And now, I have failed you too, Arianna. (upset) (Rapunzel enters her mom and dad's bedroom)
RapunzelDad?
(sniffles) Rapunzel. I thought I made it clear-- (Rapunzel sighs and hugs her dad then he hugs her back) (whispers) Thank you.
Rapunzel
She's gonna be okay, Dad. We'll get her back.
This... this is all my fault. (blames himself)
Rapunzel
Dad, no. No, it's Varian and those rocks, and--
No. No, Rapunzel. You were right. (sees the picture again) I have been keeping something from you. As you know, the night you were born, your mother fell deathly ill. I was desperate to do anything to save her, and you. So, I sought the miracle of Sun Drop Flower. But what I've never told anyone was that there was more to the story. You see, earlier that night, I was warned. Warned that taking the Sun Drop Flower would reap unimaginable consequences. That by removing the light... I'd be awakening a darkness. But, I had no choice. I've known about these black rocks all along. At first, I didn't wanna believe that they were the results of my actions. And when that became impossible, I chose to ignore them. And I expected everyone else to do the same.
Rapunzel
Including me.
Yes, yes. Especially you. But the truth is, the rocks are destroying Corona. And you... You are connected to them somehow, I am responsible. No king... would ever put the welfare of his family before that of his country. (Rapunzel holds her dad's hand)
Rapunzel
But a father would. (Rapunzel's dad smiles at her then they hug before letting go) Now... let's find a way to save our kingdom. (tense music)
What do you ask of us, Your Majesty? (asks King Frederic)
As was so insightfully pointed it out to me, we've been playing straight into Varian's hands, and now, he's expecting a full-out attack on Old Corona.
So, what's the plan, Your Majesty? (Rapunzel puts her finger on a model of Varian's home)
Rapunzel
We launch a full-out attack on Old Corona.
But we'd be giving him the upper hand.
Rapunzel
Yeah, well, we're let Varian think he still has the upper hand. And while we distract him with the assault, I am gonna sneak around the back using the underground tunnels and rescue the queen. (her dad puts his hand on her shoulder)
We are going to to rescue the queen. (tells Rapunzel then she smiles)
With all due respect, Princess, Varian only wants you. Once he sees you're nowhere to found, won't he realize that our attack is just a diversion?
Rapunzel
Probably. That is what he is for. (Shorty is Rapunzel's decoy for the assault)
I got this. (walks into the strategy room disguised as Rapunzel to fool Varian) Ready, Caspal? (gibbering)
What a happy family reunion this will be. (Queen Arianna gasps and he turns around to face her with an evil grin) For both of us. (tense music) (Rapunzel, Pascal and King Frederic are at the underground tunnels and they are walking underneath to Varian's lab)
Rapunzel
(whispering) Varian's lab should be right above us. (climbs the ladder) (wood creaks)
Ah, careful. (holds the ladder for Rapunzel) (wood creaks) (Rapunzel reached the top of the ladder and opens the hatch) (hatch creaking) (Pascal squeaks) (Rapunzel peeks around the lab) (tense music) (then Rapunzel and her dad enter the lab) (Pascal squeaks) (Rapunzel and her dad walk towards a dummy Varian at the window that Varian himself had placed) (tense music intensifies) (King Frederic grunts when he grabs the dummy Varian) What? (drops the dummy to the ground and points to it) What is this? (Rapunzel gasps) (mechanial whirring) (Rapunzel and her dad sees the trap that Varian placed) (then Varian's chemical balls are released from the traps on both sides) (smoke hisses then balls trap Rapunzel and King Frederic with goop) (Rapunzel grunting while she tries to free her feet) (Varian laughing evilly when he shows up with his hair is covering his face)
Welcome back... (Rapunzel gasps) Rapunzel. (greets her to his house while he revealed his evil smile after he lifts up his hair to show his face) (Rapunzel, her dad and Pascal are mad at Varian) (Pascal squeaks)
Varian, I demand you release us, and tell me where the queen is. (Varian took Pascal from Rapunzel to put Pascal inside a cage and he walks while carrying the cage Pascal)
Your Majesty, I know it's hard for you, but for the first time in your life... (Pascal squeaks sadly when Varian puts the cage on his desk) ... you are in no position to demand anything. (angrily tells King Frederic) But in the spirit of compromise, how 'bout I meet ya halfway. (walks backwards to the curtain to reveal Queen Arianna from behind it) (Queen Arianna gasps)
Rapunzel
(gasps) Mom! (her dad holds her when she is worried about her mom)
Rapunzel
Let her go, Varian! Please! (begs him to let her mom go)
First, you're going to do something for me. (tells Rapunzel)
What do you want? (asks Varian)
