Ugh, I am soooo tired. I'm at my bedroom with the air conditioner on, laptop on my lap, homework by my side, reading fanfiction on my phone, listening to Green Day, while eating a cup noodle.

Thank god this rewrite is done, I think I'm going to rest for now.

Anyway, review!


Hiccup circled around the room, filling the air with apprehension. The feeling of dread filled his innards when he had been informed by Rapunzel herself that both Astrid and Merida had ultimately lost the trial, via walkie-talkies.

Hiccup looked out of his small square window, the view of the city was somewhat visible. But he couldn't see the place where the trial was, he mostly hoped for something to suddenly pop out of the distance.

Feeling the numb on the edge of his left foot was somewhat agonizing, he needed to sit or the stitches that bind his stump of a left foot would open. He couldn't help but to feel helpless at the thought of tomorrow, what if Rapunzel decided to bail on him? What if she got caught?

Hiccup messaged the numbing sensation on his leg, which was relieved easily. He pinched the bridge of his nose from a trickle of sweat, the heat was also a problem. But now he needed to focus on the first one, the way out of the goddamn city.

The sun was setting, he noticed that the giant star was visible from the window. The shadows shifted as time passed, he must've took all the rest of his life walking in a circle uselessly. Maybe he could talk to Rapunzel again, maybe she would give him more instructions. Is Eugene still outside?

"Eugene!" Hiccup called, pressing his face against the gap on the metal folding door. "Eugene!"

"Goddammit, call me Flynn, will you?" Eugene came hurrying as he heard Hiccup's call.

Hiccup had no time to joke. "Give me the radio! Quick!"

Eugene raised an eyebrow, he took the handheld radio out of his backpack and slipped it through the gap. "What else do you need?" Eugene asked, half-heartedly.

"No, this is good." Hiccup quickly snatched the walkie-talkie from the ground, he elongated the antenna before turning it on.

Static was first heard, he searched for a channel or a signal. He put the radio near his mouth and started to talk, "Hey, Rapunzel, it's me. Rapunzel do you copy?" He said.

Hiccup exchanged glances with Eugene through the bars on the metal folding door, who only shrugged in response.

Hiccup turned the dialer on again. "It's Hiccup, do you copy?" Hiccup only heard static, he waited a few seconds but still no answer. "Rapunzel it's me, are you there?"

Eugene scratched the back of his head. "Let's try some other time, maybe she's busy." Eugene concluded.

"No, I needed to talk to her now." Hiccup snapped, speaking into the handheld radio again.

"Hiccup. She's busy, it's useless." Eugene frowned at him.

"I need to know if my friends are safe or not!.. Dammit!" Hiccup cursed, throwing his hands up to the air. Almost throwing the radio out of his hand.

"Rapunzel is doing all that she can to help you three out, you just need to put a little faith on her." Eugene assured him.

"I don't know that, okay? I don't know if I could trust you completely, I just need to contact her for a bit!" Hiccup said angrily.

Eugene frowned at his response. "We'll see if you can trust us tonight, she had already made a promise to you. And if Rapunzel makes a promise, she never ever breaks it. I'm on the same boat as her, I'll try to help the girl with all my strength." Eugene said. "So basically you have no choice but to trust us if you want to get out of here."

Hiccup looked down to the handheld radio in his hand, face contorted with determination. Honestly, Hiccup trusts them enough to lend his life to them. What he wanted to do now, is to leave the city in one piece, no matter what it takes.


Gothel sat in her throne of the room, a large fabric armchair that sits next to the TV and bookshelves, a small coffee table that sat next to her with a glass of wine on top of it. The afternoon sunlight creates looming shadows from Gothel's figure, matching her personality. Gothel felt nothing, only calmness and satisfaction that had surged over her for hours.

She had been a republican for years, silently waiting for her chance to sit on the iron throne. Now she has the power, equal to the past rulers of the earth, but she has all kinds of methods to keep her title. Fear and panic has always been her recipe for supremacy, she always used the same methods for two months to win against her enemies. And for the sake of it, she loved to watch them perish at the wishes of her people.

