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Sorry if you find any grammar mistakes. I'm still learning English because it's not my first language.
MatbeK01: Don't worry, you don't need to translate your reviews. I understand them pretty well :)
Things were bad and it was just a gentle way of putting it.
The Ravagers, dozens of them, were the first thing that Matt saw when he regained his consciousness. He flinched a bit at the pain he felt when he tried to move his wrists. He tried to stand up, but was unable to because he was strapped to a chair. He didn't had to guess where he was. It was quite obvious for him that he was taken straight to the Ravagers ship after he and Rocket were knocked unconscious by Nebula. He looked around himself, and saw Rocket just moment later. His partner was strapped to a chair as well, and just like him was unable to move.
He looked around himself once again, this time attempting to spot Groot. He wanted to know if they caught him too, even though the answer was quite obvious for him. It took him several seconds to spot a little cage right above him. He could feel anger building inside of him when he saw who was placed in that cage. Groot glanced down at Rocket and Matt, fearfully and shrieked when one of the Ravagers screamed at him.
Matt even spotted Nebula. She stood away from the Ravagers in the background, minding her own business. He didn't paid much attention to her, because she wasn't on his mind right now.
Yondu was sitting right in front of him and Rocket. He just stared at the floor with blank expression on his face as one of the Ravagers that remained loyal to him was dragged into to the other side of the room. He slammed his hand against the window a few times while the other Ravagers were simply waving at him. The other doors opened and threw him out into space where he suffocated.
Matt cringed a bit after seeing what happened to the Ravager. His and Rocket's situation was far away from perfect, but they were getting off easy, at least for now, considering what the Ravagers were doing to the ones that remained loyal to Yondu.
"You're the one what killed those men by leading them down the wrong path." The scarred man that Matt recognized from earlier approached Yondu, "Because you're weak." He punched him, "And stupid!" He punched him once again. He turned away from his now former captain and stopped in the middle of the room, making sure that all of the Ravagers had their eyes on him, "It's time for the Ravagers to rise once again to glory with a new captain Taserface!"
The Ravagers all bursted into cheers as Taserface simply enjoyed the moment of everyone cheering at him. But all that cheering stopped when the Ravagers heard someone laughing. Taserface's grin faded fom his face as he turned back to look at Rocket and Matt to see both of them laughing. Laughing, despise the fact that they were in his custody and that he could have killed them for even looking at him wrong.
"I'm sorry." Rocket barely stopped himself from laughing again, "Your name is Taserface?"
Taserface nodded his head in confirmation, "That's right."
"Do you shoot tasers out of your face?" Rocket asked.
Taserface raised his hands in the air, declaring proudly, "It's metaphorical!"
Matt exchanged confused looks with Rocket, before titling his head in confusion, "How?"
"For it is a name what strikes fear..." Taserface began, raising his hands for another time, "...Into the hearts of anyone what hears it!"
The Ravagers nodded their heads, agreeing with their new captain, but this explanation got completely different reactions from a certain raccoon and a certain human.
"Okay." Rocket nodded his head. He and Matt were seconds away from bursting into laughter again. They knew how bad their situation was, but they simply couldn't help themselves. This name was just so ridiculous.
Matt nodded his head in agreement, chuckling, "Whatever you say."
Taserface glared at them and pulled out a small blade, "You shut up, both of you. You're next." He turned to look at Yondu again, pressing his blade against Udonta's throat again, "Udonta, I have waited a long time to do..."
He stopped when he heard Rocket whisper to Matt, almost bursting into laughter while doing so, "Matt, listen to this."
Matt just like Rocket was doing his best to stop himself from laughing again, "What is it?"
Taserface turned to look at them again, even more annoyed by them, "WHAT?!"
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." Rocket shook his head, seconds away from laughing, "I just had to tell my friend here that I just imagined waking up in the morning, looking in the mirror and then in all seriousness saying to yourself, "You know what would be a really kick-ass name?" Taserface!"
Rocket bursted into laughter as the Ravagers around him and his human companion were doing their best to stop themselves from bursting into laughter. Matt couldn't help himself and started laughing as well after hearing what his partner wanted to say to him, "I wonder how ridiculous his second choice must have been if he thought that Taserface was a better option."
"I bet it was Scrotum Hat!" Rocket stated.
