"Previously on 'Final Space'... At long last, Gary and Avocato rescue Avocato's son, Little Cato, from the clutches of the Lord Commander, but that dick weed Cetus takes revenge and teleports a bomb that Avocato finds just in time to sacrifice his life to save his son. I know. I'll miss him, too."

"You have three minutes of oxygen left."

"It's cold, H.U.E. Are you cold?"

"I only feel two things, Gary ... nothing and nothingness."

"You know what? It's the shade. It's always, like, 10 degrees colder...in the shade."

"Space is made entirely of shade."

"Yeah, I guess it is. I gotta find some of that non-shade. Where the hell is it? Oh, hey. Oh. Oh, boom...non-shade. Crap! It's, like, really freakin' piping hot now."

In the commissary of the Galaxy 1, Gary turned on his video diary and pressed the record button. "Avocato? It's been three days since you died. I have to say I'm... I'm struggling here, man. You said to look after your boy, and I can barely look after myself. I really think you picked the wrong guy. Granted, there wasn't a big pool to pick from, but... I guess what I'm trying to say is... I miss you, friend. What do you think I should do?

"I mean, I-I ... I need a sign, man. You know, maybe rattle some glasses if I should give him some space or flicker the lights. You know, just a little flicker
if I should try harder. Any ghost-related stuff at all would be great." Nothing happened. "Or nothing. Nothing works, too."

Gary sighed as he finished recording. He thought back on the days he spent with Avocato and their adventures. He thought of how Little Cato hid in the air vents after he beat up Fly and wouldn't come out. And as for Fly, she hadn't said a word to anyone. Most of the time, she locked herself in her room and wouldn't come out except to use the bathroom and to get food. Not once did the light in her room go out. Everyone tried to say it wasn't her fault Avocato died, but she wouldn't listen.

Torex Sector 60103

Gary was heading for the bathroom when he saw KVN welding something. "What the crap are you doing?!" he screamed.

"KVN is making helpful repairs." KVN presented his finished work. "There! Boomtown! No more hole."

Gary thought the robot couldn't get any more stupid. "Hole?! That was the door to the bathroom!"

KVN paused, then he said, "Oh! I thought it was a huge rectangular hole."

"How?!" Gary shouted, angry. "That huge rectangular hole was the door to the bathroom!"

"You sure?"

"Yes! Yes, I'm ... Yes!"

"Well, that puts you in a situation, huh?"

Gary was about to tear him to pieces when suddenly Fly came walking down the corridor toward the bathroom. She stopped in front of the door and slowly turned to him. "Gary?"

"Hmm?"

"Why is the door welded shut?"

KVN raised his hand. "I fixed it!"

Fly didn't say anything. Instead, she grabbed KVN by the arm and slammed him repeatedly into the ground. "Owie..." he groaned.

"Hey, Fly," said Gary. "How are you feeling?"

"What kind of stupid question is that?" she asked.

"Well, it's just that maybe everyone is worried about you and..."

"If you're going to say it's not my fault, don't bother. Everyone else already tried."

"I was going to say if your face is alright, I mean, what with the sunken-in, bloodshot eyes, the messy hair..."

"Gary?" HUE said.

"Yeah?"

"I have news for you."

"What is it, H.U.E.?"

"Three, two, one..." A party blower sound came through the speakers before HUE continued, "Gary, your prison sentence aboard the Galaxy 1 is now complete."

Gary wasn't sure he heard that right. "That's gre... Wait, say what?"

"You're free, Gary."

Gary was sure he was dreaming. "Free? This isn't a joke?" He chuckled with a little hint of crazy. "I mean, I-I'm really free?"

"Yes, Gary. What are you going to do now?"

Gary headed straight for the commissary and stuffed his face with all the cookies from the vending machine. "Yes! Oh, I'm free!" he cheered, sending crumbs flying out of his mouth. "All these long years, and these freedom cookies are mine!"

