Previously on "Final Space"...
After five years of jail time alone on a prison ship, our heros Gary and Fly made not one, but two friends. One is a planet-killer, the other a deadly bounty hunter. And both of them lead right back to the Lord Commander, who's kind of a jerk-face. Well, guess what?! We're off to a great start, so buckle up those butt cheeks, 'cause things are about to get heavy.

"Gary, you have eight minutes of oxygen left."

"H.U.E., if you had eight minutes to live and you could do anything you wanted, what would you do?"

"Facticulating. Ahh. I would transfer my A.I. into a corporeal being and go see Paris."

"Oh, that's lame! I mean, wow. Super... cool."

"What would you do, Gary?"

"Absolutely anything. And I mean anything with Quinn. I mean, we could watch 'Space Drive' for all I care."

"I'm sorry things turned out this way."

"Crap happens."

Rux Cluster Sector 4326

Fly was the first to awaken and head to the commissary to get some coffee. She couldn't explore the rest of the ship since the SAMEs were doing repairs. That and she didn't want to be in the same room KVN was in, singing an annoying song about fixing holes.

"So, what are you in here for?" Avocato asked. He was still tied to the chair and his weapons were far out of reach. "Can't imagine a sweet thing like you being in a prison ship."

"I did a lot of naughty things, my furry friend," Fly said as she sipped her drink. "Ranging from drug trafficking to felony misdemeanor on three different planets."

Avocato just laughed. "Seriously? I've done things worse than that!"

"Well, there was also one other time when I got my hands an aphrodisiac that is banned on five systems..."

Years ago on an aquatic planet...

Fly groaned and screamed in pleasure as she orgasmed from the high amounts of aphrodisiac she had just taken. Then, she let out a powerful orgasm that shook her whole body and caused her to drop the bottle of aphrodisiac into the water.

Present

"3.2 billion life forms went extinct due to nonstop orgasms."

"How do you poison an entire ecosystem with aphrodisiac?!" exclaimed Avocato.

"That's what the prosecutor asked."

The cat alien was about to respond when Gary came in with his video diary and pressed record.

"Quinn, it's me, Gary. Things have been great on my end. I made what I believe to be a potential new friend. Yes, he boarded the ship to kill me and Fly and take my little green ball friend, but Avocato is one great card player."

"Any more cards and I will shoot myself."

"I'm gonna shoot you if you don't play cards."

"I'll let you shoot me."

"Um, oh... real... Well, then I'm gonna shoot myself!"

"What?! Why?"

"Frickin' figure it out. Figure it out. And our newest member is this little guy! His name's Mooncake. Everyone loves him."

"That little green snot-ball is a planet-destroying super-weapon that's gonna get us killed."

"You, sir, just stepped over the line."

SLAP!

"Rowr!"

"Mooncake has feelings. And you just peed all over them with your cat whiz. Yep. Things have been going pretty great. Get back to me. No rush. It's just I haven't talked to a human lady person in, like, five years."

"Hey! What about me?!"

"You don't count, Fly! Well, yours forever. Thunder bandit! Message sent."

"I crushed it," Gary shouted. "Again!"

"Oy," groaned Fly.

Earth

An African American Infinity Guard officer was doing her paperwork when she got a call. She answered it. "Quinn here." A holographic image of a green-skinned, six-eyed alien appeared. He spoke with a lisp since he had his tongue constantly sticking out. "Hey, Quinn, it's Tribor. An Infinity Guard ship has crashed. How did it crash, we don't know. We need you on the scene."

"On my way," Quinn said as she grabbed her gear.

Galaxy 1

Gary and Fly were playing on the arcade machine with Mooncake watching. "Damn it Gary," Fly said. "You're not going to beat my score."

"Oh, I'm not going to beat it. I'm going to crush it, grind it, make it into a paste, serve it on a sandwich and then share it with my friends."

"What?"

Suddenly Mooncake heard a noise and went to check it out. There, hovering above the table, was a robotic eye staring at him. "Oh!" he said as it scanned him with a laser.

"Unauthorized scan detected," said HUE.

