Annabeth was able to barely draw her knife and block the sword that came awefully close to decapitating her. It seemed to surprise Gamora and Annabeth took advantage of that to kick her back and gain a little space. 

"Rocket I am going to kill you." Annabeth said and Gamora sprinted forwards with now an identical pair of swords. Annabeth wished that she still had Destruction as a necklace but seeing that it didn't come back after she'd escaped from the prison with Rocket she guessed that Percy had retrieved it already and was unable to send it to her again. 

But she did have something else. 

Annabeth blocked the first sword with her dagger and made a smaller dagger with her fire. It wasn't as stable as her dagger but it would do for the moment. Though it seemed that Gamora was either expecting something else to happen of was able to adapt pretty quickly from the last time she got blindsided by Annabeth's skill. 

They both danced around the platform for a few tens of seconds before another kick from Annabeth sent them both in opposite directions once again allowing Rocket and Peter to get in-between the two. Gamora stopped and lowered her swords with a slight nod in Annabeth's direction. The weapons seemed to fold into themselves and were retracted up the Green skinned woman's arm and into her suit. Not even leaving an outline in the material as a hint of something being there. 

"Woah, woah, woah! Calm down you two." Peter said looking back at Rocket. "What did you do?"

"It was just supposed to be a joke! I didn't think they'd try to kill each other." He yelled looking between Annabeth and Gamora. 

"That's what happens when you tell an assassin that the person in front of her was cheating on their love interest." Annabeth scolded and Rocket's ears flattened for a moment before standing up again. 

"Yeah whatever. You both looked like you were having fun anyways." He growled walking off and when Annabeth looked at the other male in the middle of them she found that he was already in another kind of precarious situation...

It seemed that Gamora had taken their moment of tension to get up close to Peter with a hidden dagger at his neck. Annabeth wondered where that blade had come from, but seeing as the other woman was an assassin she wouldn't be surprised if there were an absurd amount of hidden blades and weapons on their person at all times. Annabeth let her dagger made of fire dissipate into nothingness and watched as the woman interrogated the poor soul in-front of her. 

"So. Can you tell me why you let me here with him of all people without saying anything or even waiting a moment for us to get back to the ship?" 

"I--There's a perfectly good explanation for that." The blade was pressed harder and Annabeth winced as a trickle of blood traveled down it's edge. "Um. I got a distress signal from deep space and seeing you were busy looking around with Drax and Groot I figured I could check it out real quick and be back before you knew I had left." 

"I was on my way back to the ship when you left, and you were able to clearly see me walking down this very catwalk when you passed by." Gamora growled and both Annabeth and Rocket snickered as Peter's face lost all color. Gamora held the blade there for a few moments longer before letting it down. "Never do it again."

"U-understood." He said and Annabeth leant over to Rocket. 

"I see what you mean now." She said and Rocket nearly howled with laughter. 

"Hey what did you just say to him?" He pointed at Annabeth and she just shrugged. 

"Nothing of importance." She said, "Really." 

"You--" 

"And plus, with her skill I severely doubt that she would be interested in you." Gamora cut Peter off and he just exasperated, shocked. 

"Well you fell for me didn't you?" He tried and she just sent a blade through his legs, dangerously close to his crotch. "I won't do it again." Annabeth looked around and decided to go through what she knew at the moment. 

"So if I'm correct you're Gamora, and your Peter. I'm guessing that Drax is the blue muscle-head over there laughing his ass off and Groot is the... tree person?" 

"Yeah. You pretty much covered everything." Rocket said, "And as you all know I was captured a few weeks ago and she ended up being put in the cell next to me and helping me escape, so in turn I got her out too and here we are." 

"Okay so what got you here then?" Peter asked but Annabeth didn't hear as she was distracted by something as she looked around. 

"How is it we can breath out here?" She said, "I can't tell if there is some sort of energy field or generating feature of this place to keep the air breathable, and the way out is just a giant hole that way." She motioned to the entirety of the way they'd come and Rocket tilted his head confused, looking around for a moment as well before "oh"ing and hopping off the stack of crates he'd started to drag off their ship. 

