Previously on "Final Space"...it's double trouble aboard the Galaxy One as the Lord Commander and the Infinity Guard are both gunning for our crew. Little Cato is desperately trying to contact his father... Oh, no!...and Quinn is about to unlock a huge mystery threatening Earth. Oh, double no. My slacks are tightening just thinking about this. Oh, triple no.

"Gary, you have 5 minutes of oxygen left.

"I lived a good life. Medium to good/borderline crappy. Saw some side boob once. That was cool. H.U.E., have you ever seen side boob?"

"Side boob? No, Gary. The more you talk, the more oxygen you..."

"You're missing out. I guess it wasn't all that bad. In fact, I take it back. I lived a good one. Of course! This is... Thank you! My life sucks!"

Gary was in the bridge, making a grand speech to Quinn, who as piloting the Galaxy 1. "This is where Captain Gary wields the great giant scepter of power."

"You're not a Captain," she reminded him again. "Communication output requested," she said into the speaker.

"Requesting a communications output, are we? You really know how to press my buttons." Gary pushed a random button that really did nothing. "Press!"

Quinn groaned in frustration. "Ugh. Let me unpress your button painfully short and clear. It is never going to happen between us. Ever."

Gary felt that one. "That was painfully short...and clear! Come on, Quinn. Why won't you give me a chance?"

"You impersonated a member of the Infinity Guard and blew up 92 Imperium Cruisers. That doesn't inspire a lot of trust."

"Then I guess this precious thing we have between us is not gonna work out." Gary put a hand on Quinn's shoulder. "I'm sorry.

Quinn was outraged and confused. She slapped his hand away. "Did you just break up with me?"

"I pulled the Cupid's arrow out, snapped it, and threw it into the break-up flames. Toast a marshmallow and get on with your life." And with that, Gary walked off in a huff.

Quinn sat back down. "I don't have time for this. I need to get the password to the Infinity Guard network."

Suddenly, Tribor's hologram appeared on her communicator. "Does someone need the password to the Infinity Guard network?"

"How did you know?"

"How did I know? I'm always listening."

Quinn was creeped out. "Really? Can you stop that, like, immediately?"

"Can I? No, I can't." He signed off.

After logging into the Infinity Guard network, she showed everyone a map of the anomaly. "There it is, H.U.E. Zoom in."

The AI did his analysis and reported, "The breach has the characteristics of a black hole, and it's growing."

"You told the Infinity Guard this and they didn't listen and they want to arrest you?" Fly asked. "Oh, ho, ho! They're definitely hiding something!"

Gary sniffed the air. "That smell coming from the Infinity Guard kitchen? A little dish I call Corruption Stew!"

"The Infinity Guard is not corrupt," insisted Quinn.

Gary put a hand on her shoulder. "I get it. You're mad I broke up with you."

Quinn shrugged him off. "My patience is whittling away."

"Whittle away, temptress. Your words can't hurt me anymore."

Fly gave Gary a look. "Seriously, what do you see in her?"

"What's not to see? That's the question."

Fly sighed.

KVN tapped one of the holograms on the map. "Wow. How pretty! What is that?"

"Plasmic energy is firing from that planet directly into the breach," said HUE. "If the laser continues, the breach will widen, and Earth will be consumed."

Quinn said, "H.U.E., scan that planet for inhabitants."

"That is an Infinity Guard Outpost."

Gary put a finger under his chin. "It's not a soup. It's not a broth." He snapped his fingers. "Oh! I know. It's a stew! Corruption stew!"

Quinn was not buying it. "There has to be a good explanation. We're going. H.U.E., prime the lightfold engines."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! The moment we broke up, that right went back to el capitan..."

"H.U.E., how do we get to the surface?"

"...with a Captain's finesse." Gary pushed the button and brought the ship out of lightspeed. Unfortunately, he did it too soon; the ship went on a headlong collision course with the planet's surface, making everyone scream. "Cutting the engines and gliding in like a glorious coasting stealth squirrel was a bad idea!" He pulled up, making the ship's crash landing not so bumpy. Everyone rocked in their seats as the ship halted. All except Mooncake, who just floated and watched like nothing bad was happening.

