NOTE: Please realize I am not a professional writer (yet ;P) so I would prefer no hate for bad writing. Also, a majority of the story has NO TIES TO THE DISNEY'S DESCENDANTS MOVIE OR THE WICKED WORLD SERIES, so some details may be historically innacurate. I have not read the books, therefore, there may be details missing there as well. This series is based off of the one time I saw the movie and my own Figment ;) of my Imagination. (haha! My Disney reference there!) Enjoy!

"Mal watch out!" Someone shouts from afar. Mal ducks, a ball whizzing past her head. She laughs at the tall boy running towards her. He has blonde hair that flips as he runs. He is wearing a blue gym uniform and has a huge smile on his face. His smile is a knockout that makes Mal's heart melt every time she sees it.

"You were just doing that to get my attention," Mal shakes her head with her books in hand.

"Sorry, I just got distracted by a beautiful face passing by," Ben says grabbing the ball. He grabs Mal's hand and kisses the back of it.

"Flatterer," Mal smiles.

"You love it, don't deny it," Ben laughs turning to walk away, "Oh wait Mal! Don't forget about the Welcoming this afternoon. It's five new kids from the Isle of the Lost."

"I'm glad you guys are taking this so seriously," Mal nods, "Don't worry! I'll be there."

"Thanks Mal, you're the best!" Ben throws a fist in the air, "We need you and the others to help guide the newbies. Otherwise, we'd have a serious mess on our hands!"

Mal watches Ben leave and she smiles to herself again. Ben and Mal are the school's power couple. Everyone knows who they are and it's not because of who their parents are. It is because of the adventure that they had gone on and the love between a villain kid and a hero's kid. There is no greater joy for Mal except when she is with Ben. And of course, her other three best friends.

Mal walks back to her dorm, trying not to grumble about the amount of homework she had been given. She has been excused to blow off her last two classes of the day to prepare for the incoming of the new arrivals. She has to prepare a speech for them, help them to their rooms, and help them the next morning to find their classes. It would have been easier for them to start at Auradon Prep at the beginning of senior year, not a few months before the end of junior year. The minute she walks into her room, she realizes it might be a bit too crowded to prepare here.

Evie and Doug are discussing chemicals in a far corner, Jay is passed out on Mal's bed, and Carlos is eating a heap full of snacks on Mal's desk. Mal's face falls as she notices the mess. There are papers from Evie and Doug's study session spread all over the room, Jay had tossed all of her pillows onto the floor, and Carlos had neglected to throw away the candy wrappers.

"Really guys?" Mal rolls her eyes throwing her books on her bed, scaring the living daylights out of Jay. Mal is frustrated enough without the others lounging around. Since the incident with Mal's mother, the group had buried themselves in various activities, almost as if trying to make up for a lost childhood. They still hadn't given up some of their more… malicious habits. Mal figures all of the food lying around had more than likely been swiped, and Evie's new pile of jewelry meant that she had probably conned a few girls out of their stuff in a game of who wore it best.

Mal instinctively rids her desk of all the snacks Carlos had strategically set up. Her cleaning was not without protest.

"Mal, come on! It took me all afternoon to get those all up here!" Carlos complained, "I probably made fourteen trips down to the cafeteria."

"Great, and that means you can make fourteen more trips, back to your own room!" Mal says putting her hands on her hips, "I have to work on a speech for the new VK's."

"More? Who is it this time?" Jay asks with a yawn.

"Ben didn't say," Mal shrugged, "I just know that I need to form a speech and I need to help guide them the next couple days,"

"Why do you need to do it alone?" Evie laughes hautily, "I mean I can help. Let me tag along today."

"Are you sure? Aren't you allergic to bad clothing? Realize these kids probably aren't showing up high end designer suits and dresses." Mal crosses her arms.

"Mal, who do you think I am?" Evie puts a hand on her chest dramatically, "I'll have you know I am a changed person. I don't have time to think about all of that petty foolishness!"

"Uh, Evie," Doug jumps in, "Your entire outfit is designer and you scammed half a cafeteria of girls out of giving you their so called useless junk, even though all of it is worth hundreds of dollars."

Evie sits up straight and fluffs down her hair, "Well, that was just harmless fun."

