Y/N and Peter opened the door where they were met by half a dozen prison guards, Y/N sprints at them before sliding on his side past three of them allowing Peter to take care of them with his electrical guns.

Y/N then takes care of the remaining three guards. One of them tries to swing at Y/N's skull with his baton however Y/N ducks underneath and grabs the guard's arm before swiftly snapping the bones causing the guard to scream in pain.

"Later dickhead." Y/N says before he jumps slightly in the air and knees him brutally in the skull, killing him instantly.

Y/N then spins on his heel, as he turns he creates two symbiotic swords then as he fully turns around he uppercuts the two remaining guards under their China sending the biological blades through their fleshy throats and piercing their brains "Heads up, you're fucking dead!" The immortal mercenary chuckled "See what I did there, 'heads up' you know because the swords are in their brains!"

"Yes, I see what you did there" The symbiote said rather tiredly.

"Could be at least a little more enthusiastic" Y/N offered as feedback.

"Sorry my mistake." The symbiote took a deep breath in and let it go slowly "OH MY GOD THAT PUN WAS AMAZING!" He squealed however he couldn't have sounded more fake if he tried.

Y/N smiled despite the how ingenuine Venom sounded "Much better" Y/N then tossed the two bodies to the side and saw that Peter had left his enemies unconscious "You not gonna kill them?"

Peter tilts his head to the side a little "Ehhh, I'll leaving the killing to you"

Y/N clicks his tongue as they continue to make their way to the impound "Sure you don't wanna up your body count?"

"I'm sure"

"More for me then" Y/N gleefully says before going over and killing the remaining guards whilst Venom came out of his shoulder and taunted Star-Lord "Pussy"

--

Rocket, Gamora, Drax and Groot were in The Milano orbiting around The Kyln with Rocket and Gamora in particular losing patience at a dramatic rate.

"Well, how are they gonna get to us!?" Rocket complains as he pilots the plane whilst still looking for their fellow escapees.

Gamora sits on a passenger chair with a big scowl on her face "They declined to share that information with me."

"Goddammit! Well I ain't leaving without Y/N, I like having him around." Rocket states before looking back at Gamora "You got the orb, right?"

"Yes." Gamora looks in the bag that Peter gave her and finds the orb is missing and groans in sheer annoyance before regretfully stating "They've got the orb so they wouldn't leave without us."

Rocket chuckles a little "Huh, clever." He continues checking around for the missing pair "If we seriously don't leave soon though, we will be blown to bits." Rocket warns.

"Give it a few minutes! We're not leaving without the orb." Gamora yells at Rocket, leaning her head within the palm of her hand as she rhythmically taps her foot on the ground with impatience.

Drax looks out if the window and sees two figures flying towards them "Behold." He declares as Peter who is giving Y/N and piggy back approaches The Milano thanks to thrusters attached to his feet.

"Great now we can leave." Rocket says as he he turns the ship away from the prison so that they can escape whilst Drax and Gamora were waiting for Y/N and Quill back into the ship who were climbing up through a hatch.

"Whooooo, let's do that again!" Y/N cheers as he gets off Star-Lord's back and let's him enter first.

"Fun right!" Quill says as he climbs a ladder back I to his ship closely followed by Y/N.

"Hell yeah! Makes me kinda pissed we can't fly though"

Y/N agreed with the symbiote "Yeah, maybe one day though." He gets an idea which makes him smile devilishly "Perhaps when we go back to Earth we can 'borrow' one of Tony's suits without him knowing."

"I am one hundred percent down for that." Venom excitedly said as Y/N got near the opening hatch behind Quill.

"These two show spirit. They shall make keen allies in the battle against Ronan." Drax says as he grabs Quill and Y/N to their feet "Companions, what were you retrieving?" Peter gives him the Walkman and strolls off "You're an imbecile. What about you L/N?" He asks as Rocket flies the ship away from the Kyln.

"These bad boys" Y/N says as he shows off his swords and does a couple of overdramatic swipes and slashes to the air.

"Those are swords, not boys." Drax then shrugs his shoulders "But they are more useful than this device." He says holding up the Walkman.

Y/N has his mouth agape as he takes the Walkman and wraps an arms around The Destroyer "Drax, Drax, Drax. I would literally tear off my left testicle for that Walkman."

Drax looks at Y/N with intrigue "Ok" he says looking him up and down.

Y/N squints his eyes a little at Drax who was looking at him strangely "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"I'm waiting for you to rip off your left testicle for the device." He says which gains attention from Gamora and Peter.

Peter immediately interjects as Y/N goes to stick his hand in his pants "WHOA WHOA WHOA!" He yells "There will be no testicle ripping on my ship!"

Y/N groans in frustration "God, just a bit of innocent fun." He defends as he joined Rocket in the cockpit of the ship.

Quill shakes his head as does Gamora whilst Drax looks on confused "Since when is testicle ripping fun?"

Rocket chuckles as he glances back at the big guy "It's not and that's the beauty of it."

