4 months later

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Back into space, things haven't been the same for obvious reasons. Rocket hasn't been himself ever since he lost Groot and Peter. He rarely even talks to Quill or Nebula. He mostly stays in his bunk except for missions. Rocket was working on an old device he and Peter were working on together before the snap.

Quill opens the door and sees Rocket still working on the device. "What you working on?" Quill asjs, trying to start a conversation with Rocket but he doesn't answer. "Look, come on man, I know when you lost Peter it broke you, but we lost people, too. You gotta talk to us eventually." Quill states to him. "...it's a experimental power source. Me and Pete were working on it before...you know." Rocket states, still working on the device. "It's small enough to fit in your pocket, powerful enough to keep an entire planet's power working for centuries. Even longer." Rocket explains the device. "The kid always seemed to do the unimaginable." Quill says, chuckling.

"He built it himself, you know." Rocket says out of nowhere. "What?" Quill asks. "The power source for his suit. The arc reactor for his Iron-Spider suit, that was all him." Rocket starts having tears in his eyes after the first time mentioning Peter after 4 months. "I'd just get him what he thought he'd need." Rocket starts feeling his face and sees tears falling down his cheeks. "I know it hurts, man. But we can't do anything about it now. Thanos destroyed the Stones, we can't get them back." Quill says, sadly. "Drax, Gamora, Mantis, Groot, Pete. They'd want us to keep doing what we've been doing. Keeping the universe safe from people like Thanos." He says as he walks up and puts a hand on Rocket's shoulder.

"Now was he working on anything else? What's these blueprints?" Quill asks, looking at Peter's bed that hasn't been touched since he died. "I don't know if he started on it or not, but he talked about when Drax said he wanted to kill Thanos, it was gonna be a weapon powerful enough to...and I'm quoting him, since I don't understand it, "Put the Raiders Ark out of business"." Rocket says, quoting Peter. "Indiana Jones?" Quill asks. "How am I supposed to know?" Rocket asks. "I think he was saying it's powerful enough to destroy anything in it's path." Quill explains as he sees the blueprints. "He told me he was working on it since we started working together, but haven't seen it around. He called it the "Repulser Cannon." The only weapon powerful enough to kill a Celestial if it has the right amount of energy or the right amount of repulsers cannons." Rocket explains.

"Maybe he didn't finish working on it, maybe he didn't have it on him when he could've used it against Thanos..Maybe he knew it wouldn't kill him." Rocket states, knowing Peter would've done anything to stop Thanos. "Maybe he kept it somewhere on his side of the room." Quill says as he starts looking at all of Peter's stuff and finds a picture of Peter and his friends from earth. "Those are his friends." Rocket explains to Quill who looks confused. "The kid on the right is Ned Leeds, the girl on his left is Michelle Jones, pretty sure the kid had a crush on her." Rocket explains and Quill laughs at that. "They both got snapped?" He asks Rocket. "Yeah, and his only family left. The girl was hard to track since she was in the foster system most of her life." Rocket explains MJ's situation. "The big was easy to track, he's everywhere. Videogame places, webchats, a lot of other places." Rocket states Ned's situation. "I'm kinda glad I didn't have to explain to them what happened to their friend." Rocket says. Nebula comes in and sees them. "We've got the Avengers on the line for the monthly update." She states. "We'll be right there." Quill says as she leaves.

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