Location: The Sovereign

"Showtime, a-holes!" said Peter. "It'll be here any minute."

"Which will be its loss." said Gamora, readying her gun. Peter turned to look after her.

"I thought your thing was a sword?" he asked.

"We've been hired to stop an interdimensional beast from feeding on those batteries, and I'm going to stop it with a sword?" she asked.

"It's just swords were your thing and guns were mine." he said. "But I guess we're both doing guns now. I just didn't know that."

"Is this really an important conversation right now?" asked Alyssa. "I don't think it matters what kind of weapon you're using against the Abilisk, does it?"

"Thank you!" Gamora said. "Drax, why aren't you wearing one of Rocket's aero-rigs?"

"It hurts." Drax replied.

"It hurts?"

"I have sensitive nipples." he said. Rocket burst out laughing.

"My nipples hurt! Oh, goodness me!" Rocket exclaimed.

"What's he doing?" Drax asked, pointing at Rocket.

"I'm finishing this so we can listen to tunes while we work." Rocket replied, as he set up a set of speakers.

"How is that a priority?"

"Blame Quill! He's the one who loves music so much!"

"No, I actually agree with Drax on this." said Peter. "That's hardly important right now."

"Oh, ok. Sure, Quill." Rocket winked at him.

"No, seriously. I side with Drax."

"I can clearly see you winking!" said Drax.

"Damn it. I'm using my left eye?" Alyssa and Gamora looked at each other and sighed as Peter, Rocket and Drax continued to bicker.

"As much as I hate to say it, I'm with Rocket here." said Alyssa, looking at Peter. "You have got everyone here into music, Peter. It was only a matter of time before we ended up having music blasting as we fight the Abilisk."

"Thank you!" Rocket said. "See? Even your freaking ship agrees with me!"

"Thank you, Rocket." she said. They heard a screeching sound and looked down to see baby Groot attacking an Orloni.

"I am Groot."

"They were not looking at you funny." Rocket told him. Peter's device beeped and they looked up to see the Abilisk descending towards the platform. "Well, that's intense."

The Abilisk landed in front of them. Drax yelled and ran towards it as Peter, Gamora, Rocket and Alyssa flew towards it, leaving Groot with the speakers. As the tea, began to fight the creature, they heard the familiar opening beats of Electric Light Orchestra's Mr. Blue Sky start to play. Peter and Alyssa kept an eye on Groot who was dancing along to the music, seemingly oblivious to the chaos going on around him.

Peter was thrown on the ground next to Groot and fired his Quad Blaster at the Abilisk as he stumbled to his feet.

"Groot." he said, before being whacked by one of the Abilisk's tentacles.

Drax was whacked on the ground by another one of the tentacles, just missing Groot. Gamora was on the ground, firing her gun at the Abilisk and spotted Groot.

"Groot, get out of the way! You're gonna get hurt!" she told him. He waved at her. "Hi." She flew off towards the Abilisk.

Peter, Rocket and Alyssa continued to fly around the creature, Peter and Rocket firing their guns and Alyssa firing electrical blasts at it.

Down on the ground, Drax was running towards the Abilisk and Gamora was shouting after him.

"What is he doing?" asked Peter, as he and Alyssa landed either side of her.

"He said the skin is too thick to be pierced from the outside, so he..." Gamora started to explain.

"That doesn't make any sense!" said Peter.

"I tried telling him that!"

"Skin is the same level of thickness from the inside as from the outside!" said Alyssa.

"I realise that." said Gamora.

"There's a cut on its neck." said Peter. "Rocket, get it to look up." He put his helmet on and he and Alyssa flew up. They and Rocket fired at the Abilisk to distract it. "Hey, you giant Sea-Monkey! Up here!"

Alyssa saw Gamora aim at the Abilisk, then grab her sword out of its sheath and run towards the creature. Gamora jumped up and dug the sword into the cut on its neck and the Abilisk collapsed. They all watched as Drax then slid out of the opening.

"Yes!" he exclaimed, laughing. "I have single-handedly vanquished the beast!"

Peter and Alyssa looked at each other and rolled their eyes.