Ravenger's Inferno

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Summary: When Peter Quill first met Stakar Ogord he never thought his life would change again. What does he mean the 101th Ravenger Clan? What happened at Terra? Ravagers AU Space Pirates AU

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Chapter One: The First Meeting

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Peter Quill stood silently at the cold space, even after all the fireworks have stopped. Everything that just happened has now coming up to him in full force. Yondu is dead. And he just realized that he been the father he been looking for. And now he is gone forever. Why did Yondu had to die for him to figure this out? He leaned his forehead on the glass, feeling the cool from space. He never thought he would be the one to replace Yondu.

"Capt'n," Peter looked up and saw Kraglin standing at the doorway. Peter could tell that the man been crying. Peter doesn't blame him. He too been upset since Yondu took his last breath. "There's... there is a call for you. Its from Stakar. He said about docking in one of the mother ships for repairs and talk to us mostly to you about something."

"Stakar?" Peter asked. He heard about the Ravenger. Something about how he was the one that brought Yondu into this Ravenger's life. He had also heard rumors. Something about how the guy banished Yondu or something. How Yondu was once a slave, sold from his own parents for money because they already had too many mouths to feed. Who would want a runt anyway? "Is that all?" Peter asked. Kraglin nodded. "Tell him that we will be accept his invitation."

The Eclector has been damaged severely as only the core part of it is left when Yondu, Kraglin, Rocket and Groot escaped. It would be good to have somewhere to repair the old ship, to get supplies and such. Plus he would be able to talk to Stakar for answers. He can demand some to Kraglin as he been around since the beginning as he was there when Yondu picked him up when he was 8. Of course the Xandarian was barely out of his teens when they first met and as it right now Peter will wait as it far too soon after Yondu's funeral. Peter watched as Kraglin left.

Peter sighed. Guess its back to work as he went to find the others to let them now whats going on.

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Kraglin with the help of Peter, drove the Elector core towards one of the Mother ships that Stakar told them to dock in. It was a very large vessel then most Mother ships that he seen. Its was a model he never seen before as well as he can tell that the vessel was be able to connect with other ships to make it bigger; almost as if its a small city or a space port. He can tell that other smaller Ravenger's mother ships was already connected to it sides as he was able to identify Stakar's ship along with others that he heard about. Because the Elector was only a core it is unable to connect itself like the others so the only option was to fly into the docking bay. Kraglin spoke to the speaker when they got hailed as the First Mate asked for permission to land and it was later accepted as they carefully entered the ship as it opened it doors.

At first glance the docking bay looked like any other that Peter been in. As they landed everyone glanced at each other with uncertainty. Silently everyone unbuckled themselves after the space doors shut and the green light above them singled them that the air outside the ship was breathable. One by one they left the Eclector.

Peter was in the front of the group. On his right was Kraglin. Peter was the most worried about Kraglin as besides him he closed to Yondu. The man was much more quieter then usual. Peter expected there was more then just friendship between them as there was talk upon the crew. But the two of them never showed anything in public no more then bromance. Or perhaps is was one-sided? Peter never knew and as of right now he is afraid to ask.

On his left was Gamora; she gave him a look to tell him that be on his guard. Of what was going on for the pass few days had told him just as much. Of course Stakar Ogord is a legendary Ravenger. One of the first as well, rumored as the founder of the Ravengers along with his own infamous group; Martinex, Charlie-27, Krugarr, Mainframe and lastly Yondu Udonta. The likely hood of being killed is minimal but he will watch himself and his team. Behind them was of course was Rocket and Drax as closely trailing behind was Mantis. Mantis have a soft spot for Drax as she been following him ever since Ego's death. Of course Groot was riding on Rocket's shoulder.

"What is is meeting about?" demanded Rocket, as he made sure his gun on his back was un-belted so he can easily whip it out if needed. "Who does the guy think he is to demand us for a meeting? Telling us what to do?"