"I guess this means we say goodbye," said Fly. Gary turned around, his mouth still full of cookies. He said something, but it was unintelligible. "Chew and swallow," said Fly.

Gary gulped down the cookies. "Sorry. I said, why are we saying goodbye?"

"Because I'm not leaving this ship."

"Oh, come on," said Gary. "You can get your freedom cookies as soon as your sentence..."

"Gary, I'm serving a life sentence!"

Gary dropped the cookies when she shouted that. "What?"

"Turns out, that's what destroying a planet will do to you," she said, slumping onto the chair. "So, enjoy taking a look at this face, because it will be the last time you will see it on this ship! No freedom cookies for me!"

Suddenly, an air vent grate broke off. Everyone turned to see Little Cato disappear just in time. Quinn sighed. "Gary? You should talk to Little Cato."

Gary was not having the time of his life as he squeezed through the air shaft, crawling after the young cat alien. "'I think you need to talk to Little Cato.' 'I think you need to, uh, crawl in a vent and talk to Little Cato.' AUUUUUGHHHH!" He screamed as he fell down another shaft and into Little Cato's room. Gary picked himself back up and asked him, "Hey, where'd you get all those cookies?"

"You want them? They suck."

"They do. They do suck! Five years for these little round pieces of suckage!"

"Get to the point." Little Cato said as he turned his back to him. "I'm a busy guy."

Gary didn't know what to say first, then he asked, "All right, buddy, what can I do to make you happy? Name anything."

Little Cato turned to him. "Anything?"

"Freakin' anything."

"Anything?"

"I just said freakin' anything. Anything."

Little Cato knew exactly what he wanted. "Can you get me to the Lord Commander and Cetus?"

Gary didn't like where this was going. "Okay... possibly. What do you want to do?"

"I want to slit his throat and splash in his life juice," Little Cato growled. "And then I'm going to take Cetus' face and stuff it into a toilet until she drowns."

Gary REALLY didn't like where this was going. "Oh. Good Lord, that's dark. Okay, well..." He chuckled. "Sounds like a fantastic idea," he suddenly said, a little excited. "Count me in! I never thought I'd be creating a murder squad with a small boy, but here we are."

The two entered one particular room on the ship. One with bizarre weapons, a tapestry of a feline creature, a bonsai tree and a helmet with cat ears on it. Little Cato's eyes widened. "Is this... Is this my father's room?"

"Hell yeah, it is," said Gary. He looked around the room. "Oh, my gosh, look at all the crap. All right, well, Avocato's gotta have big boom sticks in here somewhere."

"What did you think of him?" Little Cato asked as he picked up a defused mine.

"Your dad? Well, he was a short-tempered, angry grouch."

Little Cato chuckled. "I loved that about him."

"Me, too. Plus, he cared about you. Man, I mean, more than anything."

Little Cato picked up his father's helmet and wiped some dust off it. "You think so?"

"He would never shut up about you. I mean, every day, 'Little Cato ... we gotta save Little Cato. He's injured. He's my boy. Let's find him.' You know, I do not jest, the man loved you."

Little Cato frowned as he gazed at the helmet. "He never said that to me."

"He said it when he gave his life to save you. That was love in action mode ... Avocato style."

Little Cato's eyes leaked a little when he saw the picture of himself and his father in the helmet's interior. He put the helmet next to the bonsai tree. He smiled and gave the tree a gentle rub. Suddenly, one of its branches bent forward and the whole room began to shake. Then, the walls flipped around, revealing a whole armory of weapons. "Heck chicklets," exclaimed Gary. "We got it! We got it!" He tossed Little Cato a gun and said, "Here you go! You ready?"

Little Cato chuckled as he put his father's helmet on. "Let's tear the Lord Commander a new butthole."

"Yes! Maybe even three!"

"Or four. Four of them?"

"10. 10 painfully wide-open buttholes!"

"We're gonna cover him in buttholes."

