Dave walked down the Street with the Gnome beside him, otherwise known as Dr. Zomboss.
The Gnome followed behind Dave, "absolutely delighted" and "unable to help himself."
"Bastard human! Let me go! Are you with that bastard wearing a pot on his head and that talking garbage truck?!" Unable to control his own body, the Gnome roared in fury.
"Shut up. Keep running your mouth and I'll send you to Black Zetsu to shovel shit." A vein bulged on Dave's forehead as he rapped him hard on the head.
"Hmph!" The Gnome snorted in displeasure.
I'll endure it... I'll endure it... Once I get back and bring over my humanity-ending, strongest, invincible, world-conquering, supreme zombie masterpiece of science... my giant machine, I'll crack your skull open, stir up your brains, and eat them!
A little later, Dave brought the Gnome to Orochiroku's Laboratory Base.
"Well, well, how did a busy man like you find the time to visit me?" Hearing the door open, Orochiroku turned toward Dave and asked with a broad smile.
"Come on, Roku, take a few days off. Look at yourself. You're not even thirty, and you've already let yourself go this badly. Doesn't Tamaki keep you in line?" Dave swallowed as he looked at the middle-aged-looking man before him, with his bushy beard and greasy hair.
Orochiroku was... wasn't he still under thirty? How did he... look like a man in his forties or fifties?
"Haha, Tamaki usually goes dancing with Lady Mito. She said the same thing before, but I'm used to it." Orochiroku laughed.
"That's why I brought you a talented fellow to take some of the pressure off." Dave pointed at Dr. Zomboss beside him with a broad smile.
"Oh? What... what species is this?" Orochiroku sounded puzzled, but when he saw the