Meeting the team

A/N: Hi, guys! I know I'd said I'd post more regularly before heading off to uni but then after all my exams I went on holiday, so I wasn't able to do anything more for my stories. I also know I said I'd post a couple chapters from my new Harry/OC story but that needs a lot more editing before I feel comfortable posting it! So sorry for the wait!

This chapter I've done in my spare time so I thought I'd post it now to save you waiting any longer for an update!

Warning: Some mentions of rape: When Yondu is talking with his men after the call to Peter after he left Morag. Though nothing of the sort occurred. Hopefully, it's not graphic in any way! Sorry for any triggers though!

Disclaimer: Don't own the Marvel universe!

Hope you enjoy!

~1~

As we flew away from Morag, absently listening to 'Go all the way' by the Raspberries in the background, myself and Peter searched recent news being broadcasted while we were out on the monitor on the wall in front of us. Bereet was nursing a drink on the table behind us I had made to soften the blow of us both having forgotten that she was along with us for that crazy ride.

A news reporter was saying, "Scattered riots broke out across the Kree Empire today protesting the recent peace treaty signed by the Kree Emperor and Xandar's Nova Prime."

Then I registered a beeping coming from the smaller monitor on the table behind us. I knew exactly who would call us; There was no one else it could be, Yondu Udonta.

"Skye," Bereet notified her since she was being more kind than Peter was after forgetting she was in the ship and Peter forgot her name. "You have a call," and press the accept button before Skye could reach over and reject it.

They both slowly turned around back to face the screen as Yondu appeared, noting that he was very annoyed. "Quill! Skye!"

"Hey, Yondu," Peter greeted.

"I'm here on Morag. Ain't no Orb. Ain't no you two."

"Well, we were in the neighbourhood. We'd thought we'd save you the hassle."

Skye gave a small smirk. It wasn't a hassle for them! It was their ticket out of the Ravagers and starting a new life without them together.

"Well, where are you two at now?"

"I feel terrible about this-" Here, he was cut off by Skye who mumbled 'I don't,' smirked at that and nodded in agreement before continuing "but I will not tell you that."

"I slaved putting this deal together-" said Yondu, angry that the both had played him and gone against him.

"Slaved," Skye shouted, appalled that he stated that he had slaved over this deal! That was so not true and it made her angry. "Making a few calls is 'slaved'?" Both Peter and Bereet, and Yondu, though he wasn't on the ship, looked worried when the ship rattled. Peter grabbed her hand and ran his thumb slowly over it, hoping that with him being calm, well calmer as he was annoyed as well by what Yondu had said, but not as much as Skye, would help to calm her. It usually did, and, it worked.

Skye took a deep breath when Peter tried to calm her down after her bought of anger, stopping the ship from vibrating apart. Oh, she was still angry but a lot calmer thanks to Peter reminding her she was on a ship and that, if she quaked it, it would send her and its occupants out to die in space. Something she never wanted to happen. She'd come a long way since she was first kidnapped by the Ravagers with her control over her powers but a few things did just set her off like this.

"And now you're gonna rip me off!" Yondu continued as if Skye's brief loss of control didn't happen, removing the fear from his expression and ignoring it.

"I mean, really?" said Peter, annoyed that Yondu just ignored Skye, though he shouldn't be surprised as he did it all the time whenever they were both on the ship together unless it was for missions.

"We do not do that to each other. We're Ravagers. We have a code."

"Yeah, and that code is 'steal from everyone,'" Skye grumbled, still annoyed by his earlier remark.

"When I picked you both up on Terra-"

"Picked me up-" he grumbled to Skye, knowing she would know what was wrong with that statement. She did, and she laughed as Yondu continued to grow more angry at them. She'd always loved to get Yondu to make mistakes when around them, well not at first as he terrified her but after a while of seeing more terrifying things to her, Yondu wasn't so bad she realised. She could tell that he cared for Peter and so tried to get him to show or at least try to get him to roundabout say it, so Peter would know he was loved by more than just her. He deserved more than her.

"...these boys of mine wanted to eat you."