The room is filled with laughs. Evie scowls lightly, clearly agitated by their mockery.

"Okay fine, if you want to come with me, then you can, alright?" Mal rolls her eyes. The others nod their agreement except Doug, who humbly removes himself from the room. He would never admit it, but the idea of more VKs is frightening. They take twice as long to adjust than normal kids. While the group was no longer a nuiscance to the other students, they were still considered suspicious characters and weren't fully trusted.

While Doug is out, Mal gets to work preparing a speech, while Evie blabbers on, running back and forth between Jay and Carlos's room, and their own. She is carrying outfit after outfit, trying to persuade Jay and Carlos that they needed to look "changed" for the arrival of the VKs. Mal, on the other hand, wishes Evie would go back to their old look. It would make the villain kids feel more at home. They are not going to be quick to change. Even Mal took a second to adjust to Auradon's high quality of living.

After a few hours preparing, Ben comes knocking on Mal's door with Jay and Carlos in tow. At Carlos's feet is a cute dog, wagging its tail. Mal and Evie stand side by side in the mirror, checking for loose strings, or imperfections. Mal opens the door and takes Ben's hand. Together, the group of five storm down towards the front of Auradon Prep.

Since Audrey is still head of the welcoming committee, it was no surprise to them to see her waiting for them.

"There you are! Late as usual," Audrey mumbles as they approach.

"Late? Audrey they aren't supposed to be here for a couple more minutes," Ben sighs.

"If you are on time, you are late," Audrey scowls, "How fitting to bring all of the VKs."

"Well duh, it's only natural that we be united with our people," Jay laughs, "Why are you still here?"

Evie and Carlos let loose small giggles as Audrey silently fumes. All Mal can do is smirk turning to watch as a limo enters through the Auradon Prep gates. Mal squeezes Ben's hand. Naturally, the group is nervous. They haven't been in contact with a lot of the others that they used to know from the Isle of the Lost. Cell phones weren't popular over there (obviously) and the two people rarely mixed. As the car pulls to a halt, Evie places a hand on Mal's free shoulder, Jay and Carlos throwing out names of people they used to know. Audrey stands unphased by the situation.

Mal clears her throat as the driver stands to open the doors. Mal narrows her eyes as a pair of beat down shoes step out of the car. A boy stands tall, with black hair slicked back, muscles bulging out of his t-shirt. If Mal's face hadn't dropped already, it was on the floor now.

"Oh no," Jay and Carlos say at the same time. Audrey turns to raise a questioning glance at them. But the situation only got worse. Mal is feeling more and more nostalgic as four more teenagers step out of the car. Sue, Jade, Dez and Sean step out after them. The two groups exchange glances, but no one makes any move. Ben, has a smile on his face the size of the moon, and Audrey simply flips her hair back.

"On behalf of the Auradon Prep student body, we welcome you to—"

"This is Auradon?" Jade cuts Audrey off, who looks taken aback, "Wow, it looks bigger on TV. But maybe that's because I was watching the news on such a small screen."

"It tends to be quite intimidating, but I'm sure you'll get used to it," Ben says enthusiastically. Sue scowls at Ben for a second and then turns her attention to Mal. Mal holds her breath, too afraid to say anything more.

"Anyway, my name is Ben—" Ben starts, but Sue and Jade bow instead.

"Your highness," Jade snickers, causing the others to laugh. Tony laughs alongside Dez and Sean. Mal can't take her eyes off of the group. They hadn't seen the kids from east side since they were taken to conditioning. Jade's hair was in dreads with green highlights, Sue's skin was almost pale and both of them had grown into full figures. Dez and Sean both had grown to be knockouts just like Jade and Sue. None of the boys were going to have a problem finding dates to the spring formal, and it didn't look like Jade and Sue were either. Tony avoids Mal's gaze like the plague, and Mal can't help but wonder what happened after they left. The East side kids were the last people on Earth Tony wanted to be hanging with, but it looks like he had become their best buddy.

"Okay," Ben says, seemingly unmoved by their mockery, "Well I'm going to let my girlfriend Mal take it from here. Mal this is Jade, Sue, Tony, Sean, and Dez. These are the new recruits. They have their student files so you can help them find where they need to go. Good luck,"

"Wait, Ben!" Mal calls after him, "Where are you going?"

