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// Chapter Six: The Sweetening 
// Story: Candyland Conquest 
// by Badguy400 
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Flurry Heart and the others are currently fighting their restraints so they could help King Sombra. Meanwhile… , Sombra is grasped by the king by his neck. It didn’t hurt… . But considering that the Sour King has bits of sour flakes on his arms… , and the fact that he’s entirely made of black licorice… , it’s starting to… .

“Well, well, well… . What do we have here… .” the Sour King began. “Looks like we’ve got a false king and his rooks here to stop me… ! Care to explain why?” With that, Sombra replied; “because we’re sick and tired of you always being so harsh to the sweets! I mean, I get it: you’re sour, they’re sweet. But it doesn’t give you the rights to be so cruel to them… ! Even… if it means… , being the king to get what you want… .” Sombra then begins to pass out as he’s too exhausted with fighting the Sour King a while back, and not being able to deal any real damage to him.

Struggling from her restraints, Flurry Heart then looked at the Sour King, and says; “you don’t have to do this! Some of your guards wanted to actually be friends with the sweets! Please… . I’m begging you! Don’t do this!” The Sour King then stomped his foot on the ground, and says; “tough cookies!” The group gasped as the Sour King has supposedly said a swear. The Sour King then replied; “I will do what I can when I want to because I am king! Or my name isn’t Bubblegum Poopbottom.” Poundcake snickered, and says; “that’s your name… ? Bubblegum Poopbottom? What kind of ridiculous name is that… ?” The Sour King stomped his foot again while clenching his fists from being angry, and shouts; “this is why I became king! So that way no one in this world, or any other world will make fun of me!” Sombra awoke with a bit of a wheeze and gasp as he’s being crushed by the Sour King’s grasp. Seeing that her friend is being crushed, Flurry Heart gasped, and shouts; “let him go! You’re hurting him… .” The Sour King looked at Sombra, and back at Flurry Heart before replying; “you worried about him? Fine! Take him!” With that, the Sour King arched back, and threw Sombra with a mighty heave towards Flurry Heart.

But, just before Flurry Heart could get hurt, Sombra was caught by Sour Drops; whom just so happens to be flying with her licorice wings, which almost resembles that of a dragon. Meanwhile, Sour Berry gets in front of his father, kneels down, and pleads; “listen to me father! These people, and the sweets have done nothing wrong… ! You’ve got to stop this madness!” The Sour King then replied back; “oh… ? And what if I don’t hmm? You don’t got the gum balls to stand up to me!” Berry sighs, and says; “you’re right… . I don’t… .” But eventually stands up and says with a determined look while pointing to something; “but he can… .” After a while, a wild Gummy Bear appeared at the front of the gates… , and roared a vicious roar. Seeing this, the Sour King gulped, and then says; “please don’t let this hurt… .” and then braces for what’s about to happen.



The group is stretching because they’re a little stiff and or sore from being tied up. As for Sombra… . He’s just too busy laughing at what Poundcake had told him: the Sour King’s name. And it was hilarious.

“You’ll regret this!” Bubblegum said whilst tied up by his own licorice ropes. “You’ll ‘all’ regret this! I swear it!” But before he could continue, the wild bear covered his mouth, growling at him because the bear’s not done attacking the Sour King… . So with that, the doors to the Candyland version of a SWAT van closed, and pulled away… . As for the Sour King, he can be heard being attacked inside the van by the wild bear.

“So…” Sombra said. “What do you guys and gals wanna do now… ?” With a pleading gesture, Flurry Heart begged; “can we please stay here? Please… ?” Sombra sighs, then says; “I don’t know kid… . This isn’t exactly our world you know… . We can’t live here… .” Flurry Heart then hugged Sombra tightly with a sniff, and then states; “I know that… . I just wanna stay here for a little longer… . Please can we do that… ?” Not wanting to see his friend cry; due to the fact of what transpired in that castle with the Sour King and all, Sombra sighs again, chuckles, and then says; “I’ll think about it…” before looking back at Sour Drops and asked; “so… . Can we?” Sour Drops sighs this time, smiles while shaking her head, and states; “if you stay here a little longer… , then you’re helping us cleaning this mess. Okay?”

Sombra was about to say something, but sighs, and says; “fine… . But next time that we visit here, no more cleanups, okay? I’ve known what it’s like to clean up messes involving candy… . Trust me… .” Sour Drops just chuckles to herself while shaking her head again, and then says; “just clean up… . We’re not gonna leave you alone to do it all by yourself… . Right? We sours can be sweet too; ironically. Okay? What do you say… ?” Sombra sighs once more, and then says; “fine…” before grabbing a broom that’s leaning on the wall. “But I’m calling the shots on our next adventure. Got it?” Sour Drops shakes her head while chuckling again, and then says; “we’ll see…” before grabbing a broom as well, and helping Sombra clean up. With that, the entire group is cleaning up the castle, and are having fun whilst telling some jokes and short stories along the way… .



Sombra and the others are about to cross the portal that leads back to their world, when suddenly Sour Drops said; “wait!” and ran up to Sombra to give him a hug. “Be sure to not forget me, okay?” Sombra chuckles, and says; “how could I not? We’ll be back here anyways when we feel like it, okay?” Drops nodded, and gave Sombra a playful slug to the arm. Rubbing his arm from it, he chuckles and smiles while looking back at Sour Drops one last time… .

“Ready?” Sombra said to Flurry Heart while holding onto her hoof. “Ready.” Flurry Heart said while looking determined. “Alright…” Sombra said while looking up at the portal above them. “Here we go… .” With that, the portal sucked Sombra and his pals back into Equestria.

With the outworlders no longer there, Sour Drops said; “wanna race me back to the castle?” Sour Berry laughs, and says; “you’re on sis… ! Let’s go!” And with that, the two sour guards raced each other back to the castle, and are having a great time doing so.

The end