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Chapter 1
A Plan gone wrong
"We need you to find a Data-Case." Nova Prime asked "We've tracked it to a Space Station on the edge of the Cephalon system. The Case contains highly sensitive information." "How was it taken then? If it's so important, why was it not guarded better?" Peter Quill, Who was also known as Star-Lord, asked. "It was an inside job we caught the thief we just need the case back. Since the Nova Corps has no jurisdiction in Cephalon I'm sending you Guardians to retrieve the Case. The Case's tracking number is 10.8200 that will lead you to it. Report back to me when you have it or if something should go wrong. Nova Prime out." the Com-Pad screen went black. "Team meeting now!" Peter yelled.
Fifteen minutes later, Peter, Drax, Gamora, Rocket and Groot, who was still growing back from his near death on Xandar, were all assembled in the main room of the ship. Perter was standing, he was leaning against the wall near to the cockpit. Gamora was sitting down on one of the two benches that were on either side of the room. Drax was sitting down on the opposite bench one of his knives in his hand. Rocket had climbed up onto the table and was sitting down cross-legged on it. Groot had been placed beside him. Rocket looked over at Peter. "So why we here jerk?" Peter sighed "Well furface I'm going to tell you. We've been hired to find a Data-Case that was stolen from Nova and taken to a Space Station in Cephalon. You guys up for that?" he asked the rest of the team. "How are we going to find this Data-Case and when we do how are we going to get it back?" Gamora asked looking over at Rocket. "I'll think of something by the time we get there. Which is when Quill?" Peter turned and walked back into the cockpit, he pressed a few buttons on the navigation console and pulled up the information. "We'll be there in about an hour. That enough time for you?" He yelled back at Rocket. "Of course it'll be enough Quill! It's all we got."
Thirty minutes in and Rocket had a plan, He set everyone down and outlined the plan: "So it's simple ya see. We beam Drax and Gamora into the weapon room and both of ya will make your way to the main hanger and cause a distraction. Meanwhile me 'n Quill will get inta position. Quill you'll get to the vault where they're holden' the case. There will be a lot of security in place so I'll make my way to the main control deck I'll deactivate the security, then hack into the power control and cause the core to overload." He grins "Hell I might even tell the weapon systems to shoot each other. Ain't no such thing as too many fireworks in my opinion. Then we get back to Xandar hand over the Case and get paid. That sound good?" He looked at the rest of the team. "I am Groot?" Rocket looked down at the young tree. "Well buddy, I thought you could sit here and guard the ship." Groot smiled at the raccoon and sat up a bit taller. "I am Groot!" "Good so what do the rest of ya think?" "Sounds good, Though why do Drax and Gamora get all the fun?" Peter complained. Rocket sighed and looked over at the human. "What do ya think the Vault is just gonna be un-guarded? Quit your whining Humie and just follow the plan." Rocket hopped down off the table, grabbed Groot and walked back to their shared room. "We'll be there in about twenty minutes. So I suggest you guys get ready." He says as he walks away.
Peter turns and goes into the cockpit, he sits down in the pilot's seat He picks up his Walkman from the console. He puts on the headphones and flips on his "Awesome Mix" he sits there bobbing his head in time with the music and watching out the window. Drax took the time to re-sharpen and polish his knives. Gamora went to her room and went over her weaponry, Once she was satisfied that everything was in order. She knelt down on her floor and began to meditate. Rocket sat Groot down on the small table by his bed. He took out a tablet and powered it on and opens a program. "This oughta work." he mumbled "I am Groot?" "Oh, it's that hacking program I wrote for that one job... Remember? The one where we had to break into that mobsters house? Well anyway, I'm going to be using it to hack the stations mainframe." He took the tablet and transferred the program to a Holopad. Which he folded and put in one of the pockets on his belt. He walked across the room and opened a cabinet that he used as a weapon locker. He takes out two pistols and holsters them. He turns to go then pauses and grabs a silver disk from the cabinet, he clips it onto his belt, grabs Groot and walks out to the main room. The others are already there, Peter looks at each one of them, then grins, "Let's go get that case!"
