It had been a few hours after they were chased by the Sovereign which lead to the introduction of Ego, during these hours nothing much has happened. Y/N  still was kept as the prisoner along with Nebula. At least he finally found out that the muscular man was named Drax, and the raccoon was Rocket. At least it would be easier for him to call them by their names, because it looked like he was going to stay with these Guardians for longer than he originally planned.

As for this moment, they all have been sitting by the fire, as Ego started explaining something to Quill, "I hired Yondu to pick you up when your mother passed away." he began, "But instead of returning you, Yondu kept you. I have no clue as to why."

"Well, I'll tell you why." Quill said, "Because I was a skinny little kid who could squeeze into places adults couldn't. It made it easier for thievin'."

"Well, I've been trying to track you down ever since." Ego declared.

"I thought Yondu was your father." Drax spoke up from where he stood, as he held a bowl of soup in his hand.

"What?" Quill asked, confused by it.

"You look exactly alike." Drax stated.

"One's blue!" Rocket shouted.

"No, he's not my father! Yondu was the guy who abducted me, kicked the crap out of me so I could learn fight, and kept me in terror by threatening to eat me." Quill explained.

"And you fell for it?" Y/N asked.

"I was eight years old at the time." Quill answered, glaring at the masked-man.

"Oh... I can get it now." Y/N stated, with a quick nod of his head.

''How'd you locate us?" Gamora asked Ego.

"Well, even where I reside, out past the edge of what's known... we've heard about the man named Star-Lord. What say we head out there, right now? Your associates are welcome. Even that triagle faced monkey there." Ego began, gesturing his head towards Rocket, who then started to touch his face, only to find out that he did had a triangle face, "I promise, it's unlike any other place you've ever seen. And there, I can explain your heritage. Finally get to be the father I've always wanted to be." he looked around the people around the fire, before adding, "Now, everyone excuse me. I've gotta take a whiz."

"I'm not buying it." Quill stated, as Ego left the group to relieve himself.

"Let's take a walk." Gamora said, as she stood up, Quill soon followed her into the trees.

As they left them as well, the woman who was accompanying Ego, finally spoke up. She started smiling awkwardly at Drax, "I'm Mantis."

"What are you doing?" Drax asked.

"Smiling. I hear it is the thing to do to make people like you." Mantis' smile grew wider.

"Not if you do like that." Drax stated, as he went back to eating his soup.

Mantis looked down at Rocket, then back at Drax, "Can I pet your puppy? It is adorable."

Drax at her for a moment, unsure of what to say, "Yes."

Mantis lowered her hand towards Rocket, and as she was about to touch him, Rocket snapped at her, almost biting her, making her jump and scream a little, causing Drax to laugh, "That is called a practical joke!"

"I like this very much." She said, innocently, as she joined Drax, and began laughing as well.

Nebula shook her head, and rolled her eyes, as Y/N just shrugged his shoulders at the view of this.

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"You're leaving me with that fox!?" Nebula shouted at her sister.

"He's not a fox." Gamora replied, calmly.

"He's a trash panda if I remember correctly." Y/N stated, earning a growl from Rocket.

Gamora just rolled her eyes at Y/N's comment, as she made her way to Groot, who seemed to be sad to see her leave, "Don't worry, it's okay." She said, in a motherly tone, "It'll be just a couple of days. We'll be back before Rocket finishes repairing the ship."

With that, she walked out of the ship and joined Quill, Drax outside, before the three of them made their way towards Ego's ship. As for Rocket, he stayed behind to repair the ship from the damages that were done to it by the Sovereign.

"I know it's not my business, but what is it going on with you? Between you and your sister?" Y/N asked Nebula, wanting to start a conversation with someone. This question was bugging him ever since he was taken by the Guardians from the Sovereign.

"You already answered this question." Nebula said, angrily, glaring at her fellow prisoner.

"Listen, I'm not demanding an answer, I'm just curious." He said, trying to calm her down a bit, "I can tell you my story if you want to, even though, I assume that you probably don't care about my history."

Nebula bit her lip, before asking Y/N a question, "Have you ever heard of Thanos?"

