Y/N, Rocket, Yondu, Groot and Kraglin continued to scream for what felt like an eternity as their ship proceeded to jump from one jump point to another. He could feel a massive relief overcoming his body when the ship finally stopped in front of the planet which Y/N assumed to be the place where Ego took Quill, Gamora and Drax.

He grunted as he literally fell off his seat, landing right on his knees. He gagged, feeling how it was just a matter of seconds before he would empty his stomach. He pressed his right hang against his stomach and his left one over his mouth to stop himself from doing so.

"I don't know about you, guys." He shook his head and removed his hand from his mouth to take a deep breath, "But there's one way I'm doing this ever again."

Yondu glanced over at Y/N and Rocket, "What the hell are you doing, both of you?"

"I had no idea that it would take this many jumps to get here!" Y/N explained.

"And I could tell by how you talked about him that this Ego is bad news." Rocket added, "We're here to save Quill."

"For what? Huh?" Yondu wanted to know, "For honor? For love?"

"No. I don't care about those things." Rocket shook his head with a small grin forming on his face, "I wanna save Quill so I can prove I'm better than him! I can hold this over him forever."

"Rocket." Y/N removed his hand from his stomach, no longer feeling sick and shook his head, "I know that you don't mean that."

"Oh, really?" Rocket asked as he shifted his attention from Yondu to Y/N, "How can you know that, Y/N?"

"Because I know you? Better than anyone in our crew?" Y/N retorted, "Everytime when you act like you're the biggest a-hole around, you're just playing to be one to show..."

"That's not true, and you know it!" Rocket cut Y/N off before he could finish. It was just seconds before he and Y/N could hear how Yondu started to laugh. He turned his attention back to the blue skinned man and asked, in a very confused tone, "What are you laughing at me for?"

"You do know that your friend here is right? You can fool yourself and everyone else, but you can't fool me or him." Yondu said, beginning to walk towards the front window of the ship, his back facing the raccoon and human behind him, "I know who you are."

Rocket got himself back on his feet and glared at Yondu, "You don't know anything about me, loser."

"I know everything about you." Yondu said as he turned back to look at Rocket again. He started to approach him, "I know you play like you're the meanest and the hardest, but actually you're the most scared of all."

"Shut up!" Rocket shouted, clenching his palms.

Yondu ignored Rocket's words and proceeded to approach him, "I know you steal batteries you don't need, and you push away anyone who's willing to put up with you, 'cause just a little bit of love reminds you of how big and empty that hole inside you actually is!"

"I said shut up!" Rocket repeated himself, his glare turning into completely opposite expression.

"I know them scientists what made you, never gave a rat's a about you!" Yondu continued.

"I'm serious, dude!" Rocket shouted, his glare completely gone from his face at this moment.

"Just like my own damn parents who sold me, their own little baby, into slavery!" Yondu loudly exclamined, stopping himself in front of Rocket. He leaned down to face the talking raccoon and look straight into his eyes, "I know who you are, boy, because you're me."

Rocket stared straight into Yondu's eyes for a second and sighed, "What kind of a trio are we?"

Yondu turned away from Rocket and started to walk towards Kraglin who stood in the background for the entire argument, "The kind that's about to go fight a planet, I reckon."

Rocket turned towards his seat as Yondu pulled a lever down, "All right, okay!"

"Let's do this!" Y/N said, relieved that they had gotten over this argument, heading towards his seat as well.

It was when their minds processed what they had just heard from Yondu. They exchanged a look with each other and turned around to look at the blue skinned man again, wanting to be sure if they didn't misheard it. They were going to fight a what?

"Fight a what?" Rocket asked.

Y/N nodded his head in agreement, "That is actually an excellent question."

"A planet." Yondu repeated himself as he turned to look at them again. He eyed them for a second before adding, "Ego is a Celestial."

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Y/N was the last one to slide down the ladder into a small pod which he, Yondu, Rocket and Groot were going to use to fly into over to Ego's planet. Kraglin was going to remain on the ship just in case if something happened to the pod and they'd need someone to take them off this planet.

