Chapter 6- Where Things go to Shit

"Don't you move- get out of the way!" The man yelled, chasing after Quill, Gamora, Rocket, Groot and Valkyrie.

Gamora shoved one of the miner's out of their mining pod and got in it herself. Valkyrie looked around, "I don't think these will fit more than one person."

That got Quill to stop and turn around to look at Valkyrie, "Well, then. Here's where we test what kinda person you are. The one who will flee or the one who will fight for her galaxy. Or do you want Ronan in possession of that orb." Quill raised an eyebrow.

Valkyrie bit her lip, thinking fast. Then she decided. Valkyrie took a deep breath, "I'm in."

"Good. Pick one and get it in the air as quick as you can. You'll act as a sniper. Most of all, protect Gamora. She has the orb and it must NOT fall into Ronan's hands. You saw the destruction it caused back there."

She swallowed, "Protecting Gamora. Great." Valkyrie huffed sarcastically, "Hopefully I don't have to explain this in court." She muttered.

Quill put a comforting hand on Valkyrie's left arm, "Hey, you can do it. For your people."

Valkyrie winced and shook Quill's hand off, "About that-" Valkyrie started when Gamora yelled at them from her pod's intercom which allowed her voice to be transmitted outside of her pod.

"Quill, Valkyrie, get your asses in those pods! Even Rocket's up!" Gamora yelled down at them.

"Hey!" Came Rocket's voice from above them.

"They're right." Quill said, "Get going. Meet back at my ship after this is done." Valkyrie nodded and ran to get into a mining ship. She had to knock out two engineers who were apparently fixing something but when Valkyrie started the ship, it appeared to run fine.

Four mining ships took off. Three made a show of going over the sight where Drax and Ronan were facing off and Valkyrie's pod curved to the right, climbing higher and higher in order to have a vantage point. Already she could see four of Ronan's ships chasing after Quill, Rocket and Gamora's pods.

Valkyrie breathed out as she avoided several beams of some type of metal buildings. She cursed to herself as three more of Ronan's ships joined the chase. It only took her a couple seconds to locate what little weapons a mining pod had, which was not much. From what Valkyrie could tell, the weapon consisted of a red beam of light which was able to penetrate any kind of metal, form the test shots she had done on the buildings she was flying through, on accident of course.

Since there was no proper weapons system of any kind, Valkyrie had to shoot by human eye, no navigating weapon's system whatsoever. She took a breath in and out then narrowed her eyes, picking the target which was closest to the ship she knew to be near Gamora's pod and fired.

The beam of red light shot out and struck the ship that she had intended. The ship immediately swerved and crashed into a building, igniting in flames. "One down." Valkyrie commented over the comm. system that was installed in the pods.

"Aww. How come you get weapons." Valkyrie heard Rocket whine.

Puzzled Valkyrie asked, "Wait, you don't have that beam, of red that I fired, in your pod?"

"Unfortunately. Come onnn," Rocket dragged out, "Why did I have to get the lame ship with no weapons?" He complained sadly with a snuffle.

Valkyrie shook her head at Rocket's love for weapons and anything that went boom, "Perhaps I got the leader of the mining ships." She shot another beam of red light and got the angle just right that the ship that she had hit went sideways into another ship and they both went spiraling downward into an explosion as they collided with the building below and Valkyrie winced at the thought of harming innocent lives.

"Rocket, help Valkyrie keep them off Gamora until she reaches the Milano." Quill said as four more came in near Gamora's ship.

"The mining beam takes a fifteen second recharge. Soon they're going to figure out that I'm the one shooting them down from above. Plus the ships are crashing into the buildings were innocent people live. They're homes Quill. We need to take this fight elsewhere." Valkyrie said, but got the feeling that she was ignored when Rocket answered Quill's previous command.

"How can I help? She's the one with the weapon." Rocket shot back.

"These pods are industrial grade. They're nearly indestructible." Quill argued back.

Rocket let out a laugh, "Not against necroblasts they're not."

Quill gave a small sigh, "That's not what I'm sayin'."

"Oh!" Rocket remarked, drawing out the 'o' a bit longer than necessary. Then he laughed madly and changed his course to ram into one of Ronan's ships which spun and barreled into another of Ronan's ships and then crashed into a building and into flames.

