"How was I supposed to know he could make so many more..." Drax muttered guiltily.
"Don't be afraid! I still have a trump card!"
Drax suddenly remembered something. His eyes lit up as he shouted.
He grabbed Mantis, who had been hiding behind him, and shoved her to the front.
"Mantis! Use your ability!"
"Put him to sleep! Like you usually do!"
Mantis hesitated.
"I... I don't know if I can do it..."
"Before, he was always willing..."
"You can!" Drax placed both hands on Mantis's shoulders and looked at her sincerely with his "wise" big eyes.
"Because... I believe in you!"
Everyone: "..."
Rocket stared at Drax in disbelief.
Not far away, Ego also looked at the two people loudly plotting right in front of him with a baffled expression.
"Are you... pretending I don't exist?"
"Or do you think that shouting 'I believe in you' loudly is enough to create a miracle?"
"Whoosh—!"
A thin energy tentacle suddenly burst from the dirt beneath Mantis's feet without warning.
It was so fast that no one had time to react.
"Ah!"
Mantis cried out as the tentacle wrapped around her ankle and violently swung her into the air.
"Whoosh—bang!!"
She slammed heavily into a rock wall more than ten meters away, then slid limply to the ground, unconscious.
"Mantis!!" Drax's face changed drastically as he tried to save her.
But even more tentacles surged forward, cutting them off from each other.
"You absolute idiot!!"
Rocket was practically driven mad. It fired while roaring furiously.
"You revealed your trump card right in front of the big bad?! Is your brain full of shit?!"
Seemingly endless tentacles crowded forward in waves, forcing everyone back again and again.
Yondu's arrow became entangled in the dense tentacles, while Gamora and Nebula suffered injuries all