The firelight crackled as all four moons of Berhert hit their zenith, casting a light-blue glow on the destroyed Milano. But, Deep in the woods towering over the Milano, menacing eyes peered down on the unaware Rocket and co. Taserface, the monstrous Ravager, and Kraglin Yondu's right hand, quietly crested a hill-top to get a better view of the grounded ship and its occupants. "Finally," Taserface growled. "Our chance to get some real vengeance on the Quills and their gnats." "I'm sure Yondu-" Kraglin began, before being interrupted by a sneer from the huge Ravager. "'Sure Yondu' what, Kraglin? 'Cause I think he's just playing lapdog to that gold lady. He may be the hired gun, but only someone with power like hers could get us this." Taserface swept his arm behind him.

Descending into the valley were dozens of M-ships landing softly on the other side of the ridge from the Milano. Within moments, there were squads of Ravagers pouring out from each ship, all moving to the top of the hill. Standing in the center, like a king who'd finally reclaimed his throne, was Yondu. Aware of all the eyes on him, he took a moment to savor the sweet turn fortune had give him.

Yondu looked over at Kraglin a few yards away and nodded his trusted ally. Turning back to the troops, he waved his hand for them to follow, swiftly but quietly. "Don't forget it was Yondu she hired, not you, Taserface," Kraglin warned. Taserface scoffed and marched along with the rest of the Ravagers. As the Ravagers began to circle the Milano, Taserface's arenaline rose. He was ready to attack! He could hear Rocket humming a soft, upbeat dance hit as he moved around in the small arc cast by the lights of the Milano. He couldn't wait any longer. He glanced at the Ravager next to him, who looked wild-eyed and completely unhinged, and gave a big thumbs-up.

Then they both crashed through the brush and began to run toward the Milano. But Taserface couldn't keep up. Nor could he warn his fellow Ravager when he heard a click as he stomped right onto a trap buried in the underbrush when as almost a hundred darts suddenly shot directly at the Ravagers from the treetops. As the darts hit their marks, the Ravagers fell by the dozens. The Ravager who'd set off the trap was still standing there, looking around in amazement and confusion. Before he could take another step, though, a dart hit him in the neck, and he fell to the ground.

Deep inside the Milano, the sound of the shot woke Nebula with a jolt. She could still hear Rocket humming, but in an odd, repetitive way. Just then, she noticed he had taped a walkie-talkie to the open window and pointed outward so the speakers faced the woods. "Idiots, they want to us to get killed," Nebula muttered, shaking her head and looking at Groot, who was cowering in the corner.

"I am Groot" he said, genuinely afraid Rocket and Iris may have gotten them in over their heads this time around. Rocket slung his rilfe over his shoulder, Iris pulls down on her torn red hood she has over her outfit, and Rocket pulles out a remote detonator with two buttons on it. One was labeled Bang, the other, BIGGER BANG. Both were crouched in trees above the Milano and Rocket still humming his song into his comm, Rocket extended the antenna of the detonator and watched as two Ravager squadrons drew closer and closer.

With a gleam in his eye, Rocket pressed the bang button. One entire squadrons flew into the air as an electro current blast shot through them. The other squadron stopped in its tracks. Perfect place, Rocket thought with a grin. The bigger-bang lived up to its name as the squadron-and part of a nearby tree-suffered the same electro-current blast as its accomplices. Rocket's giggles interrupted his humming on the radio, and one of the Ravagers spotted him. "There!" shouted the Ravager, but it was too late Iris threw a knife and stabbed him in the throat.

Rocket propelled himself from one tree branch to another and began pushing buttons in alternate sequences, making Ravager after Ravager fly up into the air until the electro-current concussive blasts ran out of energy. Rocket crouched quietly in a tree as a half dozen Ravagers made their way through looking for him. Rocket and Iris held their breaths and waited-and waited-until the last one passed. Smiling, Rocket dropped down onto the shoulder of the last man in the squadron and took out a handful of small, stick discs. He slapped one onto the man's back and then leaped forward, slapping another onto the head of the man in front of him and then leaped again, and so on until he reached the front of the squadron.

All the Ravagers were wildly flailing about trying to reach for the discs, but they couldn't grasp them. "Here ya go, fellas. Lemme get those for ya," Rocket said as he pulled out a small device wtih a switch. Jumping high into the air, he flipped the switch, and the Ravagers all began to twitch as electricity flowed through the discs. They flopped around and then fell all at once. Rocket was so busy laughing, he didn't notice a bulky Ravager named Brahl and his tough compatriot approaching from opposite sides. Iris jumped down from the highest tree.

