𝕄𝕣. 𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖 𝕊𝕜𝕪

𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚜 𝚟𝚜. 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚔
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𝚕𝚘𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗:
𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙎𝙊𝙑𝙀𝙍𝙀𝙄𝙂𝙉

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With a breath, I adjusted my grip on Rocket's large blaster. Glancing to my left I noticed Gamora scratch at the vest that she along with the others on our band of six were forced to wear.

"Showtime, a-holes!" Peter called while holding a small device. Following his gaze to where he was looking, I silently prepared myself from whatever was about to come out of the swirling clouds above. "It's going to be here any minute." He informed us, observing the clouds intensely.

"Which will be its loss." The sound of a gun cocking caught both mine and Peter's attention.

The two of us looked over to Gamora who held a rather large blaster. I rose a brow at her, Peter doing the same as Gamora's thing was generally swords, not guns.

"I thought your thing was a sword?" Peter called out in an almost hurt tone, making Gamora roll her eyes.

"We've been hired to stop an interdimensional beast from feeding on those batteries and I'm going to stop it with a sword?" Gamora snarked, raising a brow at Peter watching him like the idiot he was.

Peter bristled, looking back down to the device in his hands. "It's just that swords were your thing, and guns were mine... but I guess we're both doing guns now, I just didn't know that." Peter said with pursed lips, me scoffing at him.

Gamora and Peter's relationship was a tricky one. It was apparent there was an obvious unspoken spark of romance they had going, but Gamora more than Peter refused to acknowledge it. However, I knew in the days coming something would push them over the edge and they wouldn't be able to ignore it any longer.

Geez, I wish my romantic life was that interesting.

Looking over to Drax, I did a double take at his shirtless nature. He was supposed to be wearing the vest alike to everyone else except me.

"Drax, why aren't you wearing one of Rocket's Aero-Rigs?" I scowled, reprimanding him.

The Aero-Rigs were a flight mechanism which Rocket had created allowing them all to fly. I didn't need one considering I was able to fly myself. Drax turned to me briefly, shaking his head.

"It hurts." Is all he said, gaining the attention of the rest of the crew.

"Hurts?" Gamora added.

Drax hesitated in elaborating, biting his lip while looking to the ground. "I have sensitive nipples." I rose a brow, Peter sucking in a breath.

A yelp of laughter came from our left, as Rocket the Racoon barked out crude laughter to Drax. "My nipples hurt, oh goodness me!" He mocked, paws going to his chest fingers rubbing his nipples in a mocking manner.

Facing him sharply, Drax pointed an accusing finger at the rude Racoon. "What about him! What is he doing?!"

Rocket smiled sarcastically at Drax, motioning to his work. "I'm finishing this, so we can listen to tunes while we work." He gestured down to where Peter's walkman lay with two speakers surrounding it, many wires crisscrossing each other.

"How is that a priority!"

"Blame Quill!" Rocket snapped gesturing to Peter. "He's the one who loves music so much!"

"No, no. Actually, I agree with Drax on this, that is hardly important right now." Peter agreed with Drax raising his brows.

"NO! Music always comes first, Quill!" I shouted, accusingly waving at Peter as if he were a traitor.

Peter turned to me mouth agape as he tossed his arms in the air. "What in the hell is the matter with you?"

"Everything!"

Rolling his eyes, Peter turned back to Rocket who almost had it finished pointing to Drax. "No, seriously. I am siding with Drax, this is not a priority."

"Oh, I understand that!" Rocket began winking furiously, everyone able to see him. I facepalmed myself at Rocket not understanding he had to wink in a way that no one could see him.

"I can clearly see you winking!" Drax cried out, narrowing his eyes at the raccoon.

"Damn it, I'm using the wrong eye!"

We all looked down upon hearing a small yell, my eyes widening as I watched baby Groot run up to an Orloni, and push it over, punching another one down soon after. Groot proudly turned to face Rocket who he now viewed as a father-figure.

"I am Groot."

"They were not looking at you funny!" Rocket sighed, twisting his wires to meet up together.

Before anyone could utter another word, our attention was drawn up to a boom happening in the sky. I frowned seeing the Abilisk we were hired to kill coming through the clouds, tentacles flailing.

"Well, that's intense." Rocket and I sighed at the same time, the two of us looking at each other upon our twin phrases.

I smiled at him, Rocket handing me a smirk back. It was no secret that after Groot, I was probably Rocket's favorite, I liked to say I had no favorites on the team, but Rocket was definitely always at my top.

I wasn't sure what it was, all I knew was that Rocket and I shared a sort of friendly connection to the other.

