作者：美国漫威公司
出版社：华东理工大学出版社
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英文原版 漫威超级英雄故事.星爵 Star-Lord: Knowhere to Run试读：
The Story of star-Lord
Even when PETER QUILL was a little boy on Earth, he always defended people in need. If someone was being picked on at school, Peter stood up for them, even if it meant getting in fights with bullies who were bigger than he was. Peter just seemed to have been born with a strong sense of justice.When he was a little older, Peter finally learned from his mother the truth about his father. Peter’s dad was from another planet, called Spartax. His father and mother had met and fallen in love when his father’s ship had crashed on Earth.Knowing that he had a father out in the galaxy drove Peter to reach for the stars. He studied hard in school, designed his own spaceship, and eventually took off from Earth to explore the galaxy!Many things were very different on the alien worlds Peter visited, but one thing remained the same. . . .Wherever Peter went he found that there was always some bully who wanted to pick on the little guys. Peter wasn’t going to let that happen, no matter what planet he happened to be on.Peter chose to be a hero! He became —STAR-LORD!While fighting to protect the innocent, Star-Lord joined with other heroes from other parts of the cosmos, and together this group became known as theCHAPTER 1
For the earthling known as Peter Quill, life was pretty good onboard the space station Knowhere. It was an amazing place, after all. Unlike normal space stations, it wasn’t made out of metal or a rare space element. It was made out of bone!How was that possible? The station was built inside the skull of a long-dead giant celestial being. “I live inside a massive floating alien skull,” Peter would say. “How cool is THAT?!”The station was filled with strange and wonderful beings. Peter got to meet people and do things that no other human being ever had, or ever would. It was a pretty special feeling.But the very best thing about Knowhere was that it served as home base for thean intergalactic Super Hero team that Peter was proud to be a part of!There were four other members of the team: Drax, the green-skinned, alien strongman;Groot , a living tree monster from space; Rocket, a furry little weapons specialist who looked almost exactly like a large Earth raccoon; and Gamora, an intergalactic warrior trained in several dozen forms of combat. And, of course, there was the leader of the group, Star-lord.When he wasn’t out in space doing awesome ( if sometimes super-dangerous ) missions with his team, Peter spent his time doing fun stuff on Knowhere. Take today for example:This morning Peter went to the Celestial Boot (a restaurant where the Guardians love to hang out) and played space darts with Rocket. “This is going to be a bull’s-eye,” Rocket shouted as he held up his dart.“But you’re not even aiming at the target,” Peter pointed out, holding his dart up as well.“You’ll see,” Rocket said. He released his dart, and it zipped around the room, bouncing off walls and knocking over people’s drinks before landing dead in the target’s center.Rocket showed Peter a tiny device on the tip of his dart. “Homing beacon,” Rocket explained. “It will always go where I tell it to, no matter what direction I throw it in—I designed it myself!”“Always?” asked Peter. “Let’s see about that!” He took the whole box of darts and threw them all at once, scattering them in the air! The darts WHOOSHED around the restaurant in all directions, causing patrons to duck as they pinged and ponged off the plates, the tables, the floor, and the ceiling before. . . all landed, clustered perfectly, in the bull’s-eye of the target!“Awesome!”shouted Peter and Rocket together, high-fiving.Later that day, Peter hung out with all of his other friends.He did a space race with Drax, ran some cool zero-g training exercises with Gamora,nd even tried meditating in a garden with Groot.All in all, it was a pretty incredible day. When it was over, Peter headed back home to his bedroom on board his spaceship, which was docked semipermanently on Knowhere. On his way he walked past the only other earthling living on the Knowhere: Cosmo.“Good evening, Peter,” Cosmo said as he walked past Peter going in the other direction down a sidewalk.