Hater's Skull Ship was making its way across the cosmos while a monitor in the command room was displaying the villain leaderboards. On it, Hater had just hit second place.
"Life is good sometimes, isn't it sir?" Commander Peepers says admiring Hater's ranking.
"Yes it is Peepers" Hater agrees. "But it could be better: our job's not done until I'm number one!"
"Right you are, sir!" Peepers replies. "All we have left before us is this newcomer. Fella by the name of 'Captain Skull and Crossbones'."
"Captain Skull and Crossbones, huh?" Hater parrots before an image of the top ranking villain comes on-screen along with a healthy amount of information.
Captain Skull and Crossbones was a new arrival to the leaderboards and his rise to the top had been as sudden as his premiere. He wore an eye patch, a pirate's hat with skull and crossbones on it, and other pirate's attire. Having the head of a skull with green eyes and body of all bones, some would dare say he was Hater's long lost twin.
Pictured besides Captain Skull and Crossbones was his partner in crime, an eyeball-headed lackey by the name of Pirate Eyerate. Similarly garbed in pirate apparel, he seemed almost the mirror image of Commander Peepers.
Helping to run Captain Skull's pirate ship space ship, The Big Bone, were his Booty Hunters, Watchdog-like pirate henchmen who are always ready for a fight and always on the hunt for booty.
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THE PIRATE
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"That stupid bone head with his beady, green eyes! Who does he think he is!?" Hater demands loudly.
Peepers starts "his name is Captain Skull an-"
"I know his name!" Hater interrupts. "What I wanna know is what right has he to the number one spot!?"
"As much right as any other villain?" Peepers answers shrugging.
"NO!" Hater bellows. "The number one spot is MY place! Not his!"
"Sir, what's got you so riled up?" Peepers questions.
"I-it's just his dumb face and stupid eyes and scrawny bones! I can't stand him!" Hater shouts as some Watchdogs nearby look at him funny. "Set course for this pretender! We're gonna-"
Hater is cut off by his Skull Ship colliding and he and many others fly towards a wall.
"What was that!?" Hater demands.
"We've hit something!" Peepers alerts.
Many scramble to look outside and confirm they had hit a giant pirate spaceship flying a Jolly Roger flag.
"Hey! Why don't you look where you're going!?" Hater shouts.
"We hit him, sir" Peepers corrects.
A giant anchor then explodes out to pierce into the Skull Ship. Several more ropes follow shooting out to latch onto the Skull Ship and large numbers of Booty Hunters slide along these ropes to break in.
"Intruder alert! Intruder alert! Intruder alert!" alarms in the Skull Ship blare.
"Are we being boarded?" Hater questions.
"Lord Hater! We have a breach in sector 7!" a Watchdog at his station alerts.
"Send troops to sector 7!" Peepers orders.
"Breach in sector 9 also!"
"So send troops there too!" Peepers orders again.
"Breaches in sectors 1 through 6, 11, and 15!"
"Send out troops!" Peepers demands as ropes descend from the ceiling.
"This room is breached!"
Several "AAaaaaarrrgh!" exclamations are heard as Booty Hunters slide down the ropes.
"Intruders!" Peepers shouts drawing out his blaster and soon, Watchdogs and Booty Hunters are exchanging fire.
Hater, seeing this, begins to harness his ever-powerful green electricity.
"Who dares intrude on MY ship!?" Hater screams, his body rising and powers intensifying. He then blasts away at the intruders, some suffering his green electricity, others evading in time.
"Go sir! Go!" Peepers cheers before having to duck out of the way of a blast from none other than Pirate Eyerate. "Why you!?"
Lasers continue flying back and forth but with Hater flying about dispensing powerful green bolts, surely the balance would tip in the Skull Ship's favor. That seemed the case until another arrival.
"Gaaaah!" Hater is heard shrieking in pain as red energy similar to his green energy strikes him. Hater falls to crash to the floor before turning towards the source of the attack.
"Arrr! What unlucky landlubber dares strike the mighty ship of the great Captain Skull and Crossbones!?" questions none other than Captain Skull and Crossbones himself.
"You!?" Hater gasps.
"Yes! Me!" Captain Skull confirms. "Who are you?"
"I" Hater begins standing up, "I am Lord Hater! Greatest in the galaxy!"
