Operation: NECSUS, Part 19: The War That Created Lies  

Chapter 19: The War That Created Lies

Aquaria; Ava and Kweeb's House

Ava rested her arms on their bedroom windowsill as she stared worriedly at the sunny skies. "Come on, quit worrying, Honey!" Kweeb told her, reading a Kateenian-sized book on their bed. "How often have our kids been on life-threatening missions, you never act like this!"

"It's not the mission that worries me. But… our daughter-"

"Oh yeah, Makava's on Glomour now, isn't she? Lucky her! Too bad it couldn't-a been a family trip, but at least we can still visit Kateenia together!"

"Mmmm." Ava gave a slight, worried smile. "Oh?" Her sensitive ears picked up engine roars in the sky. She looked up as the Aloha Oe and Shooting Star flew overhead and landed on the beach beyond the jungle. "Kweeb, someone's here!"

Moments later, Sector V and Team Nebula trekked through the jungle and knocked on the door to Vweeb's house. Ava answered, and was ecstatic to see her son. "Vweeb!" She picked him up and gave a light smooch.

"Hello, Miss, um, Ava." Nebula greeted, still unsure how to pronounce their surname.

"Lypbynopbolus." she replied simply with a grin. "Nice of you to visit! How's the war going?"

"Actually, that's something you could tell us." Aurora stated.

"…Oh." Ava frowned, suddenly very nervous.

"I went to Zordoom and spoke with my mom, and she said you knew about a war taking place between the Kateenians and Glomours." Nebula explained.

"So you BETTER speak up or I'll make you minified!" Vweeb threatened.

"Your shrink ray doesn't work." Nebula reminded.

"I'll get YOU to do it!"

"Ava, what're they talking about?" Kweeb asked, now standing on the living room table.

"Yo' relationship was built on a LIE!" Bender exclaimed. "AHHHH ha haaaa! The tragedy of romance!" He blew a cigar.

Nebula and Vweeb glared, then focused on the adult Glomourian. "Siiiigh. Alright. Kids, grab a seat."

"Nowhere to sit." Aurora said.

"Then just come in."

Ava went to sit on the couch as she released another sigh. "To start off, I guess I should say… Kweeb, I didn't just fall in love with you because of your bravery. I started going out with you because… I wanted to bring peace between our people."

"What?"

"This year makes the hundredth year the Glomourians and Kateenians have been at war. Children on our planet are all trained to be fierce warriors at young ages, so I was introduced to the war early. My parents taught me that Glomourians' sole policy and belief is pride, and pride only comes from not just your inner spirit, but your physical strength as well. The Kateenians have made a mockery of that pride. They said that Kateenians expressed their own internal strength and pride, but the reality is, they're as tiny and worthless as the luscious ooze beetles we squish for our soup."

"Blimey, your planet makes me belly swell." Sheila mumbled.

"They were much too small for their own strength to have any real worth, and even a Glomourian newborn could crush several. But the thing is, the Glomourians didn't form that belief out of biased observation. According to our history books, the Glomourian Queen and the Kateenian President used to squabble a lot during regular meetings at Galactic Council. The president mocked the queen for being a big brute, and while her people may rely on physical strength, they don't have the brains that Kateenians possess, and that's where REAL strength counts. Of course, they ultimately insulted each other's races, and when that happens, the result is war. So the races engaged in a great clash that lasted 'til this day."

"And you were forced into it as well." Vweeb recounted.

"But then… why didn't you have the same hate for Kateenians?" Nebula asked.

"I was a little girl at the time, so I…I didn't really care much for the war. I was in the Kids Next Door at the time, so I really didn't mind the fighting. I was fairly good. But one day, the adults flew me and a few other kids to Kateenia to practice our hunting and catching skills. The Kateenians were small, so trying to cut them with swords would make good practice. We were ordered to terrorize a small town and take any citizens we could to be eaten for supper. And… well…"

"EVERYBODY, RUN!" Tiny Kateenians screamed as the tremendous Glomourian younglings stomped and destroyed their town like a simple children's playset. "Try and get to the underground escape tunnels!"

The Glomourian kids were happily grabbing as many Kateenians in their hands as they could, like this was just a fun game, while other kids preferred to stomp the Kateenians like little bugs. "Boy, I am gonna EAT tonight!" a boy exclaimed. "I want 'em well done, just like always! Yo Ava, hurry and grab some so we can get goin'!"

An 8-year-old Ava was trying her best to catch Kateenians on the tips of her swords, stabbing them rapidly at the ground and hoping to stick them through. She noticed a single Kateenian girl running out of the town, and when she saw Ava chasing, she ran like she saw death itself. But fate was not on her side, for when she tried to climb over a short rock, she tripped and hurt her knee, lying helpless on the ground.

She gripped her knee in agonizing pain, but her fear only worsened as the quaking footsteps drew nearer, and the Glomourian child that would ensure her death stood over her. Ava held her swords ready, finally going to catch her prey on their tip. The Kateenian child was so terrified. She was going to die… she just knew it. Tears were falling, but she was too stunned to even cry.

Ava couldn't believe how helpless she looked. Lying there, helpless before her… it made Ava have second thoughts. There really wasn't anything fun in this at all. They were children and people just like her. They were just smaller, that's all. And these people aren't mocking her race or acting prideful, they were terrified. So how did they get to decide how these people should live or die? Where did the Glomourians have a say in that?

Ava sheathed her swords, bent down, and clutched the Kateenian in both hands. She was still frozen with fear, believing the giant will chuck her into her mouth any moment, and she'll be swallowed whole. Ava saw a swarm of Kateenians retreating into a tiny hole in the ground, and they moved faster when Ava was running to their location. But when she arrived, the young warrior bent down, opened her hands, and lied the Kateenian on the ground. Some citizens came up and took the girl as they looked up with surprise at the giant. Ava only smiled happily, a smile that looked so trusting. The Kateenian girl smiled back before the people took her inside.

"They actually taught your children to DO that?!" Haruka asked with disgust. "That's horrible!"

"It was… and I wanted to save more, but I was afraid how the others would've treated me." Ava replied. "Even though I was so young… I wanted nothing more than to stop that war. As years passed, I kept training and getting stronger, hoping I would find the solution somehow. Then as it ended up, I was chosen to be in the Galactic Kids Next Door. An organization made up of many aliens, I thought I could meet a Kateenian boy and form a relationship. And if my race saw how happy we were, they would ultimately stop this war. But I never found any Kateenian kids for 40 years; though if I decided to look down more often, I would've realized I've been walking over him all that time. Hehe." She blushed at Kweeb.

"So the reason you decided to go out with me… was to end our war?" Kweeb asked with hurt. "It wasn't because of… me?"

"No man, you got used like a toothpick- Ow!" Nebula smacked Bender.

"Sigh, Kweeb, I admit that I was using you at first, but I've abandoned that quest a long time ago. You were so fun to hang out with and you were always so spirited… and just in general, your pride makes me feel… inspired. And, over time, I really did fall in love with that. I felt so bad about using you, I just wanted to forget the whole thing. That's why… I wanted to move here instead of either of our planets. Not just because the other wouldn't fit in. (Especially me.) And that's why I kept you and our kids from visiting them. …I'm sorry, Kweeb."

"…Hmmmm." This was too much for Kweeb to take in. "…I think I need to be alone a while." He hopped off the table and walked away.

"Maybe we shouldn't've brought this up…" Nebula figured.

"No… he was bound to find out eventually." Ava replied.

"Anyway, I'm not sure if we can stop this war ourselves, but we still need to find the Dimensional Fragments." The leader concluded. "Any idea where those are?"

"I heard that both the planet rulers each possess a special gem, but I've never seen either." Ava explained.

"Then likely, they're the two halves of the fragment. We could recover them easier if we divide into teams."

"Hold on a second." Chris spoke up. "If the fragment's divided in two halves, they might only come together if you STOP the war."

"I always imagined it was like the Space Split, but you could be right." Nebula agreed. "But maybe all we need is more information. Why don't we get more info about this war from the Kids Next Door leaders?"

"Liaziana and Minksman?" Vweeb asked.

"Yes, them. Bender and I will go to Glomour and talk to Lia, and maybe meet up with Makava, while Sector V goes to Kateenia to speak with Minksman."

"Awww, nooo." Chris moaned. "We might run into that SHRIMP swarm again."

"Deal with it, Uno." Nebula ordered. "Let's get moving." With that, both teams ran off, leaving Ava alone on her couch. The woman only sat quietly, her head swimming in guilt.

Great Clock

MaKayla entered her bedroom and quietly snooped through her drawers before finding a camera. She left quietly and shut the door, and her brother opened his eyes afterward.

MaKayla returned to the planet room to prepare for another escapade. Before she could go to a planet, George King immediately ran up and tackled her to the ground. "Gotcha!"

"Ugh, get OFF me, George!" She struggled on the floor before finally getting up.

"MaKayla, WHERE are you going?! And why do you have Dad's scepter? And, why are your EYES glowing?"

"Because I'm on a secret MISSION! Okaaay??"

"A secret mission? Whaddo you mean?"

"Siiiiiigh. Alright, the truth is, I keep getting visions from Clockwork that tell me to travel through time, and, well, do things."

"Y- Time-travel?!" George totally wasn't prepared for all this. It was weird how she told him so easily, too. "You mean you're jumping through time and messing up the past?!"

MaKayla touched a finger over his mouth. "I'm making the past happen. And with Dad's Chrono Staff, it's the only way. …Besides, it's totally fun!" MaKayla smiled. "We can go back to when our parents were in the KND! Wanna go?"

"Um… okay."

"Great! Come on!" MaKayla excitedly led George up the ladder to a set of planet holograms.

"Um, shouldn't we put on shoes first?"

"Don't need 'em."

MaKayla took George to Earth's hologram and proceeded to form the Time Portal. She grabbed his hand and jumped inside. "Whooooaaaa!"

