Tree of Flowers

Play "Hopes and Dreams" from Undertale!

Title Match: Emperor of the Linlin Pirates, SHERBET LINLIN

The sun shone happily over Sherry as she slashed her Soul Quartz down at the group, making them jump back and scatter. Sheila hurried up first so Harvey could focus his emotionbending. Sherry slashed quickly and viciously, Sheila nimbly dodging and spinning her left fist to build chi. They saw tears welling in the queen's eyes under Harvey's bending, and the sadness caused her diamond heart to glow and beat. Without giving her the chance to notice, Sheila punched a giant Light Fist at the heart, blasting the queen several yards back as she fell. She quickly punched a smaller (but still large) fist above and directed it down to hit the heart. Sherry grunted from the damage just before the Sadness wore off.

The queen recovered with a seething growl, ordering Prometheus to become a firewall to block them. Zeus, meanwhile, hovered above to strike lightning. Diana tried to shoot water spells at the fire, but Prometheus grew angrier and persevered. The witch instead flew up to Zeus and pumped him with water, inflating the cloud until he fell to the ground. They twisted Zeus to face Prometheus, leaving Sheila and Augustus to Ground Pound and spew the water over Prometheus. The firewall shrank away, allowing the group to run past. They tried to surround Sherry, who conjured and dropped Psy-Spheres on them. Sheila punched the spheres away while Harvey focused Sadness on the queen, but Soul Akko was ready to defend her friend's heart.

The real Akko became a bunny-leopard and pounced up the queen to grab the soul in her teeth and bring it down. Sherry held the left hand over her heart, so Augustus used Bounce Gum to leap up and pull it down with his own strength. Sheila shot rapid-punches at the beating heart, Sherry grunting each time. "Hehe! So, my normal Light Fists are as big as charged fists now!" Sheila confirmed. "Thanks, Mum!" Sherry flung Augustus away and slashed a beam to scare Sheila off. The queen leapt onto a reformed Zeus and flew a mile away before landing. She conjured the Soul Arc and began launching arrows to the sky, where they would explode into smaller arrows and rain down.

Augustus called up the Ace Flyer for him, Sheila, and Harvey to ride while Akko and Diana shared a broom. They evaded the arrows and caught up to the queen, who locked an arrow on Sheila and readied to directly shoot her. Akko formed the Shiny Arc and guarded Sheila. Both archers charged their arrows and launched at the same time, creating an explosion of light. Meanwhile, Sheila traded Harvey to Augustus, who was able to get behind the queen during the light-splosion. Sherry dropped Psy-Spheres on the group afterward, but when she felt herself become sad, she covered her heart and ordered Soul Akko to fly down and kick Sheila. Prometheus blew fire at Diana, but Augustus bounced up from behind the queen and stabbed his Haki sword through her hair, into the back of her chest.

Sherry yelled from the pain and slapped her hand back to swat him off. She leapt on Zeus and took to the sky, soaring away and shooting more Soul Arcs. The group rode their broom and plane to pursue her. Sherry slashed sword beams while Prometheus flew near them to breathe fire. Diana kept the sun back with water, but when they caught up to Sherry, she encased herself in a Psy-Shield. Harvey bellowed Raging Screams at the shield to make it crack, assisted by Augustus shooting bullets from the plane. Diana flew underneath to shoot fire at Zeus to make him dry and shrivel, and once he lost his girth, Sherry plummeted to the ground, where her shield shattered. The group shot down after, and when Sherry noticed Sheila charging her fist, the queen formed a bouncy bubble around her heart.

The group landed as Diana used magic swords to cut up the bubble and Harvey channeled Sadness onto Sherry. The queen formed a cluster of Psy-Spheres around her heart in preparation for Sheila's attack. Augustus, however, was spinning his arm holding the Gobstopper, Haki imbued to it. With a swift throw, the Gobstopper bounced around and between the spheres to push them apart, at the same time Sheila fired her fist and blew Sherry onto her back. Akko was already prepared to rush up to the queen and chop the Shiny Ax onto her still-beating heart, causing a few souls to break free of the diamond and return to their owners. Sherry slapped Akko away and recovered, welcoming Prometheus onto her sword.

Sherry stabbed the flaming sword into the ground, willing fire spires to explode up from under her foes. Sheila bravely ran close so Sherry would attack directly, countering the flames with large fists. Diana carried Harvey on her broomstick, the boy crying tears with his emotionbending and shooting them at Sherry while Diana magnified them. The tears splashed over the queen and doused Prometheus. Sherry focused Psy-Spheres on the emotionbender, Diana hastily dodging the giant projectiles. She felt Sadness coming on, so the queen made another bubble shield over her heart.

Sherry felt something grab her ankle, looking back to see Akko using Shiny Hook and Augustus assisting her in tugging it. Sherry slashed a sword beam at the hook, but Sheila blocked it with a Light Kick, repeating the maneuver until the two were able to bring Sherry down on her front. Sheila leapt atop the queen and lay rapid-punches on the back of her beating heart. Sherry rolled on her back to crush her, but with the Sadness still active, Augustus was able to leap up and stab his Haki sword through her bouncy bubble and stab the heart. Sherry smacked him off and stood, looking for Sheila, but saw she was missing from the crater. The captain was clutching Grandma's hair, clambering to the head to swing a Sunny Foot in Sherry's eyes. She was blinded long enough for Diana to shoot magic swords in the heart just before the Sadness wore off.

Sherry bellowed in anger and ordered Zeus to expand to eclipse the sky, blocking the sun from Sheila. She then leapt onto Prometheus, riding the sun skyward. Sherry rose her sword like a lightning rod and directed pink bolts down at her foes. She was targeting Harvey, so Diana caught the bolts on her wand and redirected them. Sheila leapt into Augustus's plane so he could fly her to the sky. Sherry caught sight of this and chased them, slashing sword beams while Prometheus spat fire. Augustus nimbly dodged Zeus's lightning, flying ever skyward, and to prevent Sherry from catching up, a mouse Akko jumped out of the plane, fell toward the queen, and exploded into an elephant to sit on her face. Sherry stabbed at her, but Akko became an orangutan and swiftly pulled the sword away, throwing it away and jumping off.

