Nextgen Kids: Legend of the Nine Newborn

Food Wars

I just got a fun idea for a DLC mission in this story! As a hint, it crosses over the games Pikmin and Little Nightmares~

Gourmet 13: Food Wars

The Marzipans enjoyed a relaxing sleep that night, relieved to know all their crewmates were back together. Team Kipo slept on the bridge, feeling at ease with the stars hanging over them. When everyone was well-rested, they reactivated the ship's lights and assumed their Daytime Modes. They hung about the bridge as Haylee charted a course for GKND.

"I hear Yumyan writes manly poems..." Kipo sang to herself and positioned her arms as if playing an invisible guitar, "About chainsaws, cranks, and gears. He also shoots lasers from his eyes, And puts out fires with his tears..."

"What are you doing with your arms?" Kohaku asked.

"Playing air guitar. ...It's not as fun as a real guitar." Kipo frowned in reminiscence. "So, where are you from?" She perked up and jumped topics. "You look like a tribe person."

"Well, I sort of am. I won't explain too much where I'm from, but it's always been my dream to see outer space. That's why we got Augustus to help. To think that all these stars are other worlds..."

"I totally get what you mean." Kipo smiled. "I actually have an astronomy class at my school. It's so fun to learn about stars, so being in space feels really incredible!"

"If you joined KND, you'd get to come to space all the time." Yuzu commented.

"Yeah, I've always thought about it. But I guess I'm already sort of there after winding up in the war."

"Either way," Augustus said, "with the three of you onboard, I officially have way too many crewmen. At least GKND will take you off my hands."

"But the more friends we have, the better our odds at winning!" Yuzu beamed. "And now we only have two items left to find."

"Yep." The captain opened Gourmerry's menu. "We need a Main Dish and that word that's hard to spell."

"That would be the hors d'oeuvre." Tressa confirmed. "Speaking of which, Captain... what even is a 'Main Dish,' anyway?"

"That one may be the trickiest of all. It's supposed to be the very core of a meal. The main attraction of your menu. It could generally be anything, but it has to be very special to you. That is to say, special to Gourmerry. Perhaps even the greatest thing she's ever tasted."

"Gourme?" The Firstborn pointed at herself.

"So, a meal with strong value and importance." Yuzu said. "Greater than anything she's eaten. But where could we find something like that?"

"Well, we can worry about it later. For now, let's look for a good appetizer. We can't start a good meal without that."

"Shouldn't the appetizer have been the first thing you looked for?" Tressa asked.

"We just didn't have the appetite for it."

"Um...are we at GKND H.Q.?" Haylee asked.

"I dunno, you're the one driving, Haylee."

"There's something... different about it."

GKND H.Q. was a gigantic treehouse with blue leaves and a whitish-blue trunk, with several domed facilities built on its branches. However, there were large bacon banners hanging from the branches, several turkeys flying around the domes, and banana slugs slithering along the trunk. "That's not how I expected it to look." Kipo said. "Are they celebrating that festival you guys were talking about?"