Chapter 16


Meanwhile, Supergleam and her hostage guests were still waiting for the queen's approval. The entire SnackPack was rammed in a single bubble together and to most of them, it was getting quite uncomfortable. Branch for once, was trying to be reasonable, and finding an escape route would be the most efficient way to leave this place. He attempted to study how the systematics of the SpaceBeetle worked, but it was just too complicated or too stupid for him to understand.

Suddenly when they least expected, a magenta button lit up from the control panel and Supergleam pressed on it, "This is General Supergleam speaking."

A holographic troll wearing a fancy white suit, round sunglasses, and slicked-back hair gently spoke into the message, "Greetings, this is Woofin the Butler. The Queen awaits."

"Good." Supergleam simply shut it off on his face, "Finally, come on."

The SpaceBeetle lowered its mouth and allowed Supergleam to waddle off into the spaceship dock, soon the beetle sneezed out the trolls, popping their bubble trap in the process. Leaving them covered in mucus. 

"Yuck." Branch flickered off a large amount of mucus while Cooper licked it off his own hands, Branch stood up and attempted to run back to the ship. The beetle slapped Branch off like a bowling ball causing him to crash against a lampost.

"Idiot." Supergleam scoffed, angry about Branch's absurdity, "Before we enter the palace, I ask of you. Respect the queen."

"Okay!" The Snackpack all gave a positive sign to Supergleam. Then they entered the palace, a chromatic plastic hall with colorful spotlights surrounding the area and sparkly elements decorating it, and gift wraps. Everyone was extremely impressed by the place until a round platform rose from the floor and the butler from the hologram began to announce, "Introducing Stellar Glimmer Whimsy of the Planet Jives, Queen of the Disco Trolls, Ruler of the Spiral Groove System and obviously this galaxy."

Woofin stepped aside as a much larger circular platform began to emerge from behind, it reached its full height, except it was dark. Woofin cleared his throat to signal something and a lilac female troll with bangs and a headband rushed into the room, panting like crazy, "I'm so sorry!" Frizzy exclaimed, before returning to her place panting much more than before.

The queen arose from the circular platform and a spotlight landed on her head. She sported a body suit made of nylon fabric and a lustrous silver cape of chrome paper, a reddish skin tone, pointy years, disco troll characteristics, and puffy purple hair with light orange and pink streaks, not to mention the glitter particles scattered all across her body, from her cheeks to her curly locks and fringe. Her high-heeled boots appeared to be the same plastic material that Supergleam's spacesuit was made of.

"Sallutations." The powerful figure spoke from her altar, "The Disco Queen welcomes you with open arms to the planet of Jives."

"Oh yeah?" Branch squeezed his way through the front of the group and confronted the queen, "Too bad! Cause our arms are openly SHUT." 

Queen Stellar looked Branch up and down and then glanced at Supergleam, "You sure these are the best choices?"

"Yes, my queen." Supergleam quickly explained herself by raising her point, "These trolls are full of personality, this one, however, is the only exception. He's here by accident."

"Okay good." Queen Stellar looked at her nonexistent nails then sassied all the way, "Cause I don't think I'd be able to handle all that baggage his eyebags and wrinkles carry."

"Excuse me?" Branch was slightly offended by her comments.

"Now, let's see what you brought to me." Queen Stellar soared down to their level so she could meet each of them face to face, "Speak."

Biggie squealed and gulped, terrified of the woman, "I'm Biggie and this is Mr. Dinkles." He greeted her by tipping Mr. Dinkles' hat.

Stellar observed the worm up and close with Biggie retreating a bit, "Ooh, nice! You got a ventriloquist thing goin' on!" 

"Well, not exa-" Biggie attempted to correct her.

"And you're British? Oi bruv nice rear down there, mate! Want some tea?" Queen Stellar gleefully laughed all by herself as everyone was left extremely confused by that, "Okay, now you."

"Smidge. I am stronger than you think." Smidge proceeded to engrave her tiny hands into the bottom of a statue.

"Puh-rove it." Queen Stellar leaned against a pillar and raised her eyebrows at Smidge.

She raised the statue up with no struggle, tossing and spinning as if it were a beach ball. Queen Stellar giggled at her abilities before looking at Satin & Chenille, "Okay you two look fancy."

"I'm Satin." The first twin greeted, bowing down to the ruler and then allowing her sister to continue.

"And I'm Chenille. And we work with fashion." Chenille bowed down to her, introducing herself and their class.

