There was indeed an "associate" of the deservedly-deceased Galactikang. Traynrekk the Trampler, while ogre-like in appearance, resembled Marvel's Silver Surfer by his ability to live in vacuum and travel faster than light. Since Galactikang's death, Traynrekk had been pursuing warped revenge (no pun intended) by murdering heroes on various worlds. He had slain three versions of Batman, two versions of Captain America, two Green Flashlights, and a handful of crimefighters with no direct equivalents in Original Earth literature or movies.
He had murdered the Flashlight Corps members in their sleep; his other victims had, of course, been far beneath him in raw power. Without an evil immortal master to hide behind, Traynrekk was a slimy coward. But his ability to strike very suddenly still made him a serious menace. The more so if he could find other villains to team up with.
His warp-travel power was accompanied by an intuition for the status of inhabited worlds. Like, did they have spaceflight capability? Did they have any superheroes among them? Were they friendly with powerful worlds which might intervene against an assault?
Not being omniscient even with his clairvoyance, Traynrekk even before he lost Galactikang had relied partly on past history. This being so, the space-villain initially thought he was making a routine check on Chimpanzia. Even the more-modern Directvideo, though possessing warp-speed capability, had long been isolated and rather weak. All events paralleling Mel Brooks' movie "Spaceballs" had transpired SINCE Galactikang had last looked in this direction.
The proximity of Captain Dashalong's ship gave the super-villain his first inkling of a high-tech presence. Alerted, he reached out with his mind. Sure enough, there was a modern ship there, and those aboard it were on the side of good. This was pretext enough to kill them.
Unleashing regulation sci-fi energy bolts, Traynrekk found protective shields deflecting the first volley. The ship fired back, hitting the cosmic villain's own shielding. Traynrekk's power level would have lasted longer-- but the cavalry was coming. Kept alive by Tahushio's power, Bestbaya struck with a Fuss-choke variant, squeezing the villain's brain.
Being a high-grade monster, the Trampler was very hard to kill; but not being brave, he decided to withdraw for now.
His cosmic clairvoyance informed him of a kindred spirit: mortal, but hard-edged and accomplished in wickedness. As icing on the cake, this mortal had a name which, like his name, began phonetically with "TR." Trillyun Subaru also had a formidable robot henchman. These, and the brutish mercenaries he sensed the woman had available, were promising.
