Outer space was blissful and beautiful as always. The planets that were a few hundred miles away thrived with wildlife, stars dazzling and sparked like diamonds and even though it was quiet there still were rhythm and the sound of wind…
But not this time.
All small aliens of every life form could hear and smell the scent of rage and blood from afar; stopping in their tracks and routines they did every day. Looking up at the starry skies they tuned into the fight that was taking place….
Dominators ship loomed still and silent, until a blast and explosion abruptly blew out on the back of it. Others weren't the only one who stared at it, there were some that were closer.
Deena smiled nervously, and had been observing safely in her car and keeping record of activity.
"So that's where Wander is," She squinted her eyes, "Here comes the risky part."
She still kept track and been following him since Dominator destroyed the previous planet, she inserted a micro-tracker into his fur while on Awesome's club ship.
"But who blew a hole on the ship? Wander, or Dominator?" She wondered out loud.
Her concern for him not only grew more, but she didn't know how much of a bigger threat this female conqueror was, why didn't her higher ups inform her about her beforehand, Deena didn't know.
"I hope...and pray you the best, Wander."
It was time to fully engage and do what she was ordered;
Until something caught her eye:
A glowing bubble was heading it's way to the ship and she gasped,
"What're they doing?", Deena had pressed her face against the glass.
...
"Thank grop we found it." Sylvia sighed with relief as she and role-swapped Wander made their way to the ship.
Wander still didn't like the nickname she made up, it was so unnecessary. Nate had come along and was on top of the saddle, unsure of what was going to be happening.
"I still don't get why we're doing this, we should be getting back to Rockna." Nate huffed.
"I told you before, we have to get the right Wander back with us to do that." Wander explained for the 2nd time.
"Still don't know what you mean." Nate said flatly.
"Well, we tried to explain the thing that he, over there, isn't the only wandering weirdo in this galaxy," Sylvia shot a glance at Nate," You'll see when we get to Dominator's ship."
"Whatever you say." Nate said and folded his arms.
RS Wander became quiet suddenly, a passing thought struck him...
He sighed.
"Nate, there's something you should know...I've kept it to myself for a long time, your parents-"
BOOOOOOOOOOOM
"WOAH!" Sylvia stopped and backed up, making Nate take her reigns to balance himself.
All three froze, and before them a hole was blown out from behind Dominator's ship, red-hot metal pieces flew up and gravitated everywhere. They were faint, but yelling and screaming could be heard from the inside...
The trio looked at each other, confused...Sylvia made a scared expression...
She knew it and could sense it...
Her best friend was there and doing something grop-knows what. Sylvia wanted to high tail it and not look back, but she couldn't. Wander needed them.
She grunted with determination.. she put knee grease and ran like the race in the Conjunction 6000. Of course, making the other two's face have whip-lash on them.
Deena chased after them, shaking her head.
"It's never easy, is it?" She mumbled.
Inside the ship,
Wander wasn't showing any mercy or thoughts of holding back.
"I'll protect anything that's threatened by the likes of you, Dom." Wander spat.
His voice contained a deep, ominous hatred that was shot at her, and Dominator wasn't the least bit unnerved by it.
She kept her head down, chuckling softly. Then she hunched her shoulders up and began laughing hysterically,
"MUHAHAHAH! Things just got interesting!"
She activated her suit of armor, covering up her slender figure into the muscular shape, the mask covering her face as well.
"I'll take away anything that you care about!" It echoed her disguised voice.
Wander jumped using all four of his feet at her, swiping his arm, making a slash of air hit the computer screen where Dominator previously stood by and destroying it. Since he could feel his height difference he used that as an advantage as much as he could, more force and speed had come along with it.
"Oh, come on!"
Dominator lifted her face plate,
"Do you know much time it takes to fix those?" She wined, shrugged, and smiled sadistically.
Wander jumped high, getting ready to hit again, and made it easy for Dominator to shoot him with her lava and pin him to the floor.
This made him more aggravated and he struggled to get free. He let out his roar, shaking the room, and the ship. The bots that were close by ran off in fear and went someplace they felt safer.
"Is this all you have?" Dominator groaned, and rubbed her temple,
"I guess I got my hopes up-"
She didn't know how it happened and it was so fast her brain didn't register...
Wander broke through the magma and in a split second he slammed her against the wall.
"I would be more careful."
Wander came over and picked her up by the neck.
"If you let Rockna go, I won't have to finish you off." Wander offered.
His old personality was barely seeping through, and still being generous.
"PAH! Seriously?" Dominator cackled at him, "We're just getting-" Her mask covered her face again,
"-STARTED!"
Dominator activated both her ice and lava abilities and hit Wander in the face and chest. He let go, and was pushed back, let out a scream in slow motion. Ice and lava literally boiled and bubbled over his body, he kicked and yelped in pain. The his fur on his head was singed and smoking.
Dominator smacked her gloves together and spoke calmly;
"What happens when ice and lava come across each other?"
Dominator came closer, stopped to smile unsympathetically at the suffering former nomad...and planted her foot on his stomach. Wander spat out saliva and vomit, eyes dilated to smaller shape.
"Exactly as you see it, it must be painful. I love inflicting pain. I can remember destroying planets as far as decades ago, it was much different than before,-"
"S-stop," He begged.
Wander tried to lift her foot, but it was hard as steel and wouldn't move.
Dominator snapped her fingers into a beat,
"I DESTROYED THE PLANETS, LAUGHED, AND CHEERED!"
She finally did take her foot off, but only to kick him in the face.
"OOFH!"
"ONE-!"
-kick-
"AFTER-!"
-kick-
"ANOTHER!"
