The Milano came out of slip space near Mandila but Quill wasn't seeing anything "Quill are you sure this is the place?" Gamora turned towards her and nodded"It should be nearby..I'm picking up traces of Cosmic seed energy leading away from this place...give me a slow right turn Gamora" Quill said.
Gamora turned the Milnao right slowly "now what?" she asked "just go back a smidge" but before Quill could say anything else he was Interrupted by something landing on the Milano's glass cockpit, Gamora's eyes widened as she saw the person on the cockpit was non other then her sister "NEBULA?! I THOUGHT YOU DIED ON RONIN'S SHIP WHEN ARSENAL SHOT YOU IN THE BACK...WHERE'D YOU COME FROM?!" Gamora exclaimed
Then Ronin's ship de-cloaked from behind them "I'm guessing from that huge ship that just de-cloaked from behind her" Quill said stating the obvious, Nebula took out a hammer that the Guardians recognised,Ronin's universal weapon, and started pounding the cockpit when an arrow pierced her stomach, outside Nebula growled and looked in the direction the arrow came from "YOU! THE ARCHER!" Nebula growled
"oh good you remember me" Arsenal smirked as he shot her again, but the arrows were absorbed into Nebula's body but it didn't stop Roy from shooting her with more, tired of Nebula fooling around Roy nocked an explosive arrow and let it loose, but Nebula realised it was explosive and caught it, she then threw it back to Roy and it exploded in mid-air which SHATTERED Roy's robotic prosthetic left arm as it exploded, he screamed but Nebula wasn't done with him yet.
She unleashed a blast from the universal weapon that blasted him through the roof of the Milano and making him land painfully in the engine room,the blast also shattered a few of his ribs. The breech sounded an alarm that woke Rocket,Lylla,Ranger, Blackjack , Jason and Jay up, as expected Jay was the first one to the cockpit but as he was speeding to it he passed by the detention area where Zoom called out to him in his normal voice that made Jay stop "what is it Hunter?" "what's happening?! I heard alarms!"
"I think we're under attack" Jay responded
"THEN LET ME HELP DAMMIT! YOU KNOW AS WELL AS I DO THAT I CAN TAKE CARE OF WHO EVER IS OUT THERE!" Zoom exclaimed as he galred at Jay, eyes full on vengeance
"yeah...and risk you getting your speed back" Jay noted as he raised his eyebrow...it was tempting though "JAY PLEASE! I SWEAR I'LL COME BACK IN HERE!" Hunter growled but Jay wasn't having it.
"sorry Hunter I believe you but the others wont" Jay apologised as he sped towards the cockpit where he located Gamora and asked "what's the problem"
"yeah what's with all the racket" Rocket asked as he yawned, stretching his arms out in the air "Nebula's back" Gamora stated, going straight for the point "where's Roy?" Jason asked "I think he went to engage her, but he hasn't returned yet...he might be injured"
"ok so here's a plan, Jason go look for Roy, Lylla and Blackjack go to the med-bay and wait in case there's any accidents, Ranger and Drax guard the detention area, Rocket and I will go and take Nebula on" Jay explained
"no let me" Gamora protested but like Hunter earlier, Jay wasn't having it "No, you and Quill have to stay in the cockpit and get us out when we get Nebula off and Groot will be fixing the breaches along with Jason and Roy" Jay continued as he picked Rocket up and sped them both outside taking a space mask and a suit with a mask for Rocket along the way.
Meanwhile Jason was searching everywhere for Roy but he couldn't find him, then Groot shouted "I AM GROOT!" "you found Roy? where?" Jason asked in shock "I am Groot" the tree shouted from afar
"Engine room got it" responded Jason as he ran down to the engine room only to find Roy was on the floor unmoving, his left cybernetic arm was shattered and detached from his body "oh no.." Jason whimpered as he went closer and grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him "C'MON ROY STAY WITH ME!", Roy groaned painfully and Jason concluded that some ribs were broken, Jason carried his friend to the Med-bay bringing along Roy's broken cybernetic arm with him, he set him down on one of the beds, Lylla noticed Roy's left hand was missing "Oh God! Where's his hand?" Lylla exclaimed in shock as she had both hands covering her mouth in shock
"Here..It's cybernetic can you fix it Blackjack?" Jason asked in the most casual way possible, as thought it were an everyday occurrence. Blackjack took a look at it and nodded "Yeah, we can...c'mon Lylla we gotta get to work" and Lylla only nodded. While the medics were at work Jason noticed a breech and grabbed Roy's quiver and bow, he took out three of Roy's cement arrows and shot it onto the holes and sealed it shut in an instant.
Meanwhile outside of the ship Rocket fired several blasts that caught Nebula off guard, those blasts gave Jay the momentum he needed and he ran around her in circles building up energy, he stopped facing her and allowed some speed-force energy to surge through him, he extended his arm towards Nebula's chest and 'threw' a Lightning bolt of pure speed force at her which threw her into the empty void of space. Rocket was dumbfounded and exclaimed "you can throw lightning?!"
"There's a lot of stuff I can do" Jay smirked in pride as he sped back inside with Rocket, who found Jason looking tense and waiting outside the Med-bay "Jason what's wrong?" Rocket asked in concern "It's Roy...he's badly injured"
Rocket's eyes widen as he asked "H-how bad is it?" and when he saw the look on Jason's face,he knew that look well...the look on you face when you loose a friend. "I know how that feels" Rocket said and he sighed and sat down with Jason in the common room "I know.." Jason responded as he sighed, taking his mask off.
An hour later Roy woke up and found Jason in his room "Hey buddy, how are you doing?" Roy smirked and remarked"kinda shit to be honest", Jason let out a dry laugh "how long before I can fight?" to which Jason responded with "sorry Roy..about a month", Roy sighed in defeat "I'm sorry.." Jason said "no need to apologise...the bastard caught me off guard with that damned hammer" Roy said "you rest up ok...sit this one out"
"Yeah ok..." Roy responded. Jason left the room and Rocket came running "well..."
"He's...welll...Roy...he's fine" Jason said, Rocket smiled and let out a barely audible chuckle knowing that one of his friends was ok. Jay passed by Zoom's cell "well..." Hunter asked "we took care of it...why'd you care so much?"
Hunter stopped and pondered over the question, he found it unusual that he he'd just jumped up and demanded to help "don't know...Just wanted to help I guess" "I knew there's good in you" Jay said as he smirked "maybe Jay...maybe" said Hunter as he glanced downwards.
Meanwhile, Lylla and Rocket were in the dining room with Rocket at the table waiting for his beloved to bring him a snack. She came through with an apron adorned with flowers and a silver tray of goodies along with that cute smile he loved so much "voila! the cookies you love" said Lylla as she fed one to Rocket "well.." she asked cutely, already knowing the answer "still the best" Rocket responded as he kissed her on the cheek, taking a cookie from her tray and feeding her one.
A few seconds later Jason came into the dining room and Rocket asked " hey Jase! want some cookies?" Jason responded with a smile and gave a response "yeah sure I could use a bite to eat".
Meanwhile on the cockpit Quill noticed Mandila up ahead and told the crew to strap in as they were coming to land, they however didn't know about the dangers that waited for them.