Sheila charged a Light Beam and punctured a hole through Zeus, allowing August to fly them above the cloud. The pilot flew them closer to the sun as Sheila basked in its light and molded a giant Light Sphere. Zeus's face turned inside-out to glare at them. Once at full charge, Sheila unleashed an enormous Sun Beam at the face and blew Zeus wide open. Once Sherry was revealed underneath, Sheila directed the beam onto her. The queen countered and pushed it with a Psy-Beam, quickly overpowering Sheila's, but the determined lass applied more power to keep it back. Prometheus spat fire down at Diana and Harvey as they were flying up. Diana shot ice swords to cool the sun, while Harvey was able to Sadden the queen.

Augustus locked onto the queen's heart and shot bullets, but after the first shots, Soul Akko defended her friend. Sheila ceased her beam, and Augustus quickly dodged Sherry's beam. Sheila dove down at Sherry, spinning into a Light Drill, but the queen was ready to slice her out of the sky. Alas, Akko swooped by and caught Sheila on the Shiny Balai, just as Sherry lashed her blade, then Sheila jumped off again to successfully pound the diamond heart. Sherry was forced off the cooled Prometheus and crashed onto the planet. Sheila bounced up and slammed double fists on the heart for extra damage, afterwards escaping the angry queen.

The kids felt the soil rumbling as huge mounds with creepy faces rose like waves. Sheila screamed and dodged the Soul Soil as they tried to bite her like serpents. Her teammates returned down, using their powers to destroy the faces, but Sherry sent spirit balls around to give more life to the soil. "If I can't eat the cake, I'll eat the planet instead!" Rawberry declared, rushing to their aid to chomp any face that threatened them. With her help, the team could make their way to Sherry, who willed Soul Flowers to grow from the ground and wrap them in vines. Augustus's keen swordplay chopped the flowers, but he flipped back to avoid Sherry's blade.

The ground was trembling as it seemed an entire sentient forest was stampeding their direction. Sherry rode a reformed Zeus to the sky, letting the Seducing Woods envelop her foes. All the trees and bushels had faces and were bobbing, the ground itself was twisting and distorting their direction. Sherry landed in a random part of the forest, charging power in her sword. Part of the forest cleared a path so Sherry could slice a devastating beam, the kids just narrowly evading. Sheila ran toward Sherry, but the forest closed up and distorted her direction.

"O Forest Spirits, please hear my call~" Akko and Diana recognized the soothing voice of Lotte, their bookworm friend flying above the forest and singing with a magnified voice. "Please allow my friends to find the way, oh please let them find the way~" The Seducing Woods were warmed by her words, stirring the ground in a way that brought them directly to Sherry. The queen growled and slashed a spin-attack that destroyed the surrounding woods, and Prometheus began to set them on fire. Harvey channeled Sadness, but Sherry exploded Psy-Spheres around her, forcing the group to retreat.

Sherry bathed in the flaming forest, the fires growing higher and hotter. Before Sherry could suffocate them all, Sheila quickly gave Harvey some Flurp to rehydrate him. Akko formed the Shiny Sprinkler, which Harvey cried massive tears into, and the sprinkler sprayed water across the surrounding forest to douse the flames. Sherry growled and lashed a beam at the sprinkler, Akko quickly pulling it aside. Harvey spread his Sadness to the queen, who formed a barrier, but a swift, charged throw of the Gobstopper made it into the barrier. Augustus had chucked it with a spin-throw, causing the Haki-imbued ball to drill against the queen's heart. As Sherry angrily knocked it off, Diana struck a spot with a barrier-disabling spell, allowing Sheila to smash through and punch the queen's heart.

The barrier disabled, so Sherry hopped onto Zeus, who burned a constant beam of lightning directly down as he tried to fly over the kids. Augustus carried Harvey one direction while the witches and Sheila ran another. Diana used Lumos Solem to give Sheila a strong source of light, allowing her to quickly empower her charge. She unleashed a beam to disperse Zeus and bring Sherry down, then they all surrounded her, Augustus dodging Sherry's beams while Harvey channeled more Sadness. "AAAAAHHH!" Sherry heard Sheila's cry and slashed behind her, Sheila ducking the beam as she spun both fists. Not holding back, Sheila unleashed a storm of punches at the queen's heart. Though the Sadness had come to Sherry, Soul Akko was knocking the fists away with aggression.

Harvey channeled Anger onto Sheila at the same time, putting more flare to her punches. Soul Akko started to panic, quickly overpowered by the rapid-fire as the fists hammered Sherry's heart repeatedly. Akko got beside the captain and readied to loose a Shiny Arc at the queen's heart. "I'm giving Molly's soul back to her, and you're giving back MINE!" (End song.)

"ENOOOUUUGH!" A spire of pink light erupted around Sherry, and the queen vanished in a blink. Akko dispelled her Arc, confused as they searched around.

"Dammit, she teleported!" Akko cursed. "Ugh…I thought for sure we would've beaten her by now; back then, all it took was a giant arrow to puncture her heart."

"True, but that was a result of her genuine emotions." Diana replied. "Using an emotionbender to give her artificial sadness hasn't the same effect. Either that or her soul is simply stronger."

"Here's something I don't get." Augustus began. "How come she never uses her psychic to grab us?"

"I noticed that as well. I believe it is a drawback of her deal with Mew: though she was given stronger psychicbending, she is not allowed to grab others with it. Thank goodness, or else we may not ever win."

