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Gus and Wally stood in front of YAY-OK as he ranted at them.
“You two thought it was a good idea to race with another ship?!” YAY-OK shouted at them.
“What's the issue? We've done much worse.” Wally reminded him.
“You destroyed so much property today, next time we'll probably get fired and arrested! Or arrested and fired. Either way, I had to pay a million fines all because of your monkey shenanigans! This has gone on long enough, and now you leave me no choice. I'm going to do what I should have done five years ago!” YAY-OK gritted his teeth. Gus and Wally hugged each other and shivered. “You're grounded for the rest of the day. No TV, no laptop, and no banana dessert!”
“You monster!!!” Gus and Wally shrieked.
“Go to your room, monkeys and for once think about what you've done!” YAY-OK pointed to their room.
“I can't believe YAY-OK would punish us. We're space heroes, not babies.” Gus crossed his arms and sat on the bed. “You know what we gotta do, Wall?”
“Think about what we did? Whatever that was again?” Wally attempted to recall.
“No, we're going to run away!” Gus declared.
“But Gus, if we run away, where will we go?” Wally asked. “Do we even know how to take care of ourselves?”
“We're not going to actually leave. We're just going to show YAY-OK that he's not the boss of us. He'll be so worried, then he'll apologize and give us dessert again.” Gus chuckled.
“Gus, that's awful… I'm in!” Wally agreed, they both high fived then shook tails.
YAY-OK smiled to himself as he sat back and relaxed on his bed.
“Who knew I could feel so at peace, and all I had to do was banish the monkeys to their room.” YAY-OK sighed from relief and yawned, about to fall asleep.
Gus and Wally snuck out of their ship through their scooters and laughed, zooming away.
“So what do we do now that we're runaways?” Wally asked Gus.
“Whatever we want! The galaxy is our oyster! Or in this case, our ice cream dish!” Gus smirked.
“Let's go!” Wally grinned widely. So they hit the gas on the scooters and drove as quickly as they could to an ice cream shop.
“Two sundaes, on the double!” The monkeys commanded the purple rabbit alien at the counter.
“Where's that robot who always pays for you? The cashier asked.
“He's… Busy.” Wally lied.
“Did you bring your own money this time?” The cashier interrogated further. Gus and Wally reached into their pockets and turned them inside out, then laughed awkwardly. The cashier pointed at the door.
“Maybe we should just go home, YAY-OK probably learned his lesson.” Wally told Gus while they walked out of the shop.
“Maybe you’re right, Wally. We should probably go back home.” Both hopped on back on their scooters and were about to make it to where they last left the ship, only to see it was gone.
“Where did it go?!” Wally shrieked.
“Either it floated off or… Oh no!” Gus gasped. “YAY-OK must have driven off because he got tired of us!”
“I didn’t want that to happen!!! What do we do now?!” Wally screamed.
“I guess we have no choice but to… Go it alone… Forever.” Gus whimpered.
“Ah… That was the best rest I’ve ever had… The ship is so quiet…” YAY-OK sighed, then he frowned. “Too quiet… I wonder if my monkeys are okay.” YAY-OK rolled over to the monkeys’ bedroom, then knocked. No answer, he knocked louder and opened up the door. “Of course… They didn’t stay put… Oh no, what if they went on some crazy space adventure? My monkeys are out there all by themselves!!!”
Gus and Wally were sitting on swings at the park, gloomily staring at the grass.
“It’s been about ten minutes since we’ve been by ourselves… A very lonely ten minutes.” Gus monologued.
“I’m so cold…” Wally hugged himself and shuddered. All of a sudden a bunch of much younger kids screamed and ran away.
“What’s their problem?” Gus asked. They heard the whirring of gears and sparks of electricity. They smiled widely. “YAY-OK?!”
But instead it was a large and vicious looking dog robot who snarled at them both.
“Intruders!” The dog snarled loudly.
“We’re not intruders!” Gus pointed at it accusingly. “We’re just going to the park like anyone else!”
“Destroy intruders.” The dog shot laser beams towards them, they dodged in the nick of time but continued running and screaming as the dog pursued the brothers.
“Hold it right there!” A familiar accented voice called out, the monkeys looked up at YAY-OK who was flying on his copter antennae. “Leave those monkeys be!” His arm turned into a laser cannon, which he shot right at the metal dog’s head. The dog shook its head twice, then whimpered guiltily, its ears folded.
“Sorry I attacked you.” The dog stepped back. “I must have glitched out, I’m supposed to be guarding the park and I mistook you for intruders.”
“It’s cool. Just… Get that checked out.” Gus requested.
“Now as for you two… What were you doing out here?! First you forgot to put the ship in park, then you left without telling me!!!” YAY-OK scolded both of the monkeys.
“We’re sorry.” Wally scraped his foot against the ground apologetically.
“We were just trying to guilt trip you, then we thought you left us because of it.” Gus explained himself. YAY-OK still glared intensely at both of them, causing them to hunker down. Then he sighed and wrapped his robotic limbs around them.
“I’m just glad you’re both unharmed.” YAY-OK calmed down. “Just don’t ever do that again… Oh who am I kidding you probably will…”
“So what now?” Wally shrugged.
Cut to Gus and Wally sitting on their beds.
“We’re still being punished even after we mustered our best apology.” Gus scoffed.
“Well, at least he forgave us.” Wally reasoned.
“We may as well sleep… Even though it’s still the middle of the day.” Gus turned off the lamp.
“Is there even night and day in space?” Wally asked Gus.
“Just go to sleep.” Gus rolled over.
“Good night, monkeys.” YAY-OK smiled softly at the small primates.
“Night, Dad.” Both muttered subconciously, YAY-OK’s pupils grew and his synthetic heart seemed to swell. It was moments like this that made it almost worth the chaos.