In the gardens below Jasmine's bedroom (it was mine too, but temporarily) Aladdin was pacing worriedly while Harry, who wasn't as worried, watched. Along with watching Aladdin, Rip and the others talked and it was at this point that Hermione explained that dodos, or diricawls, are magical birds that can disappear at will, which explains why muggles think that they hunted the bird into extinction.

"What am I going to do?" Aladdin said to himself nervously. "Jasmine won't even let me talk to her. I should have known I couldn't pull off a stupid prince wish."

Harry rolled his eyes with an amused smile, for he thought that Aladdin pretending to be something that he's not was silly. Harry did agree that Aladdin did have a good right to be nervous, but Aladdin wouldn't even have a reason to be nervous if he'd just be himself.

Abu was trying to eat bananas, but his elephant feet kept squishing the bananas into his face. After a few bunches Stitch pointed out to Abu that he should use his trunk instead. Abu did and found it a lot easier to control, so he was finally able to have a snack.

Genie and Ron W were playing chess with the carpets. Well, actually Harry's carpet and Ron W were playing wizard's chess. In wizard's chess, unlike muggle chess, the pieces moved and literally smashed each other whenever a piece was taken. The team, excluding the witches and wizards of course, were amazed about the game. Those who found muggle chess boring admitted that they thought that wizard's chess was cool. Harry's carpet and Ron W were playing a pretty quick game – Ron W was winning – but Aladdin's carpet, however, was taking a while on his turn.

"So move." Genie said, growing impatient.

Carpet made a winning move by knocking one of Genie's pieces right off the board.

"That's a good move." Genie said, surprised. "I can't believe it, I'm losing to a rug." Genie said a la Rodney Dangerfield.

"Miranda's gonna be sorry she missed that one." Rip chuckled.

I know Rodney Dangerfield not only through Casper but also through this movie called Rover Dangerfield, which is a childhood favorite of mine. I found him very funny in both films.

"Genie I need help!" Aladdin said.

"All right Sparky," Genie said a la Jack Nicholson. "Here's the deal: if you want to court the little lady you gotta be a straight shooter, do you got it?"

"What?" Aladdin said.

"Tell…her…the…TRUTH!" Genie said, pointing out each word on a blackboard he conjured – the word 'truth' was written huge on the other side.

"No way!" Aladdin cried, making the blackboard disappear into smoke with his turban. "If Jasmine found out I was some crummy street-rat…she'd laugh at me."

"She'll appreciate a man who can make her laugh." Genie replied, turning into a lighted lampshade and replacing Aladdin's turban with it.

Aladdin, annoyed, clicked the lampshade off and Genie turned back into his original form.

"Al, all joking aside, you really ought to be yourself." Genie said, handing Aladdin back his turban.

"That's the last thing I want to be." Aladdin replied.

Harry shook his head with disappointment.

"Okay I'm going to go see her, I gotta be smooth, cool, confident. How do I look?" Aladdin asked after wrapping his cape around his neck.

"Like a prince." Genie sighed.

"More like a phony." Harry muttered.

Aladdin and Harry flew their carpets to our balcony. Jasmine and I were inside. Jasmine was sad but I was just waiting for Harry to show up. I wanted to ask him what really happened after the guards dragged him away.

"Princess Jasmine (Miranda)?" Aladdin and Harry said.

We looked up, including Rajah who did not look happy to hear them.

"Who's there?" Jasmine replied, not being able to see through the balcony curtains.

I recognized Harry's voice instantly, plus I could smell him so...

"It's us, Prince…" Aladdin caught himself and altered his voice. "Prince Ali and Prince Harry Ababwa."

"We do no want to see either of you." Jasmine said coldly through the curtains.

"Hey, speak for yourself." I said, going past her and out onto the balcony.

"No please, Princess, just give, just give me a chance." Aladdin pleaded, moving closer.

"Just leave us alone." Jasmine interrupted.

Rajah growled at Aladdin and Harry and looked as if he was going to attack them. This also prevented me from getting closer to Harry.

