----- August 1st, 2014 - Somewhere in the 'Deep Down Dark Deep Down'  -----

A blur soars around front of a Blue Giant star.

It comes to a stop to reveal Y/N, sitting cross-legged while facing the star with his eyes closed. He was wearing extremely normal clothes for someone flying around through space.

He holds out his palm towards the burning blue star. His ring sits on his middle finger. Though the material looks different.. new.

He takes a deep breath.

His right ear twitches.

His eyes shoot open..

"..Listen..."

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----- August 1st, 2014 - Morag -----

A man is seen walking through the winds and dust storm on the surface of Morag.

He wears a helmet with glowing red eyes.

Rain starts pouring down heavily.

The man pulls out a device and smacks it. A blue light emits from the tip of it, showing a holographic video of a civilization that used to inhabit the world. It outlines a specific building that is now run down in front of him.

He makes his way towards it.

As he reaches the doorway, the holographic video shows a kid playing with her dog. He turns it off and steps through the giant doorless entrance.

The man hits a button on the back of his helmet, causing it to disappear.

This mans name was Peter Quill.

Quill looks around the dilapidated remains of the building. The sound of water dripping echoes through the silence.

He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a Sony TPS-L2 Walkman.

He puts the headphones on and attaches the Walkman to his belt. After rewinding the tape, he hits play.

First comes the drums.

And then the bass.

Peter starts nodding along as he starts walking. As soon as the guitar joins in, he does a quick hip thrust.

Peter leans on one foot and kicks out the other as he waves his arms to the song.

"Hail (Hail), what's the matter with your head, yeah"

As he walks through a puddle, Peter kicks some of the water up and does a little spin. He dances foward a few feet and notices a few Orloni, rodent-like creatures, fighting amongst each other.

"Hail (Hail), what's the matter with your mind
And your sign an-a, oh-oh-oh"

Peter kicks the Orloni as they run at him to the beat of the lyrics. Another Orloni jumps up onto a rock just next to his face. It goes to jump at him, but he grabs it and holds it like a microphone.

He lip-syncs along to the song.

"Hail (Hail), nothin' the matter with your head
Baby find it, come on and find it"

He throws the Orloni away and does a spin with his arms out as he walks. A few more gather on a rock a few feet away and just stare at him. The little rodent creatures were probably confused.

"Hail, with it, baby, 'cause you're fine
And you're mine, and you look so divine"

Peter walks up to a headless skeleton. He looks at it and spins it around.

The Orloni followed him as he danced, shook, and spun himself deeper into the building.

One was stupid and decides to jump at him like the other one. But like with the last one he caught him too and used him as a mic.

"Come and get your love"

He tosses it and slides across the floor a few feet.

"Come and get your love"

He dances his way to a big crack in the ground. 

"Come and get your love"

When he looks down, he can see a few tentacles sliding across the walls.

"Come and get your love"

Peter hit a button on his belt and he starts hovering over the pit. His shoes were rocket shoes. He makes a pretty shaky landing.

He then continues dancing his way to a big door.

"Come and get your love, come and get your love
Come and get your love, now"

Peter starts picking the lock to the big door.

"Come and get your love, come and get your love
Come and get your love, now"

The door starts rumbling and begins to open. Peter takes a step back as it does so.

"Come and get your love, come and get your love
Come and get your love, now"

He starts slowly walking into the door. At the end of the room is a glowing container with an orb in the center. 

"Come and get your love"

Peter pulls out a ball from his pocket and shakes it. 

It lights up.

"Come and get your love"

He places the glowing ball in the center of the room. As he walks over to the orb, he pulls off his headphones.

"Come and get your lo-"

Peter drops a high powered mag device on the ground. 

He turns it on, causing the orb to get pulled through two layers of the energy fields keeping it in place. Peter looks at the orb as he picks it up.

As he turns back to the door, he sees three men entering and aiming their guns at him. Peter's eyes nearly bulge.

"Drop it!," the only man without a helmet demanded.

This man was Korath The Pursuer.

