Moon started to open her eyes and found herself in a bed. She looked around to see where she was and could tell that she is in some wooden cabin. She starts to have flashbacks of River dying from that brain parasite and lets out a huge set of tears.
"You're awake." The old man that saved Moon said as he was standing there in the entrance to her room
Moon asked "Where am I? How long have I been out?"
"It's a section of the Pandora Dimension. By this dimensions time and section, you've been out for 3 weeks. If we went back to Mewni you'd only have been gone by 3 minutes."
""Mewni…." She started having a flashback of River's dead body falling to the ground again. "River. He's gone." She continued to cry again.
The Old man gave Moon some tissues to blow her nose and wipe her tears"He was your husband?"
"Yes. I loved him very much. But I took him for granted; just like I took everything else for granted. Why couldn't they just finish me off instead of him?
"Here. Eat this." The old man said, holding up a blue and white cake with tears on it.
"What is this?"
"It's called Cake of Sadness and Guilt. Your mother and father made it."
After everyone finally stopped sneezing and got their bearings, the court of Pie Folk and all of Moon's victims started leaving the courthouse via dimensional scissors.
"Damn it. How could I have not noticed he was here?" Pie King said hitting the stand with his fist and breaking the gavel. He turned to Andromeda and shouted " More importantly, how could you have not noticed his hatred of Moon was fake?"
Andromeda said "My empathic abilities sensed great hatred of Moon from him when I brought him in with everyone else."
Saturn asked "You think he might have been able to trick it somehow?"
"It's possible. Only a few people with special abilities could do that"
"He's not special!" Pie King shouted before Andromeda could say anything else.
She notices her phone buzzing with the words "Star Butterfly alert. She's with Prince Tom of the Underworld. "If you want to take your anger out on Moon, then do it on Star Butterfly. She's coming this way and she's not alone."
"I guess I can take my anger on Moon's escape on her." Pie King said before he ran out to face Star Butterfly
Andromeda placed her hand on Saturn's hand and said "You go too, Saturn.".
"What about you?" Saturn asked as she knelt beside Andromeda.
"I'll head back to the castle. I'd only get in your way. Be careful and don't overdo it." Andromeda said before she kissed Saturn.
"So, you knew my mother…..and my father?" Moon asked.
"Yes. While I was an ...associate of Lazlo, I was close friends with Comet. I watched how they made their recipes together. I'm not as good a cook as they were but I'm sure that copied it perfectly."
Moon took a bite out of the cake. To her, it tasted terrible but she swallowed it anyway rather than spit it out. She said "No offense but this is disgusting. Are you sure my mother and father made this?"
"They did. It's supposed to taste disgusting in order to measure the guilt you feel inside. Based on your reaction, you have a lot inside."
"You heard what those people said about me.I should be feeling guilty after how much I've messed with their lives. I've lived a terrible life.
"In one way or another, we all live terrible lives; we all sin."
"I've done a lot worse. I've been feeling really bad about it for the past five years. I've been doing whatever I could to make up for it; both with Mewmans, Monsters, and my own family."
"Then why were you planning on leaving?" The Old Man said holding up the plane ticket that belonged to Moon.
Moon explained "I thought it would be better for everyone if I was gone, especially for Star and River. After I went through the punishment that was given to me and made sure the Mewmans in the village I ran were able to adapt without me. Star was going out spreading Mewni culture to the people of Earth and living with Marco, her boyfriend and maybe one day husband when the time is right. And River...he had his hunting classes, entertaining guests who wanted to attend Johanson kingdom holidays, and welcoming anyone into the Johanson clan, especially humans and Monsters. Both of them were living their lives; lives I wasn't really a part of.
"At least you were with them when Queen Harley began her war games?"
"I wasn't going too."
"Why not? From what I heard, it's up to you, Star, Eclipsa, and Meteora to save your dimension? If you do this right then maybe mewmans and monsters will be able to forgive you."
"I wouldn't be able to help."
"I'm sure you have some ideas."
"I can't go back to what I was!" Moon shouted. She clenched her hand into a fist and thought about all the stuff she did as queen.