"Down kitty." Aladdin and Harry said as they backed onto the edge of the balcony railing.

I didn't do anything because I knew that Rajah wouldn't hurt Aladdin or Harry unless they did something threatening. And of course neither Aladdin nor Harry would ever do something like that.

"So how are our little beaus doing?" Genie and Ron W asked the carpets under the balcony.

"Look a mouse, scat." Aladdin and Harry said to Rajah.

Both carpets made a slashing motion across…well….one of their shorter sides, carpets really don't have throats. Genie and Ron W facepalmed. Aladdin and Harry continued trying to drive away Rajah.

"Come on, good kitty." Aladdin and Harry continued, trying to drive Rajah away with their turbans. "Down kitty."

"Okay Rajah that's enough, they're not going to hurt us." I said, getting tired of this.

Rajah reluctantly backed away. Jasmine reappeared on the balcony.

"Wait, wait, do we know you?" Jasmine asked.

"Uh, no, no." Aladdin said quickly, putting his turban back on and getting off the railing.

"You remind me of someone we met in the marketplace." Jasmine explained suspiciously as Rajah glared at them.

"Yeah, by the apple stand." I added, wanting to get Jasmine to realize that Prince Ali was really Aladdin.

"The marketplace?" Aladdin repeated, a little nervous.

"The apple stand?" Harry repeated, seeing a chance to get Aladdin to stop acting and be himself. "Well we were there…."

Aladdin cut Harry off quickly by giving him a slight kick with his heel.

"We have servants who go to the marketplace for us." Aladdin lied.

Jasmine and Rajah looked at each other with annoyed, disbelieving looks. I rolled my eyes and went over to Harry.

"Why we even have servants who go to the marketplace for our servants, so it couldn't have been us you two met." Aladdin finished, trying to shoo a couple bees away.

"No, I guess not." Jasmine said, disappointed.

Harry frowned, also disappointed. Hermione and the team were disappointed too.

"Hey Harry," I whispered. "What really happened to you two, both Jafars said that the two of you had been killed."

"Actually we were in a dungeon and an old man and dog let us out so that we could get a lamp for him." Harry whispered back. "Turns out he was going to kill us but Hedwig and Abu saved us. Then we found out that the lamps had genies."

"So that's what happened to Ron, glad he's okay." I realized.

"If you considered 'being trapped as a genie' okay."

"Oh great, if Aladdin doesn't free his genie later then Boss had better free Ron after this is over." I muttered.

"Enough about you, Casanova, talk about her." Genie buzzed to Aladdin.

"Huh?" Aladdin said, obviously not expecting Genie to be one of the bees.

This also directed Harry's attention away from me. I didn't mind, since I already liked Genie and wanted to see more of his brand of humor.

"She's smart, fun, the hair, the eyes, anything! Pick a feature." Genie continued.

Ron W was the other bee, he wanted to watch.

"Uh, Princess Jasmine, you're very…." Aladdin began.

"Wonderful, magnificent, glorious, punctual." Genie buzzed absentmindedly.

"…Punctual." Aladdin repeated.

"Punctual?" Jasmine and I repeated, confused.

Harry faceplamed as Ron W jabbed Genie in the side.

"Sorry." Genie buzzed.

"Beautiful." Aladdin corrected.

"Nice recovery." Genie and Ron W buzzed.

"I'm rich too, you know." Jasmine smiled.

"Yeah." Aladdin agreed.

"The daughter of a sultan."

"I know."

"A fine prize for any prince to marry." Jasmine said, getting closer to Aladdin.

"Uh, right, right, a prince like me." Aladdin said nervously.

"Warning! Warning!" Genie and Ron W buzzed as their tails glowed like beacons.

"Uh-oh." Harry muttered.

"This should be good." I chuckled.

"Right, a prince like you," Jasmine continued. "And every other stuffed shirt, swaggering peacock I have met!" Jasmine said angrily, pulling Aladdin's turban over his face and wrapping his cape around his head.