Gary was the first to get up and say, "Good news. If this is the right place, we're here."

"And the bad news?" Fly asked as she helped Avocato up.

"Assessing damage," said HUE. "The deflector array is offline. The power cells are offline. The bake shop is offline."

"Oh, that's bad." Then Fly rewound that last bit. "Bake shop?"

Gary heard that last bit, too. "Wait! There's a bake shop on this thing?!" he asked, miffed.

Quinn said she armed herself and Avocato. "Avocato and I will scout on foot. The rest of you stay back and repair the ship." She opened the hanger bay doors. "Come on, Avocato, let's go." She was about to leave, when Gary blocked her path. "What?!"

"If I could pour a tall glass of truth-juice for you real quick, Quinn," he said. "I am not feeling the trust."

"I only trust three people in this world: my dog, my sister, and every single member of the Infinity Guard."

Gary let out sputter. "You're insane, my lady. The Infinity Guard tried to kidnap you. And they tried to take over the Galaxy One. And dogs aren't even people."

"I have no reason to trust any of you, so I'm going with the guy literally covered in guns," Quinn gestured to Avocato.

"Girl, let me give you a life lesson," Fly said. "If there's one thing I learned before being given a life sentence, it's that you can't trust anyone not even yourself."

Quinn let out a chuckle. "Like I'm going to listen to a criminal. Let's go." She left with Avocato.

Of course, Gary was not going to take no for an answer. He turned to KVN. "KVN, fix the ship. Also, don't touch any of my stuff. Or Quinn's stuff. Or Avocato's. Or Fly's. Or the cookies. Ju... Jus... Just don't touch anything. Specifically buttons. And especially flamethrowers. But do fix the ship, and then die. Okay? Okay. Okay, come on, Mooncake and Fly."

Mooncake and Fly followed after Gary, the former making an excited noise and laughing.

All alone, KVN looked back at the damaged ship and all the work he was going to have to do with the SAMEs...and started laughing like a maniac. PARTY TIME!

In his cell, Little Cato tried to send the message to his father, but something was either blocking the signal or the device he was holding was broken. "Stupid thing won't work!" He tossed the device aside. Suddenly, an image of a woman appeared.

"Be brave," she said.

"Huh?" Little Cato went over to device and held it up.

"We're going to get you out of here." The air vent opened upon saying that.

Little Cato narrowed his eyes at her. "Why should I trust you?"

"We share the same enemy."

Fine. He'll trust her. For now. "I gotta send a message to my father. Can you amplify my signal?"

"There's a transmitting station. I can show you the way. Now run!"

Back with the group, Mooncake was having fun eating what looked like firebugs. Gary tapped Avocato's shoulder. "Hey, man..." And got whacked in the neck. "Oh! Oh, my gosh! You just don't cleave everybody in the neck meat, Avocato! What the freak?!"

"Let me give you some advice, buddy," Avocato chuckled as he helped Gary up.

"Yes."

"If you want Quinn to trust you, you gotta step up and show her you can lead. Make direct eye contact, then don't let go until you kiss her soul with your eyelashes. Like this." Avocato made a "handsome face". "Too much, or just enough?"

Fly squirmed in disgust. "Men."

Gary's eyes widened. "Oh, my wow. Oh, my wow! It's glorious!"

"Yeah. So you got it?"

"I got it. It's done. Done and done." Gary went over to Quinn and tried to put on the charm. "Hi, Quinn. Too little, or just enough?" His attempt failed when he accidentally swallowed a bug and screamed.

Quinn said, "Just go back to the ship. You're not a trained soldier. You're a... nobody."

"Ouch," said Fly with a wince.

Gary made a sad chuckle. "Okay. I didn't expect that hurt coin deposit in my sadness savings. Good Lord."

Quinn sighed. "Look, Gary, I'm not trying to be mean. If you get hurt or die... Well, that's a responsibility I don't want. That's just the truth."

"I don't accept your truth," Gary said with a frown. "And that was incredibly mean."

"I'm sorry."

"I don't think you are."

"You're right. I'm not."

