||You were so admirable, Richard. How long was it that you suffered? Years? Time is useless without death. And even now ... I have no idea how you endured so much for so long.||

Even now, mingled in with the outrage and anger, there's affection and admiration.

||As for me, I've only known death. Millennia of death. Xandar. The entire Nova Corps. You. I felt every single one. And it hurt. You cannot comprehend how much it hurt.||

The words resonate with pain.

||But I'm like you, Richard. I survived. I adapted. And now I'm much more than I ever was.||

Now he has a hold here.

||And you are much more than you were. The seed was planted in you when you left. And now it's grown. You're the door. You're the way I'll bring the gifts of the Cancerverse to the multiverse beyond. Life eternal.||

Tentacles start reaching through the air, grasping for Rich, viciously attacking Starlord.