"What you were?"
Someone who thought she was taking all the responsibility on herself, someone who closes her heart off to those she loves and is supposed to protect, someone who isn't deserving of friends and family. That kind of person only knows how to lose people rather than protect them.
"Tell me something, do you feel bad about what you've done?"
"I do."
"Did you love your husband?"
"With all my heart."
"Do you love your daughter?"
"More than life itself."
"Then it's obvious what you need to do."
Back with Globgor and Marco, they are fighting off Mildrew and Damian at a stand still.
Marco is using his sword to fight off Mildrew while combining some of his karate moves into the balance. However, Mildrew is able to counter Marco's slashes and counters. Even when he threw up his sword in the air to land a punch and a kick, Mildrew is able to avoid them.
As for Globgor, he does manage to land some punches and kicks on Damian but Globgor notices that he's not taking any real damage. While he did not find it tasteful, he jumped in the air, grew his giant size and stomped on him.
Marco noticed this and said "Dang.".
"It's not tasteful but I figured it was the only way to end this quick." Globgor said before he felt his foot was on fire and removed it from the spot Damian was stomped on. He saw that Damian had some sort of heating device on his armor as it glowed red.
"Don't feel bad. I want you to go all out. The hunt wouldn't be fun if we played fairly." Damain fired a metal wrist device on Globgor and it shocked him immensely and it made him shrink to his regular size.
Ahhh!
"Globgor!"
"Your distracted." Mildrew shouted as he managed to strike Marco's sword out of his hand.
Damian knocked Globgor to the ground with a kick and placed his boot on his neck. "I'm glad I have you. Not how I wanted to hunt you after all these years but it's better than how Solaria went about it."
"Solaria? You were a Solarian Warrior?
Damian giggled "Those lunatics made by that lunatic queen? Hell no. I'm just someone who never got a shot at you because of that crystal guy…..uh, Rhombulus. And lucky for me, because that Star girl "destroyed magic" I got free from that prison and one of the things I wanted to do and was hired to do is get rid of you."
Before Damian could do anything else, he and Mildrew noticed a great ball of fire heading toward them and it managed to break through the shield. It is Star and Tom with Star holding her custom spear in hand and a very angry-sad look.
"Star, are you ok?" Marco asked her. He wasn't sure what it was but he could tell that something must have happened to Star to make her feel this way
"Star Butterfly. I've been meaning to….."
"Lightning Spear!" Star raised her spear in the air and lightning struck Mildrew.
"You're just like….." Before Mildrew could say anything else, Star ran toward him, tapped her spear on his head, and shouted "Thunder Spear!" and was hit with an even larger bolt of electricity.
While Mildrew laid on the ground, burned, Star said to him "You're going to pay for what you've done to my dad!"
At the same time, Tom hit Damian with a fireball, knocking him off of Globgor. He managed to burn off the wrist device from Globgor.
"Thank you, Tom."
"No problem."
"Tom Lucitor, the mewman-demon hybrid child of Dave and Wrathmelior. You know, after I was finished with him, I was thinking of hunting your mother next."
"What!" Tom said with an annoyed-angry look on his face
Damian showed Tom a list titled "Mewni's most huntable prey". "She's in between Rasticor and Babs the assassin. I'm looking forward to taking off those big horns of hers."
"That's it. Your Cerberus meat!" Tom''s eyes turned red and his hands are on fire.
Back with Star and Marco, Star is continuing to hit Mildrew with her lightning and thunder attacks out of anger.
"Snake Fire Entanglement Blast!" Fire snakes were shot out of Saturn's wand and were heading toward Star. Lucky for Star, she turned her wand into a gold and blue heart shaped shield to protect herself from the snakes. "I guess the same trick won't work twice."
"Let me try something." Pie King's hook transformed into a mini gatling gun
"Pie King." Marco said before Pie King was starting to shoot him and Star. Luckily, Star's shield protected them from the bullets.
"Mildrew, why are you having so much trouble with her? She'll never like you." Pie King scolded.