She ceased, opened her mask, pulled the hair on his head, then made Wander look at her, her crimson orbs glowed with delight,
"The most fun was destroying Orpid, oh my grop!" She sighed with happiness,
Wander could barely keep his eyes open, his head and skull screamed in white-hot pain, he wanted it to end so badly, but stopping Dominator was too important in the back of his breaking mind,
How do I stop her? and how am I still able to listen to her horrible past-rampages?
-"Come to think of it, I think I saw you there before..." She went on like it was a normal conversational subject, "after had I wasted it entirely, there was a baby octopus he held in his arms-"
Wander whipped his eyes at her;
"A young octopus?" He asked,
He thought he was truly insane now, why was he engaging in this? Hearing her talk about it already made him sick to his gut.
"Yeah, and I followed them later, the brat grew up with the look-a-like one of you, I think his name was Bart?-"
"Why are you telling me this?"
Not only that he didn't like giving her the attention, he knew he wasn't going to like her answer if she continued it and he lost control...!
"Nope, scratch that."
She smirked, "It was Nate."
The walls cracked around them, he'd unconsciously let out some unseeable power cause pressure on any surface it landed...
"You destroyed Nate's home?" Wander's voice deepened with outrage once again.
Dominator frowned at him in annoyance.
"Why should I go into all the details? it was looong time ago; and it shouldn't matter to you." She said flatly.
Dominator kicked him again,
"CRYING FOR DEAD ONES IS PATHETIC, JUST LIKE YOU ARE!" She yelled furiously.
-kick-
"LOVE is for those who are afraid so they cower in false faith and rather not face what's really in front of them!" She yelled again, spitting into his face repeatedly.
-kick-
"NOTHING matters once a planet is dead and so are the idiots that lived in it!"
-kick-
Wander's subconscious took over this time, but not before he pushed in one last bit of will power and let his Furnicle thoughts take over...
"NOTHING!" She screeched into his face,
She aiming to kick him again with a coat of oncoming lava...
Wander grabbed, and gripped her foot mid-way.
"What the-?!" Dominator stood frozen and stunned.
Wander effortlessly swung and tossed her across the room, slamming against the walls, the force of it had cracked and shattered her armor!
"Dominator..."
Wander broke through the ice and magma and fully stood. His eyes burned green with fury, his lips curved into a sad frown.
"You're a terrible, and inconsiderate wretch."
Wander had now grown to 12 ft tall. He steadily made his way to finish the job. Dominator coughed, her lungs hurt from the impact of hitting the wall,
"Thanks, I take that as a complement," She snorted sarcastically.
She tried to sit upright, she yelped in more pain. Since her suit was broken, pieces of it had stabbed and pierced into her skin from the inside, but not deep enough to fatally injure her or her internal organs.
I can't get up..pfft great..I got a little carried away...
Dominator blew her hair out of her eye, and grumbled. She knew she messed up and for now was at an disadvantage.
"You wouldn't know the feeling of love if it slapped you in the face, you poor thing."
Wander regrettably still felt some pity for her, but his anger was stronger than his sympathy.
"I know I'm going against what I usually do, but right now I don't care. You hurt Nate, you tried to kill Sylvia in the past, and you used me."
Wander's voice fluctuated, going from one soft voice to two deep ones at different words, it was beginning to creep Dominator out.
He kneeled close to her and grabbed her armor to make her look at him in his eyes.
She gave a dirty look,
"Who needs love, when you have everything you need to help you get what you want." Dominator grunted, forcing herself to sit up.
"Do you mean your robots, and your ship? They're just tools, they can't show love as well as real people."
Wander for some reason thought of one idea to change her mind on everything, whatever his mind was signaling was telling him to try it...there was no stopping whatever instincts that told him what to do.
Not before grabbing Dominator's torso, turning her over, and jamming her against the floor.
"LET me go you weirdo! I swear, I will destroy you I see the next opportunity."
"Just try it." Wander replied bleakly.
"What're doing? What're you DOING?"
Now.. fear was shown on her face and voice, it was clear to him.
"Before I get to my business with you, I need something to help myself for once."
"Ehh?" She shrilled a worried tone.
Wander stripped and pulled the damaged armor from her left arm, exposing cucumber skin.
He licked his mouth and bared his fangs,
"Sorry about this."
He bit and chewed into her skin, scrunching her bicep, blood oozed from his lips.
"It tastes awful."
Dominator let out a blood-curdling scream.
"But if this can help me, I won't have to hurt anyone else."
A small smile crept on his face.
Dominator glanced daggers at him, gritting her teeth.
"YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS!"
"Sweety."
Wander brought his face closer to hers,
"We're even. We both helped each other out, I got what I needed, and you tried to use me."
Dominator said nothing, but by reading her body language, Wander could tell she had given up and was defeated physically and mentally. He still kept her pinned to the ground.
"Wander!"
"S-Sylvia?" Wander wavered,
All despair and stress melted away, Wander clearly heard the one person he'd thought he'd never see again.
"Who else showed up uninvited?" Dominator mumbled to herself, and blew her hair out of her face again.
Wander happily was about to go look for her, when suddenly his body froze and stiffened up.
"AUGH!"
Still in his abnormal height, he fought to move and finally did, but new overpowering thoughts filled his ears and head.
"More meat."
"N-no, who said that? I don't need anymore!"
Wander held his head and shook violently and yelled in fear.
The sounds were loud and clear enough for Sylvia to follow them into the room he was in, along with the alternative Wander by her side,
"Wander!"
She spotted him, her face lit up with clarity and happiness.
But then she turned to awe-struck horror.
RS Wander didn't react the same as she did, but glared at her friend,
"Sylvia...we're not safe here." He held her back with his arm.
"S-Sylvia!"
Wander cried and crawled onto his knees, while covering up one side of his face as if he were in pain, and went towards them with his only free hand stretching out to them, in a desperate plea,
"Help me."