4 Prey And Bait

Miriam had to calibrate her ship in order to use this space jumps that she had found out. She was fascinated by the way that worked that she might have over done it but that was not the point. With her ship prime and ready, she picked up speed, opting for the best speed to do a space jump and when the ship was ready, she pressed the button. Suddenly, she felt her ship jerk slightly before appearing elsewhere before she jumped again and she was suddenly staring at a giant head in the middle of nowhere.

"You have arrived in Knowhere," the computer informed her.

'Knowhere is a giant head? And there are aliens living inside of it! How fucked up is this world?' she asked herself before it suddenly clicked in her head. 'Knowhere, giant head! Holy shit, this is Marvel and that is a dead Celestial's head!' The recognition made her slightly happy but worried too. If she was in Marvel, her best hope was that she was in that MCU kind of Marvel. She might be powerful but against beings like the Beyonder then she was just a speck of dust.

'I need more information,' she said to herself before taking control of the ship and heading to the docking area by following another ship. Once docked, she armed herself before adding a translator to her helmet. After what happened last time, she wanted to be ready because apparently aliens do not speak English unlike what movies told her. Making sure she had everything she needed, she got out of the ship only to see four burly looking aliens waiting for her, each armed with some makeshift weapon.

"Hello, freshmeat. Since you are new here we will be fast and give you the run down of what to expect. First, you have to pay us visitation tax. Next, you have to pay us tourism tax. Third, you have to pay us protection tax. If you cough up those three then you can proceed on, otherwise we will take everything you own," one of them said. Obviously it was not in English but her translator was so fast it had decoded its entire words and meanings and translated them all to her in seconds.

'So this is a shakedown, huh?' Miriam recognize this for it happened to her a lot of time in Africa, South America, Asia and Europe when she was hunting or poaching. Local poachers would do this either to profit themselves or to chase her away. 'But, I'm a lot stronger now. But just to be safe.' She scanned the aliens in front of her and the results mad her slightly disappointed. 'They're actually trash.'

She did not bother trying to answer them for she suddenly attacked. She charged to their spokesman first, stabbing his head with a dagger then throwing the corpse to the furthest alien, throwing him off balance. By then, she had reached the second alien who was swinging his weapon at her head only for her to duck under it. She then used her left hand claws to stab through the alien's chest right through to the other side.

With the alien stuck to her hand, she used its body to block the third alien's strike before firing a last pistol through the corpse and hitting the third alien's chest, killing it instantly. She pushed the corpse of the second alien off her hand and turned to the third on. The alien was so scared he could barely muster any strength to his body. He just stared dumbly as she approached and squatted next to it.

"I am looking for a planet called Earth. Do you know of it?" she asked. The alien shook its head vigorously. "What about a criminal called Star Lord?"

"S...Star Lord, I've heard of him. Many people here have a grudge or owe him their life here," the alien answered.

"That so. Then you must have heard of a Ravager called Yondu Udonta," she said, inwardly thanking Rick's photographic memory. Remembering these things would be quite impossible especially because she watched the marvel movies with her nephews and she was slightly bored then.

"Yondu? I know of him. I can also tell you where to find him!" the alien said quickly. Miriam clicked her mandibles in anticipation.

"Where is he?" she growled, literally. The alien cowered back in fright.

"He just passed here not too long ago. I heard one of his crew say they were going to Klyn to break out someone," the alien answered as fast as it could.

'The Klyn? The prison Peter Quill was thrown into? This will be much easier. If I capture Quill I will get to Udonta much easily,' she thought before she looked at the alien again.

"Much appreciated," she said before stomping onto its head, crushing it open. Then, she proceeded to behead the first alien, the first trophy of her first kill in this universe. She carried it back to her ship before galvanizing it immediately then hang it proudly.

"Computer, do we have a Klyn in the system?" she asked, sitting down on her chair.

"Searching...Klyn, Nova Corps maximum prison, found," the computer answered.

"Set course!" she said. The ship immediately went to hyperspeed, leaving a destroyed docking bay behind and a shockwave that instantly tore apart most of the living things near the bay. Before anyone even realized it, the ship had already jumped.

Miriam prepared her weapons well enough for Klyn was actually well guarded. Also, she wanted Quill alive so while she could disregard everything else, her target should not die under any circumstances. That meant the Anti-matter canon was a no go. She prepared her collapsible spear, sword and shield as she prepped her armor.

"Are we going hunting?" Kratos asked once he saw her gearing up.

"Not this time. I'm just going to secure the bait. The real prey is someone else," she answered as she checked her energy shield. She had built this in the off chance she came across an energy based being. The shield surrounding her ship was strong enough to survive a super nova but this shield would protect her from nuke at worst.

"We have arrived at Klyn," the computer said. Miriam nodded before holstering another laser pistol.

