'Brandy(You're a fine girl)' by looking glass is playing. 'Missouri Earth 1980' appears on the screen.
Meredith and Ego are in a car, Meredith is singing along to the radio.
"Who're they?" Tony asked.
"My parents." Quill answered, smiling at his mother but sparing a glare at Ego.
Ego pulls into a Dairy Queen and he and Meredith walk into the woods. Meredith asks him where he's taking her. He shows her something that is blue and glowing. Meredith says it's beautiful.
"What is it?" Bruce asked.
"That is a part of Ego." Gamora answered.
"That raises more questions than it answers." Tony said.
"I know." Gamora said.
Ego says he was afraid it wouldn't take to the soil bit it rooted quickly and it will be everywhere across the universe soon.
"Like an invasive species?" Strange asked.
"He's planting parts of himself on different planets across the universe... why?" Clint asked.
Meredith says she doesn't know what she's talking about but she likes the way he says it.
Ego says his heart is hers.
Meredith says she can't believe she fell in love with a spaceman. The music starts again and they kiss.
Quill, once again, glared at Ego having not forgotten all of the terrible things he did to his mother.
'34 years later. The Sovereign' appears on the screen.
The guardians are on a platform surrounded with glowing orange spheres. Quill says it's show-time and says it will be there any minute.
Gamora cocks her gun and says it will be it's loss.
"What is 'it'?" Hope asked.
Quill says he thought her thing was swords.
Gamora says they were hired to stop an interdimensional beast from feeding on the batteries and asks if she's supposed to stop it with a sword.
"Good point." Quill conceded.
Quill says swords were her thing and guns were his then says they're both doing guns now and he didn't know that.
"You can both use guns... it doesn't have to be someone's 'thing.'" Natasha said.
Gamora asks Drax why he isn't using one of Rocket's aero-rigs. Drax says it hurts. Gamora is confused. Drax says he has sensitive nipples.
Everyone burst into laughter.
Clint wiped a tear from his eye and sighed, still giggling. "Is that why you don't wear shirts?" He asked.
Rocket laughs and starts mocking Drax. Drax asks what Rocket is supposed to be doing.
Rocket says he's finishing with the speakers so they can listen to tunes while they work.
"Is that really a priority?" Clint asked.
Drax asks how that's a priority.
"One of the few times I'll actually agree with him." Nebula said. "That is not a priority."
Rocket says to blame Quill because he's the one who loves music.
"How is it my fault?" Quill asked.
Quill says he agrees with Drax and says music is hardly important at the moment.
Rocket winks and says okay.
Quill says he sides with Drax.
Rocket winks and says he understands that Quill is being very serious.
Drax says he can see Rocket winking.
"Yeah, you aren't discreet like at all." Quill said.
Rocket realizes he was using his left eye.
Everyone rolled their eyes.
Baby Groot starts fighting some Orloni.
"Is that Groot?" Everyone asked.
"He's adorable." Shuri said.
"I am Groot." (I was not adorable) Groot said.
"You kinda were." Gamora said.
'I am Groot.'
Rocket says they weren't looking at him funny. The beast arrives.
"That thing is hideous." Ned said.
The guardians start fighting the beast. Groot plugs in the speakers and 'Mr. Blue Sky' by Electric Light Orchestra starts playing.
"Thanks Groot." Rocket said.
Groot starts dancing. Quill gets knocked down behind him. He stands up and shoots the beast before getting hit in the face by a tentacle.
Groot continues dancing. Drax gets thrown into the ground by the beast.
Gamora tells Groot to get out of the way because he'll get hurt.
"Listen to her Groot." Rocket said.
Groot waves at her. Gamora says hi.
"Aww." Everyone cooed.
Groot continues dancing as the others fight the beast. Drax gets thrown behind him. Groot stops dancing when Drax looks at him.
"Why'd he stop?" Scott asked.
Drax gets up and Groot spots a bug and starts chasing it. He grabs it and eats it. Rocket lands next to him and tells him to spit it out, then grabs his gun and flys away.
