They all stood in line up as a guard read off their files on the other side of the glass window.

"Gamora, surgically modified and trained as a weapon, the adopted daughter of the Mad Titan Thanos. Recently Thanos lent her and her sister Nebula to Ronan which leads us to believe that Thanos and Ronan are working together."

Gamora looked extremely board and uncaring.

"Subject 89P13, calls itself Rocket, the result of illegal genetic and cybernetic on a lower life form."

Rocket spat on the floor with a snarl.

"What the hell is that?" Another guard asked.

"They call it Groot, a humanoid plant that's been traveling as Rhea and 89P13's personal house plant/muscle."

Groot leaned over looking through the glass.

"Rhea, a Jotunn Terran Aesir hybrid and powerful sorceress. Nothing is known of her past, she has absolutely no records prior to her first infraction, stealing her ship from Asgard 39 years ago. It is now in route back to them."

Rhea was swaying from side to side shaking her hips as danced to music only she could hear, her hands raised over her head. Both men starred at her swaying hips before they quickly shook themselves out of it with embarrassed coughs.

"Peter Jason Quill, from Terra, raised from youth by a band of mercenaries called the Ravagers led by Yondu Udonta."

"Oh I'm sorry; I didn't know how this machine worked." Peter said as he flipped them off.

"What a bunch of a-holes." The guard scoffed as Peter pretended to try and lower his middle finger with no luck. "Transport all of them to the Kyln."

-0-

The trip to the Kyln was uneventful and long as heck, at least that's how it felt to Rhea who hated being trapped. She had to be free to roam or she'd go stir crazy which wasn't a problem for her, but the people around her tended to suffer from it one way or another. She had spent a majority of the trip singing every prison song she knew, which was quite a lot surprisingly enough. She didn't stop until they were unloaded.

"I guess most of Nova Corps wanna uphold the laws, but these ones here, they're corrupt and cruel." Rocket told them all as they were led through the halls of the Klyn. "But hey, that's not my problem; I ain't going to be here long. Me and Rhea have escaped 22 prisons. This one's no different."

"We watched Escape from Alcatraz a lot." Rhea shrugged nonchalantly.

"You're lucky the broad showed up because otherwise me Rhea and Groot would be collecting our bounty right now and you'd be getting drawn and quartered by Youndu and those Ravagers." Rocket went on complaining.

"I've had a lot of people try to kill me over the years, I ain't about to be brought down by a tree, a random hot chick, and a talking raccoon." Peter scoffed.

"Flatterer." Rhea winked at him making him grin back.

"Hold."

"What's a raccoon?" Rocket asked.

"What's a raccoon?" Peter echoed looking away from Rhea and down at him. "It's what you are stupid."

"Ain't no thing like me except me." Rocket replied.

"You tell them Rocket." Rhea shook her head. He was very sensitive about his appearance so she thought it best not to tell him of his likeness to the furry earth creature, it would probably set him off.

"So this orb has a real shiny blue suitcase, ark of the covenant, maltese falcon sort of vibe." Peter commented to Gamora. "What is it?"

"I am Groot." Groot said.

"So what." Peter snapped at him.

"Hey, be nice." Rhea thumped him upside the head then turned back to Groot as Peter shot her a look. "Those are Earth references to stories and a sacred religious relic."

"What's the orb?" Peter asked Gamora.

"I have no words for an honor-less thief." Gamora replied.

"Pretty high and mighty words coming from the lackey of a genocidal maniac." Rocket said as Gamora tensed. "Yeah, we know who you are. Anyone who's anyone knows who you are."

"Yeah we know who you are." Peter said then looked to Groot. "Who is she?"

"I am Groot." Groot replied.

"Yeah you said that." Peter snapped.

"She's a weapon for Ronan and Thanos the Mad Titan, a murderer." Rhea said with a dark look. "Just like the rest of her so called family."

"I wasn't retrieving the orb for Ronan." Gamora said as the guard used his wrist band to open the next door while Rocket watched closely. "I was betraying him, I had an agreement to sale it to a third party."

"I am Groot." Groot said as they walked through the doors.

"Well that's just as fascinating as the first 89 times you told me that." Peter said in annoyance. "What is wrong with giving tree here?"

"Well he don't know talk good like you and me." Rocket replied. "So his vocabulistics is limited to "I" and "am" and "Groot". Exclusively in that order."

"I tell you what, that's going to wear real thin real fast." Peter said as they came to another stop.

"You just have to learn to understand him then you don't notice it as much." Rhea said with a shrug.

"You understand him?" Peter asked.

"Yeah, I've known him for 24 years." Rhea replied then looked into the room next to them watching as the guard threw her necklace into a box with the rest of her things. "This is the worst part, them going through our stuff."

