Lockjaw teleported the Guardians and Red Hood on board the ship

"thanks puppy" said Quill

Lockjaw teleported away and the Guardians moved in. Meanwhile the Joker was in Ronin's chamber up to his old tricks again, the Joker woke Ronin up and informed him that the Guardians broke in.

"WHAT?! ATTALAN IS NOT DESTROYED?! AND THE GUARDIANS ARE ON MY SHIP?!" raged Ronin he jumped out of bed and mustered his men "I WANT THE GUARDIANS DEAD! AND BRING THE HEAD OF THE RED HOOD TO ME!" ordered Ronin as his men charged and the Joker melted away in the Darkness,

"so what's the plan Quill?"Gamora asked

"we storm the bridge and take the Joker and capture Ronin"

"NO! we kill the Joker" corrected Jason

"Kill?!" questioned Gamora

"he's taken enough from me I'll end him, don't stop me" said Jason as he loaded his pistols and opened the door where there were hundreds of Ronin's men were and charged, Red hood reluctantly gave into his blood lust and started to kill his men.

Starlord assisted by blasting the men with ice and Rocket blasted the men with rockets and plasma bullets,

"JOKER! COME OUT!" yelled Jason as he shot a guy in the head

"JASON! YOU CANT KEEP KILLING THESE MEN JUST TO GET TO THE JOKER, THIS IS'NT RIGHT!" said Gamora

Red Hood Ignored her and put a bullet through another soldiers head and another and another and another, on and on and on.

"Rocket you're his friend stop him!" said Gamora

"no way gammy...the Joker took away everything from him he deserves revenge"

"revenge is something that corrupts heros and turns them into villians, I gave up my thirst for revenge for Thanos a long time ago when I found out what that revenge did to me, It drove me to become one of Ronin's agents and I killed a lot of innocent people, Rocket...Red Hood's your friend and Revenge will change him and he will kill you if you get in his way" said Gamora as she sliced a nearby soldier in half

"that's why I wont get in his way" said Rocket as he shot a nearby soldier, Red Hood kept killing soldiers left and right shouting "come out Joker!".

Meanwhile Gamora was busy with her own problems dealing with Ronin's soldiers when her 'sister' nebula, "today you die sister!"

"oh I doubt it" Gamora charged at Nubula and the two crossed swords, Gamora punched Nebula on the face hard and she responded with a kick to the chest and charged again, Gamora intercepted the blade and hit Nebula with the hilt of the blade, "give it up sister"

"NEVER!" she screamed as she charged again, but this time Drax intercepted and pierced nebula with his twin knives but nebula kicked Drax away, Quill used an ice attack and froze Nebula in place she took out the knife and attempted to free her self but Rocket blasted the knife away with a plasma shotgun burst "don't think so" said Rocket.

Nebula managed to break out of the ice trap and grabbed Rocket by the throat and almost chocked the life out of him, then several shots rang out and Nebula released Rocket and he fell to the ground gasping for air as he saw Nebula with several bullet holes in her waist and she fell on her knees and fell to the ground Rocket smirked "thanks"

"you're welcome" said Red Hood and charged into the next room "come out come out wherever you are clown. Then Red hood was hit in the side with a hammer and moved back it was the Joker with Ronin's universal weapon?!,

"now you die Red face" the Joker unleashed another blast that knocked him back through a glass barrier, the shards penetrated the suit as it's weak point was exposed by the blast Jason groaned as he grabbed his side and felt blood, the Joker blasted the ceiling of a structure Jason was under and it fell on him buried alive though he was knocked out, the Joker took him out of the rubble and used the hammer and smashed Jason's face with it and his mask cracked open and blood was visible on his face as he coughed some blood out "no...so close..."

"revenge is'nt coming your way Red face" said the Joker sternly

'strange he is'nt laughing' Jason thought, Joker grabbed Jason by the neck and marched right to the room where the fight was and laughed loudly which caught the Guardians attention especially Rockets who's face fell "oh no..."

