Y/N POV:

I don't know how much time has passed. All I can pay attention to is the naked and beautiful Lucy sitting on me. She smokes from her pipe and looks at the violet light coming from the window before turning her attention to Y/N.

Lucy: So, I guess you'll be going after Nippulon next.

Y/N: It's him, then Garmantuous. I have to do this. Or else Earth will be history.

Lucy: Well, I'm coming with you.

Y/N: Really?

Lucy: If you have even the slightest chance of killing the G3's leader, then I have to help you with it. Just, promise me that you won't push yourself too far.

Y/N: I will.

Lucy: And, though I will support your desire to be a bounty hunter, promise me you'll use the money to invest in things and use it efficiently. That way you can live an easy life. One of luxury.

Y/N: I promise. But I won't be moving anywhere else. If anything, I'm going to make renovations to the house.

Lucy: That's fine by me.

Lucy lays down on my chest and kisses me.

8 hours later

I wake up and find myself smothered in Lucy's chest with her wrapping her arms and legs around my body. I just smile and gently move her off of me before getting out of bed. I put the covers and her and put my clothes back on. I then go into the closet to put on my bounty suit and grab Kenny and the others before heading to the living room.

Gene: Well, look who finally decided to wake up. Y'know how late it is? Because I don't. There's no sun on this dead rock of a planet. By the way, I got you a little somethin'-somethin'. A new suit upgrade! Extra overshield. You're welcome.

I see a box on the table and open it up to see a new bounty suit. I put it on and already feel powerful.

Kenny: So, we got any new information on the next bounty?

Gene: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Clugg just sent over the data on Nipulon.

Lucy then enters with her bounty suit.

Gene: And the Vorpal Rabbit returns. I meant that in the nicest way possible.

Lucy: I'm aware.

Gene: Good thing too. You're not going to like where Nipulon is: He's on Guilst.

Kenny: Oh God!

Gus: You kidding me?

Sweezy: No fuckin' way!

Creature: Is that place bad.

Gene: It's where all the biggest, baddest, most vile criminals in the Galaxy hang out. It's the headquarters to the most powerful Syndicate. But Nipulon just runs a drug lounge there. You all can head out while I fix Lezduit. Did you, uh, know how much firepower this guy's packin'? He's gotta be at least 10 times as powerful as any of you other Gatlians.

Kenny: Wait... youo really think you're gonna be able to fix him?

Gene: Yeah! Yeah, I'll probably have him all patched up by the time you get back.

Kenny: Y-you're serious? Th-that soon?

Gene: Yeah! Don't worry about it, kid. Your friend's gonna be just fine. Ole' Papa Gene watched a bunch of GooTube tutorials and now he knows his way around cybernetics!

Kenny: Th-that's great! It's, uh, it's just...

Gene: What? You don't sound too happy. You know how ahrd I've been workin' to save this guy?

Kenny: Fuck. Whew, okay... I guess it's now or never, Y/N... Can ya set the other guns on the table for me? Real quick?

Kenny: Hey, everybody. I-I need to come clean about something.

Gus: Spit it out!

Sweezy: Yeah, Spit it out!

Kenny: Ugh, might as well, even if it means you guys hate me.

Gus: We don't have secrets! We're family!

Sweezy: Well, hold on. I might decide to hate him

Creature: It's okay Kenny, you can tell us.

Gene: Oh, just fuckin' say it!

Kenny: Okay, fine. If you don't hear it from me, you're just going to hear it from Lezduit when he wakes up... Okay what if I were to tell you that I'm the reason the G3 invaded Gatlus and enslaved our race?

Gus: Kenny, what the fuck are you saying?

Sweezy: What do you mean?!

Creature: Kenny, come on. That's not true, right?

Kenny: Kay, well there's... no, there's more to the story than just a--

Sweezy: Oh, fuck, he's scrambling for words. It really is true... He really did cause the downfall of our civilization.

Gus: Kenny, how?! That doesn't even make sense. How can it be your fault?

Kenny: I left Gatlus before the G3 invaded.

