Get ready to turn your brains to viewing mode because, previously on "Final Space," Gary just received a Mayday call for none other than Quinn,
the super-spicy captain he hasn't stopped thinking about for the past five years. What a loser! Ha ha ha! Oh, and Quinn is on the run from the Infinity Guard? Whoa! We've had our fun. Get ready to have yours.

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

"It can't be."

"What are you doing, Gary?"

"What do you think I'm doing? I'm gonna consume its power."

"But opening your helmet will blow out your internals, inducing instantaneous death."

"That's one possible outcome. Another, I eat the cookie, and its power turns me into a majestic space-breathing manticore."

"You will die before you eat the cookie."

"I'm pretty sure I could get it in there before I die."

"That is not possible, Gary."

"I really think I can do it. I'm gonna lob it right in and close the helmet super fast."

"You can't, Gary. No lobbing, no closing, no cookie."

"Mayday, Mayday! My name is Quinn Airgone, a captain in the Infinity Guard. I've been investigating a gravitational disturbance, which I now see
is a breach in space. Many people are dead, and I'm about to join them unless... Aah! Is there not a single idiot that can hear me?!"

Unbeknownst to Quinn, an idiot did hear her. "I can hear her," said Gary. "The greatest love story in the history of the universe is about to blossom forth."

Avocato said, "Yo, dude, just keep the expectations in check. Quinn hasn't responded to a single message of yours in five years."

"People get busy. I'm busy."

"No one gets busy for five years," said Fly.

"4 years, 11 months and 30 days."

"That's five years, bro," Avocato said.

Gary folded his arms. "Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't."

"It is."

"But it could not be."

"You're an idiot, Gary," Fly groaned.

The ship caught Quinn's escape pod in a tractor beam. "Disabled transporter is now locked in," HUE said. "Dispatching SAMEs to secure Quinn."

"Over my hard nipples, H.U.E.," Gary said as he swatted KVN aside. "If anyone is saving Quinn, it's me, the captain."

"Gary, for what is the 9,045th time, you are still a prisoner."

"You've been keeping track?!" exclaimed Fly.

"I disagree with you," Gary said to the AI. "As soon as the crap hit the interstellar fan, I became the captain for real."

"Calculating... no," said HUE.

"Calculating, yes. I will use those powers to rescue Quinn."

"One week has been added to your sentence."

Fly burst out laughing. Gary was not having it. "Frickin' what ... what ... w... what's new, H.U.E.? What's new?" He put his hands together. "Now, before I risk my life for the woman I love, does anyone perchance have a breath mint?"

"Right here, Gary." KVN tossed a mint into Gary's mouth and he began choking. KVN rushed up to help. "God, no, I'm killing my best friend! Let KVN get it. I can do it." He stuck his hand down Gary's throat looking for the mint. "I'm close. It's right there." He popped his hand out and held up the mint with glee.

"What is wrong with you," Fly shouted.

Gary pushed the annoying robot away from him. "KVN, stay away, far away from me forever! Oh, my God! Ugh!"

Gary put on his space suit and tethered himself before opening the door to the hanger. "Commencing rescue. Commencing destiny." The escape pod exploded and Quinn was ejected out. At that moment, Gary jumped out and caught her before she could drift off into space. He gave the tether a tug, signaling Fly to pull them in.

The hanger door closed and Gary, Fly and Quinn removed their helmets. Fly smiled as she helped him up. "Nice work. I need to commandeer your ship. I have a class-three priority."

"Quinn, you look every bit as spicy as the last time I saw you," Gary said, trying to put on the charm.

"Great, and you are again?"

"Oh-ho-ho! How I've missed your razor-sharp wit.

"No, seriously, I have no idea who you are."

"Really?"

"You resemble no one I know, so, yeah, really."

"Seriously?"

"Seriously."

Gary gasped. "Oh, dear Lord, you're suffering from amnesia!"

"I'm suffering from an emergency that's going to destroy Earth."

Gary laughed in denial. "Quinn, you really expect me to believe you don't know who I am? Hold on. I know how to fix this." He put on his "handsome face". "This is the real raw Gary."

Quinn just laughed. "That didn't fix it, whoever you are."

Gary was genuinely hurt. "What a dagger to the heart. I'm the guy who, for the past five years, has been sending daily documentaries to the woman who has no idea who I am!"

"Wow, that sucks. I never got any of them."

