If any of you were wondering, the reader is 23. (Sorry, I forgot to mention it in the earlier chapters)

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A little over an hour has passed since Y/N, Rocket, Groot, Quill, Gamora and Drax escaped from Kyln. None of them was in the drivers seat of the Milano because the ship was going through the galaxy on an autopilot. 

On their way to Knowhere, everyone were minding their own things. 

Rocket sat on the floor, creating something from the parts he took from Quill's ship, with the owner of course not knowing it, Y/N was next to him and just stared into the ceiling, waiting until they'll arrive in their destination. Drax was not too far from the duo, doing something with his knife. Gamora stood in front of the hologram map, while Groot was looking outside of the window.

Everyone at this moment, had already changed their prison clothes into their normal ones.

"Yo, Ranger Rick!" Quill said, approaching Rocket, finally spotting what Rocket was doing, "What are you doing? You can't take apart my ship without asking me!"

He kneeled down to pick up the thing Rocket was working on, which Y/N didn't failed to notice, "I wouldn't touch that, Quill. It's a bomb."

Quill turned to look at his fellow human, "A bomb?"

Rocket nodded his head in confirmation, "Yup."

"And you leave it lying around?" Quill shifted his glances between these two, "And you're letting him?"

Y/N simply shrugged his shoulders, knowing that Rocket knew what he was doing, "Don't worry. Rocket knows what he's doing. If he didn't then I surely wouldn't let him leave the bomb laying around."

"I was gonna put it in the box anyway." Rocket added.

"What box were you going to use?" Quill asked him.

In response to his question, Rocket opened the cabinet of the desk and pulled out a brightly-wrapped box, "How about this one?"

"Nicely packed." Y/N added, as Quill opened his mouth to reply. He was cut off by Y/N adding while shaking his head, "But I wouldn't put it in there."

Rocket turned to his partner, "Why?" 

"You see, when humans pack boxes like this is when they want to give a gift to someone that is important to them." Y/N explained, "This is why we shouldn't hide this in this box. It must be a gift from someone important to him."

"And when you gave me and Groot a gift which you called "Thanks for sticking with me" you didn't pack it that way." Rocket pointed out.

Y/N raised one finger in the air, "Well, I suck at wrapping the paper around the box." He raised another finger, "And there wasn't any wrapping paper around."

Rocket just nodded his head to that and placed the box back in the cabinet. Quill send Y/N a grateful nod who just send him a quick smile in return.

He then gestured towards a much larger machine, "What is this?"

Rocket grinned, "That's for if things get really hardcore. Or if you wanna blow up moons"

"No one's blowing up moons." Gamora spoke up.

Rocket huffed under his breath, "You just wanna suck the joy out of everything."

Quill approached Gamora by the table, and was followed by Y/N. The former asked her, "So, listen, I'm gonna need your buyer's coordinates."

"We're heading in the right direction, for now." Gamora assured him, picking up an orb with her right hand.

"If we're gonna work together, you might want to try trusting me a little bit." Quill pointed out.

Gamora smirked, "And how much do you trust me?"

"I'd trust you a lot of more if you told me what this was." Quill replied, taking the orb from her and placing it on the table, "Because I'm guessing it's some kind of weapon."

Y/N nodded his head to that, "It must be a weapon, otherwise, why would so many people fight for it?"

Gamora shrugged her shoulders to their words as Quill placed the orb on the table, "I don't know what it is."

Drax grabbed the orb, "If it is a weapon, then, we should use it against Ronan."

"Put it down you fool!" Gamora shouted to him, "You'll destroy us all!"

"Or just you, murderess!" Drax retorted, glaring at her.

Gamora glared at him in return, the two of them facing each other, "I let you live once, princess!"

"I am not a princess!" Drax retorted.

"Hey!" Quill interrupted them, making them turn to look at him and Y/N, "Nobody is killing anybody on my ship."

"We already know that you don't like each other, but you're stuck with together until we'll get the money." Y/N stated, crossing his arms, "After that, you can do whatever you want to each other."

Drax huffed and threw the orb to Y/N before turning to walk away from them, "I have no interest in money."

"Okay. That means more money for us." Y/N just nodded his head to that as Groot looked like he was about to say something, "Don't worry, pal. That includes you too."

Groot smiled at his friend as Quill said, "Partners?"

"We have an agreement, but I would never be partners with the likes of you." Gamora said in response, sniffing the ship as she turned to leave, "I'll tell the buyer we're on our way. And Quill, your ship is filthy."

"Oh, she has no idea. If I had a black light." Quill grinned as Rocket approached Y/N while Gamora climbed up to the second level of the ship, "The place would look like a Jackson Pollock painting."

Y/N and Rocket shared a quick look with each other before turning to Quill. They looked at him in disgust and stated in unison, "You got issues, Quill."

