The Avengers (Marvel;Re)/Issue 2 (GazzaB9)

The second issue of Ant-Man's Avengers team in Marvel;Re and the second part of the "Stellify" arc.
==Synopsis==
After meeting a child made of the universe, who they have named "Stella", the Avengers travel the universe in an attempt to find and investigate the place Stella last remembers being.
==Plot==
We open in the Kree Empire. The Kree Queen speaks to the leader of the Skrulls, who appears to her through a hologram.
*Skrull Commander: Do you truly believe this offering of peace will last forever...? A moon in the middle of the universe. Why in God's name would this prevent another Kree/Skrull war? I doubt that--
*Kree Queen: With all due respect, as little respect as it is, you should probably refer to these many wars as the Skrull/Kree wars.
*Skrull Commander: ...I don't like what you're implying, Wane-Van...
*Queen Wane-Van: Your people are a race of tricksters, Torak Lok-Spawn. If another war were to start, I'd have no doubt in my mind that your people would be the ones responsible for it.
*Commander Torak: My people are proud warriors with a long history of honor!
*Queen Wane-Van: Your people experiment on themselves to create super soldiers...
*Commander Torak: You--
*Queen Wane-Van: Enough of this. This isn't what we were here to talk about. The point of this is that, for now, the Kree and Skrulls' eternal war is over. Thanks to--
*???: MOTHER!!!
Wane-Van gets up and the holographic Torak turns around, revealing Wane-Van's son has run into the room, one of his arms slowly turning white.
*Kree Prince: Mother, my arm! I don't know how it started, but I--
It starts growing over the rest of his body. The Kree Queen runs over to her son and holds him as the white continues to travel across his body. Wane-Van looks up to a pair of Kree soldiers.
*Queen Wane-Van: What are you waiting for!? Help him!
*Kree Soldier: The thing spreading across him isn't an infection, a virus, a mutation, or... or anything, ma'am! It has no cure!
The white covers the Kree prince's entire body and he stops moving. There's a brief moment of silence before the queen turns around to Torak.
*Queen Wane-Van: ...You...!
*Commander Torak: Huh?
*Queen Wane-Van: You did this! I don't know how you did it, but you're the one responsible! You killed my son!
*Commander Torak: Wha... I did nothing! Why would I put my people in danger by assassinating your son right after you gave us a peace offering!?
*Queen Wane-Van: You're a race of tricksters and liars! Of course you would do this!
*Commander Torak: You're insane!
*Queen Wane-Van: You'll pay for what you did... That moon that I offered... meet me there. This will be the final war of the Skrulls and Kree...
*Commander Torak: ...I usually don't waste my time with things like this, but I must admit... it's quite tempting to win one last battle with your kind, Kree.
*Queen Wane-Van: I want you to know, Skrull, that I will destroy you... no matter what.
Meanwhile, Ant-Man's Avengers fly around in their spaceship. She-Hulk grabs a recorder and speaks into it for fun.
*She-Hulk: Captain's Log. Stargate: 65129. Just a few hours ago, we were on Earth battling against regular criminals. Now? We're in space, helping out an amnesiac little girl we've named Stella, who appears to be made of the universe. Why have the Avengers accepted such a simple mission? I don't know. It's sorta contrived, if you ask me.
*Hercules: Speaking of which, where is Stella?
*Spider-Woman: Raiding the kitchen.
*Hercules: Yep, makes sense...
Stella is shown doing exactly that, raiding the ship's kitchen while Ant-Man and Wasp watch on. She grabs some honey and starts eating it with her fingers.
*Wasp: ...Big appetite, eh?
*Stella: Yesh. I dnn't know w' but my schtmak's never r'lly full.
*Wasp: ...Um...
*Ant-Man: She said she doesn't know why but her stomach's never full. But her mouth's full of honey so...
*Wasp: Oh, sweetie, don't talk with your mouth full. That's rude and it makes it hard to understand you.
Stella swallows the honey.
*Stella: Very sorry.
