One of Yondu's men entered the room and called for them to explain the big plan they had. Peter took a deep breath and motioned for them to follow him.

They entered a large room with screens set up in a circle in the middle. Gamora steps into the circle and pulls up a picture of the infinity stone inside the orb that Ronan now had.

"This is what is inside of the orb. It's called an Infinity Stone. The stone reacts to anything organic. The bigger the target, the bigger the power surge." Gamora explained to the large crew. Peter steps next to her and nods with a serious expression.

"All Ronan's gotta do is touch the stone to the planet's surface and zap. All plants, animals, Nova Corps." He said looking at everyone there.

"Everything will die." Gamora add in.

Peter stepped forward and pointed at the screen that had a picture of Ronan's ship and Xandar. "So. Ronan does not make the surface. Rocket will lead a team to blow a hole in the Dark Aster's starboard hull. Then our craft and Yondu's will enter."

"I think of Sakaaran as paper people." Drax mutters and Kraglin grins at him, giving him a friendly punch in the shoulder. Drax, not understanding the jester, gives him a death glare. Sarah whispers to him.

"It's means he like your comment."

Drax looks at her and nods, backing off. They turn back to Gamora who had continued to speak.

"Once they know we're on board, Ronan will isolate himself behind impenetrable security doors on deck. Which I can disable by dismantling the power source." She said and Peter pointed to another picture on one of the screens.

"We'll make it to the flight deck, and I'll use the Hadron Enforcer to kill Ronan."

One of the crew members begins to pass out a type of device that looked like the orb. Gamora explained what they were for. "Once is dead, we will retrieve the stone. Use these devices to contain it."

Peter continues to talk once they were pass out. "I'll contact one of the Nova officers who arrested us. Hopefully, they'll believe we're there to help."

Rocket steps next to Peter and faces the crew. "There's one more thing to complete the plan." He points up to one of Yondu's men who had a robotic eye. "That guy's eye..."

Sarah began to giggle while covering her mouth with her hand.

Peter quickly steps forward and shakes his head frantically, waving his arms in front of him. "No! No, we don't need that guy's eye."

"No, seriously, I need it! It's important to me." Rocket says, covering his mouth to keep from laughing.

Sarah continues to giggle as they walked to get changed.

As Sarah zipped up the new outfit she found, Rocket walked past the room, stopping and walked back, when he saw she was in there.

"There you are. Hurry up we gotta get goin'. Peter's got the Milano all ready and he's waiting for you." He said leaning in the door frame with his huge gun.

Sarah looked at him and nodded. "Ok. I'm all done anyways." She walked a few steps out of the room, when Rocket's voice stopped her.

"Wait!

She turned around and looked at him confused. "Yes? What is it?"

He walked up to her as she got down on her knee to lower herself to his height.

"Listen, Sarah, no matter what happens, Whether we live or die through all this, I just want to let you know." Rocket says, cradling Sarah's face gently in his hands. "I will love you until I die."

Sarah smiles lovingly at him. "I will love you until my last breath." Then, she kisses him with passion, and he returned that passion. After breaking the kiss, and grabbing his hand, she spoke to him. "C'mon'"

As they made it to the hangers, Sarah and Rocket separated, going to their ships.

Sarah made it to the Milano, Peter looking slightly annoyed. "You happy now?"

Sarah walks up the ramp and into the Milano. "Yes. Very." She answers and straps herself in.

Peter sits down in the pilot's seat and starts up the ship.

"This is a terrible plan." Gamora mutters and Peter smirks at her.

"Hey, you're the one who said you wanted to die among friends." Peter said, making Gamora throw him a glare and Sarah giggled.

"Quill! Yondu! Now!"

They both flew towards the opening, but Yondu's ship was shot down before he could get there.

"Aw, hell! I'm going down, Quill! No more games with me with, boy! I'll see at the end of this!" They hear his voice through the intercom. Ronan's fleet continues to relentlessly come at them, the Milano shaking from the shots fired.

Sarah leans forward and pushes the button on the communicator. "There are too many of them, Rocket! We'll never make it up there!"

Just as one of the Kree ships were about to come at them, it are shot down by a ship next to them and Sarah looks out the window.

"The Nova Corps!" She yelled, surprised.

"Peter Quill, this Denarian Saal of the Nova Corps." The voice said through the intercom. "For the record, I advised against trusting you here."

Peter grinned. "They got my 'dick' message!"

"You're what?!" Sarah yelled in disgust while Gamora quickly shot her head to look at Peter.

"Prove me wrong." Denarian said as a whole fleet of Nova Corps officers came flying in to help in the fight.

Peter manages to get through all the ships and finally manages to land, or well crash, the Milano inside the Dark Astor.

"Yes!" Drax laughs and cheers.

Sarah sighs in relief. "We're still alive. Thank goodness."

Gamora laughs lightly as well as well and turns to Peter. "We're just like Kevin Bacon."

Peter turns to her and smiles. He unbuckles himself form his seat and gets up. "Alright. Let's go."

The four of them walked through the large ship, following Gamora to where Ronan was. Sarah had to squint her eyes to try and see where they were going, the place being almost completely dark.

"I can barely see." Drax muttered as they walked.

Sarah suddenly bumps into Groot who had stooped walking. She was about to say something, when he only winked at her and lifted his hand into the air, releasing glowing lights from his fingertips and palm.

The group stared in awe at the firefly-like particles in the air and the whole hallway filled up with light.

Sarah smiled up at Groot. "It never stops being beautiful..." She murmured. Groot smiled at her and they continued to walk. She had seen do this a few times, when she could not sleep. He could just make people feel better without even trying.

Drax looked around in complete amazement. "When did you learn to do that?" he said quietly.