As the Abilisk fell down, Drax held two knives clutched in both his hands letting out a harsh battle cry. Once the Abilisk hit the ground, Drax raced forward the rest of us following in suit.

All five of us headed toward the beast, me turning my head when Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra began playing.

"AHHH!" I yelled, soaring through the air, one of the Abilisk many tentacles chasing me as I shot at it.

"Get away!" I yelled, firing the blaster at the Abilisk causing it to cry out in pain, the tentacle previously chasing me getting knocked to the ground making me smirk in victory.

Looking around, I snorted seeing the amusing sight of Drax yelling as one of the tentacles slammed him to the ground. Gamora screamed, dodging a blast of energy which escaped the beast's jaw.

Flying high into the air, I aimed my blaster at it firing at its eyes causing it to scream as its vision was getting knocked down. However, my firing was cut short by one of the tentacles reaching up and wrapping around my leg pulling me out of the air and to the ground.

A yelp of pain escaped me as I got the wind knocked out me, my vision blurring from the harshness of my head hitting the hard ground. However, I had no time to compensate as the tentacle once again lifted me in the air ready to smack me down again.

"Fuck!" I yelled, heating my body to a hot enough temperature that it burned through the Abilisk's thick skin, causing the beast to cry out dropping me immediately.

Before I hit the ground, I stopped myself floating just inches above where I would have hit. With a snarl, I looked up to the beast, which was distracted by Gamora using Rocket's Aero-Rig, flying just in front of its face firing her blaster at it.

Peter screamed as he was tossed through the air, landing harshly on the ground alike to how I did seconds ago. The music was abruptly cut off as Drax got thrown into the speakers, crushing them. I frowned at the lack of music, flying over to where Drax had just stood up and Groot was angrily kicking him for ruining the music.

I began shooting at the monster thing, Drax taking on a pondering look.

"The beast's hide appeared to be too thick from the outside," Gamora suddenly landed next to me, aiding me in firing at the beast with her own blaster. "I must cut through it from the inside." Gamora and I stopped firing, turning to Drax abruptly eyes wide.

"What?" Our voices ran in sync at Drax who was letting out roars of laughter, raising his blades in the air.

He took off sprinting towards to mouth, Gamora and I shouting for him to stop. Drax leaped in the air, smiling as the Abilisk turned to swallow him whole just as he wanted. We stood frozen watching in shock at what was happening, Peter joining us, mouth open.

"What is he doing!" Peter yelled, pressing a button which took off his cool looking space helmet.

"He said the skin was too thick to be pierced from the outside, so he-" Gamora began, Peter cutting her off.

"What? That doesn't make any sense!"

"I tried telling him that!"

"The same thickness from the inside is from the outside!"

"I realize that!"

Peter and Gamora squabbled like an old married coupled, despite me wanting to ship this situation, I had to cut them off not knowing how long Drax had inside before the thing began truly digesting him.

"There's a cut on its neck. Rocket! You and I need to get it to look up!" I screamed, leaping in the air flying with Rocket over its head.

"All right, you giant sea-monkey, up here!" Rocket rapidly fired at the beast, me throwing fireballs at it, allowing my skin to glow red-hot to keep the Abilisks attention planted on me.

Peter joined us, firing at the beast along with Rocket. However, the beast grabbed Peter with its tentacles waving him around in the air causing him to scream. Each time one of its tentacles would touch me it would scream recoiling from the heat I was giving off.

Looking over, I noticed Gamora's gun freezing causing her to growl and throw it to the side. Reaching onto the clasp of her belt, she pulled out her sword snapping it open. Allowing fire to wrap around my hands, I pointed both my hands at the beast curling my fingers as heavy fire left soaring at the Abilisk which yelled in pain.

"Die, motherfucker!" I screamed, floating up as the fire left my hands hitting the beast in the face.

Gamora dashed toward the beast at the same time, leaping in the air before plunging her sword straight into its neck. She yelled, holding tightly onto her hilt as she fell down, slicing a huge incision down the length of the creatures neck.

I stopped hitting the Abilisk with flames, watching as the beast moaned dropping Peter and falling to the ground dead. I watched in disgust as green slime oozed from the wound, Drax slipping out through and onto the ground.

Drax raised his knives laughing proudly, dripping with green ooze. "Yes! I have single-handedly vanquished the beast!" His laughs were cut short as Groot angrily threw a twig at him.

"What?" He asked, and at that moment from the corner of my eyes, I swear I saw two figures hurriedly leaving the scene.

However, both were gone before I had the chance to get a good look, the only thing I saw being blazing hair and a bowtie.