Su Ming's Base, core area.
Ever since the Snap, the base had become exceptionally deserted.
Alisha, the full-time assistant who had once bustled about handling every affair, had vanished without a trace.
All that remained were empty corridors and ringing phones that no one answered.
Rocket stood irritably in front of an operating console.
He viciously hammered a hyperspace engine signal amplifier that had already been upgraded three times with a wrench.
Clang! Clang!
The noise echoed through the empty base.
"Boring! This is boring as hell!"
Rocket threw the wrench aside,
then grabbed the fur on his head.
"That idiot Groot isn't here, so I don't even have anyone to argue with!
Nobody's playing Quill's crappy music either!
Gamora... sigh!"
For once, he let out a sigh.
A trace of loneliness flashed through his round eyes.
Though he always acted disgusted by them,
those "idiot" teammates had long since become indispensable family to him.
To kill time,
and to keep himself from thinking about those painful things,
he threw all his energy into "madly modifying" the base's facilities.
He increased the defensive matrix's energy output by 500%,
the kitchen coffee machine could now extract coffee beans from seventeen different star systems and came with a quantum fluctuation alertness function,
and even the toilets had been fitted with warp engines and planetary-scale waste disposal systems...
But no matter how absurdly he upgraded the base,
the most important person, his captain—Su Ming—
remained inside the core chamber without making a sound, as if he were dead.
"I mean...
The boss picked up some lousy crystal and went into seclusion like his dad died!
Doesn't he know the world is ending out here?!"
Rocket grumbled as he worked,
installing the twelfth superconducting cooling plate onto a server.
Just then,
the base's communications