Rocket was now away from Quill and Gamora's ships, split from the group. Valkyrie fired twice more. One shot missed and the other grazed one of the helms, but not enough damage for them to lose control.

Quill disappeared from Valkyrie's view for a couple of minutes until on of Ronan's ships started acting strangely. It rose up and halted in front of Gamora's path, "Valkyrie, don't shoot, it's me!" Quill yelled through the comms as four blasts came from the ship, destroying four ships that were chasing after Gamora.

Valkyrie raised her eyebrows, "Are you in a ship, within a ship right now Quill?"

"Yep!"

"Genious! I would have never thought of that." Valkyrie exclaimed before she could stop herself. 'Why in all hells would she complement her kidnapper's?' She thought as she steered her ship after Quill and Gamora, groaning as six more ships joined the chase on Ronan's side.

She quickly fired another shot, and winced as it missed at hit a building instead.

"Quill, I'm trapped. I can't make it to the Milano. I have to head out." Gamora's voice echoed across the comm system. Valkyrie saw Gamora's pod head out with ten more ships on her tail.

"Wait! These things aren't meant to go out there!" Quill protested following with what speed he could muster from the mining pod.

Valkyrie came clear of the buildings, firing as she went. Suddenly her pod shuddered, making weird noises a ship should not make, and halted. "Shit." Valkyrie cursed and tried to start the mining ship up again. And failed. She tried again, remembering with a sinking feeling that those guys that she had thrown out of the pod before she had gotten in where trying to fix something. Nope, "Quill, I'm outta juice."

"Stay there." He ordered. "We'll pick you up af-" Quill started then stopped as Valkyrie saw Gamora's pod get blown up. Quill's pod halted and out of the corner of Valkyrie's eye, she saw Rocket just manage to catch up and stop short because of what had just happened.

One of Ronan's ships hovered over the orb and a yellow beam halted the orb from traveling any farther away from a dead Gamora. The orb rose in the beam and into the ship which then turned around and left, the other of Ronan's ships following the lead. Ronan was now in possession of an object of which he could then use to destroy her home. Valkyrie swallowed. She had failed her people.

"Quill, come on.. Her body mods should keep her alive a couple of minutes, but there's nothing we can do for her. These pods aren't meant to be out here. In a second we're going to be in the same boat. Let's get Valkyrie and leave." Rocket said. He turned his pod around and started heading back towards Valkyrie.

"Aw, damn it." Valkyrie heard Quill mutter.

Rocket stopped his pod and turned around, "Quill?" He asked as he noticed Quill wasn't moving.

Valkyrie heard as Quill went onto all frequencies within hearing distance and shouted, "Yondu! Yondu! This is Quill! My coordinates are 227K324."

"Quill!" Rocket shouted, turning his pod around but Quill didn't respond.

"Just outside of Knowhere."

"Quill, what are you doing?" Rocket asked over Quill, who was still speaking.

"If you're there, come get me. I'm all yours." Quill finished.

Valkyrie's eyes widened, "Quill, what the hell do you think you're doing?" Valkyrie yelled as she saw Quill's side door of the pod open into space. His boots ignited some sort of rocket system and he flew through space to Gamora, "She's dead. It's not worth it! She's already dead!"

Rocket seemed to agree with Valkyrie, "Quill, don't be ridiculous. Get back into your pod!"Quill grabbed ahold of Gamora, "You can't fit two people in there. You're going to die." Quill deactivated his face mask and Valkyrie covered her mouth with her hand. "You'll die in seconds!" Rocket yelled, "Quill!"

Quill then put his face mask over Gamora. Suddenly Gamora's heavy breathing came over the comms. Valkyrie could only stare in shock. That shouldn't be possible.

Suddenly huge ships descended onto Quill and Gamora location. A tractor beam streamed out of the nearest ship, probably the name of the guy who wanted Quill and sucked them into their ship and then took off.

There was silence and then Valkyrie said, "Um, Rocket… I'm still stuck out here with no power."

"Come on!" Rocket cried out in frustration and hit something in his ship, making a huge thunk noise.


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