(Nearly a year later, November 2030)
Time had passed and Lucy and her brother Kevin now ruled the city along with their parents and grandfather. Lucys bullying had come down, but there were still those who loved to criticize her and everything she did. Vanellope and Ralph got Lucy therapy sessions weekly to deal with her issues, and they seemed to be working. Lucy, to her friends, was definitely different after she was originally overthrown. She wasn't as cheerful anymore, and she didn't go out as much as she used to. That adventurous side she had a year ago seemed to be completely gone, which worried them.
One day after school, Lucy went to her friends Norville, Christie, and Lodhi jr's house to discuss things. Her friends mocho and cinnamon stayed around the castle trying to see what Lucy could've been up to. Ever since her new castle was built, she kept at most a skeleton crew of droids to handle basic duties, but they always came and went into town, coming back with mysterious unmarked crates. On a tip from Kevin, the 2 went down to castle sub level 8.
"This feels wrong, spying on my friend" said Mocho
"I know but I just have this weird feeling about her. She hasn't been herself. I know you want to help her but we can't right now. I'm curious as to what those crates she keeps getting are" said cinnamon
The 2 reached the castle sub level and explored, eventually running into several B2 super battle droids who raised their wrist blasters at them.
"Intruder detected"
"Wait, scans indicate Smoreline siblings, friends of the queen"
The droids lowered their arms upon realizing who the 2 were.
"How can we be of service?"
"We were just curious as to what Lucy does down here all day. Kevin said we might find something here" said cinnamon
"Kevin sent you? Then I guess the time has come. Follow us"
The droids led the 2 to another room at the end of the hall with a single table. On it were what appeared to be toy models of droid ships.
"Lucys making toys? That's what she's doing?" Cinnamon asked
Mocho picked one of the ships up and noticed it felt very heavy despite not being big.
"I don't think these are toys sis" said Mocho
"They're not. That's lucys rebuilt droid fleet"
At the door was Kevin, who followed them.
"Forgive the size, had to shrink them til necessary. It was the only way to keep the empire from finding out lucys true intentions" said Kevin
"True intentions?" Mocho asked
"She's going to retake her kingdom, and destroy the empire. She's already hand repaired by herself half her army, they're in the next room shrunk as well til needed. Great plan is it not?" Kevin asked
Mocho and cinnamon didn't say a thing. It seemed odd how cheerful Kevin was at lucys new behavior.
(Crisp house)
Lucy, as well as 4 of her droids, sat in the living room of the house, talking to the triplets as well as their parents Lodhi sr and former sugar rush racer torvald batterbutter.
"I request your services. I have in my bag blueprints for some inventions I need but can't build myself. I am willing to pay $15,000 Litwak dollars for these" said Lucy
She reached into her purse and pulled out 2 blueprints, giving them to Lodhi senior. One was for some kind of code box, another was for some kind of machine to change memories. This confused the family.
"What exactly are these for Lucy?" Torvald asked
"How about I pay you $30,000, and no questions asked yet" said Lucy
"While that is a lot-
"$50,000" Lucy countered
"Lucy-
"$100,000, final offer" said Lucy
Her droids put several suitcases on the coffee table, each filled to the brim with Litwak dollars. The family shut up upon seeing all the money, it was a lot, enough they didn't have to work for a while.
"We have a deal" said Lodhi sr
"Excellent. I only need one of those memory rays. The code boxes, I'll need as many as you're willing to give me" said Lucy
The triplets seemed a little nervous about this, but they weren't about to turn down free money from Lucy. Whatever she was planning must've been really important.
Lucy left not long after without saying another word. She bumped into Taffyta, who 'accidentally' spilled soda over her.
"Whoops, sorry Lucy, didn't see you there" Taffyta replied sarcastically
Lucy clenched her fists as Taffyta smugly walked away. Her droids huddled around her.
"You will have your revenge soon enough our queen. Nows not the time. The army is not yet ready" said one of the droids
"You're right, I need another week" said Lucy
As Lucy approached the doors to her house, she was confronted by cinnamon and mocho.
"Lucy. We need to talk" said Mocho
"Urgently. We know about your army" said cinnamon