The Tea Party, Part 1: The Tale of Princess Sherbet

Planet Earth; about 5,000 years ago

"Big Brother… are we gonna be okay?" spoke the small, round girl in fear.

"Yes, Sherry. I promise the demons aren't gonna get us. We just have to be happy." replied the older boy, hugging her in comfort as a single candle provided them warmth and light. "Demons hate happiness."

"I don't think I can be happy, Brother."

"Just remember the Fairy Sisters, Sherry. If you keep smiling, the fairies will come to see us. They'll make everything better."

"The fairies are gonna come?"

"Yes, Sherry. We'll get to see the fairies and the mermaids and even the angels, too. And they'll make everything better."

After the Demon Wars have reached their climax, and King Malladus had been sealed beneath the earth again, the humans were suffering under the terror of Titans. These Titans looked like oversized, naked humans, and all they sought was to throw humans into their massive mouths. The blood of unfortunate morsels dripped from their mouths, yet it was never enough to fuel their lust. The merpeople, Nimbi, Minish, and Galactic Kids Next Doors were desperately trying to slay every Titan that shook the landscape.

"Dimentia, some of these Titans are children!" Numbuh Infinity told his Supreme Leader. "Should we really be hurting them?"

"Jirachi can't change them back with his magic. Whatever these demons did, it was too strong. Sorry, Jeremy, but we can't have another disease on our hands."

The truth was, all these horrid Titans were humans, captured and experimented on by the demons. While they didn't discriminate between kids and adults, they found that children made much more suitable subjects for the Gigantification disease. "Watch out!" Gabe yelled, seeing a smallish, round Titan with pink hair charging their way. "Here comes another one!"

"HUMAN FLEEEESH!" cried the round giant, capturing fleeing kids in her gawking mouth like Pac-Man eating ghosts. "HUMAN FLEEEEESH!"

"Hey, since we're aliens, you think she'll ignore us?" Gabe asked.

"Just kill her, you idiot!" Dimentia shouted.

"NO, DON'T!" A 10-year-old boy with light-brown hair ran up to the Titan.

"Where are you going, Carl?!" Dimentia yelled.

"SHERRY!" Carl yelled at the Titan, stopping once he was close. "It's me, Sherry! It's your brother, Carl!"

"Huuuumaaaaan…"

"He's going to get killed!" Dimentia grit her teeth.

"No, she won't! I-I know you won't, Sherry…" Carl slowly approached the beast. "Not if you want to see the Fairy Sisters. They're here, Sherry. The Fairy Sisters came here to help us. They destroyed all those nasty demons."

"Fleeeeeeessssshhhh…" Her mouth was drooling and eyes watering. Another tasty morsel was willingly within her radius.

"You remember, Sherry… I always hugged you close… and read you that story… I read you a bunch of stories… of the angels, the mermaids, and the little people… and now they're all here… Our dreams are coming true…"

"Flesh…Flesh… … … … Big Brother…"

Dimentia and her cohorts cocked a brow. Sherry's eyes seemed to change. Slowly, the Titan reached her right hand and grabbed her brother. "Carl…Carl…" She lifted him to her rounded face.

"Yes, Sherry… it's me." He lightly patted her nose. "It's your big brother."

"…" Sherry lightly pressed him to her nose as Carl hugged. "Hi, Carl…"

"He… Did he actually tame her?" Infinity asked.

A human girl approached them curiously, wondering why the Titan wasn't eating him. …Sherry glanced down at her, snatched the girl, and bit her head off. "SHERRY!"

"Want a bite, Carl?" Sherry offered the rest of the body.

"Sherry, you need to stop! Humans aren't food!"

"But they taste so good… and I'm so hungry. Flesh…flesh…"

"Face it, Carl, she's beyond saving." Dimentia told him. "Even if she won't eat you, she may never go back to how she was."

"There has to be a way!" Carl said as Sherry ate the rest of the girl's body. "What if…What if we fed her something even tastier? I read stories about entire landscapes that were made of candy. What if these places were actually real?"

"Eh, it wouldn't hurt to find out." Gabe shrugged.

Carl and Sherry rode the GKND's ship and were taken to a mountain of ice cream. Inside an ancient temple, there lay a body of golden ice cream. The second Sherry sunk her teeth into the substance, she was in euphoria. "DELICIOOOOUUUUS!" The five-year-old Titan wolfed the entire thing up in seconds.

"Hey, we wanted a taste, too!" Gabe shouted.

