Arabian Nights - Part 2

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After Jafar's defeat, he disappeared back to the Underworld, landing ungracefully on his butt.

Hades was just sitting on his chair, examining his nails, "Take back some punch, huh?"

"I was... ill-prepared." Jafar was dusting dust off his clothes as he stood up. "I never had to worry about strength like that dealing with mortals."

"Whoa! Wait a minute, hold on! Mortals? This Aladdin, yutz, you'd been going on and on about is a mere MORTAL?!"

"Well, yes. But a very clever one!"

"Ooh, a clever mortal!" Hades began mocking, "OH! Mommy hold my hand, I'm scared!" He sighed, "Hey, Jafar, babe, face it! Your boy is strictly amateur hour!"

"Insolent cur! Battling Aladdin will shame and humiliate you!"

"Okay, number one: this is my home. I'm the one that does the-" Hades turned bright red, "VOICE RAISING here! Okay? And number two: just cause it will worth a chuckle or two, I'll take on your boy, Aladdin. All right? And what's more I'll beat him!"

"Doubtful," Jafar smirked.

"Oh yeah, you just keep thinking that, okay?" He then put his arm around Jafar, and lead him to his chessboard, "In the meantime, Jaffy- may I call you, Jaffy, babe? Let me show you how you're missing the villain-boat here. Okay? First of all, you're the man. You know what I'm saying? A big, bad dude; so you gotta use a minion or two."

Jafar sighed, "I had a minion. A treacherous parrot!"

"Not a pet! A minion. PAIN! PANIC! Come here!" Hades called his minions.

"COMING!" The imps came in the throne room, standing straight as possible.

Hades was impressed, "Nice huh? Now, I give them some kind of boil of play instructions. You know? Like bow before me."

Pain and Panic did as they were told, and bowed before him.

Hades continued, "Spread my evil, eliminate Aladdin with extreme prejudice - blah, blah, blah - got it, boys?"

"None shall advert us from your dark intentions, your slay-fullness." The imps saluted, and was about to run out to do their jobs; but they ran into a wall and was knocked unconscious.

Hades shrugged, "Not the best examples, maybe. Hey, I never get my hands dirty, and they're house broken... usually." Hades picked them up, and threw them out the Underworld. "Now," Hades turned to his chessboard, and it made an image of Agrabah, "feast your peepers on this."

Then a door slammed, and a voice cried out, "Hades, I'm HOOMMMEEE!"

"Oy," Hades started rubbing his head, "How many times do I have to tell her?"

"Her?" Jafar raised a brow, "You have a woman here, Hades?"

"Well, yeah, my other minion. A very spiteful and obnoxious minion.

"You have a woman for a minion?" Jafar smirked, "Well, aren't you a lucky god?"

"Lucky?" Hades raised a brow, "Jaffy, the girl is a royal pain! She has that snooty attitude that won't stop! I tell her to go left, she goes right. I told her to stop, but she keeps on going. Face it, she's driving me, mu-shooga."

"If you think she's a pain, then why don't you let her go?"

"Let her go?! Jaffy, babe, come on! I would never do that."

"But you said-"

"Jafar, we had our moments, but she's a great use to me in the future. She's what you call... uh... a secret weapon."

"Hm... After you take care of Aladdin, mind if I use your secret weapon?"

"Uh... hold on let me think... uh, NO! She's mine, and I don't share her with anybody. Okay? Sorry, my friend, but she you can't have. Capiche?"

Nattie came into the room, while reading her scrolls from school, not paying attention to Hades and Jafar. "Hey, Hades."

"Nattie, babe, what did I tell you about slamming doors?" Hades asked.

"That it gets under your skin," Nattie said dully without looking at him.

"That's right. Then why do you keep doing it?"

"Because I wanted to," Nattie shrugged.

Hades then started to turn red, and Jafar can see that Natalie would get under Hades's skin easily. "Nattie, what did I say about that MOUTH of yours?!"

"That you hated it. But hey, do I care?"

Hades started to growl at her.

"Um... Hades," Jafar began, "would you mind introducing me to your minion?"

