Two days later, Rocket and Lylla were summoned to the command centre where they met the general and Wal-rus.
"Uncle wal is everything ok?"
"No my dear niece, we..we found a robot camp still on the east side,"
"So..? It's supposed to shut down," Rocket said
"That's what we thought...they had the robots, I mean, droids you described, the B-2's their independent of the command centre"
"So why do you guys look so uptight about it?" Lylla asked
"Because the camp is code named Delta-v9..."
"You mean the..." Rocket stuttered
Lylla sensed something wrong, "Rocket what's that?"
"That..is a death camp..they experiment on captured soldier and some dead ones too"
"Oh god..." Lylla gasped
"We'll destroy it general don't worry about it" Rocket smiled
"I bet you'll need a medic too" Lylla said as she smiled
"That I do" Rocket said smiling
"How many droids are we looking at?" Rocket asked
"Should be enough for you...about a small group of about 20 droids" said the general
"Let me on this one" said someone from behind Rocket turned and found Ranger at the side of the tent
"Sure thing Ranger" said the general
The general provided the team with the coordinates and they went out but before Rocket could go Wal-rus stopped him
"Anything else wal?"
"Yes...if the rumours are true then i beg of you..."
"You don't have too..just tell me"
"PLEASE! if you Love my niece"
Rocket blushed a little and was shocked
"Wal..how'd..."
"It doesn't matter how I know...but if you love my niece then PLEASE protect her with your life... I've never seen her so happy before and I know she wont listen to me if I tell her to be safe...she'll listen to you, keep her safe... Rocket make her live to smile another day"
"I will Wal" Rocket said firmly, Rocket exited the tent
"Well my love...let's go" Lylla smiled
"I agree brother let's move"
The journey was shorter than expected, they reached it in under an hour
"Well brother.." Ranger said
"I see em all right, we got 2 B-2's on the front" Rocket said as he took out a long range sniper
"You'll need this" Lylla said as she put on a silencer on the end of Rocket's sniper barrel
"Thanks..you always come prepared" Rocket said
He pulled the trigger and the two droids went down
"All right let's move in" Rocket said
The team entered the building and saw cages...dozens of em filled with prisoners both alive and dead...
"Oh god...Rocket..." Lylla moaned
"This is genocide" Ranger whispered as his voice fell, and he covered his nose due to the horrible smell of corpses in this place
The team moved in only to find more prisoners but as they moved on the number of living prisoners reduced and the number of dead increased...
"We'll split up, Ranger finds the reactor and plant the charges, Lylla release the prisoners and contact HQ tell me we have wounded, I'll find and eliminate all the droids" Rocket ordered
"We'll join you as soon as we can" Ranger said.
Ranger went southwards and jammed the robots comms, he spotted the control room and saw 5 droids guarding it, he took out a grenade, an EMP to be exact and threw it, it was too late for the robots who noticed it in that last second.. the EMP fried their systems and Ranger planted the bombs
"Ok guys I'm done...I'm helping Lylla next" he said over the comms
"Right roger that" Lylla said as she released a prisoner who was crying
"There there it's ok you're free now" she reassured him
"THANK YOU! THANK YOU!" he cried,Lylla saw evidence of torture on his fur and body
"Hey you!" said a B-2, the man screamed and ran out, Lylla withdrew her staff, the B-2 fired and Lylla spun her staff and deflected the laser blasts back to the droid taking it out, a few more showed up
"Remember we need her alive..she's a candidate for project C.E.S.S" said a droid
'What on Half-word is that?' she thought but from the looks and whimpers of all the prisoners it was nothing good, the robots fired and Lylla deflected all their blasts back at them with her staff, Ranger showed up
"You've been busy" he noted as he helped Lylla free the prisoners
"I contacted HQ...get them to safety I'll help Rocket" she said, as she went to assist.
Meanwhile Rocket was occupied in the main HUB of the base, the B-2'S were everywhere,
"YOU WANNA PIECE OF ME!" he taunted as he blasted one of them into scrap
Another tried to sneak up on Rocket but he noticed and blew it up, there were only 10 of them left, a robot sniper took cover in the shadows and shot at Rocket, thankfully Lylla showed up in time and deflected the shot back at the Robot destroying it
"LY! thanks for the save" said Rocket
"Any time dearest" she chuckled
"Ranger set the charges lets get outta here" Lylla said
"Agreed" Rocket said as he blew up another droid, the couple ran out
"We've almost reached the exit!" Lylla shouted.
