Chapter 31
The world was breaking apart. Poppy had just committed a terrible mistake, endangering everyone she knew and loved by tearing the wedding ceremony apart with the slice of a knife through a six-layered wedding cake. She looked around in complete disbelief as the consequences of her actions began to take effect upon the disco troll nation, the other inhabitants of the system, her best friends, and even the one person she cared bout the most in the world, Branch. The wedding cake was trembling apart as the beams supporting began to burst open and disconnect the venue in half.
"What's going on?!" Poppy asked worriedly as she observed a disruption in the sky and crumbs falling from the temple.
Branch struggled to keep himself standing as the ground was shaking horrendously in his surroundings, "Oh no..."
Meanwhile, in the lounge, the Snack Pack noticed Poppy's presence and the remorse she felt through her expressions. Biggie gasped and pointed the fact out, "Is that Poppy?!"
"It is!" DJ assured it as she searched in the distance.
"We've got to do something!" Biggie turned to his friends and continued.
"But what?!" Satin freaked out.
"We won't make it!" Chenille blurted out the truth and looked at the whole situation.
Poppy looked around and noticed the crack in space shattering and increasing to a concerning size, "I did something wrong..."
"Poppy!" Branch called for her as he climbed after the layer she was standing on. Poppy looked down at him and attempted to reach him. Suddenly a claw machine snatched her from the ground and pulled her into space. Branch cried out as he jumped to fetch her, "NO!"
"Watch out!" Supergleam warned as she pulled Branach back with her bubble force field due to a collapsing slice of cake.
Poppy was brought back to the Tulip with no warning and no preparation whatsoever, she withdrew the claw from her waist and confronted her mother for this unusual behavior, "What the heck is going on, mom?! This doesn't look like saving the day to me!"
Primrose just sat there at the control panel and didn't even look back at her daughter, giving a simple and dry response to her argument, "Sometimes being a hero means you have to make tough choices."
Poppy flinched her head back with an offended look, "I'm going back there."
"You can't." Primrose responded with the same intonation.
"You can't stop me!" Poppy went to the escape hatch and wrapped a marble ball blaster around her body.
"We don't have time for this Poppy!" Primrose finally spun her seat around and shouted furiously, "Geckos! put her in the Bad Girl Chair."
The Geckos saluted their captain and grappled Poppy by her arms. Poppy attempted to fight back but the critters were stronger, "What?! Put me down?! Mom, why are you doing this?!"
Seconds before they eventually shackled her into the punishment chair, Primrose gave her the simplest and coldest answer ever, "Tough choices, Poppy."
Poppy had never felt more betrayed than she did at this moment, the Geckos tied her up to the chair, and Primrose boosted the spaceship to make a jump. And so they did, abandoning the scene and leaving those trolls to face certain doom.
Back at the disaster, Branch and Supergleam observed as everything went down into madness and certain doom. He looked at his newfound ally and wondered, "What happens now?"
"No good." She replied with saddened eyes then motioning to the explanation points, "You see that large crater opening up in space? That's a wormhole that's going to consume the universe as we know it, star by star, planet by planet, galaxy by galaxy. Until there is nothing but a blank scrapbook page left to call home."
"Is there anything we can do?" Branch hoped she had a positive and good answer but she didn't, she simply shrugged and shook her head no.
And so it began, the crater now surrounded the entire temple and began to pull every physical matter with its wormhole energy. The wedding venue began to split apart entirely, at the top Guy Diamond and his wife, Queen Stellar had been fighting to stay together as both had been separated by the slicer and were hanging in different halves.
Queen Stellar battled to keep up with Guy and his son but the laws of wormholes were stronger, "I-I can't..." She interlocked her hair with her husband to create more balance.
"Hang on babe!" Guy Diamond used all of his strength to pull her back but his platform was also off-balance and falling apart, "You're strong! You can do this!"
"Daddy!" Tiny slipped out of the wedding cake and was sucked by the crater.
Guy's instincts kicked in as he gasped and let go of Queen Stellar's hair, "Tiny! No!"
"I will always love you!" Queen Stellar said with a feeling of sorrow as she allowed the cake to crumble and take her away, "Save your baby!"
"My baby!" Guy dove into action and caught his baby midair as they both fell as well, then he looked back at Queen Stellar and screamed, "My Queen! No! I love you more than the stars! Remember that!" His last words were marked by the autone-sound effect.
Back in the lounge, The Snack Pack observed that the walls cracked and the ornaments broke and shattered due to the trembling.
"I feel my stomach rumbling..." Cooper placed his hands on his chest and perked his ears down.
Smidge looked up at him and replied, "I don't think that's what's happening, Coop."
The floor underneath them partially detached from the pillars and made their escape inevitably as they slid down into the crater unwillingly, crying with fear and sadness. Now as the crowd was slowly sucked as well, Woofin, Frizzy, and Casanova all held hands together and accepted their fates. The tribeless trolls all formed a troll-bridge but Archil crashed through their efforts and pulled them into the crater by accident, "She's not my friend anymore by the way!"
Branch and Supergleam were the only trolls standing left, everyone had either been taken or was being involved in that process. Branch was grieving for everything and simply watched everything in silence.
"Gah!" Supergleam was the next one to go, Branch attempted to pull her back but once the last piece of the cake struck them they were both aborded by the crater as well.
And then there was nothing of the temple left, the crater took a break from consuming the galaxy as it had already taken every life form present in the Spiral Groove System. It needed some time to digest everything until moving to the Trollar System as we know it.
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