"But she's Moon's daughter." Mildrew said in a pathetic tone of voice.
"Look, I may not be in a real place to judge what you've done but I do know what you need to do. For starters, you can't just be a bad memory. You have a chance to do things that will make up for what you've done. Just because you've paid your debt to society, you still have a chance to have people remember you as someone who wants to be different; someone who is really is a kind and caring person. A chance to be the woman you wanted to be rather than the one you've been pretending to be full time."
"The woman I want to be."
"Secondly, now that River is gone, how are you going to honor his memory? I don't know how but I get the feeling he knew what was going on and figured out a way to make sure that you wouldn't lose everyone; the feeling coming from how he was the only one to die from that brain parasite. Are you going to squander the sacrifice he made so you could continue living in self pity?"
"And lastly, you're going to have to fight alongside your daughter as a person and your daughter."
"I don't get the last one."
"Before you destroyed magic alongside your daughter, were there really any other times where you worked alongside your daughter? Were able to really see her as an equal rather than someone beneath you? Don't think of anything after the five year peace time you've all had."
"No, I didn't."
"That has to change. You have to see her as an equal, not just your daughter, long term. Times are going to get tough for you and her and I get the feeling that you'll be thrusted into more dangers than you count; dangers that you won't be able to run from. Even if she faces it alone, she'll need your guidance on what's to come and the pain that will come with it.
I can help Star but how do I know I won't mess up again when it comes to helping everyone else?
If you're that worried about messing up again, get a friend to help you. Surely you have someone or know someone who could help you?
"I do; at least, I think she wants us to be friends."
"Then you know what to do. Now you just have to put it into practice."
Moon starts to have flashbacks to all the good times she had with Star and all the times Eclipsa has been nice to Moon. After the flashbacks end, she says to herself "I have to go back.".
"Then before you go, let me give you these? They'll help you in your fight." The old man gave Moon purple and gold cards with a plate on the front of it and spoons, forks, and knives surrounding the plates, along with a book titled "How to make Gourmet Cards".
"What are they?"
"Something Lazlo would want you to have. All you have to do is make the food…" Before the Old Man could say anything, he could feel his heart hurting and he kneeled to the ground. Moon went over to comfort him.
She kneeled down next to him and asked "What's wrong?".
"My time is up." The Old Man said before he grabbed a device around his neck and pressed a blue button. A blue portal opened and a pixie wearing anurses outfit appeared.
The Pixie said "What were you thinking? You shouldn't have waited this long."
"I know."
"Will he be alright?"
"He needs to get to the hospital right away for his treatment. If you want to see him, use this card." The Pixie gave Moon a card titled "Pixtopia Hospital".
"Ok."
"Let's go, Lazlo Marmalade."
"Lazlo Marmalade!?" Before Moon could say anything else, a huge hoard of Pixies flew in and took Lazlo away. "That was my father. How could I not notice." She looked at the book and cards that Lazlo gave her; she then noticed some dimensional scissors on the dresser. "If what he said is true about time being different here, I should use this time to learn what these are and how I can use them.
Tom has been using his fire abilities against Damian, such as fireballs, fire towers, and even surrounding him with fire. Unfortunately, Damian is able to counter them with fire extinguisher and ice bombs. Even with Globgor and Tom, Damian is getting the upper hand on them with ease.
"Who is this guy?" Tom says as he is surrounding Damian in a fire circle but can only watch as his fires are getting put out. Globgor attempts to use the steam being made from the fires going out to strike Damian but he manages to stop the attacks with a barrier that appeared in front of him.
Star and Marco are fighting off against Saturn's fire snacks and Pie King's bullets; Marco slashing at the snakes and Star defending them from the bullets. Saturn used this opportunity to jump in the air and hit Star and Marco with a lava blast from her wand. Star shouted "Ice Shield!" and a barrier of ice protected her and Marco.
"How long do you think this will hold?"
"With this amount of lava, I don't know."
Then out of nowhere, a red gelatin monster jumped over the beam of lava and absorbed it all.
Gelatin?"
