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CHAPTER ELEVEN━━ chemistry

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♯ ❝LEAVE HIM ALONE! ❞
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MIDAS' HANDS SWEATED AND HER EYES DARTED NERVOUSLY around her as she swerved through space, many starships from Ronan close by as they didn't give up the chase like she would have hoped. Her breathing started to get uneaven as it started to get harder to escape her chasers. Casting a glance behind her, the brunette could see Peter's pod in the distance hovering by the planet, not crossing into space just yet.

"What? Wait! These things aren't meant to go out there," Peter exclaimed through the comlink, but it was too late as Nebula already fired the finale shot, bringing Midas' small ship down. The small amount of glass in front of her shattered from the explosion, throwing her out in the progress.

Peter watched from the distance in horror as the brunette's ship was blown to pieces, a glum look on his face as Rocket and Gamora watched the Orb hover through the air, until it was obtained by one of Ronan's ships.

They all watched Midas' lifeless body, floating between the debris, her skin a sickly pale color, already decomposing due to the lack of oxygen. Peter, Gamora and Rocket's ships were all that were left outside of Knowhere as Ronan's ships flew away now that they had obtained their precious orb.

The sound of the engine whirring down reminded the group that their pods weren't suitable to be out in space. "Quill, come on," Rocket urged, in a sorrowful tone, but his fear of having the same fate as the intergalactic thief urged him to get away. "Her body mods should keep her alive a couple more minutes, but there's nothing we can do for her."

"These pods aren't meant to be out here, Quill. We can't stay here, there is nothing we can do for her anymore." Gamora added her voice also soft and her glassy eyes fixated on Midas before both Rocket and Gamora started to make their way back.

Peter stayed. He watched the once fierce girl with the leather jacket that came stumbling in his life, making it a tad bit brighter with her smile as she danced to his music. But now she floated lifelessly around space her smile long vanished from her face and it stirred something in him.

"Aw, damn it," Peter muttered to himself, before looking at the communication systems to reach his last remaining option. "Yondu! Yondu," he called out. "This is Quill! My coordinates are 227K324, just outside Knowhere!"

Rocket and Gamora had turned their ships around, shocked. "Quill, what are you doing?" Gamora questioned as she flew back to Peter's pod.

"If you're there, come get me," Peter spoke up, looking to Midas' body. "I'm all yours."

He had ignored Rocket and Gamora's protests and pushed the button beside his ear, activating his helmet. He climbed out of the pod, and stirred himself forward using his  boots, until he he reached the brunette and slung his arms around the woman's floating limp body.

He stared at her, hoping that she would just open her eyes and smile at him. But her eyes remained closed and more grey patches took over her skin.

Suddenly he removed the earpiece and put it onto Midas' ear, his skin growing identical to hers within seconds as he placed his helmet on her face.

Hearing her gasp send a wave of relief through Peter as his own body started to reactes to the vacuum of outer space.

The woman gasped for air and her eyes widened at the sight of Peter in front of her, slowly dying from the lack of oxygen and she tried to give him the helmet back, but her grabbed her hands in his, stopping her from doing so and tears welled up in the brunette's eyes.

Then a bright light shone upon them, and a fleet of Ravager ships had approached. Yondu's mothership began to haul them in. Despite Peter growing weaker and weaker by the second, his grip on Midas' hands remained strong until a small gate opened up and pulled them inside.

Peter fell on top of Midas, the man heaving for air while the brunette and struggled to get the mask off and when she did she grabbed Peter's face in her hands, some tears had escaped and rolled down her cheeks as she looked at the man in front of her

    "Peter?" Her voice was a mere whisper " He stared into her glazed eyes. "What the hell were you thinking you crazy asshole?"

     "I saw you out there. I don't know what came over me." He spoke truthfully, wiping some stray tears from her cheeks. "But I couldn't let you die. I found something inside of myself. Something incredibly heroic. I mean, not to brag-"

"Thank you." She whispered cutting his sentence short as he started to get cocky.

"Plus, I mean we got some chemistry, like come on!" Peter gave her a sly smile as he looked down at her and even leaned down a bit more. "And if I'm honest I quite like this position we're in right now."

Midas' eyes narrowed before she tried to push the man off of her with a grunt. "Alright, enough chick flick moments, get off me you big idiot."

Before he could say anything else both their heads whipped to the side as a door opened and a crowd of Ravagers stood there, all pointing large guns at the pair. "Welcome home, Peter."

