The Milano landed in the Xandarian Spaceport, the Future version of Groot told them the plan.

"In the future...Xandar is a Republic ally and is of equal importance to Alderaan which is also known as the symbol of hope in the Republic, so by taking down NOVA core and NOVA prime here and now Xandar will be in ruins and will fall easily to the hands of the Empire. Undoubtedly, due to his failure to eliminate you Guardians of this time period...he's going after the next best thing, Xandar did play a big part in helping the Republic gain control of Spartax"

"I remember...half of the troops there were actually NOVA core personnel, the other half was Republic forces and Jedi" Jacob recalled

"And not to mention...Xandar was important in re-gaining Tython from the Empire's invasion" Scorpius commented

"Tython?" Questioned the Guardians of the past

"The ancient Jedi home-world...long story" Jacob said

"Anyways..."Interrupted the future Groot as he continued " There will be no doubt that Malgus will have already made his first move by sending Imperial agents undercover as NOVA core personnel, most likely as NOVA prime's bodyguards so I'm sending Jacob in to root them out...I'd send Scorpius but the imperials would recognize him in an instant because of his red skin but he will be on standby just in case things don't work out"

Once done, Quill, Jacob, Rocket and Gamora went outside the ship and walked normally to the NOVA core HQ, Jacob put his hood on just in case...the Imperials knew his face well, how could they forget? They reached the entrance and Corpsmen Dey looked at them and smiled,

"Ah! Guardians! Welcome, what brings you to Xandar this time?"

"we came here to see NOVA prime" Jacob spoke up

Dey frowned "and who's this?"

"His name's Jacob...our newest member" Quill explained

Dey smiled again "Oh! ok sorry about the suspicion, there's rumor that NOVA core's been breached by spies. But it's just a rumor"

"That's the thing, it's not" Rocket said

"That's what we've come here to tell NOVA prime" Gamora explained

"I'll let you in shortly" Dey said with a grave look "Any idea who ?" Dey asked

"No...but Jacob'll find out, he can root them out" Quill told

Dey simply nodded and opened the door letting the Guardians in, inside NOVA Prime's office were five heavily armed guards in which one or several could be Imperial agents. Dey closed the door and NOVA prime turned to face the Guardians, while Jacob eyed all of the guards and used the force to sense if anything was amiss while the Guardians explained the whole dilemma to NOVA prime with backed up evidence.

"So one or more agents could be working for Malgus?"

"We think so..we also came to believe that one ore more of your five guards could be the agents" Quill whispered

"This is grave indeed"

Jacob then finally sensed something and eyed the second guard who flashed looked to the fourth and fifth, who were slowly withdrawing their guns. Jacob slowly made his hand grip his saber's hilt and waited. Sensing tension in the room, Quill turned to face Jacob, he saw that his son's hand was on the hilt of his saber so he decided to break the tension

"Jacob what's wrong?" Quill asked, alerting NOVA prime and the other Guardians. Jacob ignited his lightsaber and the Imperial's fired at the other two guards killing them and then firing at Jacob, he blocked the shots and deflected one of them making the bolt hit the imperial agent on the right, killing him. Quill fired a blast of air and that shoved the Imperial towards the wall and knocking him out while Gamora and Rocket finished off the remaining agent.

NOVA prime nervously looked up from her desk

"I...Is it over?"

"Appears so" Jacob said as he sheathed his Saber. Then NOVA corpsmen burst through the door led by Titus and Dey.
"What happened here?!" Titus demanded as he stared at the Guardians

"At ease Titus three of those men were spies" assured NOVA Prime

"So the rumors are true" Titus muttered.

"Hey what's that?" Dey asked he pointed to a flashing thing mounted on the Imperial's wrist

Jacob withdrew his saber as he sensed danger "We're about to have company"

The east wall of NOVA prime's office burst open and out came three figures all trained in the Dark side, a Sith Marauder, and a Juggernaut. In the middle of the pack was a hooded figure that was familiar, he threw back his hood and Jacob recognized who it was...

It was Lord Shiozi also known as Ben Quill...his brother