"This isn't me." Everyone looked to the right and saw Moon. However, she is with an army of walking desserts; such as Cookie soldiers with swords, two vanilla cakes with spears, cupcakes with bows and arrows, and gelatin people.
"Dessert Platoon, attack."
The Dessert Platoon began their attacks on all four of them. 12 giant chocolate chip cookies with headbands on them ran toward Damian. He responded by cutting them in half in hopes of killing them but they simply continued running toward him, managed to get on top of him and lay on a ton of punches on him.
Count Mildrew managed to get up from his lightning injuries, picked up his sword, but he gets attacked by three of Moon's Cookie swordsmen. He tries slashing at them but only succeeded in defending himself. Eventually, one of the Cookie swordsmen knocked his sword out of his hand, knocked him down on the ground, and the rest of the swordsmen pointed their swords at his neck.
Damian threw bombs at the desserts but his bombs were hit by arrows filled with whipped creamed that prevented the bombs from exploding. While he managed to block a Cookie Swordsman's attack when he ran up to him, he was attacked from behind; stabbed in the back from what appears to be five ninja sugar cookies.
Saturn attempted to burn all of the desserts with her wand; using fireballs, fire snakes, and creating fire towers from below. Unfortunately for her, all of Moon's gelatin men absorbed all of the attacks and surrounded Saturn. Before Saturn knew it, she was nearly exhausted from using all her magical power.
Pie King started shooting bullets at some of the desserts, especially the cookie swordsmen. However, he saw the gourmet card inside of one of them.
"Dammit, he gave her those cards! I need to rethink my strategy now." Pie King slashed his hook and a blue dimensional portal opened.
"Where are you going? I thought you wanted to take your anger out on her." Saturn shouted as she is still attempting to burn the gelatin monsters with her wand.
"I do but I'm not stupid. We're not match against anything created from the Gourmet cards; at least not yet." Pie King jumped into his portal and it closed behind him.
"Another day, Globgor." Damian said before he grabbed out dimensional scissors from his pocket, opened a portal, and escaped too.
"Hey, what about me?" Mildrew asked as he is unable to move due to his injuries and being restrained by cookie soldiers.
Saturn, having already exhausted herself from using so much magic, finds herself surrounded by the cookie swordsmen and cake warriors. Moon was with them. She said "Saturn, let me help you. I don't know how my existence has caused you so much pain but I want to help you get through it."
"I don't want your help. I want you dead!" Before Saturn could do anything with her wand, an arrow with a punching bag on it knocked the wand out of her hand. Then she was hit in the head by a medium sized mallet. Everyone saw Penelope and Slime on a green dragon cycle but what really caught everyone's eye was Kelley.
Star, Marco, and Tom shouted at the same time "Kelley!"
Kelley runs towards Star, Marco, and Tom and gives them a big hugg."Guys. It's really you! I finally get to see all of you after all these years."
Slime said "We found her at the Parallelogram's store.".
"We received your message and arrived here as soon as we could. Although, I didn't think we'd be taking in prisoners with us." Penelope said as she's looking at Mildrew and Saturn.
"Don't send me to Spiderbite Prison. That place is disgusting." Mildrew turned to Moon "Moon, please take me in. I surrender myself to you and only you. I'm sure River…...".
Before he could say anything else, Moon held out her wand and said "em gag" and Mildrew's mouth was gagged with tape.
After Moon gagged Mildrew, Star walked over to her mother. She said "Mom, are you ok?". Moon gives Star a hug and lets out a tear; she hugs her back. Then Star's compact rings; it's Eclipsa. She answers it.
"Star, did you get Moon?"
"We did. In fact, she saved us. How's my dad?"
"Still in surgery but Doctors are hopeful that he'll pull through."
"What? River is alive!"
"Let's go see him." Globgor said to Moon.
"We can use my dimensional scissors to get there faster."
"We'll take care of these two." Slime said as he's handcuffing Mildrew and Penelope is handcuffing Saturn.
Kelley explained "My knockout hammer should keep her asleep for a couple hours; just so you know."
