Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Chapter 13: Comply

--Sakaar--

Quill walked out of the room with 6 missiles from Beta Ray Bill. He went through the busy streets of Sakaar, on his way to find Richard. He had the missiles in his backpack while his holsters were left behind in the ship. Now there were what seems to be group of patrols roaming around Sakaar, who were carrying loaded weapons. Quill kept his distance until he saw a poster on one of the street walls, 'WANTED: Peter Quill, Dead or Alive'. Quill quickly got his phone out and called Rocket.

"Where the fuck are you guys?" Quill nervously asked on the phone. "Our fucking bounty is still on."

"Are you serious? It's still on?" Rocket asked, "What do you need?"

"I need you to get the ship ready, we're about to fucking leave." Quill ended the call and rushed through the city to find Richard.

A loud roar came from the arena in the middle of the city. The streets started getting empty so Quill decided to check the event our. Roar after another, people were shouting and gathering at the arena. He looked into the sky and saw some people watching from helicopters. So Quill opened his jet packs and landed on the edge of the arena where he took a sit. He focused at the person's face who appeared in the middle of the arena.

"Good afternoon, everyone." The Grandmaster said, as he got an applause from the crowd. "Now, I went on a bit of a hiatus but I'm back in action, everybody. And for today's main event, we will have a new competitor against a new Grand Champion! Let me hear it from you!"

A huge applause came from the crowd as Quill started having a bad idea about it. One of the cages started opening slowly as the Grandmaster talked.

"For our new competitor. He supposedly came from Xandar or whatever and his name is Richard Rider, also known as Nova!" The Grandmaster announced, as everyone started booing, "Yes, this happens with every new competitor."

"Are you seriously fucking kidding me?!" Quill said, as he tried to get his gun from his belt but realized it was in the ship, "Well, shit."

"And for our new Grand Champion!" The Grandmaster paused for the loud applause from the crowd, "It's a she now, everyone. Comes from the same kind of my last Grand Champion, Jennifer Walters, also known as She-Hulk!"

A loud standing ovation was for She-Hulk as Richard stood there, defenseless. Quill, with jet packs as his only option, used it and landed on the arena.

"Not a fucking good idea, Quill!" Richard shouted, as he saw Quill land on the ground, "We are talking about a Hulk!"

--Milano--

Rocket and Groot found the ship in a scrapyard as they entered it. The place was messed up and the supplies were raided. The only things that were left untouched were the planning room and the Orb. Mantis was in her room with a sword at hand.

"Get away from me, you beast!" Mantis shouted, as she drew the sword towards the door.

"It's just us, Mantis! Now stop pointing that sword at us." Rocket opened the door while Mantis drew her weapon down. She placed it on the floor and sighed, "What the hell happened?"

"Gamora got upset with me because she wanted me to join her little plan. She wanted to stop helping the Guardians because she believes what we were doing was wrong." Mantis leaned on the wall, "Once I declined, she beat me with some punches."

"That motherfucker. I'm calling Quill!" Rocket raced to the cockpit and started the ship. He hovered in the air and flew around as he called Quill, "Hey, Quill, where the hell are you?"

"Richard and I are kind of stuck at the momen-" Quill stopped, as Rocket heard multiple rockets being thrown at them, "There is literally a Hulk fighting us! Get here, the arena! The big fucking arena in the middle of the fucking city which shouldn't be hard to find!"

Rocket placed the thrusters on and flew towards the arena. Almost all the streets were empty because of the event that was going on. Once Rocket got there, he hovered it over the arena. Richard was flung to the wall while Quill was holding a spear. Rocket opened the landing ramp and sat on it, "Let's go Quill!"

Quill looked up to see Rocket enjoying the pain he was going through. While She-Hulk was distracted, Quill looked at Rocket and gave him a middle finger. All he saw was Rocket chuckling.

While Quill was distracted, however, She-Hulk punched Quill so hard that he was flung across the arena. Richard got up and saw the ship. He quickly flew to Quill and grabbed him.

"We could have done this earlier!" Quill shouted into Richard's ear as they were ascending towards the ship.

"I don't want to attract too much heat, you know." Richard said

"What heat? Like the hotness and some shit?" Quill said, as he saw a lot of ships flying behind them, "Ok! I get it now!"

Richard flew inside the ship and threw Quill into it. Groot and Mantis were waiting for them while Rocket was in the cockpit driving the ship. They were under some serious fire when Quill ran towards Rocket.

"Let me drive, you chuckling raccoon!" Quill said, as he struggled to get to the driver's seat since they were making turns.

"Shut the hell up! I'm going to make us go 15 jumps so we could get away." Rocket said, as he held on to the button.

Rocket looked at Quill as he nodded. Rocket pressed the button and they were already jumping from the atmosphere to deep space. Quill was flying around the place without a seatbelt while Rocket was trying his best not to look at the light. Once it stopped, Quill threw up.

"I nodded because I thought it was the missiles you dumbass!" Quill rubbed his mouth in disguise.

"I thought you saw it was hyper-drive." Rocket chuckled as he got off the driver's seat, "Your turn next time."

Quill fixed himself up after he threw up and immediately walked downstairs where the group was. He noticed that Gamora wasn't there.

"What the hell happened to Gamora?" Quill asked, as everyone looked down in sadness.