A/N: Hey everybody, sorry for not posting this yesterday. I was supper busy.

Chapter 8- Sibling Unity

"Come on." Peter told Valkyrie. "We have to get back to Yandu." They flew back to the ship and barely made it, flying into it and rolling on the floor as they made it into the ship. Nebula was trying to fix the generator.

Valkyrie groaned as she pushed herself up into a kneeling position, out of breath, "Peter." She breathed out and Peter immediately rushed over at the tone.

"What?"

"It's- I'm getting tired." Valkyrie mumbled, "I feel it. It's spreading."

Peter shook his head stubbornly, "No. No. You are NOT dying on me."

Valkyrie grabbed Peter's hands, "Peter. You are not responsible. You hear me?" Movement over Peter's shoulder caught her eye. Her eyes widened, "We're surrounded." Peter turned around and saw that it was the truth. They were surrounded. The firing suddenly stopped all at once.

"Guardians." It was High Priestess Ayesha, "Perhaps it would provide you solace that you're deaths are not without purpose. They will serve as a warning to all of those tempted with betraying us. Don't screw with the Sovereign."

The ships open fired. Peter grabbed onto Valkyrie as they were both knocked over by the blasts.

"This is gonna hurt." Yandu commented from up above in the cockpit.

"Promises, promises." Nebula stated.

"Humm." Yandu murmured and pressed a couple of buttons. Nebula screamed as she was used as a power source to charge and fire out lazors from the ship, destroying all of the ships.

A broken fiery piece of a Sovereign ship came crashing into the ship as Valkyrie and Peter looked up to survey the damage. Nebula's screams could still be heard from the cockpit area. The fiery piece of Sovering ship leaks fuel into a broken part of the ship.

Peter noticed it and yelled, "We're going to blow!" Peter grabbed a firm hold of Valkyrie and shielded her as the ship exploded.

Gamora screamed "NO!" From the surface of the center core."

Nebula was first to land. And then after a few seconds, Peter, Valkyrie and Yandu finally cleared the black smoak, slowly lowering themselves to the grown.

Peter looked up to see that Yandu had used his red arrow like an umbrella. Peter laughed and stated, "You look like Mary Poppins."

"Is he cool?"

Peter responded with a slight nod and a, "Hell yeah, he's cool."

"I'm Mary Poppins ya'll!" Yandu declared as they landed on the core next to Nebula. Explosions were going off all around them.

Then Mantis was knocked out by a flying piece of Sovereign ship. Second after Drax yelled, "Mantis, look out!" From her hand light pulled back out in a loud screeching sound and pulled through the entire place. Drax knelt down to pick Mantis up, "She's just unconscious."

"How long till the bomb goes off?" Peter stumbled over to Rocket.

"In the unlikely event that Groot doesn't kill us all… about six minutes." Rocket responded.

A loud crack sounded and daylight filtered into the space. "Kraglin," Yandu commend him, "We need the quadrant for an extraction. T-minus five minutes."

"Aye Captain." Kraglin answered.

"Somebody's got to be uptop when Kraglin arrives." Peter stated, "Drax, take Mantis." Peter took off his jetpack and placed it onto Drax.

Drax yelled, "Ah! My nipples!" As he took off for the surface, carrying Mantis with him.

The core began to crack and they all stumbled around. Then a gigantic portions cracked off and Gamora fell off the core screaming. "Gamora!" Peter yelled, looking at her as she fell, unable to help.

Rocket took off the core with his jetpack. Blue energy lines shot up out of it, cracking the core even more. A blue face appeared as the tentacle-like lines flew all over the place. "Peter!" Ego called out.

Valkyrie and Peter looked at each other then ran at Ego, firing their guns at him.

"Come now Peter I know this isn't what you want." They ducked the blue tentacles each time it swung over their heads. "What kind of father would I be to let you make this choice? Soon Peter, we will be all there is! So! Stop pissing me off!"

A large blue energy tentacle grew out of the core and closer and closer to Peter. He fired his guns at it, jumped and ducked other lines and finally was knocked backward and his facemask came off as he rolled to a stop close to the edge. Blood trickled down Peter's face.

Rocks burst apart and a humanoid energy being that must be Egos walked forward toward them. Then it grew a skeleton and then filled itself with blood. Valkyrie was sure, if she survived, this would be apart of her nightmares.

