Wander over Yonder Season 3-15

Lord Hater found himself standing at a podium to address a large room full of villains. Hater beheld Sourdough the Evil Sandwich, Little Bits, Kragthar of Kraaaaagtttthh, and Emperor Awesome as well as lesser-known villains such as King Mxyleon, Lady Annihilator, and Pogo the Decolorizer.

"Well? On with it!" Sourdough demands loudly from the audience.

"Sir" Commander Peepers standing beside Hater suddenly speaks up while indicating the papers atop the podium.

"O-oh!" Hater lets out looking over said podium paperwork. "R-right" Hater clears his throat. "The reason I have called you all here today is one reason and one reason only" he says before a flat-screen television lowered down from the ceiling and an image of Lord Dominator appeared on it.

Several hisses and jeers ring out from the villainous crowd.

"To finally convince Dominator to date me!" Hater exclaimed with frustration.

The villainous crowd emits sounds of confusion.

"S-sir, no" Peepers corrects, "you're trying to destroy her, not date her!"

"Oh right" Hater agrees, "I meant to say finally destroy her once and for all!"

The villainous crowd cheers.

"Excuse me but how are we doing that?" Mandrake the Malfeasant questions beneath the cheering.

"Well, I'm very much glad you asked" Hater says. "Next slide."

The television screen does not immediately change image.

"...Next slide!" Hater repeats more loudly.

"Sir, I believe there's a remote atop the podium" Peepers points out.

"...Th-there is! Oh. I knew that. I was just testing you... Ehehe" Hater says before changing the image of Dominator on the television to an image of what looked to be an artificial moon. "Ladies and gentlemen! We present to you all..."

"The Doom Moon!" Peepers interrupts.

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THE LOOMING DOOM

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"Hey! I wanted to say that!" Hater complains.

"S-sorry sir" Peepers responds, "I'm just so excited for this proposal!"

"Anyways, I present to you all! The Doom Moon!" Hater announces. "What you see here are... pre... lum... Prelum-"

"Preliminary" Peepers instructs.

"Preliminary, I knew that!" Hater defends. "Preliminary stages for the ultimate death machine! One so great and powerful that it will rid this galaxy of the Dominator menace once and for all!"

The television began to display several images showing off various aspects of the proposed 'Doom Moon' and a number of 'oohs' and 'aahs' are heard in the audience.

"I'm guessing you're going to want our help in building this, right?" Sourdough asked prompting several villains in the room to nod their head.

"Well you want to get rid of Dominator don't you!?" Hater asks impatiently.

"Easier said than done" Sourdough counters. "Dominator is NO pushover."

"Look" Peepers speaks up, "I know us villains haven't always seen eye-to-eye but at the rate things are heading, there'll be no galaxy for any of us to conquer! Again!"

The television swaps to an image of the current villain leaderboards with Dominator at the top.

"She's already back at the top" Hater points out, "but she has yet to take everything from us! Do you want to wait until she has taken everything from the galaxy like last time!?"

"Of course not!" Sourdough exclaims.

"Then why do you hesitate?" Hater demands.

"Because you're an imbecile!" Sourdough condemns.

"Hey!" Hater objects. "I am not!"

"Yeah, you are" Little Bits speaks up and soon, several nods and murmurs of agreement float around the room.

Before Hater could lash out at his audacious audience, Peepers jumps in.

"Listen everyone!" Peepers speaks up holding up a twig in his hand. "We all have our weaknesses. Separate and alone, we are weak and have not stood a chance against Dominator time and time again" he says before snapping the twig in two. He then pulls out a large bundle of sticks. "But together, we are strong!" Peepers says trying to break the bundle but failing. "Kragthar! Give it a go" Peepers says tossing the bundle over.

"Hey! You got my name right!" Kragthar praises receiving the bundle. Kragthar then tries to break the bundle with his monster strength but he is also unsuccessful. "I can't!"

"Of course you can't" Peepers says. "Together we are better! Together we are stronger! Together, we will prevail against Dominator! Are you with us!?" Peepers demands loudly.