He came up to her and pointed at eight sections at he front of the station, "See those?" Annabeth nodded, "Well those act as a sort of artificial atmosphere for the whole planet by using a set of interconnecting rings hidden in the structure of the city. They control everything: from artificial gravity to the way even light is directed in each quadrant of the planet. We may see everything as completely visible from here, but one or two sectors at a time are either dark or getting dark as a constant cycle for the sake of time."

"Alright" Annabeth hummed with interest. He brain working on how to make a smaller scale version of this on Earth. With the help of some of the other Athenian children, some Hephaestus, and maybe even a few of Ares' kids they could probably make something similar to this on a smaller scale." 

"Did you hear me?" Peter asked again and this time he caught Annabeth attention as her head whipped around to look at him with a slight hint of irritation in her gaze. 

"What?" She growled at him with a moderate glare. "You know already that I am already taken so stop bothering me." 

"Oh come on. Now you're trying to get me killed aren't you?" He whined, but continued, "I wanted to ask you why you were captured and how you got here?"

"Oh right. So there are some pretty powerful ancient beings at war with the universe right now and one of them decided to piss off my mate by capturing me and putting me in the enemies' hands. She's probably dead now knowing Percy, but that's how I met Rocket and the rest is pretty easy to guess." Everyone looked at he in shock and confusion, even Drax had stopped mindlessly sharpening his blade to look at her. 

"Oh that reminds me. I need to get back to Earth ASAP" Annabeth said and that seemed to get Peters attention. 

"This involves Earth too?" 

"Yeah, almost everything to do with the cosmos will indirectly or directly involve Earth." Annabeth said, "According to the records in Percy's library the Earth is the anchor of this and other Universes. So if one Earth gets destroyed by a perticualrly powerful being they'd be able to rip open the fabric of reality to get to every other Earth known to the Space-Time Continuum." 

"Huh."

"Do any of you know how to get there from here?" Annabeth inquired, "Particularly within the next few hours as I already suspect something really bad is happening or going to happen soon."

"Uh yeah. I'm from there so I know how to get back from pretty much anywhere." Peter said, "Well I'm half Alien but I still grew up there so it's home." 

"Then why are we still standing here." Annabeth started heading back to the ship, "Send over the coordinates or we'll follow you there." She walked up the ramp to the ship her and Rocket came in and stopped seeing that no one was moving. 

"Today people!" Annabeth roared, "Either you show me how to get there or I will find my own way." She said and that got everyone out of their stupor. Annabeth looked at Rocket to see him torn between her ship or theirs. 

"You and Groot coming with me or going with them?" She asked and he snorted looking at the cargo he'd drug off the ship and grumbling something Annabeth couldn't hear. 

"Help me load this back onto the ship and I'll be going with you. I don't particularly feel like hanging out with Mr. Party ship and crew over there." He said grabbing a crate and hauling it back up the ramp, adding, "Especially since Gamora is going to be in a really bad mood for most of the way there." Annabeth smirked and helped him with the last crate as Groot walked onto the ship with two dragging behind him. 

Once on Annabeth joined Rocket in the co-pilot seat and Groot stood in the middle of the two watching. Rocket pushed a few buttons and started the ship, pushing a few more and grabbing the controls as the system informed the three of the coordinates to their destination. 

Would you rather have the controls or will I be operating the ship this time? Groot jumped slightly at the voice coming through the intercom but Rocket calmed him down. 

"Groot meet Stella, she's someone else that we picked up along the way. Stella meet Groot." Rocket said before nodding, "And yeah I want to drive. I don't know if I will be able to  fly this ship again, and I want to feel her power for another go." 

Setting course for Earth Stella affirmed and Rocket punched the throttle. 

Double update!! 

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I almost made a really big mistake but having Annabeth use Destruction in that fight and in the process I forgot about Annabeth's fire powers once again...watch that be a reoccurring problem...

Anyways I hope that you enjoyed this chapter, I didn't feel like leaving y'all off on a cliff-hanger as I know how much of a pain those are to find after waiting so long for a chapter. 

Just one step closer to the end. One step closer to completing a five year goal...