"It's okay." Carl replied awkwardly. "At least this should give her a different appetite."

"Ahhh… Hey, Carl… what was I doing before?" Sherry turned to her brother in confusion. "What's this red stuff on my face? Is it jelly?"

"It's, eh… It's nothing, Sherry."

Dimentia exchanged a glance with her Wisps. If this young girl realized she had been eating people, she could be devastated… but how long could they go before she found out?

…

"Look, Sherry! These are all the people that helped us beat Malladus!" Before them were kids from numerous races. "Those fish people are the mermaids we read about! And those guys with wings are the Nimbi! And those little people are Minish, and those even littler things are Pikmin! And these flying colorful things are called Wisps."

"We're not all mermaids!" a merboy yelled.

"What about that weird one?" Sherry asked, pointing at the floating jester with a black and white face.

"My name is Dimentia, and I'm a Zathurian."

"Carl never told me about Zathrians or Lisps."

"Well, there weren't any books about them." Carl chuckled. "There's probably tons of other people we never met before."

"Do they have more candy?!"

"Probably! In fact, I bet they have a whole world of candy!"

"A whole world of candy?!"

"Yep! And maybe one day, we'll go and find it!"

The GKND went to Mars and brought them a Crystal Marshmallow. Hatching the marshmallow was very dangerous and difficult, but its luscious taste was worth it. Sherry tried all sorts of sweets, from Oceanic fruits, Sun Cream from Buttermilk Building, a Rainbow Lollipop from Skypia, and a magic bunny turned to chocolate inside a volcano. There was even an entire island made of sweets with mountainous cakes!

"CHERRYYYYYY!" Sherry was now munching on a massive red fruit that was larger than her. "This cherry is so biiiig! I love big cherry! Cherryyyyyy!"

"Man, I knew you Minish were good farmers, but how do you make a cherry that big?!" Carl asked.

"We just know our fruit." Malarko replied casually, the Minish Leader folding hands behind his head. "It's a shame we can't use our dust to make her smaller."

"Yeah, even the Nimbis' apples don't work. Whatever the demons filled her with, it was strong."

The KNDs were joyed at seeing Sherry's euphoric expression each time she ate, slowly forgetting that she was ever a monster. The mermaids went to the trouble of designing a lovely pink dress for the big ball of fluff, making her look like a giant princess.

"So, Cherry," Carl began, "are you ready to go see the Fairy Sisters?!"

"YEEEAAAH! MAGIC!" Her eyes grew into giant hearts.

The Fairy Sisters hosted a beautiful magic show for the operatives, which seemed to take Sherry's breath away just as well as the sweets. Mavis used her illusory lightbending to make unicorns and Pegasi scamper about the field, made suns, clouds, and rainbows dance in the sky, and giant trees came to offer Sherry flowers. As Sherry took a whiff of the flowers, they dissolved into particles and flowed into her nose.

"Remember, everyone: as long as you have courage and determination, all your dreams can come true!" Princess Mavis exclaimed, drawing a rainbow with her wand. "Believe in yourself and you can do anything!"

…

"Carl, I miss Mom and Dad." Sherry spoke sadly, hugging Carl to her belly.

"I miss 'em, too… but look on the bright side, Sherry. We have so many new friends now! They're our new family."

"But they're not brothers and sisters."

"Sherry, just because someone isn't related to you, it doesn't mean they aren't your family. And hey, nothing says 'family' like coming to our favorite sister's birthday party!"

"Who's that?"

"Eh, you'll find out in a few months."

It was learned, by some miracle, all of the extravagant candies Sherry had eaten had been reformed. Carl decided to take some operatives on a voyage to find them all again, along with new ones such as Magic Caramels and Licorice Stalks. The older brother began to create a recipe, mixing all these wondrous ingredients into a cake more delicious than anything in the universe.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SHERRY!" All her friends were there to celebrate her 6th birthday. "The first piece goes to you! We made this cake extra gihugic so there's plenty for you and us!"

"CAAAAKE!" Sherry charged up and gobbled the first chunk of the colossal pastry. …All of a sudden, she was awash in more joy and love than she ever felt before. No words could describe how amazing the feeling was on her tongue. "CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!" More and more of the pastry was quickly consumed by her watering mouth.

"Sherry, slow down! Leave some for the rest of us!"

"CAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKEEEEEE!" The child's body began to shine, her skin and flesh morphing into candy itself.

