Vilgax eternity

The thing sagged under its own weight as it was lifted, bodily, up, up, and away from the imperilled city.

It lashed at him desperately with all its mutant tendrils. Cap was scorched, and slimed, and frozen, and electrocuted by stinging barbs, but nothing it evolved could stop him.

They cut through the clouds, into the thin mesosphere. Vilgax struggled to look up. The moon yawned down big and bulbous.

"WON'T END WITH ME…" He gurgled. "ON LUNA… ARMY THAT WILL TAKE THE STARS… YOU STAND NO CHANCE…"

"I know," said Captain Underpants. He could see them up there with his super-vision, watching.

"THEN… WHY… STRUGGLE?"

"I can't only be a hero when it seems like I can win."

He let go of Vilgax.

Vilgax drifted into the cold embrace of the planet's orbit.

Vilgax was a perfect warrior. Vacuum was no hindrance to him. He had a heart that would beat forever, photosynthetic cells to thrive on only sunlight. But he had no way of getting home.

For the next 8 billion years until the sun exploded, he floated there and watched the planet change without him.

- Proletlariet