HYDRA never meant to lose their greatest experiment. They only meant to sell her. During a transfer involving stolen alien technology, everything goes catastrophically wrong. A prototype jump device tears open a rift, sending a battered sixteen-year-old test subject hurtling halfway across the galaxy—straight into the path of the Guardians of the Galaxy. Rocket wants absolutely nothing to do with the terrified Earth kid who keeps hiding tools in her pockets, sleeps with one eye open, and insists she’s “fine” after years of laboratories, restraints, and experiments. Unfortunately for him, she’s just as stubborn as he is—and he recognizes far too much of himself in her.