Little did she realized that a small group of imbeciles are beginning to rise, a group of rebellion. Her actions seemed to cause a reaction amongst her people, they had been irritating her with their insulting graffiti, kidnappings of her guards, and constantly making allies. Her counter attacks always works (which involves speeches and crowd gatherings), but she must not forget the possibility of her being lost. But when the despised trio came to Corona, her biggest fears had just been proved, that there might be more people still alive out there.

And if there're bigger groups, her people would consider leaving. And if that doesn't stop, she wouldn't rule anything at all.

Gothel dug her long fingernails on the arm rest, she took a sip from her wine again to calm herself down.

"Sit down, Rapunzel." Gothel called out. As it turns out, Rapunzel had already stood there under the doorframe for a few minutes.

Gothel glanced at her goddaughter from the corner of her eye. "I said. Sit. Down." Gothel repeated again, clearly and slowly.

Rapunzel had flinched in response, but she bravely walked slowly towards the empty armchair next to Gothel. The raven haired woman took no bother glancing at the blonde girl, instead she took another sip of her wine.

"Why aren't you in bed?" Gothel said in irk.

"It's half past five…" Rapunzel replied softly.

"I don't care, you only get out of bed when I need you to." Gothel said, cutting her off. An annoyed look can be seen when Rapunzel talked back at her.

Rapunzel's face contorted in anger. "How did you do it? How can you kill those people?"

"I have no idea what you are talking about." Gothel said simply, sipping her wine. Sometimes her goddaughter can be confused, she can barely understand anything.

"They were all innocent people! All those people hanged on the tree, they were not evil! They did not deserve to die." Rapunzel stood up, too quickly.

"Rapunzel, sit down…"

"Astrid hasn't done anything wrong! You can't just kill her like that!"

"What I say goes, how many times have I told you this?" Gothel eyed Rapunzel angrily, holding back the urge to curse at the blonde.

"You can't do that! She's telling the truth! Why can't you-" Rapunzel's voice trailed off when Gothel decided to stand up as well.

Gothel had enough, enough of those three, enough of her goddaughter. Gothel looked at a Rapunzel's figure, looming above her with anger plastered on her face. With a quick hit from the back of her hand, Rapunzel was thrown back and landed on the floor painfully after the loud smack.

Rapunzel had tears rolling out of her eyes, looking at the floor with shock in her consciousness. Touching the place where her godmother had just hit her, the warm red mark will scar her for long.

Gothel couldn't kill her even as much as she wanted to, she was an asset to her people.

"Go to your room." Gothel said, but the girl still laid unmoving on the floor.

Gothel snorted in disgust, as if a filthy dog had just died in front of her feet. She had no time for this crap, she needed another alone time to feel the satisfaction of her winning.

Rapunzel was left there by herself, on the cold dusty floor.


Both Astrid and Merida's hands were tied, they are being transported elsewhere with a van. Both the girls warily scanned the back of a truck, three more people is with them and all three of them are snipers.

The girls felt no safety being guarded by three men, considering all of them took a few glances once in a while. The truck was slowing down after a few minutes, signaling that they had arrived.

Astrid took a look at the surrounding when they were told to get off the truck, Corona was not different from Berk at the outskirts. The parking lot of the mall had a few rusting cars left, there were plastic bags and trashes scattered all over the ground, the city was quieter than ever as they are far away from the center of town. Astrid felt ghosts running around the city, bringing unease to her.

"Come on, girly." One of the snipers said as he took Astrid by the arm. "I don't care if you're infected, I'll have some fun with you for a while anyway, is that okay?" The sniper whispered to her ear.

"Let go of the girl." A gruff voice said, making the sniper retreated. One of the Stabbingtons pointed his rifle at Astrid, then he looked pass the sniper. "Go back to the truck."

The man smiled and raised both his hands in defeat, he went off back to his friends.

The Stabbington looked back at Astrid, who was rooted to the ground. "Move." The Scar-face said.

Astrid grumbled internally, she glanced at Merida who is being told to go forward by the other Stabbington. Both of them exchanged hopeful glances, but realized that they won't find any.

Astrid would not rather think about tomorrow's event, she was the special guest but yet she wouldn't be there to see the end of it. Merida was thinking the same, but she was focused on searching for a way out. Though they both saw the silver lining, if Hiccup was still alive they would see him now.

The mall's interior had been ransacked, some of the stores had been shut down completely while the rest was full with cardboard boxes. The concluded that not only the mall was being used for a prison, it was used as a storage as well.

