Cover Image: Star and Kid standing on a very small planet. The tiny citizens built a statue of Kid in his exact size… but Kid strokes his chin, wondering if it's too big. Will people remember him or the statue?
"OOOOOOHHHH SH**, RICK!" Morty screamed at his phone. "They just released Metroid Prime 4! It's finally real!"
"What?! Ah, no, this sucks, this sucks, Morty! That means we're gonna have to make bonus levels or something, extend the Zebes level to include Prime 4's locations, Morty! It prob'ly means Samus is gonna do something cool soon! We gotta 1-up her, Morty, we need to make Season 10 of our show!"
"But our story basically covered all its plot threads!"
"We don't need plot threads, Morty, we just need bizarre episodic adventures that lead to clever, unexpected directions! Hurry, think of a bizarre scenario!"
"Um, uh-uh, um, a-a race of alien pillows, in-invade the Earth, to save their enslaved people, from being slept on! They tickle the humans to death w-with their feathers, b-but you and I meet up with their boss, to t-talk things out with them… a-and we learn the whole thing was set up by female scorpions!"
"BAM! We got ourselves a season!"
Part 16: The Court of Azmuth
"THINGS ARE HEATING UP in the second stage of the Vil Galaxy WAR!" Prince Zurk announced, broadcasting his commentary across the fleet from his station. "Sector L has made planetfall on Piscciss! Looks like Erin has another sea to become princess of! Sector Q and their 'Go-Getter Squad' have breached the Maximus Security Prison, where some of Galaxia Elementary's classmates are being contained! Will they succeed?! As for the Birdperson Platoon, it seems they've had a fateful run-in with the traitorous Chozo tribe, the Mawkin!"
"Zurk, are you actually going to do anything?!" Tiffi called.
"NNNNNNNNNEGATORYYYYYYYY!"
Monarch Moon
Vil Galaxy, Mission Update: Locate the Galvan Artifact!
George carried Chuck to rest at a temple in the middle of the purple rocky valley, distinguished by a stone ring situated by pillars. The temple's monks, the Churl, were green cyclops wearing only black undergarments and white sashes; except for the leader Strabismus, wearing a white coat over a black tunic and blue crown.
"These are the heroes you've been seeking, Tetrax?" Strabismus asked.
"I believe they are." the Petrosapien answered.
"Vilgax has stolen our moon's Heart, and the Eyes of our Sentinels. And I've been getting chewed up over it! So, hurry and get them back!"
"Why are you the only one who gets to wear clothes?" Kid asked.
"SILENCE! We are in a temple."
"Let's find the way to Xenon." Tetrax ushered. "My ship was among those destroyed in the station, so we'll have to navigate the rifts."
"It's more adventurous this way, anyway." Star smiled. (Play "Torvus Bog" from Metroid Prime 2!)
There was a nearby rift they could simply take to leave the moon… but Star noticed the unlit orbs around the top of the temple's ring. He asked Kid to shoot those orbs with his E.G.G.Z.O.O.I.E., with the roulette conveniently landing on the Light Eggs to brighten up the orbs. Lighting them all revealed a hidden Gold Bolt!
Star, Kid, and Tetrax entered the rift into a cave with purple insect hives. "The Lepidopterra Caves!" Tetrax exclaimed as a horde of giant white and dark lizards with magenta spikes charged at them.
"Look out for those Buglizards!" Kid shouted as the monsters sprayed clouds of yellow gas. Fortunately, the C.L.O.U.D.B.L.U.F.F.'s thick clouds could push the gas away.
"They're weak to electricity!" Tetrax said as he began to clash with one.
Kid smirked and spread his Z.A.P.B.L.E.R. bubbles around the cave, stunning the lizards, and afterwards bouncing on the P.O.G.O.S.H.O.C.K. to worsen the effect. Star then bombed them with the S.P.O.R.E. until the Buglizards were down. The trio proceeded into a more vast chamber with an abyss, where they recognized some Grapple Gliders floating back-and-forth over it. There were also Stinkflies that threatened to shoot them down. "I'll meet you at the end." Tetrax said, knowing he was too heavy to join a unified grapple. He climbed and jumped his way along the sides of the cave, shooting crystals at the Stinkflies.
While Star swung the Gliders with his G.R.A.P.P.L.U.H., Kid held onto him and sent S.P.I.T.R.A.P.s to latch groups of Stinkflies, their wings webbed as they fell into the abyss. The boys reached a safe foothold at the end, needing to cross a tunnel full of purple hives. They anticipated either Stinkflies or Buglizards to pop out of them—but they were Metroids! "AAH!" Star was snagged by one as it began to sap his energy, but Tetrax punched it off.
"Was Vilgax sacrificing the larvae to feed the Metroids?!" Tetrax pondered angrily, denying other Metroids from latching onto him. Star used the S.N.O.B.O.M.B.E.R. to freeze the parasites, while Kid relied on his E.G.G.Z.O.O.I.E. to shoot Ice Eggs; though the other eggs dealt good damage already. They barely destroyed the Metroids without a scratch, proceeding through the portal.
A more refreshing change of view from the cave, it was a beautiful meadow of orange grass and towering trees. "Appoplexia…" Tetrax said. There were muscular humanoid tigers asleep in the trees. "We'd best not disturb their sleep."
The trio quietly trekked up a hill, navigating around the sleeping tigers and careful not to step on their tails hidden in the grass. The hill led to a cliff level with the branches of some great trees. The branches had platforms of leaves at the end, and some formed a stairway up to a much larger branch. They crept up along the branch, having to jump over the tigers' tails. There was a Gold Bolt smack between the shoulders of two tigers, but Star could collect it by Space Balling. They reached the end of the branch and would have to jump across giant, gently-swaying leaves falling from the upper branches. Tetrax jumped across on his own while Star Warp Dashed himself and Kid between leaves. The leaves would bring them to a cliff on the edge of a forest, but the very last leaf threatened to land on a tiger. The boys jumped off in time. When the leaf gently touched its tail, the tiger subconsciously flapped its tail and flicked it off.
The trio could enter the next rift without disturbing a soul. The rift dumped them right into an ocean under stormy clouds. However, the water was completely see-through, all the way down to the rather small sphere in the ocean's core. "This is the artificial planet, Piscciss." Tetrax said. "Quite impressive, if I say so myself. The core down there takes up less than 2% of the planet's mass."
"Like a giant aquarium! Cool!" Kid beamed.
