"Showtime, a-holes! It will be here any minute" Peter said as he held a device in his hands. Gamora held a gun in her hands. "Which will be it's loss" she said. "I thought your thing was a sword?" Peter asked. "We've been hired to stop an interdimensional beast from feeding on those batteries, and I'm gonna stop it with a sword?" Gamora asked. "It's just, swords were your thing and guns were mine. But I guess we're both doing guns now. I just didn't know that" Peter said. Gamora looked at Drax. "Drax, why aren't you wearing one of Rocket's aero-rigs?" She asked. Drax looked at her. "It hurts" he said. "It hurts?" Gamora asked. "I have sensitive nipples" Drax said. You and Rocket burst into laughter. "My nipples hurt! Oh, goodness me!" Rocket mocked. "What about them? What are they doing?" Drax asked as he pointed at you and Rocket. "We're finishing this so we can listen to tunes while we work" you said. "How is that a priority?" Drax asked. "Blame Quill. He's the one who loves music so much" Rocket said. "No, I actually agree with Drax on this. That's hardly important right now" Peter said. "Oh, okay. Sure, Quill" you said as you winked at him. "No, seriously, I side with Drax" Peter said. "No, I understand that. You're being very serious right now" Rocket said as he also winked. "I can clearly see you two winking" Drax said. "Damn it. I'm using my left eye?" Rocket asked. Baby Groot ran over to some Orlonis and punched them to the ground. Then he turned around and looked at you. "I am Groot" he said. "They were not looking at you funny" you said. Then a giant Orloni fell from the sky. "That's intense" Rocket said. Drax grabbed both of his swords. As soon as it hit the ground, Drax let out a war cry and ran towards it with his swords.

You and the others flew towards the Orloni as well. Meanwhile Baby Groot was fiddling with two cords that were attached to the radio. Groot connected the two cords together, and music began to play from the radio. Groot started dancing to the music. Peter crashed to the ground next to him, and shot at one of the OrLoni's arms as Groot continued to dance. Peter stood back to his feet. "Groot" he said, then was shoved back to the ground by the Orloni. Groot danced over to where Gamora was shooting at the Orloni. "Groot, get out of the way! You're gonna get hurt!" Gamora said. Groot just waved at her. Gamora smiled. "Hi" she said. Then she flew into the air again. Drax yelped as he was thrown close to Groot, who was still dancing, until Drax looked at him, and Groot immediately froze. Drax was about to turn away, and Groot moved, causing him to look back at Groot, who froze again. Then Drax got up and left, and Groot began dancing again. A giant bug flew near Groot, and he ran after it and tried to catch it. Groot eventually caught it, and began to eat the bug. You flew over to him. "No! Spit it out! Come on!" You said as you patted him on the back. Groot spit out the bug and watched it fly away. You grabbed your blaster from your back and flew away. "Disgusting!" You said. A smaller Orloni ran towards Groot, who extended his right branch out, and grabbed onto the Orloni. Then he sat on the Orloni's back as he rode the Orloni. Groot was thrown off the Orloni, and landed on the ground. Then he got back to his feet and started dancing again. The Orloni then threw Drax onto the radio, which broke it and stopped the music. Groot ran over to Drax, and angrily hit him with his branches.

Drax stood back up. "The beast's hide is too thick to be pierced from the outside. I must cut through it from the inside" he said. Gamora stopped shooting at it and looked at Drax with confusion. "Huh?" She asked. Drax laughed as he held his swords in the air and charged at the Orloni. "No, no! Drax, wait a minute! Drax!" Gamora shouted. The Orloni opened it's mouth and Drax jumped into it. Peter took off his mask in shock. "What is he doing?" He asked. "He said the skin is too thick to be pierced from the outside, so he..." Gamora began but was cut off. "That doesn't make any sense!" Peter said. "I tried telling him that!" Gamora said. "Skin is the same level of thickness from the inside as from the outside!" Peter said. "I realize that" Gamora said. "There is a cut on its neck. Rocket, Y/N, get it to look up" Peter said. Peter put his mask back on and flew back into the air. "Hey, you giant Sea-Monkey! Up here!" You shouted as you shot at the Orloni and flew up alongside Rocket. Peter flew around the Orloni and shot at it. "Watch it, Quill!" Rocket yelled. Suddenly a bright rainbow light of colors came out from it's mouth and hit you and Rocket. You screamed and flew higher into the air. Gamora targeted the cut on it's neck and dropped her gun to the floor. Then she took out her long sword. The Orloni grabbed Peter with one arm and you with another. You and Peter screamed as the giant Orloni swung you around in it's giant arms. Gamora ran towards the Orloni and jumped into the air. Then she hit it's neck with her sword and slung down the Orloni, cutting it's neck open.

