Sacrifice

Who Exactly is the Lord Commander?

The Lord Commander had gone off into his chambers.  The ship was still heading back to his main planet, and in the morning Gary had to take him to the "key" that didn't even exist.  While the henchmen were dragging Gary to his cell, he looked along the walls of the ship.  He saw the Lord Commander standing on people.  For a short guy, he sure did put people under his foot.  He saw a few more with the Lord Commander yelling, and some others.  He was a fan of black, definitely.  It was also cold.  Very, very cold inside of this ship.

"So...you guys known each other long?" he asked the guards.  They grunted and drug him around the corner to a dark cell.  Tossing him in onto the cold floor, they slammed the doors shut, leaving him alone.  

Gary pulled himself up alongside the wall, sighing.  The only light in the room was the light being given off from the collar around his neck.  Sometimes he thought these things were a bit...kinky...but not this time.

He missed Quinn.  He missed Mooncake, and Lil Cato.  He missed Hue.  But they were all safe, and hopefully flying as fast as possible away from this evil creature.  Gary wanted to go with them oh so bad, but he had no other choice during the moment.  They were going to kill Quinn and take Mooncake.  Gary would rather die then let that happen.  But he took the next best option, and decided to lie.  He knew the Lord Commander would soon find out, but he wanted to stall as long as possible.

Suddenly, heavy breathing could be heard.  Gary's eyes widened as he looked up to see the Lord Commander standing there at the door, staring at him.

"Oh....Um..Hey." Gary stuttered.

"The Gary, even though your John Goodspeed's son, you're nothing like him." he said. "You're dumb, pathetic, caring, emotional...All signs that you are weak." he said.  Gary didn't respond. The older man's voice creaked, and the ship walls around them made cracking noises as it flew through space.

"But this means you might be perfect...Maybe it is a good thing that I took you." he said.

"What do you mean?" asked Gary.

"I used to be an Infinity Guard myself.  I used to get all the women, all the fame and fortune.  And your dad was my best friend." he spoke, looking as if into the distance.

"I know.  We beat you up in a dream, time travel, thingy that I had." said Gary.

"Anyway....But he always got it more.  He was always one step ahead, always better than me.  No one looked at me hardly once he was in the picture.  Until that one day when we had to close the breach in the rift..."

Gary's fist clenched.

"I watched him die.  But the blast got me too.  My face was nearly blown off...When I got back, everyone hated me for letting John die.  I tried telling them that he did it on his own.  But no.  And eventually, I grew sick.  And sicker.  But this rift, oh I had been studying this rift for a long time.  I learned that when it exploded, a little creature came out.  Your Mooncake.." 

"Leave Mooncake alone..." Gary hissed.

"Well, he is the key to opening Final Space back up.  And once opened, I can reach eternal life.  I can reach everything.  Everything will fall into Final Space.  The end of life as we know it.  But maybe life in a different form.  You wait and see, it'll be great." smiled the Lord Commander.

"I'll see nothing."

"Oh you will.  What you think of it might be different though."

"Why?"

"I know you're lying." hissed the Commander, his face turning into a scowl.

Gary's heart nearly stopped.

"W-Whaaat?  Why would I lie?" he asked.

"Please?  A second key?  No.  But I thought this was a fun game.  I love games." he smiled creepily.

"What..What are you going to do?" asked Gary worriedly.

The Commander's collar blinked, and Gary's collar electrocuted him.  Gary let out a yelp, but tried to contain it.  He couldn't let the Lord Commander get what he wanted.  And what he wanted was to hear him cry in pain.

"Quinn...Oh God Quinn..Please help me..." he thought as another electric spasm was sent through his body.

"Once my ship arrives back on my planet, you're going to be rearranged." said the Lord Commander, sending one more electric shock through Gary.

"W-What does that even mean!?" asked Gary, gasping for air.

"I have a plan.  Like I said, I like games." he shrugged. "Your friends run from me, but they don't run from you.  What if Mooncake just flew right into your hands and you brought him to me?  Easy." he laughed.

"Except I'd never do that." argued Gary.  He coughed, his bangs falling over his face.

"Unless you didn't have a choice what you did." said the Lord Commander, before he left around the corner.  Gary sighed, rubbing his neck.

"What did he mean by that?" he wondered.

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Quinn pressed buttons on the Galaxy One, attempting to navigate.  Hue helped.

"We have to find the ship.  Who knows what the Lord Commander has already done to Gary?" she said worriedly.

"I'm trying to track them.  I may have found something." said Hue.

"Anything." said Quinn.

"Chookity..." cried Mooncake. "Chookity Pok!" he cried louder.

"Mooncake please!  We're trying the best we can!" shouted Quinn, the little green alien flying over her head.

"I have a signal on the ship.  Do you want to follow?" asked Hue.

"Yes."

"You know, this will result in more conflict.  I want to save Gary, but we may end up getting ourselves and Gary killed." he replied.

"We have to risk it.  We can't leave him like that.  Gary's our friend..I...I can't lose him." said Quinn quietly.

"Chookity!" cried Mooncake.

"Yeah.  We're going to save him." smiled Quinn, patting Mooncake on the head.  Quinn tried to comfort the creature, even though deep inside she was weary.  This little alien was the whole reason any of this was even happening.  So many had died over Mooncake.  She would let him go easily.  Or  at least she would find a place for him to be protected.  But no.  Gary loved him.  And so she dealt with it.  Plus, Mooncake was cute.