Back in Kuki's imagination now, Julia was finally there at the castle. The sister of Miles arrived at the front doors of the castle, seeing that they were made out of chocolate. She knocks on the door, before a random guard, who's armor is made out of candy with a spear that looks like a candy cane, held a hand up in front of the girl. Julia was told not to knock on the door, mostly because the chocolate would break if she knocks on them. So they opened the door for her.
After thanking the guards, Julia walked into the castle, ready to find Kuki around here. The girl walked along the large area full of candy cane columns. The sight of that was making Julia feel kind of hungry looking at them, but considering that she should give it a wait, she chose to not go crazy and eat parts of the entire castle. She had to stay focus on trying to find Numbah 3 and get out of there.
The brown-haired girl walked around for a bit, before finding herself in a room that was in the back of the castle. She found Numbah 3, looking off of a balcony that was looking over a field of popcorn out in the distance. Julia was a bit skeptical if this was really that easy to find Kuki around here or not, but she decided to let herself stay calm and approach the girl who's standing there.
"Kuki, I was trying to search all over for you!" Julia said, walking into the balcony. "Glad I found you."
"Oh, hi Julia." Kuki said. "I see you're here too. But...how did you survive the aliens crash landing here?"
"W-What? What are you talking about?" Julia was a bit confused by what the usually silly girl was even talking about at the moment, before she continued to talk. "None of us were in any sort of crash...I don't know what you are talking about?" Kuki points up at the roof.
"Did you not see the crashed GKND ship on the roof?"
Julia actually didn't see anything like that on the castle when she was walking all the way out here. She turns her head towards the roof of the castle, looking up towards where Kuki was pointing at. Now that Julia was looking at the roof a bit more closer, she could see some smoke coming out of one of the rooftops of this castle, as well as the crashed ship that belonged to the GKND on through the roof as well.
She knew the aliens probably placed that there so that Numbah 3 could let her guard down about this place. Even if this place was her own imagination, she would feel a little skeptical about seeing that ship up there alone. She looks at Kuki, before holding the girl by her shoulders.
"Look...Kuki, that ship up there, that's not real." Julia said. "...You're not going to believe this at all, but you're in your own imagination. This world that we are in right now, it's not real."
"How do I know you're not fooling me right now?" Kuki asked.
"If I was fooling you right now..." Julia closes her eyes to think for a second. She then opens them, looking at Numbah 3, knowing exactly what to say to her about this. "...If this was real, then how come our other friends are nowhere to be found? Abigail, Virginia, Bartie, or mostly, Wally?"
"What about Miles?"
"He's trying to get Wally out of his own imagination. Knowing Wally, he probably got some place with a volcano or something." Julia then got serious again. "But...forget about that, okay? You're not in the real world, and I'm here to get you out of it. There should be a door that says 'Wake Up' somewhere in this place, and...it's the only way for you to get out of here." Julia headed over to the door so that they can find their way out.
"But...where is this 'Wake Up' door anyway? I never saw one around this place when I was exploring the many spots in here."
"I don't know exactly, but wherever it is, I hope it's not too far from here." Julia walks back into the castle, as Kuki followed as well.
After a couple minutes, Julia and Kuki managed to get back to the front doors of the candy-built castle. They were about to walk through the doors, only for them to open on their own. The candy guards stood there, holding their candy cane swords in their hands.
"Halt! Where do you two think you're going?!" One candy knight asked.
"Getting the hell out of this imagination! That's what we're going!" Julia shouts. "Now step aside!"
More guards came into the castle, blocking the way out of the building. Every direction appears to be blocked, which includes the windows, and the nearby hallways that they could escape through. Candy knights were surrounding the two girls.
"Why the heck didn't you guys do this when I got in here? Honestly..." Julia said, sarcastically, glaring at each of the guards there. "...Could've saved you a lot of time if you stopped me when I came across this castle."
After Julia gave the many guards that snarky remark, she took notice of a lone candy cane sword on the wall. She rushes over to it, picking it up, and then held it in front of her. If it was a fight these guards wanted, then she'll give it to them if she has to. Kuki stood by, watching everything go down.
Julia glared at, who she can only assume is, the leader of the many candy guards around this castle. She assumes that he's the leader, mainly because his helmet had a candy corn in the middle, while the other guards don't. She blinked twice, before she raises an eyebrow, starting a fight, right then and there.
