dangerous woman

Walking towards the edge of the roof and peering down into the alley, she caught an interesting sight, and descended halfway down the fire escape. “That’s a fun skill.” Natasha remarked drolly, aware of and ready for the potential of the next knife zooming at her. But if this woman was as consistently talented as she’d observed, Nat wanted to know who she was and what she was doing here. “Bet you could make a killing hustling darts at that grimy bar down the street.”

Gamora heard the woman descending the stairs before she saw her. Her enhanced hearing made it incredibly hard for anyone to ever sneak up on her. She looked up at the red head and twirled her knife in her hand ready to strike  always ready for an attack should the need arise. She tilted her head the corner of her mouth turning up a little at the comment. “I’ll keep that in mind if I’m ever in need of some money,” she said putting her knife back in her belt as she looked up at her. Once her rations on her ship ran out she was going to have to find a way to eat somehow maybe she could make some money that way. Of course that all depended on how long her investigation went on. “I don’t think I’ve ever thrown a dart before but I’m I could figure it out.”

Still, she was a reporter — a journalist at heart. Hearing a thunk from a nearby alleyway did nothing to dissuade her from investigating it, only for her to spot what looked to be a green lady (possible alien as well?) having what seemed to be target practice (deadly accuracy. long term training?) as she walked nearer. Sure, she’d definitely seen weirder, but it would be against who she was as a person not to pry a bit. 

“Well this is new,” she remarked drily as she approached, putting no particular effort into making her movements silent. Better not to spook the lady with the knives, after all. “Not sure what you’re doing in this alley, but nice aim.”

Gamora heard the woman coming before she began speaking. With her enhanced hearing, it was a challenge to sneak up on her. She turned and saw the Terran knowing that she hadn’t exactly been being discreet about her knife practice in the alleyway. “Do warriors not practice their skills on this planet?” she asked wondering why she was confused about what she was doing. She nodded her head in thanks at the compliment not used to receiving them regarding her skills. “I take it you’re not a warrior yourself,” she said looking over the woman. Gamora kept her guard up still she knew appearances could be deceiving and she hated loosing and falling for anyone’s tricks.

Earth was already under attack by unknown entities. He didn’t have the liberties of just misguiding his steps. 

“I’m sure your mark is innocent. It didn’t mean to offend.” Kyle gestures with two fingers and a soft tick of the wrist. Planting both feet, he gathers enough about the objects within their line of sight to make a few assumptions. She was not of Earth and this was no ordinary ship. Maybe a few builds old but still pretty modern. Its craftsmanship was that of no human, mutant, nor meta ability. She had to be from a different solar system. Hell, probably a wormhole jump or two away.  “I think…refresh my memory. I’ve seen you before but just not…here.” 

Gamora reared back at the sudden voice her senses going on high alert. She raised her knife to throw at the stranger and her eyes widened a bit as she looked up and saw a man floating and glowing green in the air. She had seen plenty of beings fly before including like this...Gamora frowned a little as she remembered briefly seeing a man that could fly and glow like this on Xandar not too long before she came to Terra. Could this man be the same one? 

Even though he appeared to come in peace, the warrior was always on the defensive and had her guard up. She lowered the knife as she stared at him realizing that this was the same man. “It was on Xandar,” she said proud that she had a good memory. “Are you following me? What brings you to Terra?” she asked still holding onto her knife. She had first thought this man was one of the Nova core but she had quickly deducted that he was not. So who was he then?

Gamora sighed a bit aggravated that she couldn’t find a way to best this creature and fight it. She was very competitive and enjoyed winning especially in battle. “It must have a weakness. All creatures do,” she said trying to think of if she had seen a creature like this anywhere else in the galaxy. “I can get close to it but what good is that if we can’t fight it...” she said thinking aloud. “Would a sample help?” she asked sliding the shoulder strap of her gun so that it was on her back. She reached towards her hip and pulled out her trusted sword extending it to its full length. She could always analyze a sample back at her ship and maybe find out something about this creature that could help them. 

    her next words had him thinking for a second, pondering on which answer would be best for the given time.  “i suppose you could say that?”  eddie finally replied with a nod, ignoring the sarcasm completely.  “i’m a reporter, so i do go in alleyways and talk to people i don’t know when i need to.”  he felt the need to explain what he meant by that. it wasn’t as if he was just your usual creep, he had a job that allowed him to do strange, suspicious things and get away with it. perfect for his curiousity.  “but enough about me… what’s your name?”