Gary and Fly, hearing this, went to check it out. KVN flew up to them. "What ya doing, guys?" he asked. Fly grabbed him by the arm and used him to smash the eye to bits.

"Hey! I was gonna do that," shouted Gary.

On his ship, Turk finished downloading the scan. "Gotcha. Lord Commander... agh!" He let out a yelp when his control panel suddenly sparked. "Hmm. Set course for Tera Con Prime."

Fly finished smashing the robotic eye and inspected the parts. "What the heck is this thing?"

Avocato knew what it was right away. "A Ventrexian stealth probe... Turk."

"Of course, Turk," said Gary. "Who the hell is Turk?"

"A bounty hunter... like me," explained Avocato. "If he scanned Mooncake, he'll be on his way back to the Lord Commanderto gather reinforcements."

"Mm-hmm."

"Unless we stop him first."

"Mm-hmm."

"It we don't, they will capture Mooncake."

"Mnh-mnh."

"And take us to the Dark Zone."

"Mnh-mnh."

"And torture us with zargon slugs."

"Mnh-mnh."

"Or we're gonna suffer pain and anguish for eternity.

"Oh."

And the only way to stop them is with salt."

"Oh."

"And there's no salt in the Dark Zone."

"I got salt!" Fly held up a salt shaker.

Avocato scoffed. "That puny little thing isn't enough to kill a zargon slug!"

"So, ten salt shakers, then?"

"Ugh."

"Hmm," Gary thought out loud. "Sounds like I got these buttery buns into a hot vise. How do I stop them?

"You don't," Avocato said. "But together, we've got a shot. Get me out of these cuffs, and we'll go after him."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, cowboy," Fly exclaimed, waving her hands defensively. "You tried to kill us!"

"If you want us to trust you, first we clasp," Gary said as he extended his arm.

Avocato looked at Gary's hand. "I'm not doing that."

"Oh, yes, you will. You will do that. We've enjoyed recreational cards together. This is the next step. A hand-to-hand bond that forges the completion of a newfound trust."

Fly face palmed. "Gary, do you ever listen to what you say?"

"We don't have to get balls to the wind naked, do we?" Avocato asked.

"Tradition demands yes," said Gary. "But you're lucky. I'm more of a progressive. Fly, uncuff him."

Fly, keeping a cautious eye on him, undid Avocato's bonds. At first, he did nothing, then after a few seconds, he shook Gary and Fly's hands.

"Trust mode engaged."

The three of them ran down to the flight deck where the escape pod was located. Gary was looking particularily excited. "It's been five years since I've been off this ship! I am pumped for adventure! Let's get this guy! H.U.E., open the airlock."

"You and Fly are prisoners. How will I know you won't run?"

"Oh, come on, HUE," said Fly. "We've got nowhere to-"

"INJECT," droned one of the SAMES as it injected a blue liquid into Gary and Fly.

"OW," shouted Gary. "What the freak was that?!"

"If you are not back aboard this ship in five hours," explained HUE. "Your brains will go into convulsive spams and then explode."

"IS THAT REALLY NECESSARY?!" screamed Fly.

"Yes, it is."

Everyone ran into the pod. "Let's go!" shouted Gary.

"Shouldn't we take Mooncake?" asked Avocato.

"It's too dangerous," said Gary. "Make haste, make haste!"

Fly was about to leave when she saw the sad look on the little blob's face. "Wait. Maybe I should stay. I don't want you to get lonely, Mooncake."

"Chookity."

"Wait, you want me to go with Gary?"

"Chookity-pok-pok!"

"Well...okay."

Fly left to find her seat while Gary went back to give Mooncake a hug. "I'll miss you, bud. Be good. And don't whiz on any of my stuff."

Gary went to the cockpit, pulled the switch and went into lightspeed.

Terra Con Prime Sector 18650

The trio came out of lightspeed and found themselves approaching a planet that had basically become nothing more than fragments. They landed on one of the fragments and parked the ship near a bazaar. Gary was excited as he pointed to the vendors, "Oh, oh! Street meat! They got street meat, Avocato!"

"Focus."

"Okay, I'm focused. All right, we're getting Turk."