Yellow liquid fell from it's neck and the Orloni dropped you and Peter. Peter flew back into the air as you fell to the ground. Drax made his way through the skin, and fell out from the Orloni onto the ground. Rocket flew over to you. "You okay?" He asked. You nodded and stood up. "Yeah, I'm fine" you said. Drax laughed and you all looked at him. Drax held his two swords in the air. "Yes! I have single-handedly vanquished the beast!" He said. Gamora crossed her arms and Groot threw a tiny rock at Drax's face. Drax stopped laughing and looked at him. "What?" He asked. Peter took his space outfit off. Drax looked at the pair of batteries. "What are they called again?" He asked. "Anulax batteries" Peter said as he put on his jacket. "Harbulary batteries" Drax said. Peter looked at him. "That's nothing like what I just said" he said. "But they're worth thousands of units apiece" Peter said. You smirked as you secretly took the batteries out of the machine and gave some of them to Rocket. Then you both hid them in your bags. "which is why the Sovereign hired us to protect them. Careful what you say around these folks. They're easily offended. The cost of transgression is death" Peter said as all of you followed him.

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The six of you stood in front of the queen and her people. "We thank you, Guardians, for putting your lives on the line. We could not risk the lives of our own Sovereign citizens. Every citizen is born exactly as designed by the community. Impeccable, both physically and mentally. We control the DNA of our progeny germinating them in birthing pods" Ayesha said. "I guess I prefer to make people the old-fashioned way" Peter said. "Perhaps someday, you could give me a history lesson in the archaic ways of our ancestors. For academic purposes" Ayesha suggested. "I would be honored, yes. In the name of research... I think that could be pretty, uh... repulsive. I'm not into that kind of casual..." Peter was cut off. "Oh, please. Your people promised something in exchange for our services. Bring it and we shall gladly be on our way" Gamora said as she walked over to Ayesha. Two Sovereigns walked over holding onto Nebula and threw her harshly on the ground. Nebula slowly turned and looked at Gamora, and both sisters sent each other death glares. Peter leaned forward. "Family reunion. Yay" he said. "I understand she is your sister" Ayesha said. "She's worth no more to me than the bounty due for her on Xandar" Gamora said as she grabbed her and forced her to stand up. "Our soldiers apprehended her attempting to steal the batteries" Ayesha said as she rose from her golden throne. "Do with her as you please" Ayesha said. Gamora grabbed Nebula by the arm and pulled her forward. Nebula grunted, and angrily marched in front of Gamora as she followed behind her. Peter bowed to her. "We thank you, High Priestess Ayesha" he said, and began to walk away.

"What is your heritage, Mr. Quill?" Ayesha asked. Peter stopped and turned around. "My mother is from Earth" Peter said. "And your father?" She asked. "He ain't from Missouri. That's all I know" he said. "I see it within you. An unorthodox genealogy. A hybrid that seems particularly... reckless" Ayesha said. "You know, they told me you people were conceited douchebags but that isn't true at all" you said then gave Peter a wink. The Sovereign gasped. One of them aimed a gun towards you. Peter looked at Ayesha for a reaction. "Oh, shit. I'm using my wrong eye again, aren't I?" You asked. Drax reached down and grabbed you with one of his hands. "I'm sorry. That was meant to be behind your back" you said as Drax pulled you away. "Count yourself blessed they didn't kill you" Drax mumbled. "You're telling me. You wanna buy some batteries?" Rocket chuckled. You and Drax both laughed.

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Rocket sat in the driver's seat in the spaceship. "All right, let's get baldy to Xandar and collect that bounty!" He said as he took off. The song "Lake Shore Drive" played from the Walkman and Groot was looking out one of the giant windows. Suddenly the alarm in the spaceship goes off. Gamora walked over just as spaceships from the Sovereign flew behind them. "This is weird. We've got a Sovereign fleet approaching from the rear" Peter said. "Why would they do that?" Gamora asked. "Probably because Rocket and Y/N stole some of their batteries" Drax said. "Dude!" You said. "Right. They didn't steal some of those. I don't know why they're after us. What a mystery this is" Drax said as he looked away. Suddenly the Sovereign began shooting. Gamora yelped and Peter quickly flew the ship, dodging all of their lasers. "What were you two thinking?" Peter asked in disbelief. "Dude, they were really easy to steal!" Rocket said. "That's your defense?" Gamora asked. "Come on! You saw how that High Priestess talked down to us. Now I'm teaching her a lesson!" You said. "Oh, I didn't realize your motivation was altruism. It's really a shame the Sovereign have mistaken your intentions and they're trying to kill us" Peter said. "Exactly!" Rocket said. "I was being sarcastic!" Peter said. "Oh, no! You're supposed to use a sarcastic voice! Now we look foolish!" You shouted. "Can we put the bickering on hold until after we survive this massive space battle?" Gamora asked. "More incoming!" Peter said as more Sovereign spaceships flew towards them. "Good! I wanna kill some guys!" Rocket said. Rocket began yelling as he started shooting at the spaceships. You sighed and rolled your eyes.

