Peepers’ POV: I had somehow managed to get my helmet bolt stuck in the ceiling. I pried it free, and landed on the ground. “Sir, I really must insist we go and deal with this foe when we're better prepared.” “Maybe you're right.” Sighed Hater. Did he really just… agree with me? What is this, an alternate dimension? Is the multiverse theory true? Either way, I was taken aback by this response. “What?! Wait, what? I mean, good. Yes. Now we just have to break out of here quietly and carefully.” I took out my blaster and attempted to blast a hole in the wall as quietly as possible, but it made an incredibly loud sound. “Oh! I'll settle for loudly and quickly! Come on, sir, let's get outta here so you can focus on being the greatest in the galaxy again.” “Twenty-ninth greatest.” Said Hater. “What?” Was he serious? “If I'm gonna be the greatest in the galaxy again, I'm gonna start with whoever this loser is. Hey, robo-dork! Let's rumba!” Hater shouted. “Sir, what are you doing?” I asked. “I can't run if I want to be number one.” He responded, clearly setting his mind on it. And Hater’s about as stubborn as it gets, so there was now no chance of me managing to get him out of here before he defeated that new villain once and for all. Y/N’s POV: Wander was stuck to the wall, trapped in lava. This was not good, not good at all. Sylvia was very upset about this, but I was just hiding. I was absolutely TERRIFIED of this new villain. “Wander? Wander! WANDER!!” Called Sylvia. Wander woke up. I knew he wasn’t dead! “Oh, Wander, thank Grop. Let him go... you molten menace!” Sylvia shouted, repeatedly trying and failing to break out of her molten confinements. “He was only... trying to be your ...friend! Folks call me Sylvia... and I'm... not so nice!” Sylvia made it to the top. “Ladies?” Sylvia said, referring to her fists. She broke out of her confinements, and went in for the kill. “Welcome to the galaxy!” Before she could do anything, the lava trapped her in a solid ball from the neck down. She fell back down to the bottom of the stairs. “Ah. No!” Both of my friends were trapped. I took out my bag once more, attempting to contact Tabitha. “Tabitha, please… Wander and Sylvia are trapped, and this new villain’s trying to take over the galaxy! Please… please help me…” I began to sob. One of my tears fell into Tabitha (I know, weird), and something happened. She glowed faintly, and I could barely hear her. “Y/N… don’t… Lord Dominator… o weaknesses… ou can’t… stop…” The villain… he was unbeatable. But that didn’t mean I wasn’t gonna try. I grabbed my baseball bat, wiped the tears out of my eyes, and charged right at Lord Dominator. Peepers’ POV: Hater had gotten us captured by a gigantic bot. Faaantastic. The bot dropped us in the same room as a very tall villain in terrifying looking armor. Wander, Sylvia, and Y/N had already been captured. “Finally! My brilliant getting-captured plan has led us right to this two-bit terror. Time to take this sucker down!” Hater said. “Invaders apprehended, Lord Dominator.” Said the bot. It sounded like an early text-to-speech engine. Blocky and annoying, with only one tone of voice. I could make a robot sound better than that. “Lord Dominator? DAAAH! THAT TOTALLY RHYMES WITH HATER!” Yelled Hater. Lord Dominator turned around, to reveal that his armor was also skeleton themed. “WHAAAT?! HE TOTALLY LOOKS LIKE...!” Hater shouted, angrily. That’s when Hater finally noticed Wander. “Hey… friend…” Wander said, strained, before he passed out, stuck to the wall. “AAAAGH! He's... destroy my enemy... hate... jerk! What I wanted to do! GAAAAAGGHH!! SO COOL! MUST DESTROY!!!” Hater was so angry he could barely form basic sentences. Hater broke free of the bot’s grasp, picked it up, and threw it on top of Lord Dominator. “Wander's my enemy.” Hater dramatically said, his green lightning surrounding him. Sometimes I forgot how amazing he could be… I found my thoughts wandering a bit. No! No! Not now! Not ever! Especially not when I’m in imminent danger! Gah! “Enemy? C'mon, Hater, you know an enemy is just a friend you haven't made yet.” Smiled Wander. “What? Ew! Shut up!” Said Hater, zapping Wander and releasing him from the lava. Hater had gone back to normal.
