Author's note: another episodic chapter. I like these, not sure about everyone else.

Wander over Yonder Season 3-30

"...WanDom Watch... Oh my goodness... So it's really true!" Peepers says as he was browsing social media. "Never thought I'd see the day!"

Sitting in his office in the Skull Ship, Peepers seizes a computer tablet and rushes for Hater's office.

"Hey Commander, did you see the news?" a Watchdog in a hall asks Peepers.

"How couldn't I? It's all over the galactic headlines!" Peepers answers continuing his brisk pace. He finally arrives to Hater's office only to find it vacant. "Did Lord Hater not come in today?" Peepers asks a nearby Watchdog standing guard.

"No, I think he's still in his room" the Watchdog answers after which Peepers headed for Hater's sleeping quarters.

"Sir, are you still in bed?" Peepers asks through the door only to get no answer. "I'm coming in."

Peepers enters only to find Hater turned away and still under the covers. Peepers approaches expecting to find Hater still asleep but instead finds Hater sulking and looking straight ahead.

"Sir. Is everything okay?" Peepers asks the stoic Hater.

Hater still says nothing staring forwards emotionlessly.

"Sir, I wanted to speak to you about Dominator retiring. With her out of the way, the coast is clear for us to conquer the galaxy!" Peepers celebrates.

Hater turns in bed to face away from Peepers.

"Sir, you're in a bad mood and I want to kno why" Peepers says. "Was it Gary in accounting? I'll have him demoted at once. Or maybe it's your current place in the villain leaderboards? If so, staying in bed isn't going to help in the least!" Peepers grabs hold of Hater's blankets and begins to pull. "Now is the time to get back to conquest sir! Get out of bed!"

"What's the point?" Hater finally asks irritably.

"The point?" Peepers asks. "Dominator's retiring! Not only that, Wander and Dominator are hitting it off so now's the time to get back in the saddle and conquer the galaxy!"

Hater again turns to look away from Commander Peepers.

"Sir, just think about it. The galaxy without a Wander to interfere with our plans!" Peepers repeats. "He'll be too busy courting Dominator that-"

Peepers stops as realization dawns on him now.

"...So that's what this is about..."

-=episode title=-

THE VACATION

-=episode title=-

"Sir, please listen carefully: Dominator was not your type. You barely knew her, sir!" Peepers reasons. "Your one true love is conquest. Your one true love is planting your flag in every planet in the galaxy and rubbing your victories in the faces of all the naysayers! Always has been, always will be."

Hater lets out a long groan as if not wanting to agree.

"Here are The Marshmalliens of Planet Marshmallon!" Peepers says showing Hater footage of a planet filled with marshmallow-shaped alien life that had thin arms and thin legs and seemed to be at peace. "Look at how sweet and happy they are! Doesn't it make you nauseous?"

Hater growled as he grew angry at the sight of walking marshmallows bouncing around and skipping about happily.

"Don't you just wanna conquer their planet and wipe the stupid smiles off their faces?" Peepers tempts.

"Yes! YES!" Hater declares feeling inspired. "I want to conquer that planet and make it my own! Then I will outlaw all smiles and plant my statues all over that stupid, cutesy planet of theirs!"

"That's the spirit!" Peepers cheers.

Hater immediately hops out of bed and heads for the command room, Peepers not far behind.

"Peepers, immediately set a course for this cutesy, lameo planet. The sooner I plant my flag on its surface, the sooner they stop it with the stupid merrymaking and pathetic happiness!"

"Right away sir!" Peepers happily agrees.

"Good morning Lord Hater" a random Watchdog greets in a hall.

"Same to you" Hater says walking confidently and with purpose.

"Did you hear the news? Wander and Dominator are dating!"

Hater's boastful stride suddenly slows and he hunches over despirited.

"Larry you idiot!" Peepers reprimands the lone Watchdog in a whisper. "Don't talk to him about that!"

