A/N: Hey guys! Sorry I haven't updated the last few days. It's been very hectic to say the least.
When they got to Titan, they immediately put their plan into action. Maria had decided that at the last second she was going to go and Yondu and a few Ravagers would stay on the Milano in case they needed back up. Gamora and Peter sent Rocket, Groot, Emily, and a few other Ravagers to start a distraction.
Peter, Gamora, and Maria stood off in the distance, hidden and watching the guards that stood at the main gate waiting for the plan to go into action.
"What's taking them so long?" Peter whispered to the two women. Gamora sighed and almost got up to go deal with the guards herself and like clockwork, several explosions sounded from the distance and the guards had no choice but to go investigate.
"Something tells me they have an obsession with bombs." Maria said as they went inside, earning a nod from her two companions.
"If I were to hide a child, where would I hide them?" Gamora said to herself as they came to a long, dark, corridor. She remembered this corridor all too well. When Thanos killed her parents and first brought her to Titan, she was kept and tortured in a cell. Although she highly doubted that Lilith was being kept in a cell.
They stopped in front of a door.
"Sure she's in there?" Peter asked, looking at Gamora, who nodded.
"Positive." She answered, carefully punching in a code to the door. She heard a click and the door opened.
The room had a gothic feel to it, didn't have very much color at all. Peter wondered how Gamora could have lived like this for almost her whole life.
Stayed the same as I left it. She thought, her eyes finally landing on Lilith, who was unconscious, tied to the bed.
"Lilith, wake up. It's us." Peter said, gently shaking the child.
Lilith's eyes snapped open as Gamora took her knife and cut Lilith free from the ropes and the child's eyes lit up when she saw them.
"Where are my mommy and daddy?" She asked as Gamora finished cutting the ropes and Peter picked her up, holding her close as though she were his own child.
"Something isn't right here. Nebula has to know we're here by now."
"That is how my sister works. She does not care about Lilith. She only cares about the stone and will use us to lead her right to it," Gamora said as more explosions sounded from the distance, "As I said before. Our priority is to get Lilith out of here. We'll worry about everything else later."
"Do you have a plan?"
Gamora nodded as they left the room, looking around and noticing that Maria wasn't anywhere in sight.
"Where's Maria?"
Peter shrugged and looked at Gamora and then the child in his arms as it finally clicked why Maria suddenly vanished.
"God dammit. Here, take Lilith back to the ship. I'll be back." Peter said, carefully handing the blonde headed child to his girlfriend as he walked in the direction of the explosions. Gamora just followed him.
"What are you talking about? Where's Maria?" She asked, trying to keep up with Peter, who turned to look at her.
"Put it all together, Gamora! Why do you think she all of a sudden decided to come with us instead of staying on the Milano? She has her own plans!"
Gamora's eyes widened when she realized what Peter meant.
"She's going to trade herself into Nebula for Lilith."
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