Gus: But- but how could that be possible? We didn't even have interstellar travel on Gatlus yet.

Kenny: I ran into an alien smuggler who crashed his ship on our planet and... I was nowhere! And he took me with him on all these adventures and it was supposed to be, y'know, this fun, awesome thing and... but then we got mixed up doin' the wrong job with the wrong crowd, Garmantuous and the G3. And I accidentally led them right to Gatlus. It all happened so fast. I thought they killed Lezduit! I... I told him everything as I watched the light leave his eyes... I didn't know back then. I didn't know what I did would lead to all of this!

Gus: You mean you didn't think you'd ever have to tell us the truth!

Kenny: No! N-no, that's not it! I-I--

Sweezy: (Sigh) This is all sorts of fucked up, Kenny.

Creature: I don't even know what to say.

Gene: See? I'm no the biggest fuck-up here!

Lucy: Not now Gene.

Kenny: Everyone, please... I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! I didn't now what I was doing? I didn't think it would lead to all of this!

Sweezy: You didn't think that helping a smuggler get off our planet would lead to the deaths of everyone we loved?!

Kenny: I see how stupid it was! I really do!

Creature: Don't fight! I'm sure we can all figure this out.

Gus: No, Creature! He can't just drop that bomb on us and expect everything to be the same!

Keeny: I'm sorry!

Gene: Look, I hate to be this guy, but we're runnin' outta time. Nipulon may not stay where he is for long, so... I know thing's aren't... ideal, but uh...

Gus: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll finish the job.

Sweezy: And the you're out of out lives, Kenny.

Creature: Come on, Sweezy, you don't mean that...

Gene: Enough! Just pull yourselves together for this mission, at least. You're professionals! You're bounty hunters! Act like it!

Kenny: Mmhmm...

Gus: Fine.

Sweezy: Hmph.

Creature: Okay, yeah.

Gene: Gather everyone up. It's time to get back on track. As I said, Nipulon just flew back to his drug lounge on Guilst, so we gotta strike now. Can you handle that?

Y/N: Yes.

I grab the other Gatlians and go to the Bounty 5K. I select Nipulon's bounty and initiate it. The portal door opens and I go through it with Lucy. I find myself on Guilst, the planet controlled by crime. The planet lacks a sun here too, indicating how bad it is. I see a tall building that literally has a giant Neon sign that says "Nipulon's Drug Lounge" on it.

Y/N: Well, we don't need to worry about finding were it is.

Lucy: And the amount of criminals here means that there are no Merks needed to guard the place.

Kenny: Okay, we just need to get into Nipulon's Lounge. Let's try--

Sweezy: Can it traitor! We'll handle this one. We don't want you sellin' us out.

Gus: Kenny. do us all a favor and sit this one out.

Creature: Hey! Stop fighting! I hate it when everyone's fighting! ...We need to talk things over in a healthy way.

Kenny: No, no, no, no, no. NO, NO. We just need to go to a weapons dealer. Her name is Charlie, she has a secret route to Nipulon's lounge for years to sneak in. I was there when I was chipped.

Creature: That's true, we should do that... But I also think we need to have a really fun time at a bar. So let's go to one first, please.

Scarlet: Charlie's weapons it about two miles from here. There's also a bar next to it.

Kenny: Ugh, wahatever. I-it's you to you, Y/N.

Y/N: Let's just get to the places first.

Lucy: Agreed

We come across a bunch of criminals that notice us and pull out their weapons. Lucy easily disaptches them and shows us how much skill she has as a bounty hunter. On the the way to the gun store. Gus and Sweezy do awful impressions about Kenny and what his actions have led to. Although, Creature gives on that's kind of sweet and more acurate. Kenny is trying to fix this and he didn't mean to destroy their civilization.

After fighting and running for 2 miles, we see the bar and gun store in front of us. Since we need a short break, Lucy and I go to the bar. We grab a table and I put the Gatlians on it.

Gus: Okay, Creature, this was your big idea.

Sweezy: What is there to even talk about?