"I have that dinner with my parents and the council tonight," Ben says, "I told you that days ago. You were supposed to come with me but you didn't want to go."

Wish I would've taken him up on that offer, Mal thinks to herself but instead waves him off. Ben walks back to her and grabs her hand, kissing the back of it. Mal can feel his soft kiss tingle through her fingers.

"Wow, if all the guys look like that, I'm going to have a lot of fun here," Sue says, her shoulder length, white hair flowing in the wind.

For a while, no one says anything. The new VKs curiously look around at the campus, still not having moved from the curb. Evie, Carlos, Jay, and Mal exchange glances, none of them sure how well this reunion is going to turn out.

"Okay enough gawking," Audrey claps her hands together, drawing everything back in, "My name is Audrey, head of the welcoming committee as well as the cheerleading team here at Auradon prep. I'm sure you know Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay."

"Yeah, we've heard of them all right," Jade says with a mischievious grin, "It's nice to finally meet the heroes of the Isle!"

Her statement zaps Mal back to earth. Had Jade just called them heroes?

"I'm sorry, what did you call us?" Carlos asks.

"Don't be so modest!" Tony says, leaning against Dez whose arms are crossed, "You guys broke down the barrier. Things have been getting so much better in the Isle of the Lost. You're like every kids dream. Everyone wants to be you."

"Everyone?" Jay raises his eyebrow.

"Pretty much," Sue shrugs with a smile, "You guys are legends! It's totally going to be an honor to work with you guys."

"Wow, so you guys haven't met before?" Audrey looks between the two groups, "I thought everyone knew each other over there. You both have the same terrible fashion sense."

"Well actually we have—" Mal starts.

"Nope!" Jade butts in, "We never got a chance to meet them. I guess you could say we were a little…. Well… a little closed off."

Mal looks Jade in the eye, but can't seem to read her. Jade is giving no signs that she is lying, but also no signs that she is telling the truth.

"Weird, but then again, I shouldn't be surprised," Audrey whips out her phone, pressing buttons as she pulls up the student directory, "Okay let's get you guys means of communication for the campus and then we can start the tour. Let's go everyone! The afternoon is being wasted and we need to be on time for dinner! Chop Chop! Let's move people!"

Audrey works to usher the new VKs forward. Mal, Jay, Carlos and Evie trudge behind, all of them whispering amongst each other. It seems that they are all as baffled as they could be.

"Maybe that's a different Tony!" Carlos suddenly blurts, "Like maybe he had a twin brother that we didn't know about! I mean look at those muscles! The Tony we knew was scrawny and pathetic. A let down. That's not the same kid."

"Yes it is," Evie says, who hasn't taken her eyes off of Tony, "He just grew up. A lot. And well."

Mal elbows Evie. Evie glares at Mal, knowing full well that right now she was still with Doug. It is true they had come to a small standstill in their relationship, but she was in one nonetheless.

"Look, I know we haven't seen them since—"

"We busted them and they got sent away for a lifetime of detention?" Jay interrupts Mal, "Yeah, what could go wrong? They have unlimited resources to get us back! No barriers, better access to weapons, and more importantly, unlimited access to us! We are so dead."

"No we are not!" Mal shuts them all up, "We need to play it cool. Right now, they are acting like they don't remember what happened between us, so lets just play along and hopefully they won't remember."

"Mal, that is a very dangerous game to play," Evie notes, "It's one thing to play along, and another thing offer a challenge."

"We aren't offering a challenge, we are offering a change," Mal reassures them, "Trust me. We are rotten to the core no matter how goody two shoes we get okay? We are still VKs with the hearts of heroes. They can't touch us."

Carlos continues to walk with his head down and his tag along dog buddy alongside him. Jay nods his approval of the plan, however there is a hint of skepticism hidden in his facial expressions. Evie looks uneasy, but she puts on a brave face. Mal is strong. She always has been. There group has been fearless since they were born, except maybe Carlos. They weren't about to let their past affect their future.

