Sparks Fly|Rocket x Reader

6|The End

It was decided that I would accompany Rocket for the beginning of the fight to use some of the extra guns we'd installed on the ship temporarily to shoot down any of Ronan's goons who flew at us. My job was to protect the ship and the other Ravagers as best I could so we could blow a hole in the side of the ship fast enough without being blown out of the sky. Ronan's ship made it into Xandar's atmosphere and the entire Ravager fleet approached it as quickly as we could. His ship was huge, but it'd been a while since I saw this many Ravager ships, it was nice. The bigger ships behind us shot these massive balls of energy at the ship which created our cover to dive down below and surprise them. The ship me and Rocket were in, and 2 others headed closer to the side of the ship to begin working on making an entry way for Quill and the others. Rocket seemed so focussed right now. Not only did he have the fate of the galaxy to drive him, but he now had me, and I had him. I glanced over at him from my seat and reached out to place my paw on top of his as he controlled the ship.

"We've got this," I winked. He smiled at me and began shooting Ronan's ship. It wasn't long before his army started flying out of the ship to attack the other Ravagers. They left us alone for the most part, probably didn't really see us. The ship was taking quite a beating but still not hole yet. Eventually, they'd made a hole for Quill and Yondu to get through.

"Quill! Yondu! Now!" Rocket yelled over the comms. I noticed they were taking some time so booted up the screen in front of me that showed all of what was going on behind us. There were a bunch of Ronan's goons following Quill and Yondu. I prepped the guns I had control of and began to fire at the ships tailing them. Part of one of the ships hit Yondu's wing and he started to spin and plummet towards the planet.

"I'm going down, Quill!" Yondu yelled, "No more games with me, boy! I'll see you at the end of this!" I continued firing down the enemies but more and more just kept coming. One managed to hit the Milano and I panicked, afraid for Quill and the others.

"There are too many of them, Rocket, F/N!" Gamora sounded through the comms, "We'll never make it up there!" Just as she said that the ships started blowing up and dropping like flies left, right and centre. It was the Nova Corp! They got Quill's message. The Milano sped off to where we'd blown the hole and crashed straight into the ship, going through the hole at full speed. The ship was still heading for the planets surface. We couldn't let that happen. Now that Quill was in the ship, me and Rocket backed off to help the other Ravagers fight Ronan's fleet. Suddenly, the Nova Corp began to form lines in front of the ship and locked themselves in place, forming a blockade. It wouldn't hold forever but it would buy Quill and the others some time to get to Ronan. It was a magnificent sight to see. I'd never seen anything like it from any pilots on any planet I'd been to. The blockade stretched and wrapped around the ship as it just pushed straight into them. Me and Rocket continue flying around the sky shooting down the fleet and protecting the Nova Corps so they could hold their blockade for as long as possible. Ronan's ship was huge so they wouldn't find him immediately and who knows the resistance they'd face inside.

After a few minutes, the fleet began to fly downwards. They were dive bombing the city to distract the Nova Corp!

"Rocket, they're dive bombing the city!" I shouted to him, worried for all the people. While Xandar had treated me like shit, I wasn't about to let parents lose their children or children become orphans over some stupid stone. Rocket nodded to me, and we signalled the some of the other Ravagers to join us above the city to shoot down the dive-bombing fleet. If we could shoot and destroy them before they hit the ground, there'd be less casualties.

"Keep Ronan up there Sall, we'll take care of the people down here," Rocket informed the leader of the Nova Corp, "Everybody shoot them before they hit the ground," He then told the Ravagers.

"We can limit the number of casualties if we pull this off," I followed up, "Ready?" I looked to Rocket and grinned at me. He angled the ship to the sky, and we let all hell rain loose on the fleet. They didn't stand a chance now. The more Ravager ships that joined us, the more likely we were to shoot down every last one of the ships that dive bombed. We were saving people. We were being heroes. This felt good and it looked epic, nonetheless.

After a few minutes of this, we saw an explosion in the middle of the blockade above. I felt pain, pain for all the people who were dying in their ships. All the people who had just lost a loved one. This reminded me of my home planet, and memories of people dying in the streets flashed before my eyes. I panicked and stopped shooting the fleet, my eyes teary. This event reminded me of that. The plague wasn't an accident on my home planet. It was deliberate, another race dropped it on us as an act of war. Not everyone died of the plague, and they finished us off easily. My father had hidden me away when they invaded, and I managed to survive. The plague was wiped out before the enemy came to our planet to clean up, so I wasn't in danger of that as a child when they left. I was alone on my planet for days before Yondu picked me up. I hoped he was okay. I pulled my ears down as the sounds of screams and pain filled my head as the images of seeing my race executed filled my head. Rocket must've noticed I'd stopped, he continued to shoot but called out to me.

"F/N? F/N!" He shouted at me, trying to get through, "F/N come back to me!" I shook my head and looked at him with a distraught face. I was about to respond when one of the enemy ships flew into the Ravager ship beside us. My eyes widened. Was this how we died? I shook violently as I gripped the joysticks to control my guns again and shot the fleet with nothing by hatred and pain clouding my brain. Saal's voice came through the comms as more of the Nova Corp began to get crushed by Ronan's ship.

"Rocket!"

"Hold on, Saal, just..." Rocket began before another huge explosion from the Nova Corp rung out from the comms and we saw it above. This caused the entire blockade to faulty and many, many more of their ships to explode on impact with the ship. Nothing was holding Ronan back from making the surface. Nothing. For the first time in a while, I saw genuine fear and sadness fall on Rocket's features as he looked up at the ship which came speeding down towards the ground now that the blockade wasn't holding it back.

"Quill, you gotta hurry. The city's been evacuated but we're getting our asses kicked down here." I thought for a moment. If the city was evacuated, then we didn't have to stay here on the ground anymore. I jumped up out of my seat and stepped over the Rocket.

"Swap!" I called out, "I'm a better pilot. You're a better shooter."

"Are you kidding?" He looked annoyed, "No way, I've never seen you fly."

"Trust me," I held my paw out for him to take, "Please."

"Fine!"

"Thank you," I whispered as he passed me and kissed his cheek. I took control of the ship and flew it upwards. I dodged every ship that tried to fly into us as we ascended up to the ship. I did multiple barrel rolls and avoided enemy fire like a champ. Like Quill used to say, once you learn how to ride a bike on Terra, you never forget it. It's the same with flying, once you learn how to do it well, you never forget. I was Yondu's best flyer, and I'd flown so many Ravager ships before compared to Rocket, they weren't the same to most normal ships that other planets had. You had to have a knack for flying them to be able to pull some of the shit I could. After this I'd teach Rocket how to do it just so he could show Quill up, I think it'd be funny.

When we reached the ship, we saw Ronan holding Drax up by the throat. Had they failed at killing him? I looked to Rocket, and he looked at me with a nod. We knew what we had to do. We flew full speed into the ship, aiming straight for Ronan. We both yelled as we crashed into the ship and took everything in our way out. We just royally fucked his ship. As we hit the end of the room, the force must've knocked us both unconscious because the next thing I saw was darkness. There was nothing.