Outside Jackson House; 20 years ago

The two took land in the backyard of Kade's house. "What is this?" George asked.

"This was Mr. Jackson's house, before he and Eva get married." Kayla answered. "Look, there they are!" They approached a window and peeked in to see Eva and Kade Jackson sitting on his bed and watching the violent rendition of Cat and the Hat.

"I get the feeling Numbuh 363 attacked the studio and forced them to put this in!" Kade remarked.

"Or maybe him working with Wally!" Eva said.

Kade laughed, "Yeah! So, can I get you anything? It's not often you come over to my house."

"Well, I could go for some Kool-Aid!"

"Coming right up!" Kade left for the kitchen.

"This was when Eva found that poem about her from Kade." MaKayla informed.

"Boy, writing was a lot easier back then." George said. The two time-travelers heard a cough, and walked around a right corner to find the Kool-Aid Guy smoking a cigarette. "Hey, you're the Kool-Aid Guy!"

"Huh? Oh, hi." He said uninterestingly.

"What're you doing here?"

"Waitin'."

"For what?"

"Just waitin', Dude, relax."

"You know, cigarettes won't be good for your fluid." MaKayla commented.

"Whatever, kids, don't distract me, I gotta be 'up'."

Back in Kade's room, "So, you're out of Kool-Aid?" Eva asked.

"Yeah, but I know where to get some more! Ahem: HEY, KOOL-AID!"

…

"So there's no organs or anything, it's just the liquid?" George asked.

"Yeah-yeah, just the liquid." Kool-Aid said rushedly.

"I'm a little thirsty… can I have some?"

"Sigh, alright, tilt your head back and I'll pour my liquid into your mouth."

"Um, never mind."

"Aw crap, did I miss it?!" Kool-Aid gasped.

Eva and Kade looked confused. "Uh-, guess not. Well, let's get some Capri Sun!" Kade suggested before they walked off.

"OH YEEEEAH!" Kool-Aid exclaimed as he burst through the wall. To his disappointment, the kids were already gone. "Awwww." He turned around to exit out the hole, but tripped on the broken bottom of the wall, fell, and broke into pieces as George and MaKayla stood in his puddle of liquid. "YOU KIDS DID THIS!! YOU **** dirty SNOTS WALKIN' AROUND IN YOUR PAJAMAS!" George and MaKayla dashed away in fear. "Talkin' about my guts?! F**kin' me up?! F***K YOU!"

"Okay, time to go!" MaKayla said before warping them back.

"I'll find you one day! And beat the living CRAP outta you!"

Great Clock

The siblings reappeared in the planet room, gasping for air. "Okay, hands down, that was NOT a good example of what I'm doing here." MaKayla said.

"Then what ARE you doing besides messing up one-shots?"

"At this moment, Supreme Leader Nebula is on a journey to save the universe from certain doom, and the spirit of Clockwork is guiding me to help her."

"It looks like just a bunch of crazy sleepwalking to me."

"It is sleepwalking. But if you meditated with me more often, you'd know the most conscious mind is one that's asleep, and when your eyes are closed, they're open to even more things."

"Well, who told you you had to GO on these adventures, anyway?"

"Clockwork, dummy. And I'm only telling you to show you why you need to get in touch with your spiritual side, too."

"Well, the amount you've managed to convince me is nonetheless amazing." He remarked sarcastically.

"Uuuuugh. Look, I'm supposed to be on another mission right now. If you'd like to come with me, I can show you what I mean."

"Sigh, alright. But only to stop you from screwing something up."

"Mmmm." With that, MaKayla led George to another planet and time-warped both of them.

Planet Glomour (Play "Nefarious Space Station (outside)" from Ratchet: A Crack In Time.)

Nebula and Bender took land in a canyon area on Planet Glomour before climbing out and observing the planet. "So this is Glomour…" Nebula said lowly. The planet's landscape was purple and had giant, jelly-like glowing mushrooms and a pitch-black sky. It was definitely what you would imagine a stereotypical alien planet to be like. The Glomourians' purple clothing complimented the planet's color while their pure white skin made a pure contrast.

"Ain't no sunbathin' goin' on here." Bender noticed.

"This should be the region where the royal family resides in their castle. And on that castle is the treehouse where Supreme Leader Liaziana resides. We need to ask what she knows about this war, and hopefully get Makava's help on the way. Let's go, Bender."

Stage 22: The Pride Wars

Mission: End the war between Glomour and Kateenia.

Act 1: Planet Glomour

Nebula and Bender started the journey through a slight canyon, having to bounce on jelly mushrooms to reach higher levels. Afterwards, they passed through a narrow path between a short trench, where Jelliens, floating orange jellyfish, roamed the area. They only threw energy balls that were easy to evade as Bender knocked the Jelliens against the ground and squished them. They arrived at a slightly open area with a pond, where a Teen Squid emerged from below and lashed its tentacles at them. Bender grabbed a tentacle and tried to bend it upward, but that proved fatal as the squid had no bones, and it grabbed and swung Bender around the air before slamming him on the ground.

Nebula dodged the tentacles and tossed N.I.N.S.T.A.R.s to slice them, angering the squid as it blasted ink balls at her. She formed geysers using the S.P.O.U.T. that knocked the ink blotches back and blinded the squid, and when it climbed on land to try and munch Nebula, she tossed a grenade into its mouth and knocked him out. He collapsed on the water and made a bridge for the two to cross, cutting through a slight trench where tentacles stuck out from the walls, which Nebula cut with the N.I.N.S.T.A.R..

They peeked from behind a corner to find two Drophyd troops talking with three Glomourian warriors. "And those Kateenians were like, 'I bet those Glomourians never even HEARD of the word 'hygiene'! The only part of 'em they ever scrubbed is their brains, the only part they SHOULDN'T have! Their mommies probably feed them soap as a baby!'"

"Hey, my mom only did that ONCE, and only 'cause she was outta toothpaste!" a warrior yelled. "I'm gonna SQUISH the one who said that!"

"Yeah! And while you're at it, you should… HEY, look! It's those spies the Kateenians hired!" the Drophyd yelled, noticing Neb and Ben (just realized, the first 3 letters of their names are the other's, backwards).

"Let's CRUSH 'em!" a Glomourian yelled as they whipped out swords. They flipped forward and slashed at Nebula, but she jumped back and pelted them with N.I.N.S.T.A.R.s, while Bender slipped behind the Drophyds and bent their arms back to bash their helmets. "Works with them." He remarked, a little aggravated about the squid. He grabbed the fish-heads out of their helmets and chucked them at two Glomourians' faces, making them frantically try and get them off. In their distraction, Bender grabbed a shoulder on either of them, flung upward, and shot down with legs stretched to knock them out.

Bender then wrapped his arms around the remaining Glomourian to bind it while Nebula induced it with Space Lightning, and while he sizzled, Nebula jumped and kicked across his face to knock him out. With that, the duo passed through another small trench that had a chasm with several giant alien jellyfish hovering over. They used the jellies to bounce across and land on a small platform, where Nebula then had to conjure a Space Block below two close walls. They jumped to the block, and from there Wall Jumped out of the chasm. They appeared in a wide open field where they saw Drophyds roaming about a few meters away. They approached casually from behind two Drophyds as they were talking.

"I know we're supposed to be getting them mad at the other, but how d'you know they won't send spies over and see what we're doing?"

"Send spies to Kateenia? Yeah, I'm sure they'll blend in REAL well. 'Fact, even some Kateenians are afraid to come here, that's why we're tellin' 'em those bratty kids are the spies."

"I get THAT part, but if they're already fighting, why're we making them more mad?"

"Because Tachyon wants to round them together, and… HEY!" He turned around and noticed Neb and Bender as they began firing. Bender stretched an arm and swiped their guns, using them to shoot back, while Nebula ran to a Drophyd Enforcer and sent lightning up its legs, giving him a shock. Bender then came over and ripped off one of its legs, making him topple over to another band of troops and crush them. Two Cyclocannons were guarding a thin passage within the wall, but Neb and Bender avoided them and cut through the passage, which the huge spherical vehicles were unable to follow.

"Sounds like Tachyon is trying to buy the interest of BOTH armies." Nebula deduced. "We better be careful."

They arrived at a small Glomourian village where several children were knocked out on the ground. "Look there!" Nebula gasped, seeing the fighting taking place in the middle of the street. None other than Makava was clashing with the last remaining Glomourian boy, and she defeated him after kicking him off his feet and kicking him in the face. She sheathed her swords as Nebula and Bender ran over. "Makava!"

"Oh?" She turned around. "Nebula! Hey, where'd you get the oven?"

"I ain't no oven!" Bender shot back. But the robot dinged just then as he pulled out a turkey. "Turkey's done."

"We heard part of the Dimensional Fragment's on this planet, and the other's on Kateenia. I don't suppose you know about the war?"

"Yeah." Makava nodded with a frown. "All the Glomourians hate me because I'm half-Kateenian. Except Supreme Leader Liaziana; I was really just going out for a walk. Her treehouse is stationed on top Queen Zaádéadia's castle; I can take you there." They looked up and noticed the castle set atop a mountain in the distance, and a giant tree growing high over it.

"Then let's go." Nebula nodded. "I need to speak with Lia."

They headed to a series of high ledges, in which Makava tossed both swords into the sides at different levels, then bounced up them, her friends bouncing up afterward. They reached an open field and dashed toward a mountain, in which Makava swiftly jumped around and sliced Drophyds on the way. An Enforcer guarded the path on the foot of the mountain, but Makava dashed between its legs and sliced them, toppling the Drophyd down. They began the journey up the mountain's path as Glomourian Warriors charged down. One swung his swords down at Makava, but the girl blocked and kicked up to send him rolling down the slope.

