Everyone quickly turned their attention towards Mantis who lost her consciousness on the impact of getting hit by a flaming metal. Her hand let go off Ego's energy vine she was holding into, awakening him from his forced nap as light started spreading around them.

"Mantis!" Drax was the first one to say something about this, "Look out!"

Y/N looked down at the tattoed man who knelt down in front of unconscious Mantis to check on her as everything started falling apart around them, "How is she?"

Drax picked Mantis up in bridal styler and declared, "She's just unconscious."

"How long until the bomb goes off?" Quill asked, coming over to Rocket and Y/N.

Y/N turned to look at the fellow human, "It should take about six or seven minutes."

"In the unlikely event that Groot doesn't kill us all." Rocket added.

Y/N nodded his head to that, "That too."

Everyone looked up when they heard a loud crack above them and saw that not only the ground level was falling apart into pieces, the ceiling was falling apart as well, as huge stones started falling down, revealing an entrance to the upper level of the planet to them.

"Kraglin, we need the quadrant for an extraction." Yondu called out to his first mate, "T-minus five minutes."

Kraglin's response was immediate, "Aye, Captain."

"Somebody's gotta be up top when Kraglin arrives." Quill stated, taking his Aero-Wings off himself. He placed it on Drax's back right after, "Drax, take Mantis."

"Ow! My nipples!" Drax screamed in pain as the Aero-Wings overcame his entire back. He screamed even louder when the Aero-Wings started taking him and Mantis into the air, towards the place where Kraglin would be waiting for them.

It was when the ground started to crack even more than it already did, making Gamora, Quill, Yondu and Nebula stumble in every directions as Y/N and Rocket just watched them stumble as they were still in the air thanks to their Aero-Wings. Unfortunely Gamora stumbled in the direction where the ground was already gone and started falling down.

Quill saw it happen and quickly called out to her a worried, "Gamora!"

His attention was quickly taken away from falling Gamora, not even noticing that Nebula jumped down after her sister because the energy vines started bursting from the ground, starting to gather, Y/N, Yondu and Rocket. They could only watch as something started to form right in front of them. It only took a few seconds for it to form itself into a huge face.

"Peter!" The newly formed face of Ego cried out to his son, slamming some of the energy vines against the ground.

Gamora screamed as she proceeded to fall down, trying to grab into everything that she passed by, but ufortunely for her, she couldn't grab into anything. She had too little time to do so. Her eyes widened a bit when she felt someone grab her arm as she was about to fly next to a cliff. The person that catched her grabbed into the cliff, and slided down a few meters downwards, before stopping right in the middle of it. The green skinned woman looked up to see who saved her and saw her sister who quickly pulled her up.

Gamora went flying and it was just a matter of seconds before she landed on top of that cliff. She rolled herself to the other side and watched how Nebula climbed into the top of the same cliff. She send her a grateful look.

Nebula shook her head, after seeing the look that Gamora send her, "Get over it."

Rocket and Y/N exchanged a look with each other as they readied their pistols which they got when they were making their way out fo that Ravagers ship. They took off into the air, as some of the energy vines went right after them, trying to grab them. The two partners didn't waste anytime and started firing their pistols at the energy vines chasing them, while making sure to be as quick as they could to avoid getting caught by them.

Quill and Yondu didn't waste anytime either. Star-Lord stood in front of Ego's face, firing his blasters at his father, who told him, "Come now, Peter. I know this isn't what you want. What kind of father would I be to let you make this choice?"

Star-Lord didn't listen to a word he said, continuing to fire his blasters at him as Yondu whistled loudly as his arrow went flying towards the vine heading towards him. His arrow hit the vine as it's owner proceeded to whistle, not even thinking about stopping until this one vine will be destroyed. It took him several seconds to do it as the vine completely disappeared from his view, the rocks that were attached to it landing on the ground. The arrow flied back towards it's owner who caught it and send it flying towards another vine.

"Soon, Peter, we will be all there is." Ego declared to his son, as a huge vine bursted from the ground. Quill instatly turned his attention towards it and started firing at it as the vine continued to grow, "So stop pissing me off!"

Another vine bursted from the ground and Quill didn't had a chance to dodge it as it slammed itself into him, sending him flying backwards. He landed on the ground a few meters away and rolled across it for a few seconds before stopping, his mask breaking into pieces at the impact. He sat straight up on the ground as Rocket and Y/N flied right next to him, fighting off two vines chasing them as the area in front of them broke into two parts, and out walked a skeletal form of his father.