"You have a bite to you. I like that. I promise, you will end up trusting me." Some weird butterfly alien flew over to Gary. "And revel in my awesomeness as I..." He tried to attack the bug, but it kept dodging him. "...karate chop this magnificent...disturbingly agile..." It flew away from him. "...freaking bug angel!"

The bug angel flew over to Avocato. He let out a yelp as it landed on his face and he shooed it away. "I think that thing just bit me." The next thing he knew, he was three inches tall. "AAAHHHHH!"

Gary let out a scream. "Holy crap! It's a beautiful nightmare shrinking demon!"

But the nightmare wasn't over. The bug opened its mouth, revealing razor sharp teeth. Before it could eat Avocato, Fly stomped on it. "This is why I hate these kinds of planets."

Gary picked the shrunken cat alien up. "Stay with me, Avocato! I won't rest until a cure is found."

"Uh, guys?" Fly pointed up, revealing a whole swarm of those shrinking bug demons. "RUN!"

The group took off running with the swarm chasing after them. "Mooncake, give Avocato a ride." Gary tossed Avocato onto Mooncake's head.

As the swarm got closer, Avocato took out his gun. "I got your back, Mooncake! Yee-haw!" He fired, but because of their small size, the lasers did absolutely nothing.

Gary burst out laughing. "What was that?! I mean, wha... like a little... a little silly string shooting out of your gun? Like..." He laughed again. "I mean, that's... that's like... What were you even trying to accomplish right there? I mean..."

"This way!" Fly led the group down a hill. Quinn fired at the bugs, but this only resulted in them multiplying. Then Gary saw they were sliding down toward something bigger than the butterflies. "Spider! Spider! It's a spider!" He fired at the web, allowing the group to slide underneath it. "Ohhh, it's a spider!" The butterflies, meanwhile, got caught.

The group came to a crash land at the bottom of the hill. Quinn pushed Gary off her and brushed herself off. "That's weird," she said nonchalantly.

Avocato, still the size of a bug, checked his scanner. "It says we're... here?" He looked around, but saw no trace of the Infinity Guard or any military for that matter.

"Dear Heavenly Lightning Lord!" Exclaimed Gary as he looked beyond a row of trees. "Are you not seeing this?!

"Seeing what?" asked Quinn. Gary pushed her past the trees and revealed it was nothing but a hologram wall. And beyond the wall was the Infinity Guard's base.

"Seeing... this," he said.

"What the hell is that thing?" Quinn asked in horror. She was looking at what looked like a giant elevator connected to one of the Infinity Guard's Imperium ships.

"Are you talking about the giant laser?" asked Fly. "Because if you're talking about the giant laser, it's a giant laser."

"I know it's a giant laser," Quinn snapped at her.

"Giant doesn't even begin to describe what I'm seeing," Avocato said.

Fly giggled.

Suddenly, alarms blared as the ship began to draw energy from the ground and into the giant cannon mounted on the ship's front. "Laser activation commencing." The cannon fired, right into the anomaly in the sky. It seemed to grow even bigger.

Quinn realized what was going on. "That's what's been creating the gravitational disturbance. I thought the Earth was being sucked into a black hole, but I was wrong. This whole thing is being orchestrated..."

"By who?" asked Gary. "Or is it whom? Either way, it's probably by some serious bad guy." He got his answer when a giant hologram of the Lord Commander and Cetus appeared. "What a twist!"

"Yep," said Fly. "Saw that coming."

Down in the base, the Infinite Guards did a salute. "For the galaxy! For eternity! For the Lord Commander!"

Quinn couldn't believe it. She fell to her knees in absolute horror. Fly went up to her and said, "I think someone deserves a big I-Told-You-So! sandwich."

"With each blast, we get closer to Final Space," announced the Lord Commander. "So, keep it up. Oh, and good job, Jeff. Hearing great things."

A random soldier quietly cheered, "Yes!"

The Lord Commander was done with his announcement. "Now, how the hell do I turn this off?" He called someone offscreen. "Eric! How do I turn this off? Is it the red knob? Do I turn it left? Eric, stop crying!" He groaned in frustration. "Cetus, you turn it off. I'm just going to walk away." The image disappeared.