Audrey continues to lead, just long enough for them to receive their very first cell phones. Jade and Sue first discover how to text and even though they are standing right next to each other, they find themselves sending dozens of texts a minute to each other. Dez can't even figure out how to turn his phone on, Tony is admiring himself through the reverse camera, and Sean is scrolling through the app store, scowling at every app he sees. It is the first time that Mal realizes that Sean hasn't smiled once since getting here. It's almost as if he has no other facial expression aside from scowl.

"Okay, these goonies are going to need serious help. Get them to Jane's mother okay?" Audrey tells Mal, while the new VKs are distracted.

"No problem Audrey," Mal says and without another word, Audrey quickly walks away, glad to escape the intimidating new group.

"This is going to be interesting," Mal says approaching the amused group, "Hey guys,"

Immediately the five stop talking and turn to look at Mal. They had lost all enthusiasm they had previously had, and Sean's scowl seems to have worsened.

"Um, if you'll follow me, I'm going to take you to your first teacher," Mal says turning on her heels. Mal doesn't stop for a second, almost wishing that they wouldn't follow. But she hears their silent chatter and luckily, the chatter of Evie, Carlos, and Jay behind them. Mal takes deep breaths as they walk, waving to passing classmates. They stare at Jade and her crew, few of them making an attempt to say hello.

By the time they finally reach Fairy Godmother, Mal is ready to call it quits. For the next twenty minutes, she has to listen to Fairy Godmother drone on and on about etiquette and expectations at this school. The new VKs almost have Mal fooled that they are actually paying attention. They haven't been disrespectful once since reaching Fairy Godmother. What the heck did that conditioning do to them? Mal wonders as she hangs at the back of the room and watches Godmother give them the low down.

The only thing left to do now take them to their rooms. For now, Mal feels that it would be best to just pretend that they don't remember them. The others are still uncomfortable around them and that means this is only going to be all the more harder. Auradon Prep teaches the opposite of what is taught on Isle of the Lost and for the longest, the East Side kids hadn't attended even the local schools offered on East Side. There is no telling how hard they are going to be to work with. Mal doesn't envy them for a second.

"Do you think this is all going to work out okay?" Mal says out loud. She was really just talking to herself, but Evie being her best friend, heard her mumble.

"Mal you think too much. It's all going fine for now. Just keep pretending that we don't remember them. We're perfect liars, trust me. This'll be a fool proof plan.


"They totally remember us!" Sue says once her and Jade are safe in their new room. They had left Tony to his new roommate, and left Dez and Sean in their own room. Jade runs her finger up and down the canopy of her new bed. The room came pre-furnished with extra clothes lined up for them. Evie's handiwork no doubt. She could tell by the stitching and the style. They were a little too blinged out for her liking. But it was nothing to fix.

"Did you see their faces?" Sue laughs pulling her favorite possession from her beat down bag. She sets a crystal ball with a claw hand stand on the bedside table. Jade leans against the desk and breaths a sigh of relief.

"Their faces were absolutely priceless," Jade snickers, "They looked like they had seen ghosts."

"We can't help it if we ended up looking ten times prettier than them," Sue flips her hair, "I'm just disappointed at how many guys I left behind. I had them at the tip of my finger."

"You are ridiculous," Jade laughs out loud.

"I'm ridiculous? What about yourself! You were just as bad, except you weren't looking for a boyfriend. You wanted someone to steal things for you!"

"I got what I wanted didn't I?" Jade glares, holding the talisman around her neck, "Betty practically forced us to get people to do the things we can't anymore. People will do anything to get what they want."

Sue holds the shell necklace wrapped around her neck, "That's one of the only thing I learned from my mother."

Sue and Jade exchange glances and let out wicked laughs. Sue's eyes still show a hint of sadness. Jade sympathizes with Sue, knowing full well that her mother would have traded Sue for anything if meant getting what she wanted. It was practically the same for Sean. In Hades eyes, Dez didn't matter no regardless of if he helped him or not. Dez was just another face in a crowd to him. There was definitely a reason Jade took on the responsibility of building a family in East Side. If there was anything legit about Jade, it was her desire to build a family. But she would never fully admit it.

"Do you think we are going to like it here?" Sue suddenly asks. Jade looks around the room and out of the open window which overlooks the courtyard. She watches as groups of kids laugh and giggle, books in hands, and smiles on their faces.