Nattie looked up and saw Jafar. Her eyes grew wide and mouth dropped in shock. She froze still, dropping her scrolls. "Hades, what is Jafar doing here?!"

Hades turned back to blue, "Whoa, whoa, wait! Nattie, you know this guy?!" He asked by pointing at Jafar.

"Yeah, Hercules and I have a confrontation with him!" She turned to Jafar, "You're supposed to be dead!"

"Well, I'm very much alive, my dear," Jafar said with a smirk, "It's a pleasure seeing you again."

"Yeah, pleasure." Nattie said with an eye roll.

"So much for introductions," Hades said as he glided towards his chessboard.

"Hades, what-how-when-why did this happen?!" Natalie cried in shock.

Seeing Natalie so flabbergasted made Hades amused. He loved it when she was speechless,

"Babe, you're not the only one, who had run in with the guy. Right now, I'm going to take care of this Aladdin, kid, Jaffy's been going on and on about."

"Wait!" Nattie smirked, "Do I sense a partnership going on here? You two are killing each other's enemy, and working together to take over?" Natalie was pretending to tear up, "This is beautiful... Okay, this I gotta see!" Nattie walked towards the chessboard to see the image of Agrabah.

"Babe, what about your homework?"

"Who cares?! I want to see action; and we both know you don't care about my education anyway."

"Yes, Hades," Jafar agreed, "Let the girl have a little fun."

Hades sighed, "Nattie, Jafar was supposed to take care of Jerkules for me!"

"But he failed miserably," she said.

Jafar scowled, "Excuse me, but I'm not used to strength like that! Hades won't stand a chance against the street rat!"

"Actually he would," Nattie disagreed.

"What?!" Jafar and Hades cried in shock for different reasons.

Hades asked while smirking, "Nattie, babe, do I sense of support coming from you?"

"You think he'll take down the street rat?!" Jafar asked.

"Yeah," Nattie answered, "but as long as he doesn't send those imps to do the dirty work. I mean it would be easier to just go over there and fry Aladdin himself. Right?"

Jafar chuckled wickedly. He was so loud that it made Natalie and Hades uncomfortable.

"Wh-what's so funny?" Nattie asked Jafar with confusion.

"He did!" he replied laughing.

"He did what?"

"He-He did send those imps! HA! HA! HA!"

Nattie glared at Hades, "Oh my gosh, you did?!"

"Nattie, you and I both know I hate doing the dirty work!" Hades said, "I would prefer to watch the show than be in it. Okay?"

"Yeah, but now you've send those imps there to kill Al. You won't stand a chance against Aladdin! He is tricky and clever! You know how incapable the imps are! Do you remember the time you send those imps to kill Hercules as a baby?" She turned to Jafar, "You gotta listen to this story."

"I already knew the story, my dear," Jafar sighed. "Look, enough of this! I want to see what's going to happen to Aladdin, and if it's going to be bad, like you said, my dear; then it will be indeed worth a chuckle." He snickered at that thought.

"Okay," Nattie shrugged as she sat down on the chessboard.

Hades stood behind her, "Okay, there will be chuckling; but it will be for my victory!" He turned to Jafar, "And I will exterminate the rat with no mistakes."

"As I said before," Jafar smirked, "doubtful."

Hades began growling.

"Shh!" Nattie hushed them, "Look!" They all began watching the action.

~000~000~000~

In Agrabah, Pain and Panic were disguised as humans, and were looking for Aladdin through the market place.

"What do they call these again?" Pain was referring to his pants.

"Pants!" Panic answered, "That's what Nattie usually wears in the Underworld."

"Oh!" Pain smiled, "I like. I should borrow Nattie's pants often."

Panic chuckled, "Come on, let's go find this Aladdin kid."

It's been thirty minutes, and there was no sign of Aladdin.

Panic began reading a scroll, "Let's see according to this rap sheet: Aladdin also answers to Al. He wears a vest, no shirt, and a crimson fez."

Pain's eyes grew wide, and pointed ahead, "That's gotta be our man!"

The human imps transformed into a two-headed dragon, and everyone immediately started to ran away, once they saw the imps in dragon form. The two-headed dragon ran, and grabbed someone's arms. It turned out they grabbed a monkey's arms, and it started screaming.