Ego started walking towards them, forming himself into his old body as one of his energy vines slammed Yondu to the ground. His arrow stopped flying as it fell down, landing on the ground just seconds before it was crashed into two pieces by the same vine. The vine started shoving itself against Yondu who screamed in pain as Quill looked away from it to look at Rocket and Y/N.

They were slammed by the vines against the ground before. The human and the raccoon tried to stand up, but the vines shoved themselves against them, started doing the same thing to them as to Yondu. Y/N and Rocket groaned, gasping for a breath as the vines continued to cover their entire bodies.

"I told you that I don't want to do this alone. You cannot deny the purpose the universe has bestowed upon you." Ego told him as another one of his energy vines appeared behind Quill, impaled itself into his back who screamed in pain as the vine started lifting him up. A few more vines appeared and instatly impaled themselves into another parts of Quill's body before setting him down on the ground.

Ego's form became the one he had when he introduced himself to Star-Lord and his crew, as he stopped in front of his son, "It doesn't need to be like this, Peter. Why are you destroying our chance? Stop pretending you aren't what you are. One in billions. Trillions. Even more. What greater meaning can life possibly have to offer?"

"I don't use my head to fly the arrow, boy!" Yondu yelled out to Peter, causing him to look at him. The last thing that the blue skinned man said to him before the vines and stones covered his entire body was, " I use my heart..."

Quill turned away from Yondu to look at Ego who continued to stare at the place where Yondu Udonta was just a few seconds ago. It was when memories of the moments with the people that he cares about appeared in Star-Lord's mind.

Him listening to the music with his mother...

Him laughing together with Drax...

Him flying together with Rocket and Groot...

Him talking with Y/N about everything he had missed on Earth during his time in space, eventually planning with him to return there, someday...

Him dancing with Gamora...

And Yondu teaching him how to shoot...

He glared at Ego, clenching his fists in anger. Small rocks were slowly starting to gather around him as the ground started to shine in bright blue colour.

Ego looked around himself in confusion before turning his attention towards his son to see him glaring at him, "You shouldn't have killed my mom, and squished my Walkman!"

He leaped himself forward towards his father, flying into him. They went flying into the air, slamming into some of the stony walls in the process but Quill didn't care about that. Small rocks that gathered around him just a few seconds ago formed themselves into a huge stony fist on his right hand and he didn't waste any time and started punching Ego right into his face as they slammed into a wall.

It was when the others were relased from their prison of vines and rocks. Y/N took a deep breath, followed by another one and another one as he landed on the ground along with Rocket. They turned to look at each other, and offered themselves a quick nod of their heads, telling each other that they were okay without saying any words, as they could hear Yondu breathing heavily not that far from them.

They looked around themselves and saw that the energy vines were gone, for now. They quickly took off into the air, and started flying towards the cavern to tell Groot to hurry up. They were running out of time, and they had no idea how much time they had left until these vines will return.

"Hey, Groot!" Y/N called for the little tree, "If you can hear us, hurry up!"

Rocket quickly added, "I'm not sure how long Quill can keep him distracted!"

The two of them proceeded just to stare at the holes in the cavern for a few more moments until they heard someone coming out. Groot most likely listened to their words, because he came out of one of the holes in the cavern shorty after. It was when their could feel a small feeling of relief overcoming their bodies because Groot must have pull the right button instead of the one that would kill them all if they were still here.

Rocket flied over to Groot to pick him up, as Y/N offered the little guy a smile, "Good job." 

The raccoon nodded, placing Groot on his shoulder, "You didn't blew us up."

Groot send them a proud smile and a nod of his head in response. All three of them looked down to see Yondu standing in the distance, watching how everything burned around him. They flied towards him, earning the blue skinned's man attention.

"Yondu, we're about to blow!" Rocket declared as Yondu looked up at them.

"Get to the ship!" He told them.

Y/N shook his head, "Not without Quill!" 

Yondu pointed at Groot who was sitting on Rocket's shoulder, "You two need to take care of the twig!"

"Not without you!" Rocket added to which Y/N gave a nod of his head in response.

"I ain't done nothin' right my whole damn life, guys." Yondu sighed, "You need to give me this."

Rocket and Y/N shared a saddened look with each other, when they realized what Yondu was about to do, and how their clash with Ego was going to end for the blue skinned man. Rocket reached into his bag, looking for two things he was going to give to Yondu. He found one Aero-Wing and one spacesuit only a few seconds later and pulled them out from his bag.