A violent earthquake knocked everyone off-balance. Before they could search long for the source, a gargantuan structure suddenly eclipsed the sky. "CASTLE~ CASTLE~ CASTLE~"

"You fools have pissed me off for the last time! With the full power of my soul… I will crush you with SOUL CAKE CASTLE!"

A storm of beams rained onto the field. The Luna Nova witches cried from being struck; though the beams left few wounds, their souls were seen ascending to the castle. About 30 witches lost their souls and fell. A beam fell toward Nebula, but Cheren blocked it with the Mirror Shield.

"AAAAAHH!" Sheila's group cried when a beam fell their way—a giant swordswoman jumped in the way and slashed the beam with her sword.

"So, it really was you, Augustus." Sasha faced down at her cousin with a smile. "You look slightly taller than the last time I saw ya."

"Back at you." August smiled, dropping his lollipop.

"Looks like Grandma activated Soul Cake Castle, but between you and me, I know a secret about it. There are five different Soul Points inside the castle that Sherry uses to control it. I asked Grandma after the first time she used it and that's what she told me. Maybe if we destroy those, the castle will collapse."

"Are you gonna help us?" Akko asked.

"That place is a little too high for me, but I can at least help you guys up." Sasha got a bow out. "You ready?"

"AYE!" cheered Sheila. Sasha scooped the five up in her hand and placed them on a giant arrow.

"I'll send up some of the others after you! Hang tight!" With a tight, careful aim, the arrow FLEW for the castle at rocket speed! (Play "Vs. Marx" from Smash Brawl!)

Phase 2: SOUL CAKE CASTLE

The five heroes landed on a walkway of the castle, immediately being bombarded by cannonballs. They frantically dodged the fodder and made way toward an entrance. The door grew an angry face and remained firmly shut, but Sheila's mighty fist shattered it easily. They were inside a weapons storage, where spears came to life and bounced toward them. Augustus sliced the weapons down, and Diana formed a barrier to protect them from sentient guns. Akko turned all the guns into flowers, and once all weapons were defeated, they hurried into a hallway. Whomp-Tarts sprung up and tried to fall on them, but the group dodged back as Sheila and August smashed them with their fists.

They entered a normal-size bathroom, where the fruit-flavored soap slid around the floor to trip them and the piping-hot shower faucets sprayed them. Augustus spotted a Rock Candy and went to eat it, encasing himself in crystal rock as he rolled and smashed the soap. Diana froze the shower faucets, but as they hurried through, toilets came to life to barf water and push them back. August struggled to roll against their force, so Sheila punched his rock to blast him through and shatter the toilets. Before they could reach the exit, the towels leapt off the racks and tried to smother their faces. Harvey cried large, dense tears to soak the towels to a point where they became too heavy.

Exiting the bathroom, they headed up a stairway—the stairs became a slide and brought them down. The stairs' face chuckled goofily, but was KO'ed by Sheila's kick. Diana changed them back to normal so they could walk up and enter the library. They spotted a glowing pink totem, but the bookshelves surrounded the Soul Point in circular fashion. As they maneuvered around the shelves, books came to life, flapping like wings as they swooped down to bite them. Against her better wishes, Diana burned the books. They jumped through gaps between the rotating shelves and arrived at the core. The five kids unloaded their power on the Soul Point and destroyed it, feeling the castle rumbling as a result.

Sasha launched Sector IC up to the castle. They smashed through the window of the Coffee Sauna, where sentient steam clouds blew their burning breath onto them. George Stopped and waved his hands through the steam to disperse them. Coffee coal rolled up and tried to jump against the kids, so Miyuki willed them to age and dissolve. The planks of the sauna flipped up and tried to whack them, Lola spanking them back. They exited the sauna to a swimming pool, and with barriers on either side, the team had to swim the pool. Inner-tubes floated over as one tried to strangle Terry. Lola bit and deflated it, doing the same to the others. The foam noodles spat water bullets that MaKayla smacked back with Rewind Deflect.

After crossing the pool, they entered a weight room. The peppermint dumbbells tried to smash them, and rather than fight, the timebenders Stopped the heavy enemies. They did the same to the exercise bikes that sped off their stations, but a bench-press was automatically thrusting in-and-out, its weights hammering before the exit. The timebenders couldn't Stop it, so Terry and Lola combined their strength to hold it in place while their friends passed. Afterwards, Terry pulled his sister in a Veil to slip them through. In the locker hallway, random lockers would fall over to crush them, and a horde of basketballs were bouncing from around the corner. Lola's teeth punctured and deflated the edible balls on their way to the gym.

The Soul Point was stationed on a platform, requiring someone to clear an obstacle course (if they tried to fly up, a barrier would appear). MaKayla was the best choice for this: she easily climbed the swinging poles with bare hands and feet, swung the hoops that tried to bite her, and gracefully ran a balance beam that was turning. She climbed elevated ladders, whose bars tried to snap on her fingers and toes, she swung some spinning hoops, and finally landed on the Point's platform. MaKayla destroyed it with a charged Chrono Beam, the castle rumbling as she dropped to her friends and helped them defend from the aggressive mats. "I can feel my Chrono Staff nearby! Follow me!" Kayla ran ahead.

The Luxury Pirates were flung atop another tower (Carol was given the Growth Formula to return to normal age). Cherry Bombs tried to explode, but Weiss froze them. She made an Ice Slide to a castle window, the six sliding down and breaking into a giant study. The marshmallow couch cushions tried to squish them, Raleigh's Pichu electrocuting and roasting them. Giant pens spewed jelly on the floor and glued them, so Kokichi used Infinite Deception to turn their shoes into tongues. His friends were naturally disgusted, but the shoe-tongues allowed them to cross the jelly. They exited the study to a hallway of elegant vases and statues. Monstrous flowers sprouted out of the vases to bite them, while the statues threw globs of clay-dough.

