Hello again everyone!

Many thanks to everyone who review! It kept me going and made me want to get this chapter ready for you guys!

So just really quick! I wanted to give you guys an overall picture of what to expect in this chapter.

SO: Rapunzel and friends attend an organization that trains, shapes, and perhaps brainwashes the trainees into super soldiers. Totally unafraid of the aspects of any sort of impending doom.

Slowly through being combined together to create a makeshift team, Rapunzel, Jack, Hiccup, Merida, and a few other awesome characters find themselves escaping from the Academy. Along the way of embracing their natural teen selves the group meets a strange prostitute Rapunzel demands they take in. Soon after though, the group is found in their hideout by the Director of the Academy's personal Guards. The group quickly discovers that Rapunzel has been keeping big secrets.

Other than that I hope you all read on an enjoy!

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Chapter Two: Tell me a story

Merida slammed her shoulder into the metal door of the holding cell. She stumbled back, breathing labored as she set herself up to ram the door again. The rest of her group had given up trying to get her to stop long ago. Most of them were beating themselves up mentally for having been stupid.

"What were we thinking? How could we do this to her?" M.K. looked at the others around the room, tears threatening to escape from her eyes. A loud thud was her only answer as Merida once more slammed into the metal door. M.K. felt an arm wrap around her shoulders, she glanced up at Nod. His eyes were mournful. M.K. laid her head against his shoulder and squeezed her eyes closed. Once again hearing the thus of a solid body trying to move through metal, this time the sound was accompanied by a sharp scream. Everyone glanced up at Merida to see her sliding down the metal door holding her shoulder.

She had dislocated it.

Hiccup moved over to her, gently wrapping his arms around her body as she shook from rage and pain.

"Y-ye don' think w-we all feel terrible?" Merida spoke raggedly, Hiccup tried to no avail to calm her down. "We all shoulda' known." She yelped jumping as Hiccup touched the offending shoulder. He jerked away for a moment before placing a hand just under her arm, pulling her gently away from the door.

"She just never told anyone anything. Even Jack—" Nod was cut off as an iced glared sent shivers down his spine. Jack, the only one of the group who had not spoken since they had been taken into custody, glared daggers into poor Nod. It was true though, and that was what made him the angriest.

She had kept everything from him, him of all people, for months. So yes, it came as a shook when the director's top men had stormed their hideout demanding she be returned. His little girl had run away from home. At first no one understood what the men wanted, but after Punz come back to the hideout with Ida, a prostitute Punz had taken in the group was detained. Punz had made a deal that if she went willingly they would leave her friends alone. It was not until she was bound in the truck that they told her they lied.

Idiot. Of course they would lie. What was rule one? Jack slammed his fist angrily into the floor, as the Directors voice filled his head.

"Rule one! If an enemy can, they will lie to you. They will use anything the think necessary to get you to do anything they want." In that moment the world seemed to shatter apart for Jack.

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"Mer…It's going to need to be set eventually." Hiccup broke the silence. Merida whimpered, giving a slight nod as she braced herself, she had been holding her arm protectively for little more than an hour, growling wildly at any of her group members that tried to get close. Jack looked up to watch the scene, hoping that it would distract him long enough to be rid of the guilt that filled him.

"Here I'll help." Tooth spoke up finally, removing herself from her spot next to Jack. Hiccup nodded at her in thanks, quickly instructing her to keep a solid grip on Merida as he popped it back in the socket.

"This is gonna hurt. A lot. Ready?" Merida shook her head and started to protest. "One."

"No!"

"Two." She tried to pull away from her so called friends. "Three!" Hiccup jerked and slammed his hand against her shoulder twice before a nauseating crack silenced Merida for a total of five seconds before she sent a slew of profanity at Hiccup. She ripped her arm away from Tooth and began hitting his chest repeatedly. "It feels better though. Right?" He took her on slaughter with a small smile, not paying much attention to the pain as she slammed her fist into the center of his chest before realizing the pain had ebbed away.

She grinned and rolled her arm before turning her attention back to the door.

"Thanks. Ah'll ge' back to work on the door." Merida walked up to the metal door and prepared to slam herself into it once again. Hiccup moved to stop her, as he grabbed her to pull her back the door creaked open. The rest of the group stood, taking defensive stances.

The soldiers that stood in front of them were distinctively different from those that had shoved them into the holding cell. The first soldier into the room was small, a female soldier, her face was covered by a cloth masked usually used during situations when debris would be blown around. The second soldier was well known amongst the group. Tooth gasped quietly when she saw him.