"Let's knock on their door," she said, pressing a button on the chair.

"Arming BFG," the computer said before a giant canon reconstructed from the room. Half way from the muzzle of the canon was split up and lightning danced in the middle. "Firing!" The canon fired a beam of sky brightening plasma that tore through the prison building like it was made of nothing! The prison alarms started blaring as the atmosphere inside it started escaping, killing the guards.

"Computer, designation war dog," Miriam said before getting out of the ship and flying to the huge hole she just created. Her ship armed itself before it flew off and started attacking the battleships guarding the prison.

Miriam got through the hole safely and using the radar, knew where the prisoners were been kept. So, armed with her sword, she massacred her way to the area. The giant gate separating her from her target was ripped off its hinges and thrown away, hitting the control tower and killing everyone in it. Menancingly, she walked in, her red coloured visor eyes completing the blood soaked armor of hers. From her waist, she removed a small ball and pressed down on a part.

"This is temporary black hole generator grenade!" she said loudly enough for everyone to hear her. "I remove my thumb and everything in this prison ceases in two seconds. No pain, no regrets just nothing. Now, you have someone I want, a human. His name is Peter Quill or as he calls himself, the Star Lord! I don't have time to check each cell so the cellmates of this Star Lord should shout out his location before I become impatient!"

"You're bluffing!" an inmate shouted. Miriam did not deny but just threw a disk the size of a wrist watch battery into the cell and suddenly, a black hole appeared that sucked all the cell's contents into it in just a second before it popped out of existence.

"I guess that means you all chose death," she said and pretended to let go of the contraption.

"Wait, he's here! He's over here," someone shouted quickly. Looking at where the voice came from, she saw a small fury hand waving at her through the bars. So, she walked to the cell and saw a raccoon walking on two legs wearing prison uniform staring back at her. Beside it was a humanoid tree and behind them were more alien inmates with Peter Quill restrained.

"There you are," Miriam said to Quill as she put back the ball into its place. Rocket sighed in relief while he looked slightly intrigued.

"Listen, lady, if you can get me and Groot out of here then I can show you where an infinity stone is been kept," Rocket said.

"Infinity stone? Why would I need something I can barely use when I have him?" she asked, pointing at Quill who looked confused. Miriam did not eleborate but tore the cell door's open. Groot was suddenly about to attack when six miniature laser target canons appeared on either sides of her shoulders, aiming at each inmate in here.

"Come on, I dare you to piss me off," she threatened them. When nobody said a word, she ecoffed before getting hold of Quill by the back of his neck and pushing him away.

"Listen, I don't know what I did to make you mad but I promise I did not mean it. If it is about a bounty, I can pay you more than they are paying. I know a guy that can make you the richest person in the universe with a tap of his fingers. I know another guy that can offer you any artifact you want in just seconds..." Miriam put a muffler on his mouth, shutting him up.

"You talk too much," she said. She then put an ear piece onto his ear and it suddenly turned into a helmet. Just as she was about to head out, someone suddenly called out to her.

"Hey, murder bitch!" She turned around only to see Rocket holding a huge ass gun aiming it at her. "You should have taken my deal! Now, let go of meat or I will not riddle you with holes!"

"That is unacceptable," she answered, her hold on Quill getting harder. Rocket was about to press the trigger when she lifted Quill in front of her, using him as a human shield.

"Suit, scan the surroundings," she said using the Youtja language. A sonar like radar spread from her and everything was displayed. "Just as I thought. That is Gomorrah." She saw a silhouette creeping up on her from above. Gomorrah was a stealthy, assassin type kind of fighter and she would have had the drop on her if she didn't know about her.

'I wonder how Thanos will react if I kill her?' she asked herself before feeling her insides getting tingly. She suddenly thought of how great it would be to have Thanos's head on a mount, the infinity gauntlet below it with the entire stones collected! 'She needs to be alive for that to happen.'

Gomorrah pounced at her, aimed for her neck where she believed the armor's weak point would be. But, none of them expected Miriam to suddenly turn around and get hold of her by her neck. It appeared like Gomorrah jumped into her overstretched arm, getting herself captured. Miriam brought Gomorrah close to her, tightening her grip on her neck that one would start hearing the bones cracking.

"You smell of an Eternal," she said b fore talking another whiff. "Ah, a failed Eternal; a Deviant. Perhaps you will be of use later." She then threw her to Rocket and Groot, the latter tried to catch her only for him to be thrown behind by the force. By the time they got up, she and Quill were gone.

........

"So this is bait?" Kratos asked as he looked at the hog tied Peter.

"This is bait, the prey will soon come after it. After all, it cannot let something so important go, not after what I left behind for him," she answered as she looked at the maps. "Computer, send the video to the Ravagers and set course to a jungle covered planet. We will set our trap there."