Rhea looked down at the slop on her trey wondering if it would attack or just lay their moaning pitifully. All of the sudden she wasn't very hungry and very glad of the fact she needed little food to survive.
"If we're going to get out of here we're going to need to get into that watch tower and to do that I'm going to need a few things." Rocket explained to them as they got out of the food line with their treys, Groot following behind. "The guards were security bands to control their ins and outs, I need one. Rhea…"
"I'm not sleeping with a guard." Rhea shot him a look.
"Come on." Rocket said, trying to hide his snicker. "Take one for the team."
"No. I've never had to sleep with anyone before despite it always seeming to be a part of your plans and we have gotten along just fine." Rhea snapped with a sharp look. "There are other ways to get it."
"Leave it to me." Gamora said.
"Fine." Rocket rolled his eyes. "That dude there, I need his prosthetic leg."
"His leg." Peter echoed.
"Yeah, god knows I don't need the rest of him, look at him, geeze." Rocket replied.
"Alright." Peter said as they sat down at a table.
"And finally on the wall back there is a black panel, blinking yellow light, do you see it?" Rocker asked as Peter looked up.
"Yeah." Peter nodded.
"There's a qaurnex battery behind it, purplish box, green wires. To get into that watchtower I definitely need it." Rocket told them.
"How are we supposed to do that?" Gamora asked.
"Well supposedly these bold bodies find you attractive, maybe you can work out some sort of trade." Rocket replied.
"You must be joking." Gamora sneered.
"No, I really heard they found you attractive." Rocket shrugged.
"Rocket, focus." Rhea shot him a look that he just grinned back at.
"Why can't you just use your powers?" Peter looked to Rhea. "You know, call down some fire or something?"
"They stuck me with an inhibitor, all my powers are blocked." Rhea replied then turned to show him the steel disk with the red light that was the size of a make-up compact stuck on the back of her neck.
"I can get it off when we get the arm band." Rocket said, surprising Gamora and Peter at his concerned look for Rhea.
"Thanks Rocket." Rhea said, she hated being without her powers, made her feel empty and Rocket knew that.
"Look, its twenty feet up in the air in the most heavily guarded prison, it's impossible to get up there without being seen." Peter told them.
"I've only got one plan and that plan requires a freakin' quarnex battery SO FIGURE IT OUT!" Rocket snapped then calmed down. "Can I get back to it? Thanks. Now this is important, once the battery is removed everything is going to slam into emergency mode, once we have it we got to move quickly, so you definitely need to get that last." Suddenly there was a surging sound and all of the lights went out and the emergency lights went on along with the sirens. They all turned to where Groot was holding out the battery to them. "Or we could just get that one first and improvise."
"I'll get the arm band." Gamora said and rushed off.
"Leg." Peter said running off as well as Rocket groaned pressing the heels of his paws into his eyes.
"Maybe we should tell Quill we don't really need the leg." Rhea mused as she watched him run off. "To late now." Rhea clapped her hands together and rubbed them against one another. "Well, time to get to work."
"Prisoner, drop the device immediately and retreat to your cell or we will open fire." A tower guard said.
"I AM GROOT!" Groot yelled as he grew in size.
"Fire!" The droids opened fire blasting away at Groot who started to take out the droids.
"All prisoners return to your sleeping areas."
Rocket ran for Groot climbing up on him while Rhea started to fight back the guards. She grabbed one's arm twisting around him breaking the arm in the process then stamping down on his leg breaking that as well before elbowing him in the head then moving on to her next target. She moved swiftly avoiding the guard's fire except for a few grazes and taking them out one by one.
"You idiot, how am I supposed to fight without my stuff?!" Rocket snapped as Groot continued to fend off the droids.
One of the guards managed to knock Rhea back with the butt of his gun then leveled it at her with a smirk and was about to shoot her when Drax attacked them taking them out with ease giving Rhea time to get up and rejoin the fight.
"Thank you Drax." Rhea said as she fought side by side with Drax who nodded his acknowledgment to her thanks before he picked up one of the guards guns and looked to Rocket.
"Creepy little beast!" Drax threw the gun to Rocket who caught it with a smile.
"Oh yeah." Rocket opened fire forcing the guards back and taking out the droids. He yelled as he fired clearly enjoying it more than he should have.
"Rocket!" Gamora called out tossing him the arm band which he pointed at Rhea.
"Rhea, heads up." Pressing a few buttons the inhibitor off lined and Rhea pulled it off with a grin before destroying it.
"Now things are going to get good." Rhea said as she fired of multiple electric bolts at the enemy along with strong gusts of wind pushing them back and streams of fire, spells falling from her mouth rapidly as she moved.
"Move to the watchtower!" Rocket ordered Groot and the others as he started to work on his device.
Gamora jumped from one rail to the other reaching the tower.
"Fugite!" Rhea propelled herself up with a spell landing next to Gamora. Groot grew up to the railing where Rhea grabbed Rocket pulling him onto the rail while Peter and Drax to climbed up him before pulling himself up as well. Rocket opened up the doors to the tower where the guard lifted his hands nervously in surrender.
"Groot, please remove this." Rhea said as she and the others walked in. Groot reached in with his vines grabbing the man and throwing him out. Rocket and Rhea instantly started in on the controls giving Gamora time to notice Drax.
