Elphaba quickly moved to tie Morrible up with some loose rope found in the tower, making certain to tie her arms behind her back to severely limit her magical powers when she woke up. Elphaba then stood up, and Glinda noticed she was looking a little pale.
"Elphaba, your injury, are you alright?" Glinda looked concerned.
"Yeah, I think so," Elphaba smiled awkwardly.
"Well I'm going to run downstairs and find something to bandage it with…and someone should go check on the boys anyway," she smiled, remembering how they were cleaning the floor with those guards when she last saw them. "Will you two be okay up here?"
"We'll be fine," Nessa smiled, still staring down at Morrible.
Glinda smiled at her friend, saying, "To think Nessa, you thought you'd be helpless here. But in the end you saved us all." Nessa finally looked up from Morrible to glance at Glinda and Elphaba, beaming with a sense of pride.
With that, Glinda turned from the room, moving down the narrow tower staircase. She picked up her speed as she neared the Wizard's inner chamber. Hearing her shoes echoing off the stone floors as she entered, she was stunned to find no sign of Boq or Fiyero. However, she managed a sigh of relief when she saw a large pile of guards' bodies pushed into the corner of the room. I'm sure they're fine, they're just running around the palace looking for us, Glinda decided, and chose to go looking for them.
"Fiyero? Boq?" Glinda called out as she paced through the hallway, trying to think of the most likely place they would go looking for the women. She was about to make her way back to the dungeon, thinking maybe they had gone back to rescue Nessa, but she heard a noise coming from a nearby room.
"Boq? Fiyero, is that you?" Glinda called out timidly, suddenly realizing there may be more guards waiting for her throughout the palace.
However, Glinda breathed a sigh of relief as she heard a male voice she discerned to be Fiyero's call out, "Glinda?"
Glinda smiled as she followed the voice until she found herself in the Wizard's personal study. Boq and Fiyero were standing at the Wizard's desk, looking up at Glinda as they held a book between the two of them.
"Thank Oz you're both alright," Glinda finally let herself emit a real sigh of relief. Fiyero's arm was still in a sling, Boq was now sporting a black eye, and both looked like they had taken a pretty good beating. But they were okay, and that's all that mattered to Glinda.
"Where's Elphaba?" Fiyero asked with sudden concern.
"And we couldn't find Nessa in the dungeon!" Boq said with an equal amount of worry.
"She's fine, they're both fine," Glinda smiled. "Elphaba has a cut in her abdomen, but it's nothing serious. And Nessa stopped Morrible, she saved us all!" Both men stared at Glinda in stunned silence, causing the blonde to laugh at the pair. "So while we were up in the tower defeating the most powerful woman in Oz, you two decided to catch up on some light reading?"
Fiyero finally remembered the book in his hands and rolled his eyes at Glinda's joke. "We found this in the Wizard's desk, take a look," he said, rushing it over to her. Glinda skimmed the page he had marked, and Glinda gasped at what she read. "We need to show this to Elphaba," Glinda said quickly, and the three quickly vacated the room to head back to the tower.
Glinda led the way through the winding hallways and up the stairs, making sure to stop and grab some cloth along the way that would work as bandaging for Elphaba's injury. As the trio entered the tower, they could see that Morrible was now awake. Fortunately, she was still tightly tied down by the rope, and Elphaba continued to point her broom at Morrible defensively. Hugs we shared around the group as it became clear that everyone was alright, that they had all survived. Glinda watched as Nessa and Boq kissed for the first time since he became human again, and glanced over to see Fiyero tending to Elphaba's injury. Finally bringing her attention to Morrible, Glinda took the opportunity to address her.
"It seems you have underestimated us," Glinda smiled. "For you see, there is nothing naïve, stupid, ugly or tragic about us."
Morrible snarled angrily, still sneering at the group. "You may have stopped me, but what makes you think that you have won? You have no proof that Elphaba is the rightful ruler to Oz! No one will believe you, no one will accept it!"
"That's where you're wrong Morrible," Elphaba smiled as she turned to address their prisoner. "You see this little dot on the end of my broom? It's a microphone that Glinda was smart enough to implant before coming here." Elphaba mumbled a few words of an incantation, and the room was suddenly echoing with the booming sound of Morrible's voice.
"Poor Elphaba. Poor sad, lonely, misunderstood Elphaba. After all this time, she finds out she is the daughter of the Wizard and the sole heir to the Ozian throne."
Elphaba mumbled a few more words and the recording stopped. Elphaba looked smugly at Morrible, making the old woman realize that she had triggered her own demise.
However, Morrible smiled back, and quickly started chanting loudly.
Glinda had thought Morrible's magic was relatively powerless without the use of her hands to control the magic, but clearly her powers were beyond that. "Gag her!" Glinda yelled, and Boq quickly ran forward to cover up Morrible's mouth. But the old woman was able to finish her spell just in time, and Elphaba's broom exploded into a million splinters of wood, falling to the ground pathetically.
"Hey!" Elphaba said turning to Morrible, "that was my favorite broom! That really wasn't very nice of you, Morrible," Elphaba taunted, a smile never leaving her face as she stared at their powerless captive. "Fortunately enough for us, Glinda was smart enough to outfit her wand with a microphone too."
Glinda nodded proudly, mumbling a few words of her own before her wand started emitting Morrible's cold words. Although Morrible could no longer speak, Glinda was pleased to see the look of shock and defeat in her eyes, and Glinda knew they had won.
"And now we have this," Glinda smiled, holding the small book out to Elphaba.
"What is it?" Elphaba asked.
"It was the Wizard's personal journal, Boq and Fiyero found it in his office."
Elphaba took the book delicately in her hands, knowing it was the key to her past, a container of her father's memories. Glinda turned the book to the appropriate entry, and Elphaba read aloud:
Melena contacted me this morning, telling me it was crucial we met at our favorite café. She looked utterly distraught when I found her there, and she was quick to tell me why. She was pregnant. And with my child! I was beyond thrilled, for I've always longed to be a father. However, my moment of joy quickly turned to anger and sorrow when she told me she didn't plan on keeping the baby. This turned into the biggest fight we've ever had, and the entire thing played out in the silly little café, in front of the staff and everything! I tried to convince her that we could make it work, to start a life together with our child, but she was adamant that she was getting rid of the baby. I told her I couldn't be with someone who would do such a thing to my child, to OUR child, and I stormed out. I hope things calm down and we can see each other again soon, although I'm doubtful. But at the very least, I hope she reconsiders what I said, and has the child…
Elphaba's voice trailed off, a tear rolling down her cheek. Glinda placed a hand on Elphaba's, trying to console her friend.
"Oh Elphaba, don't cry, please don't be sad."
"I'm not," Elphaba whispered. "He never realized I was his daughter…and he wanted me. He wanted me Glinda! Ever since you told me I was his daughter, I was in such pain thinking about what a terrible father would ostracize his daughter like he did. But he didn't know either, and he actually wanted me! He wanted to be a father! And without his arguing with my mother, I don't think I would exist."
Glinda smiled at Elphaba's wonderful revelation, pulling her friend for a hug. She could hear Elphaba sobbing loudly on he shoulder, and worked to comfort her friend, "Shhhh, it's okay Elphaba, everything's alright now." And it was.