"Hey! The Riftdar's going off!"
"Oh, yeah! I went through an E.M.M.I. rift on the way here!"
"You did?!"
"Haha! I got through aaaaaall by myself!"
"Ah, here's some." Tetrax fished up some yellow, flat-bottomed fish whose bulbous blue eyes took up most of their body. "These blowfish can help us breathe."
"But we have our helmets."
"Yes, but they also help with underwater movement. Especially if you're me. I wouldn't even be floating here without my suit inflators."
The trio stretched their blowfish to fit their heads; it was cold and smelled, for lack of a better term, fishy. The fishes' pupils disappeared. The trio saw what looked like humanoid anglerfish incoming. Their massive jaws threatened to tear them to shreds, so Kid would name them Ripjaws. Tetrax clashed his shard arms with the fishes' jaws, Star released a S.C.H.O.O.L. of piranhas, and Kid electrified them with the Z.A.P.B.L.E.R..
"Fighting Volanns is difficult in their natural habitat." Tetrax said. "You two are quite skilled."
"I wouldn't say that." Star replied. "We've lost to much worse. Speaking of which, the Nether Rift seems to be that way." He could make out the pinkness through a cluster of currents.
"A current maze. This could take a while."
That it did. They swam through a forward current, took a right one, an up one, then were pushed back outside. They took the forward one, a left one this time, a down one, then forward. From there, it was a choice between left, right, and up, so they took the up one, but wound up pushed back to the beginning. They returned to that forward current and went left, then down, forward, up, backward, then left, and wound up collecting a Gold Bolt. Unfortunately, they were sent back to the beginning. From the second forward current, they took the right path, went forward, went right, back, up, and forward at tight corners, and were unprepared to choose between a left or up current. They wound up in the left one and were pushed back to the beginning. So, after doing it all again, they took the up current, and it took them along a swirling current that entered the rift.
They flowed under a pond within the Netherverse, resurfacing carefully and quietly as they listened for the E.M.M.I.'s beeping. Tetrax already knew how they worked from working under Vilgax. "This guy can open black holes." Kid whispered. "If it sees us, it'll suck us right in."
"The Endless Vortex attack." Star knew. "It'd sure be nice to have that move."
They climbed on shore and entered a passage that would immediately turn left, peeking narrowly around the corner. No sign of the E.M.M.I.. They proceeded, but were stopped by a dead end in a wide room. The wall looked cracked… "Bebebebebeep." They could hear the E.M.M.I. on the other side. Its red light shone through the wall.
"Uh-oh!" Star gasped. "The last E.M.M.I. could see through walls, so—AAAAHH!"
The wall suddenly collapsed, its rubble being sucked into a black hole. The trio spun around the air before the E.M.M.I. claimed them, though it only grabbed Tetrax. "BEDEBEEP." The robot pinned him to the ground. Despite its scrawnier-looking frame, it was much stronger than his bulky crystal body. "BEDEBEEP-" But Tetrax kicked the droid before it could pierce him, stunning it.
"At least it showed us the way!" The three bolted up an escalating, snaky path. Parts of it crumbled, but Star used Warp Dashes to stay on it, eventually reaching a narrow tunnel that turned right. The E.M.M.I. was coming, but there was a tiny gap in the wall. Star puffed the C.L.O.U.D.B.L.U.F.F. and compressed them in a Space Ball to hide in the gap. Though the E.M.M.I. crawled through the fog, it couldn't see inside it, so it bypassed the group and resumed patrol. The trio kept going after it was out of earshot. It took its own narrow tunnel, while the group reached a chamber with a chasm. There were platforms afloat over the chasm, and Star could pull them into alignment by connecting Space Lightning to their rods.
Naturally, the E.M.M.I. would hear their activity, so Kid shot an I.N.K.S.P.O.N.G.E. back down the tunnel they came from, managing to distract it. However, the droid returned before they knew it, crawling on the ceiling to trace their sound. Star used C.L.O.U.D.B.L.U.F.F. to hide them, the three waiting on their platform… until they realized that platform would float back to its original place on its own. It floated out of the fog zone, so the E.M.M.I. spotted them. "I hate these things!" Star yelled. The E.M.M.I. quickly returned to the beginning ledge and opened a black hole, sucking them right back to the beginning. It grabbed onto Star, "BEDEBEEP," pinned him down, but he readied his leg and, "BEDEBEEP-" kicked it! The E.M.M.I. froze, and they rushed back to the small gap from before and hid in it again.
The E.M.M.I. lost track of them. Unfortunately, they had to repeat that process with the platforms again. This time, they waited on one of the platforms as it moved back to its position, just so they could hide from the E.M.M.I. without leaving the fog. They waited until it crawled down the tunnel again, afterwards resuming their platform moving. Finally, they reached the exit rift.
"Phew!" Tetrax sighed. "That was a lot more terrifying in person."
"And still no Omega Core." Star said. "So, we aren't done with it, yet."
The valley before them was a pleasant and relieving sight after that heart-stopping endeavor: "Aldabra." Tetrax said. A field of lush grass and rolling hills with tall, willowy trees, swaying in the gentle breeze. An orange sky of golden clouds highlighted the peaceful land.
"Algebra?" Kid asked.
"Good point, maybe math is a revered part of this culture." Star remarked.
The three raced across the hills, embracing the breath of the wild. "Look! Flying turtles!" Kid beamed wondrously as the large reptiles headed their way.
"Those are Geochelone Aerios!" Tetrax yelled. "And they're hostile!" The locals cast gusts of air and even conjured tornadoes to rip them off the ground.
"Terraspins!" Kid deemed them. While in the air, Kid shot I.N.K.S.P.O.N.G.E.s to gunk up their wings, causing them to drop. Star shot Sprinkler S.P.O.R.E.s to achieve the same effect. Afterwards, the S.N.O.B.O.M.B.E.R. was effective in freezing the coldblooded reptiles.
"Just once, I'd like to frolic through a field without people trying to kill me." Star remarked.
"They used to be quite a peaceful people." Tetrax said. "You may not see them now, but their buildings are built with camouflage technology. They are quite lovely up close."
"Hey, Tetrax… how was Vilgax able to steal the Hearts, anyway?"
"I heard he consumed a Devil Fruit."
"Well, that swiftly answers the question."
"I've seen him train with the Hearts. While he can use any one of their powers, it seems to weaken him. As if he needs to properly adapt with their chi. That's why we must stop him before he completes the Omnitrix."