Peter just awkwardly says, "Uh... hey."

As his men rush to the sides of Peter, Korath demands once more, "Drop it, now!"

"Hey, cool, man. No problem," Peter drops the orb just as the two henchman come closer with their guns pointed at him, "No problem at all."

Korath picks up the orb, "How do you know about this?"

"I don't even know what that is. I'm just a Junker, man. I was just...just checking stuff out," Peter quickly spits out.

"You don't look like a Junker! You're wearing Ravager garb!"

"This is just an outfit, man," Peter then turns to Korath's henchmen who keep prodding him, "Ninja Turtle, you better stop poking me."

"What is your name?!"

"My name is Peter Quill, okay!? Dude, chill out!"

"Move!"

Korath's henchmen push Peter foward a bit as he asks, "Why?"

"Ronan may have questions for you," Korath turns to leave.

"Hey, you know what? There's another name you might know me by, Peter waits for Korath to stop and turn back to look at him, before saying with a smirk, "Star-Lord.."

Korath stares at him for a second then asks, "...Who?"

"...Star-Lord, man.. Legendary outlaw," Korath shrugs in confusion as Peter looks back at the Henchmen, "Guys?"

"Move!," Korath yells, sick of the talking, and turns toward the door.

"Ah, forget this," Peter mumbles. 

Peter kicks back the glowing ball at the two henchmen, which breaks open and burns them to ash.

He then pulls out two guns and shoots Korath onto the ground.

Peter picks up the orb that was dropped and Korath rises, shoots at Peter who manages to narrowly miss being hit by falling back. The shot blasts a hole in the wall behind him.

He hits a button on the back of his head, putting on his helmet. Then his his belt, causing his boots become like rockets again and he propels himself out through the hole. 

After backplanting into the ground outside, Peter quickly stands and starts running toward his ship. He looks back at the building to see Korath jumping out from the hole in the wall. He turns back around, hearing Korath let out a war cry.

A few feet away from his ship, he notices a few more of Korath's men waiting for him.

One of them aims at him and fires.

It hits a rock just next to him. Peter pulls out another mag device and tosses it in the middle of them. It pulls all of them into a dogpile.

He runs and jumps off their bodies. He slides along the front of his ship before landing inside through the open window.

Peter lets out a groan as he lands on his back, taking his helmet off.

He pulls himself into his pilot chair and manages to lift his ship a few feet in the air. On the ground Korath and his men somehow manage to pull out a big energy rocket gun from nowhere.

Peter look over at them as they fire a shot, which Peter is able to swerve out of the way of.

He takes off forward across the surface of Morag. 

He starts laughing his ass off and glances behind him.

Peter swerves off, running into a geyser. It pushes the ship upward and shuts off the power. The ship flips over in the air causing Peter to fall onto the glass window of the cockpit.

The ship starts spinning down towards the ground as Peter flails about inside. He's able to pull himself up to his chair as the ship gets closer to the ground. 

Just as they're about to smash into the ground, Peter pulls a lever. This causes the ship to power back up and jerk upright right above from the ground of Morag.

Peter breathes heavily as he sits in the middle of his ship.

"Peter?," he hears, causing him to flinch and sharply look towards the voice.

In the center of the cockpit was a hole that led down below. A pink woman with messy hair and a 'River Rafter' shirt sticks her head through.

"What happened?," she asks, also breathing heavily.

"Hey, uh...uh... I...," Peter points at her and tries to remember her name.

"..Bereet," she tells him, a little hurt.

"Bereet! Look, I'm gonna be totally honest with you.. I forgot you were here..."

She looks at him with shock and even more hurt.

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After Peter put the ship on autopilot, he and Bereet were downstairs.

Peter was watching the news on this monitor, as Bereet was sitting at a table drinking... What probably isn't coffee..

'Go All The Way - Raspberries' was playing in the background.

"Scattered riots broke out across the Kree Empire today protesting the recent peace treaty signed by the Kree Emperor and Xandar's Nova Prime," The News Reporter said as Peter nods along to the music.