"Impossible!" Pirate Eyerate quickly objects. "The greatest in the galaxy is none other than Captain Skull and Crossbones!"
"Wrong again!" Commander Peepers counters before aiming more lasers at Eyerate and the room fills with lasers once more.
"You better have insurance" Captain Skull and Crossbones growls.
"And what if I don't?" Hater mocks grinning.
"Then perish!" Skull exclaims firing off more red energy.
"No, YOU perish!" Hater shouts back, his green energy colliding with red.
A variety of attacks fly back and forth between the two factions: Watchdogs lobbed grenades at Booty Hunters who respond with explosives of their own. Peepers and Eyerate fire lasers at each other while cheering on their respective leader. Hater's attacks cancel out Skull's attacks although not without getting canceled themselves.
"Prepare to meet your doom!" Hater threatens, his hands raised as a large green power ball forms above him.
"No, you prepare for YOUR doom!" Skull replies raising his hands to build a large red power ball of his own.
"HHYYAAAHHH!" both exclaim launching their power balls at each other. Colliding, a mighty explosion blasts all around, the Skull Ship rattling from the great trauma within. When the resulting smoke clears, Lord Hater and Captain Skull are standing at opposite sides of the command room.
"It seems we're evenly matched" Captain Skull observes, red electricity coating his body.
"It would seem that way, yes" Lord Hater agrees, green electricity adorning his body. "Shall we continue?"
"There'll be no need for I have already won" Captain Skull boasts.
"What!?"
"Fool! Look around you and see" Captain Skull welcomes and Hater does so seeing a command room almost beyond repair and filled with tired and wiped-out henchmen. "We have been battling inside your ship and now, it has sustained heavy damage."
"Grrr, so!?" Hater returns itching to get back to fighting.
"Guess whose ship hasn't sustained heavy damage?" Skull asks. He then snaps his fingers and great cannons on his pirate ship take aim at Hater.
Through an iron will, Hater stares at the large cannons, posture straight, expression tough.
"Let's see if we can't improve that ugly mug of yours" Captain Skull wonders.
"I'm not ugly! You're ugly!" Hater barks before a great explosion shatters the interior of the Skull Ship.
Elsewhere in the galaxy, Sylver Lightning was carrying badminton players through the cosmos.
"Final serve" Wander announces as some in the ship were finishing up a game of badminton: Wander and Dominator on one side, Sylvia, Jack, and Luna on the other side. Officiating the game was Dex with Beep Boop and Whirry displaying scores.
"That the best you got?" Jack asks hitting the shuttlecock over the net with all he could muster.
"Reminder to always have fun, son" Wander advises responding with a swing.
"Dad! I love badminton!" Luna acclaims tapping the falling shuttlecock gently.
"That's the spirit!" Wander cheers before the shuttlecock lands behind him.
"Plus one point to Team Sylvia" Dex announces as the number on Whirry increments.
"Good job Luna! Ya got me good on that one" Wander praises.
"You let her have that one, dad" Jack accuses. "You're going easy on us."
"Me? Going easy!? Nnooo~" Wander disagrees playfully.
"It's no fun if it's not competitive" Jack complains.
"Looking for a challenge?" Dominator asks her son.
"You know I am" Jack replies.
"You and me, one on one" Dominator challenges.
"You're on!" Jack accepts eagerly before a beeping is heard.
"Well what do ya know? We're at our destination" Sylvia informs approaching Sylver's command console.
The planet Sylver Lightning was approaching was Planet Beryl, a fancy vacation planet but upon approach, it becomes clear that Beryl was currently in distress.
"Is that a pirate ship?" Sylvia asks aloud spotting Big Bone orbiting Beryl.
"Looks like it" Dominator comments before the same ship deploys waves of Booty Hunters to loot the planet.
"Oh no!" Wander dismays.
"Looks like we've walked in on a planetary conquest" Sylvia says.
"What do we do?" Luna asks alarmed.
"Usually, Wander and I would go in and save the day but with kids on my ship, it's too risky" Sylvia says. "We gotta get out of here before we're-" an anchor explodes in through a window and starts reeling Sylver in, "-noticed."
"We're getting reeled in!" Wander alerts as Sylvia's hands tap frantically at the command console.
"Not on my watch!" Dominator objects deploying her armor, grabbing the anchor, and freeing Sylver from its grasp. Then, preparing a great magma fist, she allows the anchor to pull her towards the pirate ship.
