Phineas and Ferb Save the Disneyverse – Chapter 11: Prince Quentin
A/N: Who is Prince Quentin? Guess you'll find out in a few minutes! Please enjoy!
Disclaimer: Most of the characters in this story belong to the Disney company, except for the ones I have made up.
The card guards arrested Alice, Isabella, Candace, Stacy, Mal and Evie and took them to the Queen of Hearts' court room. It was a very large room, filled with hundreds of seats where spectators would watch the action unfold. The jury – made up of an assortment of different animal species – was also seated nearby. In front of all this was a grand seat where the judge – in this case, usually the Queen of Hearts herself – sat.
"Never thought I'd end up in here again," Alice sighed.
"Don't you have those mushrooms that make you big or small?" Candace asked.
"Unfortunately not."
"Great. Well, at least it can't get any worse."
Out of the corner of her eye, Candace saw a familiar figure seated amongst the jury. It was a zebra. The zebra looked over to her and smiled.
"Don't worry, I'm on your side, Kevin," the zebra said.
"Who's that?" Evie asked.
"Oh just this zebra who keeps haunting my subconscious," Candace answered.
"Who's the judge nowadays anyway?" Mal asked. "The Queen of Hearts should be on the Isle of the Lost."
"Are you sure about that?" Stacy inquired.
"Well yeah, she owns a hair salon."
Stacy winced. "Never imagined her doing that."
Just then, a white rabbit ran to the back of the room, next to the judge's seat, blowing a trumpet.
"That White Rabbit!" Alice whispered.
The White Rabbit cleared his throat. "Loyal subjects," he began, "and members of the jury, the prisoners you see before you have been charged with stealing the Queen of Hearts' Flower of Cards. Under normal circumstances this act would cause the Queen to loose her temper and bestow upon the criminals–"
"Criminals?" Mal asked.
"...100 years probation." One of the guards tapped on the White Rabbit's shoulder. "I'm trying to talk here—oh what's that? He's not here? Dear me, where is that man?"
At that moment, a door at the back of the room opened and in stepped a short man wearing an enormous crown. He had fair skin short black hair and a red robe. He "scurried" into the judge's seat and cleared his throat.
"Ladies and gentlemen," White Rabbit announced, "the Prince of Hearts!"
The "criminals" gasped. "Prince?"
"I didn't even know the King and Queen of Hearts had a son!" Mal exclaimed.
"Alright then, what's so important that I had to halt my lunch," Prince of Hearts said. Before anyone answered though, he looked down from the seat and clicked his tongue. "Hey! Normal-looking human beings! That's nice for a change. What's the charge, White Rabbit?"
"Thievery of your mother's Flower of Cards, your majesty," White Rabbit answered.
The Prince of Hearts sighed. "This again?" He addressed the "criminals". "What do you have to say for yourselves?"
"We didn't steal the flower!" Mal exclaimed.
"Yeah," Candace agreed. "We were at that Mad Hatter's tea party when it just appeared in my hand."
The Prince of Hearts nodded. "I thought so. That Flower of Cards has disappeared and appeared in much stranger places before. Even still, I don't know why my mother ever instated such outlandish rules for ridiculous pieces of decoration. You girls are free to go, case dismissed!" He slammed the hammer down on the podium.
"B-b-b-b-but Prince!" White Rabbit stuttered. "Your mother–"
"My mother ain't here, now is she? Besides, I never liked that Flower of Cards piece anyway. It would have been a favor done for me if it disappeared altogether."
"Well," Mal said, "that was easy."
"Prince of Hearts seems kind of like a nice guy," said Isabella.
"Much nicer than his mother," Alice stated. "Hopefully I never have to see her ever again."
"Excuse me," said the prince as he approached the girls. "I'd like to apologize for the inconvenience."
"Oh no problem," Mal told him.
"Hey, you look familiar. Have we met?"
"I don't think so. But I'm Mal, Maleficent's daughter."
The prince snapped his fingers. "That's right! I read about you and the other VK's a while back. How is Prince Ben—er, excuse me, King Ben? I haven't seen him in who knows how long?"
