Meanwhile, Rapunzel, Flynn,and the others were underground together.
"Well, that got us safe," Flynn said on the way through with a lantern to Rapunzel. "Didn't know you had that in you back there."
"I know, right?" Rapunzel asked excitedly before acting cool. "I know."
Wendy giggled a little from that. Flynn gave her a small, amused smile before they continued going.
"So... Flynn..." Rapunzel then said, looking quite curious. "Where are you from?"
"Yeah, where are you from?" Yoyo asked Flynn.
"Whoa, whoa, sorry gang, I don't do backstories," Flynn replied. "However I am becoming very interested in yours. Now I... I know I'm not supposed to mention the hair."
"Nope." Rapunzel said.
"Or, the mother.
"Uh-uh."
"Frankly I'm too scared to ask about the frog."
"Chameleon." Rapunzel corrected.
"Gila monster," Flynn replied. "Here's my question: if you want to see the lanterns so badly, why haven't you gone before?"
"Uhh, hey, well..." Rapunzel stammered a bit.
They soon heard rumbling.
"Uh, guys...?" Rapunzel said nervously. "Flynn?!"
"RYDER!" The lead guard yelled out as he swarmed out with the others as they came down the tunnel with torches.
"Run!" Flynn cried out before running with the others.
"I am seriously starting to hate this!" Yoyo complained.
"Well, if you think of a way to fix it, let me know!" Doc Croc cried out.
They soon made it out to what looked like a minefield and looked around, wondering where to go now, and then saw the Stabbington brothers break out from a door below them.
"Who's that?" Rapunzel asked.
"They don't like me." Flynn replied.
The guards soon came out of the tunnel that the group came out.
"Who's that?" Rapunzel asked.
"They don't like me either." Flynn replied.
"You're just unlikable." Yoyo smirked.
Doc Croc nudged the coyote as that wasn't very friendly or helpful.
"What?" Yoyo shrugged.
"Who's that?!" Rapunzel then asked once she saw Maximus.
"Let's just assume for the moment, that everyone here doesn't like me." Flynn suggested.
"No kidding." Yoyo said.
"Here." Rapunzel said, handing Flynn her pan as she tied her hair to a support beam and soon ran and swung across the gaping hole with her hair, landing on the other side.
Casper, Wendy, Yoyo, and Doc Croc looked jaw-dropped.
"I've waited a long time for this." The lead guard grinned.
The guards soon ran towards Flynn and the others who soon used the frying pan to defend himself like Rapunzel would, and it seemed to do an amazing job.
"Oh, Mama, I have got to get me one of these!" Flynn beamed from his success.
"Uh, we still got a horse to deal with." Casper spoke up.
Maximus glared at Flynn, holding a sword in his teeth.
"That's pretty impressive." Wendy commented from that.
Flynn then did his best to avoid Maximus as he used the frying pan against the sword.
"Go, Flynn!" Yoyo cheered.
The others went to get out of the way.
"He fights pretty good, huh?" Casper smiled sheepishly to Wendy who seemed to act differently around him during this adventure.
"The horse or Flynn?" Wendy replied.
"Erm... I guess both in this case." Casper said.
"Yeah, you're right." Wendy smiled.
Casper smiled back. "Uh, you doing okay?" he then asked. "You just seemed to be acting funny lately."
"I'm fine." Wendy sighed, though clearly she wasn't.
"No, you're not." Casper said.
Wendy looked away from him.
"Wendy, we're friends," Casper told her. "You know you can tell me anything."
"How can he not get it?" Yoyo asked Coc Croc.
"I'm not sure." Doc Croc shrugged.
"You should know that this is the strangest thing I've ever done!" Flynn called out to Maximus as they continued to fight.
Unfortunately for him, Maximus hit the frying pan out of Flynn's hand.
"Ooh." Yoyo, Doc Croc, Casper, and Wendy winced a bit from that.
"How 'bout two out of three?" Flynn smiled nervously to the horse.
"Flynn!" Rapunzel cried out as she soon threw her hair to latch around Flynn's hand to save him and pulled him to safety away from the horse.
And where Maximus was shocked to see that.
"Wendy, you didn't happen to bring your wand with you, did you?" Doc Croc asked.