"Spare me your foul gaze, woman." Drax yelled in her face.
"Why is this one here?" Gamora looked to Quill.
"I promised him he could stay by your side until he kills your boss." Peter replied. "And I always keep my promises when they're muscle bound whack jobs who will kill me if I don't." Peter placed the leg on the console. "Here you go."
"Oh I was just kidding about the leg, I only need these two things." Rocket said.
"What?!" Peter snapped.
"No, I thought it'd be funny." Rocket snickered. "Was it funny? Wait what did he look like hopping around?"
"I had to transfer him 30,000 units." Peter snapped.
"And now we're off to make 40 billion, why are you complaining again?" Rhea mumbled not looking up from her work.
"That's not the point." Peter argued.
"How are we going to leave?" Drax demanded.
"Well he's got a plan. Right? Or is that another thing you made up?" Peter snapped as droids opened fire on them, but the glass remained in tacked.
"I have a plan, I have a plan." Rocket reassured them.
"Cease your yammering and relieve us of this irksome confinement." Drax cut them off.
"Yeah, I'll have to agree with the talking thesaurus on that one." Peter said as he looked out the windows at the firing droids.
"Do not ever call me a thesaurus." Drax glared at him.
"It's just a metaphor dude." Peter told him.
"His people are completely literal." Rhea said cutting through some wires and putting others back together, mumbling the Monkees theme lyrics under her breath.
"Yeah, metaphors are gonna go over his head." Rocket agreed.
"Nothing goes over my head." Drax shot back. "My reflexes are too fast, I would catch it."
"Case and point." Rhea said.
"I'm going to die surrounded by the biggest idiots in the galaxy." Gamora said shaking her head.
"Who's the more foolish; the fool or the fool who follows him?" Rhea smirked at her making Gamora roll her eyes.
"Those are some big guns." Peter said making Rhea turn back to the action.
"Well snap." Rhea muttered and doubled her efforts along with Rocket.
"On my command, number one!" The blast cracked the glass.
"Rodent, we are ready for your plan." Gamora snapped.
"Hold on!" Rocket snapped ripping off a panel as Rhea put another back together.
"Number two." Another window was hit cracking the glass.
"I recognize this animal." Drax looked to Rocket. "We'd roast them over a flame pit as children. Their flesh is quite delicious."
"Not helping!" Rocket yelled.
"Number three!" More glass cracked. "All fire on my command. Three, two, one!"
Rocket made one last connection and Rhea flipped the switch causing everyone outside of the tower to begin to float into the air.
"They turned off the artificial gravity everywhere but here." Gamora said in amazement.
Rhea then released the tower so it began to float while Rocket commandeered the droids attaching them to the tower and using them as propelling rockets to move them out of the cell room.
"I told you I had a plan." Rocket said as he used the droids to navigate the tower down the hall bouncing off walls then crashing into the room where their stuff was being held closing the door behind them.
"That was a pretty good plan." Peter nodded.
"Huh?" Rocket smirked, pleased with himself.
"Let's get our stuff and get out of here before Rocket's head gets too big for the tower." Rhea said rubbing the top of Rockets head much to his annoyance.
Peter kicked through the left overs of the tower window allowing them all to climb and re-gain their stuff. Rhea happily pulled back on her necklace securing it around her throat before grabbing her clothes and satchel.
"Yeah, there it is." Peter said pointing out a large window. "Get my ship. It's the Milano, the orange and blue one over in the corner."
"They crumpled my pants up into a ball, that's rude. They folded yours." Rocket complained as Quill accessed his own lock box while Rhea and Gamora walked over to him. He opened the box and started to dig though it opening his satchel.
"The orbs there, let's go." Gamora said upon spotting it.
"Wait, wait, wait." Peter said as he frantically dug around.
"What?" Rhea asked.
"That b****** didn't put it back." Peter replied angrily.
"Put what back?" Rhea asked.
"Here." Quill shoved his satchel into her hands. "Get them to the ship, I will be right back."
"How are you possibly…" Gamora started.
"Just keep the Milano close by." Peter cut her off as he started to run off. "Go, Go!"
"Let's get out of here." Gamora said urging Rhea on. Rhea sent one more look over her shoulder biting her lip before following Gamora to the Milano where they joined the others and took off.
"Well, how's he gonna get to us?" Rocket demanded.
"He declined to share that information with us." Gamora replied.
"Well screw this, then." Rocket snapped. "I ain't waiting around for some humie with a death wish. You got the orb right?"
"I doubt it." Rhea said as she leaned back in her seat. Gamora glanced from her to the satchel and opened it up, but found no orb. "You didn't really trust him to trust us with his ship and not abandon him did you?"
"If we don't leave now we will be blown to bits." Rocket complained.
"No." Gamora snapped. "We're not leaving without the orb."
"Behold." Drax said drawing everyone's attention out of the window where they could see Peter with his mask on zooming over to them.
"Oh I like him." Rhea smiled as they rushed over to the hatch and let him in.
"This one shows spirit. He shall make a keen ally in the battle against Ronan." Drax complimented Peter as her unzipped his jacket and his mask removed itself. He took out a cassette player and ejected the tape. "Companion, what were you retrieving?" Peter handed him the cassette player. "You are an imbecile."