"That's a ... that's, like, 50 to 55 buttholes right there!"

Suddenly, KVN and Mooncake burst into the room. "KVN wants to cover him in buttholes, too," the formers said as he grabbed a gun and the former grabbed a knife in his mouth. "We're coming, deal with it!"

"All right, fine. We shall be called the Legion of Murdering an Irritatingly Power-thirsty Pint-sized Imp into a Plethora of Butthoooooles!"

Fly was in the bridge with Quinn. They were supposed to be monitoring the breach, but Fly was doing less work and more staring out into space. Quite literally. "Fly?" Quinn called out. "Would you pay attention? We have to find a way to close the breach."

"What's the point?"

Quinn looked up at her. "Huh?"

"Why bother?"

"Why bother?" Quinn made a sputter and said, angry, "We're talking about saving countless lives! Maybe even the universe!"

"So?"

Quinn grunted. "So? Don't you even care?"

"Why should I? I'm still going to be stuck on this ship for the rest of my life. It's called a life sentence for a reason." Fly sighed. "I really need a drink. A very strong one. But I can't do that because I'm serving a sentence!"

Quinn lowered her head. "Fly, I don't think this has anything to do with your sentence. You should really talk to Little Cato."

"Gary's already taking care of that," Fly said as she slammed her head on the table. "And why should I? He hates me. I'm the reason Avocato's dead. And he knows it. Gary knows it, you know it, Mooncake knows it. Hell, evil freaking KVN knows it!"

"Fly..."

"No, Quinn! All my life I've been reckless and now I've paid the price for it! The Lord Commander turned my daughter that I abandoned into his super soldier! My friend died trying to save his son from my daughter!" She slammed her head again. "I REEEEEEEAAAAALLY need that drink now."

Quinn walked over to her and patted her head. "Just go talk to him. He will come around eventually." She helped Fly up. "Come on, let's get back to work."

Fly groaned. "Fine. HUE...just give us the bad news."

"Very well," said the ship's AI. "There are only 48 hours till the breach consumes Earth. Until we fix the ship, we cannot engage our lightfold engines, and you have
a more immediate problem." HUE showed the duo a live feed of Gary, Mooncake, Little Cato and KVN heading for the hanger bay and getting into a HAWK.

"H.U.E., what is he doing?" asked Quinn.

"I can only hypothesize, but I think they are going to pick a fight."

"That idiot!"

The HAWK took off into lightspeed. The gang of "killers" were all getting pumped for excitement when Quinn called them. "Gary, we don't have time for this! We've got bigger problems!"

"Oh, right. Tunes! Heh, heh. Thanks, Quinn. H.U.E., play the good stuff. I'm talking about war trumpets, rain sticks, soul-crushing crumhorns to stir the hearts of these merry men."

"And piccolos and clarinets," piped up KVN.

"No piccolos or clarinets!"

"Right. Angelic violins."

"No!" Too late; KVN pushed a button and said music began playing. "Oh, H.U.E., what is this?" Gary asked as tears began to form.

"The good stuff, Gary."

"That is not the good stuff! Where are the war trumpets, the rain sticks?"

"This is so sad, Gary," said KVN. "It makes me think about all the people I've loved who have died, like ..."

"Don't ... Don't say it."

"Avocato."

That did it. Gary burst out sobbing loudly. "My bro is dead!

"Can you take all of that over there?" Little Cato asked.

"Maybe I should." Gary stood up and allowed the little cat alien take control of the ship. "Sorry, small fry. I didn't foresee my emotional shielding getting shut down so quickly!

"Chookity!" sobbed Mooncake.

"Shut the hell up, Mooncake!"

Eventually, even KVN was sobbing. "Oh, I'm so sad!"

The HAWK went out of lightspeed and came face to face with one of the Lord Commander's heavy incinerator ships. "Little Cato, I am not detecting either the Lord Commander or Cetus on that heavy incinerator."