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     "YOU BETRAY ME!" YONDU SNARLED OUT AS PETER groaned, earning a punch in the gut, the air being knocked out of him as he heaved loudly. "Steal my money?!"

      "Stop it! Leave him alone!" Midas roared, trashing in the grip of one of the Ravengers that held her back. "You bastard!" She screamed as Yondu continued his assault on the man.

    "When I picked you up as a kid, these boys wanted to eat you," Yondu grabbed Peter's face harshly, forcing him to look up. "They ain't never tasted Terran before," Yondu hissed, "I saved your life!"

     "Oh, will you shut up about that? God! Twenty years, you been throwing that in my face, like it's some great thing, not eating me," Peter snapped, looking more meanencing with the blood dripping down his nose. "Normal people don't even think about eating someone else, much less that person having to be grateful for it! You abducted me, man. You stole me from my home and from my family!"

     "You don't give a damn about your Terra! You're scared because you're soft in here," he taunted, hitting Peter's chest harshly as the man winced in pain.

     Midas had been calling out over and over, pleading for Yondu to stop, though her voice was nothing but irrelevant noise to the man, until finally, she had screamed with so much power that Yondu couldn't help but avert his eyes to look at her and he scowled at her. "Yondu! Listen to me. Ronan has something called an Infinity Stone."

      "I know what he's got, girl." He growled stepping closer to her.

     She gritted her teeth, fire burning behind her eyes as she looked up at the man. "Then you know we must get it back! He'll use it to destroy the entirety of Xandar." By now, her voice had lowered dangeroulsy. "We must warn them. Billions of people will perish." She struggled against the grasps of the ravagers holding her back.

     "Is that what she's been fillin' your head with, boy? Sentiment?!" Yondu struck Peter across the face, and the Ravagers laughed. "Eating away your brain like maggots?" Yondu shook his head and whistled, then from a holster flew out an arrow, pointed directly at Peter's neck.

     "No!" The brunette roared in terror, thrashing around, her eyes wild as she narrowes her eyes at Yondu.

    "Sorry, boy, but a captain's gotta teach his men what happens to those that cross him," Yondu declared, motioning towards his crew.

     "If you kill me now you'll be saying goodbye to the biggest score you have ever seen." Peter said, tauntingly.

     Yondu smirked, turning around to look at him. "The Stone? I hope you got something better than that, cause ain't nobody stealing from Ronan," he responded.

     "Look, we got a ringer." Midas Spoke up and Yondu, glanced at her, "She knows everything there is to know about Ronan. His ships, his army. She's probably still on Knowhere. If you let us go."

     "Hey, what do you say, Yondu, huh? Me and you, taking down a mark side-by-side, like the old days." He smirked and chuckled nervously.

     Yondu stood for a moment, contemplating the proposition in his head as the two terrans held their breath in anticipation.

    All of a sudden he whistled, and the arrow flew back to its holster, and Midas sighed in relief and she could see Quill visably relax.

    Yondu began to laugh obnoxiously, "You always did have a scrote, boy," Yondu grinned, pulling Peter in for a rough hug. "That's why I kept you on as a young'un."

     The two ravagers that were previously holding her, released their grip and Midas quickly stepped away from them with a glare. Turning to a third ravager she snatched her staff out of his hands and went to stand next to Peter. They were all prepared to leave but they were interrupted when the entire ship shook and rumbled.

     The Ravagers broke into a run, and Midas and Peter followed them into the cockpit of the ship unsure about what was happening.

     "Captain, the shot was non-damaging." A Ravenger informed Yondu as they entered the cockpit.

     "Attention, idiots."

     There was no doubt that the aggressive voice belonged to an weapon-crazy raccoon and Midas grinned hearing his voice, but her smirk fell the moment he spoke his next words.

     "The lunatic on top of this craft is holding a Hadron Enfrocer. It's a weapon of my own design and If you don't hand over our companions now, he's gonna tear your ship a new one. A very big new one!"

     "I ain't buyin' it," Yondu said, though his voice was unsure.

     "You should totally buy that, like right now!" Midas urged nervously knowing what Rocket was capable of.

     "I'm giving you to the count of five. Five! Four!"

       Both Midas and Peter began to panic and they began to frantically shove through the crowds of Ravagers when Yondu showed no signs of giving in to Rocket's request.

     "No! Wait, hold on!" Peter exclaimed, and he pressed a button on the armrest of one of the pilot seats. "Rocket, it's me, for God sakes! We figured it out! We're fine!"

     "Oh, hey Quill, what's going on?"

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