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I walked around Quill's filthy ship some more when I heard him yelling.

"Woah, woah, woah! Yo, Ranger Rick! What are you doing? You can't take apart my ship without asking me! See, what is that?" Quill said as he picked up the device Rocket was working on.

"Don't touch that, it's a bomb." Rocket said simply.

"A bomb?" I asked as I walked further into the room.

"Yep."

"And you leave it lying around?" Quill asked.

"I was gonna put it in a box."

"What's a box gonna do?"

Rocket then picked up a nice wrapped up box.

"How about this one"

"No! Whoa! Hey! Hey! Leave it alone!" Quill yelled as he took the box out of his hand.

"Why? What is it?"

"Shut up."

I walk over and examine more of Rockets inventions.

"What is that?" Quill asked as he pointed to one of antoher of Rockets inventions.

"That's for if things get really hardcore. Or if you wanna blow up moons." Rocket said as my eyes widened.

"Why would we even blow up a moon?" I asked.

"No one's blowing up moons." Gamora stated.

"You just wanna suck the joy out of everything." Rocket mumbled.

Quill then walked over to Gamora.

"So, listen, I'm gonna need your buyer's coordinates."

"We're heading in the right direction, for now." Gamora said as she took the orb out of Quill's hand.

"If we're gonna work together, you might want to try trusting me a little bit."

"And how much do you trust me?" She said as she took the orb from him.

"Not one bit." I grumbled, while she looked my way.

"I thought we agreed to be on good terms."

"Oh, we are, but I can still make comments if I wish."

Gamora sighed as she turned back to Quill.

"I'd trust you a lot more if you told me what this was. Because I'm guessing it's some kind of weapon."

"Is don't know what it is." Gamora said.

"What about you?" Quill asked as he looked over at me.

"My parents declined to share that information with me." I answered as he sighed and set the orb down.

"If it's a weapon, we should use it against Ronan." Drax said as he picked up the orb.

"Put it down, you fool! You'll kill us all!" Gamora yelled.

"Or just you, murderess!" Drax yelled.

"I let you live once, princess!" Gamora yelled.

"I am not a princess!"

"Hey! Nobody is killing anybody on my ship! We're stuck together until we get the money." Quill said as Drax threw the on to him.

"I have no interstate in money." He said as he walked off.

"Great. That means more money for the three of us."

Groot then grunts.

"For the four of us. Partners."

"We have an agreement, but I would never be partners with the likes of you. I'll tell the buyer we're on our way. And Quill, your ship is filthy." Gamora said as she walked off.

"Oh, she has no idea. If I had a black light, the place would look like Jackson Pollock painting."

"You got issues Quill." Rocket said as went back to work. While I held a confused look on my face.

"I do not get it, why would you make the room black?"

Quill looked over at me and sighed.

"Never mind."

I walked over to Rocket as he sat in a seat up front.

"Rocket." I called as he looked over at me.

"What?"

I unhook one of my teleportaion orbs and toss it to him.

"What is it?" He asked.

"One of my creations. It is a teleporting orb. Do you think that you can enhance it, make it teleportaion more then one person?"

He eyes the orb and looked back over at me before sighing.

"I can try."

A smile crossed my face as I walked over and gave him a side hug.

"Thank you Rocket! You are a great companion."

"Yeah, yeah, now let go."

I let go as I smiled.

"Heads up! We're inbound." Rocket said as a skull came into view.

Everyone came over. I then found the piolet seat, Quill walked over to that seat. But I looked over at him and sat in his seat, and threw my legs over the arm of the seat.

"Hey, that's my seat."

I looked him over, and growled. He then sighed as he backed off.

"What is it?" Quill asked as we got off the ship and walked around.

"It's called Knowhere. The severed head of an ancient celestial being. Be wary headed in, rodent. There are no regulations whatsoever here. Hundreds of years ago, the Tivan Group sent workers in to mine the organic matter within the skull. The bone, brain tissue, spinal fluid. All rare resources, highly valued in the black markets across the galaxy. It's dangerous and illegal work, suitable only for outlaws." Gamora explained.