"Aster… No…" Aster Bunnymund, a tall muscular man covered in tribal tattoos, stood before the lot armed with an assault rifle. Aster gave Tooth an apologetic look.

"Tooth… I'm sorry. I have my orders." Aster looked away from the girl he had fallen for during basic training. Jack took a few steps toward the two soldiers, rage apparent on his features.

"How appropriate, someone we trusted to deliver the final blow to us. Where's Rapunzel Bunny?" Jacks hands formed into fists, he took another step towards the two soldiers. "And don't give me that 'I can't tell you' bullshit. I have been going out of my mind, the least you could do is give me peace before they do whatever they have planned." Aster sighed as he looked at Jack.

"Enough. Its time Aster." The small female soldier turned to leave the room.

"No. He isn't leaving until he answers me." Jack countered, stepping closer to Aster. He never paid the female soldier attention, keeping his focus completely on the man that he called friend. "I need to know Bunny."

Aster glanced at the small female as though he was asking for permission. The woman seemed to take a deep breath before glancing back at Jack and the others.

"Very well." The woman unhooked the mask she wore as she pushed the door shut. "Bunny, the cameras." As Aster moved around the room, tilting the cameras away from the scene about to unfold, the soldier removed her cap allowing long blonde hair to billow out around her and frame her face. She shook her head once before turned around to face the group.

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Merida took a sharp step back as she and the others took in the bruises that covered Rapunzel's face.

"Punzie… Dear Gods ah hope the other guys look worse" Rapunzel laughed which caused her to wince greatly. Her left cheek was bruised deeply and swelling; her lip was spilt in the middle, she had a cut just under her eye and her nose brim was broken.

"No worries Aster took care of the lot" Rapunzel shrugged her shoulders, giving the best smile she could to her gang of misfits without having the pain it caused her visible on her features. Jack was not fooled. "Look we haven't time for anymore formalities and howdy-dos. I'm here to bust you guys out. You guys shouldn't have been taken in the first place.

The group grumbled, but no one made a sign of protest. Except Merida; Jack would have had he not still been stunned that she was standing in front of him in one piece.

"Look 'ere Punz, we ain't leavin' till that pyscho, no offense towards ya Da' Punzie" Merida held up her hands for a moment, but at a small musical laugh from her friend she continued. "Until tha' pyscho ha' been dealt with, aye? He ain't got no right to jus' say ye got tae come back and be 'is tool again. Aye?" Merida looked around the room for the others to agree with her. Nod and Mk almost immediately nodded their agreements. Tooth gave a small cheer for their victory. Hiccup, simply grinned his awkward smile, and gave a knowing shrug. The only person that had still not spoken was jack.

Rapunzel looked up at him, meeting his piercing blue eyes for the first time since storming into the room in a failed ruse.

"…Jack…" Her brows furrowed together as the hurt and self-loath became apparent on her face. The look took him aback. He did not think about what keeping things from him, from all of them, had done to Rapunzel. The toll it must have taken never sunk into him, until he could see it clear as day on breaking the fragile heart of the girl he had unknowingly fallen for. She opened her mouth to say something more, but was quickly cut off by Jack.

"Have you ever heard the story of the Sun and the Moon?" Jack took a step toward the blonde beauty. Rapunzel in turn notably relaxed, her brows settled back into their perfect alignment; even a smile, the smile that claimed the beauty of the sun every time Jack saw it, pulled at the corners of her lips.

"No Jack," Jack cracked a small smile. She was playing along. "Tell me?"

Jacks smiled grew; he took a few more steps toward Rapunzel. Once he was an arm's length from her, he wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her into a hug. He whispered in her ear: "No one tells the story like you do."

Rapunzel let out a sound that was a mixture of a sob and a laugh as she wrapped her arms around Jacks neck. She buried her face in the cloth of his shirt as tears rolled off her beaten face. Jack wanted more than anything to never let her go.

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Jack kept a tight hold on Punz' hand as they walked the corridors cautiously. Aster was in the lead, it was his job to make sure the halls were clear before the rest of the group would continue. Every once in a while Jack would give Rapunzel's hand a gentle squeeze, and they would share a look. No words were needed to pass between them. Rapunzel would give him a reassuring smile, and Jack would be lost in his joy of having her near him again.

As they neared the final corddior the group collected in a doorway.

"Once we hit the platform I want you guys to pair up and run for the doors. I'll create a distraction long enough for you to all get out." Rapunzel distributed a hand gun to each of her friends as she spoke. "I'll meet you guys on the outside."

"No. Absolutely not. You are not doing something dangerous just when I… We have you back." Jack countered. Rapunzel looked up at him pleadingly.

