AARRRGGGHHH! Why can't I stop writing Disney AU's!
Revolving around the familial relationship between Peter and Yondu/Kraglin, this is yet another Hunchback of Notre Dame Au…. Yeah, I know :S
Please read, enjoy and review ?
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"Yes. Peter has always been a helpful little boy."
The three span around to see Ego standing in the doorway to the deck, thugs pouring into the room as they surrounded the crew (those who weren't fighting for their lives outside). Kraglin was quickly subdued before he could get his knives or blaster out and Yondu was gagged and subdued as a blaster was pressed into his implant…. The silent threat reduced his complaints to mere growls.
Ego smirked as he made his way towards the small group, "After weeks of trying, the Ravager's are under my control at last…" he turned to face Peter, "… I always knew you would someday be of use to me."
Kraglin, who was struggling against the grip of the thugs, frowned, "What are ye talking about?"
"Why, he led me right to you…."
Kraglin snarled at the man, "Yer a liar!"
Ignoring the pure anger, Ego turned his attention to Yondu, "And look what else I've caught in my net! Captain Yondu Udonta back from the dead… a miracle no doubt. I shall remedy that…"
He glanced at the crowd of restrained Ravager's and grinned. "I think…. There's going to be a little bonfire on Knowhere in the morning and you're all invited!"
Ego then turned to a nearby thug and smirked, "Kill any who resists"
The ship was filled with the sounds of struggling and swearing…. those who resisted, were shot.
Peter shook his head in dismay as Kraglin and Yondu were dragged away (with Yondu's arrow being taken away and broken in two) In desperation, he fell to his knees in front of his Father, "No, please!"
Ego sneered at his son, "You've disappointed me Peter…" Spotting the precious cassette player, Ego snatched it and crushed it in his grip, "… I had such high hopes for you."
Ignoring how Peter cried out at the destruction of his player, Ego gestured to a couple of the thugs. "Take him back to the hotel, and make sure he stays there."
As the three were dragged out of the ship and into different directions, Yondu twisted around and locked eyes with Peter. "REMEMBER THIS BOY!" he called out, "HE MAY BE YER FATHER, BUT HE AIN'T YER DADDY!"
…..
Morning came too soon, and a huge crowd gathered in the streets around the hotel, where a pyre had been built. Tied to a stake in the middle of the pyre, were Kraglin and Yondu, still in their Ravager uniform.
Ego stood opposite, dressed in his finest clothing as supporters of the Ravager's and the crew themselves were kept behind laser force-fields.
Stakar and his wife, who had made their way out of the hotel were instantly grabbed by several thugs and forced back inside.
In the courtyard, Ego read out the sentence, despite not being an official member of law enforcement. "The prisoners, Yondu Udonta and Kraglin Obfonteri, have been guilty of the crime of piracy, thievery and murder. The sentence… death!"
Whilst there were some cheers scattered throughout the gathered crowd, the majority were booing and calling Ego a hypocrite.
Ego ignored them, leaning in close to Kraglin, smirking at the slight fear in the man's eyes. "The time has come. You stand upon the brink of the abyss. Yet even now, it is not too late. I can save you from the flames of this world. You can live me with me on my planet in peace…you can leave with me and Peter. Choose me, or the fire."
Without even pausing, Kraglin spat in the man's eye, causing Ego to take a step back and sneer in disgust.
"The Ravager's have refused to recant. They are a threat to everyone gathered here…."
…..
Up in the hotel room, Peter was slumped over, his wrists handcuffed to the radiator as he listened to Ego's speech down below in the courtyard. Mantis was desperately tugging on the cuffs, trying to remove them despite Peter's seeming disinterest.
"Come on, Peter! Snap out of it!" she begged. "Your friends are down there!"
Peter shook his head, "It's all my fault." He whispered
"You've got to break these cuffs!" Mantis exclaimed, tugging on them, "Can you access the Light like Ego from here?!"
"I can't. I tried. What difference would it make?"
Mantis's face fell at the defeatist tone in Peter's voice, "But you can't let Ego win!"
Peter groaned, "He already has."
"So, you're giving up? That's it?"
Silence.
Mantis scowled, "These cuffs aren't what's holding you back, Peter! You're just being…. Silly!"
