• Across The Stars •||• Peter Quill X Female Reader 2 •

Chapter 3 - Sovereign Fleet

"This is weird," Peter comments. "We've got a Sovereign fleet approaching from the rear." I take my seat in the cockpit, confused. "Why would they do that?" Gamora questions. "Probably because Rocket stole some of their batteries," Drax says. "Dude!" Rocket exclaims. Drax's eyes go wide. "Right. He didn't steal one of those," he lies. "I don't know why they're after us. What a mystery this is."

Before I can begin to tell off Rocket, a few blasts from the Sovereign ships snap me out of focus. In seconds, every ship from behind us is shooting at us.
Peter flies the ship down and over, avoiding the Sovereign before yelling, "What were you thinking?" "Dude, they were really easy to steal," Rocket remarks, as if it were a good excuse. "That's your defense?" Gamora asks. "Come on! You saw how that High Priestess talked down to us. Now I'm teaching her a lesson," Rocket adds.

"Oh, I didn't realize your motivation was altruism," Peter tells Rocket. "It's really a shame the Sovereign have mistaken your intentions, and they're trying to kill us." "Exactly!" Rocket says. "I was being sarcastic!" Peter shoots back. "Oh, no! You're supposed to use a sarcastic voice! Now I look foolish!" Rocket yells.

"Now's not the time for this!" I yell to both of them. "More incoming," Peter announces. "Good! I wanna kill some guys," Rocket smirks. He yells as he lands shots on multiple ships, exploding them in an instant. "You're not killing anyone. All those ships are remotely piloted," Gamora explains. Another Sovereign pod explodes near us, rumbling the entire ship.

"What's the nearest habitable planet?" Peter asks. Gamora taps on the tablet and finds one. "It's called Berhert," she tells us. "How many jumps?" he asks her. "Only one. But the access point is 47 clicks away," she replies. "And you have to go through that quantum asteroid field."
Peter makes a sharp turn toward the asteroids, all while trying to avoid more Sovereign.

"Quill, to make it through that... you'd have to be the greatest pilot in the universe," Drax tells him. Peter begins, "Lucky for us, I..." "I am," Rocket quickly interrupts, taking over control of the ship.

Soon, Peter switches control to himself. "What are you doing?" Rocket questions. "I've been flying this rig since I was ten years old," Peter defends. "I was cybernetically engineered to pilot a spacecraft," Rocket argues, switching control to him. "You were cybernetically engineered to be a douchebag!" Peter shoots back, switching back the controls. "Stop it," Gamora warns them.

"Quill, later on, tonight, you're gonna be laying down in your bed, and there's gonna be something squishy in your pillowcase. And you're gonna be like, 'What's this?' And it's gonna be because I put a turd in there!" Rocket shouts. Peter slowly turns to him. "You put your turn in my bed, I shave you," he threatens. "Oh, I won't be my turd. It'll be Drax's," he hisses. Drax lets out a big laugh and adds, "I have famously huge turds!"
"We're about to die, and this is what we're discussing?" Gamora complains. "You know what? I'll take over if you two can't handle it," I chime in, raising my voice. "No!" they both shout in unison. I roll my eyes and sink back in my seat. "Then stop fighting over the damn pilot controls! You're both making this worse!"

Rocket switches the control back to him. Then Peter switches it back to himself. I close my eyes and put my head in my hands. They're not listening to a word I said...

Almost immediately, we crash into an asteroid that blows a hole into the ship. Rocket passes Groot to Peter, who passes him to me. I hold him closely with both hands. "It's okay, Groot. It's... just like a rollercoaster," I comfort, loud enough to hear over all the noise. "I am Groot?" "It's an Earth thing," I explain. "Maybe we could go on one soon. They're really fun."

Peter closes up the hole by putting up an artificial wall, and Nebula hits the ground. "IDIOTS!" she screams. "Well, that's what you get when Quill flies," Rocket remarks. Gamora picks up something and throws it at Rocket. "We still have a Sovereign craft behind us."