Carol downloaded Game-and-Watches with hedge-trimmers to cut the plants. Pacifica grabbed the statues in chains and smashed them against the floor. The team exited to a garden, where hedge statues of tigers came to life and pounced them. Ciel showed the tigers no mercy and diced them up. They had to run up some stairs, which again became a slide. Weiss conjured her own ice-stairs to help her friends up. Medusa sprinklers were guarding this level of the garden, flailing hose-hair and trying to stab them. Pacifica grabbed the hoses in chains and threw the Medusas into each other. Gargoyles guarded the doorway, but by linking his pistols into a sniper, Ciel shot them with enough force to shatter them.

The rich crew entered the ballroom, where the Soul Point was. Chandeliers dropped and rapidly swung around the room. "Super Fist of Infinite Deception: the chandeliers' dates fall in love with other chandeliers. Their romantic stories end in tragedy after accidentally drinking kerosene." Thanks to Kokichi's creative thinking, the chandeliers died. The floor panels rose up like helicopters and launched at them, Ciel swiftly shooting and shattering them. There was a mural of angels on the ceiling, and those angels descended and shot arrows. Raleigh sent Magnemite up to zap the angels into submission. Carol ordered Gamen to attack the Soul Point, Ciel shot bullets, Weiss icicles, Raleigh ordered all his Electric Pokémon to zap it, and Pacifica squeezed it in chains. The generator was destroyed.

Sheila's group was racing up a wide stairway, sentient barrels bouncing down as the captain destroyed them with Light Fists. At the top, they smashed the door down, exiting onto a balcony. They all had to drink some Fizzy Lift Soda and fly around the outside. Psychic barriers blocked them and Banzai Bills were launched. Augustus threw a spinning Gobstopper to redirect the Bills into the barriers and destroy them. They landed on a tower, running across a bridge as bombs were launched, destroying the path behind them. They drank another Fizzy Lift to float to the next tower, maneuvering around lasers that fired from below.

Zeus appeared and blew a powerful gust to keep them back. Sheila spun her foot and kicked Augustus against the wind, allowing him to reach and slice the cloud. The crew quickly floated to the tower balcony before the soda wore off. They entered an observatory, where the giant sentient telescope fired heat beams from its glass. Sheila simply absorbed the sunlight onto herself and punched a sphere to destroy the telescope. A planetarium was spinning rapidly before the planets flung toward them, Akko transforming into a horse as she back-kicked the planets away. One of the planets accidentally smashed a wall down, revealing a secret room of a moon set.

They saw the Soul Point situated on the high ceiling of the room. This room had low gravity, Akko cheering as she felt herself flying with each jump. Sentient meteors tried to crash on her, so Sheila punched them away. She and Akko made low-G leaps to stable asteroids, making their way up. Aliens would poke out of asteroids and shoot beams, but would be hammered by Sheila. As they neared the Point, Akko readied her Shiny Ax, whirling it before throwing a mighty swing, chopping the generator perfectly. The castle rumbled as they abruptly fell to the moon with increased gravity.

The team headed to a curved hallway where giant jawbreakers were rolling around. Sheila and Augustus punched the breakers away with their natural strength, but it seemed the gate was sealed by three targets. Diana cast a Magnet Spell on each target and applied the opposite attraction to the jawbreakers, making them fly against the targets and break them. The gate opened to a very long dining room, a pit of fire replacing the floor, so they had to cross the table. Segments of the table would rise higher, and Spunburgers were whirling at them, so they had to use the burgers as springs to bounce up those segments. Some of the table curtains were sentient and would try to flap them into the fire, but Diana would burn them beforehand.

The dining room led to a giant kitchen, in which they were on top of a counter. Hamogres would attempt to hammer the group, only to learn the hard way of Sunny and Stone Fists' power. They approached a tray of giant celery, which had already been carved up as the pieces flew at them like shurikens. After Augustus cut them into smaller pieces, they arrived at the refrigerator, having to jump up its magnetic letters on the side. Ice Screams dropped down and would scream with a force that threatened to drop the letters, so Akko leapt around as a frog to quickly kick them off. Atop the refrigerator, there was a door with a slide to carry them down to a balcony. There was a Ringtrot, so the others hid in the Infi-Cube while Sheila carried them.

The Ringtrot enhanced her speed as she ran along the side of the castle. Prometheus flew alongside and blew fire, Sheila sidestepping. Sheila kicked off to a parallel wall, running along that. Whomp-Tarts popped out of toasters on the wall, Sheila evading. She then kicked off to a bridge into the main tower, racing as Prometheus burned it behind her. The embers of the fire barely singed Sheila's tail before she blew the door open and entered the familiar dining room where Grandma had once gathered the betrothed families.

The throne room was just beyond the giant gate, and no doubt the Soul Point beyond it. After breaking the door down, they learned how right they were, with Queen Sherry herself guarding it. "Mean Akko…Diana… Grandma treated you to all this delicious food, and you show her such ingratitude?"

"We can have all the delicious food we want, as soon as we stop you from terrorizing everyone!" Akko retorted.

"She's such a bad friend, Sherry! Lemme at 'er, you just defend yourself!"

"Yes, Akko… I leave it to you. Dead End Musical!" Sherry mustered her chi and created a Diamond Shield. The Soul Akko flew out and threw kicks at her original owner, Akko wrestling and biting the soul as if to swallow her back. Diana shot ice spells at Prometheus while Sheila threw Light Fists at Zeus. Harvey was attempting to force his emotions onto Sherry as a means to break her concentration of the shield.

"Harvey, she's pouring all her available chi into making this shield unbreakable." Diana stated. "You couldn't make her upset enough to break such a concentration."

"Guess again." Harvey replied in a rasping tone. "Those two months, trapped in K. Rool's base… forced to serve him, wondering if my friends were even alive… No one could focus with that much pain in their heart."

