Agent Hill: New Beginnings

chapter one

a/n: Hello! This is the first chapter officially of book 2, hope you enjoy it.

For Reference 'this is Mal talking in our head, and only we can hear her'

And 'this is us responding/talking to her in our mind when no one can hear us;

'Did I mention how stupid you look?' Mal says, I roll my eyes hurt, clutching my bag closer to my chest as I walk through Xandar.

'nope, must have missed that convo' I reply 

'Well you look so out of place... just saying'

'thank you for the observation' I say just as I walk past through a local market, I feel my eyes flicker and curse as we walk past a clothing store.

"Don't" I warn, but that did not prevent her from taking over.

and a split second later, I am back and I am running through the market

"Seriously!" I chastise running and weaving through the stalls as a man yells at me for stealing his products.

'What? Now you look like you fit in'

'No, now I look like a criminal'

'Well better that than -

"Wait!" I stop running feeling my neck, for the necklace, before the colour drains from my face.

'Mal, where is my necklace?'

'um, good question'

"Shit" I curse checking my bag and pockets even though the clothes are new.

"No no no" I start panicking before I hear people talking

"Yeah, I know it's a necklace dumbass, how much do you reckon it's worth? I bet 300 units, possible 400, depends where we go"

"I am Groot"

"It's pretty? Oh you want to keep the pretty necklace with the shiny rock do you?" hearing that I spin around, looking for the two individuals

'is that a talking raccoon and tree?' Mal says, I hum walking toward them.

"Excuse me," I say, the tree guy looks at me, whilst the raccoon with my necklace continues to talk.

"Hello?" I try again

"I am Groot"

"Groot we talked about this, you can't keep calling everything pretty"

"I am Groot?" The tree repeats, gesturing to me, the raccoon looks at me and holds his gun up at me, making me raise my hands.

"Woah, Woah, put the guy down slinger," I say, the animal looks at me confused.

"What do you want lady," He asks

"That is my necklace," I say pointing to the necklace clutched in his left paw.

"And?" He says tightening his grip on the silver.

"And? And I want it back please" I say

"No, we found it, it is our now," He says I frown.

'You're too nice, be firm'

"What do you mean no? I dropped it and I want it back please"

"I mean no, you can't have it back. You know how many units I can get from this"

"You won't be getting any, since it's MINE," I say, going to grab the necklace but he jumps back snarling at me, making me frown.

"I am Groot"

"No! I will not give it to her"

"I am Groot"

"No I am not being mean, she lost it, it is her fault.

"I am Groot"

"Oh you big baby, playing the friend card now?"

"What is going on?" I ask, they both just look at me, Groot holds his hand up and points at the raccoon.

"I am Groot"

"No! I am not being a bad friend. You are, whose side are you on" He yells back.

"Listen I just want my necklace back" I reason, irritation starting to settle in.

'Just take it, they are distracted'

"Fine, I'll give it to you, if you pay me," He says, I sigh pinching the bridge of my nose

"I will not pay for something, that is ALREADY MINE" I yell, making him flinch, whilst Groot looks at him pointedly.

"don't look at me like that," He says to Groot, making me groan before he starts laughing and pointing to something.

"Take a look at this, I forget how stupid Xandarians are," he says picking up some holographic screen.

"Excuse me?" I ask

"You're excused" he replies. I sigh, before Groot looks at me

"I am Groot"

'he said he is sorry for Rocket's behaviour' Mal says, making me tilt my head

'you and understand him?'

'Not hard to pick up his language' I scoff, 

"Rocket, is that your name?" I ask crouching down to his level. He looks at me over his device

"Nice going Groot, now she knows my name"

"Oo hey look at that guy. HA, his haircut is so stupid" Rocket says laughing as he points out a guy rocking a bleached blonde hairdo, with hair smoothed over covering his right eye.

"No, look at this thing" Rocket continues pointing to a child. "What is it? It thinks it is so cool to get help. It's NOT. Walk by yourself you little gargoyle" 

"1) That is a child and 2) they don't act like they can't walk on their own, they actually can't," I say, Rocket continues to ignore me

Rocket continues to talk smack about the people of Xandar, whilst I just stand there unsure of what to do, I look over and see Groot drinking from the water fountain.

"Ew," I say quietly reaching over and quickly taking my necklace from Rocket's pocket, while he turns around to Groot

"Groot, don't drink fountain water... it is disgusting- Hey she stole my necklace" Rocket says as he realises, but when he does I have already run off.

however since I have no idea where I am running to, they catch up to me. When I turn around to face them Rocket looks at me annoyed before his device beeps and an alert comes across

"Okay, humie, how bad does someone find you? 40,000 units?"

'40 thousand for that guy?' Mal repeats as we look over to the strawberry blonde guy, who is standing above us on a separate platform.

"Groot, we're going to be rich!" Rocket says before going to leave not without jumping and snatching my necklace from my hand and then running off again.

"HEY!" I yell chasing after them, just as I feel my eyes flicker

"Mal" I warn

'not me' she defends, I close my eyes and see the familiar glow of the purple stone in some orb container

'give me more'  mumble hoping the vision will lead me to where I need to go. I then see a flash of the guy whom Rocket and Groot are now after. Opening my eyes I roll my eyes, searching for them, only to see a green woman fighting the blonde man. 

"Well this is great" I mumble, before making my way over to them.