"Holy crutack, are you related to Rocket?" Casey heard somebody ask her.
It was just a typical weekend so for Casey, it involved going to her favourite comic-book store so she could get her favourite comics noticing a kid her abe wearing a shirt with her uncle on it, making the brown-red furred female kit impressed guessing she could use an new friend especially one who thought her uncle was awesome like she did introducing herself.
"Sweet Casey, I'm Cherry, your uncle is awesome." she told her making Casey see the girl was getting comics too, talking and becoming fast friends, knowing her uncle would be impressed when she told him later over swarma, making Cherry surprised by this.
A few days later while hanging out, Casey saw the sky going dark, and waves of blue mist sweeping through the city, which she and Cherry knew as terragen mist needing to protect her friend because the terragen mist wouldn't hurt her because she was born with many super-powers but Cherry might, trying to be a furry shirld, seeing the red-haired girl being surrounded by the blue-mist breathing it in coughing.
"Ahhhh this is strange, what's happening, I am Groot?" Casey heard her say, freaking out, seeing what had happened to her friend, seeing she was half-Groot and her arms could turn into Groot vines impressing her, needing to take her othe Avengers compound, seeing her uncle and the other Avengers doing damage control, seeing her uncle there, asking if she was alright.
"Yeah I'm immune to it, but my friend Cherry became half-Groot." Casey said making Rocket impressed taking Cherry with them, as she needed them...
"Wow, so that's you met Cherry, why she's half-Groot?" Yama asked seeing Casey nodding, hearing laughter because Groot was teaching Cherry to use her powers along with her vines having fun, making Casey happy, knowing Cherry's mom worked for SHIELD so had let her daughter live at the Avengers compound but proud that she might become an Avenger makimg Casey get it, since Cassie was doimg stuff with her dad and Hope, Monica was with Carol and Kamala and Thrud was in Asgard with her parenas, so having Cherry here made Casey feel not-so lonely which Yama was noticing plus her fur had turned a little blue indicating she was sad seeing Rocket there, wondering what he was wanting.
"Since things are a bit quiet here, I was wanting to go to Knowhere, and wondered if you wanted to come, we should bring Cherry and Yama, what do you think?" he said making Casey impressed that her uncle was wanting to take her on an adventure, along with Cherry and Yama going to tell them, making Rocket smile, because he'd been worrying about Casey all day, especially seeing her fur go blue so figured an adventure would cheer her up, seeing Yama agreeing seeing Casey along with Cherry and Groot show up.
"Sweet, we're going on an adventure, into outer space!" Cherry said making Casey and Yama giggle, making Rocket smirk, knowing a little hyper-sleep nap would do them good, for when they got to Knowhere, so he and Groot could talk, because they needed some alone time and Knowhere would be fun, knowing they always had a good time there, makimg Casey agree.
"Maybe we'll bump into Aunt Carol while there, she always stops there." she told him yawning, along with Cherry and Yama, because Rocket had activated the hyper-sleep, like when he and the other Guardians went on long missions on the Milano which ade Starlord take an nap, so he would not bug him or the others, seeing Groot smirk at this, knowing they would have fun.
"Yeah, Casey was feeling lonely because her pals are doimg things with their folks, plus her parents went to Half-World with Terra to visit her grandparents, so I figured a little galatic mischief with us and her friends might make her happier." Rocket told him while the ship was on auto-pilot, so they were talking and jokimg..
After they landed on Knowhere, Rocket turned off the hyper-sleep function, seeing Casey, Cherry and Yama beginning to stir, asking him if they were there yet, seeing him nod making them excited, making Groot chuckle seeing a fwer on Casey's furry shoulder, guessing Yama had asked Cherryto do the flower thing, he did, making Rocket smile, finding it sweet knowing how much the male zombcoon youngster loved his niece seeing them follow them off the ship, going to Starling's Tavern.
"Sweet we're in a bar, wait until the other kids hear when we get back!" Yama said to him, makimg Rocket chuckle, letting them have a little alochol because he was there along with Groot seeing them like it, especially Yama making Casey giggle after drinking a cocktail her uncle was sharing with her, while Cherry was drinking soda, impressed by her friends drinking and aving fun, making Groot understand.
Later that early morning, they returned to the compound, with Casey, Rocket and Yama hung over, letting them rest hearing a mission alert seeing somebody was stealing food and wallets, makimg Rocket curious leaving the compound to check it out, telling Groot to keep an eye on Casey, Cherry and Yama makimg Groot understand.