"Yep, this is probably the eel that kid's been talking about." Queen Bee tells herself.
"You met with Iggy?" Pickle asks as Queen Bee looks directly at her stomach.
"He told me what to do on my way here..." She answers like she's seen a stomach talk before. "But honestly? I can do more than just distract that eel. But to keep your plans intact, Imma just do what I was told."
The imaginary stadium finishes filling up with people.
"Well then... let's begin the concert, shall we?"
Queen Bee raises her hand and a microphone comes out of nowhere.
"Honeycomb... ENCORE!"
Flame projectors are everywhere and the spotlights are going crazy. Extremely intense music plays in the background.
The angels are looking at the unexpected spectacle; one angel even brings out a cross to try to repel her.
Then, she snaps her fingers and disappears...
Iggy and Lorde are back to normal.
Confused, They shake their heads and look at the imaginary stadium above them.
From the giant stadium's entrance, an imaginary Queen Bee performs a sultry walk to the stage; the music transitioning perfectly to one of her songs.
The crowd goes wild.
Queen Bee's imaginary backup dancers follow her.
"Queen Bee..." Iggy says...
She begins singing.
> FIRST VERSE
> You give me hell, and I gave you my burning shrieks
> You knew me well, but the people are turning cheeks
> It's a disaster, eternal growing pain
>
> And they can't understand what I've been going through
> But still, they know that I'd die to run away from you
> It's a disaster, I think I'll go insane
The eel distraction works; The foe now targeting an imaginary Queen Bee. Her elegant dance moves coincidentally allow her to dodge the eel's attack despite being imaginary.
As Queen Bee dances to the beat, Iggy takes his debate club. Pickle reads his mind and turns the club into the Bubblegum Bazooka; on steroids as it glows pink all around it.
"Bubblegum Bazooka~ With extra blood pumped in it! It's used to fight Two Piece's Gob Coochie the cheetah guy!" Pickle explains.
"This is Redstone two... Hah! How did you find this!?" Iggy gasps in excitement.
"That's new stuff! Remember, the stronger our willpower, the stronger the weapons we can summon become!"
Iggy takes himself back to what Zikh had told him.
"...You joined the crazy part of The Industry, right? Doesn't that make it a given that you'll be risking your life? "
"I accepted this life..." Iggy says inside his head. "There's no point in turning back!"
> SECOND VERSE
> I treat you like you're my dream, my mendacious man
> And I am strong, I can take you, I really can
> But I can't hurry~ to brush this pain anew
>
> Learned to fight with my heart, and what truly means
> My body, item, my soul, and my vivid dreams
> But am I worthy... To face it all again
The eel is starting to get annoyed.
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From behind, a stealth attack from Iggy and Lorde.
> CHORUS
> With all my mind~
STRIKE. The eel. with his guard down, takes a direct hit from the fist that came out of the bazooka at the speed of sound, matching the background vocals' melody.
> CHORUS
> With all this power in my mind
> With all my prowess and my memory
> To take me back to what I used to be
> To take you down to get me back
> To take us higher than the past that took my future from my mind
The chorus repeats.
The jet-like speeds of the fist take a lot of energy out of the eel.
The weakened eel whips itself against Iggy and Lorde, but its sluggishness allows them to evade its attack rapidly.
The eel keeps whipping itself everywhere but to no avail.
> BRIDGE
> Let me take it back.
SLAM. Iggy and Lorde take a direct hit.
> BRIDGE
> Bridges breaking down.
WOOSH. Iggy and Lorde clutches by grappling on the eel using the bazooka.
> BRIDGE
> All that's left is your own melody.
> Change this world to what it used to be.
ROCKET. Iggy rockets himself back to the eel, leaving Lorde behind.
He stands on the eel, but it's still considerably hot. Iggy's sandals begin to melt.
> BRIDGE
> Let me take it back.
> Take away the crown.
The strangled eel begins to panic and shake, but Iggy balances himself carefully, aims the bazooka at the eel, and jumps.
