Sally, Amy, and Cosmo Confront Vanitas, Steelbeak, and Don Karnage/Going to the Cave of Wonders

*(Back in the palace, Vanitas and his men are leaving their secret room. After he and his men looked around to see if the coast is clear, they get out and began to close the door. But then Sally, Cosmo, and Amy, out of their disguises, stormed in angrily)*

Sally, Cosmo, and Amy: Vanitas and men!

Vanitas and men: (Seeing them) Oh, Princesses Sally, Cosmo, and Amy.

*(Meowth was about to make his way through the door, but Jessie quickly closed the door shut, pinning Meowth, making the door half closed)*

Meowth: Ouch! Uh, guys. I'm stuck.

*(Vanitas and his men ignored Meowth and hid the half closed door from view)*

Vanitas: How may I serve you today?

Steelbeak: Just name it.

Sally: Judge Doom and his guards have arrested three boys from the market on your orders!

Vanitas: Your parents has given us orders of keeping peace in Agrabah.

Don Karnage: And besides, those boys were criminals.

Sally: (Skeptically and sarcastic) Oh, really?

Amy: And what were their crimes, hmm?

Cosmo: Tell us.

Meowth: (Struggling) Guys, I can't breathe!

Vanitas: Why, kidnapping the princesses, of course.

James: Yeah.

Meowth: Guys, if you could just....

*(But Vanitas kicked Meowth back through the door, finally closing it all the way)*

Meowth: Ow! That hurts!

*(The princesses frowned deeply)*

Sally: They didn't kidnap us! We ran away!

*(Vanitas and his men pretended to look shocked and turned away from the girls)*

James: Oh no! This is terrible!

Vanitas: I wish you should have told us sooner!

Steelbeak: Oh, how frightfully upsetting!

Megavolt: Quite shocking indeed.

Don Karnage: Had we but known!

Amy: What do you mean?

*(Vanitas and his men turned back to the princesses with grins)*

Vanitas: Unfortunately, those boys' sentences have already been carried out.

Cosmo: What sentences?

Vanitas, Steelbeak, and Don Karnage: Death.

*(The princesses gasped in horror)*

Vanitas, Steelbeak, and Don Karnage: By beheading.

Jessie: Decapitation.

Princesses: (Shocked) No way....

*(Sally, Cosmo, and Amy collapsed to the floor as they got saddened. Vanitas and his men smiled and put their hands on them in pretend sympathy)*

Vanitas: I'm really sorry, Princesses.

Sally: (To Vanitas and his men, furiously) How could you?

Cosmo: (In angry tears) We didn't even know who they were!

*(The princesses stood up and ran from the room crying. The door opened up once more and Meowth climbed out, gasping. He then goes to Vanitas and his men, coughing. He then composed himself)*

Meowth: (Normally) So, how did it go for them?

Vanitas: I think they took it.... Rather well.

*(Vanitas and his men smiled sinisterly. Back at the courtyard at night, Sally, Cosmo, and Amy are by the fountain crying in grief. Vanilla, also out of her disguise, Balto, and Jenna came over to comfort them)*

Balto: Are you okay?

Jenna: What's the matter?

Vanilla: What did Vanitas say?

*(Upon seeing them, the princesses petted Balto and Jenna sadly)*

Sally: (Crying) We're so sorry, you guys.

Cosmo: (Crying) We don't even know who those boys are!

Amy: (Crying) Or their names!

*(Vanilla, Balto, and Jenna got concerned)*

Vanilla: No, girls. It's not your fault.

Jenna: She's right. You three did nothing wrong.

Balto: Everything is going to be okay.

*(The girls continued to cry as they hugged Vanilla, Balto, and Jenna in comfort)*

Vanilla: There, there.

Jenna: Tell us what happened.

*(The princesses tearfully looked at them and nodded in agreement on telling them what happened. Meanwhile, in the dungeon under the palace, Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles are chained tightly to a wall, alive and well)*

Sonic: They were the princesses.

Tails: We can't believe it.

Knuckles: We must have sounded so stupid to them.

Tails: I know.

*(Suddenly, they heard three familiar voices)*

Chip, Darkwing, and Launchpad: Sonic, guys!

*(Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles looked up and saw Chip with Darkwing and Launchpad from an overhead window)*

Launchpad: Here to secretly bust you out!

Sonic: Hey guys! Down here!

*(After Darkwing opened the window, he, Chip, and Launchpad jumped down to where Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles are)*

Sonic: Man, thank goodness you came!

Knuckles: Now get us out of this!

Chip: (Annoyed) Forget it, guys! Now after the way you acted in front of those girls! *(Imitating a girl)* Oh, look at me. I'm one of the princesses, the most beautiful girl in the world. I just got Sonic and his brothers' attention away from their pal, Chip. *(Normal angry voice)* Well?

