"All right, all right. Clearly y'all ain't gonna let this go."

"I'm fine with plan 'shoot that fucker out of the air.' It'll look great on my portfolio."

"If it was that easy, someone would have done it already."

"Nobody else was us."

"We've got some powerful people on our side - and the Power Stone, if we can figure out how to use it safely."

"'If'. It practically melted the last person to try."

"...Admittedly a pretty big if. And it's not safe to experiment with."

"So what are our advantages?"

"Ronan doesn't use magic. And he doesn't have anyone who does."

"Also... He's mostly drawn disaffected young men to his cause. Few of them are actually trained soldiers, despite his best efforts to get them to a decent shape. Ronan is the only serious threat to all of us on an individual level - his lieutenant is somewhat better than me in combat, but that puts him behind everyone else on our team."

"We're a smaller team, too. Small enough to hide with Loki's magic."

"So infiltration and assassination."

Loki nods. "I can hold my own in an open battle or a war - but my skills are at their best use in that sort of work."

"We've got a few tricks for that ourselves."

She glances at the others.

"I'm better at it than combat."

"Any time I get to hit a guy without him hitting back is okay in my book."

"Most of my jobs are ambushes, so."

"Easy."

"So long as we're careful."

"I am always careful."

She glances at the rest of their crew. 

"Fiiine, I'll be 'careful.'" She makes actual finger quotes (toe bean quotes?) on 'careful.' (It's difficult to tell if she's joking.)

"I can be at least as careful as Rocket."

"So we're definitely good!"

"...I should be able to hide anyone who isn't actively stabbing someone else."

"That will be helpful."