Fly burst out laughing again. "Oh, this is too good! You sent all those messages," she pointed to Gary. "And she never read any of them! You're that insignificant, Gary!" She laughed again, taking in the joy at seeing his downhearted face.

"Wait, I do know you," Quinn pointed to Fly.

Fly stopped laughing. "Wait. You do?"

"Yeah. You're that crazy junkie who wrecked an entire ecosystem when you dumped your products into that ocean planet! Yeah, you were all over the news!"

Fly chuckled awkwardly. "I've done more than that."

"Seriously?!" Gary shouted. "You know Fly, but you don't know me?!"

"Sorry, no," said Quinn. "Now, if you could just show me where the bridge is..."

"It's all good. Life, you know?" Gary left.

Quinn said to Fly and Mooncake, "Hmm, cute guy, but issues, definite issues."

Gary ran to his room, crying like a little baby in a very overdramatic fashion, "Quinn doesn't even know who I am!" He banged his fists into the wall, Mooncake watching with concern. "Oh... this is not what it's supposed to be. Oh, God, it hurts so much! Oh, she doesn't even know who I am!" He grabbed his video diary. "I need to record my feelings!"

"Quinn, for future reference, the decent thing would've been to fake amnesia. I would've faked amnesia. People I know and love all would've faked amnesia, but you had to be honest. Name one decent relationship that has ever been built on honesty. You can't, can you? That's because there aren't any. I know this doesn't make any sense, but I really needed to talk to somebody right now and you're the only person I can open my heart wallet to and spend my hurt coins with."

At that moment, Fly, Avocato and Quinn came in. "Jerry?"

This only hurt Gary more. "'Jerry?' You don't even know my name."

"Avocato, Fly, is he all right?"

"No," said Avocato.

"You know Avocato's name?"

At that moment, KVN and the SAMEs came in. "Hey, gang."

"Not now, KVN," Quinn said. "Carl, Hank, Orson, Noodles, can you give me and, uh...

"Gary," said Fly. "His name is Gary."

"...Gary a minute?"

Everyone left, leaving the two of them alone with Mooncake.

"Who are you recording that for?" Quinn asked.

"Someone who meant quite a lot to me," Gary said solemnly.

"I hope she gets to see it one day. When you're this far out in space, most of that stuff gets lost."

Gary ended his recording. "Suppose it does. What did you come here for?"

"I just wanted to thank you, Gerald."

"You're welcome." Gary was still hurt. He swore he could hear Fly laughing even though she was with Avocato.

At that moment, the SAMEs came barging in. "Gerald? Is his name Gerald?" they asked. "Was he lying to us this whole time? I'm confused. Maybe Gerald is a nickname. Maybe his last name is Gerald. Help me to understand, Gerald, Gary, Gerald."

In the commissary, Fly was drinking her coffee with Avocato. "So, what did you do to get on Cetus' bad side?" Avocato asked.

"Heh, search me."

"I am."

Fly sipped her drink before saying, "I got on a lot of peoples' bad sides. Namely for stealing their property, drugging them and stealing from them and selling naked pictures of them on the web..."

Avocato's eyes widened. "What?"

"The point is, she's probably just another one of those people."

Avocato shook his head. "This seemed a bit more personal. Like she knew you."

Fly looked at him. "Do you know her?"

"Barely. I met her only once after I was..."

Before he could finish his sentence, three SAMEs burst into the room, their eyes glowing and their hands turning into guns. "This ship has been seized by the authority of the Infinity Guard."

Avocato immediately responded by shooting them in the heads. "What the hell was that?!" shouted Fly. Suddenly, the ship began to rock and the lights began to dim. Gary, Mooncake and Quinn ran into the room as Fly shouted, "HUE, what's going?!"

"Emergency. Our power reactor has been drained. The Galaxy I is immobilized. A takeover command has been uploaded into my system. I am fighting it, but it will succeed."

"Can't you be more optimistic," Fly groaned.

"It's the Infinity Guard," Quinn realized. "We've been hacked. For some reason, they're trying to shut down my investigation."

"What a bunch of nerds," Gary scoffed.

"They're after me."

"You? Why? You're perfect."

"Where do I start?" Quinn counted off her fingers. "The Earth is being sucked into a black hole. I went rogue, stole a ship, evaded arrest, and if I don't get off this ship, everyone dies."

Fly said, "Again, it wouldn't help to be a bit more optimistic."

