Present time.
"Stop! Don't hurt him!" Roleswitch Wander cried with fury.
Deena still held the weapon in hand over Wanders unconscious body. Deena didn't respond to the other ones plea.
RS Wander wasn't going to just sit there and let him be killed, he charged to defend him.
Deena finally did look at him, in a flash, she pulled out her tranquilizer gun and shot him in the chest. RS Wander fell to his side and shook violently. Nate helplessly watched him convulse in pain and ran to his side.
"Deena!" Nate glared at her" Why!? what did you do to him?"
Tears fell on Deena's face, as she put away the thing that brought down his guardian. She rubbed her nose and sniffed;
"He'll live..I just gave him a light dose toxin that ceases function the muscles. Temporary paralysis."
Wander strained his neck despite how stiff his body was,
"Please, don't do this.. you'll regret it." He croaked.
"I'll deal with you later." She made a disgruntled face at him.
Nate was still infuriated she did it, now all he could do was watch him grunt and moan. Sylvia and Dominator sat still the entire time. Watching.
"Let me explain to all of you why I'm doing this-" Deena began,
-"I understand perfectly why:" Nate interrupted, and stood fully up,frowning.
"You want to get rid of him because you see him as something to be wasted: a monster."
Deena stopped hovering the gun over Wander and for the first time; she becomes angry.
"You think I want to do this? This was never supposed to happen. I wanted to help not just him, but Sylvia."
She turned her neck at her, Sylvia only stared back blankly.
Flustered she shook her head.
"I can't explain everything now-"
"Oh, so you lied to me? You said a minute ago you would. Just like how you lie about everything."
Deena furrowed her brows at Nate, along with shock written all over.
"What do you know about me? And this job I have on my shoulders? And what it takes to protect this galaxy?"
Nate wanted to continue,
"He's right."
All heads looked at Sylvia. She stood up with a nonchalant face at Deena.
"I had this feeling since the nightclub. You faked crying, didn't you?" Sylvia grit her teeth.
Instead of being accused, Deena squeezed her eyes,
"No. That was real. You humiliated me in front of hundreds of people."
"And I'm sorry for that. You have no idea how still devastated I was when I realized what I was doing then." Sylvia sounded apologetic and apathetic at the same time.
"Ugh, enough, I don't have the time to deal with this." Deena shrugged with her paws.
"If...if Wander hadn't gone and turned into that Furnicle, it'd be a whole different story. I was going to take him somewhere safe and recruit him in our corporation-"
"Hold it right there."
This time RS Wander, (still unable to move) narrowed his eyes at the agent, and glared at her.
"Wouldn't that mean...you were going to kill me, too?"
"What? No, I-"
"You were, weren't you?" Nate accused.
"Ugh, I haven't gotten that far yet to figure it out!" Deena defended, "I'm just trying to do my job... so no one gets hurt."
"I understand that, and I can see you're not lying about it." Nate stepped closer, "But I smell a true liar when I see one."
"What should I do, then? Let this Furni-...I mean, Wander continue to live and go on a rampage and destroy everything he loves? I'm doing him a favor, too."
"No, you're not."
This time Sylvia spoke out. All eyes turned to her;
"You'd be taking him away from us, and the only thing that stands between the galaxy being turned upside down, and Dominator."
Sylvia glanced at Dominator, as she did, Dominator shut her eyes and turned away, pretending she wasn't there.
"As for me? I wouldn't care, and I see what your point is, he's a monster, yeah totally. But I don't want the rest of the worlds and galaxy be turned into bigger monsters, so don't kill him."
"Sylvia." Wander hissed, she looked at him.
He glared at her, and had enough to bang his fist on the floor.
"You said in your eyes, Wander is a monster. How dare you. That's not something you'd say."
"Well, news flash. I said it, happy ending." Sylvia said flatly.
"Then what am I to you? an expendable? or just as much as a monster?" RS Wander's eyes brimmed with betrayal.
"I don't know. You choose." Sylvia rolled her eyes at him.
The weapon Deena held activated again.
"I'm sorry." She said sadly.
She was going to do it, end Wander's life right here and now.
"NO!" the other two shouted.
