A few minutes later, Mirabel and Flint get to the floor that they want as the tube opened and they pose when they spot Chester and Barb in front of them.
When they hear the noise that Mirabel and Flint make, Chester and Barb turn to face them.
"Lockwood?" Chester muttered as his eyes widen in disbelief. "You're still alive?"
Mirabel glanced over at Flint in confusion and asked, "You died? When?"
"I'll explain later," Flint whispered to Mirabel and turned back to Chester as he took out two cans of Spray-On Shoes and aimed at him. "Hands up, give us our friends back!"
Chester held his hands up, giving Flint and Mirabel a smile as he replied, "Of course! I have them right there."
He nodded to Barb, who pressed a button on a controller.
Suddenly, a claw came out of the wall, which was hanging their tied-up friends with yellow police tape.
Sam's eyes widen when she spotted Mirabel and Flint as she said, "Hey, guys."
"Sam! Guys!" Flint cried.
Mirabel snatched one of the cans from Flint's hand and aimed it at Chester as she said, "Chester, let them go! They have nothing to do with this!"
"Oh, don't worry, I'll let them go," Chester grinned as he clapped his hands while Mirabel and Flint glance at each other in confusion.
Just then, the floor opened up below Sam, Brent, Earl, Steve, and Manny, revealing a giant grinder/machine with saws as Chester finished, "Right into my supersized food bar machine!"
All of their eyes widen as Sam, Brent, Earl, and Manny look down at the grinder in terror in their eyes as they exclaim, "Food bars?!?!"
"Food bars?!" Mirabel yelled.
"You're gonna turn them into food bars?!" Flint asked.
"Yes, food bars, the lifeblood of my company. I learned your FLDSMDFR food was far more delicious than "food" food, so using your foodimals as ingredients would make my products super-delicious! I had to have your invention. Unfortunately, I couldn't find it, until you helped me," Chester explained his plan.
Hearing something above them, Mirabel and Flint look up to the floor above and gasp, spotting the FLDSMDFR in its own containment box.
"The FLDSMDFR!" Flint cried.
"Watermelon!" The FLDSMDFR spoke, creating watermelophants that went into a glass containment that was shaped like a lightbulb.
At the same time, they were slowly being lowered toward grinder below them.
"You're a monster! Those are living creatures!" Sam yelled.
"Yes, that's the problem. Food with legs is much harder to catch, they hide, they fight, and they wanna live, ugh! But now that I control your FLDSMDFR, Lockwood…I can pave your island and work in complete secrecy. Live Corp will remain the coolest, hippest company in the world with a new food bar version 8.0!" Chester explained, creating an image of the new food bar right behind him.
"I never should've believed in you," Flint admitted.
Chester chuckled and replied, "Yes, that was quite foolish, now if you want your friends back, I suggest both of you drop your cans."
"Don't do it, guys! Save the island!" Sam tried to reason.
"We can't save the island…because Swallow Falls doesn't make the island, it's the people and animals in it," Flint reasoned.
"Besides, I'm sure it'll be horrible to save the island, your home, with this Papá Noel-bearded lightbulb man still on it," Mirabel added, causing Flint to snicker and Chester to cringe as he angrily stared at them.
"Ew! Okay, first: shut up, both of you, then drop the cans or I drop your friends," Chester said as he motioned behind him to the others before he lowered his hand to the grinder.
At this threat, Mirabel and Flint quickly toss each of their cans off the platform as Flint said, "Okay, there."
"Now please don't hurt them," Mirabel pleaded as she nervously narrowed her eyes.
A moment later, Barb stopped the claw using the controller, causing Mirabel and Flint to sigh in relief.
"Oh no, you two, this is embarrassing. I changed my mind, please understand I can't leave any witnesses," Chester stated, which made Barb look at him in shock.
Flint groaned, pulling at his face while Mirabel looked ready to punch something.
"Why…just why….?" Mirabel grumbled.
"Barb, grind them," Chester smiled.
Barb shook her head and replied, "But, sir, I didn't think we were going to-"
Chester cut Barb off when he grabbed the scooter, snatched the controller from her, and snapped, "This is why I work alone, monkey! You are dismissed."
Looking like she was about to cry, Barb turned on her scooter and left them alone as Mirabel watched her drive away, sadly staring at her.
"And now, without further ado," Chester grinned, pressing a button on the controller, which made them go down a bit faster than before.
"Guys, hurry!" Sam pleaded just as Brent slightly screamed.
"Why won't this go faster?" Chester questioned, continuing to press the controller.
"Give us that controller!" Mirabel demanded as she and Flint try to grab it as they run past, but Chester dodged out of the way.