"Thanos? You mean the Mad Titan? Of course I did, but I don't much about him." Y/N answered to her question, "The only thing I know about him is the he invades planets."

"I and Gamora are two of his adopted children and he had both battle one another in training, and everytime when my sister won, my father would replace a piece of me with machinery, claiming he wanted me to be her equal, but she won, again and again, so after I murder my sister, I will hunt my father like a dog and I will tear him apart slowly, piece by piece until he'll know the pain that I feel every single day..."

Y/N was completely dumbfounded by this. His head was trying to process what he had just heard from her. He was shocked by what she has been through. Being taken apart piece by piece was a truly horrible scenario and he wouldn't wish this fate to anyone. He understood why she wanted to kill her father, but there was one thing that he wanted to ask her.

"What about your sister? Did she knew what was happening with you?" He asked. He mentally kicked because this question was stupid. She had pieces of her replaced with machinery, of course her sister would know about it.

"Of course she knew." Nebula said, slightly irritated by the question? Wasn't this obvious enough?, "I only wanted her to be my sister... but she was the one that needed to win..."

Y/N was completely stunned by this revelation. All she wanted was just to have a sister, "But did you ever talked with her about it? About how you felt, or that you only wanted her to be your sister?"

"No?..." Nebula replied slowly.

"Can't you just talk with her about it? Tell her about you all things you've hiding inside yourself for most of your life?" Y/N asked, but got no answer. All Nebula did was just stare at him in silence, "I don't think I'm going to get an answer on this one."

"Because you won't." Nebula confirmed your words, but what Y/N didn't know was that she was intrigued by his offer. Was there really another way instead of getting rid of Gamora? She could just talk with her? She quickly got herself away from those thoughts, as she said, "Now. It's your turn."

"Okay... Where should I begin... I was born on a planet called Pontropis..." Y/N started but was quickly interrupted.

"Pontropis?" Nebula wanted to know if she heard correctly. Pontropis was known for two things in the galaxy. One was that the blacksmiths could make a really sharp blades, and two was that the spieces of this planet were very similiar to Terrans when it come to their looks, so the idea of how Y/N could have looked behind his mask already formed in her head.

"Yes? I assumed you've heard about it?" He asked his fellow inmate.

"I did. I also heard that your blacksmiths used to make one of the sharpest blades in the galaxy." She replied, before adding quietly, so Y/N couldn't not heard it, but failed at it, "And I always wanted to have one."

Y/N, pretending that he didn't not heard the last part said, "It is true. Our blacksmiths were capable of doing that thanks to the metal they made out of the resources we found on this planet, but those days are long gone. Our planet ran out of the resources and we were forced to leave I doubt that there's someone living there. The ones that could left it, and the ones that weren't lucky enough passed away."

"That's a shame." Nebula stated.

"Yeah..." Y/N agreed with her with a nod of his head, as he continued his story, "As I said I was born on the planet Pontropis, in a poor family. I spent most of my free time on the streets, when I met Echo, who then introduced me to his two other friends, Emil and Erza."

He paused for a moment, before continuing, "We quickly became friends. The four of us did everything together, which resulted as you may know us forming our own group of mercenaries. Our first job was a tough one, we just had to sneak into the ship and steal something from the owner. After the job, we immediately went to a bar to celebrate it. That's when we came up with our name. Tripe E and One (First letter of your name)."

"What a ridiculous name." Nebula stated.

"I agree." Y/N agreed with her, "But can you blame a few drunk young people?"

Nebula just shrugged her shoulders.

"Anyway, for the next three years. We've been taking another jobs. All of them were just usual jobs. Steal something, kill a man or a woman that pissed another person, but we didn't in what we were getting ourselves into when we got a job to murder Jon Whitebound, the brother of Robb Whitebound, a leader of one of the most dangerous gangs in the galaxy, who also happened to be one of the most important members of this gang." Y/N began to tell the story which was the beginning of the end for his group, and his friends.

He paused for a moment, before continuing, his voice sounded like he slowly starting to force himself to speak, but he was a man of his word, and he was going to say the whole story, even though he didn't want to, "The job went as any other jobs went. The next few months were calm for us. We didn't know that there were bounties for our heads, because no one attacked us for what we did. Everything went down when I met him in the bar."

