Not much happened for the next week since Nebula officialy became a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy.  They spend most of this time in their ship, minding their own business since they didn't really had much to do and didn't really felt like staying at one planet for a longer period of time than just to refill their supplies and they didn't receive any job from anyone. They used these days to simply take a rest after that entire fiasco with Ego.

As for now, the Milano's course was set to Xandar where the Guardians were planning to spend a day or two. They didn't had to worry about having to search for a place to stay there because they already had booked themselves rooms in the best hotel on Xandar. They didn't even had to pay for their stay in the hotel because they were Xandar's heroes.

After landing on Xandar, the Guardians went to the hotel to check the room where they were going to sleep in tonight. Y/N had received a room with Rocket and Groot, just like everytime when they were staying in Xandar, for a day, or two, or for a few days. Y/N at first went over to the small balcony and took a good look at the beautiful view it was giving of the entire town. He stood on the balcony for few moments before walking over on the bed. The human could feel a grin forming on his lips when he lay down on the bed, because of how comfortable it was.

His grin became a bit wider when little Groot climbed over to him and laid down next to him, putting his arms behind his head, "These beds are quite comfortable, right, little guy?"

"I am Groot." Groot nodded in agreement, his gaze on the white ceiling.

Rocket shook his head, sitting on his bed, "I don't understand what are you two finding so special about these beds. They're good as any other one to me."

"I you say so." Y/N shrugged his shoulders. He was about to add something but stopped himself when he heard something ringing in his bag. He instantly knew what it was. He reached into his bag and pulled out a small communication device. He used to wear one his wrist a few months ago, but it was broken into pieces during the battle of Xandar and he had to find buy a new one.

He and Rocket exchanged a look with each other when they saw who was calling them. It was Hunter, the arms dealer they've been seeing from time to time and the one that Y/N met up with just a few moments before he and his traveling companions broke themselves into a fight with Star-Lord and Gamora.

"Hunter." Rocket pointed out, as he hopped off his bed before coming over to his human friend, "It's been a while since we talked with him."

"Yeah." Y/N nodded his head to that, "The last time when I talked with him was when I was taking my upgraded shotgun from him."

The human pressed the button, answering Hunter's call who's voice sounded across their room, "Hey, Y/N, Rocket! I heard  thatyou're visiting Xandar today, is that true?"

Y/N nodded in confirmation, "Yes, we are."

"That's great!" Hunter smiled at the confirmation, "You need to come to my shop. There is something I want to give to both of you."

"What do you want to give us?" Rocket wanted to know.

"You'll find out when you'll see it." Hunter explained,  "Hunter's out."

And with that, Hunter ended his call with the human and the talking raccoon. Y/N turned his gaze away from his communication device and turned to look at Rocket, "Should we head out to him, now?" 

Rocket gave a small nod of his head in response, "It's not like we have anything else to do."

Y/N responded with a nod of his own as he placed his commucation device back in his bag. He stood up from the bed slouched it over his shoulder. He grabbed his shotgun and slouched it over his other. He walked over to the exit from their room, ready to head out to Hunter's arms store.

Rocket picked up Groot from the bed and placed him on his shoulder, causing Groot to pout, "What?"

Groot crossed his arms, "I am Groot." 

"There's no way we're leaving you alone." Rocket told him, shaking his head, "Don't you remember what happened the last time when we left you alone in the room for an hour? It took us over two hours to find you!"

"Good thing that we found you before the others found out." Y/N stated. He could already imagine Gamora and Quill giving them a  long lecture about losing Groot.

Groot didn't say anything to that as he remained on Rocket's shoulder who walked over to Y/N. They walked out of their room and exited the hotel just a few moments later. They entered  the streets of the city of Xandar and started making their way to Hunter's shop. They walked together through the streets, trading a word or two with themselves. passing by many Xandarians in the process. 

A few of the Xandarian stopped them and shared a word or two the human, the talking raccoon, and the talking tree, wanting to thank them personally for stopping Ronan. One young Xandarian even wanted to take a photo with them. Y/N and Groot instantly agreed, but it took him some time to convice Rocket who wasn't much fond of this idea, but luckilly for the young boy, he ended up getting his photo with the three Guardians.

They parted ways with him and his parent and started walking towards their destination again. Y/N titled his head to the right a bit when a familiar spot came into his view. It was the spot where he, Rocket and Groot decided to attack Quill and bring him to Yondu a few months back.

He looked down at the raccoon and asked, "Do you ever think where we would be now if you didn't stop Quill on that tablet of yours?"

Rocket shook his head, "Not really."

Y/N gave a small nod of his head to Rocket's response as they proceeded to make their way through the streets. Hunter's shop finally appeared in their view a few minutes later. The human grabbed the handle of the doors and pushed it open. He and his friends entered the shop, instantly spotting Hunter behind the counter.

"Y/N! Rocket!" A welcoming smile grew on Hunter's lips, "It's been a while since you visited my shop. I was starting to think that you forgot about me."