"You will respect Starkar Ogord if you value your life." Kraglin told quietly, half glancing at the new captain to make sure he didn't step out of bounds of saying anything. Peter may be the leader and Captain now (Peter always saw him to become a new captain never replace captain of Yondu's crew). But even he is at a lost. The only Ravengers he ever met was that of Yondu's clan. Sure he saw a few others in bars through out the galaxies through out the years but they always left him alone.

Rocket scoffed.

"I have heard great things about this man. He is a great warrior." Drax said. Rocket doesn't believe him. He looked at Kraglin. "Is it true that he killed a whole army with just one shot from his ship?" Kraglin shrugged not looking at the Drax in the eye. He was barely an adult and newly a Ravenger when Yondu and the rest of the crew was exiled because of trafficking Peter's siblings.

"I am groot." chirped Groot.

"You never even met the guy!" Rocket told Groot. He looked at the rest of everyone. He sighed. "How do we know for a fact that we aren't just walking into a trap? Again?"

"If it is a trap." Gamora shrugged, relieving one of her swords that she kept on herself for safe keeping. "We will deal with it like always."

"Its not a trap, Cap'n." Kraglin assured Peter as they approached the exit from the hanger into the main part of the ship. "We will be welcomed back into folds of the Ravengers, with honor." this confused Peter even more. They were walking across the empty docking bay. It was fairly empty giving them lots of space to expand the Eclector to her former glory as she was before she took a lot of damage. On one end of the docking bay was spare parts that Rocket himself was itching to look through when he saw it as they walked pass.

"We are welcomed back with honor because I killed my father?" that doesn't make any sense.

It was at the same moment that the metal doors of the hanger opened reliving a...Xandarian? The man was of avenge height, short dark hair that is now slightly balding, who stood strong with his hands behind his back. Peter, with habit that Yondu taught him since childhood to look for every tiny detail of people he's meeting and his surroundings, Peter could see that the man was a follow Ravenger. He wore black shirt and pants but an avenge looking Ravagers' red coat over it. Peter saw the Ravagers emblem on the man's chest and arms but one added black shield shaped at the middle on one distinguish which Clan the man was from. But what made Peter stop at his tracks was another tiny emblem that was located on the man's right arm at the shoulder and at the opposite side of the man's jacket at the collar. It looked like some form a nation flag; with a blue background, seven white formed rings that makes some form of a flower at the middle. (1 [pic below]) Peter doesn't recognize it from anywhere of any Galactic Empire as he tried to list of what it may mean. Knowing all of your flags and symbols is a good skill to have to know who is the friend or foe in space, what ship is from where and so on.

International Flag of the Planet Earth

"On the contrary Star-Lord, Yondu was welcomed back with honor because Yondu saved your life and bind back the oath that he broke." the Xandarian said thoughtfully. "Its just an added bonus of saving the galaxy again."

It was then the group was in front of the Xandarian. The man was a shorter up close compare to Drax's bulk. "Who are you?"

"Forgive me not introducing myself. My name is Coulson, Phil Coulson." Peter just stared at this guy. The name doesn't sound Xandarian to him. "I am here to escort you all to the Meeting Room. If you would follow me, please. The others are waiting for us." It was then Phil Coulson turned and walked away expecting the group to follow him. The Guardians of the Galaxy looked at each other but shrugged and followed. Drax was talking to Rocket about how the man was short.

Peter has so many questions to ask. But he doesn't know which ones to ask first. Peter ran up to walk next to Coulson. "So ah, what this thing we going about?" He asked, loud enough for the whole group to hear.

Coulson shrugged. "I don't know. I got told by my captain to meet you and escort you all there. We will find out soon enough i think."

"So what do you do around here?" Peter looked again at the emblem on the man's Ravenger uniform for any clues. Engineer? Cook? Fighter?

"I am the First Mate to Captain Fury." Coulson said. Peter was confused. He never heard of a Ravenger Captain called Fury before. Of course there are lots of weird Ravager names with the word "fury" in them. Peter glanced at Kraglin and even he was a bit confused but as always he kept his mouth shut.

