Buzz groaned as he woke up, lying on the floor. He saw Darkmatter and two hornets above him.

"Surprised?" asked Darkmatter.

Then the hornets picked Buzz up.

"You're alive?" exclaimed Buzz. "Or am I dead? Or are we both in limbo? Because if we are, I'm not ready to leave the Galactic Alliance yet!"

"No, you're not dead and not in limbo," replied Darkmatter. "Not yet anyway."

"But how, who, what, when, why?"

"You left out 'where', you know," said Darkmatter. "Remember the exploding moon? Zurg's fireworks are more convincing and way more impressive than the ones at Disney World Resort in Florida."

"But, Warp – "

"Agent Z, please."

"Oh, I know what's wrong with you," said Buzz. "Amnesia."

"No," said Darkmatter.

"Evil clone?"

"No."

"Alzheimer's disease? Autism? Old age but you've been taking a lot of operations to make yourself look younger?"

"No!" snapped Darkmatter. "Look, Lightyear, I've been a spy for Zurg since the academy."

"Okay, two questions," said Buzz. "Firstly, if you wanted to defeat me and Star Command, why did you help me through all those missions and gave me all those tips when I was struggling while studying in the academy? And secondly, what must it have been like killing your fellow hornets while working for me? I bet you got a lot of bolts on your hands."

"You got that bit right," said Darkmatter, showing his left hand holding a bunch of bolts. "But that's part of being evil, which is still more profitable and more fun than good. And, in answer to your first question, he'll answer it for you."

"Who?" asked Buzz.

"'He was not only a great ranger, but a great friend'," Zurg mocked him from behind him. "Remember your reaction when you thought you lost him."

He went to a screen monitor and it showed Buzz at Darkmatter's 'ceremony' at Star Command a couple of months ago. "I miss him very much," said Buzz.

"One more time!" exclaimed Zurg, as he pressed the rewind remote.

"I miss him very much," repeated Buzz.

"Again!" And Zurg kept on rewinding and playing it multiple times. "Miss him now?"

"Stop mocking me!" yelled Buzz. The hornets electrified him to shut up.

"I'll admit that in the past," Zurg said to the groaning space ranger, "you have been a badass, difficult, make-me-wanna-hit-my-helmet-with-a-hammer foe, but since you've lost your dear partner, even reading Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat has been more fun. So, to make life even better, I'm not gonna kill you. Now I have a much more delicious, tasty and deadly idea. I'm gonna take the galaxy's greatest hero and turn him into me."

Buzz gasped.

"Welcome to the team, partner," grinned Darkmatter. "I really missed your company, even when I was a spy. It'll be just like old times."

"This ain't my team and you ain't my partner," Buzz said. He freed himself enough room from the hornets and opened his wrist communicator. "Buzz Lightyear mission log, final entry."

"What the hell's he doing?" asked Zurg.

"Mission log," moaned Darkmatter. "He says it keeps his brain from catching Alzheimer's disease."

"Oh, God!" screamed Mira, as Alpha One left Planet Z. "I feel like a janitor or a coffee maker. Insignificant!"

"Supervising evacuations from other planets?" said X.R. "If we pull this off successfully, maybe we'll be rulers of the galaxy."

"All three of us?" asked Booster.

"I don't know if anyone can hear me," said Buzz's voice, "but, as I go to my doom, I admit I was wrong about not taking a partner, even though I felt confident about not needing one and this is not an apology."

"Not an apology?" cried Mira. "Well, we're not gonna come back and rescue him, now."

"What about that janitor and coffee maker thing you mentioned earlier?" asked X.R.

That got Mira thinking. "Okay," she said, as she turned the ship around.

"We're coming, Buzz!" cried Booster.

"Buzz Lightyear, over and out," finished Buzz, as he closed his wrist communicator.

"Target Buzz Lightyear and fire," Zurg ordered to his lackeys.

"Crumb of biscuit, man," said Brain Pod Freight Train.

"'Crumb of biscuit'?" asked Brain Pod Kenny West.

"Making biscuits is easier than making cakes so 'Crumb of Biscuit' is easier than 'Piece of Cake'."