"Hey!" Aladdin protested. "Wait!" Aladdin cried as he pulled his cape off.

"Mayday, mayday!" Genie and Ron W cried, pretending to be crashing airplanes while still in bee form.

"This is not going well." Kit sighed.

Hermione and the rest of the team agreed with a nod.

"Just go…" Jasmine was now frustrated.

"What?" Aladdin said as he lifted his turban.

"...jump off a balcony!" Jasmine snapped.

"Wha?" Aladdin and Harry said.

"Whoa, okay even I consider that too cruel." I remarked, jabbing a thumb towards Jasmine.

"That is kind of overdoing it." Clifford agreed.

"Yeah," Wanda nodded. "I mean they are on a balcony after all."

"Stop her! Stop her!" Genie and Ron W buzzed. "Want me to sting her?"

"I hope they didn't mean that." Nazz said.

"Considering how silly they've been, I'm sure they didn't." Sheegwa giggled.

"Buzz off." Aladdin and Harry said quietly, annoyed, to Genie and Ron W.

Harry wasn't acting this time, he really was annoyed at Genie and Ron W's offer. With obvious reasons too I mean, come on, how is stinging Jasmine going to help?

"Okay, fine, but remember: 'bee' yourself." Genie and Ron W buzzed.

Genie then went back into his lamp and Ron W joined Hermione and the team.

"Yeah right." Aladdin snapped.

"What?" Jasmine and I said.

"Uh, uh, you're right." Aladdin said, covering up. "You aren't just some prize to be won. You should be free to make your own choice, we'll go now."

Aladdin and Harry suddenly walked off the balcony!

"No!" Jasmine and I cried.

"What? What?" Aladdin and Harry said quickly as their heads floated above the railing of the balcony!

"How…how are you doing that?" Jasmine and I asked, looking over the railing.

"It's a magic carpet." Aladdin and Harry explained, flying low over the balcony.

"It's lovely (cool)." Jasmine and I said as the carpets kissed our hand/paw.

"You…you…I don't know…want to go for a ride do you?" Aladdin asked.

"Yeah, we could leave the palace and see the world." Harry hinted, remembering what Jasmine said about the palace earlier.

Harry wasn't acting here either, he always enjoys flying but more so when a friend is with him.

"Is it safe?" Jasmine asked.

"Sure. Do you trust me?" Aladdin and Harry asked.

"What?" Jasmine and I said.

"Do you trust me?" Aladdin and Harry repeated, holding out their hand/paw.

"Yes." Jasmine and I said, taking their hand/paw.

And we started flying away. Suddenly, Harry flew back to the rest of the team.

"Hey you guys want to join us?" He asked.

Hermione and the team eagerly nodded, looking as if they were waiting for him to ask that. Harry and I flew ahead and Rip followed. Rajah watched us leave from the balcony.

"Keep in mind that Harry and Miranda are only acting." Rip said to the rest of the team.

"We know, why do you have to keep on saying that?" Alex asked.

"Miranda doesn't even want a boyfriend." Rip explained.

Well, that certainly made the teams's eyes pop open! That is except for my fellow operatives, I already told them a long time ago. Oh, and Hermione, I told her and Ron W and Harry a long time ago too.

Aladdin and Harry started singing, though in Harry's case it was only for the love of flying.

ALADDIN AND HARRY:
I can show you the world
Shining, shimmering, splendid
Tell me, princess, now when did
You last let your heart decide?

We flew through the city, and as we did Aladdin's carpet plucked a flower off a vase of flowers. He then gave it to Aladdin, who gave it to Jasmine.

ALADDIN AND HARRY:
I can open your eyes
Take you wonder by wonder
Over, sideways, and under
On a magic carpet ride

We all flew over, sideways, and under buildings and awnings. Then we left the city and started flying through the sky.