The imps smirked, "We got you now, Aladdin!"

The monkey stopped and raised a brow with confusion, "Huh?"

"Well, he matches the description," Panic said.

"But he doesn't look very heroic," Pain said.

"Looks can be deceiving!" a boy's voice cried. The imps looked up, and saw a man up in rooftops; but the man wasn't alone, with him were a girl and a magic carpet . "I'm Aladdin!" the boy introduced himself.

"I think you've got our monkey," the woman said pointing at Abu the monkey, who still didn't get out of the imps' grip.

"That's Aladdin?" Panic asked, then the imps threw Abu out of the way, and flew after Aladdin.

Aladdin jumped off the roof, and stepped on the imps' dragon heads. "OW!"

The imps cried in pain, as Aladdin landed safely in the ground. But Aladdin wasn't done; he pulled the imps' tail up, that made them trip.

The woman flew down with the magic carpet, and grabbed a sheet, "Aladdin!" She tossed the sheet to Aladdin, who was now riding the magic carpet.

Aladdin took the sheet from her, "Thanks Jasmine." He began wrapping the imps' dragon legs with the sheet, "This will keep you under wraps!"

Once the imps' dragon legs were tied, Abu smirked and slapped them in the face.

"OW! OW!" They cried.

Aladdin hopped of the magic carpet to get a closer look of the imps, who were still in dragon form.

"What is this thing?" He asked. "I've never seen anything like it."

Suddenly, the imps transformed from a two-headed dragon into snakes and wrapped around Aladdin.

"This time we REALLY got you!" Panic cried.

"Okay! Okay! You guys win, all right?" Aladdin surrendered, "Look, do whatever you want to me, but just don't take what's in my lamp!" Aladdin's free hand pulled out a lamp from his pocket.

"Why?" Panic asked, "What's in the lamp?"

"Must be something tre-cool," Pain suggested.

"GIVE IT!" The imps ordered, but Aladdin tossed the lamp to Jasmine.

She smiled, "Sorry, too slow."

The imps changed back to their normal selves. They wanted the lamp, so they started running after Jasmine, who tossed the lamp to carpet. Then carpet tossed it to Abu, who tossed it back to Aladdin. They were playing the tossing game, while the imps ran after it; but the lamp was tossed to Abu, who was now tackled by the imps.

Panic grabbed it from him, while Pain was on top of Abu.

"AHA!" Panic cried, "Now we see what special goodies you got in here!"

"Stop!" Jasmine cried.

Aladdin's face was full of worry, "You have no idea, what's contained in that lamp."

"What do you take us for?" Panic asked.

"A couple of rubes fresh out the olive cart?" Pain cried. Panic opened the lamp.

Suddenly a big, blue hand punched the imps high in the sky, then back to the Underworld.

The gang began laughing as a blue genie appeared out of the lamp.

"Thanks Genie," Aladdin thanked him.

"Don't mention it, kid," Genie said as he was messing with Aladdin's hair. "That was a great plan as always."

Abu made monkey noises agreeing.

"Who are those creatures, and what did they want with you?" Jasmine asked her lover.

"I don't know, Jasmine." Aladdin shrugged, "Whoever they are, they're long gone."

(Natalie's POV)

The imps fell through the ground, and landed in the Underworld. They began to groan in pain.

"Well, Jafar, you're right about one thing, that was worth a chuckle," I said trying not to snicker.

"Yes," Jafar agreed, "but I couldn't help but notice that Aladdin IS STILL ALIVE!"

"You win." Hades admitted, "The kid is trickier than I thought." Hades glided to the chessboard, and picked up a Hydra figurine, "Okay, where to put that Hydra?"

Jafar and I looked at each other in disbelief. We couldn't believe that Hades got over that fight quickly. I've never seen Hades like that when he was defeated by Hercules. Maybe it was because that Aladdin wasn't Hades' foe, so Hades didn't care or have the time for him.

"That's it?!" Jafar cried, "Aladdin humiliated you! Don't you want your revenge?!"

"Technically, Aladdin humiliated the imps." I said, "The kid didn't know the imps were sent by Hades."

