Goldback

Goldback is a male hornet robberfly and servant to Wuya the Toxic. He first appears arriving to be recruited by Wuya, who viewed him with promise and accepted him right away, enlisting Hardskin to get him acquainted. Later, he got his first taste of battle by following Wuya into sneaking in the abbey while it was distracted: he, Slashtail and Spikehand were tasked with securing grappling ropes up on the wall, but were caught red-handed by Alzbeta Grang, who personally fought the dipteran. Neither defeated the other, but the bugs were beaten when Wuya was injured. At night, Wuya asks Goldback if he knew any healers who knew how to treat fall-injuries, and Goldback answers he does know one, but advises against it: Parus the Manipulator, a great tit who cons others, and Goldback himself was a victim once. Wuya though requests her anyway and he reluctantly concedes. When Parus does arrive, Goldback kept a close eye on her, and was quick to voice his wariness when she pulled out a sleeping potion, though she doesn't recall him, mostly. When Wuya requested him and Scalewing to leave her and Parus alone, Goldback protested, but gave in when Wuya threatened to demote him. True to his suspicions, Parus did in fact rob Wuya of something: Goldback and Scalewing returned to make sure nothing was missing, and the only thing they couldn't find were the plans Wuya had made for a third attack on Redwall. Goldback started swearing, but Wuya silenced him and assures she had figured Parus would steal all along, and the plans were merely bait. In the morning, he and the horde witness Parus scuffling with the woodlanders after Myotis caught her stealing from them: Goldback hoped they would kill the bird, but to his disappointment, she escapes with only a bleeding-cheek. Wuya though had come prepared for this and assigned Bigeye to track Parus and slay her, and Goldback felt satisfied enough at that, not knowing that Parus would outsmart them and kill Bigeye.
When night fell, he was stationed in Moledeep and found Tubemouth dead in Wuya's bedchamber, as part of Wuya's plan to dispose of the treacherous assassin bug and trick the redwallers who were planning to kill her. By day, after another attempt to conquer Redwall failed, Wuya persuaded Darovit the vole into siding with them and had let him return to the abbey. Goldback questioned if they could trust him, but Wuya was confident, and before dawn the next morning, Goldback Slashtail and Bigjaw break into the gatehouse and capture Brother Esuom and the hares Erah Grang, Alzbeta and Ganner Grang, and sure enough, Darovit kept his word and let the vermin in the abbey. He couldn't however, have expected Darovit to side back with the abbey and free everyone: Goldback himself got a rematch with Alzbeta, though both proved equally-matched, but Alzbeta gained the advantage by slicing off Goldback's right-wing. In retaliation he slashed her on the muzzle, but she got back at him by slashing his chest, and when they locked weapons, he tries to punch her, but she expected this, swerves herself behind him and then stabs him in his back.
==Appearance==
He wears a grey-kilt and belt, and his weapons were two daggers.
Category:Males
Category:Invasion of Bugs Characters
Category:Villains
Category:Casualties