Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon and Groot - Steal the Galaxy! by Dan Abnett

Author:Dan Abnett
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780785189770
Publisher: Marvel
Published: 2014-07-15T04:00:00+00:00

• CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE •

FRY KREEDOM

I HAVE come to note, since first encountering Rocket Raccoon and Groot on Xarth Three, that their entire lives revolve around running. Either into trouble, or away from it.

Clearly they are rogues, renegades for whom the entire Universe is a source of unexpected difficulty that they are obliged to evade.

It takes us twenty minutes and two more appalling melees to reach the main hangar. Gamora has now proven, with more emphasis than was actually necessary, that she is the Deadliest Woman in the Universe. In fact, perhaps the Deadliest Non-Gender-Specific Individual in the Universe. She has left a trail of butchered Kree warriors in her wake, many of them with disappointed expressions on their faces suggesting that this wasn’t quite the way they had imagined getting to Yindor.

{“Yindor” is the Kree afterlife, as I understand it. Perhaps they were simply disappointed they had not pulled a different watch rotation, or that they had not been stationed in a different part of the battleship, or simply that they had not shown the sense to run screaming at the first sight of a maniacal green-skinned female with two swords.}

We reach the main hangar. Alarms are wailing, and the deck is shuddering from the impacts the shields are taking. Rocket guns down two Kree Warriors who attempt to block us. Gamora flings herself at three more and does swift and terrible things with her blades. Groot punches the hangar chief so hard he flies up into the rafters, sails over six parked Kree shuttlecraft, bounces painfully off an overhead hoist assembly, and drops like a stone into a tool cart.

Groot puts me down.

“The Kree ship captain fears the shields will shortly be overwhelmed,” I report, listening carefully to the com chatter in the helmet I am wearing. “He is considering the launch of fighter swarms to counterattack the Badoon megadestroyer. The ship is about to jettison the drive compartment that we, uhm, broke.”

The Nova prowl cruiser is parked where we left it.

“This is your ship?” asks Gamora.

“Yeah,” replies Rocket. “What’s the matter with it?”

“Nothing,” she shrugs.

We climb aboard.

“Hello,” says the automatic voice. “This vehicle is pleased to see you intact. This vehicle has detected an amount of jeopardy going on out there.”

“No kidding,” says Rocket, dropping into the pilot’s seat. Gamora takes the copilot station beside him.

“Far, far too much jeopardy,” Rocket continues, strapping in. “Maybe you’d be so kind as to get us away from it, ultra-fast?”

“This vehicle is afraid it can’t do that,” the automatic voice says.

“Huh?” says Rocket.

“This vehicle would love to, of course,” says the automatic voice. “And given the scale of the jeopardy outside, plus the fact that this vehicle is now aware of the threat posed by the previously cloaked Kree battleship, this vehicle believes it could easily outrun said battleship and evade its tractor-beam. Unfortunately, there is a space engagement under way. The Kree ship has raised its shields.”

“Fly through them!” Gamora snaps.

“Hello,” says the automatic voice. “This vehicle does not know you.

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