Gary poked Quinn's cheek. "You sly fox." She punched him in the face. "Jelly! Hey! Oh, my gosh. Okay. Sorry, sorry. I meant, you icy minx." He got punched again. "Oh, I'm bleeding! I'm bleeding. Sorry, I meant, Danger Panda?" And again. "Oh! We're flirting! We're flirting! This is great! This is a good advancement in our relationship!" And again. Gary was sure she broke something that time. "Oh! Oh, my gosh! Okay. Okay. We're done flirting. We're not flirting," he chuckled. "Just like old times."

"Trust me. This is just the start," Quinn said. "An Imperium cruiser will be on the way to seize the ship."

"Great, more length to add to my sentence," Fly said.

"This is serious!" Quinn said seriously. "We could be facing the death penalty!"

Avocato snarked, "Well, welcome aboard. Like we needed more danger. Now we're just stuck here until the Infinity Guard captures us."

"How do we get this choo-choo train back to Safetytown?" asked Gary.

HUE pulled up an image of a star going dim. "Theoretically, we could harness the solar rays from that dying star, but it is highly unstable."

"We've got to get out of here," said Quinn. "I could space-vault close enough to it with a VX-1 light-matter pump, mine it and restart the reactor core."

Gary tried to put on the charm. "I'll do it."

KVN raised his hand. "I'll do it!"

Gary punched him away. "I'll save you again!"

Quinn just laughed. "No way."

"Yes way."

"You? No, no, no, me."

"Me! No, not..."

"No, me."

"I ... I will do it. Then you will know who Gary Goodspeed is." He walked over to the elevator, not realizing there was no elevator. "Don't worry. I do this all the..." He fell. "Ti-i-i-i-i-me!"

"He does do that all the time," said Avocato.

Fly sighed. "I better go with him. Make sure he doesn't get into trouble again."

Quinn stopped her. "Oh, no. You're a well known criminal serving a sentence for destroying an ecosystem. You're not getting off that easily."

Fly made an exasperated noise. "Quinn, we are about to die! I don't care about that!" She was about to go when Mooncake blocked her way.

"Chookity."

Fly groaned. "Not you, too!" She face palmed and said. "Fine, you go with Gary, squishy. Just make sure he's safe no matter what happens."

"Pock!"

Gary recounted his plan to Mooncake as he put on his space suit. "I'm gonna save the ship. I'm gonna save Quinn. I'm gonna harness the crap out of destiny." He put on his thruster pack and opened the hanger bay's doors. "Mooncake, let's do this!"

Mooncake said as they flew out, "Chock, chock, chock, chock, woo-hoo!"

"Play the good stuff, H.U.E." said Gary.

"You're a go for thrusters."

When they flew to the star, they were almost hit by a piece of space debris. "What is that?!" Gary looked again. The star was surrounded by huge pieces of what looked like space ships.

"The star is surrounded by a graveyard of destroyed vessels."

Gary rolled his eyes. "Thank you for the heads-up, H.U.E."

"What you are seeing, Gary, is the remains of the Scarlet Lance and its fleet. Thousands of souls were lost."

"And it's messy. Forgot that part, H.U.E. It's a mess all over here. There, over there, right here, especially right here, everywhere, it's a mess."

Something glowing caught Mooncake's eye. "Chookity." He flew over toward it.

Gary landed on a piece of debris, pulled out a box and pointed it at the star. "Hurry, Gary," warned HUE. "The star is about to implode."

"We're cooking, H.U.E." Gary pushed a button on the box and energy traveled from the star, to the box and to the Galaxy 1.

"Power is being received," said HUE.

Back on the ship, Avocato, Fly and Quinn readied their guns as the SAMEs started to break down the door.

"The SAMEs are cutting through," Avocato exclaimed.

The robots burst through and began firing their guns. The trio fought back, but as they did, HUE said, "H.U.E. system is overrun. You are all now prisoners of the Infinity Guard. An Imperium will be here shortly to seize you. I'm sorry."

Fly looked out the window, worried. "Hurry, you two."

Back with Little Cato, he was trying to figure out how to make the communicator device work, but he couldn't get it to work. Then he saw the problem. It had no battery. The door to his cell opened and he quickly hid it in his pocket. In walked the Lord Commander and Cetus who was carrying a tray of food. "Whatcha doing?" the former asked.

Little Cato did his best to hide his fear. "Not much, you know, mostly being imprisoned." He took note of how the little alien's wounds were not healing; in fact, they looked like they were getting worse. "You look like crap."