There was a bright flash of light and Peter found himself in one of the brightly lit hallways. He blinked and turned to look at Rocket who was standing beside him grinning "Well that worked didn't it eh? Star-Dork?" Peter reached up and pressed the button on his earpiece. With a series of faint clicking sounds his mask formed around his face. "Yeah, it did work considering you built that device from scrap and pieces of MY ship." He started walking down one of the hallways and Rocket followed. "Hey Pete you know what to do right ya won't flark everything up like ya did last time will ya?" Rocket asked still grinning up at him. Peter sighed "You're never going to let me live that down are you?" "Nope, I ain't that's one of the reasons why I'm still here. Without me, who would remind you of all your flark ups? Anyways, this is where we split ways. You just keep going down this hallway and kill anything that tries to stop you. Sound easy enough for ya?" Peter turned to the right and started walking "Yeah, sounds good... Meet you back in the Main Hanger in what twenty... Twenty-five minutes?" "I hope it's less than that Star-Dork." Peter kept walking towards the Vault room.
Rocket kept walking till he came to one of the elevators that would take him to the Control Deck. He reached up pressing the 'up' button with the tip of his claw. With a hiss the doors opened Rocket stepped in he pulled out the hacking unit, and with a few quick keystrokes the lift begins to move up to the highest floor. "Damn buttons always up too high." He grumbles. He un-clips the grenade from his belt and holding down the safety button he typed in the six digit activation code with quick practiced movements. 8,9,1,6,1,3. He held the grenade in one paw and his pistol in the other. The doors opened, he tossed the grenade into the center of the room and stepped to the side as the men inside the room fired their bullets hitting the back wall of the elevator. A loud popping sound was followed by a bright white light that filled the room. Rocket stepped in, He drew the other pistol and fired at two of the soldiers. Bolts of bright green energy slammed into their chests sending them flying back as seven inch holes were burned through them. Rocket laughed as he kept firing and soon the room was empty except for fifteen corpses and the raccoon who looked around the room "Murdered ya'll." He walked to one of the only computers in the room that wasn't damaged in the fight. Humming quietly to himself. He removed a panel from the computer he looked at it for a short time then nodded and set to work hardwiring the hacking unit to the computer. After about a minute of dealing with wires and typing he pressed his earpiece "Quill ya there?" "I'm here." "Security is down and the doors are unlocked, you're free to grab the Case." "Good job Rocket, Set the timer for fifteen minutes. That should give us time to fight our way to the main hanger and get out of here." "Sounds good Quill, Rocket out." He pressed the button on his earpiece ending the connection. He set to work hacking into the automated missile defense systems while trapping the counter hacking measures and hacking into the power management system. In seven minutes he finished and pressed a button on his earpiece switching it to the team frequency "Team we've got about fifteen minutes to get out of here. I'll meet ya there Rocket out." He began disconnecting the hacking unit carefully removing various wires. "Your beautiful, More perfect, then you were." said a voice. Rocket stopped instantly his paws dropping to the pistols on the floor. That voice was just as calm, quiet and repulsive as he remembered. "Quore.." He growled "I thought you were dead." He turned to face the man who had caused him so much pain. Quore was tall, thin and pale. His white hair hung down to his shoulders. Four thin scars ran down from the right side of his forehead they curved running down over his right eye before curving and ending on his jawline. He stood in the doorway holding his hands behind his back "I was dead, but due to the miracles of medical science, A lot of which was tested on yo..." With a snarl Rocket fired both pistols at the man. The energy hit and absorbed into a shield which shimmered slightly. Quore grinned at the raccoon. Rocket felt a sense of dread slowly wash over him "Asgardian shield tech.. It's going to take a lot more than that to break it." Quore moved closer to Rocket keeping his hands behind his back out of Rocket's sight. "As I was saying...Modern science brought me back and now I can take you back. We've searched for you for a long time and now we have you back." Rocket's paw went down to the teleport device on his belt. Quore moved quickly faster then he should have been able to and punched Rocket in the face. Rocket let out a small squeak of pain and surprise. He snapped his teeth at Quore who pulled back and took the gun he was holding in his other hand out from behind his back. He pointed it at Rocket and fired. Rocket saw a bright flash of light and pain coursed through him. He felt his body go numb as the implants were forcibly shut down.. As the blackness closed in he saw Quore standing over him grinning that false grin Rocket saw in his nightmares. "I have you back 89P13." He heard Quore laughing and then everything went black...