The Guardians walked down the hall of the Nova Corp building, they entered a room were Nova Prime stood staring at a holographic screen. She turned to them and gave a forced smile.

"Ah Guardians, we seem to have a problem."

"So we heard, what's up?" Peter questioned.

"Please, have a seat."

They all took a seat and looked at Nova, she sighed and put her hands behind her back, "We've gotten reports that someone has been killing innocent people and…" she paused for a moment, "Skinning them."

The guardians looked at each other nervously.

"People are calling this person the Skin Harvester, he or she collects the bones of their victims and wears them as armor and uses some of it as furniture, I need you to find him or her and take them down before they kill anyone else."

"How do we find this person?" Drax asked.

"And how do we know what they look like?" Rocket asked in an angered tone.

"Last time we heard he was heading towards Asherth and you'll know him when you see him."

Vixen gave a small whimper as her body tensed up.

"Is something wrong?" Nova Prime questioned.

"Um… No, it's just I have some bad memories from that place."

Nova gave a nod and looked towards Peter, "This is going to be a very dangerous mission but I trust that you will be able to do it."

Peter looked at his team and they looked back at him.

He sighed and looked back at Nova Prime, "What are the coordinates?"

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Back on the Milano Rocket watched as Peter entered in the coordinates, he would be lying if he said that he wasn't worried at all about this mission. This guy they were tracking down skinned people and used their bones for decoration! Rocket shivered at the thought of his beautiful fur getting torn off.

"Worried?"

Rocket turned and saw Gamora staring down at him with a worried expression.

"Nah, this guy's gonna be easy!" Rocket said with the wave of his hand.

"Don't lie to me Rocket, I know your worried," Gamora said with her arms crossed.

Rocket growled and walked passed her; she frowned and walked over to Peter.

"Hey Gamora," Peter said with a sigh.

"Hello," she said as she sat down, "Rocket seems out of the ordinary don't you think?"

"Hm, not really, it's Vix I'm thinking about. Did you see how she reacted when she heard we were going to Asherth?"

"Yes, I did, maybe we shouldn't have agreed to do this mission…"

"Don't worry Gamora, we'll be fine."

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Rocket walked down the hall past Vixen's room, he stopped as he heard grumbling. He frowned and opened the door, Vixen was pacing back and forth grumbling and cursing to herself, she soon noticed him and frowned.

"What do you want Rocky?"

He shrugged, "I was wondering what's going on with you, why are you so worried about Asherth?"

Her body became tense again and she looked at the ground, "No reason, I just have bad memories like I said before. Now leave me alone."

Rocket gave a quiet growl, "I just wanted to help."

Her ears perked up a little as she watched him start to walk away, "Wait, Rocket."

He turned and looked back at her.

"Listen, I just, it's hard for me to talk about. I'll just say that, Asherth is my home world."

"Oh," Rocket said with a bit of nervousness in his voice, "Sorry, I didn't know."

"It's alright; I just want to get this mission done with."

He nodded, "Yeah I can understand that," he then turned towards the door, "Listen Vix, I…" he pushed, he got that weird feeling again, his stomach knotted and his hands started to shake.

"Rocky? You alright?"

"Uh, yeah, just… Never mind, I'll see ya later."

"Ok," she said with worry in her voice.

He closed the door and went to his room and continued working on upgrading his gun. He didn't get what was wrong with him, almost every time he was around her he started acting like this, it really started to get annoying. Something about her was just so attractive but yet so annoying, it was killing him! He yelped in pain as he felt a piece of metal skim across is hand and wrist, his hand shook as he lifted his left hand up. The metal on his gun must have bolted loose, he growled and stood up.

Rocket walked out of his room and went to go get the first aid. He walked into the kitchen and saw Vixen standing on the counter and placing Groot in the sink, giving him some water; she looked down at his wrist and frowned.

"What did you do?"

"How the flark should I know?! I was just upgrading my gun and next I know I've cut myself!"

Vixen rolled her eyes and set Groot down on the counter, she then grabbed the first aid and pointed to one of the kitchen chairs.

"I can do it myself ya know," he said.

"Yeah I know, but I've got nothin' else to do so why not?"

She grabbed his hand and pulled him onto one of the chairs; she rested his arm on the kitchen table and started to dress the wound. Rocket watched her carefully as she dressed it; after she was done dressing it she slammed her fist into his wounded hand/ wrist. He cursed out in pain and feel off the chair.

"WHY DID YA DO THAT!?"

"Because you wouldn't stop looking at me and it was awkward!"

"You could've told me to stop!"

She scoffed, "Well what's the fun in that?"

"The fun in that is I don't get hurt!"

"No way, it's much more fun seeing ya squirm," she said with a devilish grin.

He tensed up as he stared at her, she gave a small chuckle and jumped off the chair and knelt beside him.

"So what's the lesson we've learned? Don't come to me when you're injured."

"But I didn't," Rocket said with an annoyed yet puzzled look.

"Hmm, says you," she said before standing up and picking up Groot.

Groot flinched a little as she wrapped her hands around his boot pot. Rocket watched as she left the room. He growled and stood up; he looked down at his left hand that was now covered up in medical white wrap. The wound bled causing the white wrap to become hot pink. He shook his head; those were the type of things that made him so mad at Vixen. But why did he still have that feeling!?

I hope you enjoyed it, and as always I'm sorry for any OOC characters and the misspellings and if the chapter was really long. The only characters in this story that belong to me are Vixen (& her family) and the Skin Harvester. I'll try to upload as soon as possible. Comments are always helpful and thanks for reading. :)

-MissTeenFiction