"Go mom!" Jack cheers.
"Take this!" Dominator shouts aiming a punch at the pirate ship but before she could reach her target, a large vacuum tube extends out of the pirate ship and sucks her in.
The world around Dominator turns dark briefly before she's tossed into a giant jail room. Looking around, she finds she was now imprisoned with Hater, Peepers, and their Watchdogs.
"Dominator!?" Hater gasps.
"You got sucked in too, huh?" Peepers asks before Wander, Sylvia, the three kids and two Dombots are also tossed in via the same vacuum tunnel.
"Wander!?" Hater growls angrily.
"Hi Hatey!" Wander greets happily.
"You following me!?" Hater demands.
"Oh my grop! It's the WanDom family!" someone shouts and the Watchdogs come to life.
"The WanDom family!?", "Can we take pictures with your family?", "They look just like they do on WanDom Watch!", "The kids are adorable!", "This is going straight to my social media" the Watchdogs close in.
"Hey! Hey! One at a time!" Sylvia was quick to jump in. "Nice, neat, single-file line!"
While his armies busied themselves, Hater turned away annoyed that his armies could be so easily distracted. Moments later, he feels a tapping on his shoulder.
"What!?" Hater almost roars.
"Hi Hatey! Just wanted to introduce you to my family" Wander speaks up standing besides his three kids. "This here's Dex!"
"Sir, don't be rude!" Peepers whispers behind Hater.
"Greetings Mr Lord Hater" Dex greets politely.
"And this is Luna!"
"Hi~!" Luna greets sounding as jolly as her father.
"And this is Jack!"
"Wow! Lord Hater himself!" Jack remarks impressed. "Can I have your autograph?" he asks offering journal and pen.
"...You want my autograph?" a surprised Hater asks, his grumpy demeanor fading as Jack nods. "I, I mean of course you do! Why wouldn't you want The Great Lord Hater's autograph?"
"Yep! Dad's told me all about the villains he's met and befriended in his travels" Jack says as Hater's signing is irked. "It's always nice to get their autograph!"
Hater hands the journal back, his brief elation gone while throwing Wander angry looks.
"Thanks Hatey!" Wander thanks smiling regardless before a giant screen on the side of the room comes to life.
"Greetings prisoners!" Captain Skull and Crossbones comes on. "You are now subjects of the Great Captain Skull and Crossbo-!"
BOOM!
"Boring!" Dominator condemns after blasting the screen with a magma rock.
"Amusing" Captain Skull goes on via hologram at a different part of the room, "but I don't think you realize the danger you're in. Do you know who I am?"
"Just another villain in this galaxy" Dominator yawns. "You're a dime a dozen."
"Not just any villain. I am the greatest in the galaxy!" Captain Skull exclaims.
"Impossible! 'I' am the greatest in the galaxy!" Hater objects.
"You!? No one so ugly could ever be greatest!" Captain Skull insults.
"I'm not ugly, you're ugly!" Hater barks back.
"Do not insult the great Captain Skull and Crossbones!" Pirate Eyerate's hologram appears besides his leader.
"You insulted first!" Commander Peepers points out.
"Enough!" Captain Skull orders. "Once I am done with this planet, I will turn my attention to you all and enjoy destroying each and every one of you one by one! Sit tight 'til then. Arrrharharharharhar!"
Skull's and Eyerate's holograms disappear.
"Mommy, I'm scared!" Luna cries running into Dominator's arms.
"Don't be scared. We're gonna bust out of here" Dominator assures.
"That's right" Wander joins in. "Syl and I have busted out of countless jams before. And now we'll do it as a family!"
"Action!" Jack exclaims excited.
Sylvia approaches a set of parallel bars. "Busting out of here should be easy. So easy, I bet even kids could bust out" she says before beckoning Luna, Dex, and Jack over.
Jack was quick to Sylvia's side while Dominator had to bring a frightened Luna and timid Dex over.
"Kids, what do you think these bars are made of?" Sylvia asks.
"Beep Boop. Whirry" Dex says and his Dombot companions scan.
"98% iron, 1.9% carbon, .1% other" Beep Boop reports.
"Steel" Dex answers.
"Steel? Together, we're all tougher than steel!" Sylvia boasts. "Remember what mom and Ma Ela have been teaching ya, right?"