Wendy soon took out her backpack and checked it before smiling as she took out her magic wand. "Yes! I did! Come on, let's go with Rapunzel!" she then said. She soon used her magic and teleported the four of them to Rapunzel.
"Oh!" Rapunzel gasped.
"Hi." Wendy smiled to the older blonde girl.
"Hey." Casper added.
"How did you...?" Rapunzel blinked.
"I'll explain later, I promise." Wendy smiled.
"Uh, but right now, you better pull Flynn up." Doc Croc said.
"I got this." Rapunzel replied as she soon did just that.
Flynn soon went swinging, laughing at the guards, but soon crashed into one platform. Maximus began to kick his back legs against a wooden post.
"Uh-oh!" Casper and Wendy yelped from that.
"We better teleport again." Doc Croc said.
Maximus soon ran across the wooden post as it was knocked down.
"Come on, Blondie, jump!" Flynn told Rapunzel as he made it on the other side with her hair.
"I'll meet you guys on the ground." Rapunzel told the others.
"Fair enough." Wendy nodded as she soon got ready with the boys.
"Right." Rapunzel replied to them.
Wendy soon teleported to the ground with the boys with her. Rapunzel soon jumped and Maximus leaned over to try to bite her hair, but luckily, he missed her by inches as she came to get on the ground with Flynn and the others.
"She made it!" Casper beamed. "Oh, look out!"
Rapunzel then kept running, sliding through the water, and Flynn soon also slid down the water with the others following after.
"Run!" Wendy called out.
They soon ran off and the dam behind them began to burst with water flooding out. They kept on running as the water and a pillar was coming down behind them, but they soon made it into a door just in time as the pillar came crashing down, blocking their way out once they came inside.
Water soon splashed inside and it began to rise up and flood them.
"Oh, this is bad." Yoyo gulped.
Wendy began to climb up with the others as the water began to rise higher and higher so that they wouldn't drown. They were soon blocked by boulders and they tried to push and shove them out of the way to give them more room.
"Dang it," Wendy pouted. "We're doomed."
Flynn grunted as he got a cut in the palm of his hand from trying to move the boulders.
"What do we do, man?!" Yoyo panicked to Doc Croc. "What do we do?!"
"It's no use, I can't see anything." Flynn sulked after coming back from underwater again.
Rapunzel soon dived down to see if she could find a way out. Wendy looked a bit scared about drowning. Rapunzel soon came back up, only to have the same problem that Flynn was facing.
"Hey, there's no point," Flynn told her. "It's pitch black down there."
"This is bad." Casper said.
"Not what?" Doc Croc frowned.
"This is all my fault," Rapunzel sighed emotionally and sadly, looking like she was going to cry. "She was right, I never should have done this. I'm so sorry, guys... I'm so sorry, Flynn."
"Eugene." Flynn told the others.
"Huh?" Wendy blinked. "Who's Eugene?"
"My real name is Eugene Fitzherbert," Flynn told them. "Someone might as well know."
"I have magic hair that glows when I sing." Rapunzel told them.
"Ya don't say!" Yoyo replied.
"What?" Flynn asked Rapunzel.
"I have magic hair, that glows when I sing." Rapunzel repeated herself.
"Then sing!" Wendy told her.
Rapunzel soon tried to make herself sing convincingly for the situation. "Flower gleam and glow, Let your power shine~"
The water level soon rose up and everyone quickly held their breaths as they were under the water now.
Rapunzel's hair soon glowed bright, much to Flynn's surprise, and they soon looked over through the rocks and found a way out from the glowing. Flynn soon began to move the rocks easily so that they could escape through that way. And where it started to work while the glowing light from Rapunzel's hair started to fade. Flynn broke his hand out on the other side and soon the other rocks fall with the water as they made it to the other side.
They then made it to dry land, gasping for air once they finally made it to freedom.
"Her hair glows..." Flynn whispered to himself.
"I'm alive. I'm alive!" Rapunzel beamed as she made it out and ran to dry land happily.
"I didn't see that coming," Flynn said to himself. "Your hair actually glows."
"Eugene?" Rapunzel called.
"Why does her hair glow?" Flynn asked himself.
"Eugene!" Rapunzel called to him.
"What?!" Flynn called back.
"Come on, we better keep going." Doc Croc told Flynn.
"Right." Flynn said.
