The Battle for Xandar Part 2:

Nebula's body was malfunctioned and bent from that rocket impact. She picked up her electric swords as her muscles started straightening mechanically by themselves.

She heard footsteps approaching. She looked ahead and saw Gamora running up to her. She slowed down and lifted up her hands. "Nebula please?" the green girl begged. But it wasn't abundant.

Nebula suddenly attempted to strike her. But Gamora ducked, grabbed her arm and elbowed her in the back, stunning her a bit. She dashed forward and saw the power source to the security doors that glowed as green as a thousand emeralds. She pulled it out of its insert and attempted to destroy it. But Nebula swiped with her electric sword out of nowhere. Gamora tried to fight back but Nebula kicked her back. She drew out Godslayer and they clashed once more.

"Guards! Guards!" Korath shouted, his voice echoing around the maze of passages. "Guards! With me to the stubborn curd! We must not allow these intruders to reach Ronan.

"What about the prisoner?" a guard asked, beckoned to Vamos, caged and chained in his cell; ten times stronger than the others.

"You two stay with him!" Korath ordered the bodyguards guarding the gate. "Do not let him escape!"

At a constant rate, Rocket steered and blasted in the sky with all the other Ravangers. It seemed continue on forever. Much to his bombshell, they turned their attention away from him and his allies. They were suddenly dive-bombing down onto the city. The Nova Corp did not move. They had to keep Ronan up there. But hundreds of innocent people were about to get killed by these skydiving pods.

"Everyone dive down!" he commanded through the com. He pushed the lever and his ship were lunging down like metal birds of prey. As he did, he pressed a trigger and dozens of enemy pods went boom!

His eyes caught the sight of one about to crash into a bridge where there were several families. Including a pink mother carrying her pink daughter. Quick as whip, he blasted the ship as he soared over the bridge. He had saved those Xandarians just in time.

"Keep Ronan up there Saal! We'll take care of the people down here!" Rocket called through.

Saal was glum at the thought. "I can't believe I'm taking orders from a hamster,"

Rocket flew into a fury. "I heard that! I'm not a hamster!"

"Then what are if you're not a racoon?" Saal demanded.

The others had just turned a corner into a gigantic engine room with spinning generators when they encountered the faces of Korath and his soldiers.

"Star-Lord – Star Lady," Korath addressed swiftly with quiet words.

"Finally," Peter answered with a goofy smile.

Tina smirked, clicking her guns' triggers. "This is goanna be fun,"

Orlins and Meredith leapt of their shoulders, growling bigger and renagaing into Korath's men. Peter and Tina activated their masks and they started blasting the shooters.

Drax swiftly stabbed and wiped out some with his blades. Groot kicked and struck them with his stoic fist. Tina tried to kill Korath but he was too quick and angelic for her to blast him. She tried to fly into him with his rocket blasters but Korath grabbed her ankle and tossed her into a wall.

"Hey! Nobody does that to my sister!" Peter shouted. He tried to kill Korath but like his sister he thrown into the wall.

"You will never make it to Ronan," Korath sneered smugly. He made a move to kill them, but Orlins and Meredith charged into him. They tried to tear him apart, but he wrestled them. They turned back small to escape his punches. Still they couldn't defeat him, even together.

The flying Rocket steered his ship and pointed its head upwards to the sky.

"Everyone! Shoot them before they hit the ground!" he commanded.

The Ravangers steered their ships upwards to the sky. They pulled their triggers and bang bang bang bang bang. The guns shot and took out Necro ships, blasting them before they could bomb the city. Numbers of Xandarians were saved. But the fate of their planet was still in the hands of rocket's friends.

Gamora and Nebula fought with fury. Gamora blocked Nebula's electric swipes and slashes with her Godslayer, kicking her or punching her when there was a chance.

Groot kicked the Kree like balls into one another. Drax punched and threw his right-fist incessantly into Korath's face. Tina and Peter shot the soldiers with their guns and floated about using their rocket blasters. Orlins and Meredith kept changing sizes and causing the Kree to kill or kick one another.

Drax attempted to kill Korath with his knives by throwing them. But they all succeeded into killing two other soldiers. So, he took on Korath man to man. Korath seemed to be gaining the upper hand at first. But Drax took the advantage to ram his body into Korath's and slam his fists into his face.

Drax managed to pin Korath to the wall and he grasped on Korath's metal head pieces. He screamed in agony as Drax used his other hand to press a finger against his throat.

"Finger to your throat means…" Drax spoke sneeringly. "Death"

He ripped the head piece out of Korath's head, and his head burst out bolts of electricity as his corpse shuddered against the wall. It fell plain on the floor, lifeless.

Drax look to the twins with a proud smile. "Metaphor,"

"Good job Drax," Tina acknowledged with a nod.

"Well said," Peter complimented.

The group were about to continue when too many more Kree soldiers were charging at them.

"Uh oh,"

Groot shot his right hand and it extended in length and went right through five soldiers. He lifted up his right arm. He started swinging it from left to right and up and down, wiping out every soldier as if they were fragile chess pieces.

"AAAAHHHHHH!" he roared, his voice echoing against the walls. He pulled his right arm out and it was short again. He turned to his friends.

His face brightened and his eyes and mouth widened.

"Good job Groot," Tina acknowledged.

Ronan could no longer comprehend the Nova Corp's army stopping his ship. He opened the windows of his gigantic wind shield. "Xandar!" his voice boomed so loudly that it transferred through the outside ship's radios to the main headquarters where Nova Prime could hear. "You stand accused! Your wretched peace treaty will not save you now! It is the timber on which you burn!" He raised his hefty hammer, and the Power Stone encased inside releasing a blast of purple.

The Nova ships in front of the wind shield were blasted to smithereens. As they were destroyed, the remaining ships were too. With fewer ships, the blockade was weakening.

