Y/n's P.O.V
We're all sticking to ourselves, Peter and Gamora talk with Ego, if that's even his name, as the rest of us are searching for some firewood. I scramble up a tree, far enough yet close enough that I could see them. I squint, looking at Ego,
"Hey, you okay Fluff..?" My ear twitches as I hear Rocket climb up the tree,
"Mmmhm." I mumble, as I glare at the newest 'addition to Peter's life.
-Time skip to that Evening-
We're all sitting around a fire, the group is listening to Ego tell Peter about his mother, Peter's heritage, and everything he felt when Peter wasn't 'delivered'. Ego gets up to use the latrine, and Gamora and Peter go for a walk, as they start walking away I curl up, on the ground by Rocket's feet. I close my eyes and what I feel like is too soon, I feel someone touch my back. I open my eyes, turning as I snarl, ready to bite, I hear a scream, and laughing, as I feel Rocket's arms wrapping around my midsection. When I focus on what's happening Mantis is freaking out holding her hand, and Drax is busting out laughing.
"That is called.. a practical joke." Mantis seems to calm down, and starts nervously laughing,
"I liked it very much.." Mantis seems to laugh too forced.
"I just made it up.." I look from them, like "You're idiots" to Rocket, he shrugs, and lets me go. I huff, and make my way to the ship,
"I'm going to bed.." I state to no one in particular.
-The next morning-
"You're leaving me with the foxes?!" Nebula yells, and I look at her,
"We're not foxes. At least I'm not.." I side glance at Rocket, with a small smirk, and see him roll his eyes, and flick his tail, a sign that he's embarrassed. I smile to myself and look at Gamora, who's talking to Groot.
"Hey.. It'll be just a couple of days. We'll be back before Rocket's finished fixing the ship." She leaves, and Groot turns, waving to her, my heart cried a little, as I walked over to his side. I turn, hearing Rocket talking to Peter,
"Hope daddy isn't as big of a dick as you..Orphan boy." I stare, shocked, as Peter answers.
"What is your goal here? To get everybody here to hate you, because it's workin'." I cough a little, and Peter looks at me,
"Everyone except for her..." I nod, and watch him walk away, my anxiety taking hold. I internally freak out as Peter, Drax, and Gamora walk, and get into Ego's ship, leaving us. I feel my tears start, as I realize this is my first time being away from Peter, in who knows how long. I sit on the back ramp of the ship, tears silently falling, as I see the ship exit the atmosphere, I feel something touch my shoulder, and see Groot sitting on my shoulder, he nuzzles into my cheek, and I smile, and nuzzle back a little. I stand up, wiping my face, I take a few breaths and turn, helping in anyway that I can to fix the ship.
-Later that night-
Rocket, and I are, trying to finish the ship, the wind blows through the ship, and I stop working to take a smell of the air, feeling something off.
"Rocket." I whisper as I look out into the woods, he doesn't seem to hear me.
"Rocket." I turn, hissing at him, he looks to me.
"What's up, Fluff?" I turn back to the forest, and silently listen, as Rocket comes to my side, a hand coming to rest on my shoulder.
"Do you smell it Hun?" I see him nod, just barely,
"It's Yondue.." I turn to Groot,
"Sweetheart, stay here, Rocket and I have to protect the ship. Stay. Here. Okay?" Groot replies with a nod and a small,
"I am Groot." I kiss his forehead, and follow Rocket out of the ship.
-After we've set the traps-
Rocket and I sit in the trees, a walkie talkie like contraption playing Rocket's humming inside of the ship, I look across the space between the trees, and see my trash panda slightly singing and huming into his half of the contraption. We turn and look at another group of Yondue's men. Rocket looks to me, and nods, causing me to smirk. We take off through the trees, jumping back and forth, crossing our paths multiple times. I hear the men's yells, and then gun shots, picking up my speed. I stop, far enough away, and turn seeing Rocket getting too many close calls. I watch him pick up his remote, and press the button, causing one of the pulse mines to ignite. I come closer to Rocket's tree, and sit on a branch, letting one leg hang down, as I giggle watching Rocket having too much fun with the disheveled men. Once he believes they've had enough he looks to me, and motions for me to follow with a chuckle. We stop above another group, Rocket hands me some small disks with a red light, I smirk, and nod. We both drop down, and start jumping from one person to the next, he jumps to a branch, and I try to but miss, making Rocket having to quickly grab my hand, pulling me to his chest,
"You okay, Fluff butt?" I roll my eyes, as he presses two of his fingers to his bracelet, causing a shock to go through all the men with a disk. Rocket leaves the tree, to jump across a few branches, then down the the ground. I go to follow, and see him tense, I stop and listen, there's a crunch of sticks, and I see Rocket look to his right.