"Yeah," Peter asked, knowing it was true for them both.

"They ain't never tasted any Terra before. I stopped 'em. You're alive because of me! I will find you, I will..." Skye ended the call, hearing enough. They wouldn't have wanted to eat them both if you hadn't kidnapped us.

Peter gathered Skye to him in a big hug, knowing exactly where her thoughts had gone as he thought the same thing too. They often did, having been partners and having each other's back for so long. They could usually guess what the other was thinking and knew how to comfort them if need be. There was no way he would leave her to go without comfort. It's what big brothers did after all; they protected their younger sibling from harm, which is something he's always strived to do since Skye came into his life. Even if she ever leaves it, which he hopes with everything he has that she won't, he'll continue to care for and protect her. Though she rarely needs protecting now; it was instinct after being together for so long.

~1~

"Put a bounty on them- 40k. More for the girl at 80k. But I want them but alive," said Yondu, turning away from the monitor and heading back with the other Ravagers to their ship.

"Yeah, Cap," Kraglin agreed, though it shocked him and many of the others at the amount of money he will give away for the girl.

Horuz, however, disagreed as he did with many things with Skye and Peter. There were only a few things he didn't like about her joining them: it bothered him he didn't get to touch their greatest prize, and how much she helped them all succeed in their missions. It was their job to ravage the universe, not her. However, because of her, they were more popular and rich than ever since she joined. The boy never was worth it. "Alive?"

"That's what I said," Yondu replied, annoyed they questioned his orders.

"I told you when you picked that boy up, you should have delivered him like we were hired to do! He was cargo! You have always been soft on him. And her! You should have kept a tighter leash on so she couldn't escape and allowed us to have our way with her like we wanted too so many times."

Yondu swirled around to face Horuz, his shoulders were heaving up and down, and his hands fisted nearly hard enough to be drawing blood. He was angrier than anyone of his men had ever seen him. "First," he growled, spit coming out of his mouth as he talked, some landing on Horuz's face causing him to wipe it away in disgust. "You're the only one I'm being soft on," he said, threating Horuz with his arrow he could call to kill him at any second if he wasn't more careful. "Now, don't you worry about Mr Quill. As soon as we get him back here, I'm gonna kill him myself. Second, no-one is touching Quake, she works for me and she's good for business so she's staying, but she'll be hard to capture now she's improved with her powers and fighting ability thanks to Quill, so there's extra money for the poor soul who has to deal with a way of capturing her. What we do need to worry about, is who else out there wants that Orb."

~1~

Kree Warship- Dark Aster

On board his ship, was Ronan, a Kree Warlord, getting dressed by his servants as he talked about himself to a Xandarian he'd captured. "They call me, "terrorist," "radical," "zealot," because I obey the ancient laws of my people, the Kree, and punish those who do not. Because I do not forgive your people for taking the life of my father, and his father, and his father before him. A thousand years of war between us will not be forgotten!"

He walks forward away from the bath, after his servants have dressed him in his armour and war paint, to pick up his massive weapon that resembled a hammer.

"You can't do this," the Xandarian male prisoner cried, both angry and terrified, knowing what was coming for him and trying to do everything he could to stop it. Though he knew he couldn't really as trapped and held in place by this metal contraption Ronan had kept him in since they captured him. "Our government signed a peace treaty."

"My government knows no shame. You Xandarians and your culture are a disease."

"You will never rule Xandar," he said, before his bravery gave up completely, knowing there was nothing he could do to stop what was likely coming to him.

"No, I will cure it," and before anything more could be said, Ronan swung his huge hammer down on the prisoner, killing him instantly.

Nebula, an assassin assigned to heed Ronan and all his orders, arrived to stand beside him, to see him kneeling beside this strange intricate pattern of grooves filled with this strange black liquid. She was one of the few people who could just walk up to him and likely not get killed for disturbing him like this, and they could only bother him when they had news or were planning an attack. This time she had a message for him, "Ronan, Korath has returned."