A horrible feeling began to infect Sherry's heart. An illusion, a dark thought began to spark in her mind: the demons had returned and were holding her hostage. All of her family had been taken away, being slaughtered one by one. Sweet little Pea, carefree Lucky, charming Hisoka, the proud and strong Tsao, everyone that she held dear were being slaughtered and she was unable to help. And her precious Akko… Her face was being skinned, her eyes full of life gouged out, blood spewing from her limbs, and her heart pumped with a toxic substance that turned her heart ugly. These were the feelings Harvey felt while in captivity, and the same despair flooded Sherry's heart.

When the Diamond Shield began to flicker, Diana was able to break open a tiny gap with a spell, and Akko jumped in as a mouse before changing back. "Shiny Arc! Breach through time and space and take me to my destiny!" The magic arrow exploded against the floor, sucking herself and Sherry inside as the barrier disappeared.

"SHERRY!" Zeus and Prometheus panicked.

"Where did they go?!" Diana wondered.

"We'll find 'em later, destroy it!" Sheila yelled, immediately throwing punches against the Soul Point. Her friends refocused and applied their strength, successfully destroying the last Soul Point.

Akko and Sherry landed on the ground somewhere. "Sherry, don't be upset!" Soul Akko yelled, feeling her emotions. "I'm still here! I'm all right! Nothing bad will ever happen to me!"

"Sniff…Akko…" Sherry lovingly held the soul, heart beating under her dropped tears. Akko could only glare at them as the shadowed ground grew darker, the sky more eclipsed. "Please, stay with me… until the end…"

And it was only then Sherry felt the darkness surrounding them. Her teary eyes glanced up at the sky blocked by the falling castle. With a quake that shook the whole country, the Soul Cake Castle hit the ground, many of its towers collapsing. (End song.)

Sheila's group climbed down the castle after recovering from its impact. Cheren and other operatives raced over. "What happened in there?"

"Akko hogged all the glory, that's what." Sheila replied. "She took Grandma into a portal thingy and left."

"Actually, we just saw Grandma and Akko appear under the castle."

"W-WHAT?!" Diana gasped. She whipped toward the castle, fearing that nothing could have survived underneath it. "She wouldn't have… I know she…?!"

There was some rubble shaking nearby, so Diana ran to it, led by a spark of hope. …A little brown mouse poked out of the rubble. "Man, that was close…squeak."

"AKKO!" Diana snatched her friend in hand, squeezing her painfully. "How could you do something so reckless, you barely survived that, are you insane?!"

"Your love is… killing me, Diana…" Akko choked. Diana sighed and dropped her friend, allowing her to change back.

"At least it looks like that bitch is finally dealt with." Harvey sighed.

"I don't think so." Augustus replied. "I can still kinda feel her. She might still have some fight left in her. But hopefully, she won't last long after this."

"Akko, Diana, this is Hannah! Something's happening to Jasminka!"

"Jasminka?!" Akko gasped. "Diana, come on!"

Inside the castle, Sector IC groggily recovered under piles of spilled treasure. "Ugh…man… They stopped the castle at the worst time…" Terry groaned.

"TADAAAAAAA!" MaKayla sprung up with Chrono Staff in hand, planting a foot on Terry's head. "I'm back in business! …Oh, sorry Ter." She stepped off.

"And it sounds like our friends finished off the castle." Miyuki replied. "Is the battle over?"

"I don't think so." Kayla's eyes glowed from pink to blue. "I feel like… something terrible is about to happen."

"OOOOOOHHHHH!" The inflated Jasminka was shining with incredible power, her belly morphing in all sorts of shapes.

"The cake is finally having its effect on Jasminka!" Rawberry yelled.

"Jasminka!" Akko and Diana rushed up. "Jasminka, hang in there! Try to control yourself!"

"OHHHH! OOOOOUUUUUUUUHHHHH… WOOOOOHHH…" From the way she was moving, crying in sheer pain, it seemed like she would explode any moment. "Woooohhh…puff." And in an instant, she compressed down to a normal size and spat out an egg.

". . ." The result was the exact opposite of what they expected. All faces were pale, either from shock or disappointment. The tip of the egg resembled salad, followed by vanilla icing over a pink cake-like part, swirly lines of milk, followed by a ham exterior, and a pineapple bottom.

The top of the egg cracked. The salad broke off, followed by the cake, ham, and pineapple. The egg hatched… giving birth to a strange, impish creature. Its body was shadowy with pink eyes. It wore a salad crown with tomatoes, a three-layer cake dress with vanilla icing over light-brown dough, and little banana legs underneath. Its long hair resembled clean, golden spaghetti.

Fi jumped out of Cheren's sword. "Master, I can confirm with utmost certainty that the being before us contains the unlimited chi akin to that of a Firstborn."

"The…The Food Firstborn…" Cheren whispered. "It was… inside Jasminka?"

"It looks… appetizing??" Nebula questioned her statement.

"I see…" Rawberry smiled, going to lift the Newborn in her arms. "I don't know how Jasminka ended up with it… but it cooks like it wasn't going to hatch unless it was fed the Royal Cake. Since they both originated from my DNA, it makes sense they would share the same power."

"You ain't gonna eat it yourself, are you?" Sheila asked.

"Nooo! Who would dare eat their own child?" Rawberry tickled the infant's cheek. "My cute little… Gourmerry."

"Gourmerry?" Cheren repeated.

"She's a gourmet and a merry little thing. Aren't you?"

"Gour…merry…" The baby muttered.

Their hearts were warmed by its innocence, delighted by the arrival of new life. Although concern weighed in their hearts, knowing they would have to be wary and protective of the Firstborn… the fact such a sweet-looking soul could be born at the climax of a war could have been a sign of hope for this world.

"GRAAAAAH!" Sherry BURST out of the ground, flinging Rawberry away, and Gourmerry blew into the air. The queen CHOMPED the tiny Newborn in her teeth. "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH…!" Power coursed and erupted through her veins, blinding everyone until… she seemed to explode on the spot.

