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“OH MY GOD YESS!!!” A voice rang out through the Zomboss Estate, with the source coming from Neptuna’s room.
Super Brainz slammed the door to his room wide open as he stomped out with a messy hairdo. “WHAT MADE ME MESS UP MY HAIR?!”
The door to Neptuna’s room opened to reveal Immorticia holding the mermaid in her arms with one hand around her back and the other underneath Neptuna’s fish tail. Neptuna then held up a small box containing a gold ring with a sea crystal on it.
“WE’RE ENGAGED!!” They both boomed.
“Oh shit. Really?” SB said with a jarringly calm tone. “Uh, yeah!” Immortica gleamed as she got up in his face.
“Well, congratulations, but did you really have to scream that loudly? I trimmed off a chunk of my hair!”
“Oh… sorry…” Neptuna replied with a smug smile.
“Thanks, that definitely helps.” SB muttered under his breath as he stomped back to his room.
After he left, the other zombie heroes came out to see what in the undead caused them to wake up at 7 in the morning, except for Z-Mech, he was too busy watching anime.
Impfinity was the first to come out, only for him to fucking cartwheel over the top of the second floor railing and land on the first floor with a faceplant right in front of the newly weds. Shortly after, he jumped up to his feet and cartoonishly dusting himself off.
Immorticia sighed. “Hello Impfinity.”
“What’s poppin’?” Impfinity asked in his high pitched voice. “Eh, nothing much, just me and Tish getting engaged.” Neptuna replied.
“Cool! I have no idea what that means!”
“It means we’re getting married.” Immorticia said flatly.
“Am I invited?”
Immorticia leaned down to his level to look him in the eyes. “This is going to be me and Neptuna’s special day, so if you ruin it for us with your batshit antics, I WILL kill you…”
“So yes?”
“… yes. This is your only warning.”
“Great! See ya then!” Impfinity said. He the created a bunch of clones of himself to build a ladder to his room on the second floor, which he climbed up with his clones disappearing shortly after.
“YO TISH! CAN I BRING MY BOOMBOX?!” Electric Boogaloo yelled from his room. “If I get to choose the songs, then yes!” Tish yelled back.
A sudden thought crossed Immorticia’s head. “Wait, where are we going to get a cake?” She asked Neptuna. Her soon-to-be wife just chortled, “you’re a silly witch, you know that? You and I both know a little someone who loves desserts…” Neptuna smiled as she mentioned the the white-furred cryptid.
“Oh, right.” Tish said as she looked away in embarrassment from forgetting Brain Freeze’s existence.
Neptuna and Immorticia looked back at each other. “So where would you like to have the wedding?” Tish asked her fiancé. “I would like to have you choose, I’ll do whatever you want, as… long as I am with you~” she later added.
Neptuna thought for a moment. “The docks will do~” before smiling. “We know everyone here is going, but is there anyone you wish to invite?” Immorticia asked, despite knowing the answer. Neptuna merely scoffed.
“Well…”
——
“Hey Solar! You got a letter here! Chompzilla called out around Crazy Dave’s house. The sunflower stepped down the stairs, still in her pajamas and sleep in her eyes. “Nnngh, what?”
“Pfft, god you look more depressed than I usually am in the morning, and I’m the one that actually gains weight when I eat. when did you sleep?”
“…5.”
“Makes sense, considering it’s 11 right now, anyways, here, it’s to you.”
The goliath flytrap lowered one of her vines holding an orange and purple striped envelope with a gold stamp. “Looks pretty fancy, any idea where it’s from?”
“No.”
Solar Flare plucked out a petal from her head and ignited it in flames before sliding it across the top of the envelope to burn it open before taking out the letter. The moment her eyes glided across the cursive words, the sleep was bitch-slapped out of her eyes.
“ Dear Ms. Coronal Mass Ejection
You are hereby invited to the wedding ceremony of Alcina “Immorticia” Vedma and Vanessa “Neptuna” Farraige. The zombie heroes are aware of your potential arrival, but feel free to bring along any other L.E.A.F agents you wish as long as they behave. The wedding will be held at the Neighborville docks at 5:00 PM on September 23rd, 20XX.
You will be the Bridesmaid.