"Shut up!"

"You always look like crap, but right now, like, you look like if crap built a house on crap. GULP!" Cetus grabbed him by the throat and lifted him up into the air.

"He said, shut up," she growled before punching him in the stomach and letting him go. He coughed up blood and wheezed. "One more outburst like that and I'll cut off your tail and make it into a necktie." He did not make a response.

The Lord Commander chuckled. "Where do you come up with these threats?"

"I learned it from my teacher," Cetus said as she and the Lord Commander left. As they walked down the hall of cells, the Lord Commander's second-in-command said, "Forgive me for saying this, but he's right. You do look like crap. You need to rest."

"I do not need your concern and I don't need rest! I need Mooncake!"

"But..."

The Lord Commander held up his hand and made a fist. Cetus felt her throat tighten and she fell to her knees as she tried to breathe. "I said," he growled. "I don't need your concern!"

"No...you don't. Forgive me, my Lord Commander."

He let her go and she coughed and inhaled deep.

If only they had looked back in the cell. If they had, they would have seen Little Cato discover a hidden battery taped to the bottom of the tray.

"They just keep coming," Fly screamed as the SAMEs poured into the bridge.

"SAMEs, apprehend the targets," droned HUE. "Use all force necessary."

"Retreat!" shouted Avocato. He, KVN, Quinn and Fly ran into the supply closet and Fly smashed the lock.

"It is only a matter of time before we break in," said HUE. "Surrender now."

"If we can get into H.U.E.'s mainframe," said Quinn. "We can regain control of the ship."

"Yeah, that would work, EXCEPT FOR THE ARMY OF KILLER ROBOTS STANDING OUTSIDE THIS DOOR!" shouted Fly.

Quinn tore off an air vent. "That's our way out."

KVN raised his hand. "Hey, guys, I can disable H.U.E."

"We need to send the best person for the job."

"I accept," said Avocato.

"I have a key in my butthole," said KVN.

"I was thinking of me," said Quinn with a hint of arrogance.

Avocato chuckled. "That's funny because I was thinking of me."

"I can do it. Embrace the KVN."

"Would you just go, KVN?!" snapped Fly. "Go fix HUE and be a hero!"

KVN paused. Then he said, "Okay, wish me luck!" He flew into the vent.

Quinn and Avocato were stunned. "What did you DO?!" exclaim the latter.

"Sent him to save us," said Fly. "This means that if he fails, I won't ever have to be in his annoying, stupid presence again," she said with a maniacal laughter.

"But if he fails," said Quinn. "The Infinity Guard are going to arrest us and possibly kill us!"

"You've doomed us all," Avocato shouted.

Fly went silent. Then she said, "I've made a terrible mistake."

Meanwhile, Mooncake discovered the source of the glow: the remains of a video log. He pressed the play button. "Captain's log 5397. We have found a life-form small in size. The doctors tell me it's unlike anything they have ever seen. We're calling it E-351."

Another voice rang out, "Captain, we're being hailed."

"Link it through.

What Mooncake heard next gave him a chill. It was the voice of the Lord Commander. "Hello. You found something I have been searching for. Hand it over!"

"Captain, they're locking onto our fleet!"

"Prepare the lightfold engines!"

"Sir, they're firing!"

"Evasive...Gah!"

There was nothing left but static.

Mooncake's eyes widened. He was about to leave, when a purple hologram appeared before him. It was an image of Nightfall. "Chookity?"

"Wherever you go, death follows, and it will make its way to Gary," she said grimly.

Mooncake's antennae drooped. He didn't want to be responsible for his friend's death. Then he remembered what Fly said to him. To keep Gary safe no matter what happens.

Back with Gary, he could feel his suit's temperature rising. "It's getting pretty hot out here, H.U.E." No response. "H.U.E.! H.U.E.?" He tried contacting the AI, but all he got was static. "Can you hear me? H.U.E.? Avocato? Quinn? Anybody?!" Silence. "KVN?"

Gary had to get out of here, even if he couldn't contact anyone. "All right. Time to head back before this star implodes. Where's Mooncake? Mooncake!" Then he heard it a voice calling his name. He looked around, but saw nothing. Nothing except a small green caterpillar floating toward him. "Why is there a caterpillar out here? What brings you, noble creature, so close to my face? Wait. Why am I talking to a caterpillar? It's obvious. I'm hallucinating."