"Was it really a good idea to bake all those things in one cake?!" a mermaid asked.

"I don't think so, anymore!"

"CAAAAAKE! MORE CAAAAAAAAKE!" The Titan began to consume the ground of Candied Island.

"SHERRY, STOP! Can you hear me?! SHERRY!"

Who can take the sunshiiiine? Sprinkle it with dewwwww…

Sherry's soul had been uplifted to a paradise more beautiful than Candied Island. There were so many cakes, dancing and pleading Sherry to devour them. And that's exactly what she did. So many happy pastries were vanishing down her throat, and all her tastebuds were dancing.

"SHERRY, YOU'RE EATING THEM!" The Nimbi and merkids were trying to restrain the monster, but she grabbed and wolfed them down. "SHERRY, PLEASE! STOP!"

Suddenly, Sherry was struck by pink lightning, but it had no effect. The Titan turned to Dimentia, and the colorful alien looked like another luscious sweet. "Caaaaake…" Sherry slowly stomped up to the spacebender, prompting Dimentia to seal her in a Space Block and blow her up.

"What are you doing?!" Carl cried. "She's my sister!"

"She's even worse than she was before! She isn't listening to you anymore, we have no choice but to—AAAH!" Sherry jumped out of the smoke and grabbed Dimentia in both hands.

"Sherry, no!"

In a desperate move, Dimentia warped the Titan off her, and Sherry landed in the sea. The High Supreme Leader spotted one of their saucers and flew into it. "DON'T!" Carl tried to run onto the ship, but was restrained by Gabe and Jeremy. "She's my sister! I'm sure we can save her, there's gotta be a way!"

"I can't take the chance! I'm ending her disease before it's too late!" Dimentia flew the saucer to the sky, performed a U-turn, and drove directly to where the bubbles were coming from.

"SHERRYYYYYY!" The ship crashed into the sea, ramming the young Titan and pushing her away from the island and further into the depths. Carl watched as Dimentia warped above him. "SHERRY!" Carl rushed to one of the merkid ships-

Dimentia zapped him with a Starburst and knocked him out. "It's been done." she stated firmly. "There's no point saving her. Even if you could… it's best to just let her drown." She turned to the remaining merkids and said, "Let's return to his homeland. We have another ship there."

Little did they know that, while the saucer had crushed little Sherry, a pink bubble of psychic energy could be seen glowing beneath the vessel. Sherry was safe inside it. Long after everyone left, the little giant marched her way back up the shore. Still coated with a candy body, she searched around. "Big Brother? Carl? Demtia? Where'd everyone go? I wanted ta eat some more with them…" The child fell on her back, gazing at the sun. "I'm lonely… Hi, Mr. Sun. Will you be my friend? Please, Mr. Sun…"

The sun seemed to move around in circles and lower down to Earth. Her face in awe, she watched as the sun grew a face. "Hi, Sherry!"

"Mr. Sun! Is it really you?!"

"It sure is me! Mr. Sun!"

"I'll call you Prometheus!"

"Oh, well that's fine, too. So, do ya like to play games, Sherry?"

"Let's play Tag! I can't play Tag with the other kids. I squish them." She frowned sadly.

"Oh, don't worry. I'm made of fire and Psychic Chi! I can't be squished!"

"Yay!"

However, within an hour of playing with a sun, the weather became too hot. "Haaaaah… it's hooooot… I want the clouds to come… where are you, clouds… come cool me down…"

Then, a shade fell over the young Titan. She looked up, seeing a big, fluffy white cloud. "Hey, who're you?!" Prometheus asked. "Get outta my way!"

"Hi, Sherry." The cloud formed a face and a hat. "My name is Mr. Cloud. I'm here to cool you down."

"Hi, Mr. Cloud! I'll call you Zeus!"

"For a little girl, you really like Greek mythology."

"Carl read me stories. Can we play more games?"

"Sure, Cherry! We can play games forever!"

Sherry spent the next several years playing with her new friends and exploring Candied Island. There was an unusual chamber with a stone block with strange writing, hidden within a complex cavern within Whole Cake Mountain. As Sherry grew older, she learned to practice with her psychic powers. She would form bubbles around herself and explore under the sugary ocean. They discovered a strange ship crashed within the sand, so she used her Titan strength to push it back to shore.

"Look what I found!"

"My, what an interesting fish." Zeus said.

"It's not a fish, silly, it's a ship!" Prometheus replied.