He heard Rocket calling out for Gamora through the transmitter. He started to walk over to him and the duo didn't had to wait long for Gamora to reply, "Finally! Rocket? Y/N?"

"Keep that transmitter nearby, so we can find you." Y/N told her, stopping next to Rocket.

"We're in an old piece of construction equipment Yondu once used..." Rocket added, pausing for as second to come up with a way to say this, "To slice open the Bank of A 'askavaria."

"Ego's unhinged." Gamora declared, unaware that Rocket and Y/N already knew that.

"We know." Rocket assured her.

"Yondu told us everything we needed to know about him." Y/N explained, "Wait for us down there. We should find you in a few minutes."

Y/N and Rocket looked at each other and shared a quick look. They quickly started making their way towards their seats to get themselves ready, but the former didn't even had a chance to make his way over to it as the pod shook a little which meant only one thing. They were dropped into space and were already on their way to Ego's planet.

He finally sat down on his seat and gripped into a part the pod tightly as Groot went over to him. Vines grew from his arms and attached themselves into Y/N's knee, allowing Groot to climb up and sit down right on the humans knee, only to fall from it and land back on the floor when the pod crashed into something.

Y/N send Groot a worried glance but the little tree was not even touched by it, gripping the part he was holding into even tighter. The ship crashedk into the ground shorty after, making Y/N let go off it as Groot jumped back to into his feet and ran over to the exit from the pod and grew a vine from his hand to open it. The human got himself off his seat as the exit opened. Groot smiled and waved at whoever was running towards the ship.

Y/N quickly got an idea who it was when a familiar voice cried out, "Out of the way, dumber, smaller Groot!"

Just like Y/N excepted, Drax was the first one to climb into the pod, not caring that Groot started punching him across his entire arm. Y/N rolled his eyes and walked over to them.

"Groot, this isn't the time for this." He said as Groot looked up at Y/N to see the look that the human was giving him. He stopped punching Drax right after as Y/N could feel himself becoming suprised when he saw who climbed into the ship right after Drax. Nebula and Mantis. What was Nebula doing here? He didn't except to see her on Ego's planet after what happened with the Ravagers. Mantis' presence suprised him too. He thought she was on Ego's side. 

"What are you doing, both of you?" Drax asked Y/N and Rocket, "You could've killed us all!"

"Uh..." Rocket said, moving his seat, so he could look at Drax, "Thank you, guys?"

"We had it under control." Drax said in response.

Y/N rolled his eyes at Drax's answer, "I doubt it, Drax."

Mantis who was pacing back and forth since entering this pod stopped and said, "We did not. That is only an extension of his true self. He will be back soon."

Quill and Gamora climbed into the pod shorty after, the former asking in confusion after spotting Nebula, "What's Smurfette doing here?"

"Whatever I need to do to get a damn ride home.." Nebula answered.

Rocket pointed at her, looking skeptical, "She tried to murder us!"

Nebula turned to look at him and glared, "I saved you and your terran friend, you stupid fox!"

Gamora shook her head, "He's not a fox."

"I am Groot!" Groot declared loudly, looking up at Gamora.

"I'm not a raboon, either." Rocket told him.

"I am Groot." Groot corrected him.

Rocket rolled his eyes, "Raccoon. Whatever."

"Can we for now just agree that he is a talking woodland beast?" Y/N asked them. Arguing about what kind of the animal Rocket was the last thing they needed right now. The ground beneath them started to shake, making him ran over to one of the small windows to see blue energy vines bursting from the ground, intending to wrap themselves around the pod, "How do we even kill a Celestial?"

Quill walked over to the ladder and started climbing up it, "There's a center to him. His brain, his soul, whatever it it, some sort of protective shell."

"It's in the caverns, below the surface."  Mantis explained.

Star-Lord climbed up the ladder into the upper level and his eyes widened in suprise when he saw Yondu in the pilot seat, "Yondu?"

Yondu didn't reply to him for now, as the vines wrapped themselves around the pod. He started it up and the pod started flying up, only to be bring down to the ground by the vines. The pod slammed down, making it shook and everyone on the lower level almost collapsed on the floor because of that.