If there was one thing the bazaar could do without, Fly thought, it would be those creepy statues of a small, olive headed alien with a menacing sneer. A robotic voice droned over the loudspeakers placed next to them, "For the galaxy, for eternity, for Lord Commander."

"So that's what the Lord Commander looks like," she thought out loud.

Avocato dragged Fly and Gary along as he said, "You're lucky that we even made it here. They don't take kindly to Homo sapiens. Now let's go to tier 24 and get you identification papers."

Gary laughed. "Ha! I don't need papers."

"Or they'll liquify you."

Gary was stunned. "Did you just say liquify? Or was that a brain spasm? Is it happening? Oh, my crap, it's happening."

"Or we'll kill you."

Fly stopped when the loudspeaker said that. "Did you hear that? WAH!" Avocato dragged her by the hair. "Stay close you two," he said.

"Right, don't worry. I'm not going anywhere." Then something caught his eye and he walked toward one of the stands.

"GARY!" hissed Avocato and Fly.

"Getting some street meat!"

"Hey, save some for me," Fly said, running up to him.

"Fly, no!" shouted Avocato.

While Gary and Fly ate their meet, a guard walked up to the alien vendor running the stand and barked, "Identification papers!"

The poor vendor emptied his pockets, but came up nothing. "Um, I must have left them in, um..."

"We got a runner." The guard took out his gun and fired the poor alien's head clean off.

Gary and Fly were wide-eyed. "Maybe we should get some papers," whispered Gary.

Avocato nodded his head nonchalantly. "Mm-hmm."

"Eep," squeaked Fly.

Galaxy 1

Back on the ship, KVN was giving a tour with Mooncake, completely unaware (or perhaps ignorant) of the fact the little green blob was bored.

"Welcome to the hangar bay! But I call it the tiger's nest. And I bet you're wondering why. Well, okay, I'll tell you." Before he could say why, a small ship appeared in the hanger, surprising both Mooncake and KVN. The latter said, "Uh, excuse me, can I help you?" The doors to the hip opened, revealing an armored person wearing a cape and a helmet with a red visor. "Uh, hello. Run away! Run away!"

Terra Con Prime

The trio came to a small shack run by a small alien wearing large red goggles. Fly immediately felt sleazy vibes coming off this guy. "Ahh. Avocato, it's so good to see you. What brings you to my little shop of doo-dads?"

Avocato slammed his fist on the counter. "Cut the crap, Clarence!"

Gary copied him, "Yeah, cut the crap, Clarence."

"We need papers."

"That's right, papers."

Clarence narrowed his eyes. "Well, papers are not cheap." Avocato grabbed him by throat and slammed him onto the ground.

"Neither is your life, and I saved that."

Clarence dusted himself off. "Yes, right, I suppose you did. But this is the last time. Your papers are easy. But these primates..." He poked Fly and Gary.

"Hey!"

"...are gonna be much more difficult."

"Poke me there again and I will smush you," Fly warned.

"Ooh! It speaks. I guess you can train anything. I'll touch you any time I wish, primate!"

Fly let out a growl and tried to strangle him, but Avocato held her back. "Easy! Be nice to him if you want to live!"

"Oh, I'll be nice to him alright. LIKE A DOG IS NICE TO A FLEA!"

"FLY, CALM DOWN!"

"Fine! Just keep that pervert away from me!"

With Fly restrained, Clarence began to shuffle through his drawers. "Yes, no, not that one. Hold on a second. Down here at the bottom, possibly. Oh, yes, here we go." He pulled out something that Fly at first thought was a blanket, but upon closer inspection, she realized it wasn't a blanket, but the skin of a blue three eyed alien. "Oh, God, what is that thing?!"

"Skin of a dead Hooblat," Clarence said in a matter of fact tone. "Sorry, only one available. It will only fit the male."

Gary made a noise of disgust. "I have to get in this thing? It's like a slippery pita pocket."

"You want to be liquefied and have Mooncake and the Galaxy 1 destroyed?"

"No, h..." Gary's eyebrows raised. "How the hell do you know that?"

"It's everywhere. It's all anyone's talking about."

"Wait, that's not what I've heard at all," Fly said.

