Another day in Sweet Pop as Poppy and her team continued serving customers of all ages, from school kids and teenagers to families and the elderly. A lot of the beings love Poppy for her optimism and kindness because her employees were treated as equals and they all love her for being able to make everybody happy. As Branch, Violet, a female elf and a male pixie were serving plates of salads to teenage couples, Rose walked in with Bridget.
"Hi Bridget, hey Rose." Poppy greeted as the two walked in.
"Hey Poppy." The girls chorused.
"Gristle's company has a product to patent." Bridget announced. "It's a secret."
"A secret?" Rose asked her.
"Yeah, and Gristle wants to have his meeting here in the cafe!" She giggled. "And the best part is that his client is also a restaurant critic."
"Wow!" Poppy cheered. "This is an honor!"
"So, will he use one of the party rooms?" Branch asked her while carrying a tray of partfait to a single elf mother and her child nearby.
"Yeah! It would be so fun!" Poppy smiled. "Gristle and his employees can have it as a meeting room and they can have some snacks."
"They need the snacks to be perfectly healthy and enjoyable." Violet suggested.
"Yeah, tomato and cheese sandwiches." Poppy added.
"But Gristle loves pizzas." Bridget said.
"We had pizza but we haven't made pizza." Rose added.
"Okay, this is tough." Branch added.
"How do we make pizzas?" Smidge asked.
"I remember dad told me that mom made pizza for a friend's son's birthday." Poppy wondered. "I bet she has a recipe of it."
She opened her mom's scrapbook and starts reading it. Then, they go to the kitchen and started making pizza. They went through their trials and error when making the pizza dough. It's difficult to master but it was worth it.
"Wow!" Poppy squealed at the sight of their new pizzas.
"We did it!" Branch smirked. "We made pizzas."
"And looks like everybody wants to order pizzas." Violet said as she eyed all the customers waiting in line to try the new menu.
Immediately, they served the pizzas to their customers and this caught the attention of the other beings who wanted to try the new dish there. Meanwhile, a crowd was gathering around the building in the Tech District. It has the sign, Foodstice! on the front and a group of male bergens in chef uniforms are standing outside. A voice boomed from the door.
"Please give it up for the keeper of recipes, minister of culinary arts, your master chef..."
A light purple Bergen with short, light turquoise hair appeared from the door. On her large chin some small-sized moles can be seen. She has yellow and red eyes, a large purple nose, thin purple lips and crooked teeth. Her outfit consists of a tall, white chef hat, a white chef uniform, brown stripped pants, leather shoes, and a leather brown fanny pack where she keeps her spices in. She also has golden hoop earrings.
"Me!" She smirked as she made the grills ablaze in front of everybody. In the process, the new restaurant opened and the crowd people outside entered. The tv showed the whole scene in Sweet Pop but the customers nodded in ignorance to it. Only Poppy, Branch, Violet, and the others were looking at the show. Rose and Bridget had their breakfast and left for work.
"Wow, looks like Chef had reopened her restaurant." Poppy commented.
"I heard an elf critic made a bad review about her old restaurant and it was shut down because of it." Violet added.
This made Bridget shiver over her old job because she got fired from it anyway. Still, only a few people go to the restaurant while many go to Sweet Pop. Chef notices it and becomes furious.
"I can't believe it, they prefer the simple pixie cafe over my fancy restaurant?" She growled. "Why on earth they want to go to a place like that?!"
"Well, it is geared up for the youth." A waiter rolled his eyes. "I mean, it's not as fancy as ours but a lot of kids love that place."
"Whatever, but we are making more money that that sprite does." Chef bragged. "Money is what matters to me."
Back in Sweet Pop, Poppy and her friends continued serving the customers with a smile, not knowing that another competition is up. It all started with a conversation between Bloom and her satyress girlfriend.
"Did you hear that the red tavern is refurbished and renovated?" Bloom whispered.
"Yeah, but the slight mention of that place made my skin crawl." A satyr shivered.
"Me too Anise, my human ex fell for that tart, Brandy." She sobbed.
"Bloom, he's all in the past now." Anise, the satyr said.
"At least he's in jail for falling in love with that siren and doing criminal stuff for her." She said sarcastically.
The conversation kinda made the family of elves, sprites and pixies nearby cover the ears of their children and babies. The fathers and mothers asked to the two to kindly lower down their voices and the two apologized. This caught Poppy's ears when she heard what the girls said so she went to the kitchen to talk to Branch, Smidge, Cooper, Fuzzbert and Violet.
"Guys, did you hear that?" Poppy asked them.
"Yeah, I heard from the centaur named Bloom, she said that Brandy renovated her restaurant." Violet added.
"Really?" Branch was shocked.
"Blech, I can't stand them." Smidge spat.
Suddenly, Poppy and her friends noticed a black and red haired siren in front of the shop. They went out of the cafe and the other employees continued taking care of the customers inside. The parents covered their children's eyes while the teenagers and the other adults helped them protect the children and teenagers. Poppy and her friends are now face to face with Brandy, a black and red haired siren in a laced up corset without a blouse, mini-shorts, lap apron and high heels. Behind her are four sirens, a blonde with orange streaks, a Latina with green and blue hair, a biracial girl with brown and blonde hair and an Asian girl with purple and violet hair.
"You five again." Poppy smirked.
"You and your friends kept on messing with my plans!" Brandy hissed.
"Nuh-uh! You've been using dirty tricks to get what you want." Branch retorted.
"Like the sardines and trying to have Guy Diamond's Glitterade for yourselves." Smidge retorted.
"What!?" The Latina girl, Tequila was shocked.
"How did you know?!" Brandy cried, now that the dirty tricks they did are revealed.