"A spacesuit and an aero-rig. We  only have one of each." He told Yondu, handing this stuff to him to which Yondu send him and Y/N a grateful nod.

They turned to leave, but stopped when Groot declared to Yondu, "I am Groot."

"What's that?" Yondu asked them.

Y/N smiled proudly after hearing what Groot said, "He says, "Welcome to the frickin' Guardians of the Galaxy"."

Rocket smiled proudly as well, "Only he didn't use "frickin'."

Yound turned to look at Groot and send him a grateful nod to which the little tree offered him one last wave of his hand. Yondu waved back as Rocket, Y/N and Groot started flying up, "Bye, twig."

Quill continued to fight with his father as they proceeded to fly across the entire place, trading blows with each other. Star-Lord send a powerful punch right at Ego's face, sending him flying backwards, slamming into a few stony walls in the process. Ego returned only a few seconds later and slammed his son into a cliff. He wasn't done with him. He quickly flied over to Quill and grabbed him again, throwing him downards.

Star-Lord crashed somewhere among the debris before screaming as he started flying towards Ego once again. Ego's reaction to it was quick as he started flying towards his son as well. Stones started to gather around him and it was just a matter of seconds before he transformed himself into a much larger version of himself while Star-Lord used the same tactic, but instead of transforming into a larger version of himself, he transformed into Pac-Man.

The two celestials collided and their transformed forms shattered into pieces in the exact moment when it happened. The two continued to exchange punches as they crashed on the ground.

It was when Rocket and Y/N made their way to the ship to be greeted by the view of Gamora and Nebula sitting on the floor as the former was tending Mantis who was laying on the floor, still unconsciouss. They flied through the opened entrance and landed on the floor, in front of them, earning their attention.

"Where's Peter?" Gamora asked them after noticing that Quill wasn't with them, "Rocket, Y/N where is he? Guys! look at me! Where is he?"

Rocket and Y/N didn't respond to her calls as the raccoon pulled out a timer to the bomb, only to see that there was only one minutes left before the explosion. They send Gamora and unsure look and sighed, shaking their heads. She got her answer when Groot pointed at the exit from the ship. She quickly realized that Quill was still out there. 

"No." She said, bringing herself back on he feet, "I'm not leaving without him."

She picked up one of the rifles that were nearby and readied it, but she didn't had a chance to leave the ship as someone shot her from behind, knocking her down. 

"I'm sorry." Rocket said, sadly, feeling tears into coming his eyes as Gamora collapsed on the floor, " I can only afford to lose one friend today."

"Me too." Y/N sighed sadly before looking up at the ceiling, "Kraglin! Take us out of here!"

The doors started closing as Rocket and Y/N could feel Drax's worried voice sound in their comms, "Rocket, Y/N, where's Quill? Rocket! Y/N!  Where's Quill? Where's Quill?"

His questions went without an answer as Y/N and Rocket continued to watch how the doors closed down with teary eyes.

Quill groaned as he send another powerful punch right at Ego's face who collapsed on the ground. He quickly got himself back on his feet, being aware that the bomb placed right next to his brain was several seconds away from exploading.

"No, we need to stop it." He was about to fly towards his brain to stop the bomb from ending his life but was stopped by Quill who slammed him into the ground. Ego quickly went back on his feet only to be stoppef by Quill from going any further once again. He grabbed his son by shoulders, to make sure he was going to listen, "Listen to me! You are a god. If you kill me, you'll be just like everybody else."

Quill stared right into Ego's eyes, answering, "What's so wrong with that?"

"No!..." Was Ego's last words before the bomb exploaded, resulting in huge explosion. His entire human form turned into ash which landed before Quill's feet. He was dead. Ego was defeated.

Quill stared at his hands to see how the blue light faded from his hands, as his celestial powers disappeared from his body. He stood up shorty after, watching how everything exploded and fell apart around him. He looked down, readying himself for his death, not excepting anyone to save him right now.

He was wrong.

He quickly realized how wrong he was was when someone flied over to him, picking him up from the ground.  They started flying up, away from exploading things, as Quill looked at the person who saved him and his savior turned out to be Yondu.

"He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn't your daddy." He told him, as they bursted through the ground, hearing how it exploded just after they flied through it, as they proceeded  to fly up towards their ship, "I'm sorry I didn't do none of it right. I'm damn lucky you're my boy."

He placed the spacesuit that Rocket gave him on Quill's chest, as it quicly overcame his entire body, making Quill ask him a confused, "What?"

Yondu gave him one last smile as they flew out of the exploading planet, out of the atmosphere into space.