Quill made his way to the seat next to Yondu who said to him, "Thrusters are out."

"Guess I should be glad I was a skinny kid. Otherwise, you'd have delivered me to this maniac." Quill said, beginning to work on some electronics, trying to figure out a way how to turnthe thrusters back on and free them from the vines.

"You still reckon that's the reason I kept you around, you idiot?" Yondu asked him.

"That's what you told me, you old doofus." Quill reminded him.

"Once I figured out what happened to them other kids. I wasn't just gonna hand you over." Yondu explained, pressing some buttons.

Quill stopped working for a second, "You said you were gonna eat me."

"That was being funny!" Yondu pointed out.

Quill shook his head at him, "Not to me!"

Rocket shook his head and looked up at them from the lower level, "You people have issues."

"Of course I have issues!" Quill confirmed as Ego appeared right in front of the pod. His skeletal appeareance started to reform, looking quite horrifying, "That's my freakin' father!" 

It was when the thrusters came back up and Yondu and Quill quickly made sure to get everyone out of his fathers palace. They flied right through him and flied right towards the large window in front of them, crushing it completely. Everyone beneath Quill and Yondu hang into something tightly as the pod went flying downards instead of upwards.

"We should be going up!" Yondu stated.

"We can't! Ego wants to eradicate the universe as we know it." Quill explained, "We have to kill him. Rocket!"

"Got it!" Rocket nodded his head, pressing some buttons. Spherical energy devices rolled around the pod to it's front and fired lasers, destroying the ground, allowing the ship to fly right through it to the lower levels of Ego's planet. The pod proceeded to fly forward, the lasers destroying anything in it's path, "We're saving the galaxy again?"

Quill nodded his head to that, "I guess."

Rocket grinned, "Awesome."

Y/N came over to Rocket and grabbed the raccoon's seat tightly, and grinned, "That's our job, right, Rocket?"

The two partners glanced at each other and exchanged grins. The duo fist bumped and the raccoon said to his human partner, "You're damn right, Y/N! Just imagine how we'll be able to jack up our prices if we're two-time galaxy savers."

Quill shook his head, "I seriously can't believe that's where your mind goes."

"It was just a random thought, man. I thought we were friends." Rocket explained, pressing more and more buttong around him, "Of course, I care about the planets, and the buildings and all the animals on the planets."

"And the people." Quill added.

Rocket shrugged, "Meh."

Mantis grinned widely, "The crabby puppy is so cute. He makes me wanna die!"

Y/N turned away from Rocket and looked Mantis, trying to figure out if she was serious or not. When he realized that she was indeed serious, he shared a quick uneasy look with Drax.

"Tell me why Ego wants you here?" Yondu asked Quill as the lasers destroyed another thing in their path.

"He needs my genetic connection to the light  to help destroy the universe. He tried to teach me how to control the power." Quill explained.

"So, could you?" Yondu wanted to know.

"A little." Quill answered, "I made a ball."

Yondu titled his head, "A ball?"

"I thought as hard as I could." Quill explained, "It was all that I could come up with."

Yondu smirked, "You "thought"? You think when I make this arrow fly, I use my head?"

Quill turned to look at him, not knowing what to except for an answer, but didn't had a chance to hear it as the pod crashed into the wall, blowing a small part of it off, as it slided through the wall, sparks flying everywhere. Only a few seconds after they found themselves in a huge space with one huge thing in the middle that stood out the most.

Mantis pointed at the one thing ahead of them as everyone gathered in front of the hole in the pod to take a good look at their surroundings, "That's Ego's core."

Gamora turned to Rocket, "That core is thick, Rocket."

"I got it covered." Rocket assured her, pressing some buttons. All of the spherical devices that were used by them to get to this point started to move across the ship to one place to form a one last powerful laser capable of finishing Ego off for good.

"We must hurry." Mantis exclaimed, "It will not take Ego long to find us."

"Keep it steady." Rocket said, making sure that the pod was steady before pushing one lever forward. The laser fired one huge beam at Ego's core, starting to drill through it, slowly breaking it to bits.