"Sure, come and get it," Chester smirked.
A moment later, multiple holograms of Chester holding the controller appear, laughing as they cover the whole floor.
"Are you kidding me?" Flint muttered to himself, his and Mirabel's backs against each other while they watch them appear.
"Why did I think this would be easy?" Mirabel questioned.
Leaving each other, Mirabel and Flint run off to pick off each Chester, trying to find the real one.
"But which one of us has it?" One of them asked just as Flint went through one.
"Is it me?" One tapped Flint on his shoulder, causing him to turn around and get slapped. "Or me?"
Flint felt himself get slapped on the back, which made him fall to the ground.
Mirabel ran to help Flint, but she was punched by one of the clones, falling down next to him.
"Earl, can't you break us out of here?" Sam questioned.
"Yellow police tape! The one thing I can't break," Earl defeatedly admitted.
Mirabel and Flint start running through lines of holograms, causing them to disappear just as Flint touched a different hologram, about twelve more form behind him.
"Forkenknifenspooninator!" Flint yelled, pulling out an invention and throwing it at them.
A moment later, Flint looked up at Sam and the others and started, "Sam, guys, listen…"
"Invisible table?" Mirabel questioned as she held up an invisible invention, but shrugged as she threw it as best as she could to a bunch of holograms.
"I'm sorry I was such an idiot," Flint apologized.
"Uh, Flint, that's true. But now may not be the time!" Sam's voice shook.
"Sam, just let him finish," Mirabel spoke up, making a few holograms disappear.
"I took you all for granted, and I should've listened to you," Flint continued.
"Okay, go on, but hurry!" Sam pleaded, being lowered down more as Mirabel and Flint run through more holograms.
"The truth is: I need each and every one of you guys, you're more than just my friends. You're my family-Oh!"
Just then, Flint was slapped in the face while Mirabel was tripped over.
"How sweet, note to self: Put that on their tombstones," Chester said as he put Flint's underpants over his eyes, making him unable to see.
Flint tried to walk around, but it was difficult when he could not see.
"Good one, Chester!"
"Bravo, Chester!"
"Don't you see, young Lockwood? These friends are the reason you keep losing," Chester taunted.
Flint took his underpants off his head, letting them snap back into place as Mirabel came over to him and he said, "Well, it's better than ending up alone like you."
"Ha, ha, I'm not alone," Chester said as he kicked Mirabel and Flint to the ground. "I've got holograms!"
Landing away from the others, the stuff Flint had in his lab coat scattered around the floor around them.
"Oh, crud," Flint muttered, slowly sitting up and spotted the group starting to go into the hole where the grinder was.
"Guys! Why don't you throw him a party?" Sam called.
"We love parties!" All of the Chesters shouted.
Flint looked at Sam in confusion, trying to process what she meant as Mirabel exclaimed, "Party?"
Flint's eyes land on the celebrationator a few feet away from him, which clicked within him what Sam was hinting towards.
He gasped, leaning over to grab as he said, "Party!"
Just as Flint was about to press the button, one of the Chesters kicked it out of his hand as all of them say, "Party's over, Lockwood!"
"No!" Flint shouted as he and Mirabel watch the invention bounce over the grinder, landing on the other side.
"We won't get there in time, and Chester could knock it around so we wouldn't get it," Mirabel whispered.
"Not yet, I think it's time to celebrate!" Flint shouted, causing Steve's attention to snap over the machine.
A moment later, Steve ripped out of the police tape.
"No!" Earl screamed in despair, tape hitting him in the face.
"Celebrate!" Steve cried, climbing up the tape and dived to press the button.
"Yes!" Flint grinned.
Steve pressed the button while the Chesters look in horror.
Just a second later, the celebrationator activated and Mirabel and Flint were covered in different shades of paint, along with sprinkles and glitter.
Luckily, it managed to land on the real Chester, revealing he was the right one.
While he was distracted, Mirabel and Flint step over to him as Flint narrowed his eyes and hit him in the neck, causing him to fall over and drop the remote.
"Ow," Flint held his sore hand as Steve landed on his shoulder and Steve caught the remote and gave it to Mirabel. "Thanks, lab partner."
"Helping," Steve smiled, nuzzling into the back of Flint's paint-covered hair.
Mirabel used the controller to lift Sam, Brent, Earl, and Manny out of the food bar grinder before they could go through the process as she directed the arm to put them on the ground.
Once their feet touch the ground, the police tape that was wrapped around them fell to the ground.
When they recover their footing, Mirabel and Flint run over to them.
Mirabel breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thanks dios you guys are okay."