But a stream of lava knocked the gun out of her hand, narrowly missing Deena's paw. The gun smacked against the floor and cracked.
Dominator had stopped her from pulling the trigger. She was annoyed, and tired.
"Everyone..." She stood up and took in a breath,
"GET OUT! Dominator screamed at all of them, her own eyes flared fury.
"I'VE HAD ENOUGH, JUST GO BEFORE I DESTROY ALL OF YOU."
Everyone did as she was told, Deena picked up Wander and carried him in her arms, Nate tossed RS Wander over his shoulder and all of them ran before she could change her mind and do something worse than order them around.
"What about you, horse-face?" Dominator spat.
"I should ask you the same thing." Sylvia narrowed her eyes at her, and finally stood up as well.
"What do you mean?"
"You saved the Furnicle from Deena, and you let them go. You could've just done us all in then."
"Tch, don't waste your breath."
Dominator walked away, some chunks of her armor fell off, but she didn't care right now, she was just happy to have her space not occupied.
"I only saved the little drip because I didn't want his corpse all over everything, and wouldn't have to clean it up later."
"Make sense." Sylvia nodded.
"You're weirding me out." Dominator said suddenly as if it were a fact.
"Meaning?"
"What's up with calling your buddy a monster? That's not like you at all. Although the friendship thing makes me gag."
"Well, he did try to kill you, and he tried to kill me not too long ago, see,"
Sylvia pressed down her pink comb to reveal the old bite marks Wander had given her the other day. Dominator made a quick look and shrugged.
"Now I think I get where you're coming from. But the real question is..."
Dominator's gloves turned to lava and she wrapped her hands around Sylvia. Now a little panicked she stared at the eyes of her enemy.
"How will you stop me, now that he's free, and you're just one puny Zbornak? I don't care what beef you have with him, but if you intend to fight me someday, I suggest you get your act together and team up with someone else; or put aside that he has something he can't help with and work around it!"
Sylvia was low-key shocked. Was this the real all mighty Dominator, the one who would destroy without mercy her, and the galaxy surrounding them, was lecturing her?
"Wait...let me get this straight," Sylvia tilted her head, intrigued, "Do you actually care about Wander?"
Dominator formed a disgusted glare and tossed her against the wall.
"Please, don't get the wrong idea. I'm only giving you my good one piece of advice."
"That is..?"
"If you don't want to end up dead by your friend or finished off by me; either way you'll have to chose which one is less evil or be swallowed by both."
Despite how helpful she was being, Sylvia only knew one way out this mess once and for all.
"I'm leaving."
"What?" Dominator turned quickly, not expecting that sort of answer.
"Leaving the ship that is." Sylvia cleared for her.
"And I'll be here, waiting for your next move, horse-face." Dominator challenged.
Sylvia followed the cave-like entrance that lead to where everyone left to. Gone out of sight.
Her strength had been used up and she fell on her legs. The pain from the bite-wound was really getting to her.
"Man, that stunk blorp-berries." She muttered.
Now her ship was a wreck, she was injured, and on top of that, she had no energy to fight back. This was her most vulnerable state as of yet.
"I'll need time to prepare for a defense. On top of that, some of my probes are damaged, what do I do?"
She did what she could for now, and treated her wound. For the next 20 minutes she disinfected, stitched, and wrapped her arm up.
"There's no way I can get to work like this, I'll need to rest up first."
"Could I help?"
An unfamiliar voice bounced in the room, making her flinch.
"WHO'S THERE?" She demanded.
"Just me."
Out of the same corridor where everyone came in and left, a small figure revealed himself.
"Who the grop are you?!" Dominator stanced.
"Easy, easy, I know what happened here and I want to help you get caught up."
A small orange nomad in a tattered black overcoat expressed worry, he held up his hands calmly.
"Well, whatever. I don't need help. I don't work with teammates or whatever cutie club you're in. I work alone. Now get out before I'm forced to open my stitches.
"Please, Miss...I can help you get revenge against Wander."
Now that caught her attention. Revenge was after all her specialty, though she rarely had people to exact revenge on.
She turned with one brow up, wanting to hear him out.
"I'm listening."
The small man smirked happily.
"The name is Mono...I can help you repair your ship."
