Chapter 4: Escape

Hako wake up rather early so she decided to walk around. No matter how many times she walk here, everything looks the same. She get bored very fast and didn´t know what to do, no one was up either so she decided to get back to her cell but some prisoners get in her way. She know that they were after her but she decided to leave them be. A mistake from her. There was three of them, everyone have a knife with them.

"So, you´re Hako?" Ask the prisoner, apparently he was the leader.

"Yes, you were looking for me?"

"You kill my cellmate"

"OH That big blue alien... i almost forgot about him. I thought his was a cockroach so i kill it before it could put a finger on me or my comrades"

"You think you´re so tough, don´t you?"

"I am actually"

"Yeah?!"

"Yeah, if you like to test your luck. Why don´t you try to kill me with that knife you have on your hand?" Hako wasn´t joking, she want him to do it so she´ll have an excuse to hurt him or kill him. The prisoner run at her with the knife in hand, big mistake for him. Hako let him stab her in the arm and her blood come out quickly like it was alive. The blood cristallize and get through the prisoner´s left eye. The man fall to the ground, dead. Hako look at the other two. "Okay... Let´s continue with the slaughter, shall we?" The other two prisoners throw the knife to the ground and run away from her but Hako got them in a matter of seconds and with the knife she took from Drax, she rip their skin off. The prisoner´s scream could be heard in almost every corner of the prison. Hako stain her hands with their blood and write in the walls with it.

"I warned you..."

She leave the bodies in the floor, next to the message and return to her cell. Before that she decided to get a shower to clean herself.


Hako get out of the shower, change her prison outfit and return to her cell before everyone else wake up. Unfortunaly someone was already up, Peter. Hako ignore him and head to her cell but he stop her.

"Did you... kill anyone recently?"

"That depends... I´m in troubles?"

"Not really"

"Then yes"

"Woah, you didn´t try to lie"

"Why? I´m not a liar. I just... disguise the truth"

"That´s lying"

"Not in my dictionary, Peter" Hako leaned in the wall "... they started, they wanted to kill me so i defense myself"

"You rip their skin out..."

"In my defense... i didn´t do it before so it was a new experience for me"

"I´m not judging you, Hako. But could you tune it down a little? That was sick"

"Yeah... no"

"Alright, i tried"

"At least you try" Hako went to her cell and take a little nap.


All the prisoners were out now and they saw the message that Hako leave in the wall next to the corpse. Hako pass them all and went to the cafeteria to eat something. Peter was with Rocket, Gamora and Groot; Looks like they were talking about the escape plan. Hako approach them and Gamora give her a look. Rocket smile at her, Groot too.

"Alright... what happen?"

"Nothing, just the fact that you kill those prisoner like a complete maniac. I wish i could see that but at the same time don´t because i would throw up" Said Rocket

"I am Groot"

"What did he say?"

"That you went a little to far"

"It was self-defense, Groot"

"I am Groot"

"He say that with breaking their arms was enough"

"If you were in my place Groot. You´ll understand. The Galaxy is a strange and dangerous place, it´s better to be prepare for anything and do anything to survive"

"Well... you are right in that, Hako" Said Rocket. The group went to pick up their food and pick up a table. Peter ask about the escape plan.

"So, what´s this big plan of yours?"

"If we´re gonna get out of here, we´re gonna need to get into that watchtower" He point at the tower in the center of the prison "And to do that, i´m gonna need a few things"

"Alright, What do you need? A guard´s head? That´s a deal!"

"Wait a second, Psycho. The guards wear security bands to control theirs ins and outs. I need one"

"Leave it to me" Said Gamora

"Why do you get all the fun?" Asked Hako and Gamora give her another look. Rocket pointed to a man with a robotic leg.

"That guy there, i need his prosthetic leg"

"Are you serious, Rocket?" Asked Hako again, she try to figure out why did he need a leg

"Yeah. God knows i don´t need the rest of him. He´s useless"

"Alright, i´ll take care of that" Said Peter. Hako start to think that they won´t need her for this plan

"And Finally" Rocket point at the tower again, but this time at a black panel that was attach to it "On the wall back there is a black panel. Blinky yellow light. Do you see it?"