"GOURMERRY!" Rawberry cried.

"What the fuck…" Akko whispered.

"Heh. Old fat-arse destroyed herself." Sheila smirked. "Mission accomplished."

"Hm hm hahahahahaha…" The entire planet began rumbling violently. "HA HA HA HA hahahahaha…" The operatives felt their selves rising to the sky, the castle toppling over. "HWAH HWAH HWAH hwah ha ha…" They fell over a cliff, falling miles to the surface, and passing an incomparably massive eye, nose, and a miles-wide mouth whose laugh was heard by all. "HWAAAAH HWAAAAAH HA HA HA…" The entire upper body of Sherry Linlin had become a mountain, visible from outer space. "HWAAAAH HAH HAH HAAAAH…"

"Sh-Sh-Sh…Sh-Sh…Sherry?" Akko stuttered.

"I am… Soul Cake Planet… I am Sweetopia… I am the god of all things edible… All the souls in the universe… will be mine. We will all… be… together…" (Play "Andross Brain" from Star Fox.)

The earthquake dramatically intensified as the planet itself was flying. Every town in Sweetopia was crumbling, screams of horror filled the planet. The KND's eyes shrank in terror as they were nearing Harnita. Seeing the sky become eclipsed by the looming planet, the Harnitans cried as their very souls spewed out of their bodies, to be lost within the bowels of Sweetopia. "WHAT DO WE DOOOOOOO?!?!" cried Sheila.

"I dunno, but here comes PUMPARIA!" Nebula cried in despair, knowing Pumparia was about to suffer the fate of Harnita.

But as if by a miracle, the quaking stopped, as did their flight. A blue ray of light eclipsed the whole world. "GUYS!" MaKayla rushed out, raising a glowing Chrono Staff.

"MaKayla?!" Cheren exclaimed.

"It looks like I already traveled through time. My future self is at the Great Clock, trying to Rewind the planet back to its start. It's not going to affect the people on it, so we need to destroy that monster!"

Akko raised her Shiny Rod and declared, "Phasansheer Shearylla!" Her sacred wand transformed into a giant, powerful bow. "If enough people give us their hopes and wishes, Diana and I can launch a powerful attack with the Shiny Ballista!"

"But we'll never be able to get enough peoples' attention in time!"

"Then we'll ask the souls to help us!" Lotte yelled. "We'll fly inside that monster and I'll call for all the captured souls to fly into Akko's Ballista! I mean, as long as we destroy her afterward, they should return to their bodies, right?!"

"Just remember something, ladies!" Sheila fist-palmed. "The final blow goes to me! After all, you all don't want blood on your hands, right?"

"I wouldn't count this either way." Diana said. "Even so, we will need your strength."

Phase 3: SWEETOPIA

The witches, IC, and Sheila boarded the Stanship while Augustus, Rawberry, and Harvey rode the Ace Flyer. They soared up the moving mountain as Sherry's godly mouth spat meteors down. As the ships destroyed the sentient comets, souls burst out. Lotte called with the rhythm of the music, "All souls, put your faith in Akko! Pray for this war to end! Pray to return home and live happily! You can trust us, so please lend us your power!" The souls deemed Lotte's words far more pleasing than Sherry's bowels, so they soared into the Ballista. Further up the mountain, enemy ships tried to shoot them down. Augustus flew up, evasively dodging their fire. Rawberry dropped on one to eat it up, and Harvey melted one in his boiling Anger. The souls onboard were freed.

Queen Sherry's gargantuan eyes loomed over them, more ominous and terrifying than ever. Gigantic Psy-Spheres descended, the timebenders slowing them so the Stanship could maneuver around. Two spheres were closing in from either side quickly, so Constanze slowed the ship to let them impact and bounce away. A circle of spheres were closing in, so she stomped the boost to get through. Sherry's eyes glowed as gigantic lasers fell, the ships carefully and evasively swerving around their piercing gaze. The size of the Stanship was burned just a tad before the lasers disabled. At last, the kids arrived at Sherry's tremendous mouth, but the mountainous teeth sealed with a quake.

Constanze transformed the keel of her ship into a drill. She stomped the gas straight toward a tooth and began to burrow through the candy. Constanze backed away when the gums slithered down in the form of giant jelly slimes. They blasted and melted the gums, releasing the souls as Lotte called them in. Augustus was taking down enemy ships, both keeping ever focused on their assignments. After 10 minutes, Constanze drilled a perfect hole through the tooth, and Augustus flew in after them. Inside Sherry's titanic mouth, the tongue rose as tentacle-like tastebuds rose and wrapped around them. The Stanship shook vehemently, Augustus sliced the tastebuds, and Rawberry and Lola bit them.

The ships were freed and kept flying, but Great Asparaguses were surfing the sea of buds to feast on them. They dove at them with gaping mouths, so the ships fired strong lasers in with good timing, splicing the vegetables. The tremendous cavern shifted side-to-side as the teeth tried to chomp them, requiring them to tightly turn that direction so as to dodge the quaking bites. When the right teeth bit, they wouldn't go back up, for they grew faces and spat globs of plaque. When they were taking breaths to charge, the timebenders and Sheila shot beams into the mouths to explode them from inside, freeing more souls.

The enormous uvula displayed its goofy face, trying to swing into them like a wrecking ball. The Stanship flew to the roof of the mouth, leaving Augustus to distract the uvula. Harvey channeled Sadness to weaken the uvula's resolve, allowing August to score a few shots on it. Once near the top of the stem, Constanze used the drill to burrow through it. The mouth rumbled violently, but Constanze maintained control until the uvula perfectly snapped off, freeing the souls within. The mouth flooded with juicy vomit, both ships shooting up to the ceiling, practically having to hug it as the wave almost reached them. Eventually, it sank away, so they continued flight beyond the mouth.

