It was a simple distress call. They guardians were hoping for an easy call maybe with a payoff. Their starship hurtled off towards their destination. They had music blasting. Rocket was driving. Star lord was eating a bag of peanuts. Drax just seemed to staring off into space. Gamora was looking at the navigation and Groot had his attention buried in an old video game. All seemed to be normal.

"Hold onto your weapons." Rocket says. "We're going in."

With a lurch the ship jumps through space to its final destination.

"Rocket." Gamora said. "The warning doesn't help if you don't give us a chance to brace ourselves. There is now peanuts all over me."

Before Rocket could respond the sight before then shocked them. There were broken pieces of starships everywhere. There were a few dead bodies stuck in the wreckage.

"I'm not getting any signs of life." Gamora said looking at the monitor in front of her. "Wait, I'm getting a heat signature. It's moving fast."

Star lord was looking out of the front window. "It's coming right as us. Duck!"

The mysterious object came crashing through the window. The guardians jump to all sides to avoid the projectile. The object came to rest in the middle of the room.

Gamora lifts her head up and sees a familiar face looking back at her. The object was a person. They had blue skin and parts of them were mechanic. Gamora recognized the person as her sister. Scrambling to her feet she rushes over to her sister.

"Nebula!" Gamora hears herself cry out as she kneels by her.

Nebula was in a bad shape. The parts of her that were living were cut and bleeding. The machine parts of her were broken into what looked like irreparable pieces.

Her brain and hands working automatically she starts CPR on the lifeless alien. Nebula showed no signs of life and anyone else would have said she was dead. Star lord puts his hands on Gamora's shoulders.

"Gamora.." he says softly.

"No!" She yells. "You will not tell me she's dead! She had a heat signature! She is alive!"

Gamora kept doing CPR while looking for any sign of life in the limp alien in front of her. The rest of the guardians were silent. They were all thinking the same thing. All but one. Mantis kneeled by Nebula's head. She placed her fingers on her temples.

"I sense life." Mantis says. "It's very faint and far away. It is fading fast. We must move quickly."

Before Mantis had even finished the thought Gamora had picked up her sister and placed her on the medical bed. Behind her she heard Rocket rustling through a bag. He jumps up next to Gamora clutching a battery.

"This will keep the mechanical parts of her powered which in theory will keep her heart beating. I don't know how long it will last." Rocket tells Gamora.

"Just do what you can." Gamora instructs him.

Rocket nods and connects a wire to the battery. He takes the two ends on the other side of the wire, placing one on her arm. Taking a deep breath he looks at her chest.

He then looks up at Gamora.

"It's gotta be attached directly to her core." He tells Gamora directly.

"Just do it." Gamora says.

"I hope this works." He says under his breath."

Taking a deep breath he attaches the clamp to her core which lay in her chest. The room was silent as they waited for a reaction. With a spark the batteries start up.

"Life signs are steady for now." Mantis says.

Gamora looked at her sister whose chest was knowing rising and falling mechanically. She knew that it was the mechanical parts of her doing her job. She knew the parts that made Nebula who she was were in grave danger.

"This is only temporary." Rocket tells Gamora. "She needs real help. The battery is powering her core for now but once it dies her core goes with it and her machines will shut down and then…"

"Her body will die with it." Gamora finishes. "There must be someone who can help."

"I may know someone." Rocket says. "The only problem is they are in Wakanda."

Gamora looks at Rocket.

"Then that is where we will go."