*Wasp: No, no, it's fine. I'm just worried about you, is all. We're not really sure if you have human weaknesses so I'm worried you might choke.
*Ant-Man: Also, don't eat with your fingers, it's dirty. If you want, I can make you a sandwich.
*Stella: That would be very nice.
Ant-Man takes the honey and starts making a sandwich with it.
*Stella: You two seem to have very paternal and maternal instincts. Your children are very lucky to have you.
Ant-Man and Wasp turn to Stella and say nothing.
*Stella: ...Please continue making my sandwich.
*Wasp: We... don't have kids, Stella.
*Ant-Man: We considered it but we divorced before we could...
*Stella: Oh, you don't? Huh... strange. My memories must be playing tricks on me, I remember the two of you having a child...
*Wasp: Nope, we don't!
*Ant-Man: Yeah, and I'd be a pretty bad dad anyway. I'm sort of--
*Wasp: Let's change the subject!
*Ant-Man: Right, right, um... can you tell us what happened before you teleported to earth, Stella?
*Stella: I woke up on a planet with no memory of who I was and then I teleported to earth to look for help.
*Ant-Man: ...That's it?
Stella nods.
*Wasp: ...Well, do you at least know which planet you woke up on?
*Stella: Ro... ka... No.
*Wasp: Wonderful...
*Stella: Although, I think I remember the coordinates.
*Ant-Man: You don't remember the name but you remember the coordinates?
*Stella: I have very selective memory, evidently.
Ant-Man and Wasp follow Stella into the cockpit, where she starts pushing some buttons on the control panel.
*Spider-Woman: ...Wait, she knows how to work the ship? How's that possible?
*Ant-Man: I suggest you don't question anything when it comes to her.
Stella punches in some coordinates and presses a button, launching the ship into super speeds so fast that it almost seems like teleportation. They suddenly appear hovering over a moon. Inside the ship, everyone has been launched to the floor due to the sudden warp. Ant-Man drags himself up and looks out the window at the moon.
*Stella: There. That's the planet I originally woke up on!
*Ant-Man: Moon.
*Stella: Huh?
*Ant-Man: That thing you're pointing at is the moon of the planet, not the actual planet.
*Stella: I, um... yes.
Embarrassed, Stella slumps down in her seat. Feeling bad, Hank pats her head.
*Ant-Man: It's fine, we all make mistakes.
*Stella: ...Did you just "there there" me?
*Ant-Man: ...Um... no?
Stella squints at Hank before flipping a few switches. The ship floats down to the moon and lands on it. Once it's fully landed, a blue bubble appears around the ship and the Avengers walk out on to the moon.
*Hercules: What's this bubble surrounding us?
*Ant-Man: Air bubble. Projects a small bubble of oxygen.
*Vision: I don't have to breathe.
*Hercules: And you'd be amazed how long I can hold my breath.
Vision and Hercules walk out of the bubble and on to the moon.
*Ant-Man: ...Huh... Well, for those of us who need to breathe, let's put our suits on.
*She-Hulk: Does Stella need one? Stella, can you breathe in space?
*Stella: No, no one can. There's nothing to breathe.
*She-Hulk: ...I dislike you. Just thought you should know.
*Stella: However, like the Vision, I don't require air to--
Stella steps outside of the bubble and instantly drops to the ground, grabbing her throat. Luckily, she's saved by Vision, who puts her back in the bubble.
*Ant-Man: Stella! Are you okay?!
*Stella: I... I could breathe just fine when I woke up on this moon earlier... why can't I breathe on it now...?
*Ant-Man: Look on the bright side, you're alive, right? Now, let's go see if we have a suit that fits your size.
Sometime later, the Avengers are now wearing their spacesuits and Stella is in a pink one that has Mickey Mouse on the chest.
*Stella: ...This is humiliating...
*She-Hulk: Not a Mickey Mouse fan?
*Stella: That's not my problem with this suit and I'm almost positive that you know that...
*Ant-Man: Do you remember where you were on the moon when you first woke up on it?