Saal suddenly felt his ship pressing against him as the Dark Aster could move forward. He felt like he was being squashed. He didn't have long.

"Rocket!" he screamed through the com.

"Hold on Saal!" Rocket called back. "Just…"

"Ahhh!" BOOM!

Millions of Nova Corps ships were destroyed. Some were sent flying down. Some managed to survive but could not do anything with fewer allies.

The callous Ronan smirked with pride at his work. He was closer than ever to reaching his goal.

Rocket and the Ravangers watched with fear as the Kree Warhead pursued his descension down to the city.

"Guys, you've gotta hurry. The city's been evacuated! But we're getting our buts kicked out here!" Rocket warned through the com to his still-surviving friends.

The other had manged to reach the doors leading to Ronan's chambers. But there was one problem. They weren't open.

"Gamora hasn't opened the door!" Tina shouted.

"What?!" Peter shrieked, fearing for her safety.

Down below, Gamora and Nebula still couldn't best one another. Gamora kicked her foot and hooked one of Nebula's swords and pulled it away. She twisted and swiped at Nebula, but her slash was blocked. Then her second one. Nebula disarmed her and her sword was tossed out through the hall. Nebula stung Gamora with an electric bite with her other sword's tip.

Gamora screamed but she disarmed Nebula and gave her sister a mighty kick to the face that sent her backflipping out the hall. Her prosthetic arm managed to hook onto a piece of metal. Though she hung thousands of miles above the earth.

"Nebula!" Gamora screamed for her. She reached out an arm to her hanging sister. "Sister! Help us fight Ronan. You know he's crazy!"

"I know you're both crazy," Nebula scoffed. She raised her hand.

"No!" Gamora begged. But it was too late.

Nebula slashed her arm and cut it clean it. She plummeted down. Much to her luck, she landed on a Ravanger ship's wind shield. She punched it open. "Get out!"

"Ahhh!" the pilot was tossed out whilst his stolen ship flew away from Earth, off to freedom.

Peter prepared the Hadron Enforcer whilst Groot tried to bash the doors open with his fists. But they were too thick and too strong.

Gamora found a gun to use and she crashed the power source and pulled out the wires.

The doors opened. Quickly Gamora's friends dashed through.

Gamora shot through the ceiling. She jumped up and shot down the guards that were just about to overwhelm her friends.

They stood together, staring at the Kree standing across the room with his hammer. Detecting their presence, he turned to them.

Peter had a target.

"Now!" Tina shouted.

Peter pulled the two triggers on the side and boom!

A small but lethal rocket was shot out. It flew to Ronan and then bang.

The impact realised a mighty cloud of smoke that blocked their vision from their enemy.

Peter and Tina deactivated their helmets. They couldn't see Ronan. It seemed their plan had worked.

"You did it!" Drax cheered.

The Quill Twins smiled. But a black shadow rose into view. Their smiles faltered. It wasn't over.

Everyone looked in fear as the maniac Kree, a deep gash in his chest armour, still stood. He glared darkly at them. No one can stop me. Not even you all can.

Ronan raised his hammer head in their direction. He twisted it. It sent out a sonic wave that knocked them all off their feet.

Drax got up quickly and battle cried as he recklessly charged at Ronan, his knives raised up. But Ronan instantly gripped him by the throat and lifted him up.

Drax felt his neck squeezed between the thick fingers. He chocked and gurgled.

"I was mistaken. I do remember your family," Ronan sneered with such cold words. "Their screams were pitiful. I…"

He paused when he heard the roaring vibrations of an engine. He twisted his head to see a Ravanger ship with a racoon roaring as he rammed it through the glass window and into the engine room. The pilots were knocked out and the engines were busted.

Tina rammed her body into Groot and knocked him back to save him. Peter did the same to Gamora. A cloud of dust and debris floated about. A minute passed and the four lifted their heads.

They couldn't see Ronan. He must have died.

Tina scrambled towards the damaged destroyed Milano. The window was dirty and broken. An unconscious Rocket was still in the seat. Tina unbuckled him and carried him in her arms to the others.

Peter helped an injured Gamora step over to them. Groot pulled an unconscious Drax towards them. The moment she saw a wounded bruised Rocket, Meredith jumped off Peter's shoulder and bounded to him. She whimpered and licked his face. She nuzzled his check hoping he was okay.

They all suddenly felt their throats falling into their stomachs.

"Guys…we're going down," Tina realised. She looked at her brother and Gamora with fear. "We're never goanna survive this landing,"

Peter and Gamora were calm. But in their eyes, Tina saw fear. Meredith and Orlins cooed in low voices.

Groot looked at how fearful his friends were. Tina was right. They would not survive. Not…unless he….

Groot made a choice. Slowly he reached his arms and they started extending in length around himself and his friends. Branches started sprouting out from all his body and they encircled around everyone as well. Peter, Gamora and Tina watched as the branches formed a ball of twigs and leaves around themselves.

"Groot…what are you doing?" Tina asked in confusion.

Rocket moved his head and breathed. His eyes widened as he saw what his best friend was doing.

Moments later, the entire group was engulfed inside the huge ball of tricks and leaves that Groot had formed with his own body. Tiny balls of golden floating fauna lit up their protective cage and branches sprouted around their waists and legs to brace them for impact.

"No Groot!" Rocket begged. He touched his best friend's chest as her tears started swelling with eyes. "You can't. You'll die. Why are you doing this? Why?" he couldn't hold back his tears any long.

A twig from Groot touched his furry cheek and wiped them away.

"We…are…Groot," were his final words.

The group of friends held each other's' hands. They were together now.

Crash

They fell unconscious as they felt the Dark Aster crashing onto the Earth. All went dark.