May, Clint and Scott giggled, remembering when they used to tell their kids the same thing.
Groot jumps onto and Orloni and starts riding it, he gets close to the beast and dodges its tentacles. He gets thrown off the Orloni and starts dancing again.
Everyone laughed.
Drax falls onto the speakers. Groot smacks him 3 times.
"Aggressive."
Drax says the beasts hide is too thick to be pierced from the outside and he must cut through it from the inside. Drax charges toward the beast, Gamora tries to stop him. Drax jumps into the beasts mouth.
"You are an imbecile." Strange said.
"I don't think it works like that, Drax." Rhodey said.
Quill asks Drax what he's doing.
Gamora says drax said the skin is too think to be pierced from the outside so he needed to cut it from the inside.
Quill says that doesn't make sense.
"Thank you." Rhodey said.
Gamora says she tried telling him that.
Quill says skin is the same level of thickness on the inside as it is on the outside.
Gamora says she realizes that.
Drax, inside the beast, continuously stabs the skin.
"Idiot." MJ said.
Quill notices a cut on the beasts neck and tells Rocket to get it to look up. Quill flies up and starts shooting at the beast and calls it a sea monkey.
"Giant sea monkey. That thing doesn't look like a sea monkey all all, but it does look like an anglerfish." Peter said.
Rocket and Quill shoot at the beast. Gamora goes to shoot at the beasts neck but she's out of ammo so she abandons the gun in favor of her sword.
"Looks like you stopped it with your sword after all." Quill said, a little smug.
The beast grabs hold of Quill. Gamora charges toward the beast and slices down its body. The beast falls over and dies. Drax falls out of the wound.
"Ew."
Drax says he single-handedly vanquished the beast.
All of the guardians stared at Drax incredulously.
"Did you seriously just take credit for that when nothing you did helped at all?" Maria asked.
Groot throws a piece of the broken speaker at his head.
Everyone laughed.
The guardians are standing around the batteries. Quill takes off the aero-rig. Drax asks what the batteries are called.
Quill says their anulax batteries.
Drax calls them Harbulary batteries.
"That's not even close to what he said." Bucky said.
Quill says that was nothing like what he just said and tells him that their worth thousands of units and that's why the Sovereign hired them to protect the batteries. Rocket takes some batteries.
"Dude. Seriously!?" Everyone asked.
He tells them to be careful what they say around the Sovereign because they're easily offended and the cost of transgression is death.
"Little extreme." Pepper said.
The guardians are talking with Ayesha.
"They're gold." Steve said.
"They must know king Midas." Tony joked.
Ayesha thanks them for putting their lives on the line and says they couldn't risk the lives of the Sovereign citizens.
"Wow."
She says every citizen is born exactly as designed by the community, she says they're impeccable physically and mentally. She says they control the DNA of their progeny and germinate them in birthing pods.
"That's... you know what, not even gonna question it." Sam said.
Quill says he prefers to make people the old fashioned way.
"Yeah."
Ayesha says he could give her a history lesson in the archaic ways of their ancestors one day for academic purposes.
"Oh!?" All of the teenagers said.
Quill says he'd be honored in the name of research he says he thinks that'd be pretty repulsive and says he isn't into casual.
"Dude."
Gamora says she promised them something in exchange for their services and tells her to bring it and they'll be on their way. 2 guards bring out Nebula.
"You." Everyone said to Nebula.
"The estranged sister." Loki said.
Quill comments about it being a family reunion.
"You really should learn when you shouldn't talk." Gamora said.
Ayesha says she understands Nebula is Gamora's sister.
Gamora says Nebula is worth no more to her than the bounty for her on Xandar.
"Thanks sis." Nebula said, sarcastically.
Ayesha stands and says their soldiers apprehended her after she attempted to steal the batteries.
"Which Rocket also stole." Quill said.
