Wander over Yonder Season 3-28
Lord Hater was sitting in a Domship jail cell bouncing a rubber ball against one of the walls in his cell. A great pout was plastered all over his face after having suffered witnessing Wander and Dominator kiss.
"Hey! Keep it down over there!" bounty hunter Blue Thunder demands from an adjacent jail cell. "This is supposed to be quiet time. I'm trying to read!"
"Hey Hater, let's play catch. Pass the ball over here" Yellow Thunder asks ready for a toss towards his own cell.
Hater complies and the two begin to toss the ball back and forth bouncing against various surfaces as it did so.
"Haha! Nice throw" Yellow Thunder praises.
"Trying to read here!" Blue complains.
"Play ball with us" Yellow requests.
"No" Blue answers.
"Boring. You're so boring" Yellow condemns. "Hey Red, wanna hop in?"
"No thanks" Red replies.
"Boring!" Yellow whines.
"I actually wanna talk to Hater about something" Red says. "Hater. Who's paying us for our services? It was our tracker that helped lead the Doom Moon here."
"Talk to the sandwich!" Hater growls. "The Doom Moon is no more..."
"Why can't you pay us?" Red asks.
"I didn't hire you!" Hater says quickly.
"And where do we find the sandwich!?" Red demands.
"What am I? His keeper!?" Hater returns irritated.
"Argh! Jipped again!" Red complains.
"How lovely" Blue says sarcastically. "Another wasted effort."
"At least we had fun, guys" Yellow says. "Right?"
"Getting paid is what I find fun" Red counters.
Just then, two Dombot Knights enter the room and escort Commander Peepers to Hater's cell.
"Peepers!" Hater speaks up. "You've come to break me out?"
"N-not exactly, sir" Peepers confesses feeling a laser gun barrel poking his back, "but I am getting you out."
"Oh... Good" Hater uttered simply.
"Lord Hater, present wrists" one of the two Dombots orders and Hater complies sticking forearms out between jail cell bars. With wrists frozen solid together, Hater is let out.
"Thank goodness sir. You're still in one piece!" Peepers assesses.
"Of course I am. You think Dominator would ever win against me?" Hater begins crowing. "I just let myself get captured."
"Let's just go home, sir" Peepers says unamused by Hater's boasting.
"I'm serious" Hater goes on. "If you had shown up a bit sooner, I'd have this place conquered but I see you're homesick so let's just go home" he says as he and Peepers are escorted away.
"Hater" Dominator greets simply as Hater passes her by in an adjacent hallway.
"Dominator" Hater greets back but more bitterly. "Got your fill of goody-two-shoe lips?"
"Dunno. I don't think I have" Dominator answers with a ponderous expression.
"What do you want?" Hater growls.
"Just wanted to remind you to stay away. This planet is off limits" Dominator warned.
"Understood Dominator, you'll never hear from us again" Peepers says trying to hurry out of the Domship.
"Wander already rotting your brain?" Hater challenges. "A true conqueror knows no limits!"
"Sir, please. Let's just get out of here" Peepers attempts to speak up.
"And your limit seems to be a little orange do-gooder" Hater mocks.
"Are you done?" Dominator asks wearing an amused expression.
"No! I'm not!" Hater says defiantly.
"Yes he is!" Peepers counters. "Sir! Let's just cut our losses and go already!"
"That the best you got?" Dominator provokes further.
"No! It isn't!" Hater barks. "If not for my restraints, I'd have fried you good ten times over!"
"You wouldn't manage it even once" Dominator answers back.
"Funny you say that: I hit you once before. How'd that go for ya?" Hater reminds with a boastful grin.
"Went pretty well. I'm still standing aren't I?" Dominator asked.
"You looked pretty curled up after my lightning hit ya! Gehehehehe!" Hater chuckled. "How'd that feel!? Ahahahaha!"
"Lightning? You mean this lightning?" Dominator asks bringing a palm forward and opening it up, green electricity suddenly snapping between her fingers and forming small arcs from her palm and wrist to fingertips.
"Ah! Wha- wha- WHAT!?" Hater exclaims shocked.
"H-how did you learn Lord Hater's powers!?" Peepers gasps.
"The same way you taught me ice powers" Dominator answers summoning an icy ball of wind with her other hand.
"W-we made her cooler!?" Hater shouts.
"I-I'm afraid we did, sir" Peepers laments.
"Gaaahh!" Hater screams in frustration.
"That's right! You made me even stronger!" Dominator celebrates harnessing the electricity back and forth between both hands. "How you like these apples, Hater?"
"GGgrrrrrr!" Hater growls, his teeth grinding. "And you just wanted to rub that in didn't you!?"
"Hahahahahahaha! Yes!" Dominator lets out.
