Serena, Sora, and Kiki Confronts Merlock, Vanitas, and Negaduck/Going to the Cave of Wonders

*(Back in the palace, Merlock's group and their henchmen are leaving their secret room. After Merlock's group, Shere Khan, and Negaduck looked around to see if the coast is clear, they get out and began to close the door. But then Serena's group, out of their disguises and back in their main attires, stormed in angrily)*

Serena's group: Merlock's group!

Merlock's group, Shere Khan, and Negaduck: (Seeing them) Oh, Princesses Serena, Kiki, and Sora.

*(The rest of the henchmen, except Fidget and Meowth, came out next and then noticed Serena's group)*

Henchmen: Oh, hi, Princesses!

*(Fidget and Meowth were about to make their way through the door, but Jessie quickly closed the door shut, pinning Fidget and Meowth, making the door half closed)*

Fidget and Meowth: (Struggling) Ouch!

Fidget: (Struggling) Uh, guys, Meowth and I are stuck.

Meowth: (Struggling) Help!

*(Merlock's group and their henchmen ignored Fidget and Meowth and hid the half closed door from view)*

Vanitas: How may we serve you today?

Negaduck: Just name it.

Serena: Don Karnage and his guards have arrested three boys from the market on your orders!

Merlock: Your parents, aunts, and uncles have given us orders of keeping peace in Agrabah.

Shere Khan: And besides, those boys were criminals.

Serena: (Skeptically and sarcastically) Oh, really?

Sora: (Skeptically) And what were their crimes, hmm?

Kiki: (Skeptically) Tell us.

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

Fidget: (Struggling) Help!

Merlock: Why, kidnapping the princesses, of course.

James: Yeah.

Dijon: That's right.

Fidget and Meowth: (Struggling) Guys, if you could just....

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

Fidget and Meowth: Ow, that hurts!

*(The princesses frowned deeply)*

Serena: They didn't kidnap us!

Kiki: We ran away!

Sora: What made you think it was a kidnapping idea?!

*(Merlock's group and their henchmen pretended to look shocked and turned away from the three princesses)*

James: Oh no, this is terrible!

Negaduck: I wish you should have told us sooner!

Merlock: Oh, how frightfully upsetting here!

Vanitas: Had we but known!

Kiki: What do you mean?

*(Merlock's group and their henchmen turned back to the princesses with grins)*

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

Sora: What sentences?

Merlock's group: Death.

*(The princesses gasped in horror)*

Merlock's group: By beheading at the guillotine.

Jessie: In other words, decapitation.

Princesses: (Shocked) No way....

*(Serena's group collapsed to the floor as they got saddened. Merlock's group and their henchmen smiled and put their hands on them in pretend sympathy)*

Merlock: We're really sorry, Princesses.

Dijon: I'm sure you could find someone new.

Serena: (To Merlock's group and their henchmen, in angry tears) How could you?!

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

Kiki: (In angry tears) That's right!

*(The princesses stood up and ran from the room crying. The door opened up once more and Fidget and Meowth climbed out, gasping. They then go to Merlock's group and their henchmen, coughing. They then composed themselves)*

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

Fidget: (Normally) How was it?

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

Merlock: They did.

Shere Khan: Easily fooled.

*(Merlock's group and their henchmen smiled sinisterly, except Fidget who shrugged. Back at the courtyard at night, Serena's group is by the fountain crying in grief. Tawna's group, with Tawna also out of her disguise and back in her main attire, Pura, Polar, and Baby T came over to comfort them in calm concern)*

Biyomon: Are you okay?

Jiji: What's the matter?

Tawna: What did Merlock's group say?

*(Even Lillipup softly whined a bit in concern. Upon seeing and hearing them, the princesses petted Jiji, Pura, Polar, and Baby T sadly)*

Serena: (Crying) This is all our fault, you guys.

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

Kiki: (Crying) Or their names!

*(Tawna's group, Pura, Polar, and Baby T got sympathetic)*

Tawna: It's not your fault.

Jiji: She's right.

Biyomon: You three did nothing wrong at all.

Jiji: Everything is going to be okay.