"Of course!" Jack was quick to answer, Hater's green sparks snapping between his palms.
"Those are my powers!" Hater shouts.
"SSHHhhh!" his Watchdogs shush him.
"Luna" Sylvia says and Luna summons a mini blizzard between her palms. "Dex" and Dex harnesses a small ball of fire.
Dex blasts at the prison bars with powerful flames, enough to leave the bars glowing hot. Luna then unleashes freezing winds to cover them in ice. At last, Jack smashes through the frozen bars with a green beam of energy.
An opening is created allowing all to exit.
"We're free!" Luna cheers.
"And just like that, we're on our way out" Wander tells his daughter.
"Atta girl!", "We knew you could do it!", "WanDom kids, wooo!" some Watchdogs cheer.
"They should be cheering for me" Hater growls to himself, teeth grinding.
"Every dog has his day, sir" Peepers tries to calm.
The freshly-freed party start an exploration of Captain Skull and Crossbones's ship. Oddly enough, these halls were made of wood and were adorned with photos of Captain Skull, Pirate Eyerate, and their Booty Hunters on various conquests. Most rooms encountered seemed to be dorm rooms which were currently empty.
"The booty room" reads Sylvia after coming across such a room. "What do you guys think is in here?"
"Either treasure or naughty stuff" Dominator guesses eagerly while Wander covers his kids' eyes.
"Only one way to find out" Peepers says signaling the Watchdogs to bash the door in.
"AAAaaaahhh!" Hater screams as his boney head is used to batter the door down.
"Whoooooaaahhh!" many let out upon finding a room full of treasure: heaps of gold coins, mountains of sparkling jewels, stacks of intergalactic currencies, and various other booty varieties.
"Look at all this loot!" Peepers shouts and all rush in.
"Wow! We're rich!" Jack adds trying to swim in the valuables.
"Sooo shiny!" Luna admires trying on jewel-encrusted necklaces.
"Is this real?" Dex wonders examining the treasure using Beep Boop and Whirry to scan.
"Authenticity confirmed" Whirry reports.
"Nice" Dex compliments.
"What do you think, Wander?" Dominator asks trying on a diamond-encrusted choker.
"Dee, you look lovely!" Wander compliments.
"This choker's on kind of tight" Dominator reveals. "Wanna snap it later?"
"D-Dee! This is a kids show!" Wander gasps.
"What? I'm just asking for help removing it" Dominator feigns innocence. "What'd you think I was asking?"
"Oh! Of course! N-never hurts to help! Hehe!" Wander laughs nervously as Dominator picks him up to stare at him naughtily.
After recovering from a headache, Hater suddenly bursts out "Hey! This is my treasure! This is treasure I rightfully stole first! And now this Captain Skull stole it from me! Who does he think he is!?"
No one responds: Peepers was busy calculating the value of the treasure, his Watchdogs were swimming in pools of gold, Wander was researching the rightful owners of many valuables with help from Whirry and Beep Boop. The rest were trying on different pieces of jewelry on.
"Grrrrrr! I'm feeling really disrespected right now!" Hater barks. "Is anyone listening!?"
"Yes, yes. You're the greatest. We know" Peepers waves off tapping away at a calculator.
"Grrrr! I'll show you! I'll show all of you!" Hater shouts before stomping out of the room.
"Someone hear something?" Sylvia asks, several gold rings hanging off her long neck.
Elsewhere on the pirate ship, seated comfortably in his command room was Captain Skull, Pirate Eyerate at his side. While enjoying the view of Beryl getting plundered, he is interrupted by Hater, cloaked in green energy, flying into view in front of his ship.
"Captain Skull!" Hater bellows. "I challenge you! One on one!"
"You've escaped? And here I thought you were both ugly AND stupid" Captain Skull insults.
"I'm not ugly! You're ugly!" Hater shouts back. "Now face me! I'll show all that I am the greatest in the galaxy!"
"Hmmm... Why face you when I've already won?" Captain Skull asks smugly.
"You haven't won! I'm still here!" Hater shouts.
"Indeed you are but look at your ranking" Skull says as The Big Bone emits a hologram of the villain leaderboards.
"No!" Hater dismays seeing his ranking drop as his planets are conquered.
"Left your planets unguarded have you?" Pirate Eyerate asks mockingly.
