The group of friends stood over Poppy and Branch, sobbing softly as they looked down at them sadly.

     "I can't believe this..." Val said softly. "They're... they're really gone?"

     The doctor nodded, looking over at the rock troll.

     "Technically... they're still alive..." she informed. "But... they'll never wake up... they might as well be dead..."

     Everyone sighed, slowly looking away in sadness.

"AHHHHH!" a shriek of fear suddenly rung out from outside, causing everyone to flinch.

"Yo... what was that?" Synth asked, his voice trembling lightly in fear.

'BANG!'

The sound echoed through the air, everyone quickly running to look out the window, gasping as they saw several strange creatures they had never seen before, invading their village. The Bashoongas had arrived...

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"Trolls!" King Oomar shouted out to the village as he stood on the trolls' mushroom stage. "Your pathetic leaders are dead!" Everyone gasped, stopping their panicked run to look at him, shocked by his words. "And now, your new leader has arrived," he continued, cackling evilly. "Me..."

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"What do we do y'all!?" Holly asked in a panic after hearing the king Bashoonga's words. "We can't let them over run Trollstopia, y'all."
"We won't..." Barb said, a determined look on her face as she looked at the group. "Poppy and Branch may of been the leaders of Trollstopia... but we're all still here."

She looked over at Trollex, smiling slightly at him.

"King Trollex of the Techno Trolls!" she announced, gesturing to Trollex, who smiled slightly. "Conductor Trollzart of the Classical Trolls!"

She pointed to Trollzart who also smiled, waving around his baton to make beautiful music notes appear.

"Beautiful!" he sang happily.

"Delta Dawn of the Country Trolls!" Barb continued, gesturing over at Delta.
"Queen Barb of the Rock Trolls," Delta added with a smile, placing a hand on the queen of rock's shoulder.

Barb smiled slightly, looking around at everyone.

"And everyone else in this room..." she announced. "We are all important to Trollstopia. We can all save our homes. We can stop those monsters!"
"Yeah!" everyone shouted out in excitement, throwing their hands up in the air.

"Let's do this!" Hickory shouted.
"For Trollstopia!" everyone yelled together, quickly running out of the room.

As she left... Barb turned back to Poppy and Branch, smiling at them sadly.

"We won't let you guys down..." the queen of rock promised, quickly running out to join the attack on the Bashoongas.

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The stone of dreams sat in pieces down at the bottom of the deep canyon, as the moon began to slowly rise up into the sky.

Finally, the moon reached it's peak, shining down brightly onto the shattered stone, the small pieces of rock beginning to glow brightly...