They soon began to go along with Rapunzel once she got all of her hair out of the water. And once they found a spot to set up camp, they gathered wood for campfire.
"Ooh, that cut looks bad." Wendy frowned to Flynn.
"I can help that." Rapunzel suggested.
"How?" Flynn asked.
Rapunzel soon started to wrap her hair around Flynn's injured hand.
"Well, that's different, but that should heal the wound for now." Wendy smiled.
"I'm sure of it." Rapunzel nodded to her.
Flynn soon hissed in pain from the pressure on his scar. "So you're being strangely cryptic as you wrap your magic hair around my injured hand." he then grunted out to Rapunzel.
Rapunzel winced as she saw him cringe from the pain. "Sorry..." she then said to him before looking calm and serious. "Don't freak out."
Flynn didn't say anything as he was wondering why Rapunzel wrapped her hair around his injured hand. Rapunzel soon began to sing the song she sang earlier which made her hair glow in the dark again. Flynn looked all around in amazement with the others as the hair glowed a bright and golden glow, even more than it was before.
"Flower gleam and glow, Let your powers shine, Make the clock reverse~," Rapunzel sang from her heart. "Bring back what once was mine, Heal what has been hurt, Change the fates design, Save what has been lost, Bring back what once was mine, What once was mine~"
Pascal kept his smile at Flynn as he pointed to his palm. Flynn glanced at the chameleon and soon glanced at the palm of his hand only to see that it had been healed as if nothing happened and became breathless as he looked like he was about to scream.
"Please don't freak out." Rapunzel begged him.
Flynn continued to look breathless at how his hand was healed. "Ahhh... I'm not freaking out, are you freaking out?" he then said sheepishly. "No, I'm just very interested in your hair and the magical qualities that it possesses. How long has it been doing that, exactly?"
"Uh, forever, I guess?" Rapunzel shrugged before explaining everything to them. "Mother said when I was a baby people tried to cut it. They wanted to take it for themselves. But, once it's cut. It turns brown, and looses its power. A gift like that, it has to be protected. That's why Mother never let me... That's why I... I never left the..."
"You never left that tower." Doc Croc said softly.
Rapunzel soon glanced over in silence.
"And you're still gonna go back?" Flynn then guessed.
"No... Yes," Rapunzel replied, but buried her face in her hands as she felt stuck on what to do next. "It's complicated."
Pascal soon comforted his life-long best friend.
"Aww..." Wendy whispered as that was so touching and sweet of the chameleon.
Rapunzel soon put herself together and relaxed herself a bit after her emotional outburst. "So, Eugene Fitzherbert, huh?" she then asked.
"Ah yeah, well," Flynn replied. "I'll spare you the sob story of poor orphan Eugene Fitzherbert, it's a little bit of... It's a little bit of a downer."
Casper, Wendy, Yoyo, Doc Croc, and Rapunzel soon got a little closer to Flynn so he would tell them.
"Heh... There was this book. A book I used to read every night to all the younger kids," Flynn soon began to tell them. "The tales of Flynnigan Ryder. Swashbuckling rogue, richest man alive. Not bad with the ladies, either. Nothing to brag ever about, of course."
"Was he a thief too?" Casper smirked playfully.
"Ahh, well no," Flynn said with a light chuckle as he continued to tell them his story. "Actually, he had enough money to do anything he wanted to do. He could go anywhere that he wanted to go. And... And, for a kid, with nothing. I don't know, I... It just seemed like a better option. You can't tell anyone, about this, okay?" he then said to them seriously. "It could ruin my whole reputation."
"Ah, we wouldn't do that." Rapunzel smirked playfully.
"Well, the thing about a reputation, it's all a man has." Flynn told Rapunzel.
Rapunzel gave a small giggle and smiled to him.
"Um, well I should uh... I-I should get some more firewood." Flynn suggested as he soon got up to leave.
"Hey, Flynn? I like Eugene Fitzherbert better than Flynn Rider." Rapunzel smiled, telling him she like his real name than his fake name.
"Eh, if you say so, lady." Yoyo shrugged.
"Well, then you'd be the first," Flynn said to Rapunzel on his way out. "But, thank you." As he left, Casper, Wendy, Doc Croc and Yoyo could see Rapunzel was still smiling.
"She's in love." Casper smirked.
