Sprig 05: All shall return to the Void

[grumpiest_tree]

((For the most part, things are pretty much the same for Groot up until he tried to stop a giant squid-thing from another universe trying to eat the Inhuman's city of Attilan. Instead of the T-bomb causing a fracture that leads to a universe where life doesn't die (eventually called the 'cancer-verse' by the Guardians), it opened one to where life ceased to exist, an endless void that started to suck the life of everyone in Attilan. Working with Maximus the Mad to reassert their dimension and save the city, Groot began a conversation with Maximus about where The Fault went and what it could mean for their dimension. Slowly the two became more and more obsessed with the simple nothingness of this dimension, and instead of helping the Guardians to close The Fault decided it was better to replace their universe with the endless void. The fracture was causing their dimension to come apart at the seems, what lay ahead was a slow destruction into nothingness for all, so why not simply be done with it and embrace the Great Void that was in The Fault? Groot and Maximus were about to use a newly devised quantum weapon that would do the reverse of the original, that is assert the dimension of the Great Void on their own, when the Guardians attempted to intervene in a battle that, last Groot can remember, ended with an explosion with everyone at ground zero. He woke up here in Mayfield, a human, and working at a grocery store. He's not sure what happened, but this isn't his home, nor the void he was attempting to achieve. With no one else he recognizes around, he has slowly been bidding his time, trying to figure out if this is some unintended consequences due to the device, or he is dead, and this is some form of hell. As such, he is extremely paranoid and even less open than he was before. He has been slowly going through the motions of Mayfield as he thinks of a way to improvise a way to either escape, or end this dimension.))

Part A| Grocery Store

[Groot is still doing his shifts at the grocery store, but instead of the calm and helpful employee he's been before, he is now doing the bare minimum of work and avoiding customers at every turn. Anytime a customer does get a hold of him gets a surly look or a suspicious stare before he does what was asked of him. Anybody coming into the store when he is working will almost surely feel the change in atmosphere, not to mention the sign he used to put up for 'pets' is left back in the store's closet, forgotten.]

Part B| Phone

[Anybody picking up the phone will hear a voice that sounds calm and regal, but also has a tense and hesitant quality to it.]

So I have been here for some time now, and I was wondering if anyone else found themselves here due to mishap with a device involving quantum mechanics and the dimensional fabric of their reality.

I only ask because, if this is another dimension, then perhaps similar means can provide a path to a different one. The lack of proper technology is less than ideal, but if anybody has found a way to generate large amounts of energy or a means to disperse electrons, I may be able to direct it to open a way to...a better place.

Part C| Garage of 5721 Cunningham

[Since the beginning of June, Groot has been gathering a large number of mechanical devices in the garage. Vacuum cleaners, TVs, radios, and other electronic devices. Anybody passing by can see him in the garage, gutting the various objects and setting the components out in front of him. He stares intently at the pieces, as if by doing so they'll move on their own, or some great mystery will be unlocked. Every once and awhile, he'll sigh, move the pieces off the work bench, and grab another device to start disassembling.]