"Never heard of him."

"My clan is fairly new." Coulson shrugged, trying not to reveal anything too soon. All of questions will be answered soon, he hoped. They walked few halls here and there passing many other Xandarians, which was odd as there are plenty of Xandarians as Ravengers as there are thousands upon thousands of them through out the galaxies but they are not the type of alien species to be one. Peter and everyone else looked around the ship that they were in as the conversation came to an end. It was fairly cleaner then most other Ravenger ships that they been in however like always it was dark. Peter would have swore he saw one of the Xandarians reading something that screamed Earth at him something about Captain America. But he banish the thought of his home world.

"Here we are." Coulson said. They came to another metal doors with a lock keypad at the side. They watch as Coulson placed his right hand on the screen and the door unlocked itself with a hiss. He waved his hands into the room for the group to walk in first as it was courtesy.

Another thing that is weird. This Xandarian is being far to nice. This smells like a trap. Most Ravengers aren't the kindest of people unlike a few that he knew. Everyone looked at Peter as he was their captain. Peter straighten his back, took a breath and walked in expecting to be shot at but nothing did.

With his eyes adjusting to the light, as the room was much more brighter then the halls he saw that the meeting room was just a large room with a long table with chairs. Already sited in a chair was Stakar Ogord who sat at the right side of a dark skinned Xandarian that sat the head of the table. Starkar Clan wore navy blue Ravenger uniforms with an added Ravagers emblem of the star-hawk crown in the middle. Sat next to him from the right sat one of members of his clan, Martinex his First Mate. The man was a Pluvian, a crystalline humanoid species. Peter never seen one up close before. Next to him sat Aleta Ogord, the wife of Starkar and also an Arcturan. She was her own captain of a Ravager Clan with the colors of all black. Next to her was her own First Mate, that is an Easik, a race that are grey skinned reptilian alien species. Peter doesn't know the guy's name.

Peter's eyes went back to the dark skinned Xandarian that was watching at them all with his hands folded up to his chin. The man had the darkest skin he ever seen a Xandarian before. Of course there are dark skinned Xandarians but there was few and far between and in most cases they were mix breed somewhere within their family tree. The man was bald, with a black eye-patch covering up his left eye. Guessing by the faint scars around the eye-patch hinted of an old injury other then another Ravagers trying to look more cool wearing an eye patch. Like Coulson, the man wore all dark clothes with a red coat with the same emblems including the weird white ringed one. Peter would bet on it that this man was Fury. Just by one look at him screamed bad-ass captain that would not flinch of pulling the trigger on you.

Besides him on the lift sat two women. It isn't unheard of of female Ravengers (much like how Aleta Ogord is her own captain), but the majorly of them are male as 1 out of 5 would be female (or whatever close to male in some alien species). Both are also Xandarian by the looks of them. One was what Peter would call Chinese if he was back on Earth, with long straight black hair and dark eyes. Her face was blank looking at them, nodding at Coulson as one by one of his team came into the room. The door shut again with a thump when Coulson entered the room. The other woman looked little younger then the first, unlike her companion sitting next to her, had her hair up in ponytail like braid wrap behind her head.

And lastly sat a short, thin Xandarian with red curly hair. An oddly in space as natural red hair is a rare. But the looks of him besides his Fury Clan uniform (Peter glanced at the same flag logo on the man's collar, he seriously need to ask to know what the hell it means) the man may be some form of an engineer. The man was looking down at the table, with confusion on his face as he was looking on his pad that had on the table with blueprints of a ship which strength Peter's first thought as the man being an engineer.

Fury stood up from his chair, putting his hands on the table. A form to let others know he is not pulling out a gun to shoot, Peter thinks. "I welcome you, Guardians of the Galaxy to my ship the Odyssey (2)." he said. He looked at everyone in the room. "I think introduce everyone is in order, seeing everyone is finally here. I am Nick Fury." Peter again was reminded of how again the names doesn't sound Xandarian . "you know Captain Stakar Ogord, his First Mate Martinex, Captain Aleta Ogord and her First Mate." he was pointing at everyone down the table. "of course you met, Phil Coulson. This is Maria Hill, Melinda May and Leo Fitz."

