1 | INTERSTELLAR (GOTG)

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BLACK ELECTRICITY POURED out her fingertips as she casually practices her powers. It was a routine she usually follows, as much as she was a powerful mutant with the ability to manipulate dark/destructive lighting. She was still a young hatchling who still had much to learn about them. She had some mishaps with her powers due to the powerful use of them.

To her knowledge, her abilities to manipulate dark/destructive lighting was a powerful ability. She could manipulate the lighting and it could literally consume and destroy everything it comes across, making it very dangerous for her to have. She was clueless about her limits, she could destroy a whole planet if she wanted to but that she was oblivious about.

Although she had come across a little sip of her powers before, it had caused a few lives of some criminals she had encountered on Xandar. They had some reasons to mess with the mutant and kidnaped her as the whole prison slept. It was only a matter of time that they had realized they messed with the wrong girl.

Within seconds of pulling out a knife to her throat, black electricity came out of her palms and they jumped for their neck. Her eyes engulfed in black and her assaulter was too. Soon her assaulter was nothing but air.

Ever since she's been very careful with using them.

She pauses for a moment before hearing loud footsteps in the hallway. She opens the door and sees Gamora stomping down the hallway and out into the exit. She slowly steps out from her quarters and out into the hallway, which she makes her way to Peter's room.

The door was closed and she knocked on the door, making a beat. She swung the door open and saw Peter out in the balcony looking into the sunset. He doesn't turn around to see her, he just stays still until Astrid walks outside beside him.

She placed a comforting hand on his back letting him know that she was here. "What's up Pete?" she says crossing her arms across her chest, "Gamora and I fought." he sighs. "Well, it can't be that bad." He shakes his head, "She said that this was a fantasy and I should return back to reality. She keeps talking about Mantis, like she's hiding something."

That was the thing, Astrid couldn't agree with Peter because she knew as well there was something going on with this planet. She already had found it weird that there was literally no one living on Ego's planet, which was the size of Earth's moon. Which, she might add, is big enough for a billion of people or so.

And so why the isolation?

"That's the thing Pete. Don't you find it weird that only Mantis and Ego are the only people living here?" She asked, Peter looked at her with slight confusion all over his face. "What are you trying to say?" She sighed.

"I just don't think that we can trust Ego. He's a celestial and all and but I know there's more to him than that. He knew that you were taken by Yondu, so why years later to find you?" Peter just shook his head in disbelief that his own sister, yes even he considered her family, would go against him.

"Really? Even you Astrid?" First name basis, Astrid knew that he was now serious when he called her by the first name. "What—" She tried to reason but Peter had a lot to say. "Out of all the people you're on her side. I'm finally reunited with my dad and you two have come and ruin it."

"Peter..." She pleaded. "Maybe you're jealous. Maybe this is what's its been all about. You're jealous that I found my dad. A parent. Something you don't have!" He yelled. Too far Pete. Too far. She flinched at the way his voice rose.

Before Astrid could say something, her lips pressed together in silence. Peter realized what he had said and he knew he couldn't take it back. Astrid on the other hand felt torn apart. She had never expected that Peter Quill, the boy she grew up with, the boy she considered family after everything, would say something like that.

"Well, have a fun with your dad Peter." Was all she had to say before storming out the room. She storms down the hallways making her way to her room before unexpectedly bumping into Drax. "Shit." She mumbled underneath her breath.

"Astrid! There you are, I've been looking for you and Peter. Where's Peter?" Drax asked helping her get back on her feet. "Just done the hallway. Have you seen Gamora?" Drax just shakes his head. "He's in his room." Astrid says before walking off to hers.

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As Groot walks down the hallway drenched in alcohol, he has his head down in sadness. He unknowingly walks pass by a cell that hold his friends, Rocket and Yondu. "Hey twig c'mere" Yondu motions. Groot follows and steps towards the blue skinned man.

"Oh man. What'd they do to you?" Rocket asks with sincerity. "Hey, you wanna help us get out of here?" Yondu says, Groot willingly nods at the favour although Rocket isn't sure if he's up to the task. "There's something I need you to bring back to me. In the Captain's quarters, there's a prototype fin, like the thing I wore on my head." Groot nods.

"There's a drawer next to the bunk. It's inside that. It's red. Got it?" Groot nods once more before running off to the Captain's quarters.

"That's my underwears." Yondu says. "Yeah I was pretty sure he didn't know what you were talking about. You have to explain it more careful." Says Rocket. Yondu sighs trying again with Groot.

Groot stands in front of the cell once again holding a orloni in his hands. "That's an orloni Groot. It's a fin." Rocket sighs, Yondu looks at the raccoon with a face that said I told you so. "You explain it this time."

"Thats Vorker's eye. He takes it off when he sleeps. Go look again." The blue man sends off Groot, but before he could move Rocket had something to say. "But leave the eye here."

"Why?"

Rocket laughs, making it difficult or him to explain so. He really does have a weird sense of humour. "He's gonna wake up and he's not gonna know where his eye is!"

"That's a desk Groot. We told you it's this big!" Rocket shows Groot how big the fin is with his fingers. Groot lets out a small oh of realization. He finally knew what it was but in reality he was no where close.

Groot comes back with something that shocks the two. "Tell me you guys have a refrigerator somewhere stocked with severed human toes." Rocket asks surprised at the toe he was seeing before him. Yondu just shakes his head surprised as well.

"Okay then, let just never discuss this ever again." Rocket says, sending Groot back to find the fin. Groot comes back with a piece of paper in his hands, Yondu reaches out from inside the cell for the paper.

"What's that?" Rocket asks with curiosity. Yondu flips the paper over revealing that it was a photograph. In the photo was a boy who looked like a young Peter and a young girl, one with faded orange hair and one with brown long hair. Both were smiling while they stood together.

Yondu had remembered them, it was Astrid and Peter. He remembered Peter asking him to take a photo of him and his sister with his Polaroid camera. They were young, Astrid looked about 14 in the photo while Peter was probably 26.

"It's Peter and Astrid." Yondu says softly. Rocket looks at the photo himself and sees how happy Peter looked with Astrid. "But it's not what we're looking for." Yondu says, keeping the photograph in his jacket. He rips off the Ravager medallion off his jacket and shoes it to Groot.

"The drawer you want to open has this symbol on it, okay?" He hands the medallion to the creature and Groot places it on his head. "What? No." Yondu says.

"He thinks you want him to wear it like a hat."
Rocket explains, Yondu gives him a confused face. "That's not what I said."

I am Groot.
"He's relieved that you don't him too."

I am Groot.
"He hates hats."

I am Groot.
"On anyone, not just himself."

I am Groot.
"One minute you think someone has a weird-shaped head. The next minute, it's just because you realize part of that head is a hat."

"That's why you don't like hats?" Groot nods, "This is an important conversation right now?" Yondu says as he's fed up with the nonsense. "No. Lets try again."

And so they did.