"Yeah! Yeah! I'm in" Kragthar agrees readily punching his palm. "Let's do this!"

"Great! What about everyone else?" Peepers asks.

"Can we put in a miwwion energy waser cannon?" Little Bits asks.

"We'll put in a billion energy laser cannon!" Peepers boasts.

"I'm in but only if I can put in a sweet sound system" Emperor Awesome offers.

"It'll be pretty sweet I guarantee!" Peepers guarantees.

"Alright, I'm in!" Sourdough agrees. "Especially with you helping to lead the charge, Commander Peepers! You are actually competent."

"I-I think I would like to participate too i-if that's o-okay with everyone" Something the So and So said hesitantly.

"The more the merrier!" Peepers encourages.

"A-alright! I-I guess" Something responds.

"What do you mean you guess?" questioned General McGuffin, a chicken-like villain in military uniform. "Now is a time to rejoice! Together, we will bring the Dominator threat to an end! Three cheers for Dominator's demise!"

"Down with Dominator! Down with Dominator! Down with Dominator!" was the chant sung at once by all villains and their minions. "Down with Dominator! Down with Dominator! Down with Dominator!"

"Sir! Isn't this great?" Peepers directs at Lord Hater.

"I'm not an imbecile" a pouting Hater grumbled with arms folded.

Meanwhile, on another part of the same galaxy, Wander, Sylvia, Beep Boop, and Whirry were exploring a remote planet searching for Dombot remnants. After a faint distress signal had been picked up by Beep Boop, all four were searching the planet in hopes of rescuing another otherwise-doomed Dombot.

"Any luck buddy?" Sylvia asked Wander who was seated on her back, both sharing the same bubble.

"Not so far" Wander said scanning the planet below with binoculars.

"There!" Whirry lets out and shortly after, all four sped down to the planet surface to come across yet another destroyed and abandoned Dombot. Like before, the Dombot was brought back to life with an injection of Volcanium X, a software restoration, and an exchange of memory data.

"Hello buddy!" Wander greeted the newly-revived Dominator minion. "Folks call me Wander, this is my great friend Sylvia" Wander introduced. "And you are... Bot 53 it looks like."

"Wander~" Bot 53, imbued with the same positive memory data of Wander as Whirry and Beep Boop, was instantly friendly and he hugs Wander readily.

"It's nice to meet you too buddy!.. Uhmm, what should I call you?" Wander wondered.

"53 is satisfactory" Bot 53 answered.

"Well if that's what you want, I can't complain" Wander said.

"Hello 53, it's nice to meet ya" Sylvia greets shaking hands.

"So 53, how did you end up so badly damaged? If I may ask?" Wander queried.

53 is quick to project footage of Lord Dominator shouting at him for another failure: "Bot 53! You are pathetic! You are useless!" the projection of Dominator shouts, "A whole month without any Volcanium X found? I do not tolerate failure and you shall be made an example of!" she said before ejecting 53 out of her ship.

"What a cruel woman" Sylvia condemned. "Not that I should be surprised if I'm honest."

"Goodness! I'm very sorry 53" Wander said placing a compassionate hand on the bot. Whirry and Sylvia do the same before Wander notices a forlorn Beep Boop looking up into the starry night sky. "Beep Boop, something wrong?"

"...I want to help them" Beep Boop reveals.

"Help them?... You're referring to Dominator's other bots aren't you?" Wander asks.

"Yes" Beep Boop confirms. "I wish to help those trapped in her servitude."

"But how?" Sylvia asks. "You're setting yourself up against Dominator herself!"

"I know... But I have to try something" Beep Boop says to Wander's great concern. "I want to return and help the others."

"Beep Boop... I, I understand" Wander reveals. "Helping folks is something Sylvia and I have always strived to do so it would feel weird for me telling you not to... But on the bright side, I hope we've been a good influence on you!"

"You have" Beep Boop reveals.

"How could we not have?" Sylvia asks. "We wouldn't be friends with 'em otherwise!"

"You're very right Syl!" Wander responds. "Oh Beep Boop! You don't know how happy that makes me feel!" Wander says hugging Beep Boop. "But Syl has a point. Dominator could destroy you again! Maybe we should go with you just in case?"