A female warrior swung at Bender, but he grabbed her swords and bent them like boomerangs before tossing them backward. "Ha ha ha ha! WOWOO!" They flew right back and stuck him from behind, the warrior kicking him down and calling her swords back. Bender stretched up and grabbed her legs, hauling himself up to make her trip. The remaining warrior defended as Nebula shot her S.H.O.O.T.E.R., but Makava jumped from behind and kicked the warrior down the path.

The trio bounced up some jelly shrooms to reach high ledges and soon arrived at a narrow chasm. Nebula floated them to a Gravity Path on the right wall, but it ended before they could reach the next ledge. Makava simply tossed her swords into the parallel wall, so they jumped to and bounced off them to make it to the ledge. The path continued above a wall that was too high to climb or jump, but a mushroom sat atop the wall that Bender reached up and pulled down. They all held on as the mushroom flung them up, and they proceeded further up the mountain.

They reached a towering wall that had a tiny cracked gap on the bottom. "Anyone got any mirrors?" Neb asked.

"Just send me in, I'll look for something." Makava said. Nebula used Space Shrink to minimize her and allowed Makava to enter the crevice. It was an easy tunnel to navigate, but she had to cut past some centipedes crawling through. Eventually, she made it to the path up top, finding herself under a Drophyd Trooper. There was yellow light leaking from within its armor, so she crawled inside and began cutting up its wires. When the armor fell apart, a Drill Wisp was freed, looking at its tiny savior. "She's down there." Makava squeaked.

The Yellow Wisp flew down and entered Nebula's body, letting the girl become a "DRILL!" as she and Bender burrowed through the ground and went straight up. When they made it to the path, Nebula resized Makava, and it was just a short distance to the castle. They jumped up a few platforms before reaching the moat stationed around the castle. "Why did they build it so high?" Nebula asked.

"'Cause the highest wins, duh." Makava stated. "Both the citizens and the KND. Anyway, we can get into the treehouse from here, watch this." Makava approached a blank sign post before the moat and cut a mysterious symbol, which could be 'KND' translated to their language. A creaking sound was heard, like the drawbridge on the castle was about to fall, but it was instead a drawbridge up on the treehouse, toppling down and "YOW!" crushing Bender. Nebula and Makava proceeded to walk up, and Bender dizzily joined after recovering. (End song.)

Somewhere in space

As John Fett and Aurorra Bane were continuing their search for Nebula, they received a call from Tachyon. "Star Wolf, this is Percival Tachyon. It seems the brats have separated to Glomour and Kateenia in search of the fragments."

"Ahhh, my homeland." Aurorra smiled. "So you want us to bust them or somethin'?"

"I am working on a plan to annihilate them as well as the two armies. Fly to St. Percy's Asteroid and lie in wait until the time comes. I will tell you more once you get there."

"Roger that. We're on our way." John said as the duo flew off.

Planet Kateenia

While Nebula was adventuring on Glomour, Sector V landed on Planet Kateenia, whose landscape and sky were very yellow. "'Guess their yellow skin isn't just hereditary." Aurora commented.

"It's probably yellow so they can camouflage from predators." Haruka figured. "But that also makes them tougher to spot, too."

"So what did Nebula want us to do, again?" Chris asked. "Find the Kateenian KND leader and ask him about the war?"

"Yeah, and she said his treehouse was located over the president's Yellow House." Aurora followed.

"Probably a lot of yellow houses here." Haylee said.

"You think a few Kateenians would let me take them home for studying?" Artie asked.

"They're probably against doing that." Harry said.

"Boy, my first time actually exploring Kateenia!" Vweeb perked. "Too bad Makava couldn't be here!"

"Don't forget we're here on urgent business." Aurora reminded. "Let's find the Kateenian leader; and be careful not to step on anyone." (Play "Sweet Mountain Act 3" from Sonic Colors.)

Act 2: Planet Kateenia

The team passed down a road within a short gorge, seeing a squad of Killbots rolling from ahead. Aurora and Chris rolled forward and evaded their fire as they shot flames at the first ones, while Mason and Haruka launched Gas Bombs overhead to blow up ones in the back. "Man, our budget is a load of bull-" a Killbot tried to say.

"SOMEONE'S ABOUT TO SAY 'BUL TRANSMARK'!" Another Killbot proceeded to blast all the others, before Sheila punched a Light Sphere at his chest gun and blew him up.

"Gee, I wonder why." Chris remarked.

They arrived at a large chasm with several tall pillars leading across, and far scattered apart. "'Guess me and Chris will have to fly everyone." Aurora figured. But when they jumped to the first platform, it began to topple toward the next one.

"Or we can just do this." Vweeb said as everyone jumped to the next one when it was close enough. This platform fell to the next, but came up a bit too short, only hitting the side of the pillar, but they were able to climb a rugged wall to get up top. This one fell toward the next, but it was much too far. Thankfully, a group of Drophyds were hovering within the chasm, so the kids used them as bounce pads to reach the rugged side that led onto the pillar. This one fell toward the ledge where the next path began, so they jumped over and continued.

They reached a small, open area (likely a large field from a Kateenian's view), where two nerdy Drophyds were speaking to a swarm of tiny Kateenian troops. "Yeah-yeah! And those Glomourians said, 'Those Kateenians barely survive off the crumbs they're forced to eat! They probably scavenge whatever they can from the dung of animals!'"

"So what?!?" a Kateenian yelled. "I was hungry and no one let me have their lunch!"

"Yeah well, you should've seen what I saw 'em doing to your lake a few weeks ago!" the other Drophyd began. "They poured in a bottle of hotsauce, and they… HEY, LOOK! It's those spies the Glomourians sent over!" He pointed at Sector V.

"Let's get 'eeeeem!!" The tiny crowd erupted with squeaks as they charged forward.

Awwwww! They're like teeny baby hamsters! Kirie squealed.

"You blokes think you can scare us?" asked Sheila cockily as she walked forward and raised her foot. "Ah'll step on you like a million-" When she brought her foot down, a single Kateenian stopped it, shot upward while knocking her leg up, and shot into her face like a bullet, sliding her backward.

"She TOLD you not to step on them." Harry told her. Chris threw fire at the little soldiers, but they were swift at avoiding and attacking him from multiple directions, until Haruka swallowed them all in Sleeping Gas and knocked them (and Chris) out. The Drophyds readied to shoot the group, but Kirie appeared from behind them, smiling as she tapped the right one's shoulder, then going behind the left one when the previous turned. She kicked the left Drophyd into him, then launched bladed flowers from her fans to cut their armor.

Aurora shook Chris around a little and smacked him before he woke up. "Nogivemedetention, I'm awake!" he said quickly.

"That explains how they lasted in the war for so long." Aurora deduced. "We better be careful."

"Yeah, they freakin' overpowered." Harry said.

They continued along a downward slope that snaked left, and Kateenians dashed at them like cheetahs, leaving little trails of dust. Chris threw a forceful kick at one and knocked him back, but even he felt quite an impact after doing so, even though the creature was so tiny. A duo of Kateenians leapt at Sheila, but she blocked them with her right fist and their equal forces pushed on each other. "Uuh!" She was finally pushed back, but Harry and Haylee grabbed them and threw them forcefully against the wall. Mason and Haruka unleashed poison gas around the ground to stun all the other Kateenians, and afterwards the kids kept running.

"You need to take it easy, Sheila." Haruka told her. "Your left fist is still recovering, so it'll be harder to fight with just one."

"Please, I once broke a Raritanium door with one hand behind my back!" she retorted.

"And THAT'S the hand that got spared."

After knocking out the last few Kateenians, the group reached the end of the path and found a small Kateenian village. (Small in both ways. :P) The little yellow citizens were casually roaming around. Awwwww! Kirie was always so happy to see them. There're so manyyyyy! Can I keep oooone?

But since the giant kids really stood out from the citizens, everyone immediately took notice. "Look! It's the giant humans the Drophyds mentioned!"

"AAAAIIIIEEEE!" They skittered back to their tiny houses. …Was I too loud? Kirie asked.

"Leave it to someone who fits in." Vweeb said as he jumped off Aurora's shoulder and approached some fleeing Kateenian kids. "Yo guys, take it easy! These lunks are with me!"

"Lunks." Aurora repeated as they all stared.

"Yeah, we'll believe THAT." a Kateenian boy snapped. "Lose the ears and maybe we'll talk, albino boy." They continued retreating.

"…Well, that was unpleasant." Vweeb said.

"Well, what'd you expect? You're as white as a ghost!" a familiar voice squeaked.

"Oh, no…" Chris looked in agony, seeing the band of tiny bandits that caused him grief.

"No Kateenian has ears as big as yours! The giants make such loud noises, that's why we ditched ear openings!" another bandit informed.

"One race has no ears for small, sensitive sizes, the other has big ears for hearing the sneaky little guys." Haruka noticed. "Convenient!"

"Look, I don't suppose YOU know where the Yellow House is?" Chris glared.

"Sure we do! We're part of the KND!"

"We'll take you there, too! But only if Chris becomes our servant!"

"He'll do it!" Aurora smiled.

"WHAT?!"

"Yaaaay! We have a giant servant!" they all cheered.

"Now LET'S go!" They hurried off.

They scampered up a wide Kateenian-size stairway, which felt like just a rugged, narrow path to Sector V. The stairs led them to a wider road that the bandits dashed across on their own, but Kateenian troops stood atop the parallel walls and blasted ray guns at the giants. Chris and Aurora blasted fire at the turrets, making the Kateenians fall and charge at them. Sheila kicked the Kateenians away when they jumped at them, and Kirie flipped overhead to launch flower petals down that stuck them to the ground by their clothes.

They reached the end of the path and dashed down a steep hill overlooking a vast valley. Drophyds were coming from the other side, followed by several clouds of dust along the ground. Those were swarms of Kateenians, all taking leaps at the kids as Aurora spun in a fire spiral and burned them away. The Drophyds hovered on jetshoes as they blasted lasers, but Kirie flipped up and sliced one's jetshoes while Haylee jumped up, grabbed another's leg, and unhooked his shoes with her wrench.