They move to another room in the ship, the main meeting room, where Gamora, Nebulas's sister arrived, taking a place to the right of Ronan, while Nebula took his left. A few of his Kree soldiers were lined throughout the room. As soon as Ronan stood in front of him, Korath described what happened when searching for the Orb on Morag.

Korath began by describing how two people stole the Orb from him while killing some of his men.

"Who were they?" Ronan cut him off, not interested to know how he was beat, just about finding the Orb and killing the two who stole it.

Korath looked very nervous about this, knowing Ronan wouldn't like his answer but he didn't want him to punish him or kill him for not telling him, even though this news would likely get him killed anyway, knowing exactly who the two people were and what they meant to Ronan. "Master, he is a thief, an outlaw who calls himself Star-Lord." He stopped saying anything else,

noticing the way Ronan had clenched his fists, and he growled.

"Let me guess," Ronan began, "Quake was there too."

It was a statement, not a question. Anyone who had ever heard about them, which was everyone in the galaxy by this point, knew you didn't see one without the other, that they were partners.

When he had first heard of them it was just rumours of Quake's power, nothing much about Star-lord, he was just a ravager, his spies reported. Not important. So he didn't care much for either of them. However, as they spread throughout the galaxy more and more news came in about the duo: Star-Lord was a formidable opponent, with all the guns and gadgets he made himself, that allowed him to take his enemies out with ease. He, though, was more interested in Quake. At first, it seemed as if she could just make things shake. Then, she made the occasional earthquake which is where she got her name. Over time, it seemed she could do more damaging things, to people and objects alike. She was a powerful force to reckon with. At first he was wary of her and he wasn't the only one. He, along with many others wanted her killed and sent many assassins to kill her as did others. Then when he got a deal from Thanos, a powerful Titan who was the father to Gamora and Nebula, he saw the wisdom of what having her on his side could do and tried to recruit her instead so he could use her power to cure Xandar. But when she refused, he then remembered that she and Star-Lord were a package deal and tried to entice her with letting him join with her, thinking she refused because she wouldn't go anywhere without her famous partner by her side. It never worked. They both refused and killed any recruiter he sent, so he was glad he never sent Gamora or Nebula after them. Not because he cared but partly because they were useful and partly because he knew Thanos would kill him if he purposely got his daughters killed. In the end, he stopped trying. Now, he was just so, so mad that if they ever crossed paths, he would kill them himself. He believed he was the only one powerful enough, except for Thanos, to kill her which is something that would give him great pleasure after all she had evaded and defied him.

"Yes, master," Korath replied, shakily. It was hard to tell what Ronan was feeling. If he ever showed emotion it was mainly just anger. He was a clean slate right now. He was hoping he wouldn't kill the bearer of bad news so he continued on with more, hopefully, good news to distract him. "… But we have discovered that they have an agreement with the intermediary known as the Broker.

"I promised Thanos I would retrieve the Orb for him. Only then will he destroy Xandar for me," he said, and oh how it pained him to. He was Ronan the Accuser, but he knew even with how powerful he was along with help from his fellow loyal Kree that he would need help to bring the Xandarians down. "Nebula, go to Xandar and fetch me the Orb."

"It would be my honour," Nebula replied, stepping forward in gratitude. This would show her father how capable she was and show he could trust her as much as Gamora, her father's most treasured daughter, Ronan's most trusted assassin. This would give her a chance to rise above her.

"It would be your room," Gamora quickly countered, stepping forward to face her sister, knowing she would not like her trying to beat her in front of Ronan but, this was her only chance to escape him. The Orb was her only chance. She would have to convince Ronan she was the right one for the job. She had thought he would pick her anyway but even though she didn't like to fight with her sister, she believed she could easily get the job. She knew exactly what to say to convince him. "If this happens again, you'll be facing our father without his prize."

She hated having to hurt her sister, she could see the pained expression on her face though no-one else would be able to. There wasn't any other way she could think of to get out of here apart from this mission and she needed to see it through, not Nebula.

