ATHENA | peter parker

41 | its an ipod, dipshit!

41 | it's an iPod, dipshit!

As Athena left the room, she turned off Quills music after he'd repeated it for what felt like 1000 times.

"Turn it back on!" She heard him yell through the ship.

"No!" Athena yelled back as Quill approached her.

"Turn it back on" he said quieter as he stared at her with his music device.

"You can't keep listening to the same song on repeat, Quill!" She exclaimed back.

"I told you.... I'm screwed up, girl. I gotta get back into groove!" Quill said as he stormed over to her and attempted to grab the music. "Specifically the New York groove!"

She pulled her hand back out of his grasp and ran away.

"Give me back my zune!" He exclaimed.

"No" she shrugged and shook her head as Quill once again tried to retrieve it.

"Give me back my zune!" He said in a deeper more angry voice. Athena started to walk away as Quill tailed her, trying to grab it out of her hands.

"The man that sings the song sucks!" She complained "it's old, and stupid and a waste of space on your iPod!"

"What the hell is an iPod!?" Quill screamed in confusion as they walked into a room with Mantis as Draw also walked in.

"It's what this is, dipshit!" She turned around and screamed in his face.

"Give me the zune!" He exclaimed from the other side of the table.

"iPod" Athena shook her head as they both tried to go either ways and ended up at the opposite sides of the table again.

"Quill, this... is not helping." She said "we haven't even left Knowhere yet!"

Quill didn't reply, he just bolted over causing Athena to run around the table once again.

"This is helping more than you are..." Quill said quieter. "You were no help on Knowhere."

"He froze me!" She exclaimed louder causing Drax to agree.

"Yeah, she was frozen the entire time." He shrugged causing Quill to roll his eyes.

"Shut up! We lost her because of you!" He yelled to Drax.

"We lost Gamora because you would not let me cease the moment!" Drax replied in exclamation.

"What do you care?" Athena sneered at Quill "you tried to kill her!"

"She said I'd be saving the universe!" Quill exclaimed back.

"I would kill any of you if it would stop that blinking yellow light." Athena's head turned to Mantis as she stared off at the yellow light on the wall.

"The coded message channel?" Quill asked in worry as he ran over to it "how long has this been on?"

"But it was so beautiful" Mantis said as she stood up.

"Mantis..." Quill looked at her "a blinking yellow light indicates an important secret coded message."

"Shame on you, Mantis." Drax mumbled.

"How long—" Quill said before looking up at Athena "this was your job."

"It was her job!" Mantis pointed at her.

"Athena, didn't you see the blinking yellow light?"

"This isn't even my ship!" Athena exclaimed "you're just trying to blame me for something!"

"Okay, no, but Drax... seriously. This was your job, did you not see it?" Quill asked.

"I did, but you said if it was yellow let it mellow" he said making Athena shake her head "brown, flush it down."

"I wasn't talking about the coded message channel" Quill said with gritted teeth.

"22 important coded secret messages. That could have been helpful." Quill said looking off to Drax and Athena like they were the ones to blame. "Five hours, I've been sitting five hours. We have 22 messages."

"Whatever, Quill" The girl rolled her eyes "what do they say?"

"From Nebula" he started "Gamora is alive! Thanos is taking her to titan! Why aren't you responding? Why aren't you responding? Are you getting my important coded secret messages? Shift coordinates... alright." He walked over to the panel and said "titan, yeah. Wait, how do we know this isn't a trap?"

"It's not!" She yelled as she walked over to Quill "just do it."

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