*Stella: A... temple? I'm not sure, I only remember the inside of it.
*Ant-Man: That's... unfortunate, but I guess I can work with this. Spread-out, everyone.
*Spider-Woman: What about him?
Spider-Woman gestures towards Moon Knight.
*Spider-Woman: He's not wearing his suit.
*Wasp: Moon Knight, can you get dressed for us? We're a bit busy and--
*Moon Knight: I'm not coming with you.
*Wasp: Why's that?
*Moon Knight: My god Khonshu warned me of an incoming danger on the way here. I'll stay behind in the ship to protect it.
*Wasp: ...Wha--
*She-Hulk: Don't mind him, he's crazy. That's been his character for a good few of his solo runs.
*Wasp: Solo runs?
*She-Hulk: Don't mind me either.
She-Hulk wanders off without saying anything. The other Avengers split up, Stella going with Hank, while Moon Knight walks outside into the blue bubble and sits on a rock. Moon Knight closes his eyes and appears to start meditating.
*???: She's right, you know.
Moon Knight opens his eyes but doesn't turn to face the people standing behind him: Steven Grant, Jake Lockley, and Marc Spector.
*Jake Lockley: You're pretty crazy. The fact you can hear us at all shows that.
*Steven Grant: As much as I'd hate to agree with the likes of Lockley here, I must concur. You're quite literally talking to yourself right now.
*Jake Lockley: It's worse than that, you're making your f**king split personalities talk to each other. I mean, how crazy can one guy get?
*Marc Spector: Come on, you two. I know that it's strange but Moon Knight's not the dominant personality for no reason. He's saved a lot of people, even if he is a bit... "unorthodox".
*Jake Lockley: You gotta agree though, the guy's messed up. I mean, he just claimed that a god told him something was coming.
*Marc Spector: His connection to Khonshu's more powerful because he's closer to a moon, of course Khonshu would speak to him.
*Steven Grant: And how exactly do you know "Khonshu" isn't just another figment of his imagination and what he heard was just a schizophrenic delusion?
Moon Knight looks up and sees what appears to be a pair of alien spaceships heading for the moon that they're on.
*Marc Spector: Any more questions?
Meanwhile, Ant-Man explores the moon with Stella, who balances on some nearby thin rocks.
*Ant-Man: ...How old are you exactly?
*Stella: Hm?
*Ant-Man: You look and act like you're nine but you talk like you're a hundred. So, how old are you really?
*Stella: ...I don't know.
*Ant-Man: You don't... what?
*Stella: I don't know my name. My age. Why I was on this moon. Anything at all... Truth be told, at this point I'd give anything just to learn a single fact about myself...
A tear forms in Stella's eye. When she notices it, her eyes widen.
*Stella: Gah!!
Stella starts smacking the glass on her space helmet, panicking about her own tear. Hank runs over and grabs her.
*Ant-Man: Calm down! What's wrong!?
*Stella: Water formed in my eye! Why?! Do... do I create water? Is that my purpose?
*Ant-Man: You... you've never heard of tears before?
*Stella: Tears? What are tears?
*Ant-Man: ...Uh... how am I meant to explain tears...? Well, you see, it's--
*Stella: What's that?
Stella points at what appears to be a building made of stone in the distance.
*Ant-Man: Hm... well, I believe that detectives call that a lead...
Ant-Man and Stella walk over and into the building.
*Ant-Man: If you find anything, tell me. Alright, sweetie?
*Stella: ...Sweetie?
*Ant-Man: Oh, so when Wasp calls you that it's fine but when I call you it you have a problem?
*Stella: Yes.
*Ant-Man: ...You're pretty blunt, you know that?
Stella smugly smiles at Hank before turning around and freezing in her tracks.
*Ant-Man: What's the matter? You find something?
Ant-Man walks over to Stella and finds an incredibly large tapestry carved into the wall of the building. The tapestry shows members of the Kree, Skrulls, several other humanoid races, and humans themselves bowing down to an entity, though the entity has mostly been destroyed due to the building's age. Hank walks over to the picture of the entity and finds text written below it reading "Adam Kadmon".