“You too, Cosmo,” said Peter to the animal. Cosmo was the only other earthling, but Cosmo wasn’t a human being. He was a dog! Born in Russia in the 1960s, Cosmo was launched into the galaxy as a cosmonaut, part of the Russian government’s experiments in space travel. But Cosmo fell into a wormhole, and he wound up gaining advanced intelligence and mental abilities—including the power to communicate with humans. Now he was head of security on Knowhere.That stopped Peter in his tracks. “What?”“I know that the calendar is different here on Knowhere,” said Cosmo. “The days and weeks are different lengths, and there are only eight months in the year and everything. . . .But I keep an Earth calendar on my desk at work, because it reminds me of home, and I happened to notice that on Earth, right now, it’s your birthday.”It was Peter 's birthday and he hadn 't even realized it!CHAPTER 2
Peter was bummed out. Back on Earth, he’d loved his birthdays. His mother had always made a lot of fuss for Peter on what she called his “big day.” There was a party filled with cake, music, and, of course, presents. But more than anything else, there was that warm feeling of being surrounded by friends and family who clearly loved him and wanted to make things special on his “big day.”And now, so far from home, Peter didn’t even notice that his birthday was happening. It had been years since Peter had gone back to Earth to see anyone he remembered. Yep, there was no denying it—Peter was homesick.The next day Peter’s friends the Guardians, could tell he was down, and they tried to cheer him up. Rocket and Groot took him to the Orlani races.“Nobody can feel bad at the Orlani races,” declared Rocket.“I am Groot,” Groot agreed with a slight nod. He really was agreeing with Rocket, but all he ever said was “I am Groot.” His best friend, Rocket, always knew what he meant anyway.“See? He agrees with me” Rocket confirmed.Orlani were little creatures—kind of like the alien versions of muskrats or ferrets. For fun, the Orlani were put in little tracks and on “go,” they raced each other toward the finish line as the spectators watched and cheered them on! Everyone picked their favorites and cheered them on.When the race started, Rocket shouted, at the Orlani he liked. “I am Groot,”“Run, Little Brownie!”Groot shouted, also trying to encourage Little Brownie.Despite himself, Peter started to cheer up. But then Little Brownie JUMPED out of the track, and ran straight into the crowd.“Hey, where 's it going?” Peter asked. Suddenly, he felt something weird. Little Brownie was running straight up the leg of Peter’s pants!“Ahh- Ohhh- Awww-”Peter shouted as he jumped around! The Orlani’s little claws were scratching and tickling him all at once! “Get this thing off of meeeee!” Peter yelled at Rocket and Groot!It took several minutes to get the Orlani out of his pants, and the job involved Peter stripping down to his boxers and tank top in public. When it was all over, Peter was in a worse mood than ever.“Okay, I was wrong,” Rocket admitted. “Some people might be able to feel bad at the Orlani races.”Peter’s friends didn’t give up trying to cheer him up. Gamora took Peter to the space dojo to show him some cool new fighting moves. But when Peter tried them, he fell flat on his face!Later, hoping to treat Peter’s homesickness, Drax tried cooking an Earth recipe. There was just one problem: having never made or even tasted Earth food before, Drax got the ingredients all mixed up. He ended up making an eggplant-chocolate-chicken cake with oyster frosting.Which, while disgusting to Peter, just so happened to be something Rocket ENJOYED eating!“Thanks for trying,” Peter said to Drax—once he stopped gagging.Cosmo told Peter that he had just gotten a shipment of “special treats” from Earth that he always ate when he wanted to be reminded of home. The considerate canine wanted to share one with Peter, which got Star-Lord excited—until the special treats turned out to be DOG TREATS.I should have realized, Peter thought as he politely choked down the dry, bone-shaped animal snack.It was really nice that everyone wanted to help, but Peter put it to them bluntly: “Since none of you are even human, you just can’t understand what I need.” Focusing on his own disappointment, he walked back home to his ship, not realizing that he had just hurt his friends’ feelings.But that evening, while on his parked ship, Peter heard a knock on the door. He opened it and saw the last thing he ever expected to see ANOTHER HUMAN!!!It was Captain Marvel, a Super Hero from Earth!“Star-Lord, I’m so happy I found you,” she said. “I need your help. In fact, everyone on Earth needs your help!”CHAPTER 3
