Chapter 33


Into the void and the beginning of the end of the world, the Disco Trolls along with every species present at Queen Stellar's & Guy Diamond's wedding ceremony had been drained from reality and seized inside the forever emptiness of the wormhole breach. As the inevitable event occurred, the trolls all started to lose hope of any salvation at that point. Their queen was nowhere to be found beneath the vast piles of wreckage from the cake venue and the stadium around it. Archil merged himself into the floor as a way of grieving the loss, every other space inhabitant laid down in great melancholy.

Within all the sadness was Branch, a troll who had already experienced so many similar situations throughout his life. He felt for the trolls and knew that his initial presumptions of their intentions were judgy. Before any troll had the chance of losing their color, Branch had to do something of pure goodwill. He spotted Supergleam lying by the foot of a crumbles hill and skated down toward her with an aluminum sheet then finally approached the lone troll, "Supergleam! Come on, let's find a way outta here."

She looked at him with the corner of her eye and sighed, "There isn't a way out. We're stuck in here for all eternity."

"That doesn't sound very hopeful of you..." Branch kneeled and made eye contact, "The brave troll I met would never give up this easily."

"That's back when everything was fine!" Supergleam turned her head and responded aggressively, "Now it's almost impossible to do anything useful!"

"Almost?" Branch theorized over that use of words and scratched his chin.

Supergleam took a soothing breath and replied, "Sorry about blowing up at you there. But yeah, it's almost impossible."

"What can we do?" Branch asked her with a hopeful tone.

"Us Disco Trolls are embedded with the ability to create a transmission so grand that it can summon wormholes." Supergleam explained with little excitement in her voice, she wanted to believe Branch but everything was too dark.

"Then what are we waiting for?" Branch pressed her on and looked around ecstatic.

"Not that simple, Branch." Supergleam accounted for the rest of the explanation, "We'd have to experience a nationwide level of bittersweetness to stimulate it. Sort of hard currently."

"I can fix that. Be right back." Branch quickly thought of a solution and rushed away into the distance. He searched for his oldest, yet newest friends, who were lost in the rummages somewhere. After not being able to find them remotely, he stood on a dirty floor to rest "Where are they..."

"Ow." A sound came from the floor the was standing on, that floor had a face and a name, "That kinda hurt, dude..."

Branch's eyes widened and he quickly leaped over from Archil's face, "Sorry man."

"You're good." He responded with a monotone intonation.

"Look, I know this might be a little too disruptive of myself but..." Branch attempted to get something out of the creature made of clay, "Can you raise me real tall so I can catch a sight of my friends."

"Sure." He responded and acted impulsively, raising Branch to the same extent his usual arm would be.

Branch struggled to keep his balance at such a high position but he caught the grip. He pulled his binoculars from his hair and searched through the crowd, he focused on finding the groups that stood out the most. First, he spotted a group of sorrowing trolls from tribless troll species, making camp in the far corner. Then he switched the view and observed the court members from the Disco Trolls such as Woofin, Frizzy, and Casanova, mourning their queen's absence. 

Finally, on his last try, he found his friends. There they were gathered in a circle eating marshmallows around a bonfire. Guy Diamond and his son were sitting together, the troll was grieving and Tiny felt for the first time his dad was a person too, not just his father. While the others shared the same amount of sadness. Branch then disposed of the binoculars and glided toward the trolls with his hair, he landed by them with a heroic pose. Until the binoculars hit him right in the head and ruined the entire scene.

"You guys!" Branch wiped his shorts and approached them, "There you are!"

"Hi, Branch." They all said in unison, saddened by the happening.

Branch walked to the front and asked, "Why the long faces?"

"Oh!"  Smidge crunched a marshmallow with her tiny hands and confronted him, "Maybe because our best friend, who's never done anything remotely bad, destroyed the world as we know it right in front of our eyes!"

"She also ruined my daddy's wedding! Who does that, Uncle Branch?! WHO. DOES. THAT." Tiny yelled at him angrily then suddenly stopped, "On the bright side, she gave me this awesome scar."

"SCAR!" A random voice projected from somewhere as it zoomed on Tiny's butt scar.

"It's not the end of the world." Branch promoted his idea to them with the intention they would listen, "I know there's still hope for us. There always is."

"But what for?" Guy conditioned in his sorrow, "My queen won't be there anyways."

Biggie added as he rocked Mr. Dinkles in his arms, "And Poppy still endangered us all! How can we bear that?"

