"Rockie you okay, why so jumpy, is it this Halloween stuff." Gamora asked.
"Uh-huh, it's makijg me think of youknowwho, who stalks my bad dreams." Rocket said.
It was the beginning of Autumn and Halloween stuff was everywhere, plus pumpkin spice lattes were in coffee stores which made Gamora curious yet Rocket was scared, especially the more creepy decorations which made him think of the High Evloutionary, his creator who was delusional thinking he was his son when he knew he wasn't making his fur bristle in anxiety feeling Gamora hug him tight explaining there were fun things about Halloween as her teacher had told them all about this Terran holiday hearing him asking, listening his eyes widening hearing he could get all the free candy he could get his paws on, plus if he wore a cool costume, it might scare the fear away.
"Maybe this holiday isn't so bad after all." he muttered feeling better.
"So, what do you wanna be for Halloween." Gamora asked him.
"I don't know, I need to think about it." Rocket replied to her.
"That's okay, think about it." she replied to him.
Groot was relieved that Rocket was feeling better, plus was getting paper-mache pumpkins making Gamora grin seeing art materials and finger-paints hearing Rocket asking what they were going to do hearing her explaining saying his didn't have to be scary but could be fun like him plus had heard about zombcoons who just ate junk food from his secret raccoon friends that Gamora had no clue about impressing Gamora hearing him explaining leaving out the part about his friends.
"That's pretty cool, buddy." she said kissing his furry cheek making his furry cheeks go pink, giving him an idea for his costume making Gamora impressed that he was finding his Halloween spirit, seeing Groot agreeing with her.
"Mmmm, breakfast smells good, ooh pumpkin pancakes, Groot must have made them for us." Rocket said.
It was thenext morning and both youngsters were awake seeing their jack o lanterns they'd made last night getting into the Halloween spirit digging into them as it was a school day, so knew at schoolthey'd be doing Hallowe'en stuff in class hoping Rocket wouldn't be scared knowing he was getting used to it, but some kids had scared him laughing at his reaction, calling him a scaredycoon making tears sting his eyes, unaware a symbiote had escaped and slithered into his holo-gauntlet heading to class sitting on the rug with the other kids.
He was noticing something squirming around in his gauntlet, waiting for science-class hisfavourite time of day, maybe there he could figure it out.
"Class, a symbiote escaped from one of the campus labs, if you see it, tell me asit can be dangerous." the teacher told them alarming the kids but Rocket was curious than scared guessing the symbiote must be scared being a subject in a lab, treated like an nothing feeling those feels from being the High Evloutionary's lab-rat returning taking deep-breaths as things returned to normal.