While exploring the field, Kid thought he bumped into an invisible wall, but realized it was one of the camouflaged buildings. In fact, it was actually a maze. He and Star split up to navigate it, bumping into each other a few times, but eventually, Kid found the hidden Gold Bolt. Afterwards, the group jumped up a stairway of willowy trees to reach a plateau. The rift was behind a camouflaged grated gate, but Kid could goo through and press a switch to open it.
The rift led into a fiery/icy planet familiar to Kid. "Hey! This is the planet we landed on!"
"Mikd'lty." Tetrax observed. "You were wise to choose the meridian."
"WAIT! It's actually called McDLT?! HA HA HA!" Kid laughed like a powerful madman. "THE NAMING GODS HAVE SEEN IN MY FAVOR!"
Already, there was another rift nearby. It was beside a cliff, from which Kid could see the barbeque area, along with the rift he first went into here. There were some space lights that formed a path down; an excellent shortcut! For now, they entered this new rift. "Perfect!" Tetrax exclaimed. "Xenon!"
The asteroid was coated in brownish and green plants. The stars were barely viewable beyond the gaseous green atmosphere. Two rings of smaller asteroids surrounded it, crossing each other. "In truth, the comet stopped flying ages ago. There are a thousand legends surrounding it."
"There you are, Tetrax."
The boys spun to their left. A Vilgaxian in red armor glared at them. "IT'S VILGAX!" Kid screamed and utterly riddled them with the golden eggs of his E.G.G.Z.O.O.I.E..
"AAAAH! TETRAX, WHO IS THIS BRAT?!"
"NO!" Tetrax grabbed the weapon. "Take a closer look! She's not Vilgax!"
"She?!" Kid looked up at her again. Aside from being covered in yolk, she was clearly shorter and thinner than Vilgax. "Oh…wait, you're… like, a good one?"
"…" She already hated this kid. "This is Star Winkiebottom and Kid." Tetrax introduced. ("Cosmic." the boy clarified.) "Star, Kid, this is Myaxx. A member of the rebellion."
"These are the heroes you waited so long for?" Myaxx asked. "How pathetic."
"PBBBBTTTTHHHHH!" Kid blew her a raspberry.
"They've survived many battles and their loyalty is boundless. But if that isn't enough to convince you, they have quite the army at their backs."
"Well, I ain't changing any diapers. Let's get moving." Myaxx proceeded across the marsh. "It won't be long before the enemy learns about this place."
"Talk about strict." Star said. "I better not get on her bad side… or she'll kick my ax."
"PFFFFFTTTT HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Kid was so explosive with laughter that it echoed across the galaxy. Myaxx wished Tetrax was better at picking heroes. (End song.)
Vilgaxian Capital
The Birdpeople engaged the Mawkin Elite, neither side showing any mercy. A Birdperson thrusted their blaster up a Chozo's beak and shot through his brain, but that same Birdperson would feel a spear pierce their brain from a Chozo. Another Chozo sliced a Birdperson clean in half, and a Birdperson jumped a Chozo from behind, gouging knives into his eyes.
Birdperson (the one Star and Kid know) fired a laser bazooka at Raven Beak, who dodged with a flash step and swiped his claw. Birdperson dodged backward, but bleeding gashes were left on his stomach. The Mawkin Chief locked his arm cannon on the smaller bird, but Birdperson easily ducked under the shots, dashed underneath, and leapt to grab the cannon. He pulled and flipped Raven Beak onto his back, afterwards landing a solid blast to his helmet. Raven Beak swiftly spun to recovery, sending Birdperson flying with a flap of his Haki-imbued cape. Raven Beak charged his cannon and released a huge, dark energy ball that homed in on his opponent. Birdperson withdrew a gift he got from a friend of his: a butt-shaped double grenade! He pulled the plug out of its, erm, center, and threw, its gaseous explosion powerful enough to wipe out the dark sphere.
Through the explosion, Raven Beak flash-stepped and tried to stomp on Birdperson, who grabbed and struggled to twist the talon. "You're stronger than you look." Raven Beak praised. "A shame I don't have you under my wing."
"In Birdculture, that is considered flattery. We've heard many stories of the legendary Chozo."
"And soon, your people will view us as gods!" Raven Beak spun, throwing Birdperson into a wall that crumbled from the force.
Maximus Security Prison
The Go-Getters fought their way toward a dark, cat-headed tower built on the top of a mountain. "I really hope Ms. Jennu is here!" Yuki said.
"If she ain't, we'll just beat up all the guards inside and make them tell us where she is!" Kansai declared. "The Go-Getters will be reunited!"
"HEY, HEY, HO!" The 13 kids roared (though Sage's voice was softer).
…
"Y-Your Wretchedness?" Minimus approached his master meekly. "W-We have a situation."
"Yes, Minimus, I'm well aware of the operatives banging at my front door. Make yourself useful and help my minions destroy them!"
"N-No! It's not just them. The prisoners are escaping on their own!"
"WHAT?!"
Minimus switched to his angry face. "That's what you get for going cheap on the cells!"
"VIVA LA REVOLUTION!" The mastermind behind the escape was Carlos, a very short, blue-skinned boy with white hair, two glowing matching antennae, and four arms. He wore a bluish-gray jacket and green khaki pants. A band of Blood Monks tried to tackle the little Lunarian, but he turned invisible, tricking them all into ramming each other. Carlos became visible outside the crowd and snickered.
"Carlos!" yelled Kunira, a koala girl with orange and green clothes, black hair and ears, and a white face. "I heard one of the guards say a Zathurian was brought here! Let's go see if it's Jennu!"
"Good idea! Ynda, can you take care of the students for us?"
Ynda, a cyan-skinned girl with two hair-like head protrusions and two toes on each foot, watched as the students tore and gnawed at the Blood Monks. "I think they can take care of themselves!"
"Where do you brats think you're going?!" What looked like a light-green teenager in black and orange armor dropped down from the ceiling. "I ain't risking my internship over this!" He lunged forth and grabbed Kunira.
"AAAAH!" Kunira sank her teeth into the teen's cheek. The boy grunted and tore her off, trying to bash the koala into the ground.
"LET HER GO!" Carlos leapt and socked the teen's face with both right fists. Kunira was freed and landed on her feet, smiling at her heroic friend.
The allied supervillains of Team Maximus patrolled the outer sectors of the prison. Tattsun and Sage faced Nuclea, a lightningbender with wild, waving electric hair. They fused into IT to give their selves the advantage, striking Nuclea with their own lightning as well as redirecting her own bolts back at her. The villain was eventually overcharged and exploded.
