"But..."
Sleep-deprived Bobby... no, sleep-deprived Doctor Strange used magic to fill the empty mug Thor handed him with foaming beer and pushed it back. "With all due respect, he looks harder to deal with than Ultron."
"Emmm..." Uatu the Interferer fell silent for a moment. "No matter how difficult it is, as the chosen Guardians of the Multiverse, you have to give it a try."
Clad in golden imperial armor, Gamora shrugged noncommittally. "Fine. That certainly sounds grand."
Beside her, Captain Carter, the tall, athletic woman who was one of only two women in the bar, said with a faint smile, "At least it sounds like something meaningful, doesn't it?"
"Maybe."
While the heroes in the dimensional bar discussed this, the images on the plasma television on the wall shifted dramatically.
Wearing an all-black Superman suit, Josen had already pressed down on Infinity Ultron's head and smashed his way through solid matter, straight to the core of Mars!
Bathed in liquid iron at nearly 2,000 degrees Celsius, the two exchanged fierce blows. The collisions of their terrifying strength and pulses of energy powerful enough to destroy a galaxy made the red planet tremble in agony!
Enormous rifts reaching all the way to the planetary core kept appearing, with rainbow-colored energy ripples flashing and surging within them until they accumulated to the limit the planet could withstand.
The next instant, a terrifying explosion erupted from the inside out!
Mars, which had still been moving steadily along its orbit a second earlier, disintegrated with a thunderous blast, the entire planet breaking apart in an orange-red explosion!
Vast amounts of planetary matter turned into cosmic dust in the shockwave from the core's destruction. Some was captured by other planets in the system, while some shot clear out of the Solar System, beginning an