"AAaaaahhh! I hate you!" Hater exclaims.
"Alright Dee, you got to rub it in. Now let's just get these two out of here" Sylvia speaks up walking into the hall.
"Yeah, let's" Dominator agrees.
Peepers and an enraged Hater were promptly escorted out of the Domship under Dominator's watchful eye.
The tales of Dominator besting the Doom Moon as well as her retirement spread fast. Many corners of the galaxy heard of it whether through social media, intergalactic net, or means as antiquated as newspaper. Speeding across the cosmos just as quickly were speculations of a steamy new romance between the once-tyrannical, now-retired Lord Dominator and eternal do-gooder Wander. Considering their kissing before prominent villain leaderboard leaders, it was bound to get out beyond Gardenia's atmospheres, some believing it at once, others treating the news with more skepticism.
None of that mattered to Dominator at the moment as she stood beside Wander readying another attempt at exploring Gardenia and learning of the flora inhabiting it. This outing would only involve Wander and Dominator however since Sylvia mentioned feeling really sleepy and wanting to nap as she sometimes did after a good, home-cooked meal. Wander knew of Sylvia loving her nap time while Dominator suspected Sylvia just wanted she and Wander to have alone time together.
"Ready?" Wander asks Dominator standing beside her.
"As ready as I'll ever be" Dominator says surveying a vast expanse of snow-covered mountains in the distance, white clouds gently drifting across the sky, crowds of colorful trees sticking out of the horizon, seas of green hugging lakes and rivers of reflective blue, and multi-colored flowerbeds dotting the same greens and blues.
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THE HOME PLANET
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"Off we go!" Wander announces leading the way with Dominator following close behind.
"Should we be walking on the grass?" Dominator asked as both began their tour.
"This grass is tougher than it looks" Wander says. "I wouldn't worry about it."
"Certainly feels tough" Dominator remarks feeling the grass push up firmly against her footsteps. Looking skywards, she notices occasional Dombots zipping across it. "What's the deal with the bots above?"
"Just having them monitor the premises" Wander reveals.
"Oh! Good idea" Dominator says. "So where to first?"
"We're starting simple and heading north to stop at a flowerbed and see what we find" Wander says withdrawing a large book from his hat.
"What's that for?" Dominator asks.
"For identifying whatever we come across of course" Wander says.
"You mean you don't know? You provided the bag of seeds didn't you?"
"It was an assortment" Wander reveals. "All relatively safe."
"Relatively safe?" Dominator questions.
"Well, some plants are more dangerous than others" Wander answers.
"Plants can be dangerous?" Dominator questions further.
"Definitely. Some can make you sneeze as I'm sure you're aware. Other make you itch, hallucinate, and others can eat you."
"Eat you!?"
"If they've grown large enough, yeah" Wander says.
Dominator was speechless for a moment.
"...Well if we run into these things, you let me handle them" Dominator says turning her hands into magma and ice.
"We shouldn't. I only got seeds for safe plants" Wander explains.
"That's too bad. I was sort of looking to try out my new powers..." Dominator says suddenly causing bolts of green lightning to snap back and forth between both palms.
"Are those-"
"Hater's powers? Yep!" Dominator reveals. "Pretty neat huh?" she asks as green electricity crawled around both hands.
"How did you-"
"The same way I picked up my ice powers. Hater hit me with his electricity, Peepers hit me with freezing and now I can do both" Dominator said grinning proudly as snakes of electric bolts crawled around her body.
"Well congratulations" Wander says simply.
"Not exciting enough for ya? Well think of it this way: the more powers I have, the better I'll be at defending this planet from any idiots who try to conquer it" Dominator reasons.
"That IS a very bright side!" Wander praises. "That's very nice of you. Thank you!"
"It would be my pleasure" Dominator answers happily squeezing hands into fists. "I'm not being too boastful am I?"
"I don't think so" Wander says.
"Good because I take great pride in being top of the food chain" Dominator says experimenting with her green electricity.
The two arrive to a bed of flowers with flowers of various colors, shapes, and sizes: some were simple solid colors while others a combination of two or more. Some were round while others star-shaped. Some were small enough to fit into a fingertip while others were almost as big as dinner plates.
"Now time to classify" Wander says opening up his book before writing in it. "This yellow one here is a pansy."
"Pansy?" Dominator repeats.
"Yes, pansy" Wander confirms as Dominator chuckles.
"Sorry! Pansy means something else where I'm from" Dominator says. "Please continue."
"Alright. And these pink ones here are peonys" Wander teaches.
"What about this one? This one looks crazy!"
"Let's see... That's a passion flower" Wander reveals reviewing his book.
"Passion flower? It looks alien to me" Dominator says.
"In a galaxy filled with aliens, I'd think you'd be used to it by now" Wander says grinning.