*(The princesses continued to cry as they hugged Tawna's group, Pura, Polar, and Baby T in comfort)*

Tawna: There, there.

Jiji: Tell us what happened.

*(The princesses tearfully looked at them and nodded in agreement on telling them what happened. Later, in Serena's group's bedroom, they had explained what happened, and Tawna's group, Pura, Polar, and Baby T felt sorry for them upon learning this)*

Biyomon: We're sorry to hear that.

*(Lillipup softly barks a bit in sympathy. Serena then sadly pets her)*

Serena: (Sadly) We're definitely gonna miss those boys.

Sora and Kiki: (Sadly) Yeah.

*(Then they walked out to the balcony and looked at the moon in the starry night sky. Then Serena's group began singing)*

Serena: **When the shadows unfold**

Sora: **When the sun hides its gold**

Kiki: **When the wind and the cold come calling**

Serena's group: **When the path isn't clear**

**And the stars disappear**

**As an endless midnight's falling**

*(In the dungeon underneath the palace, Ash's group, revealed to be alive and well, are shackled to a wall by their wrists, and they, too, sang their hearts out, looking out at a nearby overhead window)*

Ash: **At the edge of the sky**

Matt: **There's a moon hanging high**

Tombo: **When you're lost, it'll try to remind you**

*(Back on Serena's group's room's balcony....)*

Serena: **On a dark desert night**

Sora: **You can look to the light**

Kiki: **'Cause it's shining there to find you**

*(Then we both cut between the two groups in their separate scenes, singing in calm sadness, as well as in their imaginations)*

Ash and Serena's groups: **Desert moon, light the way**

**'Till the dark turns to day**

**Like a lamp in the lonely night**

**Bright and blue**

**Desert moon, wild and free**

**Will it burn just for us?**

Serena's group: **Shine down**

Ash's group: **Shine down**

Ash and Serena's groups: **'Till we find our way to you**

Ash: **At the edge of the sky**

Matt: **There's a moon hanging high**

Tombo: **When you're lost, you can try the view**

Ash and Serena's group: **'Cause it waits for you there**

**And if you see it too**

Serena's group: **We can find our way**

Ash's group: **We can find our way**

*(Back on Serena's group's room's balcony....)*

Ash and Serena's groups: **We can find our way to you**

*(The song over, Serena and Tawna's groups returned inside the room in calm sadness and sympathy respectively. Then Serena's group sat down on their bed and sighed sadly, their eyes now filled with tears, heartbroken by the fact that they will never see the boys they met in the marketplace again. Back in the dungeon after we slowly pan up and then away from the moon, Ash's group, still shackled to the wall, sighed after looking at the window)*

Ash: So basically, they were the princesses.

Tombo: Even I couldn't believe it.

Matt: We must have sounded so stupid to them.

Tombo: I know.

Ash: That's bad impressions.

*(Suddenly, they heard some familiar voices)*

Ash's gang and Darkwing's group: Ash, guys!

*(Ash's group looked up and saw Ash's gang and Darkwing's group from the window)*

Launchpad: Here to secretly bust you out!

Neptunia: Hang in there!

Ash: Hey guys!

Tombo: Down here!

*(After Darkwing opened the window, he, his group, and Ash's gang jumped down to where Ash's group is)*

Ash: Man, thank goodness you came!

Matt: Now get us out of this!

Megavolt: (Annoyed) Forget it, guys! Not 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 Ash's group attention away from their pal, Megavolt. *(Normal angry voice)* Well?

Quackerjack: Relax, Sparky, you were not replaced!

Matt: Yeah, give us a break!

Tombo: They were in trouble.

Ash: (Sighs) But worth helping out.

Megavolt: (Rolling his eyes) Whatever. *(Angrily to Quackerjack)* And don't call me "Sparky!"

Darkwing: Less chatting, more escaping now!

Scrooge: Aye, no dilly-dallying around!

*(Realizing, TK then began using his pin to pick the locks on Ash's group's shackles)*

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

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

Gizmoduck: That's right.

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

Launchpad: Uh-huh.

Bushroot: Which I honestly, believe, is unfair on this law.

*(TK finally got Ash's group free. The three boys rubbed their freed hands)*

Tombo: Yet they deserve them as well.