The truth finally sunk in Quinn. "The Lord Commander. He's taken over the Infinity Guard. They're destroying Earth. They're..."

"Corrupt!" said Fly. "You will eat that sandwich! I told you, you can't trust anyone!"

"But you trust me," Gary said hopefully.

"No." said Quinn. "She's right. Now I'm the only person I can trust."

"And Gary. You left out Gary. And Hot Wheels Avocato."

"What I lack in size I make up for in wisdom," Avocato squeaked sagely.

"So now that you're tiny you're like the new Socrates or something?" Fly asked.

Gary face palmed. "Whatever. C'mon, squad! She needs backup." Quinn leaped off the cliff they were on and headed for the Infinity Guard's base. "Oh, well, I guess not. I guess I could just sit here and pop my lips."

As he did just that, Fly wondered out loud, "I wonder what KVN is doing?"

Back at the Galaxy 1, KVN was wearing a white sports jacket and was pouring champagne into two glasses. "Burning love," he sang. "Burning love, hot burning love. Love, love, love burning love." He toasted to the fridge. "Beth, I want you to know that this has been the happiest moment of KVN's life. I can see it on your face. We are so happy." He gave the fridge a kiss.

One of the SAMEs said with lust, "She is so hot."

KVN realized he wasn't alone. "Stop! Stop staring. So creepy. Now do my bidding! Fix the ship."

"I will kill KVN and take Beth for my own," a second SAME said.

"Over my cold, dead hands," said the first.

"Death fight," announced a third. "We've got a death fight."

KVN ignored the laser blasts and went back to canoodling with Beth. "Now, where were we?"

Back at the base, Quinn managed to slip into the base, sneak past the guards and into the elevator. She pressed the up button but before the doors closed, Gary, Avocato, Mooncake and Fly came in. "I told you, I'm doing this on my own," she said.

"No you're not," said Fly. The hell you are. Like it or not, we're a team."

"That's right," said Gary. "And you can't spell 'team' without 'M' and 'E', and you know what that spells...'Us'."

Fly gave Gary a look. "Seriously, do you ever listen to yourself?"

Quinn sighed, seeing that she had no choice. "Fine."

"Fine." said Gary.

"A job worth doing is worth doing together."

"Thank you, Avocato," said Fly.

"But a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team!"

"Okay, okay!" Gary shouted. "Shut up with that stuff. I don't even know what you're talking about."

The group snuck into commissary where they saw a group of Infinity Guard overlooking celebrating someone's birthday. "Laser activation in four minutes."

"Geez. Oh, my gosh," said Gary.

Quinn saw one particular man amongst the soldiers and her eyes filled with hate. Her boss. "Superior Stone, that bastard." She turned to the group. "Come on, we're running out of time."

"What about the guards?" asked Fly.

"We gotta go around."

Quinn led the group into the maintenance room, where they were greeted by walls lined with electrical cables. "Ohhhh, crap," said Gary.

The group slowly and carefully tried to make their way past the cables without touching them. Unfortunately, Gary got hit by one of them. ZAP! "Aah! Laser hell!"

Quinn put a hand over his mouth. "Shhh! The walls are thin. Do not make a sound, or they'll hear us!"

"You expect us..." ZAP! "Ow! ...to climb through this electric pain-maze without making a sound? We're not wizards." ZAP! "OW!"

"Will everyone please shut up!" ZAP! "Aah!"

"Okay! We'll do it your..." ZAP! "Ohhhhh!"

"This is ridiculous," said Fly. "We're doing it MY way!" And with that, she shoved everyone forward. ZAP! "OW!"

ZAP!

"SHIT!"

ZAP!

"FLY!"

ZAP!

"TUFF TITTY WHOMPAS!"

Outside, a patrol heard the noise. The leader said, "Company hold! Did you hear that?"

"Sounded like tuff titty whompas," said one of the soldiers.

"What the hell is a tuff titty whompas?"

"It's probably a rat," another soldier said with a shrug.

"Do rats say tuff titty whompas?" the patrol leader asked.

"The big ones do."

Meanwhile, the group managed to leave the electric maze and collapsed onto the floor. "Fly," growled Quinn. "I wanted this to be as stealthy as possible! What were you thinking?!"

