Wander, Sylvia, Beep Boop, and Whirry were making their way across the galaxy. Wander was strumming his banjo, Sylvia's stride adhering to the rhythm of the music, Beep Boop and Whirry were putting on a little light show in harmony with Wander's tunes.
"Visit Cornucopia for the best fruits and veggies this side of the galaxy" Sylvia reads from a large interplanetary billboard. "Also drink 'Thunder Blazz Smoothies', crafted right on Cornucopia!" another billboard read. "Hey, it's one of those agricultural planets that helps feed the galaxy. You guys wanna go check it out?"
"Ooh, sounds like fun! Beep Boop. Whirry. Wanna go?" Wander asks.
"Seems like fun" Beep Boop and Whirry answer perfectly synchronized.
"Maybe we'll find Dombot remnants there too?" Wander tempts.
"Most excellent" Beep Boop acclaims.
"Lead the way, Syl" Wander says.
Sylvia maneuvers their Orbble bubble towards the planet of Cornucopia and soon, the party of four find themselves floating above a great, ever-reaching landscape of multi-colored fields. These fields were green combined with colors that corresponded to the produce being grown: green for pears and broccoli, orange for pumpkins and oranges, purple for grapes and eggplants, red for apples and tomatoes, yellow for pineapple and bananas.
"So this is the kind of planet that helps provide for the galaxy, huh?" Sylvia remarks impressed to see so much bountifully productive farmland extending from horizon to horizon. "I expected a lot and there's that and more here!"
"Almost feels like we could swim in it!" Wander almost exclaims as Beep Boop and Whirry take many pictures. "We gotta go down and get a closer look."
"Maybe we can get a tour from the farm folk down there" Sylvia guesses spotting small farms nestled between fields.
"Greetings" said the farmer that met the party of four at the planet's surface. "The name's Farmer Mitch. Mitch for short."
Standing about as tall as Sylvia, Farmer Mitch was a tortoise-like alien that had a wheat stalk sticking out of his mouth. Farmer Mitch spoke in a very relaxed, laid-back manner typical of his agrarian lifestyle and was equipped with a large tortoise shell over which he wore farmer overalls.
"What brings you folk around these here parts?"
"Oh, we were just passing by" Sylvia explains, "when we spotted one of your billboards. Now that we're here, we can't help but be impressed by the large areas of bountiful farmland on this planet."
"We've traveled far and wide and have never seen anything so incredible!" Wander contributes.
"We were just wondering if there were perhaps tours of your farm available?" Sylvia asks.
"You're in luck. Day's work has wrapped up and most workers are home. I can tour ya for a while" Mitch offers, "but it'll cost ya."
"Not too much I hope" Sylvia says and soon, her party of four hop into the back of a farm truck that begins to drive them around the planet.
"These fruits and vegetables look amazing!" Wander compliments a short time later in the middle of the tour, Beep Boop and Whirry taking more photos.
"Hey, I understand 'Thunder Blazz Smoothies' are blended here too?" Sylvia questions.
"One of the blending locations, yes indeed" Mitch confirms.
"Ooh, Sylvia and I love those drinks!" Wander says. "They taste great!"
"When you buy from Cornucopia farms, expect nothing less than top quality" Farmer Mitch advertises.
"Hey Mitch, this talk's making me a bit thirsty" Sylvia admits. "Could we trouble you for a stop for refreshments?"
"Our smoothie plant is not far from here. We can stop by to pick up some drinks" Mitch offers.
"Smoothies would be lovely. Wander, you up for some smoothies?" Sylvia asks as Mitch drives the four through neat crop rows.
"I'm in the mood for anything juicy and fruity and that sounds like it'd hit the spot" Wander says.
A large processing plant in the distance comes into view.
"And there she is. This here is one of the plants where Thunder Blazz Smoothies are blended and bottled every day" Mitch elaborates.
"Neat!" Wander says while something in the sky begins to make its presence known: a space ship flying straight towards their location.
"Uhh, hey Mitch. You know this ship" Sylvia asks.
"Yeah, I know it" Mitch admits sounding stoic.
The ship drew closer and closer, its appearance becoming clearer as it drew nearer: the ship looked like a giant tree and hardly slowed down in its approach. It then shook the ground violently when the strange ship planted itself close by. Out of this tree-shaped ship then exit legions of monkeys with limbs that almost seemed like rubber bands. These sudden newcomers began to scurry about yanking beets and carrots out of the ground and snatching apples and peaches from their branches. All fruits and vegetables in their path were voraciously devoured.
"Hey, who the flarp are these jokers?" Sylvia asks Mitch.
"They're eating everything!" Wander alerts.
"Mitch! Ya seeing this!? We gotta do something!" Sylvia aims at Farmer Mitch only to find Mitch had withdrawn into his shell in fright.