He touched the caterpillar and screamed as he was sucked into a tunnel before stopping, finding himself in a white void that slowly turned into a living room. And there, watching the television and eating potato chips was...himself. Himself when he was just ten-years-old.

"How's my boy doing?" said a man entering the living room. He had brown hair with signs of graying and his face resembled Gary's.

"Great!" his younger self said.

Gary recognized the man immediately. "Dad?"

The two of them watched the news on the TV. "The new Imperium T-3 Cruiser will bridge us to the next galaxy, and the countdown has begun. 10...9..."

"Hey, you want to watch the launch outside?" the boy's father asked.

"You bet!"

The father picked his son up onto his shoulders, walked outside and he pointed in a general direction. "It'll be taking off right over there."

"...3, 2, 1."

The boy's eyes widened with awe. "One day, I'm gonna do that."

His father smiled. "You are, huh?

"Yeah, I'm gonna have a whole bunch of adventures."

"A whole bunch?"

"Bunches and bunches."

Gary turned away from the scene and faced the caterpillar. "Why are you showing this to me? Answer me, you drug-dealer caterpillar!" He tried to swat the bug away, but when he did, he found himself in a new scene: the boy in a treehouse with his father climbing up the ladder. His eyes widened. "I remember this."

"Son..."

"I could come with you," the boy said sadly.

The father put a hand on his son's shoulder. "There's nothing more in the world that I would want, but not this time, little buddy. I have to do this one alone. You won't understand, but know that I'm doing this for you. Can you make me a promise?"

"Yeah."

"Promise me you'll have your own adventures."

"I will."

"Bunches and bunches," the father said. He reached behind him and handed his son a jar with a small green caterpillar in it. "Here, this fellow will look after you while I'm gone."

The boy looked at the jar with wonder and stared into the caterpillar's large innocent eyes. "What's his name?" he asked.

"Mooncake," said the father.

Gary was so caught in this scene, he didn't realize his suit's temperature was rising to dangerous levels.

Meanwhile, back on the Galaxy 1, KVN was floating his way through the ventilation system, looking for HUE's core. He heard HUE say, "KVN, I know what you're trying to do, KVN." Finally, he reached the core. "Every attempt to disable me will fail because you are a loser."

"Can't talk, H.U.E. I have to insert this thingy in you." He reached for his rear then opened it up, revealing the key Nightfall placed in him. "Ta da!"

"I will not let that insertion happen. This is your last chance to cease all action."

KVN just laughed like an idiot and reached for the socket...

"Stop." HUE zapped KVN and sent him onto the ground. "No one believes in you. Go back, you waste of life."

For a second, it looked as though HUE's taunts worked, until the robot heard Quinn call out, "Hurry, KVN!" With his confidence restored, he pressed onward, ignoring the electrical attacks HUE kept shooting at him until finally he inserted the key.

"Booting back up. All systems now independent of the Infinity Guard network."

KVN collapsed onto the ground. Still, he made a grin. "KVN is victorious!" He crawled back into the ventilation system and back into the closet where Quinn, Avocato and Fly were brushing themselves off after fighting the SAMEs that managed to burst in.

"KVN did it," Quinn said. She patted his head. "Good job, KVN."

"Gary is never going to believe this," Avocato said.

"I can't believe it," said Fly. "And I'm the one who sent him!"

The group went back into the bridge as the power was restored. "Systems have been reactivated," said HUE. "Hello."

"Nice to have you back, H.U.E.," said Fly.

"Nice to be back. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but we're still in extreme danger. Those dickheads from the Infinity Guard found us, and Gary is not responding." HUE tried contacting Gary again. "Gary, where are you? Your radiation levels are becoming critical. You must leave now."

But Gary was still stuck in his trance. Now, he was watching the boy sitting in front of the TV with the caterpillar in his hands.

The reporter said, "John Goodspeed is on a mission to investigate a shift in the gravitational constant that's creating an anomaly in space."

Gary wanted to close his eyes but he couldn't. "Don't make me watch this."

"You have to."

Gary could only watch as the spaceship his father was in launched...and then exploded before his very eyes the second it left Earth. No... "DAD!"

Mooncake flew over to Gary, wondering what was wrong with him. He waved a stubby limb in front of his face. "Chookity-pock-pock?"

But Gary didn't hear him. Nor did he hear HUE say, "Warning, warning, radiation levels have reached 92%. Gary, return to the ship
immediately. I am detecting massive fluctuations in the star."

