The non response did nothing to calm the angry little creature.
Groot just shouted wordlessly again, punching and kicking furiously, harmlessly. He'd just escaped being a prisoner once already today; he'd do it again. He wasn't just going to put up with being taken away from his people. He just wanted to be, not home because he didn't really have a home except for the ship, but with his friends, who were his family. Bad enough most of them had left him and Rocket behind.