"I don't care. This is for my dad!" The little cat let out a yell of anger and fired away at the incinerator...and did absolutely nothing. In response, the incinerator began to fire back at them with stronger blasts.

Gary immediately came to regret his decision to push Little Cato. "In hindsight, this wasn't the greatest idea," he said as he put his space helmet on.

The incinerator continued to fire until it tore a hole in the HAWK. "What was that?!" shouted Quinn.

"Gary, what's going on?!" shouted Fly.

"GARY?!"

"GARY!"

The HAWK exploded, sending everyone on board flying. Just before Little Cato can be lost in space, Mooncake showed up and carried him back into Gary's arms.

"Oh, my audio processing unit," muttered a floating KVN. "I can't hear you." His whole body suddenly surged with electricity. "What, what? What, what? Did you say something?"

Gary looked behind him. The incinerator pointed its guns right at him, ready to fire. Just before it could kill him, something that could only be described as a large ball of light appeared and blocked the lasers. It disappeared, then reappeared behind the incinerator. It fired a laser and cleaved the ship in two. The light then revealed itself to be a ship as it moved to Gary and his friends and sucked them into its hanger.

Gary took off his helmet and ran to Little Cato. "Small Fry? Hey, wake up!" He tried to shake him awake, but nothing happened. Suddenly, a door opened and the group found themselves meeting the pilot of this mysterious ship. A woman wearing a helmet with a red visor.

KVN zapped again. "Did you say something?" he asked Gary.

The mysterious pilot took the group back to the Galaxy 1 where Little Cato was placed in the med lab. Gary felt like punching himself as he looked at the little orange cat alien, stuck on life support. "Avocato picked the worst guy to watch over his son. I am a bad-luck magnet." Mooncake made a sad hum as he hugged the back of Gary's head.

The mysterious pilot turned to one of the SAMEs monitoring their patient. "Is he breathing?"

"Great news, guys," one of them said. "Little Cato is breathing."

"You saved my life," Gary said to his mysterious stranger. "Who are you?"

The woman took off her helmet. "Hi, Gary."

Gary's eyes widened. The woman looked just like... "Quinn?!"

At that moment, Quinn and Fly came in. "Gary, I..." Quinn stopped when she saw the stranger's face. "What the tough titty wompas?"

"Who are you?" asked Fly. "And why do you look like an older version of Quinn with a couple of scars and...are those cybernetics in your skull?"

The stranger chuckled. "I am Quinn, Elizabeth."

"WHA?!" exclaimed Gary.

Quinn was confused. "But you can't be me. I know that because I'm already me."

"No, I'm really you, just from the future."

KVN greeted the older version of Quinn, "Hey, future Quinn, I'm KVN, Gary's deep-space insanity avoidance companion. We're just the bestest of friends."

"Shut up, KVN."

"Good Lord, that's hot," Gary said with a grin.

"But the two of us together, isn't that a paradox?" asked Quinn. "Shouldn't the universe explode?"

"Excellent question," said Gary.

"Apparently not." said future Quinn.

"Excellent answer."

"But... why?" asked Quinn.

Future Quinn shrugged her shoulders. "'Cause Einstein's a jerk. How am I supposed to know? If it helps, you can call me by my code name, Nightfall."

Fly burst out laughing. "What kind of name is Nightfall? Did you come up with that name, Quinn?"

"No," said Nightfall. "He did." she pointed to Gary with a smile. "And it's cooler than Fly." Fly glared at her.

Gary stood between the two Quinns. "Quinns, Quinns, stop fighting with yourselves."

"Gotta say, Gary, I missed your wit," said Nightfall.

"Wit?!" exclaimed Quinn. "He took Little Cato on a stupid suicide mission!"

"That reminds me," said Fly. She walked up to Gary and slapped his face. "What's wrong with you?! Avocato told you to protect his kid! You're sure not making a good job of it!"