Creature: Thank you everyone for coming today to the inagural "Big Friendship Meeting"! First item on the agenda is.

Kenny: You don't have to do this, Creature.

Creature: No, no, I insist. Kenny doesn't deserve any of this hate, right Y/N? Right Lucy?

Y/N: I don't think he does.

Lucy: I say he should be given a chance.

Kenny: Well, thank you both. But I-I don't know if that's true.

Creature: Yeah, you didn't know what you were doin'!

Sweezy: Just because he's a dumbass doesn't mean he gets off scot-free!

Gus: Yeah, people died. We don't have a home anymore.

Creature: NO! NO! STOP IT! ...I mean... let's be civil here. We're friends.

Gus: Are we!? Most of our friends don't trigger global genocides...

Kenny: Well, I don't know if that's the best way to phrase it...

Sweezy: Oh, yeah? How would you phrase it, then? Lightly assisting a global genocide?

Kenny: I didn't know! I-I didn't know what would happen!

Sweezy: Ugh, fuck off. Like that makes it any better...

Creature: But he's also tryna' stop it! He's tryna' make things right! We all are!

Gus: Not like he has much of a choice. You think he's doing this because it's the right thing to do?

Y/N: Yes, he is.

Kenny: Thank you, Y/N. At least you have my back.

Creature: I have your back too, Kenny!

Gus: But we don't.

Sweezy: We still hate you, Kenny.

Kenny: Creature, this isn't getting us anywhere...

Creature: Nooo, it's going perfectly! It has to be going perfectly otherwise I'll be sad.

Sweezy: Then be sad, Creature. Tough shit. You can just blame Kenny if you want like we're doin'. It's pretty easy.

Gus: Can we just bail on this little group therapy session we got goin' on here, and get back to the bounty? Which is more important!

Kenny: Honestly, I'm right there with ya. Y'know, th-this is a lost cause.

Creature: Nooo, ir's not a lsot cause! Is it, Bounty Hunter?

Y/N: ...Well get past this together.

Creature: YES! We will!

Gus: Look, look: fine. Maybe... MAYBE! But, let's just deal with Nipulon first?, okay? Can we do that?

Kenny: Whatever. A-are we done here? ... Can we go, Y/N?

Y/N: Yeah, let's go.

I grab the Gatlians and leave with Lucy to enter the gun store. I see an alien that is just drinking and smoking. She is also watching something on her computer that has an all too familiar soundtrack playing on it.

Charlie: So you want to get into Nipulon's lounge? You're in luck. There's a bastard that goes there every thursday, and I linked my portal door into on in the upper levels. But let me go first, since I'm a lady. Lady's should always go first.

Y/N: By my guest.

Lucy: Yeah, we need to prepare one small thing real quick.

Charlie: Thank you.

Chalie goes through the portal door first. Scarlet hacks into Nipulon's lounge security feeds and sees Charlie getting gunned down.

Scarlet: She's dead, and the guards have moved from the doors. We can go in.

Y/N: Okay. Ready Lucy

Lucy: Yep.

We go through the portal door and enter the room that it leads to. I also see a screen that lists how many aliens have been using humans as drugs and how many they "Went through". I feel my blood boiling in anger at how they easily throw away so many lives as if they were nothing.

Lucy and I go guns blazing and killing everyone in our path to Nipulon. We aslo find a map showing the location of his office. During the fight to Nipulon, Gus and Sweezy still made it clear about how they hate Kenny due to his actions causing the destruction of everything they cared about, though Creature still stands by him and tries to convince the others that he is sorry and trying to make things right.

Kenny: Maybe Gus and Sweezy are right. May just a big screw up.

Y/N: Yeah, you screwed up real bad. And you're going to fix things big time.

Lucy: Yeah. It's never to late to solve to make this right. And I'm going to tell this to Gene later to show that I am willing to give him one more chance.

We continue making our way to Nipulon and deal with the rest of the guards standing in our way. I fire Kenny's Glob Shot and Lucy rushes in and jumps over the guards, shooting all of them.

Y/N: I thought that move was only possible in games.

