Chapter 26: Battle in Ego's core
The battle raged on as Peyton kept killing all the robots that were attacking where Groot and Rocket were currently located at. However, Rocket found it hard because Groot didn't understand which button not to push Heard Rocket yelling at Groot to get it right. She flew over to them.
"Calm down. You're making him nervous," Peyton shouted.
"Shut up and give me tape, kid," Rocket said. "I wanna put tape over the death button."
"I dont have any tape. But I'll go check. " Peyton flew away. From inside, he heard Peyton yell at their friends. "Yo, Nebula, you got any tape?"
"No! " Nebula yelled.
"Dad, do you have any tape?"
"Hell no."
"Gamora? Do you have ... do you have any tape?"
"Why would I have tape?" Gamora shouted. Rocket rolled his eyes.
"Mantis...ugh... never mind. Drax do you have any tape?" No answer. "Yes, scotch tape would work!" Long silence. "Then why did you ask if scotch tape would work if you don't have any?!" She flew back to Rocket. "No one has tape."
"Not a single person has tape?" Rocket shouted, looking back at the kid.
"Nope! Besides Rocket, you have priceless batteries and an atomic bomb in your bag!" Peyton shouted. "IF ANYBODY'S GONNA HAVE TAPE, IT'S YOU!"
"That's exactly my point! I have to do EVERYTHING!" Rocket shouted.
"You are wasting a lot of time here!" Peyton shouted. She came back down and noticed Groot was gone. "Rocket, where's Groot?"
The duo looked back and saw the direction he was going.
"Groot, come back!" However, Groot wasn't listening to his mother….wait, did Peyton just think she was Groot's Mother?
"We're all gonna die." Rocket said.
"He is so grounded. "
Peyton heard sounds of Yondu yelling. The girl quickly panicked and rushed out of the caverns and flew back up into the ship.
"Dad!" Peyton yelled. She quickly got up to her father and Nebula.
"Peyton get out of here now!" Yondu yelled at her. "We're doomed without that generator. They'll kill you!"
Nebula groaned at the farther/ daughter mushy stuff and didn't need to die today. She hooked herself up with the metals in her fake arm.
"Nebula what are you doing?"
"Saving your life, Blondie." She let the generator cords get hooked up. "Besides, Gamora would literally kill me if something bad happens to you. Idiots in love."
She finished hooking up the cords.
"This is gonna hurt." Yondu warned her
"Promises, promises, " Nebula hissed.
Yondu looked at Peyton. "You might wanna stand back."
She did as she was told. Yondu hit the button as nebula got electrocuted. She began to light up like a lightning storm. All around them, the ships got destroyed. Peyton sighed in relief. However she smelled something.
"Do you guys smell that?" Peyton asked.
"Oh no, something spilled,"Yondu shouted. Everyone looked in alarm. Yondu quickly whistled, Nebula broke down the window and Peyton quickly activated her jetpack as the ship exploded.
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Down below, Gamora, Drax, and Mantis were on the ground, where the trio fell earlier in the middle of the battle. However, gamora looked up to see the ship blow up.
"Peyton!" Gamora shouted, worried for her safety. Nebula landed in front. "No..."
She began sobbing. However, the blue alien woman looked up, as did Gamora. She sighed in relief when she saw Yondu and Peyton glide down. She looked up at her father and noticedhis similarity between himself an d a certain character. She laughed a little bit
"What?" Yondu asked.
"You look like Mary Poppins," Peyton answered.
"Is he cool?"
"Yeah, Dad. He's cool, " Peyton answered.
She looked down at her friends and Gamora was relieved to see her companion alive. The entire group stood together, watching triumphantly as Ego's planet began falling and Rocket came to join them. However, a flying space debree landed on top of Mantis.
"Mantis, look out!" Drax yelled, but he was too late for the warning. He quickly went over to Mantis and brought her in his arms, now holding her in a bridal style. "She's just unconscious."
Peyton quickly ran over to Rocket.
"Rocket, how long until the bomb goes off?"
In the unlikely event that Groot doesn't kill us all… about six minutes," Rocket told her.
"Kraglin, we need the quadrant for an extraction," Yondu told his son. "T-minus five minutes."
"Aye, Captain," Kraglin said and began descending down.
"Somebody's gotta be up top when Kraglin arrives," Peyton said. She took off her Aero Rig and passed it onto Drax's back. "Drax, take Mantis."
She put it on his back and watched him fly away, while screaming, "Ow! My nipples!"
Peyton and her friends looked behind to see Ego was turning back on, Mantis' spell no longer on top of him. Suddenly the ground disappeared from underneath them and suddenly, Gamora and Nebula fell through the cracks.
"Gamora! Nebula!" Peyton shouted at the two women. However, they were already ten feet down under. It was as if she wanted to jump off. She quickly got to the cliff and went to jump.
"Peyton no!" Yondu shouted and quickly put his arm around her.
"Dad, let go of me!" Peyton shouted.
"No, Gamora and Nebula will be fine," Yondu told her.
"No, Daddy, you don't understand!" Peyton shouted, trying to fight against her adoptive father. "Let go!"
"No!" yondu yelled. He turned her around. "You've already left me once, and you're not gonna leave me again!"
"No! You don't understand, Daddy," Peyton said. She looked into her father's red eyes. "She is more than a friend. I love her!"
Yondu was lost for words, not sure if he heard his daughter right or not. They heard Ego yell her name and was going to reform in his human avatar at any moment. Their greatest fear of the battle turning on them was coming upon them.
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Nebula and Gamora continued falling down the abyss.
However, as they fell, Nebula latched one of th hooks on her prosthetic arm onto the side of a cliff and quickly grabbed onto her sister's wrist. The two sisters looked at each other for a moment as the hate in Nebula's eyes and misery both daughters of Thanos faced through all those years of hard training in upbringing finally faded. With all her strength nebula threw her sister on to the higher platform. Gamora looked at her sister with thankfulness and curiosity as Nebula ascended the flat surface. She rolled her eyes.
"Get over it," she hissed. While it appeared Nebula didn't care that she just saved her sisters life, Nebula felt otherwise.
" We have to go back on top with the others," Gamora shouted at her sister.
"Why are you doing this, Gamora? " Nebula asked her older sister.
"Doing what ? You're risking your life, everyday for Blondie up there and stay by her side very second of the way. You refuse to abandon her! Why?"
"Really? You want to have a sisterly talk about my relationship with Peyton now!?"
"I know you love Peyton, Gamora! I see the way both of you look at each other, like a love struck idiot. Do you love her?"
"Fine, I'm in love with Peyton. You happy?" Gamora yelled. They saw one of the columns growing. "Come on!"
Nebula and Gamora quickly jumped on the column as it made its way to the surface.