"Leave me alone!"
Mantis took a step back in shock because of this, tears brimming in her large expressive eyes. "Okay…" she whispered tearfully, "…Okay, Peter, I'll leave you alone…. But I just want to say one thing. Ego has done nothing but call you stupid and worthless since you were a child… why don't you prove him wrong!?"
Anger on her face, Mantis stormed away into her room, slamming the door behind her.
Peter stared at the closed door for a few moments, before closing his eyes, his thoughts instantly turning towards Yondu and Kraglin…. imagining the rough, but surprisingly soothing voices falling silent under the force of the smoke and the pain of the flames. From the streets down below, he could hear that Ego was finishing his speech
"-for justice, for Knowhere, and for us! It is my shameful duty to send these poor men back where they belong!"
The sudden cries from down below indicated that the pyre had been lit, causing Peter to cry out in anger and shock. "No!"
He began to pull against the cuffs harder and harder, stopping in shock when a white light surrounded his hands, the cuffs seeming to shatter seconds later. Slowly getting to his feet, he quickly realised that he was free.
As he continued to focus, his body rose into the air and he flew down to the streets, much to the amazement of the crowd.
Upon pushing his way to the pyre, the first thing he saw was the two Ravager's slumped against the pole they were tied to…. unconscious. Blasting the thugs away, Peter ripped the ropes away from the unconscious Ravagers and gently moved them to his shoulders, feeling much stronger than he ever had before, as a trio of thugs prepared to attack.
However, before they could attack, the crowd pushed forwards, swarming towards the thugs and Ego, and open firing on them.
Catching the eye of one, Peter nodded his thanks, before racing back to the hotel, bursting through the doors and locking them behind him.
Ego snarled angrily as a small group of citizens prevented him from entering the building, "MOVE!" He yelled, blasting them away and glaring up at the hotel, "PETER!"
Meanwhile, Peter had reached the room, where he leant out of the window. "You shall not enter!" he yelled, "This is sanctuary!"
The crowd below cheered as Ego growled in frustration, "You there!"
"Sir?"
"Seize the hotel!"
….
Despite the commotion down below, Peter gently placed the still-unconscious Kraglin and Yondu on his bed, waving Mantis closer "Don't worry…." He whispered to the two Ravagers "…You'll be safe here."
As he moved away, Mantis gently patted him on the shoulder, her eyes closing as she filled him with warmth "Don't worry Peter…" she whispered, "… I'll look after them."
Peter nodded his thanks, before rushing to the open window and sending balls of white light down to the ground below, sending thugs scattering in different directions.
"Come back, you cowards!" yelled Ego, turning to the thugs near the laser cages, "You men! Break down the door!"
The men were quick to obey, leaving only one thug behind…who wasn't paying attention to what was going on inside the cages… or outside.
"Alone at last!" grunted the brothel owner, knocking the guard out with her high heel shoes and shattering the device keeping the lasers working. As the thugs began to knock on the hotel door, the Ravager crew burst free from their cages, with Tullk quickly taking control.
"Ravagers! Ego has persecuted us, ransacked Knowhere and forced us into cages! Will we allow it?!"
"No!" the crew cried out, pushing past the thugs and grabbing their blasters, joining the crowd in their fight against Ego, with some of them rushing to set the rest of their friends free.
"The cavalry's here!" Peter cheered from his position, "The Ravagers are free!"
The crowds down below continued to fight. Up above, Peter continued to throw white blasts of light in front of the hotel doors in order to prevent the thugs from entering.
"Harder!" someone called out as the thugs struck the hotel door again and again. The Ravagers in the courtyard were ferociously battling against the thugs, the bright red of the blasters flashing in the early morning sun.
As the Ravagers drew even closer, the thugs battering the door of the hotel ran away, but through the cracks in the door, Ego managed to get inside the hotel safely. As he entered, Stakar ran up to him, a deep frown on his face.
"Get the fuck out of my hotel!" he yelled, drawing his own blaster and aiming it at Ego, "NOW!"
Ego just snarled and blasted the man straight into his wife, as he moved to the stairs. "Silence, you fool! That boy and I have unfinished business to attend to. And you will not interfere!"