Lucy: I've got a lot of things to teach you, Y/N.

We kick open a door and see a long hallway leading straight to Nipulon's office.

Sweezy: Hey, Kenny, you wanna skip the boss fight and just give ourselves to Nipulon? Let him kill your friends for old times' sake?

Kenny: NO!

Gus: Kenny, you do realize why we're made at you, right?

Kenny: I do. I'm sorry. I'm trying to make things right for everyone! I really am!

Sweezy: If you actually manage to do that, maybe, MAYBE, I'll think about talking to you again.

Gus: Let's just stop the G3 and we'll see how it goes from there after.

I run faster to the door and stop to see a sign that says "Nipulon's Office" on it. Scarlet hacks into the door and opens it. We see Nipulon at his desk and ready to fight us.

Nipulon: Well, look who it is! The big, bad Bounty Hunter! Finally paying me a visit. I know a true warrior when I see one. So I'll simply kill you and spare you from the fate Garmantuous wants you to face.

I start shooting Kenny at Nipulon and Lucy takes cover to provide support.

Nipulon: You don't get it, do you? You still think you're the hero? Wrong! You're just a different set from the product...

Y/N: I don't give a damn about villians monologuing. I'm going to end you and murder Garmantuous afterwards!

I fire Gus' discs and Kenny's Glob shot at Nipulon who activates a shield around him after that.

Nipulon: So you really hated drugs, huh? Maybe you just haven't had a taste of how fun drugs can be.

An airborne drug is vented and fills the room.

Y/N: Oh, Crap!

I end up in a hallicination of Blim with Gene on a bench where I first met him.

Nipulon: Ooh, looks like it's really kicking in. Have Fun!

Y/N: Yeah, I've been drugged. Wait, Lucy?! Lucy, where are you?!

Fake Gene: Hey, kid. It's me, normal Gene. Nothing weird or freaky going on. Come over here, I've got somethin' to talk to you about.

Y/N: What is it?

Fake Gene: I've been meaning to ask you. Why are you doing all of this? Don't you get it, kid? There's no hope for you. You're gonna end up just like me. Probably gonna lose you legs, too. I used to be something. Now look at me. Don't fool yourself, kid. This is your future. You're just Gene 2.0 and you're goin' straight down the drain like I did.

Y/N: I'm doing this to save my world and protect my sister. Just because everything else is fucked up, doesn't mean she has to suffer.

Fake Gene: Okay, I can see your point. But still, it might not go well for you at the end. I thought I was invincible. "Bounty hunter" sounds like such a cool job. But really you're just a glorified garbage man workin' freelance to take out the trash for anyone willing to pay. Risking your body. For what, kid? So you can lose your legs, find yoursef all alone with no one to help you pick up the pieces, because you killed everyone you ever met? Does that sound good to you?

Y/N: I didn't kill you when we first met. I didn't kill Lucy, I didn't kill Clugg. And I didn't kill Minerva. And what if I'm a glorified garbageman? As long as I can help someone, that's fine by me. At least I feel like I have a purpose. I may have been on a track team and had above average grades, but I was just someone who was always in the background.

Fake Gene: Heh, I guess I was right to help you become a bounty hunter. And even though you won't be doing this for long, I have a feeling you'll be as good as me soon enough. Alright, get out of this part of your drug trip and move foward to saving the world. See ya later kid.

I see a hole form into the ground and move into it. I fall through a void and hear Nipulon's voice.

Nipulon: So let me get this straight. You're mad humans are just drugs to be shipped around and sold off? Well, that;s how things work, moron. It's the circle of life. We're just making the best of it. be mad at evolution, not us.

Y/N: You invaded my fucking planet and are killing my species! That's not on evolution, that's on you bastards!

Nipulon appears and truns into several versions of himself. Luckily, there's one that doesn't have a shifting color scheme. I fire on that Nipulon and emerge from the void and into another hallucination of Lucy at the park she took us to.

Fake Lucy: Do you really think that you're helping people. Are you sure this isn't all about you. You're running around and killing targets while you're own family is suffering.