"Woah! You guys are so quick to jump to conclusions!" Branch immediately jumped into defense mode and explained his girlfriend's situation, "Poppy would never do such a thing. She was under the influence of her mom!"

"Okay, that makes way more sense." Chenille agreed as she nodded to her sister, "But how would we get out here in the first place?"

"Yeah!" Satin agreed while gesturing with her arms, "The only exit was closed down when everything was sucked in."

"If you're in this with me." Branch was relieved to know the trolls had pardoned the situation and moved on with his plan, "Just follow my lead."

The majority of the Snack Pack nodded and accompanied him as he walked away, except for Guy Diamond, who remained sitting by himself in the same spot. Branch went to a tall hill and cleared his throat so his voice would project into every corner of the succumbing void, "Attention! Trolls of creatures of every kind! I know things might look a little hopeless at the moment! But I know we can fix this! If we work together and cooperate in harmony, we can make our way outta here!"

He was responded with silence, the Snack Pack blinked at him, having second thoughts at his proposition. Until something caught the attention of every troll present there, it was Supergleam who stood next to Branch and gave him an assuring nod. The general broke into song with her proper voice instead of a filter and sang with no percussion, "I've been chasing dreams for so long
Just one step behind and then they're gone
Illusions of love would come and go
I guess you have to hurt before you grow..."

Branch joined her in the harmony of the song and they perform together captivating the trolls in there, "And everybody knows
Never let go of the, never let go of the dream..."

Inspired by the sudden movement, the Snack Pack provided some acapella harmonizations in the background such as 'Ooh & Aah's'. Branch now took the opportunity and sang a small solo line, "I always seem to lose what I thought was mine
And many times I tried to leave it behind."

Supergleam sparked up a smile and slowly regained her olf confidence back, "Deep inside, hope was still alive
Deep inside, dreams will never die."

"That is why we're movin' closer to the truth." The two performers come together and perform the chorus together with the Snack Pack joining the backup vocals for greater effect. Supergleam activated her jets and carried Branch around the void as they influenced every disco troll in the perimeter, "It's really great for me to be here
I've won over the pain and the fear
It's been so very hard through the years
Been looking through a rainbow of tears
And still I never really let go of the dream!"

"Sometimes I saw my life just falling apart
And all the rejection tearing at my heart
Deep inside, hope was still alive
Deep inside, dreams will never die."
Branch was dropped by Supergleam onto the topping layer of the destroyed wedding cake and performed to a small gathering of trolls who began to show positive emotions from the duet. 

"If you try there'll be so much more for you!" Supergleam landed beside him and harmonized beautifully. The percussion sounds returned and accompanied them and the backup vocals through the rest of the song, "It's really great for me to be here
I've won over the pain and the fear
It's been so very hard through the years
Been looking through a rainbow of tears
And still I never really let go of the dream!"

Supergleam boosted herself up in the air as two antennas sprouted out of her hair and frequency waves began to be emitted from them. That highly influenced the other Disco Trolls as they did the same and revealed the secret part of their bodies while joining and creating the perfect harmony and wave transmission,  "We can all be free, we hold the key
If we can see what we wanna be
Life's never easy, you get no guarantees..."

As the wave frequencies got progressively larger, a wormhole took form at the top of the void. When least expected, Queen Stellar arose from the wreckage and floated up as her final contribution completed the process and the song as a whole, "Why not give your all and see what you can find?"

The essence of the wormhole was all reverted into the new one the Disco Trolls had created. Supergleam regained her breath as she looked at Branch happily after their efforts had worked out perfectly. Guy Diamond rushed through the crowds in search of his wife, "STELLAR! STELLAR! I AM COMING FOR YOU, MY BEAUTIFUIL QUEEN!"

"Guy!" Queen Stellar glanced at him in slow motion.

The two encountered each other gracefully, sharing a beloved kiss in front of everyone. Woofin rushed to them and announced, "I now declare you husband and wife."

The Disco Trolls and the Snack Pack all cheered for them as the ceremony hadn't been concluded back then. Branch stood in the epicenter of the wormhole and yelled, "Everyone! Queen Poppy is in grave danger! We need to get help on Earth as she's been taken by her manipulative mom!"

"Count us in." Queen Stellar went to his side and complied in the name of her nation.

 Branch smiled at her as a form of gratitude and dove into action, the remaining trolls jumped after him. The wormhole led to Pop Village where Branch would get the appropriate help they needed to rescue Poppy from the hands of her mom.


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