"He knows it" Y/N says happily as he glances back at the others whilst simultaneously pointing at Rocket "Oh and if any of you get bored, you can jerk me off." He announced as he did a wanking gesture over his trousers, everyone on board looked at him funny "Jeez, I'm joking.......... You can suck me off instead."

--

Rocket had put the ship into autopilot so it was cruising along the stars now whilst
Y/N had gotten out of his prison outfit and got changed into his Venompool suit minus the mask.

Once he had changed, he saw Gamora sitting alone and decided to approach the green skinned woman who had the orb in her hands "So what's the problem with this Ronan fucker?" Y/N asked suddenly, startling the assassin.

Gamora went to attack Y/N but he caught her fist with ease, she grunted as she broke free of his grip "Are you always so explicit?" She asked as she took her seat again.

Venom answered Gamora for Y/N "Yes, he is but you get used to it."

Y/N shrugged his shoulders and put his arms out wide confidently as he took a seat opposite her "My expletives have gotten me out of my fair share of fucked up situations over the years.......... They have also gotten me into a large amount of trouble but we won't talk about that."

Gamora, despite Y/N's more than abstract personality, couldn't help but be interested as something about him certainly piqued her interest "And what trouble might that include?"

Y/N put his index finger up to her "Ah, ah, ah I asked you a question first."

Venom came out of Y/N's shoulder "He's not wrong." Before quickly retreating.

Gamora rolled her eyes figuring she wasn't going to win "Ronan is a tyrant who wants to destroy Xandar because he doesn't agree with the peace treaty that the Xandarians signed with his people the Kree." She explained.

"Kree? That sounds familiar."

The pair thought about it for a few moments before Venom started clicking his fingers in realisation "Wasn't that the species that came to Earth in the 90's when we met Caz."

Y/N looked dreamily up in the air "Yeah." He breathed out, 'Carol Danvers, what a woman she was.' Y/N thought to himself.

He refocused when saw that Gamora had a tearful look in her eye which was rare for the usually cold hearted assassin. "When Thanos said he would destroy a whole planet for Ronan,.." she made direct eye contact with Y/N "I couldn't stand by idly and do nothing about it."

Y/N was surprised to see her so emotional talking about Ronan and Thanos "He's your dad? That Thanos dude."

Gamora gave Y/N a hateful look at the thought of Y/N's assumption "He's not my father." She sharply asserted to which Y/N put his hands up in apology.

"Thanos took my home world, he killed my parents in front of me. as a child he tortured me, turned me into a weapon." She brandished herself a little as she explained.

Y/N huffed a little as he looked to the side slightly "Huh, I know what that's like." He empathised with her.

She looked at him with intrigue "What do you mean?" She said as she readjusted herself to properly listen to him.

"My father hated me because my mother died giving birth to me. Used to be extremely abusive to me physically, mentally and even sexually." He said ever so casually as if it wasn't a particularly big deal to him.

Gamora was surprised at his easy going nature despite his backstory, she then chuckled a little, more in irony than anything "I guess we were both screwed over by the people who were supposed to care for us."

"Well my abuse led me to where I am now so you can gaze upon my beautiful face." Y/N smirked as he did a circle gesture around his face, he then tapped her knee slightly "Besides what kinda stupid name is Thanos, sounds like the name of shit drinks brand" he then did a little example in a mocking voice "Hey bartender, give me a bottle of Thanos."

She chuckled a little after she shook her head which was becoming more of an inevitability everytime she talked to Y/N at this point. "You're not a normal person, are you Y/N?"

Y/N defended himself in a childlike sort of way "Maybe! I'm the normal one and everyone else around me is crazy."

"That is a serious possibility."

"Nope." Gamora said popping the'p' as she talked "You're definitely the crazy one." She attempted to insult him but couldn't help the small smile that appeared on her face.

"Hmmm, maybe your right" He smirked as he got up "But who wants normal when you could be Y/N L/N." He said as he walked away however just to tease her he not so subtly moved his ass from side to side.

Gamora's eyes were fixated on his behind as she shook her head trying to break the trance she was temporarily in 'Eyes up Gamora.' she thought before turning in the complete opposite direction.

Venom then said to Y/N "She was totally checking out your ass." He teasingly said making Y/N a little proud.

"Better than J Lo's if you ask me."

"No one was asking....... And in your dreams."

Y/N tuned out Venom, uninterested by him at the moment and instead the Merc With A Mouth couldn't help but think about a certain former Air Force pilot turned superheroine and the last time they saw each other.

*Flashback -1995*

After the defeat of Yon-Rogg and saving the Earth from an interplanetary war between the Kree and the Skrulls, Carol Danvers was ready to leave and go out into the universe however she couldn't leave without saying goodbye to one particular person.

The cosmic superheroine landed softly on the ground before approaching the residence which was a cozy little cabin in Maine where Nick said Y/N would be residing for the time being, the confident blonde woman curled her hand into a fist and knocked three times on the wooden door before taking a small step back.

Within a few seconds the door swung open to reveal Y/N in his casual clothes consisting of a basic white T-Shirt, grey sweats and socks that all had a small amount of blood on them.

