Mira got out of her ship in Buzz's rocket. She walked towards Buzz.
"Ranger Nova, that was the most bullshit, crappiest, least attractive space stunt I've ever seen!" snapped Buzz.
"Kind of reminds you of yourself, huh?" said Mira.
"What are you talking about?" demanded Buzz.
"I read your biography: Buzzing Around the Universe," said Mira Nova. "It mentions the time you hit a few rookies when you were training to be a ranger – "
"By accident!" protested Buzz.
"The time you hit the President of – "
"I'm suing the biographer!" Buzz interrupted again.
"And finally," went on Mira, "there was the time you jerked off in front of Pofgy Hultren the singer."
"I was drunk and – " Buzz couldn't think of any more excuses. "Yeah, all right, I'll admit it. This does remind me off myself."
Then noise and chatter came from the store room. Buzz and Mira readied their lasers as they went to the door and opened it.
"Hello?" said Buzz.
The intruders, who were none other than X.R. and Booster, screamed. Booster was trying on a spacesuit, but his obesity ripped it off. He covered up his nakedness with his arms.
"Simple question," said Buzz. "What the hell are you doing here?"
"Yeah, buddy!" shouted X.R. to Booster. "What the (beeping) hell are you doing here? We want (beeping) answers and we want them (beeping) now!"
"I meant both of you!" shouted Buzz.
"What?" exclaimed X.R. as he turned around to face Buzz. "Well, if you want the whole story, here it is – "
Back on the station, after Nebula ordered the L.G.M.s to take X.R. out of the Briefing Room, they were walking where Booster was cleaning.
"Hey, where are guys going with the robot?" he asked them.
"I prefer the term 'Experimental Ranger'," said X.R.
The L.G.M.s had an idea. "We were looking for you, Booster."
"You remember always moaning about you're the only janitor on this station?" asked one. "And you're moaning how you do lots of hard work and get less payment than a training rookie?"
"Well, you can use him for a cleaning partner," said a second.
"You'll love him," said the third.
The L.G.M.s left the two together.
"So what can you do?" asked Booster.
"Let me demonstrate, Chubbs," smiled X.R. Then he got out a gun and aimed it for the ceiling. "Say hello to my little friend!"
"No!" snapped Booster. "I meant cleaning-wise."
"Oh," moaned X.R.
A couple of hours later, Booster and X.R. were cleaning the cafeteria. Booster was pushing the robot that used mops under his feet instead of his feet to mop around the floor.
"How long do we have to do this, man?" moaned X.R.
"We could be at this cafeteria for a while," replied Booster. "Maybe two hours or three."
X.R. broke free from Booster's big arms and his mops turned back into his feet. "Oh, (beep) this," said X.R. "Let's ditch this and do something fun."
"No way!" snapped Booster. "I am not letting Buzz down. I can't."
"Buzz?" said X.R. "As in Lightyear?"
"Well, I don't know any other Buzz here," said Booster.
"Well, there's Buzz Darkmonth, Buzz Brightweek and Buzz Crapday," said X.R. "But I was once Buzz Lightyear's partner. And I can give you a few tips."
"I'm listening," said Booster.
"Do you really you're gonna be a space ranger just by cleaning the space station?" said X.R. "I can give you a tour of Buzz's ship."
"Really?" cried Booster, jumping up and down happily. "That would be the coolest thing ever!"
"Well, come on, then!"
Then the dinosaur-like alien and his robot cleaning robot went to the launch bay.
Soon they were in Buzz's rocket. Booster was in Buzz's seat, while X.R. was in the co-pilot seat.
"Star Command," said Booster, "this is Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear reporting. We have just destroyed the Death Star and saved Yavin Four. We are now on our way to destroy the Narada before it destroys planet Vulcan. To infinity and beyond!"
X.R. was not really playing; he was more interested in his Playbot magazines. But he was getting irritated by Booster's firing mimics.
"Whoo!" went on the enthusiastic alien. "Watch out! We're going into the asteroid field!"
Then he acted like he was spinning the ship. "Oh, no! We got a squad of TIE fighters near behind. Chewbecca, get to the gun turrets!"
"On my way, Captain," said X.R., without much interest. Then he lifted his arm up and mimicked firing. "All TIEs defeated, Captain."
"We are leaving the asteroid field," said Booster. "We are five hundred yards away from the Narada."
