Sovereign

2.2

I stomped onto the Milano, calming myself down and Rocket came over the comms, "All right, let's get Baldy to Xandar and collect that bounty." I looked out the window and sighed in sadness, feeling the heavy weight on my heart as we flew away from my home planet. I sat in a chair behind Rocket, glaring at the back of his head.

Rocket glanced behind him at me, "What's on your mind?" I sighed, "Rocket, how could you insult my people like that?" Rocket scoffed, "Your people!? You're nothing like them! We are your people!" An alarm sounded and I looked around, "What is going on?" Peter sat in the co-pilot's chair, "This is weird. We've got a Sovereign fleet approaching from the rear. Looks like they really wanted Nefer to stay."

Gamora sat behind me, "Why would they do that?" Drax stood beside me, "Probably because Rocket stole some of their batteries." Gamora, Peter, and I glared at Rocket and Rocket looked at Drax, "Dude!" Drax flinched, "He didn't steal some of those. He would never steal from Nefertiti's people. I don't know why they're after us. What a mystery this is."

Gamora yelped as the Milano jolted and I snarled, "Rocket, you sticky-fingered, son of a bitch!" Peter maneuvered around the shots and looked at Rocket, "What were you thinking?" Rocket rolled his eyes, "Dude, they were really easy to steal!" Gamora didn't look amused, "That's your defense." Groot looked at me from Rocket's shoulder and raised his arms at me, I smiled and grabbed him, holding him close to me, "You are so lucky I have Groot in my arms. I'm going to kill you!"

Rocket didn't look phased, "You saw how that High Priestess was talking down to us and praising Fern. She thinks Fern is one of them. Fern is not one of them and now I'm teaching her a lesson!" Peter looked at him, "Oh, I didn't realize that your motivation was altruism and overprotectiveness. It's really a shame the Sovereign have mistaken your intentions and they're trying to kill us." Rocket nodded, "Exactly!"

I groaned, "That was sarcasm!" Drax walked over to me and injected a sleep drug into my neck, causing me to black out.

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Peter's POV

"Drax! What the hell!" I yelled at him and Drax shrugged, "This way if the Sovereign asks, she wasn't part of it. She wasn't even awake." Gamora groaned, "Now it looks like a kidnapping! Great!" Rocket growls, "I can't believe you!

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High Priestess Ayesha's POV

I stood there on the balcony with Admiral Neo and glanced at him, "What is the delay, Admiral?" Neo took a breath, "High Priestess, the batteries, they are exceptionally combustible and my niece is on that ship. We both know she had nothing to do with the stolen batteries, but we don't want to destroy the entire fleet. I looked at the modifications my sister put into Nefertiti and she will survive in space unlike everyone else, but I don't want to take any chances."

I gritted my teeth, "In that case, our concern is their slight against our people. We hired them and they steal from us. They stole your niece, she had every right to stay with us...with you and they somehow convinced her to go with them. It is heresy of the highest order. If our gem of our people can survive, then get the job done."

Neo nodded and looked out to our people, navigating the crafts, "All command modules...fire with the intent to kill. Once Nefertiti is in sight, bring her home." With that comment, everyone grew excited to bring home the Sovereign's Gem: Nefertiti.

One pilot, Zylak, was still alive in the asteroid field and everyone gasped as they saw one of the Guardians holding an unconscious Nefertiti beside them. One yelled out for everyone to hear, "They've harmed Nefertiti!" There was an uproar in anger as the one Guardian destroyed our last aircraft, causing Neo to yell out in despair, that his last remaining blood was in the hands of people that harmed her. I looked at Admiral Neo to see absolute rage on his face as he looked up to the screen. 

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Nefertiti's POV

I groaned as I lay on the floor of the ship, only to open my eyes and look confused as most of it was destroyed, "What happened?" Gamora turned to me with fury in her eyes, "Drax knocked you out, made it look like we harmed you to the Sovereign and then Rocket and Peter had a dick-measuring contest!"

I rolled my eyes and got up, "Of course they did." A ship started to descend just a little bit away from us and everyone got in a defensive position and Peter pulled me beside him. "Someone followed you through the jump point!" Nebula said as we all looked up, "Set me free. You'll need my help."

Gamora rolled her eyes, "I'm not a fool, Nebula." Nebula shot back, "You are a fool if you deprive yourself a hand in combat." Gamora watched the ship, "You'll attack me the moment I let you go." Nebula muttered, "No, I won't." Peter commented, while hugging me at his side, "You'd think an evil supervillain would learn how to properly lie." Drax looked up happily, "I bet it's the one-inch man!"

We all watched as the ship landed and a man and a woman walked out. "After all of these years. I found you two," The man said with a smile. Peter hugged me tighter, "And who the hell are you?" The man smiled more, "I figured my rugged good looks and color aesthetic would make that obvious. My name is Ego...and I'm your dad, Nefertiti and Peter." My eyes widened at the news, "I'm sorry, what?" 

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Ayesha's POV, on Contraxia

After the complete waste of time that one of my handmaidens finished, I looked at the man I needed to see. "Yondo Udonta...I have a proposition for you. Mr. Quill and his group of Guardians have stolen something from us. Two things actually. The second one is the most important. Our Gem. Admiral Neo's niece, Nefertiti. I am aware that you cared for her after you stole her from her birthing pod some years ago for her father. I will forgive all that since she is still alive. But I need Nefertiti to be brought back to us as well as capturing the Guardians for us."

Yondu hesitated, "How much are we talking?" I smirked, "One million units for the capture of the Guardians...Five million units for the safe return of Nefertiti."

Yondu smirked darkly, "Deal."