Ravager Ship
January 17, 2016
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"Watch your hands, or else you might lose them." Astra threatened the greasy haired Ravager that was dragging her along the hallway. His hands were wrapped around her bicep, dangerously close to breasts. And, oh, if he were to piss the girl off she would get angry enough to tear the tight ropes off, going all hulk on him.
The man ignored her and she was thrown into a rusty cell along with Rocket and Yondu. She fell face first, and struggled to get up without her hands. "We deliver you to the Kree in the morning." Taserface told them and the cell doors closed on them. "None of you will last much longer after that."
"Okay, Taserface." Rocket mocked and stood at the cell bars. "Tell the other guys we said 'Hi' Taserface."
"Rocket you're just gonna piss him off even more." Astra muttered, shifting her body to lay on her back, and from there she sat up. "Now, help me out of these ropes." Nodded her head to the ropes that still tied her arms.
Rocket sighed and walked over to her. "No offense, but your employees are a bunch of jerks." He told Yondu as his little raccoon hands began un-tieing the rope around her wrists.
"I was a Kree battle slave for 20 years when Stakar freed me." The depressed blue man mumbled barely loud enough to hear. "He offered me a place with the Ravagers. Said all I needed to do was adhere to the code. But I was young and greedy and stupid. Like you steeling those batteries."
"That was mostly Drax." Rocket lied. "Why, won't these ropes untie?" The little raccoon shouted in frustration and tugged on it, burning Astra's skin just a bit more and she hissed at the feeling.
"Those ropes need to be cut." Yondu muttered.
Rocket huffed and pulled away taking a seat beside the brunette. "Just our luck." She sighed and rested her brown head on the wall.
"Me and Stakar and the other captains, we weren't so different from you and your friends. The only family I even had." Blue man admitted, thinking back to his past. "When I broke the code... They exiled me. This is what I deserve."
"Slow down drama queen." Rocket mocked and stood up. "You might deserve this, but we don't. We gotta get outta here." He looked around the room for an escape.
"Where's Quill?"
"He went off with his dad." Astra answered.
Yondu perked up a bit, but not in a happy way. "Ego?"
"Yeah." Rocket affirmed. "It's a day for dumbass names." Yondu smiled and chuckled a bit. "You're smiling. For a second I got a warm feeling. But then it was ruined by those disgusting-ass teeth."
Yondu's smile faded into an annoyed expression. "You're like a professional asshole or what?"
"Pretty much a pro." Rocket shrugged proudly.
"Why didn't you deliver Quill to Ego like you promised?" Astra wondered out loud.
"He was skinny. Could fit into places we couldn't. Good for thievin'." Yondu answered. Astra wasn't convinced. Remember, she spent her entire life at S.H.I.E.L.D. and can tell when someone is lying. Yondu noticed how she could see through him, changing the subject. "I got an idea on how to get outta here. But were gonna need your little friend."
*****
Tiny Groot dragged himself down the long hallway. He kept his head down and was dripping wet with alcohol. "Hey, twig!" Yondu called to him, Groot's head head turning slowly to look at the three. "Come here. Come on."
Groot took short and sad steps to the cell. "Aw, man. What did they do to you?" Rocket worried.
"Hey, you wanna help us get outta here?" Yondu spoke softly and Groot nodded his head slowly. "There's something I need you to get and bring back to me. In the captains quarters, there's a prototype fin, the thing I wore on my head." He spoke slowly in an attempt to get Groot to understand. "There's a drawer next to the bunk. It's in that. It's red. You got it?" Groot nodded excitedly and ran off.
Yondu looked successful while Rocket and Astra had a pained expression. Of course the chance of Groot coming back with the correct object in the first trip, well, it's like .01 percent.
Well, sometime later, he came back with stained underwear. "That's my underwear." Yondu stared in disbelieve.
"Yeah, I was pretty sure he didn't know what you were talking about." Rocket said.
"You see," Astra shifted a bit in order to lean on the cell bars. "you have to explain it more carefully."
Yondu seemed a little frustrated and spoke very slowly. "It's a prototype fin."
Groot came back with a tied up and screeching space rat, you know the little hairless and pink animal. "That's an orloni. It's a fin, Groot." Rocket told him.
"You explain it this time." Yondu gave up.
"All right." Rocket muttered.
He came back with an eye inside a metal housing unit, it was moving around as it looked at them. "That's Vorker's eye. He takes it out when he sleeps. Go. Look again."
"But leave the eye here." Rocket added before Groot left.
"Why?"
"He's gonna wake up tomorrow and he's not gonna know where his eye is." Rocked hollered in laughter. Astra let her head dangle in disappointment.
Groot came back, with a whole desk scraping against the floor. "That's a desk." Astra shook her head and then measured about a foot long with her hands. "We told you it was this big."
Groot came back with a human big toe. A hopeful and proud look on his face as he held it up. The three in the cell stared down without saying a thing for a while. "Tell me you guys have a refrigerator somewhere with a bunch of severed toes." Rocket hoped, Yondu responding by shaking his head no. "Okay, then lets agree to never discuss this."
Yondu ripped off his Ravager symbol and showed Groot. "The drawer you wanna open has this symbol on it. Okay." He handed Groot the symbol and looked at it with a confused expression before holding it timidly over his head. "What? No!" Yondu yelled in frustration.
"He thinks you want him to wear it as a hat." Rocket told him.
"That's not what I said!"
"I am Groot."
"He's relieved you don't want him to." Astra translated.
"I am Groot."
"He hates hats."
"I am Groot."
"On anyone, not just himself."
"One minute you think someone has a weird shaped her, the next minute it's just because part of the head is the hat."
"That's why you don't like hats?" Rocket wondered and Groot nodded.
"This is an important conversation to be having right now?" Yondu interjected.
When Groot came back, he wasn't alone. Kraglin, one of the Ravagers, was with him, throwing the red fin on the ground. "I didn't mean to do a mutiny." He told them with guilt in his voice. "They killed all my friends."
Yondu looked in thought for a moment. "Get the third quadrant ready for release." He ordered.
Kraglin straightened up, banging his right hand on his chest to show respect. After, he set Groot on the cell and went to leave. "One more thing." Rocket wanted to add. "You got any clones of Quill's old music on this ship?"
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