The next day we were in the big room with the rest of the prisoners getting what they call food. It was more like gray sludge to be honest. "If we're gonna get out of here, we're gonna need to get into that watchtower." Rocket looks over at the tower walking to an empty table with his 'food'. Looking up I could tell there was only one maybe 2 doors. Heavily guarded but relatively easy to get into if you've done this sort of thing before, like I have. Catching up to the rest of them she listened in, "And to do that. I'm gonna need a few things. The guards wear security bands to control their ins and outs. I need one." Gamora glanced over at a guard, her target, "Leave it to me." Rocket continued on his plan as I surveyed the area, keeping an eye on everyone making sure nothing fishy is about to happen, "That dude, there. I need his prosthetic leg." I looked over to where the raccoon was pointing at and frowned in confusion. Does he really need his leg? "His leg?" Peter voiced both of our thoughts. "Yeah. God knows I don't need the rest of him, he's useless." I shrugged at Peter who was looking at me confused, "Alright." He finished with before he sat down. I sat down next to Gamora ready for anything. "And finally, on the wall back there is a black panel. Blinky yellow light. Do you see it?" I eyed the panel hoping it was the right one he was talking about, "Yes?" I uttered out confused a little. "yea that one princess. There's a quarnyx battery behind it. Purplish box, green wires. To get into that watchtower, I definitely need it." Turning my head back to the rodent I voiced my thoughts, "And how are we supposed do that Rocket? It's heavily guarded." I glanced at everyone else not noticing Groot was gone but seen everyone nod there head at my accusation. "Well, Princess, supposedly these bald-bodies find you attractive. So maybe you can work something out with your charm or something." I gazed at my attire before looking at the little thing, "You must be joking." He shook his head "No, I really heard they find you attractive." I sighed glancing back at the panel knowing this will be a little bit more difficult than the tasks she has done in the past. "It's twenty feet up in the air little one. It's nearly impossible without a fight breaking out." I glared at me for a second "I got one plan, and that plan requires a frickin' quarnyx battery. You'll figure something out." I huffed at his annoyance. Rude little rodent. "Can you do it blondie?" Rocket asked looking right at me. I tilted my head as if he was challenging me. "I'm part feline. Of course I can do it." He grinned getting back to the plan. "Now, this is important. Once the battery is removed, everything is gonna slam into emergency mode. Once we have it, we gotta move quickly, so you definitely have to get that last." I nodded understanding my task until I glanced back over at the panel seeing Groot pulling on the battery. He ripped it off the wires and the whole place when into lockdown mode. "Or we could just get it first and improvise!" Rocket growled out. "I'll get the armband." Gamora uttered out before running off. "Leg." Peter said running off in another direction. "Moy-vite. (Oh hell)." I growled out looking for something to do when Rocket ran off to who knows where. Small flying guns came out of a hallway and started to surround the big tree waiting for the man in the control center to push the fire button. I took one of the cups on the tray and hurled it at one of the guns knocking it loose from the circle it was in. I ran toward it seeing my advantage and jumped grabbing a hold of the sides of the thing and hoisted myself up before the gun could come out and fire upon me and leave damage. Getting my balanced as I kneeled ontop of the gunship I seen Groot grow some tree spikes getting angry, "I am Groot!" He yelled out before the ships started to fire. As the gunship jerked from firing i gripped onto the top edge of the ship and pulled the ship to the right making it fire upon another ship. It exploded quickly but another ship came flying at me. My eyes widened as it started to fire, but thinking quickly I gripped the edge of my ship with both hands and pulled up so the belly was up facing the ship and blocking me. Shots hit the ship multiple times before it started to catch on fire. I kicked off of the ship and flipped in the air so I could land on the ground in a crouching position so nothing would break in my body. I glanced up panting a little seeing rocket run up groot and yelling at the tree. I looked for a weapon any weapon at all so I could help them but only found prisoners hiding and running until I spotted Drax fighting off three guards. I ran over grabbing one of the empty trays and bashed it onto one of the guards heads getting his attention. He had a baton, I had a tray. Not really a fair fight I should say but it'll do. He swung first but I blocked easily and kicked my leg out hitting him in the chest making him take a couple of steps back. I walked toward him gripping the tray harder before faking a punch with my left but swinging the tray with my right hitting him right in the jaw. As he fell I hit him again just to make sure he wasn't getting up. I turned around seeing Drax had taken down the other two guards and was now staring at me almost in awe. I glanced down at the