Oh! So now you care about what I want. (laughs) All it took was threatening the things you love the most. (walks to Queen Arianna to grab her shoulder to pull her towards him when he bends down behind her then he glares at Rapunzel and King Frederic) (tense music)
Don't let up! (grunting) (tells everyone) (Maximus whinnies) (Eugene grunts) (Eugene jumps off Maximus and tries to destroy an automaton)
(grunts) They've shielded their timing cylinder. (he realized that Varian protected the automaton's timing cylinder from attacks then Maximus comes to help when automaton attacks) Max, split up! (he and Maximus go separate ways) (an automaton rumbling when it runs after Eugene but he jumps over the black rocks while automaton is rumbling when it runs towards him) Man, these things are almost as tough as-- (Eugene has an idea when he sees his reflection via the black rocks) Ah-ha! (runs back to tell everyone to skewer the automatons on the black rocks) Guys! The rocks! Use the rocks! (Vladimir yelling when he charges past Pete and Stan while Vladimir is carrying Attila on his back and he is growling then throws Attila towards the three automatons) (three automatons clanking when they are skewered to the black rocks and they explode) (Feldspar throws a shoe at the automaton and it thumps then it turns around to see him) (the automaton starts to attack Feldspar but Maximus saves him from being attacked by kicking it to a pile of black rocks) (automaton thuds and explodes)
Good thinking. (tells Eugene)
Well, I'm a problem solver. It's what I do. (music tinkling) (mechanical clanking) (more automatons appear)
CECassandra and Eugene
Oh, come on!
What are you going to do, Varian? (asks Varian while he wheels his drill)
Yeah, I'll... I'll spare the you the details about the Sun Drop and darkness, blah, blah, blah, and get to the good stuff. (pulls the sheet off his drill then walks to the black rocks and taps it) Unbreakable. (clanking) (walks behind Rapunzel and holds her hair) Unbreakable. (walks away from holding Rapunzel's hair) To put it plainly, with assistance from my drill, Rapunzel's hair should be able to shatter the amber and free my father. (walks away from Rapunzel and her dad)
What do you mean "should"? (puts his arm out to protect Rapunzel while asking Varian)
Oh, I suppose it's just as likely the amber shatters Rapunzel. (walks to the amber that encased his dad) I mean, the properties--
Absolutely not. (takes his sword out)
Rapunzel
It's not your choice, Dad. (tells her dad)
She's right, Dad. (walks to King Frederic and tells him that Rapunzel is correct then King Frederic is mad at him) Oh! And I almost forgot, we're, uh, kinda on a time crunch here, so, I'm gonna need to speed things along. (walks backwards to take the cork off his amber solution and pours it on a black rock next to Queen Arianna to encase her inside the amber) (the amber solution is crackling on a black rock and turning it into amber while Rapunzel and her dad watch as the amber is reaching Queen Arianna) (Queen Arianna gasps)
Rapunzel
Varian, stop! (doesn't want him to encase her mom inside the amber then she complies)
Well... (walks to Rapunzel and frees her from the goop while bending on one knee) (chemical ball fizzling) Shall we get started? (asks her)
Rapunzel
Varian, if this doesn't work, and something happens to me, please... please let my mom go. (begs him to release her mom)
I can't make any promises, Princess. (tells Rapunzel when he puts his goggles on his eyes) (cranking) (drill whirs)
Rapunzel
(gasps, screams and holds her hair) (Rapunzel groaning) (her dad is worried about her) (Varian is trying to cut the amber with Rapunzel's hair and his drill) (Rapunzel sees her hair glows when it reacts to the amber) (whooshing) (Varian tries two more times to cut the amber with his drill and Rapunzel's hair but it failed four times)
(screams) What? (takes his goggles off his eyes) Why? (drill whirs) (tries to cut the amber again) (Rapunzel groaning and falls while Varian tries again for three more times) (Pascal squeaking while trying to leave the cage but Ruddiger appears)
Stop it! She can't take anymore! (tells Varian) (Rapunzel groaning and faints on the floor)
Rapunzel! (worried about her) (Varian tries to cut the amber two more times until the drill powers down) (drill stops)
I just... I, I don't understand! (starting to have a breakdown to failure) Why won't it... (runs to the amber) Her hair! It... it should've cut through it! Why didn't it work? (continues to have a breakdown of his failure) (Ruddiger chitters when he frees the caged Pascal) (Ruddiger tosses a chemical to Pascal's mouth and he runs to Rapunzel's dad to free him from the goop then it is fizzling away while Pascal runs to Rapunzel to check on her)
Arianna! (tosses his sword to his wife the she shatters the chains before the amber is encasing her) (Rapunzel's parents run to her) Rapunzel.