This was enough for the Ravagers. All of them bursted into hysterical laughter. Matt and Rocket could even hear Groot laughing from his a cage above them.
Taserface was clearly displeased how Matt and Rocket made his crew laugh at him. He pulled out another small blade and lunged himself at the duo, pressing the blades against their throats, growling, "New plan! We're killing both of you first."
Everyone quickly stopped laughing as Rocket stared straight into Taserface's eyes and said, "Well, dying is certainly better than having to live an entire life as a moronic shitbag who thinks Taserface is a cool name."
"That's enough killing for today." A female voice spoke up as everyone turned to the source of it and saw Nebula.
She started approaching them, pushing a Ravager aside, making him flinch as Taserface said to her, "I thought you were the biggest sadist in the galaxy."
"That was when Daddy was paying my bills." Nebula retorted as she stopped herself in the middle of the room and looked at Rocket, "The Priestess wants to kill the fox herself." She shifted her attention to Yondu who's expression was as blank as it was when Matt opened his eyes, "And he has bounties on his head in at least 12 Kree provinces." Taserface glared at her and gritted his teeth, moving towards her but Nebula simply shrugged it off, "I assure you I am not as easy a mark as an old man without his magic stick or a talking woodland beast or a card playing terran."
She and Taserface proceeded to glare at each other as she added, "I want 10% of the take and a couple more things."
Matt sighed as he stared at the floor of the cell that he, Rocket and Yondu were placed in right after their little incident with Taserface. He had no idea where Groot was taken to, or what they were going to do to him, and neither did Rocket. He knew they had to figure a way out of there. The Ravagers were going to take him and Rocket straight to the Sovereign and that was the last place he wanted to find himself on right now.
He wasn't exactly sure what Ayesha was going to do him, but the list of what may happen to him there was very short, because of him being close associates with Rocket.
"No offense." Rocket spoke up to Yondu, "But your employees are a bunch of jerks."
"I was a Kree battle slave for 20 years when Stakar freed me." Yondu said in in response as Matt and Rocket looked at him, "He offered me a place with the Ravagers. He said all I needed to do was adhere to the code. But I was young and greedy, and stupid. Like you stealing those batteries."
"That was mostly Drax." Rocket deflected.
Matt send him a besumed look, "Rocket."
The raccoon looked at his partner, "What?"
Ignoring them, Yondu continued, "Me and Stakar and the other captains we weren't so different from you and your friends. The only family I ever had. When I broke the code they exiled me. This is what I deserve."
"Slow down, drama queen." Rocket said, not interested in Yondu's story at all. He stood up from his spot and looked around the cell, "You might deserve this, but I don't. We gotta get outta here."
"Where's Quill?" Yondu asked.
"He went off with his old man." Rocket explained.
Yondu titled his head, feeling how his eyes widened at at the mention of Quill's old man, "Ego?"
Matt nodded his head in confirmation, not really sure if he should ask why Yondu looked so concerned when Rocket mentioned Ego, "That's the one."
"It's a day for dumbass names." Rocket chuckled, making Yondu snicker, showing off his teeth to the raccoon and a human who both grimaced at the view of them.
Yondu stopped snickering and glared at the raccoon, "You like a professional asshole or what?"
Rocket shrugged his shoulders, "Pretty much a pro."
"Yondu, why didn't you deliver Quill to Ego like you promised?" Matt asked, curiously.
He didn't had to wait long for the answer, "He was skinny. Could fit into places we couldn't. Good for thievin'."
Matt and Rocket shared a quick look with each other, neither of them believing in the answer that Yondu just gave them. They just didn't imagine Yondu as the type of a guy that would take in a child, accepting all of the resposibilities that came with it just for this one reason.
Before they could say something to him, the blue skinned man continued, "I got an idea on how to get outta here. But we're gonna need your little friend."
Matt sighed, looking at the exit from their cell, "At first we need to know where he is."
They had to wait over an hour until they saw a small shadow heading towards their cell. They came over to the exit from their cell and saw depressed Groot walking down the hallway. Something obviously happened to him after they were placed in this cell. The little's tree head was down, and his new clothes were torn and were soaked in a liquor.
"Hey, twig!" Yondu called out to him, quietly, earning Groot's attention, "Come here."
Groot came over to the cell, giving Matt and Rocket a good look at his new look. His usually cheerful and bright eyes were dull. He looked at them with sad eyes. Matt and Rocket wished they could get out of their cell and give him a comforting hug, and take care of the Ravagers that did that to him right after.
