Been a while since i worked on this, but only a chapter or 2 left after this one then i can be finished with this

Lucy ran into the restroom and locked herself in one of the stalls. She curled her legs up on the toilet so she couldn't be seen. She was scared, she hoped she would get out of this in one piece. Outside the restaurant, Lyric and a small team of his robots approached. He saw her kart and smiled, Lucy was definitely inside. He slithered inside but was stopped by the gumball.

"Excuse me sir, do you have a reservation?"

"Out of my way organic" said Lyric

He pushed the gumball out of the way and into the middle of the restaurant.

"Robots, search the place, she's here" said Lyric

The robots went off in different directions. Lyric spied the tables, seeing if Lucy was hiding in plain sight, despite knowing that was highly unlikely. He looked at Candlehead and her date. Her date was rightfully nervous of him, but Candlehead, having seen a lot over the years, wasn't fazed. Lyric slithered to Candleheads table

"You, i remember you from the other day. I know you're friends with the princess" said Lyric

"I just met her the other day i know nothing about her" said Candlehead

"Lying to save your skin, typical organic behavior. And you, i can smell your fear, good. You have every right to fear me" said Lyric

"Giant snake creature, we don't want any trouble, we're just trying to have a nice dinner" said Vincent

"I know one of you knows where princess Lucy is, i know she's here, her kart is parked outside" said Lyric

"How do you know thats not mine?" asked Vincent

Lyric grabbed Vincent and held him up

"Hey, put my date down" shouted Candlehead angrily

Lyric dropped vincent onto the table

"Organics, you will all die eventually, it's only a matter of when" said Lyric before slithering away

Meanwhile in the bathrooms, one of lyrics robots began searching, busting open stall doors, searching for Lucy. The noise was getting closer, Lucy had to think fast, she looked up and saw an air vent, it was her best chance of getting undetected, She closed her eyes and glitched into the air ducts, and just in time, Lyrics robot had busted open her stall door. It left the bathroom to report to Lyric. Lucy crawled through the ducts to the main dining room to see what would happen next.

"Did you find her?" asked Lyric

"Negative, the little girl is not here" said a robot

"She's got to be here, i know it. She'll come to us, bring out the valuables" said Lyric

2 robots walked into the restaurant with a bag of some of Lucys belongings they stole from her bedroom.

"Candle girl, i know you have candles on you, give me one or i'll blast you" said Lyric

Candlehead ran up and gave him an unlit candle. Lyric lit the candle and took Lucy's diary out of the bag and placed it on the table.

"Princess Lucy, i know you can hear me, i'll give you 10 seconds to reveal yourself or i'll destroy the diary" said Lyric

Lucy wasn't fazed, and she could always write another one.

"I don't think that's gonna work, she wouldn't come out if you're not gonna say anything from it" said Vincent

"Like i need the advice from an organic being like you? And i have no use for the secrets of a little girl" said Lyric

The 10 seconds were up. Lyric lit the diary on fire and one of his robots blasted it to bits. He took a laptop out of the bag and offered the same thing, to reveal herself or he'd destroy the laptop. Lucy didn't do that, and lyric and his robots destroyed the computer

'That's ok, i needed a new one anyway' thought Lucy

"Even if the princess is here she's not gonna come out" said Vincent

"She will, everyone has something they can't live without" said Lyric

Lyric ordered his robots towards a window. Lyric smashed his mechanical arm through the window and his robots aimed their rocket launchers at Lucy's kart

"Come out now, or we blow your car up. I can break as much of your stuff as i want, i will have that last crystal fragment and build my empire" said Lyric

Lucy was trying her best to hold herself back from revealing herself. All she could think was she was glad she had nothing valuable in her kart, and it could be rebuilt. Lyric's patience faded and he ordered his robots to destroy the kart. They fired their rockets and the kart blew up into a mess of candy. Lyric pulled another item out of the bag, Lucy gasped, her favorite stuffed pony toy, the toy she slept with every night and couldn't sleep without, was now threatened to be destroyed.

"This is fun for me you know that everyone? I have time little girl, the question is how much can you hold yourself back?" asked Lyric

He held the candle near the toy, ready to light it, but Lucy glitched out of the vent.

"NO, not my stuffed pony, anything but my stuffed pony" shouted Lucy

Lucy ran to her toy and hugged it tight before getting on her knees

"Fluttershy are you ok? Did the mean snake hurt you?" asked Lucy to her toy

"Pathetic predictable fool" said Lyric

He grabbed Lucy with his tail and squeezed her with a robot claw on his tail. He held her up to his face.