Peter, Gamora, and Drax go with Ego and Mantis while Rocket and Groot stay behind to fix the Milano and keep an eye on Nebula. On Ego's ship, the three talk to Mantis, who shows off her powers.
Mantis: When I touch someone I can feel their feelings.
Peter: You read minds?
Mantis: No. Telepaths know thoughts. Empaths feel feelings. Emotions.
Mantis: [to Peter] May I?
Peter: All right.
Mantis touches Quill's hand.
Mantis: You feel love.
Peter: Yeah, I guess. Yeah, I feel a general unselfish love for everyone.
Mantis: No. Romantic, sexual love. . .
Peter: No. No, I don't.
Mantis: [points to Gamora] . . . for her!
Peter: No! That is not . ..
Drax begins laughing hysterically.
Peter: Okay. That's . . .
Drax: [still laughing] She just told everyone your deepest, darkest secret!
Drax continues laughing.
Peter: Dude! Come on! I think you're overreacting a little bit!
Drax: You must be so embarrassed! [continues cracking up] Do me! Do me! Do me!
Mantis touches Drax and she starts laughing hysterically.
Mantis: I've never felt such humor!
Peter: So unbelievably uncool.
Drax: Oh, Quill . . .
Mantis walks over to Gamora to touch her.
Gamora: Touch me, and the only thing you're gonna feel is a broken jaw.
The Ravagers come across the woods where the Guardians crash-landed. Most of them end up walking into traps laid out by Rocket until Yondu shows up with his Yaka Arrow controlled through his whistling. The Ravagers get Rocket and Groot, but when Taserface plans to get Peter, Yondu isn't quite as willing to turn him over. Nebula then breaks the crest on Yondu's head to knock him out. She aligns herself with the Ravagers as they take Rocket, Groot, and Yondu prisoner.
Ego brings everyone to the planet that literally lives through him since his consciousness is the core of the planet.
Gamora: You own a planet and can destroy two dozen spaceships without a suit. What are you exactly?
Ego: I'm what's called a Celestial, sweetheart.
Peter: Celestial like a god?
Ego: I created what I imagined biological life to be like, down to the most minute detail.
Drax: Did you make a penis?
Peter: Dude!
Gamora: What is wrong with you?
Drax: If he's a planet, how could he make a baby with your mother? He would smush her!
Peter: I don't need to hear how my parents . . .
Drax: Why? My father would tell the story of impregnating my mother every winter solstice.
Peter: That's disgusting.
Drax: It was beautiful. You earthers have hang-ups.
Ego: Yes, Drax, I got a penis.
Drax: Ha! Thank you!
Ego: It's not half bad.
Ego explains to the three that he came up with a human form to travel the galaxy and he came to Earth and fell in love with Meredith, but could not see her so often because it would take up a lot of his energy. Peter continues to hold hostile feelings for Ego for leaving Meredith alone to die. As Peter grows more emotional, his hands produce powerful energy that is linked to Ego's own power. Ego shows him how to control and use it.
On the Ravager ship, Taserface and his goons start ejecting those that are still loyal to Yondu, except for Kraglin, who only watches in disbelief as his friends are killed.
Taserface: [to Yondu] You're the one what killed those men by leading them down the wrong path. Because you're weak.
Taserface hits Yondu.
Taserface: And stupid!
He hits Yondu again.
Taserface: It's time for the Ravagers to rise once again to glory with a new captain . . . Taserface!
Rocket: [snickering] I'm sorry. I am so sorry! I just keep imagining you waking up in the morning, sir, looking in the mirror and then in all seriousness saying to yourself, "You know what would be a really kick-ass name? Taserface!" What was your second choice? Scrotum Hat?
Taserface holds a knife to Rocket's throat.
Taserface: New plan! We're killing you first!
Rocket: Well, dying is certainly better than having to live an entire life as a moronic shitbag who thinks 'Taserface' is a cool name.
Nebula enters and suggests that the Ravagers turn in their captives to the Kree for the bounties on their heads. Taserface takes an aggressive approach towards Nebula.
Nebula: I assure you. I am not as easy a mark as an old man without hs magic stick or a talking woodland beast.
Nebula also makes other demands, including a new hand. Kraglin brings her to a ship that she uses to get off the Ravager ship and to go find Gamora.
Kraglin: What are you going to do with your share?
Nebula: As a child, my father would have Gamora and me battle one another in training. Every time my sister prevailed, my father would replace a piece of me with machinery, claiming he wanted me to be her equal. But she won again and again, and again, never once refraining. So after I murder my sister, I will buy a warship with every conceivable instrument of death. I will hunt my father like a dog, and I will tear him apart slowly piece by piece, until he knows some semblance of the profound and unceasing pain I knew every single day.
Kraglin: Yeah. I was talking about, like, a pretty necklace. Or a nice hat. You know. Something to make the other girls go "Ooh, that's nice."
Mantis and Drax form a bond.
Drax: How did you get to this weird dumb planet?
Mantis: Ego found me in my larva state. Orphaned on my home world. He raised me by hand, and kept me as his own.
Drax: So you're a pet.
Mantis: I suppose.
Drax: People usually want cute pets. Why would Ego want such a hideous one?
Mantis: I am hideous?