"GET IN THE SKIN!" Avocato and Clarence shouted.

Gary grimaced as he held onto the skin. "For Mooncake." He inhaled and slipped it over his body. "Oh, my God, it's so warm! Oh, it's... and wet! Oh. It actually kind of feels kind of nice, like a pair of warm, wet house slippers."

"Wait, what about me?" asked Fly.

"Oh, right. The female." Clarence shuffled through his drawers again. "Here, just put this on and keep the mask on." He handed her a cape and cowl.

"Wait, I get a stinky, smelly skin and she gets a mask," exclaimed Gary. "How fair is that?!"

Earth

Quinn and Tribor inspected the remains of the wrecked Infinity Guard ship. "It doesn't make any sense," said Quinn.

"I know. It doesn't make any sense," said Tribor as he wandered about. "I wish there was sense. Where did all the sense go?"

Quinn ignored him and said, "I don't get it. It's an Imperium T3. These things don't crash."

"They don't crash, you're right. It doesn't make any sense. Why would it crash?"

Quinn glanced at him. "Tribor, look me in the eye." He did. "Now shut up."

"I should shut up. Why do I keep talking?"

The woman just shook her head. Then suddenly, her scanner let out a rapid beeping. She looked at it and saw something that scared her. "Are you reading this? The gravitational constant is shifting."

Tribor nodded. "I am seeing it. I am!"

"A disturbance this strong can literally tear the universe apart."

Galaxy 1

Back on the ship, the armored intruder began to search the halls for the little green blob when HUE alerted, "Intruder alert. Initiating anti-gravity countermeasures." The whole ship suddenly spun around until the intruder found himself on the ceiling. He pressed a button on his boots, activating a magnetic feature on them that stuck him to the ceiling. He walked down the hall and into the commissary where he flipped back onto the floor.

HUE announced, "SAMEs, initiate defense sequence."

The robots fired their guns, but the intruder ducked behind the table and began to fire back at them.

KVN and Mooncake watched the fight as they head in a locker. "Anyway, I'm kind of in charge of security around here," said KVN. "Which brings me to a big ask. Could you go out there and get me a cookie?" he asked as he opened the locker.

Mooncake happily said, "Chookity!"

"Score! All right, I'll stay here and guard the fort."

Terra Con Prime

"How do I look?" Gary asked as he, Avocato and Fly left Clarence's shack. "Be honest."

"You look like a guy wearing a fat guy's baggy skin and clothes," Fly said bluntly.

"Eh...Avocato, what do you think?"

The cat-like alien took one look at him and said, "I'd give you a 2."

"Just a 2? Get my hair done or something, you know."

"How about no?"

"No, seriously, I could get highlights. I could get ombre hair, you know?"

"I can't believe it."

"Believe it, because this ombre hair is happening."

"No. Turk!" Avocato pointed behind Gary. Walking across the sidewalk was an armored alien with green skin and three yellow eyes.

"That's him, eh?" said Fly. She adjusted her mask. "Let's go."

They followed Turk to an alley, and when they were certain no one was watching, Avocato ran up to him and grabbed him by the throat. Gary pointed at him. "Thought you could rat us out, huh?"

Turk narrowed his eyes. "How the hell are you, you old bag?"

"Okay. That just hurts."

Turk flipped Avocato over and knocked Gary off a balcony. "Avocato! No!"

"Gary!" Fly screamed. She growled at Turk, then ran up to him and kicked him in the groin so hard, he fell to his knees. Avocato pointed his gun at Turk's head. "Give me one reason I don't kill you right now for leaving me to die on that ship!"

Turk made a smirk. "Because I know where your son is."

Avocato's eyes widened. "My son?" He jammed the gun into Turk's head. "Where? Where is he?"

"Holding cell 43."

"He's... he's here?"

"Now let me go."

"I'll let you go." Avocato backed away from him. Before Turk could take two more steps, he was blasted with electrcity.

"What the hell, man?!" screamed Fly. "You said you let him go!"

"I did let him go. Let him go to Hell."

Fly squeaked in fear as Turk writhed about and screamed in agony. Then exploded. "Remind me not to get on your bad sad, Avocato. Avocato?"

