And Gamora shoots the miscellaneous soldiers trying to support him. 

Surely these pitiful weaklings have more than this?

A little more, yeah.

Pathetic.

Ouch.

She glances at 2B - a silent take him together? 

(Loki's better at magic than fighting usually, but she's still plenty deadly with a blade, and is more likely to survive a hit from Ronan than anyone.)

2B will screen for Loki to slip around.

She'll close, then. 

The only thing the Asgardian closes with is a false reality, as the true Ronan strikes her from behind.

She spins and dodges under his blow, knives lashing for the unprotected joints in his armor. 

Unfortunately her knives are made of paper now. And Ronan's return swing impacts with the effective force of a small moon.

- Except, no it doesn't. 

A thousand crows cloud his vision, swirl around him - no, it's a single crow, flitting past, wing barely missing his eyes - no, a darkness like what lies beyond stars, beyond death - 

If he's hitting with the force of a small moon, then she'll be a supernova. A flame that leans away when struck at. A volcano errupting into a fist aimed for - 

His hammer. For the red stone set in it. 

Reality's fucking off? So what. The world is chaos and story beneath this thin veneer of physics, and Loki matters more than him. And Loki is made of story. 

He's nothing but a tourist. 

Her attack connects, with a tiny click and the world seems to pause as the stone shivers. The red light sucks back into the depths like a rewinding tape and the stone soars out of the hammer, passing straight through the back of it and arcing across the room with graceful swoops. It comes to rest in front of Ash and Ronan lunges for it-

And Ash, acting more on instinct than rational thought, grabs up the Reality Stone.

And red light surges through her. 

OH FUCK

Gamora lunges for Ash, dropping everything she's been doing to hide herself and unfolding her full power around her, spells crackling in her mouth - 

She grabs Ash's hand. 

The glowing red cracks spread across her skin, too. But it's... More bearable for Ash, somehow. 

Still not bearable enough. 

Processors in parallel. Sharing the load? Worth a try. 2B's closer. 9S sends a ping.

She grabs Gamora's other hand.

It spreads through her - 

And Loki grabs Ash's other hand - 

As Chewie helpfully(?) wraps a tentacle around 2B's hand - 

And Rocket curses and holds on to Chewie. 

The power is definitely spreading among all of them!