Quinn sat in the pilot's seat and pressed a few buttons. "H.U.E., prime the lightfold engines."

"What about Gary?" asked Avocato.

"We don't have the time. If the Infinity Guard catches me, billions of people die. I like Jerry."

"Gary!"

"Right, Gary. I don't want to leave him, but this is bigger than one person." Quinn flinched when she heard a gun cock behind her. She turned around to see Fly. "What are you doing?"

"We're staying here until Gary comes back."

"Did you not hear what I just said?"

"I did. We're staying."

"Don't you get it?!" Quinn stood up and poked a finger in Fly's chest. "If the Infinity Guard catches us, I won't be able to save Earth!"

"Screw Earth. We're staying."

Quinn couldn't believe it. "You're really going to sacrifice a planet for one man?!"

"Yes. Well, maybe. I don't know. I just don't want to leave him."

"Radiation levels have now reached 98%. Wake up, Gary. The star could explode at any moment."

"GET THE HELL BACK ON THIS SHIP RIGHT NOW!" screamed Fly. "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!"

Avocato shouted into the communicator, "Gary, wake the hell up, man. Get back to the ship pronto."

"Gary, the star is going supernova."

Mooncake frowned with determination. Save Gary no matter what happens. He slapped him and he awoke from his trance just as the star was about to explode. "OH, MY GRAM!" he screamed. Mooncake grabbed him by the arms and took off flying back to the ship. "Go faster! Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go!" He looked back to see the explosion was catching up to them. "Oh! Oh, oh! This is troubling! Oh, no! No," he screamed.

"He won't make it in time," Quinn said.

"Yes, he will," Avocato said.

"Sorry, Quinn. We wait for Gary." HUE said.

Quinn sighed. "All right. We wait for Gary."

The Infinite Guard patrol came out of lightspeed and began to surround the Galaxy 1. At that moment, Gary and Mooncake were getting close to the vessel. "They're here!" Fly exclaimed. "Open the freaking door, HUE!" HUE obeyed, opening the door to the hanger. The door closed as soon as they came flying in. "They're on board! Lightfold the ship NOW!"

The ship went into lightspeed, leaving the Infinity Guard patrol to be destroyed by the supernova. Everyone exhaled in relief. "That was close."

"Yeah," said Quinn. "One more thing." She punched Fly in the face, sending her to the ground. "Don't EVER point a gun on me again!"

Zetacron Prime The Lord Commander's Prison Colony

Back with Little Cato, he finally managed to get the communicator to work after messing with the battery and pressing a few buttons. "It works." He pressed record. "Dad, these are my coordinates. Come find me, I mean, at your leisure, but, like, for me, preferably fast. That'd be great." And...send.

Galaxy 1

Gary was still finding the whole story hard to believe as soon as everyone settled in the commissary. "Who reverse-hacked H.U.E. and the SAMEs again?"

"I did." KVN said gleefully.

"Right, you keep saying that, except there's just no way that's possible."

"It's true," said Fly. "And I'm the one who told him to do it."

"So," Gary said, trying to get it straight. "You basically sent an idiot to save us all?"

"Yep."

"You nearly doomed us all."

"That's what Quinn and Avocato said."

"So what can you tell me about this gravitational disturbance?" asked Quinn.

"Why do you want to know?"

"I think my dad has something to do with it."

"Wait, who's your dad?"

"John Goodspeed."

"Your dad was John Goodspeed?" Quinn's eyes widened. "Now I remember! Five years ago, you're the guy who kept asking me for a drink, then blew up 92 Imperium Cruisers and a small Mexican family restaurant!"

"Yes, yes, yes! That's me!" He pointed at Quinn. "You do remember me!"

I do. Now get that finger out of my face, or I'll snap it off.

"I like how you speak words." SNAP! "AAAAAAHHHH!"

While Gary writhed on the floor, holding his broken finger, Fly said, "Quinn, again I'm sorry about the whole pointing-a-gun-to-your-head thing."

"Hey, water under the bridge now." She held out her hand. Fly shook it.

"Hey," said Fly. "Maybe when all this gravitational disturbance stuff is over, we can, I don't know...get a coffee? Have a slumber party or whatever it is girls our age do? It would be nice to have a female friend."

"Sorry," Quinn said. "But I'm an officer of the law. Hanging out with a criminal is kind of bad for my reputation.

"Dude, your reputation went down the drain the instant you rebelled. But..." Fly shrugged her shoulders. "Feel free to change your mind."