One of the pods from before, lands in front of Groot, and Drax, and Rocket steps out of it, clearly furious.

"Blasted idiot. They're all idiots!"

Rocket shakes his head. "Quill just got himself captured!" he then turns to Drax and points accusingly. "None of this would have ever happened, if you didn't try to single-handedly take on a frickin' army!"

"You're right. I was a fool. All the anger, all the rage, was just to cover my loss."

Groot places a hand on his shoulder in comfort.

Rocket stared at them in disbelief, but himself and shakes his head. "Oh, boo-hoo-hoo. 'My wife and child are dead.'" he mocks

Groot gasps, horrified.

"Yeah, well, that gives him no excuse to get everyone else dead along the way!" He turns to Groot and motions his head for him to follow. "Come on, Groot. Let's find Sarah. Ronan has the stone. The only chance we got is to get to the other side of the universe as fast as we can and maybe, just maybe, we'll be able to live full lives, before that whack-job ever gets there."

Groot gets to feet and shakes his head. "I am Groot."

Rocket turns to him "Save them? How?"

"I am Groot." He says shrugging his shoulders.

Rocket sighs in frustration. "I know! I know!, but there's a army of Ravagers around them. And there's only three of us!"

Drax rises to his feet and stands next to Groot. "Four."

"UUUUGGGHHHH!, You're makin' me - beat- up- grass!" Rocket says as he kicks the grass.

It was then Rocket noticed Sarah was not with them, he looked around until he spotted her on the ground next to the wall, pretty banged up. "Sarah!" Panicking, he ran to her, slid on his knees, and placed his ear on her chest, listening for a heart beat. When he found one, he relaxed, and called Groot. "Groot come over here and carry her back to the ship", Groot then came over and gently picked her up, and walked with the others back to the Milano.


After a few hours, Sarah woke up to a worried Rocket, who wanted to know what happened to her, and after telling him, he decided later, that he will get Drax back later. After bandaging her wounds, he brought her to a room where Peter, Gamora, Drax, and Groot are residing. Peter told everyone his plan, But...

"You call that 'figured it out'?" Rocket asked, once the two had joined the group in the room. "We're gonna rob the guys, who just beat us senseless?"

Sarah agrees with Rocket, Peter's suggestion was crazy.

Peter rolls his eyes and glares at him. "Oh, you want to talk about senseless? How about trying to save us by blowing us up?"

Rocket folded his arms. "We were only going to blow you up, if they didn't turn you over!"

"And how on Earth were they gonna turn us over, when you only gave them to a count of five?" Peter raised his hand and showed the number five with his fingers to emphasize on how small the number was.

Rocket continued to glare at Peter. "Well, we didn't have time to work out the minutiae of the plan. This is what we get for acting altruistically!"

Groot nodded. "I am Groot."

"They are ungrateful." Rocket agreed, grabbing Sarah's hand and rubbing it, with her returning the favor.

Gamora frowned and stepped in. "What's important now is we get the Ravager's army to help us save Xandar."

Sarah rolled her eyes. "What? So, we can give the stone to Yondu who's just gonna sell it to someone even worse?"

"We'll figure that part out later." Peter said running a hand through his hair.

"We have to stop Ronan." Gamora said simply, making it now the group's biggest priority.

"How?" Rocket asked.

Peter looked at him and nodded. "I have a plan."

Sarah gave him a look saying she did not believe for one minute. "You've got a plan?"

"Yes."

Sarah frowned. "First of all. you're copying Rocket from when he said he had a plan." Rocket nodded and glared at Peter, agreeing with her.

"No, I'm not." Peter frowned as well and scoffed. "People say that all the time, it's not that unique of a thing to say."

"Secondly, I don't believe you have a plan." Sarah said sitting up straighter and looking at Peter straight in the eye.

"I have part of a plan!" Peter yelled, as if saying that would make it better.

Drax looked at him. "What percentage of a plan do you have?"

Gamora glared at him. "You don't get to ask questions after the nonsense you pulled on Knowhere."

"I just saved Quill!" Drax said, offended that doing hadn't redeemed him.

"We've already established that you destroying the ship that I'm on is not saving me."

"Not to mention, you hurt Sarah!" Rocket snarled as his grip on Sarah's hand, tightened.

Drax looked at Peter and Rocket, confused. "When did we establish it?"

Peter gaped at him. "Like three seconds ago!"

Drax just shook his head and folded his arms on his chest. "I wasn't listening, I was thinking of something else."

"Oh man..." Sarah sighed in frustration, face palming.

"She's right," Rocket says pointing to Gamora and looking at Drax "you don't get an opinion." He then turns to Peter. "What percentage?"

Peter rubs his neck, shrugs and mumbles "I don't know, twelve percent."

"Twelve percent?" Rocket says, and stare at him, before breaking out in laughter. Peter glares at him and shakes his head and scoffs at him.

"That's a fake laugh."

Rocket immediately stops laughing and glared back at Peter. "It's real!"

"Totally fake" Peter says still shaking his head.

"That is the most real, authentic, hysterical laugh of my entire life, because that is not a plan." Rocket says, folding his arms.

Gamora nods "It's barely a concept."

Peter looks at her, looking betrayed. "You're taking their side?"

"I am Groot."

Rocket looks at him. "So, what if it it's better than eleven?, What the hell does that have do with anything?"

Peter pats Groot on the back and smiles at him. "Thank you, Groot. Thank you. See?" he says turning to everyone else "Groot is the only of you, who has a clue."

Peter turns to look a Groot and finds him eating a leaf that has sprouted on his shoulder. Peter sighs and shakes his head while Sarah smiles and Rocket chuckles at the sight.

"Guys. Come on." Peter says looking around at everyone, his expression extremely serious. "Yondu is gonna be here in two seconds. He expects to hear this big plan of ours. I need your help. I look around at us, you know what I see? Losers."

The group looks at him in confusion. Peter sees his mistake and quickly fixes it.

"I mean, like, folks who have lost stuff. And we have. Man, we have. All of us. Our homes, our families, normal lives." Peter looked at each of them as he said this. " And, usually, life takes more than it gives, but not today. Today, it's given us something. It has given us a chance."

Sarah looks up at Peter. "To do what?"

"To give a shit." Peter makes eye contact with her and then looks around at everyone who is silent. "For once, not run away. I, for one, am not gonna stand by and watch as Ronan wipes out billions of innocent lives."

"But, Quill" Rocket lifts up his gaze to Peter "stopping, it's impossible. You're asking us to die."

Peter sighs in defeat and his hands fall to his sides "Yeah, I guess, I am. I..." he turns from the group and drops his gaze to the ground.

After a moment of silence, Sarah speaks up, catching Peter's attention.

"Peter. Most of my life I have always been scared and running from my problems, but I will not stand by and let people get slaughter, I will fight to keep the ones I care about alive, so count me in." She says and stand up, giving a smile.

"Quill. I have lived most of my life surround by enemies." Gamora rises to her feet and gives him and Sarah a small smile. "I will be grateful to die among my friends."

Drax stands up as well and turns to Peter. "You are an honorable man, Quill. I will fight beside you. And in the end, see my wife and daughter again."

Groot gets up onto his feet and nods at them. "I am Groot."

They all looked at Rocket, waiting for him to join them and he looks around, finally sighing and gives in. "Oh, what the hell. I don't got that long a lifespan, anyway."

Rocket gets up and stands on his feet on his seat. "Now I'm standing. You all happy?" he says a frown on his face and crossed his arms over his chest. "We're all standing up now. Bunch of jackasses, standing in a circle."

Rocket looks to Sarah and gives a loving smile, only to get one in return.