Disclaimer: I do not own Trolls, all rights go to Dreamworks and along with any music that may be used will be given the proper ownership to whomever originally sang and wrote the song used. This is not canon to my last Trolls Fanfic. This is a completely new story. Hope y'all enjoy it!
"So this is the famous Queen Poppy of the Pop Trolls." Queen Barb said, taking in the pink troll. Barb almost laughed at the pink troll infront of her; this was the troll that was giving her so much trouble? Even counting the height of the pink hair Barb was still a full centemeter taller than this sparkly pink mess in front of her. It was seriously almost laughably ridiculous at all the trouble she went through just for this one troll. "You're not going to get away with this!" Poppy tried to say as intimidating as she could. Trying to channel her inner Branch, but sadly it was not used Barb violently took the Pop String from Poppy's hair also pulling out some strands of her own hair as well. Poppy tried to sooth the new sore spot but was now in cuffs being led back to the Rock ship. "Queen Barb you have the Pop String now. Please give us back the kids you abducted from Vibe City." Hickory said. As hurt as Poppy was, she was shocked that Hickory was still trying to fight for her niblings. Barb just turned to the two Yolding Trolls and began to laugh. "You're joking right? I mean I might give back your daughter fine, but you are still trying to help the stupid Pop Trolls? You know those kids all each have a Royal background. Now I don't know if they were stolen or not; the benefit of the doubt says not. Only because they are hybrids." Barb ranted. "Branch found them as eggs abandoned in the forest! She would never take someone's eggs." Poppy vouched for her sister. Barb just gave a glance towards her Pink Opposite taking in her words. "I actually believe that. Anyway, finding out we not only had a funk heir on board but also a techno heir too. It was like Christmas. "
Also my sister's lost son was among those three that were taken. Funny thing about Funk Troll tech you can find out just about anything with a couple press of a few buttons. Not to mention that little Country Troll that was with them is one of the heirs of the Country Trolls! And they all have some sort of familial connection to the Pop Trolls. Who knew I just needed a few kids to make my plan work better than I could have ever imagined." Barb said as they entered the ship. "What are you talking about?" Hickory said trying to fight against his cuffs that the guards had to put on him when he first heard Barb say that she might not give his daughter back. "I mean. Who is gonna fight when a couple of kids are at risk, not to mention Royal ones." Barb explained with a devilish grin. "So you are just gonna hold a bunch of kids hostage and harm them if you don't get your way?" Poppy sternly said. "No, of course not. I'm not a monster. I just won't return them to their families. They will be raised in the way of rock and they all will be taken care of. Seriously, I'm not a monster." Barb calmly explained. For the first time Hickory was able to breathe somewhat. His baby girl was nto going to be harmed, but it still didn't make the situation good. Dickory could see the defeat in his brother's eyes and felt shame for getting them in this mess. Hickory was right. Poppy needed to flee with the Pop String now none of them were safe.
Back in the prisons the Funk Trolls and Bruce were thrown into the cell with everyone else. Bruce was furious. He had held his niblings as best he could when they were taken, but for some reason the Rock Trolls had a bigger interest in them than they should have. Bruce ran back to the cell doors and started to yell. "You can't just take those kids!" This drew the attention of every troll that had been captured. "Spruce?" The purple troll yet another voice he had never thought he would hear again. He turned to see a puff ball of green hair. "Clay?" It was his brother and despite the anger and fear he felt at that moment he was overjoyed to see another member of his family. He rushed to his little brother, hugging him on impact. "I missed you too Spruce, you're looking great." Clay said sympathetically knowing how hard his older brother had growing up with his body image. "Thanks, but I go by Bruce now." Bruce quickly explained as he set his brother down. "Someone got fancy. What are you doing here?" Clay asked with concern dripping from his voice.
Bruce could not look any of them in the eyes. "Branch found me and I was trying to help her find the Funk Trolls, but the Rock Trolls attacked Vibe City and captured everyone including her kids. They took them who knows where and I don't even know why. All I do know is that Poppy and Branch escaped." King Peppy did his best to make his way to the brothers. "Your sister is one of the strongest trolls that I have ever had the pleasure of meeting and Poppy has one of the strongest wills you will ever see. They will figure something out. It was at that moment the Hickory and Dickory were thrown into the cell with them. Bruce had been the only one to recognize Hickory but was shocked to see that he was no longer a centroll. He was about to ask why when the K-Pop Trolls rushed past him. "This isn't good. You two are the best bounty hunters out of all of us. And they caught you. The Yodelers!" That told Bruce everything he needed to know. He marched right up to Hickory grabbing him by the overalls and lifting him all in the air.