"I think we should just hide and wait things out" Mitch says hidden inside his shell as monkey mobs approach to scream and threaten.
"Hey! Buzz off!" Sylvia demands swiping the monkeys away.
"Oooh, oooh! Aaaaah! Aaaaah!" monkeys shriek as Beep Boop and Whirry blast lasers to repel more of them.
"Whoa!" Wander lets out as a monkey snatches his hat. "My hat!"
"Wander's hat!" Beep Boop and Whirry exclaim aggressively as they glow red with anger. They chase down the hat thieves, blasting all that stand in their way, to snatch the hat back and return it to Wander's head.
"Thank you!" Wander thanks his Dombot friends before turning towards the newcomers. "Hey, no need to be so hasty! I'm sure if we form a nice, neat line, everyone can get their fair share of yummy fruits and veggies without wrecking this planet" Wander offers attempting to calm things down.
The monkey hordes continued eating without slowing.
"Buddy, you're wasting your time" Sylvia says. "Who do these jerks think they are!?" she then demands as the previously-quiet and peaceful field was now being overrun with ravenous monkeys.
"They are my Monkey Minions!" a loud and deep voice booms out suddenly from the tree ship. Out of the same tree ship then arises a monkey twice Sylvia's height covered nearly head-to-toe in dark fur. "And this planet is property of-"
-=episode title=-
THE LORD KONG
-=episode title=-
"Please do not bother Lord Kong" Farmer Mitch chimes in while hiding in his shell. "Just let them eat their fill and they'll leave eventually."
"No! This isn't right! We can't just let these guys have their way!" Sylvia objects hopping out of the farm truck to punch monkeys away, swiping more away with her tail.
"We must do something" Beep Boop and Whirry advise blasting monkeys to keep them away from Wander.
"Incoming!" Wander exclaims and Beep Boop and Whirry pull him out of harm's way. Sylvia also leapt out of the way of a giant brown ball of something that crashes where Wander and Sylvia once stood and Beep Boop and Whirry once hovered.
"That was dirt, right!?" Sylvia asks. "Please tell me this guy just threw a ball of dirt at us! Mud would be fine too!"
"Ball of mud confirmed" Whirry says after a scanning.
"Oh thank Grop" Sylvia exhales.
"Farmer Mitch, who are these who dare defy my rule!?" Lord Kong interrogates.
"They are just visitors. Please don't mind them" Mitch asks still taking cover in his shell.
"Seize them!" Lord Kong orders his Monkey Minions and the monkeys begin chasing Wander's party of four.
"That's our cue" Sylvia says grabbing Wander and hurrying away, their Dombot friends not far behind as angry monkeys hurl what Sylvia was still hoping were just balls of dirt or mud.
With the nuisances chased away, Lord Kong approaches the farm truck saying "Mitch, my minions and I get hungry after our campaigns of conquest."
"Yes, I know" Mitch says.
"I am very unhappy to see strangers here when it's time for me and my underlings to feed" Lord Kong says before yanking a branch off of its tree and devouring all the apples hanging off of it. "You weren't giving them OUR food were you!?"
"No sir. Not at all" Farmer Mitch assures trying not to shake too harshly even from the relative safety of his hard shell.
"I'm still angry" Lord Kong growls. "What do you plan to do to make it up to us?"
"I'm but a simple farmer" Mitch explains. "All I have is my farm goods."
Lord Kong slaps the ground causing a minor quake. "That's not good enough! You shall entertain us! You know what that means, don't you?" Kong asks with a growing smirk.
"...Oh no" Farmer Mitch laments.
"Turtle Frisbee!" some of Lord Kong's minions exclaim excitedly.
"I'm a tortoise actuallyyyy-" Mitch corrects before Lord Kong yanks him out of the truck and flings him across now-ravaged fields. "AAAaaaAAAaaaAAAaaaAAAaaaAAA!" Mitch screamed spinning and flying through the air before crashing on the ground.
"Waaahahahahahaha!" many of the monkeys laughed, some with their stuffed mouths spilling out the chewed up fruits of the farmer's labor.
"Wow, Mitch. You've gotten heavier haven't you?" Lord Kong says flexing his frisbee-flinging arm. "Living the good life without us?"
"Again! Again! Again!"
"Again?" Lord Kong asks his underlings.
"Again!" many of the Monkey Minions dance and cheer.
Lord Kong lifts Mitch up again and flings him again towards a large pile of neatly-stacked barrels. Mitch crashes violently against these barrels to the loud amusement of his monkey tormentors.
"Turtle Bowling! Turtle Bowling!" many of the Monkey Minions clamored while clapping hands and dancing.
"Set more barrels up. I'll knock 'em down!" Lord Kong orders and his minions stack more. "Here he comes!" the giant monkey villain warns and like before, he sends Mitch crashing against the barrels.
