Growing Emotions

Chapter 7: Finding a Surprise

(Three days later, somewhere in deep space)

The World Eater was just floating there doing nothing.

But within Sylvia who was now labeled as Captain by Deandra is walking down the hallway headed towards the Ships Fueling room.

Sylvia is a Zbornak who takes interest in different classes of space travel cruisers and being the one to captain the World Eater was a true honor and probably the one moment she was always after. Though the name is not quite what she was expecting, just imagine this. Captain Sylvia of Zbor! Captain of the World Eater!

Yeah, they think the ship needs a new name.

She enters the room and sees four small Dom-Bots and two large Dom-Bots dropping asteroids and meteorites into the smelting vat to be recycled as Volcanium X. "Greeting Captain Sylvia!"

Sylvia smirks. "Alright Bot 77, report."

"We have managed to obtain two hundred fifty thousand and three hundred asteroids and meteorites from the nearby unknown system of Serathulious! Many of these Asteroids and Meteorites contain Seventy Five to Eighty Eight Percent Traces of Volcanium X!"

Sylvia drops her check board. "Wait what? Really?"

"Affirmative!"

Sylvia was now confused. "Weird, normally we just snag floating rocks that only contain thirty four to fifty percent traces. This is getting unnerving, I'm gonna have to go and ask D."

She the picks up her check board. "Keep up the good work bots." She then leaves the room.

"Yes Captain Sylvia!"

Sylvia then goes down the hallway and passes by many Dom-Bots, some of them in different colors, mostly black, green, blue and orange.

It has been three days and everything has changed inside of the World Eater.

For starters the massive planet killing drill hasn't been used in a long while, the Bots onboard have been given some repaint courtesy of Wander just to keep track of each class of Dom-not, seriously?! And the trio's new crusade across the galaxy has been very successful.

They have saved ten planets that were being invaded and/or about to get destroyed and through that Dominator has been seen as a hero instead of being a villain.

They have had a few run-ins with a few villains, but thanks to the same 'Puppy Names' tactic, they have been sending them packing up and leaving.

They are still worried about Lord Hater, it was said that they both have a bounty, but the cost was something they had no clue about and likewise they don't care.

Heck even other aliens don't care. They only feel safer with Lord Dominator now changed, even though she was responsible for the destruction of one hundred and ten planets. They know from the words of Wander, that she was just misguided and misunderstood. All that matters is that she no longer destroys any more planets.

Some of the people across the galaxy have already figured out what was also really happening, they're Wandering Star Nomad was in love with the former villain. Even though this seems weird and many guys would be jealous. All of the galaxy was just happy that Wander found love and is changing her for the better.

And we are back to the present!

Within the hangar of the World Eater, all of the Dom-Ships are all shutdown and a picnic blanket is set up and the duo enjoying this alone time is none other than the new power couple of the Galaxy, Wander and Lord Dominator (Deandra). Or what many of the aliens call them "DeathStar!"

And they have changed their looks.

Wander is now wearing a small green bow tie and black laced shoes.

Deandra is wearing a black sleeveless shirt with her signature melting red heart in the middle and black jean shorts and her casual sneakers.

But when they're not being casual and when they go to other planets.

Wander dons a green and yellow scarf, black fingerless gloves and his normal sneakers.

Dominator would wear her usual armor or her black armored top, yellow gloves with helmet and black jeans and red sweater tied to her waist and of course her signature sneakers.

Wander strums onto his banjo and sings a nice tune and Deandra is just lying on his lap listening to his serenating song.

Then they both hear someone coughing, Wander and Deandra both look to see it was Sylvia. "Is this a bad time?"

Wander and Deandra chuckle. "Not at all pal."

"So, what's the problem captain" Deandra teases.

Sylvia also chuckles at her joke. "Well, some of the bots have returned from collecting some asteroids and meteorites and they seem to contain more Volcanium X than normal."

This shocked both Wander and Deandra.

"What? Are you sure?" asked Deandra.

Sylvia nods. "I am."

Wander then gets worried. "Could they have been from some poor planet that was destroyed?"

Deandra was also getting worried. "I don't know if these asteroids were from one of the planets I destroyed." She then looks to Sylvia again. "Where were these rocks located? What system?"

"Bot 77 reported them from the Serathulious system" replied Sylvia. "I've never heard of the place and I'm surprised the bots have."

Deandra was curious. "I have no clue where that is."

"I do!" replied Wander.

Both ladies look towards the Star Nomad. "What?!"

Wander realizes. "So, you two have never heard of it?"

They both shook their heads slowly.

"Well, I did some modifications to the scout bots and made sure they got all of the information of some places I've been. But I never knew some of the places I went to were unknown to either of you" replied Wander.

Sylvia and Deandra look at each other and then back to Wander. "Show us this system."

Though Wander seemed nervous. "I don't know, you gals probably won't like what you see there."

"Wander, I've fought a lot of bad guys just to save everyone and yourself" said Sylvia.

"I've dealt with more horrific things and I myself am a terrifying force to villains" replied Deandra.

Wander sighs. "Alright then." He then looks towards one of the Dom-Bots. "Please set a course to the Serathulious System."

"Affirmative Lord Wander!" the Dom-Bot then heads towards the bridge.

Wander chuckles and looks to his tall green lover. "Was that really necessary to have them call me that?"