Matt shook his head, "You poor guy."
"What did they do to him?" Rocket asked, sharing a look with Matt who shook his head, having no idea what to say.
Yondu knew that Matt and Rocket were not too distracted to focus, "Hey, you wanna help us get outta here?"
Groot gave him a small nod of his head in response. Rocket and Matt exchanged unsure looks with each other. They knew that it was going to take a while, because Groot was still too young to understand many things.
"There's something I need you to get, and bring back to me." Yondu said as Groot nodded his head again, waiting for the blue skinned man to say more, "In the captain's quarters, there's a prototype fin. The thing I wore on my head. There's a drawer next to the bunk. It's in that. It's red. You got it?"
Groot quickly nodded his head and excitedly sprinted off. Yondu glanced over at Matt and Rocket with a smile to which the human and the raccoon responded with unsure smiles, trying to make them look as real as they could.
A few minutes had to pass until they heard Groot walking towards their cell and saw him stop in front of it. He smiled proudly at them, showing off what he just brought to them. He showed them a pair of regular white shorts.
Yondu deadpanned, after making sure that his mind wasn't just playing tricks with him, "That's my underwear."
"Yeah, I was pretty sure he didn't know what you were talkin' about." Rocket stated.
"You have to explain it more careful." Matt added, "Try to talk to him as if you were talking to a child."
Yondu took a deep breath, "It's a prototype fin."
They found themselves waiting another few minutes until Groot returned to them again, but once again, it was the thing that Yondu wanted him to bring. This time Groot brought them a tied up Orloni. The little beast tried to break out from his grasp, but Groot made sure that it wasn't going to escape.
Rocket shook his head, not understanding why Groot was so against Orloni's, "That's an orloni."
"It's a fin, little guy." Matt added, not understanding why Groot hated Orloni's so much as much as Rocket did.
Yondu turned to look at them, "You explain it this time."
Matt and Rocket made sure to explain to Groot what to bring as best as they could, but it unfortunely didn't paid off. Groot returned, this time carrying a mechanical eye over his head.
"That's Vorker's eye. He takes it ou when he sleeps." Yondu said, sending the raccoon and a human a look before turning back to Groot, "Go, look again."
Groot sighed and turned to leave again, irritated that they weren't giving him clear instructions.
"Wait." Rocket said to Groot who stopped and looked at him, "Leave the eye here."
Yondu turned to look at Rocket in confusion as Matt rolled his eyes, knowing where this was going, "Why?"
"He's gonna wake up tommorow and he is not gonna know..." Rocket said, almost falling on the floor as he bursted into laughter, "Where his eye is!"
Matt groaned, placing his hand on his forehead, "Rocket. How many times do I have to say this? This isn't funny!"
Yondu sighed and motioned Groot to try again. For the next hour Groot continued to go looking for the fin and always returned with random objects that weren't even close to the fin that they wanted him to bring. He even confused all even confusing all three of them when he brought a table with himself, thinking how could Groot mistake something as small as a fin with a table.
But this table was nothing compared to what he brought to them after it. All three of them stared at him in shock and disgust when he returned with a human toe.
Matt was obviously creeped out the most, "Please, tell me you guys have a refrigerator somewhere with a bunch of severed human toes." When Yondu grunted and looked down, telling him that they didn't, Matt asked his inmates, "How about we agree to never discuss this again?"
Yondu and Rocket couldn't help but nod in agreement as Groot dropped the toe on the floor. Yondu ripped off a Ravager patch off from his jacket and presented it to Groot, hoping that it was going to work, "The drawer you wanna open has this symbol on it."
Groot took the patch from him and slowly placed it above his head, having no idea how thing should help him in finding the fin they kept telling him about.
"What?" Yondu shouted. He had no idea that he was going to have so much trouble with this one kid, "No!"
Matt quickly realized what Groot meant by that, "He thinks you want him to wear it as a hat."
"That's not what I said!" Yondu pointed out.
"I am Groot." Groot spoke up to them.
"He's relieved you don't want him to." Rocket translated.
"I am Groot." Groot added.
Rocket proceeded to translate, "He hates hats"
Groot continued, "I am Groot."
The raccoon didn't waste more time and quickly translated it, "On anyone, not just himself."