"Why not? Isn't it good news?" Larry replies. "Dominator's taken care of this way!"

"Just shut up and don't talk about it around Lord Hater!" Peepers implores.

When Hater arrived to the Skull Ship's command room, he entered sluggishly. With shoulders low, head bowed, feet dragging as he walked, Hater collapses atop his commander's chair.

"Set course for marshmallow planet or whatever" Hater says disinterested.

The command room staff exchange glances before directing the Skull Ship as instructed.

As the Skull Ship sped through space, Hater spent most of it with his head in his hands to Peepers's great concern. Before Peepers could attempt something, the ship arrives to its destination.

"AAAaaah! Lord Hater! Everybody run!" The Marshmalliens of Planet Marshmallon exclaim upon witnessing the Skull Ship in the sky before running about in a panic.

"Pathetic subjects, surrender now or prepare to fight or whatever I don't care anymore" Hater announces very flatly.

"What? What was that?", "Is Lord Hater feeling okay?", "Is he really here to conquer or is he here to mope?", "Talk about passionless", "Hater, if you're not going to be serious, why should we care?" was among the Marshmalliens chatter that resulted.

"We'll be right back" Peepers announces to the planet. "Sir, please try to get it together. This planet's ripe for the conquest! Let's go!" Peepers urges grabbing Hater's battle flag and placing it in his hands.

"Uuuuggghhh" Hater groans.

Peepers types away on his computer. The Skull Ship then broadcasts a recording: "This is Lord Hater and I have come to conquer your pathetic planet-"

"-Marshmallon!" Peepers adds at the end trying his best to emulate Hater's voice.

The Skull Ship then opens its mouth and the tongue rolls out.

"Chaaarge!" Peepers shouts as several Watchdogs armed with red laser guns run out.

"Everybody run!" the fleeing Marshmalliens exclaim as lasers fly their way, Hater's armies advancing.

"Sir! Let's go!" Peepers urges, Hater advancing sluggishly with his battle flag over his shoulder rather than raised high up and pointing the way.

"I hereby claim this planet in the name of Hater" Hater says indifferently before planting his flag. The flag falls over after Hater does not attempt to actually plant it in the ground. "Ugh... Whatever" Hater dismisses before he too falls over.

"Sir! We need your help! The Marshmalliens are fighting back!" Peepers shouts. "Hurry before it's too late!"

Hater attempts to get up before he and his Watchdog armies are suddenly overrun with molten marshmallow.

"Too late" Peepers declares up-to-the-neck in marshmallow.

Finding the molten marshmallow too irksome to deal with, Hater's armies return to the Skull Ship covered in the sticky yet delicious treat. The Skull Ship flies off.

"Sir, we need you focused on the mission!" Peepers tells Hater.

"I don't wanna" Hater says pouting and looking away from his marshmallow-covered armies.

"Sir, at this rate, we're going to be outpaced by all the other villains" Peepers says as he worked towards tearing off the marshmallow sticking to his body. "With Domi-err" Peepers stops himself from using Dominator's full name not wanting to worsen Hater's already bad mood, "I mean with the Doom Moon split up, everyone's gone on their own once more. That means we gotta compete!"

"Uuuuggghhh! Fine" Hater lets out grumpily. "Let's try again."

"Thank you sir" Peepers thanks.

Hater and his armies arrive to another planet to try to conquer it. A planet named Emner.

"Greetings helpless subjects! I am Lord Hater!" Hater broadcasts to this new planet. "I have come to conquer this planet!"

"Lord Hater! Run!" the Emner inhabitants, puff balls with legs, scream.

"Take me to your leaders!" Hater demands after touching down with Peepers at his side and flanked by his armies. He and his armies charge towards the throne room but to his great dismay, the leaders he finds were an orange-colored king and a green-colored queen.

Hater is quickly reminded of Wander and Dominator.