"I'm a daughter of Thanos, just like you," it was always Gamora getting their fathers praise, just once she wished it could have been her but no... her sister has to be better than her at everything, including getting both their fathers praise and love.

"But I know Xandar."

There was one more thing she could try, try to remind her she got the job and no-one disobeyed Ronan's orders. "Ronan has already decreed that I-"

"Do not speak for me," he quickly cut her off, angered by her, knowing they should know to never question his orders and never go against him. He turned to Gamora instead. "You will not fail," he ordered her.

Gamora smirked inwardly, at having gotten the job, though still sad that she had to hurt her sister to do it, and replied confidently, "have I ever?"

~1~

Xandar, Capital of the Nova Empire

Rocket, a genetically enhanced furred animal, looking very much like a racoon from Earth, officially called 89P13 was searching along with his best friend and partner Groot, a Flora Colossus from Planet X, for any bounty job he could find in one of the many crowded plazas on the planet, while spying and recording his observations and opinions on the Xandarians going about their normal day.

"Xandarians," Rocket began derisively, "What a bunch of losers. All of them in a big hurry to get from something stupid to nothing at all. Pathetic," he said, regarding a Xandarian man with short blond hair who was walking on a sidewalk. "Look at this guy! Can you believe they call us criminals when he's assaulting us with that haircut?" Then he spotted a small Xandarian child, with what was most probably his parents, who needed help from them with walking. "What is this thing? Look how it thinks it's so cool. It's not cool to get help! Walk by yourself, you little gargoyle." The last victim of his remarks was an old Xandarian man who was chatting up a young woman. "Look at Mr Smiles over there. Where's your wife, old man? What a class-A pervert," he then laughs at his jibe. "Right, Groot?" he asked his friend, expecting a reply but not getting one. "Groot?" he asked again and turned around to see him drinking water from a nearby fountain. "Don't drink fountain water, you idiot. That's disgusting."

"Mmm," Groot mumbles, shaking his head and trying to pretend he hadn't drunk the fountain water.

"Yes, you did. I just saw you doing it. Why are you lying?" But then his tablet that he was carrying around beeped, to warn him of a human sighting. "Whoop. Looks like we got one. Oh, no, two. Okay, humies, how bad does someone wanna find you two? His tablet shows Peter and Skye talking to Bereet, Rocket sees that there's a bounty on Peter and Skye and lets out a whistle of appreciation for the amount on them. "Forty thousand units, for the guy? Wow, two bounties on the girl. One for 80k the other for 5 million units. Groot, we're gonna be rich. We're gonna be millionaires." Rockets looked over to Groot and finds him drinking from the water from fountain again, he sighs and shakes his head. He turns to look back at the girl and wonders who would want the girl captured so much they'd be willing to pay a fortune for her.

~1~

They'd just finished saying goodbye to Bereet, she's noticed that a lot of Peter's trysts with women don't last long, and entered the Broker's shop with whom Yondu had made a deal with for the orb.

"Mr Quill. Skye," he greeted as we came to stand in front of the counter in front of him.

"Broker. The orb," Skye said as she holds out the Orb she'd kept a hold on, ever since someone tried to steal it from Morag from them. "As commissioned."

"Where's Yondu?" he immediately replies, once he'd taken it from her, seeming suspicious of just the two of them there with the Orb.

"Wanted to be here, sends his love," Peter said, trying to diffuse the suspicion. Once they'd sold the Orb, then they would able to start their new adventure together away from Yondu and the Ravagers. They'd both wanted this for so long, for both the same reasons and different. It couldn't go wrong now that this was the last step to freedom. "And told me to tell you, that you got the best eyebrows in the business." The Broker smiles and shakes off the compliment.

"What is it?" Skye asked, they'd gone to a lot of trouble getting the Orb when it should have been a simple come-and-go mission but no- they weren't the only ones after the Orb so it's made her very curious both to what it is and who else wants it.

"It's my policy never to discuss my clients or their needs," the Broker replies.

"Yeah, well, we almost died getting it for you," he said, still furious, as he always is whenever someone tries to attack himself and Skye- mainly Skye.