Peter nodded. "I'm Peter Quill," he put his hands on his chest. Turn to point at everyone behind him who looked just as confused as him. "Gamora, Kraglin, Drax, Rocket, Groot and Mantix."

Fury nodded his head. They all knew who was who but didn't say anything. He was curious about this group. They made a name of themselves. He is reminded of how little the group was left from Yondu's crew as Peter and Kraglin is the only ones left. It is always a shame of how regiments can be wipe off the face of the earth when betrayal or mutiny strikes. He is reminded of how Hydra did the same with S.H.I.E.L.D years ago. Even Coulson knew what it felt like of such betrayal when Ward and John Garrett turned out to be Hydra. It was one of the reasons why Fury doesn't get too close to people much but made a few true allies that he can count on mainly Phil Coulson and Melinda May.

"Have a sit." Coulson said to them. The group only did so only when Peter took the sit at the other end of the table facing Fury. Of course Coulson took the sit between the Xandarian called Fitz and Rocket (Groot still sitting on top of Rocket's shoulder). Of course Kraglin and Gamora sat either side of Peter. It was custom that Kraglin is still First Mate as it doesn't matter if the Captain was killed or replaced by dual. Unless Peter demotes him or kills him himself. But Peter won't. Kraglin is too good for the job plus... he is the only person left after Yondu's death. Peter still hasn't figured out where the man is to him by family means. Uncle is maybe the closest title. Drax and Mantix took the seats nearest to Aleta Ogord and her First Mate.

"You have many questions I take it?" Stakar Ogord asked breaking the silence in the room.

Angrier came out from Peter. It was far too soon after Yondu's death as he is now angry at everyone. Why did it take for Yondu's DEATH for Stakar to come back? What is the history between him and Yondu? Who are these people? Before Peter was about to stand up and yell he was stopped by Fury who spoke with authority in his voice that made Peter feel like a small child again.

"We know you are angry, Peter Quill. It is natural after a love one's death. Speck calmly and all that you need to know will be answered." The man sat back down, as Fury looked at Stakar and they both have nodding agreement between each other.

"We welcome you back from exile." Stakar began his speech. "We will do the honorable ceremony later of course, and a continue the celebration of Yondu's life and your welcoming party. We will answer any questions any of you may have-"

"I have a question!" Rocket said standing up on his chair to be look bigger, interrupting Stakar's speech. His risen voice made everyone look at him. The Fury Clan was looking at him funny however. It unnerve him but it won't allow them judging him.

"I AM GROOT!" Groot said. Rocket shushed him.

"I think its safe to say that this is a trap and that something is up. I, we want to know what that is..." he waved his paw towards his group at the table.

Fury smiled, showing his white teeth. Rocket is a very amusing to him besides being a talking raccoon. "It is not a trap whatsoever. We were just curious of the so called Guardians of the Galaxy as we heard so much about you." he looked at Peter. "and the fact that your leader is a Terran."

Peter gets this all the time when everyone finds out that he isn't Xandarian as he lets people think he is. Kinda hard to denial your species when you bleed red blood instead of blue like Xandarians do when you get hurt. Most of the time people just think hes a half breed with something with Xandarian. So what if he's Terran? It doesn't make him weak or juicy to eat. This confused Rocket. That didn't answer his question. "What does it matter that Peter is Terran?" Drax asked. "He is weird and stupid at times. But he is a great leader."

"Oh thanks," Peter said rolling his eyes at the bluntness of Drax.

"You are very welcome." Drax smiled.

Fury rolled his eyes. "It matter to us because we are from the same planet."

Wait... WHAT? Peter whipped his head back to Fury and back at all the rest of his clan. Did he heard them right? "You are all Terran?" Gamora asked in disbelief. Before meeting Peter, she never met any before. Of course she have heard of them as Thanos specks of them as annoying species that doesn't know when to die. By the looks of it the only person not shock at this information was Stakar.