"I mean it doesn't look like a flower at all. Look at it! All those tentacle-looking things!"
"They're harmless, Dee. Relax" Wander assures.
"I'm relaxed. I think it looks pretty cool" Dominator says. "...And look at this one. It almost looks like fire!" Dominator says indicating a flower with petals colored red and yellow and shaped like flames.
"The gloriosa superba" Wander reads from his book. "Commonly called the flame lily for obvious reason."
"Seriously cool!.. And this one looks like a bird!" Dominator says pointing to a white flower shaped like a dove.
"The white dove egret flower" Wander says. "Looks very much like a bird doesn't it?"
"You bet. I swear, some of these look like works of art!" Dominator praises looking over a flower that looked like the sun.
"That's the sunflower" Wander says.
"Pfft, even I knew that. I'm not totaly clueless" Dominator says.
"Check this out" Wander says plucking a chamomile, a flower with small white petals and a large yellow center. He then bites the flower and eats it.
"Wander!? What the-!?"
"Shocked? Don't be" Wander said. "We harvest and eat fruits and vegetables all the time. Why not flowers too?"
"Doesn't that hurt the plant?" Dominator questions.
"Not at all. Flowers regrow all the time" Wander says plucking another chamomile.
"What's it taste like?"
"Try it!" Wander says handing over the flower.
"Alright. You told me to" Dominator says before biting. "...Tastes slightly like apple. Bit of honey too."
"Good?"
"Better than I expected" Dominator answers.
Dominator wasn't one who cared too much for flowers but she had to admit watching Wander being so passionate about them was certainly charming.
"Pffffthahahahahaha" Dominator suddenly lets out.
"What's so funny?" Wander asks.
"This plant here... It looks like-" Dominator says holding back laughter.
"The nepenthes holdenii" Wander says. "It looks like a pitcher. It's a pitcher plant and this one is currently closed."
"I'm not seeing a pitcher. I'm seeing something else right now" Dominator says with a giggle.
Little pink dots form on Wander's cheeks before saying "we-well this is a kids show s-so shall we move on?"
"If you want" Dominator replies grinning naughtily.
The two proceed towards a forest with a thick forest canopy above that stretched far and wide. Wander looks back and forth between his book and the trees.
"These are bungee trees!"
"Bungee trees?"
"Yep! And they're loads of fun" Wander says knocking on one of the tree trunks. At once, hundreds of vines lower from the tree tops above. "Check this out" Wander says grabbing a vine and giving it a tug. At once, the vine zips Wander up into the branches above. He is left standing atop a branch high up above Dominator. "Come on up! The treetops are fine!"
Dominator grabs a vine with both hands and gives it a tug. As swiftly as it was for Wander, she is also zipped upwards and deposited atop a branch nearby. "Whoa! Those were some serious g-forces just now" Dominator comments.
"I know, right?" Wander agrees, "but here's the best part" he says before leaping off his branch, vine in hands, and swinging across the air to reach another branch on another tree. "Woo! Your turn, Dominator!"
"Alright" Dominator says and with vine in hands, she too leaps off to swing across the air and join Wander's side atop his branch. "Nailed it!"
"Ya sure did!" Wander praised before swinging again to another branch.
The two proceed to swing from one branch to the next, Dominator following behind Wander.
"I gotta say, not the most thrilling thing I've ever done but-" Dominator says.
"But?"
"I bet I could up the challenge" Dominator claims before leaping off the branch with no vine on hand.
"Dee!" a frightened Wander exclaims before he too leapt off intent on catching Dominator.
Halfway down, Dominator snatched up a vine, her downward momentum quickly sending her swinging across the air at a fast speed. Looking back, she does not spot Wander up in his branch but rather also falling.
"Wander!" Dominator exclaims. She quickly deploys her armor and takes flight intending to halt Wander's descent.
As Wander falls, he deploys a bubble to slow his descent only for it to pop when Dominator gets to him and plucks him from the air. Wander looks at Dominator impressed.
"Dominator! My hero!" Wander praises as Dominator carried him back up to a branch.
"Sorry, did I freak you out back there?" Dominator asks.
"Ya did" Wander admits. "And I think I scared you when I jumped off."
"You did" Dominator says. "We scared each other."
"Hehe! Look! I think we scared Gardenia too" a giggling Wander says looking below.
Dominator joins Wander's gaze to find several vines below stretching across to form a net ready to catch either of them.
"That's awfully nice of the planet" Dominator acclaims.
"Thank you Gardenia!" Wander says patting the tree branch under their feet.
"Where are we headed by the way?" Dominator asks.
"Upriver. We can raft back down on the return" Wander says.
"Rafting! Never done that before" Dominator says.
"It could be relaxing or it could be exhilarating! River will decide."