"An occupational hazard, I'm sure, in your line of work. Especially with you being The Star-lord and The Quake. You've got many enemies. Including here on Xandar," he said, referring to the Nova Corps, who'd capture them both if they knew they were here on Xandar.

"Some machine-headed freak, working for a dude named Ronan," he continued to explain just who they'd almost died getting the Orb for.

Skye frowned as soon as she noticed the Broker looked terrified at the sound of Ronan's name. She'd never heard of the name herself, even though she hasn't been exploring the galaxy as long as the people who live and travel through here do. She knows Peter doesn't know who he is, so she's not thought much of the name since the incidence on Morag.

"Ronan? I'm sorry, Mr Quill. Skye. I truly am. But I want no part of this transaction if it involves Ronan." He shoves the orb back to Peter and pushes him and Skye towards his shop door.

"Woh! Woh, woh, woh! Who's Ronan?" Peter asked, not likely how he was pushing Skye.

"A Kree fanatic, outraged by the peace treaty, who will not rest until Xandarian culture, my culture, is wiped from existence!" The Broker continued trying to push both out of his shop.

"Woh. Come on!"

"Who is he?" Skye asked him. If it was enough for one name to put fear to this man and likely many others here on Xandar, since it concerns them and the new peace treaty she'd just heard about, she would gather every scrap of information she could about Ronan. There were good people here on Xandar, including the Nova Corps, even though they wouldn't hesitate to throw them in prison due to the number of crimes they've pulled off over the years. Coulson and May would not be proud of her for them. They were still good people, and she liked to think she was a good person at heart, despite the many horrible deeds she'd done. She wanted no one to get hurt. Sometimes accidents happen and situations got out of control, but she would prefer if every time she went on a mission- there were no casualties. She wanted no one here on Xandar hurt and it seems this Ronan guy has a grudge against them for the recent peace treaty. She'd have to keep a close eye on both news of Ronan and Xandar itself soon.

"He's someone whose bad side I'd rather not be on."

"What? What about my bad side?" He didn't like the way he was pushing Skye, and he would push him back if he wouldn't stop and end up hurting her. The Broker then opened his shop door and pushed both out.

"Farewell, Mr Quill. Skye," and he closes the door in their faces.

"Hey, we had a deal, bro!" he shouted to the Broker inside the shop. That was so not cool. That was going to be their way out of the Ravagers for good. Now, they'd have to find a new dealer but then that leaves more time for Yondu to catch up to them, thus if they're captured they will be watched a lot more closely and they won't get a chance like this again, or at least not for a long time and they both wanted to leave now. As he stepped back away from the door, he notices Gamora standing nearby watching him, leaning casually against the door.

"What happened?" she asked, noticing their unhappy expressions.

"Uh...this guy just backed out of a deal on us. If there's one thing I hate, it's a man without integrity. Peter Quill. People call me Star-Lord. This is Skye, otherwise known as Quake."

She shot a curious look at the both, her gaze roaming over Skye in curiosity, not expecting this slim slip of a girl to be Quake. She was expecting, well she didn't know, but it wasn't this. Her gaze on Peter was more flirty, anything to keep his attention on herself, which at the moment, was easy to do. "You have the bearing of a man of honour."

Peter threw the Orb up and down in his hand at that comment. Skye rolled her eyes at how gullible he was when it came to pretty women and how easily he was seduced by them. She ignored the twinge in her chest telling her she was jealous as she always did when it came to Peter and women. She concentrated back on Gamora, knowing exactly what she was trying to do, she's done it before on missions: distract men to get at what you really want and she saw when her gaze shot to the Orb and recognised what it was. She wanted that Orb; she didn't care about why but she wouldn't let her get a hold of it but Peter was making it all too easy for her to do just that. He always was a lost cause when it came to a woman.

"Well, you know, I wouldn't say that. People say it about me, all the time, but it's not something I would ever say about myself."

Suddenly Gamora grabbed the orb, kicked Peter in his stomach and ran off. Peter threw something like a magnetic rope which caught around Gamora's legs and tripped her up. As she gets the rope off her legs Peter catches up to her but Gamora kicked him off and punched him. She held up her knife ready to stab him. "This wasn't the plan."