Ayesha tells Gamora to do with Nebula what she pleases, they leave.
Quill thanks Ayesha. Ayesha asks Quill about his heritage.
"Why does she want to know that?" Bruce asked.
Quill says his mother was from Earth. Ayesha asks about his father. Quill says his father wasn't from Missouri and that's all he knows.
Ayesha says she sees an unorthodox genealogy within him and says he's a hybrid that seems reckless.
"She's starting to freak me out." Ned said.
Rocket says that he was told the Sovereign were conceited douchebags but that's not true at all. He starts winking.
"Here we go." Quill said.
The people in the room gasp. Rocket realizes he was using the wrong eye again, and says that was meant to be behind Ayesha's back. Quill, Drax and Rocket leave.
"Didn't Quill tell you not to offend them?" Carol asked.
Drax tells Rocket to count himself blessed that they didn't kill him. Rocket shows him the batteries. Drax laughs.
"Idiots." Nebula said.
The guardians are back on the ship. 'Lake Shore Drive' by Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah starts playing.
Rocket says they're going to go to Xandar to collect Nebula's bounty. The ship takes off and Groot looks out the back window.
Everyone smiled at that.
Quill changes his shirt. Gamora shackles Nebula. Quill remembers what Ayesha said about his father and asks who she thought she was.
"Right, like what business did she have asking those kind of questions?" Tony asked.
Gamora says she knows Quill's sensitive about it.
Quill says he isn't sensitive, he just doesn't know who his father is. He tells her he's sorry if it seemed like he was flirting with Ayesha and says he wasn't.
"You kinda were." Gamora said.
Gamora says she doesn't care if he was, then walks away with Nebula in tow.
Quill says he feels like she does care and that's why he's apologizing. Drax appears next to Quill and startles him.
"How did you do that?" Scott asked.
Drax says Gamora isn't the one for Quill and says there are 2 types of people in the universe, those who dance and those who don't.
"I feel like there are better ways to distinguish people." Sam said.
Drax says he met his beloved at a war rally. He says everyone in the village was dancing except Ovette. He says he knew immediately that she was the one for him.
"That's a cute story." Peggy said.
Drax says the most melodic music could be playing and Ovette wouldn't even tap her foot or move a muscle. Drax says one might assume she was dead.
"Uhh..."
Quill says that does sound pretty hot.
Everyone laughed.
Drax says it would make his nether regions engorge.
"Okay, no. That's enough. Too much information. Keep it to yourself, man." Rocket said.
Quill says he gets it and says he's a dancer and Gamora isn't.
Drax tells him that he needs to find a woman who is pathetic like he is.
"Dude." Quill said.
Nebula sees some food in a basket, she tells Gamora that she's hungry and asks her to hand her some Yaro fruit. Gamora says it isn't root yet and tells her that she hates her.
Gamora winced as she heard herself say that.
Nebula says Gamora left her there while she stole the stone for herself and says she's a 'hero' now. Nebula says she'll be free of her shackles soon enough and she'll kill Gamora.
Gamora says Nebula will spend the rest of her days in a Xandarian prison cell wishing she could kill her.
"Looks like you were both wrong." Quill said.
A sovereign fleet follows the Guardians. Quill says it's weird that there's a Sovereign fleet following.
Gamora asks why they would do that.
"Maybe because Rocket stole their batteries." Gamora said.
Drax says it's probably because Rocket stole some of their batteries.
"Sellout."
Rocket glares at him. Drax backtracks and says Rocket didn't steal their batteries and he doesn't know why they're after them and calls the situation a mystery.
"Nice save." Rhodey said, sarcastically.
The Sovereigns start shooting. Quill asks Rocket what he was thinking.
Rocket says they were easy to steal.
"And that makes it okay!?" Everyone asked.
Gamora asks if that's his defence. Rocket says she saw how Ayesha talked down to them and says he's teaching her a lesson.
"That would make more sense if you hadn't stolen them before we talked to the Sovereign high priestess." Gamora said.
