather resources.
Ego altered his own weight, and the powerful gravity instantly caught up with Star-Lord. Star-Lord, who had almost exhausted his divine power in his rage, could not escape the planet's gravity by blasting out his divine power and involuntarily fell towards Ego.
The living planet had long since extended its tentacles, which were blood vessel-like substances extending from its brain-shaped body and protruding from the ground, stabbing like spears at Star-Lord who was falling from the sky.
Star-Lord, having awakened his divine powers, will not be killed. Instead, his veins will connect him to Star-Lord, making him a part of Star-Lord. He will be buried deep underground, providing Star-Lord with a continuous source of divine power for his plans—until a thousand years later, when Star-Lord's mind, in its long solitude, will be twisted and become like Star-Lord himself.
As fate would have it, Yondu's Ravagers finally arrived in this star system after a long journey, and spotted a living planet in the distance.
The old man recognized the true nature of this planet. It was he who had taken Ego's descendants from one planet to another and sent them to the living planet. The reward was his start-up capital. It wasn't until he came to Star-Lord that he realized his mistake and stopped doing what he did.
He had raised Peter Quill for so many years, yet he still couldn't escape this nightmare. Yondu stammered, "Ego..."
"Star-Lord, catch!"
Wei Xiuming, shrouded in Black Mist, appeared outside the gravitational field of Planet Ego and hurled the Polearm battle axe, which was enveloped in powerful energy.
The magnetic field locked onto Star-Lord's belt, Polearm battle axe traced a path in the air, severing the neural tendrils of Ego's divine power channel before flying back into Peter Quill's hand.
With both hands gripping the handle of the battle axe, Star-Lord felt a fiery energy surging within him, replacing divine power and burning as a radiant flame on his body. It was his emotion, ignited by the battle axe and transformed into immense power.
That was the power of the Mind Stone; Star-Lord's boundless rage was unleashed by the power of the Infinity Stones.
"Wait a minute... that's it!"
The living planet's expression turned utterly terrified. He sensed a terrifyingly powerful force emanating from Star-Lord's body, a force capable of destroying and killing him.
"Stop! Calm down! If you kill me, you will lose your divine power!"
Through a surge of divine power, Ego sent a plea for mercy to Star-Lord.
Just as he devoured planets and plotted to assimilate the universe in order to gain immense power, Ego believed that Star-Lord would not give up his power.
But he was wrong. Star-Lord didn't care about any powerful divine abilities. Just like on the set of Avengers: Infinity War, even though he knew that stopping Thanos would save half of the universe's life, he still acted out of anger after learning that his lover Gamora Thanos —at that moment, Star-Lord only had one thought in his mind.
Kill Ego and avenge my mother!
"No!"
The dying screams of the living planet reverberated far and wide through divine power, covering multiple star systems, but this could not prevent its doom.
Wielding his Polearm battle axe, Star-Lord unleashed all his energy onto the surface of the living planet.
The immense force instantly tore the planet apart, utterly shattering the armor it had built for itself over countless years...
Several days later, in the distant solar system, on Earth.
"Long time no see." Nick Fury sipped his drink. "How about space travel? Compared to the small, barbaric, and backward Earth, the vast universe must be so wonderful."
Wei Xiuming toyed with a pair of Crystal spheres and said casually, "The universe isn't as wonderful as you imagine. It's just that you're so far away from it that it seems so beautiful—like traveling, except you're leaving a place you're tired of to go to a place other people are tired of."
There's really not much to tell. At best, it's about a demigod fool who used his own drive to commit patricide, a plot that, with a little tweaking, perfectly fits the formula of Greek mythology.
Of course, Wei Xiuming took the opportunity to remove Ego's brain, killed its will, and sent it to the underwater base. He also took along the Celestial Group's organizational sample, which the collector used to pay for the goods, as well as a portion of Cosmic Energy.
All of those things were used in that primordial soup pit to infuse the cultivation of life forms with nutrients and vibrant energy—however, the Great Leader intercepted a portion of the Cosmic Energy, storing it in Crystal, which he had Wei Xiuming carry with him to carefully examine.
Wei Xiuming would rub the two Crystal in his hands like health balls whenever he had free time, and then he understood the secret behind them—the so-called Cosmic Energy is a higher-dimensional existence, Wei Xiuming could accelerate the cultivation of Magnetic Field Rotation by analyzing it.
As for Star-Lord, after Ego's death, the half of his bloodline also lost its source of power and returned to dormancy, even with the Driver, it was of no use.
Wei Xiuming generously provided him with a sum of money, allowing him to form the Guardians of the Galaxy with Gamora, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot, and roam the universe. Drax the Destroyer was still in prison because he missed the Cairnburg prison, but he was able to resolve his inner conflict after learning that his wife and daughter had been avenged.
However, the Guardians of the Galaxy's numbers did not decrease. Mantis, who came with Ego's clone, had nowhere to go, so she joined Star-Lord. Cosmo the Spacedog, was traded from the Collector by Wei Xiuming and also became a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
The place where Wei Xiuming is now is not an S.H.I.E.L.D.. base or Helicarrier, but a prison, a high-tech prison hidden underwater— the Raft.
During Wei Xiuming's journey to space, Ultron never stopped its progress. Every day there were reports of robot sightings, daily attacks on laboratories, or network data intrusions, and Ultron was collecting a large amount of advanced technology.
Unlike Skynet, Ultron did not act recklessly. It seemed to be wary of something. Although it never stopped moving, it had no impact on the normal operation of human society. However, it exposed many of the dirty secrets of the free countries led by the United States, destroying the shining image of humanity as a beacon of light.
As the mastermind behind the crime, Tony Stark has never been released and is imprisoned in this the Raft.
Here, Tony Stark has a private room, clean and tidy, with a private bathroom and a personal computer. Even his prison uniform is made of high-quality fabric and hand-sewn. The only problem is that he can't contact the outside world. Even the visitation requests made by the other members of the Avengers to Nick Fury have been rejected.
Of course, the so-called detention is also a form of protection for Tony Stark. The Raft communicates with the outside world through the BRAIN, and with the support of the Great Leader, there is no possibility of it being invaded by Ultron.
The Raft itself is a top secret, and some politicians who want to shift blame and divert public attention cannot find Tony Stark. As a superhero, what supports their heroic actions is not some lofty ideal, but a sense of guilt. Iron Man, who created the monster Ultron, has the deepest sense of guilt and is the easiest to manipulate.
Driven by guilt, Tony Stark spends all his time outside of normal bodily needs like eating, sleeping, and using the toilet, sitting in front of his computer programming in an attempt to create tools to defeat Ultron.
Only when he occasionally pauses to reflect does Tony Stark experience self-doubt—doubting whether his efforts will achieve the desired effect, namely, defeating Ultron once and for all.
After all, the weapon he recently created is Ultron, which constantly threatens humanity.
Furthermore, even if the weapon he used to defeat Ultron is successfully developed, will it become the next threat to humanity after defeating Ultron?