104R 48: Escape Plan.
Outside the wearhouse, Xigbar opened a door that was on the ground, revealing an underground storm shelter.
"Put them inside." Said Xehanort, refering to Candace, Jerry and Waddlesworth and the dogs.
"Wait, what is that?" Asked Candace as Xemnas held her.
"What, you don't recognize it? Maybe this will help." Said Linda. "Put her and Jerry, and the dogs and the Parrot, inside."
Xemnas and Xaldin and Larxene put Candace, Jerry and Gigi inside the shelter, follow by Bo, Molly, Waddlesworth and the dogs and the Miller pups.
"There. Does it look familiar yet?" Linda asked.
Candace, Jerry, Gigi, Bo, Waddlesworth and the dogs all looked around at the inside of the shelter.
"Where are we?" Candace asked.
"Storm cellar." Said Bo.
"A storm cellar?" Candace said. Realization set in. They were in a storm cellar...just like Kevin and Chloe were in Paris, France, at the fur factory, in (2000). This wasn't a coincidence...this was a deliberate act in reference to what happened 21 years ago, as well as to a scene in the (2002) film, 102 Dalmatians. "Oh my goodness. It couldn't be."
"That's right, Candace." Came the voice of Linda.
Candace and the others looked up at Linda and the other villains.
"You and Jerry are this decade's Kevin and Chloe." Said Linda.
"I thought of that one myself. You know...it's amazing. You learn a lot from watching movies. All the plots are about the villains trying to kill off the protaganists." Donna added.
"Where's Rex?! Where's Jason?!" Gigi demanded.
"Where's my son and his friends?! What have you done with them?!" Jerry added.
"Oh, don't worry about the kids. We haven't done anything to them...yet." Said Linda.
"Don't you dare hurt them!" Said Bo.
"Hurt? Who said anything about hurtting? I would never hurt a child. That would be like hurting one of my own. And why should we even bother trying to kill all of you when we can let your bodies do the work for us." Said Linda.
"When our bodies can...What does that even..." Realization hit Candace again and her eyes went wide. "Oh my gosh."
"You guessed it, Can. We're gonna leave you all locked up on this property to die of thirst and starvation." Said Linda.
Adriana's eyes went wide. Surely her mother couldn't be that cruel.
"That's right. The police are gonna find you and everyone else dead from lack of nutrition." Said Donna.
"But don't worry, we'll come back to get all of you...in five months from now. Ta-ta." Said Linda before slamming the cellar door shut, locking The gang inside. "Hahahaha! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"I don't know about any of you...but i am 'SERIOUSLY' beginning to dislike that woman." Said Jerry.
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Inside the Lumberjack building, Rex opened a door and he entered inside an old office, with Helena following him from behind, entering into the room, holding her gun, with Xaldin restraining Jason, as they entered inside behind her.
"See? Isn't this better? We're all alone now." Said Helena.
"Yeah...alone." Said Rex.
"Well, don't say it like that." Said Helena.
"Like what?" Rex asked.
"Like you're nervous or something. If i didn't know any better, i'd say you don't wanna be here." Said Helena.
"Where else would i be?" Rex asked.
"Back home in Kansas, playing house with your new girlfriend, Gigi, and her son." Said Helena.
"Gigi is not my girlfriend." Said Rex.
"So you guys just hang out together 'cause...you're just friends?" Helena asked. "It's okay, Rex. My daughter is threw with you. You can have Gigi. And her son and dogs make eight, right?"
"Stop it." Said Rex.
"That's how it should be. One happy little family." Said Helena.
"I understand why you're being so...(Sighs) Okay. You know, when you were at Stacy's trial a year ago, the outcome for you was a shock. You weren't prepared for how the way things...turned out...when you came back into your daughter's life." Said Rex.
"The way things turnned out. That's...an interesting way to put it, Rex." Said Helena.
"But you're back now. So you and your husband can pick up the pieces and reconnect with your daughter." Said Rex.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, i know you're not telling me what to do, right?" Said Helena.
"No, i'm not, Mrs. HeLL." Said Rex.
"Cause what's there to figure out? You broke my daughter's heart so you could be with Gigi." Said Helena.
"You know that last part's not true." Said Rex.
