Later that night
"Doc, it was totally your fault!"
Under the great night sky that was filled with the thousands upon thousands of stars, the monsters sat in a small cave on the side of a large rocky, high part of ground in the middle of the forest near the hills. They had managed to find the place there to hide from the aliens earlier on that evening after narrowly escaping them, but losing Insectosaurus in the process, something that had not gone down well with them, especially with Link, and this was not helped by the fact that they had not been able to find him or that he had been able to find them.
At the moment now, Dr Cockroach and Link were arguing amongst themselves again with Susan and Bob watching innocently from the side of the cave. In the middle of the floor of the cave was a small fire that dimly lit up the cave, the light flickering off the walls and outside. Dr Cockroach and Link were both stood up, glaring dangerously at each other from either side of the cave.
"No it wasn't Link!" Dr Cockroach snapped back. "I don't know why you're trying to blame me when you were whispering about me behind my back about not doing anything right!"
"Well you weren't!"
"Guys, please, stop!" Susan begged getting up and standing between them. "We won't get anywhere by arguing!"
"Look, Susan, we can solve this ourselves," Link told her, shooting her a stern look.
"He is correct there, Susan," Dr Cockroach piped up, making her look at him with an open mouth in shock. "We can solve this ourselves, especially when he started this argument as he always does,"
It was then Link shot up from where he was sitting and walked threateningly over to Dr Cockroach, his hands clenched into fists, a look of fury etching across his face. Dr Cockroach just looked up at him, he too beginning to get angry.
"What was that, doc?" Link asked in a dangerous whisper, stopping in front of him, glaring down at the bug head scientist.
Dr Cockroach just sighed and stood up, his height just slightly shorter than Links', but that did not deter him.
"I said you started this and you're just looking for someone to blame," he repeated calmly, though the tone in his voice made sure Link knew who he was talking about. "Yet, you are completely disregarding the fact that you were the one who talking behind my back and made me angry and led us to being attacked."
"Maybe, but if you knew what you were doing, then we wouldn't be in this mess!" Link replied, his voice rising.
"And what am I supposed to do about this predicament, Link! Tell me! What am I to do?"
"You're the smart one, you should know the answer!"
"Oh yes!" Dr Cockroach turned and took a few paces towards the wall. "Leave it all to me! I'll solve our problems! Don't worry, I'll make sure we all get out of this alive!" he said loudly in a sarcastic manner. He turned back to face Link and the other two, who were staring wide-eyed at him and Link with worry, in fear that they could start fighting at any minute. "What do you expect us to do, Link? Go out and start hunting down these invaders one by one until we either win or get killed?"
"It's a lot better than runnin' from 'em!" Link retorted. "And we could be looking for Insectosaurus right now!"
Dr Cockroach smirked "To be honest with you, Link, it was you who had been wasting out rime earlier and you're the reason why Insectosaurus is now gone!"
Link's glare deepened and he stepped towards Dr Cockroach. Susan gave Bob a worried look and stepped forward towards Link. Dr Cockroach stood at full height and strode up to him, stopping in front of him, his eyes filled with what he thought was bravery and confidence, though within himself, he knew that he being idiotic in trying to act like a brave man this way, the very same thing applying to Link as well.
"Link, Dr Cockroach, please, don't fight," she begged them.
"Stay outta this, Susan!" they barked at her, making her jump and startling her, even causing her to jump back a few feet, before the two turned back to each other, their anger beginning to boil over.
"Don't you dare accuse me of making us lose Insectosaurus, doc!" Link growled, pointing his finger at him.
"Then do not accuse me of starting all this and not doing anything about it!" Dr Cockroach replied, his voice rising to the point of almost shouting. "Do you think that I have not tried to find a way to hit back at them? I have! And I can safely say that is something you seem to lack, Link, you insignificant fool!"
That must have snapped a nerve because Link suddenly Dr Cockroach and forced him up against the wall of the cave behind him and brought back a fist to punch him. Dr Cockroach did go wide-eyed but tried not to show his fear. Link halted his fist and was ready to swing it forward and easily hit the doctor, who, at this moment in time, no matter if he was friend or not, he wanted to hurt, painfully.
"Link stop!" Susan exclaimed, grabbing his arm. He and Dr Cockroach looked at her, those deep blue eyes held fear within them, not wanting them to fight. "Please, don't fight!" she begged them again, looking at the two of them.
For a moment, Link held his position, looking in anger and shock at her before turning his head back to Dr Cockroach, who glared at him and he returned it. Then, he let go of the doctor and forced his arm out of Susan's grip and stormed off out of the cave, quickly disappearing into the night.
"Hey, Link, where ya going?" Bob asked innocently, oozing up to the entrance of the cave after him.
"Away from here!" came Link's reply from outside. "And especially away from bug head!"
Susan looked back at Doctor Cockroach, who returned with a look of anger and that showed he was fed up with this.
"What?" he asked her.
"Why did you do that?" she asked him, unable to believe this was happening. Two of her friends were arguing! Sure, they had had a few squabbles in the past, but now…now they really wanted to hurt each other. This had not happened before! "Why did you say those thi-"
"Because I'm right, Susan!" he snapped at her and with that, he walked past her back over to a space of the wall next to the fire and crouched down against it, wrapping his arms around him as if trying to embrace himself. Susan sighed and walked over to the entrance of the cave to bring Bob back in and to look for Link.
Dr Cockroach stared angrily at the fire, watching the flames burning away madly over the wood. Just like how he felt at the moment about Link.
"Because I'm right," he muttered to himself again, though this time in a lower voice and he crouched into a ball and closed his eyes, letting sleep carry him into uncertainty.