They went up the unmoving escalator one by one, rifles still pointed towards their heads.

A few corners and turns, sometimes a few jab on the spine to tell them to go faster. They reached a hallway full of dust and scattered objects, and a young man standing warily at them. He had a goatee, and a divided hair, he had a sniper rifle strapped on his body.

"Who are they?" The young man asked the Stabbingtons.

"Dead meat." The Stabbingtons readied two keys in their hands, they told Merida and Astrid to go in a different room. Once they were pushed inside, the Stabbingtons slammed the metal sliding door down and locked it with a single two clicks. The room was damp, and all the stuff that used to be there was cramped in the corner. There was only one window, showing an orange sunset in the distance.

"Aren't you going to take these off?" Merida was heard yelling from the other side.

Astrid could see the Stabbington smirk from the gap leveled on her eyes. "You won't need those off, you're not going to eat anyway."

Both the Stabbingtons gave a chuckle before stopping in front of the stranger. "You're relieved of duty." One of the Stabbingtons growled at the man.

The man widened his eyes. "W-what? Why?"

"You. Are relieved. Of. Duty." The Stabbington took the collar of his shirt, and lifted him high. When the man said nothing, he was released.

"Come on, man! I'll give you guys some break, what if you just give me a chance and I promise none of them will escape." The young man gave an innocent grin, clapping his hands together.

The Stabbingtons exchanged looks. "One fuck up. ONE! And you're dead!" They threatened, and with that they disappeared out of view.

Luckily, Astrid could wiggle her hands out of the rope. Then she rushed to the gap, the first thing that came to mind was to find Hiccup.

"Alright, they're gone." The young man said, as he relieved strode back and forth.

"Astrid! Merida! You there?!"

"HICCUP!" Said both Astrid and Merida as they pressed their faces to the gaps. "Where are you?!" Astrid hissed.

"I'm right here! On the same cell as you!" Hiccup said back.

"Holy crap! I thought you were dead!" Merida said happily from her cell. "How do I get these ropes off?"

"You don't need to." Hiccup said, assuring her. "Someone's coming for us, she'll cut you out."

"But who-?" Merida began, her voice trailing off as she got the answer. "It's Rapunzel isn't it?"

"Yeah, you know her, right?" Hiccup asked them.

Merida bit her lower lip. "Yeah, we do. Wait, is she really going to save us?"

"Yeah, she gave us a radio to keep in touch. We just need to get ready when she comes." Hiccup said, then he turned to the man sitting on the floor at the hallway. "Show them, Eugene."

Eugene reached to his back pocket and showed them the item. "Got it right here." Eugene shook the handheld radio.

Astrid slunk back in realization, Rapunzel was coming back for her. She was feeling glad and guilty at the same time, she has a lot of things to make up to her. She took a strand of hair out of her eye, waiting for the moment where Rapunzel miraculously saves them.

The sun had disappeared behind the buildings, leaving giant shadows and hints of light in its wake. Eugene had lit a candle, waiting patiently for Rapunzel.

Astrid sat in the same position for a few hours, realizing that it has gone dark and the only light source came from the candle outside she stood up and leaned against the metal sliding door.

"These are your girlfriends?" Eugene started, smiling at what Astrid thought was Hiccup's cell.

"Friends who are a girl." Hiccup said, to put it simply. "Technically, yes."

Astrid snorted at the thought.

"Ah! Friends with benefits, eh?" Eugene said, making Astrid to look up in surprise.

"Fuck you, Hiccup." Merida said out loud, a hint of laughter in her voice.

Hiccup did not reply, but Eugene laughed heartily as he leaned back against a wall.

"So what's the real story, then?" Eugene asked.

"Well-" Hiccup began.

"Not you, I want to hear from these two very attractive girls!" Eugene cuts him off, earning a laugh from two cells.

Merida was the one to answer. "Ah don't date Hiccup, she does. I danae if I'll stand his scrawny body."

"You'll change your mind, later." Hiccup teased.

"Hiccup!" Astrid cried out, somehow annoyed.

"I'm joking! I'm joking!" Hiccup laughed.

"Then, well, they met me." Merida told Eugene.

This somehow peaked his interests. "You were out there all alone?"