"Or maybe i should just tell Stacy to pretend that it never happened. You and her can go back to when you were really, really in love and gonna get married. But...there's one problem with that. It's gonna be a little complicated with her behind bars and Gigi and her son in your life too." Said Helena.
"I understand...that you're angry with me...about everything that happened with Stacy. But put yourself in your daughter's shoes for a minute. You were gone." Said Rex.
"Please. Don't lecture me what it was like when i was gone. Stacy already did that during my first visit with her in prison." Said Helena.
"Well, obviously you weren't listening. Because Stacy didn't know if you and her Dad were ever coming back. She felt abandoned!" Said Rex.
"Please! That's between Stacy and me! You were her boyfriend, Rex! And you tossed her aside like she was nothing to you! And please, you can't blame it, this time, on me and my husband because you know exactly what you were doing! So put yourself in my place. How would you feel if Jason went to prison and Gigi left you?" Said Helena.
"If Jason went to prison...and if Gigi walked out and left me...i would be destroyed." Said Rex.
"Right. I bet you would." Said Helena. "But the thing is...Stacy wouldn't do that...'cause she loved you so much. And you don't just leave the person you say you love, Rex. But that's the difference between you and her. But maybe...maybe i was wrong to bring Stacy up, thinking that there were good and honost people in this world. Maybe i should change my whole outlook on life, you know? Be more like you. Not get bogged down with things like a consciounce..."
"YOU KNOW WHAT, JUST SHUT UP!" Rex yelled.
Helena: "Do whatever i want..."
"SHUT UP, MRS. HELL! You gave up your daughter, you walked out on her, so don't expect me to feel sorry for you anymore because i am done!" Said Rex.
"Just what are you trying to say?" Helena asked.
"When your life got too tough, and you found out that Stacy and i were dating each other, you disowned her and took off with your husband!" Said Rex.
"You think i wanted to do that to my own daughter?" Helena said.
"Pretty convenient with you rich parents. You know, things get hard with your kid, just dump them onto someone else and walk away. Lucky for you and your husband. Not so lucky for me. No. Because while you and your husband were off doing who knows what, abandoning 'YOUR' kid, 'MINE' got kept from me and ripped away 10 years later!" Said Rex.
"And that's my fault?" Helena asked.
"No, no, no, no. No, it's mine. It's all mine, but...'I' had to deal with that. After i disappeared on Gigi for 10 whole years, without saying a word, and the Texas 104 Dalmatians incident happened, and everything blew up in my face the way that it did, 'I' had to live with that. I had to do all the work to undo the mess 'your daughter', and my mother, had caused." Said Rex.
"So what do you want, Rex? You want a meddle?" Helena asked.
"Stacy waited for you and your husband to come back...for 10 whole years. She tried to seek you both out as many times as she could, no matter how many times you and your husband shot her down or her feelings got hurt. And 10 years later, well, Stacy helped a mad woman steal the whole Dalmatian puppy population from the state of Texas, along with my son." Said Rex.
"So Stacy's poor choices are your excuse for dumping her now?" Helena asked.
"Works for you, doesn't it?" Said Rex. "Like i said before...i never meant for any of this to happen. I was just trying to help Gigi take care of our son. Try to have some sort of normal life...for Jason...and for us. And then you show up here, out of the blue, one year later, and you expect everything to be exactly as it was when your daughter was sent away. But guess what, Mrs. HeLL...life went on...without your daughter. Deal with it."
"What my daughter saw in you, i will never understand. The De ViL's are nothing but a bunch of backstabers. My daughter is so lucky to be rid of you, she's far better off." Said Helena.
"And so will you when you let all of us go." Said Rex.
"Yes. What could i possibly gain from a house full of hostages?" Said Helena.
"You have a hostage...right here. Take me instead." Said Rex.
"Who are you trying to impress with your heroisim? I can assure you it means nothing to me." Said Helena.
"Okay, fine, then lets discuss something of greater value. I'll pay you whatever you want." Said Rex.
"You know what i want, i want my daughter back! I want her out of prison! She's dying everyday, a little bit more, that she's there!" Said Helena.
"Mrs. HeLL, i am sorry that Stacy is in prison. But she stole an entire state's Dalmatian population and kidnapped my son." Said Rex.
