The Ballad of the Troyx

Lady Hush's brother Emperor Fing has returned after turning up missing for years. This time, he has a new army in the form of resurrected Troyx, which were presumably dead for eons since the Teadr 1 Era and now resides in their home planet of Spherox Maga, aiming to start his own evil empire and convert the entire AUU into modern technology. But one of his own, a Dracthon cyborg named the Troyx Dagon Lord, sees no fulfillment in this scheme and wants to do something different with the Fing Empire. Thus with the final battle ending on the Snowball World of Vex Maga, the Dagon Lord's plan begins and Hush must fight for her brother. Though the heroes must first traverse the planet's Techrid inhabitants and avoid the overwhelming watch of the Dagon Lord, as his proficiency in building war machines has not only been overwhelming them, but discrediting Fing severely until he eventually overthrows Fing. With an opponent as cunning as Dagon Lord, the heroes and their newfound Techrid friends must find a way to stop him.

## Scenes

#### **Fing Betrays TDL**

Vex Magna

* Hush: Brother, you can't do this!
* Fing: (He got onto his ship with the key) I just did. These beings have been extinct for too long.
* Cen: THEY WILL NOT SERVE YOU!
* Fing: I'll change that soon enough.
* Dagon: So, farewell, heroes. I hope it was satisfying you lost, to ME!
* Fing:.. Okay, I am now SO TIRED OF THAT EGO OF YOURS, DAGON?! (He pushed a button that froze his cybernetics as he pushed him off the ship)
* Dagon: WHAT?!
* Loungers: WHAT?!?
* Fing:.... Ugh, FINALLY, I've been wanting to do that for what felt like AGES the very moment your use to me had-ran its course!
* Dagon: WHA, YOU LITTLE, I, I, I DID WHAT YOU ASKED!!
* Fing: Tch, just because you were a useful idiot doesn't equate to trust! You've made it clear that you wanted revenge on me since I sold your magic for the Ehaexon magic I got.
* Hush:... YOU DID WHAT?!?
* Fing: Oh bother, I assumed Dagon has made this common knowledge to you! I don't like having to explain things to people! Okay fine! He is the last magical creature from Arplume. He killed his entire foster cult family for abusing his power and he stole their plans... Or should I say, MY plans?
* Dagon: You... You little, BASTARD!
* Fing: Oh don't act like this came completely out of nowhere, you miserable idiot! You were insubordinate to my plans since Day 1! You made it CLEAR that you hated me and wanted my plans AND my power. How can you NOT see this coming a mile a second? Also, that ego, it was driving me up the walls?!
* Alpha Rolf:... Yeah, not gonna lie, what did you think was going to happen?
* Dagon: SHUT UP! HE HAD FULL CONTROL OVER ME, WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO?!?
* Fing: Consider your use to me obsolete, Dagon. Have fun being taken to jail by the goody-two-shoes!
* Ruuber:... You will regret this.
* Fing: Not with your Oxydome back on Spherox. Say goodbye, Loungers. Eh, who am I kidding, you won't, so I will. GOODBYE!
* Hush: FING!... We're family!
* Fing:... Then you should've been happy for my success instead of being SUCH a contrarian, "Sister". That's what you get for being a goody-two-shoes! (Less Darkly) Tell the parents I said hi though, okay? (He blasted off leaving Hush betrayed, and Dagon was freed from his paralysis)
* Dagon:... THAT BASTARD!! I'LL KILL HIM!!!
* Cen: Now see here, you brute, stooping to his level is not gonna-
* Dagon: (He pushes him back) DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! YOU SAW WHAT I JUST DID TO YOU, I CAN DO IT AGAIN!
* Juck: Not when we get serious.
