"I'm fine with the hitting first and then talking," Dipper admitted, grinning, causing his Time Baby construct to zap another yellow with green energy from its eyes. "That whole quipping first and then punching thing in comics never made any sense to me. It always seemed like something that would get interru--"

A yellow figure slammed into Dipper hard and it wasn't a construct. It was someone that had built up speed while flying and zeroed in on him, streaking in so fast he was a blur. Dipper and his attacker went careening off through the debris field and crashed through a wall of the damaged section of the mining ship.

Before Dipper even had a chance to react, he was thrown under a still-functioning rock crusher that was capable of smashing meteor rock. He screamed and tossed up a combination construct and teke shield only just in time. It started as a half-sphere and then morphed into a shape he had more confidence in. When Sam got there, he'd find Dipper trying to escape a massive rock crusher with a huge construct of a girl that looked a lot like Dipper did, one that was pushing the weight up with Herculean strength.

Poised right nearby, about to attack him again to disrupt his concentration was a beaked Xudarian yellow Lantern.