MMan
How dare you point out my obvious flaws with cutting accuracy? I'll box your ears! (mad a guard) (Hazel shoves Eugene to walk away from Faith)
FFaith
You take that back! I don't care how true it is! (mad at Hazel and follows her)
RCRoyal Chef
Let's see you speak your truths with a mouth full of strudel!
This is getting out of hand.
Yeah, this reminds me of Xavier's mood potion. Only now, everyone can't help but tell the truth.
MMan
Out of my way, Big Ears.
(coughs) Except for that guy. He has no idea what he's talking about.
If this is some kind of truth potion, we have to figure out how it got into the castle. Who was the first person you noticed being a little too honest?
Okay, Pete. Let's start at the beginning. Walk us through your day.
And relax. Just tell us what happened.
Well, I woke up confused, because my mouth tasted like beans, but I had no recollection of eating beans the day prior. Then I saw my cat, and I said, "Hello, Mr. Happy-Paws! Who's a fluffernutter?" (Eugene takes a chair from behind him and sets it down) Of course, he can't talk. (Eugene and Cassandra sigh)
Tripwire. (tells Rapunzel) (he and Rapunzel step over the wire) (Pascal sees a spider then walks towards it) (Pascal squelches then Rapunzel warns her pet)
Pascal, no! (she and Varian see Pascal is going to eat a spider) I need you to carefully let go of that spider. (Pascal squelches forward) (Varian and Rapunzel sigh) (Pascal sighs) (wire snaps) (Ruddiger chitters) (rumbling) (runs to Ruddiger and Pascal) Watch it! (grabs Ruddiger and Pascal before the rocks fall on the two pets) (sighs) Everyone okay? (put Ruddiger on the ground) We're getting closer to the surface. We don't want to alarm the guards. (tells Varian)
Oh, I'm pretty sure they and everyone else have their hands full. (Varian snickers)
Huh? What do you mean? (confused then asks Varian) (Pascal squeaks)
N... nothing. (turns around) Uh, it's just, um, they... have their hands full every day! (laughs) Corona, you know? (turns towards Rapunzel) (puts his hand the wall) Busiest kingdom on earth! (rumbles) Whoa! Whoa! Oh! (about to fall into a trap)
Way ahead of you! (Rapunzel straining when she pulls Varian up) (rumbling) (he and Rapunzel see the ground to the other side is collapsing) What do we do? (asks Rapunzel)
I'm gonna go with... run!
I got into work, I high-fived Stan, and I noticed his hand was sweaty,(Cassandra growls and grabs Pete) (Pete gasps) Oh, boy! You are scary.
Listen. We've been here for 30 minutes, and all you've been doing is boring us with useless information!
Useless! I gave you my recipe for strawberry scones!
That was the most useless part!
Okay, okay, okay. Let's try this. Can you recall anything out of the ordinary? Maybe something not soul-crushingly boring?
Well, I did find the man in the bush who gave me purple cookies a bit peculiar.
(scoffs) You think you might led with that? (Pete picks up a purple cookie that Varian gave him and everyone else at the castle)
Everybody's been eating these things! (about to eat the cookie but Cassandra slaps it out of his hand)
(slaps) Don't1 Someone may have laced them with some kind of truth serum.
Listen, Pete. What else can you tell us about the man in the bush?
Well, let's see, his voice was kind of... squeaky? Oh, and... he was asking about the sun-drop flower, which the king has been secretly hiding in the vault ever since he used it on the queen.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! W-w-wait! The sun-drop flower!
So... someone with a squeaky voice trying to keep a low profile used a potion to get information about a magical flower. Sound like anyone we know? (asks Eugene)
Varian. So, that's why Rapunzel was acting so peculiar. Come on, she might be in trouble! (he and Cassandra are going to the vault to stop Varian)
Come on, guys! This way! (tells Varian and Ruddiger to go closer to her then Varian and Rapunzel put their arms on each other) (Varian and Rapunzel hold on to each other and Ruddger is holding on to Rapunzel's hair) Whoa! (sees a door then she swings herself, Varian and Ruddiger to the other side) (Rapunzel and Varian grunting) (Rapunzel, Varian and Ruddiger jumped off each other when they made it to the other side) (Rapunzel panting as she ties her hair while she, Varian and Ruddiger are walking to the vault) That was too close. You are sure this flower is worth it, right? (asks Varian) It's Corona's only hope?