Deandra picks up Wander and kisses his cheek. "Well I am the Lord of this ship and since you and I are official, so are you."

Wander blushes and Sylvia chuckles at this.

(Later, Serathulious system)

The World Eater jumps out of light speed and makes it to its destination and the trio in the ship are shocked to what they see.

An entire Solar System decimated. Nothing left but orbiting asteroids and meteorites and a massive Red Giant Star in the center of the cataclysm.

"What in the heck happened here?" asked Sylvia.

"What … How ….. Where has this place been?!" said Deandra.

Wander sighs. "That's what I was wonderin' when I first came here."

They both look towards Wander and gasp. "Wait what?!"

Wander looks to them with a sad expression. "It's true. When I first came to this galaxy this was the first system I ran into. But in my deepest mind it was horrific, though I do not recall the red star in the middle. Maybe I just didn't see it when I got here."

He then spots a planet that seemed intact but devoid of all life. "Yup, that's the planet I landed on. I thought there could have been at least some people on it, but when I landed and searched. There was no one there."

They saw just how sad Wander was to see this place. Then Deandra gets an idea, she did do some modifications to her bots. "Bots! Scan the system, what the heck happened?"

The Dom-bot scouts fly out of the world eater and scan the entire solar system.

Sylvia was confused. "Umm, D. what are you doing?"

Deandra just looks out the window and stares at the red star. "Last week I came up with a new scanning system that will allow my scout bots to scan an area of anything. Life, temperature, population, threat level and history. Even the tiniest things can hold something that was left behind."

Wander and Sylvia didn't know if this was impressive or just plain violation of privacy. But they wanted to know what happened to this Solar System.

Soon all of the scout bots make it back to the world eater. "Alright, what happened here?" asked Sylvia.

Bot 201 steps up. "This Solar System has been dead for twenty years, it appears that a war was waged and sparked an all-out planetary conflict between all of the civilizations that have resided here. Estimated number of planets: eleven."

Wander was now feeling concerned. "Golly, that sure sounds terrible."

"I'll say" replied Sylvia.

Deandra sighs. "Alright, what caused all of this to go dead?"

Bot 54 steps up. "During the conflict an unknown fleet entered the system with a mighty super weapon of planetary proportions. The leader of the fleet and super weapon tried to negotiate in stopping the conflict but they refused and continued they're war and threatened this new faction to leave. Seeing no chance to stop this and in order to ensure that the rest of this galaxy does not fall into the same war. The Super Weapon was fired, unleashing a massive blast that strikes their star, therefore causing is to go Super Nova and becoming a Red giant. Any remaining life was completely desecrated, no one survived."

All three of them had they're jaws agape.

"Someone came and blew up the place?" said Sylvia.

"A planet sized Super Weapon?!" yelled Deandra.

Wander remains silent. Then he looks to the scout bots. "Please, is there any information on what this faction was?"

Bot 321 come to him. "Negative. There are no records of a faction that exists in this galaxy, after the destruction of the solar system all of them made the jump to hyper space and never came back. They left no trace of who they are."

And now it was even more startling.

"This sounds bad right?" asked Sylvia.

Deandra was at a loss for words. "I-I don't know Syl. I've never even heard of this faction before and whoever led them must've been very powerful. I'm afraid more powerful than me."

Wander just looks out the window and sees all of the Asteroids and the empty planet and gets an idea. He turns around and looks to all of the Dom-bots. "Bots, we're setting up an outpost here."

Sylvia and Deandra look to hi confused. "What?"

"This system, we could use this. Since finding fuel is not easy we should at least gain some benefit from this place. Each asteroid contains Volcanium X, we can extract them and come back here to refuel."

Deandra was now getting to where he was going. "And the outpost is to act as the refueling docking bay! Genius! That's awesome Wander!"

But then she sees him look towards the shattered System. Even Sylvia notices this.

"Are you sure buddy?" asked Sylvia.

Wander sighs. "Whoever destroyed this, did us all a favor."

They all gasped.

Wander looks to the two girls. "Think about it. If this person never destroyed everything here than this war could've spread to the other planets across the galaxy. Even though there were some innocent people here, they were all devoted to winning and that makes them all filled with wrath and pride. Too much pride."

They didn't expect Wander to say these words, but they could see he was serious.

"Okay Wander. We're going with your plan my orange furry sweetie pie" replied Deandra.

"All the way buddy" said Sylvia.

They all look to the distance as the bots all deploy from the World Eater and start constructing the outpost.

Deandra knew she still had a long way to gain the forgiveness and trust of the entire galaxy, but she was not gonna stop and with Wander and Sylvia by her side, she believes that there is still hope for her.

But one thing was on her mind. 'What about all of the planets I destroyed?'

The End. For now.

And there you all have it, my reworked version of Chapter 7 of Growing Emotions. It took me three days to finish all of the reworked chapters and I felt as if I was on a roll.

I would like to thank all of you for reading my original version of this and for all the support as well and to Dr. Indigo who inspired me to forge this story, both the original and the rework.

If you guys have any idea on a new chapter please PM me. Also try and figure out who this mysterious faction is. I'll give you a hint: Read my story Spells and Louds.

I am Heavy6Commando, until next time my WoY DeathStar readers. Leave a review and tell me what you all think!