"Turtle Twister! Turtle Twister!" the minions then chant. Before Mitch could even recover from the previous abuses, a couple of Monkey Minions wrap their tails around the farmer's large shell. They then yank away sending the hapless farmer spinning uncontrollably like a spinning top as the minions stopped stuffing their mouths with food briefly to unleash howls of laughter and revelry.
While the simian bullies distracted themselves with Farmer Mitch, Sylvia, Wander, Whirry, and Beep Boop were hiding behind some apple trees.
"We gotta help, Syl!" Wander urges eager to lend a hand.
"I hear ya... Gotta time this juuust right" Sylvia replies while using her fingers and a closed eye to help gauge the distance between her and Kong. "Beep Boop, Whirry. You guys ready?"
"Ready" both Dombots answer simultaneously.
"Awesome. Ya ready buddy?"
"Ready!" Wander declares happily.
"Alright! Here we go!" Sylvia exclaims blowing hot steam out of her nostrils before charging hard and fast at the masses of distracted monkeys. "How's about some monkey bowling!?" she screams bursting through the minions like a powerful bull. She then tosses Wander towards the spinning farmer and the orange star nomad lands gracefully beside Farmer Mitch, Beep Boop accompanying.
That done, Sylvia kept charging forwards, knocking away all in her path, before finally reaching Lord Kong himself who was distracted by his indulging in large quantities of grapes.
"Show's over!" Sylvia exclaims jumping and aiming both her feet into Lord Kon's rotund belly.
"AAAAAGGGGGHHHKKKKKK!" Lord Kong growls out in pain, several grapes bursting out of his mouth.
"Ahahahaha! Who's laughing now?" Sylvia challenges smoothly before Whirry lifts her upwards and skywards using rocket boosters.
"C-CURSE YOU!" Kong cursed keeling over.
Meanwhile, Wander quickly moved to help Farmer Mitch.
"Hello Mitch! Sorry we took so long" Wander directs at the spinning tortoise. Working quickly, he deploys a bubble around himself, Beep Boop, and the tortoise. With Mitch's spinning, Wander's jogging, and Beep Boop rotating like a ball, the bubble soars upwards rapidly.
The previous raucous celebration from Lord Kong's minions transforms into screams of anger.
"Sorry fellas but bullying is never the answer" Wander chastises the raging monkey hordes below. "Why make enemies when you can make friends?"
Looking over to Sylvia, Wander spots Whirry rocket-boosting Sylvia upwards towards the safety of height.
"Hey Kong! Monkey business got you down lately?" Sylvia asks with mocking tone. "Simian call the zoo! Their monkeys are on the loose!"
"Monkey puns! Love 'em!" Wander acclaims as Sylvia and Whirry regroup with him, Beep Boop, and Mitch in the same bubble.
"Let me try" Whirry volunteers. "The zoo is the ape-propriate place for these villains!"
"Lord Kong better kong-trol himself or he will soon be ape-prehended" Beep Boop contributes and laughter ensues.
"RRRAAAAAGGH!" Lord Kong roars. "Monkey Minions! Assemble!" he shouts while stretching arms out.
The angry Monkey Minions begin to run at Lord Kong to latch onto him: their hands joined hands, their hand-shaped feet joined hand-shaped feet. Their hands also joined hand-shaped feet while tails wrapped around tails and soon, Lord Kong's underlings had joined to grant Lord Kong larger arms and legs.
Lord Kong was previously twice Sylvia's size and now, with arms and legs made up of his minions, he ascended to four times her size and started chasing rapidly.
"Aaah! Guys, we gotta step on it!" Sylvia urges at the frightening sight.
"You've messed with the wrong monkey king!" Lord Kong roars gaining on them. Raising a mighty arm up high, he swings down to launch a series of barrels the bubble's way.
"Dodge left!" Sylvia shouts and the bubble occupants tackle left to dodge a large group of barrel projectiles.
"Hold still!" Lord Kong demands speeding up his already-speedy pace.
"They're gaining on us!" Sylvia alerts before looking beside her to find Farmer Mitch having a hard time picking up the pace. "Oh no."
"I, I'm sorry. These tortoise legs of mine were not meant for running" Mitch laments. "Leave me behind. Save yourselves."
"Sorry Mitch but we don't leave anyone behind!" Sylvia declares swiftly.
"That's right! We always strive to save the day! Wooohoooo!" Wander cheers.
"Right!" Sylvia shouts and more flying barrels narrowly miss them. "That said, we gotta come up with something and fast!"
"Thinking... Thinking... Thinking..." Wander says, hand to his chin. "Maybe my hat can help?" he says tucking his hand into his hat to pull out a laser pointer.
"Laser pointer!?" Sylvia lets out. "How's that helping us!?"