"Captain," said X.R. "I hate to interrupt but someone's coming!"
"Is it a Sith Lord?" asked Booster.
"No, seriously," said X.R. "I think the real Buzz is coming in here."
"I shouldn't be here!" gasped Booster. "I'm gonna get fired, convicted, executed and never get to be a space ranger!"
"Stop panicking and follow me!" snapped X.R.
Then Buzz went to his seat. He sat down but couldn't reach the controls, because it was too far back.
"Hmm, that's odd," said Buzz. Then he put his seat right. "But nothing that can't be fixed."
He didn't notice X.R. and Booster in the glass booth behind him. They managed to get up and get out of it, before the rocket blasted off. They both landed in the store room.
"Wow!" exclaimed Booster. "He didn't see us."
"See, look up to X.R. as a role model and everything is a-ok," boosted X.R.
Then, as the rocket jerked off a few times, X.R. fell onto a locker.
"Ok," said Booster. "You're my new role model."
He jumped onto the same locker.
"Never knew role models have their disadvantages," muttered X.R., under Booster's over-weight belly.
"When the ship docks," said Booster, "we need to get out without being seen. But how?"
X.R. opened up some lockers. "Bingo!" he cried as he opened one up. "Spare spacesuits!" He chucked the biggest one to Booster. "Just chuck that one, wait for Buzz to leave, then walk out and no one is as clever as us."
"Well, if you're so clever," said Booster, "perhaps you can help me with this."
X.R. saw Booster holding up his spacesuit and it still looked like a toddler's suit compared to the big dinosaur-like alien.
"Oh, god," sighed X.R. Then he went to help his friend put the spacesuit on. It was struggle at first, but they at least managed to get him all covered up in it. Until Buzz and Mira came and then it got ripped apart and –
"As you can see, Buzz," said X.R., "we made this mess, but, as highly recommended janitors, there's nothing we can clean up." He got out his brush.
"It wasn't my fault this time, Buzz," Booster said nervously, as his angry idol approached him. "He tricked me into – "
"Any space ranger, even the rookies, would know that's no crap excuse!" yelled Buzz. "This time you have really set – The alarm!"
"I didn't set that off, Buzz," said Booster. "I swear."
"Red alert!" shouted Buzz, as he, Mira, X.R. and Booster, who managed to get his janitor's uniform back on, ran back to the cockpit.
In the cockpit, everyone saw a wave purple heading towards them. Buzz flipped the throttle and the ship moved out of the way.
"It's headed towards Star Command!" cried Mira. She was not wrong.
"The station looks oakie-dokie," said Booster.
"Buzz Lightyear to Star Command," Buzz said to the radio. "Come in, Star Command." But all the radio got was static. "I don't like this."
The Star Command station had all its lights and power off.
"It's dark as hell here," said Mira, as she, Buzz and Booster held torches. X.R.'s eyes lit up lights which held him see through the dark.
They approached the main control deck.
"I can't see anything," said Mira. "There's no casualties, no fires and no pipes burst."
"My scanner is picking up something," said Buzz, looking at his scanner.
"Lightyear! How good of you to join us!"
Buzz turned around to see a pair of red eyes. "Zurg?"
But when he turned his torch back on, it wasn't Zurg; it was Nebula! With red eyes.
Everyone saw all the L.G.M.s and the other space rangers had the red eyes.
"Lemme guess, Zurg," said Buzz to all the space rangers. "You used the Uni-Mind to link my fellow rangers to your evil and now you're planning on taking over the entire Galactic Federation."
"Ten out of ten," said Zurg's voice that came through an L.G.M.
"And here's your reward," said Zurg's voice through Nebula.
"What?" Buzz asked excitedly.
"This." Nebula got out a Star Command rocket launcher and fired at Buzz and his friends, who luckily missed them. Soon all the rangers and the L.G.M.s were firing at them.
"Back to the ship, people!" ordered Buzz.
They all ran for it, except X.R.
"People? Does that include me? I'm only five and I don't know wherever robots are people or not."
Buzz just grabbed him.
They ran through the corridor to the launch bay, but they were blocked off by space rangers and L.G.M.s.
"No, Mira!" yelled Buzz, as he stopped her from firing at them. "I know they're under delusion as Zurg's minions, but, deep inside, they're still our fellow rangers."