When the Drophyds fell, they crushed some Kateenians, but Sheila jumped up to punch through their armor with her right fist, shattering the armor. Chris used rocket shoes to fly above the other Drophyds and come down before blasting his rockets in their faces. The Kateenians scampered around Mason and Haruka, who sprayed gas from their hands like bug spray and swallowed the Kateenians in toxic clouds. The kids hurried across the field as Sheila tossed Light Spheres at any incoming Kateenians, and they soon arrived on the outskirts of the vast capital city, which at their sizes seemed like a smaller scale replica of a larger city.

"I don't think we'll be cutting through without being spotted." Chris deduced.

"Then let's go around, there's the president's house." Aurora said as she noticed a giant (only slightly taller than them) treehouse growing out of a dollhouse-sized Yellow House. They walked around and approached the treehouse cautiously from the side. Chris peeped into one of the tiny windows and spotted a Kateenian with sunglasses, who he recalled as the KND leader. He tapped the side of the treehouse, and Supreme Leader Minksman turned around and saw a big brown eye outside his window. "YAAAAAH!"

At that instant, the tiny band of bandits jumped up, pulled Chris down, and pinned him. "Don't worry, Sir! We got 'im!"

"You JERKS." Chris gritted.

"Hey, hold it, hold it." Minksman said as he stepped onto a walkway. (End song.) "I know these guys, they're from Earth's KND. Did Nebula send you?"

"Yep, she did." Chris replied. "Mind confirming that with these twerps?"

"Don't mind them, they're just my Bandit Squad." Minksman said. "I use them for spying and recovery missions."

"Well, they certainly have the strength for it." Aurora noted. "You guys are really strong for your sizes."

"'Course we are. Kateenian soldiers are trained to practice Kateeny Style Combat. Our philosophy that size doesn't matter isn't just from moral thinking, but the fact is that all Kateenians are stronger than they're giving their selves credit for. Our martial arts form is an upgrade to Tiny Style: while that's about simple evasion and trickery, Kateeny Style involves direct combat through a Kateenian's superior strength. I don't really use it, but my dad does."

"Is your dad the president?" Haru asked.

"Yep: President Linkynidynkinwashi Iyptonocuo. Call him Linkyn."

Ha ha ha ha! You all have some funny names! Kirie signed.

"Speakin' of which, if you wanna talk, we should probably do it in private. Let's go outta town so we don't scare anyone." With that, Minksman hopped onto Aurora's shoulder as the group left town, with the Bandit Squad carrying the captive Chris.

Glomourian KND H.Q.

Nebula, Bender, and Makava entered the treehouse and found Supreme Leader Liaziana talking with some officers. "Numbuh 12,681!" Nebula exclaimed as they hurried to the leader.

She looked over. "Hello, Numbuh Eternal." Lia dismissed her officers before approaching her superior. "Sorry that the party got cancelled."

"Well… I kinda expected." Nebula shrugged. "We're actually here about the war between your people and the Kateenians. Is that why you and Minksman never got along?"

"Yes, it's true. I read about the drawn-out war, too. The truth is, my parents are the king and queen of Glomour right now, and we're descended from the queen that used to squabble with Kateenia's president, who coincidentally is Minksman's ancestor. But we inherit more than our ancestors' physical and personal strengths, it seems. Minksman said I was a heartless monster that only liked to serve his people on a platter. He said our quest for pride and strength was only formed from the anger and aggression we endure because we can never match their superior intelligence. Then, well, I told him he was only saying this because he thought himself weak and had no faith in his own moral strength. Then one fight led to another, and, well, we suddenly became part of the war, too."

"So far, it's been sounding like the Kateenians are responsible for all this fighting." Nebula deduced.

"Yeah…" Makava agreed with a frown.

"Lia, do your parents have any particular treasures that they guard?"

"My mom owns this strange purple gem that, almost looks like it's half of another."

Nebula and Bender exchanged glances and nodded. "Actually, Lia, the other half probably belongs to the Kateenian President, and it's our mission to reunite them. The only way we can do that, we think, is to bring the two cultures together. As part of a… spiritual thing. Sector V is actually over at Kateenia and they're trying to speak with Minksman."

"Are you saying you want me and Minksman to make up?" she asked with dislike.

"Exactly. If you're the princess and prince of your planets respectively, if your parents saw that you made friends, then they might see differently. Do you wanna schedule a meeting with Minksman?"

"Siiiigh." One could tell Lia didn't wanna do this, but for her Supreme Leader… "We actually have a little barren asteroid where our two planets' rulers meet for, um, negotiations. We could meet up there and… you know."

"Just outta curiosity, what happens when negotiations don't go well?" Bender asked.

"We engage in all-out war."

"AH'M BRINGIN' THE POPCORN!!" He ran off.

"Anyway, after you both make friends, you can convince your parents to meet up and make peace for both armies." Nebula informed. "Then they can unite the two halves of the fragment."

"Sigh, alright, I'll make friends with Minksman. But it's only fair that he apologizes first, for insulting me!"

"We'll try and reason with him." Nebula nodded. "Let's fly to the asteroid and I'll call Sector V to see if they can bring Minksman there."

Outside Kateenian Capital

"So yeah, me and Lia've been fighting a lot, too, but SHE started it!" Minksman began to explain, pacing on the ground while the gigantic members of Sector V either sat cross-legged or stood patiently. "I'm only freely expressing my Kateenian pride like always, but you know what she says?! She calls me a sniveling little ant that only looks up and whines to all the bigger people we're so helplessly inferior to! She says that our puny race is worthless and will amount to nothing, and it's a shocker that they even allow us in the council, for something other than the purpose of being on the lunch menu! So as a counterattack, I shot back with one of my many witty remarks." He stated proudly. "But if they weren't proven to be big brutes before, well SHE certainly has! Overreacting like the brainless monster she is and TRYING to squish me! 'Course, super-speed comes with super smallness. Siiiigh."

Minksman looked at Vweeb, standing a few feet away, and said, "Listen Vweeb, I won't judge you for being half-Glomourian, as long as you stand at equal ground with us, you've got the true Kateenian spirit."

"Well, as much as I like having Kateenian pride, I think it's time you made amends." Vweeb stated. "We need your two races to make peace with each other if we're going to save the universe from Tachyon. The first step of THAT would be for you and Lia to become friends."

"Yeah!" Aurora nodded in agreement. "Then you can show both your parents and they might wanna call this whole war off!"

"Siiiigh. All right." Minksman moaned, as uninterested about this as his rival. "But I am NOT apologizing FIRST! SHE'S the one that started it, the giant LUNK."

"We'll do what we can, but can't promise it." Haruka stated.

"Halright. There's an asteroid we go to for meetings and stuff. How 'bout I meet you there after you get Lia?"

"Nebula should've met up with her by now." Vweeb figured. "We'll call 'em and tell 'em to meet us there."

"Terrrrrific. Later." The tiny leader hopped back to his treehouse to board his tiny ship.

This planet is SOOOO cuuuute! Kirie sign-squealed.

"Yeah, when you get past all the overpowered crap." Chris said, rubbing his sore chin.

"Let's get going and call Nebula." Aurora said as she walked off first. "And watch where you step on the way back."

"These negotiations better go well, or we'll be caught in the middle of overpowered nerds and bullies." Harry mentioned.

"Ha ha! That is what it's like, isn't it!" Artie laughed.

Pollyx's ship; somewhere in space

Pollyx entrusted his ship to Dillon and Vanellope, who roamed the emptiness of space in search of their friends. "You SURE this is the way to Kateenia?" the candy girl asked.

"It's not like I understand space coordinates."

"Somebody's loooooooost." Vanellope sang.

"You dunno where to go, either." Dillon frumped. "He said it would be just past the asteroid belt, which we just-" But their ship was suddenly caught under a humongous shadow, and they looked up and gaped.

"Are you having a shadow-attack?" Vanel asked.

"That isn't me, Vanel. What is…" Hovering over them appeared to be a humongous space station, shaped like a heart. It had the inscription Death Heart, but its front was oddly shaped like Mom's face.

Planet Flora

Jerome and Neftin landed in a forest region on Flora (which is ALL forest) as the Nether began to lead the Zathurian through. "All these forests look the same." Jerome said. "How could you be sure?"

"I marked it on a map, check it every now and then. But uh… could you put the gun down?" Indeed, Jerome was aiming a ray gun at Neftin as he followed from behind.

"Just to be safe."

Neftin led him to a simple, ordinary boulder within the shrubs and lifted it up, pulling a Zathurian Artifact out from a hole. "I found this several weeks ago; but I just couldn't show it to Vendra. Not now. But now that you're here, as a Zathurian, you can view its contents."

"Whoa whoa whoa. How do I know you aren't just using me to find the fragment?"

"If I wanted that, I could've gotten your mom to view it, but I told you I'm trying to save Vendra!"

"Well, my mom had her powers taken."

"Your sister had her-; WILL YOU JUST look at it?!" he yelled, slamming the pyramid in Jerome's hand.

"Alright, alright." Jerome aimed the scanner at his eye so the artifact would reveal its contents.

St. Percy's Asteroid of Peace

The Shooting Star and Lia's ship landed on one side of a barren, open field on a gigantic asteroid, encased in an Oxygen Bubble so they could breathe. At the same time, the Aloha Oe landed on the distant other side, and while they couldn't see it well, so did Minksman's toy-size ship. Nebula, Makava, Bender, and Lia calmly approached the center, as did Sector V and Minksman. Both groups stopped a few meters from the center. Makava smiled and waved happily at her brother, who waved back.