"Now hold on" Sylvia says after some thinking, "Beep Boop heading back could be a great idea! Beep Boop looks just like any other Dombot so he should be able to blend in fine!"

"That's actually an excellent point" Wander replies.

"And I wish to go with Beep Boop too" 53 speaks up.

"53, you too!?" Wander asks.

"Even better!" Sylvia says. "You two could watch each other's backs!"

"Perfect!" Wander celebrates.

"But I gotta ask, what's the end game here?" Sylvia asks.

"Sylvia! The end game is helping folks like it's always been" Wander objects.

"Yeah, I know that" Sylvia replies, "but once they've helped these bots, won't they just go back to helping Dominator out with her plans?"

"No" Beep Boop answers, "53 and I can send them your way if necessary where we know their life will be better! We will teach them there is a better life!"

"Oh man! So can we expect to have a little bot army of our own some time in the future?" Sylvia asks. "Ha! That'll be the day" she says before looking over to Wander who looked ready to explode with joy. "..Wander?"

Wander, a wide grin on his face, immediately daydreams of reforming Dominator's bots and making more friends like Beep Boop and Whirry. With many more new friends, he dreams of handing out big hugs, cleaning up the environment, helping people cross streets, responding to natural disasters, building shelters for the needy, and doing so much more for countless others.

"Gonna guess you love the idea?" Sylvia asks.

"Yes!" Wander answers enthusiastically. "With so many friends, we'll be able to help folks all across the galaxy!"

"Or we secretly win over more bots and they lie in wait for the perfect moment to overthrow that Jerkinator" Sylvia said punching and kicking the air. "Oh man! I'd pay to see that!"

"Whirry, will you be going too?" Wander asks fearing the answer.

"No" Beep Boop and Whirry answer perfectly synchronized.

"I shall stay behind to help find and recover more fellow Dombots" Whirry revealed to which Wander nods eagerly.

"And I shall need a means to find you once more" Beep Boop adds.

Wander could feel tears well up in his eyes. "Parting is never easy" he says after a sniffle. "Group hug! For luck!" Wander pulls Beep Boop, 53, Whirry, and Sylvia into a powerful hug and they hug back. "Beep Boop, 53, if you ever need any help or anything, please! Please! Do not ever hesitate to seek me out and ask."

"Will do" Beep Boop and 53 answer simultaneously.

"Good luck you two. I know you'll do great" Sylvia says punching 53 playfully.

"An important mission is before you: the fate of countless fellow Dombots hang in the balance" Whirry directs at the other two Dombots. "I know you will do us proud!" he says giving a military salute.

Beep Boop and 53 salute back just the same and shortly after, the two take off and disappear into the sky, the other three waving good-bye.

With camp set up later at night, Wander could not stop himself from looking up at the stars.

"Worried about 'em huh?" Sylvia asks.

"How could I not be, Syl?" Wander asked back.

"Worrying will do you no good. Besides, these Dombots seem pretty tough. I wouldn't worry too much" Sylvia reasoned. "Let's focus on our part and track down any other Dombots in need!"

"You're right Syl" Wander agrees.

"By the way, I've been meaning to ask: you think our Dombot friends have been getting smarter?" Sylvia asks.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean I've always thought of Dombots as mindless drones who followed Dominator's every order. No offense" Sylvia directs at Whirry floating nearby.

"None taken" Whirry returns.

"But Whirry, Beep Boop, and 53 have made me reconsider that notion" Sylvia reveals. "They certainly feel like there's a thinking mind in that robotic body of theirs."

"Thank you Sylvia" Whirry thanks.

"Of course!" Sylvia smiles.

"I don't know, Syl. Maybe? I certainly think there's a heart in them" Wander speculates. "I think there's a heart in all things! Some just have a harder time than others showing it. Some just need a little nudge."

"I think so too, buddy" Sylvia says.

"...Good luck Beep Boop. Good luck 53" Wander directs at the stars above.