Quill says he didn't realize Rocket's motivation was altruism and says it's a shame that the Sovereign have mistaken his intentions and are trying to kill them. Rocket agrees.
"Pretty sure he was being sarcastic." Sam said.
Quill says he was being sarcastic.
Rocket says he was supposed to use a sarcastic voice and says he looks foolish now.
"Here come the headaches." Gamora sighed.
Gamora asks them to put the bickering on hold until after they survive the massive space battle.
Quill says there's more incoming. Sovereign ships appear in front of them.
Rocket says he wants to kill some guys.
"Oh my god.
The guardians start shooting the Sovereign ships. Gamora says he isn't killing anyone and says all the ships are remotely piloted.
"What like drones?" Peter asked.
The Sovereigns are all sitting in chairs, piloting the ships. One of their screens goes red, the woman swears.
"It's like an arcade game." Sam said.
Ayesha is watching them, she asks the admiral what they delay is.
The admiral says the batteries are exceptionally combustible and could destroy the entire fleet.
"So maybe just let us take 'em." Rocket suggested.
Ayesha says their concern is the slight against their people.
"You mean your pride?" Natasha asked.
She says they hired the guardians and they stole from them and says it's heresy of the highest order.
The Admiral tells the pilots to fire with the intent to kill.
"Ruthless." Fury muttered.
Quill asks what the nearest habitable planet is.
Gamora says it's called Berhert.
Quill asks how many jumps it is.
Gamora says it's only one but it's 47 clicks away and it's through a quantum asteroid field.
"Oh no."
Quill flies toward the field. Drax tells Quill that he'd have to be the greatest pilot in the universe to make it through that.
Rocket and Quill simultaneously say that they are.
Everyone rolled their eyes.
Rocket takes over the helm and Sovereign ships try to follow but get destroyed. Quill takes over the helm. Rocket asks what he's doing.
Quill says he's been flying the rig since he was 10.
Rocket says he was cybernetically engineered to do it.
"Oh my god. Stop arguing already and just get out of the asteroid field." Natasha said.
Quill tells him that he was cybernetically engineered to be a douchebag.
"Well, you're not wrong." Strange said.
Rocket tells Quill that he'll be lying in his bed later and there will be something squishy in his pillowcase and he's going to be like 'what's this' and it'll be because he put a turd in it.
"You're disgusting." Gamora said.
Quill tells Rocket he'll shave him if he puts his turd in his bed.
Rocket says it won't be his trud it'll be Drax's.
Drax says he has famously huge turds.
"I'll say it again. You're disgusting." Gamora said.
Gamora asks if this is what they're discussing before they die. Rocket and Quill fight over the helm, an asteroid hits them and blows a hole in the ship where Nebula is.
"Thank you for that by the way." Gamora said to Rocket and Quill.
Quill grabs Groot out of the air and throws him to Drax, then activates a shield around the hole in the ship. Nebula falls to the ground and calls them idiots.
"She's right."
Rocket says that's what they get when Quill flies.
"Oh please, that was on both of you." Nebula said.
Gamora throws something at Rocket and says that there's still a sovereign craft behind them.
A few sovereigns gather around the remaining pilot.
"It really is like an arcade." Rhodey said.
Quill says their weapons are down.
Gamora says there's 20 clicks to the jump.
Drax passes Groot to Gamora and goes to the lower part of the ship. Nebula is reaching for food, Drax kicks it away from her and says it isn't ripe.
Nebula glared at Drax.
Drax tethers himself to the ship and grabs a space suit.
The Sovereign start cheering Zylak on.
Gamora says there's 15 clicks to the jump.
Everyone starts cheering the guardians on.
Drax grabs a gun and jumps out of the ship.
"Oh god."
Gamora says there's 10 clicks to the jump.
Drax tells the spaceship to die.
"If only it worked like that." Carol said.
Drax shoots the ship.
One of the Sovereign tells Zylak that he sucks.