Satin complimented her twins' sentence and gave the queen some primary examples of their materials, "Crepe, linen, chiffon. Anything you can imagine."

"So chic. I love it." Stellar winked at them then bumped into Cooper, "Now you look quite exquisite and interesting."

"I'm Cooper and a Funk-Pop troll." Cooper said with the biggest smile on his face.

"What's your best ability?" The Queen questioned as she braided a small portion of Cooper's neck fur.

"I poop cakes and cupcakes on the side." Cooper expressed happily, grinning innocently.

"Don't believe it until I see it!" The Queen jumped aside and saw DJ Suki, "Wow you're hip!"

DJ Suki looked down at her hips and shrugged, "Actually I'm DJ, DJ Suki."

"That explains a lot." Queen Stellar backed away from her.

"Thanks." DJ rubbed her eyes, looking around mesmerized by everything.

As she was backing away, Queen Stellar twirled around in a glamourous discotheque way and landed right in front of the last candidate, Guy Diamond. The pace slowed down to slow-motion mode and their exchange looked like never before by doing so, Stellar got distracted and almost tripped but Guy bravely caught her in his arms. Stellar looked at him, fluttering her fabulous eyelashes, flirtingly asking, "And who are you?"

"Guy Diamond." Guy responded, quite literally eliminating any thoughts of his son, "I am a star."

"Oh, I can see that." Stellar said as she stood herself up, "The brightest of them all."

Guy's glittery cheeks went red and he really wasn't expecting this to happen at all. This was the first time he felt this kind of love with another adult who wasn't himself. He sure felt love for his son and his friends, but not love love. 

"My queen, they haven't been introduced to our music as of yet." Supergleam was forced to break the awkward silence their tension left. Branch was giving them all the judgy looks while the SnackPack simply observed their interactions.

"WHAT!" Stellar reacted dramatically to her statement, "You did not just say that! We have to do this ASAP! Woofin get the band."

"Right on their way, your majesty." Woofin quickly called for the band department and a whole ensemble of disco trolls walked into the palace, including Frizzy. Supergleam observed the movements and the organization while Stellar reapplied all her makeup in hopes of impressing her guests.

Branch turned his back to the foreigner trolls and spoke to his allies, "Come on guys you're seriously not burying all this stuff, right?"

"Oh, we are." Smidge shoved Branch aside as they all ran closer to the stage and grinned as Stellar began to dance to a cheerful and upbeat tempo with trumpets and synths.

A choir of Disco Trolls popped up next to the guests and provided the opening vocals of the song, "Burn, baby, burn! Burn, baby, burn!
Burnin'!"

Soon the Queen slid down from her position and began to show off her impeccable singing abilities and some groovy dance moves, "To my surprise
One hundred stories high
People gettin' loose now
Gettin' down on the roof
Folks were screamin', out of control
It was so entertainin' when the boogie started to explode
I heard somebody say..."

Stellar infiltrated into the guests and interacted with each member playfully and extremely suspiciously, at least to Branch's point of view. She then purposely bumped his nose to annoy him before returning to the center where the other disco trolls would engage in a group dance. "Burn, baby, burn! Disco inferno!
Burn, baby, burn! Burn that bummer down
Burn, baby, burn! Disco inferno!
Burn, baby, burn! Burn that bummer down
Burnin'!"

Stellar proceeded to be lifted up by her people and she performed at the top of her lungs gracefully, "Up above my head, I hear music in the air, I hear music!
That makes me know there's a party out there!"

"Satisfaction came in a chain reaction
I couldn't get enough, so I had to self-destruct
The heat was on, rising to the top
Everybody's goin' strong
That is when my spark got hot
I heard somebody say!"

She continued to perform solo but the female choir assisted with some extemely high backup vocals after each word. As the song was reaching an end, every troll formed a spiraling circle on the hall, a bright disco ball was lowered down the ceiling, and the floor divisions began to project multicolored lights transforming into a disco dance floor. The Disco Trolls began to showcase their unique dance styles and vocals while the queen adlibbed some words into the song, "Burn, baby, burn! Disco inferno! (Ah, yeah!)
Burn, baby, burn! Burn that mama down
Burn, baby, burn! Disco inferno, yeah!
Burn, baby, burn! Burn that mama down
Burnin'!"

The song was finished and the guests cheered for them, except for Branch. One individual who couldn't get past Supergleam's attention, meanwhile Stellar breathed heavily after such a well-done performance.

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