"I'm coming, Little Cato," the feline alien said as he ran off.

"Wait for me!" shouted Fly as she chased after him.

Down below, Gary landed on a conveyor belt, his skin suit cushioned his fall. A machine scanned him and read, "Melanie Duinger, level 4."

"Melanie Du... what... what?!" The poor guy got sucked up a tube and into a living room of an apartment. Sitting on a couch were two alien children that resembled the skin he was wearing. "Mommy!" they cheered and ran up to hug him. "You're back!"

"I sure am!" Gary chuckled. "Oh, no!" Soooo awkward.

Just then a man entered the living room. When he saw Gary, he dropped the groceries he was carrying and his eyes filled with tears. "Melanie! Oh, they told us you were dead!" He gave Gary a kiss. "Oh! Everything with your sister was a mistake."

Gary felt like soiling his skin suit. What had he gotten himself into?! "Oh, my crap," he whispered.

Meanwhile, Fly and Avocato were scaling a prison wall with the latter's grappling hook. "Be honest," Fly said. "Did you know your son was alive the whole time and you made everything you said earlier up just so you can rescue him?"

"No. I meant it. I honestly thought my son..." Avocato didn't finish the sentence.

The two broke into one of the cell windows and dropped down. There, sitting behind a glass wall was an orange feline-like alien with a blue mohawk. He couldn't have been more than fifteen years old. When he saw Avocato he ran up to the glass and banged it.

"Sit tight," Avocato said, reaching into his tool belt. His son banged the glass even more and he tried to say something, but it was soundproof. Fly saw the look of desperation on his face. "I can't hear you," Avocato said. He pressed his hands on the glass. "I messed up. I messed up bad! But I'm not gonna leave you here. I promise. I'll do whatever it takes." It was only then he read his son's lips and his eyes widened in horror. "Fly...we need to get out!"

"Avocato, what's wrong?"

"IT'S A TRAP!"

Suddenly, the lights went on and the two found themselves surrounded by four guards. One of them tossed a grenade and it opened up, trapping them in an anti-gravity field. One of the guards said, "Take them to the Lord Commander."

Back with Gary, the two kids were tugging on him, fighting over who loved their "mother" more.

"I love Mommy more!"

"No, I love Mommy more!"

Gary could hear the disguise being torn. "Okay, just, uh... stop...keep... stop tugging too hard, babies." Too late. The disguise ripped in half, revealing Gary and mentally scarring the two kids. Probably for life.

The father came running in at the sound of his kids screaming and when he saw the bloody mess, he let out a scream. "Melanie?! Oh, God!"

Gary awkwardly scratched the back of his head. "So you probably have a few questions."

"Get out of here, you maniac!"

Gary jumped out the window and took off running. He paused to shake some remaining skin off his leg. Then he looked over a railing and saw his two friends being arrested by two guards. "Avocato! Fly!" He thought back to when he and Avocato shook hands. "The clasp of friends." He checked his watch. "Only two hours till my brain shoots out of my eyes. I gotta move fast."

Back on Earth, Quinn and Tribor entered the main office of the Infinity Guard headquarters. The former said to the commander, "Sir, there's an emergency. We need to ground all Infinity Guard cruisers immediately."

"What?!" the commander said in disbelief. "Not again, Quinn."

"There's a cosmic disaster taking place. We need to find out what's causing..."

"Quinn, shut up! The Imperium T3 crashed because of human error."

"Yeah? Tell that to science." Quinn showed him a hologram of the destroyed ship. "You're an idiot. Back me up, Captain."

But what the Captain said was not what she was expecting. "Time to leave, Quinn."

Quinn face palmed. "Okay. The Captain is also an idiot. Lieutenant?" The Lieutenant made a clicking sound with his claws. "You're all idiots! Idiots, idiots," she ranted as she left the room.

Tribor lagged behind. "Are you idiots? Why would you all be idiots? I think you're all very smart." Then he followed after Quinn. "Well, I gotta go."

Back on the Galaxy 1, the masked intruder was still tearing apart the SAMEs. HUE said, "Stop, or I will be forced to..." Then the whole ship flipped over and the lasers turned on. The intruder shot a dart at one of HUE's screens. "Manual override of AI. H.U.E. disabled..."