Rapunzel! (Rapunzel hugs her parents)
(lamenting his failure while crying) No! No! I wasn't wrong! It's not my fault! (turns around to see Rapunzel and her parents hugging each other) None of it is! (glares angrily at Rapunzel while blaming her when his sanity is now pushed over the limit) It's her fault. (still bent on having revenge on Rapunzel)
Rapunzel, are you okay? (asks his daughter)
Rapunzel
(sighs) Yes, I will be. (tells her dad) Varian. (sees that Varian is gone) Oh, where did he go? (her parents turn around to see he is gone) (rumbling) (Pascal squeaks, screams while he notices the ground shaking) (Pascal squeaks) Whoa! (rumbling) (she, her parents and Pascal see Varian again)
(bursts out from the ground while inside a giant automaton) Sorry, Princess. We were in this together, but if I can't have a happy ending, then neither can you! (angrily tells Rapunzel) (Varian shouts when he attacks Rapunzel and her parents but they run away from him) (rumbling)
I will make you proud of me, Dad... (Ruddiger tries to cheer Varian up) (ominous music) (Stan closes the wagon) ...if it's the last thing I ever do. (still vows to make Quirin proud) (the wagon is pulling Ruddiger and the arrested Varian to the dungeon)
Rapunzel
Don't be too hard on him, Dad. (about Varian after he is arrested)
I'll be sure to do everything I can to get him help. (about the arrested Varian) As for Quirin, I'll not give until I find a way to free him. (tells his daughter) (Rapunzel turns to look at the opening the black rocks have made in the brick wall) (Pascal squeaks)
Rapunzel
It's like the rocks want us to... follow them. (noticed that the blacks have made a path for her and Pascal)
I think you're right. At first, I believed the rocks' purpose was to destroy Corona. I was wrong. I can see now that they're pointing in a direction. Pointing you in a direction. I only regret that it has taken all this to convince me that I should be doing the same. Rapunzel, when you were returned to us, I swore I would never let anything ever happen to you again.
Rapunzel
But, Dad, we talked about this. I don't-
I know, I know. You're right. This past year, you've showed me that there is so much more in you than could have ever imagined. I've just been too afraid to let you go. But this path is yours to follow. (points to the black rocks) And if you ever lose your way... (lanterns appears while they float in the sky) (smiles at his daughter) (uplifting music) (Rapunzel, Pascal, Eugene, Cassandra, Lance, King Frederic, Queen Arianna, Old Lady Crowley, Monty and Maximus see the lanterns) (uplifting music continues)
Rapunzel
Thank you, Dad. (hugs him) I love you so much.
And I love you, too sweetheart. (her mom hugs her too)
Find your destiny, Rapunzel.
I'll take care of her, Your Majesty. (tells King Frederic)
Eugene, you should know by now, Rapunzel doesn't need anyone to take care of her.
Princess Rapunzel
Come on, Eugene! It's my first trip outside of Corona! It's like a whole new chapter of our lives has just begun.
That’s what I was thinking too.
Rapunzel
I mean, aren't you excited to see where these rocks are taking us?
Well. Let’s see. Excited? To follow a bunch of creepy rocks out to who knows where?
Rapunzel
[sighs]
Of course, I’m excited! I’m with you. What else could I be?
Rapunzel! Do me a favor and try not to run off like that. Not that I don't think you can handle yourself, but, I promise your dad I keep you safe and I hate to lose you less than a week on the road.
Rapunzel
Has it been that long already?
You’ve got to exercise at least some caution around here. Trust me, Raps, the real world isn't all fun and games.
City of fun and games! [laughs]
I am so glad we decided to bring those two along.
Aww! C’mon, Cass! Vardaros is an amazing city, you’re going to have fun. Which I’m guessing is a new thing for you.
Princess Rapunzel
C’mon, Pascal! It’s our first big city outside of Corona! You heard him, Cass! This is going to be fun!
[he was about to poison Eugene with the spider] I’ve should’ve done this from the beginning!
[picks up food from the ground] Alright! Floor chicken!
[Shorty bumps into Baron, causing the spider to poison the Baron]
No, no, no! [gets bitten] NO! The anti-venom! Where is the anti-venom?
[Turns out Pascal has claimed the anti-venom and is using it to cure Lance.]
Clovis! You shaved your goatee!
If I’m going down, I’m taking you with me!
Rapunzel
Hey, Baron! [knocks Baron out with a frying pan.]
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