Now there are two reasons why I choose this name for the chapter: 1) It's fits perfectly for what happens. 2) There's a song called this by Philip Wesley, and I'd insist to listen to it while reading this. Furthermore, enjoy. : )

"Nice seein' ya, Stein," Lianna said, narrowing her eyes along with Groot and Rocket. "I see you finally found me, took ya long enough," she smirked, earning a small sneer from Stein.

"I see you've grown a good bit since I've seen you," he said, drawing a little closer. "A marvelous women you became indeed,"

"Back off!" Rocket snarled, jumping down from Groot's shoulder. "She's already owned by someone," 'Owned'? Are you kidding me, Rocket? She thought as she narrowed her eyes to him now.

"Oh, then whom would that be?" Stein said, smiling a sick smile.

"Me," Rocket said, pointing to himself. Stein put on an annoyed look afterwards, pushing up his glasses as he came more closer.

"I should've know you would've picked the strange ones," Stein said with his head tilted down. "I thought you would've liked someone more professional then a little rouge criminal like him,"

"What chu say about me!?" Rocket spat, his fur going on end again.

"I said Lianna could've done better than you," Stein said. "And I'm gonna prove that I could've finished you all when I had the chance," He quickly reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a plasma gun, shooting at the ground in front of Rocket. Rocket stumbled backwards and fell on to his back, sending everyone into a battle stance.

"Hey guys! I found my Walkman!" Peter yelled out from behind, earning a blank stare from everyone towards him. "Oh, are we in the middle of something?"

"We are now!" Lianna shouted, and whipped the gun out of Stein's hand with a tentacle of hair. "Run!" Everyone immediately then ran down to the ship, Stein then coming up quickly behind them.

"Groot! You need to get me somewhere sheltered so I can patch myself up!" she shouted, Groot nodding in understanding.

The others stood outside the ship, standing guard and awaiting the fleet of security soldiers. But all that came was Stein with no one else.

"This shoulder be easy!" Peter said, his gun aimed towards the target.

"I would speak so fast, Quill!" Gamora said.

Soon, Stein had pulled out a bigger gun from his pocket and aimed it at the others. "I'm leaving this place with you three whether your alive or dead!" he yelled, and shot a fire between Peter and Gamora.

"Lianna, they look bad out there!" Rocket said, watching from aside Groot as he helped with bandages. "Can't you heal yourself?!"

"Rocket! I can't heal myself with all this commotion! I need complete focus to do that and we're in the middle of a fight!" Lianna yelled, wrapping bandage around her arm.

"Can you levitate?" he asked, flinching back from a shot.

"Focus needed," she said, her voice sounding annoyed.

"Force field?" he asked, picking up an abandoned gun and quickly tweaking with it.

"Fooocuuus," she said through clenched teeth as Groot poured some alcohol on a cut.

"What about elemental control?" he asked, testing the improved gun by shooting at Stein.

"Focus focus focus! Rocket, most of these things need concentration!" she yelled, getting up as she finished wrapping her hip up. "Until we nip Stein with a shot or something, I'm gunna have to rely on a trusty bandage and strength for now! Stop worrying about me!" she then quickly dashed out from behind the metal wall. "And stay here, we'll call out for you if we need you,"

"But it's our fight, we should be fighting out there too!" Rocket said, gripping on to the edge of the ship wall.

"I know it is," she said, kneeling down to him, "But you guys are more important to me, and I wouldn't know what to do with myself if you were taken away or, even worse, dead. Just stay here, and stay behind the walls," She rubbed and laid a kiss on his head before departing into the fight.

"But it's my job to protect you," he muttered.

"Lianna! Watch out!" Drax yelled. She jumped and successfully dodged the electric whip Stein had pulled out earlier, a small amount of pain emitting from her thigh.

"How many gadgets does this man have in his pockets?!" Peter yelled as he dodged another shot.

"As many as he can make, which is a lot," Lianna said, shooting at Stein again.

"Well I'm sick and tired of prancing around like dancer," Gamora growled, earning an offended face from Peter.

"Hey! Dancing is a privilege to some people who actually still have two legs!" he yelled almost getting nipped by the electric whip.

"Focus on fighting, Peter!" Lianna said. "This is no time to be lecturing people!"