"Jack…"

"No, fer once Jack is righ'. I ain't lettin' ye do this on yer own Punz." Merida crossed her arms in defiance. Mk and Nod agreed, nodding their heads as they crossed their arms.

Tooth gave an innocent smile and shrugged.

"You're kind of stuck with us Rapunzel. We love you way to much. And… We are so sorry." Tooth and the others grimaced. Jack stratched the back of his head.

"Instead of you trying to sacrifice yourself for us may I make a suggestion?" Hiccup asked as he stared around the corner. When no one answered him, he took it as a means to continue. "We could always dress the way you did when you got us from the holding cell. Though that many people in masks might be a problem."

Merida sighed, rolling her head. "Oh c'mon. Why don't we jus' go straight in there and fight our way through? We can take 'em." The lot looked at her a though she had grown a second head.

"Normally li would agree with ya' mate, but since obtaining you all the Directors beefed up his guards. It's be like death in there. It's a right army."

Rapunzel set her gun aside for the moment, crouching down as she thought over the different options. There was something staring her in the face, but it stayed just out of her grasp. What was it? She clenched handfuls of her hair, brattling her brain. Suddenly, she jumped to a standing position. With a snap of her fingers she motioned for the others to follow her back the way they had come.

"We have one shot at this. We have to find the one person the soldiers will listen to over my father." Rapunzel stopped at an odd looking scanner just outside the holding cell the group had left. After a shot moment of entering codes and an override of the system a door further down the corridor swung open.

"Who exactly are ya bustin' out?" Aster asked as they walked toward the door. The group stopped as the prostitute Rapunzel had housed in their hide-out stumbled out of the room. Rapunzel grinned, looking over her shoulder at her dumbfounded friends.

"My mother."

In a quick moment the prostitute roomed, first what seemed to be a wig, then the mask they friends had come to recognized as her face. When all that was done, there standing before them was the creator of the Academy, Merriam Gothel. Rapunzel walked over to the woman, removing the jacket she wore to offer it up.

"I almost forget you were here mother." With a nod from the latter company, Rapunzel gave a small smile as she passed the older woman her protective jacket. "What should we do?"

"Are you all finally tired of running away?" A smirk crossed Merriam's features as she slide the jacket over her arms. Smiles appeared across the lot she spoke to. "Then let's make a reclaim."

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The most of the group used every last bit of the training they had received in the time they had been a part of the academy. Each guard they came across was easily subdued long enough for Merriam to explain her view on things. If after all that they continued to struggle and claim that the Director was the only one in charge, Aster would step in and dispose of the individuals as he saw fit. Often meaning one or two men tied and gaged in a broom closet. All the while Jack and Rapunzel hung back, walking carelessly, or as close to carelessly as they could, while lightly conversing about their pasts.

Rapunzel learned early on in the beginning of Jacks time at the Academy that his home life was less than perfect. It mirrored quite a bit of her life.

"…so that was the last time I ever saw him." Jack offered a shrug as he recalled his last memories of his father. Rapunzel ran a finger over the scar he had revealed just above his wrist. A battle wound, as Jack had called it. The last evidence he had left of an abusive father.

Rapunzel bite her lip as she watched Jack obtain a far off look. She racked her mind trying to find something that would cheer him up. It took her a few moments, but finally she snapped her fingers as she recalled a story of her childhood.

"I know I've told you the story of the Sun and the Moon, but I have another story I'd like to share with you." She glanced up at him with a heartfelt smile.

Jack returned the smile and motioned for her to continue.

Rapunzel cleared her throat and began to retell the story of her namesake. At first, hearing about a beautiful maiden trapped in a tall tower doomed by her foolish parents for needing medicine, Jack chuckled. He seemed to not grasp that while true it was just a child's fairy tale certain implications were intended instead for the present couple. Still, Rapunzel continued.

"Then finally, with the witch gone from their lives, Rapunzel and her lover lived with their wonderful new family. Each night before they would drift off to sleep holding each other, they would proclaim their love just as they had the night the witch had died." Rapunzel finished giving Jacks hand a light squeeze.

Jack, in return pulled Rapunzel to a stop. He wrapped his arms around her and kissed her deeply. When he pulled back, Rapunzel took a ragged breath.

"I will love you until you no longer want me. And even if that day were to ever come I would love you still. You have incorporated yourself into my heart, and if you are not there it aches." Jacks blue eyes gazed endlessly into Punz' green orbs, anchoring her into the place she stood.

She let out a small nervous laugh as she reached up to take hold of Jacks face. Gently, she pulled his face down until her forehead rested against his.