Fury nodded, pleasant with himself about having everyone look of shock. "Most everyone that you have seen on this ship is from Earth. Coulson, May, Fitz and Hill as from there as well."

Peter re-look at the others. Oh my god. OH MY GOD. He hasn't seen another human for almost 30 years. Of course he shouldn't have figured it out. The names and look of them should have been the first damn clue. "You're...human?" he asked dumbly. He knew that Fury just said that they were. But can this be a trick?

Suddenly Rocket started laughing. He curled up into the table, banging the table with his paw. He couldn't believe this. This was so funny. "That is the funniest joke I ever heard." he said.

Fitz looked at the raccoon besides him. "It-its n-not a joke." he stuttered.

"What is wrong with you?" Rocket asked looking at him. Fitz suddenly got uneasy, not looking at Rocket. Rocket knew he hit a sore spot for the kid but yeah he isn't that gullible. Matix reached across the table to touch him. She suddenly felt so much pain, anger, needing to prove oneself, longing for his love.. His emotions are mix the longer she touched him. This was nothing new, but she will send love, acceptance towards him along with calmness. Fitz looked shocked, gave Matix a smile which made she started grinning with happiness as she let go of him.

"Its a joke?" Drax asked confused. He still hasn't figure out metaphors or jokes what so ever. They are confusing at best and stupid at its worse. Drax looked at Matix, who had touched one of them. She shook her head.

"It is not a joke." May said. Her face still not changing as she look at Rocket. "If it was it would be more funny."

"How?" Peter as far as he knew Earth wasn't that advance for space travel.

"Leaps of technology, alien invasions," Fury shrugged. "World War III... take your pick as of how we got here. But we are, and we will continue to make ourselves known."

"World War III!" Peter yelped. He remembers the stories and what he learned in school of the first two before he was taken; even though they are water down versions because of his age. His grandfather always spoke of happening in his life time.

Coulson nodded sadly. "with the war ended and the last invasion from Chitauri... There isn't much left of us like there used to be. We are vulnerable species now."

"Oh shit." was all that Peter can say to that. It was one thing to find people like him its another to learn that so many have died that... they are vulnerable to become extinct?!

"This is all nice welcoming reunion between you pussy Terrans but we need to get this meeting to end. There is a party happening that i would like to get to." Stakar said suddenly. He doesn't like boring chit-chats. The others besides him nodded in agreement. Fury nodded knowing that they got little side tracked.

"But-" Peter said, not waiting for this to end.

"Coulson, will be your guide during your whole stay with us. He will answer any extra questions you may have along with his team will asset you with your repairs and any other needs." Fury told him. This shut up Peter as the two of them looked at each other. Coulson smiled back.

"As I was saying before I was interrupted," Stakar looked at Rocket as if egging him to do so again. Rocket sneered at him. "Any questions outside of this meeting will be answered as Fury said by Son of Coul. We ourselves would like some answers first. Kraglin, you were there, tell us... why did Yondu tried to traffic children to Ego?"

Kraglin's eyes widen. Oh dear gods the past is coming up to haunt him. "It-It wasn't like that." he said not looking at any of them, specially Peter. "Yondu back then was a newly captain. I was nothing more then an ABS back then. Crew needed money, lots of our missions turned out bad... and Yondu needed a big break before a mutiny happens and well Ego's offer sounded legit at first. All the guy asked was he needed someone to pick up his kid for him. No big deal." the Xanderian sighed in defeat. "it wasn't until after the second one that we delivered to Ego did Yondu started figure out what was going on. We never saw the first one when we dropped off the second one. And by the third time we never heard of the other two after? Yondu called it quits after accepting Ego's last offer to pick up Peter at Terra. By then everyone of have heard of Yondu trafficking kids and there was talk... and you know the rest."

