Lylla woke up in the med bay in HQ ,heart broken and traumatised as well as miserable
"Lylla dear" said Wal rus as he entered the tent, Lylla remained silent,
"I..I heard about Rocket...Lylla I'm so sorry" he said as he went close to her and hugged her
She started to sob
"there there..." Wal-Rus said trying to calm his niece down
'I don't think she'll ever recover from this one' he thought.
Meanwhile with Ranger,who was in his tent he started to think of one of the few times he and Rocket actually spent time together...
Rocket was in the living room in his house,this was exactly seven years before he became enlisted in the army so he was seven years old at the time, he was alone at the moment awaiting Ranger's return. Fortunately Ranger entered the house a minute later, with Jen out of sight Rocket ran towards his brother and hugged him.
"Big brother you're back! you're back!" Rocket said excitedly
"HAHAHA! easy there little brother," Ranger laughed
"Where were you?"
"At one of your sister's friend's parties,she'll be back any minute," Ranger warned,but he was smiling as they were alone without any interruptions from Jen their sister.
His little brother spotted something that he was holding and asked
"What have you got there Ranger?" Rocket asked
Before Ranger could answer Jen came storming in as she'd been spying on them from outside,she grabbed Rocket and pulled him away from Ranger. Jen tossed Rocket aside and he hit his head on the sofa, Rocket's smile fell drastically into a sad frown as he started to sob. Ranger's smile fell as well
"JEN! must you be so harsh?!" he asked his sister
Jen sighed "Rocket leave us,"
"But sis," Rocket said as he tried to protest
"GET LOST RUNT!" Jen shouted
Rocket hung his head in defeat and he retreated to his room upstairs,crying.
Ranger crossed his arms and sighed "Why?"
"Why what dear brother?"
"Why are you so harsh on Rocket?!" he asked his sister with his voice raised a little
"You know why! you very well know why Ranger!...now look we're arguing," Jen said
"Rocket was not responsible for the death of our father and you know that!..he made the sacrifice to save our brother so we'd love him not so that he'd live to hate our father's choice!"
Jen was taken back the the realisation,he noticed this and sighed
"look I know you and father were close...very close,but you can't blame our younger brother for this!" he continued
Then Jen got a grip of herself and stood up to her brother
"I'll say this only once...I CAN blame Rocket for this...if he'd just LISTEN to what our mother had to say then Father wouldn't have to run in there and save him! and even SO if Rocket had called out from where he was hiding then Father wouldn't have to search the whole damn place for him! THE COWARD! Father would still be here if it wasn't for Rocket!"
Then Jen said something that she told herself that she'd never say but it was too late
"Rocket killed our father Ranger"
"THAT IS NOT TRUE! DON'T YOU DARE BLAME HIM FOR THAT!" he countered as he started to get a little angry
"YOU HEAR ME ROCKET! YOU KILLED DAD! YOU MURDERER!" Jen shouted,but as she processed what she'd said afterwards it was too late.
The two siblings heard footsteps running away
"What have you done?!" Ranger said as he ran upstairs to check up on Rocket
To Ranger shock he saw Rocket with a knife trying to kill himself as he was sobbing,Rocket brought the knife down but he ran towards his little brother and caught his hand and took the knife and threw it away,Rocket was struggling to get it back but Ranger restrained him and brought him to his knees. He then knelt down to face Rocket
"what were you trying to do?!" Ranger scolded
"I don't deserve to live! lemme go! I killed dad!" Rocket sobbed uncontrollably
"Hey! hey! we'll have none of that! ok we'll have none of that! what happened was not your fault!"
Rocket was still sobbing "How...?"
"how what?" Ranger asked a little calmly
"how can you still look into my eyes and call me little brother when you know what I've done! how?! you should have just left me to die abandon me like sis had...HOW CAN YOU STILL CALL ME BROTHER! SISTER CALLS ME MURDERER! MOTHER...PAYS ME NO ATTENTION..HOW ARE YOU SO DIFFERENT?!"
Ranger started to get Teary-eyed,this time unlike all the other times his brother finally fell apart,broke, and that made Ranger unhappy..very unhappy. He hugged his brother and gently put his younger brother's fore-head on his shoulder,he felt his fur become wet with Rocket's tears
"Because I love you...unlike Jen I love you you mean everything to me Rocket...that's how I'm different...and mother loves you it's just that she's very busy...with an upcoming war and all...she and I LOVE you...and I'd rather die then see you get hurt badly!" he said as he declared it with all the love in his voice and kissed Rocket's fore-head.
