Nebula and Tony spent at least 22 days in space... of which we got to see only about 1 (heartwarming) minute. So I tried to doddle Nebula’s captain log, with various degrees of details, care and success... Since I can’t really write but manage to draw ok enough to convey what I want in quick doodles, I settled on a sort of comics-strip-with-longer-description format.
FYI, Nebula does record a captain log: the very long, detailed description of the main event of each day is actually written under each picture. Each entry just describes the main occupation of the day mind you. I mean, they probably played paper football everyday from when Nebula learnt to the day the lights went out.
Summary right below, and bit more details (with my limited English, it’s all over the place but I did my best to add fun complements to the doodles) about each day in the individual posts linked at the end.
Day 1: Nebula and Tony fly away from Titan aboard the Benatar ASAP. Destination: Terra (C53) aka Earth.
Day 2: Nebula finds Tony passed out, victim of an infection from his wound. She decides to try and save his life.
Day 3: Nebula installs Tony in Peter’s and finds a picture of Gamora. She keeps it with her.
Day 4: Tony gets better and insists Nebula listens to some good Earth music. Tony likes Quill’s playlist, Nebula is a bit more skeptical.
Day 5: Tony asks Nebula about Gamora, whose picture she put on a shelf in the living quarter. He talks to her about his own brother, Rhodey.
Day 6: Engines come to a stop. They spend the whole day repairing the propulsion systems. All the efforts just buy 2 days worth of flight time.
Day 7: Nebula asks for a demonstration of the nanotech armor. She’s impressed. Tony promises to give her a small case implant when they reach Earth. At the end of the day, the engines shut down.
Day 8: Nebula stands by Tony as he watches a video of Peter that the suit recorded when he came to help in NYC.
Day 9: To keep their brain -‘biological or otherwise’- busy, Tony and Nebula play games.
Day 10: After she learned to have fun, Nebula decides Tony should learn a new skill as well, like wielding a sword.
Day 11: After two entertaining days, Tony insists they take a picture with the nanotech helmet. He wants a souvenir from the trip. See after credit scene for the result.
Day 12: The Benatar passes through an active warzone. Nebula is wary they would meet militia ships, the kind that take no prisoner. So they shut all the power down and wait.
Day 13: Tony and Nebula feel confident enough to get all the power back up. A high voltage surge through Nebula’s arm disrupts her robotics. Tony offers to help with the reparation. He owes her.
Day 14: The heating system is shutting down. Nebula gives Tony one of Gamora’s jacket as this of Quill is way too big.
Day 15: The Benatar drifts by a giant cluster of new born stars. Tony introduces Nebula to the concept of a dinner date (between friends).
Day 16: Tony and Nebula find one of Groot’s video games.
Day 17: Nebula realises Tony has nightmares, just like her.
Day 18: Tony and Nebula build a robot to fetch the last bit of food they can find, that the fox stashed in a narrow air vent. Nebula lets Tony eat it all.
Day 19: The lights shut down. Tony and Nebula have a chat.
Day 20: Tony teaches Nebula to dance. With discoball-nano-helmet.
Day 21: Tony and Nebula hole up in the least freezing place of the ship, the maintenance room of the still-cooling down thrusters. Nebula finally has a nap.
Day 22: Oxygen is about to run out. Nebula puts Tony in the pilot’s chair for him to die the more comfortably possible.
Day 23: Vers has found the ship following the fox’s instruction. A few hours from before the oxygen levels reach critical level with regards to Tony’s health, she brings Nebula an emergency oxygen tank found in an abandoned ship.
Day 24: Captain Marvel lands the ship in the Avengers facility on Earth.
‘After credit’: Five years later, Nebula is about to leave Earth once more, with Quill and the Guardians, to search for her alternate sister. She reminisces. See Day 11 for when the picture was taken.
Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8, Day 9, Day 10, Day 11, Day 12, Day 13, Day 14, Day 15, Day 16, Day 17, Day 18, Day 19, Day 20, Day 21, Day 22, Day 23, Day 24, After credit.
Day 7: Nebula asks for a demonstration of the nanotech armor. She’s impressed. “I could use some of that in my bionic arm.” This time she really has a chat, about all her electronic parts. Tony promises to give her a small case implant when they reach their destination.
The engines are now dead, though the distress signal broadcast works. They’re still both hoping someone could pick them up and get them closer to Earth. Perhaps the solar system they pass by is inhabited.
So Nebula and Tony spent at least 23 days in space, of which we got to see only about 1 (heartwarming) minute. Since I’m having a bit of an inspiration drought, I decided to doddle Nebula’s captain log for the trip.
Day 22: The Benatar had been without heat for a week, without food and water for a few days, and would be without enough oxygen to sustain its occupants in a few hours.
Tony had asked Nebula how long she would go on without him. ‘A few days’. Way more actually, but weirdly she thought he shouldn’t be aware of that. ‘It’s gonna be lonely in here. And silent.’ ‘I’m used to it’. She was, but loneliness was still painful.
Tony had gone to the main deck by himself while Nebula had been tweaking a rebellious jump wire in her ankle. When she went back to the cockpit, she found the human once again passed out on the floor.
She didn't know of anything she could do to save him this time. The first time she had carelessly dragged him over the dirty floor to the med pod and fill him with human-compatible antibiotics. Now she just debated what to do with him. He'd be dead in about 10 hours, and she would shut down and follow him in about 10 days.
Eventually she gently lift him up and installed him in the copilot chair, overseeing the universe he had cared so deeply about. Also in case he opened his eyes again, he would have a nice view.
If someone on Terra were to pick up the signal and find the ship, that would make it easy for them to know their fate. No need to hide their bodies in the back of the Benatar. In a few days she would join him, resting in the pilot chair to his left.
For now she just sat down on the floor where the helmet was still laying. She thought she heard a faint whisper. A barely audible 'ws nice meet'n you'.
'It was nice.'
So Nebula and Tony spent at least 22 days in space (actually, 24 days), of which we got to see only about 1 (heartwarming) minute. Since I’m having a bit of an inspiration drought, I decided to doddle Nebula’s captain log for the trip.
Day 8: Now that he's nanotech-ed the helmet back up, Tony watches the last recording of Spider-Man that he has, when he saved him from the big space orc back on Earth. Nebula's back from the food supply, but she doesn't know what to do. Gamora would.
He's probably thinking about how he couldn't save him back. He already spoke about it when he had a fever from the infection. Nebula starts to like this human she's traveling with. But she doesn't know what to say. Gamora definitely would.
So she just stands there. Tony notices and he's grateful.
So Nebula and Tony spent at least 23 days in space, of which we got to see only about 1 (heartwarming) minute. Since I’m having a bit of an inspiration drought, I decided to doddle Nebula’s captain log for the trip.
Day 2: Nebula finds Tony passed out at the back of the ship, victim of an infection from his wound. She decides to try and save his life.
So Nebula and Tony spent at least 23 days in space, of which we got to see only about 1 (heartwarming) minute. Since I'm having a bit of an inspiration drought, I decided to doddle Nebula's captain log for the trip.