A small monitor starts beeping in front of Bereet, "Peter, you have call." 

Bereet presses the screen to answer the call.

"No, wait, don't!," Peter tries to tell her. 

A blue man appears on the big monitor behind Peter. And no, I don't mean a blue man from the Blue Man Group.

"Quill?!," he yells angrily.

Peter slowly turns to face him, "Hey, Yondu."

"I'm here on Morag. Ain't no Orb, ain't no you."

"Well, I was in the neighborhood. I thought I'd save you the hassle," Peter tells him.

"Well, where are you at now, boy?"

"I feel really bad about this.. but I'm not gonna tell you that."

"I slaved putting this deal together..."

"Slaved? Making a few calls is "slaved"?-," Peter rhetorically asks.

"..And now you're gonna rip me off!"

"-I mean, really?"

"We do not do that to each other. We're Ravagers. We got a code," Yondu explains.

"Yeah, and that code is 'steal from everybody.'"

"When I picked you up on Terra..."

"'Picked me up.'," Peter mockingly repeats.

"...these boys of mine wanted to eat you."

"Yeah?"

"They ain't never tasted any Terran before. I stopped 'em. You're alive because of me! I will find you, I will-"

Peter cuts Yondu off by ending the call.

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----- August 1st, 2014 - The Dark Aster -----

Another, different Blue Man was being dressed by servants on a War Ship.

A man was bound to a pole a few feet away, facing away from him.

"They call me 'terrorist,' 'radical,' 'zealot,' because I obey the ancient laws of my people, the Kree, and punish those who do not. Because I do not forgive your people for taking the life of my father, and his father, and his father before him. A thousand years of war between us will not be forgotten!"

The Deep-Voiced Kree picks up a massive weapon which resembles a hammer.

"You can't do this! Our government signed a peace treaty," the other man screams.

"My government knows no shame. You Xandarians and your culture are a disease."

"You will never rule Xandar," The Xandarian tells him as he walks in front of him.

"No," He tells him calmly before yelling, "I will cure it!"

He suddenly swings his weapon and strikes the prisoner on the head, crushing it. He kneels as the mans blood pours out the back.

A blue cybernetic woman comes up behind him, "Ronan, Korath has returned."

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Ronan was sitting in a chair resembling a throne in the center of the room.

Korath was standing in front of him.

"Master, he is a thief, an outlaw who calls himself Star-Lord. But we have discovered he has an agreement to retrieve the orb for an intermediary known as The Broker."

"..I promised Thanos I would retrieve the orb for him.. Only then will he destroy Xandar for me," Ronan quickly stands to his feet and tells the blue woman, "Nebula, go to Xandar and get me the orb."

"It will be my honor," Nebula says with a smirk as she stands a few feet away from him.

A green woman on the opposite side of Nebula tells her, "It will be your doom," she then tells Ronan, "If this happens again, you'll be facing our father without his prize."

The green woman's name was Gamora.

"I'm a daughter of Thanos. Just like you," Nebula says to her with a frown.

"But I know Xandar," Gamora tells her.

"Ronan has already decreed that I-"

Ronan cuts her off with a quick and harsh, "Do not speak for me," he then walks closer to the other woman and says up close, "You will not fail."

"Have I ever?"

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----- August 2nd, 2014 - Xandar -----

"Xandarians.. What a bunch of losers. All of them in a big hurry to get from something stupid, to nothing at all. Pathetic."

A talking raccoon was looking through hi-tech tablet camera.

This was Rocket. 

The People of Xandar were just going about their normal advanced technological day. The architecture of each and every building a greyish white and the twin suns shining bright up high.

Rocket looks at a Xandarian man with short blond hair walking on the sidewalk, "Look at this guy! Can you believe they call us criminals, when he's assaulting us with that haircut?"

He then turns to a small Xandarian child getting help whilst walking, "What is this thing? Look how it thinks it's so cool. It's not cool to get help! Walk by yourself, you little gargoyle." 