"Guys, I'm so sorry for being such a-"
"Chester!" Sam cut Flint off.
"Okay, I guess I deserve that," Flint playfully responded with an eye roll.
"No, Flint! Chester!" Sam grabbed Flint by the shoulders, turned him around, and pointed upstairs.
Up at the top of the stairs to the level above them, Chester scrambled to get to the containment box where the FLDSMDFR was kept.
After breaking the glass, Chester managed to get the machine out as he clutched it to his chest.
"I've got what I want. Enjoy your friends, Lockwood," Chester said as he smirked down at them.
"No! No!" Flint called out.
"You can't do this!" Mirabel added, but she knew that Chester would not listen.
With Flint exchanging a nod, he, Mirabel, Sam, Brent, Earl, Steve, and Manny run up the stairs to catch up to Chester before he got away.
Luckily, Barry in the robo-suit and a bunch of other foodimals stop him from going down that path.
Chester went to go down another path, but he was stopped by Earl with lots of blueberries, kiwis, lemmins, and fruit cockatiels.
"Anybody gonna be keeping folks safe in this town, it's me," Earl smirked.
Just then, Brent jumped in on top of a roasted chicken and exclaimed, "Ba-gawk-oh!"
A moment later, Manny appeared at the end on top of a tacodile.
"Tacodile supreme," Manny announced, causing the tacodile to roar.
Seeing no way out, Chester ran onto the path where Mirabel, Flint, Sam, and Steve were waiting.
"It's over, Chester," Sam narrowed her eyes.
"Mustache!"
Flint held his hand out to Chester and demanded, "Now hand over the FLDSMDFR."
Chester backed away from them toward the containment box as he snapped, "No!"
"You heard him! Give him the machine and no one gets hurt," Mirabel said.
"I said no! Never!" Chester hissed, heading up a ladder to get on top.
"Chester, there's nowhere to go," Flint pointed out, but Chester did not listen.
They watch him climb to the top of the box, looking around, and spotted Barb on her scooter coming towards him.
"That's what you think," Chester smirked at them before looking back to Barb. "Save me, monkey!"
Barb seemed to finally snap, glaring at Chester with a hate-filled expression.
"I'm an ape!" Barb yelled, taking the FLDSMDFR from Chester when she got close enough.
Chester chased after Barb around the containment box as he scolded, "Bad monkey! Give that back! Bad monk-"
He cut himself off when he fell off the platform, heading down towards the food bar grinder below him.
As he got closer, a bunch of holograms appear below him as he smiled and said, "My holograms! Save me!"
"We're here for you."
"You're going to be fine."
"We'll save you."
The holograms prepare to catch Chester while the man turned to look up at them with a relaxed expression as he asked, "Ah, you see, people? With my holograms-"
His eyes widen when he went through the holograms, realizing that they could not save them.
"Oh, fudge," Chester said as he pulled himself inside of his vest just before he hit the grinder.
Somehow, Chester pinged like a ping-pong ball around the side saws of the grinder, deflecting himself toward an exit door.
Chester popped out of the vest, smirking at them as he bragged, "I saved myself!"
The cheesespider shot a cheese web at Chester, pulled him into its mouth, and ate him in one bite.
The cheesespider spat out Chester's vest as it landed on the ground and it deflated a moment later.
They stare at the vest as Brent groaned in disgust.
"That would leave a bad taste in your mouth," Manny said.
Mirabel made gagging noises as Flint and Sam make a disgusted noise each and Barb walked up to them, holding the FLDSMDFR.
"Um, I believe this belongs to you," Barb said as she handed Flint the FLDSMDFR and Mirabel and Sam smile at her.
...
After the fight at the factory, they walk to the rock candy mountain as Mirabel watched Flint head across a small island in the middle to place the FLDSMDFR back where it belonged.
"Here we go, pal. Gosh, I hope this works," Flint muttered, taking the BS-USB out of the USB port.
The FLDSMDFR shut down as Flint threw away the BS-USB out of the USB port.
It stayed shut down for a long while, which caused him to lean his head against the machine, closing his eyes.
Suddenly, the machine started powering up, causing Flint to lift his head.
He stood up, stepping back to Mirabel as the Live Corp vest on it broke apart, vines wrapping around it.
"Pickle. Cheeseburger. Leek. Strawberry. Lemon. Banana."
"Yes! Ha-ha!" Flint cheered, grabbed Sam and Mirabel's hands each as they watch the machine work its magic.
Along with that, the inside of the cavern lit up, the crystals burning bright illuminated the area and the plants start making baby foodimals.
The whole foodimal jungle was back to its roots.
The end………just kidding, it is not.