"Oh he's fine. It's a lot of work running the kingdom, but he's doing great."
"That's good to hear. Say, why don't you all join me for lunch. It'll make up for all this Card Flower nonsense."
"We wouldn't want to intrude," Alice said.
"Oh no, it's absolutely fine. Besides, I've got more food sitting on that dining table than I could possibly eat."
What the prince said about having too much food was an understatement. The dining room table must have been at least 20 feet long, and every one of those feet was loaded with food so diverse it was impossible to describe it all. The girls took their seats and grabbed platefuls of food. Candace grabbed a jelly donut and took a bite.
"Mm," she said. "Not bad, Prince."
"Call me Quentin," Prince of Hearts acknowledged. "And thank you. We make everything from scratch here. So tell me, Mal, what is it like living in Aurodon after living all of your previous life on the Isle of the Lost?"
"It's better than we could have imagined," Mal answered.
"Yeah," Evie agreed. "We've made lots of new friends and I think we're starting to fit in."
"That's good." He paused to bite into a grilled-cheese sandwich. "So who are the rest of you?"
"I'm Candace, and this is my best friend Stacy, my little brother's friend Isabella and this is Alice."
"Oh yes, I remember you, Alice."
"So when did you become ruler of Wonderland?" Evie inquired. "I would have thought all the VK's would be on the Isle of the Lost."
Quentin brushed some crumbs away from his mouth. "I was actually born before King Beast rounded up all the villains. So when King Beast's men stormed into this place, they left me behind since I wasn't exactly much of a villain, though my mother was always pressuring me to be like her. I guess I didn't inherit her bellowing voice and her urge to decapitate people."
"Yeah thank goodness for that," Candace said. "Speaking of which, where is your father? He wasn't a villain too, was he?"
"No, but those two are inseperable, so he's on the Isle of the Lost with her now. After my mother was taken to the Isle of the Lost and I was given the throne by default, I decided I wanted rule differently from her. I didn't want to be the tyrant ruler she was. I just choose to be different."
Mal nodded. "That's similar to Ben's philosophy. It's part of the reason he wanted to give us VK's a shot at a normal life; he taught my friends and I that we don't have to be what our parents were – we can choose who have the power to choose who we're going to be."
"King Ben has a good philosophy. So what brings you all here to Wonderland, anyway?"
"Well," Evie began, "Mal's mother tried to steal my mother's Magic Mirror from the Museum of Cultural History back in Aurodon, but when she did, it broke into six different pieces, five of which were magically transported to other places. We tracked one of them down to Wonderland."
Quentin snapped his fingers. "That's what that thing was!"
"Pardon?" Candace asked.
"One of the guards found what must have been a piece of the mirror in the palace gardens earlier today. I certainly don't have a need for it, so I'd be glad to give it back to you."
"Great!" Isabella declared. "Where is it?"
"It's in the treasury room. I'll take you back there after lunch."
"Awesome!" Stacy said. "We might even get back before the boys do!" Candace frowned. "What's wrong now, Candace?"
"It's just...it's just that this seems deceptively easy."
"What do you mean? Did you think that something was going to happen that would make it more difficult for us to get the mirror shard back?"
"Yeah, I guess I did..."
A dark shadow was cast on Wonderland from high above. Flying toward the kingdom was a great pirate ship, magically kept aloft by Maleficent's magical powers. From the poop deck, Mr. Smee used his telescope to get a good look at the land below them.
"Land ho, Captain Hook!" Mr. Smee cried.
Captain Hook snatched the telescope from Mr. Smee. "Aha! Good sighting, Mr. Smee! Time to carry out part 2 of the plan!"
"Storm into the castle and get the mirror shard?"
"Precisely!" Captain Hook belted out malicious laughter as the other pirates joined in, readying their swords for the assault.
A/N: You didn't really think it would be that easy for Candace and the other girls to find the mirror shard, did you? ;-) Looks like Chapter 12 is going to be VERY interesting indeed! In the meantime, please be sure to favorite and follow this story if you haven't already, and be sure to tell me how you're enjoying the story so far in the review section below. And remember, there's so many ways to be wicked!