Branch jumped down from the air vent, getting himself low enough with his hair first as not to injure himself. The other followed. Poppy opened the closet door, freeing Rhonda and the creature inside. "Aww, look at you!" Poppy said. "You look like you need a hug!"
"I do!" she replied, crying. She extended her arms and grabbed Poppy, Sora, Donald, who tried to run, just like Branch, Tiny, and Goofy. She hugged them all, crying. She let them go. "My name's Crimp. I'm Velvet and Veneer's manager."
"Well, I'm Poppy," she said, pointing at herself, "and this is Donald, Goofy, Tiny, Sora, and Branch." She pointed a hand at the designated person.
"Well, nice to meet you guys!" Crimp said, adjusting her glasses.
"Velvet and Veneer have our friends, and we need your help to get them," Poppy replied.
"You're their manager, you should be in control over them," Branch said.
"Well, I call myself that, since I prepare everything for them, but really, they are in charge," Crimp said.
"Well, how would you like to be their manager?" Branch asked. Crimp smiled.
"We need a plan," Sora said.
"How about we just go for it?" Poppy suggested.
"Go for it?" Branch asked. "Poppy, are you nuts?"
"We did it your way," Poppy said, smirking. "Now let's do it my way." She put her hand down in the center. Sora glanced at Donald and Goofy, then smiled. "I'm in." He put his hand on top of Poppy's.
"Me too," Goofy said.
"Don't forget me!" Donald squawked. He put his hand on top of Goofy's Crump smiled and put her hand down. Tiny did the same. "Plan Poppy!"
They all looked at Branch. He smiled. "You know I don't like just going for it without a solid plan," he said, "but...what the heck? Let's do this!" Branch put his hand on top as well. They lowered their hands. "Plan Poppy!" they cheered, throwing their hands up.
They entered through the air vents again, Crimp sliding along the ground, and all meeting outside. Rhonda joined them from crawling out a window. "Okay, Poppy, what first?" Sora asked.
"First, we go to Mount Rageous, since that's where their show is at," Poppy said.
"And crash it!" Tiny cheered.
"And crash it," Poppy agreed.
"Yeah!" Tiny laughed.
They all hoped inside of Rhonda. "I'll be the inside force," Crimp said. "I'll be there when you need me."
"Gotcha!" Sora said, saluting her with two fingers. "Good luck, Crimp!"
"Thanks," she smiled. "You too."
Poppy waved, and Tiny took off. "Okay, where's Mount Rageous?" Tiny asked.
"How about you follow the signs?" Branch asked, pointing at a large sign with the words 'Mount Rageous' on it.
"Oh, yeah, totally," Tiny said, waving a hand. "I just wanted to see if you were paying attention."
Branch smiled, and shook his head. "There!" Sora cried, pointing out the window, down a ramp, to where Velvet and Veneer pulled out a white limo. Tiny drove Rhonda down the large lamp and skid to a halt next to their feet. Poppy, Branch, Sora, Donald and Goofy hopped out, opening the door. "Hand over those Trolls!" Sora called, pointing at them.
"Pfft, what Trolls?" Velvet asked, brushing it aside.
"You're just big..." Poppy paused for a moment while she thought of an insult. "You big phonies!" she concluded. Branch nodded.
"Phonies?" Velvet asked.
"We're stopping this show!" Branch called.
The crowd around them started whispering with each other. Velvet and Veneer awkwardly smiled and covered the diamond studs holding BroZone. "Come on, Veneer, let's go somewhere else," Velvet said.
Xigbar appeared, in his cloak, somewhere higher, for only Velvet and Veneer to see them. They both paused. Xigbar motioned his head towards Sora. They both glanced at him, then back at Xigbar, then Velvet pulled Veneer into the car. "We're going on a tour everyone!" she called, waving her hand in the air.
Branch growled then hopped inside of Rhonda. Poppy, Sora, Donald and Goofy followed. "Sora," Donald said, "did you notice that they both looked at you?"
"At me?" Sora asked.
"You sure they weren't looking at all of us?" Branch asked. "I mean, we did crash their party."
"Totally worth it!" Tiny cheered from the driver's seat.
"I'm sure," Donald said.
"Uh, Branch?" Poppy asked. "We have a little bit of trouble coming up!"
Branch ran over to the driver's seat and glanced out the window. Ahead of them, there is a large road, splitting into multiples. "Where'd they go?" Branch asked.