"Yeah, do you need that too?"

"Yes, there´s a quarnyx battery behind it, purplish box, Green wires. To get into the watch tower i definitely need it"

"No problem, i´ll get it for you" Hako shrugged

"There´s a problem, Hako" Peter interrupted her "How are you going to take it without the guards noticing you taking it out?"

"Easy, i´ll rip their head off and eat their eyes"

"... No, seriously"

"I´m being serious, Peter"

"There must be another way" Said Gamora

"Well, supposedly, these bald-bodies find you attractive. Maybe you could work out some kind of trade" Rocket point at a group of prisoners

"You must be joking"

"No, i really heard they find you attractive" Rocket turn to Hako and smile "How about you, Hako?"

"Erase that smile of your face or i´ll do it for you. I won´t sell myself for that, i have my pride" Peter and Rocket look at her, Hako try to avoid the stare. Peter saw her blushing a little

"No way..." Said Peter

"So... you never..." Rocket try to make her talk

"... Yes. I never have sex, Okay?!"

"Woah!"

"Seriously?!" Peter ask very surprised

"Can we focus in the situation at hand, Quill?" Hako glared at him

"She´s right, we need to focus. Look, that battery is twenty feet up in the air, and it´s in the middle of the most heavily guarded part of the prison. It´s impossible to get there without being seen" Said Peter

"Look, i got one plan and that plan requires a frickin´ quarnyx battery, so FIGURE IT OUT" Rocket yell at Peter. Hako heard a loud noise, she turn around to watch and there was a man down. She didn´t care that, but then saw Groot trying to grab the battery and Drax only seeing him. Hako was about to help Groot to take out the battery until Rocket said something important. "Now this is important. Once the battery is remove, everything is going to slam into emergency mode" Hako´s eyes widen "Once we have it, we gotta move quickly. So you need to get that LAST" Hako didn´t lose time and run to Groots direction

"GROOT NOO!" Hako scream and Rocket turn around to see Groot finally getting the battery. At that moment, everything went red and the prison went into emergency mode. Hako grab her head and curse. "Groot! We were suppose to get that LAST!"

"I am Groot" Hako understand him

"Yeah i know, you´re sorry. It´s okay, it´s done now. WE need to move now!" Then drones apppear and surround Groot and Hako. She prepare herself to fight back

"Prisoner! Drop the device immediately and return to your cell or we will open fire"

"I AM GROOOOOOOOT!" He screamed

"Fire!" The drones fire at Groot and Hako. Groot protect her from the bullets while he take down the drones one by one. Hako didn´t expect that from Groot, she made a sword of blood and jump at the group of drones that were attacking from behind. Groot and Hako were back to back, each one were taking down every single drone that try to shoot at them. Hako saw Rocket evading the bullets and running to Groot.

"You idiot! How am i supposed to fight these things without my stuff?!"

"Don´t worry! Groot and i have it under control!"

"It doesn´t seem like it!" Armed guards got to the cafeteria and start to point at them

"Fire on my command!" They were about to shoot but Drax appear and beat them down one by one. They try to defense them self but he was stronger than them. He pick a gun and scream at Rocket

"Weird Creature!" He throw the gun at him and he grab it. A smile could be on his face

"Oh... Yeah" Hako jump out of the fire range and Rocket start to fire at every drone and everything that stand in his way. Hako take this chance to run to the watch tower. She climb the tower and reach the entrance, Rocket was climbing with Groot´s help, Gamora jump to one bridge to another to get there, Peter was climbing Groot and Drax follow him. Hako open the doors and saw a officer there, she grab him and saw him straigh in the eyes.

"You have 2 options: walk away or fall from the bridge, choose"

"W-walk away"

"Did i heard fall?"