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Y/N had no idea for how long they've been traveling to their next destination now. He actually managed to play an entire game of war with Groot. At first, after he started traveling with Rocket and Groot, the latter had actually problems for some time with understanding which card was higher when it came to the cards like King or Queen, but as the time passed, he stopped having those problems, and started playing various card games with Y/N when they didn't had anything else to do. Even Rocket was joining them from time to time to have a round or two.

As for now, he sat on the floor, leaning against the table, staring into the wall, when he heard Rocket call out to everyone in the ship, "Heads up! We're inbound!"

Everyone stopped what they were doing as he rose back on his feet. They made their way over to the cockpit where Rocket and Groot were waiting for them. The first they saw after reaching the cockpit was a giant disembodied head which was the planet they were heading to.

Quill was in awe, "Whoa."

"What is it?" Drax asked.

"It's called Knowhere." Gamora explained as the Milano flew closer, ''The severed head of an ancient celestial being." She continued as she sat down on one of the seats, "Be wary headed in, rodent. There are no regulations whatsoever here."

"Rocket. Take us inside." Y/N said as Rocket drove the Milano into a giant eye, which happened to be an entrance to the community of Knowhere, which was alive with lights, buildings and mining areas.

"Hundreds of years ago, the Tivan Group sent workers in to mine the organic matter within the skull." Gamora continued explaining as the Milano landed. They walked over to the hatch and stepped outside of the ship, following her through the streets, "The bone, brain tissue, spinal fluid. All rare resources, highly valued in black markets across the galaxy. It's dangerous and illegal work, suitable only for outlaws."

"Well, I and Y/N come from a planet of outlaws." Quill stated, sounding proud, "Billy the Kid, or Bonnie and Clyde."

"Don't forget about John Stamos." Y/N added.

Quill looked at his fellow human and nodded his head, "Him too."

"That sounds like a place I'd like to go." Drax stated.

"Yeah." Quill nodded his head, "You should."

Y/N nodded his head in agreement, "Earth has some flaws as any other planet, but living there has some positives too."

A group of of dirty and tattered clothed kids running up the groups came into their view, asking for some credits to spare, making Quill say to his temporary partners, "Watch out for your wallets."

They passed by the children, one of them, a little girl, asking, "Spare some units?"

"Get lost, kid." Rocket dismissed her.

The girl walked over to Groot and Y/N. The tree held out his hand and a flower grew on his palm. He carefully plucked it off his palm and handed it to the girl, which gave him a shy smile in return, shifting her glances between Groot and Y/N.

Y/N smiled at him and gave him a pat on his arm, "That was nice of you, pal."

He gave the girl a quick pat on her head, before catching up to the others with Groot.

"Your buyer is here?" Rocket asked Gamora, as they started walking towards their next destination, a bar.

The bouncer threw someone out of the bar as Gamora replied, "We are to wait here for his representative."

"This is no respectable establishment. What do you expect us to do while we wait?" Drax asked.

Y/N turned to look at the destroyer, and replied, as if the answer wasn't obvious enough, "It's a bar, Drax, what else are you excepting from a place like this?"

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Y/N looked around the crowded bar as Groot and Rocket brought some drinks for them while Drax gambled with some people. The music was so loud that he could barely hear his own thoughts. He, Rocket and Groot visited a place like this many times before. In most of those times, he had a drink, or two at most. He tried to remain as sober as possible, because someone had to carry drunk Rocket and Groot out of the bar, which, one time, led to some awkward situation when Rocket emptied his stomach on his clothes. 

He smiled for a second, as he remembered the first time he drank something with alcohol, even though it was just a wine. He and his group of friends from high-school broke into their school on Halloween to have a small party in one of the classrooms, and one of them brought a bottle of wine with her, which suprised a lot of them, because she was always the quiet one from their group and no one would except her to take something like this in a milion of years.

"My Orloni has won, as I win at all things!" The sound of Drax's voice suddenly took his away from his thoughts, "Now, let's put more of this liquid into our bodies."

"That's the first thing you said that wasn't bat-shit crazy!" Rocket agreed happily with him, handing a glass filled with liquor to Y/N, "Have some, Y/N!"

Y/N looked at the glass, then turned to look at Rocket, "No, thanks."

"C'mon. Have a drink or two." Rocket insisted "I thought you enjoyed drinking with me and Groot."

"Like the time when you were so drunk that you puked on me?" Y/N asked him.

Rocket crossed his arms, "Hey! That was only once and it washed off!"

Y/N crossed his arms as well, "Yeah, and I couldn't feel my hands for two days after repeatedly washing it for hours!" 

Rocket and Y/N stared into each other for a few moments before bursting into laughter. The latter shook his head, and pushed the glass closer to Y/N, "C'mon, we're about to become stupid rich and you're not going to celebrate it with us?"