Matt: But who are we kidding, huh?

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

Teenage boy: (Voice-over) The only fool is someone who gives up so easily.

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

Ash: Who are you?

Webby: Have we met?

Launchpad: And what do you want?

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

Tombo: What do you mean?

Ash: 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. Ash's 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 Ash's gang and Darkwing's group as they looked at each other, Fidget and Meowth poked their heads out from underneath the hunchbacked boy's back part of his shirt, sweating from the heat inside the shirt)*

Meowth: (Whispering) Vanitas, hurry up!

Fidget: (Whispering) We're dying in here!

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

Ash: 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.

Tombo: I've never heard that one before.

Kaya: Me neither.

Pikachu: (Pondering) Pika....

*(Even Eevee chirps in agreement)*

Ash: Why would you share this treasure with us?

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

Matt: Uh, one problem.

Gabumon: We're stuck in this dungeon.

Darkwing: There's no other way out except the dungeon door and the window that Sora's gang, Professor Genius, my group, and I went through and the latter is too high for us to reach.

Patamon: Even I can't fly to higher places due to my acrophobia.

TK: It's true.

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?

*(Ash's gang looked at each other. Ash's group and the Fearsome Four gave playful smirks)*

Liquidator: Let's go for it.

Megavolt: If it involves getting rich, count me in.

Quackerjack and Bushroot: And us.

*(They shrugged and nodded in agreement)*

Ash's group: We'll do it.

Ash's gang except Ash's group: Yeah.

Hunchbacked boy (Vanitas): Good.

*(He leaves into the secret passage)*

Darkwing: My group and I are not going with.

*(Ash's gang looked at him and his group)*

Honker: He has a point.

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

Tank: Apparently, we lied.

Huey: And we don't want them to be suspicious.

Dewey: Yeah.

Louie: Exactly.

Tombo: We understand.

Matt: Cover our tracks.

*(Darkwing's group nods and then covering an axe with fake, yet realistic, blood, Darkwing's group nods at each other)*

Launchpad: This will easily fool the guards.

Morgana: Let's hope they won't tell that the blood we used here is fake.

Darkwing: No worries, because lucky for us, this dungeon is sound-proof from outside the door.

Stegmutt: And Don Karnage's crew are not always the brightest.

Ash's gang: Thanks.

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

Ash's gang: Coming, stranger.

*(They turned to Darkwing's group gratefully)*

Ash's gang: Take care.

Darkwing's group: (Nods) Same to you.

*(Then Darkwing's group left towards the door while Ash's gang went through the passageway. Once Ash's gang is gone, Darkwing, upon arriving with his group at the door, knocked on the door, getting Mad Dog's attention)*

Mad Dog: Did you kill them, DW, guys?

Darkwing: Yep, yep, yep.

Launchpad: We executed them.

Gosalyn: And they didn't even have the strong guts to try and outwit us.

Dumptruck: Let us see the blood on the axe.

Mad Dog: Pretty please?

*(Darkwing opens the door and he and his group showed the "Bloodied" axe, and thankfully, Mad Dog, Dumptruck, and Gibber fell for it)*

Mad Dog and Dumptruck: Okay.

*(Gibber mumbles a bit in agreement and then whispered in Dumptruck's ear)*

Dumptruck: And uh, Gibber has advised that you clean yourselves up.

Launchpad: (Nods in agreement) Gladly.

Darkwing's group: (Nods in agreement) Sure.

Gosalyn, Honker, Tank, Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Webby: (Nods in agreement) Of course.

Darkwing: (Nods in agreement) Will do, Mad Dog, Dumptruck, *(Looks at Gibber in agreement)* Gibber.

*(And with that, Darkwing's group, Mad Dog, Dumptruck, and Gibber left)*

***Coming up: Ash's gang arrive and trek through the Cave of Wonders in search of the lamp and after meeting a certain magic talking tiki mask and two certain bandicoot friends, one a muscular male and the other an intelligent female, with a Gummi Ship, they find it and when Megavolt and Quackerjack foolishly and accidentally touched a forbidden treasure, they must escape with their lives.***