"Yep." Yoyo nodded as it was obvious.
"Well, I thought he'd never leave." Gothel's voice smirked.
"Gah!" Casper and Wendy both gulped from the voice as they recognized it instantly.
"Mother..." Rapunzel whispered in surprise.
"Hello, dear!" Gothel beamed as she threw down her hood with a smile.
Pascal soon camouflaged himself so Gothel wouldn't see him.
"How did you find me?" Rapunzel asked her 'mother'.
"Oh, it was easy really," Gothel said, hugging her with a creepy looking smile. "I just listened to the sound of complete and utter betrayal, and followed that."
Casper, Doc Croc, Yoyo, and Wendy looked nervous around Mother Gothel.
"Mother-" Rapunzel began.
"We're going home, Rapunzel," Gothel said, taking Rapunzel by her hand. "Now."
"Mother, I've been on this amazing adventure and I've learned so much; I even made some friends and I even met someone." Rapunzel smiled.
"Yes, the wanted thief. I'm so proud," Gothel smiled before dropping it to drag the blonde girl behind her. "Come on, Rapunzel."
"Mother, wait," Rapunzel told her before smiling softly. "I think I think he likes me."
"Likes you?" Gothel scoffed. "Please, Rapunzel, that's demented."
"But Mother, I-" Rapunzel frowned.
"Oh, this is why you never should have left." Gothel told Rapunzel as she soon let go and walked by the girl.
Rapunzel sighed as she knew her 'mother' wasn't going to listen, but had to try. The others looked to each other as they continued to watch Rapunzel and Mother Gothel interact with each other.
"Dear, this whole romance that you've invented, just proves you're too naïve to be here," Gothel told her 'daughter. "Why a kid like you? Come on now, really, Look at you, that face, that ancient dress~" she then began to sing to the girl. "Do be a darling, come with Mommy, Mother~-"
"NO!" Rapunzel soon glared.
This caused Casper, Wendy, Doc Croc, and Yoyo to tense up as they had a feeling Gothel wouldn't take kindly to that.
"No...?" Gothel asked in surprise before forming an evil smile. "No... I see how it is..."
Wendy shook chills down her spine as that just reminded her of her aunts before she moved in with Cherry and her parents.
"Rapunzel, knows best, Rapunzel's so mature, now, Such a clever, grown-up miss, Rapunzel knows best~," Gothel smirked before she soon took out a familiar looking crown. "Fine, if you're so sure now, Go ahead then give him, THIS!~"
"How did you-" Rapunzel started to ask.
"This is why he's here, Don't let him deceive you, Give it to him, watch, you'll see~" Gothel continued.
"I trust him." Rapunzel replied.
"Trust me my dear, that's how fast he'll leave you~," Gothel replied, snapping her fingers to demonstrate. "I won't say I told you so... No, Rapunzel knows best, So if he's such a dream boat, Go and put him, to the test~"
"Mother, wait!" Rapunzel frowned.
"If he's lying, don't come crying~" Gothel replied before she disappeared into the night. "Mother... KNOWS BEST!"
"Whoa." Wendy gulped.
"Anyone else get chills from that?" Casper asked.
"I sure did." Wendy nodded to him.
"Same here." Yoyo added.
"Me as well." Doc Croc added.
Rapunzel glanced down at the crown in her hands with a lot to think about.
"So, hey, uh, can I ask you something?" Flynn's voice soon called out as he was coming back with firewood. "Is there any chance that I'm going to get super-strength in my hand? Because I'm not going to lie. That would be stupendous," He soon saw that the others didn't respond. "Hey... You guys alright?" he then asked.
"Oh, sorry, yes," Rapunzel smiled bashfully. "Just, um, lost in thought, I guess."
"Uh, yeah." Wendy said.
"I guess," Flynn shrugged before beaming about possible abilities for himself. "I mean because here's the thing. Superhuman good looks, I've always had 'em. Born with it, but superhuman strength? Imagine the possibilities, I'm just..."
Casper and Wendy looked around, but then looked relieved as Gothel seemed to be gone for now, but unknown to them, Gothel and the Stabbington Brothers were well hidden.
"Patience, boys," Gothel told the two men with a sinister grin as they hid away from Flynn, Rapunzel, and the others. "All good things to those who wait."