"Captain Hottie! This is a nice surprise. I thought you were heading back to space. Well come in." He exclaimed as the mercenary held one of his swords in his hand cleaning it with a rag gesturing with his head for her to enter his home.

She rolled her eyes at the nickname before entering the well lit cabin. She narrowed his eyes at his current activity "What have you been up to?" She asked with every word coming slowly out of her mouth.

Figuring she was referring to the blood on the sword "Oh this, well I just got back from a farm that was keeping kids hostage..... let's just say the owner now knows a whole new meaning behind the term 'Bullseye'."

She winced a little not wanting Y/N to detail anymore "That's good?"

"Yeah I had a lotta fun with that one." He said as tossed the blade behind him now that it was clean onto the desk before cleaning his hands in the sink "So why have you come here? To bless me with your sexiness."

"I just wanted to say goodbye you idiot........... and thank you for all your help." She then looked him dead in the eye "I don't think I could've done it without you."

Y/N snorts "Yeah you really couldn't but always to help out a fellow super person."

Carol shook her head "God you're a douche." She strained out.

"And you love it." He shot back playfully nudging the former Air Force pilot who let a small smile form on her lips.

She wasn't ashamed to admit that she had grown close to Y/N over the time she'd been back on Earth despite his violent nature, she knew he was a good guy "I'm gonna miss you, even your crude jokes."

"I'd miss me too because I am pretty amazing." He said with a wink towards the blonde Captain.

The pair stood looking at each other for a few seconds before seemingly having the same idea in their minds with their faces edging closer towards each other before connecting in a kiss.

It was soft at first however it got heated very quickly as the blonde heroine grabbed the ex-soldier's neck forcefully whilst wrapping her legs around his waist whilst Y/N's hands rested on hers.

They stumbled about the living space with Y/N knocking into his bookshelf knocking a few books out of place before tripping over the low coffee table and falling back onto the sofa with Carol on top of him.

"You get many visitors around here?" She asked as she sat on top of him still in her super suit with her heartbeat going through the roof whilst Y/N sucked on her neck.

Y/N knew what she was insinuating "Nope, just you and me." He whispered against her lips with devious smirk.

"And me." Venom chimed in however he didn't want to ruin this for his host so remained inside of him.

"That's what I was hoping you'd say." Carol whispered and with that the pair began making out with clothes soon lost and certain activities were taking place.

Captain Marvel knew she would have to profusely apologise to Talos and the rest of the Skrulls but in her mind, it was worth the probable scolding.

*Flashback Over*

--

The six members gathered in the main area of the ship with Gamora standing by herself leaning against the wall still with the orb in her hands whilst Drax was sharpening a knife and Quill was typing on the ship's computer.

Rocket was humming along as he, Y/N and Venom went through the Raccoon's arsenal of weapons which the bonded duo were mightily impressed with.

"Hey yo, Ranger Ricks! You can't take apart my ship without asking me." Quill scolded Y/N and Rocket.

"Can we take apart your ship for weapons?" Y/N asked almost immediately after Quill had said that.

"No Y/N, you can't" He stated as if it was obvious to which Y/N threw up his hands in bewilderment.

"Well what's the point of saying to ask you!?"

Peter ignored Venom's outburst and bent down to pick up one of the parts "See, what is this?"

"Don't touch that, it's a bomb." Rocket informed him.

Quill's eyes widened "A bomb?"

"Yep." Venom replied

"And you leave it lying around?"

"Chillax Mr Lord, we were gonna put it in a box." Y/N informs as he takes the bomb out of Quill's grasp.

"What's a box gonna do?" He exclaims in wonderment

"Ughhh it's called organisation." Y/N says to the dumbfounded Quill "We've got a system going here. Guns, blades and bombs. Right Rocket?"

"Damn straight" Rocket then pulls out a box and takes out a rectangular present in wrapped in colourful wrapping paper. "How about this one?"

"No! Woah! Hey! Hey! Leave it alone!"

"Why? What is it?"

"Shut up." Peter then snatches the present out of Rocket's small hands and puts it back in the box before kicking the drawer closed.

Quill pointed to something else Y/N, Venom and Rocket had pulled out of the ship "What is that?"

"That's for if things get really hardcore. Or if you wanna blow up moons." Rocket smirks up at the Ravager.

"No one's blowing up moons." Gamora informs trying to break up the squabble between the trio.

Rocket leans up to Y/N and Venom "They just wanna suck the joy out of everything."

Y/N puts his hand up to the cybernetic woodland beast "Don't worry we're totally blowing up a moon or a planet one day."

The raccoon smiled conceitedly at the idea "I'm holding you to that." The three went back to work on their weapons again.

"So, listen, I'm gonna need your buyer's coordinates." Quill informs Gamora

"We're heading in the right direction, for now." She says as she inspects the orb.

Peter approaches Gamora "If we're gonna work together, you might want to try trusting me a little bit."

"I'm barely beginning to trust Y/N let alone the rest of you." She says glancing over at the Terran Anti-Hero.

Y/N glances at Peter as he fiddles with more of the weapons "I just have a natural talent with women, it's something that just can not be taught."