"I will destroy you!" Hater howls.
"Eyerate."
"Aye aye, captain" Eyerate obeys and after some button presses, the ship's giant cannons point at Hater once again.
Hater starts harnessing his powers hoping to beat the cannons to the punch before getting blasted: he's left covered in soot with only his eyes visibly blinking.
"I almost feel bad for him" Captain Skull pities before The Big Bone extends its vacuum to suck Hater back into captivity.
"GRRRAAAAAAHHHHHH!" Hater screams when he's tossed back into an empty jail cell. "Stupid, stupid Skull! Stupid Eyerate!" he growls pacing about angrily. "Stupid Watchdogs! Don't respect me anymore! Stupid Peepers! Thinks he can wave me off!" Hater kicks at the empty floor underneath him. "Stupid Wander! Always calling me his friend! Stupid Sylvia! Always working with Wander to foil my plans! GRRrrraaahh! Stupid Dominator! Never dating me! Stupid Dombots!..." Hater pauses. "...Being all glowy and stuff..."
As if to mock him, the villain leaderboards appear outside his cell with Hater's ranking continuing to fall.
"Grrraaaaaaahhh!" Hater screams again smashing his fists into the floor. He then lies on his back to stare up at the ceiling. "I worked so hard to get so high and now I'm falling. Just like that" he gestures with his hands.
Hater moves very little from his spot feeling drained. Then a Booty Hunter walks into the room. Lazily, Hater shifts to look at this new visitor and finds him carrying a tray. Hater gets up angrily and rushes over to seize it.
"Stupid Booty Hunter! Know what I think of your stupid leader!?" Hater shouts stuffing the tray contents into his mouth, chewing, and then sticking his tongue out. "Thish here'sh what I shthink of your reader!"
"But sir, you're MY leader" the Booty Hunter claims as several Watch Dogs enter.
"Huh?"
"I'm a Watchdog in disguise!" the henchmen reveals removing his Booty Hunter attire. "And you just ate my food."
"Yeah!? What are you gonna do about it!?" Hater asks chewing greedily.
"Nothing" the henchman shrugs. "Plenty more where that came from" he says as Wander and his party enter as well.
"Hi again Hatey! Love my cooking?" Wander asks. "I call it the friendship special!"
"Friendship special!? BWAAAHH!" Hater barfs as Peepers approaches.
"Sir, good to see you're okay" Peepers says. "We were checking out the ship while you were away."
"Yeah? What's the point?" Hater says bummed. "We've lost our Skull Ship and we're falling on the leaderboards as we speak."
"Goodness, sir! You're right!" Peepers exclaims looking at the leaderboards.
"All our hard work, wiped out. Just like that" Hater dismays. "What's the point if all we've strived for could be taken from us so easily?"
"Oh come on sir. I'm sure if we hurry, we can stop our fall and get our revenge!" Peepers tempts. "And then this pirate's planets will be ours for the taking!"
Hater's expression shifts about as if considering but, with a grumble, he lets Peepers know he just wasn't feeling it.
"Sir, don't get mopey again" Peepers asks. "Ugh! I hate it when you get like this."
While Hater wallowed in self pity, Whirry and Beep Boop return with news from Beryl.
"Beryl population nearly subjugated" Whirry reports as Beep Boop shows footage of some of Skull's Booty Hunter's chaining up Beryl inhabitants while others pillage.
"Oh no! We gotta do something!" Wander urges.
"Then let's do something" Sylvia agrees before she, Wander, and Dominator along with the kids confer briefly. They then approach Hater.
"So that's it is it?" Dominator asks Hater. "Just giving up?"
"Yeah? So what!?" Hater growls.
"Talk about pathetic!"
"Mind your own business!" Hater barks.
"I can't believe there was a time I was afraid of you" Sylvia adds joining Dominator's side. "Now I just feel like laughing."
"Grrr shut up!" Hater demands.
"Buddy, I hate seeing you like this" Wander contributes.
"I'm not your buddy!" Hater objects.
"Okay, you're not my buddy" Wander agrees to the shock of many around. "You're more than that! You're family!"
"What!?" Hater and Peepers both let out.
"Uncle Hatey, please don't give up now" Luna asks sweetly stepping forward from behind Wander.
"U-uncle?" Hater parrots, his eyes widening. "I-I'm an uncle?.."
