Rescuing Lillipup, Pikachu, Eevee, and Glameow from Tamatoa/Shiny Part 2

*(After making it to the top of the clamshell, the group saw Tamatoa fast asleep and snoring loudly. Using some rope, they climb down cautiously and once inside, they looked around for Lillipup, Pikachu, Eevee, and Glameow when they noticed the four concerned and frightened Pokemon locked in a cage made from a literal rib cage next to a giant rib cage. They noticed and got happy and Pikachu and Glameow turned happily to Lillipup and Eevee)*

Pikachu: (Whispering) Told ya they’d come back for us!

Glameow: (Whispering) Never doubt them!

Lillipup and Eevee: (Whispering) Cool!

*(They run up to the rib cage and Serena, Ash, Kaya, and Elise kneeled down to it)*

Serena: (Whispering) So how do we open that cage?

Elise: (Whispering) I’m sure there’s a mechanism somewhere.

Ash: (Whispering) Let's look.

Kaya: (Whispering) And hurry.

*(Elise noticed a bone latch and lifted it up, and opening the cage, ushered Lillipup, Pikachu, Eevee, and Glameow out, much to their happiness of being freed. Just when they hurried out, a familiar crab leg blocked the way and closed it, shocking the group. They looked up and saw Tamatoa smirking evilly at them)*

Tamatoa: I knew you’d return. I pretended to be asleep.

Eevee: (Flatly) How were Lillipup, Pikachu, Glameow, and I supposed to know?

*(Elise went up to him in anger)*

Elise: Prepare to eat some blasts!

Tamatoa: Hold up, you’re Elise, aren’t you? Sugar Plum’s fountain of youth?

*(Elise got surprised)*

Elise: You heard of me?

Tamatoa: I know the outside world from within my lair.

*(A short pause)*

Elise: Enough talk!

*(Then Elise fired blasts at his shell, but to her and the group’s shock and surprise, the blasts didn’t faze him. Tamatoa then began singing as he approached the group who backed away up to the wall)*

Tamatoa: **Well, well, well**

**Little Elise’s having trouble with her magic**

**You little semi-little witchling**

**Ouch, what a terrible performance**

**Get the broom, get it?**

**You don’t sweep it like you used to, girl**

*(Before anyone reacted, Tamatoa snatched Elise up with his claw and danced slowly)*

Tamatoa: **Yet, I have to give you credit**

**For my start**

**And your mediocre beauty on the outside**

**For just like you, I made myself a work of art**

**I’ll never hide, I can’t**

*(He then danced quickly again after throwing Elise into the air and then catching her)*

Tamatoa: **I’m too shiny**

**Watch me dazzle like a diamond in the rough**

**Strut my stuff**

**My stuff is so shiny**

*(He then kicked Serena’s group inside the giant rib cage and locked them in with his foot, although Lillipup, Pikachu, Eevee, and Glameow hid near it)*

Tamatoa: **Send your buddies, but they’ll never be enough**

*(He points at his shell)*

Tamatoa: **My shell’s too tough**

*(He then resumed his dancing)*

Tamatoa: **Elise, girl**

**You can try, try, try**

**But you can’t expect**

**A little witchling**

**To beat a decapod**

**Look it up**

**You should’ve listened, listened, listened**

**Now it’s time for me to take apart**

**Your confused heart**

*(He then kicked the small clamshell again and this time, the top of the giant clamshell slowly closed, exposing in the darkness his blue and purple streaks and spots of bioluminescent lights all over his body as he continued his torturous singing and dancing towards Elise as the group got concerned and began pulling at the rib cage to break it open)*

Tamatoa: **Far from the ones who really raised you**

**Chasing the heritage of your past**

**That made you feel confident**

**You try to be brave**

**But your courage is not strong enough**

**Elise, now it’s time to pack your baggy**

**Ever seen someone so shiny?**

**Soak it in, because it’s the last you’ll ever see**

***C’est* *la* *vie*, *mon* *ami***

**I’m so shiny**

**Now I’ll send you home**

**So prepare your final plea**

**Just for me**

*(Lillipup, Pikachu, Eevee, and Glameow quickly then unlocked the rib cage and freed the others. Noticing glowing colorful bioluminescent algae, among them red, blue, and orange, scattered on the ground, Pinocchio and the group got an idea. With Tamatoa, he prepares to put Elise in a geyser chute as he flickered his lights on his body)*

Tamatoa: **You’ll never be quite as shiny**

**You’d wish you were nice and shiny**

*(Just when Elise was stuffed in there as the song ended, Serena, Ash, and Kaya called out to him, getting his attention)*

Serena, Ash, and Kaya: Wait!

*(Noticing them, Tamatoa got confused)*

Tamatoa: How did you escape?

Kaya: Does it matter?

Ash: We got something better and shiny!

Serena: All for you!

*(He suddenly noticed them holding out the glowing Ruby Slippers, glowing Topaz Bracelet, and glowing Sapphire Badge and went up to them)*

Tamatoa: Hand them over!

Serena, Ash, and Kaya: Okay!

Ash: But we’ll trade them for Elise!

Serena: Please?

Tamatoa: Done!

*(They hand the items to Tamatoa while Tamatoa puts Elise down next to them. While Tamatoa looked at them with a crazed greedy look, the group ran out of the clamshell quickly after opening the door again)*

Tamatoa: Oh, look at you, you gorgeous…!

