The Girl the World Forgot: But the Galaxy Found

Chapter 13: Out of Luck

The rest of the ship seemed to be much easier to maneuver through though I suspected that was because a good deal of Ronan's forces were found on the outside of the ship. Quill had once again taken the lead, keeping up a quick pace as we hurried down that halls. I gasped stumbling a bit as the ship jerked forcefully almost as soon as we reached the security doors. Now stopped I held up my HWT checking the readings take I had picked up from the sensors Nova had set up around the city. I announced loudly with an edge of desperation, "Guys, we gotta speed this up. Most of the Nova Corps just got whipped out."

The news was grim and I couldn't help feeling horrible about it, dammit I really was soft. Men poured from one of the tunnels heading towards us. Quill shot two of them before he called, "Gamora hasn't opened the door!"

"Great update Quill, but I have eyes too!" I shouted as I began snipping a few of the rushing men before they could reach us.

"I was not talking to you, Nixy!" Quill shouted back as he fired two more shots towards somebody who was trying to be sneaky.

My eyes narrowed and I slowly moved up to my full height lowering the rifle as I glared at Quill. In a low threatening voice, I practically growled, "What did you just call me?"

"Phoenix is too big of a mouthful!" Quill admitted dismissively as he pulled out the Hadron Enforcer, now that the number of guards seemed to have gone down. Groot had also taken up trying to break down the door by lazily hitting it with his arm.

"So you go with 'Nixy'?" I demanded, shaking my head as I declared, "That is the weirdest name ever!"

"Well, honestly, your names already pretty weird. If anything I just made it better," Quill reasoned smugly, no doubt smirking under his mask. I huffed unhappily ready to shout only to ready my rifle when the door opened. I was a little surprised to find that running into the room were a psychopathic maniac was housed, not to mention that he was armed with an infinity stone, was not nearly as terrifying as I thought it would be. I was a bit confused when Gamora simply and with what seemed like no effort shot through the floor, taking out two of the guards that had been stationed there. So why didn't we go through that way?

I pushed the thought from my mind as I ran stopping in front of Groot as time seemed to slow. Ronan turned to face us, in his hands he held a hammer. At the end I it, crushed into its side I could see the familiar glow of the infinity stone. The charging of the Hadron Enforcer rang around the room and all at once the world sped up being sent into fast forward. I was blinded for a moment and I felt a twinge of regret as I realised that Rocket would miss his weapon making something go boom.

The light faded slowly and I blinked a relieved smile on my face, Drax cheered excitedly assured that the man who killed his family was gone. But it seemed as soon as we got the taste of victory I frowned worriedly as something moved in the dust. I glanced over at the rest of them, Quill had lowered his mask confidently but his eyes widened when he saw the same thing I did.

"Oh shit." I whispered as a single ominous figure stood slowly. The dust hadn't even fully settled before Ronan raised his hammer aiming it towards us. I threw up my arms sucking in a breath as the blast flew at us at an alarming speed. The blast itself was really damaging, maybe it hadn't been aimed properly or something. But still the blast managed to send us flying.

For one moment it felt I was floating, but it only lasted until I slammed into the steps behind us.

I had twisted in the air so my head and my side connected painfully with the stairs, I moved slowly biting back a cry of pain when I shifted in the wrong way. Something was probably broken.

I heard someone shout and I looked up blinking harshly only for my eyes to widen when I saw Drax running at full speed towards the still standing Ronan. I closed my eyes for just a moment reaching up to rub at a throbbing spot on my head. Thankfully my skull wasn't cracked, it just seemed to be bruised. I opened my eyes again when I heard somebody, multiple someone's, groaning painfully.