Star Command

Chapter 10: Another chase in outer space

Booster charges into the space rangers and LGMs, and they fall down like bowling pins.

Booster (while runnning): YAHOO!!!

Buzz: To the Launch Bay!

The sliding doors open as they run, then Mira fires her laser at the doors to melt them together.

Buzz: Good work, people.

XR: And robot?

Buzz: And robot.

Buzz, Mira, XR, and Booster head for Buzz's Star Cruiser, and blast off into space.

Commander Nebula (Zurg's voice): Lightyear must not escape!

Mira: If Zurg has taken over every mind on Star Command, that means we're the only space rangers left.

Booster (worried): What do we do?

Buzz: We've got to take the battle to Zurg.

XR (while pushing buttons): No need, he's bringing it to us!

Meanwhile every Star Command spacecraft is out to kill Buzz and his crew. Back inside of Buzz's ship, Booster watches a computer screen, showing the enemy ships coming in.

Booster (worried): Oh! I got a lot of red lights blinking over here.

Buzz: I don't need those lights to tell us we're in trouble.

The ship gets hit and the room vibrates. Outside, red laser beams fire at Buzz's Star Cruiser. Buzz tilts the control stick right, causing the ship to do a dodge roll.

Mira (amazed): I had no idea a Star Cruiser could pull a move like that!

Buzz: And neither did Zurg.

The Star Cruiser takes another hit, Commander Nebula and a group of other possessed space rangers were flying through orbit with their wings open.

Commander Nebula (Zurg's voice; while flying): I'll make a note of it.

Mira: (looks at her window) We're surrounded!

XR (while pushing buttons): You know, the guy's an evil genius, and the best he can come up with is a ventriloquist act. What's next? Evil juggling?

Commander Nebula (Zurg's voice; while flying): Farewell, Lightyear!

Commander Nebula and the space rangers fly away from the window's view.

Mira: They're retreating.

Buzz: But why?

XR: Obviously, my cosmic tongue cut them to the quick.

Booster (worried): (notices his screen all green) I'm getting a funny energy reading.

Buzz: Mira, check the hull.

Mira jumps up through the ceiling with her ghosting powers, then looks around until she sees a bomb blinking.

Mira (alarmed): (lands back in her seat) We've got a bomb!

XR and Booster (scared): A BOMB!?

Buzz (smirking): Perfect.

Commander Nebula (Zurg's voice; while hovering): At last. For too long, Lightyear has hounded me.

From a distance, Buzz's Star Cruiser blows up.

Commander Nebula (Zurg's voice; while hovering): But no more.

As the ship pieces scatter in orbit, Commander Nebula and the other space rangers evilly laugh in Zurg's voice and fly away with their jetpacks. What they don't know, however, is that Buzz and his crew boarded the Alpha-1 shortly before the explosion. Buzz narrates while piloting the Alpha-1 from behind a broken fin.

Buzz (narrating): Buzz Lightyear mission log, by launching the Alpha-1 at the precise moment of detonation, Zurg believes us to be destroyed. I feel I must pause for a moment of silence in honor of my ship.

An outer ship reveals Mira, Booster, and XR cramped from behind Buzz.

XR: Oh, please, Buzz! It was just a hunk of metal.

Mira: Okay, and you are?

XR (misunderstanding Mira): In serious need of some personal space.

Booster: So, Buzz, did Zurg win?

Buzz: Not a chance, Booster. I've got Zurg right where I want him.

XR: Yeah, well, wherever he is, I bet he's got legroom.

Buzz: As long as Zurg thinks I'm dead he won't be looking for me, and that gives me...the advantage.

Buzz tilts the ship away and it flies further and further away.