I'm waking up to ash and dust, I wipe my brow and sweat my rust
2561 Nova corp. prison compound: Special Operations Unit HQ
"Ah Nova Prime to what do I owe this pleasure!" a human prisoner with brown hair said smirking as another occupant of the prison just shook his head at him as an elderly woman stood in front of his prison cell.
"Peter Quil"
"That's Star-Lord"
"And Arthur Douglas aka Drax the Destroyer" she said indicating the other prisoner "I have need of your services once again. You see there may be a civil war brewing and we need your help to stop them
"Yeah not happening" Star-Lord said
"Pete, maybe we should do it" Drax said
"AN why would we?" Star-Lord asked lazing back
"Because this will be your final mission under your imprisonment, and there for you will be fully recognised as a special operations division of the Nova Corp." Nova Prime said
"Can we get that in writing" Star-Lord said dumbfounded
"You mean we'll be free?" Drax asked hopeful
"Yes we will consider your sentence served if you do this," Nova Prime said
"When and where do we start?" Star-Lord asked.
Planet Chorus 2564 New Republican Base
Vanessa Kimball was not what one could call weak willed, so when she had found four of the 'simulation' troopers that brought down Project Freelancer had been recruited she was a bit worried.
"Beer?" a voice said making her turn to her long time colleague and 2IC Quill
"Thanks Quill" Kimball said removing her helmet and started to sip the refreshing beverage "They're not ready to find their teammates" she said
"Oh they'll be ready if we want them to or not" Quill said sip[ping his own beer. "You just have to motivate them a bit, stoke the fire as it were"
"Thanks Quill, I guess that is why you're the second in command; just a pity that you're not the leader" Kimball smiled brushing her warm chestnut brown hair behind her ear as she drank some more of her beer.
"I'm telling you now I'm not a leader V, I'm just a soldier looking for his place in the world" Quill said smiling as he left "That paperwork isn't going to do itself commander"
"Alright, hey! can you check on them?" Kimball asked
"Sure can" Quill said smiling as he walked over to the bunks. This was so far the longest mission the man had been on, he was separated from his teammates and ship. He had been sent to Chorus, for all intent and purposes to end a civil war that was being manipulated by an outsider for the Nova Corps. Why he didn't know all he knew as that the Nova Corps wanted them gone. So it was decided that Drax and Star-Lord would enter the two sides and find the manipulative bastards and bitches behind this blood soaked war and end them, Quill had a stronger than normal hunch that the mercenary Felix who was a charmer, but then again a snake could be charming until it struck. So he decided to keep an eye on Felix.
"Meet me at the bunks in ten minutes" Quill heard Tucker say "We're leaving"
"About time, now hopefully this will force their hands and slip up" Quill said as his comlink lit up
"Quill here" he said as a voice said shakily on the other end
"Sir, this is Cadet Madison we're under attack by the Federation, west sector please" Madison said
"I'm on my way" Quill said heading over to the vehicle bay and grabbing a mongoose.
Chorus-New Republic Outpost 19-B
Sally Madison was one of the new recruits brought into the fight she wore the standard tan Republic armour with sage trim. She carried around the standard issue DMR and Magnum as weapons and right now she was pinned down with several other cadets who were just as scared.
"This is it, not even out of basic a month and we're going to get slagged" a recruit wearing silver trimmed armour said
"Stow that talk soldier" Quill said showing up in his white trimmed tanned armour "Now what do we have?"
"Feds sir, they just showed up out of nowhere, and then he came along!" Madison said
"Who?" Quill asked getting out his own DMR
"some kind of big bastard wearing black armour" Madison said
"I believe its steel" a Rose trimmed Recruit said
"WHATEVER" Madison shouted "Anyway the Feds were swatted like flies and these guys turned on us, they already got Kerri, Fiona and Bella sir!"
"That's okay, now shall we?" Quill asked throwing out a grenade before shooting it, killing four of the steel armoured soldiers. 'I have to contact Nova Prime; this is the first sighting of these space pirates' "Okay Madison, Lucas and I don't Reynolds take the left flank, everyone else flank right" he ordered as he went down the middle with two magnums and blew away any merc he came across. "HOW ABOUT RIGHT NOW!" Quill shouted.
"Yes sir!" the recruits said
An hour later the Republican soldiers had won, barely but now they had a new question, who exactly sent this arseholes to attack their outpost. Quill looked at the steel armour for an identifying marks or insignia to tell him who these guys were. Quill knew this could be the first major clue
"Hey Star Lord" Quill's communicator said
"Go Drax" Quill said
"One of our outposts just came under attack, steel colour armoured mercenaries, thought they were with the republic until they started to kill them as well"
"Same here, you think they could be with who Nova Prime wants?" Quill asked looking around
"I doubt it" Drax said. "Anyway Doyle's calling me back in, I'll talk to you later" Drax said
"Right, catch you late bud" Quill said ending the conversation. "Alright recruits MOVE OUT!" the order was given and the recruits were jumping into Warthogs to get out of there, while Quill jumped on his Mongoose and lead the convoy back to base.
New Republican Base
Quill and the Outpost team walked in to be debriefed only to find the Republican Soldier assigned to the Reds and Blues looked bummed
"What's going on?" Quill asked as they looked at the screen
"That would explain why we're short two Warthogs" Matthews one of Griff's men said
"So they decided to do it" Quill said as the others joined him
"Dammit Tucker" Kimball said
"They just...left us?" Palomo, Tucker's remaining man said
"Who left us?" Felix asked. "Oh no" he said noticing the screen
'Something's not right with this situation, I'm going to suit up and find them' Quill thought leaving the room
"Back to your post" Kimball said.
In his personal quarters Quill took off his armour and pulled out a suitcase, opening it up to revealing a long red leather duster, a blue shirt, grey pants and mid shin length red boots, a couple of alien guns and a metal mask. This was the outfit not of Peter Quill, or Quill the second in command of the Republic but the outfit of Star-Lord, the leader of the fabled Guardians of the Galaxy: a ragtag bunch of criminals from late 21st century, that were transported to the 26th thanks to the Time Stone used by the Mad Titan Thanos.
Flashback- 2045/2555 Nova Corps Space quadrant 616-S
Thanos pointed his weapon: The Infinity Gauntlet at the centre of Solar System preparing to accelerate the age of the sun by 500 hundred year through the use of the Time Stone. Only the Guardians comprosing of Star-Lord, Drax, Groot a walking Tree, Gamora the adopted daughter of Thanos and Rocket a genetically engineered Raccoon Badass. There were other members, but they were the last ones on active duty, with the rest retiring and dying until they were the last five guardians. Thanos fired the time beam, only to hit their ship the Milano, sending them 510 years into the future where the UNSC and the Nova Corps found their ship out of power and drifting lifelessly. They were detained in the Nova Corps headquarters: the Novastorm where they would be deployed on special missions. At any one time two to three ops would be running.
"Felix is going out into the field, so should I" Quill said using a holographic project to make it appear that he still wore his Republic Armour and walked out to where a Mongoose was waiting for him.
"Hold on guys, you may have just been involved something dangerous" Star-Lord said driving off as he started to play some music.
I feel it in my bones, enough to make my system blow, welcome to the new age, welcome to the new age
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Chorus of the Galactic Corps