"This planet is now property of Lord Hater's- s-sir! Please get up!" Peepers asks Hater who had collapsed on the floor.

"I suddenly don't feel like it anymore" Hater admits indifferently.

"Don't feel like it!? We're in the middle of it right now!" Peepers says.

"Umm, is everything okay?" the king asks. "Anything I could help with?"

"My apologies, I assure you this usually doesn't happen" Peepers says trying to lift Hater up.

"Hey Commander Peepers, you want us to take it from here?" a Watchdog asks.

"Please do" Peepers says and the Watchdog troops all advance as Peepers helps get Hater back on the ship.

The planet is added to Hater's tally on the villain leaderboards but while Peepers watches on with pride, Hater cannot bring himself to care.

"Sir, I hate seeing you like this" Peepers says. "What's it gonna take to get you back in the game?"

Hater mumbles incoherently.

Peepers then reviews a calendar to see what was coming up. He notices a week off was a month away but with a pen, he moves it up the schedule.

"Maybe a vacation would do you some good. What do you say, sir?"

Hater mumbles incoherently.

"Great! I'll get things ready" Peepers says enthusiastically.

Planet Gaia was a popular getaway destination for both hero and villain alike. The Skull Ship touches down on the surface of this planet and Hater and Peepers book a room at a resort hotel named "The Gaiarden".

"Wooo! Vacation time!" Peepers cheers hopping onto his bed. Hater similarly relaxes atop his own bed.

"You know Peepers, maybe you're right. A vacation could be called for after so much hard work" Hater says grabbing a brochure from beside the service phone.

"All great conquerors should find the time to work on themselves" Peepers agrees joining Hater in reviewing the brochure.

"So! What should we do first?" Hater asks.

Donning shades and tropical vacation shirts, Hater and Peepers explore the many attractions of Gaia alongside other vacationers. They watched a geyser shoot boiling-hot water hundreds of common distance units up into the air, explored caves that sparkled when light was directed at their walls, and went scuba diving to explore the sea floor and its sea life. They then tried coconut bowling where they tossed boomerangs at coconut trees to knock the coconuts down.

"So far so good sir?" Peepers asks.

"Oh yeah. Nice to get away and get your mind off of things, you know?" Hater says while sipping from a coconut.

"Absolutely sir!"

"If it keeps up, I'm going to feel so refreshed once we get back to conquering planets."

"That's the spirit, sir!" Peepers cheers. "So where to next?"

"Hmm. Let's see" Hater says losing himself in the brochure.

It was at that moment that, to Peeper's dismay, Wander and Dominator walked by holding hands amid throngs of vacationers.

"What are they doing here!?" Peepers demanded in thought. "I brought Lord Hater to get away from these two! I need him motivated!" Luckily, for him, Hater was too distracted by the brochure to notice Wander and Dominator.

"Let's go rock climbing" Hater suggests. "That's this way" he says indicating the direction in which Wander and Dominator were heading.

"N-no it's not sir! I'm pretty sure it's this way!" Peepers says immediately climbing up on Hater's shoulders and spinning his skull head 180 degrees.

"What's your problem, Peepers!?" Hater demands. "Get off!"

"But sir, I'm sure it's not that way. It's this way" Peepers says pulling on Hater's skull.

"Off!" Hater demands before tearing Peepers off and dropping him on the ground. "What's gotten into you?"

"I-I don't know sir" Peepers admits.

"Wait! Don't tell me" Hater begins with a grin. "..You're afraid of rock climbing!"

"...Uhh, yeah. Yeah! I'm afraid of rock climbing! Let's go with that" Peepers accepts. "I'm so afraid of it. Please don't make me sir" Peepers begs feigning fear.

"Wahahahahahaha!" Hater laughs. "What a chicken! There's a petting zoo here. Maybe you'll be more comfortable with the other chickens here?"

"Sir, those are ostriches" Peepers corrects after glancing at the brochure.

"Aren't they the same thing?"