It should be, but, uh, I'm not really concerned about Corona. (Rapunzel stops when Varian says that he doesn't care about the kingdom)
(gasps while she is suspicious of Varian's true agenda) You don't care about Corona? (Varian changes the subject by saying he cares about the kingdom)
Uh, oh, I mean, of course, I'm concerned about about Corona. I love Corona. I just meant, right now... I'm really concerned about how it's gonna help my dad. (Pascal is also suspicious of Varian's true agenda) (Pascal grumbles) Corona, too! (walks backwards) (Rapunzel and Pascal look at each other after they noticed Varian's true agenda)
Out of the way, boys. We need to get into the vault and get that sun-drop flower.
G1Guard 1
Sun-drop flower? Why, whatever do you mean?
G2Guard 2
Oh, I heard the sun-drop flower was... destroyed--
We know the secret. Let us in! The princess could be in grave danger!
No. This is it. We are right under the vault. (tells Varian that the vault is above and points to it) Do you see that trap-door? (asks Varian)
Yeah, how do we get it open? (asks Rapunzel)
Hmm... (sees the pillars and counts them) One, two, three, four... five, six, seven... Seven pillars. (figured out how to open the trap-door) Huh. (mechanical whirring) (air hissing) (an automaton is awaken when it comes out of the wall to attack) (Varian and Rapunzel are happy to see that the trap-door is opened then they hear the automaton thumping behind them but they turn around and see it) (the automaton starts to walk towards Varian and Rapunzel) Uh, Varian? (backs away from the automaton while Varian is amazed at the automaton)
Fascinating! I believe this is an automaton. (turns around and tells Rapunzel) A marvel of ancient technology, really. But to see one-- in person (an automaton starts to attack him)
Varian! Look out! (warns and takes him out of the way) (automaton thuds) (Rapunzel and Varian are hiding at the pillars from the automaton then Varian protects Rapunzel by attacking it with his alchemy)
Don't worry, princess, I've got this. (protects Rapunzel by attacking the automaton with his alchemy when he runs towards it) (grunts) (his alchemy explodes) (grunts) (throws two more of his alchemies at the automaton then it slams into the pillar then it is rumbling and Rapunzel notices it) See? I told ya! I got this...
Uh, Varian? (notices that the automaton isn't defeated then Varian sees it before it knocks him to a pillar)
(screams) (thuds) (falls on the ground and Rapunzel runs to him) (groans) Despite the excruciating pain and the fact I am about to pass out, the science at work here is spellbinding! (amazed of the automaton while Rapunzel helps him up) (automaton thumping when it continues to attack)
We're gonna need some kind of a plan if we're gonna defeat that thing. (runs to another pillar) Uh... hey, you! Um, metal-head!
Automaton! (corrects Rapunzel)
Come and get it! (automaton attacks Rapunzel but she dodges) Distract him and draw him towards you! (tells Varian) (Rapunzel unties her hair whiile Varian throws his alchemy at the automaton) (the alchemy explodes) (tense music) (Varian runs away from the automaton then Rapunzel ties her hair to a pillar while holding her hair to trip the automaton) (pillar crackling) (two pillars rumbles on the automaton and it is defeated) (automaton is powering down) (Rapunzel and Varian are climbing on the pillars)
Come on, let's go! (her hair whooshes when it cranks to pull the ladder down and Rapunzel climbs up to the royal vault followed by Varian)
Hmm... (sees the timing cylinder on the back of the automaton before climbing the ladder)
G1Guard 1
Sorry, strict orders from the king. No one is permitted beyond this point.
Let's ask ourselves a question, shall we? Whose wrath would you rather face, the king's, or hers? (points to Cassandra cracking her knuckles) (the guard is scared of Cassandra and gives the key to her and Eugene)
There it is! (walking to the sun-drop to see it) The flower! (tense music) (Varian walks up to steal the flower) (Rapunzel notices that Varian grabs the flower and puts it inside his satchel then starts to walk away) Varian! Wait, wait, wait! You said... (Rapunzel grabs Varian's bag to prevent him from leaving) you were just gonna take one petal. (Varian turns around)
But what if one petal's not enough to harvest what I need?
