New Guy: Chapter 10
The story nows picks up where we left off. Star-Lord is about to fight off Jaro in order to save his friends. The goal is to grab the Infinity Gauntlet located on his right hand. The two men start to run at each other. Star-Lord throws the first punch, but Jaro deflects it. Jaro then punches back, hitting Star-Lord in the chest. Rocket rolls his eyes in the background, losing all faith in his friend. Jaro throws another punch, but this time Star-Lord dodges it. Jaro continues to throw punches until Star-Lord shoves him back using both of his hands. Jaro slams into one of the lab tables, he then gets up, unharmed.
"Oh I see, I'm going too easy on you aren't I?" he asked in a sarcastic way, Star-Lord continues to hold his fists up to prepare for his attack.
"Well, let me change that." said Jaro as he started to punch harder and faster. Star-Lord did his best to try and deflect most of the punches, but mostly couldn't. Jaro punches him in the shoulder, making him move backwards, he then tries to punch him in the gut, but fails after Star-Lord grabs a hold of his arm and throws him across another lab table. Jaro is now on the floor with the broken glass caused by his fall.
"So much for goin' easy now huh?" said Star-Lord with an up minded attitude. Jaro was still on the ground as Star-Lord comes towards him.
"Really? Huh, cause I was thinkin' the same THING!" he yelled as he stabs Star-Lord with a piece of the broken glass.
"OW!" yelled Star-Lord in pain, he had been stabbed in the upper shoulder area. Rocket's eyes widened after witnessing that, Star-Lord realizes this and looks over to him.
"It's alright Rocket, I'm gonna be fi-" he tries to say before Jaro jumps on him, causing the two to fall. Rocket yells through his gag.
"MHMPHM! MMRPHM!" he yelled, trying to incourage Star-Lord, he then tried to wiggle himself out of the tape, but it was no use. He was taped up and taped up good. We then head back over to Star-Lord and Jaro, who are still wrestling each other on the floor. Jaro manages to get the upper hand and starts repeatedly punching Star-Lord in his shoulders after he used them to block his face. Star-Lord then gets the chance to punch Jaro in the nose, causing him to stop punching, he then is able to throw Jaro off of him. Jaro slides across the floor, having a bloody nose from Star-Lord's punch. Star-Lord then walks over to him.
"It's over Gannon, face it!" he said, trying to prove he was victorious, but Jaro wasn't finished yet. He still had the energy to last longer.
"Oh I don't think so starboy." he said as he activated the Infinity Gauntlet. Star-Lord's smile melted after seeing this. The Infinity Gauntlet was one of the most powerful items in the entire galaxy, who knows what kind of power it possesses. As the gauntlet light up, Jaro begin shooting high tech lasers at Star-Lord. Star-Lord manages to dodge most of the lasers. The two then begin to head upstairs. As the two men continue to fight, Gamora begins to wake up after falling to the ground. She grunts as she tries to sit up, watching the two. Gamora then becomes terrified, Jaro was shooting multiple lasers at Star-Lord and she was horrified to Star-Lord almost getting shot by them.
"PETER, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" she screamed, Star-Lord notices this and looks at her as he fights off Jaro.
"It's alright Gamora! I've got everything under control!" he shouts as he constantly deflects Jaro's lasers. Gamora continues to watch the men fight as they go higher and higher into stairs. Star-Lord then gets to the end of a broken stair well and jumps back onto the ground, he lands perfectly. Jaro is now more furious than he's ever been before.
"You stupid coward! COME BACK AND FIGHT ME!" he yelled with rage, Jaro then activates his rocket powered shoes and begins to fly over to Star-Lord. Star-Lord, who is still on the ground, remembers that he still has his electrified shocker gun on which he used on Gamora when they first met. Star-Lord pulls out the weapon, and fires it at Jaro. Jaro then falls to the ground, getting speedily electrocuted. Star-Lord turns his head at the others and smiles, but then frowns when seeing that Jaro is still awake from the shock.
"You think this is over? Oh no...this is only the beginning." he said as he started to get back on his feet. Star-Lord was starting to get worried, he had no other weapons on him and none of them had tooken Jaro down.
"Alas! NO ONE CAN DEFEAT THE POWERFUL ONE AND ONLY ME!" he yelled, Star-Lord scarcely looked at him.
"OR IF MY NAME ISN'T, JARO MARCUS LEE GA-" he went on. Just then, a gigantic piece of medal from the air vents caused by Jaro's lasers falls right on top of him. Jaro screams and then falls to the ground, not moving. Star-Lord's frown then turns back into a smile. He had just taken out a powerful enemy and had just freed his friends. Star-Lord then walks over to Gamora to help her up.
"Hey, are you alright?" he asked her.
"Yeah, I'm fine, what about you?" she then asked him, Star-Lord shrugged his shoulders. This causes Gamora to instantly see the wound where he had been stabbed.
"Oh my god! Peter you're bleeding!" she shouted with fear, Star-Lord looked at his shoulder, glancing over the wound.
"Aw it's alright, I've had worse." he said in a sarcastic way, Gamora stops shouting and then hugs him.
"Look, Peter, I-I'm sorry about, you know J-" she went on.
"For what him? It's okay, I knew you two were getting along way too well in the first place." he said, not mad at all, this causes Gamora to show a small smile to him. The two hug again, but are interrupted by the sound of Rocket's muffled cries.
"MMPHFM! MRRMMGM!" he yelled, Star-Lord completely forgot. He defeated Jaro but forgot to free his friends.
"Whoops! Sorry buddy, hang on let me get you outta there." he said, he then rips the tape off of Rocket's mouth.
"OWWWWW!" he cried in pain, Star-Lord smirks a little bit, and so does Gamora.
"Ouch! Sorry about that Rock." said Star-Lord, apologizing.
"Jesus Quill, why don't you just rip my ears off while you're at it?" he complained, Star-Lord smirks again, and then unties him. Gamora also helps out by smashing a whole in the tube Groot was stuck in. Star-Lord also frees Drax by unlocking his cage.
"Well, that is one couch I'll never sleep on." he joked, this causes the others to laugh, except for Rocket, who was rubbing on his arms and body after being tied up for so long.
"I am Groot (Agreed)" said Groot. As the guardians felt joyful, Star-Lord walks over to Jaro's corpse and picks up the Inifinity Gauntlet off of him.
"Now to put this, where it belongs." he said as he was holding the glove. As the guardians were standing in the room, a scratchy radio type of noise is heard.
"What is that?" asked Gamora, the five started looking around the room, wondering where the noise is located.
"I am Groot (Over there)" said Groot as he was pointing his finger towards an old tv. The guardians walk over to the tv as it starts to light up.
"Greetings guardians" it said, it was Jaro, who must've made a recording of himself before he perished.
"You didn't think I'd have a backup plan did you? Well, you're worlds are about to be light up, on fire!" he said, the tv then turns black again. The message leaves the group confused. What did he mean by "light up on fire"?. The guardians tried to figure out the message until Gamora noticed that numbers popped up on the television, and they started to tick.
"Guys, IT'S A BOMB!" she yelled, the others then realized this.
"Come on let's get out of here!" yelled Star-Lord, the guardians then ran out of the Control Center, hoping to make it out alive.
Our heroes are now running for their lives as they try to escape the bomb that Jaro had set off. They're able to reach the exit and escape the laboratory. The building explodes sparks flames as the heroes duck in cover to avoid getting hit by the sparks. The explosion is now finished and the guys get back on their feet.
"Well, that could've gone better!" said Star-Lord with his previous line, the five then laugh in relief and they head back to the ship to leave the planet Zarq.