"N-no"

"Cool!" Hako grab him by the collar and throw him from the bridge, it was almost three floors high. Hako didn´t stay to see if he was dead or alive, she got the cabin and Gamora Asking why Drax was here too. "I invite him, i promise to help him to kill Ronan so he stay with us for a while"

"You are going to help him to kill Ronan?" Asked Gamora

"He won´t hurt you... i think"

"Anyway, Here´s the leg" Said Peter

"Oh, i was just kidding about the leg. I just need these two things" Said Rocket. Hako start to laugh so hard

"HAHAHAHA Peter you should look at your face right now!"

"What?!"

"I thought it´d be funny! Was it funny?! What did his look like, hopping around?!"

"I had to transfer him 30,000 units!" Hako laugh harder "Stop it, Hako!"

"It´s your fault to do it! HAHAHAHHAHAHA!"

"How are we going to leave?" Asked Drax

"He´s got a plan. Or is that another thing you made up?"

"I have a plan, i have a plan!" Said Rocket

"Cease your yammering and release us from this irksome confinement!" Yelled Drax

"Yeah, i´ll have to agree with the walking thesaurus on that one" Said Peter and Drax stare at him

"Do not ever call me a thesaurus"

"It´s just a metaphor, dude"

"His people are completely liteal, Peter" Said Hako trying to explain

"Yeah, metaphors are gonna go over his head" Said Rocket while he work on something

"Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast. I would catch it"

"I´m gonna die surrounded by the biggest idiots in the galaxy" Said Gamora

"Thanks you, Sister" Hako smile at her. Then more groups of guard enter and point at the watch tower with big rocket launchers "Fuck..." Said Hako

"On MY command! Number ONE!" One of the guard yell and start to fire at the glass. The glass start to crack a little, a couple of more shots and they are dead

"Rocket, Are you done yet?!" Asked Hako. She was starting to get nervious

"Hold on!"

"Move faster, Rocket" Hako replied

"Number TWO!" They shot again

"I recognise this animal!" Drax point at Rocket "We´d roast them over flame pit as children. The flesh was quite delicious"

"Really? I´ll like to try it sometime" Said Hako

"NOT HELPING!"

"Number THREE!" The shot again and the glass crack even more "ALL FIRE ON MY COMMAND!" Rocket start to take some wires from the control panel and connect them to the battery

"THREE"

"We are not going to die today" Hako cut her throat and blood start to fall. The blood go out from the cracks in the glass and make a shield of blood, but it wasn´t enough blood to cover up all the windows.

"TWO" Hako fall to ground because she lost almost all her blood doing that. Groot catch her before she hit the ground

"I... won´t... fall... now!"

"ONE" Rocket shoved a plug into a socket and a noise could be heard, he shut down something. Suddenly everyone in the room start to float in the air. Gamora approach to the glass.

"He turned off the artificial gravity. Everywhere but in here" Said Gamora

"ha... ha... ha... you lucky bastard. You did it" Said Hako while her wound close up by itself

"Told ya i had a plan, Hako"

"I am Groot" Groot was concern about Hako´s health

"I´m... okay, Groot. I just lost almost all my blood" Rocket pulled a lever and the cabin of the watch tower start to float in the air. Rocket press some buttons and the drones positioned in the bottom of the cabin. Then they fly the emergency doors of the prisons and break their way to the final door. Rocket push a button and the door shut behind them.

"That was a pretty good plan" Said Peter. Minutes ago he was peeing his pants

"Huh?" Said Rocket with a attitude of I TOLD YOU SO!

"Alright... Groot, can you help me out a little?" Hako ask to Groot. He nod and lift her over his shoulder like she was a sack of potatos. She doesn´t care how he carried, she only want to get out of there as soon as possible "Thanks, Groot i own you one"

"I am Groot"

"Rocket, What did he said?"

"He said that you don´t need to thank him"

"I´ll thank whoever i want, so you just accept it. In the future maybe i won´t repeat it" Hako smile at him and Groot return the smile.