Giant cells that looked like anglerfish intercepted them as they flew toward the brain. Harvey shot Fear Spheres to stun the fish, leaving the pilots to shoot them down and take their souls. Bones erected from random directions, some of them stabbing the Stanship, but Constanze shook them free and readied the drill to puncture any following bones. Some of the bones popped open and spewed cheese-flavored marrow, which drenched the Stanship and took the form of Marrow Men. Terry caught them in Shadow Possessions, squeezing and smashing them until the souls came out. Flying deeper into the queen's skull, they had arrived at Sherry's brain.

The brain grew a face resembling that of Her Majesty, her laugh ringing in their ears. The brain moved around like a UFO, releasing a pair of eyes connected to it via electric beams. The eyes attacked their own ship, shooting Psy-Spheres. Constanze shot lasers at their eye, but it would fly away and grow wider to shoot bigger spheres. Sheila and Lola combined fists and hands to knock the spheres away, Constanze driving closer. Hannah and Barbara cast Solem to give Sheila a quick boost, and the captain spun to charge her power before releasing a giant Light Fist at the eye, blinding and destroying it.

The other eye pursued Augustus in a fast, drilling fashion, the pilot speeding as fast as possible while Harvey shot teardrops flaming with Anger. The eye suffered enough burns until it retreated. It then spun around their side, shooting illusory eyes, some of which scratched the plane. The real eye abruptly launched, ramming and swirling them out of control. The riders barely held on until Augustus stabilized the plane. The eye repeated its maneuver, August quickly dodging, and when the real eye launched, Harvey blasted it with an Angry Tear. The eye retreated and flew faster, launching more illusions before it dove—Rawberry caught it in her teeth and spurted its jelly out.

The brain flew at them directly, wriggling the tentacles at its base. It deflected all of their attacks, but Augustus noticed the weak bump on its back. When he landed a few shots, the brain teleported behind them. Harvey tried to spread Sadness to the brain, but it kept pursuit. Augustus swerved left and braked, letting the brain pass—it caught the plane in its tentacles regardless, squeezing them as their craft compressed and crumbled. The Stanship got behind to shoot the weak point, forcing the brain to drop the victims and teleport. The ship flew down and caught the three on its deck. The brain chased them again, so Constanze began to tightly turn right while the timebenders slowed the brain.

With enough constant turning, the Stanship landed hits on the weak point, so Sherry teleported far away. A barrier was formed, so Constanze began to drill through while Sheila and Lola smacked away incoming spheres. The process repeated for two more barriers, but upon passing the third barrier, the brain flew up and trapped their whole vessel in its tentacles. Luckily, Lola grabbed Rawberry and jumped out, the bat flying them to the weakness. They sank their teeth into the bump, tearing as painfully as possible. The brain dropped the ship and tried to grab them off, but the powerful teeth successfully detached the weakness. The ship flew away before the brain exploded, releasing thousands of souls.

Although the "brain" was destroyed, it seemed that the queen was still conscious. The only way to go was down, straight toward the diamond heart. The skull was crumbling as the sentient debris tried to fall on them. Augustus manned the cannons and shot lasers backward to destroy them. As they were sailing down the throat, the muscles twisted and bent to form a complex, snaky tunnel. Constanze tightly steered around and away from the abrupt contractions and Rawberry ate the giant food-bats that lurked in the depths. The glow of Sherry's heart was just around a turn, but a sudden gust forced them down to the stomach. Constanze twisted the ship and forced upward before they could crash in the digestive, chocolate lava.

Blarggs rose from the lava, trying to seal them in gaping mouths, so Hannah-Barbara shot quick ice spells to make the blobs cower and retract. A barrier sealed the exit to the stomach, and the kidneys served as the generators. The ship sailed along the lava to the first kidney, which grew arms with boxing gloves. Augustus drank Fizzy Lift to fly over and accept its challenge. Despite the fists dwarfing him in size, his Stone Fists were strong enough to match the kidney. They exchanged rapid-punches for a bit before August dodged down and flew closer. The fists closed in from both sides, but his superb strength kept them at bay. Once they were far enough apart, he grabbed his sword and STABBED the kidney, causing it to shrivel up.

The Stanship flew to the next kidney, enduring the Blarggs en route. This kidney grew legs and was racing along the java. August tossed Sheila a Ringtrot, enhancing her speed as she could skid the chocolate in pursuit. The kidney kicked chocolate globs back, Sheila dodging. The kidney raced up the wall, but Sheila kept after regardless, ditching her chocolatified sandals and pouring all the light to her feet. Finding itself cornered at the barrier, the kidney was pounced by Sheila, who sank her teeth into the edible substance and ate it up. The barrier disabled, the Stanship catching Sheila as they flew out of the stomach.

The glow of Sherry's heart shone pink in the darkness, but a barrier appeared around it, connected to four Soul Points. "Akko, do we have enough power?!" Lotte asked.

"Yes… The Shiny Ballista is overflowing with power. But it isn't just the souls. It's…"

"YOU CAN DO IT, WITCHES!" Pea cheered outside. "Save everyone!"

"DON'T WORRY, FELLAS!" Sasha yelled to her crewmen. "The witches will stop this monster! Put your faith in them!"

"We sent the call to all Kids Next Door!" Nebula yelled. "END THIS WAR FOR EVERYONE!"

"SAVE THE WOOOOORRRRRLLLLD!" The Inklings and Octolings chanted the rhythm of their song.

"SAVE OUR FRIEEEEENNNNDS!" The Kids Next Door on base cheered.

"DIANA, AKKO, YOU CAN DO IIIIT!" cheered the witches of Luna Nova. (Play "Break Free (Lead The Way)" from Mario Odyssey!)

