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Rebekah and Peter examine the ruins before them. This area of Morag is normally underwater. For the first time in two hundred years the tides moved back, allowing humanoids to walk on the surface.
Rebekah shivers slightly as they walk under cover from the rain. No longer needing them, she and Peter remove their masks. Peter grabs his walkman.
"Is this really the time for music?" Rebekah asks.
"Bekah, it is always time for music," Peter responds. He unplugs his headphones so that Rebekah can hear the music too. When he turns it on, Redbone's "Come and Get Your Love" plays.
Rebekah walks in time with the music and subtly jams to the song. Peter, on the other hand, begins full on dancing. Rebekah stays back a ways from him, watching with a smile as he dances. The Awesome Mix has always been important to him, it being from his mother, Meredith. Rebekah smiles sadly, feeling nostalgia from before her and Peter were abducted by the Ravagers, before Meredith died. Rebekah laughs as Peter begins singing along, using a rodent as a microphone, kicking other rodents away. What a goof.
When they reach their destination, Peter turns off the music. Peter and Rebekah work together to pick the lock. They walk into the dark, damp room.
"Just like Indiana Jones," Rebekah says. She lights up a spherical lamp and sets it on the ground. She and Peter slowly approach the centerpiece of the room: a silver orb, surrounded by protective energy.
"Should I grab a rock?" Peter asks jokingly. In Indiana Jones, Indie replaces a South American idol with a rock of a similar weight in an attempt to not set off any traps.
"Well, I don't think the rock will survive the lasers." Rebekah places a device near the Orb. Slowly, the Orb breaks through the energy field and falls to the device.
Peter picks it up and examines it before him and Rebekah move to leave. "Let's get the Ark of the Covenant out of here."
"Drop it," someone says as they turn to the door, guns pointed at them.
"Uh, hey," Rebekah says in confused greeting.
"Drop it, now!" The speaker's men surround Rebekah and Peter.
"Hey, cool man, no problem. No problem at all!" Peter says as he drops the Orb.
The speaker, who appears to be partially cybernetic, picks the Orb up. "How do you know about this?"
"We don't even know what that is!" Rebekah admits.
"We're just junkers, man, we were just checking stuff out!" Peter adds.
"You don't look like junkers. You're wearing Ravager garb."
"These are just outfits," Rebekah hurriedly says as the speaker's men nudge her and Peter with their rifles.
"Ninja Turtles, you better stop poking us!" Peter adds.
"What are your names?!"
"My name is Rebekah Black, alright? And he's Peter Quill, okay?"
"Dude, chill out!" Peter adds.
"Move!"
"Why?" Peter asks.
"Ronan may have questions for you."
Ronan? Rebekah thinks. If this guy is roped in with Ronan…. What the heck is this orb thing? If Ronan wants it…. This can't be good.
"Hey, you know what, there's another name you might know me by!" Peter shouts. The guy working with Ronan turns back to look at Peter. "Star-Lord."
The guy tilts his head in confusion. "Who?"
Peter's expression of a badarse melts into a more disappointed one. "Star-Lord, man, legendary outlaw." The guy lifts his arms in the air in confusion as Rebekah lightly smiles and brings her hand to the bridge of her nose, subtly laughing at Peter's disappointment and everyone else's confusion. "Guys?" Peter asks, hoping anyone knows who he is. "Hey, Bekah, back me up here," he murmurs.
"He's Star-Lord, an outlaw, maybe not as legendary as he thinks he is," Rebekah says.
"Move!"
"Ah, forget this," Peter says quietly.
Rebekah kicks the illuminating sphere into the men Ronan's ally brought along. Upon contact, it vaporizes them. Peter grabs his pistols and shoots the leader with them, making the guy drop the Orb. Rebekah grabs it and shoves it in her satchel.
The guy gets back up again and aims his gun at Rebekah. She drops onto her back, dodging the blast of energy. Peter falls to the ground too, having also almost been shot. They hurriedly put their masks back on. They ignite the rockets on their boots, narrowly missing the beams of energy shot at them.
Rebekah and Peter shoot through the hole in the wall created by the rifle's energy blasts, landing roughly on the ground. "You still have it?" Peter asks.
Rebekah instinctively feels for the Orb from the outside of her closed satchel. She feels its spherical bulge. "I've got it."
The two run for the Milano, Peter's ship. Ronan's ally runs after them, firing at them. More of his men are between them and the Milano.
Rebekah chucks a graviton device by the men she is approaching. The men fly to the device and struggle to stand. She and Peter jump over them, skidding across the windshield, falling through the top entrance. They take their masks off as Peter starts up the engine. Rebekah looks out the window to see what is happening.
The men have escaped the graviton device, and are setting up a giant gun, large enough to destroy a ship. "Uh, Peter, if we don't leave now we'll be dust."