"I am Groot." Groot finished what he was saying.
Rocket quickly finished his translation, "One minute you think someone has a weird-shaped head, the next minute it's just because you realize part of that head is the hat."
"That's why you don't like hats?" Matt asked, looking very suprised by the reason as Groot nodded his head in confirmation.
"This is the important conversation right now?" Yondu asked his inmates.
Groot went out to look for the fin again shorty after. He made his back to the captain quarters, passing by snoring Taserface. He placed the badge that Yondu gave him on the bed before using his vines to pull himself back up. He looked around himself and spotted the same symbol on the drawer near the bed.
He shifted his glances between the symbol and the drawer, wanting to be sure before placing extending his vines towards the drawer. He grabbed the handle and slowly opened it, trying not to wake up any of the Ravagers in the room. He smiled when he saw the red fin inside, but then something else caught his attention, making him completely forget about his mission and the reason why he came to this room in the first place.
His smile became even wider when he pulled out the tin of candies.
It was when Kraglin's voice spoke up out of nowhere, "That ain't it."
Groot turned around saw him standing in the hallway. Groot gulped nervously when Kraglin approached him, but much to his suprise, the Ravager didn't do anything to alarm his fellow Ravagers about it. He instead picked him up and placed him on his shoulder before walking over to the drawer, taking out the fin.
Words couldn't describe how nervous he was as he started making his way towards the cell, gripping the fin tightly in his right hand. Kraglin had no idea how Yondu was going to react to him. He regretted speaking up on Berhert. He knew that if he kept his mouth shut, most of the crew, his friends would still be alive and his captain wouldn't be on his way to be sold out to the Kree.
He gulped nervously when he stopped in front of the cell, making Yondu, Rocket and Matt look up at him.
"I didn't mean to do a mutiny." He sighed, hoping that Yondu was going to forgive him. His bit his trembling lips, adding nervously, "They killed all my friends."
Yondu nodded his head, debating with himself if he should forgive Kraglin or not. He made his mind after a few seconds and said, "Get the third quadrant ready for release."
His first mate's response was instant. He saluted to his captain, as Groot hopped off his shoulder into the cell, offering Rocket and Matt a proud smile that he got his job done.
Kraglin turned to leave to do his work, but stopped when Rocket asked, "One more thing. You got any clones of Quill's old music on the ship?"
Matt and Rocket could feel smirks growing on their lips when the start of a familiar song rang through the entire ship as they were almost done with attaching Yondu's fin on his head. They could hear how the exit from their cell opened which was followed by the sound of someone entering their cell.
Two Ravagers walked into the cell and the first thing that came into their view afterentering it was Rocket and Matt finishing putting Yondu's fin on his head, standing on the sides of their former captain. The blue skinned man whistled as the two Ravagers gasped in shock, quickly pulling out their pistols. It was the last thing they ever did as Yondu's arrow came flying through the wall. It flied right through their chests, killing them both instantly.
The arrow flied straight back to it's owner who caught it mid-air before rising up from his seat. He started making his way towards the exit from the cell as Groot quickly followed him, hopping over one of the bodies of the Ravagers. Rocket and Matt stopped in front of the lifeless corpses of the Ravagers and looked down at their pistols. They both smirked and picked up them up, before following Yondu and Groot out of the cell.
"He's got it!" Taserface's voice sounded across the ship, "Yondu's got the fin!"
Yondu walked in the middle of the group of four, leading them through the ship, his expression set in stone. Matt and Rocket walked on his left. Both of them smirked as they held their new pistols in ready. Groot walked on the right, narrowing his eyes angrily and holding his head up high.
A group of at least of dozen Ravagers came running towards down the hallway but they weren't able to do much to them. Yondu made sure of that. He whistled and his arrow went flying towards every Ravager in the group in front of him, piercing through their chests like nothing. The entire group of the Ravagers screamed in pain as all of them started falling on the floor. Yondu, Groot, Matt and Rocket all walked past them, simply watching how their now lifeless bodies collapsed on the floor.
Yondu whistled again as his arrow went flying towards it's owner who caught it without any problems. He pushed the doors opened and all four of them entered the hangar.
They heard one of the Ravagers shout "Down there!" shorty after.