Gamora curled her lip up at Y/N's remark before looking back at Quill "Besides how much do you trust me?" She asks as Peter takes the orb out of her hand.

"I'd trust you a lot more if you told me what this was. Because I'm guessing it's some kind of weapon." He says looking directly at Gamora as Y/N, Venom and Rocket's eyes light up at the sound of more weaponry.

"I don't know what it is." She notifies the others as Quill puts the orb on the table.

Y/N picks himself up the floor and slides across the floor to pick up the orb "Rocket, we need a new section titled 'Powerful Orbs'"

Drax snatches the orb out of Y/N's hand "If it's a weapon, we should use it against Ronan."

"Put it down, you fool! You'll destroy us all." Gamora warns the Destroyer.

"Or just you, murderess!"

"Oooh murderess, write that one down." Venom says which Y/N makes a mental note of the insult.

Gamora squares up to Drax and gets right in his face "I let you live once, princess!" She barks at him.

"I am not a princess!"

"I dunno Drax, I could see you in a frilly dress with heels and a tiara." Y/N teases further annoying the light purple skinned man, laughing at Drax's annoyance.

"L/N stop antagonising him!" Peter tells Y/N as he looks back at the male and female at each other's throats "And you two! Nobody is killing anybody on my ship! We're stuck together until we get the money."

Drax throws the orb to Peter "I have no interest in money." Drax then walks off.

"How can he not have an interest in money?"

"Great. That means more money for the four of us." Peter says before Groot hums to make sure Star-Lord doesn't forget him "For the five of us. Partners."

"We have an agreement, but I would never be partners with the likes of you. I'll tell the buyer we're on our way........ And Quill, your ship is filthy." She turns and walks up the stairs as Y/N tilts his head slightly to get a better look at her ass on the way up.

"Alright Mr Misogyny, she's gone, I don't think her ass is gonna magically appear again." Venom says.

"I can appreciate a good ass when I see it, there's no crime in looking."

"I can agree with you there." Peter says indicating that he was looking as well. "But, she has no idea. If I had a black light, the place would look like a Jackson Pollock painting."

Venompool and Rocket look at Star-Lord strangely "You got issues Quill." Rocket says whilst sitting on a box.

Y/N then decides to really scare Star-Lord, he wraps his arm around him "Friendly advice, don't rely on the pull out game, not a hundred percent effective BECAUSE you never know how many little Star-Lord Juniors you might have out there." He advised with light chuckle patting his other hand against Quill's chest in a friendly manner.

Quill's face dropped into one of absolute horror at the possibility, as his face turned slowly to face who took a few seconds to savour Peter's reaction before bursting into laughter along with Rocket and to some extent Groot.

"I'm just playing Quill" Y/N said as he gave Peter a playful side hug.

Relief sweeped over Quill's features as he started nervously laughing "Whew, you seriously had me going there for a minute." Before going off to the cockpit.

As soon as Peter was out of earshot, Y/N turned to Rocket "There's a very strong chance I wasn't kidding."

"I don't want to imagine a bunch of little Quills running around." He said as he looked down the scope of a large gun "But then again, I could just eliminate them with this." He said flaunting the large firearm.

--

There was still a while before they got to Knowhere so Y/N decided to catch up with Quill and he joined him up in the cockpit.

"Hey buddy." Y/N said placing a firm hand on Quill's shoulder before taking a seat.

"What's up Y/N?"

"If I was as literal as Drax I would say the stars but I'm not so I'll say, nothing much." He replied as the pair looked out over the stars through the transparent glass of the window.

Quill chuckled lightly as a memory came to his mind "You know after you saved me in New York, I told everyone that I was saved by an alien man, none of my family believed me except for my mom."

Y/N was surprised at that "Huh, mums usually disregard that sort of stuff. What was she crazy or something?" Y/N joked.

"She had brain cancer"

"Oh" Y/N looked down as Venom facepalmed inside of Y/N's head "Kinda like Wade Wilson" he muttered however Quill didn't hear it.

"BUT she always told me, my dad was from the stars, nobody believed her because of the cancer." Peter explained further, he then turned to look at Y/N "Yondu took me from Earth not long after that incident and literally minutes after my mom died." He explained further as Y/N listened "I was so scared at first but I never forgot what happened in that hospital and it helped me come to terms with it more."

"Well then" Y/N clicked his fingers into a gun gesture "Your welcome." He then scoffed "And they say never meet your heroes." He said as he confidently pointed to himself.

Quill was a little flummoxed that the person who saved him over twenty five years ago had the type of personality that he had but in his mind, the persona made him that more memorable.

Y/N looked at the Walkman and decided to change up the aura surrounding the reunited friends "Favourite song that you've got?"

The cogs were turning in Quill's mind as he tried to find a definitive answer "You can't ask me that, there's too many!" He strongly declared before he started listing songs off one by one
"Layla
Don't Stop Me Now
Blame It On The Boogie
The Twist
Heartbreak Hotel
Reet Petite
Smooth Criminal
Hey Jude
Brown Eyed Girl
Total Eclipse of the Heart"

Whilst Quill was listing his favourite songs, Y/N thought to himself 'I wonder what my favourite song is? It's not like I know seeing as I could literally be dozens of people.'

