under attack, about to crack

Status: Completed 04 March 2025
Published: 25 January 2025
Chapters: 5
Words: 9,104
Rating: General Audiences
Tags: Mantis/Nebula (Marvel), Gamora & Nebula (Marvel), Mantis (Marvel), Nebula (Marvel), Gamora (Marvel), the other guardians are also there (eventually), nebula has a soft spot for mantis and has a gay little crisis about it

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Nebula wants to cut the call as soon as she’s made it. She almost does, but Mantis answers before she can.

“Oh, Nebula.” Mantis smiles, because Nebula finds herself disconcertingly speechless. “Hello. Gamora has already gone to bed, but I can tell her you called if—”

“No,” Nebula says, more aggressively than she’d intended, and Mantis startles at the harshness of her tone.

Nebula mentally kicks herself and tries again. “I didn’t call for Gamora. I called to…speak…to you,” she finishes lamely.