Peter busied himself while Rocket was still fast asleep and ordered some room service for a nice breakfast in bed for Rocket and had gotten Rocket's favorite. Peter was definitely feeling renewed hope after the previous night. He felt it was progress to get Rocket to talk about their feelings again. Peter went in to the bathroom and combed his hair to fix his bedhead before walking back in the room and looking down with a fond smile at Rocket sleeping. Peter thought the sight of Rocket curled up on himself while he slept was just adorable and he smiled even wider when he saw Rocket's muzzle twitch involuntarily as his whiskers were brushed by the fabric if the sheets followed by a light snore.

As the hotel staff member arrived with the food Peter took the food thanked the man and closed the door. While Peter was setting up the food on a tray on the bed he could she Rocket's nose twitch signalling his husband already caught the faint aroma of the food and was beginning to wake. Peter silently hurried to finish the set up before Rocket completey came to.

"Mhhhh those wouldn't be what I think they are would they Pete?" Rocket mumbled as he sat up and saw the tray over his lap. Peter returned to the bed with his own tray of food as well as a cup of coffee each for him and Rocket.

Rocket leaned up to plant a kiss on Peter's lips that was chastely short yet still passionate before pulling away and smiling. Grabbing Peter's hand in his paw he looked dead in Peter's eyes before speaking.

"Thanks Pete... For everything..." Rocket replied simply before digging into his breakfast. Peter with renewed vigor dug in as well and the pair ate in companionable silence. Rocket occasionally leaned against Peter affectionately which caused Peter to smile contently.

To the surprise of Rocket Peter was the first one finished with his breakfast. 'Then again', Rocket thought, 'I was eating much slower today as if I didn't want this to end...' This thought brought a warm happy look to Rocket's face one that he hadn't worn often if at all as of late and the look caused Peter to gain interest.

"What's got you so happy?" Peter simply said as he gathered the dishes and put them back on the tray to be taken out of the room.

"You..." Was Rocket's only reply. This prompted Peter to pick Rocket up and hold him close and for once Rocket didn't object to being held like this.

The couple sat there undisturbed for a good hour until they heard a knock on the door. Rocket broke free from Peter's grip with a bit of a deflated look. Rocket then turned towards the door.

"Come in." He responded. The door opened and Orion came bounding and bouncing in cheerfully. Rocket had to admit he never has seen Orion so cheery in his life.

"Ready for our next day on these beautiful islands guys?" Orion asked cheerfully.

"What's on the schedule for today?" Peter asked.

"We were going diving in the ocean today to see some of the marine life that lives in the water below remember..." Orion reminded.

"Oh joy..." Rocket grumbled as going for a swim wasn't exactly on his list of things he wanted to do.

"Don't worry dad! I got just the thing for you. Come to my room and see... I worked all night on it." Orion said as he made his way back into the hall and down the way to his room.

Peter and Rocket made their way into Orion's room and were stunned at what they saw. It looked to be a smaller version of the same pod type vehicles that Rocket and Peter used in Knowhere against Ronan's goons. It had been obviously modified and outfitted to be used for subaquatic maneuvering and navigation and was equipped with external bio scanners and other useful research tools. Rocket impressed at how much his son got done in one night and immediately made his way into the cockpit to get a feel for the controls.

"This is amazing Orion... I am impressed with this for an overnight creation." Rocket said as he finished inspecting the makeshift submarine.

"Just one question..." Rocket added. This caused Orion to partially deflate worried what his father was going to say.

"And what is that dad?" Orion prompted for Rocket to continue.

"How are we transporting this thing to the beach?" Rocket asked gesturing to the sheer size and weight of the sub. Orion somewhat chuckled at this and pulled out a wristband with buttons on it.

Pressing one caused the Sub to slowly breakdown into smaller pieces until it was the size of a small sphere about the same size as the container of the infinity stone.

"Hmmmm... Compression mechanics.I am now thoroughly impressed son." Rocket nodded his approval as he held and inspected the orb that was once his sub. Rocket handed Peter the orb to put in his bag to carry to the beach. Peter looked at it fascinated with his son's handy work he had no doubt in his mind that he got his tech skills from Rocket.

"So we have everything right? Then lets get going." Peter spoke up before leading the other two out the door and making their way off to the beach.

-Line Break time again-

Orion and Peter put on their diving gear and got in the water. Rocket walked up behind them placing the orb in the area where the tide reaches the sand and pressed the button on his wristband and the orb once again became the submarine. Rocket boarded the sub and with some slight help pushing off the shore from Orion and Peter was steadily submerging into the ocean. Once Rocket's nerves calmed down and he remembered he was safely inside his sub he began to take a real look at the new world around him. Many different species of fish and other aquatic life swam by the viewing window of the sub and Rocket managed to scan a few and save the data in the sub's computer for further analysis and research.

Not long after he was joined by Orion and Peter who each gave Rocket a look asking how he was holding up. Rocket gave a thumbs up before propelling his ship further into the ocean. Rocket was stopped in awe as he saw a big almost flat creature with elongated tusk like apendages where it's eyes sat swam by. The way it swam in the water with it's fins flapping in the water looked almost as if it were flying instead of swimming and it was doing so with such grace as it executed a few backflips here and there as well. Rocket immediately scanned the creature as he was eager to know what it was. Upon completion of the scan it told Rocket the creature was called a manta ray, it also listed a whole log of data on it that Rocket had saved to be viewed later when he had time after the dive.

As Rocket reached the ocean floor he noticed what looked to be a fish but it was much larger than any other fish he had seen up to this point. The creature was Greyish in color and had two fins protruding from it's back. It also had rows of sharp teeth. After scanning it Rocket learned that the creature was a species of sharks called a white tip reef shark. The most interesting and equally disturbing fact Rocket learned was that though this was much bigger than the other fish he had encountered, save for the manta ray, there were many species of sharks that far exceeded this species in size. That thought alone had Rocket decide to regroup with Orion and Peter at the surface.

Once back on land Rocket unboarded his sub and reverted it to it's orb state before returning it to Peter.

"So how did everyone enjoy that little trip?" Peter asked as he stuffed the Orb into his pocket.

"I had so much fun!" Orion exclaimed as he dried off.

"Well I have a lot of work cut out for me now researching these creatures I discovered which in my definition is fun so... Yeah I had fun." Rocket said as he began making his way up the beach back to the hotel. Orion and Peter simply shrugged and followed Rocket.

-Another time jump line-

Rocket had been sitting at a desk in the hotel room since he had gotten back to the hotel room. Peter had to admit though he loved Rocket taking an interest in an aspect of the trip he felt Rocket was getting a bit too sucked into his work.

"Peter take a look at this! Turns out those backflips that manta rays do aren't just for fun but in fact actually is how they feed." Rocket said seeming very intrigued in what he was learning. Peter sighed came over and shut Rocket's datapad down and placed Rocket in bed.

"Rocket it is nearly one in the morning let's get some sleep that data will be there for you to analyze later it isn't going anywhere." Rocket sighed in defeat and settled for snuggling up under the covers into Peter's bare chest and let the grasp of sleep take hold.

(Okay so I have been debating whether to continue this or not. I will say this chapter more or less gave me some faith in continuing the story but I will let the readerbase speak for itself because I started with a whole ton of readers but here we are at book four and most of them have either stopped reading or bothering to show a clue that they are still following it and that puts a damper on my desire to continue.

We will see where this goes...

Until next time,

Nightfire)