Y/N shook his head, coming over to the counter with Rocket, "Why would we forgot about you?

"At least we won't have to worry about you screwing us over with the new parts." Rocket added.

"Don't screw with the customers and you now that some of them will return to do some more deals." Hunter declared, like he was recitating something from a book, "This is what I told myself when I got myself in this business."

"I can say that this business method works out pretty well for you, so far." Y/N stated.

"You can say that." Hunter nodded his head to that, "How's your shotgun doing, Y/N? Is there a need of fixing something in it, or perharps it needs an upgrade?"

"No." Y/N shook his head, "It works exactly the way it's supposed to and I don't have any plans to upgrade it, for now."

Hunter nodded his head in understanding and turned to look at Rocket, "What about you, Rocket?"

"Nothing changed here." Rocket answered, "You said you wanted to give us something, but didn't want to tell what."

"I wanted to keep it a suprise for the moment you'll visit my shop." Hunter revelead why he kept his a mystery, "I want to give two of you a gift, as some sort of thank you for saving Xandar and my butt along with it."

"You want us to give us something for free as a thank you gift from saving Xandar from Ronan?" Y/N asked Hunter, wanting to be sure that he didn't misheard it, earning a nod of confirmation from the arms dealer.

"You certainly took your time to give it to us." Rocket stated, "A few months to be exact."

"I know." Hunter nodded in confirmation, "I was just looking for a perfect things to give to you, and it took me a bit longer than I excepted."

Y/N raised his brow, "What is it, then?"

Hunter responded to his question by reaching under his counter and pulled out what appeared to be a regular bomb, "This one here, I got for Rocket."

Rocket grabbed the explosive from the counter and eyed it, "Looks like a normal bomb to me."

"I was hoping you'd say it." Hunter grinned, "This bomb is a extremely rare one. Their only created on Requem, and even there, the number of it is very low. It may look like a normal, just like you said, but it is completely opposite of that. The explosion of this bomb is much larger than the one from the regular bomb."

"Are you trying to say that I'll be able to blow anything I want with it?" Rocket wanted to sure if he understood corrently, liking the sound of it.

"Not anyting you'd want, even this thing has it's limits, but yes, you'd be able to blow up a lot of things with it without any problem." Hunter explained, "For example, if you'd want to blow up an entire ship or an entire building, then this bomb will do it."

Rocket stared at the bomb for a few seconds before putting it in his bag, "This one may become handy."

"I'm glad you like it." Hunter smiled at Rocket before reaching under the counter again. He pulled out what appeared to be some sort of sword and placed it in front of Y/N, "And I got this thing here for Y/N."

Y/N picked up the blade from the counter and eyed it for a second, "Thanks, Hunter, but I thought you knew that I'm not experienced in sword fighting as much as I am in shooting."

"It is never too late to learn." Hunter stated, "Right?"

"I guess, you're right." Y/N shrugged his shoulders, "Thanks for the gift."

Hunter simply waved it off, "Don't thank me. I'm just showing that I appreciate what both of you did by giving it to you."

Y/N opened his mouth to say something to the arms dealer but was interrupted when the familiar sound of ringing echoed across Hunter's shop. The human and the raccoon instantly knew that was someone was calling them. Y/N reached into his bag and pulled out his communication device, seeing the person that was calling them.

"Who's that?" Rocket asked him as Groot looked up curiously at Y/N.

"Quill." Y/N instantly answered as he pressed the button on the device, accepting Quill's call,.

"Y/N? Rocket? Groot?" Quill's voice called out to them, "Where are you guys?"

"We're paying a quick visit to Hunter's shop." Rocket explained as he stared up at hte commucation device with Groot. Hunter remained silent and simply watched the Guardians chatt with each other.

"What is it?" Y/N asked the fellow human.

"You need to come to the Nova Corp headquarters." Quill explained, "I just talked with Nova and Dey and they requested the presence of all of us."

"What do they want from us?" Rocket wanted to know.

"They have a new job for us." Quill explained,

"A new job?" Y/N asked, wanting to know if he didn't misheard it as Quill nodded in confirmation.

Groot titled his head to the side, "I am Groot?"

"I know as much as you do, little guy." Quill answered, with a small shrug of his shoulders, "They told me and that they will fill us in once we'll be in the headquarters."

"Alright." Y/N gave Quill an assuring nod, "We'll get there as fast as we can."

This answer was enough for Quill. He disconnected, ending the call between him and three other Guardians. Y/N looked down at Rocket and Groot, exchanging a look with his friends. It seemed that their rest after Ego has came to an end.

Hunter smiled, watching all three of them from his spot behind the counter, "Duty calls, I see?"

"Yeah." Y/N nodded his head in confirmation, turning towards the exit from the shop along with Rocket ad Groot who still sat on top of the talking raccoon's shoulder, "See you around, Hunter."

The arms dealer offered them a small wave, "If you will ever need to fix your weapon, or to upgrade it, or buy something, you know who to call."