….
Upstairs, Peter burst into his bedroom, a beaming grin on his face. "We've done it guys! We've beaten them back! Come and see!"
"That's great kid…" Kraglin muttered from behind him, his voice rough from all the smoke inhalation.
Peter beamed at the man as he headed towards the bed, ignoring the slightly distressed look on Mantis's face, "Yondu? Wake up! You're safe now."
He paused, but still there was no response.
Shakily, Peter took a step back as Kraglin brushed his fingers against the Centaurians's cheek, "Yondu?" He and Peter glanced at Mantis, who simply shook her head.
Peter shook his own head in denial, "Oh, no…"
Desperately, he fetched a glass of water from the sink and, as Kraglin gently supported Yondu's head, he tried to make him drink.
Nothing.
Dropping the glass in his distress, Peter shook his head in disbelief, seating himself by Kraglin as the older man pulled Yondu closer, the Ravgager's eyes filling with tears. "Oh no…."
As Kraglin began to sob, closely followed by Peter, Mantis swiftly moved out of the room…. The sobbing pair missed her alarmed yelp in the midst of their grief.
It felt like he and Kraglin had been sobbing for hours when Peter felt a gentle hand on his shoulder. "He killed him…" he whispered, to who he assumed to be Kraglin.
Kraglin suddenly yelped, causing Peter to spin around in shock. Before a dagger could make its way into Kraglin's back, Peter blasted Ego away.
The older man grunted in pain as he made contact with the wall, pressing himself back against the wall as Peter advanced on him, an angered scowl on his face. "Peter… Peter listen to me, I- "
"- No, you listen…" snarled the young man, "Ever since I was eight, you have done nothing but tell me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now, I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!"
Kraglin had scrabbled back over to Yondu, now trying to revive the older man…. But there was no sign of life. "Breathe ye bastard!" he eventually yelled, slamming his hands down on Yondu's chest.
Keeping his eyes on Ego, Peter felt anger bubble up inside him when he saw the older man smirk at the sight of Kraglin's despair.
"You bastard…" whispered Peter in anger…. which soon turned to dread as Ego suddenly turned the smirk on him.
White lightning crackled from the older man's fingers as he prepared to attack.
But if Peter was expecting himself to be the target of the attack, he was going to be surprised. Before he could react, Ego aimed at Kraglin and sent a ball of white light flying at him.
Thank God for Kraglin's quick reflexes.
"No!" cried out Peter, grabbing Kraglin's hand and pulling him away from the body of Yondu, and firing his own white ball of light at Ego, causing the older man to lose focus. Whilst Ego was distracted, Peter pushed past him and ran out to the corridors and then to the rooftop.
Ego was quick to follow but when he got to the roof, he saw nothing but the smoke rising up from the city streets. After looking left and right, he looked out over the edge to find Kraglin hanging there with Peter clinging on next to him.
"Leaving so soon?" chuckled the older man snidely.
He swung his fist down towards the pair, but Peter dodged the blow by swinging to another spot. Down on the ground, the thugs and the Ravagers stopped to watch.
Ego went to swing again, white light surrounding his fist which caused Peter's eyes to widen slightly in alarm. "Move!" he cried out as he swung to another spot, narrowly missing being hit.
Desperately, Peter helped to push a weakened Kraglin onto the roof so that he could get away from Ego's fury, just as he himself climbed onto the edge of the roof… right on the corner.
"I should have known you'd die protecting someone unworthy…" Ego snarled, "…. Your Mother tried to do the same for you… until I put the tumour in her brain.
"… What?!"
"It was a shame really…. I did love her once upon a time."
Before Peter could say anything, Ego swung his cloak towards his son, covering Peter's head in an attempt to throw the young man off of his guard. However, when he tried to use the cloak to tug Peter off of the edge, Peter kept a hold of the cloak and used it to tug the older man over the edge as well.
Expecting to fall to his death, Peter was surprised when Kraglin managed to catch him, clutching tightly onto the young man's hand. Still keeping a tight hold on the cloak, he glanced up at Kraglin, who was clearly tried to keep him from falling to his death, the strain of it on his face.