weapons in his hand and then looked up at Rocket. He started to hand me a weapon but I shook my head no, "Give it to the little one. I have my own ways." I growled out taking on another guard with my tray. Knocking him down I heard the rodents name being called out. I jerked my head at the sound and saw what Gamora was going after being thrown to the little one. Her little dysfunctional team all started walking/running towards the watchtower. Running to the first available object that was higher than the rest I jumped on it and then jumped to something higher which was a railing. Dipping underneath the bars I got back up and ran towards the tower only to be stopped by a guard with a gun yelling for me to stop. I smirked letting my feline nails grow out, the guard pulled on the trigger firing the weapon. Dodging as much as I could I rolled underneath his widely spread legs before standing up and gripping the back of his shirt before throwing him over the railing. Skimming the area I was in I found another railing that leads up to the watch tower. I took a running start and jumped up on the railing and pushed off of the metal bar and flew through the air. The railing came fast but I was ready for it kind of. I wrapped my arms around one of the bars as much as I could before lifting my feet to the grated walkway and getting situated to move onto the walkway. hoisting myself over the railing I landed gracefully and ran towards my somewhat of a team as they opened the door grinning at the guard inside holding his hands up in surrender. Stepping inside of the control room I checked out all of the technical things. "Spare me your fowl gaze woman!" Why is this one here?" I peeked at Drax who was glaring at Gamora while she was glaring at Peter. "We promised him he could stay by your side until he kills your boss. I always keep my promises, when they're to muscle-bound whack-jobs who will kill me if I don't. Here you go." Peter finished setting the leg down on the control panel. "I was just kidding about the leg. I just needed these two things." "What?" "No, I thought it'd be funny. Was it funny? Wait, what did he look like hopping around?" Rocket started laughing trying to imitate the one legged man. "I had to transfer him thirty thousand units!" I rolled my eyes at the two. "How are we getting out of here little one?" I piped in getting back to the task at hand. "Well, he's got a plan. Right? Or is that another thing you made up?" Rocket started to push buttons and pulling levers "I have a plan! I have a plan!" "Cease your yammering and relieve us from this irksome confinement." Drax cut in making me growl under my breath. "Yeah, I'll have to agree with the walking thesaurus on that one." My body turned to glare at the two who were chest to chest "Both of you shut your mouths, let him work. Tuse ma-loke tazul (stupid. both of you.)" They both turned to me before glaring back at each other "Do not ever call me a thesaurus." "It's just a metaphor, dude." I stepped in between them pushing Quill back knowing he wasn't trying to start anything but unintentionally did anyways. I pushed on Drax's chest growling low with my ears pinned back making him step back a couple of steps. "His people are completely literal. Metaphors are gonna go over his head." Drax glares down at the rodent "Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast. I would catch it." I smirked up at the tall brute "You wanna test that theory?" "I'm gonna die surrounded by the biggest idiots in the galaxy." "Those are some big guns." I turned around walking back to the panel gaping at the scene below us. "Rodent, we are ready for your plan!" Gamora let out uneasy about this. "Hold on!" The shot hit the window cracking the glass. The second one hit on another window making the room shake a bit. "I recognize this animal. We'd roast them over a flame pit as children. Their flesh was quite delicious." Drax let out laughing as he remembered his childhood. I grabbed the metal leg and quickly and swiftly swung it around hitting Drax on the side of the head. "This is no time for memories you giant brute." I snarled out. He grabbed the side of his head as he wasn't ready for the force of the impact. "Thank you princess." Rocket called out to me as we heard the last command being called out. "You're welcome little one but you might want to work quicker. They have all weapons at the ready." We all gaped at the leader counting down from 3 for all weapons to fire. Right as he was about to say one Rocket plugged 2 connectors together making everyone in the room below us start to float. "He turned off the artificial gravity, everywhere but in here." Folding my arms I nodded in appreciation at his grand plan. The little rodent disconnects the control room from the tower and controls the gunships to connect to the bottom us and starts to fly through the prison until he gets a certain room and locking the door. "I told you I had a plan." "That was a pretty good plan." Peter looks out the window "Yeah! There it is. Get my ship. It's the milano, the orange and blue one over in the corner." Peter kicked the glass out and ran to get his stuff everyone else following suit. Grabbing my blades, boots, clothes, and extra weapons I keep handy I start running to the ship wanting to get there before any of the guards do.