Gamora eyed the man as he watched her. She knew her skills were impressive, but she had never been praised like this. Her reward had always been her victory in battle whether she had been fighting her sister or another enemy. She had always been very competitive and enjoyed winning even if it didn’t involve fighting.

So, he was a reporter. His curiosity made a lot more sense now. Especially because she knew Terrans didn’t have green skin like the Zehoberei did. She wondered if he knew anything about the disturbances throughout the galaxy. “I am Gamora. What is your name, Terran?” she asked stepping closer to her but keeping her guard up as she always did. “What sort of topics do you report on?”

     “a you but not – i understand.” she gave a nod, finding that circumstances that which happened with thanos and the rest of that fateful battle were difficult to follow, but she managed by piecing them together slowly. “you will be on a different path, but that does not make it a bad one – you now have the knowledge of your former self – take it and apply it and use it to become who you are or who you want to be.” wanda realized she was beginning to sound like strange and paused, shaking her head at herself. giving a nod, wanda smiled at her, “yes, i did. i have trained myself to be aware of what is going on and around me. i make sure something like thanos can never attack us without warning again.”

      she held her smile before letting out a small laugh, “i admittedly did not know your name – so thank you, i am wanda.” seeing gamora smile at her was relieving as it was beautiful. but hearing her words made wanda realized that what was going on wasn’t merely confined to the planet, and she should have known, should have guessed. “that is horrifying, i am so sorry,” she whispered, “things have not been well here on earth, cities from other realities have merged with ours – people from others are showing up.” she paused and bit at her bottom lip before giving her an equally firm handshake. “but I can assure you that we have an entire dedication to figuring this out if you would like to help us, we can help you.”

Gamora nodded her head at the woman impressed by this ability. She herself had enhanced hearing and vision that Thanos had modified along with many other aspects of her body but she didn’t possess those talents naturally. If one of her modifications ever failed her, she would be operating on a normal Zehoberei level. It was why she was so careful to maintain her mods in between missions. A bad mod wasn’t ever going to be the reason she failed in any aspect of her life. 

She listened to the other girl’s words and thought about all of the things Nebula had told her about the other version of her. She made her sound like some kind of superhero. Could she really have changed that much in four years? That seemed highly unlikely she was sure her sister had to be mistaken. As much as she did want to try to make up for all of her wrongdoings she had done under Thanos’ command she wasn’t sure how to go about doing so or even if her attempting to do so would make any difference. Thanos had turned her into a monster. Could she really be anything else but that? “I only know what my sister has told me. I don’t think I can ever become that person,” she said looking at her reflection in the window. “That is a good tactic. The galaxy is large and Terra is on the outskirts. It is good someone is making sure this planet is secure,” she said sincerely. She may not have known much about Terra but every deserved to have some sort of defense system to protect it.

Gamora was surprised when Wanda didn’t know her name. She had to remind herself that her reputation didn’t reach this far in the galaxy. She had to admit it was a little refreshing having no one know who she was and all of the bad things she had done. “So its happening here as well...I’m sure its as chaotic as it has been on other planets,” she said looking at her her eyes widening at her proposition. “I have only ever worked alone,” she said pausing to think about handling this problem by herself when she had no idea what was going on. “I do want to hear what they have found however,” she said knowing this was a problem far too large for just her to take care of.

    as brock walked past an alley, the movement caught his attention as he saw a green person throwing a knife and hitting her target. normally, that’d be just another day in that city, people would do anything for the attention, body-painting was just the most common one; however, that was different, he couldn’t tell the reason. venom was agitated, his esp was telling him to ignore the situation and leave that person alone, but obviously he ignored that and went right in that alley, leaning against a wall as he watched her for a second.

    he clapped shortly to get her attention.  “bravo.”  eddie exclaimed.  “you’re really good at that… do you do that for a living?”  the reporter added, arching one eyebrow while crossing his arms; a smile settled down on his features as he did so.