"I'm pretty sure the answer is 'I am Groot'." Peter muttered looking quite amazed as well.

Gamora continued to walk ahead of them and turned to them. "The flight deck is three hundred meter this way."

They all nodded and walked in silence until Drax broke it, when he spoke he had a small smile on his face.

"I want you to all know that I am grateful for your acceptance even after my blunders. It is pleasing to once again have...friends." He said fully smiling now. He then turned to Peter. "You, Quill, are my friend."

"Thanks." Peter said, sounding slightly sarcastic.

"This dumb tree and little girl, you are my friends."

Groot grunted his response while Sarah looked at Drax, slightly ticked at the little girl comment. "Um, sure. Thanks."

Drax lastly looked over to Gamora. "And this green whore, she, too..."

"Oh, you must stop!" She snapped at him.

But, when she turned around to keep walking, a woman with blue skin blocked their path. She glared at Gamora and she glared back.

"Gamora, look at what you done." The woman sneered. "You have always been weak. You stupid, traitorous..."

She was suddenly cut off, when Drax fired a shot at her and she was hit directly, flying back with the force of the shot.

The group stared at him with wide eyes, thrown off by his actions and he only lowers the weapon, glaring at the where the woman was standing.

"Nobody talks to my friends like that."

Sarah pats him on the back. "Good shot, Drax."

"Head to the flight deck. I'll shut down the power to the security doors." Gamora says to them, walking ahead.

"You be careful, alright?" Sarah says stepping up.

Gamora nods and walked through into the room in front of them, leaving them to fight with Ronan's goons.

As they walk to the flight deck, they stop, when they see Korath the pursuer and Ronan's crew.

"Star-lord." Korath acknowledges Peter, while grins at the sound of his little nickname.

"Finally"

After that, they began fighting each other.

Sarah was shooting many goons as she can, that is until she was kicked into the wall, she did not have time to recover, because she was grabbed by the throat by Korath who looked livid, "Die"

Just as he was about to stab her with his knife, Drax tossed him into the wall and began to rip a part of his head.

"Finger to the throat means death." Drax growled at him as he finally kills him and drops Korath to the floor. Drax turns to Peter and grins.

"Metaphor."

Peter stares at him, surprised, but smiles weakly. "Yeah, sorta."

Drax looks over to Sarah and holds out a hand to help her up. Sarah stared at him, her mouth agape, but took his hand anyways and was pulled to her feet.

"Uh, thanks... for, um, helping me." She says still shocked at what she had just seen.

Drax nods and they turn to see more of Ronan's crew coming at them.

"Oh no" Sarah breathes out.

But, before they could react, Groot steps in front of them and stabs half the soldiers, then using them to smash the rest. After he finishes, he pulls his arm back and turns to the three of them, a grin on his face saying 'I did good, right?'

Sarah giggled and nods at him. "Yes, Groot you did a good job."

They encountered more goons by the flight deck and the door was still shut. They hear Rocket's voice through Peter's communicator.

"Quill, you gotta hurry. The city's evacuated, but we're getting our assess kicked down here."

Peter grabs the communicator and tosses it to Sarah.

"Here! Talk to your little boyfriend. I'll watch your back." Peter yelled to her over the noise.

Sarah answered the small machine. "Rocket, Gamora hasn't opened the door! We're just waiting for her."

They took care of Ronan's men and they all gave a sigh of relief, when they see Gamora open the door to the flight deck.

The five of them enter the large and Ronan turns to face them, a smirk on his face, when he see Peter take out the Hadron Enforcer and aims it at Him. Peter, without hesitating, shoots Ronan.

They all smile, when they see the shot connected with him.

"You did it!" Drax cheered.

But, as the cloud of smoke cleared around him, their smiles fell. There Ronan stood looking like the shot had zero effect on him. He grins evilly and turned his hammer at them, sending them flying to the side.

Drax is the first to get up and glares at Ronan, rushing towards him. But, he is grabbed by the throat, and is lifted up.

"I was mistaken," he sneered at him, gripping his throat tighter. "I do remember your family. Their screams were pitiful. I..."

Before Ronan could finish, a ship comes crashing into the bridge and went straight to Ronan.

Peter quickly tackles Drax out of the way and Groot grabbed Sarah, moving out of the way, before the ship hit any of them.

Sarah groaned as she sat up. She looked over to the ship that crashed into the bridge and saw Peter pull a unconscious Rocket out of the ship. Sarah felt her heart died and she rushed over to Peter.

"Oh God, is he... is he..." She tried to ask if he was alright, but her voice quivered and broke too much to speak properly.

Peter seemed to understand and nodded. "Yeah. He's fine." He handed Rocket over to her and she held him close. She shut her eyes as the large ship began to break and fall apart even more. Sarah knelt down with the rest of her groups of friends as she felt tears slowly falling down her face.

Sarah suddenly hears creaking and shifting behind her and she looks up behind her.

"Groot? Buddy? What are you doing?" Her voice cracking.

Groot only gave her a sad looking smile, and saw as his arms and branches began to surround them. Her tears began to fall more steadily now, understanding what he was doing.

Rocket stirred in Sarah's arms and his eyes slowly opened. Sarah looked at him and he looked back up at her. He frowned, when he saw her silently crying and looked around. Seeing all the branches surrounding them, he quickly figured, what Groot was doing and stumbled over to him.

"No, Groot! You can't, you'll die." He moaned, his eyes brimming up with tears. "Why are you doing this? Why?"

Groot softly reached over to him with a small vine and wiped away his tears with a small smile. Sarah grabbed Rocket's hand and he turned to her and gripped it more tightly. Her eyes widen, when she hears Groot speak to them.

"We... are... Groot." He whispered to them softly as the ship crashed onto the ground.