"Don't disagree," said Gary. "My best friend's dead. I almost got his son killed. Now that my prison sentence is up, maybe it's a good time for me and Mooncake to move on."

"A great time," Quinn said, agreeing.

"All right then. Peace out." Gary walked to the door, hands in his pockets. "Just gonna get my keys. Where the crap are my keys?" Some spare change slipped out. "Oh, oh, oh. That... That's a few coins. Oh, yeah. I-I don't have keys. Okay, well... peace out again." He left with his head hanging low and Mooncake following after him.

"Gary, wait..." Fly called out. "Don't leave me alone here."

Nightfall turned to her counterpart. "Quinn, Gary can't leave."

Quinn just scoffed, "Let him do what he wants."

"Every time you go it alone, it ends in failure. You need everyone on this crew to succeed. Until you accept that, you have no chance."

"But I don't need them ... especially Gary. He's impetuous, irresponsible, and he takes nothing seriously."

"Quinn..." said Fly.

"You're no better," Quinn jabbed a finger at her. "You and Gary are all alike! You're both immature children who cannot take responsibility for anything that goes on in your lives!"

"Oh, yeah, I forgot," Nightfall said darkly. "You haven't figured it out yet." She pushed Quinn out of the way. Quinn went after her and got karate chopped in the neck, knocking her out.

"Hey, what the hell?!" exclaimed Fly.

"I guess it's plan B. Again," said Nightfall.

"What's plan B?" Fly asked.

Nightfall sighed as she looked down at Quinn. "Something I know neither she nor Gary are going to like."

"Which is?" Fly got no response. "Hey, where do you think you're going?" She suddenly heard a clattering sound behind her. She turned around and saw that Little Cato and KVN were gone. "Little Cato?" she called out.

"You're really going?" HUE asked Gary as he packed his things with Mooncake's help.

"Surprised myself, frankly, but it is what it is," said Gary. "H.U.E., where are my civilian clothes?" A closet opened, revealing a box with Gary's name on it.

"What will I do when you're gone? You're my only friend, Gary."

"Really?" Gary asked, surprised to hear that. "What about KVN? Or Fly?"

"Fly will be transferred to another ship once her duty on board this one is complete." Gary frowned when he heard that. "And KVN is a jag-off, Gary. You know that."

"Yeah, I do know that, actually," Gary said as he removed his prison uniform. "Yeah. KVN was sent just to ruin everything he touches! He's the complete opposite of Midas. Turdas! That's KVN. One touch, everything in life turns into one long, slender turd."

Suddenly, Nightfall entered the room. Gary let out a scream and blocked his privates with Mooncake, who protested, "Chookity!"

"What ... how ... hey! Hello. Hi," Gary said, embarrassed. "You caught me at a highly naked pantsless time."

"Chookity! Pock, pock, pock," Mooncake said angrily as he freed himself from Gary and flew away.

"Dang it!"

"Do you know how long it's been since we've been together?" Nightfall asked seductively.

"Five, eight minutes?"

"More like 20 years," Nightfall said as she removed her helmet, cloak and armor, revealing a brown and green uniform underneath. She put a hand on Gary's cheek. "I lost you. My you."

"That sucks for your you." Gary said, sympathetically. She suddenly pushed him onto the mattress and pinned him down. "I'm on the mattress. Good Lord, you are strong." She crawled up on top of him and caressed his chin. Gary's face turned red. "Oh, this has been fantastic. And you're crawling on top. Okay, wait, you know what, I-I-I gotta say I'm more of a wine and dine kind of lad. Even a cracker and some water would go a long way with me, 'cause I mean ... Can we please, uh, get to the subject ... the subject matter here is that there's a Quinn thing!"

"I am Quinn."

"I mean my Quinn." Nightfall frowned a little. Gary quickly tried to rectify himself. "Don't get me wrong. Tomorrow's Quinn is super hot and freakishly strong, but in a more tomorrow's freakishly strong and hot kind of way." Something clicked above his head.

