As Adam and Alanna are walking through the Terrazon, Alanna eventually breaks the silence by asking Adam about the conversation they had.
"Oh," Adam was lost in thought about his first kill "I thought you didn't like where it was going. So Harley had kidnapped a bunch of Gotham citizens and was holding them in the Red light district, she called it 'Harleywood'."
Alanna's silence was a bit different.
"Sorry, that's a joke on another city called" Adam was interrupted by shooting.
Alanna tackles Adam into an abandoned shop on ground floor, the owner clearly was shocked that they were being shot at too. The shooter is on a nearby rooftop.
"So where was this weapon you wanted sourced?" Alanna asks Adam.
"You," Adam turns to the shop owner "where is the shooting range?"
"You gonna take that freak with the Gatling gun with you?" they screamed while holding their ears closed.
"What else am I going to shoot at?" Adam rushes over to the owner "Hurry up."
The owner taps his wrist against Adam's, automatically sharing the location with his band.
Alanna throws a table out of the shop with a long note attached to it. The firing stops and the one firing the Gatling gun gets angry when he gets to a certain point in the note.
'We say all that to tell you this was just to distract you while we fly out the back...'
The shooter puts a lot of holes in the table.
The shooter then jumps across rooftops to get around the building and hopefully snipe them down with a long range scope.
The shooter gets to the back of the abandoned shop and looks through the scope. At that exact moment, Adam and Alanna rush the shooter.
The shooter is also an excellent hand to hand fighter keeping his distance from Alanna and grappling Adam. Adam removes his helmet and Alanna recognizes him.
"Dome, you're working now for the Gray Agents?" Alanna points her gun at the man holding Adam in a rear neck choke hold "Let him go, or I'll shoot."
As Adam starts losing consciousness, he hears Alanna scream and a laser gun go off. Just before Adam completely blackouts, he comes to and somewhere completely different. In the arms of a different Gray Agent.
"King Nol," this Gray Agent announces across the chamber space "Dome has delivered Alanna of Rann's defender."
Adam breaks away from the Gray Agent's arms, and the Gray Agent is not playing around. The agent holds their right hand out next to them and summon a staff. With the staff that immediately smack Adam to the ground.
"Careful Marshall," the King approaches Adam "we brought the man here to have a conversation. Not to kill him, yet."
Adam was too weak to speak easily. So the King did most of the speaking.
"Just so that you understand what's happening," the King grabs Adam by his chin and holds his face close to his own "the Rannians use a band that can be removed. Here on Betras, we have an implant pin that does the same things but also it's a pheromone indicator. Like the humble Mr. Rankk here has that he uses to produce his staff."
The king used the silence to go on.
"Since you asked," the king puts his hands on each of Adam's ears "you denied my son a worthy first wife. To Betrassian royalty, their first partner is their only obligation, once they have their first heir, they can spread their genes all over the universe. There are few species that are compatible with our volatile makeup."
The king notices a change in his eyes.
"Yes," the king holds Adam's head by his hair "we removed your band but apparently we don't have your native language in our database. Luckily you learned Rannian, right?"
The king drops Adam, and turns to walk away.
"I know the Rannians are planning on calling the Corps," the king invites a woman to his bed "and we won't have anything to say as to why we are a few sectors away from our home sector."
Adam suddenly gets up to attack the King, at the same moment Marshall Rankk jumps on Adam. Adam uses the same trick Dome used on him and gets Marshall in a rear neck choke hold.
The king gets into the bed as three more women join him. Looking rather unbothered.
"We teleported you here," the women start kissing the King "just long enough for Dome to kill Alanna. She should be dead now."
Adam produces a tear and snaps Marshall's neck. Immediately the King gets up screaming.
"That's what I wanted from you." the King says pointing at Adam with a rage that is a universal opposite to what he saw a second ago "Now you can return to her corpse."
Suddenly Adam starts vibrating all over and finally notices a pin on his chest, about in the same place Dome first grabbed him. Adam tries to grab at Marshall's staff but as his life fades, so does the staff from the real world. Before Adam can use it to shoot a laser at the King, he disappears.
Adam rematerializes on the Tarrazon rooftop, laying on top of Dome. Adam grabs the assassin by the collar and is about to punch him when he notices a hole in his head.
Adam turns to see that he's looking at an Alanna who's been crying and she stops crying enough to see tears in Adam's eyes.
They both share a passionate kiss.
