He's sent on small jobs, usually with Nebula or Gamora who seem irritated by his presence more than usual. But perhaps it's because they don't fear Ronan as much as they feared Thanos and aren't afraid to show a little of what they carefully keep hidden. But they never directly speak against him and hardly talk to him except for when it's necessary to complete their objective. Sometimes it's simply retrieving an object, other times it's taking out a person.
He's a little surprised that killing doesn't feel new, or different, this ending a person's life, almost like he's used to it. But he supposes that wherever he learned to fight from, he hadn't' learned it just to not use it. Some of the iciness from both Nebula and Gamora melts after he's shown that he can do what's necessary but not all of it. The blood staining his hands grows more with every week. Maybe one day he too will be known as an assassin like his sisters. But he has a feeling that this is all just practice for whatever Thanos has planned for him. Would it be more blood? Given the state of things, it seems likely.
Ronan needs an orb and planned to send Nebula but Gamora intercedes and then Ronan added him as an afterthought. For the first time that he can remember he hears Gamora arguing with the person in charge. Gamora insists that she doesn't need his help but in the end, Ronan didn't budge and the two of them are sent together anyways. She seems oddly bitter about it, even though he's been ordered mostly just to watch and not get in the way. Even if her facial expression hadn't changed much from her usual one, he has spent enough time around Gamora to be able to tell.
When their ship sets down. Gamora doesn't immediately get up from the pilot seat like she usually does, in fact, she seems to be in deep thought. Very unlike her.
The last thing he sees is a bright green blur slam into his head before he blacks out.
He heals quickly but even so has no idea how much time it had been since he has been knocked out and he's still seeing stars. He's not on the ship, in fact, he can't even see it. Gamora must have removed him from it, though honestly, he has no idea why. Why would she knock him out and leave him here? There is something about this that is just not right. Maybe the fact that she knocked him out. He grunts as he gets to his feet as the stars are still spinning in his view.
His vision clears slightly when he hears a familiar loud grunt. Gamora. She must be fighting someone somewhere. Should he go to her? She did just knock him out, he doubts that she would be very happy to see him. But his feet stumble forwards anyways, though, lacking any real fervor. His pace slows down even more and he starts to frown as he realizes that this place seems oddly familiar. Had he been here before? What was the name of the planet again? Xandar? It's not one of the places he's been sent on a mission to so he has no idea why it would seem familiar.
He keeps stopping to stare at something new nearly every step of the way until he comes upon a very peculiar scene. A light-skinned being is tossing the orb up and down. So, he had the orb. Perhaps he was the Teran Star-Lord?. Their job was to get it, the orb. He felt his pockets and realizes that Gamora had either left him a throwing knife or either she not realized he had one hidden on his person. More likely the former than the latter.
He holds up his knife to attack, but before he moves so much of a muscle Star-lord gets captured by an odd very tall tree looking creature and just as odd Raccoon that was standing upright and seemed to be able to talk. What was a raccoon?
He ignores the thought as Gamora came back into the public area, her attention fully occupied by the tree creature as she chops at its limbs taking off the tree's arm like appendages and then stabbing it in the stomach. He doesn't throw it because it seems like they were winning. If there was even a they anymore, but if there was he had to assume that this was all part of some plan that he wasn't aware of.
Of course that all changes when she opens the bag. The ravager they were chasing shoots her full in the face. Gamora falls down as the electricity courses through her green body. The Ravager got up and ran remarkably well considering the bag on his legs. He readjusted his aim but at this distance, it was unlikely that he was going to hit the Ravager and he only has one shot.
Out of the corner of his eye, he sees the raccoon aim a large gun at the Ravager Star-Lord. He lets him. After all, he only has one weapon and he knows he has to pick his moment carefully. While the raccoon's attention was occupied by the falling man, he put his throwing knife to the small raccoon throat, apparently taking him by surprise. Unfortunately, all of them seemed to have missed the authorities coming in. The next moment, he was frozen in place by a beam.