*Ant-Man: "Adam Kadmon", eh...? Weird...
*Stella: What's so strange about that?
*Ant-Man: In some versions of the bible they say that God had a failed attempt at creating a man before Adam. He called the failed creation Adam Kadmon... But, that doesn't make any sense. This is a moon trillions or more miles away from Earth. How would the people that made this place know what the bible, let alone Adam Kadmon is?
Ant-Man turns back to Stella.
*Ant-Man: You froze when you saw this. Why is that?
Stella more or less gives Hank an "are you serious?" look.
*Ant-Man: Yeah, of course you don't know. I don't know why I bothered asking... Your memory problems are very selective, aren't they...?
The entire building starts rumbling.
*Ant-Man: What? What's going on?
Ant-Man runs outside and stares in terror at something in the distance. Meanwhile, Hercules and She-Hulk stand in front of a massive rock that neither of them can get past.
*She-Hulk: Dead end. We should probably--
Hercules punches the rock, busting a hole in it to the other side.
*She-Hulk: ...Huh... and they say you can't solve every problem by hitting it.
Hercules flexes and attempts to speak through gritted teeth.
*Hercules: Strongest man in the world: Hercules!
*She-Hulk: So, I've been meaning to ask, are you okay with the two of us being on the same team?
*Hercules: Why wouldn't I be?
*She-Hulk: We, uh... remember adjectiveless She-Hulk volume two?
*Hercules: ...Adjective... What?
*She-Hulk: Where we... you know?
*Hercules: Wha... oh, no! no, no, no, no, no! It's totally fine, we're still cool. If it makes you feel better, I haven't thought about doing... that with you for a very long time!
She-Hulk walks up to Hercules and gives him a flirty look.
*She-Hulk: Not even slightly...?
Hercules stares at her with a mix of intrigue and fear on his face.
*Hercules: ...Oh my god.
Before anything can happen between the two, the area starts to rumble.
*She-Hulk: What in the hell!? What's--
They spot something above them. Meanwhile once again, Wasp, Vision, and Spider-Woman explore another part of the moon. Vision's eyes flash yellow and he floats down to the other two.
*Vision: The moon shows no sign of being a living creature, much like the likes of Ego the Living Planet.
*Wasp: There, you happy?
*Spider-Woman: I don't know, I'm pretty sure I felt the place shake just now...
*Wasp: And you jumped instantly to thinking it's alive?
*Spider-Woman: Do you not realize how weird our lives are?
*Wasp: ...Fair point.
*Spider-Woman: Maybe that was, like, a... another person?
*Wasp: How could another person be on the moon?
*Spider-Woman: Vision, scan.
Vision's eyes glow yellow once again.
*Vision: Scan complete.
*Spider-Woman: So?
*Vision: There are indeed other lifeforms on the moon other than the other Avengers.
*Wasp: What!?
*Spider-Woman: Told ya!
*Wasp: Who are they!?
*Vision: ...I honestly believe you'd prefer not to know...
Smash cut to the ships that Moon Knight saw landing on the moon. The ships land right in front of each other and their doors slowly open up, revealing one is filled with Skrulls and the other filled with Kree. At the back of both armies stand the Kree queen and the Skrull commander. Standing beside the Kree queen is a what appears to be a larger Kree in full metal armor.
*Queen Wane-Van: Are you ready for your first battle, Mar-Adon...?
The metal Kree nods at Wane-Van. Meanwhile, on the other ship, the Skrull commander is accompanied by a larger Skrull in purple and black robes.
*Commander Torak: Give them hell, M'win.
*M'win: Yes, father.
The Skrull Commander's son and Queen Wane-Van's large soldier walk in front of their respective armies. Mar-Adon pulls out a Ronan the Exuser-esque axe while M'win's eyes begin glowing white and he grins. The two charge towards each other with the Kree and Skrull armies following shortly behind them.
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