The foray of lasers flood the area with a barrage of lasers, destroying the entire Sovereign fleet and nearly hitting Drax. Yondu's ship crashes near Peter and explodes. Gamora watches the explosion from below as she cries out for Peter. Nebula lands on the ground unharmed, appearing to be the only survivor. But then both Peter and Yondu float down safe and sound.
Peter looks at Yondu hanging on to his arrow floating down.
Peter: You look like Mary Poppins.
Yondu: Is he cool?
Peter: Hell yeah, he's cool.
Yondu: I'm Mary Poppins, y'all!
Rocket flies down a moment later to join the group. Mantis gets knocked out by a fireball, breaking her hold on Ego and reawakening him.
Drax: Mantis, look out!
Yondu orders Kraglin to bring down their main ship for extraction, who had been orbiting nearby. Peter uses his aero-rig to send Drax and Mantis to the extraction point. The ground below them crumbles, causing Nebula and Gamora to fall into the cavern's abyss. Catching a rock ledge, Nebula manages to save Gamora from falling further.
Nebula: Get over it!
Peter, Rocket, and Yondu fight off the celestial powers of Ego as the angry god hurls boulders and energy beams at them.
Ego: Soon, Peter, we will be all there is. So stop pissing me off!
To get to the extraction point, Nebula and Gamora leap onto a rising pillar of rock. With the unconscious Mantis in his arms, Drax is about to board the ship when Ego uses his celestial powers to attack the ship. The falling ship is about to crush Drax and Mantis, but Kraglin manages to ignite the ship's rockets to keep it from crushing them.
As Ego appears before Peter, forming into a human shape, he entraps all of the Guardians by either burying them or using energy tenacles to restrain them. Once again, Ego impales Peter with an energy beam, allowing his wave of destruction to resume. We see multiple worlds in the midst of massive destruction. All appears to be lost when the entrapped Yondu calls out to Peter.
Yondu: I don't use my head to fly the arrow, boy! I use my heart.
Recalling fond memories of his family, Yondu, and crew, Peter musters his celestial powers to fight back.
Peter: You shouldn't have killed my mom and squished my Walkman.
Peter pulverizes Ego which releases the Guardians from his hold on them and the destruction on other worlds comes to a halt. Now freed, Groot finds Ego's brain in the planet's core, and he sets the bomb to go off in five minutes.
Drax carries Mantis to the ship while Gamora and Nebula make it back. Yondu chooses to remain behind to help Peter. Rocket gives his last spacesuit and aero-rig to Yondu, knowing he cannot save both him and Peter.
Groot: I am Groot.
Yondu: What's that?
Rocket: He says, "Welcome to the frickin' Guardians of the Galaxy." Only he didn't use "frickin'."
Gamora tries to go back, but Rocket stuns her with a blast from his gun, knocking her unconscious.
Rocket: [knocks out Gamora] I'm Sorry. I can only afford to lose one friend today.
Ego pleads with Peter to stop the bomb.
Ego: Listen to me! You are a god. If you kill me, you'll be just like everybody else!
Peter: What's so wrong with that?
Ego: No!
Peter lets the bomb go off. Ego's human form disintegrates as the rest of the planet starts to explode. Yondu flies by and grabs Peter. As they leave the planet's atmosphere, Yondu puts the suit on Peter to save him.
Yondu: He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn't your daddy. I'm sorry I didn't do none of it right, but I'm damn proud you're my boy.
Yondu then starts to freeze up in space, and Peter sadly watches him die.
The Guardians prepare to give Yondu a proper Ravager funeral.
Peter: 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 an 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. [tearing up] I had a pretty cool dad. What I'm trying to say here is, sometimes that thing you're searching for your whole life is right there by your side all along. And you don't even know it.
Gamora notices Nebula leaving and follows her.
Gamora: Nebula. I was a child like you. I was concerned with staying alive until the next day, every day. And I never considered what Thanos was doing to you. I'm trying to make it right. There are little girls like you across the universe who are in danger. You can stay with us and help them.
Nebula: I will help them by killing Thanos.
Gamora: [hugging Nebula] You will always be my sister.
Kraglin gives Peter a music device to make up for his lost Walkman, which Yondu had been meaning to give him for a while.
Peter: What is it?
Kraglin: It's called a Zune. It's what everybody's listening to on Earth nowadays.
In return, Peter gives Kraglin Yondu's arrow, feeling that Yondu would have wanted him to take it.
Mantis decides to stay with the Guardians. As Yondu's body goes out into space, the Guardians see dozens of other Ravager ships arriving to pay their respects to Yondu.
Martinex: [to Stakar] He didn't let us down after all, Captain?
Stakar: No, he did not, son. He did not.
Charlie-27: Fare thee well, old friend.
Aleta: Yondu Odonta, I will see you in the stars.
A vast display of fireworks in honor of Yondu fills the darkness of space.
Mantis: It's beautiful.
Drax: It is. And so are you. On the inside.
Kraglin tries to practice using the arrow. He doesn't quite get the hang of it, and he ends up sticking Drax with it.
Stakar honors Yondu's sacrifice by forming his own team with Martinex T'Naga (Michael Rosenbaum), Charlie-27 (Ving Rhames), Starhawk (Michelle Yeoh), and Mainframe (Miley Cyrus).
Stakar: You know, it's a shame that it took the tragedy of losing Yondu to bring us all together again. But I think he'd be proud knowing that we're back as a team.
Charlie-27: I'm in.
Martinex: Dope.
Mainframe: I miss you guys so much!
Aleta: Hell yes.
Stakar: What say we steal some shit?
Ayesha and another Sovereign discuss their new plan to take down the Guardians. We see Ayesha sitting by a birthing pod, waiting to break out whatever is inside to use against the Guardians.
Ayesha: That, my child, is the next step in our evolution. More powerful, more beautiful, more capable of destroying the Guardians of the Galaxy. I think I shall call him Adam.
Groot is now a teenager. Peter scolds him for leaving his roots lying around, but Groot just mocks him and plays video games.
Peter: And now I know how Yondu felt.
The elderly Stan Lee, in his obligatory cameo, is sitting with the Watchers, discussing his previous adventures, but they become bored and leave him.
Watcher Informant: Hey, fellas. Hey, wait, where you going? Hey, you were supposed to be my lift home. How will I get outta here? Hey! Aw, gee. I've got so many more stories to tell. Aw, guys. Oh, gee.
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