"What? Yondu, what are you doing?" Quill asked the blue skinned man, knowing exactly that Yondu wasn't going to last long in space without a spacesuit on him. They stopped flying and stopped somewhere in space as Yondu's Aero-Wings stopped working. Quill look at Yondu in panic and saw him beginning to suffocate, "No! No!"

He attempted to take his spacesuit off to place it on Yondu's body but he couldn't. He looked again at Yondu to see that ice started to cover his entire body. He started crying out to him as Yondu slowly placed his hands on Quill's head to comfort him just seconds before his entire body stopped moving. Star-Lord placed his hand on Yondu's neck, desperately searching for pulse, finding none. He held his body to close himself, sobbing uncontrollaby over the loss of a man who raised him.

Yondu Udonta was gone.

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The Guardians were preparing everything for Yondu's funeral. Yondu's lifeless body was placed on top of it.  They covered his lifeless frozen red eyes with a blindfold, and did the same with his mouth. They light up a few candles and placed them next to him, alongside various things that Udonta owned, even a small doll that Quill gave him hidden in an orb a few months ago, telling him that it was Power Stone was there.

It took them a while to get everything ready for the funeral, but when everything was ready, they gathered around the table. Y/N stood between Rocket and Groot, watching Yondu's body with saddened expression on his face, as his fellow Guardians, Quill, Gamora, Rocket, Groot, Mantis, Drax, or even Kraglin were standing around the table as well, glancing down at Yondu's body. Only Nebula stood in the background.

Quill stared tearfully at the corpse of a man who raised, a man who was more of a father to him than his real father ever was, beginning to speak for him, "I told Gamora how when I was a kid I used to pretend David Hasselhoff was my dad."

Y/N gave a silent nod of his head in understanding to Quill's words, as Rocket and Drax exchanged  a look with each other, unaware who this David Hasselhoff was.

Quill saw that and gave them a quick explanation, "He's a singer and actor from Earth, really famous guy."

Rocket and Drax nodded their heads in understanding, now knowing that Quill meant by that.

"Earlier, it struck me." Star-Lord continued, "Yondu didn't have a talking car, but he did have a flying arrow. He didn't have the beautiful voice of an angel, but he did have the whistle of one."

Mantis smiled at that, nodding her head, but her smile didn't last long. It faded away from her face just a second later.

Quill proceeded to speak for Yondu, "Both Yondu and David Hasselhoff went on kick-ass adventures and hooked up with hot women and fought robots."

Kraglin sadly looked up at Quill from his captain's body at these words.

"I guess David Hasselhoff did kind of end up being my dad after all. Only it was you, Yondu. I had a pretty cool dad. What I'm trying to say here is..." Quill paused a moment as Gamora placed her hand on his shoulder to comfort him, "...Sometimes that thing you're searching for your whole life it's right there by your side all along. You don't even know it."

"I am Groot." Groot stated.

Rocket nodded his head sadly, "He did call you twig."

Everyone started to part ways after that. Rocket, Drax and Mantis started making their way to the room where the last stage Yondu's funeral was going to take it's place.

Y/N was about to follow them, but stopped when he head someone approach him, "Hey, Y/N."

The said human turned around and saw Kraglin standing in front of him, "Yes, Kraglin?"

"After you and Rocket were knocked down by Nebula, we went to the wreckage of your ship." Kraglin began, showing Y/N that he was carrying something. It was Y/N's shotgun, "I found this.

Y/N's eyes widened a bit. He was certain that his shotgun was lost. He immediately took the shotgun from Kraglin and eyed it for a moment, to make sure that everything was okay with it. It wouldn't hurt him to make sure, right?

He took his eyes away from his weapon after a moment and send Kraglin a grateful nod, "Thanks, Kraglin."

"No problem." Kraglin nodded his head in return, turning away from Y/N, intending to have a talk with Quill about something. There was something he wanted to give to Star-Lord.

It was when another person approached him. He quickly recognized this voice. It was Nebula's, "Y/N. I got something from the wreckage that belongs to you too and I want give it back to you."

"What is it?" Y/N titled his head to look at the blue skinned woman. He raised his brow at her, hoping that it was going to be a certain thing that was important to him for a good reason.

He quickly got his answer when Nebula pulled out his deck of cards from her pocket. It was what exactly he was hoping it would be. He could feel relief and hapiness overcoming his body. He was simply happy that the only thing that he had left from his planet wasn't lost. His gaze went over to the deck as he took it from the blue skinned woman. 