Quill was still going and seemed like he could go on forever so Venom had to put an end to his listing before the native of Klyntar would bite his head off.

"Alright, alright you like music, we got it. What about a movie?" Venom offered up as an alternative before retreating hoping that there wasn't going to be some big list again.

Peter's face lit up like a Christmas tree at the question "Easy! Footloose, 1984. Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, Jon Lithgow. You know the film?"

Y/N looked downright offended at Star-Lord's questioning of his film knowledge "Do I know the film!? Of fucking course I know the film, one hero teaching a whole town to dance. I love it............ But"

Quill's pupils dilated to the size of basketballs at the thought of questioning Footloose "But what!? You can't tell me there's anything wrong with Footloose."

"There is nothing wrong with Footloose BUT...... I'm a big fan of Dirty Dancing." Y/N countered.

Quill casted himself back to when he was a child and watched Dirty Dancing, when his mother snuck him into the movie theater because they were both so excited for it which brought a happy smile to his face "Great movie, Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. The Lift right at the end, oh it was beautiful."

"Agreed, maybe if you ever come back to Earth we'll watch it."

"That sounds nice. It's been so long since I've seen any movies or TV shows. Have I missed much?"

Y/N gave him a partially dumbfounded look "Uh yeah, but it depends on your perspective" Quill furrowed his eyebrows intrigued at what has happened to his home world "Music has basically become really fucking strange, everything on TV is basically recycled but it's a real good time to be alive because we have options."

"Sounds bizarre." Quill said kind of thinking that Earth was good as it was before.

"You don't know the half of it." He said putting a firm hand on Peter's shoulder.

"Heads up! We're inbound." Rocket called out to everyone on board as they all gathered by the window and watch as they head towards Knowhere which looks like a giant severed-head.

"Huh, I wonder if this was in the fucker's will. Please live in my head." Y/N joked as he looked at the colonisation.

"It works for us."

"Woah." Quill looked at it with astonishment.

"What is it?" Drax asked, confused as ever at the sight.

"It's called Knowhere. The severed head of an ancient celestial being."

"Knowhere? How are you spelling that?" Y/N queried the assassin.

"K-N-O-W-H-E-R-E" She answered somewhat hesitantly.

Y/N snorted "What a fucking stupid name. Creative clearly spent hours thinking about that" He mocked before gazing further at the severed head.

'What in the world goes through his head?' Gamora thought to herself as she looked at Y/N.

She looked to Rocket who was flying the craft "Be wary headed in, rodent. There are no regulations whatsoever here."

"Sounds like my kinda place." Y/N said as he eagerly clapped his hands together.

The Milano entered Knowhere, a mining colony where it was filled with a vast contrast of light and dark colours, after Rocket had landed the ship, the group walked around the streets of the area with Venom hanging out of Y/N's shoulder looking on for himself whilst Gamora continued explaining what Knowhere was.

"Hundreds of years ago, the Tivan Group sent workers in to mine the organic matter within the skull. The bone, brain tissue, spinal fluid. All rare resources, highly valued in black markets across the galaxy."

"They are all also delicious snacks."

Groot looked at Venom and hummed in disapproval as he shook his wooden head.

"Don't worry big man, I'm not gonna eat you.......... I never was a big fan of eating greens anyways."

"If I may continue?" Gamora looked back at the disruptive pair.

"Yes, please continue with the history lesson, Miss Gamora." Y/N dragged out before making snoring noises.

Gamora just decided to end it there and then "It's dangerous and illegal work, suitable only for outlaws."

"Well, I come from a planet of outlaws. Billy the Kid, Bonnie and Clyde and John Stamos." Quill explained to the others with Y/N and Venom snorting pretty hard particularly at the last one.

"It sounds like a place which I would like to visit." Drax thought out loud.

Peter shrugged his shoulders "Yeah, you should." A bunch of kids then surround the seven of them "You guys better watch your wallets."

"Don't worry we got this" he informs the others.

Gamora put her head in her hands "Oh this is not gonna end well." She whispered to herself.

Y/N chuckles deviously "Children, children if you would like your parents to receive your heads in boxes then please stay. If not then fuck off." As Y/N pulled out his swords and Venom growled at them.

Immediately the kids ran screaming away from sextet with Y/N looking pleased with his handy work, the men all walked ahead thankful they weren't being harassed anymore whilst Gamora looked annoyed "What?" Y/N questioned her.

"Was that necessary?"

"Necessary, no. But you said there are no regulations here, I'm simply embracing that." He explained his method behind the madness.

"Plus aren't you an assassin?"

"Not of children."

"Well that's what I like about myself, I don't discriminate, I'm very much about equality."

"That's your defense!?" She angrily retorted.

"Yes" Both Y/N and Venom said at the same time.

"You are loathsome." She said giving him a cold look as she made her way past the others who had walked ahead of them.