Mowchan stormed through an army of cookie-crafted children, created by Infantor and his Cookie-Cookie Fruit. Infantor was a green, large-headed Namekian baby with an orange onesie. Mowchan devoured every last cookie he could, washing it all down with his massive jug of milk. But that was where he messed up: the Cookielings actually grew stronger from milk, so the crumbs in Mowchan's belly rebelled against him! The chubby giant suffered a terrible tummy-ache. How will he survive this?!
Nyoro confronted Dr. Cerebral, a brain in a jar commanding a giant robot. Nyoro used the Zipcaster to swiftly hook and zip around the room. She would maneuver around Cerebral's defenses to hook onto his dome directly, lunging over to splatter him with ink!
Kansai and Chuko encountered Enormo, an impish pink alien with white armor and big ears. Beside him was his larger pet griffin, Gryphon. "Hah! This'll be easy!" Kansai boasted. "He's punier than you are, Chuko!"
"And his dog is bigger than your head, Kansai!"
But Enormo would show them: he whipped out a ray gun and shrunk them to an inch in size! Enormo sent Gryphon at them, the two moving swiftly to dodge the dog's gnashing fangs and claws. Kansai used his bat to launch Chuko directly into the dog's fur; she chowed down on some spicy cheese and fueled up into Spicy Rat Fury. She bit and burned the Gryphon everywhere she could, even burning the alien fleas that lurked in his forest. Chuko proved to be more irritating than a thousand fleas.
Enormo, growing irritated by his pet, aimed at Chuko, intending to shrink her even smaller. However, Kansai, with a sharp aim of his swing, hit a baseball right into the dial of his shrink ray, flipping it into reverse. Chuko grew back to normal size and, still in her Fury form, rammed Enormo with a burning headbutt! She took his shrink ray and turned it against the villain and his dog. …But she wasn't gonna change Kansai back until he kissed all the freckles on her face. Five times.
Across the galaxy
On the frozen side of Mikd'lty, Juki battled the Glacian villain, Iciclia, accompanied by her yeti henchman, Dingleberry. The wannabe queen commanded the freezing winds to her every whim, but Juki, taking inspiration from Dingleberry, created a giant, snowy yeti body for herself. She wouldn't blow away in this heavy girth!
Sector L surfed their way across Piscciss, KOing all enemy Ripjaws they came across. Aside from the six operatives, they invited a seventh member: Sigrid seemed to glide across the surface on her two feet alone, but in actuality, her shadow carried her. "Makes ya feel right at home, doesn't it?" Massimo laughed, the Fishboy swimming on her left.
"Well, it is a moon-sized planet!"
"I wonder where they're keeping the gloom and Sparklium?" Erin said.
"Just keep an eye out for anything sparkly!" Nora cheered.
The water-bound sector encountered Pontifadora, a purple Fishwoman bounty hunter who threw a harpoon with extreme force
Massimo and Sigrid teamed up against her while the others dealt with a Piscciss Kraken. What seemed like a gray, furry scarf around her neck was actually her pet weasel; and that same weasel ate the Shark-Shark Fruit! "ICK!" Sigrid panicked as the hideous hybrid swam directly toward her, nearly losing her feet if not for her superb jump. "Okay, that was too close for comfort!"
In the Khoros Desert, Rango Diaz engaged Hopper the Chopper, a cowboy Fishman with a black hat and grey beard, in a gun-slinging duel.
Sector W encountered Masticula, a beast of pink clay that could mold herself as she pleases. Jolene became a beast of clay in her own right, her Jiggylossus sprinkled with golden jigsaws and knuckles armed with Crystal Jiggies.
Xenon
Star, Kid, Tetrax, and Myaxx descended into a small canyon. The operatives raised their weapons in alert, seeing a squadron of tiny saucers. They didn't seem very threatening at first, but to their astonishment, masses of green goo poured out of them. They were humanoid and very tall with narrow eyes. "Polymorphs?" Tetrax said curiously.
"Don't!" Myaxx shouted at the kids. "Let me talk to them." She approached the aliens and said, "Glur-r-r-r-r-r-r-rgh. Blu-u-u-u-u-u-urh!"
"GO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-OO!" responded one of the aliens.
"B-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L!"
"G-L-L-L-L-L-LLLLL!"
Kid shot a confused glance at Star. "Do YOU know this language?"
"Sadly, I don't… although I mighta spoke it when I was a baby."
"They don't seem keen on letting us pass." Myaxx said.
"Wait… a thought just occurred to me." Tetrax replied. He picked Kid up.
"Hey, what gives?!"
"G-u-u-u-u-u-u-uuu!" Tetrax began to stretch and press Kid like an accordion.
"STAR! HEEEELP!"
The Polymorphs gazed at Kid in utter astonishment. "G-O-O-O-O-O-O-OOOOOO!!!" Their saucers orbited him and Tetrax, the Polymorphs stretching, swirling, and surveying the boy at every angle.
"What're they doing?!"
"Kid… you have the Heart of the Polymorphs' homeworld!"
"Huh?! So, like… I'm one of them!"
"Goo…go-o-o-o-oo…" The aliens seemed to discuss with each other. "Gloob, glo-o-o-o-o-oob!"
"…They said they'll take us to see them." Myaxx translated.
The group proceeded into the canyon, entering a cavern hidden behind the dense shrubs. "Are you sure we can really trust this lady?" Kid asked. "She's a Vilgaxian."
"First of all, I'm a Chimera Sui Generis. And just because Vilgax is our ruler, we don't all like him. He had my family abducted…"
"Oh dear…" Star whispered.
There were tiny faint lights at the end of the cavern: they were part of a large, mechanical door. One of the Polymorphs' saucers flew into a slot at the top.
…
"Madam President!" General Staunch called, hastily bursting into the president's office. Baldheaded and broad-shouldered, he was outfitted with a blue and black uniform and an eyepatch over his left. He had light-blue skin and pink hair around the back of his head. "The Polymorph scouts have reported. There seem to be visitors outside. Allies against the Vilgaxian Empire."
"What sorts of allies?" asked the president. She was a slender, dignified woman with wide magenta hair, defined by a bright pearl on the forehead.
"There is a boy who possesses the Heart of the Polymorphs' world, Viscosia. With him is a Petrosapien and a Chimera unaffiliated with the empire… and another boy who they claim is the KND's Supreme Leader."