"Captain?" Kraglin's voice sounded through the intercom.

Yondu leaned to the intercom, "What is it, Kraglin?"

"Hey, remember that Ayesha chick?" Kraglin asked.

"Yeah." Yondu nodded his head, "Why?"

Kraglin didn't even had to answer this question because Yondu quickly got an idea what he meant when he looked through the window and saw dozens of the Sovereign's ships heading their way. Yondu quickly reacted to this revelation and backed the ship away from Ego's core and started flying away from them, as the Sovereign's started shooting at them, destroying their lasers.

The Sovereign continued to fire at them, and one of the ship was lucky enough and hit the pod, causing it to shake. Gamora, Mantis and Drax didn't had a chance to react to it and fell through the hole in the pod as Nebula, Groot and Y/N hang into something. Y/N's eyes widened a bit when he could how his fingers started to slip off the thing he was holding into. His fingers finally slipped off and Y/N started to slide down the floor towards the hole. He braced himself for the rough landing, hoping that he was at least going to land somewhere close to Drax, Gamora and Mantis, but much to his suprise nothing happened because someone caught him.

His eyes widened even more to see who was the one that caught him. It was Nebula. She looked down at him to see his suprised expression, making her quickly turn away from him. The pod was finally steadied and the two of them along with Groot were able to get back on their feet.

"Thanks." He said to Nebula, standing up, to which she gave him a simple quick nod in response.

"Why aren't you firing the lasers?" Quill asked Rocket from the upper level.

"They blew out the generator." Rocket answered, hopping off his seat. He ran over to his bag and spilled everything over the floor, looking for a certain thing, "I think I packed a small detonator."

"A detonator is worthless without explosives." Nebula pointed out as Quill slided down the ladder to their level.

Rocket picked up Anulax Batteries and showed it off to her, "Well, we got these."

"Is that thing strong enough to kill Ego?" Quill asked.

"If it is, it'll cause a chain reaction, throughout his entire nervous system." Rocket explained, tying the batteries around the detonator.

"Meaning what?" Quill asked another question.

"The entire planet will explode. We'll have to get out of here fast." Rocket answered, wrapping the newly constructed bomb around himself, "I rigged a timer."

"At least something good will come out of these batteries." Y/N stated, as Rocket handed him a pair of Aero-Wings. He quickly placed it on his back, as the suit slowly overcame most of his upper body as Rocket put one on himself too.

"Go!" Quill shouted, his mask appearing over his face as Groot hopped into Rocket's shoulder. They pushed themselves into run and jumped through the hole in the pod. The Sovereign's ships quickly noticed them jumping of from the pod and started firing at them as the three Guardians did their best to avoid the shots fired their way. Y/N's eyes snapped open when one of the shots almost hit him, but fortunely for him it only flew right underneath him. 

He pulled out the pistol he got from trom the dead Ravager and started firing back at the ships, knowing that it wasn't going to be to do much to them, but it was still better than nothing, right? He was the first one to make his way to the cavern and Quill, Rocket and Groot arrived just seconds after him.

They flew right over Gamora, Drax and Mantis who slowly got themselves back on their feet after their rather rough landing. It wasn't long before the ground around them started lightening up in a shiny white colour.

Mantis' eyes grew fearful, knowing what was going on right now, "He's coming."

Everything around them started to shake as Drax turned to look at her, asking, "Didn't you say you could make him sleep?"

"When he wants. He's too powerful." Mantis answered, certain that she won't be able to do it, "I can't!"

"You don't have to believe in yourself." Drax said as Mantis looked over her shoulder at him, "Because I believe in you."

Mantis turned away from her as Ego's huge shining face materialized right in front of them. He let out a long horrifying scream and transformed himself into a giant ball of energy before starting to roll towards them. Mantis got herself on her knees and placed her hand in the hole in the ground, touching Ego's energy vine.

"Sleep!" She screamed loudly and everything the light them faded away. The ball which was inches away from hitting them disappeared. She managed to put Ego to sleep, for now.

"I never thought she'd be able to do it." Drax declared, looking at Gamora, "With as weak and skinny as she appears to be."