"So much for your new member" laughed Joker as he threw him to the ground and stepped on his back, Rocket's anger skyrocketed "let my friend GO!" Rocket unleashed a series of plasma blasts which the Joker avoided and grabbed Quill and held him hostage with a knife to his throat "give up and he lives"

Red Hood regained consciousness and withdrew his pistol "easy there. you look beat up" said Rocket

"what are you doing?" Drax asked as he was now suspicious of Jason "relax" he said

Jason aimed the pistol at Quill, however his helmet revealed a gap in his jacket and his shoulder and shot "no! are you insane!" Drax asked as he knocked his gun out of his hand

"what was that for?!" Rocket demanded however the bullet was aimed true and hit the Joker on the shoulder and Quill kicked himself free of the Jokers grasp, Jason charged and withdrew his rifle and cocked it and kicked the Joker on the face and punched his stomach and elbowed his face and made him fall to his knees where Jason pointed the barrel to the Jokers face, "good bye Joker" said Red Hood as he pulled the trigger

"Joker?! I am RO.." he did not get to finish his statement as the bullet went through his skull and came out the other end, the Joker fell dead on the ground

"it's over" said Jason as he fell on his knees and Rocket rushed over to Jason "oh god, it's bad, Jason you're wounded pretty bad"

"it's ok"

"NO IT'S NOT! it bad at this rate you'll bleed out even with the suits help", Jason stood up and was helped by Drax and Quill when suddenly mad laughter errupted "BRAVO! RED FACE BRAVO! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! BIG MAN NEVER SAW IT COMING!"

"impossible" said Jason, but it was true the man standing in front of him, the man that had just came out of the shadows was the Joker and he was not dead "if your not dead then who's that" said Gamora as she pointed to the other Joker's dead body, the Joker laughed and set the corpse upright and tore something off his face,a mask, only to reveal that It was Ronin the accuser who was now dead and not the Joker.

"well..at least there's one less bad guy the universe has to worry about" said Quill, the Joker charged and Red Hood countered with two shots with his pistol, the Joker avoided the first but the second hit his arm and the Joker scrowled and took his own gun, this time Rocket accompanied Jason and blasted the joker with plasma bursts which caught the Joker off guard and sent him flying to the wall "you've gotten weaker clown"

But the Joker knew other wise he still had his back up plan so he was going to allow Red Hood to capture him. Red Hood pointed his gun at the Jokers forehead "wait! I know where the cosmic seed is! you kill me and you wont know where it is! Jason!"

"don't care" said Jason as he cocked his pistol

"Jase! wait!" said Rocket, Drax over reacted and threw his axe at Jason's gun ,again, the gun flew out of Jason's hand and the Joker took advantage of this and tried to shock Jason with his joy buzzer but he saw it coming and punched it out of his hand, Rocket came closer to Jason "shall we?"

"I thought you'd never ask!", the two friends raised their fists and knocked the Joker out cold. but due to his injuries Red Hood fell to his knees and passed out

"Jason!" Rocket checked his pulse, he was alive just out cold. Drax and Gamora helped Jason up, Quill took the Joker hostage and went to the ship. as the Guardians went on board the Milano, Nebula appeared out of no where,still injured, and was about to attack Gamora from the back when an electric arrow hit her and shorted her out. Gamora and the Guardians turned around and found Nebula with an arrow on her back and a hooded archer at the back of her "Who are you? and how'd you get here?" Rocket asked

"names Arsenal and I have no idea how I got here"

"Arsenal? you mean the guy who helped us make more of that anti-Joker gas thing?", Arsenal flipped his hood back "yup the one and only" Arsenal spotted Jason

"oh no... " he rushed to the med bay with Gamora and Drax to treat later Jason woke up and found Arsenal spinning his arrows "r...roy?"

"hey Jase"

"how'd you get here"

"I dont quite know, I was chasing merlin through the streets of Gotham when I suddenly wound up here".

Jason stood up "always a pleasure to have backup" said Red hood. Meanwhile down in the holding cells Rocket passed by Jokers cell "wait...I have something for you"

"what do you want!"

"I know how this next mission ends..." said the Joker as he held out a comic about the Guardians on half-world

"continue.." the Joker took out a storage vile and said "you will be reunited with your family but then they turn back into Raccoons "

"turned back?" Rocket asked as he was shocked, if anything happened to his brother...

"oops spoilers...but hey, what's in this vile can save your family...you can be with them again and the Joker as he handed the vile to Rocket "think about it..It's all you've ever wanted" Rocket sighed in defeat and in sadness and excepted it

"if this is a trap I SWEAR!"

'oh no traps dont worry oh and dont tell Red face or your friends"

"why?" said Rocket in suspicion "what in this?"

"that's a secret" the Joker laughed and Rocket put the vile in his pocket and went on the bridge "so Quill where to next?"

"half-world", the Guardians strapped themselves in along with Arsenal and Red Hood "everything ok rocket?" Jason asked, Rocket felt the vile and said "yeah jase everything is fine".Quill activated the hyperdrive and the Milano slipped into hyperspace for a mission into Half-world...