Val's POV

I was shocked to see what happened to Branch.

I jump off the hot air balloon and run over to Cooper, Prince D, and King Peppy. I then stand in between Cooper and Prince D.

Soon, the rock cracks open and Branch comes out. But he looks different.

Branch looked like a Rock Troll.

"Rock on!" Branch says.

The Rock Trolls started to cheer.

"Oh, sick! Totally works." Barb says with amazement.

"Who's ready to get ripping tattoos everywhere except our faces in case we still need office jobs?" Branch asks, which creates more cheers from the crowd.

"You're turning everyone into rock zombies?" Poppy asks Barb.

"Yep. I can't wait to party with you, Poppy." Barb answers.

Barb starts using the ultimate power chord on the leaders of the different music Trolls.

During that time, I look up to see Poppy picking at the lock on her cage. And she unlocks the cage.

But as Poppy opens the cage door, Barb look at Poppy.

"Not so fast, Popsqueak." Barb says to Poppy. "Hey, boy toy, it's mullet time." Barb says to Branch.

Branch faces Poppy and uses his hair to hold Poppy, so she doesn't escape.

Barb then fires the ultimate power chord at Poppy.

Poppy gets hit and falls to the ground.

I see Poppy get up, and she is a rock zombie.

"Who wants to party?! Without smiling." Poppy says, which has the Rock Trolls cheer.

"Finish them off." Barb says before throwing the ultimate power chord to Poppy.

Poppy grabs the ultimate power chord and looks at Cooper, Prince D, King Peppy, and I.

Poppy aims the ultimate power chord at us.

This causes me to gasp in fear.

But for some reason, Poppy winks at us and then aims the ultimate power chord at Barb.

"What are you doing? You're supposed to be a rock zombie!" Barb asks with confusion.

Poppy pulls two gumdrops out of her ears and says, "Gumdrops. Soundproof and delicious." Poppy then eats the gumdrops.

"She learned hat from watching Val!" I hear Hickory say from the crowd.

"Give me that!" Barb says to Poppy.

"I'm not gonna let you do this to anyone else! A world where everyone looks the same and sounds the same? That's not harmony." Poppy says.

"Hey, Barb?" I hear a Rock Troll say. We look to see Riff. "Maybe Queen Poppy has a point. If we all look the same, act the same, dress the same, how will anyone know we're cool or something?" He asks.

A few Rock Trolls started to mutter in the crowd.

"A good queen listens." Poppy says as she looks at Biggie and the others. "Real harmony takes lots of voices. Different voices." She says before running to the center of the stage and smashing the ultimate power chord to the ground.

A lot of colors shoot out of ultimate power chord and spread all around the arena.

The colors then come to the center of the stage, while draining the color out of every Troll.

It was now silent.

I was the only one with color.

I look over to see Branch back to normal. I run over to Branch and hug him. Branch hugs me back.

Poppy looks over at us and runs over as well. "Branch!" She says.

"No. My strings." Barb says as she holds the broken strings.

The strings then disappear.

Branch, Poppy, and I break from the hug and look at Barb.

"What have you done? You've destroyed music!" Barb says to Poppy.

I was shocked to hear this.

"Give it up, everybody. Thanks to the Queen of Pop, we've all lost our music. History repeats itself. Pop has ruined everything." Barb says to all the Trolls.

Everyone was now looking down in sadness. Same with me.