A/N: Well, here's another chapter! This may be my last update for the next two weeks because I am going to a cabin in Canada and there will be no wifi there, but I will try to get wifi hotspots and update. Enjoy!
The day was very tense to say the least. Everyone was walking on egg shells around Rocket and were being strangely quiet., which added to the tension.
"Alright, this has to stop!" Peter exclaimed, putting his hands up in frustration.
"I am Groot." Groot agreed.
"Just because Gamora and I are a thing now doesn't mean it's going to interfere on missions. So all of you need to build a bridge and get over it!"
Drax looked confused.
"Building bridges? What does that have to do with the situation at hand?"
"Metaphor!" Peter snapped, rubbing his temples to will away the headache that was beginning to form.
"Peter is right. It is most frustrating." Gamora said, crossing her arms. She was in her usual black attire now, knowing that wearing Peter's clothes wouldn't help the situation at hand, "What everyone needs to do is apologize."
Rocket sighed, "Fine! I am sorry that I lost my shit and called you two whores. There, happy?"
"Very. And we're also sorry." Peter said, mumbling a quick, 'not really' under his breath so that only Gamora could hear.
Drax looked like he was about to say something before an obnoxious beeping sound took over from the communication screen on the table.
"It's Nova Prime." Peter said, pressing a button and Nova Prime appeared onto the bigger screen behind where Gamora was sitting.
"Oh good. All of you are here...Gamora, we have leads on your sister, Nebula and Thanos." She explained.
Gamora's breath hitched in her throat, surprised but quickly recovered.
"What about them?" Gamora asked, standing up and facing the screen.
"She's after something. I have reason to believe that it's a skrelton necklace. Having this gives someone the power to shape shift into other people, people you know. Friends, family, you name it. They also give the person who wears it complete power. Power that no one has even seen before." She said, and looked as though she had a file on her desk. She opened the manila folder and held up the picture for all of them to see it.
The necklace looked almost like a skull and cross bones and in place of the eyes were ruby red gems.
"Gamora, it has also come to my attention that you may know where it is. That it had been in your possession several years ago."
Gamora sighed and tightly shut her eyes before opening them once more.
"Yes. I have hidden it."
"You've hidden it where?"
"With a friend. Somewhere that even Nebula would not dare look."
"But Gamora, it is important that_" Nova Prime started, only to be cut off by someone turning off the communicator and hanging up on her.
"You alright?" Peter asked, looking at her in concern.
"Yes. I am fine. I just need to sit down." She said, turning back around to pull out the chair and sit back down.
"You gave a necklace...to a friend? Who?"
"You have friends?" Rocket asked, earning a glare from everyone else.
"I gave it to a friend on Earth."
"Wait...when were you on Earth?"
Gamora sighed and folded her hands in front of her, "A few years ago. Thanos sent Nebula and I on a mission and my friend was told by her superior to investigate us. I had found the necklace several months earlier and had always kept it close by so Nebula would not discover it. I went through several hours of interrogations. Nebula abandoned me to deal with it alone and the two of us became good friends."
"What's her name? Wait...you were interrogated? Does this friend work for some type of top secret government agency?"
"I would not say it is secret, but yes."
"Does this friend have like a 'shoot first, ask questions later' attitude?"
"Yes."
"Was this friend named Maria? And does she work for a place named SHIELD?"
Gamora gawked at him before she stood up on shaky legs.
"How did you know that?"
"I also met her under very similar circumstances about five years ago. It's a long story. Why'd you give her the necklace? Her of all people?"
"I knew that Maria would be able to keep it safe. I also knew that Nebula would not think of going to Earth. Or checking Earth," She started, and then her face dropped to a frown as she met everyones gaze, "If my sister is after this...if she finds out that it is on Earth, Maria and her own family will pay the price. She can't_"
Gamora was cut off by Drax.
"Don't worry, Gamora. I am sure Earth is far from Nebula's mind."
Gamora nodded and got up, leaving the room and the Milano and went towards the town, unaware she was being watched.
Angry blue eyes watched Gamora intensely as she made her way through town.
"She is alone. We should attack while we still can." A man told the other figure.
"No. We must wait." The woman said, her voice stern.
"But she is_"
"Silence, Nikolai! We must wait. We will strike when she is weakened!" Nebula snapped, briefly turning to glare at her companion before she returned her gaze to watch her sister.
Nebula watched as Gamora took a seat on a nearby bench with her head in her hands.
"Soon, sister. Soon we will meet again and I will get that necklace at last."
A/N: Let me know what y'all think! Please review!