As she was about to stab Peter, Rocket jumped on to her and knocked her down. To Groot, he orders, referring to Peter, "Put him in the bag. Put him in the bag!" Groot extended his roots and went to grab Gamora. "No! Not her, him! Learn genders, man." As he struggled with Gamora, she tried to bite him. "Biting? That's not fair!"

As Rocket is fighting with Gamora, Peter uses this opportunity to grab the Orb and ran off. As Rocket struggles to hold Gamora, he said to her, "take it easy!"

Gamora freed herself from Rocket and Groot's clutches, she then threw Rocket aside, picked up a piece of metal, and threw it at Peter's hand making him drop the orb which she grabbed and ran off with. Peter cached up to her easily and jumped on to her back, knocking her down but Gamora overpowered him again and hold Peter down instead.

"Fool. You should have learned."

"I don't learn. One of my issues." Peter grabbed the Orb from her hand, attached a small rocket launcher on Gamora and set it off, throwing Gamora aside thinking he was in the clear, Groot suddenly placed a bag over Peter's head. "What the..." Groot carried a struggling Peter in the bag over his shoulder.

"Quit smiling, you idiot. You're supposed to be a professional." Just then he sees Gamora coming towards them. "You gotta be kidding me." She pushed Rocket aside. "Hey!" Gamora then fought with Groot, by hacking off his arms with her sword. As she cut open, the bag holding Peter captured, he aimed his gun at her but stopped himself from pulling the trigger as he noticed just who was coming up behind her and smirked. He was so looking forward to the show.

Skye had been watching the others fight ever since Gamora easily grabbed the Orb from Peter and had run off. It was something she learned while with S.H.I.E.L.D and even more before pulling a mission off for the Ravagers. It's what made a lot of them successful: looking for potential weaknesses in an enemy, learning how they fought so she could try to plan a counterattack and get away with minimal casualties to both herself and Peter. So that's what she was doing now, and though she'd already failed with no casualties for Peter, she felt he'd deserved them for being so easily distracted. One thing was for sure though, she could guess what Rockets gun would do and she would not allow that to happen to Peter. She got to Peter's side just as she saw him smirk at the woman and comment to her, "you should pay more attention to those around you, you know?" She used her powers to throw the green woman aside, just as she turned around to see what Peter meant, where she hit her head on a nearby step, knocking her fully out. However, Rocket hadn't noticed this in time and had been readying his gun to shoot at Peter, while saying to himself, "I live for the simple things. Like how much this is gonna hurt," before he stopped as he saw exactly what Skye could do, but it was too late as he'd already shot his gun. Skye saw it coming and used her powers to dissipate the electricity with which would have really harmed Peter. Gamora unconscious, Peter smirking, proud and still amazed of what Skye could do with her powers, and Rocket looking at her gob smacked at her being able to deflect his gun and the power she required to use it, with Groot left wondering what would happen now. He looks at Groot who is looking sadly as his severed arms. "It'll grow back, you d'ast idiot. Quit whining." Just then they were captured by The Nova Corps.

"Subject 89P13, drop your weapon," a male Nova Pilot ordered him.

"Oh, crap." Rocket reluctantly drops his weapon.

"By the authority of the Nova Corps, you are under arrest..." the same pilot states just as Peter and Skye were being arrested.

"All right. Come on up," one of the higher Opp Corps ordered Peter, Corpsman Dey.

While Peter was being helped up, he looked at Skye, wondering why she wasn't using her powers to knock them out and escape in their ship. They had the Orb, but she wasn't doing anything to stop the Nova Corps.

Skye saw him looking at her with a confused expression on his face, knowing why he was looking at her like that but she had a feeling something bad would happen here on Xandar on wanted to be here when it happened, even though, like Peter, she wanted nothing more than to get off this planet and start their new lives together away from the Ravagers. She shook her head slightly, hoping the Nova Corps men wouldn't notice. She'd tell Peter why she wouldn't do anything later.