"We know, Hunter." Rocket said in response as Groot offered Hunter a wave in return to his, before exiting the shop along with his friends, beginning to head towards their next destination. The Nova Corp headquarters.

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The walk to the Nova Corp headquarters was a calm one and didn't last that long. It only took Y/N, Rocket and Groot several minutes to get there. They all entered the room with the command center standing in the middle of it to see that Quill, Gamora, Drax, Nebula and Mantis  was already there, most likely waiting for them, Nova and Dey.

"Hey, guys" Quill said, as Y/N, Rocket and Groot came over to them, stopping next by his side. He turned to look at them, wanting to start a conversation, "What were you doing in Hunter's shop? Were you buying something or maybe he wanted something from you?"

"We had some business to do with him." Y/N answered, "He called us when we were in our room to come to his shop and when we came there he revealed that he wanted to give some gifts to me and Rocket." 

Gamora exchanged a look with Star-Lord before asking, "Gift?"

"He said that it is his form of saying "thank you" for saving  Xandar a few months back." Rocket explained, placing his palm in his bag, knowing what question was going to come next.

"This arms dealer certainly took his time to give his gifts of gratefulness to you." Drax stated.

Rocket nodded, his palm still in his bag, "We told him the same thing."

Mantis raised her index finger in the air, earning everyone's attention, "I assume that it must be something rare if he searched for it for quite some time."

"From what he told us, you can say that they are rare." Rocket said, as he pulled out his new bomb from the bag, showing it off to fellow Guardians.

Drax eyed it for a second before saying, "Looks like a regular explosive to me."

"It looks like one but it isn't, Drax." Quill answered for Rocket, already having a chane to hear about an explosive like this before, "I heard about this bomb like this before when I was stickig around the Ravagers. It may look like a regular one but it's really powerful. It would be able to take down this entire building as if it was nothing."

At this explanation, an excited smile fromed on Drax's lips, "Then, I'm looking forward to seeing how this will work."

Quill turned to look at Y/N, "What about you, Y/N?"

Y/N pulled out his new blade and showed it to his friends, "He gave me this."

"A sword?" Quill asked, "I didn't know you that swords were your thing too."

"I said the same thing to Hunter but a gift is a gi..." He paused when he saw Gamora, Nebula and even Drax staring at him like he was the most oblivious person in the galaxy, "What?"

"Y/N." Nebula said with a small pause, her gaze on the human's new blade, "Do you know what kind of sword it is?"

"No? Never was much interested in them. I always preferred guns." Y/N explained, shaking his head, with a confused expression forming on his face at the looks they were giving him, "Should I?"

He never got his answer from them as the doors on the other side of the room shut open and Nova Prime entered the room, followed by Dey and a few other members of the Nova Corp.

"Guardians of the Galaxy." She offered them a greeting nod of her head as she stopped in front of the command center , "It's good that all of you came here so quickly."

"What do you want us to do?" Rocket asked, going straight to the point.

Nova turned to look at Dey and nodded her head at him. He pressed the button on the command center and a mugshot of some dangerous looking guy appeared in the view of all of the Guardians.

"I'd like to introduce you to Gregor Conall." Nova introduced him to Quill and his crew.

Y/N crossed his arms, staring up at the mugshot, "He is the reason why you called us here, I pressume?"

"Exactly." Dey confirmed with a nod of his head as he continued for Nova, "We'd like you to catch him and bring him to us. After that, we're going to place him in Kyln."

"What did he do?" Gamora wanted to know.

"He is known among the other people of his type for leading the bandit tribe of the same name." Nova continued her explanation to the Guardians about their new target, "He recently started to play with Xandar when the members of his tribe started raiding our shipments."

Quill rubbed his chin, before asking another question about this Gregor, "How many shipments did you lost since he started raiding you?"

Nova's answer was short and quick, "Three. It may not be that much, but we are certain that he is just getting started and want to stop him as fast as possible."

"How many units are we going to get if we'll get this job done?" Rocket asked, with his palms crossed as Gamora and Quill looked down at him, giving him a look, "What? I want to know if it's worth doing."

"If you'll get him here to us, then your payment is going to be 450 000 units." Dey explained, "You'll share it between all of you however you want."

"Where should we find him?" Quill asked.

"There may be a problem with that." Nova stated, "If the information we gathered about him so far is true, then he and his tribe don't stay in one place for a long period of itme."

"Do you know anyone that could lead us to his possible location at this moment?" Quill asked another question, knowing that this job became a bit harder because of that.

"Gregor has made many enemies across the galaxy." Nova explained, as she focused her attention on Y/N, Quill and Rocket when she added, "I believe some of you may have come across a few of them in the past."

Y/N and Rocket exchanged a look with each other after hearing Nova's words, having the same three people who may help them and their fellow Guardians get to Gregor in mind. 

The Whitebound brothers.

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I'm sorry if this chapter was meh. It was supposed to set up the next one, and a few other things.