"Give it to me straight Church! Is Freckles gonna make it?" Caboose says scared as Epsilon is skimming through the storage unit. 

"Your robot's fine, I just need a few more- ah there we go! Congrats, your pet has been debugged." 

"(Sigh) Oh God! Now all we have to do is get him fixed." Caboose then pockets Freckles. 

"I can't believe you would just accept something from the enemy like that!" Carolina scowls at Zone. 

"One: this was before we knew he was working with a black-ops team. And two: it was a lapse in judgement, that won't happen again." Zone retorts. 

"Yeah because next time we'll be dead! Come on Zone, you're supposed to be the smart one in the group." Epsilon reminds him. 

"Gee thanks." Xi mutters. 

"I thought I was the smart one in the group?" Simmons says confused. 

"Ehhh. Smart's relative. Like good looks or skills. Sometimes you have to settle." Grif points out. 

"Would you guys all shut up! This isn't helping!" Tucker shouts. 

"Oh yeah right! Since when have you manage to help around here?" Epsilon scoffs. 

"Hey, maybe you haven't noticed, but I've been kinda running this stuff while you were gone." 

"Just out of curiosity, who ran stuff when he was here?" Grif asks. 

"Well you ran straight into the ground Tucker, great job, you must be so proud." Epsilon laughs bitterly. 

"Oookayy. Everyone's a liiittle tense right now." Grey states. 

"Well at least I tried!" Tucker protests. 

Epsilon appears in front of Tucker. "You?! What about me? You think I'm in a vacation this whole time?" 

"Please! Stop fighting! Can't you see you're tearing this family apart?!" Donut cries. Everyone stare at him with a "what the heck" look. 

"Right. This crap's getting weird. I'm out. Hey if you need me or Xi, we'll be thinking of a way to keep us alive for the next 24 hours." Epsilon and Xi disappear. 

"Good riddance." Tucker mutters. 

"Hey I heard that! I'm still actually in the room you idiot!" Epsilon shouts. 

"I'm gonna go check the perimeter." Carolina leaves.

"We'll do the same. Why don't you guys just take a breather?" Zone, Wash, and Cyclops leave.

"Okay! Bye Zone! Bye Wash! Bye Carolina! Bye Church!" Caboose says waving. 

"Caboose aren't you even like the tiniest bit mad at Church?" Tucker asks. 

"Ahhhhhhh nope!" 

"Not even a little?" 

"Nah." 

"At all?" 

"Yeah no. Not really." Caboose shakes his head. 

"How? He's being such an jerk!" Tucker states. 

"I'm pretty sure Church has always been an jerk." Simmons points out. 

"Yeah. Isn't that kind of his thing? Like Simmons is smart, I'm good looking, you guys are the dumb one, the lazy one, and the mean one." Grif says pointing at Caboose, Tucker, and Sarge. 

"But he doesn't even care about us." 

"I don't know about that. He stopped that mercenary from cutting up Caboose. Missed opportunity if you ask me." Sarge adds. 

"Well, he abandoned us." 

"But didn't you guys do the same thing?" Donut asks. 

"Huh?" Tucker says confused. 

"Uh, the rebels." Grif reminds him. 

"Well, yeah. But there were more important things we had to do." Tucker protests. 

"I kinda feel like stopping the sale of illegal military equipment might have been more important than hanging out in a canyon." Simmons murmurs. 

Caboose walks up to Tucker. "Okay Tucker, I'm gonna tell you this only because you respect my opinions so much." 

"I actually don't listen to anything you say. Ever." Tucker retorts. 

"Classic lazy one." Grif states. 

"If you keep being mean to Church, Church will just keep being mean to you, and then everyone will be mean to everyone all the time and everything will be bad and no one will have fun." Caboose starts out. 

"Is this- are you trying to give a motivational speech right now?" Tucker asks. 

"Shh! I want to see where he's going!" Donut hisses. 

"I mean come on! Is this really what you want? You just- you just want to be angry and mean all the time? Because that is dumb! And you know what? You are dumb for thinking that!" 

"Did Caboose just call someone dumb?" Grif says stunned. 

"Well that's calling the kettle blue." Sarge says crossing his arms. 

"So Church left! And maybe some of us were sad! But you know what, that is okay! Because he was just trying to do something good! And he just made a mistake! And we all make mistakes sometimes." 

"Wow!" Tucker says impressed. "Caboose I-" 

"So shut up and get over it!" Caboose adds. "Well, my work is done here." Caboose then walks away.

"You know, I really do freaking hate him." Tucker sighs. 

-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-

Tucker walks around a corner and sees Carolina and Zone scouting the area. Tucker then walks forward. "Hey, Carolina. Can uh...you think I can talk to Church for a second?" 

"Oh, um sure. Epsilon? Church, get out here. Church!" Carolina calls. 

Epsilon appears alongside Delta and Theta.

"Just say you're sorry." Theta whispers before he and Delta disappear. 

"Can't a guy have a little privacy around-" Epsilon turns and sees Tucker. "Oh." 

"Hey." Tucker says. 

Epsilon appears beside Tucker. "What do you want?" 

"So. I guess I've been kind of a pain in the neck since you got back." Tucker says awkwardly. 

"Oh. Well yeah, I mean sure if you want to put it lightly! Heh!" 

Tucker folds his arms and gives Church a glare. "Uhhh. I mean I guess I did...you know leave you guys without saying anything. Which at the time seemed poetic and heroic and all that, but...you know I guess from a practical stand point I probably should have left a note." 

"Yeah." Tucker agrees. 

"I'm just not used to you, actually doing stuff you know, it's weird. Normally you guys just stick around and I have to do everything." Epsilon explains. 

"Well, you don't have to do everything anymore." Tucker says calmly. 

"Yeah well, I guess it just takes getting use to." Epsilon shrugs. 

"You know I uh, I think I saw some beer back at the gas station." 

"Hologram dude, still a hologram." 

"Oh right." 

"But thanks, you can have mine." 

"Seriously?" Tucker and Epsilon look at Carolina. "That's it? No "I'm sorry." Nothing?!" 

"Carolina. We're dudes." Epsilon states. 

"Yeah, this is pretty much as emotional as we're going to get." Tucker agrees. 

"Yeah you just witnessed like, an entire lifetimes worth of male emotion in one minute." 

"Huh. What was she expecting?" Tucker asks. 

"Beats me. Can you believe that I have to live with her?" 

"Dude that sucks." 

"Tell me about it." Epsilon groans. 

"Oh wait does that mean you get to see her naked?" 

"Okay man don- don't make it weird." 

Zone walks up next to Carolina. "Sooo. Are they good?" She asks. 

"I think they're as good as we're going to get." Zone replies. 

"About time." 

"You're telling me." Sarge scoffs. 

Tucker, Epsilon, Zone, and Carolina notice the other Reds and Blues standing nearby.

"Now can we get back to the whole civil war thing please?" Simmons asks. 

A harsh screeching sound activates through the group's radios.

"Ow! My ears! My sensitive ears!" Donut yelps. 

"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is your captain speaking and boy, have I got some news for you." Felix says on the radio. 

"You just had to ask for it." Grif mutters to Simmons, 

"It's Felix. He's using the radios." Xi explains. 

"Hey Gates! We're not interested in whatever crap you're selling!" Zone retorts. 

"Oh, but Raptor. In a miraculous, one time only deal, you've all been upgraded to first class on a one way flight off of Chorus." The Reds and Blues all look at one another. "Are you interested now?" 

"I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little interested." Simmons says.