* Dagon: WELL I WASN'T SERIOUS EITHER! I WAS JUST STARTING SMALL!
* Jokey; Oh, really? PROVE IT! (Dagon just crushed an entire gigantic rock and spread rocks everywhere, and then the same thing happened to several other nearby rocks)...... Uhhh, big deal, we've fought guys that do that shit in their sleep!
* Dagon:... Ugh, stubborn idiots?! Just leave me alone! I've got a SCORE to settle! Fing is going to be sorry he did this to me!
* Sau: Dagon, I don't think you get it. He STILL has power over those cybernetics of yours. You go to him, he'll kill you himself in an instant before you can throw a single rock-breaking punch with a simple touch of a button.
* Dagon:... UUUUAAAGHHH, I HATE IT WHEN MY ENEMIES ARE RIGHT!
* Kongin: So like it or not, we're in this together now.
* Zhigu: He's right.
* Dagon: I will NOT entertain any such follies, good arguments aside?! I just need to outsmart him is all?!
* Hush: My brother may've betrayed you, but honestly, what did you expect? He didn't trust you for a reason.
* Dagon: OH, SURRRE! How about YOU try being locked up for your magic power after it was all but extinct on Arplume? To be raised by a family who only wanted you for your power? All that parental care I had was gone when they learned what I really was. I killed them all when I had the chance. ALL of them! The elders, and even the children and newborn! EVERY, ONE! And it was exactly what they deserved. That's what they GET for abusing ME like that!
* Xoriago:.... Kinda over-the-top, don't ya think?
* Dagon: I WAS ABUSED FOR YEARS FOR MY POWER, DID YOU NOT HEAR ME?!?
* Sonny: Dagon, listen! We understand, but you must realize that-
* Dagon; That you're STILL going to turn me in after this? Yeah, no kidding. Am I REALLY that stupid to you? Do you really think I'm just gonna pal around with you and wait for you to restrain me when my back is turned?
* Sonny:... I was going to say that Fing seems too smart for you.
* Dagon: "OH DON'T ACT LIKE IT'S NOT THE FIRST THING YOU'LL DO ONCE ANY FICKLE PARTNERSHIP HAS INCLUDED?!"
* Jokey: "Oh, NOW you're starting to have hindsight when it concerns us but NOT WHEN FING IS INVOLVED?! Oy fey, ya really are a dumbass?!"
* Dagon growled offended!
* Sonny: ".... (Facepalms) Annnnnnnd we lost him."
* Ceptward: "To be fair, I don't think we had him to begin with."
* Dagon:... That's why I'm going to beat him at his own game. I've been sniffing around this system when Fing wasn't looking. I have just the thing I need to get my revenge.
* Scoro: We've already had enough- (Dagon tail-brushed them all away with snow)
* Dagon: SHUT IT, ZEWIN SCOURGE! FING WILL BURN IN HELL FOR WHAT HE'S DONE! THIS, I SWEAR! (He flew away)
* Hush: NO! He's going to kill my brother.
* Jokey: Oy, one, you still CARE for that crazy snake after he had no problem leaving you behind? And 2, what're even the odds of him even doing that? We JUST established that Fing can't be defeated that easily.
* Hush: Yes, but, Dagon seems to be much smarter than he lets on. Nobody who behaves like THAT lets himself be defeated that easily.
* Zhigu:... She's right. I fear Dagon has been waiting for an opportunity like this. We have to find him.
* Cephward: How? If you haven't noticed... (As the camera panned into the blizzard lands of Vex Magna) WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!!
* Echo: NOWHERE, NOWHERE, NOWHERE, somewhere, nowhere!
* Jokey: ".... Huh. The Echo must be broken."
* Cephward:... Wha? Ugh, whatever, how can we find it?
* Sau: "Well, getting Daggy into a truce may be out of the question, but jokes on him, we still have a map in my systems and he has no idea what to do."