Terra Con Prime

Fly and Avocato were dragged to the throne room of the Lord Commander. Fly took one look at the diminutive alien and felt chills go down her spine. Something about this creep was...evil was putting it mildly.

"Avocato," the Lord Commander rasped. "We had a deal. You promised me E-351 and you failed. Again.

"Trust me, I can do this. I'm close."

The Lord Commander made a giddy face as he walked over to Avocato. "Ooh! Ooh, hurray. When will it be mine? Wait, are you hiding it on you? Is this a game? I love games."

"I don't have it. But I brought you someone who does."

Fly's eyes widened. "Wait, what?!"

The Lord Commander's eyes fell onto Fly. "And who is this?" He placed a hand under her chin and forced her to look at him.

"Someone who has E-351. Her and another human. His name is Gary."

Fly squirmed out of the Lord Commander's hand and shouted, "Avocato! You made a friendship clasp! Is that not meaningful to you?!"

"Quiet. Look, Lord Commander, I get you him, you give me back my son."

The Lord Commander responded by bringing Avocato's face into the ground with his telekinesis and growling, "No deal."

And guess who showed up. "There you are," exclaimed Gary. "What a day I've had, man. I think I destroyed a family." It was then he realized what was going on. "Oh. So how about we get out of here?"

"Gary, run!" Fly shouted. "Avocato betrayed your friendship clasp - guah!" She suddenly felt her throat tighten as if by an invisible hand and felt herself being lifted up into the air. The Lord Commander sneered at Gary as he held his prey in a telekinetic grasp. "You must be the Gary," he hissed.

"Okay. Actually, it's just Gary."

"The Gary."

Gary groaned in frustration. "Just Gary. You know, just... just... there's no... Where's this 'the' coming from?" The Lord Commander didn't respond to him. "Well, this has been great. But, Avocato, run!" He suddenly couldn't move. He was caught too.

"I haven't introduced myself," the small alien rasped. "I am the Lord Commander."

"Oh, is that you? That's fantastic. But we really gotta... Avocato!"

"He's a..." choked Fly. "...traitor. GULP!"

The Lord Commander tightened his hold around her throat as he said, "You and Fly have something of mine, and I want it. Come here, the Gary." He used his powers to force Gary over to him.

"What is going on? Oh, God!" Gary tried to run, but he couldn't; his whole body was being twisted in awkward angles. "Okay, this is... it's nice to be wanted. But this is... this is too much want."

The Lord Commander hissed, "Are you going to give me E-351, or should I tear you limb from limb?"

Gary felt himself being slowly stretched out like he was on a rack. "Avocato, a little help." He felt himself being pulled...and pulled... "Avocato, the clasp of friends! Please, man! Avocato!"

Avocato looked from the Lord Commander to Gary and Fly. Then he made up his mind and tried to help them down. Gary laughed. "Friend mode! Engaged!"

The Lord Commander was confused. "Friend? He was just betraying you."

"Untrue. We clasped hands. Right, bro?"

The feline alien gave him an apologetic look. "I was desperate, man. I was trying to save my son."

"You could have told us," Fly said. "We could have helped you without all the secrets!"

Avocato looked down "Yeah, you're right."

The Lord Commander's eyes narrowed with hate, then with a single thought, he ripped Gary's left arm out of its socket. "Aah! Oh, my God!" he screamed. Then he screamed again as blood sprayed onto the Lord Commander's face, "You idiot! That's my freakin' arm! You just ripped the thing off!"

The Lord Commander was so distracted by wiping the blood off that he let go of Gary and Fly. Fly ran up to Gary and tried to stop the bleeding. "Stop moving around," she shouted as she tried to hold him in place. "You're going to bleed to death if we don't close the wound!"

But Gary was panicking too much to be reasoned, "Aah! Oh, my God! Oh, what the freak?! I'm spraying all my blood!" Finally, Avocato shot a slime into the socket and stopped the bleeding. And then Gary got mad. "I am going to murder your face off!"

"I will murder your face on!" screamed the Lord Commander.