"He lasted longer than any of you fools did." Rocket said.
Gamora says there's 5 clicks to the jump. More sovereign appear.
"Where the hell did they come from?" Valkyrie asked.
Quill realizes that they went around the field. The ships start shooting, when suddenly they're all destroyed.
"What the hell?" Happy asked.
The admiral realizes someone destroyed all their ships. Ayesha asks who.
"I would also like to know who." Strange said.
Gamora says there's one click to the jump. Rocket looks out the window and sees a man standing on a ship.
"Who's that?" Howard asked.
Rocket asks what the man is.
Gamora tells them to get to the jump point.
Rocket says it's a guy.
"That's weird."
They make it through the jump point and start burning up in the planets atmosphere. Gamora realizes Drax is still out there.
"Oh no."
The ship starts crashing. Drax's tether breaks and Gamora grabs it, then grabs onto the side of the ship. Groot is sitting, eating candy.
"How is he so unfazed?" Vision asked.
Quill tells Groot to put his seatbelt on and prepare for a really bad landing. The ship crashes into some trees and scares the birds off.
"Oh my god." Everyone sighed.
'Berhert' appears on the screen.
The Milano breaks apart. Drax stands up and says that was awesome.
"How!?" Everyone asked.
Gamora asks where the other half of their ship is.
Quill says it's his ship.
"Not the time." Maria said.
Gamora says either Rocket or Quill could've gotten them through the asteroid field if the'd flown with what's between their ears rather than what's between their legs.
"Listen to her." Peggy said.
Quill says he could've landed the ship wit it if what's between his legs had a hand on it.
"You are disgusting." Gamora said.
Gamora tells Quill that they almost died because of his arrogance. Quill says it was because Rocket stole the anulax batteries.
"He's kinda right, you wouldn't have been in that mess in the first place if Rocket hadn't stolen from the Sovereign." Steve said.
Drax says they're called Harbulary batteries.
"No. They aren't." Strange said.
Quill says they aren't.
Rocket asks Quill if he knows why he did it and calls him Star-Munch.
Quill says he won't answer to Star-Munch.
Rocket says he stole them because he wanted to.
"Wow, great reason." Hank said, sarcastically.
Quill calls him a dick.
Rocket asks why they're even talking about this and says that they just had a little man save them by blowing up 50 ships.
"He wasn't little. That's for sure." Quill said.
Drax asks how little.
Rocket holds up 2 fingers and spaces them out and says he was that little.
"So you mean, normal sized but far away." Hope said.
Gamora asks if a little one inch man saved them.
Rocket says he's sure the man would've gotten bigger if he were closer.
"Yeah..."
Quill says that's how eyesight works and calls Rocket a raccoon.
Rocket tells Quill not to call him a raccoon.
"But... you are a raccoon." Shuri said.
Quill apologizes for taking it too far and says he meant trash panda.
Rocket asks Drax if that's better.
Drax says he doesn't know.
Quill says it's so much worse.
"Do they ever stop fighting?" Wanda asked.
Rocket goes to attack Quill. Nebula notices someone followed them through the jump point. The guardians get ready for a fight. Nebula tells them to set her free because they'll need her help.
"Nice try."
Gamora says she isn't a fool.
Nebula says she is a fool is she deprives herself of a hand in combat.
"True."
Gamora says Nebula will attack her the moment she lets her go.
Nebula says she won't.
Quill says that they'd think an evil supervillain would learn how to properly lie.
Drax says he bets the person is the one inch man.
"There is no one inch man." Natasha said.
The ship lands. Mantis and Ego step out.
"Him!?" Everyone asked.
Ego tells Quill that he found him after all these years.
Quill asks him who he is.
Ego says he figured his rugged good looks would've made it obvious.
"So humble." Sam joked.
Ego introduces himself and tells Quill that he's his dad.
"What?" Everyone asked.
"You are my dad, you're my dad." Peter said.
"Boogie woogie woogie." Shuri finished.