Merida shrugged. "I guess so."

"Poor girl! No wonder you look so sad, do you want me to get anything?" Eugene asked in the most hard to listen voice ever.

"Don't press yer luck, bub." Merida deadpanned.

After a few more talks and topics, the atmosphere felt a lighter. There was no pressure for a second there, only voices and other voices. Astrid rested her head on her arm which rested on the gap, feeling sleepy she smiled to herself. She was glad that despite everything, there was still people who would still help them. Rapunzel seemed like a person you would trust, and there was no second thoughts.

They gasped suddenly, hearing loud footsteps in the distance. Astrid, Merida, nor Hiccup could see who it was. But they had a good feeling who it was, hopefully they were right.

But when Eugene immediately raised his sniper rifle, it gives them more uncertainty. "Who are you?" He narrowed his eyes to the other side of the hallway, but his hold on the sniper faltered as something came up at him. "Rapunzel!"

Astrid had her eyes transfixed upon a girl who had just came to view, along with some other people armed with firearms and flashlights.

Rapunzel scanned the room, "Open them up." She ordered the people behind her.

"No need to tell me twice." One of them said, a taller boy with brown hair went up to Astrid's metal folding door with a crowbar. Astrid took a step back, there was screeching and something breaking followed with the boy opening up the metal folding door.

"What happened? Why is your-"

"It doesn't matter, we're getting out of here." Rapunzel snapped.

"Wait. We?"

"Yes we!" Rapunzel raised her voice at him. "We're getting out here, with them. Away from my mother, and this town. I've had enough, do you know that?"

Eugene backed away in shock, a few people noticed this but they ignored that.

Astrid was finally let out, along with Hiccup and Merida. The Scott had her hands free of ropes with the help a woman, the woman had a streak of yellow and green on her hair.

"There we go, how are your hands?" The woman smiled to Merida.

"Never better, thanks miss." Merida rubbed the mark on her wrists.

The woman giggled, "Just call me Toothiana." She said.

"Merida." The redhead informed herself.

Astrid looked at Hiccup, her eyes immediately fell upon his peg-leg.

"H-how are you?" Astrid muttered softly.

Hiccup noticed her. "Never better, I guess."

Astrid paused. "I'm sorry…"

"No, please don't." Hiccup rubbed the back of his neck, earning a raised eyebrow from Astrid. "You saved my life, you have nothing to be sorry about."

Eugene watched as they went on with their reunion, he went back to Rapunzel. His worry began to rise as he saw a red mark on the side of her cheek.

"Rapunzel," Eugene stopped, not wanting to mention anything that would anger her. "Who are these people?"

Rapunzel looked up at him, then back to the brown haired boy who only shrugged in response.

"They're rebels, from about a week ago. Do you remember that?" Rapunzel explained.

Eugene was somehow surprised, seeing the blonde to have successfully gained trust in a group of people who had been told to be terrorizing the city. "How did you guys get meet up?"

"Sorry, but shouldn't we be going out?" The brown haired boy said to Rapunzel.

Rapunzel sighed. "Yes, Jack. I think we should."

"We better make it quick, I have sudden bad feeling." A large man said, he had a greying hair and a machete strapped to his back.

Hiccup noticed their conversation. "Yeah, we'll catch up with you."

Rapunzel nodded and turned around to walk away, until Astrid grabbed her by the shoulder.

"What is it?" Rapunzel asked her. Suddenly Astrid hugged her, tears forming in her eyes.

"I just wanted to say thanks, Rapunzel." Astrid said to her ear.

Rapunzel hesitated for a moment, until she hugged her back. "I promised, didn't I? I never break my promise." She smiled, letting go. "Let's get out of here."

"I thought we're giving them these?" The grey haired man said, holding up three backpacks. Along with a bow, a shotgun, and a hatchet.

"My bow!" Merida exclaimed, instantly grabbing her items. "My hatchet!"

Astrid took her backpack, there was Hiccup's butterfly knife put in the side pocket.

"Come on, we have not much time." The boy named Jack said.

Astrid finally remembered something. "How are we going to get through the bridge?"

"We fly, of course." Jack smiled. "Let's get the helicopter."


That took a bit longer, did it? Well get ready cause I have a feeling it'll get longer!

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