Y/N eyed the glass for a second, before taking it, "Ah, it wouldn't hurt if I had drink."

Rocket grinned as he grabbed his glass and held it in the air, "To being rich!"

Y/N returned the grin as they clinked their glasses, "To being rich."

He took a sip of his drink and could feel his eyes widening at how strong it was. For the next few minutes, all four of them shared drinks with each other, occasionally a word or a laugh with each other. Eventually, ran out of the drinks and Y/N volunteered to get their glasses refilled. 

He walked over to the bar, placing the glasses on the counter of in front of the bartender, "Hey, pal. Could you have all of those glasses refilled."

The bartender nodded his head, "Sure thing." He pulled out one bottle and refilled the first glass, "You and your friends are going all the way, I see."

"We're celebrating something and this place happened to be nearby." Y/N shrugged his shoulders.

The bartender grinned as refilled another glass, asking, "What are you celebrating?"

Y/N moved his hand in front of his face in a mysterious manner, "It shall remain a mystery."

"Uh..." The bartender's expression changed into a worried one as he pointed behind Y/N, "I think there's something wrong with your friends."

Y/N turned behind him and saw that Rocket and Drax started arguing for some reason. He sighed, shaking his head, "I left them for a minute!"

He watched how Drax grabbed Rocket the scruff and shook him around. Y/N came to a realization that getting them away from each other is going to be much harder for only person and knew that he had to find Gamora and Quill.

He found them a moment later on the balcony of the bar in some rather strange position. Gamora had her knife against Quill's throat.

"Uh, guys."  He said, making Gamora and Quill turn to him, "Sorry to interrupt but we might have a problem."

"What it is?" Quill asked, as Gamora still held her knife against his throat, then they spotted Rocket, Groot, and Drax fighting inside of the bar, "Oh, no."

Gamora put her knife away from Quill's throat. The three of them entered the bar to put an end to the fight between Rocket, Groot and Drax. Just a second after they rushed through the doors,  Drax got off Groot, as Rocket and aimed his weapon at Drax.

"Guys, stop!" Y/N shouted to them, pushing through the crowd that gathered around them.

Quill bursted through the crowd, yelling, "Whoa, whoa, whoa! What are you doing!"

Drax pointed at Rocket, shouting angrily, "This vermin speaks of affairs he knows nothing about!"

"That is true!" Rocket retorted.

"He has no respect!" Drax added.

Rocket nodded his head to that, "That is also true!" 

"Hold on!" Quill shouted to the raccoon.

"Keep calling me vermin, tough guy!" Rocket challenged Drax, as Groot stood up, rubbing his jaw, "You just wanna laugh at me like everyone else!''

"Rocket, you're drunk. Alright? No one's laughing at you." Quill told Rocket, desperately trying to stop the argument between the raccoon and Drax.

"He thinks I'm some stupid thing. He does!" Rocket protested, his voice becoming more shaky, "Well, I didn't ask to get made! I didn't ask to be torn apart, and put back together, over and over and turned into some...some little monster!"

Y/N bits his lips after hearing that. He actually didn't know about Rocket's past that much, but he didn't had to know much. He knew as much as he had to know that Rocket was experimented on in the past. 

He opened his mouth to say something to his partner, but Quill did that for him, speaking to Rocket in a gentle tone, "Rocket. No one is calling you a monster."

"He called me vermin!" Rocket pointed at Drax, before pointing at Gamora, "She called me rodent!" He shouted at Gamora who actually seemed to feel guilty about this, "Let's see if you can laugh after five or six good shots to your frickin' face!" 

He cocked his gun and the crowd gasped. Y/N stepped forward from the crowd, stopping in front of Gamora and Drax. This situation was really getting out of the hand and he had to try calm Rocket down. 

He held his hands in front of himself, trying to calm his friend down, "Four billion units! Rocket! Just think about it, buddy! We just have to spend one more night with them and then we're off to do our own thing, while also being stupid rich!" 

At first, Rocket hesitated, but ended up lowering his gun, as Y/N sighed in relief, "Fine. But I can't promise when all this is over I'm not gonna kill every last one of you jerks''

"See?" Quill exclaimed, "That's exactly why none of you have any friends! Five seconds after you meet somebody, you're already trying to kill them!"

Drax sighed and turned to leave, "We have traveled halfway across the quadrant and Ronan is no closer to being dead"

"Drax!" Quill shouted after him but Drax ignored him and walked out of the bar.

"Let him go." Gamora said, shaking her head, "We don't need him."

Suddenly, on the other side of the bar, a door opened, and a pink-skinned woman stepped into the bar, calling out,  "Milady Gamora, I'm here to fetch you for my master.''

The woman moved towards the doors, and gestured to follow her through them. Y/N, Quill, Gamora, Rocket and Groot followed her.