"I don't know how long I can hold him!" Mantis exclaimed.

Rocket pulled out his flashlight and made sure to eye the cavern carefully, trying to spot a place where they to place the bomb he constructed a few minutes ago to kill Ego. It didn't took him that long to notice that the metal was too thick for the bomb, and realize that they had to place it exactly on Ego's core. It was a major problem because they was no way that he, Y/N or even Quill would be able to fit in the of the holes.

He groaned and shook his head, "The metal's too thick. For the bomb to work, we'd actually need to place it on Ego's core. And our fat butts ain't gonna fit through those tiny holes."

Quill looked down at something, "Well..."

Y/N and Rocket looked at what he was looking at and saw little Groot who was playing with a leave on his arm, as if he didn't even know what was happening around him.

They both quickly looked at Quill and said at the same time, "That's a terrible idea/That's not gonna work, Quill."

"Which is the only kind of idea we have left." Quill pointed out.

Y/N sighed, "I hate to be in such situations."

Rocket groaned and picked up Groot to place him on his back. He, Y/N and Groot went down through the largest hole in the cavern, and that was as far as the raccoon and the human could, because the holes around them right now were too small for them to move around, just like Rocket said.

They shared a quick look with each other, knowing that sending Groot out there by himself was not the best idea, but it was their only option right now, if they wanted to kill Ego, before kneeling down. Rocket took Groot off his back and placed him in front of him and Y/N, then he took the bomb off his belt and placed it between them.

"Alright, first you flip this switch, then this one. That activates it." Rocket began his explanation, pointing at the two switches on the left side of the bomb. He then pointed at the shiny red button that was right next to the switches, "Then you push this button, which will give you five minutes to get outta there." He pointed at the one last button, finishing his explanation, "Now, whatever you do, don't push this button, because that will set off the bomb immediately and we'll all be dead."

"Now, repeat back what Rocket just said." Y/N said, instantly after Rocket finished his explanation.

"I am Groot." Groot began, pointing at the switches.

Rocket nodded his head, "Uh-huh."

"I am Groot." Groot continued.

"That's right." Y/N nodded his head.

Groot finished by pointing at the red button, but the one that will ending up killing everyone, not just Ego, "I am Groot!"

"No!" Rocket quickly shook his head, "That's the button that will kill everyone! Try again."

Groot nodded his head and did as he was told. He repeated everything what he had just said to Rocket and Y/N, and at the end, pointed at the wrong button for the second time....

"No! That's exactly what you just said? How's that even possible?!" Rocket asked, becoming frustated.

"Rocket. Let me try." Y/N said to Rocket who sighed, already assuming what was going to happen, "Groot, can you repeat it to me, one more time?"

"I am Groot." Groot said, starting to repeat everything from the start for another time.  Everything was going well at first, but just like in the previous tries, everything fell apart at the end when Groot pointed at the wrong button for the third time, "I am Groot." 

Y/N's eye twitched a bit as Rocket finally had enough of it and yelled out a frustated, "No!"

"Hey!" Quill's voice sounded above them, "You're making him nervous."

Rocket and Y/N looked up to see Quill through one of the holes, the former quickly saying, "Shut up and give us some tape! Does anyone have any tape out there?! We wanna put some tape over the death button."

"I don't have any tape! Lemme check!" Quill shook his head, before flying out from Rocket's and Y/N's view. He started to fly from one to another, asking them if they happened to have any tape with them. Not a single person had a tape when ha flied over to Drax, not excepting him to have it neither, but grew a little hopeful after askng him, because the tattooed man asked him if scotch tape would work, but when Quill told him that it would work, Drax told that he didn't had it, confusing Star-Lord.

He flied back to Y/N and Rocket to inform them that not a single person had any tape with them, "Nobody has any tape!"

"Not a single person has tape?!" Rocket asked Quill, turning to him.

"Nope!" Quill confirmed it.

"And that includes Nebula too?" Y/N asked as he turned to Star-Lord too, not recalling hearing her voice when Quill was asking anyone if they had some tape with them.

Quill hesitated at first but eventually answered with a short, "Yeah."

