Rocket flew back to the ship with Groot on his shoulder. He found everyone on the ship apart from Peter and Yondu. 

"Where's Peter?" Gamora asked. "Rocket, where is he?" She repeated when Rocket didn't answer her. He looked at a timer in his hand that started to count down from 60 seconds. "Rocket. Rocket, look at me! Where is he?" Gamora yelled. (Y/N) came down from the cockpit after hearing the commotion. She looked around to see Peter still hadn't made it to ship, which is why Gamora was asking Rocket, who was just standing still while looking at a small rectangular screen. 

"Rocket?" She questioned. He didn't move. She moved closer and kneeled down in front of him. 

"Mmm." Rocket shook his head. (Y/N) looked to Gamora then to Groot who pointed towards where Ego still was. 

"No. I'm not leaving without him." Gamora argued and stood up. She grabbed a blaster and readied it before starting to head out. She was cut short by being electrocuted by Rocket. Not to harmful, just to knock her out. 

"I'm sorry. I can only afford to lose one friend today." He said lowly. (Y/N) stood shocked, although she did understand why Rocket did it. "Kraglin, go!" Rocket yelled up to the cockpit. 

"Wait." Drax intervened. "Is Quill back? Rocket, where's Quill?" What Rocket didn't reply, he continued but louder. "Rocket! Where's Quill? Rocket! Where's Quill?! Where's Quill?" Rocket just stayed where he was as the doors of the ship closed. The timer eventually ran out and the centre of the planet exploded. Quill was flown up by Yondu. 

"He may have been your father boy, but he wasn't your daddy." Yondu said. "I'm sorry I didn't do none of it right. I'm damn lucky you're my boy." He placed a blue protective suit on Quill. 

"What?" Peter questioned quietly. Yondu continued to fly upwards as the planet exploded behind them. "Yondu, what are you doing? You can't..." Yondu said nothing and proceeded to soar higher. "Yondu!" Peter yelled as Yondu's aero-rig gave out. "No! No! No!" Quill yelled as he tried to remove his blue protective suit to save Yondu as the space's harsh atmosphere began to kill the blue man. It didn't work. "Oh come on- No! NO!" Peter cried as the man who was the only person to act like a father figure to him wasted away. Yondu gently pet the side of Peter's face, signalling to him that everything would be okay. Peter cried into his chest, regretting every moment he spent not appreciating Yondu as a person, as a teacher, as a father. 

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Everyone placed small ornaments and trinkets around Yondu, who laid still and silent on a tall platform with pieces of fabric on his mouth, eyes and other parts of his body. Peter began his speech. 

"I told Gamora how when I was a kid I used to pretend David Hasselhoff was my dad. He's a singer and actor from Earth, really famous guy. Earlier, it struck me... Yondu didn't have a talking car, but he did have a flying arrow. He didn't have the beautiful voice of angel but he did have the whistle of one. Both Yondu and David Hasselhoff went on kick-ass adventures and hooked up with hot women... and fought robots. I guess David Hasselhoff did kind of end up being my dad after all. Only it was you, Yondu." Gamora gently placed her hand on Peter's shoulder. "I had a pretty cool dad. What I'm trying to say here is 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 said quietly. 

"He did call you twig." Rocket replied with a small smile. He looked up to (Y/N) and she smiled back with a small tear in her eye. They held hands as Yondu's body was slowly put into a large horizontal container to turn him into ashes. 

"Pete!" Kraglin called as Peter began to walk away. It turns out Yondu had found something similar to an iPod with over 300 songs on it. Peter also gave Yondu's arrow to Kraglin, after Rocket had helped reassemble them. "Thanks... Captain." Kraglind thanked Peter before they all noticed Yondu's body started to fully burn. His ashes were let out of the ship into space. 

Other ships met up with the Milano. "They came." Rocket said astonished. 

"What is it?" Drax asked. 

"I sent word to Yondu's old Ravager buddies and told them what he did." Rocket explained. Hundreds of ships were seen through the front of the Milano. 

"It's a Ravager funeral." Peter said with a smile. Each ship let off their own fireworks in honour of Yondu. Kraglin watched through a small window and cheered at the reunion and hit the left side of his chest with his right fist twice. 

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

"No." Peter agreed. 

"Even though he yelled at them. And was always mean. And he stole batteries he didn't need." Rocket continued as he looked down in slight shame.

"Well, of course not." Peter replied, knowing what he meant. Meanwhile, (Y/N) stood beside Rocket and wrapped her wing around him. With no hesitation, Rocket leaned into her with his head on her hip. Groot was being passed around from Gamora to Drax, then he feel asleep on Drax's shoulder a few seconds later. Gamora looked to Peter.

"What?" He asked with a smirk.

"It's just... some unspoken thing." She replied. He put an arm around her to which Gamora leaned her head on his shoulder.

"It's beautiful." Mantis gasped as she watched the fireworks.

"It is." Drag agreed. "And so are you... on the inside."

Yondu's ashes formed an arrow in the space sky. Rocket watched as a tear rolled down his right cheek, which made him lean into his girlfriend, (Y/N), even more.