"You were taking too long."

"Hey," said Avocato. "Is there something wrong with me? I feel weird."

Gary turned and laughed at the sight of Avocato's big head and tiny body. "Oh, my God! You're like a tiny little Avocato bobble head!"

"Well, at least we know the shrinking is temporary," said Fly.

Meanwhile, Little Cato ran into a little hitch when he tried to sneak past the guards by shimmying across a railing: they spotted him. "Alert! Escapee. Lock it down!" He kicked the guard off the railing and took off running as the others began to fire at him.

"Now run!" shouted his rescuer.

"YOU THINK?!"

"Laser activation in 90 seconds."

At last the group found the bridge. Quinn kicked the door down and was greeted by more guards. They immediately drew their weapons on her. "Have you all lost your minds?!" she shouted. "You're working for the Lord Commander! We're Infinity Guard, the last vestige of hope in the universe. What you're doing here is going
to destroy the Earth, our home. Stop this. I'm begging you. Stop."

The guards looked at each other then at Quinn. Then one of them said, "That's a good speech, but, nah."

That was it. Quinn had lost hope.

Gary picked up his shrunken friend. "You know what to do, Avocato. Hoorah!" He gave him a toss just as he turned back to normal.

"I'm back, baby," Avocato said with murderous glee as he fired on the guards. "Whoo! Yeah! I'm electrified, baby!"

Fly and Gary grabbed a downed guard's guns and began firing wildly. "Oh, I am so delighted we came with you, Quinn!" the former shouted.

"Whoo!" Gary exclaimed as he shot down the guards. "Murder Beam activate! Yeah! Oh, yeah! I go high, you go low! Yes!"

Even Mooncake fired his lasers at the guards.

"Gary, how're them guns back there," Avocato asked.

"They're hot, baby!"

Finally, they were all dead. Fly, Gary and Avocato did a fist bump while Mooncake did a little dance above their heads. Quinn face palmed.

Suddenly, someone fired their guns out of their hands. It was Quinn's boss. She growled at him, "Stone! You traitor!"

"What I do, I do for the Infinity Guard!"

"You double-crossing sphincter sack," hissed Gary.

Stone said, "Quinn, you can still join us. You're just about the only one who hasn't pledged allegiance to the Lord Commander. GUAGH!" A knife got embedded into his head and he fell down, dead.

"Yeah, not happening," Fly said as she pulled it out.

Suddenly, a hologram of Cetus appeared. "Oh, did you think all your problems would go away like that, Elizabeth?"

Fly's eyes narrowed. "What did you call me?"

"Cetus!" shouted Quinn. "Why are you doing this? Why is the Infinity Guard helping you and the Lord Commander?!"

"The Lord Commander has seen what's on the other side," Cetus said. "Once we break into Final Space, the gods waiting for us in there will grant us all eternal life and power! No more death!"

"That's because there will be no more life!"

"At first. But not at second. And don't even get me started on thirdly." Cetus then chuckled, "Anyway, Miss Airgone, we should thank you."

Quinn's eyes widened. "What?!"

"Your scribbling on a bar napkin allowed us to finally break through the quantum barriers and tear through this universe. So you see, this is all your work." Cetus seemed to take pleasure with the horror written on Quinn's face. "Cheer up. You won't have to live with the guilt much longer, because now there's no stopping us from tearing a hole into Final Space!"

Quinn's eyes quivered. "Don't listen to her," Fly said. "You didn't know! As a matter of fact, I don't know. What is all this crap about gods and eternal life?"

Cetus made a maniacal laugh. "Oh, there are so many things you don't know. Not even about yourself...Mommy."

"MOMMY?!" exclaimed everyone.

"CHOOKITY-POCK?!" cried out Mooncake.

Fly was silent for a while, then she burst out laughing. "Mommy? Ah, ha, ha, ha! Is this supposed to make me shocked? Am I supposed to get down on my knees and say, 'No! That's not possible!' News flash! I don't have any kids! I would have known if I had birthed a little crying poop maker!" She stroked her belly. "I would have remembered the pain of giving birth to one."