"Are you sure?" Y/N asked, not buying it. Rocket wasn't buying it either.

"I asked Yondu, and she was standing right next to him!" Quill explained.

"I knew you were lying!" Rocket shouted, unaware that Groot grabbed the bomb and started running towards one of the holes, "Maybe I should have send Y/N instead of you because he unlike you is not afraid to talk with her!"

"First of all, I'm not afraid to talk with her!" Quill retorted, "Second of all, you have priceless batteries and an atomic bomb in your bag! If anybody's gonna have tape, it's you!" 

"That's exactly my point! I have to do everything!" Rocket pointed out, turning away from Quill.

Quill shook his head, "You are wasting a lot of time here!"

Rocket and Y/N turned away from Quill to see Groot running into one of the holes with a bomb in his hands, before sliding down, cheering loudly.

The raccoon sighed and looked down, "We're all gonna die."

"C'mon, Rocket." Y/N patted Rocket on his shoulder, "Have some faith, Rocket."

"Do you really believe in that, Y/N?" Rocket asked his partner with sigh. The silence and the look Y/N gave him in response was the only answer Rocket needed to get from him.

Yondu and Nebula proceeded to fly through the area surrouding them in the pod, doing their best to avoid everything that was fired their way by the Sovereign, but unfortunely for them it was just a matter of time before the pod stopped for another time.

"Rear thrusters are out again!" Yondu declared, shaking his head, "We're done for without that generator!"

Nebula groaned and pressed something on her mechical arm as Quill flied into the pod, crashing into the floor. He turned toward the hole and watched in horror as all of the ships slowly gathered around the pod, with only one obvious intention of blowing it into pieces along with them.

"Guardians..." Ayesha's voice began as Nebula attached a cable to her arm while Yondu pressed some buttons, already aware of what the blue skinned woman was about to do, "Perhaps it will provide you solace that your deaths are not without purpose. They will serve as a warning to all of those tempted with betraying us. Don't screw with the Sovereign."

The ships started to fire at the pod as Nebula attached another cable into her arm and look at Yondu who said to her, "This is gonna hurt."

"Promises, promises." Nebula responded, showing him that she didn't mind.

Yondu grinned and pulled the lever down. Nebula screamed in pain as the electricty hit her. The spheres around the ship were activated by that and it was just a matter of seconds before they started firing at every Sovereign ship gathered around the pod. One laser even almost hit Mantis and Drax on the ground, missing them by a meter or two, causing the Destroyer to look up angrily. Not a single ship that belonged to the Sovereign was spared and they all were blown into bits.

A part of one of the Sovereign's ship fell right into the pod and Quill was quick to realize what was about to happen, "We're gonna blow!"

He wasn't wrong. The pod exploded just a few seconds later and Gamora who watched it all from the ground let out a worried, "Peter! No!"

She was someone falling down from the dust shorty after. It was her sister. Nebula landed on the ground and started right at Gamora, as the two sisters shared a quick look with each other. They looked up to see Quill and Yondu flying down towards them. Quill was using his Aero-Wings while Yondu was using his arrow.

Star-Lord chuckled, making Yondu ask him a confused, "What?"

"You look like Mary Poppins." Quill told him.

"Is he cool?" Yondu asked, not knowing that the person Quill mentioned was a woman.

"Hell yeah, he's cool." Quill grinned.

Yondu responded with a grin on his own and looked down at everyone below them, declaring proudly, making sure that everyone were going to hear it, "I'm Mary Poppins, y'all!" 

The two joined the others on the ground shorty after and everyone slowly started to gather around Mantis. Yondu and Nebula stared at the falling remains of the Sovereign's ships around them, suprised that they even suprised that, Quill looked at Gamora and the two shared a long look, Y/N and Rocket quickly joined them as they came flying towards them, stopping next to Star-Lord and Gamora, Drax stood close to Mantis who remained on her fours, doing her best to make sure that Ego was going to be sleeping asleep for as long as she could.

The entire group stood together and watched how everything burned around them.

It was just seconds before Mantis was hit right in the head with a piece of burning metal...