"We are currently in prison."

"How'd you end up here, speaking of?"

"An amusing series of misunderstandings!"

"It was not very funny at the time."

"It was a little bit funny."

She tries very hard not to laugh. 

Still... "I did end up here on purpose - this was the best way to give me some breathing room and get ahead of Ronan. And... Of the ones I got arrested with - the human girl, Ash, has a strange orb that Thanos was willing to bankroll Ronan to get. She's tough to steal from, and only willing to part with it for a higher bid than Tivan's - it was easier to get us both thrown in here, and therefore both out of Ronan's reach for a time. And the Nova store prisoners' belongings in the same facility as those prisoners."

"A curious security flaw."

"Exploitable."

"Very much so."

"Let's go get started, then."

Over to where Ash and the cat gang have holed up, then. 

Don't these people know it's the middle of the damn night?

"Sorry, but I need to get out of here before Ronan comes looking. And you're the one with the ship and the escape experts - and we're the ones with the key to that little muzzle."

"What, really? Hey, Rocket, wake up."

She looks... almost familiar, somehow.

Kind of, if you squint...

9S sends out a quick ping, just in case. Nope, still only two black box signals. "Not her," she whispers to 2B.

"You're sure? But..."

"I know. But this is someone else."

She raises a faint eyebrow at them. 

- But Rocket wakes up, preventing any tangents. "Ash?" she mumbles. "Whazzup?"

Chewie shifts a bit but goes back to sleep with a tiny 'mrr.'

"Thief Girl's back. Says she found a key to Chewie's muzzle. Probably her new friends."

"What - really - " 

She bounces to her feet. "Chewie! Time to look lively!"

Grumble grumble mrr.

They turn over enough that 9S can access the important parts of the muzzle for hacking.