AN- This 2-part short story happens after the first movie, but before the second.

3rd Person POV

The new Guardians of the Galaxy had just finished saving the galaxy from Ronan the Accuser and turned the Infinity Stone in to Nova Prime, who had put it in a high-security vault in Nova Corp. They then settled on doing 'a bit of both' by going to a bar on Knowhere.

When they arrived, Peter, Rocket, and Drax automatically ordered several rounds of alcoholic beverages, laughing about the countless times they thought they were going to die and tried to give the growing Baby Groot a drink, but were stopped each time they tried.

Meanwhile, Gamora drained down a drink before she stopped and noticed that JJ was standing off to the side blankly staring off with a concerned look on her face.

"You alright?" Gamora asked as she walked up to her with a drink in hand and offered it to her, but she shook her head.

"Keeping my senses sharp in case someone tries to start somethin'." JJ replied.

"Then why do you look so lost?" JJ hesitated before answering,

"I'm just thinking about how it was before Rocket, Groot, and I met you guys." She replied nodding her head over to the guys.

"And?"

"When it was just the three of us, they always hid me or covered for me every time I would go and help them since the Oajins have been trying to track me down for a couple of years now."

"Oajins?"

"The beings who had trained and experimented on me in the lab and who's leader, Kryjer, still wants to use me as a weapon against his enemies." JJ responded before continuing,

"Now that it's been announced that we're the 'Guardians of the Galaxy', they will have no trouble in finding me and..." She trailed off thinking about what would happen if she were turned into an actual weapon.

"I thought you weren't afraid of anything?" Gamora asked with a slight smirk.

"Well, now my only fear is losing my new family... like my old one." JJ admitted with such ease, that it surprised Gamora, even with the whispered last part.

"Being a part of this team may make it easier to find you, but it also makes it harder to get to you since you have all of us here to have your back, so you shouldn't worry too much about it." Gamora told JJ before she went back over to the guys to refill her drink as JJ considered her words.

I guess there is some truth to that I'm harder to get to, but I don't want them to be in danger because of me... She thought to herself just as three thugs came into the bar and started shoving people around and breaking things. JJ looked over to her team and saw that Gamora was busy trying to keep Quill, Drax, and Rocket from fighting each other and others, so she figured it was up to her.

"Hey!" She yelled at them and when they turned their attention to her as she threatened, "You better take your issues elsewhere cause no one here wants any trouble." Making the thugs roar with laughter.

"The little girl from the 'A-holes of the Galaxy' thinks she can be a hero!" The biggest guy walked up to JJ, roughly grabbed her by the collar of her shirt, and held her up at arm's length as she tried to fight back.

JJ grasped the arm that was holding her up and tried to send a shock through it, but it failed and she continued to struggle in his hold.

"Put. Her. Down. and Get Out!" The thug turned around to see the other guardians behind him and Rocket was the one who spoke while holding a large gun, aiming it at the guy holding JJ.

"Fine." The thug holding her said grudgingly and she was dropped onto the floor as they left, mumbling insults under their breath as they went.

"Are you hurt?" Gamora asked as she propped up Peter on her right side.

"What were those Orloni's doin'?" Peter asked slightly slurring.

"Yeah, let's just go." JJ said as she dusted herself off as she and the Guardians walked out. They were heading back to the Milano, with Gamora and Drax propping up a hangover Peter and Rocket carrying Baby Groot's pot when JJ felt a sharp pain in her stomach.

In her mind's eye, she saw the same images from after her encounter with the Power stone; four colored, glowing shards coming off the Infinity Stones, converging until a planet was formed and humanoid figures were seen on the surface. However, something new was seen in this dream, a wave of energy from an unknown source was seen sweeping over the planet, vaporizing all the people into dust.

JJ?

Kid!

Yo sparkyyyy!

JJ gasped in a breath of air as she realized she wasn't breathing the whole time her vision blacked out from the dream.

"Hey hey hey hey are you A-OK?" Peter roughly thumped a hand on JJ's shoulder as she calmed down by taking deep breaths.

"What happened?" Gamora came into JJ' view.

"We thought the electric child had died due to her lack of breathing for two minutes." Drax stated plainly as he harshly patted JJ on her back.

"What's wrong kid?" Rocket asked as Baby Groot made little noises of concern.

"The dream from before... I saw more this time..." She breathed as her eyes were wide open and not blinking.

"What?" Rocket asked.

"There they are!" They heard a voice yell from close by. When they turned toward the voice, they saw it was the thugs who tried to make trouble earlier and one horribly familiar face.

Kryjer... JJ thought in horror.

"Come on, we gotta get out of here now!" JJ tugged on Rocket's paw as Gamora hurriedly pulled Peter along with Drax's help to get back to the Milano as fast as they could.

"Hey, you didn't pay for your drinks!" They heard the bar owner yell from the doorway.

"We just saved the galaxy dude!" Peter yelled back still slurring his speech before Gamora shoved him on board and into a seat in the cockpit of the Milano and they began to take off.