"Ain't so tough now, without all your toys, are ya?" Two men come out of the trees, closing in on Rocket. One man laughs, and Rocket charges him, climbs up, and throat punches him, the second man shoots, hitting the first, as Rocket jumps up, and backwards soaring through the air and landing on the second man's shoulders, punching him repeatedly. The man falls, and groans, making Rocket punch him out cold. I can't help, but let out a sigh of heart-filled amazement, like a school girl seeing her crush. I hear a whistle, and air rushing through the forest, I jump through the trees, getting closer to Rocket, and stop when I see Yondue's arrow, covering my face in terror. It's silent for a few seconds, and then I hear three things at once, Rocket saying,
"Crap" chuckling, and footsteps,
"Hey there rat!" Yondue says, looking down at Rocket.
"How's it going ya blue idiot.?" Rocket says, with no emotion.
"Not so bad, we got ourselves a pretty good little gig here. This golden gal with quite a high opinion of herself offered us a large sum, to deliver you and your pals over to her, cause she wants to kill ya'll." Yondue's goons laugh, as they get closer to Rocket.
"I'll tell ya, it was pretty easy to find ya. I put a tracer on ya ship back there, during the war on Xandar." Rocket looks up, like he's looking into space, but I see him peek at me hiding behind the trunk of the tree.
"Gimme your word you won't hurt Groot, or Y/n, and I'll.. tell you where the batteries are." Yondue licks his teeth.
"Lucky for you, my word don't mean squat.." a small wave of chuckles spread throughout the circle of men.
"Otherwise I'd actually hand you over." Yondue says, and a groupie speaks up.
"Otherwise you'd what!?"
"We'll take them batteries, they're worth what, a quarter mil on the open market."
"That priestess offered us, a million, a quarter is only... One third of that!"
"A quarter ain't a thir-" Yondue starts, but gets cut off.
"A quarter is Twenty-five."
"Nah.." Yondue sighs, and Rocket starts looking around, confused. They start going back and forth, Rocket rolls his eyes, then looks up at me. I give a small 'this-is-dumb' smile, and he smiles back, but stops and looks away from me when Yondue yells,
"Enough! The point is! We ain't stupid enough to help kill all the Guardians of the Galaxy. The whole dang Nova Corp be on us."
"That ain't right, I just gotta say it this one time captin. No matter how many times Quill betrays us, you protect him like none of the rest of us much matters." The circle of goons start yelling, and suddenly start pointing guns at each other. Rocket stands up,
"Whoa! Whoa!! Therust be a peaceful resolution to this fellas, or even a violent one, where I'm standing over there.." Rocket points to a spot out of the circle. Just as Yondue is about to whistle, someone shoots his fixture from his head. I turn, seeing Nebula, she glares down Rocket and shoots. While all the shipmates are looking at Nebula I sneak down to Rocket's side, nuzzling his cheek.
"Well hello boys.." she takes a bite of one of the roots we had saved on the ship, then spits it out.
"It's not ripe.." she looks up from where she had spit and saw me.
"Catch the fox." I look up to Tazerface as he reaches for me, I whimper, and curl up, he seems to smirk, as he picks me up, holding me to his chest like a puppy, as the men pick up Yondue, and Rocket, getting ready to leave. Two men walk up to the group, carrying Groot. He holds his hands out to me, and the man actually let him come to me. As the group of Yondue's men, their captures, and Nebula head for the ravenger's ship.