Then a transparent type wall fell between Rocket and Lylla
"ROCKET!" lylla said in panic as she tried to shatter the glass but it was no use
"I'll come round the other way" Rocket said
Then a shot rang out and Rocket felt pain in his waist, he heard Lylla scream, he looked down and saw blood he staggered backwards, and found another batch of Robots, this time it was robots and not droids, Lylla was helpless to do anything but watch, Rocket was hit again and again, blood soaked his shirt and he blasted the robots to bits, another Robot stabbed Rocket through the chest from the back that made Rocket gasp and drop his weapon
"NOOOOOO! ROCKET! NOOOOooooo" Lylla sobbed
He fell to the ground and found the strength to blast the last Robot to pieces, he crawled his way the the barrier
"ROCKET DEAR HOLD ON! I'LL GET YOU OUT HOLD ON!" she sobbed as she tried to break the barrier but it wouldn't budge..not one bit, she fell to her knees and sobbed even more the Rocket spoke
"Ly...go...get..g..get outta here..there are more coming..."
"I WONT LEAVE YOU HERE I WONT!" she sobbed
"I...I WONT LET IT END THIS WAY..I'VE LOST MY PARENTS I WONT LOOSE YOU!" she continued
Rocket put his palm on the glass and Lylla put her palm where Rocket held the barrier, Rocket had never seen her so devastated before, she was broken,
"Ly..i..of you love me..then go..please get outta here I..I promised your uncle I'd protect you with my life...and...apparently I have...please Ly...you're the family he's got..go..please...go" Rocket sighed as his made his palm drop to the ground leaving a streak of blood in it's place.
Lylla ran out crying, when she was out, then Rocket mustered up enough strength and contacted Lylla on the comm and she picked up
"Rocket dear! please tell me you're ok" she sobbed
"Ly..I need to tell you something before I go"
"What is it?" she quivered
"I love you" he said as he hung up
"Rocket? ROCKET! NOOOOoo!" Lylla sobbed
The robot reinforcement showed up
"Acquire subject 89p13 for project C.E.S.S" said the robot
"N..not today you don't...sayonara you fucking bastards Rocket said as he pressed the detonator button, the place blew up, with Rocket inside.
Lylla saw the place blow up
"NOOOOOOO!NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!" she sobbed as she fell to her knees and continued to cry and cry and sob uncontrollably.
Rocket raccoon the one she loved and care for most in this world was gone...he was dead, and there was nothing Lylla could do about it "ROCKET! NOOOO!NOOOOOOOOOO!"...Lylla screamed it was too much to bear,she passed out knowing one thing
Rocket was dead...all Lylla could do was weep for her dearest boy-friend, her love.
When Ranger turned around and saw the place blow up,he looked around for his brother but as he saw Lylla crying he knew what he dreaded was true...his brother was dead. It was bad enough that Jen,their sister, hated him alot she refused to even let Ranger interact with time the brothers would rarely meet up, but when they did, they enjoyed every micro-second of it. To Rocket Ranger was the only family he had, as their mother was busy in community service to tend to them anymore. Ranger gripped his chest where his heart was and clenched it as he fell to his knees, tears dripped from his eyes none stop,he gritted his teeth and fell on all fours and started to cry...Rocket was like a part of him,he knew how Lylla was feeling now. There was a void in each of their hearts as something and been sucked out of them...
"Little brother...no...NO!" Ranger whimpered as he shouted at the last word as he glared up at the sky and shouted 'NO!' again...he knew that his sister would be all too happy to know this news but not for Ranger to him he just lost the most precious thing on Halfworld to him,his little brother. He never understood what it was like to be broken,but now he did and it SUCKED. Rocket ment everything to him and now he's gone just like their father,Ranger always wanted a little brother as he wanted someone to look up to him and Rocket did just that despite fierce resistance from their sister. Ranger regretted not spending enough time with his younger counterpart and a big part of him blames his sister for that. But maybe that was a good thing as he may have grown to hate Ranger,a thing that he would've hated. He cast aside the thought and focused on the present, Rocket Raccoon his dear brother was dead...and there was nothing he could do about it.