ALADDIN AND HARRY:
A whole new world
A new fantastic point of view
No one to tell us no
Or where to go
Or say we're only dreaming

As our friends passed through the clouds, a few of them got their heads covered in the stuff. Clover was one of them, and Sam and Alex couldn't keep from laughing. In a friendly way of course, they weren't laughing in a mean way. The clouds did give Clover a silly look and she knew it, but despite that she grabbed some clouds and tossed them at her fellow spies with a grin. Sam and Alex tossed some clouds right back, and soon everyone – except the Eds, they had already disappeared into their compartments – got into a cloud-ball fight. Actually they liked it better than a snowball fight because the clouds didn't have the stinging sensation that snow can sometimes give you. It was like being hit with very light cotton. Jasmine then got into the song, and I joined in for the fun of it.

JASMINE AND I;
A whole new world
A dazzling place I never knew
But when I'm way up here
It's crystal clear
That now I'm in a whole new world with you

Instead of singing 'world' on the first line I howled to the tune. Everyone stopped the cloud-ball fight, startled by my howl and wondering how I was able to howl realistically for a human. They soon recovered, then just looked at the scenery and enjoyed the ride.

ALADDIN AND HARRY:
Now I'm in a whole new world with you

Aladdin's carpet flew around a cloud, making it look like a scoop of ice cream. Then we neared a flock of birds. Harry and Rip and I flew behind the flock but Aladdin and Jasmine flew into the flock. One bird in particular looked freaked out to see them.

JASMINE AND I:
Unbelievable sights
Indescribable feeling
Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling
Through an endless diamond sky

Aladdin, Jasmine, Harry and I indeed soared, tumbled, and freewheeled. Suddenly, the carpets then started diving through the air really fast!

"Hang on." Rip grinned as he followed too in a fast dive!

His passengers grabbed the edge of their compartments in fear, though those who wore hats used one hand to hold on to them.

JASMINE AND I:
A whole new world

ALADDIN AND HARRY:
Don't you dare close your eyes

JASMINE AND I:
A hundred thousand things to see

ALADDIN AND HARRY:
Hold your breath – it gets better

JASMINE AND I:
I'm like a shooting star
I've come so far
I can't go back to where I used to be

Rip soon reached a really long river, and once he was on the water he zoomed quickly so that the ride was like a motorcycle version of water skiing. Fear gone, Hermione and the team enjoyed the ride. Aladdin, Jasmine, Harry and I zipped past a guy who was chiseling out a nose onto a giant statue of a cat with a human face. Startled by us flying past, he did one chisel a little too hard and the nose broke off.

"Now we know how the Sphinx lost its nose…." Velma started to laugh, but then she stopped as everyone else froze with shock.

"Wow, from Arabia to Egypt." Fred said. "Those carpets can move fast."

Rip suddenly stopped, and flew out from under the others so that they started falling through the air! But then Rip caught them again and started acting like a roller coaster, doing moves that not even the best one in the world would be familiar with.

ALADDIN AND HARRY:
A whole new world

JASMINE AND I:
Every turn a surprise

ALADDIN AND HARRY:
With new horizons to pursue

JASMINE AND I:
Every moment, red-letter

We then flew over a herd of galloping horses. Jasmine petted one and the horse really seemed to like that.

Then we were in Rome, and Aladdin used his roll-off-the-arm trick to give Jasmine an apple.

ALADDIN, JASMINE, HARRY AND I:
I'll chase them anywhere
There's time to spare
Let me share this whole new world with you

ALADDIN AND HARRY:
A whole new world

JASMINE AND I:
A whole new world

ALADDIN AND HARRY:
That's where we'll be

JASMINE AND I:
That's where we'll be

ALADDIN AND HARRY:
A thrilling chase

JASMINE AND I:
A wondrous place

ALADDIN, JASMINE, HARRY AND I:
For you and me

During the ride one of Rip's loop-de-loops caused those who wore hats to switch them. They all laughed and so did Harry and I when we saw what happened. We had been waiting for them to catch up.

"What a ride!" Tuck laughed.

Hermione and the team agreed.