#### **Dagon Takes Over The Fing Empire**

Terminal

* Dagon: HAHAHAHAAA! You're too late, 'heroes'!
* Georgina: Dagon, we told you, there's no way you can stand up to him with his power!
* Dagon: NO S\*\*\*, YOU OVERSIZED WASMA! That's why I'm going to be something, BETTER, than cybernetics, OR magic. (He activated a machine)... Do you even KNOW what Vex Magna is for?
* Ajax:... Freezing assholes like you to death?
* Dagon:.... And yet, Crobra is SERIOUSLY having problems with you guys?! NO, YOU IDIOTS!! IT'S AN ENTIRE GLOBAL WAREHOUSE, OF UNTAPPED AND RESERVED, TROYX TECHNOLOGY!
* Jokey: Tch, and tec of such high calibers, would be put in an ice box of a planet, WHHHHY?!
* Dagon: Oh, you think I'm joking? (He showed the catalog on the terminal screen shocking them all) Fing had been looking for THIS all along. I just so happened to have hidden it, RIGHT from under his nose, this whole time.
* Numma: Heh, not bad for the guy that got betrayed first.
* Dagon: Ugh, not the greatest first compliment in my entire life, but better than just another insult.
* Glora: And what makes you think Fing won't hack THEM as well?
* Dagon: (Cackles insanely) What do you think THIS contraption is? Troyx were MASTERS of tech craft. They were half-machine after all. So, if I can't beat anyone with cybernetics OR magic... I'll settle for controlling his power from the inside.
* Sau:... You're not gonna-
* Dagon: Oh, I are! I'm going to turn myself, into a VIRUS!
* Atrick:... And get him sick?
* Dagon:..... Duh, duh, SERIOUSLY, CROBRA IS STRUGGLING WITH YOU GUYS?! NO, IDIOTs, AS IN MALWARE! LIVING DATA! I CAN DOWNLOAD MYSELF INTO FING'S MAINFRAME FROM THE TROYX NETWORK!
* Pho: (Scoffs still unimpressed nor convinced) That's rich that you'd think this stuff is even in working condition after so many years.
* Dagon: I wouldn't even be DOING this if I knew that, fatso.
* Pho:... Fair counterarguement.
* Dagon: GOODBYE, HEROES! (He began to digitalize) I'M OFF TO GET THE VENGEANCE I'VE AWAITED FOR SO LONG! (They all tried to stop the machine but they were too late as he was heard cackling and went off into space)
* Hush:... Oh no....
* Mangris: Well, Hush, your bro's f\*\*\*\*d.
* Hush: "NOT, HELPING, YOU STUPID BUG?!"
* Ruuber: "Hush, please calm down, I agree Mangris didn't really helped with that comment, but-"

(Later...)

* (Dagon): YOU THOUGHT YOU GOT RID OF ME, DIDN'T YOU, FING?!?
* Fing: OH NOT YOU AGAIN?! ARE YOU SERIOUSLY DOING THIS RIGHT NOW?! I AM FINALLY GONNA GET THE EMPIRE TO BECOME THE NEW VA, AND YOU DO THIS?! WHAT, WHAT, JUST WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING?!
* (Dagon): You thought you had me on your leash, the entire time. You really should have kept me on a TIGHTER one.
* Fing: NO SERIOUSLY, JUST WHAT THE FUCK YOU'RE DOING?!? I AM LITTERALLY GOING TO GET THE DARK RADS APPROVAL, AND YOU JUST-
* (Dagon): THEN LET ME EXPLAIN MYSELF, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S HOLY AND UNHOLY!!