"All right. I got what I need." Nightfall stood up and brushed herself off. "Goodbye, Gary."

Gary looked up to see he had been cuffed to the bed. "Energy cuffs?" He chuckled lewdly. "You are sassy. We're playing goodbye with energy cuffs."

At that moment, Quinn burst in with a trio of SAMEs and when she saw the naked Gary tied to the bed with Nightfall next to him, she shouted in outrage, "What the hell is going on here?!"

"It seems like you walked into a situation, Quinn," Gary tried to explain. "Where the two of us ..."

"'Us?!' Oh, no, no, no, no! This is not us."

"But she's you," Gary pointed out.

"He's right," said Nightfall.

"No, he's not!"

"I think I am."

"I am you," said Nightfall.

"But I'm not doing that," screeched Quinn.

"This naked bed stuff really wasn't much of a ..."

"Shut up, Gary!"

"I'm confused," said one of the SAMEs.

"I am not," said the second. "I am strangely aroused."

"Me, too!" said the third. "Didn't know that could happen. Feels weird."

"Get over here!" Quinn grabbed Nightfall and dragged her out of the room.

"I was done anyway," she said nonchalantly.

Quinn slammed her future counterpart into a wall and asked, "Cut the crap, Nightfall. I want answers."

"I was trying to save the universe."

"By handcuffing Gary naked?!"

"I don't want him to see what's happening next." Nightfall dropped a ball to the ground and it opened, sending a magnetic wave that stuck Quinn and the SAMEs to the ceiling. "I'm going to kill Mooncake before he destroys all of us," Nightfall said as she put her helmet, mask and cloak back on.

"What are you talking about?" Quinn demanded.

"Do you know what's about to happen to Gary?" Nightfall asked, turning to face her past counterpart. "Every time Gary leaves the mission, the Lord Commander and Cetus kill him. Something inside Mooncake snaps. Mooncake lays waste to the universe and tears open the door to Final Space. That's when the Titans break through the barrier to our dimension." She shuddered. "Monstrous nightmares. Words are a waste describing their horror."

Quinn pleaded with her, "Stop. You can't do this."

"You'll thank me in the end."

Mooncake flew into Gary's room and cried, "Chookity". Suddenly, Nightfall began blasting at him, forcing him to flee. "Pock!" he screamed as he flew off.

"Mooncake!" Gary called out as he struggled to get free.

Quinn struggled as she aimed the gun at the device. "If I can just..." She fired her gun and the laser ricocheted off the wall and hit the device, freeing her and the SAMEs. "YES!" She ran to Gary and tried to free him. "Nightfall wants to kill Mooncake!"

"I can see that! Get me out of here! We need to stop her right now!" Quinn fired her gun at the handcuffs and freed him. Gary let out a shriek, "A little close!"

Quinn tossed his civilian clothes to him. "Get dressed! Let's go!"

"This last day sucks!"

Meanwhile, Mooncake fled as he dodged Nightfall's lasers until she had him cornered. He dodged it and it caused the window behind him to break open. He went out it and flew over to an asteroid belt to hide, but Nightfall followed after him.

"Why would you want to kill Mooncake?" Gary asked as he finished dressing himself.

"I don't!" Quinn said. Then she looked out a window and saw Nightfall chasing after Mooncake in the asteroid belt. "SHE does." The two of them quickly changed into their space suits and flew out the hole Nightfall caused and headed straight for the asteroid belt.

Meanwhile, Little Cato and KVN snuck into the hanger bay and found Nightfall's ship. They stepped inside and Little Cato began to type onto the ship's control pad. KVN started bawling. "I'm proud of you, son. Why am I crying?" He hugged his arms around Little Cato's head. "Oh, you're growing up so fast. I'm sorry, I'm just going on and on."

Little Cato pushed him off. "Stop it. You're not my dad." He then took some wires from KVN's interior and plugged them into the control panel and resumed his work.

