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Together, they flew toward the Unraveler’s station—a cathedral of bone and circuitry orbiting a white dwarf. Inside, they found horrors that mirrored Rocket’s past: cages of hybrid creatures, tanks of half-formed dreams, and at the center, a perfect clone of Lylla, her otter eyes empty, her fur matted with nutrient fluid.

Three months passed in silence. Then, a flicker. A holographic transmission crackled to life—distorted, half-static, but unmistakable: a child’s scream, overlaid with the cold voice of a genetic architect calling himself . He had found the last remaining specimens of Rocket’s original batch: Lylla’s final genetic echo, buried in a cryo-vault on the edge of known space.

On Knowhere, rebuilt as a garden of floating lanterns and laughing children, the Guardians sat around a crooked table. The Lylla-clone—now called Lylla-Two , or “Lily” for short—ate her first bowl of noodles. Groot played her a song on a leaf-flute. Drax told a joke that made no sense and everyone laughed anyway. Guardian Of The Galaxy Volume 3 -2023- HDTC 108...

Peter showed up with a terrible haircut and a bottle of Zarg Nut liqueur. “I was doing dishes on Missouri,” he muttered. “You owe me.”

Mantis landed in a cloud of emotional residue, weeping uncontrollably because she could feel the sorrow of a dying star three systems away. Nebula came silent, her mechanical arm replaced with a wooden prosthetic carved from Groot’s first branch. Then, a flicker

Rocket clicked his mechanical claw against the glass. “To being broken,” he said. “Together.”

And somewhere, in a different galaxy, the real Gamora watched a sunset with the Ravagers and smiled—not with longing, but with peace. On Knowhere, rebuilt as a garden of floating

Within seventy-two standard hours, they arrived. Not as a team. As a mess.

But Rocket stayed. Because the ship still smelled like them.

The Unraveler was no warlord. He was a curator of extinction, a collector who believed love was just a chemical error to be corrected. “You Guardians pretend to be family,” he sneered, as his tendrils of light wrapped around Rocket’s throat. “But I’ve seen your memories. You’re just broken things clinging to each other so you don’t float away.”

Rocket didn’t hesitate. He sent a single coded message across the quantum frequency—the one they’d all promised never to use unless the galaxy itself was ending.