[LN] Candy Mountain [locked to Molly]

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"So let me get this straight, you're gonna spread around on the internet that we're real to get kids to believe in us?"

Right now, Raph and Molly were seated on the floor of Jamie Bennett's room. In a rare show of trust, Nico had actually let Raph take Molly by himself, as her magic was needed on a mission. The caveat had been, of course, that they had to go to Jamie's house - which was warded all to hell and back - and come right back to the Pole after, but Raph still understood the signifance of it - and the unspoken threat of retribution that would happen if he didn't bring Molly back safe and sound.

Jack had arranged for them to talk to Jamie - insisted on it, in fact - since Jamie was the primary believer of all the new otherdimensional myths being pulled in. More than that, Jamie was the one trying to spread belief of them around so that they had more believers than him.

At the moment, he was trying to explain the nature of belief and what he could do for them - and what he couldn't do.

"How many kids that believe in stuff even use the internet?"

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Raph sighed again.

"Nico's gonna kill me."

But Molly was right. Chances were he might need her help, what with her having the much more useful powers. And they had to get that shard to save the Guardians' reality - and who knew what would happen to the universe if they failed.

Surely, Kuk would have a much easier way of getting in if that reality was broken.

"Come, we need to move. Lemme carry you on my shoulders. You've got tiny little legs."

He could run faster.

He knelt down so he could lift her up.

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"Yaaaay, ninja ride!" Molly didn't bother letting him lift her - with him down low it wasn't more than a quick scrabble up the back of his shell to get herself on his shoulders (and it felt less like she was a toddler).

Once she was seated, she puffed her chest out. "I am Princess Powerful, ruler of ALL Candyland!"

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Raph chuckled.

"Sure thing, kiddo. Ruler of all you can see - and once we get to the top of that volcano, you'll probably be able to see everything."

Then he started to move, running at a solid pace, one that he'd be able to maintain over a long distance.

They covered ground pretty quickly.

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They did. Molly caught sight of some giant marshmallow boulders off in the distance at one point, wondering if they were for giant smores. Riding on Raph's shoulders was fast and fun, definitely - they'd make their way to the shard in NO time!

Except--

"Raph! Raph, hang on, stop!" Molly didn't bother waiting for him to slow down before scrambling off his shoulders and hitting the ground, running a few yards off the trail they were going down to where some sort of horse seemed to be trapped in a thorny candy corn bush.

"We gotta help him!" she called over her shoulder.

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"Molly, we don't have time for any detours."

It was just a horse. They had all of reality to worry about and Raph really, really didn't want to have to worry about running away from a fast-moving fudge eruption.

And yet he stopped to take a look. It definitely looked stuck and if it didn't escape the stupid thing was going to die a horrible death when that volcano went off.

Raph sighed and jogged after her.

"Alright, we'll help it, but we need to keep this quick, okay?"

He pulled out his sais, planning to use them to whack at all the thorny branches.

"Easy," he said gently to the horse as they moved in closer. "Easy now."

And that was a horn. It had a horn. It was a unicorn. A unicorn with wings even.

"A flying unicorn. Why am I not the tiniest bit surprised? Oh, that's right: basic pattern recognition," he said, trying to break through the branches and thorny vines. (Some kind of pointy hard candy?) "My day starts weird, of course it's gonna stay weird."