Drax: You are horrifying to look at. Yes. But that's a good thing.
Mantis: Oh?
Drax: When you're ugly, and someone loves you, you know they love you for who you are. Beautiful people never know who to trust.
Mantis: Well, then I'm certainly grateful to be ugly.
Drax: Those pools, they remind me of a time when I took my daughter to the forgotten lakes of my home world. She was like you.
Mantis: Disgusting?
Drax: Innocent.
Mantis touches Drax, she senses his sadness and breaks down. Mantis says tells Drax she needs to share something important, but Gamora interrupts things and Mantis keeps quiet, instead just taking the two to their rooms.
Drax: This gross bug lady is my new friend.
The Ravagers throw Rocket and Yondu in a cell while they take Groot for their own entertainment.
Yondu: I was a Kree battle slave for twenty years when Stakar freed me. He offered me a place with the Ravagers. Said all I needed to do was adhere to the code. But I was young and greedy, and stupid. Like you stealing those batteries.
Rocket: That was mostly Drax.
Yondu: Me and Stakar and the other captains, we weren't so different from you and your friends. The only family I ever had. But I broke the code, they exiled me. This is what I deserve.
Rocket informs Yondu that Peter has went off with his father, Ego.
Rocket: It's a day for dumbass names. You're smiling. And for a second, I got a warm feeling. But then it was ruined by those disgusting-ass teeth.
Yondu: You like a professional asshole or what?
Rocket: Pretty much a pro.
When Rocket asks about why Yondu kept Peter around, he insists it's because Peter was small enough to fit in spaces where the others couldn't. The two resolve to work together to break out of there. They get Groot to come by, and Yondu tells him to get a prototype fin for his head. Yondu becomes frustrated when Groot keeps returning with wrong items, one of them, Groot thinks is a hat.
Groot: I am Groot.
Rocket: [to Yondu] He hates hats.
Groot: I am Groot.
Rocket: On anyone, not just himself.
Groot: I am Groot.
Rocket: One minute you think someone has a weird-shaped head, the next minute it's just because you realize part of that head is the hat.
Rocket: [to Groot] That's why you don't like hats?
Retrieving yet another wrong item, Kraglin appears in Taserface's room and helps Groot collect the fin.
Kraglin: [to Yondu] I didn't mean to do a mutiny. They killed all my friends.
Yondu dons his fin and gets himself and Rocket out.
Yondu sends the arrow through every mutinous Ravager they come across, which Rocket and Groot get in on some Ravager ass-kicking themselves.
The three board an escape ship with Kraglin, but not before Yondu sets the whole ship to blow up. Taserface gets hit with flames, but he manages to notify Ayesha.
Sovereign Operator: Who is this?
Taserface: I am sending you the coordinates for Yondu's ship. I only ask one thing. That your High Priestess tell him the name of the man that sealed his fate. . . Taserface.
The Operator snickers and erupts into laughter; Taserface groans as the ship explodes.
Yondu and crew must go through hundreds of jumps to get to Ego's planet.
Yondu: It ain't healthy for a mammalian body to hop more than 50 jumps at a time.
Rocket: I know that.
Yondu: We're about to do 700!
Back on Ego's planet, Peter tries to woo Gamora with his dance moves, but it doesn't quite work as she cannot bring herself to express her own attraction to him.
Gamora: There's no unspoken thing.
After she leaves, Gamora sees Nebula coming down on her ship, shooting at her. Gamora ducks into a cavern. As Nebula crash-lands into the cavern, Gamora gathers one of the ship's heavy guns and destroys the ship. Gamora saves Nebula by pulling her from the wreckage just before it explodes. However, instead of showing gratitude, Nebula begins fighting Gamora and manages to overpower her.
Nebula: I win. I win. I bested you in combat.
Gamora: No. I saved your life.
Nebula: Well, you were stupid enough to let me live.
Gamora: You let me live!
Nebula: I don't need you always trying to beat me!
Gamora: I'm not the one that just flew across the universe just because I wanted to win.
Nebula: Do not tell me what I want.
Gamora: I don't need to tell you what you want! It's obvious!
Nebula: You were the one who wanted to win. And I just wanted a sister! . . . You were all I had. But you were the one who needed to win. Thanos pulled my eye from my head and my brain from my skull and my arm from my body because of you.
Gamora's success as a warrior led to their father Thanos mutilating Nebula, leading to her resentment of Gamora. The two then form a sort-of alliance as they come across a cavern filled with about a hundred skeletons.
Peter and Ego continue to bond.
Ego: [singing to Brandy] She works layin' whiskey down; She serves them whiskey and wine, what a good wife you would be.
Peter: Well, you may not be mortal, but me . . .
Ego: No, Peter, death will remain a stranger to both of us as long as the light burns within the planet.
Peter: I'm immortal?
Ego: Mmm-hmm.
Peter: Really?
Ego: Yes! As long as the light exists.
Peter: And, I could use the light to build cool things like, how you made this whole planet?
Ego: Well, it might take you a few million years of practice before you get really good at it. But, yes!
Peter: What! This is . . . Well, get ready for a 800-foot statue of Pac-Man with Skeletor and Heather Locklear.
Ego: You can do anything you want.
Peter: I'm gonna make some weird shit.
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