"I think I see how" Wander says intrigued before pointing the laser at the ground below.
"Wh-what are you guys doing!?" Lord Kong then demands after his minion-built super limbs had halted to attempt to chase down the laser point.
"Laser pointer! Laser pointer!" the Monkey Minions all shouted.
"No! Chase after the tortoise and his wanna-be rescuers!" Lord Kong growls.
"Laser pointer!" Kong's limbs exclaim in unison while trying their best to seize the laser light zipping about the ground.
"Stop this at once you fools!" Lord Kong demands growing angrier, his super limbs beyond his control.
"Hahaha!" Sylvia laughed. "Can I try?"
"Sure you can, Syl!" Wander says handing over the laser pointer.
"Oh, this is gonna be good" Sylvia says grinning ear to ear before pointing the laser at Kong's forehead.
Before Lord Kong could say anything, one of his super limbs had punched him square in the face.
"Aaugh! GGaaahh! OOoooff! Aaauugh!" Lord Kong suffers one blow after another.
"Pfffhahahahahaha!" Sylvia roared with laughter.
"That's enough! Get off you fools!" Kong shouts shaking off his minion-made super limbs.
"Laser pointer!" the Monkey Minions scream still determined to ensnare the little red point of light somehow.
"Alright, how do I put these guys away?" Sylvia asks before Wander provides her another laser pointer.
Now with two laser points zipping about the ground, the mass of monkey minions had broken up into two groups, both trying to snatch their respective red light. Sylvia, feeling especially clever, leads both groups into high-speed chases before having the two groups clash with each other violently.
"No! Fools! Stop this at once!" Lord Kong demands but monkey skulls collide with monkey skulls regardless. The collisions sounded like coconuts striking each other. By the time Sylvia was done leading the mindless, laser-chasing minions into each other several times, all that remained of Kong's forces were piles of knocked-out monkeys.
"We did it!" Wander cheers.
"Right here buddy!" Sylvia says and both high-five.
"Incompetent buffoons!" Lord Kong lashes out at his collapsed thugs. "What good are you if a mere laser is enough to defeat you!? I should crush you all myself! Idiots!"
"Hey, now that's not a very nice thing to say" Wander disciplines as he and Sylvia descend before their bubble pops landing them both on the ground. "I'm sure they tried their best."
"You! I'm going to destroy you both myself!" Lord Kong threatens cracking his knuckles. "Wait... Where'd the turtle go?" he asks after noticing Wander and Sylvia but no Mitch, Beep Boop, or Whirry.
"I don't remember a turtle" Sylvia says. "I remember a tortoise though. Right above ya, buddy."
"What!?" Lord Kong gasps looking above him but by then, it was too late. Farmer Mitch's heavy shell crashes down on Kong's head after Beep Boop and Whirry had lifted him high up enough to drop him on the villainous monkey.
A very loud 'BONK' echoes throughout the planet, Lord Kong going cross-eyed briefly from the violent crash, before his body stiffens like a board and then collapses loudly. He ends up knocked out no differently than his many Monkey Minions.
"We did it!" Beep Boop and Whirry both celebrate simultaenously.
"You two sure did!" Sylvia celebrates.
"We all did it!" Wander adds. "High fives!"
High fives are tossed around while Farmer Mitch stares at the scene around him.
"You guys actually did it" Mitch says in awe. "Who are you people?"
"Who are we?" Wander asks.
"Just a couple of chums who always strive to do the right thing" Sylvia answers proudly.
"And have fun and make loads of friends along the way! Yeeeehhhaaawwww!" Wander adds happily, arms up in the air.
Meanwhile, many lightyears away, unbeknown to Wander, Sylvia, Beep Boop, Mitch, and even Whirry who had some control over its espionage function, Dominator had been watching before stopping the video playing on her laptop. She then closes the laptop and sits still pensively.
Through Whirry, Dominator at times spied on Wander and his party and had just watched the little adventure that was had in fighting Lord Kong. It looked fun. It felt nostalgic. It seemed like something Dominator would have loved to be a part of but she was in her Domship far, far away.
A mighty frustration then bubbles to the surface and Dominator picks up the laptop to toss it at a wall where it shatters. The pieces then turn to magma and reform back to an unshattered laptop little differently than a damaged Dombot.
"Lord Dominator, visual on planetary formation PK3 obtained" a Knight Dombot then reports standing not too far away in an adjacent hallway. "Arrival estimated at 15 minutes."
"...I'll be right there" Dominator answers simply and the Knight Dombot departs not long after leaving Dominator alone once more.
Dominator lifts her horned helmet and stares at it briefly. She then puts it on. She wouldn't be Lord Dominator without it. She then leaves the room to get to dominating. That's what Lord Dominator does after all. She dominates.
