Chapter 17


As Poppy was confidently making her way through all of the layers in the trollosphere in the brand new Amplistar space rocket, Tiny Diamond was contemplating the beauty of their planet, observing the universe around him. The rocketship was about to reach the thickest layer, the one that's as hard as a wall. Poppy embraced herself for the impact and Tiny held onto a bar, they broke through the layer and exited the oxygen zone. It was all dark as a bean now, nothing but the drifting vehicle in sight and a whacky purple and pink wormhole in the distance.

"Okay..." Poppy took a deep breath in an attempt to cool herself down as she read the information in the panel, "You are only in the forbidden zone...The next steps will be totally fine! You've been through worse. Girl, get a grip."

The troll jogged the control handle forward and darted toward the hole and immersed herself and the spaceship. The surroundings began to follow the spiraling pattern of the portal, space and time were nothing inside the tunnel of colors. Poppy felt her physical body getting warped as they were hit by a multiversal lightning storm. The quick thunders cause Poppy to switch places with variants of herself from different realities. She panicked and screamed all the way through, she found herself as a Good Luck Troll, a male version of herself, a putt-putt Poppy, a rock apocalypse survivor Poppy, and then worst of all, a crazy old woman Poppy.

Tiny is floating around due to gravity as an old man too but then they exit the multiversal storm and glitch back to their original and essential forms, Tiny grasped onto a baggage compartment and hid himself inside of it. Poppy, on the other hand, regained her consciousness and her focus, "Oh I have not gone through worse than that." She concluded.

The struggle was over and they had reached open space, the entire trollar system was visible to them. Poppy's jaw dropped to the floor as she saw her daytime and nocturnal besties up and close. Sun and Moon grinned excitedly and waved at her, Poppy waved in return with double the amount of excitement. She then paused the ship in the middle of space and pondered, "Wait. How am I supposed to find them out here?"

"Oh, man... She really needs him to survive." Tiny cried due to Poppy's lack of investigative and survival skills in general.

A lightbulb popped up above Poppy's head causing her to beam up, "Oh yeah! I'll ask Sun and Moon! They'll know some directions."

She reversed the spaceship and parked next to the astronomical objects, "Hey guys! Where can I the Disco Trolls?"

Sun began to hysterically laugh at her question, "The DISCO Trolls?! Don't be silly!"

"Huh." Poppy tilted her head back unsure if their advice would be helpful.

"They live in a neighboring galaxy." Moon responded in a less nervous way to the troll, "We try to avoid contact with those guys..."

"I see. But how do I get there?" She asked.

"That's beyond our knowledge, Poppy." Moon poured coffee into his mug and mixed it with sugar.

"Geez." Poppy scratched her chin, "Do you know anyone who could help?"

"Yeah!" Sun rejoined the conversation and said, "There's a roadside plaza in a shattered asteroid. It's a space communication center in the extragalactic border!"

"The extra gala-" Poppy felt the loss of words after hearing that, but she was willing to try anything to find her boyfriend, "Okay, I appreciate it."

"Bye Poppy!" Sun waved at her excitedly as she took off to the border, "See you every day!"

Moon waved at her in a less lively way adding, "And night."

Poppy followed the coordinates the star had described to her as she traveled through the stars and wonders of space. Soon her destination was visible, it was the largest out of every other asteroid in the field. It appeared to be composed of acrylic glass and large shattered markings lasted from the bottom to the top, almost all of its lower half was missing, and some shards still floated on its surroundings. The Amplistar reached the spaceport and landed on the only parking spot left.

The doors were lowered and some gases were emitted from the pipes, Tiny Diamond quickly ran for it and escaped from Poppy's eyesight. The Pop Queen found herself at a roadside stop for galactic travelers, "Woah."

There was a fuel station for spaceships, a maze, and a restaurant. Poppy analyzed each option and decided to head for the restaurant since that was the most common and obvious choice she could make. The transparent ground of the asteroid threw her senses off and made her dizzy, but she got over it since she had a mission to fulfill. She opened the doors to the place and saw every type of creature in there, her world was truly bigger than she ever expected.

The bartender was an alien made out of Pom-Pom with a rubberband bun on her head, four googly eyes, and pipe cleaner arms. A female version of Cloud Guy, but cosmic, purple, and full of stars. A biker gang that resembled the Party Crashers but alien-like and a darker shade of green with neon spots all over their body. And a group of dark blue bipedal lizards with bioluminescent bodies with green colorings on their backs and tails.

Poppy jumped onto a stool and leaned against the counter looking around the environment, not intimidated by the place or the customers at all. Pam The Bartender had just finished drying a cup so she finally could tend to Poppy's order, "Hi welcome to Pammy's Diner, what are havin' today?"

"Do you have anything sweet?" Poppy asked genuinely with the biggest smile on her face.

Pam gave her a deadly look implying that she didn't take her request seriously, "Water it is."

Poppy gulped out of intimidation as the waitress left she could only feel the warm breath of the Space Crashers on her side and the claustrophobic attention the space cloud wanted to get. The terrestrial troll cleared her throat and looked forward.

"Hi, I am Nebulady!" The cloud popped up and squeezed herself into Poppy's seat, "I am a nebula! Which means a space cloud. We don't have many Terrans around so I guess you're familiar with the distant cousins of my family, the clouds."

"Oh, I am!" Poppy responded feeling quite comfortable as Pam handed her the cup of water, "I have a cloud friend. He's the best."

"I bet he is." Nebulady grinned at that statement, "He must have the best jokes."

"Nough with this foolery." A deeper voice commanded from a dark booth at the back of the restaurant, "Let me have a look at the terran."

It was the leader of the space party crashers, he was larger than other individuals of his species and sported a mullet and many neon tattoos on his arms. He cracked his neck as he approached Poppy, who took a last sip of her water. The leader said, "A troll. We don't see these very often."

"Oh?" Poppy raised her eyebrow at that, assuming that other trolls had passed through this place before, "You know other trolls?"

"Oh, we do." The female crasher added.

"What are you insinuating here?"The leader got very easily offended by the poor choice of words and vocabulary, so he picked up a blade, "You're threatening me..."

"NO WHAT?!" Poppy yelped in fear, raising her hands in fear. Suddenly the lizard costumers began to bark at the party crashers aggressively and a baton was sent flying onto the leader's forehead. The baton returned to whoever threw it, a figure that resembled a troll, "Leave her alone..."


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