Chapter 20
Upon their escape, Primrose and her crew allowed the Tulip spaceship to rest in open space for a while since they had successfully evaded the biker gang and all potential enemies. Poppy had gotten used to the fact she had rencountered her mother after all these years but her intrigue of knowing what happened to her was still inside and she was dying to get all the answers she deserved. The Tulip was a flower-shaped ship with bigger scale proportions and an echoing hall as a cockpit, one thing is for sure, Primrose was the complete opposite of King Peppy in many aspects, from personality to physical status.
Poppy followed her mother as she led her toward her living lounge where they would share their expected conversation. Primrose accommodated herself on an armchair, stretching her feet up and receiving a massage from one of her Geckos, "So... Where were we on the updating each other about our respective lives?"
"We stopped on the..." Poppy was chilled out at first but then she couldn't help herself and freaked, "HOW DID YOU WIND UP IN SPACE AS A HERO!"
"Oh yeah! That." Primrose dismissed the massager and fixed her position on the chair, "So basically a long time ago when you were still a baby..."
A scrapbook retelling of her backstory would pop up on the screen. The environment of the Troll Tree was sewed and a scrapbook version of young Queen Primrose was placed onto a tree branch.
"I was the forceful Queen of the Pop Troll tribe ruling alongside your father."
Scrapbook King Peppy flexed his muscles and kissed Primrose romantically.
"We both tried everything to protect our nation from the bloodthirsty Bergens."
Several starving Bergens are added behind the scrapbook rulers.
Poppy quickly violated the storytelling and explained, "That's in the past now! Bergens are friendly now."
"Former bloodthirsty Bergens then."
The bergens are erased from the scrapbook and the rulers sigh in relief.
"Until one dreadful night...cycles before the imminent Trollstice... I was snatched from the Troll Tree by that gastronomical hag to be served for the King beforehand."
Scrapbook Chef picked Primrose away from the tree and King Peppy was unable to rescue her from the Bergens' fuzzy hands.
"But I wasn't going to accept that as my fate."
Scrapbook Primrose used a wooden barb to sting the Chef's hand.
"So then I escaped... But not as expected."
Primrose is accidentally drained down the sink and winds up getting flushed into the sewers.
"I was lost and nowhere to be found... miles away from Bergen Town and even if I came back. I knew I wouldn't be able to find you since you would have left. So I had to adapt."
Poppy asked once again, "So you didn't escape with Viva and the other trolls?"
"No, that patrol was shortened because we were finishing to dig up the escape routes. Peppy must have altered history once again."
"So him!" The two scoffed in synchronization.
"But it wasn't over for Primrose yet! She wasn't a Queen no more, but she became something else."
A Scrapbook UFO abducted Primrose and took her to outer space.
"A fellow Disco Troll had found me and kidnapped me. I knew I couldn't trust any other trolls so I ambushed it."
Scrapbook Primrose snatched a staff from the trolls' equipment and knocked it out. The UFO unfortunately crashed onto a bioluminescent planet.
"There I became stranded on an unknown planet of lights... But it turns out I wasn't alone. The Geckos found me and haven't left my side ever since."
The Scrapbook Geckos offered Primrose several foods and beverages and a hut in their village.
"We worked together and built this spaceship from scratch with equipment from a crash site in their home planet... And then we attempted to return to the Trollosphere but the multiversal storms kept pushing us back and it was messing with our particles."
The Scrapbook characters built a spaceship, drifted into space, and attempted to enter the wormholes several times. A Scrapbook Primrose had a thought balloon and a memory of her family with a saddened expression.
"And that's how I became a space traveller." Primrose finished her story as it transitioned back to reality and she shut her scrapbook stiffly, "The end."
"Oh my, mom." Poppy touched her chest and uttered, "I had no idea... It must have been so hard for you..."
"I got used to it." Primrose confessed looking down, "And it still does hurt me sometimes."
"But hey! Now we're finally together again!" Poppy sought to bring back some good energy into the reunion and gave her mom another hug.
"Yes! It's fantastic!" Primrose smiled, "Now you tell me what the heck happened during my absence and why would you ever come to space, my dear."
Poppy cleared her throat and took a deep breath as she began to speak uncontrollably for the entirety of her explanation, "So basically when the trolls escaped, me and dad got away and found a safe haven for the trolls and named it Pop Village but Viva got deviated with some other trolls and lived in isolation for years. So then 20 years after the Last Trollstice Chef returned and captured some trolls so me and my best friend turned boyfriend, Branch went on a mission to rescue them! There we met a scullery maid named Bridget and we showed her that true happiness comes from within after she went on a date with the King and then we showed all the Bergens that happiness comes from within."
"Wow... Poppy that's-" Primrose assumed that she was done with the explanation considering that's a lot of information.
"I'm not finished!" Poppy continued her recap, "Then Queen Barb from the Hard Rock tribe went on a search to gather the strings and turn everyone into rock zombies but then we found about it and then we also found about the trolls species! So Branch and I went on yet another adventure through the troll kingdom and made allies and enemies but in the end, we all accepted each other's differences and learned that music comes from inside not from some strings that were created years ago."
"Oh-"
"Not done! Then we went to Bridget's wedding and Branch's long lost brother came to tell us his favorite brother was being held captive by two Mount Rageons to abuse his musical talent. So we went on a family road trip to get the band back together and that's how I crossed paths with Viva but she still through Bergens wanted to eat us so she didn't join us at first. Then in the end we all learned that everyone is perfect the way they are and now we're here!" Poppy took a deep breath to regain her air, "That's about it."
"You've been through a lot, baby." Primrose comforted her daughter and said, "You are so brave this Branch must be really lucky to have you."
"I'd say I'm lucky to have him..." Poppy expressed, smiling at the thought of Branch.
Primrose approached her daughter and grabbed her hands, "Is that why you're here? What happened."
"The Disco Trolls came... They didn't even say what was going on..." Poppy looked down and sighed feeling guilty about it, "They abducted Branch and my best friends... I have no idea where they are and I didn't know what to do... So I came here alone because I didn't want to lose anybody else."
"And that's exactly why you're so brave." Primrose rubbed her hand on Poppy's chin and smiled, "Good news is I know how to find these Disco Trolls... The bad news is I know what they're doing..."
Poppy jumped up out of shock, "You do?!"
"Yes..." Primrose pulled up a chart board and pointed out some facts, "Their ruler, Queen Stellar Jives has been looking for a significant other for ages and none of the members of her tribe have fit her expectations... So now she's been resorting to different species and Pop Trolls are the only trolls that are more vibrant and cheerful than disco trolls."
"So that's why she took the most exquisite members..." Poppy scratched her chin, using her brain to think logically for once.
"Exactly." Primrose shoved the board away and headed for the panel, "These trolls are dangerous Poppy. So we cannot risk ourselves by heading straight for the center of the Spiral Groove System, we have to land on a habitational planet first and then we'll infiltrate into their wedding venue."
"Sounds good to me." Poppy shrugged.
"Awesone." Primrose snapped her fingers and the Geckos jumped into action, activating every control in the ship to make a galactic jump, "Seatbelts on."
"Don't worry Branch." Poppy looked into the distance and said, "We're comin' for you."
The trolls sit down and observe as the Tulip makes an extragalactic jump from the Trollar System to the Spiral Groove System. These jumps usually take some time as galaxies are extended and located far away from each other.
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