"'Cause I'm better than your dad, right? It's okay. You can admit it, you can say yes. Go ahead."

"No!"

"Can I be your granddad?"

"No."

"Grandpa?"

"No."

"Uncle?"

"No."

"Cousin?"

"No."

"Nephew?"

"No."

"Brother?"

"No."

"Can I be your great-granddad?"

"No."

"Can I be your aunt?"

"No."

"Can I be your niece?"

"No."

"Can I be your... mom?"

"No, no."

Meanwhile, Nightfall was still hunting for Mooncake, but Gary and Quinn were hot on her tail. "Whoa, look at all these cosmic ice cubes!" Gary laughed as he and Quinn dodged them.

Mooncake hid behind an asteroid, but Nightfall got a lock on him. She was about to fire when suddenly, Gary called out, "Mooncake!"

"Chookity-pock-pock!" Mooncake came out of hiding, dodged Nightfall's laser and hid behind Gary's back.

Nightfall pointed the gun at him. He held his hands up. "Whoa, not cool!" He glared at her. "You've gotta go through me to get to him." It looked as though she might just do that. But he saw that she was hesitating. "You don't want to do this. Trust me. Trust Gary."

Nightfall let out a growl in frustration before turning to her past self. "Quinn, tell Gary what happens. Tell him why we need to kill Mooncake."

Gary nodded, though he was totally lost. "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, okay. Really lost in the weeds over here. Anybody mind whacking some clarity for me?"

"TELL HIM!"

Back on the ship, Little Cato was still trying to turn on the ship...and trying to resist the urge to kill KVN, who was still asking to be a family member.

"Can I be your twin?"

"No."

"Can I be your anything?

"No, no, no."

"Can I be your everything?

"No."

"Can I be you?

"No."

"I want to be you. I want to be you!"

"Little Cato?" Little Cato and KVN turned around to see Fly standing in the doorway. "What are you doing?"

Little Cato said nothing and returned to the control pad. "Go away," he said.

"Little Cato, I don't know what the hell is going on in your brain, but hijacking a ship isn't helping anything."

"This ship is a time machine. I'm going to use it to save my father."

Fly's eyes widened. "What?" She stepped inside the ship and pushed KVN out of the way. "Kid, do you even know how to work this thing?"

"I can hack my way into anything," he said, his back still toward her. "I can hack my way into this."

"Little Cato...this isn't helping. Your father wouldn't want you to do something so reckless to save him!"

"SHUT UP!" Little Cato turned to face her. "You don't know what my father would have wanted!"

"You're right. I don't. But I do know that he wanted to keep your ass safe! If you do this, you're breaking his promise to Gary!" Little Cato didn't respond to her. "I know you can hear me!" He still didn't talk. Finally, Fly let out a growl and grabbed him by the tail. "Get the hell away from that control!"

"REWOR!" screeched Little Cato. "Don't do that again!" He leaped onto her and scratched her face repeatedly. "It's your fault he died! He died saving you!"

Fly grabbed him by the arms, but he kicked her gut. "He didn't," she grunted. "He died so he can save...YOU!" She shoved him off her and he smashed into the control panel. Alarms blared and a mechanical voice rang out, "Self-destruct imminent. Time fusion chamber leaking."

Before the trio could run, the door slammed shut. "No, no, no, no, no! Wait, what is happening?"

"We're trapped." said KVN obviously.

"Ugh! This is gonna end bad," said Little Cato.

"YOU THINK?!" shouted Fly.

"What is going on, Quinn?" Gary asked, desperate.

Quinn sighed, "If you leave, the Lord Commander and Cetus kill you, and Mooncake takes revenge on everything. And I mean everything."

Gary and Mooncake shared a look of shock.

"I've been back hundreds of times, and the only option left is to kill Mooncake," said Nightfall grimly.

"Little buddy?" Mooncake couldn't look at Gary.

Suddenly, HUE chimed in, "Emergency. Little Cato and Fly are trapped inside Nightfall's ship."