"Well, I come from a planet of outlaws. Billy the kid, Bonnie and Clyde and John Stamos." Quill said while I hummed in amusement, as I walked by Quill looking around.

"It sounds like a place which I would like to visit." Drax said.

"Yeah, you should."

"Excuse me." Some kids said as they surrounded us."

"Watch your wallets." Quill mumbled.

"Can you spare any units?" A child asked.

"Get out of here." Rocket said, while a girl walked up to Groot, Groot then grew a flower from the palm of his hand and handed it to her. Another one walked over to me, and the other kids slightly bowed. I bowed back as I picked up some flowers that where on the ground. I held them in my palms and watched as they glowed a bright gold. The others watching in amusement. I then lifted my hands and watched as the dust flowed over my hands. I then transfered the energy over to the children and let the dust surround them, until it faded away. I haven't done that in awhile. And it warmed my heart to make the children happy.

"Thank you Princess." They said as they ran off.

I turned back around to see the others looking at me in astonishment.

"What the hell was that? And why they call you princess." Quill asked.

"It was a death ritual. My people honor death, so when anything was close to dying we would take their souls and bend it, making it one with our sky. And to answer your second question I just so happened to the princess of my home world."

"Why wouldn't you tell us that!?" Quill asked.

"It was not necessary, now let's go, we've wasted enough time " I said as I walked past them.

"Your buyer's here?" Rocket asked as we walked into a bar.

"We are to wait here for his representative." Gamora said.

"This is no respectable establishment. What do you expect us to do while we wait." Drax said. But about 10 minutes later he was with Rocket gambling.

I was outside on the balcony looking up at the stars. Gamora was off at the knife shop. While Quill was now where to be found.

"Man, you wouldn't believe what they charge for fuel out here. I might actually lose money on this job."

Speak of the devil

"Gamora's connection is making us wait."

We were silent for a moment before he spoke up.

"So, uh, why do you hate Gamora so much."

I glanced over at him.

"You don't have to ans-"

"She was there when my parents died."

He stopped and stared at me.

"I was only a teenager, 15 to be exact. When my whole family were murdered in front of me by Thanos and Ronan. Gamora was there. I begged for her and her sister to stop the madness and to let us live. But they did nothing. Ronan killed my mother, then my twin sisters, they were only 12, and then my older brother. Thanos then killed my father, and before he could kill me, Gamora stopped him, she spared me, but not my family. I guess I took the pain out on her and the thought of killing her. But now I don't know anymore."

Quill didn't say anything and kept quiet. I decided to break the silence by grabbing the device on his belt.

"Why would you risk your life for this?"

"My mother gave it to me. My mom liked to share with me all the pop songs that she loved growing up. I happened to have it on me when I was...the day that she...You know, when I left work." He said as he took the device from me and put it back o  his belt.

"What do you do with it?"

"Do? Nothing. You listen to it. Or you can dance."

"I am a warrior and theif. I do not dance." I spook.

"Really? Well, on my planet, there's a legend about people like you. It's called 'Footloose.' And in it, a great hero named Kevin Bacon, teaches an entire city full of people with sticks up their butt that dancing, well.....it's the greatest thing there is." Quill explained.

"Who put the sticks up their butts?" I asked.

"What? No, that's just a..."

"That is cruel."

"It's just a phrase people use." Quill says as he places some type of ear muffs onto my head. Soon a melody filled my head. I smiled as I booped my head as I smiled.

"The melody is pleasant!" I said, not knowing that I was shouting. He then grabbed my hand and held it up. I looked down at out intertwined hands. I was so lost I didn't know that we were both inching closer to eachohter. Our noses brushing against eachother, until I snapped into my senses, I pulled out a knife and held it to his neck.

"No!"

"Ow! What the hell!"

"I know who you are Quill! And I refuse to let you use your magic to make me fall for you!"

"Okay, that's not what was happening right now."

Before he could say more, are crashing sound came from inside the bar.

"Oh no."

Peter said as he walked into the bar, with me on his tail.

Why would I let myself fall for the Terran and his stupid tricks. Maybe I am just losing my mind.

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