Lia and Minksman approached each other and sat cross-legged while Nebula sat at Lia's left, across from Aurora at Minksman's left. For several minutes, there was silent tension between the two. It made the others slightly nervous. "…Well then… how nice that both of us could be here at equal grounds!" Nebula finally said.

"As equal as they get." Lia replied.

"As equal as you WANT them to be." Minksman remarked.

"Right…" Nebula furrowed her eyes. "Let's get the peacemaking underway. First off… Minksman, apologize to Lia for calling her a heartless monster."

"Lia, apologize to Minksman for calling him a sniveling ant!" Aurora told her with a positive smile.

"…" At this, all four kids exchanged confused glances with one-another. "ExCUSE me/Say what?!" Both leaders said at once, standing up.

"I only insulted him because HE did it first!" Lia yelled. "So HE should apologize!"

"No! I said all that because YOU said I wouldn't amount to anything!" Minksman shot back. "YOU apologize!"

"I'll apologize with my FOOT, you ant!"

"Not if I enter your brain and cut out the desire to DO so, assuming you have one!"

"GUYS!!" Nebula grabbed them both. "Look… how 'bout we… SKIP the apology, and go to Phase 2 of the reconciling?"

"…Fine." They both said.

They were seated on the ground again as Lia poured a bottle of blue liquid into a glass, and then drank part of it. "Here." She placed the glass by Minksman.

"What is this?"

"Glomourian tradition is that two friends drink from the same glass of luscious Squid Juice from the Great Squid in remembrance of their friendship."

"What is with their planet and squids?" Haruka whispered.

"I'm not drinking what your saliva just touched!" Minks yelled.

"Well, how do your people make friendships?"

"We talk about videogames and exchange different ideas for technologies."

"Sounds very exciting."

"Just drink the juice." Nebula told him.

"Meh." Minksman decided to climb onto the glass's edge and carefully climb down to get a sip. However, the Kateenian leader slipped, and he was flailing his arms in the thick liquid. "AAAAHH! Help! Heeelp! I can't swim!" Lia reached in, gripped the Kateenian by his antenna, and pulled him out to set him on the ground. "Keh, keh, keh! That's the worst thing I ever tasted!! No wonder you exhausted all your brain cells!"

"At least our brains are bigger than YOUR squishy organs!!" she yelled as she got up.

"There's a little thing called PROPORTION, you mindless dope!! In which case, I believe YOUR brain is a little underSIZED!!"

"I SHOULD'VE SQUASHED YOU THEN AND THERE and left you a smooshed puddle of goop on the council floor!!"

"I should've crawled in your ear and cut your brain off its STEM, seeing as you don't USE it much!"

"I have the brains to fry you on a skillet at the highest possible temperature!!"

"Sizzle us all you want, 'cause that's what makes you so FAT!"

"BUG!!" Lia had psychotic eyes.

"DEMON!!" Minks was furious.

"DAAAAAAH!" Both leaders were immediately zapped by Nebula's Space Lightning. They were black with soot as they looked startlingly at Nebula, who panted with frustration.

"My patience, is growing thin! As your Supreme Leader, I order you two to just GET along, and GET OVER IT!! Or perhaps we could do the classic 'Size-exchange' exercise." She held her hands in a framing, Space Shrink fashion.

"I think we will make great friends, Minksman!" Lia grinned as she shook the tiny leader's hand.

"My thoughts exactly, Lia!" He grinned, too.

"I thought Minksman would WANT to be bigger than Lia." Haylee said.

"He don't wanna be a giant lunk." Vweeb remarked.

"Terrific." Nebula eye-rolled. "So how about you go back to your parents and try and tell them the somewhat-truthful news so they can make peace?"

"How do you know the whole friendship thing will even work?" Lia questioned.

"Well, tell 'em other things, too!" Vweeb suggested. "Like… you're stressing too much over this war, both races are special in their own way, might be better for everyone to just leave the other alone!"

"…Eh." Lia shrugged, figuring why not as she walked back to her ship, as did Minksman. The operatives watched as both leaders took off and back to their planets.

"So what now?" Aurora asked.

"'Guess just wait here 'til both armies decide to show up." Nebula shrugged. "But I know from experience when I say expect the worst…"

The Death Heart

"Are you about finished yet?" Mom asked her less competent sons as they were fixing a machine.

"It's almost ready, Mother." Walt responded. "It'll need 10 minutes to charge when activated, so it may be wise to start ahead of time."

"IT'LL START WHEN I WANT IT TO STAAART!" Mom smacked him.

"Actually, we must first make sure Star Wolf finishes their side of the plan." Tachyon noted. "If the negotiations proceeded normally, they may be long gone before we have a chance to fire. We will begin the war first, and in their distraction, they will never suspect doomsday is on their way! Plus, our Drophyds and Star Wolf will need some time to get away before it happens. But if all goes as planned, we will finally have Nebula disposed of ONCE and for all!"

Ava and Kweeb's House

The itty-bitty man of the house entered the kitchen and approached the fridge for a drink. Not the normal fridge, that was WAY too big to open. He approached a teeny-tiny fridge that matched his height and drank a glass of juice, which was likely formed from a single small droplet. The floor quaked, and he looked behind as his titanic wife walked in, grabbing a half-eaten squidburger from the normal-sized fridge and munching away. "Ahhh, these things are always the best frozen." She said through chewing.

"Only you would have the teeth to munch them."

"Hm?" She turned and looked down before swallowing a tentacle. "Oh, hi. Didn't see you there."

"Well, that's why you have ears, leave the seeing to me."

"Hm hm hm." She smiled slightly. "Kweeb… I'm sorry for not telling you sooner."

"Actually, when I think about it, it makes sense now. Why else do you like making me give you footrubs every night?"

"Kweeb, even you like that."

"Yeah, but that's why you dubbed yourself 'Queen of the House', isn't it? You're adapting the Glomourian tradition, that's why me and Vweeb are yours and Makava's playthings!"

"Leave the kids out of this! And the reason I gave myself that title was because I do most of the work around here, seeing as I'm bigger. We've already established I can kick your butt, too."

"So you admit it!"

"The difference is, Kweeb, is that I still see you as an equal among everyone else. Besides, that's generally how all wives are with their husbands, wanting to be the alpha female. But they don't go to war with them because they know their wives love them, and they love them, too. The same would be if Fanny's husband was as small as you were, but, you know he would be too afraid. In fact, why don't you go to war with Kami's family? She kicks you around a lot more than I do, and that's reflected in her daughter and our son."

"That's totally different, me and Kami just have a rivalry, we never mean anything bad by it."

"Well, in the grand scheme, maybe that's what the Kateenians and Glomours have: a rivalry that just… got way too out of hand."

"I-…" After absorbing this, Kweeb thought it could be true. "…Yeah…"

"Siiigh." Ava sat on the floor and crossed her legs. "And now our kids are about to be mixed up in it. We have to go and help them."

"You mean stop the war? How're we gonna do that?"

"A single Glomourian's and Kateenian's strength is fearsome." Ava smirked. "But pair two together, you have the strength to bring down two opposing armies."

"Says the 100-foot tall sword-happy brute." Kweeb remarked.

"Maybe. But who was your queen, again?" she asked as she picked her little husband up.

"Hahaha! You are, Queen Ava!" he blushed.

"That's right. But you'll always be my itty-bitty king!" And with that, Kweeb was trapped in the powerful suction that was Ava's giant, smooching lips.

Kweeb shook his head after he pulled free. "I always think I won't survive it this time!"

"Hm hm hm, my lips get stronger with experience! Now let's go help our kids!" She tossed him on her shoulder and ran off.

St. Percy's Asteroid

It wasn't long before the gigantic, flat barren asteroid was packed to the brim with armies on both sides. The Glomourians on the left and Kateenians on the right. 'Course, the Kateenians looked like a field of yellow grass. Heheh. And Team Nebula and Sector V stood in the very middle. Liaziana and Minksiminnian were there and stood by their parents: Queen Zaádéadia Arkhasemia of Glomour and President Linkynidynkinwashi Iyptonocuo of Kateenia.

"No doubt, Aurra Sing has the easiest pronounceable name of any Glomourian." Chris stated.

"Actually, her full name is-" Makava began.

"DON'T say it."

Zaádéa was fairly thin and had very pointy ears, many straps around her purple gown, two long swords in sheathes on her back, a long puffy ponytail tied in golden braids, and a gold crown-like headband around her forehead. Linkyn was a slightly chubby Kateenian with a red jumpsuit-tux and black tie, and had two pointed antennas instead of one.

As both rulers slowly approached the center, John Fett and Aurorra Bane watched from behind a rock. "Those two rulers have the gems, don't they?" Aurorra asked.

"Yeh."

"So when do we take them?"

"'Soon as Tachyon blasts 'em to next century. But first we gotta get them fighting. Quick, put on the disguises." He pulled out a small device and scanned Aurorra's body, changing her into a white-skinned Glomourian. He then scanned himself and became a tiny little Kateenian. "Let's go." They went separate ways and snuck into their respective army.

As the two leaders stopped a few feet away from each other, Nebula and co. looked around. "No sign of any Drophyds." she whispered.

"They're hiding somewhere." Aurora knew.

Zaádéa and Linkyn sat before each other as Bender approached and stood in the middle. "Ah-he-he-hem: ladies and gentlemen of the jury:"

"AH-HEM." The group coughed.

"Sorry, force of habit. Ahem, dearly beloved, we are gathered here today-"

"SSSSS!" they hissed.

"Whoop, wrong ceremony. Let's see, ummmm…" Bender checked a notepad. "Right, right, the peace treaty! Okay, ummm, so just do whatever it is you do to make friends and we'll be on our way!"

Queen Zaádéa pulled out a long bottle and poured some dark-pink liquid into a very tiny glass, bigger than a Kateenian, but still a reasonable height for them to drink. Afterwards, she pulled out a familiar glowing purple gem that was the Dimensional Fragment, divided in half, while Linkyn pulled out the other half that was his size. The queen took a small sip from that glass and set it down. "To seal our peace, we will drink from the same glass of juice from the Pacifist Squid."