"Hmmm… Lord Azmuth." The president turned to a massive eye with a long, horizontal pupil. "What are your thoughts?"
The eye blinked. An ominous voice spoke. "Bring them… to me…"
The door made a noise and slowly began to open. Star and Kid were agape. They could only wonder what mysteries lay on the other side.
It was a city. Vast and prosperous with flying cars and bright buildings. The light-blue citizens gazed at the visitors in awe. The president and General Staunch traveled to the town gates, presenting themselves before the Cosmic Heroes.
…Though the four could barely make out their nearly ant-size forms. The city was just about big enough to fill a child's room. "Astounding!" Tetrax whispered. "It's the Hidden City of the Shrimpkins."
"PFFFFT!" Kid spat out of laughter; his gigantic globs of spit rained over part of the town. "SHRIMPKINS?! PAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" His laughter was a thundering tremor that ruptured every eardrum in sight. Star cringed, noticing how the Shrimpkins reacted to him.
Myaxx SMASHED the boy into a puddle. "You idiot!" she whisper-shouted. "Keep your voice down!"
"Yeah, Kid… small people typically prefer inside voices." Star replied.
"Heh heh…sorry." He should've known that from how Rosa behaves when she's big.
"Hmm…" The president pulled out a megaphone. "Testing." She turned the dial up a notch with each repeat. "Testing…testing…testing…testing!" Eventually, her voice came out as a high-pitched squeak to the giants. "Can you hear my voice? Are you reading me?"
Kid snickered. "Y-Yep! Loud and clear! Hehehe…" Star sighed.
"Intrepid visitors, I am President Shrimpina." Kid snickered even more. "Welcome to our city. Before you enter, I must share with you a short story."
"Hahahahaha! Short story! Got it!" Star face-palmed.
"In an age long past, we Shrimpkins lived as insignificant scavengers. Helpless to the predators of the galaxy and struggling to hunt whatever crumbs of food we could find. Then one day," they looked up at a holographic image, "the Galvans descended on our world." It depicted the Shrimpkins gazing up at giants with amphibious features. "Noble giants who gifted us with knowledge and technology. Thanks to them, our society has evolved to what it is today. The Polymorphs were granted similar gifts. Their Gravity Disks allow them fluid mobility on any world. But though our society prospers… the Galvans have nearly all but vanished."
"Hmm…" Myaxx sighed.
"But one such Galvan… dwells here in this city. I will lead you to him… however, only the boy with the Polymorphs' Heart may come."
"W…Why just me?" Kid asked.
"Because with your fluidity, only you will be able to fit in the passage."
"What if we do this?" Star moved beside Tetrax and Myaxx and compressed them into a Space Ball with himself. Kid smiled and picked them up!
Shrimpina blinked. "I suppose that can suffice. Follow me… and watch your step."
The president walked through the central street. Kid raised the Space Ball above him as he walked sideways like a grab. His feet were totally horizontal to occupy as less space as possible. "Wuh!" But his right shoe stubbed on itself, causing his left to wobble about in the air before stepping on a bus stop. "Oops!" Luckily, the people underneath got wedged in his goo without getting hurt. "Sorry!" He backed up and cracked a glass building with his rump. "D'oh!"
"Kid, straighten up already!" Star shouted.
"I'm trying!" His voice rumbled the town. "Whoops, sorry."
Shrimpina turned down a left, thinner road leading to a tunnel. "Sorry!" Kid stepped on a streetlight. "Sorry." His cape tugged down a billboard. "Boop! Sorry." His earphone bumped and bent a building. "Wait, I think there's still some guys in my shoe." He reached his hand through his gooey shoe and tried to pull them out. "Yep, sorry, guys, bad place to be." He stretched a long wad of goo in the effort. Once successful, he dropped the tiny, icky civilians on a rooftop. "Okay… going now…"
"'Guess that's another reason only he was allowed to pass." Tetrax figured.
The tunnel's entrance opened once the president input a code. Kid set the Space Ball down to roll through, while Kid slithered through on his own. They were allowed to reform and resize in a wider-open cavern.
There was a sealed, mechanical chamber. Myaxx gasped. "You recognize it?" Tetrax asked.
"That tech… is Galvan."
A wave of steam came bursting out of the chamber. It slowly rose open… and through the mist, they saw the shape of its occupant. As he stepped out, his form became apparent: his elderly head was froglike, the top half of it wider than the bottom half, with his big eyes on the ends. The eyes were light-green with long pupils, and several tendrils dangled from his mouth. He had eight total fingers and webbed feet. He wore a green robe with thick black lines.
The man approached the visitors with dignity and calmness… and their heads would crane down at his 6-inch frame. "A pleasure to make your acquaintance. I am Azmuth."
"The real Azmuth…" Myaxx whispered.
"…Yeah, I should've known he'd be tiny, too." Kid remarked.
"You aren't so big yourself, boy. Have you ever seen a To'kustar? Fantastic creatures. And quite rare. They're only born from cosmic storms."
"Um, okay…" Star replied. "Listen, we came to tell you-"
"About the Vilgaxian Empire? Or that they're after the Omnitrix?"
"Well… yeah. You knew?"
"I may be an old recluse, but I keep up with the news. I had a feeling someone would try to rebuild the Omnitrix someday. A shame it had to be someone with evil intentions. Have the other artifacts already been found?"
"Yeah. But… they fell into Vilgax's hands."
"Are the people who protected them safe, at least?"
"Not… necessarily."
"Hmm… I never knew where they had hidden them. It was all part of our Secrecy Clause. It was the only way to keep the Omnitrix safe from… each other, after all. Perhaps they found refuge with other aliens… just as I did with the Shrimpkins."
"They did, actually." Star smiled. "The Lombaxes entrusted theirs to the Na'vi, and the Chozo left theirs with the people on Mobius' moon."
"I see… so, that's where…"
"Hang on." Kid said. "You're talking like you were there when this all went down."
"Of course I was. I was the lead developer of the Omnitrix, after all."
"WHAT?! Whoops, sorry." Kid noticed Shrimpina flinched from his outburst.
"Indeed. I may look a sight, but I am quite old."
"Then I'm sure you understand the gravity of the situation." Myaxx said. "This place won't be safe for long. You and the rest of these people should evacuate. It's only a matter of time before the empire finds this place. Where is the relic, anyway?"
"What other 15,000-year-old thing do you see lying around?"