"Then how do you suggest we get pass them?" asked Mira.
"I have an idea," said Booster. "Or should I say we have an idea?"
Booster grabbed X.R. Then the robot's legs turned into his mops.
"Oh, no," moaned X.R. "My feet are still aching from cleaning."
Booster frowned at him. "You haven't got any more in you to – "
"Will you guys shut up and just push them away!" yelled Mira.
Booster and X.R. ran for to the Star Command staff and knocked them down.
"Let's move!" shouted Buzz.
They went through into the launch bay. The door closed behind them and Mira fired along the middle of the door to stop the space rangers coming through.
"Good work, people," said Buzz.
"What about me?" demanded X.R.
"You, too, robot," said Buzz.
They all went into Buzz's ship and took off.
"If Zurg has taken control of everyone at Star Command," said Mira, "that means we're the only good ones left."
"I can't make contact with the Star Command outer posts," said Buzz.
"Probably Zurg's got them, too," said Mira.
"So what are we going to do?" asked Booster.
"We've got to take the battle to Zurg," replied Buzz.
"Really?" said X.R., as he looked at the radar. "Looks like it's the other way round."
X.R. was correct. In space, the Star Command fleet that was preparing itself for Planet Z was now heading for Buzz's ship. And they started firing.
Luckily, Buzz knew a few manoeuvres to avoid the firing.
"I had no idea a star cruiser could pull a move like that!" exclaimed an impressed Mira.
"Neither did Zurg," smiled Buzz. "And I bet even Han Solo could never do this."
Away from the fleet, the Millennium Flacon had its own Imperial fleet to flee from. In the cockpit, Luke Skywalker had watched Buzz's rocket's manoeuvres.
"Why don't you copy this guy's manoeuvres, Han?" asked Luke to Han Solo.
"Watch your mouth, kid, or you're gonna find yourself flying home!" snapped Han. "Besides, my manoeuvres are ten times better than his. We'll lose them."
Then the ship got hit.
"You were saying?" snapped Luke.
Chewbecca roared angrily.
Back in Buzz's ship, there was a very weird beeping sound.
"Mira, check outside!" ordered Buzz.
Mira went through the ship's ceiling and, putting a breathing shield around her, she saw an object with red beeping outside the ship.
"We got a bomb!" she shouted.
"Oh, what a relief!" sighed Booster.
"All calm and cool, man," said X.R.
After a few seconds later, they realised. "A BOMB?" they shouted together.
"Perfect!" smiled Buzz.
"What's perfect about that?" asked Booster.
In space, Nebula and the entire Star Command fleet watched Buzz's ship fly on its own.
"At last, for too long, Lightyear has haunted me," said Zurg's voice through Nebula's mouth.
Then the ship exploded into pieces.
"But no more!"
Zurg's laughter came through every space ranger, as they headed back to Star Command space station.
No one seemed to notice the Alpha One was behind one of the destroyed wings and was still in one piece. The rangers and Booster were alive and unhurt, but also very quiet.
"Why are we being quiet?" asked Booster.
"I'm just pausing in honour of my ship," replied Buzz.
"What, that junk of metal?" said X.R.
"Look who's talking," said Mira.
"Hey, at least I can fly, fire a gun and say cool action hero lines," retorted X.R.
"Well, looking on the positive side," said Buzz, "Zurg thinks I'm dead, I got him where I want him and I can't see anything disadvantages."
In space, there was nothing to be heard except a great, big – PHFTT!
"Sorry, guys," apologized Booster.
"Good god, man!" shouted Mira.
"You need to eat less burgers, fatso!" yelled X.R.
"I never thought this day would come," said Agent Z.
"What, destroying Buzz Lightyear?" said Zurg. "I always knew I would do it."
"Not that," said Agent Z. "Bin Laden."
"Ah, yes," said Zurg. "With him out of the way, I am now the evillest figure in the history of the universe. Somehow, evil won't be much fun without Buzz Lightyear around."
The Alpha One was approaching Planet Z.
"Okay, Ranger Nova," said Buzz. "Let's test that theory of yours."
"But my research tells me that no one has ever set foot on Planet Z," said Booster.
"Well, there always has to be a first,, mustn't there?" said Buzz.
The red ship got closer to the giant red planet, but they were not alone.
"Seeker drones!" cried Mira.