"BUBBLEGUM..." Both Iggy and Pickle say at the same time.
> BRIDGE
> I know you give me hell, and I gave you my burning shrieks
> You knew me well, but the people are turning cheeks, woah.
"BAZOOOOOOKAAAAAAA!!!!!"
...A direct hit.
A hit whose strength is exponentially larger than that of his last bazooka blow.
The eel comes violently crashing to the mountain plateau, leaving behind a giant crater.
The angels, The audience, Queen Bee...
They all look down on the ground.
"D~ Did we win?" Tiny asks himself.
...
...The eel pulls itself up, but a person on the plateau is quick enough to aim back at it.
"Whoops, I'm afraid I can't let you do that."
It's Louie, and Royal is right behind him.
The shell in hand, Louie touches the eel with delicate care from the top.
"Defeated now, bitch?"
Click.
ABSOLUTE DECIMATION.
Silence. Everyone tries to see through the cloud of dust and smoke... As the smoke clears, only two things come out triumphant...
Louie...
...And the eel's guts.
The battle is won.
"We won..." Iggy speaks out to himself...
"WE WON!!!" He screams.
A constant stream of celebration flows through the faces of the angels. With a sigh of relief from Iggy, he lies down on Lorde's back and closes his eyes.
"What a first mission this is..." Iggy says, relieved of all the stress.
Queen Bee beams at the commotion.
"Looks like the fight's over. " She mutters about. "Come on, boys, It's time to go back home."
And so, Queen Bee and the entire stadium dissipate into blue smoke. Iggy opens his eyes and sees the bright sunset sky above him and the glitter of smoke raining down upon them; the darkness has been lifted.
"Pickle..." Iggy blurts out.
"Yeah?"
"I wanna sleep. I'm tired..." Iggy tiresomely replies, closing his eyes shut again.
THREE HOURS LATER
"Oh~ Something Something~ Sing song... Sam song...~ No, that's the phone..." Pickle sings out loud inside Iggy's stomach.
Iggy opens his eyes after a long nap as Pickle keeps on blabbering about. "You've been singing?"
"Yeah. You just had to fall asleep, don't you? They're having a party outside!"
"I'll pass."
"Oh, come on, dude! We're heroes!"
"Shut up, credit grabber. We couldn't have done it without them." Iggy neutrally banters out.
Cider knocks on the door.
"Iggy? Are you awake? I'll welcome myself and a few visitors in."
Cider opens the door with chocolate ice cream in hand. Two unexpected outsiders, Queen Bee, and Gaia, arrive to visit their little friend.
"Queen Bee? Gaia?" Iggy says in confusion.
"No harm done in summoning them from their stories again, Iggy! Besides, we couldn't have done it without them." Pickle explains.
Cider places the ice cream cup on the bedside table for Iggy.
"You were very heroic out there. Iggy, right?" Queen Bee tells him.
"...Yeah."
Gaia interrupts the conversation. "You survived. Bummer."
Queen Bee looks at Gaia's face suspiciously.
"Just kidding, sheesh." Gaia says emotionlessly.
"Your stomach filled me in. You know, I've never seen quite a kid as brave as you." Queen Bee compliments Iggy.
"Being summoned from a story... It sounds ridiculous. But I do hope you get to see the real Queen Bee someday." She added, patting her on the head.
Meanwhile, Gaia. "He'll never see the real me... Heh, deserved."
"You know~ You have personal grudges against this kid?" Queen Bee grumpily crosses her arms at Gaia.
> "I'm gonna fucking kill you~"
>
> "Security!"
Iggy can't help but giggle a bit as he takes a bite out of his ice cream.
MEANWHILE, THE LAVA PIT...
"Royal, Zikh, Louie, do you think this pit will cool down one day?" Lorde asks them, including a bandaged Zikh.
"Without an eel, that lava pit will no longer expand, so, hopefully!" Royal responds.
"You're angels. You'll figure it out!" Louie laughs out a response.
"Yeah..." She says.
...
"I do hope so."