Rocket and Rhea crashed back to the planet nearby Groot and Drax, Drax looking like a few miles of bad road covered in a yellow substance.

"Blasted Idiots, they're all idiots!" Rocket snapped as he climbed out of his pod and Rhea out of hers.

"Quill just got captured along with Gamora by Yondu." Rhea told the others.

"None of this would have happened if you didn't try to single handedly take on a freakin' army!" Rocket yelled at Drax.

"You are right." Drax sighed. "I was a fool, all the anger, all the rage is just to cover my loss."

"Oh boo-hoo-hoo, my wife and child are dead." Rocket said getting a shocked gasp from Groot. "Oh I don't care if it's mean! Everybody's got dead people!"

"Although I do not agree with the way Rocket phrased it…" Rhea shot Rocket a sharp look. "He is right, the loss of your family is no excuse to get everybody else dead along the way."

"Come on Groot. Ronan has the stone. The only chance we got is to get to the other side of the universe as fast as we can and maybe, just maybe, we'll be able to live full lives before that whack-job ever gets there." Rocket snapped.

"I am Groot." Groot said as he stood up.

"Groot's right, we need to save them." Rhea nodded.

"Save them? How?" Rocket questioned.

"I am Groot." Groot replied.

"I know they're the only friends we ever had, but there's an army of ravagers around them and there's only three of us." Rocket snapped as Drax stood up.

"Four." Drax said placing his hand on Groot's shoulder as Rocket let out an annoyed snarl before he turned kicking a clump of grass.

"You…are…making…me…beat…up…grass!" Rocket emphasized every word with a vicious kick to the grass.

"Come on Rocket." Rhea called out as she and the others ran off, Rocket following.

They quickly made it back to the Milano taking off after the Ravagers at top speeds. Rhea told them her plan and after arguing finally got them to agree to it; they pulled up in front of the much larger ship and put her plan in to action.

"I feel super silly doing this." Rhea commented as she shot at the giant ship that easily dwarfed the Milano.

"It was your idea." Rocket replied.

"Does not make me feel any less silly." Rhea sighed, then smiled brightly to Rocket. "Rocket, say hello in that special way only you can."

"My pleasure." Rocket opened a comm. "Attention idiots, the lunatic on top of this craft it holding a Hadron Enforcer." Rocket said, indicating Drax who was on top of the Milano holding a large gun. "A weapon of my own design. If you don't hand over our companions now, he's going to tear your ship a new one, a very big new one."

"We're giving you to the count of five." Rhea said in a bored tone. "5, 4, 3…"

"Rhea, Rocket, it's me, for god sakes!" Peter quickly called out through the comm. "We figured it out, we're fine."

"Oh hey Quill, what's going on?" Rocket asked casually.

-0-

They bordered the Ravager ship rejoining Gamora and Quill who led them away so they could speak privately. Rhea was a little more than happy to see Quill then she thought she should have been. Sure he was fun to hang around and handsome as heck, but guys like him very rarely settled on one girl and a broken heart was something she did not want to risk.

"You call that figured it out? We're going to rob the guys who just beat us senseless?!" Rocket snapped as they all sat around a cargo bay in the Ravager ship.

"Oh, you want to talk about senseless? How about trying to save us by blowing us up?" Peter snapped back.

"We were only going to blow you up if they didn't turn you over." Rocket replied.

"And how on earth were they gonna turn us over when you only gave them to the count of five?" Peter demanded.

"We didn't have time to work out the minutiae of the plan. This is what we get for acting altruistically." Rocket looked t Groot.

"I am Groot." Groot said.

"They are ungrateful, anyway it was Rhea's plan." Rocket motioned to her causing Peter to look to her.

"What?!" He yelped.

"It was a bluff, I wasn't really going to let Drax blow up the ship with you and Gamora on it." Rhea said shaking her head.

"Well that's reassuring." Peter threw up his hands.

"Hey, it worked didn't it?" Rhea rolled her eyes.

"We didn't need it to work, we had already saved ourselves." Peter replied.

"Then you should have said something." Rhea shot back.

"We were stuck on the ship!" Peter said.

"That we were going to get you out of with my brilliant plan!" Rhea waved him off leaving him fuming. He opened and closed his mouth a few times, trying to figure out how this argument got all turned around in Rhea's favor.