Rocket was touched,he sobbed but with tears of returned the hug and kissed him on the cheek and mumbled something
"What was that?" Ranger asked playfully
"I said that you were the best brother ever!" Rocket said as he pushed Ranger playfully to the floor and pounced on him
"H..hey!" he laughed and Rocket laughed in turn when his stomach grumbled
Rocket got off Ranger who sat upright and asked Rocket "Have you had anything to eat?"
"No...foods out,I gave sister the last piece of the cake because I thought that if I did then she'd like me," Rocket frowned
"Well..It's a good thing I got this then," Ranger said as he took the box he had with him which he put on the side before he subdued Rocket.
He opened it and Rocket saw a huge piece of cake
"CAKE!" Rocket shouted excitedly
"here..open wide" Ranger said
Rocket rolled his eyes in amusement "I can eat myself you know"
"just open up" Ranger chuckled
"fine.." Rocket said as he gave in and opened his mouth as Ranger fed Rocket the cake
"thanks" Rocket said
"anytime little brother"
"hey wanna play tag tomorrow?" Rocket asked
"yeah sure" Ranger smiled as he hugged him again
Ranger smiled at the memory of it and sighed and frowned again,Ranger was about three years older then Rocket but that didn't matter. For all Ranger cared he could be ten or twenty years older he didn't care,he just wanted his brother got off his bed in his tent and found the black box of the death camp in the evidence room and watched in horror and the Robots shot and stabbed his little brother with no remorse and from that day on Ranger swore he'd end thin for Rocket and he wasn't the only one who changed that that day Lylla changed as well, true she still treated her patients with care and smiled but other than that, she never smiled out of love she never laughed and she became more cold hearted when it came to destroying Robots till the extent that her patients felt BAD for them. She always carried with her a picture of Rocket,she missed him alot...she still hadn't completely gotten over it even if it did happen about a year ago..her fur colour changed from golden brown to silver grey ,she consulted her uncle about it and she told her that her mother had the same case and that it was genetic, then she smiled and sighed "I bet Rocket would like it..." she said.
A few months after that Lylla went on a mission and what she found would change everything...
The mission was that there was a Robot information centre and it held some battle plans for the next attack, Lylla and some men from Captain Blackjack's division (yes he's a captain now).
"Alright then, Lylla you go in to the command centre and find the central computer there you can download all the info we need"
"on it"
"oh and Lylla..stay safe" Blackjack said
Lylla sighed "you sound like Rocket now..." she said as she infiltrated the information centre
"what do we do cap?"
"we'll wait out here..destroying any threats form the outside" said Blackjack and he loaded his sniper and laid down on the ground
"heh..this ought to be a turkey shoot" said one of his men
Lylla found the place where the central computer was and withdrew her staff, she went up the ventilation shaft and burst down upon the robots, two of the guards went to sound the alarm bot Lylla stepped in their way
"sorry bots you aint alerting anyone on my watch" Lylla said coldly and she impaled one of the bots with the staff and used it's gun to blow the other one up, then she withdrew her staff from the first robot and took her gun out,Rocket's gun (which was pretty much all that was left of him when they tried to recover his body...surprisingly they didn't), and blew the other one up. she went to the computer and plugged the hard drive in
"ok..robots let see what you're hiding" Lylla said...she found the attack plans and downloaded it, but before she took the had drive out something caught her attention, 'project C.E.S.S?...wait a sec! the B-2 from the death camp wanted me for something like that! I wonder what it is?' Lylla thought as she clicked on it there were several options
1) ACQUIRED PATIENTS
2)WANTED PATIENTS
3) RECENT
The third option got her interested, she clicked on it and found something that made her gasp a number to be exact,SUBJECT 89P13,
'what have they done to you...' she thought, once she clicked on Rocket's number a video came up she saw Rocket on a table,strapped down like some sort of animal, there were scientists all around him "this is...attempt number 605 for our project known as C.E.S.S which is the short form of . . ,former resistance militia that we will use against them, the perfect soldiers for our new army.
