Anam Cara || Peter Quill [O.H]

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Khylen walked out of the bar cradling Macy next to him, they both knew that Macy didn't really need the comfort in public but Khylen did so Macy allowed herself to be vulnerable for a moment in front of people who weren't her team. "Why do you still have the orb?" Macy asks Gamora when she notices she's holding it in her palm. "What were we going to do, leave it in there?" Peter counters making Macy frown slightly. "I can't believe you had that in your purse!" Rocket says to Peter as he places his hands up.

Next to Macy, Peter scoffs slightly. "It's not a purse, it's a knapsack." He defends. Beside him, Gamora rolls her eyes at the antics before she gestures toward the orb. "We have to bring this to the Nova Corps." Everyone's eyes got wide, they all now had arrest warrants out from the Nova Corp which meant it would be bad news if they stepped foot on Xandar. "Are you kidding me? I know that there's a chance they could contain because that would make sense but we're wanted." Warrick crosses his arms as he thinks.

"Pretty boy is right, just give it to Ronan!" Rocket shouts gesturing toward Warrick who blushes red at the compliment. Macy shakes her head quickly. "So he can destroy the galaxy?" Beside her both Peter and Khylen nod in agreement. Rocket scoffs quickly. "Don't tell me you guys are all saints suddenly? What has the galaxy ever done for you all? Why would you wanna save it?" And Khylen suddenly knew what it was about, Rocket hated the galaxy because it hurt him, Khylen didn't understand the full story but he got the gist of it so Khylen knew what he meant. "Because Rocket, we're a part of the idiots that live in it," Khylen tells him with a softness that he hopes doesn't come off as condescending, but by the small sneer that Rocket sends him, he wasn't very successful in the venture.

"We cannot allow the stone to fall into Ronan's hands, we have to go back to Peter's ship and deliver it to Nova." Gamora's hand tightened around the orb, and for the first time Khylen kind of agreed with her, he didn't think giving it to Nova Corp was a fantastic idea but the alternate was giving it to Ronan which Khylen couldn't let happen. Vaughn already died because of it, he couldn't let his sacrifice go to waste. "I think you're right Gamora." Macy surprised herself that she agreed, but she squeezed Khylen's hand for comfort. "Or, we could give it to somebody who's not going to arrest us and who's really nice for a whole lot of money. I think it's a really good balance between everyone's point of view."

Macy shook her hand before she lifted her hand and gave Peter's shoulder a good smack that made him wince and rub the spot she smacked even though it wasn't very hard. "You're despicable," Macy murmured but only Khylen could hear it so a small smile grew across his face. Gamora shook her head and started to walk away when she froze when she saw a ship coming towards them. "Oh no." She commented, they all turned their heads to where Gamora was looking and saw that Drax was standing in the middle of the street with weapons in his hands.
"At last! I shall meet my foe and destroy him." Drax cheered as they watched the ship get close.

"You fucking called Ronan?" Khylen shouted as he stepped back pulling Macy with him. The ship landed and before they could do anything they heard someone shouting in the distance, but for Peter. "Quill! Don't you move, boy!" Khylen watched as all the color drained from his face before he decked it down an alley, Khylen pressed his lips together and ran to follow him, he knew the others were on his tale so he was hoping that Peter knew where he was leading to and that was back to their ship.

It wasn't the ship that Peter led them to, instead, it was a set of escape pods. "Do you know how to fly?" Khylen asks Warrick who quickly nods and steps into a pod before he holds out a hand and pulls Macy into the pod, without a second glance he runs and jumps into Peter's pod before he can question it, he knew that Warrick would protect Macy but Khylen had to protect Peter. "What are you doing here?" Peter questioned as he watched Khylen get into the set next to him, it was cramped as they were smushed together but it would do for now. "Protecting you." Khylen didn't give Peter time to question it, he just started the ship and they floated into the air.

"We need to keep them off Gamora until she reaches the Milano," Peter instructs into the comms that are connected to each other. "How? We've got no weapon on these things." Warrick's voice crackle as it comes through the speakers. "These pods are industrial grade. They're nearly indestructible." Khylen pales as he thinks about Macy while he listens to Peter talk, but as much as it hurts he pushes that thought aside, he has to focus.

"Not against necrosblasts, they're not." Khylen looks at Peter as he waits for his response to what Rocket said because he's right and Khylen is worried this is starting to look like a suicide mission. "That's not what I'm saying."