"What's important now is that we get the ravagers army to help us save Xandar." Gamora cut the two off before the argument could escalate further.

"So we can give the stone to Yondu who's just going to sell it to somebody even worse?" Rocket questioned.

"We'll figure out that part later." Peter replied.

"We have to stop Ronan." Gamora said.

"How?" Rocket snapped.

"I have a plan." Peter replied.

"You've got a plan." Rocket echoed with a glare.

"Yes." Peter replied.

"First of all you're copying me from when I said I had a plan." Rocket said.

"No I'm not." Peter shot back. "People say that all the time, it's not that unique of a thing to say."

"Secondly, I don't even believe you have a plan." Rocket ignored his comment.

"I have a plan, I have part of a plan." Peter said falteringly.

"What percentage of a plan do you have?" Drax asked.

"You don't get to ask questions after the nonsense you pulled on Knowhere." Gamora snapped at him.

"You nearly got us all killed." Rhea glared with equal anger.

"I saved Quill." Drax replied.

"We already established that destroying the ship that I'm on is not saving me." Peter said with a look.

"When did we establish that?" Drax asked.

"Like three seconds ago." Peter said in a high pitched voice.

"I was not listening, I was thinking of something else." Drax replied making Gamora groan as Rhea let out a scoffing laugh that was caught between amusement and annoyance.

"She's right, you don't get an opinion." Rocket snapped at Drax then turned back to Peter. "What percentage?"

"I don't know, twelve percent." Peter replied.

"Twelve percent?!" Rocket started to laugh hysterically.

"That's a fake laugh." Peter glared.

"It's real." Rocket replied.

"It's totally fake." Peter shook his head.

"It's the most real authentic hysterical laugh of my entire laugh because that is not a plan." Rocket snapped.

"It's barely a plan." Gamora agreed. "It's barely a concept."

"You're taking their side?" Peter looked to Gamora.

"I am Groot." Groot commented.

"So what if it's better than eleven percent?" Rocket scoffed at him. "What the hell does that have to do with anything?"

"Thank you Groot, thank you." Peter clapped Groot on the shoulder. Groot looked to his shoulder and spying a leaf started to try and eat it. "See, Groots the only one of you that has a clue." Peter followed everyone's gazes to Groot then let out an annoyed sound as he put a hand over his eyes shaking his head. "Guys come on, Yondu is going to be here in two seconds. He expects to hear this big plan of ours. I need your help." Peter tried. "I look around at us, you know what I see…losers."

"That is not encouraging at all." Rhea commented resting her elbows on her knees and her chin in her hands as she looked up to Quill. "In fact I think you may have hurt my feelings a little….jerk."

"I mean folks who have lost stuff." Quill amended quickly. "And we have, man we have, all of us. Our homes," Peter looked to Gamora. "Our families," He looked to Drax and Rhea. "Normal lives," He looked to Groot and Rocket. "And usually life takes more than it gives, but not today. Today it's given us something, it has given us a chance."

"To do what?" Drax asked.

"To give a s***." Peter replied. "For once, not run away. I for one am not going to stand by and watch as Ronan wipes out billions of innocent lives."

"But Quill, stopping Ronan, it's impossible. You're asking us to die." Rocket said softly.

"Yeah, I guess I am." Peter sighed shaking his head before he walked away dejectedly.

"I'm in." Rhea said suddenly getting surprised looks from everyone as she stood up.

"You're just going along with cause you think he's cute." Rocket snapped half-heartedly causing Peter to grin a little.

"That is one of my reasons yes, but I also believe that we need to do this." Rhea said crossing her arms, completely unfazed by Rockets comment. "I think if I helped save a world once I can certainly do it again for the rest of the universe, my life would be the least I could give or have given. Plus it's nice to be a part of something bigger again."

"I have lived most of my life surrounded by my enemies." Gamora said as she too stood to her feet. "I would be grateful to die amongst my friends."

"You are an honorable man Quill, I will fight beside you." Drax said then placed a hand on Rhea shoulder empathizing with her. "And in the end see my wife and daughter again as you will come to see family once more."

"I am Groot." Groot said standing to his feet, now all eyes turned on Rocket.

"Oh what the hell, I don't got that long a life span anyway." Rocket said as he to stood up. "Now I'm standin', ya'll happy? We're all standing up now. Bunch of J******** standing in a circle."