"I think she likes me." Y/N stated euphorically as yet again Y/N admired her ass as she walked in front of him.

"Whatever you say."

Y/N and Venom caught up with the others who had stopped outside of a building with colourful lights atop of it "We are to wait here for his representative." Gamora informed them.

The group then see a bouncer throw someone straight out of the area, Venom had had enough of Knowhere and decided back into the familiarity that was Y/N's body.

Drax looks at the place with disgust "This is no respectable establishment. What do you expect us to do while we wait?"

"I don't care, just don't cause trouble." Gamora said as she walked off.

"Well whilst we're waiting, I'm gonna refuel the Milano. Catch you guys later." Peter said as he walked off to get fuel.

"How is he going to catch us?" Drax asked.

"It's an Earth term for he'll see us later." Y/N answered The Destroyer who looked content with that response.

The four of them looked around for something to alleviate the boredom as Y/N and Rocket then simultaneously saw money being tossed around like nothing and shit loads of alcohol.

"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Rocket looked up at Y/N for confirmation.

"Does what your thinking involve us drinking and gambling like idiots because if it does then yes."

"Intoxication sounds enjoyable, let us join in on these games." Drax said as he walked over to the large table surrounded by people.

"Is it just me that can't wait to see what he's like drunk?" Rocket offered to Y/N and Groot.

"Oh yeah."

"I Am Groot."

--
While they wait for their appointment with the buyer, Y/N, Drax, Rocket and Groot get drunk together (except for Y/N who can't get drunk) and gamble on these strange little creatures called Orloni's in a sort of Last Man Standing, Royal Rumble type games.

"Yes! Yes!" Drax chants as his Orloni ate Groot's Orloni who looked on in shock and horror.

"Yahoo!" Rocket cheers as he pumps his glass to the sky with some of the alcohol falling out.

"WHOO!" Y/N yells as he starts clapping wildly at the action taking place in front of him with Drax's Orloni grabbing another smaller one by the tail and throwing it up in the air before catching it in it's mouth and eating it as cheers erupt at the victory.

"WHOO! I love playing with my food!"

"My Orloni has won, as I win at all things! Now, let's put more of this liquid into our bodies." Drax drunkenly celebrates as he puts the glass up to the air.

"That's the first thing you said that wasn't bat-shit crazy!" Rocket howls in his intoxicated haze. Y/N couldn't help but burst into laughter at the sight of his new friends drunken states.

After several more rounds of drinks later Y/N and Rocket were at the bar, chatting about their respective times as a mercenary and a bounty hunter with them laughing and joking about various stories in their lines of work. Whilst Drax and Groot continued gambling on the Orloni Free For All.

Rocket slurred whilst chuckling as he explained his story "So Groot grabbed the bastard by his legs...... We then find out their metal legs and he slips out of his prothstic" Rocket was struggling to say his words.

"Prosthetics" Y/N corrected for him as he downed another drink.

"Yeah, yeah that." He says before continuing "Slips out with just his upper crawling away real slow. Me and Groot start laughing at him, he yells 'Don't laugh at me' then drags himself through shit." Y/N and Rocket burst into laughter at the man's misfortune

Once they'd calmed down slightly, Rocket finished his story "I shoot him with an electric charge and his whole body starts flopping around in the shit, Ahhhh the easiest twenty thousand units we ever made........ You have not lived until you see a legless man flopping about in shit."

"I reckon I could top it." Y/N challenges with a devilish smirk.

"Bullshit" Rocket says as he slams his glass down on the bar, dismissing Y/N's challenge.

Y/N started his story after he and Rocket got another refill on their alcohol "In my days before Venom, I was being paid to kill some leader of a sex trafficking ring."

"Why is it always the sex offenders that end up being the most fun to catch?" Rocket joked as he hit Y/N lightly in the shoulder.

"I dunno probably because they're the biggest pussies when you catch them." Y/N said as he adjusted himself on the seat

"I'll drink to that." The Raccoon stated before delivering on his promise "Continue"

"So this guy was gonna be at a strip club and how else do you kill someone in a strip club?"

"The front door and just shoot him." Rocket says as he wiped his mouth of any excess alcohol on them.

"No, as the dancer." He replied as the Woodland creature's small eyes widened in surprise.

"No." Rocket said, shocked.

"Yes.......... I go in completely dressed up in the full outfit. Bra, panties, stockings, heels and a wig." Rocket was almost dying of laughter at this point as was Y/N as he was telling it "I do a little dance then BAM, I jump on the Fucker's table and stab in the throat with my heel."

Venom came out of Y/N's body also howling in laughter "I can see the memory and it is amazing."

The trio laughed for a while longer before Rocket asked Y/N a surprising question "You in any rush to get back to Terra?"

This took Y/N by surprise "I'm not sure why?"

"I was thinking maybe when this is all done you, me and Groot go bounty hunting across the galaxy, catching bad guys and getting paid." Rocket suggested and to be fair Y/N couldn't help but think that sounded cool.