"That's what you were doing? Was messing with my sister's feelings part of that plan too?" Bruce said angrily. He had to be pulled off the poor Yolder. "Hickory was not going to betray them, but I did. They have Clampers." Dickory explained for his brother. Bruce took a step back. Clampers. Hickory's daughter. Who was most certainly a Country Troll and from what Bruce had heard from passing Country Trolls who try to insult his kids, they are not fond of mized genres. Which would explain why the two Yodlers were pretending to be a centroll. Bruce took several breaths to steady himself. "Why is Queen Barb holding the kids captive away from everyone else? Is it because they are mixed genres?" Bruce asked. "It's because they each have some sort of royal bloodline. Even Clampers." Hickory said defeated as he slid himself down the side of the cell wall.
This drew the attention of the Royal Tribe leaders. Delta Dawn knew about Clampers's relation to her, but those other three that she had met. They were of Royal descent as well? "How is that possible? The Branch gal said she found them as eggs abandoned in the forest." Holly asked Hickory who was just shaking his head in disbelief. "I don't think Branch even knows. She just found out what genre each of them were when they were scanned in Vibe City." Bruce remembered that. "That's right. Um. Gary. Gary is somehow the Royal Funk Grandson. Mixed with Jazz I think." Bruce said, grabbing the full attention of Chaz who was now looking hopefully at Darnell. "I still do not understand how that is possible unless it was Cooper's." Queen Essence said. "And he's not! Just my awesome nephew." Cooper said proudly. Darnel knew he had to finally come clean.
"Gary is my son." He said. Both his parents along with his brother and his brother's adoptive father looked at him confused. "When did this happen? Why didn't you tell us? We would have welcomed him into our home with open arms." Queen Essence said, hurt at the thought that her son was; afraid? Ashamed? To tell her about his baby. "I layed the egg after a visit with a troll who captured my heart; before I could tell anyone, even him. The egg had fallen off the ship just like Cooper's had. How was I supposed to say anything after that? How could I give everyone more grief while we were still looking for Cooper? I also was just a coward." Darnell admitted. Chaz saw tears start to fall down his funk prince's face and rushed to him. Wiping them from his face. Chaz along with everyone could hear the muffled sobbs of Darnell as he kept trying to apoligize to Chaz for not telling him about their son. Queen Essence was shocked at who her hip hop son had fallin in love with, but was overjoyed that he had found a partner who was caring and understanding.
"As sweet as this moment is, there is still a kid who we have no idea who she belongs to. Queen Barb said that the Rock boy um; Keith was her sister's kid." Dickory said in his thick German accient. King Peppy was shocked at this development. "They are Branch's kids. I'm sorry if this is hard to hear, but rather if they are cast out or abandoned with intent or not, she raised them and has become thier mother. When this is all over I'm not just gonna sit back and watch as you tear a family apart!" Cooper said with convection. Queen Essence walked over to her son. "I'm sorry, but they need to be with their own kind." Cooper backed away from his mother. "So what does that say about me? The Pop Trolls are my family too. Poppy and Branch are my sisters just as much as Darnell is my brother. There has to be another way." Cooper said almost beggingly. "What do you want us to do then, uh? Do what Barb is doing or maybe do what the Pop Trolls tried to do all those years ago? Pop Trolls have not changed one bit." Cooper was not prone to anger but he knew he could feel it in his heart as it tightened up. "I am not saying that at all. But maybe if we just be kind to one another and accept that we are all different and don't need to be like everyone else." Cooper answered back. "Easy for you to say." Delta was heard saying. Cooper turned to the current leader of the Country trolls. "Do you think it was easy for me to look the way that I do in a village that lost most of their history and didn't know much of anything? It wasn't, but Poppy and Branch made it bearable. Soon people accepted me for me and life got better." Cooper explained.
Queen Essence realized that her son was right. It was then that King Peppy felt a wave of dizzyness hit him. "DAD!" Both Viva and Cooper said as they rushed to their father. When Cooper saw Viva he knew immediately who it was. "Branch was right, you do look a lot like Poppy." Viva was taken back by this comment, but chose to look at her ailing father once more. "Are you ok?" Viva asked, concerned for her father. "Yes. I have lived a long and trying life thanks to the string but I could feel the connection server. Barb has the Pop String doesn't she?" King Peppy looked at Hickory who just numbly nodded. "She captured Poppy. Branch wasn't with her. I think Branch is the only troll Queen Barb doesn't have." Hickory answered the weak Pop King.