Y/N: This is about me saving my species and my family. I'd be lying if I said i didn't like the fame and money I was getting. But that won't mean anything if my family isn't around. And if humanity had any other hope for becoming free, they're not happening anytime soon.

Fake Lucy: That's the path you've chosen huh? I can get behind that. Allow me to be selfish for a minute. I'm the best woman you're ever going to have, so don't let me go.

Y/N: I know, Lucy.

Fake Lucy disappears and I see another hole in the ground that I head for and fall into. But instead of fighting Nipulon again, I end up in a hallucination with my parents in the house's living room. Dad is on his phone while Mom ison the couch and covering herself with blankets while watching anime.

Y/N: Mom? Dad?

Dad: Be honest honest, Y/N. Do you really think we deserve to be saved? I was hardly there for most of your childhood.

Mom: And my recent husband cheated on me, and I went insane. And even before that, I just left you with your dad and hardly took care of my daughter. I'm mostly likely broken beyond repair.

Y/N: Maybe you guys weren't the best parents, but I still believed that you two would come back one day, even if it's not to get back together. It's never too late to set things right.

Dad: ...You're grandparents raised you good. Go kick the ugly alien's ass for us.

Mom: I can't wait to see you with my own eyes again. Stay safe, Son.

The room disappears and end up in an area where the Gatlians are on things that resemble the places I first found them.

Nipulon; How much longer can you hold onto your sanity? It looks like you're having enough trouble juse keeping your little band of hero-guns together.

Kenny: Wh-where did everyone go?

Gus: Y/N, where you at buddy?

Sweezy: Agh, fuck, my head...

Creature: Oh, no! I'm all alone again...

I grab Kenny from his part of the area.

Kenny: Oh my god, you found me! I was freakin' out. I-I was worried. I was worried I'd lost you.

I go to Gus' side of the area and grab him.

Gus: There's my buddy, there we are! I was on the fence for a minute there, but, deep down I knew you wouldn't leave me behind.

I go to Sweezy's side of the area and grab her.

Sweezy: About time! How'd you even manage without me, huh?

I go to Creature's side of the area and grab him.

Creature: Ohh, Y/N! I'm literally so happy to see you again. You have no idea! I was for real freakin' out.

I hole opens up in the center and I go through it with the others. However, we end up in another blank void and are juse floating around.

Sweezy: Oh, great. Another blank void.

Gus: How the hell do we get outta this?

Kenny: I..

Gus: Kenny, Kenny, Kenny! What is it now?

Kenny: I... I don't know.

Creature: Oh, Kenny...

Kenny: I'm sorry guys. I'm so sorry I let everyone down. I-I was selfish and stupid, and I beat myself up for it every single day. And I'm so gald I found all of you, because you've given me reason to live again.

Gus: Oh, Kenny...

Sweezy: Well, don't get all mushy about it...

Kenny: I ju- I just, I just wanna make things right.

Creature: You can! We all can!

Gus: Well, to be honest, I'd given up on everything before you guys came along. Before I found all of you. But now, we're a team, and we're unstoppable.

Sweezy: Godamnit. He's right.

Kenny: ...you, you mean it?

Sweezy: Yeah, dumbass. Y/N is right: You screwed up colossally, so you're going to fix things big time. And we're going to help you.

Creature: Yeah, that sounds good. Everything they just said sounded REALLY good and smart. And it confirmed that Y/N is a genius. I love you all So much. You're the first real family I've ever had. Except for all the little kids I spawned and shoot at bad guys. And the family I probably had before the G3 fucked with my brain and ruined all my memories. Let's do this, Y/N. As a family!

Kenny: Thanks everyone! Let's fuckin' do this!

I end up in the hallway with the Gatlians and end up hallucinating that I'm holding all of them at the same time. The hallway gets longer and more Nipulons appear and I shoot everyone at them.

Nipulon: What are you doin?! You're supposed to be spiraling into darkness! Not growing stronger! This shouldn't be happening! I dosed you with some real dark shit! Most people can't handle this! Stop fighting back! You're supposed to be dirt compared to me!

