"Some of them won't be fighting," Bunny snarked back. "Anybody here isn't prepared to push back, they should stand back now."

The truth was, there wasn't any shame in that. Not everyone in the world needed to be a warrior with the mettle to stare down the primordial evil of the cosmos.

The point of their world was to be safe for the people who weren't. And the point of the Guardians - at least, as the Guardians were before most of them were captured, before Manny chose these new ones - was to keep it that way.

Not everyone in the new group needed to be one, either, since clearly, not all of them were. They certainly weren't going to ask Howard to step on any kind of battlefield, at least.

"I don't deal in false hope, Jack. We HAVE a way to stop this, and that way is to put Kuk back where he came from."

But if they could have already done that - if SOMEONE out there could have already done it - then the world wouldn't already be short as many heroes as it was. He wouldn't already be missing so many friends.

Jack had a little more patience for people who didn't understand that, so Bunny stood back, crossing his arms, to let the Frost Spirit speak.