"Gregor." Nebula quickly stated. He heard that name when Rocket realized who Y/N was, after he was brought to the Guardians from his cell

"Yes, him." Y/N said in disgust in his voice as Nebula could feel the disgust as he spoke of him, "It was the first time when I was attacked by someone since I and my friends killed Jon. He saved my life, and we hang out for the whole night, the day after I offered him to join us because we were talking about making our group bigger for a while... that's why I want to find him and kill him so badly. Not just out of revenge, but also out of guilt... If I didn't offered him to join us, my friends would be still alive... If I didn't offered him to join us, I wouldn't be disgusted by my own look when I look in the mirror without my mask on... This is my purpose now. My purpose is to find him and make him suffer for what he did to me, to Echo, to Erza, and to Emil."

"What will you do after that?" Nebula wanted to know. She could hear the pain and guilt in Y/N's tone as he said the last part of his story. And she didn't even know why, but she was feeling bad for him. It was the first time in a long time when she felt bad for someone...

"I don't know. I'll figure it out when I will see Gregor's blood on my blade." Y/N answered.

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Later that night, Y/N was awoken by the humming of the ships landing. He sat straight up, and saw Rocket who was still sleeping.

"Hey!" He shouted, but Rocket was still sleeping, "Hey!" Still nothing, "Dammit..."

"Use this." He turned to the source of the voice and saw Nebula, handing him a piece of metal.

"Thank you." Y/N said, as he took the piece from her and threw it at Rocket, waking him up from his slumber.

"What?!" The raccoon demanded to know.

"Someone's coming," Y/N told him.

Rocket the heard the humming as well, and he knew it was, "Ravagers."

"Maybe you should free us? We'd help you." Y/N offered, hoping that this work.

"No." Rocket quickly replied, before he quickly left them both to ready himself for the arrival of the Ravagers.

"Well, it was worth a try." Y/N said to himself.

For the next several minutes, Y/N and Nebula didn't know what was happened outside with Rocket and The Ravangers. The only thing both of them heard during those minutes was the sound of the fight, which suddenly quiet down, and they both got an idea of what could have happened, so they quickly turned their glances to Groot, who was watching them.

For how long? They had no idea.

"Hey, little buddy." Y/N started.

"Your friend." Nebula added, "There's too many of them. He needs our help. If you care about him, you need to get us out of these bonds."

Groot looked conflicted for a moment, but then realized that they were right. He quickly did as he was told to. He got both of them out of the bonds, which collapsed on the floor.

"Thanks, little buddy." Y/N said as his bond fell on the floor, as Nebula quickly went over to the edible roots, and took one them with her.

"It's not..." He said, but Nebula didn't listened to him, and walked past him, "Nevermind..."

Y/N quickly followed her out of the ship, and went towards the place from which the sounds came from. They even came across some of the Ravagers which were most likely knocked down by one of Rocket's traps, while they were on the ship. They both kneeled down before some of them, and Nebula took one of their blasters with herself, as Y/N took one of their machine-guns with him.

The duo quickly made their way towards the place, as they could use two groups of the Ravagers, pointing their weapons at the each other. There must've some kind of argument, or at least there was other reason why that Y/N could not think of at this moment. As for Rocket, he just stood there between the two groups, with his palms raised in the air.

Y/N glanced over at Nebula, who pointed her gun at the blue-skinned man who had a strange device on his head, as a flying arrow was levitating before him. He quickly came to conclusion that this man must've have been the leader of these people. He looked like he was about whistle, but didn't had a chance because Nebula fired and shot the red thing off his head, knocking him down, causing the two groups and Rocket to turn their attention towards them.

Then, another shot fired, and knocked Rocket down in similiar way as it did to the leader of these people.

"Well hello boys." Nebula said, as she lowered her blaster, only to bit into the yaro root that was in her other hand, she quickly spit it out and looked embarassed about it, "...It's not ripe."

"You are a really stubborn person, you know that?" Y/N asked, but got no answer from her. She still looked embarassed over what just happenned.