"It's like what the aliens had!" Sherry beamed. "They musta left it here. Maybe we should return it."

The Titan could barely fit inside the saucer. Zeus observed the controls and began to push buttons with his stubby cloud arms. "There has to be some way to make this fly. Oh! Here we go!"

Before they knew it, the saucer was uplifting to the sky. Zeus got the hang of steering for a bit before flying even higher, and the ship sealed itself as they left the atmosphere. "The aliens gotta be around here somewhere."

"I'm sure we'll find them." Zeus replied hopefully. "Maybe we can go faster. This button looks promising." He pushed the hyperspace button.

After an undefined long time of flying, they eventually found their way to an alien planet. "CANDYYYYYY!" By this time, Sherry had grown unbearably hungry, the 10-year-old now rampaging through an unsuspecting town of yellow-skinned aliens. "CANDYYYYY!"

"Sherry, please!" Zeus bit her hair and tried to hold her back. "These weird people aren't candy! Stop eating them, they're trying to hit you!"

"CANDYYYYY!" Sherry barreled through the hail of bullets and grabbed the offensive citizens off the ground to munch them up.

The massacre was watched by a duo of pirates via telescopes. "Look at that beast! Is she an Amazon or something?"

"I dunno, but she's tearin' up that town like it's nothing. …She'd be awful handy to have with us."

"You can't be serious!"

"She's screaming 'Candy,' isn't she?! Maybe if we give her some, she'll listen to us! And maybe we can use her to get more…"

"CANDYYYYYY-ah? Candy?" A small ship hovered overhead and poured gallons of candy down. "CANDYYYYYY!" She gobbled it all up in seconds.

"I hope ya like it!" one of the pirates said. "That's some of the tastiest candy on the planet!"

"Hey, you must be aliens!" Sherry faced them with a crescent grin. "Can you help me find Demtia?"

"Demtia? Er, of course we can! We'll search the whole cosmos until we find him…her…whatever! And maybe we'll pick up a few more tasty candies along the way, aye?" The pirate held up a list. "Eh, but first, how's about we find ya a nice dress? That'n looks a bit too small for ya…"

And so, Sherry and her new friends visited planet after planet, decimating countless citizens and pillaging whatever exotic sweets they had to offer. "'Guess they're not in this town!" the pirates cheered, chugging down green sodas. "Maybe we'll have better luck in the next one!"

A few years later, a 13-year-old Sherry was bathing in a pool of chocolate, while 20 other pirates were relaxing on the shore and drinking soda. "Ah, it's a Candy Pirate's life for me!"

"Yo ho ho and a BOTTLE of gum!"

"And all thanks to our big, fluffy marshmallow!" proclaimed the captain. "You're our little miracle, Sherby!"

"I'm a miracle?"

"Ya sure are! Why, keep this up and we'll have ALL the candy in the universe!"

"All the candy… the universe… ahhh…" Sherry gazed up at the sky in a dreamy fashion. The universe was such a marvelous place, with so many sweet candies and fun people. It made Sherry sad… that he couldn't be here. "I miss my brother."

"Eh? Ye have a brother?"

"Is he a giant like you?"

"No, Big Brother is little. He and the mermaids and angels and little people helped beat King Malladus. He said they were all family. I didn't get it because we didn't have a family. Not after our parents were killed by Malladus. I wonder… if Big Brother is lonely."

"Well, what planet does he live on?"

"I dunno. But I wanna find him again. And I wanna bring him a present. Maybe…Maybe I'll bring an even bigger family. How do you make families?"

"Where to begin explainin'… y'see, when a man and woman love each other, they-"

"Don't go tellin' 'er that!" A pirate bonked his mate in the head. "She's still a young'un! We'll wait until she's 19 or somethin'."

Six more years passed, and the pirates finally decided it was time to tell Sherry about the beauties of intercourse. It was then Sherry could follow her next goal in life: returning to her brother with the best family he could ask for.

"Waaaaaah! Waaaaaah!" A 30-year-old Sherry had just given birth to a Goomba.

"It's a boy!" the pirates declared.

"Aye, that makes her 26th child! I don't know any beast what can reproduce like her!"

"Big Brother's gonna be so happy! I think I have the biggest family in the whole universe!"

"Sherry, where do ya suppose we're gonna keep all these young'uns? Our ships are running out of room, and we don't 'ave enough candy to feed them all!"

"Oh, that's easy. We're all gonna live on the Candy Planet my brother read me about! Now, let's find more people to have babies with!"