"But I do!" Stein said, his attention turning on to Lianna for a moment before shooting at Drax again. "For you see, I have big plans for you three afterwards if you're all still alive,"

"And what's that?" she said, shooting at him again.

"Your little 'boyfriend's mind will be erased along with tree-man, and I'm going to update that form you got. Then you will become my, little, assistant," he said, sadistically smiling.

"And I don't wanna know what that means," she said, quickly snatching Gamora's katanas and charging at him. "So, I just gonna do what I'm gonna do and be done for the day," He pulled out two knives from his pockets that extended longer and blocked her charge.

"Oh, but the day's just begun," And with that, he pressed a button on both the handles of the knives that sent out an electric wave, shocking her and tossing halfway to the ship.

"Lianna!" Peter yelled.

"Lianna?" Rocket said to himself, sitting behind the wall. He looked out to the battlefield to find her lying in the sand. "Lianna!" he then yelled, running out to her.

"I, am Groot!(Rocket, get back here!)" Groot yelled, but soon noticed Lianna's laying on the ground, going along as well with Rocket to see if she was injured.

"Oh my god, Lianna! Speak to me!" he said, picking up her head. She just moaned and fluttered her eyes open.

"Ooooh, that felt good," she sarcastically said, slowly picking herself up. "Just what I needed,"

"Lianna, I don't want you fighting anymore, ya hear me!" he said, taking away her gun.

"Nope," she quickly snatched up the katanas again and charged at Stein again.

"Oh no-Lianna! No!" he yelled, running after her.

Stein just smirked when he saw her coming towards him again. He pulled out the extendable knives again and readied to shock her again.

She came, interlocked weapons with him, and he pressed the buttons. She felt the electricity course through her until he stopped, smoking rising from her body. Everyone just store in astonishment to see she wasn't flung this time.

"Come on, hit me with your best shock," she devilishly grinned to him, earning a look of confusion from him as he hit the buttons again.

This time, she actually moved. Forward.

She began pushing him until he was leaned against the steep wall of sand, pinning him between wall of sand and the electric knives.

"How about I tell you something shocking," she said, then pushed the knives on to him, electrifying him. He let go of the buttons, but she released all the electricity she was storing in herself on to him. Finally, she had exerted all the energy on to him, backing away from his now smoking and slightly burnt body.

"And that's why you don't mess with the Miss Argo's in my family," she said, turning around to the others and smiling to Rocket.

"Lianna, look out!" Gamora yelled. Lianna went to look back, but was soon greeted by another painful pulse. Her body quickly went limp and she fell on to her knees.

"Lianna!" Rocket yelled, watching her then fall on to the ground with Stein standing behind her.

"'Paralytic Shock', she should be in a paralyzed state long enough for me to get her on to the ship without fuss," Stein said, stashing the gun away into one of his pockets.

Everyone just stood there in overwhelmed shock, not believing their eyes that their trusted teammate had fallen to her enemies feet. Rocket felt as it was the end for her, and went to take action.

"You...you monster!" Rocket yelled. He went to charge at Stein, but the others quickly grabbed a hold of him. "Lemme at 'em, lemme at 'em!"

"Please, I'm twice your height and weight and have a high intelligence of mechanics and software than you," Stein said, walking around Lianna's limp body. "Also, your a rodent, and that's the only reason why she likes you, cause your cute to her," he devilishly grinned.

Rocket snapped to that comment and pulled out of Peter and Groot's hands, running towards Stein with true fury. Stein just grinned even more as he pulled out another gun, waiting for the perfect moment as Rocket quickly drew closer. Finally, once Rocket went to jump at him, he pulled the trigger on the gun and electrocuted him. He fell to the ground beside Lianna, overwhelmed by the power force and trying to regain himself quickly.

"I am Groot!(How dare you treat my friends like that!)" Groot yelled, charging as well towards Stein as he went to switch out weapons. He went to slash at Stein with his arms when Stein pulled out the extendable knives again and sliced off both his arms.

Groot backed away from Stein, and frowned as he the damage done to him. Rocket had regained some strength and began to slowly push himself up, looking to his now-armless friend and Stein.