"Whatever, man," muttered Brain Pod Kenny, as he typed into the computer.

"Hey, grub-lady!" cried Brain Pod Freight Train. "We're ready to turn that sloppy softy space ranger into a hard, badass evil one."

"Okay!" cried Kendra.

The two hornets took Buzz into the nozzle of the big gun.

"Do it!" ordered Zurg.

The gun fired and it was heading for Buzz, but it didn't hit him. Because Buzz and the hornets holding him were being pulled by the long arms of X.R., who was standing outside on Alpha One.

"Well done, X.R.!" cried Booster, who was flying the ship.

"Man, I always hoped I would find a use for these extremely long arms," said X.R. "I feel like that member of the Fantastic Four with the long – Ah!"

Then he was getting electrified by the two hornets holding Buzz. The space ranger opened his wings to free himself and flew off.

"Darkmatter, kill Lightyear!" Zurg ordered his number one agent.

Darkmatter flew up to get Lightyear, but a nearby hornet knocked him back down.

"What the (bleep), man?" snapped Darkmatter.

Then out of the hornet came Mira who threw it onto him.

"You think I'm just a pretty face?" she smiled smugly.

Buzz flew to the big battery and started shooting at it. No matter how many times he fired, it just wouldn't cause any damage to it.

"Your Star Command laser is crappy," said Zurg. "Let me show a bigger, better and awesome weapon!"
Some grubs loaded him his iron blaster and he fired. Buzz's wings blew off and he fell down.

X.R. was still sparkling with electricity and fell off the ship.

Booster dived the Alpha One down and X.R. landed back on the ship, but hit his head on the ship's heavy metal tail. "Watch it, man!" snapped the robot.

"Well, sorry for flying as best as I can," Booster snapped back. "You don't even have a scratch on your helmet."

Then the controls were staggering and sparkling. "Oh, what now?" moaned Booster, as he tried to maintain control of the ship.

Alpha One was heading straight for the control deck under the big gun. Zurg's minions cleared the platform to avoid the crashing ship. It stopped moving.

"Buzz has been hit!" reported Mira, as she appeared through the controls of the ship.

Booster screamed. "Don't do that in future! I'm a very nervous alien!" Then he looked around to see Darkmatter loading his gun. "Isn't that Buzz's dead partner?"

"Eject!" yelled Mira, as she pressed the button to get Booster's seat out to avoid Darkmatter's firing.

The number one agent was then stuck by the obese janitor, who landed on him.

"Aren't you the obese retarded janitor?" asked Darkmatter.

"Ex-janitor if I get out of this and become a real space ranger," replied Booster.

Buzz had caught the edge of a platform under the big gun. He picked himself up and opened his wrist communicator.

"Mira! Booster! X.R.! I can't get to Zurg in time. It's up to you guys now and no competition between each other now. Good luck."

"Give it up, Lightyear," said Zurg's voice behind him. "I win."

"Evil never wins," said Buzz. Buzz jumped over Zurg as the evil dictator fired his gun. He couldn't find Lightyear in the dark.

"Afraid of the dark, Zurg?" asked Buzz. "Are you a – What phobia is it for people who are afraid of the dark? Whatever it is, is that what you are?"

Then Zurg's gun was shot off. "Not today, Zurg!" yelled Mira, appearing through the ceiling.

Booster picked up the gun and crunched it with his fat arms.

Mira jumped down and aimed her laser at Zurg. "Evil Emperor Zurg, by the authority of Star Command – "

"Subsection Five, subsection Charlie," added Booster. "That's the one about the evil emperor."
"You are under arrest!" cried X.R., hanging from the ceiling and aiming his gun at Zurg.

"Like I said," said Buzz, also aiming his laser at his archenemy, "evil never wins."

Then they heard and saw another blast from the big gun. Then Mira noticed Zurg going down a tunnel. She fired her laser but the tunnel closed up.

Then they saw Zurg on a floating platform. "You failed, Lightyear! With that final blast, I have enslaved every planet in the Galactic Alliance. Wherever you go in the universe, you will hear my voice mocking you."

