Location: Morag
Peter Quill walked across the landscape of Morag, on his way to the temple to collect the Orb. His helmet protected his face from the wind and the rain battering down on the surface of the planet. He stopped and took a gadget out of his bag, using it to map out a holographic path towards the temple.
Using the hologram, he made his way to the temple and put the gadget back in his bag as he walked inside and removed his helmet.
"Peter? Please tell me you're not going to listen to music whilst you're on a job." The voice of his co-pilot, Alyssa, said into his earpiece. He laughed as he unhooked his headphones from his belt.
"You know I always have my music playing during a job, Alyssa." he said.
"Fine." she sighed. "What are you going to play?" Peter put the headphones on and switched on his Walkman, starting to dance as the opening beats of Redbone's Come And Get Your Love played. "Good choice."
He danced along to the music through the temple until he got to where the Orb was being kept inside an energy field. Peter used a gravity device to remove it from the field and picked it up. He turned round to see mercenaries pointing guns at him.
"Ah, crap." Peter muttered.
"Drop it!" The leader said.
"Who was that?" Alyssa asked, concerned.
"I have no idea." he replied.
"Drop it now!"
"Ok, man, no problem! No problem at all!" Peter exclaimed, dropping the Orb as the mercs moved behind him.
"How do you know about this?" The leader asked, picking up the Orb and holding it out.
"I don't even know what that is." said Peter. "I'm just a junker, man. I was just checking stuff out."
"You don't look like a junker. You're wearing Ravager garb!"
"Checking voice recognition"
"This is just an outfit, man." said Peter, ignoring Alyssa's laugh of disbelief. He turned to the henchmen who were prodding him with their guns. "Ninja Turtle, you better stop poking me."
"Even in dangerous situations, you can't stop making Terran references." said Alyssa. He could almost hear her smiling. "This guy is Korath the Pursuer. He's a Kree mercenary."
"What is your name?" Korath asked.
"My name is Peter Quill, ok? Dude, chill out."
"Move!"
"Why?"
"Ronan may have questions for you." said Korath, turning to leave.
"Ronan the Accuser." Alyssa told him. "He's a Kree warlord. Korath must be working for him."
"Hey, you know what?" Peter asked Korath. "There's another name you might know me by!" Korath stopped and looked back at him.
"Don't..."
"Star-Lord."
"Goddammit, Peter!"
"Who?" asked Korath.
"Star-Lord, man. Legendary outlaw." Peter said, ignoring Alyssa's laughing on the other end of the comm link. "Guys? Oh, forget this!"
Peter pulled out his guns and shot the two henchmen behind him, then shot Korath when the latter tried to pick up the Orb. Korath got back up and managed to hit him with gunfire. Peter fell down to the ground, put on his helmet and used his rocket boots to fly out of the cave back to his ship.
"Alyssa!" he called to her, as he ran back to the ship.
"Already on it." she replied.
The orange and blue Ravager M-ship flew up and fired her guns at the mercenaries who were chasing him. She turned on her side, allowing him to jump through the open window and land in the seat next to Alyssa. His co-pilot was a brunette with a Terran appearance - even though she wasn't from Earth - and, like him, dressed in Ravager gear, only her jacket was a dark orange instead of red.
"How do you always get into trouble on a job, Peter?" she asked, as she took off.
"You know me, I always get into trouble." he replied.
He took hold of his pilot controls and they flew to the side to dodge a beam of energy being fired at them by Korath's men. Peter and Alyssa both laughed as they escaped, before the ship was hit from beneath by a sudden blast of water, throwing them both around in their seats. As the ship fell back down Alyssa reached over to the controls and pulled a lever, engaging the engines and stopping her ship from crashing. She and Peter sat back in their seats and caught their breath.
"What the hell happened?" she asked.
"No idea!" he replied.
Location: The Milano
Alyssa set the coordinates for Xandar and the two of them relaxed, Peter's tape deck quietly playing music in the background. On the screen, a news report was playing about riots breaking out because of the peace treaty signed by the Kree Empire and Nova Prime.
"What is a Ninja Turtle?" she asked, curiously. Peter looked up at her from where he was examining the Orb.
"They're a group of four turtles from a Terran cartoon that I used to watch. They were hit with radioactive material and became super ninjas." he explained. "They fought criminals, evil overlords, mutated creatures and aliens."
"How did they not die from the radioactive material?"
"I don't know. It's a cartoon." he replied, shrugging. "You don't really think about it that much." He carefully turned the Orb around in his hands. "What do the Kree want with this thing, anyway?" Alyssa reached across the table and took it.
"I'm not sure, but whatever it is it's dangerous." she said. "The sooner we get it off my ship, the better. You have a call."
"Yondu?" She nodded and he sighed. "Fine." They stood up and turned to the screen as Alyssa accepted the call. "Hey, Yondu."
"Quill, Alyssa!" The Ravager captain greeted them. "I'm here on Morag. Ain't no Orb, ain't no you!"
"Well, we were in the neighbourhood." said Peter. "Thought we'd save you the hassle."
"Well, where you both at now?"
"I feel really bad about this, but I'm not gonna tell you that."
"I slaved putting this deal together and now you're gonna rip me off! We do not do that to each other. We're Ravagers, we got a code!"
"Yeah, and that code is "steal from everybody"." said Peter.
"When I picked you up on Terra..."
"Really?" asked Alyssa. "You call abducting an eight year old Terran from his home "picking him up"?"
"...these boys of mine wanted to eat you."
"Yeah?" asked Peter.
"Hmm mmm?" asked Alyssa, both of them having heard this before.
"They ain't never tasted any Terran before. I stopped 'em. You're alive because of me! I will find you, I will..."
"Oh, sorry, Yondu." Alyssa interrupted him. "You're breaking up."
"Don't you hang up on me, girl!" Yondu exclaimed.
"Bye!" she exclaimed, hanging up on him then looked at Peter. "What? You know you were thinking the same thing." He nodded.
"You know he's gonna be pissed at me for keeping the Orb from him." said Peter.
"When is Yondu ever not pissed at you, Peter?" she asked. "As soon as we get to Xandar, the sooner we can get rid of the Orb."
