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Rocket tapped his claws across the center console, expertly evading yet another three-factor security system: Children. Lord. Destiny.
What imaginative passwords.
Boom. The ship shook as another nuke crashed into its hull, and Rocket took the opportunity to hit the self-destruct button on the northern sector of the velons incubation warehouse. He laughed maniacally as the resulting pop-pop-pop shuddered through the floor, bouncing him up and down in a chair made for an alien commander ten times his size.
Behind him, the chick with the antennae held his first line of defence, her fingers stretched towards any alien stupid enough to come near for her sleepy powers to kick in. Quill and Gamora rotated like clockwork outside, firing repulsors and exchanging blows at his offenders.
Their team had been fairly discreet since the eastern sector exploded, but given that Rocket had to let out some sort of noise at every explosion, the attempt at secrecy had quickly dissolved into all-out warfare. Of course, Drax revelled in it, stabbing every alien he could get to with a shout of "DIE, SCUM" that was always followed by an incoherent round of yelling.
Ok, so maybe they all sucked at keeping a low profile. Rocket hoped the spiders were holding intact.
A loud noise rocked the ship, and Rocket laughed gleefully as he punched in the next line of code. The western sector exploded: pop-pop-pop. Then he froze - it hadn't been a boom.
He quickly checked the grainy monitor in the corner of a colossal screen, commanding it to replay the footage.
A blast of purple. A thrum of yellow. A giant hole in the side of the ship - the side where Kid Spider and the crazy robot were supposed to be. No nukes. Not like the ones he'd been told to listen for.
Gamora's Big Bad Ex-Daddy would know someone was in the control room. And he was likely heading here, right now.
"Hey, guys?" Rocket called out, tapping frantically at the console.
Enter code_
Hippocampus. Terra. Abalone. Scrotum. Raisin.
Error. Password not accepted_
"I think Thanos-"
A misfired repulsor hit the side of the screen, and the pixels flickered.
"Hey, watch it!" Rocket sniped, shifting his working screen from the broken monitor.
"What were you saying?!" Gamora shouted over the sound of repulsors whirring and the engine whining from yet another accidental hit.
"I said, watch it!"
"No, I mean before that!"
Before? Oh -
"Thanos has the stone!" Rocket hollered back, punching the keyboard. Hope. Green. Yellow. Rover. Ranger. Alpha. Beta. Delta.
Password denied_
"NO!"
Rocket paused. Was Quill making a suggestion?
No.
Password denied_
"Get out, get out, get - bam - YOU KILLED MY MOM!" A screech of a chair. An oof as Drax drove his knee into the Terran's stomach. The bam of a grenade as Quill sent the heavyweight alien through the wall.
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Scorpio
Fanfiction- COMPLETED - //a hero exists in all of us.// The Avengers are pitted against their biggest baddie yet, and they will need all the help they can get to save the universe. Takes place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, after events of Captain America...