"That doesn't make any sense!"

"Run!" Avocato grabbed Gary and Fly and they took off running; not before Gary could grab his dismembered arm.

The Lord Commander roared, "After them!"

The two ran out the palace and down a long set of stairs with a whole bunch of guards chasing after them.

"Oh, there's so many stairs!" panted Gary.

"Quit talking, you idiot!" shouted Avocato.

"Why are there so many stairs?!"

They ran into the market but Avocato stopped and looked back. "Gary, I can't leave my son."

Gary slapped him with his dismembered arm. "Oh, we're going, all right...and fast... before my brain explodes!"

The two of them kept running as the guards were starting to catch up to them. "We're not gonna make it back to the transporter," panted Avocato.

Gary smirked at the large ship coming into view. "Looks like we got a new ride." And then it took off, revealing a small flying saucer. "Okay, not ideal, but still a ride." And then it took off, revealing a small cube. "Oh, come on! I don't even know what that is." It was just a small drone that took off. "Crap it hard!" He looked over the railing. "We jump to the catwalk."

"Are you insane?" shouted Avocato.

"No, I'm super insane."

"He really is," said Fly.

And just like that, the trio jumped off the railing and down onto the catwalk...only to crash right through it and resume falling. They screamed all the way down until they landed onto the windshield of a flying car. Gary's eyes widened. "Oh, my God, David, kids! It's me, your mother!" The family he traumatized earlier screamed and the father activated the windshield wipers, sending them flying off except for his arm, which got stuck in the blade. "No, my arm! I forgot my arm back up there!"

"Gary, what did you do earlier," Fly asked. "You know what, we'll talk later when our brains don't explode!"

"This is no good! H.U.E., pick up, pick up!"

But there was no respond. Soon, there was a hole coming into view. A hole that led to outer space. But then it closed and two cannons pointed at them and fired at them.

"Are those what I think they are?" Gary asked Avocato.

"Viper turrets."

"Okay, that's not good. That's not good!" He reached out for Fly and Avocato. "Quick, hug me."

"Hug you?" they both asked.

"Hug a friend!" insisted Gary.

"WHAT?!"

"HUG A FRIEND!"

Fly looked down to see a small hole between the two turrets. "Oh, I get it!"

The three of them held onto each other. "Oh, we're hugging," exclaimed Gary. Before they were sucked out into space, Gary activated a force field bubble, saving themselves from suffocation. Then he activated his communicator. "H.U.E.? H.U.E., come in!"

Back on Earth, Quinn was in the hangar of the Infinity Guard with Tribor close behind her. "Quinn. Quinn, where are you going?"

"To the first Hawk I can jack," she said with a hint of anger. "Something big is happening, and I'm not waiting while command sits around, twiddling their wieners. Maybe I can't stop it, but I'm going to find out what it is. Cover for me." She hopped into one of the ships and took off.

Tribor tilted his head. "Why would they be twiddling their wieners? Why?"

Meanwhile, back on the Galaxy 1, KVN was talking to himself, not realizing Mooncake as gone already. "Wait, I'm gonna need six cookies. And another one. So
seven... eight cookies. Wait, nine cookies! Ah, I guess I better give him a hand." He left the locker, only to bump into the intruder who overrode his programming.

"KVN, you're going to have to save the Galaxy 1 someday," the intruder said. "Inside of you now is the answer." He placed a chip in the robot's back. At that moment, Mooncake was back and watched in awe as the intruder removed his helmet and revealed he was a she! In fact, she looked like an older version of Quinn with a few cybernetic parts.

"Hey, Mooncake. My name is Nightfall. Don't let Gary die because of you." She left and deactivated the manual override on HUE.

Gary's voice came in. "H.U.E.! Come in, H.U.E.!"

HUE slowly came back on. "Arrr... yes, Gary?"

"What the crap, H.U.E.?! I've been calling you. We need you to scoop us up A.S.A.P.P.!"

"On my way, Gary."

Gary was NOT happy when he went to the Galaxy One's medlab with KVN following him. "He-e-e-ey, Gary, your arm is gone."