"You didn't know the saying, Even Walls Have Ears?" Cooper laughed.
"Aha! So you two are messing with my business too." Chef appeared before them.
"Meh, I didn't do anything, I just mind my own business." Poppy said honestly.
"Bet our customers love our Red Tavern." Brandy bragged.
"No, Foodstice is better." Chef said arrogantly.
"Only working men? Yeah, right." Violet retorted.
"Children don't make money so I have very little use of them." She snubbed that the parents covered their children and babies away from her.
"No wonder, you're unpopular to all of the families." Poppy grinned.
"Okay, okay, this is enough!" A voice boomed.
They saw Gristle with an elf beside him standing before the three groups. The elf has long, blue hair, aqua colored dragonfly wings with blue and purple eyespots, brownish tan skin and teal eyes, wearing a business suit.
"Mr. Elfmore!" Chef was shocked by his appearance.
"I knew it! You reopened your restaurant while Brandy renovated hers." He frowned at them.
"Is that the critic whose comment shut down bad restaurants?" Cooper asked.
"Yup, he's the client for our corporation." Gristle smiled.
"I heard that your secretary's friend here owns a restaurant that has more customers than the others." Me. Elfmore said.
"Yes, sir." Poppy answered politely.
"Yeah, Bridget told me that she and her team make the best food and they serve people of all ages." Gristle added.
"Hey, I'm also good at cooking, better than them." Chef growled.
"We'll see about that." Brandy replied.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, I know how to settle this, we can have a pizza making contest in Castle Park." Rose said with confidence. Behind her were Bloom and Anise.
"Rose, that's a great idea." Poppy said.
"What!?" Brandy cried. "We can make pizzas better, shrimpy."
"You think I don't hear that?! You'd better watch your mouth or you'll regret that you messed with the wrong person." Rose smirked.
"It's a good idea, Ms. Rose." Mr. Elfmore said. "Whoever can make the most pizzas win and the winner will have their restaurant as my meeting place with Gristle here."
"But it has to be fair and square, no rule breaking and cheating or we'll break you." Bloom added.
"It's a deal." Poppy agreed.
"Oh, fine." Chef said reluctantly.
"I'll win this." Brandy bragged.
In a minute, three cooking stations are set up in Castle Park. Poppy, Branch, Smidge, Violet and Fuzzbert are well prepared in their station, Brandy and her cronies, Tequila, Cider, Whiskey, Vodka and Soju are also prepared, so do Chef and her team. Mr. Elfmore stood in the middle as a referee with Gristle, Rose, Bridget and Cooper, who are picked out as judges.
"On your marks, get set, go!" Mr. Elfmore shouted as he started the timer in his cellphone.
Immediately, the three teams start preparing the ingredients. Poppy and her team have been practicing making pizzas in the cafe's kitchen and they are able to make more than one pizzas because they tried each toppings, based on their own concept. Chef is making pizzas with her team but they disagree over the toppings while Brandy's team just do the work while Brandy sneakily tries to steal the ingredients from Chef's station but failed to steal from Poppy's team because Branch catches her in the act while working. Cooper, Bridget, Gristle and Rose noticed the mishaps while watching the competition.
We're gonna make it happen that's what I'm saying
(C'mon now)
There's nothing impossible
(Got a job, get it done that's what we're all about)
No more what the problem we'll find a way
(C'mon now)
Because we're unstoppable
(Aha, we know we got it goin' on now)
We stick together, yeah
We gonna win every time we try, we gonna get it right 'cuz
We can, we can, we can
Yeah, we can do anything
We can, we can, we can
Yeah, we can
We can, we can, we can
Get everything happening
We can, we can, we can
Yeah, we can
(We can)
We can
We know together we can do anything
(C'mon now)
We've got it under control
(Work it out, get it right, nothing's stopping us)
Whatever situation is happening
(C'mon now)
We're always good to go
(Aha, we know we gonna work it out now)
We stick together, yeah
We gonna win every time we try, we gonna get it right 'cuz
We can, we can, we can
Yeah, we can do anything
We can, we can, we can
(Everybody say)
We can, we can, we can
Get everything happening
We can, we can, we can
Yeah, we can
We stick together, yeah
We gonna win every time we try, we gonna get it right 'cuz
La la
(La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la)
Oh, oh yeah
(La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la)
La la
(La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la)
We can do anything
We can, we can, we can
Yeah, we can do anything
We can, we can, we can
(Everybody say)
We can, we can, we can
Get everything happening
We can, we can, we can
Yeah, we can
When the time is up, Poppy and her friends present their many but diverse pizzas, Chef and her team made seven pizzas only but Brandy and her team only made four pizzas. Mr. Elfmore noticed not only their pizzas but also their attitudes and how they behave with their team.
"And the winner is The Snack Pack!" He announced.
Everybody cheered and rejoiced as they congratulate Poppy and her friends for winning but Chef and her team ignored them while Brandy screamed and threw tantrums. Rose and her coworkers uploaded the whole competition that they filmed till the end in the internet. The meeting in the cafe's Party Room is also a success and when the day ended, Poppy noticed something between Rose and Mr. Elfmore because he said her name once after she and her fellow employees/friends closed down the cafe and flew home with Violet and Rose.
"So, how did you two know each other?" She asked her.
"He's my boss in Feather Pen Studios." Rose answered.
"Oh my guh!" Smidge exclaimed.
"So that's why he knows your name." Branch smirked.
"So, did they love the pizza?" Rose asked.
"They love it." Poppy replied.
"It takes a lot of practice to perfect it." Cooper added.
They all laughed while they went back to Pop Village Apartments, knowing that even though they have rivals, they will always succeed as long as they work together.