"Ain't so tough now without your little toys, are ya?" Brahl taunted. Without warning, Iris leaped out from behind Brahl, kicking him in the back, Brahl turns around and fires at Iris but misses. Iris flings three knives and placed them around Brahl, she then used her jijustu to beat him up, the second Ravager fired at her, but Iris jumped out of the way, and the blast hit Brahl instead, Rocket joined in by landing on the second Ravager's head and rapid-punched until the Ravager was lying unconscious, Rocket and Iris standing between them.

An eerily familiar sound of a high-pitched whistly was heard slicing through the night air. Rocket looked up just in time to see Yondu's arrow streaking down, striaght  toward him. Rocket braced himself. But another whistle caused the arrow to stop suddenly, suspended just in front of Rocket's forehead.  "Crap" Rocket muttered. Iris turned around to see Yondu and his band of Ravagers walk out. Yondu giggles. The Ravagers surronded both Rocket and Iris. "Great, just great" Iris muttered. "Hey there, rat, Penua" Yondu said with a large smile on his face. "How's it going, you blue idiot?" Rocket asked. Yondu bits off a piece of a stick. "Not so bad, We got ourselves a pretty good little gig here. This golden gal with quite a high opinion of herself has offered us a large sum to deliver you and your pals over to her cuz she wants to kill y'all" Yondu explained. 

The Ravagers laugh. "You made a deal with the Sovereign High Priestess?! Pff, You guys are the last people to make a gig with someone like that" Iris said in response.Back on the Milano, Nebula tries to convice Groot to release her. "Your friends, there's too many of them they need my help if you care about them you need to get me out of these bonds" Nebula told Groot. Groot shivers in one place. "They are going to kill them!" She yells. "I tell you both, it was pretty easy to find you, I put a tracer on each of your ships back there during the war on Xandar." Yondu continued. Rocket grunts. "Give me your word that you won't hurt Groot or Iris and I'll tell where the batteries are." Rocket tells Yondu. "Rocket, don't!" Iris says. "Shut your mouth, girl!" yelled a Ravager. Yondu laughs. "Lucky for you, my word don't mean squat." He tells the two Guardians. the other Ravagers laugh. "Otherwise, I'd actually hand you over." Yondu continues. "Otherwise what?!" Taserface intervened. "We'll take them batteries, they're worth what a quarter mill on the market." Yondu says.

"That priestess offered us a million, a quarter milion is only 1/3 of that!" Taserface argues. "A quarter ain't a third-" Yondu was about to say before he was interrupted by another Ravager. "A quarter is .25" said the Ravager. Yondu shakes his head in annoyance. "No" He said. Rocket and Iris look around confused. "We can't even buy a pair of boots with 25 units." The Ravager continued. "I know! the point is we ain't stupid enough to help kill the Guardians of the Galaxy!" Yondu yells. Iris smiles. "The whole dang Nova Corps will be on us." Yondu says. The other Ravagers agree.  "That ain't right!" Kraglin yells. Yondu turns to him. "I just gotta say this one time captain, No matter how many times Quill or Eden have betrayed you, you protect them. Like none of the rest of us much matter." Kraglin says. The other Ravagers agree with him. "I'm the one what sticks up for you!" Kraglin yells at Yondu. "Take it easy, Kraglin." Another Ravager says. "Damn striaght lad! He's gone soft, suppose it's time for a change in leadership." Taserface says as he and the Ravagers on his side point their weapons at Yondu and his faction.

The other Ravagers point their weapons at both of them. Yondu whistles for his arrow and it flies away from Rocket over to his side as his faction ready their weapons against their comrades. All the other Ravagers ready their weapons as well.  "Put your god guns away!" yells one Ravager. "Whoa! Whoa! There must be some kind peaceful resolution to this, fellas." Rocket intervenes. "Or even a violent one where we are standing over there." Iris says. Taserface growls at Yondu. Yondu growls back. Then out of nowhere, a gun was fired from behind and Yondu's headpiece went flying off, his arrow powers down and he falls over while the Ravagers turn around to see Nebula free from her bonds. She points a gun striaght forward. She aims at Rocket. "Oh!" Rocket sighs as Nebula stunned him. Iris turned to Nebula, skin almost catching on fire. "You bitch!" She yelled as she charged only to be shot as well. The Ravagers turn to look at her. Nebula lowers her weapon. "Well, hello boys." She says finally. Nebula takes a bit of the yaroo fruit only to spit it out. "It's not ripe." She says. 

Afterwards, the Ravagers kidnap Rocket, Iris, and Groot and drag Yondu back to their ship with Nebula behind. They leave not knowing that a girl in a black and gold iron suit with their wings spread out landed then watched them leave. She watched them leave then fired up her jets and flew after them