Kelley used her scissors and opened a portal to Johanson castle. Moon held up her wand and had the gourmet cards return to her; as a result, her entire dessert platoon disappeared. As they are heading into the portal, Tom takes a closer look at Saturn's wand and his eyes widen. He picked it up and took it but not before taking a picture of it and sending it to his mother and great grandfather.
"Hey Tom, what are you doing with that?" Penelope asked before he went through the portal completely.
Tom explained "Taking this wand with me. I hate to say but I think I know what it is. Plus, it's not like she's using it.". She referring to Saturn. Tom went through the portal completely.
Once they arrived on the other side of the portal , Eclipsa, Etheria, Janna, and Meteora are waiting for them.
Meteora ran toward Moon and gave her a hug. She said"Auntie Moon, your ok."
"I'm fine sweetie."
"How's everyone doing?" Star asked her Aunt Etheria.
"We're all fine. A few headaches but all the doctors are saying that we're going to be ok so long as we drink this special herbicide thing that River made. But I can't say the same about River."
That's because River decided to take all the pain these flowers were going to give himself; even though I turned the poison into the alcohol he told me about.
(Flashback-Many years ago)
You can turn this poison into alcohol." Young River said with a surprised-confused look on his face.
Young Moon explained "Yeah, my mother showed it to me one time. She said you had to have certain ingredients to do it; such as basil, peppers, corn, and tomatoes. Once you chop them up, spin them around, and add a hint of butter to it then it becomes a special type of alcohol. The process is very challenging and if not done correctly then the poison will take effect and kill. However, even if you do manage to make it into alcohol then it'll become a drink that'll make you forget things.".
"So basically, you have to choose between dying or losing your memories."
"Yeah, but the latter isn't permanent. Over time, you'll get your memories back but it'll be a very long process; sometimes you may never get all your memories back at all."
(Flashback- About 2-3 hours ago)
"River, I'm not sure that this is a good idea. Are you sure that's the only way?" Eclipsa asked River as she is pointing her wand at him.
River said adamantly "There isn't. It's possible for the venom to be turned into a type of alcohol that can cause memory loss. While the spores are in everyone else's heads when the toxin spreads will cause minor memory loss only mine will have the most impact. I'm just glad that it was me and not someone else."
"Dad, there has to be another way than this. Maybe Eclipsa or I…." Star pleaded with her father before he interrupted her.
"There is no other way. This venom inside of me if turned into anything else will just be that but with the venom. Turning it into this liquor is the only way."
"Then let me do it." Star demanded.
"No. If anything, I think they infected you with a spore and you won't be able to focus enough to change anything. I doubt they infected Eclipsa so she's the only one capable of doing this."
"But dad…"
"Star, do you know what could really destroy your mother more than anything else? Losing everyone and being all alone. She may have thought that we could live on our own without her but she can't live without any of us, especially you. This way, she'll only have to worry about losing me."
Star let out a few tears."Dad."
River gave Star a hug and said "I love your mother, Star. This is something I would do for her without hesitation." Before letting go of Star, he gave her a note addressed to Moon. He turned to Eclipsa and said "Take care of Moon for me."
"Ok." Eclipsa nodded.
A couple of minutes later, Saturn and Andromeda's plants started to take effect on River, Star, every member of Moon and Star's family, the Johanson family, and everyone else that was in the castle at the time the plants were put in them unexpectedly. While everyone could feel the pain of these flowers, Eclipsa pointed her wand at River and blasted him with a green blast to his head. As a result, the pain subsided from Star and everyone else besides River; however, a red liquid popped out of River's head. At the same time this is going on, Marco, Globgor and the others released the special edible herbicide around the castle; both in liquid and gas form.
(End of Flashback)
After the surgery was completed on River, he had his head bandaged and is laying in bed. Doctors said that he'll be asleep until morning. Seeing that Star and Moon need to be alone with River, Eclipsa suggest everyone give them some space.
Star started the conversation between them by saying "Dad said you told him about the poison being turned into alcohol thanks to grandma."
Moon said "Indeed. If it weren't for my mother telling me about it and River remembering that I told him about it, I would have lost you, him, and everyone else."