Lylla couldn't believe what she was hearing, but she continued to listen, "this is former test subject 89P13 better known as Sargent Rocket Raccoon found at the Delta v9 experimentation camp, status? deceased...not for long however..." said the professor robot. "not for long?" she muttered . She watched in horror as the scientists literally tore her soul-mate apart and put him back together again, inserting metal pieces and replacing organic parts with their metal counterparts "Activate the liquid Cybernetic injection...NOW!" said the professor, needles pierced Rocket in the arms and back, a silver like liquid entered his body, "initiate the Re-animation process...NOW!"
"reanimation?..what the hell is this..what are they doing to you?" she said.
She then electricity flowed through Rocket's body for about a minute, then Lylla saw something incredible, they hooked him up to a pulse machine..at the first 10 seconds nothing happened, then she could have sworn she saw Rocket's finger twitch "subject's pulse is rising! I...It's a MIRACLE we've actually done it! HE'S ALIVE!" said the Professor.
Lylla was astounded and was actually smiling and gasping with joy, Rocket's alive!. Then his eyes flung open and he screamed "AAAAAHHHH! IT BURNS! AAAAAA!", Lylla stopped smiling, she realised what they were going to do with him and was disgusted by what they did to him.
"issue a sedative! he cannot die!...t..this is a MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGH!" the Professor said.
The sedative was issued and Rocket calmed down and dozed off the sleep, which was the effect of the sedative
"bring him to the bacta tank and keep him there!" said the Professor, Lylla saw the robots drag Rocket off somewhere and the video ended.
She contacted Blackjack
"you got what we needed" he said
"that and better"
"better how?"
"Blackjack...ROCKET'S ALIVE!" Lylla said
"alive?!...how?!"
"look i know you don't believe me but I have proof" Lylla said
"alright fine, we'll cover you" Blackjack said.
Lylla came out unharmed, she and Blackjack's men reached base camp and Lylla told the General everything
"do you have proof of this?" said the General and Lylla gave the general the hard drive, and he watched the video
"interesting...where is this?"
"unclear sir..." then Lylla noticed something in the background,
"wait a second, those walls and writing, their in the eastern command center that me and Rocket blew up! there must be a bunker below" Lylla said.
The general took a closer look and what she was talking about "very well! if there is even a slight chance that Sargent Rocket is still alive we can't risk not taking a look!" said the General
"I'll come! he might need medical attention"
"very well!" said the General.
Lylla was DELIGHTED, "when can we leave" she asked "in one hour...gather your best medical equipment and get our best men, today...Rocket comes home" said the General.
In an hours time, Lylla was fully equipped with her best medical equipment and went to tell Ranger the news.
"So..my little brother is alive?!"
"yes he is, but..." Lylla said
"But what? What did they do to him?"
"He's..."
Ranger gently grabbed Lylla's shoulders "What did they do to my Brother?"
"He's...part Robot now..."
"Part WHAT!" Ranger exclaimed "They did what to my BROTHER?!"
"It's true they did bring him back, but they experimented on him, TORE HIM APART and made him part robot...on the inside I mean" Lylla explained the other things she saw and Ranger got angry
"So...for the record...my little Brother's now an CYBERNETIC SUPER SOLDIER THAT THE ROBOT'S NOW PLAN TO USE AGAINST US?!"
"I wish it wasn't so..." Lylla sobbed and Ranger hugged her to comfort her
"They're going to pay for this! I swear they'll pay!" Ranger said
Ranger then went alone with Lylla and they reached the collapsed building
"what are we looking for?" Ranger asked
"some sort of trap door or something like that" Lylla said
She went in first then Ranger followed, a few minutes later Lylla and Ranger found nothing then Lylla shouted "RANGER! I FOUND IT!"
"Finally" Ranger said as they went in.
The Bunker was huge, and spacious, they moved in further and further into the bunker when three robots and a B-2 halted them "wait!" said someone form the back and Ranger and Lylla recognized that voice...it was none other than Pike, the rogue scientist.
"PIKE YOU BASTARD!" Ranger shouted
"Language..." Pike sighed
"WHERE'S MY BROTHER!" Ranger shouted
"Right here" he said as he took out a pad and pressed a few buttons and a door in front of her opened and out came Rocket
"Rocket...I...It's me Lylla"
"Brother?...are you in there?" Ranger said and he remained silent
Pike laughed "You're too late...he's OURS now" the robots cleared the way and left them alone with Pike and Rocket
"Rocket please fight it!...please don't make us do this" she said
Pike took the pad and pressed a few more buttons "Rocket...kill them" he ordered
"Yes sir" Rocket replied he withdrew a knife and started to run
'so it's come to this' she thought as she withdrew her staff and Ranger withdrew his own knife.
