Chapter 20


Inside the Earthenware Dynamics space station, Primrose's team had now reached the control center and caught the front desk lady as their guide to the location of the coordinates. They were unaware of the chaos in the main atrium, in which Cooper got everyone involved. Luckily, this Nebulady person was aware of Primrose and Poppy since he was involved in the chaos caused by Poppy a few years back in the asteroid space point near the galaxy border. Much to everyone's dismay, Primrose's Gecko was still nowhere to be found as he got himself in a mess to provide a distraction for the trolls.

That same Gecko continued to run from the Clayliens through the long and geometric hallways of the base, he somehow managed to run on all fours while the Clayliens gave up due to the animals' speed. Phil reached an escape shuttle area hopped onto the canned pods and ejected himself from the station, what he didn't know was that the shuttle had autopilot back to the home planet of EarthenDynamics.

 Phil gulped in fear as he realized he had just committed the biggest mistake of his life. He could see the cackling faces of the two Claylien guards in the distance, he turned around and saw the monitor showing the coordinates to the planet, alerted by it, he tried to share it with the rest of his allies. But the attempt to transmit the signal sent a shock and stunned him.

Meanwhile, back at the station, the group successfully took Nebulady hostage and managed to get her to guide them toward the storage room. SuperGleam aimed her sequin-shooting blaster at Nebulady and escorted the group of trolls toward an elevator, "After you." Supergleam said as she allowed DJ Suki to walk in before her.

"How kind of you madam!" DJ Suki responded, joining in with her playful attitude.

Poppy grinned, she nudged Branch as she showed her overbite very mischievously, "I'm sensing something between those two, huh?"

"Oh yeah absolutely." Branch somehow agreed with her, despite his unusual impulsive behavior from the prior events, "At least there's something positive in between all these dramas."

The elevator shaft closed and now it started to go up, Primrose looked back at Nebulady and demanded she press the right button. And so she did.

"That's rich coming from y-" Poppy replied sassily, she didn't finish her sentence, however, because she was interrupted by Nebulady.

"Hey! I remember you!" Nebulady gasped almost excitedly, "You're the pink troll that has a cloud friend. Am I right?"

"GASP! Yes, that's me!" Poppy squealed back at her, "I remember you too! You are such a diva!"

Branch furrowed his eyebrows and pulled Poppy away from her, "What the heck are you doing? Can't you see she works for the evil company?"

"Uh, excuse me?" Poppy put her hands on her hips and argued back, "She is being very welcoming and nice to me! Maybe she's just scared because all of you are being so hostile!"

DJ Suki suddenly brought an interesting point to the conversation, "You think we should trust the people who tried to hurt Guy?" 

"Who?" Nebulady asked with a lot of genuine in her voice, "Look if you were to say like Stellar or something... I'd get it, but what guy are ya'll even talking about?"

Suddenly they got to the storage level and the doors opened, the group was silenced by the fact she mentioned Stellar. Yet, they did not even question it they just continued to head further into the storage room in hopes of finding those coordinates. The storage room was huge, it had tall shelves with many archives lined up in alphabetical order.

"How do we find these coordinates?" Poppy asked, "What do they look like?"

Primrose analyzed the shelves and responded to her daughter's question, "Try looking for whatever says..."

"T-Terracota." Nebulady trembled as she saw the sequin-blaster aiming at her head.

Supergleam nodded as she emitted a light from her armor, "But there are thousands of archives in here... This shelf is just A!"

"And this one is only vowels?" Branch was surprised, not even he would come up with such strange methods of organization.

Nebulady closed her eyes and sighed, "That's because robots sorted these documents. This is what Clocker values in his work..."

"Who's Clocker?" Branch questioned the namedrop, "Is that EarthenWare Dynamics boss?"

"Oh goodness." Nebulady fainted on the spot, she just realized how much trouble she was so she simply dropped to the floor and evaporated, leaving everyone in silence.

"That's not good." Primrose spoke in fear, "Everyone try to find an archival panel. We can demand the coordinates in one of those!"

Poppy nodded in agreement with her mom, she got the memo, "Let's hurry! We don't know what Nebulady's is gonna do!"

"Oh so now you don't trust her?" Branch questioned Poppy's sudden change of affiliation to the space cloud, inexactly.

"Now is not the time for this, Branch." Poppy somehow excelled more in maturity than her husband at this moment.

"I found one!" Supergleam yelled at the top of her lungs as the rest of the group followed her toward the huge control panel, "I've never handled one of these..."

DJ Suki stepped in front of them and realized, "Wait, this is just like a DJ headset? I can do this with ease." She cracked her fingers and began to learn the exact ways to control this thing, "What was the name of the planet again?"

"Terracota!" They all said in unison, expressing how they worried about Guy Diamond.

The panel accepted their search and the tubes started bringing the archives right toward them, and there it was. Poppy snatched it from the receiving chamber and gripped it with the largest smile. But just as they ere about to leave, the guards arrived inside the storage facility.

"I can handle them." Supergleam stepped forward and pulled out her blaster. She began to shoot sequins at the guards. Primrose charged toward them and used her martial arts expertise to attack them too.

Meanwhile, back in the atrium, the rest of the SnackPack had to deal with something a little more exposed and personal. A tall argil guard circled Cooper, Squeal, Biggie, Smidge, and the Twins as they were caught in between he guard and a wall. The guard growled as he demanded for the pig, "Give me the animal and turn to the wall. You are all under arrest for robbery and being here without identification."

"Oh, really?" Smidge smirked as she looked up at the very tall guard, "I don't think so... ATTACK!"

Satin and Chenille looked at each other and let out a very inspired battle cry as they ran in circles around the guards legs and wrapped their hair around them, "TWIN-STER COMBO!"

"Watch out for Mr. Dinkles!" Biggie quickly rushed away from the fight as he carried Mr. Dinkles to a safe hiding spot.

"TAKE THIS DIRT-MAN!" Smidge leaped from the ground and landed a painful uppercut punch on the guards face. The guard collapsed to the ground as he lost balance and fell.

Cooper looked down at his new pet and spoke to him, "It's your time to shine now, sweetie."

Squeal oinked and did as commanded, the little pig rushed toward the guard's face and bit his extremely comically large nose. The group began to laugh. Suddenly they heard a call from afar, it was Poppy, "Guys! Come on we gotta go!"

"Oh finally!" Chenille expressed in relief as she and the others followed after the group.

The team was finally together again, running back to the ship as they had each caused some serious trouble on the station. Biggie struggled to accompany the group but he asked, "Did you get the coordinates?"

"Yeah!" Supergleam responded as she ran next to DJ, "It wasn't easy though!"

Branch agreed with her as he lead the way, "True, don't know how you guys managed to keep us safe for so long."

Satin said in a slightly annoyed way, but she was happy for Squeal's addition to the group now, "Ask Cooper." 

Cooper held the pig on his back as they finally reached the loading station for the rocket, "Oh yeah! Meet Squeal!"

Everyone awed at the animal, with Poppy almost passing out upon seeing it with her own eyes for the very first time. Primrose shook hersoult out of it and called her attention, "We don't have much longer. Get in!"

The group entered the spaceship and took off from the Earthenware headquarters. They managed to successfully escape from the guard. Now they were really much closer to saving Guy Diamond, as they had at least some hope now. And whoever this Clocker person was, had no idea what was coming for him.


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