The girl leaps into the air, thanks to a stool that was conviently placed nearby, hopping behind the guards, before they stood their ground. Julia waves the candy cane sword, trying to get them away from her. It seemed to have worked for her, seeing that they were backing off of her. However, swinging the sword probably would've been a huge mistake on her part, because once she did that, the candy cane columns that were near the door, broke because of that action.
"Oh crap..." Julia mutters. "Kuki! Run out the door, now!"
The KND operative charged out the door, trying her best to get pass the other guards. The many other guards made sure to try to capture Julia, until she threw herself out of the door, just in time before any of them could even get her. Kuki leaped out the door, landing on the ground next to Julia's feet.
The entire candy castle collapses to the ground, with the candy guards inside of it. The two girls ran towards the field that was in the distance, not looking back as they were booking it towards the field of popcorn, as the other guards were trapped inside the castle. Julia was the only one between the two of them, seeing the castle breaking into pieces.
"Glad we ran out of that place, huh?" Julia asked, as they were seeing what was happening right behind her.
"You got that right." Kuki said, also looking back at the castle that were escaping from the other guards. "Now that we have no guards to handle, where is this 'Wake Up' door that you've mentioned? Like I said, I haven't seen it around here in this place."
"Well..."
Before Julia could finish that sentence, the sound of people appearing nearby was heard. The two girls immediately looked towards where that noise came from, seeing a bunch of aliens who were there, glaring at them, with their devices. The leader of this pack, points at the brown-haired girl as she was standing there next to Kuki.
"Halt, again!" The leader of this alien pack said, pointing at her. "You have escaped your own imagination!"
"It's about time you idiots showed up around here." Julia muttered. "What took you guys?"
"No time to answer that, you have to be captured, and returned to your own imagination!" The aliens held up their devices, ready to capture Julia and bring her out of this imagination. "Don't even attempt to move, or we will use hostility against you." Julia's eyes widened, before she turns her head towards Numbah 3.
"Kuki, find the 'Wake Up' door! Handle these guys while you escape!" Julia said to the black-haired girl.
"I can't just leave here knowing you're fighting these guys alone!" Kuki said, denying this idea.
"I'll be alright. Once you escape, all of this imagination will be turned off, and...probably these losers will die inside this weird ass world, once you escaped." Julia held the sword in her hands. "Now go!"
Kuki was hesitant to leave Julia, but considering that she seems to know what she is doing, it seems she has no other choice. The girl nodded her head silently, and ran off towards the field of popcorn nearby. The other aliens watched Kuki run off into the field.
"What do we do about Kuki Sanban, boss?" One of the aliens asked. The leader watched Kuki run deeper and deeper into the field. One alien was about to run towards the girl to stop her from getting any further, but the leader held up an arm in front of that soldier, keeping him from going after Kuki.
"Let her go..." The leader of this alien pack said. "...It's a huge world, this candy country, there's no way that Kuki can find the door to escape around here."
The other aliens then got ready to fight Julia. They got their devices prepared to suck the girl into the storage guns, only to discover something that surprised them upon turning their direction towards the girl's spot. Julia had just disappeared. The group were surprised, before the sound of the girl herself spoke nearby.
"Hey losers!" The girl shouts, before she hops up behind the group of aliens. The group turns around, before she held up the candy cane sword in her hands. "Let's get ready to fight!"
"Get the girl!" One of the aliens shouts, as they attempted to fight off Julia.
Back outside of the imaginations...
Miles finally got out of Wally's imagination...
He brushes himself, feeling better that he was able to not get killed while he was in Numbah 4's imagination. The boy felt relieved that he managed to survive something like the jungle that Wally had as a fantasy to hang out in. All Miles could think at that moment, is that he's certainly hoped that Virginia and Bartie didn't have a place like Numbah 4's imagination.
Now that he thought about it for a couple seconds, he took realization that his sister was nowhere to be found in the hallway. Julia was still not back from Kuki's mind yet, which had the boy worried about his own sister. He hoped she was okay.
Regardless, he went over to Numbah 3's door to go rescue the two girls. The usual shine of light came through the door, causing Miles to hold up a hand in front of his eyes as he entered. He had to make sure that Julia and Kuki are safe.