Chapter 17
Following their pivotal discovery, Broppy decided to spread the news to the rest of the crew, who had been distracted by board games in the spaceship's common area. Queen Stellar was occupied as she sat by Guy Diamond's bedside and held his hand, feeling guilt and responsibility about the incident. Because of her actions, her husband was injured, and her children were left behind with their steward. Clearly, Stellar had not revealed the full story yet. The spaceship soon attached itself to a floating asteroid so it didn't float and drift in space while they waited for Primrose to arrive with her crew.
The SnackPack sat on a roundtable as they each held a deck of cards, glaring and staring at each other taking this game very seriously. Smidge grinned and began to cackle mischievously. Biggie gulped and screeched, "I ADMIT IT! I LOSE!"
"DANG RIGHT YOU DO!" Smidge slammed her cards down and revealed she won the game, her competitive behavior became very evident during this game.
"Everyone! I have an announcement!" Poppy shimmied into the room as Branch and Froggy followed her with the chalkboard and the organized plan in hand, "We finally have a lead!"
Queen Stellar raised her head and looked at them, but remained silent. Supergleam approached the group and asked, "What did you find?"
"The key to finding our target." Branch responded as he pulled a stick from his hair and pointed at the blueprint he taped to the chalkboard, "EarthenwareDyanmics. Ring any bells?"
Cooper gasped and quite literally jingled a pair of bells he kept under his beret. He laughed to himself, "Oh! This never gets old." Everyone stared at him and blinked.
"I recognize that name." Supergleam looked closer to the logo and examined it, "We mailed some of their construction material to build the wedding venue back then."
"Exactly." Branch clapped his hands together and pulled Froggy closer to him, "They also happen to have built this robotic prototype... Which was unfortunately scrapped."
Smidge crossed her arms and asked, "What are you implying?"
"What he means is..." Poppy interrupted and used her leadership qualities to speak, "They have enough reputation to cover any suspicious activities. Hence why no one suspected it."
"The real question is..." Cooper threatened them and actually made a fair point, "What exactly is there to suspect?"
Queen Stellar finally spoke up and approached the group to share her input, "A lot, actually." She pointed to the chalkboard, "The owner of this company is the same man I told you about."
"And he seems to be very powerful." Poppy added with a bit more bulk to the context, "Not in a physical or ability-wise... I mean as an influential leader."
"Yeah!" Satin blurted out, "Because the real powers seem to go to that girl with the messy pigtails."
Chenille shivered at the thought of that, "Do not get me started on the shoulder pads and..."
"Baggy braies!" The twins looked at each other in despair as they reflected on their disapproval of Looney's wardrobe.
"Lack of fashion taste aside!" Biggie squeezed himself through the group and spoke up, "How are we supposed to break into an extragalactic mega-station?"
"He does have a point." Queen Stellar added as she looked at every single SnackPack member with a thoughtful mind, "You guys do seem to stand out a lot."
Branch laughed as he agreed with that statement, "Don't worry, I called in the expert. She'll be here any minute now."
Just as he said that an alarm began to ring across the spaceship. Biggie covered Mr. Dinkles' ears, Cooper imitated the alarm's pitch with his bell, Satin, and Chenille twirled themselves around Froggy, Smidge punched Branch in the gut as she thought he was one of the intruders, DJ Suki and Supergleam bumped into each other accidentally. Poppy looked around extremely confused as she saw Stellar form a dome around Guy Diamond.
"This couple be a good sample!" DJ Suki snatched her recording device to catch the alarm's sound for remixes.
Luckily for them, it was no one other than Primrose and her Gecko Troupe. They marched into the spaceship and provoked silence. She turned around and shut the alarm sound off, "Didn't mean to make such a dramatic entrance..."
"Queen Primrose?" The group exclaimed in unison, all except Branch and Poppy of course.
Poppy rushed to her mother and hugged her very lovingly, "Mom! I'm so glad you're here."
"Of course." Primrose expressed her mutual gratitude, "I came as soon as I could."
"We really needed some experienced folk around here." Branch said as he shook her hand very thankfully, he kind of overdid it.
"Don't..." Primrose snatched her hand back and swiped it on her skirt, "Sweat about it." Branch looked at his hands and realized how sweaty they were, he blushed immediately after.
Queen Primrose walked toward the chalkboard and analyzed the plan, "Earthenware, really? I've only ever dared to face these guys once. It wasn't easy."
"We want to find the coordinates for the other galaxy." Branch explained as he showed her his illustration of the flash drive they needed to find. Froggy projected the model in hologram form and proved the accuracy of Branch's interpretation of it.
"Huh." Primrose scratched her chin and pondered, "Okay, we can work with that sure. We'll need to organize teams though."
Poppy nodded her head, she wanted to cooperate with her mom's logic and assisted her, "Everyone single line."
"Team one, the extraction team, Poppy, Branch, Supergleam, DJ Suki, and I." Primrose began to write on the chalkboard, "Distraction/muscle team, Satin, Chenille, Smidge, Biggie, and Cooper."
Queen Stellar asked, she wanted to be a part of it "What about me?"
"You stay here with Guy." Queen Primrose explained with logic, "He needs support and my geckos will be here to protect you in case anything happens."
The disco troll nodded in response. Primrose returned her focus to the team and elaborated her precise plan, "I brought some slightly convincing disguises for us... Remember most important of all, don't try to cause any commotion, do not call any attention and most of all... Do not fall victim to their mind games."
The group nodded in comprehension, each following the side of their teams to suit up and prepare themselves for the stealth mission. This was a first for most of them, considering Poppy and Branch were the ones mostly found in adventures such as this one.
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