Two months after the fall of Jason Todd, Rocket became more distant from all of his team-mates including Lylla. She didn't like it one bit and was heartbroken to see Rocket in the state he was in, she knew what it was like to loose friends and family as the Halfworld War took its' toll on her. She lost many friends and not to mention Rocket at one point and it felt terrible. After another mission, Rocket didn't stick around with the rest and went inside his room. At first Lylla thought that he wouldn't be gone long, but he'd been gone for 2 straight hours so she decided to pay him a visit, she went to his room and opened the door. She found him lying down facing upwards staring at the ceiling.

"Rocket?"

He didn't answer at first but then he looked at the door and found her standing there with a big frown, he disliked her miserable look and replied with a weak smile"hey..Ly"

Lylla came over and sat next to him, she made a sour face as Rocket's breath smelled a little bad which had a familiar tinge to it, alcohol. Rocket always tended to drink when upset, she looked around the room and found a half-empty bottle of whisky on the table next to them. She took it by the neck and frowned sadly

"How much of this stuff have you been drinking?" she asked

"A little" Rocket lied, even though it was obvious to Lylla that he'd drunk half of the bottle. She knew that he wasn't in the mood so she decided to light it up a little, she chuckled "Well...ya should've given me some". She drank some of it and her eyes widened as she stopped and looked at the bottle "damn! this stuff is good! where'd you get this?!". Rocket smiled and was suddenly interested "In Ranger's locker...it was his favorite, and I now know why"

Lylla took another sip and widened her eyes "Damn this stuff works fast! I can already feel my senses dull" she said as she hiccuped and put the bottle down. Rocket sat up and stared directly into her beautiful blue eyes and smiled. Lylla sighed quietly and placed an arm around Rocket "I know you're sad...we all are, Jason and Ranger were my best friends too ya know. Rose, the poor girl...she's broken because she lost Jason and I..I can't see you like this. I HATE it when you're sad, it makes me sad. Point is, we need you to be yourself again...the world needs you, it's bad enough that Darkseid and Hydra have teamed up with Mogul and Ultron as well as Atrocious to form The DARK-HYDRA. We can't keep loosing heroes like you because your beat up. I need you as well...together, we can beat them and avenge Jason and your brother...so what do ya say? You in?"

Rocket smiled and kissed Lylla "You bet"

"That's great!" she responded with enthusiasm

"Thanks Lylla, I needed that" Rocket smiled

"Anytime dearest" she chuckled as she bent in and kissed him again.

Meanwhile in the white house...

"M.r President the latest report has arrived" said the secretary "Oh and two your guests have arrived"she informed

"Thank you,and ah...let them in" said the President as he took the report and read the first page, his face fell into a grim expression "Jesus this is bad..." he muttered

"What's bad sir?" asked one of his guests that entered the room, the president stopped reading and looked at his guests and smiled "Ah! Captain America and Superman, right on schedule. Please take a seat".

The two patriotic heroes took their seats and waited for an the president to start talking

"Unfortunately, the Dark-Hydra have managed to take the whole of the African continent! The whole god-damn continent!, word is that Ultron and his bots have almost gotten Asia in their grasp. Atrocious and his army of rogue Red Lanterns have just now Captured the sub-continent of India and are progressing to Europe whilst Ultron's next move is moving up north to Russia"

"Jesus..." sighed the Captain, he continued by saying "We're going to try to do everything we can to protect Europe sir...we'll work double time"

"The President smiled at this "At ease soldier...you heroes have done more for us and we don't have the right to ask more of you...especially you Captain. Served in WW2 and went through hell, but I'm asking for the sake of every American and citizen of the whole world...will you help us once more Captain? Will you go to war again?"

"I will" Superman answered

"Great!...Captain? what about you?"

"Yes sir...I will"

"Excellent! thank you captain"

"Anytime sir"