Chapter 21

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Merida's POV

The scissors went snip. SNIP, SNIP, SNIP, SNIP

Flynn's POV

I think I made the wrong decision going down the cooling towers, since it was so steamy that I couldn't see what was going on. The steam was also kooky, it got both of us dripping wet but the stream was warm, not hot like expected.

"Hey buddy, we have reached solid ground" Jack's voice came from beneath me

I look down and I see that he has been telling the truth and the steam was beginning to thin, so I could see the gray cement flooring below. I hop off the inner walls of the tower and land on the floor, my shirt was dripping what water. Jack hands over a sweater that he managed to keep dry inside a backpack that he was carrying.

Dammit, I should have brought a backpack

I look. I have landed inside a room, or a hallway. I look to the side to see where the steam was coming from and I saw a hole in the ground (like a huge hole, no jokes) where all the steam was rising. Jack and I creep to the sides, careful not to slip and peeked down

"Damn. Wonder what they're cooking" I said to Jack, who was still gawking at the sight below us. There was a huge vat, boiling over in gray potion and it was being fed from a tube. It was being fed red tuffs of fur. The fur, as soon as it touched the liquid, turned a fiery red, a colour that strongly reminded me of –

"MERIDA" I yelled bolting down the hall, Jack quickly following behind me.

Kristoff's POV

We walked, and walked until we came to a dark room. I griped Anna's hand tighter… what are we going to do? I thought quietly, are we too late? Don't think like that.

Anna and I groped around pointlessly. It was too dark and the fact that the entire place was painted black was not helping. We saw a hallway and walked towards it, and to our delight, we saw a control room.

"Anna! Pst… Anna! Over here" I screamed at her

"Oh! Controls! Now all we need to find is what we're controlling" she says and I roll my eyes. With Elsa gone, Anna started to be all Miss Reasonable, but she's right. I turn around and saw Anna who was holding another doorknob from inside the tiny control room

"Anna, what's that?"

"A door, duh!" he replies nonchalantly

"Huh, well I bet you that it is a closet" I say to her, and she giggles. She pulls me in and closes the door.

We all tense up, since as soon as the door shuts, every particle of light was gone. I felt around for the doorknob when I heard Anna scream "HERE!"

I rolled my eyes again, I was certain that the door closed to the right, but Anna was to the left saying that there was a doorknob… That couldn't be right. To my surprise, Anna did find the smooth exterior of a doorknob (I said doorknob, not the RIGHT doorknob) and when she opened it a crack, I could see the light, but what we saw underneath it as heinous.

Anna's POV

As soon as I pulled the doorknob, light assaulted my eyes, but what I saw with the light assaulted my sanity.

Elsa, or a skeleton of what Elsa used to be, was slumped in a makeshift cage, completely passed out cold. Rapunzel was there as well, and her hair, 100 feet above the ground, now draped all the way to the floor, was also passed out cold. Finally, in the middle cage, what I saw made my blood boil. There was Pitch and Hans with a huge pair of shears, cutting snips of hair off Merida's head of fire.

I was about to charge in when Kristoff grabbed me and pulled me inside and shut the door. The darkness assaulted me again, and I dropped down and felt a tear slide its way off my cheek. It wasn't fair, after everything that happened between me and Elsa, this had to happen. It wasn't FAIR, at all.

Kristoff peeked through the door for about three minutes (felt to me like a full 3 hours) and then, he perked up in excitement and pulled me over. Across from the room, one floor above us, were none other than Jack and Flynn, peeking out through a balcony (ish thing).

Jack looked like he was trying not to start bawling right then and there. Elsa's 'cage' was a good 5 metres away from him but I was positive he could see her in her desperate predicament. Flynn was looking to Rapunzel's cage and I felt his heart break when his eyes landed on the very broken Rapunzel. I attempted to jump out, but Kristoff held me back again.

"Listen, the controls are behind us, and Jack and Flynn are on a metal balcony with no way to reach the bottom"

It was true, now that I realized that, Flynn and Jack were perfectly parallel to the cages; in fact there was a cord connected clothing line style to them that held up the cages that connected to the top of the balcony. I gasped as an idea formed in my head.

Jack's POV

We're too late. I understood as soon as I saw Pitch and Hans hack off Merida's hair, the stuff they were adding. They were adding HAIR, tonnes of it, and it seemed that they went to desperate measures to get it. The girls were skeletons, and their hair was so long that it draped all the way to the floor, 100 ft. below is. (It is a tall floor).

I bowed my head in frustration. It was too late, I could tell, and even if I got the girls back, what would I be able to do? Then, my mind sharpened and I noticed that their hair was covered in. Elsa normally had light blonde hair, but how it was tinted blue, and in the darkness, it looked like blue fire. I looked to Rapunzel's head and sure enough, the blue goop slid off her curls and onto the floor. I needed to get a closer look.

"Flynn, hold this" I cried and gave him the backpack. I ran to the ledge of the balcony and noticed a string that started from the top of the balcony to the other side of the room, where the three cages were laced

Suddenly, the ground started to shake.

"Earthquake?" I mouthed to Flynn, who just looked at me with blank eyes

Then, with a start, I noticed Elsa's cage, the one closest to me, started to move towards me. I grabbed a stick on the floor and hooked it to the edge of her cage. I could hear gasps as Pitch and Hans saw what I was doing.

Great I thought, now they know I'm here.

"Hey Frost boy! Experiment didn't go as planned so you thought you'd come and ruin mine?" sneered Pitch, still grappling onto Merida's moving cage, where they were cutting her hair a few moments ago.

"Jack, get Elsa out, I'll hold them" Flynn barked at me.

"Don't get your hopes up, two college kids against a Nobel Prize winner? You have no chance"

"And another college boy, don't forget me!" Barked Hans at Pitch… I wish I came earlier to see the dynamics of these, but of course, I wish I come earlier so the girls don't have to look like this.

"You were the runner – up, Pitch! And you Hans Nobel, you didn't possess enough spunk to get into this program in the first place!" A new voice rung around the walls of the disaster zone.

I looked up just in time to look back down again. Loud bangs rang through the room, shocking both Pitch, Hans and Flynn. I looked up again after he dust cleared and I looked straight into the eyes of Professor North, Tooth and Bunny, with government helicopters whirling around them. One of the black government copters landed and a small man hopped out; Governor Weselton.

Okay! Everyone is poised for battle… I am not the greatest at fight scenes, and you might tell with this chapter, descriptions are not my thing either… bear with me here, as the fight is going to be short, but he consequences of the fight are going to be in the net 2 chapters, before breaking off into the sequel.

(This fan fiction will be cut off at 25 chapters) The sequel's name is going to be 'Complications' and it's going to be short, so life after this fight and its consequences. (really fluffy, so if you like that stuff, tune in to 'Complications') then, I'm thinking to turn this into a trilogy and end with Pitch and Hans getting their butts kicked (or them rebuilding, or a glimpse into the future… I have no idea…)

I hope you liked this Chapter! I love you all!

Love, PomPom