"Even though you were going to leave us anyway." Star pulled out the one way plane ticket and showed it to Moon. "Dad told me everything. You were planning on leaving to some deserted area in the world where you could be forgotten. Not only that but you were originally going to turn yourself over to the Pie King to die. Or were you really going to try and get information that could help us?"
"Yes, before I was taken away by force, I was going to turn myself over to Pie King. I truly was going to see if I could get information out of him about Harley for you and Eclipsa. However, I willfully ignored all the risks and dangers that would come with this plan because I thought it was all I could do for you and Eclipsa; make things simple enough for you.I didn't think I could help you all without reverting to my "Moon the Undaunted" personality; because all that has ever done cause you and everyone else I love problems.
"And the running away before all of this?"
"I thought you'd all be better off without me. You and Marco were living together happily; River had his hunting classes and welcoming humans and Monsters into the Johanson clan; the Yurt people who stood by me when I went down a dark path. I just wanted to be a bad memory that everyone, mewman and monster alike, could forget about after all was said and done."
Star thought about what she said five years ago to Moon and asked "Did what I say to you at the Tavern guide your choice on leaving?".
"They were my decisions, Star. What you said to me back then was justifiable for what I did to the kingdom, Eclipsa, you. In my mind, no matter how much I paid for my crimes or attempted to atone for them could I really look at myself in the mirror and say that things are going to be different but sometimes I see Moon the Undaunted; which is something I don't want to see anymore."
"Mom." Star placed her hand on Moon's hand
"That being said, I do want to help you and everyone else in these difficult times. I just want to do it right and I don't know how."
"After we (supposedly) destroyed magic, I said that we would make a new age where mom's mess up and we figure it out; this falls in line with that. However, stuff like turning yourself in and thinking that we, dad and I, don't need you doesn't fall in line with that. Whatever happens, we'll make sure that you don't become Moon the Undaunted ever again.
In Spiderbite prison, Mildrew is thrown into his cell by one of the guards at the same time Saturn is thrown into a cell not too far from where he is but she's restrained by a straight jacket and her ankles are chained up too.
"Don't worry, Saturn. I'm sure the others will come to rescue us."
"No they won't. We're on our own. Also, I'll figure out how to escape on my own and then I'll just kill Moon myself."
"Please, don't. She…."
Saturne shouted "Don't try to defend her! I've made up my mind.". Her eyes started to glow red yellow with rage and horns started growing from her head.
Back at the medical wing of Johanson castle, Moon is sitting by River's side while he rested on the bed. At the same time, she's going over the books that her father gave her in relation to the gourmet cards. As she is turning the page, she looks at a photo of her mother and father when they were younger. She then hears a knock on the door and sees it's Eclipsa.
'I thought I check up on you before going home. How are you doing?
"I'll be ok. I just want to be by River's side until he wakes up."
"So, where did that Dessert army come from?"
"My father. I'm still trying to figure out the specifics of these gourmet cards despite all my time in the Pandora Dimension; mainly because I don't have certain ingredients to do these recipes."
"Pandora Dimension?" Eclipsa said, never hearing about this dimension.
"I don't know what it is either other than he brought me there to save me and time runs differently there."
"Any chance I could make a request?"
"I'll see what I can do once I get a full understanding of these cards."
I'd better get going. Meteora is already asleep and this has been a long day.
"Eclipsa. Thank you for saving River and my entire family."
"I can't take all the credit, Moon. River told me about how this poison could be converted into alcohol if I acted quick enough. He said he learned about it from you."
"I only recognized the composition of the poison because my mother said she messed with it once to make a special alcohol. While the process took time, she speed it up with magic."
"I don't think your mother took into account the poison being inside someone. I think that's why River made the herbicide and spread it around the castle. Although, if I'm being honest, I wish I had more time to see if I could have gotten the poison out of him completely."
"You did everything you could. I'm just happy he's alive." Moon gives the sleeping River a kiss on the cheek.
"So, what do you think is going to happen next?" Eclipsa asked.
