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)
We launch a full-out attack on Old Corona.
But we'd be giving him the upper hand.
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?
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)
Keep an eye out, everyone. It's too quiet for my liking.
I can fix that. (clears throat) (sings off-key) I got the wind in my hair.
Can it, half-pint. (annoyed with Shorty's singing voice then he takes Caspal off Shorty's shoulder and put it into his mouth to silence him)
Ow! (munches) (Maximus snorts)
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)
(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)
Maybe Rapunzel was wrong and we... (Cassandra jumps off Fidella) overestimated the little guy. (referring to Varian) (Eugene jumps off Maximus while Cassandra walks a few steps away if she sees anything)
You don't know Varian very well, do you, buddy? (asks Lance) (music playing)
Shh! (turns around) Listen. (ominous music playing) (she, Eugene, Maximus, Lance and the kingdom army hear a noise) (rumbling) (an automaton appears from the ground) (cranking)
Oh man, not this guy again! (referring to an automaton that he, Rapunzel and Cassandra fought inside the castle)
Okay, everyone. This thing may be tough, but we got him outnumbered. (more automatons appear then Eugene, Lance and Maximus see them)
Uh, Cass... are you sure about that? (he asks Cassandra then she notices more automatons then she turns around to see them) (an automaton also appears behind Lance, Eugene, Maximus, Shorty, Monty and the two guards)
It's an ambush! (turns around to tell everyone)
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)
(gasps) Mom! (her dad holds her when she is worried about her mom)
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)
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)
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)
Lance! Let's give 'em the old "Bob and Weave".
On it! (holds a bat to swing the automaton to the ground and it thumps and powering down then Eugene jumps off)
Ha! Still got it! (the automaton explodes) (an automaton runs after Maximus) (Maximus sees a leg of the automaton that was skewered and pushes it to the automaton) (clangs) (the automaton that was running after Maximus falls on the black rocks and explodes) (Cassandra runs on the automaton and jumps up then jumps back down to destroy the timing cylinder with her sword) (the automaton's timing cylinder shatters and powering down then explodes)
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)
(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)
(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)