"That's right" Dex agrees. "Dad tells us stories of Uncle Hatey being the greatest in the galaxy! He was strong and brave and never gave up! No matter how much the galaxy beat him, he'd always rise up and fight right back!"
"Y-yeah" Hater agrees with rising morale.
"I always thought Uncle Hatey was the coolest in the galaxy!" Jack praises. "Now I'm starting to wonder if I was wrong about even caring about this" he says wielding Hater's autograph before dropping it on the floor shamefully.
Hater gasps. "No!" he rushes to pick up his signature.
"Won't you fight back, Uncle?" Luna asks, eyes glimmering with hope.
"Won't you show that mean ol' pirate a valuable lesson?" Dex asks.
"Won't you make this actually mean something?" Jack asks indicating the autograph.
Hater beholds the three cute children looking up at him.
"Is our uncle a fighter or a quitter?" the three kids ask.
With lips quivering, tears well up in Hater's eyes wanting nothing more than to not disappoint such cute kids who look up to him and even call him uncle.
Wander then whispers "and legends say that Uncle Hatey's heart grew three sizes that day!"
"Shut up!" Hater exclaims at a giggling Wander before turning back to the kids. "Uncle Hatey doesn't give up! Uncle Hatey never surrenders! Uncle Hatey is the Greatest in the Galaxy!"
"Yeah!" the kids cheer with Peepers joining in.
"Let's get to work!" Hater declares readily. He then locks up briefly. "...Peepers, what's the plan?"
"Huddle!" Peepers orders and all do so.
Later, all get to work and being inside of the enemy ship, the course of action was clear: sabotage.
Hater lead the way, shoulders squared, with Dex, Luna, and Jack right behind him. Beep Boop and Whirry hovered above the kids, Peepers just behind them. After them follow Wander and Dominator keeping a close eye on their children as parents do, Sylvia and several Watchdogs forming the rear.
"Intruder!" a group of Booty Hunters, recently back from looting Beryl, alert dropping their stolen riches before reaching for their laser guns.
"Too slow!" Hater shouts shocking Captain Skull's henchmen with his green volts.
"Yeah! Too slow!" Jack adds joining in to dispense green volts of his own.
Their bodies electrocuted, the Booty Hunters collapse where they stood paralyzed.
"Yeah!" Hater and Jack hi-five.
The group proceeds past other rooms, one a 'poop deck' that Wander couldn't stop giggling at, and eventually into a room labeled 'computer room' where they find Booty Hunters tending to large computer servers.
"Aaaah! Lord Hater!" one of the pirate henchmen exclaims.
"Freeze!" Luna orders blasting the Booty Hunters with freezing winds and the Hunters are frozen in place. "How was that Uncle Hatey?"
"Good job Luna!" Hater praises patting Luna's head as Dex approaches a server.
"Hacking underway" Dex announces, Beep Boop and Whirry deploying cables that latch into the tall servers. "Uh oh! These servers are running hot! Help sis!"
"On it bro!" Luna says hitting the server with frigid air.
"Thanks sis" Dex says.
"Our kids are so cute working together!" Wander sings as he, Dominator, and Sylvia take pictures and record with their phones. "We're gonna save Beryl in no time!"
"Look at Dex go!" Sylvia says amazed at Dex's fingers typing away at a server keyboard.
"The Dombots and I have been teaching him a thing or two" Dominator reveals.
"Ship layout acquired" Dex announces. "Skull Ship and Sylver located."
Beep Boop emits a hologram of the Big Bone's layout with ship locations highlighted.
"The Skull Ship!" Peepers lets out.
"Sylver!" Sylvia exclaims the same.
"The hangar. Duh!" Peepers says. "Sir."
"Peepers, go get our ship back" Hater orders. "I've got a score to settle!"
"Let's go!" Sylvia declares.
"Onwards men!" Peepers shouts before he, Sylvia, and several Watchdogs depart the room.
"Show me where this Captain Skull is" Hater requests and Whirry complies. "The command room. Of course!"
"Where else did you think he'd be?" Dominator asks smirking.
"I don't know. Maybe he had a throne room or something?" Hater speculates. "Who cares!? I'm pounding him to next week!"
In the command room, Captain Skull and Crossbones stood patiently admiring the work of his returning Booty Hunters, Pirate Eyerate by his side. Loudly and abruptly, the doors to the room are kicked in.