"Who knows? We still haven't passed their first test yet and even if we do who knows how many more will come as part of this war game."
"I wonder if Meteora will have to do any of their test." Eclipsa said looking at a picture of her, Meteora and Globgor.
"Possibly. Although, I do think Meteora is going to be safe from whatever comes next."
"What do you mean?" Eclipsa asked with a perplexed look on her face.
Moon explained "I don't understand the exact details but they made it sound like Meteora had to survive above all else; you, me, and Star are expendable. It was like they could replace us but not her. If they weren't trying to kill Etheria then she would have been my replacement. I don't know who they would use to replace Star but they said that they had candidates for her.".
"What about me?"
"Even though you weren't a target, they said that your main replacement wasn't ready yet. Going off of that, they didn't want to get rid of you yet if they could help it."
"I see. But the real question is, who exactly is my "replacement"? I guess we'll have to find out together."
"Yes, together."
"I better get going."
One last thing. After this is all over, I'm going to make every attempt I can to really open up to people; to make friends. Would mind helping me with that?
"Of course." Eclipsa said before she gave Moon a hug.
As Eclipsa hugged Moon, her diamond-sphere wand started to glow brightly and go into the air. It took the shape of her current wand and broke apart to form a new wand. This new wand turned into a long golden spatula with a light blue handle and different color diamonds all over it with a larger pink diamond at the end of the hilt.
"Moon, you have a new wand." Eclipsa said as she is surprised to see this new wand.
Just then, Eclipsa and Moon then heard a loud noise from outside and ran to see what it is. When they arrived, the found huge stacks of gold, books, a treasure chest, and a portrait-tapestry of someone named "Cancri Butterfly, the Master of Diamonds."
(Author's note: You don't have to but I recommend listing to the Organization 13 theme from Kingdom Hearts(III). It goes so well with this scene in particular.)
In the throne room of Harley, she and Snowlita are looking at a door that has a heart on the top right, a diamond on the bottom left, a spade on the top left, and a clover on the bottom right. Then suddenly, the diamond started to glow pink.
Snowlita said "I'm surprised that Moon overcame her darkness first."
"I think it's beneficial. The way she was now, if left unchecked, would have made our plans impossible, even if we used her replacement." Harley said as she placed her hand on the diamond.
"Luckily, Lazlo still loved Moon and had guilt in his heart for not being there for her when Comet died and her life as a whole." Andromeda came in with a guard wheeling her in
Harley asked Andromeda "Does he still think you were on his side when it came to saving Moon?
Andromeda said "Not sure. I told him that we were executing Moon instead of her entire family. I could spin that I found out the plan at the last minute. A dying man such as himself will believe anything if he thinks it will help make up for his mistakes."
"Either way, it won't matter. Unless I say otherwise, Lazlo has outlived his usefulness."
Andromeda asked "What about Pie King, Mildrew and Saturn?"
I'm not sure about Pie King. Mildrew has his uses but he's not worthy of being rescued. Saturn on the other hand is too important to leave in their hands. However, her sense of pride won't allow her to be rescued. I'll contact one of our sleeper agents to help her pave the way to her escape on her own.
"That's a fair idea. Afterall, she is a Chrysalis under the Diamond.
Andromeda said "I think we should get rid of Pie King. He and the Pie Folk are nothing more than nuisances and are of no use to our plans. Dealing with them these past five years has been nauseating."
" If you want, I could take them to my research lab and find something for them to do. After all, everyone, no matter how small or insignificant, has their uses." A voice of a man said as he is walking in. The scene ends with the name tag "Dr. Exceed".
In a laboratory, filled with all sorts of chemicals and machines, a crystalized Mina Loveberry is connected to a machine that appears to be taking blood out of her.
Sorry this took so long. I put in a lot of details and events in here because of how important this chapter is going forward. It not only sets up future chapters but also pushes more for Moon's development going forward; her redemption arc isn't done yet.
I have Deviant art account and I go by the same name there. If you want to know what Cancri Butterfly looks like then head there right now. Also, I'll maken attempt to draw what Moon's new wand looks like for visual purposes.