As the pirates continued raiding and terrorizing towns, Sherry captured more and more men for, what the pirates referred to as, her "multiracial sex dungeon." A Glomourian, a Rito, a brave little Kateenian, Sherry continued to produce more babies, and the pirates had to invade more military bases to procure ships to carry them all. All the babies inherited Sherry's Candy Virus, and because of this, it seemed as if the giant had given birth to a brand new species altogether. Furthermore, she was so powerful that she was made the captain of the ever-growing band of space pirates, now named the Linlin Pirates after her mother, and Sherry became an intergalactic criminal, worth roughly 83 billion.

"YOU!" Sherry shouted at a body of brown smoke. "You're a creature I've never seen before! Give me a child!"

The body of smoke seemed to face at no one, and he remarked with a mischievous smile, "Well, no use turning down free candy! Huhuhuhahahaha!"

Four months later

The unstoppable giant who had consumed hundreds of towns, destroyed several fortresses, and produced more children than any known beast in the cosmos, now lay on her deathbed. The 65-year-old giant had contacted a disease more deadly than the two she already had, and her sugar-coated body was slowly rotting away. "Please don't leave us, Sherry!" the pirates cried. "There's so many candies we haven't found, yet! There's so much we haven't seen!"

"MAMAAAAAA!" her children were crying tears of jelly. "Don't die, Mama! Don't diiiiieeeee!"

"Ch…Children… Please… find Carl… Tell him… I've created the most beautiful family… the most powerful family… and tell him we will keep growing… We will find the paradise… where everyone can be family…"

Her children grew up and continued their mother's legacy. Centuries passed, millenniums, and her family divided into multiple branches. The children mated with races of all kinds, ensuring that one day, everyone could be part of the Linlin Family. Descendants of the Linlin Clan were defined by the Candy Virus still present in their veins, as well as Sherry's Gigantism, for some of Sherry's grandchildren were born quite large.

One of the family's branches succeeded in finding Planet Earth, and that branch became known as the Core Family. It would create a tradition of finding the Eight Sugary Wonders and recreating the wondrous cake that was designed by Sherry's brother. Some branches of the family abandoned their roots as pirates and settled down with members of their own race. The Candy Virus slowly became less noticeable, but it remained within the family's genes, and signs of the virus still existed.

"GIVE ME PUDDING!" screamed Lala Stork as Bartie struggled to restrain her sister. "You promised pudding two hours ago! I'M HUNGRY!"

"OW!" She bit Bartie in the arm. "I'm sure Mom will be home in a few minutes, just calm down!"

…

"Coffee coffee coffee, coffee coffee coffee, COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE!" Cuppa Joe was speeding through a grocery store, destroying aisle after aisle. "WHERE IS THE BLASTED STARBUCKS?!"

"It's right behind you!" yelled a bagger.

"Oh, thank you. COFFEEEEE!"

…

"SPINACH DONUTS!" screamed Gramma Stuffum, wolfing down all the donuts in a pastry shop. "VHERE ARE ZE SPINACH DONUTS?!"

"W-W-W-We don't have those, Ma'am!"

"Give me ze spinach donuts or Gramma will inflate your body with SHEEP BONES!"

…

"FRUIT TAAAAAAARTS!" Jasminka Antonenko was bound by chains as Amanda and Constanze were trying to pull her back. "You said they had fruit taaaaarts!"

"Jasminka, I'm sorry, it was just a rumor I heard!" Akko shouted. "Look, we'll go out and buy you some! Diana, can't you just magic some up?!"

"You can't just create food out of thin air, it's part of the 'Do's and Don'ts' of magic. You would need to summon them from somewhere else, and that would be illegal-"

"FRUIT TAAAAAAAARRRRRTS!"

"Forget the law, just GET SOME!" Hannah panicked, she and Barbara hiding behind Diana.

"Before she eats us!"

…

MaKayla King was sound asleep in her room. As her arm hung over the bed, Lola Stork creaked open her door and approached her with ravenous eyes. "MaKayla's blood… MaKayla's blood… MaKayla's blood…"

"OUCH! GOD DAMMIT, LOLA!"

But even as some members divided from the family, the Linlins vowed that their ancestor would return. Technology and sorcery would evolve to where they would finally find a way to revive Queen Sherry, and show her the paradise they had discovered.

Present era; close to Glacia

"CLIFFSICLLLLLLLES!" Queen Sherry furiously banged on the massive door to her quarters. "CLIFFSICLLLLLES!"

