"... Soooo.." Poppy tried breaking the awkward silence as Branch and her walked, "Do you even know where we are going?" 

"I thought you did?" Branch looked at her

Poppy tilted her head, "I've never even been here before! How could either of us know?" 

Branch looked behind her as she spoke, focusing on something. 

"u-uh Poppy?" 

"Uh what are you looking at?" Poppy turned around. 

 She squinted her eyes and saw Barb running to her. 

"Is that... Barb?!" Poppy asked. 

Barb quickly stopped running when she got close enough. 

"GUYS?! BAD NEWS!" Barb yelled. 

"Now what did you do this time? 🙄" Branch rolled his eyes. 

"Firstly, rude. Secondly, it wasn't me this time! I swear!" Barb said. 

"Where are the Chips?" Poppy looked around for them. She had remembered how they were supposed to stick together. 

"Doesn't matter! What matters is Prince D and Cooper have been kidnapped!" Barb yelled,"well technically dognapped!" 

"Honestly, I'm not surprised." Branch shrugged. 

"I'm surprised you actually care-" Poppy looked at Barb

Barb stood up straight and tilted her head, confused by the lack of worry from them"And you don't?" 

"Oh no, I do. I'm just trying to stay in character." Poppy gestured to all the dogs, watching them. 

"... oH" Barb looked around them. 

"Barb! Who kidnapped them?" Poppy said quietly.

"Queen Aster." She responded. 

Branch and Poppy just stared at her in shock. 

"What?" Barb said, confused. 

"Queen Aster. Y'know! The one we are looking for!"  Branch pointed out. "And I'm assuming the Chips followed them to 'get important information'" 

"Duh." Barb said. 

"Oh my gosh! We gotta do something! Those are our friends!" Poppy said. 

"Well we certainly can't do anything around here, with all these dogs watching us. It's creeping me out!" Branch pointed out. 

Poppy looked up and nervously laughed. " Don't worry village! We are not having a disagreement. Just discussing how wonderful the day is.😅" 

The crowd of dogs didn't move. 

" OK y'know what- we should just uhmm... Go somewhere else." Poppy whispered. 

"Definitely! Split up!" Barb threw on random spy goggles. 

Branch facepalmed somehow. 

Barb stealthily tip toed in plain view toward the crowd of dogs, with surrounded them in a circle. 

"Shelly, Bloom, Excuse me." Barb asked them. 

They didn't budge. 

"That is not my name.😒" One of them said. 

"Uhh... MISSION FAILED!" Barb ran back to them. 

The crowd of dogs slowly started to close in on them. 

"Anybody got a plan B?" Barb asked. 

"No! We didn't even have a plan A!" Poppy whispered back,"And now they probably see right through our terrible acting. 😟" 

"Fudge-" Barb sighed. 

~ In Queen Aster's house~

"You think she is gonna lock us up?" Cooper asked his brother 

Prince D opened his mouth to respond, but Queen Aster beat him to it. 

"What? No. I'm here to ask you some questions." Queen Aster said. 

"Phew! I was worried for a second." Prince D said. 

"Yea! Phew 😅!" Cooper smiled. 

"Oh. You should still be worried. I never said the questions would be easy to answer." Queen Aster overheard them as she cleaned her crown off. 

"What kind of questions are they?" Prince, D tilted his head. 

"Simple ones. But there is one rule. If you lie, I'll know." She answered sternly. 

Prince D and Cooper busted out laughing. Queen Aster turned around, and put her crown back on her head. 

"Uhm, what may be so halarious? For the record I wasn't joking. Pay attention. Or else the spell." 

They sat up quickly and stopped laughing.

"No further questions. Just answers!" Queen Aster smiled. 

"First one. Are you from the village?" She asked. 

Cooper tried to respond to her with a yes, but when he did, Queen Aster's crown glowed red. It also made a loud beep sound to indicate he lied. 

"Oh! Did I say yes? I ment no! 😅" he quickly said after the beep. 

"Mhm. So. Where are you guys from?" She asked a other question. 

Cooper glanced at Prince D. Prince D looked back. They were both stuck. How could they answer this? The only way out was to tell her the truth. 

"We are from a place called Trollstopia. Let's just say... It's very far away from here!" Prince D smiled. 

Her crown lit up green this time.  Queen Aster smiled at them, "Good! I have never heard of that place before!"

She stood up and walked to a pile of paper. She quickly leaned over and grabbed one from the bottom of the stack and read it.

"Trollstopia... Let's see..." she flipped a few pages in hopes to find it. 

Cooped tried to crain his head past where he was sitting to look at the page she was reading, " Miss, I don't think it'll be in there. Trollstopia is from a whole different world. "

" oh. I see. You really think I believe that? I'm the Queen!" she stuck her nose in the air

The two brothers could help but snicker. 

"psst! Guys! Over here!" A voice whisper-shouted at them. 

Prince D looked at the small window on the Queen's wall. He immediately noticed the Chips sitting outside of the window. 

"Bro look!" Prince D whispered to Cooper who was watching Queen Aster helplessly flip through the pages of the booklet she had. 

He also looked outside and saw the Chips. The chips grabbed a random cardboard sign that read "Don't worry! We're coming to save you! Just stay there!" 

After they read the poster, they felt alot better and more secure. 

"D-dogs topia! That must be it!" Queen Aster looked up, her eye twitching. 

Prince D rolled his eyes.

"I already said! It won't be there. We went through a wormhole to get here! We are not even supposed to be dogs! We are Trolls!" Cooper finnaly said. 

Queen Aster's crown lit up green. 

"huh. OK then. Ignore everything that just happened 😁" She said. 

Prince D facepalmed and looked at Cooper. 

"They better hurry up.. I dunno how much more of this dog I can take!" 

Cooper nodded in agreement then they both turned back To Queen Aster. 

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