Once inside I got to a secluded room which was filthy but none the less dressed myself in the attire I had on before hand. Buckling the harness for my swords proved to be a bit more difficult in this cramped room. But once it was finally done I slipped my boots on but left them untied until I got to a more open space. walking up the steps to see what is happening there was still no Quill. "If we don't leave now, we will be blown to bits!" "No! We're not leaving without the orb." I gazed out the window seeing 2 shiny red dots followed by a body flying our way, "Behold. This one shows spirit! He shall make a keen ally in battle against Ronan."
We walked down the steps and waited for Peter to surface, while that was happening I was tying my boots. "Companion, what were you retrieving?" Drax asked as Peter pulled something out of his jacket pocket. I stepped closer examining it seeing that it was an old walkman from his planet. I've read about them in my many journeys to earth. "You're an imbecile." The big brute called to Peter. I placed my hand on Drax's shoulder making him turn his head towards me, "It's the small things that make a life meaningful Drax. This is important to him." I grabbed it out of his hand before he could crush and put it on the table near us. The big brute didn't quite understand what I was saying so I explained a little further. "The memories and the feelings of his childhood I assume are with this little device I think. Do you have something special from your wife or child Drax. Or do you have a fond memory of an object they always carried?" He thought for a moment but nodded his head keeping his head low so no one would see his emotions. I stepped closer to the man and placed a hand on his shoulder. "If it was still around, if it was still here in your hands, wouldn't you want to keep it with you wherever you go?" He nodded again but this time made eye contact. I smiled up at him knowing I got to a place he hasn't been in a very long time. "That is his memory. That is his special object that he holds dear to himself for a reason he only knows." I patted his shoulder before turning around ready to walk up the stairs again but was stopped by big hand gently holding my arm. I turned around confused only to see him vulnerable, "How do you live with your kinds death. Your families death?" He asked quietly. I sat down on a bench not to far away and patted the seat next to me. Once he sat down I started to speak "For a very long time I was out for vengeance for my mother and father and my race much like you are now. But it doesn't help in anyway, you may think it does but to be truthful it doesn't do anything. Being the last of my kind still hurts to think about it but I live with it. I have to keep walking forward and so should you. Do you understand?" He thought about it for a minute before turning his head towards me and nodding with a smile. I smiled back at him and placed my hand on his knee "It will always hurt inside. But you must always walk forward and not backwards. Okay?" He nodded again assuming this conversation has ended I patted his leg and stood up making my way to the head of the ship before I was turned around and engulfed in a giant bone crushing hug. "Thank you Kahira. I have been by myself since that fateful day and I am thankful for your advice." I laughed out a couple of breaths as I was trying to regain my breathing but smiled nonetheless at the man "You are welcome Drax. You don't have to live your life alone." And at that I walked up the stairs and sat down in one of the seats watching the stars go by but thinking about what had just happened. Drax the Destroyer just let someone see his vulnerable side. What has this universe come to.