"Suki is half Techno Troll and half Reggaton Troll." Cooper said. Snapping everyone out of the dreary fog that had entered when they heard the Poppy had been captured. "Why does that matter now?" Dusty Peet asked. "We figured out Gary and Keith's birth families. I am keeping an eye on every member of that family when this is all over so no one just runs off with a kid leaving Branch distraught over not being able to find her kids." Cooper said sternly. "No one would do that. At least not Darnell and I. We owe her for saving our son." Chaz said. "He is as much a part of her family as he is ours." Darnell said supporting his partner. Cooper was relieved to hear that his brother was on his side about this. King Trollex had an aching feeling that he knew who the mother was, at least to this Suki. "I believe, our sister, Nyx. Is this Suki's mother. She had run off around five years ago because she could not be with her love who was of a different genre. I am assuming Reggaton. She would never have just left her child. So somethin gmust have happened to her. Like Prince Darnell and Chaz we will not just take her. We owe Branch a thank you for saving our sister's unborn child. Nyx would be overjoyed to know that her daughter grew up knowing she is loved." King Trollex said.
Cooper walked up to King Trollex and placed a paw on his shoulder. "Branch would love to know this and I know that she doesn't not plan on keeping these kids away from their birth families either. She wants them to learn about their cultures too and their families. I just didn't want them to be taken because She is just as much their family as you are." Cooper said calmly. King Trollex and Sythnx smiled at this knews. It was then the Reggaton Trolls made themselves known. "Our brother Marley has a similar story to Princess Nyx. He fell in love with an outsider and left to be with her. From everything we know about Marley he would never abandon his child. He must have not made it either." Trecalio (bad at spelling) said this morning to his fallin brother. King Peppy spoke up. "We are so sorry for your losses. The forest surrounding our home is filled with dangerous creatures that would not be afriad to harm a troll. Branch practically single handlely keeps our village safe from most threats. So it does not surprise me that it was her to find those eggs." Bruce and Clay learned more about their sister in a single day than over the past twenty years and they still barely knew her.
When Poppy was brought onto the ship with Hickory and Dickory they were immediately separated and Poppy was taken to a private room to have a talk with Queen Barb. Poppy was nervous. She was worried about her niblings and about every troll that was now in even more danger because of her and her need to prove herself. Her selfish need to prove that she did deserve to be Queen. She never felt this need before, not until she heard about her older sister Viva. Viva who Branch would talk about with a true smile on her face. Viva who was Branch's best friend and made Branch feel responsible for her. Viva who would have been Queen if she hadn't had died that day. Viva who she just knew; even though Branch or her father would never admit to it; Viva who she knew they felt would have been the best person to become the next Queen. Poppy wanted to prove to her father, to Branch, to Viva, to the Pop Troll Tribe, and most importantly to herself that she was the right pick for Queen. Not just because it was by default, but because she was the right choice. Now everyone was going to suffer because of her selfish behavior.
Poppy looked up to see Barb just standing against the wall looking at her. Eyes glancing up and down. Poppy wasn't sure how she felt about this, she straightened herself up not taking her eyes off of Barb. The Queen of Rock pushed herself off of the wall and made her way to Poppy with this smirk that looked like she wanted more than Poppy bargained for. "I still can't believe that you are the Troll who was giving me so much trouble. You're definitely prettier than I expected." Barb said, causing a faint pink blush to grace Poppy's cheeks. "What are you doing? Those kids have nothing to do with this. You have every troll from every tribe and I would say that you're not going to get away with it, but with every string it looks as though you will. So what is your big plan?" Poppy tried to say as confidently as she could, but Barb just laughed as she moved closer to the trapped Pop Queen.