He chuckled but simultaneously thought about what he had on Earth with the Avengers and his other friends, he then sighed as he looked at Rocket "I'll have to think about it mate, I kind of literally dropped off the face of the Earth and I have no clue how long I've been gone."

Venom then leaned in towards the Raccoon "We're also kind of a big deal back home so we might have to bless the humans with our presence."

Rocket looked understanding about his drinking buddy's situation as he reassuringly tapped Y/N on the back a few times with his small hand "Think about it, offer stands if you don't wanna go back yet."

The pair then heard commotion from behind them and looked to see Groot and Drax getting a little worked up "I'm gonna see what that's about, you get some more drinks in." Rocket suggested to Y/N.

"Sure" he gestured to the the bartender for another round as Rocket made his way over to Drax and Groot.

"HEY YOU BASTARDS WHAT'S GOING ON!" Rocket drunkenly yelled out to them.

Venom came out of Y/N's shoulder "So what do you think about Rocket's offer?"

"I mean wrangling up criminals for money when being one yourself sounds cool." Y/N said in reply.

"Yeah it does, imagine all the places we could go to........ but"

"But what?" Y/N asked his symbiote.

"We'd leave a lot behind. All of our superhero friends and............. Natasha."

Y/N slammed his glass down in annoyance "I just need to forget about her, it's never gonna happen." He blurted out.

Venom despite living in Y/N's body was not anticipating that outburst and sighed as he pondered his words for a few seconds "Well I think that's pretty selfish of you."

"Selfish!? How is that-" Y/N yelled but trailed off as he saw Drax tackle Groot over the table with Rocket getting in on the fight as well.

"Oh fuck" Y/N and Venom said together as they strolled over to break it up.

Peter and Gamora entered the bar from the balcony to stop the fight between Drax, Rocket and Groot, Gamora dragged Drax off of Groot before scolding Rocket who had his weapon drawn on Drax.

"Woah! Woah! What are you doing?" Peter tried to intervene as Rocket had his sights aimed on Drax.

"This vermin speaks of affairs he knows nothing about!" Drax cries out as he tries to wrestle free from Gamora's grasp.

"That is true!" Rocket slurred out partially.

"He has no respect!"

"That is also true!"

"Hold on! Hold on!" Peter tried to calm things down, holding his hands out to both Rocket and Drax in an attempt to defuse the situation.

"Keep calling me vermin, tough guy! You just wanna laugh at me like everyone else!" Rocket emotionally threatened.

"Rocket, you're drunk. Alright? No one's laughing at you." Peter reassures the Raccoon noticing the people around him are watching on intently.

"He thinks I'm some stupid thing! He does! Well, I didn't ask to get made! I didn't ask to be torn apart, and put back together, over and over and turned into some..." Rocket took a large breath in "some little monster!" He strained out as tears were selling up in the Raccoon's eyes. 

"Rocket, no one's calling you a monster." Y/N finally intervened after listening in like everyone else over the last minute or two. 

Rocket looked at Y/N "He called me vermin!" Rocket yells at Drax

"She called me rodent!" Rocket yelled at Gamora.

"Let's see if you can laugh after five or six good shots to your frickin' face!" There were gasps from the onlookers as Rocket raised his weapon to point it at Drax.

As he got ready to fire, he found the firearm snatched out of his grasp from Y/N who put the firearm behind him with Drax and Gamora breathing a small yet subtle sigh of relief with the former deciding to take off while he could.

The cybernetic raccoon wasn't sure what Y/N was going to do as he was caught in several minds at the moment but very suddenly sobered up when Y/N kneeled down to Rocket's height with a sympathetic look in his eye.

"You don't need to fire son, I get how you feel."

Rocket looked timidly away from Y/N thinking about how they were laughing and joking not minutes ago but we're now having a heart to heart "You don't know how I feel."

"You think that what those fuckers turned you into is awful but trust me it isn't." He then grabbed Rocket's shoulders and turned him to face him "We're the same because we might not like what we've got but we make do with it."

Rocket scoffed "What have you got that you don't want?" He growled at Y/N still thinking he didn't understand.

Y/N took his hands off Rocket's shoulders and brought out his swords causing loud gasps from the crowd "Oh shut the fuck up, you twats! I'm not gonna kill him." Y/N yelled out making some of them jump in fear before he looked at Rocket "He's my friend."

Y/N brandished the swords to the animal "You see these, they were given to me by a woman back on Earth who I'd known for a while because she wanted to be together with me." Y/N had a sad tinge in his voice as he explained "I had to break her heart because I couldn't let her be with me when she ages and I don't." He shook his head in annoyance with himself

"This healing factor is a gift for fighting but a curse for everything else." Y/N then ruffled the fur on the top of Rocket's head "Now what do you say we go in there, get fucking rich and then if you don't wanna see these guys anymore, you don't have to."

Rocket smiled up at Y/N, glad that he did understand what he was going through "Sounds good." The two then embraced in a small hug.

Quill and Groot smiled at the embrace whilst Gamora found herself subconsciously wiping a tear out of her eye, extremely moved by the two individuals. She pulled herself together when she heard someone "Milady Gamora, I'm here to fetch you for my master."

