Chapter 54: The Author (D) Must Answer!

The sun stretches gently over the blue tower. In the floating cushion room, Saphira and Super Potato are enjoying a late brunch of cosmic honey dream-toast the air smells of peace, sugar, and victory.

But one detail disrupts the harmony: a scroll of parchment unrolls itself in the air, scratching the silence with the unsettling sound of a pen writing too fast. Saphira squints: "Look… it says we're going to fall in love in the next chapter?!" Super Potato spits out his interdimensional nectar:"WHAT?! but we haven't even had a romantic montage! you need at least a slow-motion glance, a sunset, and a rain of emotional glitter for that!" They look at each other, then stare at the floating bubble announcing: "Next Chapter: The Sacred Union of the Starch and the Queen."

A silence... then together: "OKAY. THAT'S ENOUGH!!" Without hesitation, Saphira pulls out a purple parchment pulsing with shifting symbols: a forbidden artifact, stolen from the narrative margin itself she unfolds it with a sure gesture: cosmic breach activated, stepping outside the frame a luminous fissure tears through reality, words escape, commas flee, the rules of the story start to blink like panicked stars. Super Potato adjusts his cape: "Destination: (D)'s Office, the Supreme Author."

They jump together through the rift the world folds, the narration groans, and the two heroes leave their own story they land with a resonant "PLOP" in a giant studio with an infinite ceiling. The walls are made of scribbled drafts, crumpled sketches, post-its haunted by never-written ideas the smell of lukewarm coffee floats in the air, notebooks spiral around an immense graphic tablet and in the center, in a worn gamer chair, wearing unicorn pajamas and holey socks... (D) a human: the screenwriter, the author he lets out a muffled cry when he sees them appear in his office:"No, not you two! I'm on deadline, I have three narrative arcs on fire, and an AI threatening to rewrite the plot in haiku! come back tomorrow!" Saphira steps forward, her voice soft but icy: "You drew me marrying a wizard-cookie." Super Potato crosses his arms, outraged: "And me, I fought a psychic pizza that cries! frankly, you went too far we're here to rewrite the script."

(D) leaps up, knocking over a pile of ongoing chapters:"Try to catch me, you unmanageable characters!" He jumps into a page, literally he crosses a notebook. Saphira and Super Potato launch in pursuit, running from page to page a western panel: Saphira rides a unicorn-dragon and shoots rainbow-bubble arrows a Manga panel: Super Potato transforms into a muscular bishōnen with flowing hair and a dramatic gaze a retro black and white panel they all speak in rhyming verse, despite themselves they finally corner him on a blank, empty, pure page the ultimate panel. Saphira, straight as lightning:"We're going to make you sign a narrative contract." (D) sighs, sitting cross-legged, surrounded by his own characters: "You have no idea what you're asking for."

Saphira hands him a golden parchment, the words on it glowing with divine authority. 

—"You can write our story, but from today on, we want oversight you do something weird, we'll erase you from your own credits." Super Potato adds: "And I demand cookies with every episode! Real ones, with stellar chips." A silence. Then (D) takes his pen, trembles for a moment, and signs:"Okay, but you two are unmanageable." The narrative fissure closes. Saphira and Super Potato return to their world the blue tower welcomes them with a relieved sigh narrative fireworks explode in the sky. Saphira pulls out a white scroll :"Chapter written by us: no weird romance, no talking broccoli." Super Potato, satisfied: "We're just keeping the dimensional whipped cream whip." They burst out laughing, then return to their cushions, the tower vibrating with silent relief at the top, a giant quill disappears into the clouds.

End of Chapter 54 – The Author (D) Must Answer!