"Now hear me, my days are less bright when I do not have you near. My nights are always longer when there is even a chance that I may not see you in the wee hours of the morning. I always thought that I knew what I wanted out of my life, but now thanks to you I realize I was wrong. There is nothing more important to me then having you next to me. Your love is the one thing above all else that I can no longer be without. I love you Jack." The two shared a smoldering kiss before an agitated Aster called for them to rejoin the group. Neither minded as they jogged hand in hand back to the group.

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Finally as the lot neared the final hanger, Merriam decided they had a nice gathering of soldiers and guards to force the others that waited for them to not act against the numbers. She instructed Aster, Rapunzel and Jack to lead the way to the final hanger.

Rapunzel kept close to Jack as they strode ahead. Every so often as she was checking if the coast was clear she would look at him, offer an apology and say, "I love you, Jack." Each time jack would reach out, take her free hand, give it a gentle squeeze and reply simply.

"I love you too Punz."

A bright smile would then form on Rapunzel's lips, and they would continue in silence until the next round of I love you's were uttered. They never got the chance to continue the seemingly silly game of back and forth, for the moment the group stepped through the final doors to the main hanger, they were met by an army of Guards. Standing just above the army, on a storied railing, was the Director. His face was twisted into a disgustingly evil grin as he watched the rebellious group pile into the room, his wife standing near the lead.

"It's over Merriam. Why don't you all just surrender now?"

Merriam smirked up at her deranged husband, although he was dangerous now after being consumed by the power the title of Director brought to him, somewhere in her heart she still felt the cold pull of love playing at her heart strings.

"Not in your wildest dreams, Darling."

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It was all just a front. Rapunzel could easily see through her father's words after the majority of his Guards were swayed by her mother's words. Those that had not joined surrender willingly. No blood was shed during the entire ordeal. But the entire time he was in custody, being force to watch as Jack and Aster accepted their new positions as leaders of the guard, Rapunzel watched the wild look grow in her father's eyes. Even so, she was not quick enough register the last signs he was showing before he acted.

He had shoved the younger guards away from him, easily broken out of the ties that bound his hands and taken up a gun from the closest guard. The first round he shot embedded itself into Rapunzel's jacket which her mother still wore. It was all in slow motion for the girl. She watched as her father lined up his second round, taking aim for Jack. She moved without thinking. The only thing on her mind was that without a jacket to protect him Jack would be seriously injured.

She made it. She had just enough momentum to shove Jack out of the way as her father pulled the trigger. At first she felt nothing. She simply touched her chest where the bullet entered her body and saw the blood soak onto her fingers. The sound of a body thudding to the ground told her the Guards had reclaimed her father. However, the comfort that knowledge brought was quickly taken over by pain. Agonizing pain that brought Punz down to her knees as her body convulsed. She could taste blood spill out of her mouth as she cried out. Jack was at her side in an instant, pulling her into his arms, trying to sooth her.

"Rapunzel stay with me." His voice was faint even though she could tell he was yelling. Rapunzel could feel the first staged of her body shutting down as her blood poured from her body. There was a small amount of pressure felt were the wound was. It was annoying her, causing her to feel more pain. One more she heard Jack tell her to stay with him. She tried to focus on him, willing her vision to clear up enough to see him once again.

"Ja..ck." It took nearly all of her energy to call out to him. A smile former to her paling face as she placed her blood soaked hand against his cheek. "I.. I'm sorry… I couldn't let you-" The words stuck in her throat as more of her energy was wiped.

"Shh… Hey, its alright. You're gonna be fine." Jack pulled her closer, rocking them back and forth as he held his fleeting love. He looked up for just a moment as the on sight EMT's arrived on the scene. "Look people are here to help. You're gonna be fine Punz. You have to be. You can't leave me."

Rapunzel nodded, her breathing began to hallow out.

"Jack… W-will you tell me the… The story of… Of the Sun... a-and her Moon? I wanna hear it before…" Her hand slipped from Jacks cheek, though the shallow breaths that caused her chest to heave told him she was still fighting.

Jack swallowed hard and gave a slight nod.

"Long ago there was a boy and a girl…"

~Miss FioLee's Kitty Corner!~

Hello hello! I hope everyone enjoyed Chapter two it was a little heart breaking to write this chapter. But no worries everyone now that this is out of my system I shall bring forth the fluff! And who knows maybe I'll add another Chapter involving this chapters storyline.

In fact if you would like to see another chapter continuing/wrapping up either or both of the first two chapters leave me a review telling me so. I love to hear from you guys! So please Review! Oh and one last thing! I am so sorry if there are any grammar errors or spelling errors. And of course I do not own anything!