Unhindered by Wander and Sylvia, Beep Boop and 53 were free to speed through space looking like shooting stars from afar. The two rogue Dombots flew past what seemed at first perfectly normal-looking planets. As they proceeded, some devastated planets began to appear, one of the obvious signs of Dominator's recent presence.

Eventually and inevitably, in the distance, Dominator's Domship came into view seemingly adrift in space. Approaching the ship, Beep Boop and 53 see several legions of Dombots returning from some mission be it recon or natural resource retrieval, perfect chance for the rogue pair of Beep Boop and 53 to slip back into the confines of their former home.

Easily blending in with the other bots, the rogue pair enter Dominator's Domship. Dominator had no reason to believe mindlessly obedient minions would ever rebel against her so little security was encountered once inside. Walking through the halls of the ship, several bots walk past the rogue pair with little concern. Among those paying no mind to the rogue pair were bots carrying damaged companions: Beep Boop and 53 followed these bots to see where the damaged ones were being taken. This lead them to a room labeled 'Garbage Disposal' and filled with damaged units seemingly tossed and abandoned in a pile, a banner above said pile reading 'No Second Chance for Failures'.

Dominator's Domship was run with great but cruel efficiency thus a lone Dombot, Bot 89, was tending to the pile busily extracting Volcanium X from other bots now deemed unworthy of it. As part of their efficiency, Dombots could share information seemingly instantaneously and so Beep Boop did just that to this pile-tending Dombot.

"Urgent message from Lord Dominator" Beep Boop lied.

Not wanting to keep Lord Dominator waiting, Bot 89 readily accepted Beep Boop's message but the message wasn't from Dominator. Rather, the message was the collective memory data both Beep Boop and Whirry had gathered during their time with Wander. At first, the memory data confused Bot 89 unsure of why Dominator's urgent message had not been provided but by then, it was too late: Bot 89 had relived Beep Boop and Whirry's friendship with Wander. The very stark contrast between a pleasant life with the orange nomad versus a cruel life with Lord Dominator had made itself very clear.

One memory in particular stood above all others: the memory of Wander rescuing a dead Dombot not for use in war but simply out of a want to do good and help those in need.

Bot 89 promptly returned the Volcanium X to the dead Dombot from which it was extracted. After extracting more from one of the many fuel lines that filled the ship walls, the dead Dombot returned to life and it too learned of life with Wander.

What had started as two rogue Dombots was now four rogue Dombots corrupted by Wander's compassion, kindness, friendship. All four extract more Volcanium X from the ship's monstrous reserves and four more bots are revived. Eight revived bots become 16 then 32. Eventually, the pile was gone, all the bots once condemned to death had been revived, and all had been made to know of Wander and his boundless love and friendship.

All returned to fill the ranks of Dominator's armies once more, an easy task considering their resemblance to any other Dominator soldier. Though they looked like a typical Dombot, the revived Dombots posessed a very dangerous and easily-spread idea: the idea that life with Wander was many times better than their current existence with Lord Dominator.

Meanwhile, as most of Dominator's armies went about their day-to-day operations, Dominator found herself alone in one of her many rooms contemplating. She was resting her head against a window that looked out to the infinite expanse of outer space not long after her run-in with a peculiar Watchdog named Westley. She got along fine with Westley until her identity was revealed and she nearly blasted him and drilled the planet Chumbud. A peculiar mixing of guilt and shame halted those evil intentions and she both spared Westley and left the planet undrilled.

After reviewing footage from Whirry, Dominator found herself alone with her thoughts again, thoughts of a little orange nomad and his Zbornak friend roaming the galaxy while the green villainess felt stuck in her Domship. Stuck thinking back to when she had last spoken to Wander in person and had crushed his hopes and aspirations.

"Dee, please don't do this!" Wander's begging echoes in her mind.

Dominator shakes her head not wanting to recall a moment that at first filled her with delight but now made her feel terrible anguish and remorse. Anguish and remorse that clung on to her as firmly as the green of her skin and her many freckles. A rare feeling she was not enjoying in the least.

Author's note: this one was a bit longer than planned but what's done is done. Thanks for reading and the feedback and onwards to next chapter if available!