"Hey!" Peter snapped looking into where the guards were processing their stuff. "Put that away!" Peter slipped through the bars before they closed as the guard slipped on the head phones. "Hey listen to be you big blue b******. Take those headphones off, that's mine, those belong in impound, THAT TAPE AND THAT PLAYER IS MINE!" The guard jabbed him with his tazer baton forcing Peter to his knees. "Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Swede 1973, that song belongs to me!"

The guard electrocuted him again and again as he lay enveloped in spasms on the ground.

"Oi! That's enough!" Rhea snapped pushing against the door forcing it open.

"Rhea, that's not your problem." Rocket called out, but Rhea had already jumped up using the guard's knee as a spring board wrapping her legs around the guard's neck and throwing him to the ground and landing in a crouch position. More guards came in apprehending her rather harshly in her opinion and picking up Quill from the ground.

Rhea and Gamora were separated from the males and were then brought to a room where they were stripped down then blasted with an orange cleaning substance. Rhea was then shoved into another room wearing only a sports bra and a pair of tight boy shorts both black before she was issued her prison garb.

Rhea pulled on the pants and tied the sleeves of the shirt she was giving around her waist so she was only wearing her sport bra up top. She was cleaning off the orange gunk from her hair which caused it to spike up wildly just as Gamora was shoved into the room gaining her attention. Rhea glared at her from where she sat waiting for the guards to move them on.

"Do you have a staring problem?" Gamora snapped as she pulled on her own clothes.

"No, I have an anyone connected with Thanos problem." Rhea replied just as the guards came in and took them out where they rejoined the others.

"You don't know anything about me." Gamora hissed.

"I don't need to, anyone connected with him is less than trash in my opinion." Rhea glared sharply. They were given bed rolls before they were brought into the main facility where the prisoners were all housed together.

"You first, I'm coming for you first!" A Prisoner shouted at Gamora along with the others all yelling and calling out threats as well as insults. The prisoners threw whatever they had at her. They were baying for her blood like a bunch of wild animals and Rhea hated her treacherous feelings, she actually felt worried for the girl, but she quickly squashed it.

"It's like I said, she's got a rep." Rocket shrugged as they walked on. "A lot of prisoners here have lost their families to Ronan and his goons. She'll last a day tops."

"The guards will protect her right?" Peter asked.

"They're here to stop us from getting out and that's it." Rhea replied without remorse. "They don't care what we do to each other inside."

"Whatever nightmares the future holds, are dreams compared to what's behind me." Gamora said darkly as large man came up to them.

"Check out the new meat." The giant blue guy said as he ran a hand along Peter's face.

"We got ourselves a real beauty here." Another purple inmate said as he took hold of Rhea's upper arm. Rhea letting out a warning growl as her eyes flashed. "Whoa, a bit feisty to."

"I'm going to slather you up and Gunavian jelly, and go to town…" The inmate said to Peter, but the screams of pain from the purple guy who was now holding a frost bitten now useless hand.

Rhea slowly turned blue from her usual alabaster skin tone, her eyes blazing red with silver flecks, and darker blue tattoo like marking covering her body. She growled lowly in her throat revealing her now sharp teeth at the whimpering purple man before she back handed him into a table and unconsciousness.

"Groot." Rhea said nodding to the blue guy and Groot walked up forcing his roots into the nose of the beast as he screamed in pain while Groot raised him off his feet. "Rocket, make a statement."

"On it." Rocket replied. "Let's make something clear, this one here is our booty!" Rocket pointed to Quill then pounded on his chest. "You want to get to him you go through us! Or more accurately we go through you."

Groot broke the blue guys nose who howled out in horrible agony before dropping him to the ground where he lay sobbing in pain. Rocket, Groot, and Rhea walked away without a backwards glance, everyone getting out of their way.

"I'm with them." Peter said and quickly caught up with them.

"I hate you." The inmate cried as Peter stepped over him.

"So…" Peter started as he fell into step next to Rhea whose skin started to turn back to a creamy alabaster. "You know about Earth culture."

"My mother was from earth and it was my home for a time." Rhea replied as they all stepped into a cell setting down their bedrolls.

"But you turned blue." Quill pointed out. "Are you like a mutant or something?"

"My father was Jotunn so I inherited it from him." Rhea said with a shrug.

"You mean a frost giant, how was that even…" Peter trailed off referring to the height differences of the two species.

"He was a runt and had an aesir form." Rhea replied with a shrug. "So what about you? What are you?"

"Terran, through and through." Peter shrugged.

"Then how'd you get out here?" Rhea asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Kidnapped." Peter replied.

"That sucks." Rhea commented.

"Hey, if you two saps are done sharing they're about to serve some slop they call food." Rocket said ending their conversation. After eating the Klyn quieted down and the prisoners started to find places to sleep.