"No, sir" Peepers answers flatly.

"Whatever. You're chicken or ostrich either way" Hater says before resuming his walk towards the rock-climbing attraction.

"Look sir! The Hater fan club!" Peepers says pointing skywards.

"Really!?" Hater asks looking up at the sky happily. "Finally! Some recognition!"

With Hater distracted, Peepers rushes Wander and Dominator's way.

"Hi Mr. Peepers! Vacationing too?" Wander immediately greets.

"What are you doing here?" Dominator asks more coldly.

"Yes, hi. I just wish to give you two a gift" Peepers says pulling out a pair of binoculars.

"Oh! Well isn't that nice?" Wander says accepting the gift.

"Yeah, thanks" Dominator says.

"There's a great sightseeing attraction at this resort. Awesome community of birdwatchers there, hours of fun! Can't recommend it enough" Peepers says.

"Ooh, sounds like fun! Let's go Dee" Wander suggests.

"If you're there, I'm there" Dominator answers.

"That should keep them busy" Peepers thinks as he hurries back to Hater.

"Hey Peepers. I don't see a fan club" Hater finally realizes after looking up at the sky for several minutes.

"They slipped past you. They went into this spaceball stadium" Peepers says leading Hater into a giant stadium.

"Really?" Hater asks as the two enter and find seats. "Peepers, what are my fans like?" Hater asks with childish anticipation.

"Non-existent" Peepers admits.

"What?"

"I-I mean they're super devoted! They should show up on the field any second now. Now sit there, I'll be right back" Peepers says dashing towards the stadium locker rooms.

With giant stacks of cash, Peepers sponsors one of the teams, The Gaia Skulls. That done, he rushes back to Hater's side.

"I'm still not seeing my fans!" Hater complains.

"There they are now, sir!" Peepers says as both spaceball teams enter the field of play. One of the teams enters with Hater logos on their uniforms. "And they're dedicating this game to you!"

"To me?" Hater asks flattered.

"That's right sir. Now let's sit and watch them play this game!"

"You're right! I'm going to do my best to cheer them on" Hater says donning Gaia Skulls's sports gear. "Woo! Yeah! Go-" Hater pauses to look at the flag in his hand. "Go Gaia Skulls!"

Seeing Hater so absorbed by the spaceball game, Peepers manages to relax in his seat.

"Go Skulls! Go!" Hater shouts.

The game proceeded with little incident, Hater shouting and screaming for the Gaia Skulls to score touchdowns or whatever while Peepers kicked his feet up satisfied with a job well done. This was the case for a while but it was then that he noticed Wander and Dominator at the other side of the stadium.

"Oh no! What are they doing here!?" Peepers asks himself urgently. Seeing Hater's eyes glued to the game on the field, he didn't worry too much at first.

"Ladies and gentlemen" came the stadium announcer's voice, "let's see whose pressing lips on the kiss cam!"

Peepers looks over to Wander and Dominator only to find them kissing away.

"Kiss cam!? Eww! Gross!" Hater chastises. "Who would want to see a bunch of people kissing!? If it were me and Dominator on the cam, I'd understand the appeal. Heck, I'd understand me and anyone else but it's not so it's gross!"

"You're right sir" Peepers agrees as a pink camera soared about the stadium to broadcast kissing couples on the giant stadium screen. "Let's not look!"

"No! I have to look to mock and ridicule all these kissing losers!" Hater says. "Loser! Loser! She'd be better off with me!" he says as couples were broadcasted.

"Oh no!" Peepers emits as the pink camera began soaring towards Dominator and Wander. "What do I do!?"

"Pie! Get your pie here!" a stadium vendor advertised nearby.

"I'll have one!" Peepers calls out rushing to retrieve the pie.

"Slow down there little fella" the vendor says as Peepers rushes the transaction.

