Chapter 15
On their way to Vacay Island, the remaining family members and Poppy attempt to uncover the mysteries behind the Disco Trolls and their possible motives early in the morning. Clay uses statistics to figure out how the spaceship was able to make it past the trollosphere. Spruce used his knowledge of True Crime Podcasts and tried to figure out the reasons for the kidnap. John Dory was in the driver's seat, quickly guiding Rhonda through the narrow roads in their kingdom, Floyd sat on the passenger's seat trying his best to keep calm during a situation of distress. Meanwhile, Viva comforted Poppy and had a heart-to-heart with her on the couch.
"I know we've already talked about it but if you want t-" Viva placed her hand on top of her little sisters and expressed.
"We're done with that subject" Poppy fiercely responded, still feeling a lot of curious emotions.
Viva understood her mental state and bowed her head, "Alright. Boys, how's the theorizing going?"
"Bad." Clay was nervously wrecking through every notepad he carried inside his mane, "I can't seem to calculate the physics of an animal in space!"
Spruce took his earphones off and replied, "That's because you're an accountant, not a physician."
"It's physicist." John Dory roared back to them as he drove relentlessly toward the sunset, "Gosh he really is a weak writer."
"Take it easy." Floyd interjected and put his power of silencing his brothers to some use,
"You're not the brightest of minds either."
"WH-" John Dory was about to scream out of pure nervosity but luckily Poppy got in his way.
She gasped excitedly at the sight of the sunset, "Look there it is!"
Rhonda took a dive into the sea of beads and made her way to the shore. And as it happened last time, she got everyone soaked and wet since she was in fact, not waterproof. The trolls are spilled all across the sand. Poppy spit out one bead and wiped her dress, "Come on, we're almost there."
The trolls immediately followed her with Rhonda staying behind. The armadillo, however, felt something unusual laying on her tongue, she couldn't quite place the taste of it, and she didn't like it. Rhonda expelled the deject from her mouth and it was revealed to be a sleeping Tiny Diamond covered in saliva. The baby was slowly awakened by the strong smell of the animals, he sniffed it before opening his eyes to the world and when he did not recognize the environment he gasped up for air, "Daddy!"
The trolling looked around for answers and heard what seemed to be a recognizable voice hollering in the background, "Huh." He stood up and followed it. The voice was Queen Poppy who decided to take things differently and see a brighter side of the whole situation, "How did I forget about being positive? It feels so good and it just reminds me of how strong my love for Branch is!"
"It's okay to let your feelings sink in, Poppy." Floyd walked by Poppy as the trolls were passing through the tropical floats and noddles, "There's nothing wrong with that."
"I know!" Poppy responded as she slid down the noodle on a plastic floatboard, "Branch was the one who taught me that."
Floyd smiled at the reference to the development of Branch's history with Poppy, looking back at his other siblings he noticed more blabbering. He had enough of it, "Will you guys stop? Arguing over and over will not fix anything. Didn't you guys learn something from when it was me who was taken?!"
That put an end to the nonsensical argument, Viva simply gasped amazed by his ability to impact his brothers. Poppy then stopped in front of an isolated shore on the beach, "There she is..."
"There is who...?" Viva peeked over Poppy's shoulder and reached her chin up high to see at her eye level.
Poppy turned back to everyone and said, "Look we need to be extremely careful with how we talk to this individual... She's been through some stuff."
"Oh no..." John Dory gulped to himself.
"It can't be..." Clay covered his eyes beneath his hands
"I know who she is." Spruce simply shrugged it off as he knew about the person's identity since they lived on his island.
"CRIMP!!!" Viva and Floyd beamed with joy as the pile of crimped paper stood heroically in front of her own sand castle shack in front of the sunset, "That's right... It is me."
"Hi queen!" Poppy ran up to her, nudging and shaking her all over, "It's so good to see you! Have you been tanning?"
"Yes!" Crimp gasped with enthusiasm, "I can't believe you noticed it?"
"How couldn't I!? You look, golden girl." Poppy sassily complimented her friend, making Crimp laugh and breaking her trust issues.
Crimp took her sunglasses off and wiped a tear from her eye. The former assistant allowed the trolls to enter her sacred vacation residence. Tiny peeked through the bushes and spied on the adults, immediately recognizing the hostess, "Oh look it's Aunt Poppy's other sister."
"So... I obviously know you're not here for a visit." Crimp jumped right to the point as she effortlessly made herself a fruit shake, "Tell me what happened."
"There was an extraterrestrial invasion in Pop Village..." Spruce explained to her in the simplest way possible, but also the rost way possible.
His over-exaggerated terms scared Crimp to spill her fruit shake all across JD's face, "WHAT!"
"WHAT HE MEANS IS..." Viva got in the way of the chaos and used some logic, "Trolls that came from outer space abducted some of our friends."
"And that includes Branch!" Clay tickled his own nose in a smart way, "Oh, and all those random trolls I know nothing about."
Poppy nodded more-or-less in agreement with him, so she finished with the explanation, "So we came here to ask for your help to see i-"
Crimp, already predicting the possible outcome interrupted Poppy and said, "If I have already made a machine capable enough to get you to outer space?"
"Yes!" Not surprisingly enough, she did have what they were looking for.
"Behold the... Amplistar!" Crimp pulled over a piece of fabric to reveal her newest project, "A machine built by myself for undisclosed reasons."
"Woah..." John Dory was drooling over the rocket, "This thing must have some lungs!"
"Oh haha! It does not!" Crimp didn't understand his use of the expression as she really was innocent and naive, "Amplistar is only capaba-"
Suddenly all they could hear was the sound of the engines blowing, Crimp's eyes widened and to her surprise, someone had already entered the ship. Viva looked around and Poppy was nowhere to be seen. She squinted her eyes and saw a glimpse of Poppy inside the rocket, "POPPY! POPPY WAIT!"
Brozone quickly got the memo and went after Viva to try and stop Poppy. They all stretch their hair enough to wrap it around the Amplistar. Poppy somehow managed to dodge their attacks but she clumsily broke through the roof, "Woah! Whoops." She pressed a button with a megaphone illustration and spoke into the speakers, "Guys I know this was supposed to be a family mission... But I gotta fix this on my own. I'm sorry but you guys have to stay here where it's safe."
Poppy immediately took flight without any drop of regret, she didn't want to put anybody else that she loved in danger even worse if it was Viva, after all she had been through. The spaceship rocketed into the sky, and in spite of Poppy's clueless piloting abilities, she was getting the hang of it. Inside the spaceship, Tiny Diamond was observing the landscape as they flew into the sky.
Back in Crimp's place, everyone was left speechless by yet another unexpected takeoff. Viva knew she couldn't be mad at her sister, so she simply gave her a fulfilling nod of approval and a wish of good luck. Floyd knew Poppy was capable enough to do it on her own as she was the woman who saved their brother's life. The other siblings simply had to respect the decision and went off with their lives, Crimp on the other hand was devastated by the damage this caused on her vacay getaway.
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