Rex realizes that perhaps he was wrong about his friends abandoning him in favor of life on Systar, so he decides to do some investigating.
What he finds out may be even worse than what he originally believed.
They finished rebuilding the spacecraft. It still had some of Rex's signature dark blue and bright green, but mixed in with black, sky blue, and red, it wasn't immediately recognizable as something of his anymore. He had to admit, the three of them really did work well together; the new ship was sleek, built for speed and stealth. Emmet crawled into one of the passenger seats in the back, and Lucy scooted in next to him, leaving Bad Cop as Rex's copilot. Which suited him fine, really, Emmet was next to useless and having Lucy sit next to him was... well, he may have decided not to be mad at his old friends anymore, but it was still awkward.
"So do we have a plan for stopping the wedding yet?" Lucy asked.
"...We hadn't gotten that far," Emmet admitted.
"Well one way to do it would be to stop construction of the Temple-" Rex started.
"We're not destroying it, Rex," Emmet interrupted. "That's what causes Armomageddon, and we don't want that." Lucy gave him a surprised look at how forcefully his words had come out.
"Aw, shit."
Emmet gave Rex a startled look. "What?"
"We've got someone on our tail," Bad Cop said, taking notice of the ship behind them as well.
"Buckle up!" Rex commanded. Emmet hastened to obey, knowing full well how his counterpart flew, and watched wide-eyed as a black and gold cruiser drew near and started firing on them.
"Who is that?!" the construction worker yelped.
"I saw that ship not too long ago, it landed at the spa and the two people in it talked to the General," Lucy said, scowling in its direction.
"Mayhem's two best scouts, Havoc and Discord," Rex muttered, concentrating on evasive maneuvers. "They must have figured out I'm here, and they do not like me. Thought we'd have a little longer before they found us, though!"
"Anything I can do to help?" Bad Cop asked.
"Yeah get ready to shoot, I'm gonna try to get you lined up-"
Lucy could only stare in amazement at the aerobatics Rex put their ship through before finally shooting straight up in such a way even the Systarian ship couldn't keep up with, and looping back so they were pointed right at it. Bad Cop took the opportunity and fired, managing to shoot off an aileron. The space orb wobbled a bit, but whoever was flying was easily as good a pilot as Rex, and they shot back. Lucy barely had time to gasp out a curse before the shot hit their ship, shattering it and scattering its occupants.
She flew helplessly through space, and realized with no small amount of wonder that she could still breathe. She barely had time to ponder that before the pod popped open to allow a figure in black armor to exit, and they flew straight for her. Unarmed and unable to control her flight path, she had no choice but to submit to capture.
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