Yondu looked up at the Ravager who just shouted these words before whistling. His arrow came flying across the entire hangar and the Ravagers started screaming in pain when they could feel it piercing through their chests. They all started falling down, one by one as the group of four simply proceeded to walk forward, not caring about the fact that they were dozens of lifeless bodies falling right next to them.
Groot who sat on Yondu's shoulder looked up and saw a familiar Ravager, the one that scared him and poured his drink on him, standing above him. He extended his vines, using them to climb up as the Ravager started running away from him, screaming every moment as he did so. Groot pushed himself into run after him, screaming, before extending his vines, catching the Ravager by his legs who collapsed on the floor, slamming his face against the floor. Groot let out one last scream before throwing the Ravager over the edge.
The Ravager let out one last long scream before hitting the ground, dying upon the impact. Groot threw himself over the edge and landed on Y/N's shoulder who send him a quick glance.
"Remind me to not get on your bad side, little guy." He whispered to Groot, who smiled cutely at him in response.
They eventually made their way to the room where the security monitors surrounded them in a circle, allowing them to see the Ravagers running towards them from every part of the ship. Yondu whistled once again and his arrow went flying across every place in this ship, killing every Ravager on it's way.
Rocket looked at one of the monitors and saw a single Ravager coming towards them. He aimed his pistol at the doors towards which the Ravager was heading to and fired. The bullet penetrated the doors and hit the Ravager in straight in the heart, killing him instantly. Matt didn't waste more time and looked around the monitors to see two Ravagers heading towards them.
He aimed his pistol to the right, at the doors and fired, getting rid of one of them. The other one quickly aimed his rifle at the doors but didn't had a chance to do anything because it was just a matter of seconds before he joined his friend on the floor. Matt and Rocket started turning around, taking out every Ravager that managed to get close to them, the latter screaming like a maniac every second as he did so while Yondu made sure to prevent the Ravagers that betrayed from getting even close to them.
He started laughing along with Rocket as Matt simply rolled his eyes, but still smiled at their antics. The blue skinned man stopped laughing and his smile turned into a frown when he spotted Taserface walking down the hallway on one of the monitors. He whistled and his arrow came flying right towards Taserface who quickly moved aside the in the exact moment when he saw it heading towards him.
The scarred man laughed and smiled before turning back in the direction of the arrow. His smile quickly faded from his face when he saw that it was heading towards a giant gas tank. When Taserface realized what was about to happen, it was already too late. The gas tank exploded, engulfing the entire area around him in fire.
The entire ship shook as Rocket and Matt stared at the explosion in shock while Groot's reaction was completely opposite to theirs. He smiled and stared in awe.
The raccoon shook his head, "You maniac."
"The whole ship's gonna blow." Matt stated, shaking his head as well.
"Not the whole ship." Yondu simply smirked to their words before leading them to the side door. They entered a room which happened which Matt and Rocket assumed to be a ship. Kraglin was already there, waiting for orders in one of the pilot seats, "Release the quadrant!"
Kraglin nodded his head, pulling on a lever, "Aye, captain!"
The room moved forward, detaching itself from the larger ship, revealing itself to be a smaller ship just like Matt and Rocket assumed. The smaller ship started speeding away from the burning one as everyone instantly took their seats as they were now safe from the explosion, Matt placing his new pistol on his knee as Groot hopped from his shoulder into Rocket's.
"Where, to, Captain?" Kraglin asked, opening the jump acess window for Yondu.
"There's only one place where we can go right now." Matt stated as Rocket quickly snatched the screen from Yondu.
"Ego." Rocket nodded his head in agreement.
"No, boy!" Yondu tried to stop Rocket but it was already too late. The ship started flying from another jump point to another as quickly as it could, "It ain't healthy for a mammalian body to hop more than 50 jumps at a time."
Rocket nodded his head, "We already know that."
"We're about to do 700!" Yondu explained, his face starting to deform.
Matt blinked as his brain registered this information, "...What?"
He started to feel weirdly as he looked down at his hands. His eyes widened in shock when he saw how his hands slowly started to deform. He turned his gaze to the front window and saw Kraglin who turned around to them. His entire face started to deform, making him scream.
Matt placed his hand on his stomach as he started to feel sick, hearing how Yondu, Rocket and Groot started to scream along with Kraglin and it was just matter of seconds before he started screaming along with them, wishing for this trip to Ego's planet to end as fast as it was possible.
Hope it wasn't that bad. See you in another chapter!