Peepers rushes back to Hater asking "forgive me sir" while timing his slamming of the pie on Hater's face perfectly with the kiss cam broadcasting Wander and Dominator's passionate smooching.

"AAAaaaah!" Hater screams or at least attempted to with Peepers pressing the pie on his face. "What the heck!" he complains pulling on Peepers who refused to get off while Wander and Dominator's kissing was being broadcasted.

The kiss cam eventually moved on to Peepers's relief allowing him to finally get off of Hater.

"Peepers what is the meaning of this!?" Hater demands angrily.

"I-I just thought you'd like some pie, sir" Peepers excuses awkwardly.

"Peepers!" Hater growls, pie-covered teeth clenched, flames burning in his pie-covered eyes. Hater then stands from his seat, his hands radiating electricity, the pie still glued to his face.

Peepers steps back fearful of what Hater would do next.

"I'd love some pie actually but I'm used to eating pie with plate and fork. This is quite unorthodox" Hater says neatly.

"P-pardon sir?"

"I said I'm starving! Gimme gimme gimme!" Hater reveals pressing his face to the pie.

"No plate, sir?" Peepers asks as Hater devours the pie.

"What's the point? My face is already a mess so pie now, clean up later" Hater says, bits of pastry spraying as he spoke.

"I see, sir. Enjoy" Peepers says relaxing in his seat now that the kiss cam was done. He then looks over to Wander and Dominator only to spot Dominator but no Wander. "Wh-where'd he go!?"

"Hiya Hatey!" Wander suddenly greets from nearby.

"Gaaah! Wander! Beat it!" Peepers is quick to demand. "Now's really not the time!"

"Wander!? Is that you!?" Hater asks trying to look around with pie covering his eyes. "What do you want!? Here to ruin my vacation like always!?"

"Nooo, silly!" Wander is quick to counter. "I just wanted to-"

"No!" Hater growls interrupting Wander. "Go away! Not interested! Buzz off you annoying do-gooder! Wherever you are!"

"Yeah! Go away!" Peepers joins in happy to hear Hater maintaining his hateful composure with Wander. He had to get Wander away before Dominator approached and potentially despirited Hater once more. Luckily for him, Dominator was still in her seat or that's what he thought when he looked her way again. "Wh-where'd she go!?" Peepers asks finding Dominator also gone from her seat. He gasps seeing Dominator circling around to get to them.

"Oh come on Hater! You know I only want to be your fr-"

"Shut up!" Peepers shouts pressing a button on his wrist causing a jetpack to sprout from his back. He takes off picking Hater up as he does so.

"Peepers! Where are we going!?" Hater demands.

"The Watchdogs and I have arranged a gift for you, sir" Peepers lies. "It's supposed to be a surprise so please keep your eyes closed."

"Ooh! I like surprises" Hater says before stuffing his face back into his pie.

"Gaaah!" Peepers exclaims when he finds Dominator in full armor and in hot pursuit. Drawing his red blaster, Peepers aims shots at Dominator only for her to deflect them with ease with her forearms. "What do you want!? Go away!"

Hoping to lose the green villainess, Peepers heads to a nearby zoo and dares to venture through an exhibit of galactic weavers, spider-like creatures that hunt prey by building great and elaborate weaverwebs.

"AAAAaaaaahh!" Peepers screams as weavers the size of dinner plates give chase and lunge at him and Hater, some spitting venom, others attempting to catch them with their web. Some use their many legs like fists to pummel and punch away, others aim their fangs to inflict painful bites. "Ooo! Ow! Oah! Aaah! Oww!"

"Oww!" Hater agrees as the two fly out bitten and bruised up.

"Get off! GET OFF!" Peepers shrieks as several smaller weavers were crawling all over him and Hater. Flailing about in terror, he manages to shake off the tiny crawlers.

"Why did I think that was a good idea?" Peepers asks himself. Looking back, he finds Dominator still chasing after some weavers had latched onto her attempting to pierce her armor but failing. With ease, she shakes the weavers off.