"Sounds like fun. Let's do it!" Dominator says.
"Let's!"
"Hop on" Dominator says withdrawing her armor before turning her back towards Wander and crouching down.
"Hop on?"
"On my back. Duh!" Dominator clarifies.
Wander immediately does as instructed, his arms wrapping around the top of her shoulders.
"Hold on tight! I like going fast!" Dominator advises grabbing a vine.
"Just a sec" Wander says before pulling chin straps out of the infinite depths of his hat. "Ready!"
Dominator was a very athletic woman with excellent core strength and she proved as much as she, with Wander hanging on, soared across the forest going from one vine to the next. At times, she'd be on a collision course with a tree but she simply kicked the tree to redirect her momentum, grab another vine, and continue swinging. At other times, she'd allow herself to fall upside-down freely before grabbing a vine at the last second continuing their trek through the forest. At one point, the two were swinging so fast that they managed to fly up and above the forest canopy. At another time, Wander nearly loses his grip but Dominator skillfully grabs firm hold of the nomad and the two continue soaring.
"Dee! You're amazing!" Wander celebrated as the two traveled swiftly.
"I know" Dominator said confidently.
The two continued speeding through the air, Dominator's mohawk whipping behind her as wind sped past their ears. After 15 minutes of graceful swinging at high speeds, a great waterfall came within earshot.
"Dominator, you hear that?" Wander asks. "It's a waterfall!"
"Figure a good place to start our rafting?" Dominator asks.
"Yep!"
Following the sound of water crashing down on water, the two arrive to a waterfall some stories high and some dozen Dombots wide. The two slow down steadily, their current vine wrapping around a tree before it dropped them off at ground level.
"Heck of a waterfall" Dominator comments looking the falling water up and down.
"Definitely!" Wander said examining the waterfall and the plunge pool it crashed down into. He then reaches into his hat to pull out a picnic blanket and Orbble juice. "Now to assemble our raft."
"With that?"
"Yep!" Wander says.
"..Alright. Let's see what you've got up your sleeve" Dominator says intrigued to see what came next.
Wander deploys a bubble roomy enough for himself and Dominator. He then spreads the picnic blanket along the bottom of the inside of the bubble. Finally, he drops the bubble into the river wherein the bubble's top half remained spherical while the bottom half became nearly flat. Wander then hops into the bubble, shoes stored away in his hat.
"Come on in! The blanket's great!" Wander says lying down before patting the open blanket space next to him.
Dominator, shoes in hand before being stored away, steps into the bubble and lies down next to Wander.
"Hey, this is pretty good!" Dominator says finding ample leg room. She was impressed by how the bubble kept all inside dry and separate from the river on which the bubble was now gently drifting. Even more grand was how the bubble seemed to curve to accommodate whatever position Dominator wished to assume.
Wanting to relax, Dominator stretched out as though she were in a hammock, the bubble assuming an oval shape.
"This is really nice. I'm very surprised!" Dominator lauds watching the sky and forest canopy gently pass by above the two.
"I'm very happy to hear you love it" Wander says, the tree branches above suddenly sprouting Sakura flowers which shed petals slowly. "I think Gardenia's happy too" Wander says, Sakura petals landing on the bubble before sliding off.
"An Orbble bubble is what this is called?" Dominator asks.
"Yeah. Sometimes just called an Orbble. Nifty thing saved our lives many times" Wander recalls fondly.
"Saved our lives when the Domship blew up the first time" Dominator recollects.
"Yes indeed" Wander says glad to hear Dominator remember that.
Wander and Dominator lie next to each drifting peacefully down river, flower petals above gently floating down to sprinkle the river and the bubble. Dominator then turns to Wander.
"Wander, we were supposed to explore Gardenia's plant life" Dominator remembers.
"We were."
"Doesn't feel like we did much of that."
"You could say we've been sort of sidetracked" Wander said. "No reason we can't continue tomorrow. We're in no hurry."
"...Well I for one am glad we're getting sidetracked" Dominator reveals.
Wander turns to Dominator to find her looking at him very affectionately.
"I'm enjoying myself plenty" Dominator says, her face very close to Wander's now before placing her hand on his cheek. "I can think of something that would make today even better."
"...What's that?" Wander asks though he suspected he knew exactly what it was.
Dominator presses her lips on Wander's and the two stay like this for several moments. A blushing Dominator then goes on.
"You know I'm not the best with words. I'm the kind who prefers taking action."
"Dominator" a red-faced Wander whispers looking shocked.
"Don't look so surprised! I've kissed you before."
"Y-yeah but that was to rile Hater up. Right?"
"Not just to rile him up... I wanted to kiss you too" Dominator confessed. "...Wander, whatever you and I are now... I'd like for us to be more."
Wander was left speechless.