"We shall also exchange email addresses to talk about various swords and technologies." The president said. "You DO have email, right?"

"Yes." Her eyes narrowed uninterestingly. "And when it's all done, we shall unite our two gems to forever symbolize our bond."

"So all our fair children can frolic together in peace."

Lia and Minksman only glared at each other across the field. Zaádéa began to write her email address while Linkyn approached the small glass to have a drink. Nebula and the operatives exchanged smiles at their success.

But in the blink of an eye, a long light-nun-chuck whipped over from the Glomourians' side and slammed a group of Kateenians, blowing them away, and the operatives gaped in horror. Linkyn whipped out two ray guns, which extracted multiple ray guns, and declared, "You tricked us!"

"I did not!" But that's when gunshots from the Kateenians' side fired and dealt painful strikes against Glomourians' knees. "You little SNEAK!" Zaádéa yelled as she whipped out her dual swords.

"Do your ears work, I didn't give any orders!"

"Well, your puny EYES should've seen my mouth move, I didn't give any orders, either!"

"I'm surprised you NEED orders to be so destructive!"

"Guys, calm down!" Nebula yelled. But once again, the situation worsened when a group of Kateenian and Glomour ships hovered overhead and blasted the other army. Inside those ships, the Drophyd Troopers cackled maniacally.

"It's clear that this whole treaty was a bad idea from the start." The queen decided.

"My thoughts exactly. There's only one thing to do now."

"Yo boy." Bender quickly backed away.

"KATEENIAN/GLOMOURIANS:" both began. "ATTAAAAACK!"

And faster than they knew, the heroes were caught in the middle of two clashing armies, of overpowered little people, and bloodthirsty warriors. In this confusion, a giant sword swung down at Minksman, who jumped away and saw it was Lia. The Kateenian leader growled and extracted his spider legs from his backpack, which latched onto Lia's face and jabbed her with syringes.

Sector V and Makava ducked away from the crowd with Makava clutching her brother in both hands. When they peeked over a short slope, they saw a Glomourian and Kateenian running from the action, who revealed to be John Fett and Aurorra Bane. "HEY! Those're bounty hunters!" Chris exclaimed.

"Those jerks!" Makava yelled.

"We'll get 'em. You guys try and control the armies." With that, Chris and Makava ran after them, with the latter tossing her brother to Aurora.

"Hmph. Well, looks like we got company." Aurorra Bane smirked as she saw the two follow.

"We got time 'fore Tachyon fires that cannon. Let's have a little fun."

John Fett and Aurorra stopped and about-faced as they whipped out their weapons and faced Chris Uno and Makava respectively.

Queen Zaádéa revealed four pinwheel-like points on the tips of both of her swords, beginning to swing at Linkyn as he jumped around and shot multiple rays from his two guns. "Grrrrr!" Enraged at this, Nebula induced both of them with a blast of lightning. "STOP!!"

Both rulers were black with soot, exchanging surprised glances before shaking the soot off. "Wait! That's the girl you hired to lure us here, isn't it?!" The queen accused.

"The only one sending people to do your dirty work is YOU."

"Well, if she's not aligned with you, you won't mind if I cut her to pieces."

"Hmph. Allow me to save you that honor. I'll blast her down to size."

"Boy, these guys're just lookin' for an excuse to fight." Bender said.

"Grrrrr!" Nebula grumbled. "BOTH YOUR RACES ARE A BUNCH OF IDIOTS!!" (Play "The Tumbling" from Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep.)

Boss fight: Queen Zaádéadia and President Linkynidynkinwashi

Nebula began dodging quickly as Queen Zaádéa slashed her swords at her, the Zathurian whipping out her T.O.P.M.A.N. and launching the spinning devices, but Zaádéa easily cut them. President Linkyn faced Bender as the robot smirked and toppled down with his compartment open, catching the Kateenian inside. "Wow- Ooh- Ow!" Bender yelped as he was flung into the air, and the president began kicking and knocking him around before sending him flying. "Wah-ha-ha-haaaaa!"

Afterwards, the president dropped down and jumped at Nebula, sending her several feet away with a kick. That's when Artie and Haylee dove in from the side and grabbed the tiny ruler in their hands. "We gotcha now!" declared Artie. But the president grabbed their hands in his and swung them around the air like thin little sticks, smashing them into each other before hurling them away. Zaádéa zipped behind Nebula and attempted to slash her, but Aurora jumped above the queen and kicked a barrage of fireballs down, which Zaádéa blocked before jumping back. The queen slashed her swords and sent two spiraling airwaves, which matched her swords' pinwheels, but Nebula and Aurora flipped and dodged the slashes.

"YAAAAH!" Chris cried as he and Makava charged at John and Aurorra (two Auroras, don't get the spelling mixed up), and as the two operatives threw a fire fist and swords, the hunters jumped away. Chris ran at John as the fox hunter (hunter who is a fox) raised his dual lightsabers and swung them at Chris, who blocked the red and blue lasers with his fire fists. Chris jumped, kicked John's arms to the side, and dealt a series of fire punches against his chest. Aurorra whipped her light-nun-chucks at Makava as the half-Glomourian charged and dodged the strikes. Aurorra lashed again, but the nun-chucks whipped around her right sword as Makava jumped and dealt a forceful kick across Aurorra's chin, pushing the hunter back as her nun-chuck retracted.

Chris and Makava jumped beside each other as John got by Aurorra. Chris and Makava jumped up, turned sideways, and planted their feet against the other's as they began to spin rapidly. John and Aurorra did the same, with John and Makava aimed at each other. Both dual-swordsmen launched, holding their swords out at either side as they flew like propellers. The tips of their heads drilled at each other before Makava went underneath and flew at Aurorra, and John flew over and went for Chris. Aurorra aimed her right foot at Makava and extracted a blade from her heel to block the swordschild, while Chris jumped up high and threw flames at John.

Bender stretched his arms around to knock away Glomourian soldiers while a swarm of Kateenians were charging at him from behind. As Sheila punched away some troops, she looked and saw this. "Oi, Benduh, about-face!"

"Huh- WHAI-HEEE!" His eyes widened at the bunch. Sheila ran at the robot and dealt a forceful punch with her right fist to his back, causing an airbag to swell up and bounce the little guys away when they jumped.

Kirie Beatles bounced across some Glomourians' heads as she stuck syringes in them from her fans. When she landed, she saw Harry furiously stomping some Kateenians. HARRYYYY! He looked over, hearing her sign-shout ('kay, how is that possible again?). Don't squish the Kateenians!!

"Kir, relax, they freakin' overpowered, stomping will just knock 'em out. It's easier." With that, he continued.

…Oh. And as a group of Kateenians were gathering to attack her, Kirie began furiously squishing them.

Nebula tossed a series of grenades at Zaádéa to block her view with smoke, then shot a S.P.O.U.T. over to propel her upward. However, Linkyn jumped through the smoke and thrusted Nebula in the stomach, then sent her flying toward Zaádéa in the air, who kicked Nebula straight back down to Linkyn and crushed him. She quickly jumped back up as Linkyn whipped out his ray guns and sent a barrage of lasers that Neb swiftly dodged.

After Zaádéa landed, Bender ran from behind and clutched her arms, leaping overhead, launching forward with his arms stretched, and flung back at Zaádéa to blast her backward. However, she secretly stuck him on her left sword's propeller and got back up, using Bender as a shield as Kateenians tried to jump at her. She then hurled Bender at Nebula and knocked her down, and when she ran at the leader, Aurora got in her way and kicked her left leg up to block Zaádéa's right arm, the Uno's foot on fire as she smirked. Linkyn tried to blast the firebender, but she tossed a fireball to make him jump back, then dodged away before Zaádéa swung her sword.

Death Heart

As the fighting continued, the Death Heart was facing the asteroid from a safe distance, and Tachyon and Mom were watching. "Just FIVE more minutes until our cannon is fully charged! Then these hundred years of fighting will have finally caught up with them!" Tachyon said.

"But if the asteroid goes boom, won't we lose the fragments?" Mom's son, Larry asked.

"THIS cannon isn't supposed to DESTROY 'EM, you fool!" Mom yelled.

"Correction:" began Tachyon. "I am going to succeed in what the Almighty Tallest have failed at! Using the Timeshift Stones mined from Secco's wastelands, I have recreated the Agifyer Cannon! I shall age both armies 100 years and END this war in the name of Tachyon! And of course the brats get the raw end of the deal too, MWAH HAHAHA!"

Unbeknownst to them, Dillon and Vanellope landed and infiltrated the Death Heart, dashing through a hall as lines of Drophyd troops readied to fire, but Vanellope zipped through them as a glitch beam in a ricochet fashion, and when she stopped at the end, their robot suits malfunctioned and broke. She glitched back beside Dillon as both ran down the hall. "Man! I never felt so good!" Vanellope exclaimed. "That Pollyx must be a really great Program doctor!"

"Ha ha! Yeah!" Dillon laughed half-nervously. "But since you just got outta bed, maybe take it slow!"

"Yeah, yeah, doctors doctors, quit bein' a slowpoke and let's move!" And with that, she zipped ahead. Dillon could only laugh at her spirit and try to chase. As Vanellope glitched around and kicked more Drophyds, she said to the camera, "Though I'm really disappointed the racing stages I was supposed to have got cut out. Oh well, computer hacking's good enough." She zipped off.

On the battleground

Liaziana launched airwaves across the ground from her sword, but Minksman jumped around on his mech-spider legs and skittered toward her, trying to jab her face with more syringes. She swung her sword and sent him in the air, but he hovered using a helipack and blasted mini lasers at her. Lia twirled her long-sword in the air a little before launching an airwave cyclone that caught Minksman in the center and pelted him with slashes. He dropped to the ground, and Lia attempted to step on him, but his pack extracted a sharp, thin point to pierce her sandal and stab her foot. Lia gripped it in pain as Minksman clutched his spider legs on her face and started scratching.