"Please calm down, Your Majesty." Zeus pled. "Minister Goomnut, how long until we get to Glacia?!"

"We're entering the atmosphere now!" replied a Goomba that was shaped like a chestnut. "Ugh, damn that Buu, having to ask about Planet Freakin' Glacia. This is seriously going to compromise our voyage to Avalar!"

"CLIFFSICLLLLLES!" The flying galleon known as the Queen Mama Chanter was sailing toward a colossal cliff, whose frosty red exterior greatly contrasted with Glacia's fields of white. "CLIFFSICLLLLLES!" Queen Sherry rode her trusty raincloud, Zeus across the frosty fields.

"Oh, no! The Kids Next Door are already on us!" Prometheus panicked as icicle ships were flying their direction.

"Concentrate all fire on the giant lady riding a cloud! That's not a sentence you hear everyday, so make it count!" Icicles flew toward the Titan like missiles, but they were easily melted by Prometheus's flames.

"SUN VOLLEY!" The queen jumped and bashed the sun like a volleyball, destroying three ships while the remaining two sped after the Titan. Sherry hissed and threw tiny psychic balls at the ships, and the operatives were frightened when their controls grew faces.

"Eject button~ Eject button~"

"Autopilot~ Autopilot~"

"WAAAAAAH!" The Glacian operatives inevitably crashed.

"There it is!" Sherry exclaimed with madness in her eyes. "THE GLACIAN CLIFFSICLE!" The queen jumped off her cloud and crashed on the frozen ground before the great red cliffs.

"Legend has it," Prometheus began with a smile, "the Cliffsicles migrate around the continent for years before finally melting under the perfect sunspot. Too bad they never counted on a migrating sun. Haaaaaah…" He ignited himself as the cliffs emitted steam.

The great cherry cliffs melted and washed Sherry away in a great stream of red. "MAAAAAA mamaaaaaaa!" She stretched her gawking mouth and swallowed drums worth of juice. "Cherry popsicles! My absolute 12th favorite sweet!"

"Hey, Mama, wasn't there a town back there?" Zeus asked.

"Oh, they'll be alright. …Hang on, what are we even doing out here?!" Sherry asked, casually floating by some floating, unconscious yeti. "Goomnut!" Her minister had come down on a Lakitu cloud. "Why aren't we on Avalar?!"

"We had a slight delay, Your Majesty." Goomnut replied awkwardly.

"Buu want to play in juice, too!" yelled a pudgy pink alien with a purple cape and antenna. "Buice want juu!"

"No! We must get to Avalar before the Glacian KND have a chance to alert them! Nnngh, after this detour, I hope for their sake, those witches don't disappoint Her Majesty's expectations."

"MONSTER!" The river of cherry was frozen solid, and Queen Sherry along with it. The subordinates looked as a massive yeti burst out of the ice. "You drowned my village! I WILL MOUNT YOUR HEAD ON MY WALL!" The yeti conjured a large red ice javelin and chucked it at the Titan, but Sherry broke free of the ice as the javelin shattered against her.

"DON'T RUIN MY CHERRY!" The queen scrambled to her feet and charged at the yeti. The beast panicked and unleashed more ice, but it was countered by Prometheus's flames. The Titan leapt high over the flames and cracked the ice beside the yeti. "SOUL POCUS!"

"YAAAAAAHHH!" When Sherry swiped her hand through the yeti, she grabbed hold of a pink, spiritual mist.

"So, then… how many years of your life should I take?" Sherry asked with a wicked grin, the yeti choking as she clung to his soul. "Twenty…thirty… How long do yeti live, anyway?"

"Your Majesty, more ships are coming!" Goomnut shouted.

"Dammit! I'll just take the whole lot." Sherry yanked the soul out as the yeti dropped dead. "Buu, destroy them!" She jumped back onto Zeus and rode back to the ship.

"Okay, Grandma! SWEET BEAM!" Buu shot homing lasers from his antenna and struck the icicle ships, turning them into popsicles.

"What the heck?!" cried one of the Glacians. "I-I can't steer the ship!"

"POPSICLLLLES!" Buu flew for the flying sweets with a stretched, gaping mouth.

"MAYDAY, MAYDAY! We're about to be eaten by a pink creature! Call for backup, call for—" The line went dead, and there was static.

"The number you have dialed has been eaten by a pink marshmallowy thing."