They all looked at a pink lady in a white dress type outfit named Carina come out to greet them.

"Let's get fucking loaded motherfuckers." Y/N said to the other four.

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The group followed Carina into the building "We house the galaxy's largest collection of fauna, relics, and species of all manner." She explained as she took them to The Collector's massive room of collections.

Y/N stops at the case that was holding a talking duck inside as the rest walk along with Carina, Y/N laughed at the duck "Did Lea Thompson put you in here?"

"Fuck. You" The duck swore aggressively at Y/N who continued to chuckle.

"I'm pretty sure in the movie you were gonna fuck her." Y/N teased the duck.

Venom came out of Y/N's body "Where we live, your kind is a delicacy" Venom said as he licked his lips, scaring the duck. The pair laughed at the bird's misfortune as they walked along.

As soon as they were gone, the duck lit up a cigar "Pricks" he scoffed before taking a big puff of smoke in.

Y/N caught up with the others as Carina announced and gestured to a man in 'interesting' attire "I present to you, Taneleer Tivan, the Collector."

"Jeez, could've come up with something a bit more creative than that." Y/N joked as Gamora and the Collector walk towards each other.

"Oh, my dear Gamora. How wonderful to meet in the flesh." He creepily greets as he kisses her hand making everyone feel uncomfortable.

Y/N leans down and whispers to Rocket "What were we saying about the sex offenders?" Making Rocket chuckle a little.

"Let's bypass the formalities, Tivan. We have what we discussed." She says clearly not wanting to be here any longer than needs be, as the Collector notices Groot.

"What is that thing there?" The Collector asks with his eyes fixated on Groot.

"I Am Groot." The humanoid tree replies as Tivan goes over to Groot.

"I never thought I'd meet a Groot. Sir, you must allow me to pay you now so that I may own your carcass. At the moment of your death, of course."

"I Am Groot."

Rocket scoffed at Tivan's offer "Why, so he could turn you into a frickin' chair?"

The Collector notices Rocket's frustration and smirks then turns to Groot "That's your pet?"

"His what?!" Rocket goes to grab his weapon which amuses The Collector however Y/N intervenes.

"He probably means nothing by it." Y/N said as he held back the gun wielding raccoon.

"Tivan, we have been halfway around the galaxy, retrieving this orb." Gamora says tiredly.

"Very well, then. Let us see what you brought."

Everyone looks at Peter who has the orb, he retrieves it from his bag but accidentally drops it however manages to quickly pick it up in an effort to quell some of the embarrassment.

"Blooper!" Y/N exclaimed at Star-Lord's misfortune.

The Collector takes the orb and places it in a small display "Oh, my new friends." He says in awe. Before creation itself, there were six singularities." A small metallic device is used to mechanically unlock and open the orb.

"Then the universe exploded into existence, and the remnants of these systems were forged into concentrated ingots."

"This guy's vocabulary is really starting to get on my nerves."

Y/N shushed the Symbiote and whispered "I'm listening to plot details."

"Infinity Stones. These stones, it seems, can only be brandished by beings of extraordinary strength. Observe."

He projects onto a screen the six uniquely coloured gems with the Power Stone in the staff of a giant Celestial being giant slamming the staff down onto the ground, obliterating the inhabitants of the planet along with the world itself.

"These carriers can use the stone to mow down entire civilizations like wheat in a field."

"There's a little pee coming out of me right now." Quill admits a little troubled by the images he's seeing.

"Once, for a moment, a group was able to share the energy amongst themselves, but even they were quickly destroyed by it." He explains as the group turned to ash after being consumed by the energy.

The device fully opens the orb to reveal an Infinity Stone, more specifically The Power Stone which The Collector is infatuated with.

"Please tell me you aren't gonna wank to that stone because the way you're looking at it is worrying." Y/N says to The Collector with a troubled look.

"Look at it!" The Collector says specifically to Y/N "Beautiful. Beyond compare."

"I think you just got your answer Y/N."

"Blah, blah, blah." Rocket mocks as he's only interested in money "We're all very fascinated, whitey. But we'd like to get paid."

"How would you like to get paid?"

"What do you think, fancy man? Units!" Rocket says to the man as if he is stupid.

"Very well, then." He says as he reaches into his drawer to get the money for the group whilst Carina who was fascinated by the  Stone, walks towards the still open gem *Carina. Stand back." The Collector warns.

"I will no longer be your slave!" She angrily declares.

"Fucking hell" Y/N says knowing trouble is yet again coming their way.

"No!" Tivan desperately yells out to his pink skinned woman.

Carina grabs the Stone which sends several surges of purple energy around The Collector's lair which destroys his archives and relics.

Groot grabs Rocket and attempts to flee the scene to get himself and his companion to safety and away from mortal danger.

Y/N grabs Peter and Gamora and the trio dive behind a desk to shelter themselves from the imminent explosion.

Carina screeches loudly as her arm begins to crack along with her face until she is completely annihilated by the Infinity Stone's power before a humongous wave of purple energy is released which could be seen from of Knowhere, outside of The Collector's lair.