"You're not killing anyone, moron. All those ships are remotely piloted" you said. "What's the nearest habitable planet?" Peter asked. "It's called Berhert" Gamora said. "How many jumps?" Peter asked. "Only one. But the access point is 47 clicks away. And you have to go through that quantum asteroid field" Gamora said as Peter looked out the window at the field. "Quill, to make it through that you'd have to be the greatest pilot in the universe" Drax said. "Lucky for us,..." "I am" you, Rocket and Peter said at the same time. Then you all reached for the control. Rocket took control first, and easily steered past all of the Sovereign spaceships. You grabbed the handle and took control of it. "Y/N what are you doing?!" Rocket asked. Then Peter took control of it. "I've been flying this rig since I was 10 years old" Peter said. You took control of the spaceship again. "I was cybernetically engineered to pilot a spacecraft!" You protested. "You were cybernetically engineered to be a douchebag!" Peter said as he took control of the spaceship again. "Stop it" Gamora warned. "Quill, Later on tonight, you're gonna be laying down in your bed and there's gonna be something squishy in your pillow case.

And you're gonna be like, "What's this?" And it's gonna be because I put a turd in there!" You said before taking control of the spaceship again. Peter glared at you. "You put your turd in my bed, I shave you" he said. "Oh, it won't be my turd. It will be Drax's" you said. Drax laughed. "I have famously huge turds" Drax said. You smiled and nodded at Drax. "We're about to die, and this is what we're discussing?" Gamora asked. "Son of a..." Rocket said as he tried to take back control but Peter had taken it before he could. "Guys! Seriously!" Peter said. "Hey! Let me..." Rocket said. Suddenly another spaceship crashed into the ship and Nebula was pulled forward. Groot was almost blown away, but quickly grabbed onto one of your ears and held onto it. Groot then flew off and towards Peter who quickly grabbed him and threw him towards the back of the ship. Nebula fell to the ground. "Idiots!" Nebula shouted. "Well, that's what you get when Rocket or Quill flies" you said. Rocket turned around and growled at you. Gamora tossed a weapon towards you. "Ow!" You said. "We still have a Sovereign craft behind us" she said. "Our weapons are down" Peter said. "20 clicks to the jump!" Gamora said. Drax gave Groot to Gamora, who put him on one of her shoulders. "Hold on" she said. Nebula was reaching for one of the vegetables, until Drax grabbed it from her. "It's not ripe" he said.

Drax grabbed a tiny device and clipped it to his back. "15 clicks to the jump!" Gamora said. Drax grabbed a giant gun and opened the door to the spaceship. Drax then pushed another button and a shield appeared in front of Nebula. Drax ran out of the ship holding the gun and started shooting at the spaceships. "10 clicks!" Gamora said. "Die, spaceship!" Drax said as he shot at more of the spaceships. "Five clicks!" Gamora said. Peter drove towards the field. Suddenly the spaceships flew from both sides towards them. "Son of a... They went around the field!" Peter said. You looked at Rocket worriedly. Suddenly before the spaceships could make contact, all of them exploded and disappeared. You watched in shock. "One click!" Gamora said. Then you caught sight of something floating in space. "What is that?" You asked. "Who cares? That's the jump point! Go go!" Peter urged. You and Rocket looked closer as you drove past, and saw a tiny guy standing on the spaceship waving. "It's a guy" Rocket said. Your eyes widened and your ears twitched. Gamora heard a shout coming from Drax and looked at the small screen near her seat, and saw Drax being dragged down with the spaceship. "Oh my God. He's still out there?" Gamora asked. Drax was screaming as he was being dragged down by the spaceship. The device that held Drax was almost disconnected to the spaceship, until Gamora grabbed it, and pulled it towards her. Gamora was then pulled forward, and nearly fell out of the spaceship, but grabbed the edge of it.

Peter looked back from his seat to see Groot sitting on the seat behind him eating a bucket of candy. Peter then turned his attention back to landing the spaceship. "Groot, put your seatbelt on! Prepare for a really bad landing!" Peter cried as the spaceship crashed through a bunch of trees. Gamora was doing her best to hold onto Drax as Drax was thrown against tree after tree. Gamora was barely hanging onto the spaceship. The spaceship finally stopped moving and went out. Then the other half of the spaceship broke off and fell on the ground. Drax laughed. "That was awesome! Yes!" He said.