Cayde looked at her new form and back at the Witch Doctor, who was terrified. Still, he tried to control the transformed Cayde.
“K-Kill the boy! Do as I command!”
Staring at her bony claws, she roared either in fury or in pain and chose to go after the Witch Doctor. She pinned him down and swiped harshly multiple times upon him. Zerris turned away and refused to look at Cayde and the Witch Doctor as the latter screamed.
Utterly powerless to stop his creation, the Witch Doctor teleported away to tend to his (many) wounds. Zerris caught a peek of the transformed Cayde and cringed with sadness. She was now covered in scales and spikes, her skin purple with her eyes green. Her teeth were needles and her nails were elongated claws. She barely resembled her former self.
Zerris ran to go find a solution for bringing her back to her normal self.
——
“Ha ha! Boskov, you genius! We have the girl now!” Hector laughed as Boskov ran while Lola dangled from his grasp with Bob and Luz in pursuit.
The two chased the bear and brain into the forest, seemingly losing them. Luz looked around the area she stood in, feeling quite hopeless about Lola.
“She… she’s gone… we failed…”
“Not yet, we haven’t.” Bob said to reassure Luz as he walked forward.
“How do you know?! That stupid bear is probably long gone by now!”
“Do you know what a bear smells like?”
“N-No…”
Bob sniffed, confusing Luz even more as he tried to find Boskov by scent. He looked over to his right and began running. “Wait! Where are you going?!” Luz asked as she ran after Bob.
——
Camila ventured her way through the forest carrying a UNIT rifle. She heard a Spanish voice and then a bear growl in response.
“Witch Doctor… come in, Witch Doctor!”
The Witch Doctor teleported to Hector and Boskov, viewing the terrified Lola with renewed hope. If one didn’t work, the other might.
Camila burst from the bushes with a yell and prepared to do battle with evil.
The Witch Doctor turned and raised his hands in surrender... only for beams of light to flash from those hands and disintegrate the rifle.
"A futile distraction," the Witch Doctor smirked. "What do you think, Mr. Carne? Medium rare?"
"Actually, I'm vegan," said Hector.
Bob Fett suddenly stumbled out from the bushes and drew a concealed firearm. Boskov held up Lola as a human shield.
"Mama?" Luz asked, confused. "What are you-"
The Witch Doctor sighed and snapped his fingers. In an instant, all six of them were teleported on board the Witch Doctor's mothership.
"The Nugenerans have disappeared, as have my primary minions. I alone cannot find them, let alone within the two hours left before the Nugenerans are all reduced to a purple puddle of single-celled organisms. Decades of research, wasted in one night!" The Witch Doctor scowled. "But it wasn't all for naught."
He turned to Lola. "She shall be studied, and cloned. I shall use the preexisting data to create a simulant army, which I shall present to the board on Arconia. Then, I will destroy this planet, and claim the Earthlings destroyed themselves in an attempt to overcome the Nugeneran hordes. If I can talk smoothly enough, I'll be able to claim my prize and flee before the charade is revealed."
"But what about your minions?" Hector asked, pretending he had any idea what the Witch Doctor was talking about. "What about the Lion, the Witch and the Doctor?"
On cue, there was a wheezing, groaning sound. Bob Fett turned around in horror to see the TARDIS materializing before his very eyes. Dr. Who, Paul McGannly as ever, stepped out.
"Doctor
who?" he asked with a smile. He looked down at the mortified Bob Fett. "Oh, hello. I'm the Doctor, in case you hadn't figured that out by now."
"The hell you are!" Bob yelled, pistol-whipping Dr. Who to the ground and running into the TARDIS. He shoved Alfonso and Munchie aside and ran around the console room like a maniac. Panting and panicking, Bob finally removed his welder's mask. "Oh, god... you've
redecorated!"
But of course, none of that really mattered at the moment. The Witch Doctor had hovered over to the control panel on the bridge, followed by Camila, Luz, Hector/Boskov, and the unconscious Lola. He pushed a button on the panel. On the screen, next to a live feed of the planet Earth, a countdown started.
FLARE RAY - 29:59...
"Of course it takes thirty minutes to warm up," the Witch Doctor grimaced. "Grand climaxes
never come instantaneously."