"They are still following us." Drax pointed to the Oajin ship that was beginning to pull up next to them.

"Try to shake'em while I activate the weapons system." Rocket started typing in commands into the ship's system to start shooting at the ship next to them.

"It is not working." Drax gestured to the shots bouncing off the ship's exterior like nothing as the ship pulled up right next to them.

"I can see that!"

"Surrender Subject J75-4, or we will shoot your ship down and take the subject back by force." Kryjer demanded as he glared at the Guardians through the front of the Milano.

"What are we supposed to do? There aren't any jump points nearby." Gamora asked as she used the navigation system to try to find an escape route.

"Leave this to me..." JJ made her way to the engine and rubbed her gloved hands preparing a charge.

"Woah, kid, you couldn't make a spark back in the bar what makes you think you can do it now?" Rocket yelled back to her.

"Because I'm trying to protect you all..." JJ closed her eyes and brought up a spark of energy that she magnified to large proportions and directed it to the ship's engine. Rocket saw what she was doing so he threw the lever to increase the speed of the ship to where they basically hyper jumped away from Knowhere to another star system, leaving a furious Kryjer.

3rd Person POV with the Guardians

When the jump finished, everyone fell from their seats feeling lightheaded, while JJ fell to the ground unconscious. Gamora went to set her down on the bench while Rocket tried to figure out where they were.

"We just jumped 20 points in 10 seconds." He announced while looking at the screens, before they went completely dark, "And now half the ship's systems are completely fried."

"At least we're still alive." Gamora stated after she had slapped Peter awake and back to his senses as he rubbed his sore cheek in annoyance.

"Yeah, and now we don't even know where the krutack we are." Rocket pointed out as they all saw that they were on a desolate planet.

"We must find out where we are before this crier does." Drax announced while punching a fist to his hand.

"Kryjer." Rocket corrected him.

"Unless JJ wakes up, and that seems highly unlikely at the moment, she won't be able to tell us how to heal her." Gamora pointed out and they turned their attention to where she had set JJ down on the bench in the cockpit right next to Baby Groot in his pot, who was gently patting JJ's cheek with a worried look.

"Maybe you could just slap her awake like you did to me!" Peter yelled the last part to Gamora, but shut his mouth when he saw her preparing another blow.

"The idiot might actually have an idea." Rocket admitted as he went over to JJ and gave her a hard slap on the forehead, but she didn't even twitch in response.

"I don't think that will work." Gamora told Rocket as he prepared another slap.

"And why not? It worked on Quill and he's even more stubborn than she is."

"She's exhausted herself too much she needs some time to rest and recharge." Gamora responded while crossing her arms in thought.

"This is new how?" Rocket asked with a hint of sarcasm.

"She's healing from pushing her usual limits especially after our encounter with the Power Stone, she needs to lay off using her powers for a while." Rocket looked down at JJ as Baby Groot extended his arms out to her to give her head a hug.

"Don't worry, we'll figure out where we are, how to stop Kryjer, and she'll heal up and be back to normal in no time. Well, normal for her always." Peter, more or less, got over his hangover and gave Rocket a pat on the back, retracting his hand quickly before he could bite it.

"What do we do in the meantime about that?" Drax questioned while pointing to one of the Milano's jets that sputtered out while the other started to weaken.

"I'll go and make repairs to the engines, you idiots just don't turn them on while I'm out there. Oh and get the kid some energy or else the poison will be makin' its way through her real soon" Rocket went down to the hangar to get to work on the engines leaving Gamora to the task.

Gamora sat down next to JJ as Groot continued to look at her worriedly, only intensifying after JJ's face scrunched up in an expression of pain as some dark purple made their way through her veins up to her face.

"Don't worry, we'll figure out a way out of here." Gamora assured Groot as she quickly plugged a cord into the power panel and used JJ's limp hands to grip the cord, leaving it in her hold on a low setting for recharging as the purple receded and JJ settled down into a more peaceful state, allowing Gamora to get up and leave.

As she did, a dim light glowed on her chest, making a few wisps of light rise up and make their way over to the window to point to something in the distance. Groot noticed this and tried to wave to Gamora but to no avail and bent over JJ with a hopeful look on his little face.

Meanwhile with Kryjer

"Has the Subject been located?"

"We believe we've located a potential match on a planet in Sector R-85." A soldier reported to Kryjer.

"Send every ship we have to that Sector and tell them to retrieve the Subject with the intent to kill anyone who tries to stop them."

"Yes Sir." The soldier used his right hand to punch the top of his left shoulder with a head bow before leaving.

Kryjer sat down at his desk, looking over the files that showed JJ during her lab training days with various charts and reports on her powers along with the blueprints of a planet with several notes in red ink on how to infiltrate and destroy the planet from the inside with small lightning bolts drawn next to them.

Soon we will have our weapon of mass destruction and we can take back what is ours, you cannot run forever, J75-4...

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