Peter and Valkyrie looked to the right as a blue energy beam impaled and forced Yandu into the ground and broke his arrow. He screamed as the energy corased through him. Peter and Valkyrie looked to the left to find the energy tentacles crushing Rocket who was also yelling in agony as he fired his gun, not hitting any of the beams.

"I told you." Ego proclaimed, walking forward with his arms up, "I don't want to do this alone."

Suddenly Valkyrie's head felt like it was going to explode and she cried out, falling to the ground. This pain that she felt now eclipsed everything else. Her vision began to show black spots as she fought to keep conscious.

Valkyrie screamed as the blue light came from behind Peter and stabbed him through the back, lifting him up into the air. Peter yelling in pain.

"You cannot deny the purpose the universe has bestowed upon you!" Ego pointed at Peter and three other blue energys stabbed through Peter, bringing him to a kneeling position on the ground of the core. Bright light pulsed through the core.

"It doesn't need to be like this Peter. Why are you destroying our chance? Stop pretending what you aren't what you are. One in billions. Trillions. Even more. What greater meaning can life possibly have to offer?" Ego was now in his full human form.

"I don't use my head to fly my arrow boy!" Yandu yelled, "I use my heart!" Yandu was silenced by the rocks piling over him.

"Peter!" Valkyrie hoarsely called out and Peter turned his attention to her, Valkyrie was slowly army crawling her way over, but going super slow, her energy gone, "You can do this!" Her vision grew dark, "I love you!" Valkyrie's head slowly rested on the ground core.

She heard Peter scream out a terrified, "NO! Valkyrie!"

Then Darkness.

Valkyrie woke up to the planet crumbling around her. Out of the corner of her eyes she saw both Ego and Peter on the ground. Peter punched Ego a couple of times. She had no idea how she was still alive, but looking at the crumbling planet around her, she guessed that Peter had something to do with Ego being weaker.

She managed to get to a standing position. Everything hurt but she could feel that Ego was weakened.

"No! We need to stop it!" Ego yelled desperately. Valkyrie knew he was talking about the bomb that was going to explode. Peter grabbed a hold of Ego and threw him to the ground.

"Peter!" Valkyrie yelled, staggering over to help.

Peter's eyes widened at her voice and put his arm out in a 'stop' motion, "No! Stay back!" It was his forceful tone that made Valkyrie halt. He had never spoken to her like that. It was a combination of panic and fear.

Ego grabbed Peter's shirt, "Stop! Listen to me! You are a GOD. If you kill me, you'll be just like everybody else."

"What's so wrong with that?" Peter asked harshly.

"No!"

The core above them exploded. Ego slowly evaporated into stone dust. Peter looked down at his hands and saw the blue energy pulse above them then evaporate. He had to balance himself as Valkyrie ran over and slammed into him and gave him a hug. "How are you alive?" Peter asked, his voice hoarse.

Valkyrie shrugged. "I'm guessing him being damaged slowed it down. Now that he's dead, well. I'm pain free."

Peter's chin wavered, "I'm glad you're not dying anymore." then a few seconds passed with explosions above. "I'm sorry I didn't listen to you."

"It's okay."

They both closed their eyes and hugged, expecting to be torn apart any minute until a force knocked into them and lifted them up off the ground. Valkyrie and Peter opened their eyes to see that Yandu had picked them both up and was flying them out of there.

They exited the interior of the planet and came out into the open air and clear sky, "He may have been you're father boy, but he wasn't your Daddy. I'm sorry that I didn't do none of it right. I'm damn lucky you're my boy." Yandu placed a bubble field on Peter's chest and activated Valkyrie's helmet.

"What?"

They burst through the atmosphere. Peter and Valkyrie glanced behind them to see that the planet imploded onto itself. "Yandu what are you doing? You can't. Yandu!" Peter yelled. Valkyrie stayed quiet through the entire conversation, tears welling up, understanding the sacrifice that Yandu was making.

Yandu's jetpack failed and Peter croaked out, "No. No!" Peter tried to get at the device that was keeping them both alive, trying to transfer it back to Yandu.

"Peter, stop!" Valkyrie pleaded.

Peter didn't listen and kept on trying. "No! No!" Yandu reached out with both hands to grab Peter's face and patted him on the head. Then his skin crusted over because of the vacuum of space and his eyes went white. "NO!" Peter screamed, sobbing. "No. No. No. No!"

Valkyrie, crying as well put an arm around Peter's waist and hugged him as he cried, waiting for the others to rescue them.