And Impfinity will be bound to a chair. ”
“A WEDDING!?” Solar exclaimed loudly, startling the chomper next to her. “Well that explains the fancy look…” Chompzilla muttered. “Wait… Neptuna and Immorticia? Aren’t those two on the zombie side? I know we signed a peace treaty with them after the whole King Gnomus fiasco but still, how the hell did you get invited?” Chompzilla asked.
“Neptuna is a great friend of mine, we played Splatoon together!”
“… Well okay then… you sure this isn’t a trap?”
“Yep! It’s a promise we made to eachother to not stab eachother in the back!”
“Okay… if you say so…”
“C’mon! Let’s tell everyone and get ready!”
Just then, Solar felt her phone buzzing in her pocket, she took it out to see she got a text from Neptuna.
Neptuna
Yo! You got the letter?
YAASS!! CONGRATULATIONS!!
Great! Could you come
over to the estate? We’re
trying to come to a decision
what my dress should be
and I want you to be the
tiebreaker.
Sure! Be there in a few!
Aight. Cya
Solar Flare ran up to her room to put on her goggles, opened the window, and flew to the Zomboss Estate.
——
“Alright Smash, a bit higher and we’re good.” Immorticia said.
The Smash was currently lifting an arch decorated with painted coral and sea anemones.
“Aaaaaand perfect! Thanks man.”
The Smash only grumbled, his only form of speech. Immorticia turned to Super Brainz, who was fixated on his mirror, combing his hair.
“Hey, Brainz, could you stop focusing on yourself and help Z-mech set up the other arch and tables and chairs?”
“Gee…you should know that I wouldn’t be focusing on fixing my hair if SOMEONE didn’t scream at fucking 7 in the morning!”
“Dude, we said sorry. Now let it go and help.”
“Alright, alright, fine…”
Immorticia walked over to Brain Freeze to check on the wedding cake. “Hey Freeze, how’s the cake coming along?”
“Rrrrarrrrr”
The cake was a traditional sized wedding cake decorated with bats and various sea creatures made of frosting, with little figurines of Immorticia and Neptuna on top.
“Perfect. Nice work!”
“Rrrurrrr”
——
Back at the estate, Neptuna opened the kitchen window to let Solar Flare into the house, where she took off her goggles and landed on her leaves. “Heeey!”
RustBolt, Boogaloo, Brainstorm, and Impfinity sat at the table, looking a bit surprised. “ This is who you called for the tiebreaker?” Boogaloo started. “Yep, got a problem with it?” Neptuna replied.
“Well, no, i know we made a peace treaty with the plants, I just didn’t expect to see her here because… ugh, nevermind…”
“So what did ya need help with, Nep?” Solar asked. “We were discussing about what color my dress should be, and we were tied between blue and orange.” Neptuna said. “Oh, well, I feel like it should be blue since it’s the color of water. Besides, I feel like it was orange it would blend in too much with Nep’s fish legs.” Solar finished.
“Okey dokey then, hit it Professor!” Nep exclaimed. Professor Brainstorm set down a suitcase and pressed a button, making the suitcase spring open with various mechanical arms come out. The arms quickly began to knit and sew together a navy blue lace dress that poofed out at the waist. “Perfect.” Neptuna said with a smile.
——
“So… how do we know that this isn’t some elaborate trap?” Grass Knuckles said as he put on a black tunic.
“Apparently, Solar and Neptuna have made an oath to each other to not betray one another when they became friends, which I don’t know how Solar was able to achieve.” Citron replied.
“They play Splatoon together.” Chompzilla said as she walked past the living room.
“…well, that’s not the answer I was expecting…” the bounty hunting orange replied. But then, he got an idea.
“Hey Rose, could you come here?” He called.
Rose then levitated into the living room, wearing a black gown instead of her usual cape. “You called?”
“Back then, didn’t you time travel to the present day because of a vision you saw that was full of zombies?” Citron asked.
“Yes I did. Would you like me to do it again?”
“Uh-yeah, could you? I… don’t fully buy this wedding thing…”
“I’ll see what I can do.”
Rose summoned her wand and muttered a future seeing spell. In her vision, she saw champagne being poured, cake slices being passed around, and Immorticia along with a few other plant and zombie heroes in front of a screen showing a white figure with a crown and a hole for a face yelling things like “Judgement!” , “Crush!” And “Prepare thyself!” But nothing truly malicious.