Chris and Makava stood back-to-back and turned slowly as their respective opponents walked around them, smirking. "These guys are a lot tougher without the Wolfen." Chris panted.

"Well, of course. Direct combat is a lot more exciting."

"Any plans to step up your game?"

"What species do you think I am? It's times like these I've been carrying this around." She held up a bottle of grease and poured it on her swords. "LIGHT me." she said as she held her swords at their waists. Chris reached behind and touched the blades with burning hands, setting the dual swords aflame. "Now let's dance!" She ran at Aurorra and started clashing with her with flaming blades, Aurorra's nun-chucks unable to wrap and catch them.

Chris kept defending from John's lightsaber strikes, flipping over the fox and kicking the back of his head with a flaming foot. John held his sabers in an "X" fashion as Chris jumped and pressed his foot against them, making the sabers press on John's face as Chris activated a rocket-boot and dangerously burned his face. As Aurorra whipped at Makava from afar, the sword girl kicked some small rocks in the air and batted them at Aurorra with her swords, setting them aflame as they pelted the hunter's face and left scorch marks. As she took the hits, she was unprepared when Makava leapt overhead and launched flaming waves down and burned her.

"Huh!" Aurorra huffed as she recovered. "Tough-ass little brat! You're a lot like your mother, from what my mom said."

"You're not too bad yourself." Makava smirked. "A true Glomourian warrior, even though you're only half."

"Yeah, we got a lot in common. But I think our parents had unresolved business. Let's finish it FOR them." With that, she opened one side of each of her nun-chuck pairs and stuck them together, creating a light-whip that was 20 feet long.

"You're pretty tough yourself, Uno." John said to Chris. "Shoulda expected that from the son of the man who saved the universe. But it's time I got serious. This may sound familiar: you know what blue and red is mixed together, right?" he asked as he held up his two sabers. He flew high in the air using jetpacks and yelled, "PURPLE RAAAAIN!" He stuck his sabers together and created a sparkling storm of purple rain, and Chris began rolling and dodging to avoid the sparkles.

Queen Zaádéa ran at Nebula with both swords, but the Zathurian zapped lightning across the swords and dealt a painful shock to the queen. Bender ran from behind Nebula, leaped over, and planted both feet together as he swung them down and bashed the back of Zaádéa's head, sending her forward as Nebula slid and kicked up at her knees. She fell at Linkyn, who dodged aside, but wasn't prepared as Aurora's foot came down. The Uno girl smirked as she added pressure, but the little guy was harder to stomp than it seemed. Linkyn easily kept her foot up before grabbing it in both hands and swinging the giant girl around, tossing her at Nebula. He then bounced below Bender and jumped straight up at his crotch, sending him flying several meters away.

As Bender tried to recover, a squad of Kateenian troops dashed forward and combined their force to slice Bender's legs perfectly. "Heeeey! I was gonna go CLUBBING in those FEET!" Bender grabbed his severed legs and began crawling around, trying to crush the shrimps.

Nebula threw a grenade at Zaádéa, but the queen back-flipped and avoided. Quicker than Neb could think, the queen unhooked the many straps around her gown and launched them to bind Nebula, the Zathurian unable to move. Zaádéa pulled Nebula over, who shut her eyes as the queen was ready to strike, and just then, a deafening cling of swords echoed across the air. Nebula opened her eyes in surprise, finding the straps cut to pieces and none other than Ava holding the queen back with her own swords.

"This fight seems a little uneven." Ava smirked. "Go help your friends. This is a fight between mothers."

Nebula nodded with a smirk and ran off. While Aurora was lying on her front, Linkyn leapt high overhead and was about to come down with a forceful landing, but Kweeb suddenly jumped up and kicked him away. The Kateenian husband landed on Aurora's back as she turned her head to see him. "Uneven is right, you're WAY too outsized! Leave it to me!" Aurora smiled and nodded before running off.

Ava and Zaádéa's swords continued pushing against the other, and their amazing power seemed equal. "Come on, bitch, I can stand here all day." Ava snapped.

"Hmph. I smell Kateenian all over you. I'll lose my legs before I let a treacherous runaway defeat me."

"Glad you could be so REASONING!" Ava took a swing at her legs, but the queen jumped off her sword and shot high in the air, launching spiraling airwaves down that Ava blocked.

"You know, I never voted for you." Kweeb smirked to the Kateenian President.

"I'm honestly glad. You're a disgrace to our race, letting yourself succumb to the will of a monstrous temptress. Does she pleasure you?"

"A lot more than YOUR slobby excuse for a wife!"

"Now that Sir is crossing the line. I shall have you martialed!" And fast as lightning, the president began zipping around and attacking Kweeb from all sides, but he managed to grab the president's arms and hold him back.

Aurorra Bane was a great distance away from Makava as she lashed her 20-feet whip. The whip launched a barrage of sparkles that Makava blocked, but this allowed Aurorra to grab the half-Kateenian's leg and hurl her straight up in the air. Aurorra smirked and launched the whip again, but Makava dodged and swiftly began grinding the long light-whip with a smirk. The whip shot out more sparkles, but Makava dodged with ease as she aimed a foot down and kicked Aurorra square in the face.

John Fett landed on the ground as he raised his two sabers and stuck them together, forming a purple saber that was three times as long. "'kay, that is wrong in all ways." Chris said with disgust. John ran forward and slashed the saber down at him, but the Uno boy lit his hands with flames again as he clapped the sword between them. The laser was singing his hands greatly, but Chris merely absorbed the heat and added more. John was struggling to cut the Uno in two, and before he knew it, the fox hunter was bursting with flames. "WAAAAAAHH!"

Both John and Aurorra stood side-by-side, panting heavily and glaring at Chris Uno and Makava. "This is takin' too long. Let's finish this now!" John declared. He jumped and grabbed Aurorra with his legs as he flew up with his jetpack and both formed their extended weapons. Just as well, Makava hopped on Chris's back as the boy used rocket shoes to fly them up high. Chris set fire to both Makava's swords as he took one, the two holding them out as the flames stretched longer. The two operatives flew at the two hunters, ready to land their blow, and in the end, the flaming swords sliced through the hunters' waists. John and Aurorra fell totally unconscious, slamming the ground with a thud. Chris and Makava exchanged grins and high-fives.

"Huff, huff, you guys okay?" Nebula yelled as she and Vweeb came over.

"Just fine." Makava confirmed.

"Great! Now stand still!" Makava only nodded as Nebula held her hands in a frame and centered on the swordsgirl.

Death Heart

"It's almost time!" Tachyon announced. "Say your prayers!"

But their doors were blown open when Dillon and Vanellope burst in. "WHAT THE F&^*?!" exclaimed Mom.

"It's Tachyon!" Dillon exclaimed. "What's going on?!"

"You're too late, you meddling kids!" the emperor proclaimed. "The Agifyer Cannon will soon be charged, and you'll be having to care for your friends in a retirement home!"

"Unfortunately, they won't feel as young as I am." Mom smirked.

"Oh yeah?! Well, how's THIS for young!" With that, Vanellope jumped and launched at the Corporate President with her foot aimed, but the child suddenly stopped a few feet away from Mom as she glitched.

"Vanellope!" Dillon yelled with worry.

"Ohh? So you're a Program!" Mom observed. Dillon growled and ran to attack the woman, but she jumped back several feet, and Vanellope became mobile again. Mom raised her right arm as a bunch of the Drophyds' armor came off and formed on her arm, and she aimed before blasting a laser at the duo, who dodged. Tachyon threw an electric sphere from his staff at Vanellope, but the girl glitched up to him and dealt rapid, light-fast kicks against his face. When she stopped, Tachyon's face was broken in several holes, but the matter formed right back.

Dillon ran at Mom as he dodged her blasts, but her cannon broke into jetshoes on her feet as she flew around. She then attracted two laser guns to her hands as she shot at Dillon. "She's manipulating those parts like a magnet! Is she a metahuman or…?" he asked.

"Dillon, we've gotta stop that cannon!" Vanellope told him.

"Right! Vanel, try and hack into the mainframe!"

"Oh no you don't!"

"Ahh!" Vanel yelped when Tachyon knocked her back with an electric sphere.

"Hey!" Dillon ran to attack the emperor, but Mom came down and wrapped her legs around his neck.

"Sorry kid, but this'll be the last lapdance you ever endure-" Before the woman could twist him, another energy blast came and hit her in the head, knocking her down.

As Dillon recovered, he gasped at seeing his savior. "What are you doing here?"

It was none other than MaKayla King. "On urgent duty."

"Heh heh ha ha! DOODY!" Vanellope laughed.

"D'oooh! FIIIRRRRRE!!" screamed Tachyon. The mouth of the Death Heart opened as the Adultifyer Cannon extracted and readied to fire.

Down below

Lia and Minksman were still in their climactic fight, and when the Glomourian princess launched an airwave cyclone, Minksman dodged and jumped at her, but she swatted him away. She kept her guard raised, expecting him to strike again, but suddenly felt a series of quick, tiny strikes dealt across her neck. Lia swung aimlessly, desperate to hit her assailant, but was shocked to see a teeny-tiny Makava on her nose. As Minksman was trying to recover, a giant boot suddenly pinned him down, and he looked up in surprise at an enormous Vweeb.

The bitesize swordsgirl gave a smirk as she leaped off Lia's nose and dealt quick, tiny strikes against her ankles. Lia furiously stomped her feet, but the tiny half-Glomourian was too quick, zipping back and forth and slicing the straps off Lia's sandals. Once she was done, Makava forcefully stabbed her blades through Lia's giant feet, then dashed to her Achilles' heels and cut perfectly through. The titanic princess toppled backward, shaking the ground at Makava's height, as the tiny sword girl leaped to Lia's face and sliced an "M" between her eyes.