"You fools have chosen a fight against a very powerful being, you know," Stein said, putting away the knives. "I'm sure she had warned you about that," Peter looked down to Lianna, knowing she was right about him being very hard to challenge. "But right now I should be taking at least my prized possession with me,"

"Your not taking Lianna anywhere without a fight, bud," Peter said, pointing up his gun as Gamora and Drax got in battle stances.

"Well that's a shame, for I'm in a busy schedule right now, so I'll have to make this quicker," Lianna had already begun to stir from her state when Stein quickly yanked her off the ground, putting the gun to her head as he wrapped his arm around her neck.

Everyone froze, seeing the situation they had just placed upon her.

"Lianna," Rocket muttered, watching her trying to breath and loosen Stein's grip.

"So are we gonna do this the easy way, the simple way, or the hard way," Stein said, pressing the gun harder to her head.

"The easy was is letting the other two come along with me and my dearie here with no fuss. The simple way is you don't give the two to me and with little fuss I leave with my sweetheart. The hard way, is when all three of them get a bullet to the head, starting with her first," He tighten his grip on the handle as he awaited for the others actions.

"Or we could do it the free way!" Lianna said, elbowing Stein in the stomach. He quickly released her and she kicked the gun out of his hand, snatching it from mid-air as she pointed it to his head.

"Groot, get back! And take Rocket with you," she said, her aim still locked on to his head as he slowly stood up.

"I'm not leaving your side again, Lianna!" Rocket yelled, finally standing up on his feet.

"I'm not letting you get hurt again!" she said, picking him up by his collar. "Drax, hold on to him tightly. Don't let him get away," And with that, she flung Rocket towards Drax, catching him with a death like grasp.

"Hey! Lemme go!" Rocket whined as he squirmed under Drax's hold.

"You'll never get away with this, Stein," she said, her eyes locking on to every movement Stein made as he stood up straight

"Oh, but I have, my darling," he said. "I have for the past ten years, I have made it spotlessly by every inspection the Nova Corps have did in the laboratory, and not once did they get suspicious,"

"Probably because all they saw was a sad, heartless man running the place," she said preparing herself to shoot.

"Well I wasn't always a sad, heartless man, you know," he said. "I used to have feelings...for you, Lianna,"

She just froze there in disgust, remembering that night as she backed up a little.

"You were always the light in my day everytime I saw you, but it would be quickly ruined when he had finished his lessons everyday," he said, pointing towards Rocket. "You we always so attached to him just like he was to you, and it would drive me crazy sometimes with how much you cared for him than me,"

"But when I learned you had a deeper connection with that vermin, I realized you loved a pathetic, meaningless pest more than me. I saw that you were making the wrong choice for your self, and I wanted to fix that for the better good,"

"Well at least I make a better lover than you!" Rocket insulted. "You probably don't even know how to stick your dick in her!"

Stein's face blew up with anger, and he shoved his hand down his pocket, rummaging around for something.

"Rocket! Just shut yer fuckin' mouth!" Lianna angrily said, turning around to face him with an annoyed look. "We're in a big enough mess and we don't need any smart remarks to make it worse,"

But she had spoke to soon for that.

"Fine!" Stein exclaimed. "You think your better than me?! You think your a better mate for her?! Then go ahead! I don't care!"

He finally pulled a large plasma gun from his pocket and pointed it towards Lianna.

"Cause you know what?!" he yelled, flicking a switch on the gun that began warming it up.

"Nobody gets her then," He then pulled the trigger, and the gun let out a gigantic plasma ball.

"Lianna, watch out!" Peter yelled.

But it was too late.

Lianna just stood there, feeling immense pain course through her. She felt herself going light-headed and everyone began to sound distant. She felt something trickling down her side and went to touch it. She wiped a finger up her thigh and found it to be blood. Her blood. She looked at her side, and saw she was missing a crescent of the side of her torso. She wanted to react to it, but she felt weightless then. She fell on to her knees, and just store blankly at the others. All she saw was their figures growing fuzzy. She could hear them call for her, but she could barely hear them. Her body felt drained, and her heartbeat began to slow down. She then felt backwards, and laid there in the sand. Her eyesight began to grow dark, and she thought she could hear someone. But then she blacked out. Her body still. Her body cold.

Rocket felt tears trickle down his face as he screamed these words:

'You killed her'.

Another good song that goes with this could also be 'As Real As You and Me' by Rihanna : )

-xXFangirl311Xx