Flashback

* (Dagon): Since the day you made me your second-in-command, and supplied me with my enhancement/slave devices, I knew that there were times when you were not completely surveying me. After all, not all planets have good transmission. Every time you lost my signal, on planet-after-planet, I was hatching plans to betray you, just as you figured.
* (Fing): "Yes, thanks for reminding me that YOU WERE AN OBVIOUS "YARGE-OUT" AS WITH THE VA TERM FOR TRAITOR WAITING TO HAPPEN?!"
* (Dagon): I think we've already established that the surprise was LONG spoiled at this point?! Then, you brought me to Vex Magna. That day, the storm provided the perfect cover when it cut the reception. You thought that I was missing for days, and then dubbed me dead. But that was part of my plan. I knew when the storm would appear, and wanted you to bring me there when it did, because I KNEW, that there really WAS, hidden Troyx technology preserved for countless eons. And given the storm's hazards, it was completely believable that I wouldn't have found it. But in reality, I DID. I spent my entire time there hatching my plans before my arrival. But I could not do it right then, because the storm worked against me, AND I needed to redirect your suspicion because if I hadn't showed up, you'd have gotten the instinct to search for me and see if I really WAS dead. Then today came. The key you obtained? It was all I needed to win. All I told you about it was a lie. It was a beacon that would download anything from any Troyx network. I kept the TRUE key in hiding on that snowball this entire time. When you finally hooked it into your mainframe, and connected it to the Troyx network, it was my time to operate my latest resort. I turned myself, into living data. A living computer virus. Upon my ascension, I transferred myself from the Troyx network into your mainframe the moment you hooked that key inside.

Present

* (Dagon): You thought that key was the one thing that could give you the power you needed to control the Troyx and their technology? Well you couldn't be MORE wrong. I've had it, THIS ENTIRE TIME! AND NOW THAT YOU'VE SO FOOLISHLY FALLEN FOR MY RUSE, I WILL MAKE YOU PAY FOR THE POWER YOU TOOK! THESE PLANS BELONG TO ME, AND ME ALONE! NOT SOME REPTILIAN STRING LIKE YO-
* Fing pressed a button and it reversed Dagon's influence on the network and got him back into the fake key as Fing pulled it out.
* Fing: "..... Idiotic bastard. (Destroys the fake key with Dagon still inside)....."
* Systems were back to normal.
* The Dark Rad Council was back on the air.
* Nuke on screen: "What the, FING, WHAT THE HELL GIVES MAN?!"
* Fing: "So sorry, Dark Rad Council, I, had an unexpected loose-end to tie up. But don't worry. The "Yarge-Out" as you would've called, *HIM*, has been dealt with."
* The Dark Rads began to look at eachother....
* Mind Warper on screen: ".... Is THAT to assume that you KILLED Dagon?!"
* Fing: "(Slight confusion) Well, he confessed that he wanted to betray me since day 1, and-"
* Nuke: "Hey, I get he was gonna turn out to be a Yarge-Out, but.... HE'S KINDA THE CLOSEST YOU HAD TO A QUI EQUIVALENT?!"
* Fing: ".... Oh my BLOODY GLORIES, YOU GUYS ARE STILL ON THAT?!"
* Hako: "We're not kidding! Qui was, kinda apart of the big picture for the VA! Alot of our success stories are attributed to her directly or indirectly?!"
