Chapter 5: Berhert Ambush.

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On Berhert, with its four moons shining brightly over the night sky, Yondu's Ravager clan, including Kraglin and Taserface, have surrounded and are approaching the destroyed Milano. They hear music and see a camp fire on the way. As they get closer to the destroy M-ship, one of the Ravagers stepped on a button. Before they have time to react, several needles were fired from nearby trees, and knocks them out and one of them fired his machine gun, which got heard by Nebula and Baby Groot. On a tree, Rocket was prepping another trap for the Ravagers. They noticed Rocket moving through the trees and fire at him, but he evade the shots before hiding behind another tree and activates the traps, launching some of the Ravagers into the air before they fell back and hit the ground. Rocket continue to do this repeatedly to them. Rocket then planted some electric mines on the Ravagers heads and shocked them all. Eventually, Rocket ran out of traps to use and was cornered by a Ravager name Brahl and another Ravager. Rocket defeated them with his bare hands and knocked them out. Two more Ravagers came and just as they were about to shoot, their weapons were blast away by a yellow ecto blast. Daranak made himself tangible before giving an ecto-energy strike to the same Ravager before flying towards the second and also gave him an ecto-energy strike. Daranak then use his ecto-construct powers to form a yellow ecto-rope and wrapped it around several more Ravagers before shocking them with the Ghost Stinger. However, before Rocket and Daranak can fight the other Ravagers together, Yondu eventually joined the hunt and sent his Yaka Arrow, stopping it right in front of Rocket's head.

"Crap." Rocket said.

"Oh, great." Daranak said.

Yondu and the rest of his Ravagers approached Rocket, who puts his paws in the air. Daranak did the same and put his hands in the air.

"Hey there, rat! Ghost!" Yondu said.

"Yondu." Daranak said.

"How's it going, you blue idiot?" Rocket asked.

"Not so bad. We got ourselves a pretty good little gig here. This golden gal with quite a high opinion of herself has offered us a large sum to deliver you and your pals over to her because she wants to kill y'all." Yondu said.

Inside the Milano, Nebula is trying to convince Baby Groot to free her.

"Your friends. There's too many of them. They need my help. If you care about them, you need to get me out of these bonds. They are going to kill them!" Nebula said.

Back outside, Yondu and his clan held Rocket and Daranak.

"How did you find us?" Daranak asked.

"I tell you, it was pretty easy to find you. I put a tracer on your ship back there during the war over Xandar." Yondu said.

"You sneak." Daranak said.

"Give me your word you won't hurt Groot and I'll tell you where the batteries are." Rocket said, concern for Baby Groot.

"Lucky for you, my word don't mean squat. Otherwise, I'd actually hand you over." Yondu said.

"Otherwise, you'd what?" Taserface said, not believing what Yondu just said.

"We'll taken them batteries. They're worth what? A quarter mil on the open market?" Yondu said.

"That Priestess offered us a million. A quarter is only one third of that!" Taserface said.

"A quarter ain't a third." Yondu said.

"A quarter is 25." a Ravager name Gef said.

"No." Yondu muttered.

"We can't even buy a pair of boots with 25 units." Gef said.

"Enough! The point is, we ain't stupid enough to help kill the Guardians of the Galaxy! The whole dang Nova Corps would be on to us. Not to mention two of them were former Nova Corpsmen and one them is standing right here." Yondu said.

"That ain't right! I just gotta say it this one time, Captain. No matter how many times Quill betrays you, you protect him like none of the rest of us much matter!" Kraglin said, making some of the others agree. "I'm the one what sticks up for you!"

"Take it easy, Kraglin." Tullk said.

"Damn straight, lad. He's gone soft. Suppose it's time for a change in leadership." Taserface said, starting his mutiny against Yondu by aiming his weapon at him.

The Ravagers siding with Taserface, including Kraglin, aim their weapons at Yondu. The rest still loyal to Yondu, including Tullk, aim their weapons at Taserface and his men. Yondu also aim his Yaka Arrow at Taserface.

"Put your damn guns down!" Tullk ordered.

"Whoa! Whoa! There must be some kind of peaceful resolution to this fellas. Or even a violent one where Daranak and I are standing over there." Rocket said.

"Come on, fellas, work it out." Daranak said.

Taserface and Yondu continue to stare at each other, and just as Yondu was about to fire his arrow, someone fired at Yondu and his Yaka Arrow Controller, stunning him. Yondu fell to the ground to reveal the person who made the shot. It was Nebula!

"What the?!" Daranak said.

Before Daranak can react, Nebula fired shots at Rocket and Daranak, stunning them and Daranak to change back into Xandarian form.

"Well, hello, boys." Nebula greeted before taking a bite out of a yaro root, only to spit it out. "It's not ripe."

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