"There!" Sora said, pointing at the furthest ramp. Branch grumbled for a moment, then turned to Tiny. "Let me handle this."
Tiny took his hands off the wheel, the center snapping back inside. Branch took the wheel, then turned Rhonda sharply to the furthest, right ramp. "Hang on!" he cried.
Donald and Goofy grabbed onto Sora's hair. Sora and Poppy held onto the seat. Rhonda drove faster down the ramp, then flew off. They all screamed as she flew off the road and crashed into a gold statue, which shattered. They landed on something firm, before landing in the strange, creamy, foamy water. "Bridget!" Poppy cheered, poking her head out the window.
"Can you get us on that boat?" Branch asked.
Gristle threw Rhonda onto the boat, mostly. Rhonda just barely missed and landed in the water, but not before the Trolls all jumped out the windows, Branch carrying Tiny. Sora helped Goofy and Donald up.
"Aha!" Velvet called, snatching a defenseless Sora up from off the ground.
"Sora!" they all cried, even John, Bruce and Clay.
"Are you gonna turn him in now?" Veneer asked.
"I have a better idea for him," Velvet said. She turned so she wasn't facing the floating, star shaped camera, then popped open John's diamond stud, tossing Sora inside, shoving John back inside, then closing it, turning back around towards the camera. "John?" Sora asked.
"Sora!" John cried. "You have to get out of here!"
Sora pushed on the front face of the diamond stud. "I...can't!" Sora said. "It...it won't budge!"
"Sora!" Poppy cried.
Branch extended his hair to one of the star cameras and flew at Velvet. He started tugging at Sora and John's diamond stud, only to be smacked off by Velvet's hand. Poppy caught Branch on the ground.
"You know, there's not much room in here, is there?" Sora asked, semi sarcastically.
"Not really," John said. "I don't think it's supposed to hold two of us."
"Maybe if we push at the same time...?" Sora suggested.
John nodded. "One, two, three!" Sora cried. They both ran towards the diamond stud's face and pushed hard. "One, two, three!" Sora cried again. They both pushed again. "Let's back up," John said.
Sora followed his instructions and backed to the back of the diamond stud. "One, two, three!" John cried. Sora and John both ran to the face, slamming into it with their arms. They backed up and did it again.
Velvet got tired of them moving and pushed the button. A strange sucking sound came from the back of the diamond stud.
"What is that?" Sora asked.
"Hang on!" John cried.
The sucking grew louder, causing Sora and John to float. Teal colored sparkles floated off of John getting sucked into the back. Sora lost yellow sparkles, which followed John's inside the machine.
It felt as though Sora just got some of his life sucked out of him. It left him weak, and he had trouble keeping his eyes open. His head started spinning and he put his hand on the face of the diamond stud to keep himself steady. He felt naseuos, and light-headed.
John pushed himself up with the diamond stud face and helped Sora up. "Are you okay?" Sora hesitated, forcing his eyes to open. "What...what was that?"
"They sucked our talent out," John said. "But...they're also sucking out our life."
Sora watched his hand, as a blue, crystal substance formed and rose to his wrist, covering his Hug Time Bracelet. "What's...what's this?" he asked, holding his hand up.
"That's how much life she took from you," Floyd said from the other diamond stud, lying down.
"Floyd!" John cried. "Floyd! Are you okay?"
Floyd put his hand on the diamond stud face and smiled gently. "As fine as I can be. I'm not sure how...how much longer I can take this." He looked at Sora's hand. "But I've been here for two months. How have you lost so much already?"
Sora looked at his hand. "I, uh-"
A sticky hand slapped onto the face of John and Sora's diamond stud. It popped out, John and Sora crashing into each other. "Oof!" Sora cried. Their stud rolled on the floor until Goofy stopped it. Donald ran over shortly after.
"Sora!" Goofy cried. "Are you okay?"
"I'm good enough," Sora said. "We need to get Floyd out of there!" Sora pointed up at Floyd, the only Troll left, inside of Velvet's shoulder pads. Branch and Poppy stopped Clay and Bruce from rolling over the side of the boat. "Floyd!" Branch cried.
"Sora, your hand!" Donald cried.
Sora looked at his hand again. "It-it's okay, Donald."
Clay stood in his diamond stud and ran towards Velvet, his stud rolling along the ground. Her foot landed on his diamond stud. She nearly tripped but recovered herself and flung Clay away with her foot.
"There's only one thing strong enough to break diamond," Branch said. "The Perfect Family Harmony,"