Nightfall gasped in horror. "They triggered the self-destruct! It can't be turned off!"

"Little Cato," said Gary. He turned to Nightfall and begged softly, "Please. For me. I can't let him die." Nightfall let out a groan, then lowered her gun. "Mooncake, let's go!"

"Chookity-pock!"

Fly and Little Cato pounded on the ship's door, trying to get out. Blue energy slowly started to swirl around them and they started going through changes: they were rapidly changing from babies to children to adults to seniors and back to babies again. "HELP!" cried Little Cato.

"The winds of change keep blowing," sang KVN, who was also rapidly changing in ages as well. "We're all gonna die."

"YOU'RE NOT HELPING!" shouted Fly.

"This is your fault!" Little Cato yelled at her.

"Me? I'm not the one who thought it was a good idea to hijack a time machine when they clearly had no idea what the hell they were doing!"

"You smashed the controls!"

"Only because you fought me!"

"Because I wanted you to leave!"

"I wanted you to get out! For Gary's sake!"

"SOMEONE HAS TO TAKE THE BLAME AND IT CAN'T BE ME!" Little Cato screamed. He panted heavily.

Fly gave him a shocked look. "Little Cato..." She realized what was going on. "You think it's your fault Avocato died, but you tried to shift the blame on me so you won't feel guilty."

He fell to his knees and sobbed. "You are right. It is my fault. He died because of me." He buried his face into his hands and wept. Fly slowly walked over to him and wrapped his arms around him.

"I'm sorry. It's not your fault. He died to save you. You're still alive. You still have Gary. And I shouldn't blame myself for something that was out of my control."

Little Cato hugged her tight.

Meanwhile, Mooncake, Gary, Quinn and Nightfall returned to the Galaxy 1 and ran back into the hanger where Nightfall used her sword to slowly cut her way through her ship's door like a can opener. "We've gotta get them out. Time is leaking. In another moment, they'll be blinked out of existence." She punched the door open and Gary stuck his head in.

"Little Cato! Fly!"

Fly, who was starting to transform into an old woman, glared at him. "We're having a moment here, Gary!"

"Grab my hand!"

"Oh, fine." Still holding Little Cato in her arms, she reached out and grabbed Gary's hand. She was pulled out just as the ship imploded and disappeared. "Wow," said Fly. She glared at KVN. "Too bad you weren't still in there when it got erased. On the plus side, we're back to our regular ages!" She then added, "Also, HUE, remind me to get medication for my arthritis when I reach fifty."

Little Cato sobbed in her chest. "I feel so alone," he sobbed.

Gary hugged the cat boy. "You're not alone. We'll get through it together. As a team. As a squad. As a team squad."

"How?" asked Fly. "You're leaving."

"To be honest, I was never going anywhere. I mean, I ... I got nowhere to go."

"Hell yeah, dawg," said HUE.

"Give Mooncake one more chance," said Quinn. "I can fix this." She put a hand on Gary's shoulder. "Gary, I'm...glad you're sticking around."

"Why?

"Because I need you."

"To do what?"

"I just need you, okay? So shut up!"

Gary smiled. "Works for me."

Little Cato sniffed. "What about me?"

"You, too," said Quinn.

"Chookity-pock?"

"And me?" asked Fly.

"And especially you two."

"What the hell, Quinn?" complained HUE. "You failed to mention me."

"Yes, you."

"Hi, what about KVN? Do you need KVN? Huh? Huh?

"Yes, KVN!" Quinn said, irritated.

"Yes, KVN, what?

"I need you, too, all right?!" Quinn snapped at him before saying calmly to everyone, "I need all of you."

Gary put an arm around her shoulder. "Then you just joined the Legion of Murdering...something or another. I don't know. It's really long."

"Yeah, you did," said Little Cato, his sadness slowly being replaced with confidence.

"I hope that's enough," said Nightfall grimly.