"Are they gone?" Cooper asked nervously.
"I-I think so!" Satin stammered.
"Oh, it's alright, Mr. Dinkles! The scoundrels have gone!" Biggie murmured to his glowworm, sitting contentedly inside his sling. "I hope." Jenny clung to him. "Don't cry, Jenny. You're safe up here." Biggie held her close, and patted her hair, trying to calm his own racing heart.
"I want my mommy!" Honey Lemon wailed.
"I wanna go home!" Pita begged.
"What do we do now?" Chenille gulped.
"We gotta help Branch!" Cooper announced.
"Right!" Guy Diamond agreed.
"Coops, take Satin and Chenille and the kids back to the village." Darnell told his brother. "Tell them we need help with Branch. Find Poppy and Dr. Plum!"
"Right, bro." Cooper nodded. Everybody cautiously swung themselves down from the trees, using their hair as ropes. "Is everyone here?" Cooper asked.
"Pita, Honey Lemon, Maple?" Satin spoke up.
"Here!"
"Shimmer Boy, Colin, Chris?" Chenille added.
"Here!"
"Jenny?" Guy Diamond chimed in.
"H-here." Jenny whimpered in Biggie's arms.
"And Tiny?" Guy Diamond sighed with relief. "Tiny? Tiny?! Where's Tiny?!"
"Over here, Daddy!" Tiny Diamond answered from Branch's side. They all hurried to the wounded hero. "Better get th kiddos outta here!" Tiny told Cooper and the twins. "It ain't a pretty sight for little eyes."
"Go!" Darnell told his brother.
"Here." Biggie set Jenny on Cooper's back as she clung to his neck with her hair, and held her sketchbook in her arms. "She's pretty sick."
"Got it, Biggie." Cooper nodded firmly. "Okay, guys. Everyone follow Satin and Chenille, I'll be in the back."
"Hurry!" Biggie told him. Cooper and the others hurried back down the path as fast as their legs could carry them. "Branch looks in a really bad way!" Biggie gasped with horror.
"Come on, guys. We gotta get this limb off him." Darnell ordered. He, Biggie, and Guy Diamond grunted heavily as they shoved the big twig off of Branch. He didn't move.
"Oh my g-!" Guy Diamond sputtered. Branch was on his side, unconscious. He had a big gash on the right side of his forehead, his stomach was bleeding, and his right leg was hanging at an oblong angle. "Branch! Branch! Can you hear me?" Guy Diamond panted frantically in his auto tune voice.
"Come on, bro!" Darnell urged Branch.
"You gotta wake up! Poppy will kill us if she finds out you got hurt!" Biggie cried. Mr. Dinkles mewed. "Oh, not literally, Mr. Dinkles!"
"Should we go for help, or stay with him? I'm not sure if we should move him." Guy Diamond said worriedly to the others. "I think his leg is broken."
"Someone mind helpin' me?" Tiny groaned loudly, tugging on a twig that was seven times his size.
"Tiny Diamond, what are you doing?"
"Gonna need splints for that leg!" Tiny rolled his eyes.
"Right!" Darnell agreed. They broke some small sticks and then rummaged through the First Aid kit in Branch's backpack. Darnell found some stripes of white bandage. They tied the splints against Branch's leg as tightly as they could. Guy Diamond applied some gauze to his head and side, before Darnell taped it down.
"This is horrible!" Biggie shook his head. "How are we going to get him back?"
"Gonna need to make a stretcher." Tiny stated calmly, sucking on his blue pacifier.
"How?!" The grownups gaped at him.
"What? Ain't y'all ever had an accident in the woods?"
"No." His dad shook his head.
"Not like this!" Biggie spluttered.
"If we're lucky, he'll have an inflatable on in his pack." Tiny facepalmed his head.
"He's right!" Biggie's jaw dropped as he pulled a small package labeled Inflatable Stretcher for Unexpected Emergencies, out of the backpack.
"Dang!" Darnell's eyes widened. "Is there nothing this guy is unprepared for?!"
"He's like crazy prepared!" Guy Diamond shook his head.
Tiny Diamond was blowing into the inflatable's air-hole, but his efforts did barely anything. Biggie took over, and the balloon like stretcher came to life in full form. "Easy there, Biggie! Easy!" Darnell told the big, blue troll as he gently lifted Branch into his arms, being sure to hold his injured leg as still as possible, and gingerly set him on the stretcher.
"Okay. Let's get him back!" Darnell and Guy Diamond picked up the stretcher to carry Branch, as Tiny and Biggie hurried back to the village.