Chapter 11:

*No One's POV*

Ronan and his army follows the crew with Gamora leading them. Nebula finds the orb.

"The Stone is in the furthest pod," she says, locating it with Gamora's ship.

Verena looks for an escape to the Milano while being close to Rocket. A few of Ronan's army hits her pod, hitting her a bit. Baring through the pain, she looks to see that they are focusing on Gamora's pod.

"Rocket," she calls for her boyfriend, "keep them off Gamora until she gets to the Milano."

"How, Verena?" he asked her, confused. "We've got no weaponery on these things."

"These pods are industrial grade," she explains, looking through everywhere to find a good plan. "They're nearly indestructible."

"Not against necroblasts, they're not."

"That's not what I'm saying, love," she smirks.

"Oh," he realizes it.

"Quill," she calls for Peter through the speakers. "Find Gamora and help her escape to the Milano."

"On it!"

Verena and Rocket separate for the good old fashion way to attack them. Quite of a few the attacks knock the army out and gets destroyed.

"There's many of them!" she calls out, running away from a few.

"You got this, Verena! I believe in you!" Rocket calls back, hitting a few of his own.

During this whole thing, Drax is fighting against Ronan trying to get his revenge. Ronan flips over the Destroyer by the neck.

"I don't recall killing your family," he says to him, holding his neck tighter. "I doubt I'll remember killing you, either." He let's go of his neck.

"Quill, I'm trapped," Gamora announces, from inbetween in a series of the Ronan's army. "I can't make it to te Milano. I have to head out." She heads up to space.

"Wait! These things aren't meant to go out there," Quill explains in a panic.

After hearing that over the speakers, Verena says to Rocket, "we need to go to Gamora now!"

"Way ahead of you," he says, following with her to the space air.

"You are a disappointment, sister," Gamora's sister, Nebula, says to her, tracking her down. "Of all our siblings, I hated you least."

"Nebula, please," Gamora pleaded. "If Ronan gets this stone, he'll kill us all."

"Not all. You will already be dead," Nebula says, attacking her pod.

It gets destroyed, shattering into different pieces. Peter watches in shock of what has happened. Verena and Rocket only sees the destruction from a distance. They fear the worst.

Rocket sees the orb go up into the ship above them. Ronan drags Drax to another part of the place and throwing him into the yellow acid like liquid.

"Ronan, it is done."

Gamora is laying in the space air, slowly dying.

"Quill, come on," Rocket says, giving up. "Her body mods should keep her alive a couple more minutes, but nothing's we can do for her."

"I'm so sorry Quill," Verena says to him sadly.

"These pods aren't meant to be out here," Rocket adds in. "In a second, we're gonna be in the same boat."

Verena stays for a second before leaving with her boyfriend.

"Damn it," Quill says under his breath.

"Quill?" Rocket asked, realizing he's not coming.

"Yondu? Yondu!" Peter calls for him through the communication. "This is Quill! My coordinates are 227 K324."

"Quill, what are you doing?" Verena asked confused.

"Just outside Knowhere," Quill ignores her. "If you're there, come get me. I'm all yours."

Peter puts on his mask so he can breath in this air. He gets out of his pod and floats over to Gamora.

"Quill, don't be ridiculous," Rocket tries to reason with him. "Get back into your pod! You can't fit two people in there." Peter won't listen. "You're gonna die. You'll die in seconds!"

"He cares for her," Verena notices it.
Rocket and Verena watches to see them get into the ship from before.

*Verena's POV*

I look over to Rocket who is stunned of what just happened. My hands move the pod to turn back to Nowhere so we can get into the Milano. Rocket follows me back to the Nowhere. Groot and Drax are where we landed.
"Blasted idiot," Rocket says annoyed, when we got out of our pods. "They're all idiots!"

"Quill just got himself captured," I explained to the rest of the group we have.

"None of this ever would have happened if you didn't try to single handedly take on a frickin' army!" Rocket points at Drax angrily.

"He's right you know," I added in.

"I was a fool," Drax says under his breath, sitting up on the ground. "All the anger, all the rage, was just to cover my loss."

My heart broke at the sight of his grief. I really want to give him a hug to comfort him, but Groot did it for me when he places his hand on his shoulder.

"Oh boo who!" Rocket didn't like this. "'My wife and child are dead'." Groot and I look at him gasping and eyes widened. "I don't care if it's mean!" he said to us. "Everyone's got dead people. It's no excuse to get everybody else dead the way!"

My eyes look down to the ground while bowing my head in sadness, thinking about the memories of my parents.

Rocket looks up at me shocked. He thinks he hurts my feelings, but he didn't really.
He sighs, "I'm sorry Verena."

"It's okay Rocket really," I said to him, turning to him.

"Come on, Groot, Verena," Rocket says to us. "Ronan has the Stone. The only chance we got is to get to the other side of the universe as fast as we can and maybe, just maybe, we'll be able to live full lives before that whack-job ever gets there."

My boyfriend takes my hand so we can leave Knowhere.

"I am Groot," Groot says, standing up to us.

"Save them?" Rocket asked. "How?"

"I am Groot."

"Groot, yes they're the only friends that we ever had," I said to him with a sigh, "but there's an army of Ravagers around them. And there's only the three of us!"

"Four," Drax says, standing up, joining us.
I look down to my boyfriend who looks back. My head nods with a smile curl up on my lips.

He lets out a frustrating growl before hitting some grass behind him. "You're making me beat...up….grass!" After a few moments, he takes a deep breath before turning to us. "Alright, here's what we are going to do."