Peter Parker, Guardian of the Galaxy

5 YEARS LATER

5 years later...

After all of these years, Rocket still has that feeling inside of him of emptiness. The hole that could never be filled after Thanos killed half of his family. As of now, he's just waiting for the next assignment to keep his mind off of his friends and family he lost. "We boarded that highly suspect warship Carol pinged." Quill says to the holographic projectiles of the rest of the team from the Milano. "It was an infectious garbage scow." Nebula states for Quill. "So thanks for that." Quill mockingly states. "Well, you were closer." Carol replies. "Yeah, and now my best cloths smell like garbage." Quill yells. "Please, Quill, they've always smelled like that." Rocket mocks. "You get a reading on those tremors?" Natasha asks Okoye from her desk in the Avengers compound. "'Twas a mild subduction under the African plate." Okoye answers her. "Do we have a visual? How are we handling it?" Natasha asks her. "May, it's an earthquake under the ocean. We handle it by not handling it." Okoye states to Natasha, explaining there's nothing they can do about it. "Carol, are we seeing you here next month?" Natasha asks the captain. "Not likely." She states. "What?"p you gonna get another haircut?" Rocket asks her. "Listen, fur-ball, I'm covering a lot of territory. The things that are happening on earth are happening everywhere. So you may not see me for some time." She explains. "That's a good point." Rocket mumbled to himself. "All right. Well...this channels always active. So, if anything goes sideways...anyone's making trouble where they shouldn't...comes through me." Natasha says as they shut down the holograms.

A day after the meeting, Rocket is in his bunk and looks at the image of Peter and him years ago while working on the core. Peter always kept that picture on him anywhere they went. He starts getting back to work on the energy core that's almost completed, he just needs ot find where Peter put his last component. Quill comes in and sees him. "Hey, look at that, you got it finished?" He asks. "Yeah, I just need to find where Peter put the miniature arc reactor he said he'd keep it somewhere safe." Rocket explains. "Hey, I know it's been hard these past few years, but I think the team would be proud of you, man." Quill says. "You're doing what they would've wanted. Kept living." He says to Rocket. "Then why can't I move on?" Rocket asks. "Because when you can't move on from someone, it just means you cared about the." Quill says. "But...I think it's time for us to move on." Quill places a hand on his shaking shoulder. Nebula comes running in. "I just got a message from Natasha. They have a plan to bring everyone back." She tells them as their jaws drop. "You're serious?" Quill asks. "Were heading back to earth now." She states as she leaves. "Forget everything I just said." Quill tells him. "Already ahead of you!" Rockets says as he runs to the controls and hits the coordinates in for earth and they blast off for earth.

As they land the ship, they all leave and see someone outside. "Hey, humie, Where's big green?" Rocket asks him. "Kitchen. I think." Scott says as Nebula walks past him. "That's awesome." He says. "Rhodey, careful on reentry, there's an idiot in the landing zone." Nebula says into her calm link as Rhodes comes flying down and Professor Hulk comes out. "What's up regular sized man?" He asks as he enters the compound. Quill gets the ship ready to take off to New Asgard.

They take a car to New Asgard and look around. "Well, it's good thing to know that some people survived when we couldn't get there in time." Quill comments. "It's kind of a step down from the golden palaces and the magic hammers and what not." Rocket states. "Hey, have a little compassion, pal." Bruce states. "First, they lost Asgard, then half their people. They're probably just happy to have a home." Bruce states. "You shouldn't have come." They hear someone say and turn to see Valkyrie. "Ah, Valkyrie. How are you angry girl?" Bruce asks her. "I think I liked you better either of both ways." Valkyrie commons on his change.(she's not the only one, but PH is growing on me) "this is Rocket and Quill." Bruce introduces the Guardians. "Hey there." Quill says, waving. "How ya doing?" Rocket asks. "He won't see you." Valkyrie warns them. "Is it really that bad?" Quill asks her, remembering the last he saw Thor after they returned from killing Thanos. "We only see him once a month when he comes in for...supplies." She states, looking over to barrels of beer. "I'm guessing it is that bad." Bruce answers Quill's question. "Yeah." Valkyrie warns them.