The Shiny Ballista shone with the colors of the rainbow, as bright as a sun. Not waiting a second longer, the Stanship flew to the first Soul Point, the timebenders shooting Chrono Beams while Constanze took down the incoming enemy ships. The Point shattered, so they flew to the next, shooting lasers up at falling Asparaguses. The giant veggies continued to bother them as Lola and Rawberry bit into the 2nd Soul Point, relying on their friends to defend them. The Point somewhat satisfied their stomachs upon destruction. En route to the 3rd, Blarggs rose all the way up from the stomach, but were frozen by the witches' spells.

Uvulas hung down, trying to wreck them. August drank more Fizzy Lift and flew up to slice their stems while Constanze shot lasers at the Soul Point. Their combined efforts destroyed the Point. One remained, and Zeus and Prometheus guarded it. The cloud blew them away while the sun blew fire. Harvey cried a waterfall of tears and directed it up, shrinking Prometheus into a sizzle. Zeus struck a bolt of lightning, but Hannah-Barbara caught the bolt on their wands, sending it back with a discharge spell as Zeus's vapor puffed into nothing. Constanze bombarded the Point with lasers until it was destroyed, exposing the diamond heart.

Constanze flew the ship away from the heart, while Sheila was launched up with a cannon. With all the power and hope in their hearts, Akko and Diana pulled the arrow back. "SHINY… BALLISTA!!"

The arrow of everyone's souls and wishes flew… and was splattered by Sheila's fist. She spun her arms with the speed of light and flew the rest of the distance to the heart. "SHINING FIST OF THE SUN AND MOON!" Her left arm flared with golden sunlight, her right arm a lunar blue light. The left fist took the shape of Marine, grinning proudly, and the right fist resembled Akko's goofy smile. The combined fists punctured the diamond heart.

"AAAAAAAAHHHH…huh?" Queen Sherry felt as if something pierced her heart… but the pain quickly faded. The mountain stared at her landscaping arms with confusion. "Oh… ha ha ha ha ha ha…?!" Her left elbow exploded. Her right shoulder exploded. The queen trembled, gasping for breath and grasping her aching heart. Explosions erupted around her body like fireworks. She was shaking frantically from the most painful heart-attack she had ever known. The gaps within her mountain shone with light, unable to contain it. Cheren and Nebula smiled ecstatically as light filled the world. "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH…"

If one viewed the planet from the atmosphere, they would be amazed as the mountain queen transformed into a bulbous, shining, smiley face, which gave an adorable wink before exploding into millions of souls. The Harnitans' bodies filled with life. The Mutant Titans still invading Mobius, Hyrule, or Mushroom, just as some were about to eat a handful of innocents… stopped moving. The Titans dropped their victims, and they fell unconscious after the voices left their heads. A wave of hope and happiness swept the cosmos. (Play "Memory" from Undertale.)

Princess Sherry woke under a pleasant light. Golden snowflakes covered the ground. One touched her tongue… and tasted like sherbet. The snow slowly took a form… which Sherry knew all too well. "Carl…" Slowly reaching up, she grabbed her brother… only for him to dissolve into mist. "Carl… It hurts… this pain… hurts… Is this why you left the world, Carl… Why you left me… Did I… hurt you…"

"Sherry…" The queen slowly turned to her friend… Akko… "Why do you want to keep living in this world? Why couldn't you let your soul rest in peace?"

"This crew… This family… It was the last gift I was ever able to make for Carl. I only wanted it… to become as perfect and as powerful as possible. I wanted to meet him again… and make him proud… of what I accomplished…"

"Sherry… Carl is proud of you… I know he is… but now, he wants you to be with him. Maybe the reason you could never find him… was because you were still attached to the Mortal World. You need to let your family… make their own memories and grow on their own. But you and Carl… you have your own memories."

"Our own… memories…?" Sherry turned to the First Tree, still in its awkward bent state. …A golden illusion of her brother stood at the entrance. "Carl… you were there… all along… How could I be so blind?"

Sherry faced down at her friend, putting a gentle finger to her cheek. "Akko… I'm sorry you had to burden yourself… with this troublesome old woman. You made my soul… feel warm again…"

"Yeah…" Akko sighed, still feeling a tad empty. "It was… an honor doing a show for you. Good-bye… Sherry."

The queen smiled, warmed by her words. …She frowned and glared at Sheila. "And Sunny Fist, you can go die."

"Pbbbbtttthhhh!" Sheila blew a raspberry.

Smiling peacefully, Sherry dissolved into golden mist and flowed into the First Tree. The tree straightened to full height, growing beautiful flowers. Souls flew from those flowers, filling the hearts of the fallen Luna Nova students. Hannah-Barbara's souls returned to them. Goombella and Sector IC got theirs. And Akko's soul returned to her heart. …Akko puffed for a bit as her soul's leg kicked out Molly's soul, which returned to its owner.

Princess Sherry lay to rest inside the First Tree, with her brother and their memories. Goomnut felt his pain easing within its bark. Never again would she issue an order to the Linlin Pirates. They could feel a gentle warmth radiating from the tree… and all who walked through it, all couples who would marry in the cathedral, would feel only peace. (End song.)

Everyone who had taken part in this battle were passed out. Sheila was unable to move her muscles. Akko had lost the Shiny Rod and was laid to rest with Diana on the Stanship. Those still standing felt an unusual calmness, not just on Sweetopia, but across the worlds. The Free Kingdom's islands were returned to their worlds and were rebuilding. The Boogey Pirates began sweeping up the Titans as the Hyruleans were settling down. Mobius was steadily recovering. Rawberry was able to find Gourmerry's respawned form among the wreckage, holding her gently. There was calmness on all the worlds.

"Hm… 'Guess that's it." Nebula felt weird speaking those words. "We…We won…" It felt too weird to believe, but… the Emperors were all defeated. The KND… defeated them all. No one else was going to ambush them. No one to steal their victory.

"Hehehe." Sheila grinned. "'Guess you're the Pirate King now, Nebula! Good on ya."

"Haha…yep!" As weird as it felt, Nebula grinned. "Let's go claim our prize!"