"I didn't do shit!" He protests this vehemently, because he would like it on record that he never touched the stupid rock. And it is remarkably difficult to get him to not touch shiny objects. But he is definitely not stupid enough to touch something that nearly blew him up once.

"Quill touched it, and it's too powerful for a frickin' humie to just grab onto like that, so we all just sorta... helped him share the insane amount of cosmic power that was coursin' through him 'til he could let the d'ast thing go."

It's complicated. So very complicated.