Rocket slashed upright but Lylla blocked it "ROCKET PLEASE FIGHT IT!" she said as tears dripped down, Rocket kicked her away and stroke downwards facing Ranger who blocked it "I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT YOU BROTHER!"
"Then you'll die" he smirked as he kicked Ranger on the chest that sent him staggering
Lylla detected something, the pad Pike had must be controlling Rocket.
"RANGER! GO FOR PIKE'S PAD!" Lylla said as she and Rocket circled each other
"On it!"Ranger said as he went for Pike
"Rocket! help!" Pike said and Rocket threw his knife at Ranger, his aim was true and it cut his leg and it bled. Ranger knelt and clutched his wound
he smirked and he ran towards Lylla trying to stab her but she rolled across his back and thrust her staff forward electrocuting Rocket "GAH!" Rocket screamed he turned to face her "L..Lylla?" said Rocket as he fell to the floor on his knees
"What are you doing here?...where am I?" Rocket asked as he turned and saw Ranger
"RANGER! ROCKET'S FINE! HE'S HIMSELF AGAIN!" Lylla said
But she spoke too soon, Pike activated something on the pad that made Rocket scream
"NO!" Lylla shouted
"Override successful...Rocket, Kill her" Pike smirked
Rocket got up and wrestled Lylla, whilst Ranger recovered and took Rocket's knife and slashed through Pike's control pad, breaking it. In turn Rocket stopped where he was, he clenched his head and fell to his knees and fell to the ground unconscious.
"NO! MY SUPER SOLDIER!" Pike shouted, Ranger roared and speared Pike towards the wall . Ranger raised his fist and growled "NEVER...TOUCH MY LITTLE BROTHER AGAIN!" Ranger knocked Pike out but the B-2's burst into the room and recovered Pike and fled.
"RANGER! HE'S NOT BREATHING!" Lylla shouted and Ranger came to Rocket's side and pressed his chest hard again and again
"Oh Rocket...Please be OK!" Lylla sobbed
"C'mon Brother...COME ON!" Ranger said as he pressed down hard one last time and Rocket gasped and sat upright and coughed
"ROCKET!" Lylla shouted in joy, she gave him a tight hug, refusing to let him go, It took a while for Rocket to figure what was going on, he saw Lylla and remembered everything, he gave Lylla a hug
"I missed you" he said as he
He felt Lylla sob and his shirt became stained with her tears of joy and relief, she looked at him in the eye, then Rocket noticed something different about her
"say...what happened to your fur?...It's silver!" Rocket said
"oh that...apparently it's genetic as my mother had it...what do you think of it, should I let it stay or dye it Golden brown again" Lylla said, still in Rocket's arms
"I think the silver makes you look more striking,but I prefer the golden brown...you look beautiful in that color..not to say that you're not in silver of course" Rocket said as he blushed a little, he brought Lylla near to his face and she bent closer and kissed him,hesitant to break it up, but she did any ways
"I love you Rocket...I love you SO much..." she said.
"me too" Rocket replied as he noticed Ranger standing there grinning, as he just witnessed Rocket and Lylla kiss for the first time.
"Hey Big Bro" Rocket smiled, Ranger became teary eyed and hugged Rocket as well
"It's good to have you back! I missed you!" Ranger sobbed and Rocket tapped his back.
A few months later Lylla and Rocket were back together again, then a mission from the General came, it's objective was to pair up with his childhood friend Groot and take to the stars and to destroy the Robot's ally, and for that he needed a team...so he left Half-world,not that it was easy..it tore him apart to leave Lylla and his family down there, it would just make his sister hate him more than she already does. But, he did find a team, or rather formed one, a team called the Guardians of the Galaxy...they had alot of adventures together, but Rocket never forgot his primary objective, to find the Robot's allies and destroy them and during that quest he gained a very new and best friends or rather friends, Red Hood (Jason todd), Arsenal (Roy harper) and the Flash (Jay garrick). Truth be told he also returned to halfworld and made Lylla and Reacher as well as Blackjack Guardians as well...the story of their adventures and tales of their bravery continue in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY:THE BLACK ORDER
THE END...