Peter had met Captain Marvel a few times while Iron Man and some of the other Avengers were on a mission against Thanos. He knew that Captain Marvel’s real name was Carol Danvers. She used to be in the United States Air Force, but after receiving an infusion of alien DNA, she developed super powers-including super strength, endurance, stamina, and even the power of flight! She soon joined theand battled alongside Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.Whether she had part-alien DNA or not, Peter was so happy to see a fellow human being! He invited her inside immediately.Once on board his ship, Captain Marvel explained why she was there.Peter knew the Skrulls all too well. They were aliens, and many of them were evil and loved war. They had tried to invade Earth on multiple occasions but had always been beaten back by the Avengers and other powerful heroes, such as Spider-Man and Wolverine.“These Skrulls were a small team, and they had been searching for something,” Captain Marvel went on. “Eventually the Avengers discovered what the alien agents had been after: the pieces needed to rebuild the. . .“The Ultimate Nulli-wha?” Peter asked. “Do you mean the weapon capable of destroying entire solar systems?”Peter had never seen the Ultimate Nullifier, but he knew that even some of the biggest bad guys in the Universe—like Galactus, Ronan, and even Thanos himself—were actually afraid of it. To protect the universe, the heroes of Earth had found it and broken it into several pieces, scattering them in secret locations. But if the Skrulls were able to put those pieces together again, they’d cause big trouble for sure!“We captured the whole Skrull team. . .except one,” said Captain Marvel.“Let me guess,” Peter replied, a chill going down his spine. “The Skrull who got away is the one who had the pieces to the Ultimate Nullifier.”“Yes,” Captain Marvel confirmed. “And I’ve tracked him—to planet Knowhere! If that Skrull agent gets the parts back to his home planet, I’m positive the scientists of his world will be able to put it together again. Once they have a working Ultimate Nullifier, they’ll be able to destroy Earth with a single shot!”The words hit Peter like a ton of bricks.His memories of being a child rushed back: playing kickball in his yard; battling imaginary monsters from his tree house; reading comic books down by the stream. All of these places would be destroyed. His friends—his family—gone. Peter made a tight fist. He wasn’t going to let that happen. “We have to stop him before it’s too late.”“So, you’ll help me, Star-Lord?” Captain Marvel asked.“You bet I will,” Peter responded, grabbing his blaster and helmet. “Where do we start?”“Well, that's where it gets tricky,” she responded. “Don’t forget—Skrulls are shape-shifters!”“Oh. . .right,” said Peter, remembering. It was true. Every Skrull alien had the natural ability to change their bodies and make them look like anyone or anything they wanted. It was a form of camouflage that made them great at their work as spies and secret agents.“We need to be looking for anyone—or any thing—that seems out of place, like they don’t belong,” said Captain Marvel.Sometimes I’m the one who feels like I don’t belong, Peter thought as he remembered the loneliness he sometimes experienced.“Sounds like you need to talk to someone who is very familiar with this station and everyone who lives on it,” Peter said. “I know just the individual! Someone who knows this place like the back of his hand—well. . .not hand, but paw. . . .”Captain Marvel gave Peter a confused look.CHAPTER 4
Early the next morning, Peter picked up Captain Marvel and they went to see Cosmo at his office. To Captain Marvel’s credit, if she was surprised that the entire space station’s security was the responsibility of a talking Earth dog, she didn’t show it. But then again, she was probably used to seeing a lot of strange stuff during her work with the Avengers.“Nice to make your acquaintance, Carol,” Cosmo said. “May I call you Carol?”“Uh, yes, feel free,” Captain Marvel responded as she shook Cosmo’s paw.“Thank you. Would you like some kibble?” Cosmo asked as he pushed a little dish of dog试读结束[说明：试读内容隐藏了图片]