“Alright, nothing seems suspicious.” She concluded. “I still don’t fully believe it… but I guess I’ll come just in case…” Citron said to himself.
——
Time: 5:00PM
Location: Docks of Neighborville.
The two parties sat in benches beside the walkway. Plants on one side, Zombies on the other, with Impfinity bound to a chair. Near the altar stood Immorticia, wearing a dark purple tuxedo, next to her was Smash, who helped the most during preparation.
A pillar of water came springing up at the end of the walkway carpet, out of which came Neptuna, wearing a navy blue dress and veil, holding a bouquet of bright coral. Next to her was Solar Flare, who held the rings.
As they walked to the podium, Immorticia reached into her pocket, took out a pendant, and opened it, revealing a picture of a young man in happier times. “I wish you were here, Dad.” She thought before closing the locket.
When Neptuna came face to face with her soon-to-be wife, an elderly zombie came behind the podium and began to speak. “Rouwrubrowburu, gabrowowuhroourhmubraroubuor, burolurbwabrobuewrourl?”
“I do.” Immorticia said.
“Erroubureuwawurgarbleura?”
“I do.” Neptuna said.
“Burortlourbfjdtdbkyfehhnddbjuhdh?”
Silence. No one objected.
“Yhyfythjoefgdburouebu.”
In an instant, Neptuna and Immorticia planted their lips together as seagulls Brain freeze gathered in a cage flew out upon release, the crowd (mostly the zombies side) erupted in cheers. Immorticia scooped up Neptuna into her arms before yelling, “LET’S FUCKING PARTYYYYYYY!!!”
Neptuna then looked at Green Shadow with a big smirk, then chucked the bouquet of coral she was holding straight at the peashooter, who caught it instinctively. Green Shadow gave Neptuna a look that was meant to say “what the hell was that for?” But then she noticed Solar Flare was staring straight at her with her eyes and pupils cartoonishly stretched out, with sparkles shining in them.
“Uh, Green Shadow? Do you know what catching the bouquet symbolizes?” Rose asked as she leaned over to Green. “Uh, n-no, what?” Rose held back a chuckle, “Oh, nothing, I’ll tell you later.” Green Shadow was perpetually confused.
The party began, cake was cut and passed around, drinks were served, music was blasting and dance floors were flashing. Basically, everyone was having a good time.
——
Time: 8:30 PM
The party has died down a little after all the dancing and karaoke, everyone was all over the place, some passed out on the floor while others were simply chatting, like RustBolt and Spudow.
“So…” Rustbolt began. “Does it hurt when you pop your head off and throw it?”
Spudow thought for a moment, never thinking of that before. “I don’t think so… it does feel a little weird, but I feel fine when it grows back.”
“Hmm, so you just have an extra head under your neck at all times?”
“That’s a simple way of putting it, I suppose.”
Meanwhile, around one of the tables, Solar, Neptuna, Green Shadow, and Immorticia sat in front of a TV that Brainstorm set up after the party burnt out, so Immorticia set her PC up to it and is playing ULTRAKILL on it, currently trying to beat Minos Prime.
“JUDGEMENT!”
*BOOM*
“Dammit.” Immorticia swore under her breath.
“Useless!”
“Who is this guy?” Solar Flare asked.
“I think he’s someone from Greek Mythology, I believe, one of the guys who watches over the dead in the underworld. In this game though, he’s some dude that built a city in one of the layers of Hell and some angel killed him for that.” Immorticia answered.
“DIE!”
*THUD*
“Oh, okay…”
“PREPARE THYSELF!”
——
Time: 10:04 PM
Immorticia and Neptuna opened the door to their new room in the Zomboss Estate. Before the wedding, Immorticia asked Zomboss if he could build a new larger room for both her and Neptuna, to which he agreed to. The room was rather bare, with nothing on the walls, but it would do for tonight, they’ll work on it in the morning.
“Man, that party was crazy, I would never have known that Grass Knuckles was that good of a break-dancer if Boogaloo hadn’t challenged him to a dance off.” Neptuna exhaled.
“My… my voice still hurts from singing Through The Fire and The Flames…” Immorticia said, laughing.
“Let’s hope that isn’t permanent.” Nep joked.
As they climbed into bed, Neptuna gave her newly wed wife a kiss on the forehead, and in return, Immorticia pulled Neptuna close to her chest for a snuggle before finally falling asleep.