"You mean… it's you?" Tetrax asked.
"You might say I'm vital for it."
"All the more reason you should leave." Myaxx insisted.
"Hmm… You know, children, Galvan is no longer the symbol of prosperity it once was." The elder walked between his guests, folding hands behind his back as he looked reflectively. "Our cities grew too massive, our air became intoxicated… and we even grew lax and incompetent as a people. Eventually, Galvan Prime became a wasteland. Most of the Galvan died out… others fled to parts unknown. The only one who mourns for what we lost… is this old fossil."
"I'm sure it was amazing." Star said.
"Indeed. Now, just about everywhere else in the cosmos has surpassed us in technology. Even if they could see what we had, I doubt it would look impressive now. No… the only true symbol of our people… and the union between other gifted species like us… is the Omnitrix."
"Not all Galvan left." Myaxx said. "My…my mother was one."
"Huh?!" The first thing on Kid's mind was why she wasn't puny like Azmuth.
Her earliest memories were waking up under a very tight shelter, a shabby tarp covering her two-year-old frame. Myaxx would crawl out to the sight of decrepit town ruins… but just a few feet away, she'd see smoke rising from the chimney of a tiny house. A middle-aged Galvan came to the window with a warm smile. The steamed veggies she laid on the windowsill were slightly burnt and not even big enough to be appetizing… but Myaxx would always look forward to them.
"She found me by a ship's wreckage when I was an infant. It was hardly a good home for raising a child… but it was the only home I knew. For the longest time, we wanted nothing else."
"Why don't people live in those houses?" four-year-old Myaxx asked.
"Nobody wanted to live in them, anymore."
"Did they go somewhere else?"
"Perhaps they did…"
"Why didn't you go somewhere else?"
"Where else was I supposed to go…"
"Relics of a once-great civilization. But even though my mother barely had any ties to those ancient ways… they still took her."
Ten-year-old Myaxx was on her way home after capturing an animal for dinner. To her horror, a couple Bioids were standing over her home, one clasping her squirming mother. "Wow, dude! We actually found one! Let's get it back to base, pronto!"
"MOOOOM!" Myaxx dropped her dinner and raced toward them.
"Whuh? Hey, what's a Chimera kid doing here?"
"Take her to the Delta Transport. I'll bring the Galvan." That Bioid flew away.
"Bastard, I knew you were gonna steal the credit!" The second Bioid had no choice but to grab Myaxx and fly the opposite way.
"NOOOOO!"
"Vilgax's army hunted for any Galvan remnants they could find and enslave them for scientific skills they didn't have. Then they were thrown away with the trash…"
"It is because of me that such things happened." Azmuth said. "For that, I can only apologize."
"So, what do you plan to do?" Star asked.
"…I must…"
"Quite a nice hole you dug here!" a gruff voice interrupted.
Rick and Morty practically seemed to appear out of nowhere. "YOU!" Tetrax sharpened his arm and swung for the scientist's neck, but Rick ducked back and thrusted a spear from his groin, puncturing Tetrax's leg. "Diamondcutter Crotch." He slipped around Tetrax as Myaxx threw a kick at him, but Rick grabbed her leg and attached twin, parallel fireworks to it. They spiraled Myaxx in the air by her leg.
"SKIN SUCKER!" Morty ambushed Star and Kid, aiming a vacuum designed to rip off skin, but it wound up inhaling Kid's entire gooey body. "Ah, shit! It's all gunked up now!" He switched it to exhale and blasted Kid into Azmuth's chamber. Star electrocuted Morty with Space Lightning, and when Rick shot his Grid Beam at him, Star Warp Dashed through it.
"We just keep running into each other, don't we, Star?"
"You better not've hurt the Shrimpkins!"
"All I'm here for is the relic. Which, if my miniaturized ears didn't deceive me, is YOU." He trained his gun down at Azmuth.
"Hmm…so, you've been here a while, have you?"
"Shrink rays are handy, aren't they? So, how we gonna play this?"
"Oh…" Kid groggily reformed himself. He noticed he landed on a small saucer, like what the Polymorphs use. "WHOA-!" He was slurped inside of it.
"KID!" Star looked his way in shock. "OOF!" Rick kicked him away.
"Myaxx, this is bad." Tetrax said. "This man is unpredictable!"
"But we have to defend Azmuth at all costs!"
"That won't be necessary." Azmuth said.
"What?" Myaxx and Shrimpina gasped at once. Rick cocked a brow.
"As I was just saying… the Omnitrix is the only true symbol of what my people once were. It was a revolutionary creation. And though I agreed to disassemble it… deep down, I longed for the day to reawaken it again. Now, after all these years… that time has come."
"What are you saying?!" Star shouted.
"You need not escalate things farther." Azmuth said to Rick. "I will show you the path to the true relic. It is time for the Omnitrix to be awakened."
"Heh, fine by me." Rick snatched the Galvan up.
"YOU CAN'T GO WITH HIM!" Star tried to yank Azmuth back with gravitybending, but Rick stretched his mechanical arm to punch him back.
"Trust me, Star. This is for the best."
"Yeah, you're tellin' me." Rick shot open a portal and jumped in.
"HAHA!" Morty shot them middle fingers. "That's us four and you zero! Suck it, ner—AH!" Rick reached from the portal to yank him in before it closed.
"Crud!" Star hated himself for letting Rick outsmart them again. But his main concern now was, "Kid!" He ran to the chamber and looked around. "Kid, where are you?! What happened?!"
Kid's head molded out of the tiny saucer like a lava lamp bubble. "Star?"
"AH! Kid, what…"
Most of his body rose out in a floaty, wormy fashion. "I… got slurped into this thingy and… there was a scanner inside, and…"
"Kid!" Tetrax limped over. "You've bonded with the Gravity Disk! With that, you might become as nimble as a Polymorph!"
"I… Really?! Whuuuuh, I…" His saucer moved erratically as his body rapidly changed shape. "How do I uuuuuuse it?!"
"I believe they respond to thought waves. Sort of like Infi-Cubes. Just think of where you want it to float and it'll shape you accordingly."
"We don't have time for this nonsense!" Myaxx shouted. "We have to go to Galvan Prime! NOW!"
"She's right, Kid! Let's get back outside!"
They maneuvered back over the city in the same manner. The town gate's closed as soon as they were clear. And when the group made it back outside, "Uh-oh…" They were horrified by the X Parasites flying about and infecting the Polymorphs, becoming even larger floating blobs. "Uhhhhh, this is a serious problem!"