"Oh, my gosh. Is it? Really? I know my arm is gone, you decaying pile of fecal matter! Now get this thing out of my head, H.U.E."

"Yeah about that," Fly said. "HUE just told me a little funny thing." She laughed maniacally. "Our heads weren't going to explode to whole time! Ha, ha! It was just a placebo! Ha, ha, ha! FUNNY, RIGHT, HUE?!"

"That's just my sense of humor."

Gary's eye twitched. "You make one joke in five years, and that is the one you tell?"

"Timing... is everything, Gary."

Just then, Mooncake came into the room. When he saw Gary's stump, he became concerned. He looked around for a solution. "Hmm." Then he saw it. "Whoo." He went over to a SAME and ripped its arm off.

"My arm! My arm!" it shouted.

Fly was amazed with Mooncake. "You're a genius, squishy!" She patted his head, making him squeak with delight.

HUE caught on to what the little blob was thinking as well. "Interesting. We can surgically implant an animatronic arm on you."

"Gary, while you were gone, an intruder..."

"Shut your face hole, KVN. Didn't you just hear the news? I'm getting a robot arm."

HUE said, "But someone will need to perform the procedure, Gary."

"I'll do it," Avocato said. He made a "handsome face".

Gary made a "handsome face" of his own. "You?"

"Create temporary arterial shunt." HUE instructed the feline alien as he performed the surgery.

Gary was a little disappointed with him. "I thought we were gonna be like super friends, man."

"I've had one mission for the past three years, Gary, and that is to find my son."

"You know what? Fly is right. You should have told me. We did the clasp of friends. We would have straight-up helped you get your son back."

"What? Why? You barely know me."

"Yo, we played nine hours of cards together. That might not mean something to you, but it did to me. And probably to Fly."

"Expose bone for plating," HUE instructed Avocato.

Gary winced in pain, but continued, "Friends help each other through thick and thin and thinner and nothing."

Avocato frowned sadly. "I have nothing to give in return."

"Yeah, you do, yo. Your friendship, yo. I've been stuck here for so long with just freakin' robots. Look robot, robot, robot, robot, robot, robot! Freakin' robot."

"That's the refrigerator, Gary," said Fly.

"Really? Because I've had some serious, dark conversations with that thing. I knows everything about me. Keep your mouth shut, you lying robot!"

Fly groaned. "Should have knocked him out before the procedure."

"Micro-vascular transplant coverage complete," HUE said as the arm was attached to the stump.

Gary smiled as he flexed his new fingers. Avocato said, "It's an unconventional way to start a friendship, but...Hmm?" Gary put a finger to his lips.

"Shh! No words. Only clasps."

They shook hands.

"Bro, you being real this time?"

"As real as it gets, baby."

"Then I promise you, we will get your son back. And keep Mooncake safe. And murder that guy's face off."

"I don't think that's a great idea."

Gary didn't care. "Real raw friendship mode engaged."

Mooncake flew around the three and said, "Ooh!"

Avocato was in his room, unpacking some of his things, when Fly came into the room, holding a cookie. "You know, Gary is forgiving, but I'm not as much," she said in a low tone. "So, let me tell you somefink, kitty."

"Uh...don't you mean something?" Avocato was not liking where this was going.

"I know what I said!" Fly shouted. "So, let me give it to you straight. If you EVER betray a friendship clasp again..." She crumbled the cookie in her hands. "...and your son will be an orphan if you catch my drift."

Avocato narrowed his eye at her. "Yeah. I catch it." He turned to unpack more of his things.

"Hey..." Fly paused. "I'm sorry. I really am."

Avocato did not face her. "I know."

Back at Terra Con Prime, Cetus grinned wickedly as she whispered in Little Cato's ear, "Where you're going, your father will never find you." Suddenly, the Lord Commander contacted her. "What is it?"

"Good news," he rasped. "We found E-351 and the Gary. The only bad news is that Avocato betrayed me. Again."

"That doesn't surprise me. He was always weak when it came to his son."

"And guess what? Fly is with them." Silence. "Cetus?" She hung up on him. Her hands began to tremble and she slowly turned to face a very terrified Little Cato. "I need to take my anger out on someone..."