Jafar walked into Maleficent's throne room with an impressive looking tome under his arm. Jafar was no big fan of Maleficent, the witch had always been a bit too headstrong for his tastes. However, despite her faults, she was Jafar's quickest route to power. Jafar's hunger for power was extremely strong and he would stop at nothing to get.
"Maleficent," Jafar said, placing the book on the round table Maleficent kept in the center of the room, "I have found something that could be of use to our plans!"
Maleficent sneered. Jafar had not the slightest clue as to what her master plan was. Never the less, Jafar was an expert on the occult and if Jafar said that he had found something of great magical power, she had no reason to doubt him. Jafar opened the book to a page with a diagram of chinese symbols.
"Look here," Jafar said, pointing at the picture, "These symbols tell of ten rings of power that give the wearer unspeakable power!"
"Another myth," Maleficent scoffed.
"Not this time, my dear," Jafar said smirking, "For you see, I was out in town and picked up a newspaper."
Jafar pulled a newspaper out of the folds of his robe. He gestured to the front page of the paper. Maleficent read the headline: Iron Man Topples Mandarin.
"This Mandarin fellow is wearing those same rings!" Jafar said enthusiastically.
"Then why are you here telling me about it instead of there recovering them?" Maleficent asked sternly.
Jafar was taken back by here statement.
"I will recover them at once, m'lady," Jafar said as he disappeared right before her eyes.
In the Valley of Spirites, the Mandarin was standing before a giant gemstone, firing blasts of energy from his rings at it. He laughed psychotically.
"Soon, Iron Man, very soon, you shall perish at the hands of the MANDARIN!"
Mandarin began to laugh again but was soon interrupted by a strong vibration that shook the entire palace. Mandarin whirled around to see the source of the vibration as a column of lava erupted from behind him. A mist then appeared and cooled the lava tower into solid stone. A cluster of mist began to develop at the top of the tower and the form of Jafar appeared from it.
"Allow me to introduce myself. I am Jafar, the greatest sorcerer the world HAS EVER KNOWN!"
"You must be a very foolish man," the Mandarin said, addressing the intruder, "For soon you shall be nothing but a distant memory."
The Mandarin's rings glowed as he spoke. Jafar then held up his snake staff. The eyes of the staff glowed red and a beam of lightning was fired from it. The blast hit Mandarin square in the chest, knocking the infamous villain backwards.
"Not particularly agile, are you?" Jafar asked mockingly.
"Maybe not," the Mandarin replied, getting up to his feet, "But I am the weilder of a power the likes of which you have never seen!"
Mandarin the fired a blast of green energy from his ring at Jafar. However, Jafar was ready for it and used his staff to hit the beam away from him like a baseball.
"What?" Mandarin asked in disbelief, "How did you repel the energy of my rings?"
"I told you before," Jafar said while laughing, "My magic is beyond your comprehension! Behold it's power!"
Jafar waved his staff and the form of an enormous scorpion appeared between him and Mandarin.
"Your beast is nothing but magic! And with my rings, I can make magic disperse!" Mandaring said as he fired a blast of energy at the scorpion.
Upon being hit by the blast, the scorpion evoporated as if it had been nothing.
"Can you do any better, sorcerer?" Mandarin asked mockingly.
Jafar, at this point, was beyond witty banter. He was going to silence Mandarin once and for all. He could cause things to disperse as well. He fired a scattering spell on Mandarin and soon Mandarin and the ten rings disappeared, scattered across the world by magic.
Jafar made a mental note of where they had been scattered. He would recover the rings later, once Maleficent became convinced that he had failed to recover them. He wasn't going to be her little stoog for much longer. Jafar then turned to the real reason he came to the Valley of Spirites: the immense gemstone. This gem had the power to remold the universe and soon he would use it to remold it into his own image!
Maleficent was watching this all take place via the crystal ball on the top of her staff. When she saw the rings scatter, she turned off the image.
"The blundering fool!" Maleficent shouted, "He has scattered the rings instead of recovering them!"
"Don't cha just hate it when that happens?" said a voice from above her.
Maleficent turned around to see Hades sitting on her throne.
"Hades," Maleficent said angrily, "What do you want?"
"I'm here," Hades said, "Because there's a war a-brewin'."
"A war?" Maleficent pondered.
"Yep an all out war between the villains," Hades said.
"Are you sure?" Maleficent asked.
"Like I'd make this sort of thing up!" Hades responded, "Fights are breaking out everywhere! Loki and I had a little skirmish last night, Frollo was defeated by that Dr. Doom guy this morning, and Jaffie just went toe to toe with the Mandarin. Oh, and another fight is just about to happen."
"Another fight?" Maleficent questioned.
"Yep," Hades said, "Between Kraven the Hunter and Clayton. Hopefully this one will actually have a casualty."
"If a war IS coming, then we shall need an army to keep our plan from being interfiered with," Maleficent thought aloud.
"Why not put Jafar to good use and have him recruit an army and take out possible threats?" Hades asked.
"An excellent idea, Hades," Maleficent said.
The two villains the cackled deviously at the notion of their wicked scheme.