* Fing: ".... Sirs, oh, and Madam, I, I will find another Dracthon! With the tecnowagey, I can-"
* Nuke: "Sorry, Fing, but under the circumstances, I'm afraid your group is disqualified from being the New VA, PERIOD! (Connections turned off before Fing can say anything)!....."
* Fing: ".... No, no! It's not like them to pass up Teadr 1 tec because a YARGE-OUT HAS DIED?! I mean, yes, those Tex Era Standards had made them soft and, Nuke is admittingly an utter imbecile, BUT THEY'RE NOT LIKE THAT AT ALL?! What's going on here, I- (Realises something)..... (Smacks the counter and it briefly ripped open digitally)..... Wha, wha..... Wha..... WHAT'S GOING ON?!"
* Dagon's voice began to laugh!
* Fing: "..... D, D, Dagon?"
* Dagon's face returned to the screens!
* Fing: "..... No?! NO?! I DESTROYED YOU?!"
* Dagon: "Well, you'd be amazed how convincing dream emulators can be."
* Fing: "..... DREAM EMULATORS?!"
* Dagon: "THAT'S RIGHT?! Originally, I was gonna kill you, but then, I remembered, usurping an official leader will disqualify the group from VA ascension, espeically if BLOOD was spilt! So, I guess the next best thing is to MURDER your credibility to the Dark Rads!"
* Fing: "THEY'LL NEVER LISTEN TO YOU?! I HAD ALWAYS INFORMED THEM THAT I SUSPECTED YOU ARE A YARGE-OUT?!"
* Dagon: "True, but then again.... You didn't allow'd me to make the first move. (Fing finally realized his error) You see, the Rads would've forgiven having me destroyed in anyway otherwise, is if I made that move first?! Those same Tex-Era regulations will make them turn on you for just as much as mistreating your second in command, regardless of suspicions?! Also, the emulation already covered that I'm basically a Qui equivalent! They've would've still disqualified the group anyway had you actually DID got rid of me for good?!"
* Fing: "But the Troyx Tech will redeem the group for that loss! I'll find another Equilent in time!"
* Dagon: "Oh be honest, those misfits, your sister especially, would've barged in and trounced you before you started! It would've been the end of your group.... (Chuckles)..... But I guess in a way, it still is. Your little "Fing Empire" is still very much done. Or at least, not so much in disbansion, as more like..... Under new management."
* Fing: "NO?! THEY'LL DISQUILY THE GROUP FOR YOU YARGING-OUT MY LEADERSHIP?!"
* Dagon: "Perhaps this cannot be helped. Yes. Those has-beens will lose their nerve. But, as you said.... The Troyx Tech will more than pardon my, necessary sins. As you said, even Nuke is not enough of a pathetic fool to pass up Teadr 1 tech, not even for Tex-Era Standards. They'll be happy to make a, rare exception in your case. Espeically since that in irony, it was YOU who Yarged Out."
* Fing: "..... You...... You intentionally allowed yourself to be into that previous position, did you?!"
* Dagon: "Alchourse. I intentionally made you afraid of an inevitable betrayal, so to trick you into making the first move first. Heheh, it helped that you, didn't care for my "Ego", as it were. Don't get me wrong, it was PAINFUL to have to sacrifice my pride in letting YOU think you're the winner?! But that sad little face is SO worth it! So, have fun, in your new prison, Fingy. I'll finish what you TRIED to start. (Laughs crazily)!"
* The faces vanished!
* Fing: "NO?! NO?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-"

