(The next day, Honeys house, 11 am)
Honey sat on her couch with her luggage by her side. She checked her watch and tapped her purse with her fingers, she was waiting for her parents to come over. They would be watching over her house and daughter while she was gone for 2 weeks, and she needed to make sure they could do it, she had a lot of rooms to be cared for. But they were running late and she was growing impatient.
"Where are they? I wanna leave now" honey whined "I wanna see Paris"
"Honey, they're probably busy. There's a lot of traffic in front of Lucy 2, they're probably caught up in that. Lot of people seem to want their revenge on the empire" said Zeke
"I know. After what happened yesterday, it'd be nice to be away from the imperials. I wish Lucy the best of luck in her war, but I want no part in it anymore. I know she's got this" said Honey
"Hope Sophie can be good for your parents while we're gone. Speaking of which where is she?" Zeke asked her
"Oh she wanted to hang out with the twins, I took her over to the castle. My parents already know" said Honey
There was a knock at the door. Honey grabbed her luggage.
"Speaking of my parents that must be them" said Honey
(Lucy 2)
Lucy was having one of her dresses put on while Sophie dug around her kitchen.
"So these are the candies that do things right?" Sophie asked
"Sure are, transformers may have mostly removed them from the Candy world, but I asked them to keep 5 percent of that stuff untouched so I'll always have a small supply" said Lucy
"That's so cool, I love these. My mom hates when I eat them but I like them" said Sophie
"Miss honey can't like everything" said Lucy
"It's pretty cool so many people are signing up to join your army" said Sophie as she sat on lucys bed
Lucy turned to face her.
"I'm glad to have so many volunteers. I need all the help I can get to take back my kingdom. I need to show everyone I'm not a bad girl. I need to correct my mistakes" said Lucy
"Never seen you this determined" said Sophie
"I need this more than anything. You wouldn't understand" said Lucy
"Come on, you can tell me. Why do you need this?" Sophie asked
"If I tell you, you promise not to tell anyone?" Lucy asked
"What is it?" Sophie asked
Lucy went to the closet and dug into a box in the back. It was a Christmas present marked 'To Lucy from Santa'. Lucy opened the box and pulled out a a couple black rocks.
"What is that?" Sophie asked
"It's coal. Lumps of coal" said Lucy sadly
"Ok, and why would anyone give you coal?" Sophie asked
"You really don't get it do you? On Christmas if Santa deems you naughty you don't get toys, you get this. I got toys for Christmas, yes. But I got 3 boxes filled with coal. I did bad things I thought were right but they weren't. I caused a tsunami that flooded the city. I had violent fits of anger in public. I ordered my army to destroy the pony colony. Everyone said I wanted the weak to die out there. These stupid rocks are a wake up call. I need right my wrongs. The empire is much worse than I was, I need to regain what's mine." Said Lucy "I need to completely get back on Santa's nice list. I can't have people knowing I'm naughty"
"I'm still new to holidays but this sounds serious. Don't worry. With all these new recruits, myself included, we can defeat the imperial army. At most this battle will last 2 days at most" said Sophie as she patted Lucy on the back.
"Yeah. I can do this. I hope" said Lucy
"Well I better get going. Mind if I take some-
"Sure, go ahead I got plenty" said Lucy
"Sweet"
Sophie stuffed several pouches of fruit gushers in her backpack before leaving.
(Sophie's bedroom sometime later)
"No absolutely not. We promised to take care of you while honey went on her honeymoon" buzz told Sophie
Sophie expressed her wish to join lucys army to the bees, and they weren't thrilled at all of the idea
"I'll be fine. I'm bulletproof. You guys can come too" said Sophie
"No. We refuse" said Bumble "this talk ends now"
"Fine, I won't go. Guess you guys don't want to frolic in those flower fields anyway" said Sophie as she sat on her bed to read a book
The bees antennas perked hearing flowers.
"Flowers? Keep talking" said Buzz
"The ponies grow and eat flowers. Surely their village will have tons growing, ready to be pollinated. When was the last time you guys had a chance to do that? But you guys don't want to go and you don't want me. So-
"Now hold on, let's not rush to conclusions. All those flowers just for us" said Stinger
"Hard to find a large patch in this city" said Bumble
"Ok, we'll go with you. But you need an excuse" said Buzz
"Oh don't worry. I already have one in mind" said Sophie
"And we promise not to tell honey about this if you don't" said Bumble
"My lips are sealed" said Sophie