Gamora heard the man before she saw him. Her enhanced hearing clued her into his approach down the alley. She looked over at him as he began clapping. Who was this Terran and why was he taking an interest in her? 

She twirled her knife expertly before sliding it back into her belt. Gamora looked over at him trying to gauge if he was being serious or not. She didn’t care for people that made jokes. She knew her knife had hit her target perfectly though so there was no reason for anyone to joke when it came to her deadly accuracy. “Among other things,” she responded to him as she tilted her head sizing this Terran up. She wasn’t really sure what she did for a living at the moment but she wasn’t going to let anyone know that. “And what is it that you do? Wander in alleyways and talk to people you don’t know?”

She was pleased that she had stocked up on rations before she left Knowhere for Terra. The food all looked strange to her she would rather stick with what she knew. Hopefully she could make that last for a while. The warrior was getting slightly frustrated that she hadn’t found out much about the phenomenon that was happening all throughout the galaxy. Maybe she did need to get over it and go ask the Avengers or her sister for help. Maybe she couldn’t do this on her own. 

As she debated on her next move, she decided to get some target practice in. Gamora was only in the alley besides where she had parked her ship, but it would do for now. It was better than going over reports on her ship’s computer anyways. She took aim at her target and expertly threw her knife hitting her mark perfectly. She hadn’t noticed any attention that she had gathered as she went to her target and pulled the knife out so she could throw it again.

Gamora tilted her head at the other already knowing that she made a good point. She never made much time for people asking too many questions. Growing up with Thanos she had learned to be a woman of action to try to impress her father. “Everything you’ve got,” she said nodding to him as she watched as he floated off the ground and fired a laser at it with his eyes. “Just like that,” she said impressed at the display of power as she looked at the creature to see if the lasers had any effect on it. She fired several shots with her plasma rifle at the creature. It had some effect bot not nearly enough. “This won’t work at this rate,” she said wondering how long they could hold this creature back before it was too late.

“I was actually thinking that you might be looking for some help,” he replied, giving her a faint but friendly smile. “Gamora, I believe? I’m Doctor Stephen Strange. I fought against your father.”

Striding up, he glanced up at the screen. “If you’re looking for someone to show you around, or perhaps to help you get off planet, I could be of assistance.”

Gamora eyed the man as he began talking with her. He wasn’t starting at her strangely like some of the other Terran onlookers were. He did look familiar to her and when he told her he fought against her father she nodded her head at the memory. There had been so many warriors on the battlefield that day and she only knew the names of a few of them that her sister had told her. “That’s right,” she said turning towards him not surprised that this man knew her name. She was known as the deadliest woman in the galaxy, many people knew who she was without her having to introduce herself. 

“Many warriors fought against my father and his army that day. It was an honor to fight alongside those who stood against him,” she said knowing that  even with her abilities she couldn’t have defeated him by herself. “I have a ship not far from here. I came here to find answers about the disruptions happening throughout the galaxy. There’s been new planets appearing out of nowhere and people...Terra is the epicenter of where these started. Do you know how any of this started Doctor?” she asked him. He was a doctor even if he didn’t know exactly what was going on perhaps he could point her in the right direction and give her some clues to continue her investigation.

“If I knew how to stop it, the creature would be stopped already,” she said confidently as she gauged to see if her rifle had any affect on the blob-like being. Gamora was extremely confident in her abilities and knew she could take the creature out if she knew its weakness. “Seems like a sound plan,” she said slightly curious that his eyes were glowing red. She swung her rifle around on the strap so that it was on her back as she pulled out a grenade from her belt. She pulled the pin and threw it at the creature wondering if that would do anything to hurt it. “If nothing works then we find another way,” she said already wondering if she should fire upon it using her ships’ lasers.

❌ —————— that might look like ZOE SALDANA, but it’s really GAMORA ZEHOBEREI TITAN from EARTH-818. our records indicate that they are  a(n) 25 year old ZEHOBEREIAN using SHE/HER pronouns. unlike most HEROES, they ARE TRYING TO FIND THEIR PLACE NOW THAT EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED which makes them perfect for BEING ALONE (AT LEAST FOR NOW).