"Thank you." He looked up at her with a grateful smile growing on his lips, "It may be a simple deck of cards, but it means a lot to me. This is the only thing I have from Earth before I was taken away. I appreciate it. A lot."

Nebula just offered him a nod of her head in response, and a very small smile, that it was barely noticeable. She turned away from him and started making her way into another room as Y/N turned around to see Gamora, who was most likely watching them.

He made a motion towards the room which Nebula just entered, telling Gamora "Talk with her" without saying any word.

He walked past Gamora, placing his deck of cards in his pocket before adjusting his shotgun over his shoulder. He walked into the room where Rocket, Drax and Mantis were gathered around Yondu's body, waiting for him and the rest. He stopped next to Rocket who send him a questioning look after seeing that Y/N had just shotgun back to which his human friend just shrugged his shoulders. One more moment had to pass until Quill and Kraglin entered the room and joined them.

They all watched how Yondu's body was slowly wheeled away, leading him into flames, which slowly consumed his entire body,  leaving nothing but ashes, which were released into space where he'd met his eternal rest.

It was when everyone started parting ways after final stage of Yondu's funeral took it's place. Kraglin went somewhere, Y/N noticed that he was carrying Yondu's arrow with him as everyone else went to the front of the ship. He, Rocket, Drax and Mantis stopped in front of the front window of the ship, simply watching how Yondu's ashes floated in space.

Quill turned to the right and sat down on the bed, checking the zune that Kraglin gave him just a few moments ago. He put the earbuds in his ears, listening the first song this device had to offer as Groot sat down on his knee. Groot held his hands in the air, wanting to hear it. Quill took one earbud out of his ear and gave it to Groot who placed it close to his ear, his eyes widening in awe as they continued to listen to the song together.

It was when Groot pointed at the mirror in front of them, spotting something. Quill looked in the direction that Groot was pointing it and saw Ravagers battleships flying next to them.

Y/N's eyes snapped open as he spotted it too. He instantly could feel a smile growing on his lips. He nudged Rocket, "Rocket, look."

Rocket glanced at the window and could feel smile growing on his lips as well, "They came."

They started walking towards the front window of the ship as Drax walked right behind them with Mantis, "What is it?"

"I and Y/N sent word to Yondu's old Ravager buddies, and told them what he did." Rocket explained, stopping in front fo the front window.

Quill walked over to his fellow Guardians with Gamora by his side and Groot on his shoulder, revealing what it was to everyone, "It's a Ravager funeral."

All of the battleships gathered in front of them started letting out fireworks, engulfing everything around them in various colours. Groot hopped from Quill's shoulder into Gamora's as all of the Guardians watched the goodbye the Ravagers were giving to Yondu in awe. This display was just too beautiful to see, and it certainly was one of the most beautiful things they have seen in their entire lives. 

"He didn't chase them away." Rocket stated.

Quill shook his head, "No."

"Even though he yelled at them. And was always mean." Rocket said, lowering his head, "And he stole batteries he didn't need."

Star-Lord looked down at him, giving his fellow Guardian an assuring, "Well, of course not."

Groot held his arms out to Drax and Gamora quickly noticed that. She handed him to Drax who put him on his shoulder as Groot yawned, laying himself on his shoulder, slowly drifing into sleep.

Gamora turned to look at Quill who looked down at her shorty after, with a smile, "What?"

"It's just." Gamora softly said with a small pause in the middle, "Some unspoken thing."

Quill responded to her words with "I told you so." look as Gamora wrapped her arm around his waist to which Peter wrapped his arm around her shoulders, both of them smilling.

"It's beautiful." Mantis stated, her eyes wide in awe from watching how all of these colours engulfled space.

"It is, and so are you." Drax took his gaze away from the display for moment to look at Mantis, only to look at it again a second later, "On the inside."

Rocket watched the farewell to Yondu with teary eyes and a small smile forming on his face when he felt someone place a hand on his shoulder. He turned away from the window to look at  that person and saw Y/N, who offered his friend a smile. Rocket returned his smile, feeling how a few tears fell from down his cheek. He turned back to the window and the two friends just proceeded to watch the beautiful display in front of them.

None of the Guardians could spot a movement behind them... 

Nebula quietly leaned against the wall, not wanting them to spot her now, and watched Yondu's funeral from the distance.

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Welp, we're done with second GOTG and Nebula decided to stay with the Guardians after Ego's death. The next chapters are going to be about the Guardians just doing the Guardians things, and Y/N and Nebula getting together and after that we'll go to Infinity War :)