"Will we be able to hear your laughing, snoring, burping and farting?" asked Booster.

"Ew!" moaned Mira.

She, X.R. and Buzz fired their lasers at Zurg, but the super-villain floated away.

"We're not done yet," said Buzz. Then he turned to face his team. "Booster, X.R., get up top and take Warp into custody. Mira, you're with me."

Back on the control deck, everything was sparkling and exploding.

"She's gonna blow!" cried Brain Pod Freight Train.

"Let's get the hell out of here, man!" cried Brain Pod Kenny West.

All the brain pods and the grubs started to evacuate the deck. Only Darkmatter who was handcuffed over a big pole couldn't move.

"Get back here!" he screamed. "Release me! I'm Zurg's number one agent! Hey, I have skin cancer! I wanna live my life as much as I can, not end it too soon!"

"Are you sure you don't wanna be put out of your misery?" asked X.R., aiming a gun at his head.

"What?" cried Darkmatter.

"Nah, just kidding," X.R. chuckled, putting his gun away.

Booster picked him and Darkmatter up.

"You're gonna jump?" cried Darkmatter. "Are you crazy?"

"Welcome to Booster's High Jumping Experiences," said Booster.

"If you're thinking of opening up a kid's activity, Booster," said X.R., "change the name and make it a more exciting one."

"Okay," said Booster. Then he ran to the edge of the deck and jumped off, with Darkmatter screaming his head off.

Out of X.R.'s torso came a big parachute.

"Don't be such a whimp," said Booster. "You see, you'll hardly notice we're falling."

But Darkmatter was still nervous as he looked down as they floated down.

Mira held Buzz as they hovered above the Uni-Mind.

"Okay, Buzz," said Mira. "I'll confess that I haven't thought of this bit for my plan yet. What are we going to do?"

"Well, I remember from watching this scene from the original movie," said Buzz. "Take me in closer and I'll see if I can just try to – "

Buzz put his hand out and it touched the Uni-Mind. Where he touched started to turn back green. And it grew and grew.

"You're doing it!" cried Mira.

"Power of good is a strong thing, Mira," smiled Buzz.

But then everything went back to being purple.

"You were sayin'?" asked Mira.

"Damn it!" snapped Buzz. "I forgot that the touch thing wouldn't work."
Mira had an idea. "But I remember what happens next."

"What? What are you doing?"

Mira just put Buzz against the Uni-Mind and made him glow white.

"You're gonna ghost me?"

Then she shoved Buzz into the Uni-Mind and took a step back. Then she saw the Uni-Mind turn back to orange and green.

"To infinity and beyond!" echoed Buzz's voice as a big green ring wave spread across the planet.

The Uni-Mind wave hit Planet Bean and everyone was all right again, except for poor Teddy. Mr. Bean cried his eyes out as he mourned his best friend. The wave also hit Third Earth and the Thundercats were good as gold again. Then it hit the Star Command space station and all the personal were no longer under Zurg's control.

"Ah, Lightyear," sighed Nebula.

Deep in space, in his big ship, Zurg felt like he had lost every planet that were once under his rule. "No! My plan! My galaxy!"

"Uni-Mind wave impact in three seconds," reported the grub captain of his ship.

"(Bleep) you, Buzz Lightyear!" screamed Zurg, as the wave hit his ship.

The wave had finished but Buzz had not come out of the Uni-Mind.

"I'm going in!" yelled Mira, as she dived into the orb.

On the ground, Booster and X.R. were worrying about them, while Darkmatter didn't seem to give a damn about it. "She's a goner!" he scoffed. "Along with him! I'll bet they're making out in hell right now."

Then Mira came out with Buzz.

"Thanks for the lift, Mira," smiled Buzz.

"Anytime, sir," Mira smiled back.

Booster and X.R. were cheering when they saw them flying out of the orb.

"You were saying?" Booster said to Darkmatter.

"Ow!" the prisoner cried, as he was being poked by X.R.

"Come on, Booster, try it!" the robot said. "It's fun."

"Okay," said Booster. And the duo had fun poking their prisoner.