Who: Nebula and Gamora What: Finding Nebula! When: Day 1 of plot: 7/16 Where: Nebula's ship Rating: Probably not high. There's a scared kid and her older sister trying to keep her calm Status: In progress
Nebula was having a terrible day. She'd woken in a strange ship, her family missing, and things had only gone worse from there. Nebula didn't know where she was; Knowhere was as foreign a concept to her as the aliens with pink skin who had spent the day messaging her. They seemed nice enough, but a boy had mentioned kidnapping and it'd made Nebula afraid that someone could hurt her. Had she somehow been stolen from her family in the middle of the night? She couldn't remember how she'd gotten to this place and she didn't know how to reach out to her family from this place. So after some messages from strangers and an increasing sense of fear, Nebula had done the only thing that had made sense to her.
She'd peeked outside the ship to see an unfamiliar sky and unfamiliar terrain. Nothing outside of the ship seemed friendly or safe. Nothing reminded her of home. So Nebula looked around the ship she'd woken in and found a few rations and some weapons. Crying quietly because she didn't know what to do, she'd taken her electronic device, food, and a sharp knife with her into a crawl space in the ship's cockpit. She drew her legs up and curled up against a panel and let herself have a cry over the fact that she was lost and no one looked like her, all the while trying to think a way back to her family.
Eventually, because there was little else to do, Nebula dozed off for a bit, only coming to as she heard a door open. Tears welling in her eyes, Nebula scrambled for the knife and held it tight in her hands. She was convinced that whoever was coming for her would hurt her and had decided that she wasn't going to let them without a fight. She waited, arms trembling, her breathing ragged from fear.