"Wait, I got it!" Kid grabbed the A.B.D.U.C.T.O.Y. and sent five flying toys out. Star shielded his friends in a Space Block, and when the five Polymorphs gathered around them, it made it easier for the toys to catch the saucers. The toys uplifted the saucers and the parasites up into space.
"Haha, good going, Kid! We better radio Samus in case there're more. Let's find a path to Galvan Prime pronto!"
Castle of Lions
"I knew we shouldn't have been carrying all those prisoners with us!" Isabelle exclaimed. After receiving the call from "Laruta," Sector V breached the compromised castle, fighting through hordes of the Frieza Force. Fortunately, members of the Voltron Coalition received the distress call and helped even the odds.
"Oi!" Shimmy pointed. "There's Christina!" Their firebending teammate was charging at them like a mad bull. "Yo, Christina, what happened in here?"
"Yeh," Jason ran up to her, "and wot's got you all flared up—AAAAH!"
Christina socked him in the jaw with a flaming fist without warning. "EEEEK!" Mali screamed. "Big Sis Chris, it's not nice to hurt your friends!"
"THAT ISN'T ME!" 'Laruta' limped in, clutching her aching stomach. "Some creep stole my body!"
"Laru-chan?!" Mali exclaimed. "Someone stole you?!"
"NO! I'm Christina! I'm in Laruta's body! And that's a villain inside MY body!"
"WOT?!" Jason gawked. "So, Christina got eaten by Laruta, and Christina ate a villain?"
"ARE YOU THAT DENSE?!" his crewmates shouted. "This is a body-swapping villain, Captain!" Isabelle said. "But then, where's Laruta?!"
The three-eyed rabbit hopped out from behind Christina, waving her arms. "I don't know," Chris replied, "but I feel like this rodent is in on it!" The rabbit face-palmed.
"We'll just have ta make them BOTH talk!" Jason spun a large Light Fist and SMASHED Ginyu into a wall.
"D'OW! Furry-earred punk!" Ginyu thrusted both hands, shooting waves of emerald flames. But unlike Christina's flames, his were more spread out and thin. Jason easily jumped over them and stomped Ginyu flat. Ginyu grabbed Jason's right leg and sank Chris's teeth into it. The captain yelped out in pain and frantically kicked Ginyu with his left foot until he was off. Ginyu got up and attempted to kick fire from his feet to blast into Jason; but the rockets came out as a brief burst, causing him to stumble forward as Jason punched him in the nose.
"Hahaha!" Ralph laughed. "It has Chris's body, but has no idea how to firebend!"
"BAH!" Ginyu sprung up and kicked Jason across the jaw. "Fine, some things take some getting used to, but I'm still strong, dang it! Soon, this body will be my OWN!"
"Your own, you say?"
"Eh?!" Ginyu flinched. In the very back of his mind, an ominous voice echoed.
"I don't recall this body belonging to some vermin…"
"Giiiii…" Ginyu twisted his gaze backward… into Chris's subconscious. A terrifying, horned shadow loomed over him.
"This body is the property of the Uno Demon Family… Who gave you permission to enter here?"
"W-W-What is that thing?!"
"Defilers of the Uno name must be BURNED!" The subconscious ignited with colossal flames.
"GIIIIIIII!" Ginyu writhed about on the floor, the operatives confused. Nothing was visibly happening to him, but Ginyu's very soul was on fire. "GAH! I need a new body! Any one! CHANGE, NOW!" He shot his laser right at a dumbfounded Ralph.
"WHAT?!" Ralph suddenly felt a lot more thin, light, and bare, though he felt pain in several places. "FRICK! I'M CHRISTINA!"
"YOU BASTARD!" Christina shouted. "How could you do this?!"
"Ginyinyin!" Ginyu laughed. "That feels better! Urk!" He squatted, trying to adapt to his new weight. "But why are these legs so skinny? How can they hold this tub of fat up?" He pulled up Ralph's belly and let it flop back down. "I hope it's at least strong."
"GYAAAAAAH!" Shimmy began clinging and gnawing his ear. "GIVE RALPH HIS BODY BACK!"
"GIIIIIIIN! It's not strong at all!"
"Shimmy, you're just hurting Ralph!" Isabelle shouted.
"But, if he keeps taking our bodies," Mali said worriedly, "how are we gonna beat him?"
"Hey!" Ginyu smirked up at the giant. "That's it! CHANGE, NOW!" His laser fired at Mali as her mouth was hung open nervously.
"EEEEK!" Mali suddenly felt a lot smaller—and Shimmy was gnawing her ear! "SHIMMY-CHAN! STOP IT!"
"Nnn?" Shimmy opened her eyes and stopped struggling, but didn't quite let her teeth go.
"GINYINYIN!" Mali's body laughed maniacally. "NOW I'm bigger than ALL of you! I'll squash you all into Play-Doh!" Ginyu jumped to flatten the group with Mali's rump, but failed to make contact with the floor when a tiny force kept him elevated. "Huh?"
"Heh heh heh!" Jason held the giant up with both raised hands. Mali may be heavy, but he was more than strong enough to hold her! So long as Ginyu remained seated on his hands, he began to rapidly spin him around.
"GIIIIIII!" Ginyu couldn't believe his giant frame was being spun like a basketball! It felt like a crazy amusement park ride!
"If ya want me to stop, ya better change all me mates back!"
"NEVER!"
Christina felt a little drizzle on Laruta's nose and glanced down. "Huh? Oh, it's you." Boogwendy, Laruta's sentient, nerdy-faced booger friend got her attention.
"Hi hi! Hi hi!" She seemed to gesture toward Ginyu.
"You have an idea? …Hey, you're right…"
"I can't see where I'm aiming, but… CHANGE, NOW!" Ginyu fired an aimless laser.
But when he came to… he was completely blinded. All he could see were arrays of moving colors. What?! Now I can't see anything… I can't speak! What kind of body did I land in?!
"Wow!" Mali's body exclaimed. "So, that's what you all look like! Teeheehee! You're so small!"
"Trella?!" Isabelle gasped. "Oh…" She looked to Trella's real body. "That's a problem. With Trella's mute voice, she can't yell 'Change, now.' AAAAHH!"
But Ginyu was able to trace Isabelle's voice and shoot the laser. "GINYIN!" he laughed in the Shandian's voice. "I don't know what happened there, but thanks for bailing me out! I can still change if my target says the words, too!"