Stakar nodded. He knew the story after that. There is a reason why the code about kids was placed. It would have been a different outcome if Yondu never accepted money from Ego. It was then he exiled Yondu and that of his crew.

"Yondu didn't want another kid killed so we took Peter before Ego got someone else to pick him up." Peter never heard any of this before. All this time, that was the story as of why Yondu took him? "Yondu didn't know what to do with Peter other then keep him. Away from his... from him."

"There was no others? After Peter?" Stakar asked. Kraglin shook his head. Yondu was a hard ass bastard but he wasn't heartless.

"Ego tried once but Yondu refused even after the money doubled and Ego never asked for Peter. Maybe thinking we killed him or something."

Starkar sighed. If only he allowed Yondu to explain all the times he tried through out the years after. But he was angry at his Protégé. The main codes he drilled on that Centaurian's skull was there for a reason and he broke them. He got kids killed for money. "Thank you for the information." he said. Kraglin nodded, knowing that Peter will ask for more information from now. After-all he is the last.

"Star-Lord, do you agree on the Ravenger's Code to take over Yondu's Crew?"

Peter was startled of being addressed. "Of course... but ah what are all the Codes exactly? No deals with kids and ah... steal from everyone?"

Starkar and few others on the table laughed. "Little more then that. You are correct on no deals with kids but the part where you steal from everyone? You can steal from everyone but your fellow Ravengers. The other guidelines of the code are what follows: no deserting the ship or quarters in the time of battle or mission. Settle disputes on planet not on the ship. The share of prize and money is based on your rank after a mission and lastly if a person loses a limb or anyway becomes crippled during an engagement then they will receive high payment and will be allowed to remain with the Company as long as they finds fit." Peter nodded. It was basic rules that he grew up with back on Yondu's ship. "The other adds are whatever the captain of the Clan sees fit but those are what all Clans follows." (3)

Peter nodded. "Sounds reasonable enough." Stakar nodded as he started writing it down on paper but Peter stopped him when he was about to write down Quill Clan. "We decided on keeping the same name. To honor Yondu."

Stakar rolled his eyes but whatever. Peter is a captain on his own right and wrote down the updated official documents of the 101 Ravenger Clans as he corrected the name as Yondu Clan.

"I believe that is everything." Fury said as he got up as most everyone did as well. "honorable ceremony and then celebration."

There was cheers. Peter, Kraglin and Coulson was the last to get up from the table and everyone left the room.

Peter wonders what this ceremony would be intel. He wonder if its anywhere like what he and Guardians of the Galaxy went through in Xandar after the battle a few months ago.

Peter will later find out that is wasn't as formal but much more fun.

(End of Chapter)

Words: dd

(1) Oskar Pernefeldt's "International Flag of the Planet Earth": Back in 2015 a Swedish artist, but the name of Oskar Pernefeldt proposed this flag to be used in space expeditions and with two main purposes to be used while representing planet Earth and to remind the people of Earth that we share this planet, no matter of national boundaries. That we should take care of each other and the planet we live on. The creators predict that it will be eventually used in Mars landing in 2025 or in a future colony on that planet.

(2) Odyssey: named Fury's Mother ship the Odyssey cause the Iliad, aircraft carrier that became a mobile headquarters of Robert Gonzales' S.H.I.E.L.D. faction after Hyrda Uprising. Both Iliad and Odyssey was ascribed to Homer as both are works of Greek Mythology.

(3) Ravenger's Code: because Marvel does not list nothing about this code other then the few that we know from the movies basically "no deals with kids" and "steal from everyone" i based the code partly of what i like by known Pirate Code of Earth that we have along with a few that i made up along with what we know from the movies.

Author's Notes: With Peter I'm going to go down the 7 Stages of Grief. Xanderians are very close to us humans so i label them as well that goes with those stages as well with Kraglin. Right now the are in the stages of Denial and Anger. Kraglin as well is suffering from what is known as Survivor Guilt. Like i said, he is the last crew member since very the beginning of picking up Peter as well the second other then Peter to official part of Yondu's crew.