[at Nova Headquarters, Xandar's Armed Forces, Nova Prime is on call to the Kree Amba**ador]
NOVA PRIME: Ronan is destroying Xandarian outposts throughout the galaxy. I should think that would call for some slight response on the part of the Kree.
KREE AMBASSADOR: We signed your peace treaty, Nova Prime. What more do you want?
NOVA PRIME: At least a statement from the Kree Empire saying that they condemn his actions. He is slaughtering children, families.
KREE AMBASSADOR: That is your business. Now, I have other matters to attend to. [he ends the call]
NOVA PRIME: Prick.
DENARIAN SAAL: Well, some good news. Looks like we've apprehended one of Ronan's compatriots.
[after all four have been captured and taken to Nova Headquarters, Dey presents each of them to Saal]
CORPSMAN DEY: Gamora. Surgically modified and trained as a living weapon. The adopted daughter of the Mad Titan, Thanos. Recently, Thanos lent her and her sister Nebula out to Ronan, which leads us to believe that Thanos and Ronan are working together. [next it's Rocket] Subject 89P13. Calls itself "Rocket". The result of illegal genetic and cybernetic experiments on a lower life form.
DENARIAN SAAL: [sees Groot move] What the hell?
CORPSMAN DEY: They call it Groot. A humanoid plant that's been traveling recently as 89P13's personal house plant slash muscle. [next up is Peter] Peter Jason Quill, from Terra. Raised from youth by a band of mercenaries called the Ravagers, led by Yondu Udonta. [Quill winds up his middle finger and flips the bird at them]
PETER QUILL: I'm sorry. I didn't know how this machine worked.
DENARIAN SAAL:
CORPSMAN DEY: Transport all four to the Kyln.
[The four of them are taken to The Kyln, High Security Prison]
ROCKET: I guess most of Nova Corps wanna uphold the laws, but these ones here, they're corrupt and cruel. But, hey, that's not my problem. I ain't gonna be here long. I've escaped twenty-two prisons, this one's no different. You're lucky the broad showed up, because otherwise, me and Groot would be collecting that bounty right now, and you'd be getting drawn and quartered by Yondu and those Ravagers.
PETER QUILL: I've had a lot of folks try to k** me over the years. I ain't about to be brought down by a tree and a talking raccoon.
PRISON GUARD: Hold.
ROCKET: What's a raccoon?
PETER QUILL: "What's a raccoon?" It's what you are, stupid.
ROCKET: Ain't no thing like me, except me. [as they are being led to their cell]
PETER QUILL: So, this orb has a real shiny blue suitcase, Ark of the Covenant, Maltese Falcon sort of vibe. What is it?
GROOT: I am Groot.
PETER QUILL: So what? What's the orb?
GAMORA: I have no words for an honorless thief.
ROCKET: Pretty high and mighty coming from the lackey of a genocidal maniac. [Gamora looks at Rocket] Yeah, I know who you are. Anyone who's anyone knows who you are.
PETER QUILL: Yeah, we know who you are. [to Groot] Who is she?
GROOT: I am Groot.
PETER QUILL: Yeah, you said that.
GAMORA: I wasn't retrieving the orb for Ronan, I was betraying him. I had an agreement to sell it to a third party.
GROOT: I am Groot.
PETER QUILL: Well, that's just as fascinating as the first eighty-nine times you told me that. What is wrong with Giving Tree, here?
ROCKET: Well, he don't know talking good like me and you. So his vocabulistics is limited to "l" and "am" and "Groot." Exclusively in that order.
PETER QUILL: Well I tell you what, that's gonna wear real thin, real fast. If I... [suddenly Peter notices one of the prison guards playing with his Walkman] Hey. Put that away. [the guard places the headphones on his head] You son of a... Hey! Listen to me, you big blue ba*tard. Take those headphones off. That's mine, those belong to impound. That tape and that player is mine!
[Suddenly the prison guard pokes Peter with his stun-rod and zaps him with electric shock; referring to the song playing on his Walkman] Hooked on a Feeling, Blue Swede, 1973. That song belongs to me! [the prison guard pokes Peter again with his stun-rod giving Peter and zaps him hard with electric shock]
[As "Hooked on a Feeling" plays, the four of them are then cleansed and dressed in prison gear before being taken through to the prison where the inmates start threatening and throwing stuff at Gamora]
PRISONER #1: You first! You first!
PRISONER #2: Murderer!
PRISONER #1: Coming for you first, Gamora!
PRISONER #3: You're dead!
PRISONER #4: You're scum! You're scum!
ROCKET: It's like I said, she's got a rep. A lot of prisoners here have lost their families to Ronan and his goons. She'll last a day, tops.
PRISONER #5: Murderer!
PETER QUILL: The guards will protect her, right?
ROCKET: They're here to stop us from getting out. They don't care what we do to each other inside.
GAMORA: Whatever nightmares the future holds, are dreams compared to what's behind me. [Peter turns to see a blue monstrous inmate]
MONSTROUS INMATE: Check out the new meat. I'm gonna slather you up in Gunavian jelly, and go to town... [suddenly Groot uses his trunk to insert into the inmate's nostrils; to the other inmates]
ROCKET: Let's make something clear. This one here is our booty! You wanna get to him, you go through us! Or, more accurately, we go through you. [Groot drops the monstrous inmate to the ground and walks off with Rocket following him]
PETER QUILL: I'm with them. [the other inmates continue to hurl abuse at Gamora as she walks towards their cell]
PRISONER : [Looks at Gamora] No cell's gonna protect you for long.
PRISONER: You're dead! Dead!