*(Suddenly he stopped and looked closely)*

Tamatoa: Hold up! These look like….

*(He realized)*

Tamatoa: Pieces of coral covered in bioluminescent algae.

*(He got angry)*

Tamatoa: I’ve been duped!

*(He charged ahead to the door. Outside as the group continued running, Elise turned to Serena, Ash, and Kaya in confusion)*

Elise: Why did you give the items to Tamatoa for me?

*(Serena, Ash, and Kaya made everyone stop running by stopping and showed in their backpacks the real Ruby Slippers, real Topaz Bracelet, and real Sapphire Badge)*

Elise: Well, I’ll be darned!

Pinocchio: Yep! Tricked him!

Tamatoa: But not for long, you pests!

*(They see Tamatoa charging at them from behind in a fury. They nod and hurry ahead. As they ran, Popple tripped and cut his elbow. Quickly helping him up, the group resumed their run. Suddenly, Christopher noticed a sign next to a staircase up ahead)*

Christopher: Hey! It says “This way to Emerald City!”

*(They almost get to the staircase, only for Tamatoa to block the way)*

Tamatoa: Any last words?

*(Pinocchio secretly noticed a giant geyser chute and spoke up)*

Pinocchio: Yeah! Come and get me first!

*(He hurried over to the giant geyser chute and Tamatoa followed him and lunged at him right towards the geyser. Pinocchio jumped out of the way back to the others and Tamatoa got stuck in the geyser. Then the pressure built beneath Tamatoa and shot him out like a cannonball into the air and right onto his shell on the ground, trapping him in that position, and spilling some treasure beneath him. Noticing a blue, red, green, and yellow sword within a dark blue, dark red, dark yellow, and dark green scabbard and belt among the spilled treasure, Serena ran up to it, grabbed it, and looked at it, for the sword looked like water, fire, earth, and wind combined. Then Ash called out to her as the others ran up the stairs)*

Ash: Serena, come on!

*(Serena nods and ran up the stairs with the others, carrying the sword. Upon reaching the outside of the trench, the group panted in exhaustion and then they looked down at the darkness of the trench and laughed a bit, all except Popple, Team Rocket, and the Fearsome Four, that is)*

Bushroot: What’s so funny?

Megavolt: Popple is hurt!

Meowth: Look!

*(They stopped laughing a bit upon hearing him and noticed Popple clutching his injured elbow)*

Pikachu: Are you okay?

Popple: Does it look like I’m okay?

*(He removed his hand off his elbow to expose a cut on it with the part of his sleeve ripped from where he was cut and some blood on it and his hand as well)*

Serena: (Gasps) He’s bleeding terribly!

Lillipup: That looks bad!

*(They run into the forest to take shelter and recover since it’s now night. Up in the sky, Diablo saw this with a glare and flew away. Back at Maleficent’s castle, Diablo flew into her upper tower room and cawed at her. She calmly got shocked)*

Maleficent: What? They’re almost to Emerald City?! And Elise is with them?!

*(She glared and used her magic on her wand to communicate with Sugar Plum. Elsewhere, Sugar Plum, who is still heading her way to get the color-making shells, sensed the magic from Maleficent. She then answered)*

Sugar Plum: What is it, Maleficent? *Quoi de neuf*? (Translation: What's up?)

*(Silence, then….)*

Sugar Plum: What?! Those brats and their friends are almost to Emerald City?! And who’s with them?

*(She listened, then she got shocked)*

Sugar Plum: What?! Elise is out of the tower?!

*(She got angry)*

Sugar Plum: Alright! I’ll meet up with you!

*(She snapped out of the magic in a fury and teleported back to the castle by flight. Upon her arrival, Maleficent then noticed her in calm anger and spoke up)*

Maleficent: Shocking, is it?

Sugar Plum: Indeed! I cannot believe Elise would deceive me like that!

Maleficent: What do you mean, “Deceive you?”

Sugar Plum: She wanted to see those stupid lanterns in Emerald City! But now I am extremely livid and concerned that if she does, she might eventually find out the truth about herself!

Maleficent: So she tricked you into leaving the tower, right?

Sugar Plum: Yes. She claimed she wanted more paint, but that, I now realize, was *merde*!

Maleficent: I would watch your language in French if I were you. And have patience. If she refuses to return to the tower, then we’ll think of something to stop her and her new friends, and make her return, through a deceit of your own.

Sugar Plum: (Thinks it over) Deceit of my own, huh?

*(She smirked evilly)*

Sugar Plum: I like that idea.

*(She giggles a bit and then changed the subject)*

Sugar Plum: Anyway, where is she now?

Maleficent: In the forest past the trench, according to Diablo. And to recap, if she refuses, then we’ll come up with something to make her return to you and take care of her friends.

Sugar Plum: (Nods with an evil smirk) Got it.

***Coming up: Serena’s group rest for the night and learn more of Elise’s healing powers, as well as Popple, Team Rocket, and the Fearsome Four's talents. Then later, Elise and Sugar Plum reunite for a brief moment and Sugar Plum tries to persuade Elise into returning to the tower, but will Elise stand her ground and make her mother leave her and her friends alone?***