What the crud?! Am I in Trella's body now?! Isabelle panicked. So, this is what she sees! …It's kind of pretty, but I don't wanna stay like this!
"Gihihihi!" Ginyu began to swiftly dash about the passage, kicking Ralph's body (Mali) in the leg, punching Shimmy in the jaw, biting Mali's sensitive giant leg as Trella yelped in pain, and kicking Trella's body in the stomach as she bent and flew back. "Man, this body is fast! Finally, a good fit! AAH!"
But Jason was faster, tackling Isabelle to the floor. "Like I'll let you have me first mate!"
"JASON, NO!" Trella yelled.
"Hold on!" Christina pressed a finger to Laruta's left nostril and puffed the right like a cannon, shooting Boogwendy. She was within view to land on Jason's nose.
"Then I'll just have to change for the strongest body of all! CHANGE, NOW!"
The laser was pointblank to hit Jason's mouth… but Boogwendy dangled in front of it first. "Ginyinyin…yin?" Ginyu didn't feel any stronger at all. He was above Isabelle's body, as he expected, but… she was so much bigger. And his own body felt… slimy and formless. "What…What did I just possess?! Am I in this kid's booger?! How did this happen?!"
"Hi…hi…HI…" Boogwendy sported her trademark smile with Isabelle's mouth. She yanked the booger right off Jason's nose. With a smirk, she pressed her other hand against the booger and twisted both in opposite movements.
"GAAAAAAH! AAAAAAAAHHH!" Ginyu couldn't even feel any pain, yet it was the most disorienting and sick he ever felt.
Boogwendy wiped his mushed form off right on the floor. In his obscured vision, he could make out Sector V's forms towering over him. "Well, mates… wot say we wipe this booger off the face of the universe?" Jason raised a sandal above him.
"Maybe it'll change us back!" Ralph raised Christina's sandal.
"But if it doesn't, I promise to take good care of your body, Mali." Trella raised Mali's giant foot.
"Thank you, Trella. I'm sure I can get used to being Ralph. Teehee!" Mali slapped Ralph's belly and giggled at the wobbly feeling.
"I…I can't move!" Ginyu grunted. "And I can't… see any of their faces!" All he saw was a ceiling of unified soles that threatened to come down at any time. "I have no choice… UNCHANGE, NOW!"
In a flash of light, everyone's souls came erupting out of their bodies, swirling around the air before returning to where they belonged. Ginyu's soul left Boogwendy and flew across the galaxies. And from the distance, the rabbit's soul came and took back its body.
"Hooooh…" Laruta felt a severe stomach cramp. "…Oh! I'M BACK! Boogwendy!" She crawled to scrape her squished friend off the floor. "You poor thing! Are you okay?!"
"Hi…hi…" The booger smiled in assurance.
"HOOOOO, there's the booty I know and love!" Christina shook her skinny rump.
"And there's mah favorite belly!" Ralph flapped his belly.
"I feel grown up again!" Mali cheered.
"But it was a nice change of perspective, wasn't it, Trella?" Isabelle asked. Trella smiled and nodded.
"Too bad Silica couldn't join the fun!" Shimmy grinned. "But I don't think anyone'd wanna be in her stinky body, anyway!"
"Where is Silica?" Laruta asked.
"Helping out in other parts of the castle." Ralph said. "So, we better catch up!"
"STREWTH!" Jason cheered. "This adventure was delayed enough as it is!"
"I'm pretty sure that's NOT what we're here for!" Laruta argued.
Earlier, with the Paladins
With the Robeasts felled for the time being, the Paladins headed for the castle. "Leaving so soon?!" A small force swiftly ricocheted between them, sending the Lions spiraling off course with great power.
"ERGH!" Keith grunted. "What now…?!"
"It's Frieza!" Allura gasped.
"My minions were so kind enough to secure a new castle for me." Frieza smirked. "Please don't ruin their hard work."
"Blast… We can't let him get to the castle either. We'll have to leave it to Sector V."
"Team… FORM VOLTRON!" Keith ordered.
The five lions became like colored stars! Frieza watched with anticipation as they soared high into the sky and transformed. The Black Lion shaped like a human torso. The Green Lion wrapped herself around the back. The red one wrapped with her. The yellow inserted itself into the left leg socket and the blue became the right. Then the Black Lion's mouth opened to bare the proud, shining face of Voltron.
"Uh, guys…we got a problem here." Hunk said. Indeed, the Red and Green Lions were tied like a ribbon. Voltron stood on his right leg, angled the left up like a triangle, and began to twirl in midair. "I forgot to turn off Bowtie Ballerina Mode."
"…" Frieza could only blink. Was this some sort of joke? Or a ploy? Frieza mustered chi in his palm and aimed at Voltron's head. "AGH!" But twin lasers struck the Mamodo, blasting him several miles until he crashed into a small mountain.
He sneered as Lotor's Sincline closed in on him. "You have troubled us for the last time."
"So, the emperor wishes to die first?" Frieza rose. "That will make things convenient for us."
"You will not lay a hand on him."
"What?!" Lotor gasped. His ship was suddenly enveloped in a dark sphere.
"Lotor… is mine." Haggar emerged from a dark void. With a wave of her arms, she and the Sincline vanished.
"…As you wish." The overlord shrugged.
Lotor found himself on an eerie dark-purple world. In the sky were bizarre, purple webs linking other celestial bodies together. "Where are we?!"
"Perhaps this atmosphere will help us awaken your darkness." Lotor faced the Altean witch on his left. "It is time to be with us again… my son."
Galvan Prime
"So, like," Morty began as their car entered Galvan's atmosphere, "if the smartest people in this galaxy were frogs, does that mean that Earth frogs devolved from them?"
"I'm pretty sure normal frogs devolved from ancient cosmic frogs." Rick answered.
"Seems we're all bound by the same fate." Azmuth said.
"AAH!" Lasers struck the car. "Arceus's hangover, what now?!" Rick shouted.
Samus' and Rivet's ships were incoming. "Caught ya!" Rivet smirked. "After doing some research, we just knew you'd come here!"
"You're going to pay for everything you've done!" Samus vowed.
"What a drag. Morty, take the relics down to the chamber." Rick jumped out of the car. "I'll take care of the Jennifer Hale sisters."
Samus jumped out of her gunship and Screw Attacked the scientist; roll-jumping as her body electrified. Rivet leapt out as well, armed with her new R.Y.N.O. 8.