"These people have a different idea of happy," Jade explains, "We will never be them."

"But Mal and them changed," Sue grabs a thick and fluffy pillow, holding it tightly in a hug, "They are expecting us to change too."

"They tried to change us when they sent us to conditioning," Jade shrugged, "It didn't work then, and it won't work now. And Mal, Jay, Carlos and Evie are jokes. They are putting on faces, but they never really changed. They're just weak. Ben and all of his frilly froo froo friends only exposed them for who they truly are. A disappointment to villains."

"But Jade—" Sue tries, but Jade is finally fed up. She faces Sue with a cold glare.

"But nothing Sue," Jade snarls, "The only reason these petty heroes exist is because someone decided to be the bad guy. Some of these puff balls started off as underdogs that were made heroes because they rose up against a villain. We practically made them. And we can take it away."

"How are we going to do that?" Sue questions.

"Expose the truth," Jade gazes out the window with a smile on her face, "Do you remember that stupid song we used to sing? Rotten to the core?"

"Yeah? It was everyone's motto." Sue shrugs, joining Jade at the window.

"Everyone is rotten in their own way. Everyone," the corner of Jade's mouth breaks into a small smile, "And we're going to find out what that is."

"What do we get out of all this?" Sue raises her eyebrow.

"Let me ask you something," Jade turns to Sue, "What do you want most out of life?"

Sue thinks for a second before smiling, "To be the person everyone turns to for help."

Jade's smile becomes a little bigger, seeing the mischevious grin on Sue's face.

"To be the person everyone turns to for help and…" Sue chuckles, "To do the job my mother was too pig headed to do. She couldn't get people to like her and spent her life stuck in a cave."

"Well, at Auradon Prep they want our dreams to come true right?" Jade says, "So let's make our dreams come true."

"What's your dream Jade?" Sue asks, looking back out of the window.

"My dream is everyone else's," Jade smiles, "I want everyone to get their dream."

"That's not possible," Sue rolls her eyes.

"Everyone wants the same thing. If everyone gets what they want, then technically, no one will. And they'll need someone to pick up the pieces to a broken society." Jade nods.

"You want to exploit the error in society." Sue nods back.

"This world is broken," Jade states, "On both the Isles and in Auradon. No place is safe from corruption. I could see that in that weirdo Audrey's eyes. Deception is everywhere. Villains have the potential to be heroes just as much as heroes have the potential to be villains."

"You're trying not to get your hands dirty," Sue laughs, "Classic Jade."

"If all goes well, we won't have to," Jade laughs wickedly, "They'll destroy themselves."

"You are pure evil!" Sue punches Jade playfully in the arm.

"Tony was willing to make a deal to get what he wanted, and so will everyone else. They are the true evil ones," Jade smirks, "Welcome to my wicked world."

Together the two stare out over the courtyard. Auradon prep was huge, and Auradon was even bigger than their eyes could see. It was all full of deception, and they were going to find it. Tony, Dez, and Sean are already halfway informed that Jade has something up her sleeve. They just needed to be filled in on the details. They were all forced to come to this stupid school after getting out of conditioning, and now, both the Isles and Auradon were going to pay for their wrongdoings.

"Our Wicked world," Sue wraps an arm around Jade's shoulder.

Hey guys! I'm back! So, I went on this 30 day media challenge thing, and I just ended up not writing. Anyway, thank you to everyone who has been reading Tron's Revival: Glitches and Heroes, and also for reading Rise of the Guardians: The Meltdown Begins. Those are being updated periodically along with this story and I have new ones coming. I want to remind you guys that not all of the characters are the same as the ones in the movie or in the Wicked World series. I actually wasn't expecting them to do the Wicked World series so I noticed some conflicting characters so some of the characters are subject to change. Others are good enough for me to "write a new story" so to speak. I really wanted to break some of the ties to the movie, but all the while, keeping some of what you guys fell in love with in the movie. I personally wasn't a huge fan of the Descendants movie, but I respect that a lot of you loved it, and I want to keep that magic going! Thanks so much for reading! Let me know if you thought this chapter was too short because I will try to write a longer chapter next time if you think it was short.