PETER QUILL'S P.O.V

I've prevented a worldwide apocalypse before, this should be no problem, right? That is the one thing you should never tell yourself in my position.

People have asked me if I'm scared when I go to battle. You want the truth? I'm & #?ing TERRIFIED. People think when your a . . . okay fine I'll say it, a superhero that your invincible. That you don't have all those emotions that no one likes. It's just not true.

Even superheroes get broken hearts. Even superheroes run from the enemy when the threat is just too much. Even superheroes lose the fight.

Most of what I did in this useless, pathetically ugly building was train. This was a good thing because, as I soon learned, S.H.I.E.L.D wanted to run some physical and mental tests on us. Great. That means Rocket will be even more bad-tempered than usual.

We all knew we'd pass easily. The fact was that they were making us do it in the first place. There was, however no real avoiding as I finally convinced Rocket. "Just do what they say, will you?"

"Just bossing him around is not going to make him want to do it." said Gamora.

"Oh, really, do you have a better idea?" I argued.

"Yes." she confidently walked toward Rocket and kneeled in front of him (I guess so they'd be at eye-level.)

"I'm not doing it. I don't need to. They said they needed to vaccinate me! And YES I KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!"

"You won't even feel it."

"That's easy for you to say!"

"Look, the sooner you do it the sooner we can get it done."

He thought about this for a moment. "Fine. But you guys owe me." Rocket pushed past us.

The only things Rocket hated more than needles were his home planet, Terra and the Avengers. But then again, Rocket hated a lot of things.

"Hey, Cutie." I waved to a woman in a blue uniform as she passed me. She giggled and blushed.

"Really, Peter?" complained Gamora.

Then a random S.H.I.E.L.D guy with mousy brown hair walked up to us along with a woman with black hair. "I'm Agent Rory Kai and this is Agent Maria Hill and we'll be regulating your tests."

"Now we got Terra-Nova corp. Not to mention, Melanie Martinez over here." Rocket gestured toward Hill.

I didn't ask him how he knew who that was. Especially given the fact that I didn't know who that was. In Rocket's mind, S.H.I.E.L.D was basically Nova but weaker.

I kicked him just hard enough to signal him to shut up.

"We're going to need to know how hard you can hit." Kai informed us.

"Why don't you come closer and find out, Jerk?" retorted you guessed it, Rocket.

Kai didn't reply. These S.H.I.E.L.D people had never-ending patience. Along with that Rogers guy.

It's not as if I wanted to do this. I thought about why I was here. This was my home planet ( I think) I couldn't just let it burn. Besides what does Guardian of the Galaxy even mean?