Reality

* Fing was in actuality, hooked up to a dream emulation machine, and appeared stuck to it as he struggled!
* Dagon: "(Stood in digital form)..... (Returns to physical form).... It may not be as thrilling as killing him, but, a necessary missed opportunity to keep the Dark Rads from whining TOO much about my-usurp. Now, it's time for a TRUE leader to shine.... I'll just leave you for your sister to cry over. (Leaves chuckling like a magnificent bastard)....."

#### **Birth of the Troyx Resurrection**

Fing's Cell, Oranos

* Fing:... I can't believe it! I had the power all in my grasp! I, I could've started a better VA, and one without Crobra or that imbecile Cyborg from the isolated systems!
* Hush: Yes. But you forgot the #1 thing that any villain should do: You forgot to watch your back. But if it eases you, the Dark Rads will disqualify the group for impromptu change of leadership.
* Fing: "But as a Qui Equivalent, he'll do MORE than enough to ease away any bad taste he created?! And with what tech he was able to claim, it's just the matter of opportunity for him and his "Troyx Ressersection" to requalify themselves for candidacy again?! I.... I only wanted to create a disbansion proof villain team so I can live my dream of ruling a perfect universe where nothing can go wrong ever again!"
* Hush: "Well, your wish came HALF true. It's apparent however that fate proved fickle and that you still played into Dagon's web for as obvious as it was. And he used that to his advantage."
* Ruuber: Be grateful we saved your life from anything worse than death.
* Mangris: And be grateful that Dagon felt that killing you wasn't as satisfying as that dream emulator thing, albeit for the purpose of making things less complicated with the Dark Rads.
* Sau: Dream emulators are pretty nasty when used in the wrong hands. The Virtnet made it to offer, artificial lucid dreams.
* Fing: Ugh. Sometimes I hate technology.
* Sau: But technology comes with power, and power comes with responsibility. That's what any person has in an advanced community like this, especially after the cause of the Exo-Wars when some lunkheads thought it was smart to steal someone's work without consequence.
* Sonny: Just goes to show that any attempt at gettin' rich or powerful can start a war. And war's the LAST thing we need cuz next thing ya know, it could be worse than the Interuniversal War.
* Fing: Save me the wisdom, vrat. You made your point, I screwed up. Now he's got my power and made it into something worse. I hope you guys, as heroes, at least have a plan to make him pay.
* Hush: "It's a work in progress. But keep in mind that apart from me, it won't necessarily be for avenging your honor. It's because Dagon is a threat that needs to be bested. We also can't promise your group would survive any possible final fight him once we get to him. As you should know, our universe does not want to relive the horrors of the VA through any Dark Rad replacements."
* Fing: "Tch, atypical goody-two-shoes. Can't you at least appreciate that I was aiming to revive a Teadr 1 Race and legacy?"
* Zhigu: "But clearly, not under good intentions. And that tainted the otherwise noble prospect of bringing a lost Teadr 1 race back. If any Teadr 1 race is to return, it shouldn't be to make them a force of conquest."
* ZongueBob: And as for being able to stop him, well, simply getting rid of him won't be easy. He DID almost take us all out when you had him fight us on Vex Magna.
* Zhensi: That guy, was a MACHINE, both literally AND figuratively.
* Hud: Yeeerrhhh!!
* Bongki: And yet no matter how tight of a leash you had for him, it was too long. You left him out of your sight for too long, and-
* Fing: I SAID SAVE ME THE WISDOM, DAMMIT!! UAAGGHH!! (He banged his head on his cell's wall and sobbed)... Hush? I know under the circumstances, I'm probably a familial outcast now, but, hear me out for at least this.... Just... Promise me, as a brother who's asking you for mercy... That you'll make sure he NEVER succeeds. I created his plan, and I'm pretty much the only one who can stop it.
* Hush:.... As true as that may' be, I'm afraid you still have to answer for what you've done. He wouldn't have even gotten this far if you hadn't slipped up. All of this is your own fault. Now your Empire is run by someone much worse, and we have to clean up whatever messes he makes. And all thing because in irony, you wanted to make the Universe perfect? Clearly you yourself were not perfect enough to underestimate Dagon's attempts to usurp you!
* Fing: WELL THEN I'LL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET THAT TRUST BACK, IF IT MEANS EVERYTHING I WORKED SO HARD FOR, IS NOT ABUSED BY SOMEONE WHO... Nevertheless did my plans way better than I ever could've, BUT STILL, SOMEONE WHO STABBED ME IN THE BACK... Which is understandable since I treated him so badly, BUT STILL, FOR GOOD REASON, BECAUSE I KNEW HE WAS GONNA DO IT!
* Hush: Look, just, show that you want to get that trust back, brother. We'll be there when he tries anything rash. He may be more powerful than all of us, but we'll still be there with safeties off.
* Fing: Then stop saying that and do it! I... Need time alone.
* Hush: "Alchourse..... Oh, and, I'll make sure Mom knows you said hi. I'll, see about getting her and dad pay you a visit during visiting hours."
* The group left as Fing sulked about....

Spherox Maga

* Dagon: (He rebuilt his body into a far more advanced part-Troyx version of itself and resurrected a few Troyx, cackling as he spread his energetic wings out wide) AT LAST!! IT'S ALL, MINE! MY RIGHTFUL DESTINY, IS MINE! (He sang this)