Y/N: Hard pass, you son of a bitch!

We make our way through the Nipulons and reach the "Main" one. I pull out Knifey, ready to plunge him into our target.

Knifey: YEAH! No mercy for this fucker!

I plunge knifey into Nipulon and everything turns red. I regain my awareness and find myself stabbing Nipulon several times. I then feel someone grab me and pull me away.

Lucy: Y/N! He's dead! You don't have to stab anymore.

Y/N: (Gasping for air) Oh god! What happened?!

Scarlet: Finally, got through to you. You were under the effect of a powerful drug Nipulon dispersed. Luckily, you managed to resist to an extent and killed Nipulon.

Y/N: Wait, Lucy, how where you not affected?

Lucy: I was in a part of the room that got sealed when the drug was vented.

Kenny: At least we're back

Gus: Kenny? I feel bad... a-and I, and I'm sorry

Sweezy: Yeah, yeah. Me too.

Creature: I love you guys

Scarlet: Go to Nipulon's computer, Earth's coordinates have to be on there.

I go to the compter and go through it until I find the coordinates to Earth.

Scarlet: Downloading coordinates. And... We have them.

Knifey: Whew! Ah... okay... Alright, I'm good. Le-let's cut a nipple off. Let's do it.

I go to Nipulon and use Knifey to cut off one of his nipples. I then get a message from Minerva and play it.

Minerva: Bounty hunter, the Interstellar Army was watching your actions on Guilst and have decided to regain their publicity by launching a planetary raid. Get out while you still can.

Scarlet: Interstellar Army ships have surrounded the planet. We best get the hell out of here.

Lucy and I run back to the room where we took the portal door and go through it. We end up back in the gun shop and I use my warp device to open a portal home. Me and Lucy go through and we return as safe as can be. I see Gene and Yuri on the couch and trying to fix Lezduit.

Yuri: Is he suppossed to be sparking like that?

Gene: Yes, it's normal.

Lucy: We're back. And we've killed Nipulon.

Yuri: Awesome! Just one more bad guy to go!

Gene: Great. Turn in that bounty.

I go to the Bounty 5K and turn in Nipulon's DNA. I get my pay and turn to see Lezduit sparking.

Lucy: GENE!

Kenny: Whoa! Be, be, be careful with him!

Yuri: Are you sure that's normal?

Gene: Yes, that's supposed to happen...

Y/N: Are you sure he'll be okay?

Gene: Yes. He'll back back to the world of the living before you know it.

Kenny: Oh, god. I don't know If I'm gonna be able to look him in the eye...

Gene: That's fine! I think we accidentally severed his optic nerves earlier...

Y/N: Oh, this is going to be fun...

Gene: Alright, almost got it... stand back everyone!

Kenny: Here we go.

Lezduit whirs and begins moving.

Kenny: Is he...

Gene: Wait for it...

Lezduit gets up and starts talking.

Lezduit: Lezduit!

Kenny: Lez? Is that you?

Lezduit: Lezduit!

Y/N: Are you okay?

Lezduit: Lezduit!

Gene: Oh... I... might've fucked up his speech centers, too...

Lezduit: Lezduit!

Kenny: Lezduit, talk to me!

Lezduit: Lezduit!

Kenny: So what, all he can say is his name?

Lucy: This is sad.

Gene: Listen, everything else I did was perfect! He can shoot, he can think, he can shit. He just can't talk right!

Kenny: But he's all in there, right? Like, he knows who I am?

Lezduit: Lezduit...

Kenny: Lez... I... I told everyone what I did. You don't have to tell them. I just can't believe that now that you're back, I don't know what you want to say. But I have a feeling I know what it is.

Gus: Kenny, I think Lezduit does appreciate telling us the truth.

Sweezy: Yeah. And honestly, I'm glad you didn't say anything dickish.

Yuri: Wow... this is really it, huh?

Gene: You got the Earth coordinates, right? It's time for your final mission.

Y/N: (Sigh) Lez, take it for me please.

Lezduit: Lezduit!