Homelander opened his eyes and glanced at the caller ID.
Jane Foster.
He answered, his expression growing more serious by the second.
A raccoon? Blue skin? A sapling?
The Guardians of the Galaxy?
No, wait. That lineup... was this the plot of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2?
"Where did they say they were going?" Homelander sat up, and Skynet smoothly began massaging his shoulders.
"They said they were going to... Ego's Planet," Jane replied. "To find someone named Quill."
"All right. Have them wait. I'll be right over."
After hanging up, Homelander fell deep in thought.
Ego's Planet.
The name struck through a long-buried memory like lightning.
He had been so busy stirring things up on Earth that he had completely forgotten about it.
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there was an exceptionally dangerous monster.
Ego, one of the Celestials.
A living planet.
To carry out his so-called "Celestial Genesis" plan—to assimilate the entire universe into himself—he had planted his "seeds" on millions of planets.
And Earth was one of them.
In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Ego had planted a seed in a forest somewhere in Missouri.
The seeds normally lay dormant. But once activated, they would grow like cancer, devouring every living thing on their host planets and even the planets themselves.
"Damn it..."
Homelander cursed under his breath.
He threw off the thin blanket and planted his bare feet on the floor.
"What's wrong, sir?" Skynet sensed the shift in his mood and asked with concern.
"A little problem's come up."
Homelander dressed as he thought rapidly.
If Yondu and Rocket had joined forces, that meant... the old bastard Ego had already found his son, Peter Quill.
He hadn't expected the timeline to reach this point so soon.
"The seed... let me think... Missouri."
Homelander