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"Mea culpa, it is so~ fascinating."

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(Rachel's POV):

"It's not so creepy at all." Rocket started to mumble.

I turn to him and wrinkle my snout at the smell of expensive male perfume from the stairs. I instantly sneezed: "Achoo! Sorry, I'm allergic to bullsh*tty perfumes." Making a certain raccoon slap his mouth to chortle and snicker at my joke, "Nice one, sweetheart." Rocket whispered. I blushed at his comment and looked away before we heard the pink lady speaking about her master's work.

"We house the galaxy's largest collection of fauna, relics, and species of all manner." She continued her explanation as we walked past a brown-reddish dog in a space suit. Rocket growled at the dog, but I couldn't help but giggle. As Rocket turned to me with an awkward smile by scratching the back of his neck, I made it clear that his behavior was strange yet adorable at the same time: "I present to you. Taneleer Tivan, The Collector." The pink lady introduced the man, who turned around dramatically with his white fur coat with black spots on it.

The man known as Tivan the Collector stared at the five of us before he came walking down the stairs by welcoming Gamora and lifted her hand to kiss it, "Oh. My dear Gamora. How wonderful to meet in the flesh." 

She spoke, "Let's bypass the formalities, Tivan. We have what we discussed." 

Groot stood in front of me so I could hide from the Collector's fiery eyes since I didn't feel comfortable with this man until Rocket took my paw and tightly held it without making eye contact as if he wasn't doing it but showed me his way of comforting me: "What is that thing there...?" 

Looking at Groot with interest, he (Collector) says, "I am Groot. (I am Groot)." "I never thought I'd meet a Groot. Sir-" The Collector walks towards Groot, "You must allow me to pay you now so I may keep your carcass. At the moment of your death, of course."

"I am Groot (um, why?)" Groot shrugs in confusion when Rocket says, "Why, so he could turn you into a frickin'chair?" He snarkily asked. 

Suddenly, the Collector had the guts to question us: "Those your pets?" "Excuse me/What!?" We both shouted, almost ready to take out our weapons to shoot this bastard. Still, luckily, before it could end badly, Gamora, on the other hand, interrupted our moment to kill the buyer for calling us pets: "We have been halfway around the galaxy, retrieving this orb."

"Very well...Then. Let us see what you brought," He says, finally taking his eyes off us. Turn to Peter as he takes the orb out, holding out, he drops it. I chuckle a little as he stands back up. "Oh, my new friends..." The Collector starts explaining after placing the Orb on the mechanism device to unlock it. 

At the same time, I let go of Rocket's paw (missing the warmth, of course) by jumping onto a box to take a closer look and observe it with interest: "Before creation itself, there were six singularities. Then, the universe exploded into existence. And the ruminants of these systems were forged into concentrated ingots... Infinity stones. These stones, it seems, can only be brandished by being of extraordinary strength." 

"Like what?" I asked, piqued.

"Observe, little creature." The Collector told me; my whiskers twitched in annoyance at the nickname but ignored it for the time being as he showed a scene behind Gamora and Peter where a giant was using the Infinity Stones as weapons, "These carriers can use the stone to mow down entire civilizations like wheat in a field." 

On the other hand, Peter starts to make a stupid joke to calm his fear down a bit, "There's a little pee coming out of me right now." "Once, for a moment, a group could share the energy amongst themselves, but even they were quickly destroyed by it." Once the Orb finally opened to reveal an Infinity Stone, my fur stood up in red flags. 

I narrowed my orange eyes at it, hesitantly whispering to Groot: "I don't like this." He nodded in agreement as we listened to the whitey man's words: "Beautiful... Beyond compare." That's when Rocket got bored and began to mock the buyer with his paws in fists that I almost snorted out loud, "Blah, blah, blah. We're all very 'fascinated,' whitey. But we'd like to get paid." The holographic scene turns off by itself as the Collector turns and asks, "How would you like to get paid?" "What do you think, fancy man? Units!" He said impatiently.

The Collector slowly nods and gets us all to share the units: "Very well, then." Then I see Carina slowly walking towards it as if she was hypnotized to do something terrible. The Collector stopped what he was doing and cautiously ordered her: "Carina, Stand back." "I will no longer be your slave!" "No!" It was too late; she reached for it, and he yelled for her to stop, but I jumped away by running towards Groot and Rocket, not wanting to see her holding the purple stone. 

I cover my ears, tripping over something. I fell to the ground when Rocket scooted around to where I was as Groot picked us up. Then suddenly, everything went dark.