Somehow,
someway, the Guardians always wind up escaping certain death at the last
moment. This time, after Ripjak has
blown up his base, after detailing his origin to the Guardians first, of
course, it is revealed that Vance teleported the Guardians back to their ship
just before the explosion, because of course he did. Once back on Icarus, Vance and Talon have yet
another fight, before everything starts acting normal. Yondu and Yellowjacket take Aleta to the
infirmary to recover from her attack by Ripjak, while Martinex calls Vance on
some sort of holographic video phone. He
chides Vance for breaking the quarantine around Mars, as well as questioning
him about Charlie’s frame-job from a few issues ago. Instead of having a conversation like a
normal person though, Vance blows up at Martinex, one of his oldest friends and
partners, and then tells him to not look into the goings-on. It’s a level of trust that probably should be
expected at this point in their partnership, but Vance could have very easily
said that “Charlie was framed and we’re going after the real villain”. Bam.
Done. That was not difficult and
it took less time than his little speech did.
I don’t know why Gallagher wants us to hate Vance, but it’s
working. 
We then
get a quick update from the prison warden who basically blames the Guardians
for everything (even though he promised not to), and this makes Charlie mad,
then sad because it reminds him how rough he had it for all of a couple days
I’m assuming. Nikki then cheers him up
and it’s romance rekindled!
Wait,
wait, wait. It’s time for another Talon
and Vance fight.
Okay,
now that that is out of the way we cut to Ripjak in his ship. It turns out that his motivation for
destroying these worlds has more to do with ending their suffering than
actually killing them. He is an
interstellar Jack Kevorkian basically.
Back on
the Guardians’ ship, Yondu is trying to heal ALeta by doing some sort of
spiritual cleansing thing…and it works.
Yondu is consistently the only member of the team that has any real
worth.
The
Guardians show up at the planet that Ripjak has managed to make his way to. Of course, a fight ensues, where Ripjak
attacks the Guardians and surprise, surprise, he’s winning. While he is kicking everyone else’s ass
though, Yellowjacket shrinks down and blindsides him, knocking him down. When he gets up though he shows the Guardians
the error of their ways as the denizens of the planet they are on continue to
die from a plague, writhing in pain and fear.
Next
Issue: The Guardians made the wrong decision…go figure. Now we get to see them deal with their
foolishness, and I would be willing to put money on another Talon-Vance fight.
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