"Hey why so hostle? The final notes of Pop. It will never invade anyone's brain again." Barb said almost teasingly to Poppy who wouldn't even give her a smile. "I'm not gonna let you do this! I'll never stop fighting until I make things right. Now just leave me alone!" Poppy said, knowing that even though she felt so much anger and guilt towards herself she would never stop until she fixed her mistake and saved everyone who would suffer because of her; if she didn't succeed. "Leave you alone?. Uh, I'm sorry. You were the one who was all desperate to be best friends." Barb teased once more to Poppy in almosta flirty way at least that's what Poppy thought she heard. "Get your hands off me." Poppy said when Barb tried to place a non threatening hand on her shoulder, but the Rock Queen quickly retracted it. She might be set on world domination, but consent was still an important asspect she strongly believes in. "Oh, okay. All right. You're feisty.. I respect that. Strong woman to strong woman, am I right? But you know who else was feisty? Pop Village." Barb said started to make her way to the door of the private room. With her back turned she did not see the devastated look on Poppy's face.
Poppy knew that she should have listened to her father and Branch when they first wanted to evacuate the village and now her people were once again imprisoned. "Oh, no. No!" The Pop Queen said more to herself than to Barb, but the Rock Queen heard the pathetic pleas coming from her prisoner. She turned back around with a wicked grin. "So, Popcorn, is being my best friend everything you could have ever dreamed of?" Poppy refused to cry instead she gave her best angry look towards Barb and she clenched her fists trying not to shake. "I am not your best friend." Hating that she ever thought that Queen Barb actually wanted to unite the Troll Tribes in peace. She was so naive and this was not even a week ago. She can't believe that so much has happened in such a short amount of time. She is also hoping that Branch is safe wherever she is.
"You don't have to be embarrassed. I get it. Being queen can be kind of lonely. There's all this pressure to be a great queen. And instead of real friends, you're just surrounded by people who just tell you what you want to hear. You know, other than your terrible taste in music and clothing and general lifestyle, you and me are the same. Popsqueak." Barb said almost sincerely. Poppy didn't want to be anything like her. She thought back to what Barb had just said and she realized that Barb was right, but she was also very wrong. "No, we're not." Poppy spat back, but before she could continue Barb rebuteled. "We're both queens who just want to unite the world." Barb simply said like it was the most obvious thing. "You don't want to unite the world. You want to destroy it! And I do have a real friend. My brother is always by my side, but my best friend. She is like anolder sister to me. She is never afraid to tell me the truth even when everyone else is scared to. She is the one who taught me maybe one of the most important lessons in my life. The family is the people you chose to have, not just the people who you're born with. That difference does matter! They do. Without them we can't learn and grow. We can't be who we are meant to be without them. Also that a good queen listens. That's how I know I'm not one and neither are you." Poppy said definitely.
Barb was taken back by all of this and tried to hide her true feelings behind her poker face but deep down inside her core she felt that maybe Queen Poppy of the annoying Pop Trolls might be right, but she could never let her know that she actually agreed with her. No matter how cute she thought she was. "Nuh-uh. No way. No. I don't know who told you that. Music has done nothing but divide us. Now that I have the final string, I can make us all one nation of Trolls, under rock." Barb said, trying to convence herself more than Poppy at the moment. "What are you gonna do?" Poppy said a little fearfully. Barb realized how much she hated seeing Poppy scared of her, but she bushed that aside for now. "Play the ultimate power chord, and then. Well. You'll see." Barb said not being able to actually say her plan. Her plan that she might believe in anymore.
Barb quickly left the room telling the guards outside to bring Queen Poppy to the cells with the rest of the captured trolls. She didn't even have the courage to turn around when she heard the guards open the door once more and grab the Pop Queen. She didn't turn around when she could hear the struggles that Poppy had as she was trying to break free from the guards. She didn't even turn when she could clearly hear Poppy begging her not to do this. Barb just took a deep breath and walked towards where her sister and her son were at. She knew that her sister had this fling with a Party Crasher way back when but she didn't know that it led to anything more than a great night. She never talked about it after that. Now she has a kid. Barb was an Aunt and she was actually excited by that idea. Barb relaxed a little at the thought that even if she decided not to go through with this plan that one good thing did come out of all of this. She got to bring her nephew back home.
Barb was snapped out of her thoughts when she heard a crashing coming from the room she was heading to. She rushed to the door to open it to be met with the sight of Riff, Val, and Carol trying to calm down Carol's son. Rage. "Come on Rage please just calm down and come to Mommy." Carol said not at all, sounding like a mother. "You're not my mommy and my name is NOT RAGE. It's Keith. I want my mommy" Keith said as he cried out for Branch. Barb went to Carol. Ever since they found out about Kieth Carol explained how she had wanted to keep him but couldn't. She tried to go back to her lover but could not find him. She did, however, trip in the thick forest losing her egg. She spent the rest of the day searching for it but never finding it. Carol believed that her child had been lost for good. Barb had never seen such joy on her sister's face when she had learned that her son was not only alive, but now on the Rock Ship.
