The Purple Path

Thor's whirling rainbow vortex refracts into six separate colored rays, bent as they pass through the transparent blue cube held by Thanos' purple hand!

Yes, Ant-Man was absolutely right to worry that teleporting was a dangerous move when your enemy has control over space itself! And now the heroes are being bent into different directions.

A purple ray conducts some of the heroes to the left.

Storm, the Scarlet Witch, and Machine Man emerge from the prismatic spray in a sparkling clean city of chrome spires under a lemon yellow sky. Three suns blaze in the heavens, blurring all shadows to a vague dimness directly underneath everything.

Blue people hurry around, wearing color-coded superhero suits. People with red tops go into the red buildings, while people with red pants enter the buildings with red stripes around their bottoms.

The sky is full of moving objects, seemingly levitated without the use of vehicles. A vague, fuzzy shadow falls over the Earthlings as a massive space ship shaped like a steel-and-crystal icicle slowly tracks across the skyline. It takes a long time to pass.

But no one notices the three arrivals from Earth, because no one looks up. All keep their eyes focused on the aluminum sidewalk a pace in front of them, where moving symbols direct them to where they are meant to go.

Then a white-haired superhero with a blue top (bearing a sun symbol) and red pants flies up and drops right next to our heroes!

He touches the glossy black bracelet on his left hand, then nods.

"Earth speakers," he says by way of greeting. "Bon. Permettez-moi a vous aider de trouver votre destination. Je m'appelle Mar-Vell, et vous etes maintenant a la cite du Trois, au planete de Hala. Nous sommes a la capitale de l'empire du Kree."

Machine Man looks at both Storm and the Scarlet Witch.

"Nope, didn't catch any of that," he admits.