"Peepers, that hurt! What's going on!?" Hater demands. Peepers does not answer as he began to turn purple and his flight path bent towards the ground.

Crash!

Hater and Peepers crash to the ground with Peepers feeling sick to his stomach.

"S-sir, I think the weavers got me. I-it's g-getting dark" Peepers says.

"You're telling me? You told me to keep my eyes closed" Hater counters.

A tremor is felt as Dominator lands nearby followed by a smaller set of feet touching down.

"W-was that Dominator? Is sh-she here?" Peepers asks deliriously.

"Dominator!?" Hater asks.

"Oh my! Commander Peepers, the weavers have bitten you haven't they?" Wander's voice is heard.

"Wander! What do you want!?" Hater asks angrily.

"Open your eyes, idiot" Dominator's voice demands.

Hater finally opens his eyes to find Dominator standing nearby armored from the neck down and looking displeased while Wander tended to Peepers.

"Believe it or not, it's the smaller weavers that'll envenomate you" Wander lectures as he pulls out an antidote from his hat. "The bigger ones will just try to bite or pummel you."

"Oww!" Peepers lets out as Wander administers the antidote. "What was that!?"

"Weaver antidote" Wander explains.

"Wander, y-you saved me!" Peepers praises feeling better.

"Never hurts to help!" Wander declares.

"A thank you would be nice" Dominator says more sternly.

"O-of course. Thank you Wander" Peepers was quick to say.

"Don't mention it!"

"Okay, so what do you two want!?" Hater asks roughly.

"Wander wanted to thank you for the binoculars but I'm seeing two ungrateful villains who don't deserve Wander's gratitude" Dominator condemns. "And considering the way you were speaking to Wander, they don't deserve my patience either" she says brandishing sharp and icy claws.

"We-we're really sorry" Peepers says fearing the ice claws before elbowing Hater.

"O-oh! Yeah, sorry" Hater says.

"Good" Dominator approves.

"Sorry you're such a loser!" Hater adds bluntly. "To think you once reigned at the very top of the leaderboards! And now you're hanging around with Wander!?"

Dominator's expression shifts to one of annoyance.

"Sir, please sto-" Peepers attempts to intervene.

"The more I think about it, the more I'm saddened" Hater interrupts Peepers. "To think I entertained us starting a family one day. I'm sickened now too! Yuck!"

"Sir, just shut u-" Peepers dares to object but he and Hater are both blasted by Dominator's freezing powers. Hater and Peepers are left frozen in place from the neck down.

"Man, you're annoying. Now you two sit there and think over your actions" Dominator disciplines.

"That's what I mean! The Dominator I knew would have destroyed us on the spot! Absolutely no mercy! Peepers would especially get hurt" Hater criticizes further.

"Sir. Shut up" Peepers seethes.

"It breaks my heart to see you've gone so soft!" Hater adds.

Dominator, with Wander resting on her shoulder, simply walks away.

"Dee, I'm so proud of you!" Wander praises hugging Dominator.

"Mostly did it for you, Wander" Dominator replies.

Hater and Peepers were left behind frozen.

"Sir, I don't understand. I thought you were heartbroken over Wander and Dominator dating" Peepers says.

"I was heartbroken to see her fall so low. To let that annoying do-gooder Wander to get her to turn her back on conquest" Hater reveals. "It scares me that the same could happen to me. That Wander could corrupt me like that one day!"

"You're too evil to let it happen to you" Peepers says.

"Awww! What a nice thing to say!" Hater admires. "Promise me you'll never let it happen!"

"I promise to never let it happen to you, sir" Peepers says teary-eyed.

"I'm feeling motivated! Let's get back to conquest!" Hater declares re-energized.

"Right away sir!"

Neither could move however considering the ice encasing their bodies.

"Once this ice melts that is" Peepers says.

"Yeah, of course" Hater agrees as well.