What difference does it make? It's just sitting here, rotting anyway! (grabs his bag pulls it away from Rapunzel then she sees the flackon that contained Xavier's mood potion) (flackon clatters to the ground and Rapunzel picks it up)
(gasps) That flackon... (holds the flackon but Varian grabs it from her puts it back inside his bag) That had Xavier's mood potion in it. Varian, that potion is dangerous, You shouldn't be fooling with it!
There was just one drop left, but it was enough for me to replicate and modify. I had to be sure the flower was here. (reveals his true agenda and tells Rapunzel)
So, you made a truth serum and gave it to everyone? (asks Varian)
(laughs) You'd surprised what people will tell you for a cookie.
(gasps) Pete? Stan? How could you?
Oh, do you honestly expect me to be concerned about the welfare of Corona?
Rapunzel... I used you! I begged you and this kingdom for help! Everyone turned their back on me! It has to be this way!
I defied a direct order from my father, the king, because I trusted you. We both broke the law. (Rapunzel sighs) Give me the flower, Varian. We can find a way to fix all of this- the rocks, your dad, everything. I promise you. I promise. (Varian starts to regret his actions and begins to trust her) Just... this is not the way. Please. (doors rattling) (Varian hears the doors are going to open but he changed his mind about trusting Rapunzel)
Varian (cold and sarcastic) Sorry, Princess, but I know firsthand how well you keep promises. (turns around) (doors rattling) (Eugene, Cassandra and the guards are at the vault) (Eugene points to Varian)
There he is! Get him! (Rapunzel and Pascal are sad of Varian's betrayal) (Varian takes his alchemy from his bag and he throws his alchemy to the ground then he escapes) (explodes) (smoke hisses) (tense music) (Rapunzel coughing) Rapunzel, are you okay? (he runs to her)
I'm fine. Varian! (she noticed that Varian escaped the castle to avoid being captured by the guards)
Work! Work! Please, work! (Upon learning that the petals of the Sun-Drop flower no longer possess any healing magic) No... No, no, no! (pushes his drill aside due to his anger and frustation) No! (throws his papers to the ground) This is useless! (slams his fist on the desk) It- It's like it no longer holds the Sundrop's power! (Recalls what Rapunzel had told him earlier)
You mean the flower? The one that healed my mom and gave me my hair? (Varian also recalled what he said at the end of Great Expotations)
The rocks are demonstrating an actual physical response... to you. The Sun-drop isn't... the flower anymore. (sees the flower and picks it up after realizing the power isn't the flower) (holds the flower then crushes it to bits and dusts off an illustration of Rapunzel) (rustles) (thuds) It's Rapunzel.
Princess? (knocking on door) Happy birthday! Hey. How you doing?
(sarcastic) How am I doing? Okay. Let's see, um... I found out my father's been lying to me for months, a secret squad of guards, hunted us down in the dead of night, oh, I destroyed my childhood home, and most recently, I committed treason by helping an extremely unstable alchemist steal the most powerful object in the seven kingdoms! (pause) But enough about me. Let's talk about you. How are you doing? (sighs) Sorry.
No, no. It's okay. But hey, I know what will cheer you up. (Rapunzel smiles) Present room. (Eugene takes her to a room with presents while he puts his hands on her eyes then the guards open the door and Eugene removes his hands from Rapunzel's eyes) (Pascal squeaks) (Eugene laughs)
Goodness! These are all for me? (walks inside the throne room to see lots of her presents)
The people love you! Oh, I am good at this! Look, look! (box rattles) It's a set of paintbrushes! (box clinks) Somebody got a new necklace. And this is...(shattering).... clearly something that shouldn't been shaken. (Pascal points to a present) Oh, that one next? (fabric rustling) Come on, socks? She doesn't wear shoes people! (Rapunzel is walking to her other presents)
"Wind me"? (cranks the music box) Kinda creepy. Oh, hi! Oh! Friedborg. You startled me. Wait, is it time for my fitting? Where's Cassandra?
I haven't seen her all day. See? Things aren't so bad after all. (Rapunzel gives Eugene a stern look)
No. Come on. We should find her. (tells Eugene that they need to find Cassandra)
Friedborg, keep up the... (clears throat) Keep it up. (follows Rapunzel) (Friedborg walks away while holding Belle's dress) (ominous music)