"But still!" Jafar cried angrily. He turned to Hades, "Well, aren't you getting your revenge on the street rat?!"

"Uh, yeah, sure, okay," Hades rubbed his head. "How about I rule the cosmos first?!" Hades' flames came to life, "Okay, and then I'll take him. Priorities, Jafar, eyes on the prize, babe. And just like Nattie pointed out, he didn't technically humiliate me, and he's not my fight anyway. So why bother?"

"Because he can't get away with it, Hades!" Jafar cried, "The only prize I want is Aladdin's head in the platter! But I still can't defeat that boy!" Jafar paused then smirked as an idea lit in his brain, "Hm... maybe I don't have to defeat him." Jafar stepped in between me and Hades, "Uh, tell me, you two. What happens when one hero fights another hero?"

I paused to think, "Hm... I don't know. Chaos?"

"Mayhem, collateral damage," Hades answered.

"Why do you ask, Jafar?" I asked.

"Well, Natalie, what if Aladdin and Hercules would have a sort of terrible misunderstanding?" He put his arm around me and Hades, "With the proper motivation-"

"Um... they'll argue, and-"

"And!" Hades come to a realization, "They would fight until they destroy each other!" Hades smirked, "I like it."

Jafar began laughing wickedly that made me and Hades uncomfortable again, "HA! HA! YES! YES! I shall have my revenge!" He continued laughing wickedly.

I started groaning and rubbing my temples. Jafar's laugh was getting under my skin. It's no wonder why Jafar's my second favorite villain.

"What's with the laugh?" Hades asked, "How does that help?"

"Well, it punctuates my evil." Jafar answered, "It's a flourish." He continued laughing.

"Well, it's obnoxious," I said.

Hades sighed, "He is such a freak."

"Tell me about it." Hades and I walked away from Jafar to form a plan. "So how are we going to have this proper motivation for Al and Herc to fight?" I asked.

Hades shrugged, "Easy, we'll just kidnap person they care about."

"Yes," Jafar said walking towards us. "I'll kidnap his wife, Princess Jasmine; I'm dying to see her." He chuckled.

"And you will stay here as my prisoner," Hades said putting his arms around me.

"What?!" I cried in shock. "I'm sorry, but what did you just say?" I asked Hades.

"I said I'm going to use you as my prisoner. Would you like to be tied in a rope or chains?" Hades pulled out the rope and chains from both hands. "I'm being generous here. I could do both."

I scowled and yelled, "I'm not going to be your FREAKIN' PRISONER! I refuse to play damsel in distress! Forget it!"

"Hades," Jafar began as he was rubbing his temples, "didn't you say that you're the only one doing the voice raising here?"

"Jafar, don't encourage him," I hissed at Jafar.

Hades scowled at me and slowly turned red, "That's right, Jafar! I am the only one doing the VOICE RAISING HERE! Babe, as long as you live here, it's MY house and MY rules! You do exactly as I say! Got it?!"

I paused for a moment and shrugged, "Not really."

Jafar chuckled, then Hades glared at him that made Jafar shut up.

Hades turned to me, "What part did you not get, babe?!"

"About your plan to use the damsel-and-distress card. Why? It's old!"

"What's so old about it?!" Jafar asked.

"I mean it's always the same. Every time someone wants to get revenge on a hero, their first instinct is to kidnap a girl. I mean it's insulting!"

"Then what do you suggest?" Jafar asked. "Kidnap Aladdin and Hercules's best friend?"

"Hm... not a bad idea. A lot better than going with the damsel-in-distress idea."

They paused for a moment, then Hades said, "Okay. Fine, we'll go with that. We'll kidnap their trustee friends, the heroes fight, and- bada-bing - they'll be dead! And I will take over Olympus without distraction!"

"And so will I, once I become sultan!" Jafar was about to laugh, but I covered his mouth.

"Shut it, grandpa!" I said, "Nobody wants to hear that laugh!"

"Grandpa?!" Jafar roared in anger, under my hand. He pushed me away from him, and looked me in the eye, "That's big talk from a little BRAT!"

I smiled, "Jafar, when you have a better insult that doesn't include the ones I already knew, then we can talk."