"Er, hey, let me go, grrrr!" Minksman demanded, struggling to get out from under Vweeb's boot.

The giant half-Kateenian kept his smirk as he added pressure and crushed Minks's backpack. "Sorry. But talk to me when you're the king."

Death Heart

The cannon was only seconds away from firing. "FIRRRRRRE!" Tachyon ordered once again. But to his utter disappointment, the cannon malfunctioned and suddenly began exploding to pieces. "WHAT?!"

Vanellope emerged from the control terminals with a victorious smirk. "Don't worry! It's ALL under control! NNNOT!"

"NOOO! Just seconds away from getting my precious fragments!"

"Let's get out of here, you bastard!" Mom demanded as they hurried off.

"We should leave, too." MaKayla said, the two nodding as they ran down the hall.

On the field below, Ava and Zaádéa were sweating greatly as they panted and faced each other. "This battle… is over!" the queen declared.

"Yes…" Ava gasped. "I'm going… to cut you in half!"

"Huff… we'll see."

And with both swords raised: "HaaaaaAAA!" the two warriors charged, focused solely on the other's hip. They drew closer and closer, and in a blinding flash, they both swung with all their might. They stood back-to-back, motionless for a few seconds, until Zaádéa's swords shattered to pieces, and blood shot out from cut parts on her body. The queen fell defeated as Ava twirled and sheathed. "Heh! So overweight!" Ava looked back at her with a cocky smirk.

Kweeb and Linkyn were tired with fighting, too, so they decided to settle it. "Classic Kateenian Death Draw?" Kweeb asked.

"My thoughts exactly."

Kweeb whipped out his single ray gun while Linkyn unveiled his arsenal of guns. Their eyes interlocked for several moments, growing solely focused. "Draw…"

In half a second, the president blasted his arsenal of rays, while Kweeb only fired a single shot. After several seconds of silence, the president's weapons exploded, and he gripped his chest as he fell defeated. Kweeb twirled his ray gun and blew the smoke from it. "Toast."

The fighting still continued for both armies, and the operatives regrouped as Nebula changed Makava and Vweeb back to normal. "Hey guys!" They turned in surprise to see Dillon, Vanellope, and-

"MAKAYLA?!" Chris exclaimed.

"Long time no see!" the timebender smiled.

"Why're you in your pajamas?" Aurora asked.

"This is my outfit for the story. Why they couldn't make my normal clothes a second skin, I'm not sure. Anyway… it's time to stop this."

MaKayla walked to the center of the open field, totally ignored by either fighting army. "Hey! Your attention please! Could everyone just… Hey! I need all of you to…" Her quiet shouts reached the ears of no one. She shook with rage as she jabbed her staff into the ground. "STOOOOOOOOP!" (End song.)

The land dimmed to a shade of blue as MaKayla's eyes glowed a bright blue, her hair and gown blowing as a powerful ray of blue light launched to the heavens. Both armies stopped immediately, gaping with sheer amazement. The fallen queen and president and their kids woke up to witness this, and Sector V had no words to describe her incredible surge of power.

Finally, the blue light vanished, and MaKayla stood normally again as the land returned to its previous color. "Now that I have everybody's attention… it's time we brought this war to a close."

"Who are you?!" a Glomourian male demanded.

"That's not important. Nor is the amount of work I went through to reach this point. All that matters is you're all fighting for pointless, premature reasons."

"Says a little tyke who's walkin' around in her jammies!" another male yelled.

MaKayla's eyes furrowed. "This war originated 100 years ago when the Kateenian President insulted the Glomourian Queen, was it not? But I'm sorry to say your history books aren't entirely accurate. Take a look at this hologram recording of the infamous squabble that led to this war." She held up a small device that projected a large holographic screen, showing the Glomourian and Kateenian rulers at a table in the council's cafeteria.

"You expect me to believe you can finish a whole Cornwolfos in 2 minutes?" the Queen questioned.

"Sure I can!" declared the president proudly. "When I was a kid, I was the Cornwolfos King!"

"Kateenia-sized or NORMAL?"

"Normal, doy! My stomach's bigger than it looks."

"Pssh, you don't look like you can swallow a CRUMB!"

"What does THAT mean?"

"I'm saying you just don't have the stomach as we Glomourians do." She poked his belly. "No offense, I'm just saying. I mean, you'd just explode if you tried to swallow that much meat."

"I'm made of way more meat than YOU are! I could gobble you whole!"

"Did you forget who you're talking to? My people are all part of a line of fierce, bloodthirsty warriors who've slayed many under our might. I'll turn you into unsatisfactory meat." She smirked cockily.

"Yeah, yeah, you're all a bunch of big brutes, but you don't have the BRAINS we Kateenians possess!" snapped the president. "On a scale of 1-1000, your IQ is ZILCH!"

"I'd love to hear you say that as a squished blotch under my SANDAL."

"I'll crawl into your brain and yell it LOUD and clear!"

"I thought we didn't HAVE brains."

"You DON'T. That was a compliment."

"Miss, did you have the prime rib?" a waiter asked MaKayla.

"Yeah-yeah, shhh." She hushed him quickly.

Liaziana and Minksman exchanged weirded glances. "I knew it!!" a Glomourian yelled. "Those little rats started the fight!"

"Are you kidding, it was CLEARLY you ugly apes!" a Kateenian retorted. Both sides engaged in arguing, until-

"HEEEEY!" They looked at MaKayla again. "Look… it's true that both rulers squabbled a lot, but they weren't trying to insult the other's race. The reason they squabbled a lot… was because they're lifelong friends and rivals!"

"HUUUUH?" both sides screamed.

"Here are pictures from their childhood depicting fun times together." MaKayla said as she flipped several screenshots of the young queen and president eating food together and engaging in little contests. "Their parents attended meetings at Galactic Council, so that's when they interacted. And they kept doing so after they inherited their respective thrones."

"What kind of government does Kateenia have, anyway?" Aurora asked Vweeb.

"They have a constitutional democracy."

"Tsk-tsk." Vanellope winked at this.

"They eventually found feelings for each other," MaKayla continued, "and they arranged a private wedding on Naboo. Council rules forbidded members from marrying one-another, so they never knew. One day, the queen got pregnant with twin kids, and their secret would be revealed once they were born. So the queen entrusted the throne to her trusted sister, and the president gave his office to his brother. The couple eloped to a resort on Aquaria and had a private doctor help deliver their kids. One was a Glomourian girl and the other was a tiny Kateenian boy. And they held the same skin colors as their races. So both rulers had the children brought to their respective relatives to raise. And in time, those children became rulers, and the Arkhasemia and Iyptonocuo lines continued to this day."

There were murmurs of confusion and amazement among the crowd. But after absorbing this, Lia's and Minksman's eyes widened. "Wait! So me and him…" Lia looked at Minks.

"Her and I…" Minks looked at Lia.

"ARE COUSINS?!?"

"Yep! Enjoy your reunions!" MaKayla beamed.

The leaders' mouths were wide open in shock. "…I'm not speaking to you." Lia turned away with folded arms and a grumpy face.

"Ditto."

"But how did the war get started if they were just friends?" a Kateenian asked.

"Rumors." MaKayla answered simply. "Some people witnessed their playful-rival conversations and contests, but believed those harmless 'insults' were really meant to offend their race. The rumors spread across their planets and they became part of the history books. Eventually the ultimate feud started."

"But… does that mean-" a Glomourian started.

"You've all been fighting for nothing!" MaKayla said with a bright smile.

"…" The armies fell dead silent.

DOIIIIING. The Glomourians remembered all the children they sent to kill Kateenians.

DOIIIIING. The Kateenians remembered polluting the Glomourians' water.

DOIIIIING. Sector V and Team Nebula was just totally speechless.

"…" The thousands of soldiers dropped in an anime falling style.

"I hereby call this war a draw!" Vanellope exclaimed, sticking a white flag in the center of the field.

"But how in the world did that girl know all of this?" The president asked.

"I just do a LOOOOT of research!" MaKayla replied simply.

"Well, if that's all over, I guess we have unfinished business." Aurora smiled.

The Glomourian Queen and Kateenian President approached each other as the former spoke first. "In light of all that's happened, and not wanting to get wailed on by those crazy freaks again… I'm sorry." She held a hand out.

"Apology accepted!" he smiled and took it. "Cous!"

"Hoo, what a relief!" Nebula sighed.

With that, Queen Zaádéadia and President Linkynidynkinwashi pulled out their Dimensional Fragment pieces, with Linkyn using a grow ray to make his piece normal size again. The two halves united and became one again. Afterwards, the queen picked it up and presented it to Nebula. "My daughter said you needed this. And you… did sort of help us unite our two races."

Nebula smiled and took the purple gem. "Thank you."

"I guess me and Ava will be planning that trip to our homeworlds." Kweeb said, nudging his wife's neck.

"We'll make it the first thing after Tachyon gets defeated."

"Good, give us some time!" Makava replied. "That'll give us something to look forward to after kicking his butt!"

"Then it's time we be on our way." Nebula nodded. "And YOU have some explaining to do." She told MaKayla. "Now play nice, you all!" The heroes returned to their ships and left the two shock-fallen armies, with Lia and Minksman still grumpily facing away from each other.

"…You will never be my equal." Lia stated.

"Way ahead of you." Minks said. "…Cornwolfos-eating contest?"

Lia sent him flying with a mighty kick and ran off. "BEATCHA THERE!!"

John Fett and Aurorra Bane recovered and watched the reconciling from behind a slope. "Well-p, that ends that plan." Aurorra said.

"Yep. Sucks, huh?"

"'Guess we better report back to the leader. But listen man, we gonna fight together, you need a better fusion weapon."

"Yeah, yeah…"