Cetus let out a growl. "I AM your daughter! WHY DON'T YOU REMEMBER MEEEE?!"

Fly shot at the hologram projector and the image disappeared. "That girl is clearly cookoo."

"Gary, Fly, we got a laser to take out," Avocato reminded them.

"O-O-Okay! Okay, let's go!" Gary said as he, Fly and Avocato ran to the control panel to try and shut off the cannon.

Quinn, however was still trying to wrap her head around what had happened. Everything happened because the Infinity Guard gave the Lord Commander and Cetus hr research notes. "It's all my fault."

"Quinn, it's not your fault," insisted Gary.

"You were right, Fly. I can't trust anyone. I can't even trust myself anymore."

Gary walked over to Quinn and put a hand around her. "Okay, you're digging deep, and there's some real powerful self-discovery stuff going on here, but there's a giant laser about to fire, so if we could just stick a pin in this and pick it up over snacks soon-ish?"

"Laser activation in 10 seconds," said the computers.

"I don't know why, but the controls aren't responding," said Avocato. "The laser can't be stopped."

"Cetus must have turned off the control with a remote," said Fly.

"Great," said Avocato. "A fine time to piss off your daughter!"

"She's not my daughter!"

"Laser activation commencing now."

Gary had one last idea. "Mooncake, shoot the laser!"

"Are you crazy?" asked Quinn.

"Yes! Shoot the laser!"

Mooncake shook his head. "Chookity!"

"Shoot the laser!"

"Chookity!"

"Shoot the laser!"

"Chookity!"

"Shoot it! Shoot it!"

"SHOOT THE LASER!" everyone shouted.

"Chookity!" Mooncake fired his mouth laser and sliced the cannon in half just as it fired...and cut a moon in half in the process. "Ooh..." said Gary. "Oh. My. Crap."

"We should go now," said Fly.

"The elevator!" said Quinn. "Hurry!"

Unfortunately, this meant going back through the maze of electric cables before running back to the elevator. "KVN? H.U.E.? We need an emergency extraction!" shouted Gary in the communicator.

Suddenly, a piece of moon crashed into the elevator and sent Avocato flying. "Mooncake!" The little green blob flew to him and grabbed him just in time. Back with Quinn, Fly and Gary, Quinn nearly fell off what remained of the elevator platform and she could feel her grip slipping. "We're going to die!"

"Not if you trust me," Gary said, reaching for her.

Quinn's eyes began to leak. "I'm sorry. I can't."

"You can," said Fly, reaching for her. "I was wrong. You can trust someone."

"Okay."

Gary held up his robot arm. "And don't worry. I have one of these."

Gary's plan was to carry both Fly and Quinn while zip-lining down one of the elevator cables with his robot arm. But there was one thing he didn't count on. Pain. "Aaah! Aah!" he screamed. "Why would they connect the nerve endings to my robot hand?! Aah! Whyyyy?!"

Suddenly, the cable snapped and the three of them went plummeting down to the ground.

When I woke up this morning, I did not think, "I'm going to die." But look at us. Look at me, look at her. Here we are. A unit. Dying together. Oh, no, wait! Look, the Galaxy One! Yeah!

Gary, Quinn and Fly landed into the ship's hanger where Mooncake and Avocato were waiting. They all took one look at each other and started laughing in relief.

Meanwhile, Little Cato arrived at his destination. "You came through!" he said to the woman on the other end.

"I told you, we fight the same war."

The little cat alien typed on the keyboard but he was locked out. "But it's key locked."

"4-3-7-2-8."

That did it! "I'm in. Thanks. I owe you." He plugged his device into the transceiver and played the message.

"Dad, these are my coordinates. Come find me. I mean, at your leisure, but like, for me, preferably fast. That'd be great."

Little Cato pressed the button. "And... send!" Message sent.

The mysterious woman said, "You did it! You did it!" Then she let out a chuckle as her image transformed into the Lord Commander. "You did it," he said. "You sent your father and Mooncake right to me. Heh, heh, heh, heh."

Little Cato's eyes widened in horror. He unintentionally laid out a trap for his father. "No, no, no, no, nooooo!" A hand grabbed his shoulder. He turned around to see Cetus behind him.

