The 4 men stare in horror at the man-less mask in Ubadn's hands.
"We hardly knew you, but you drove us to destiny in your love machine." Mumutits blubbered sadly. "We don't know if he's dead yet! Laurence is he dead!?" Bodur asked in panic. Instead of answering, Laurence covered both their mouths and shushed them. He cocked his head to listen intensely for something. In the distance, he could hear the familiar clashing and thumping of drums...of Sloar The Insatiable. He removed his hands from Mumutits and Bodur's mouths and pointed in the direction of the sound. "This way." he whispered.
The men bounded and swam through the moon air, trusting him. Those stupid astronaut zombies, after being knocked over by Bodur's Tornado Moon Waltz, were still getting back up and following them from a distance. Don't you hate when zombies keep getting back up? Just stay dead!
"Strange...the noise isn't moving. It's stationary." Laurence whispered. Soon, the other men could hear the drums too, and gasped in silent horror. The four masks popped up one by one behind the lip of a crater, and down below, to their amazement and relief, their friend Captain No was beating the absolute hell out of Sloar The Insatiable in the best way possible--with a pair of drumsticks.
They gawked at the sweat floating away from the shirtless man's muscles, seeing his handsome bearded face and wild curls free and unhidden from his mask. They called to him and cheered, clapping from atop the crater. Captain No looked up and saw them, not stopping his intense drumming session. He smirked up at them, doing funny drum tricks to show off. He beat Sloar with one stick, while switching between combing his hair and slapping Sloar with the other stick. He finished off his session by doing a handstand on top of Sloar, then catapulting himself out of the crater to land by his friends.
He took a bow as the masked men clapped and whistled. Ubadn gave him back his mask, which he proudly slipped back on. "Does this mean we're officially a band now?" Laurence called up to the void of space, at his father.
"On Earth, you would have passed 24 hours, so I brought you to the Moon to buy you some time, and get those cool drums. What's a metal band without demon drums?" said Charon from beyond.
"...D...dad...?" Laurence stammered with emotion, a whole octave above his usual bored voice. But then he quickly shook it off. "Wait what about the zombies? They were trying to kill us!" he shouted at his dad.
"I just wanted to see my son collect the dead one last time while he chased his dreams." Charon sadly replied.
Although this was a beautiful emotional father-son-moment, there were still zombies to kill a second time, and Sloar was waking up and clashing and thumping his way out of the crater. "Hold that thought, dad!" Laurence called up to the sky as he joined his band.
"Hmm...Dad..." Charon sighed happily.
Captain No was kinda tired, but he agreed to beat up Sloar again, while Udabn force-fed the gaping drum beast's mouth with astronaut zombies one-by-one. "Let's see how Insatiable you really are!" Bodur mocked the beast, causing it to stir. Captain No gave Sloar a good whack, keeping him in place.
It took a while, but each astronaut zombie was fed to Sloar The Insatiable. Laurence collected every soul, his pockets how bursting with life(?). He unleashed every soul into the void, giving them as offerings to his father Charon. The sewer rats, the random man in a tie, as well as these astronauts who apparently died on the moon. The small white rock was now at peace once more. Only Cojum Dip remained.
"So uh...how do we get back to Earth?" Udabn finally broke the silence.