And then to a.. very familiar... older Xandarian Legend... who seems like he may be a 'True Believer'.. er i mean a man chatting up a pretty young woman, "Look at Mr. Smiles over here. Where's your wife, old man? What a class-A 'prevert'. Right, Groot? Groot?"

He lets out a uh.. I think that was a laugh? 

And then looks over to his left to see a giant tree man, whose name is Groot, drinking water from the nearby fountain, "Don't drink fountain water, you idiot. That's disgusting!"

"Mmm," Groot shakes his head pretending he didn't drink it.

"Yes, you did. I just saw you doing it. Why you lying?", Rocket's tablet starts beeping warning him of a human sighting, "Whoop. Looks like we got one. Okay, humie, how bad does someone wanna find you?" 

He aims his tablet up to a bridge and it shows Peter talking to Bereet.

Rocket sees that there's a bounty on Peter, "Forty thousand units? Groot, we're gonna be rich." 

Rockets looks over to Groot and finds him drinking from the water from fountain again, he sighs and shakes his head

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Peter enters a shop in Xandar and is greeted by the Broker, "Mr. Quill."

"Broker. The orb," Peter holds out the orb and places it on the counter in front of the Broker, "As commissioned."

"Where's Yondu?"

Peter quickly says, "Wanted to be here, sends his love. And told me to tell you, that you got the best eyebrows in the business." 

The Broker picks up the orb. 

"What is it?," Peter asks him.

"It's my policy never to discuss my clients, or their needs," The Broker tells him as he places the orb back down.

"Yeah, well, I almost died getting it for you."

"An occupational hazard, I'm sure, in your line of work."

"Some machine-headed freak, working for a dude named Ronan."

The Broker suddenly looks afraid and looks at Peter, "Ronan?.. I'm sorry, Mr. Quill. I truly am. But I want no part of this transaction if Ronan is involved!" 

He shoves the orb back to Peter and starts pushing him towards his shop door.

Peter stops him just at the door, "Woah! Woah, Woah, Woah! Who's Ronan?"

"A Kree fanatic, outraged by the peace treaty, who will not rest until Xandarian culture, my culture, is wiped from existence!," The Broker tells him frightened before he starts pushing Peter again.

"Woh. Come on!"

"He's someone whose bad side I'd rather not be on!"

"What? What about my bad side?!"

The Broker opens his shop door and pushes Peter out, "Farewell, Mr. Quill." 

He closes the door in Peter's face.

Peter shouts to the Broker through his closed shop door, "Hey, we had a deal, bro!"

As he steps back he notices Gamora standing nearby watching him. She was leaning against the wall eating what seems to be a alien fruit?

"What happened?," she asks as she takes another bite.

"Uh...this guy just backed out of a deal on me. If there's one thing I hate, it's a man without integrity," And the first thing he does when he sees a hot girl is, "Peter Quill. People call me Star-Lord."

"You have the bearing of a man of honor."

Peter starts to playfully throw the orb up and down in his hand and pretends to look around flustered, "Well, you know, I wouldn't say that.. People say it about me, all the time, but it's not something I would ever say about myself.."

Suddenly, outta nowhere, Gamora grabs the orb, kicks Peter in his stomach and runs off. Peter quickly throws something like a magnetic rope which spins around Gamora's legs and trips her up.

As she gets the rope off her legs, Peter leaps into the air at her but Gamora manages to kick him off and starts punching him on the ground. Peter goes to grab his gun but Gamora steps on his arm and straddles him.

She holds up a knife ready to stab him, "This wasn't the plan.."

As she's about to stab Peter, From outta nowhere, Rocket jumps onto her, knocks her down and yells to Groot referring to Peter, "Put him in the bag. Put him in the bag!"

Groot extends his roots and goes to grab Gamora instead.

"No! Not her, him! Learn genders, man," Rocket struggles with Gamora as she tries to bite him, "Biting? That's not fair!" 

As Rocket is fighting with Gamora, Peter uses this opportunity to grab the orb and runs off. 

"Take it easy!," Rocket yells as Gamora manages to free herself from Rocket and Groot's clutches.