"It was my idea," she said as she held up a needle. "I knew you would be the perfect bait. All we needed was a way to set up the trap. And you played your part well." She injected the needle into him and his eyes immediately dilated. "You have one more role to play now, kitten."

"Hey guys," called Fly. "I'm worried about Quinn. She's not come out of her room for a while."

The group went into Quinn's room and found her removing the Infinity Guard symbol from her suit. "What, uh...what are you doing?" asked Gary.

"Starting over," she said. "You were right about everything. You and Fly."

"I know," said Gary. "It's a blessing. And my curse."

"If the Lord Commander corrupted the Infinity Guard it means there's no good guys left."

"Yes, there are."

"Who?"

Gary gestured to himself, Avocato, Fly and Mooncake. "Us."

"Chookity," said Mooncake.

"Healthy people trust," said Fly. "We need more of that, not less."

"But how can I?" Quinn asked.

"You begin right here..." Gary jumped onto the bed. "...with this guy."

"We're the good guys now," said Avocato.

Mooncake nodded.

"No me and I," said Fly. "Us."

Quinn smiled. "Okay, then. Us."

"Yeah. Us."

"AAAHHH!" screamed Fly. "KVN! Where did you come from?!"

Gary made a chuckle and said angrily, "Oh, KVN! What in the three rings of hell did you do to the ship?!"

"We need to talk about the elephant in the room," Avocato said to Fly some time after that. "Why didn't you tell us that Cetus is your daughter?"

"I said she's not my daughter!" Fly snapped, slamming her mug on the table. "I don't even know where she got that idea! I never had sex in my life!" She paused. "Okay, that's a lie. I had sex. But I made sure my exes wore condoms!"

"I did a DNA scan of Cetus the last time you encountered her," said HUE.

"How did you do that?" asked Fly.

"A piece of her hair landed on you. Her genes match yours. She is indeed your daughter."

Fly's eyes widened. "But...but that's not possible! I was never pregnant! How could I..." Her eyes widened. "Oh...shit."

Avocato raised an eyebrow. "Fly? Is there something you want to say?"

Fly sat back down in the booth and faced him. "Okay. Maybe I was careless one time. I was sixteen years old and I started getting into my bad girl phase. I used to drug random strangers, have my way with them and steal everything from their wallets. It was a good way to get my feet on the ground for a while. But one time, I wasn't on the pill. You can imagine my horror when I tested positive. So, when the time came, I did the most logical thing."

Flashback

Fly held a squirming bundle in her hands as she rang the doorbell. A woman answered it. "Hello?"

"Congratulations, you're a mother!" She forcibly shoved the bundle into the woman's arms. "Bye!"

"Wait, what?!" But the woman could only watch as Fly took off in a hover bike.

End Flashback

Avocato was appalled. "You just left the babe in the hands of total strangers?!"

"I was sixteen-years-old!" Fly tried to justify. "I was not ready for that kind of responsibility! Not to mention..." She gestured to herself. "Look at me, Avocato. Can you imagine someone like me being a mother?"

Avocato sputtered. "It's no wonder Cetus hates you!"

"I did what was best for her! I didn't want her exposed to my kind of environment!"

"Bull! Bull!" Avocato jabbed a finger at her. "You got rid of the kid so you could continue with this reckless lifestyle! Did you ever even think to do a background check before you just dumped the kid?"

"What about you?" Fly said angrily. "What about your kid? Did you just dump him when you became a bounty hunter?"

"DON'T YOU DARE COMPARE ME TO YOURSELF!" Avocato shouted, slamming his fist on the table. "I didn't dump my son! I did everything to save him!" He let out a scoff. "You act like an adult, but you're really just a kid who doesn't want to take responsibility for anything that goes on in your life! Maybe that was the reason you got arrested in the first place. You just didn't care about the consequences of all your actions." He left the woman, leaving her alone.

She stared at her drink, twirling a finger in the cup. "If I had words," she sang. "To make a day for you, I'd give you a morning golden and true. I would make this day last for all time, then fill the night deep in blue moon shine."