Knuckles: Give us a break!

Tails: They were in trouble.

Sonic: (Sighs) But worth helping out.

Chip: Whatever.

Darkwing: Less chatting, more escaping now!

*(Realizing, Chip then began using his pin to pick Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles' locks on the chains)*

Sonic: Don't worry, guys. None of us will ever see them again.

Tails: Besides, we're street rats and you know the law.

Chip: Right. Those princess gals have to marry princes or someone like them.

Launchpad: Uh-huh.

*(Chip finally got Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles free. The boys rubbed their freed hands)*

Knuckles: They deserve them as well.

Tails: But who are we kidding, huh?

Sonic: (Sighs) We're nothing but fools.

Voice: The only fool is someone who gives up so easily.

*(They turned and saw a hunchbacked boy with a broken leg standing nearby)*

Sonic: Who are you?

Launchpad: And what do you want?

Hunchbacked boy: My name is of no importance. But I am a lowly prisoner like you. But together, perhaps we can be more.

Knuckles: What do you mean?

Sonic: We're listening, so go ahead and tell us.

Hunchbacked boy: There is a cave called the Cave of Wonders. Filled with treasures beyond your wildest dreams.

*(To prove his point, the hunchbacked boy holds out a bunch of jewels. Sonic and his gang looked at them in awe. The hunchbacked boy puts the treasure away and turned his back)*

Hunchbacked boy: Even enough to impress even the princesses, I'd wager.

*(Unknown to Sonic's gang, Darkwing, and Launchpad, as they looked at each other, Meowth poked his head out from underneath the hunchbacked boy's back part of his shirt, sweating from the heat inside the shirt)*

Meowth: (Whispering) Vanitas! Hurry up! I'm dying in here!

*(The hunchbacked boy, now revealed to be Vanitas in disguise, punched Meowth back in his shirt as Sonic and Darkwing spoke up)*

Sonic: But what about the law?

Darkwing: It said that they can only marry....

Hunchbacked boy (Vanitas): You probably never heard of the golden rule. Whoever has the gold makes the rules.

Tails: I've never heard that one before.

Sonic: Why would you share this treasure with us?

Hunchbacked boy (Vanitas): I needed someone with strong and unbroken legs and strong backs to go after it.

Knuckles: Uh, one problem. We're stuck in this dungeon.

Darkwing: There's no other way out except the dungeon door and the window that Chip, LP, and I went through and the latter is too high for us to reach.

Hunchbacked boy (Vanitas): You forget. Things aren't always as they seem.

*(The hunchbacked boy (Vanitas) goes to a wall, pushed a brick with his cane, and an opening is revealed, showing the way out)*

Hunchbacked boy (Vanitas): Now, do we have a deal?

*(Sonic's gang looked at each other. Sonic and Chip smirked)*

Chip: Let's go for it.

*(They shrugged and nodded in agreement)*

Sonic: We'll do it.

Knuckles and Tails: Yeah.

Hunchbacked boy (Vanitas): Good.

*(He leaves into the secret passage)*

Darkwing: LP and I are not going with.

*(Sonic's gang looked at him)*

Darkwing: The both of us already told the guards we'll be taking you to a secret room to be beheaded, but....

Tails: We understand.

Knuckles: Cover our tracks.

*(Darkwing nods and then covering an axe with fake, yet realisitc, blood, he and Launchpad nods)*

Launchpad: This will easily fool the guards.

Darkwing: And lucky for us, this dungeon is sound proof from outside the door.

Sonic's gang: Thanks.

Hunchbacked boy (Vanitas): (Voice-over) Coming or not?

Sonic's gang: Coming, stranger.

*(They turned to Darkwing and Launchpad gratefully)*

Sonic's gang: Take care.

*(Darkwing and Launchpad nods and left towards the door while Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Chip went through the passageway. Once Sonic's group is gone, Darkwing knocked on the door, getting Smarty's attention)*

Smarty: Did you kill them, DW, LP?

Darkwing: Yep, yep, yep.

Launchpad: We executed them.

Smarty: Let me see the blood on the axe.

*(Darkwing opens the door and he and Launchpad showed the "Bloodied" axe, and thankfully, Smarty fell for it)*

Smarty: Okay. And uh, clean yourselves up.

Launchpad: Gladly.

Darkwing: Will do, Smarty.

*(And with that, Darkwing, Launchpad, and Smarty left)*

***Coming up: Sonic's gang arrive and trek through the Cave of Wonders in search of the lamp and after meeting a certain golden eagle, they find it and when Chip foolishly and accidentally touched a forbidden treasure, they must escape with their lives.***