Chapter 3- Internal Fighting

Valkyrie groaned as she woke up with a pounding headache. She looked down to see metal grating. She was lying on the floor of a ship. Valkyrie groaned again as a flood of memories rushed back, reminding her of her current situation. She was still in her prison guard uniform which was now wrinkled. She pushed some stray hairs back behind her ears.

She sat up, leaning against the wall of the ship, watching the group that had kidnapped her with interest. Gamora was leaning on the wall, not too far away, watching her intently. Drax was sitting down, fiddling with his weapons. Rocket was right in front of her tinkering with parts of the ship and humming while doing so.

Quill entered at that exact moment, "Whao, whao, whao! Yo, Ranger Rick! What are you doing?" Quill marches over to Rocket, "You can't take apart my ship without asking me." Quill leaned down, intent on picking up the object by Rocket. "What is this?"

"Don't touch that." Rocket scolded, "It's a bomb."

Valkyrie's eyes widened in panic, but she didn't move. She didn't want to draw attention to herself just yet.

Apparently Quill was thinking the exact as she was, "A bomb!"

"Yup." Rocket said, not a single care in his world.

"And you leave it lying around?"

"I was going to put it in a box." Rocket said, pulling out a box from the wall of the ship that had multiple knick knacks inside.

"What's a box going to do?!"

"How about this one?" Rocket said, picking up a strange box with very strange coverings.

Quill stepped closer, apparently not liking that idea, "No! Whao. Hey!" He walks over and kicks the box back into the wall, Rocket dropped the box back into the bigger one before Quill kicked the box, "Leave it alone."

"Why? What is it?" Rocket asked.

"Shut up!" Quill said angrily.

"Hey!" Rocket said, scoffing.

"What is that," Quill asks, pointing to the other thing Rocket was making, successfully moving the conversation away from the box.

Rocket looked up at Quill, "That's for if things really get hard core." Quill started walking away, "Or if you wanna blow up moons."

"No one's blowing up moons." Gamora put in.

"You just wanna suck the joy out of everything." Rocket muttered.

At that, Valkyrie snorted, making everyone turn and look at her. 'Damnit.' She thought.

"Ah, the prisoner's awake." Rocket said.

"I've been awake for the past couple minutes." Valkyrie snapped, still sitting against the wall.

Gamora pushed herself up from leaning against the wall and walked over to the tale in the center of the room. A screen was being held from the ceiling.

"What are we going to do with her?" Quill asked Gamora, jerking his thumb over his shoulder at Valkyrie.

Gamora rolled her eyes, "I told you, we can get good money off of her."

"We're going to sell her?" Quill said in a tone, as if not believing her.

Groot choose this moment to join the conversation, "I am Groot."

"We can ransom her back to the Nova Corps. I'm sure they won't want to lose... one of their Commanders." The way Gamora paused before Commander sent shivers down her spine. Gamora knew who she was. It was a good thing that no one else seemed to make the connection yet.

"Ok, now that that's settled, Gamora, I'm going to need you're buyer's coordinates." Quill said, moving to stand in front of the hanging screen.

Gamora goes over to the table and picks up a round circular object. Valkyrie suspected it was that orb they were talking about back on the Kyln, "We're heading in the right direction. For now." Gamora taused the orb up a bit and caught it.

Quill stepped closer to Gamora, "If we're going to work together, you might try trusting me a little bit."

Gamora shifted her eyes slightly to glance at Valkyrie and then back at Quill, "And how much do you trust me?"

Quill took the orb from Gamora and said, "I'd trust you a lot more if you told me what this was. Because I'm guessing it's some kind of weapon." Quill put the orb back onto the table.

"I don't know what it is." Gamora said, leaning against the table. Drax and Rocket gradually came to the table as well.

Valkyrie stood up, but stayed where she was, watching the interaction and gaining information she could use to her advantage. For one, the group was pretty stupid for leaving her in the room while they made plans.

Drax picked the orb up, "If it's a weapon, we should use it against Ronan."

"Put it down, you fool. You'll destroy us all!" Gamora spat.

Drax leaned closer to the table, and towards Gamora, "Or just you, murderess!"

Gamora quickly covered the space between her and Drax, "I let you live once, princess!"

"I am not a princess!" Drax growled at Gamora.

'Internal fighting.' Valkyrie thought with a small smirk. 'Perfect.'

"Hey!" Quill yelled, "Nobody is killing anybody on my ship!" Drax looked down at the orb then back up at Quill, "We're stuck together until we get the money."

Drax throws the orb back at Quill and he catches it, "I have no interest in money."

"Great." Quill says as Drax storms off, "That means more money for the three of us."

Groot coughed. "Hmmm?" He held up his hands in a 'what about me?' position.

Quill sighs, "For the four of us. Partners."

"We have an agreement." Gamora said, "But I would never be partners with the likes of you." Quill rolled his eyes, "I'll tell the buyer we're on our way. And Quill, your ship is filthy." Gamora turned and headed back into, what must be, the cockpit area of the ship.

Quill turns to Rocket, "Oh, she has no idea. If I had a black light, the place would look like a Jackson Pollock painting."

Rocket shook his head, "You got issues, Quill."

Finally, Valkyrie thought things had quieted down enough that she could speak, "What do you want with me?"

"You?" Quill asked, turning to look at Valkyrie. "You weren't part of the plan."

Valkyrie rolled her eyes, "I figured that. Are you going to ransom me back to my people?"

"In a bit, after we sell the orb." Quill said, turning around to look at his screen.

Valkyrie crossed her arms and glared at Quill, whom she was starting to hate with a burning passion, "Why after?"

Quill looked over his shoulder, "I'm not stupid. I know you heard our conversation. I can't risk your people coming after us before we get our money."

'Well shit.' Valkyrie thought as Quill went back to staring at the screen. 'I'm screwed.'

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