Down below, Ego had managed to pull himself up to the balcony, standing on the edge as white light surrounded his hands again, raising them above his head as he prepared to kill the Ravager… who clung onto Peter's wrists even tighter.
Smirking at the fear on Kraglin's face, Ego smirked. "And He shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the fiery pit!"
"Send us a postcard when ye get there!" came a familiar voice as someone knocked into Ego and sent him flying off the edge of the building.
Kraglin desperately wanted to see who had saved them, but not when he was the only thing keeping Peter from meeting the same fate. "Peter…" he grunted, his fingers tightening, "…Peter, hold on…."
As the sweat built up on their palms, Peter began to slip loose…. Until he lost his grip on Kraglin and fell to the ground. Kraglin and the familiar voice screamed in despair, desperately reaching out to stop the young man from falling. "NO!"
Kraglin's attempt came to nothing as Peter continued to fall…until he wasn't. Whilst he had closed his eyes as he was falling, Peter immediately opened them when someone else grabbed his hand, seeing Mantis standing opposite him, leaning out of a window and clutching his hand.
"I don't think I can hold on!" she yelled.
Thankfully, with a relieved grin on his face, Peter was able to grab the window ledge with his other hand and pull himself through the window. Once he had two feet firmly on the ground, Peter pulled his adoptive sister into a spine-cracking hug. As they pulled away, they heard frantic footsteps as Kraglin burst in through the door.
"Peter!" gasped the Ravager in relief, running up and pulling the man into a hug. When they pulled apart, Peter was shocked to see Yondu race into the room behind his partner.
"I kinda thought I would get more attention…." Yondu grumbled as Kraglin span around, "… but no, the kid is clearly more import- MMPH!"
Yondu was stopped mid-rant, as Kraglin kissed him.
"You're okay…you're alive…" whispered Kraglin, smiling softly as the Captain beamed at him., "We're all okay!"
Yondu pulled his first mate into another quick kiss, before pulling away and turning to Peter. "Sorry about that kid…" he apologised, referring to him pushing Ego off the edge, "… I know he was ye Daddy and all but- "
"- Now he wasn't." interrupted Peter, "It's like you said. He was my Father…. Not my Dad. You two have been more like that than he ever was."
"…. Maybe we can do something about that."
…
The Ravager crew cheered as their Captain and First mate exited the hotel. "Ego went too far!" called out Kraglin, "And now, he can rot in hell!"
A fresh wave of cheers filled the streets as the Ravger's called out curses and insults revolving around Ego.
Peter and Mantis hid behind the pair, their eyes wide as one of the Ravagers spotted them and waved them over, ignoring how his friends protested.
"Yer Ego's kid ain't ya?"
Peter nodded slowly.
"And ye saved the Captain and Kraglin?"
Another nod.
The man nodded, before raising his voice above the cheering. "LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE BOY!"
Another wave of cheers echoed throughout the ship, as Peter flushed in embarrassment
"Let's get some drinks!"
"YEAH!"
How did that get a louder cheer than himself?
…
Later on, when the majority of the crew were unconscious or in various states of drunkenness, Peter found himself seated in between Yondu and Kraglin.
Mantis was asleep in her own little room that had been provided for her, smiling happily as she revelled in the drunk feelings of glee and happiness all around her.
"So…. What happens now?" Peter asked.
"Now?" Yondu scoffed and took another gulp of alcohol, "Now we gotta spend ten years raisin' ye right, without all that crap propaganda he fed ye."
Glancing between the two, Peter frowned. "What?"
"You and Mantis can stay with us…" Kraglin translated, "… and we'll teach you how to be a good Ravager. It pays well."
"Really?"
"Really brat." Yondu chuckled, "Ego will be rolling in his grave."
"Yeah about that… I don't think he's really dead."
"What?!" "What?!"
Peter winced, "Well… technically that wasn't his real self. He's probably gone back home to heal himself…. You need to blow up the planet before you can actually kill him."
Kraglin and Yondu glanced at each other, before shrugging. "Eh…" Yondu took another gulp. "… We'll deal with that when we come to it."
….
"- And that's why we have to blow up the planet!" finished Peter, grinning at his shocked team.
There was a brief silence before Rocket shook his head.
"Your family's fucked up Quill."