"...for endangerment to life and the destruction of property," the male Pilot continued to state what Rocket was being brought in for.

As Dey arrests Peter he recognizes him, "Hey! If it isn't Star-Prince."

"Star-Lord," Peter corrects, annoyed how he messed up his name, though also still confused and concerned on why Skye said that they wouldn't be leaving Xandar with the Orb soon.

"Oh, sorry. Lord." He turns to his partner. "I picked this guy up a while back for petty theft. He's got a code name."

"Come on, man. It's a...it's an outlaw name."

"Just relax, progressive lens. It's cool to have a code name. It's not that weird," he said, referring to the Nova Corps. "Like Quake, for example..." he trails off as the men finally inspect Skye and recognise her for who she is.

Skye smirked on the outside, knowing how she was often seen by others and had learned to act they like how they thought of her, but on the inside frowned as she saw their eyes widen in fear and recognition. She never liked it when she was regarded with that emotion from people.

They tensed as they realised just who they were in the presence of. They'd never been near her before but they'd heard the stories and knew what she looked like from reports all over the Galaxy. They were wondering if they would attack right then but frowned when they realised she wasn't preparing for an attack and looked relaxed about being arrested. They nervously put cuffs around her and led them all to Nova Headquarters.

"Fascists," Rocket insulted them, smirking as he saw how scared they were of Skye, they were trembling, all of them. Though, he himself refused to acknowledge that he was also- nervous around her, having also heard the stories and the power she'd just shown them she had.

~1~

At Nova Headquarters, Xandar's personal Armed Forces, Nova Prime, their leader was on call to the Kree Ambassador.

"Ronan is destroying Xandarian outposts throughout the galaxy. I should think that would call for some slight response on behalf of the Kree," Nova Prime prompted the Kree Ambassador.

"We signed your peace treaty, Nova Prime. What more do you want?"

"At least a statement from the Kree Empire saying they condemn his actions. He is slaughtering children, families."

"That is your business. Now, I have other matters to attend to," and he ends the call.

"Prick," she says, annoyed by the response, though knowing how likely it would be that he would help them.

"Well, some good news. Looks like we've apprehended one of Ronan's compatriots," Denarian Saal reported to her, before heading off to see the prisoners himself.

Dey presents each of them to Saal. "Gamora," Corpsman Dey began as the five were each scanned, both their biological make-up and their past known history. "Surgically modified and trained as a living weapon. The adopted daughter of the Mad Titan, Thanos. Recently, Thanos lent her and her sister Nebula out to Ronan, which leads us to believe that Thanos and Ronan are working together."

Next Rocket appears behind the screen. "Subject 89P13, calls itself Rocket. The result of illegal genetic and cybernetic experiments on a lower life form," he explained.

"What the hell?" Denarian asked, shocked, never having seen a thing like Groot in his life.

"They call it Groot. A humanoid plant that's been travelling recently as 89P13's personal house plant slash muscle."

Next up was Peter. "Peter Jason Quill, from Terra. Raised from youth by a band of mercenaries called the Ravagers, led by Yondu Udonta, more recently he teamed up with a woman we know as Quake."

Quill winds up his middle finger and flips the bird at them. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know how this machine worked."

"What a bunch of a-holes," Danarian Saal remarked. Dey smiled in agreement.

Skye came up last. "This is Skye, codename Quake. She was also kidnapped from Terra, a few years later than Peter, by Yondu, and trained to be a Ravager by Peter. We're not sure how she got her abilities, but it seems she controls all vibrations in the universe."

"Transport all four to the Kyln," Danaarian ordered, after wondering for the umpteenth time why Skye wasn't trying to get out of here. From reports, it seems she could escape from anything, by blasting it apart.

~1~

A/N: I left it here as the scene in the Kyln was set in a new location and leads to its own sequence of events.

Hope you enjoyed.

P.S. If any of you would like to beta read this story and/or my new Harry Potter story coming up soon please PM me ASAP and I'll be happy to give you more details.