Sylvia then broke free of her dried lava exterior. “Wander! Oh, are you okay, buddy?” She asked. “Impressive, sir. Sorry for doubting you. After defeating this guy, you most certainly are the greatest in the galaxy.” I said. “Accept no imitations!” Growled Hater. Suddenly, the bot’s exterior began to crack. Lord Dominator emerged, completely unharmed. He shot lava at Hater, pinning him to the wall where Wander had been only moments before. Uh oh. That certainly wasn’t good. “Okay! Time out. Fine! You can be the greatest in the galaxy! Okay! Mercy, please!” Said Hater. “Hey, watch the lava 'round the guava!” Said Wander, carefully picking up fruit and rearranging a fruit basket. Where did he get that..? I stood up on the controls and looked through a window, seeing a factory of bots being made. l “Oh, yes, you'll most definitely conquer the entire galaxy with those. But you can't run if you wanna be number one!” I said, proceeding to stomp on the controls and destroy them with my helmet bolt. The factory went absolutely haywire and sprayed lava EVERYWHERE. “Ha ha! Yes! Let this be a reminder that if you march in to my galaxy, you're gonna have to deal with me!” I said. I hoped I had looked impressive, but then again, there wasn’t really anyone to impress. Lord Dominator saw this, and grabbed me. He threw me at Hater, who was still on the wall, and looked very hurt. Can you die twice? I certainly wouldn’t want Hater to. Y/N’s POV: I struggled to get out of my lava confinements, but Sylvia managed to break me out. I noticed Wander walking up to Lord Dominator. “Hey! Wander! What are you doing???” I exclaimed. He ignored me. “I have had enough! I will have you know I gave you a gift, I complemented your ship, I even played you a song!” He shouted at Lord Dominator. This was the first time I’d seen him angry. I didn’t think that was even possible, but here we are. “All in the name of friendship. And you can't even be neighborly and make some small talk like, "Wow, thanks for the fruit basket, Wander. Wander. Isn't that an interesting name?" And I'd be like, "Well, I guess. Funny story, that's not really my--" But, but that's not important! What is important is I told you that an enemy is just a friend you haven't made yet. But after your rude and inconsiderate behavior today,” Wander hesitated. “I'm not sure I want to be your friend! And I must admit... though it hurts to say it... I have to tell you... that I don't think that you deserve...” Sylvia snatched him away from Dominator just in the nick of time, right before the lava burst through the windows. She had also grabbed me prior to this, and I had grabbed my bag. “A fruit basket!” Wander finished. Sylvia also grabbed Hater and Peepers off the wall, and rode the lava wave on a piece of dried lava. “This is for my real friends. Tangelo?” Wander offered me a weird looking fruit, and I took it. We continued to ride the lava wave until we fell out of the ship. “Who...” Wander started. “...was...” Peepers continued. “...that...” Sylvia added. “…terrifying…” I added in, wanting to feel included. “...guy?!” Hater finished. We did this in a way that sounded a lot more cool. Dominator’s POV: I burst out of the lava, still covered in my armor. Damn, that suit was handy! “That... was...” I got out of my armor. “AMAZING!!” I exclaimed. “Ha ha ha! They were all like,” I changed the lava fingers on my glove to the five idiots who invaded my ship. “‘WHAAAT?! Who is this guy?’ Ha! Then I was like, serious, then I was all,” I changed a finger on my other hand to form a little me. “RAAAAHHH!” I turned my fingers back to normal. “And then the lava was whoooosh! And they were all "AAAAH! NOOO! WHYYYYY!" Ha ha ha ha! What a bunch of dorks!” I changed back into my armor. “This is going to be... fun.” I maniacally laughed.