"Hey! Bone head!" Hater bellows, a finger of challenge pointing.
"Look who's talking" Captain Skull remarks.
"Rematch time! This time, I'll be numero uno!" Hater boasts.
"No scallywag will ev-" green energy interrupts Skull and he's blasted out of his own ship into the vacuum of space.
"Caught you slacking" Hater mocks cloaked in a green energy.
Captain Skull and Crossbones summons an energy cloak of his own, red as opposed to green. If their bald skulls had hair, that hair would be pointing up, the same direction as the flow of their energy cloaks.
"Get ready! Greatest in the galaxy coming your way!" Hater shouts charging.
Skull charges too with a fist aiming for Hater's face. Hater catches this attack grinning and soon, a flurry of punches and kicks fly back and forth. So swift are these attacks that to outside observers, both become violent blurs.
"Whoa! Look at 'em go!" Jack admires looking out a window.
"Pretty colors!" Luna joins in watching Hater and Skull battling.
Both Hater and Skull then back off before launching energy balls at each other: arms speeding up, their energy balls crash violently to burst into splendid light shows.
"Now this is entertainment!" Dominator acclaims watching out the window as well.
"Go Hatey! Save the day!" Wander cheers beside his wife while Dex, Beep Boop, and Whirry are still hard at work nearby.
Hater and Skull pull their hands beside themselves to build up powerful and luminous energy blasts.
"HHHAAAAAAAA!" both skull-headed fighters unleash great beams of energy that collide. The result is a mighty explosion enveloping both participants briefly until the smoke left behind clears away.
"We are evenly matched, landlubber" Captain Skull remarks.
"Yes we are" Lord Hater agrees. "Just like last time."
"And just like last time, I will be the ultimate victor" Skull boasts before snapping his fingers.
The cannons on The Big Bone do not respond.
"Eyerate!" Skull exclaims into his wrist. He receives no response. "Eyerate!"
"You might want to check up on your lackey" Hater advises and Skull does so.
Looking into the command room, he finds Eyerate and many other staff frozen in their stations. At the center of the room stood Luna, Jack, and Dex with Beep Boop and Whirry floating above. Behind them stood Wander and Dominator beaming.
"How dare you!?" Skull shouts firing red energy only for Jack to counter with his green volts.
New arrivals are heard and Captain Skull turns to behold not only Hater waiting but also the Skull Ship and Sylver Lightning.
"Ready to walk the plank?" Hater asks smugly.
"Arrrrrgh! You only won cause you had help!" Captain Skull accuses.
Dex taps at his phone and the cannons on Big Bone take aim at Skull before blasting away.
Jail cells close to lock up Captain Skull, Pirate Eyerate, and numerous Booty Hunters within the Skull Ship's jail cells.
"Arrrgh! You haven't heard the last of Captain Skull!" Skull threatens though this goes unheard for Hater was elsewhere celebrating his latest victory.
In the Skull Ship's cafeteria, celebrations were underway with Watchdogs chatting up Beep Boop and Whirry, Wander cuddling up in Dominator's arms, Sylvia helping herself to some finger sandwiches as Peepers stands proudly beside Hater who was hugging all three kids tight.
"You kids were great!" Hater applauds.
"Did we do good Uncle Hatey?" Luna asks.
"You sure did!" Peepers exclaims happily.
"Who's the greatest uncle in the galaxy?" Hater asks.
"You're the greatest uncle in the galaxy!" the kids answer prompting jolly laughter out of Hater.
"Group hug!" Wander shouts leaping to wrap his arms around Hater.
"No! Not you!" Hater objects but Wander's hug proves unstoppable.
"We're not just buds anymore. We're family now too!" Wander says smiling wide.
"I'm not your buddy or your family!" Hater whines tearing Wander off and tossing him back into Dominator's arms.
"Hey!" Wander lets out looking out a window. "Look at the people of Beryl!"
"Look kids! You helped save the day!" Sylvia says guiding the kids to the same window.
Down below, many people of Beryl wave happily at the Skull Ship flying by with some even holding up banners of gratitude.
"We saved the day Uncle Hatey!" the WanDom kids say simultaneously.
"We sure did" Hater agrees proudly. "...Wait... WE DID WHAT!?"