"Okay, cut it out you two." Hades stepped in between us, "Quite acting like rotton kids."

"The brat started it, Hades!" Jafar roared, "Did you hear what she said?"

"Uh, yeah, I did, and you know what, Jaffy? You shouldn't let her get to you. She insults me all the time; I'm used to it."

"That's so true," I agreed.

Hades turned to me, "Now Nattie, it's about time you have to contribute something! You are clearly Hercules's closest friend, are you not?"

"Nope."

Hades froze still, "Pardon? What was that you just said?"

"He is my friend, but I'm not Hercules closest friend."

"Then who is?"

"... Oh no, nice try. You're not going to talk me into telling you."

"Babe, it's either the friend or the ropes? Your choice." He got out the rope, and walked closer to me with a smirk that gave me the creeps.

"Now, Hades, don't look at me that way! Had-" I stopped talking when I felt Jafar grabbing me from behind. "Get off me!" I elbowed him in the stomach, that made Jafar grunt in pain. "ENOUGH!" I cried, "Okay, I'll tell you anyway. But you gotta swear that they won't be harmed."

Hades sighed, "All right, babe. I'll give ya that one. No harm will come to the brats, okay? So who are they?"

I paused and said, "Okay, it's Icarus and Abu. Abu is Aladdin's best friend; and Icarus is Hercules's best friend. Okay?"

They began smirking. I began to feel uncomfortable, so I began to walk away, "Okay, I guess I should go and-"

Hades teleported in front of me, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, where do think you're going?"

"Going out."

"Doing what?"

"Uh... go out and pretend that I don't know about you and Jafar's team-up plan."

"And?"

"And I promise I won't get in the way... as long as Icarus and the monkey don't get hurt... and myself."

"And?" I raised a brow, "What? What else is there?"

"Babe, I have a special job for you. Because from what I remembered, you didn't contribute to my schemes, ever since you've came here to live with me."

"That's not true! I did contribute some."

"Oh? When? What plan did you contribute?"

"Well, how about the time when your plan was to steal the sun... ooh, wait Hercules carried the sun out of the Underworld. OH! Or how about the time when Zeus became mortal, and... oh wait, I forgot to tell you the time limit. OH! I know! At the first day of school, Hercules was humiliated! He was pushed out of the balcony."

"Doesn't count. The snooty, prince did that not you, and from what I heard you pushed the prince off the balcony too."

"Who's the idiot that told you that?!"

"Uh..." Hades was pretending to think, "Hm, let me see that was... Oh that's right, IT'S YOU! You're the idiot!" He and Jafar began laughing, and I rolled my eyes and face palmed.

"Okay! I get it! Maybe I haven't contribute more than I'm supposed to, but-"

Hades pressed his finger on my lips, so I couldn't talk, "Ah, ah, ah, no buts. I'm giving you a job, and you're going to do it. Capiesh?" He removed his finger off my lips.

"Or what?"

"Or you're going to say hello to the chains." Hades snapped his fingers, and the chains appeared from the walls. He stepped towards me, forcing me to step back.

"WAIT! WAIT! WAIT!" I cried, "Does this mean that I'll be the victim?"

"Without doubt, babe."

"Okay! Okay! Okay!" I cried as I managed to get away from Hades's grip, "All right! What do you want me to do?"

"Glad that you're being cooperative, Natalie," Jafar said while smirking down at me.

I rolled my eyes, and faced Hades, "Okay, what do you want me and the imps to do?"

"Oh no! Forget the imps, they can't even handle killing a street rat, let alone a baby!" Hades put his arm around my shoulder, "Now you, my little raven, are going to set a trap for our friend."

"Okay, and then... you take Icarus."

Hades chuckled, "Are you kidding? You know all too well that I don't do the dirty work."

I raised a brow, "Then who is?"

Hades smirked at me, and answered, "You are, babe."

A/N: Ooh, do you think she'll do it? Review for your answer. I decided to write Genie, because I like him. I also like Iago, but he didn't show up in the episode. It's too bad, because I like that parrot. By the way, I just received 19 reviews on the last chapter. That's a record! Thank you for those who reviewed and did my poll. I already finished writing this episode, so I would probably update soon.