She throws Rockets aside, picks up her knife, and throws it all the way at Peter's hand making him drop the orb. He was a good few yards away too.

The orb rolls of the bridge down below.

Gamora pulls out another knife, jumps off the bridge and rolls towards it. She lands a few feet away from the orb.

She looks up to see the orb roll to a stop underneath someone's foot. The person reaches down and picks it up.

She looks up to the persons face.

Y/N was staring at the orb before glancing up towards her.

Gamora stands and holds her dagger ready, "Unless you wish to find yourself at the end of my blade, I'd hand that over."

He smiles at her, "I'd like to see you try and take it."

Gamora starts to charge at him.

But suddenly, Peter jumps onto her from above, knocking them both to the ground. But Gamora overpowers him again, holding Peter down by her leg to his neck.

"Fool. You should have learned," she tells him.

"I don't learn. One of my issues," Peter attaches a small rocket onto Gamora and sets it off shooting her aside.

Peter quickly stands and looks at Y/N, who was still holding the orb.

He was about to charge at him to take back the orb but Y/N just tosses it to him. Peter looks at him confused.

"This is yours, is it not?," Y/N asks.

Peter thinks for a moment before asking, ".. Are you not.. after this too?"

Y/N shakes his head and pushes his glasses up the bridge of his nose, "I have no interest in this thing."

Peter smiles at him, feeling thankful, thinking he's in the clear. But suddenly Groot places a bag over Peters whole body. Groot starts carrying Peter in the bag over his shoulder.

Y/N just watches, raising an eyebrow at Groot.

Rocket approuches next to Groot, "Quit smiling, you idiot. You're supposed to be a professional," then he turns he sees Gamora coming towards them, "You gotta be kidding me.." 

She pushes Rocket to the ground lightly causing him to yell, "Hey!" 

Gamora fights with Groot, cutting off his arms. Lucky for her, Groot doesn't really want to fight. He's a 'nature-ally' peaceful tree man.

She spins towards Y/N and throws her dagger at him before turning back around. Unfortunately for her, she didn't see the blade bending and falling to the ground after hitting into his chest.

She opens the bag, but Peter suddenly uses his gun to electrocute her and runs off. She falls to the ground unconscious.

Y/N calmly watches Rocket gets out his, gigantic for him, gun and aims it at Peter while saying, "I live for the simple things.. Like how much this is gonna hurt."

He fires, which shoots a ball of electricity at Peter giving him an electric shock, "Yeah. Writhe, little man." 

Then he looks at Groot, who is looking sadly as his severed arms, "It'll grow back, you D'ast idiot. Quit whining."

Y/N makes his way over to Peter to check on him. He taps him with his foot a few times.

Suddenly a few yellow and black ship appear above them. A beam shoots out from each one, causing Groot and Rocket to start hovering on the ground.

From inside one of the small ships, a man yells to Rocket, "Subject 89P13, drop your weapon."

"Oh, crap..," Rockets reluctantly drops his weapon.

"By the authority of the Nova Corps, you are under arrest."

At the same time, Peter is waking up to also being arrested. They tried to also cuff Y/N. But he wasn't having any of it. He's fine with going with them, but he drew the line at being in cuffs.

"Alright. Come on up," one of the Officers arresting Peter recognizes him as he lifts him to his feet, "Hey! If it isn't Star-Prince."

Peter almost had a smile, until he heard 'prince', "..Star-Lord."

"Oh, sorry. Lord," he turns to his partner, who was a little frightened but had a hand on Y/N's shoulder so he 'Doesn't run off', "I picked this guy up a while back for petty theft. He's got a code name."

Peter groans and explains, "Come on, man. It's a...it's an outlaw name."

"Just relax, pal. It's cool to have a code name. It's not that weird," the officer tells him as he leads Peter and Y/N away.

"He's right. I have a code name," Y/N adds.

A few feet away, Rocket looks a little pissed, "Fascists.."

The beam lifts up an unconscious Gamora as well. A few more Nova Corp Officers are on the ground heading towards them.

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