"Why does he keep saying that? I'm his mother." Carol said frustatedly. Val walked over to her two sisters leaving Riff to defend himself against the two year old. "Well that may be true Carol, but you are not the one who has raised him." Val tried to explain before she was cut off by her angry sister. "He's two. He'll get over it." Carol snapped. "Calm down. Yes he is two, but for all he has known. A woman named Branch has been the one to raise him along with the two other trolls who screamed and bit at the guards when they took Rage, um, Keith from them." Barb tried to tell her sister who just wouldn't listen. "His name is Rage not Keith." Carol whined. "Well you might actually get somewhere with him if you just call him Keith. That's the name he seems to be the most comfortable with." Val said. Carol let out one of the biggest sighs she has ever let out. "Ok. I'll call him Keith, but what about this Branch? Is she in the cell? I don't want him running off back to her." Carol said feeling a bitter jealousy towards the troll whom her own son insists to call mom.
"As far as we know. She is actually the only troll to have escaped our capture. We don't know how, but from what I have heard from the Pop Tribe and those kids. She would never leave them intentionally, so she must have gotten separated from them back in Vibe City. She also might be on her way here as we speak." Val explained. Carol's eye ever so slightly twitched before she let out a scream that was heard throughout the ship even in the cell. Riff who had been left to deal with his nephew had somehow FINALLY gotten the kid to settle down and was now holding him in his arms comforting the two year old. "Hey Keith. I'm your Uncle Riff. It's very nice to meet you. Do you know how to play the drums? Or something?" Riff said, trying to distract the scared kid. Riff was more than excited when he saw Keith's head nodd. "My Mommy taught me." He whimpered. Riff didn't know how to respond to this. He just held his nephew tighter feeling like maybe this whole Rock of Nation was wrong. "Maybe you and I could jam out sometime. Yeah?" Riff said. He only felt Keith numbly nodd, before Carol let out a very feral scream the sacred Kieth to his very core. Keith clung onto Riff even tighter as he began to cry once more. Keith did not like this mean lady who kept calling him Rage and herself his mommy. He missed his brother and sister. He mised his Aunt Poppy and Uncle Cooper. Most of all he missed his Mommy. Where could she be?
Meanwhile Branch had been counting to ten before she decided to go back and try to come up with an actual plan with Poppy and possibly find Hickory. She blushed at the mere thought of this cowboy. She had never had an interest in a troll before nor had one had an interest in her. Branch shook her head. She needs to focus, no time to daydream. She was about to reach where she had left Poppy but noticed that Hickory had found her, but he was no longer a centroll. She heard Hickory say that what he felt towards her was real and Branch felt her cheeks burn up. She then quickly hid when she saw what she presumed to be Rock Trolls come up to Poppy. Branch watched the scene unfold before her. They lost the Pop String, Poppy was captured along with the rest of troll kind and she did her very best to follow the Rock Ship when she saw that it was flying off towards the Rock Territory. Lava City. Branch ran as best she could to keep up with the ship but it was no use. After several miles Branch finally lost track of the ship. She was now passing back and forth trying to figure out how she was going to save every troll. "AHHHHHHHH!" When Branch looked up she saw a shadow making its way down to her.
I know this chapter had a lot of heartfelt moments and stuff but with everyone practically captured, what else are they going to do but air out their grievances and band together to win the day! Or you know maybe something completely different: the storyline is still ongoing. I also thought that this was a much better storyline than the original movie. Honestly I am just having fun. I haven't written an action pact adventure sequence before and I am totally pumped to try it. The last troll story I wrote had more singing and dancing and dancing and singing and singing and dancing with the accasonal hug, but since I am not adding in the songs I have to fill up the pages with something. I know not everyone is super hyped for my Mama Branch story, but I did it for a reason. To tie in better this second movie that felt super out of place once Band Together came out. Also it's my world and y'all are living in it! I just want to clear one thing up. No matter what story I write fanfiction or not. I will never write something I wouldn't want to read myself. I do this just as much for myself and I do for the readers who are excited for each chapter I post. So if you aren't a fan of something I wrote, I'm sorry but I wrote what I wanted to see, maybe you'll find something you'll like in the next chapter. I really do hope y'all enjoy reading my chapters and until the next time. Bye-bye for now my little Bookworms.