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“-. 16 April, 1989 .-“ Soon after, lunch ended, the yard was cleaned up, people were phoned or portalled to wherever they needed to settle any ‘last will and testament,’ and a case of cubans stood open in front of his eyes. Wolverine stared at them. Then looked up at Meredth the Elder. Which...

Chapter 11: The Epic Cycle “-. 16 April, 1989 .-“ The smell of dew was in the air. And not much else, unfortunately. Well, for the most part. The car tracks, diesel and human scents at the front gate were so fresh that he could’ve reconstructed the whole “fight” in his head without even...

Next chapter will be exposition about the overarching plot, because I know people have been asking for it. --------------------------------------------------- Chapter 10: In Wake of the Memorial “-. 16 April, 1989 .-“ If he said that even his lugubrious imagination yielded simultaneous...

Chapter 9: Father of the Slain “-. 15 April, 1989 .-“ It wasn’t until Richard and the other guy were in the same cage that Tony realized just how much the fumes, lighting and his own excitement had been messing with his perception. And maybe the strangely ideal proportions of the guy...

Chapter 8: Right of Last Refusal “-. 30 March, 1989 .-“ “I don’t think this is quite what you expected when you made me ‘pinkie swear’ to call the moment I finished MIT, but I finished MIT. It sucked. Have a nice life, Wonder Boy.” Damn right it was nothing like he expected. He hadn’t even...

Chapter 7: Complex Cosmonautics “-. 7 March, 1989 .-“ The Ravager attack wasn’t the first exciting thing that happened that cycle. In fact, it was the last. Or next to last, if you counted the first minute or so of the hullabaloo that immediately followed being tossed through a space-time...

Chapter 6: Half and Half “-. 6 March, 1989 .-“ The light burned. He remembered pain. It wasn’t like his Loony didn’t backhand or knock him off his lap every other week from sheer absent-mindedness. Sometimes he was even too asleep to react fast enough. This pain was nothing like it though...

Chapter 5: The Art of the Small “-. 11 January, 1989 .-“ It was the dawn of the seventh day when he was shown into a large meditation room or other on the third floor that he couldn’t be bothered to closely examine or commit to memory. He was already stuffed full of mind-bending exercises...

Chapter 4: The Arcane Teaching “-. 10 January, 1989 .-“ “You have some nerve,” Meredith Quill the Younger said coldly, glaring at Grandpa like he’d just disowned her. “I fully expected this from you, daddy,” she practically spat out the word. “But dragging Peter into it? That’s one hundred...

I am posting this Double Easter Special as celebration for finishing Chapter 4 of my sci fi, speculative future novel. I had planned to include it in the previous one, but it grew too large and involves certain parties besides. Enjoy! ------------------------------------------------------------...

Chapter 4: The Arcane Teaching “-. 10 January, 1989 .-“ “You have some nerve,” Meredith Quill the Younger said coldly, glaring at Grandpa like he’d just disowned her. “I fully expected this from you, daddy,” she practically spat out the word. “But dragging Peter into it? That’s one hundred...

Since Peter was tripping balls during the entire chapter, all of this was pretty much intended. For the anachronistic expressions, I'll keep what you said in mind and will handwave this much by saying 'he encountered that sort of equivalent speech in space or from Rocket.' The other two...

Chapter 3: Planned Parenthood “-. 10 January, 1989 .-“ His old man’s hair was brown. After everything that had happened since those 38 years he lived through that one night, that’s what Peter Jason Quill was most hung up about. Not the time travel or whatever it was. Not the magic. Not that...

Chapter 2: Father Deprivation is Serious Business “-. 11 November, 1988 .-“ The sky was blue. The mountains were covered in snow even though the Tibetan Plateau was green despite November. The pirates’ ship had shattered-but-not-really into some mirror dimension. And the man known to Earth as...

Beyond Good and Ego “-. .-“ Summary: There are people and powers in the Cosmos that notice and look into the shadows of possible futures and times undone as a matter of course. One doesn’t even need to travel beyond Earth to find them. Sadly for all but one of the parties involved, one wholly...