Right then, Peter starts flying the ship. Rebekah jumps into the co-pilot seat. Peter narrowly dodges the shots fired at the Milano. The two fly away, Peter laughing in excitement. Rebekah shakes her head and smiles.
Then a geyser beneath then shoots out boiling water. And neither Terran has a seatbelt on. They both go flying out of their seats toward the back of the cockpit, the Milano spinning out of control as the geyser takes it up higher and higher. Once it reaches its peak, the geyser's water goes back down, the Milano with it.
Peter and Rebekah hurriedly struggle to reach the ship's controls. They both grab onto the headrest of the chair and reach as far as they can for the lever. Rebekah grabs it first, Peter grabbing it half a second after her. Their hands overlap partially. They both tug the lever toward them, putting the engines back online.
They fall on top of each other as the ship stops falling. Peter groans as he rolls off of Rebekah. "Let's not do that again," he says.
"I guess that's why they make seat belts," Rebekah says as she slowly gets up and sits in the co-pilot's seat. Peter joins her and they set a course for Xandar.
"Why does that guy want the Orb?" Peter wonders aloud.
"Why does Yondu want the Orb? What's so special about it?" Rebekah adds.
"Let's get this thing off our hands as soon as we can. I don't want to have to deal with a crazy cyborg."
"Yes, please," Rebekah says as she pulls her hair up in a low ponytail, still shocked by what has come to pass. She fidgets with her necklace, a common thing she does when stressed. Her fingers run along the edges of the golden star, smoothed by years of being used, pausing at each of its six points. She had been wearing it when she and Peter were abducted by Yondu, and had since never taken it off. It is a part of Earth, a part of home. Despite having no contact with any other Jew for years and not being able to properly worship, Rebekah is still a believer. Over the years, she's found plenty of reason to believe.
"If he wants this thing... We told them our names, Peter. They won't have any problems finding us."
"We go to Xandar, sell it, fast, and get the heck out of there. Then the Orb is someone else's problem." He smiles reassuringly at Rebekah. "We'll be fine, Bekah. C'mon, the Milano's on autopilot. No use staying here."
Peter stands up alongside Rebekah, and they leave the cockpit together. Peter inserts his tape into the player, playing "Go All the Way" by Raspberries. The alien equivalent of TV is on, relaying Xandarian news. Though not citizens and on the run from their law enforcement, the Nova Corps, Xandar is the best of the planets they've run into, the Terrans agree. The best in that their government does not harbor terrorists, isn't trying to take over the universe, and are generally not conceited douches.
The news is all about the Xandarian relations with the Kree Empire. A peace treaty was signed recently, ending the most recent war with the Kree. Though not directly attacking the Nova Corps, the Kree emperor refuses to do his end in ending radical Kree terrorist attacks on Xandarian citizens, claiming a higher priority in their war with the Skrulls.
Ronan is one of those radical terrorists. Obsessed with giving Xandar and countless other planets Kree justice by way of death and destruction. Why would he want the Orb? It's just some sphere thing. Could it possibly help him destroy more than he already has?
Just then, the Terrans get a call from Yondu. "Oh, great, here we go."
"Well," Yondu says confrontationally.
"Hey Yondu," Peter says, his face saying frick before he turns to face the screen.
"I'm here on Morag. Ain't no Orb, ain't no you!"
"Well, we were in the neighborhood, thought we'd save ya the hassle," Peter explains
"Well, where you at now, boy?"
"Well, I feel really bad about this but we aren't telling," Rebekah says.
"I slaved for this-"
"Slaved? Making a few calls, really, slaved?" Rebekah says over Yondu.
"We do not do that to each other, we are Ravagers, we got a code!"
"Yeah, and that code is steal from everybody," Peter argues.
"When I picked you two up on Terra-"
"Not this again," Rebekah mumbles to herself.
"These boys of mine wanted to eat you. They never tasted any Terran before. I stopped them. You two are alive 'cause me! I will find you-"
Peter ends the call, rolling his eyes. "Has he ever considered that we would've been just fine if he never took us from Earth?"
"Has he ever told you why he took us?" Rebekah asks. "I've asked Kraglin for as long as I remember, but he's never told me."
"No, he hasn't. Whenever I ask him he goes on about how he saved us from being eaten blah, blah, blah."
"Do you ever get the feeling they're hiding something from us? That they had a reason to take us specifically?"
"I dunno. I kinda stopped thinking about it a few years back." Peter shakes his head. "We can stay outta Yondu's way once we sell the Orb, do whatever we want. We don't need to worry about that anymore."
Rebekah's lips curve up. "Sounds like a plan."
Soundtrack
"Come and Get Your Love" ~ Redbone
"Go All the Way" ~ Raspberries