"Oh, no!" cried Booster.
Buzz tried to steer the ship away from the seeker drones, but he didn't have enough room. "I need more room, guys!" he yelled. "Otherwise, we're all gonna get shot or crash-land."
The others tried to get back as further as they could.
"Buzz, I think I sat on a button," said Booster.
"What button?" Mira asked.
X.R. dropped his left eye from his face and into his arm. He tried to put it behind Booster.
"I can't see behind this fat ass of yours!" snapped X.R. "Ah ha. Emergency water landing."
"Are we above water?" asked Mira.
"No," replied Booster.
"Oh, so it's all good, then," said Mira.
"Really?" said Booster.
"No, fat head!" snapped Mira. "I was being sarcastic! Because we're not over water!"
"Ah, the power's powering down already," said Buzz.
On the outside, the Alpha unleashed its blue safety balloons and its red siren light came up. Buzz did his best to stop it, but it won't respond. The ship headed down towards the sewers near Zurg Tower.
Up above the sewers, a squad of hornets walked on a bridge. Then they saw a strange object down below.
"What now, fools?" asked Brain Pod Freight Train. He looked down and saw a blue cover with a red object sticking out.
"That's not a spacecraft," he said to the hornets. "It's obviously a burst weather balloon. You guys don't have brains, like me, so just do your job and let us brain guys do all the thinking. Now, move!"
Brain Pod Freight Train and the hornets moved on. Down below, Buzz and his team came out of the sewers.
"How's the ship?" asked Buzz.
X.R. got out a lead and connected it to the Alpha. "The ship says it's a-ok," he reported. "But it also says don't do that again, unless you're over water in future!"
"Good," said Buzz. "You three take it, then. Find all the planets Zurg hasn't hit yet and supervised immediate evacuation."
"What about Zurg?" Mira asked.
"Leave him to me," said Buzz.
"But, Buzz, no space ranger is to go into action without backup," protested Booster. "I think it's sub-section six, sub-section delta."
"Correction," said Buzz. "It's sub-section six, sub-section gamma."
X.R. got out a Star Command manual out. "He's right, Chubbs. Delta is the dress code. It also includes health things here. Say, why can't we take tobacco?"
"Because tobacco is a very dangerous shit for idiots, including robots, who wants to kill themselves!" snapped Buzz.
"Well, if you can take on Zurg alone," said Mira, "I don't see why X.R. can't take tobacco."
"Especially since Nebula is now a minion of Zurg," said Booster. "We can do whatever we want."
"No!" shouted Buzz. "No one is taking tobacco. I'm facing Zurg by myself and you three are getting of this planet now! And that's an order!"
"Yes, sir," said X.R. and Booster together, as they saluted and walked to the ship.
"Ranger Nova!" Buzz gave her a warning look.
"Fine, sir," she moaned, as she gave him an unenthusiastic salute and slumped away.
"Thank you," said Buzz.
"You're not welcome!" snapped Mira.
"What haven't we hit yet?" Zurg asked Brain Pod Kenny West.
"Cyberton," said Brain Pod Kenny West. "We could have the Transformers – both good and bad – on our side."
"That's a great idea," said Zurg. "What else – "
"Well, there's Naboo and there's – "
ZAP! Flying hornets above them were getting shot. Zurg looked down and was not pleased to see how was firing at them. "Lightyear!" he growled.
"Zurg!" Buzz growled back.
He flew up Zurg Tower and aimed for Zurg. Then he was pushed away and crashed into another building He saw it was Agent Z.
"By the authority of Star Command," said Buzz, "I hereby place you under arrest."
But all Agent Z did was aimed his gun and fired at Buzz, who rolled out of the way and fired back at the evil agent, who crashed into a big light and fell to the ground.
"Very good, Lightyear," said Agent Z. "I have to admit you got me that time."
Buzz fired at the light behind him which sent him forward and Buzz punched him to the ground again.
"Like I said," said Buzz, "you're under arrest. Anything you say can and will be – ."
"Held against you and all that crap," muttered Agent Z, as he took off the helmet. "But come on, buddy, that's no need to go Jack Bauer on your partner."
Buzz was shocked as hell to see who Agent Z was when he took his helmet off. "Warp?"
Warp Darkmatter smiled as he fired his mechanic hand to Buzz, knocking him out.