"And i would side with you if i cared about any of that, but at the moment, all i care about is my daughter. The one that's in prison? You and Gigi are parents. Try to imagine this: Imagine you go see your child in prison, and every week you see them change. You see the hope in them...just disappear and...you see it replaced with...with bitterness and with anger...and dispare. And soon you see that everything you loved about them, everything you put into them,...is just fading away. And all you have is...everything you loved about them...their sense of humor, their personality...their tenderness...it's gone away, it's gone. It has to because otherwise...they wouldn't make it." Said Helena.
"Mrs. HeLL...again, i am sorry about Stacy. But she broke the law. I know that you blame me for your daughter going to prison. But maybe if you and your husband had been better parents, and actually been there for your daughter when she needed you to be, she wouldn't have gotten mixed up with the wrong people and helped them steal 104 Dalmatians, and a kid, my son, from the state of Texas. Maybe if you and your husband had been more involved in Stacy's life, when she was coming up, and hadn't walked out on her for 10 whole years when she needed you most, she wouldn't be where she is right now. Because...where do you think she learned it from, Mrs. HeLL? She wanted revenge...just like you." Said Rex.
"And i'll take responsability in my part in what happened as long as you do the same." Said Helena.
"Sorry? What do i have to take responsability for?" Rex asked.
"Oh, i think you know." Said Helena.
"What i know is that Cruella blackmailed Stacy, about keeping my son's existance from me for 10 years, and made her go along with this insane plan to steal hundreds of Dalmatian puppies from the state of Texas so she could make them into a fur coat. And in the process of doing that, she kidnapped my son also." Said Rex.
"Yes. Yes she did." Said Helena.
Rex: "So i don't understand why you're pointing the finger at me. I'm not the one..."
"Stacy would have never helped Cruella in the first place if you hadn't been running around with Gigi." Said Helena.
"Mrs. HeLL, i was not running around with Gigi." Said Rex.
"Then what exactly would you like to call it?" Helena asked.
"Gigi and i are friends, and as soon as she started hanging out with Schyler James, i stayed away from her. I didn't do anything wrong." Said Rex.
"Except fall in love with Gigi." Said Helena.
"What?" Rex asked. Fall in love with Gigi? What was this lady talking about?
"You didn't think i knew that, did you? Stacy told me! You fell out of love with her and in love with Gigi!" Said Helena.
Rex: "What? I didn't..."
"That is what started her downward spiral! Don't you understand?! She didn't care what happened! She helped Cruella De ViL, 'YOUR' mother, all because of you!" Said Helena.
"Look...i know this is all hard for you to hear and i'm sorry." Said Rex.
"You're sorry? You stole my daughter from me!" Said Helena.
"No, no, no, no, no. I didn't 'STEAL' anybody, okay? You 'GAVE' Stacy up." Said Rex.
"And the minute my husband and i were gone, you just swooped right in and took over. You didn't even wait for the body to get cold." Said Helena.
"That is not how it was." Said Rex.
"Then how was it, Rex? My husband and i were never going to accept you, so you just took control of our daughter's life? It didn't matter to you that her parents were gone?" Said Helena.
"All i can say is what i've been saying: I never set out to hurt you and your family." Said Rex.
"Which time?" Helena asked. "So was it worth it, dumping my daughter for Gigi? Are you two 'so in love?"
"I can't answer that. I don't know." Said Rex.
"But you're gonna try for a relationship anyway?" Said Helena.
"We're not in a relationship. Gigi's the mother of my son." Said Rex.
"What? Say that again." Said Helena.
"Sharing a kid changes things. There's this connection." Said Rex.
"A connection? Really? You and Stacy had a connection, remember? The two of you were gonna get married, you were gonna build a life together. But that was until you decided to dump her for someone who you thought was far more prettier." Said Helena.
"Please, enough! Mrs. HeLL, seriously, you don't need me. You destroyed your daughter all by yourself." Said Rex.
"Excuse me?" Said Helena.
"Yeah. Stacy was going to ask you and her Dad to be in the wedding whenever we decided to tie the knot. She wanted your blessing for us to be together, but you, you couldn't accept that she had fallen in love with a guy who you and your husband didn't approve of. It was too hard for you, so you dumped her and took a nice long 10 year absence from her life, with your husband." Said Rex.
"That's not what happened, Rex! It's not like my husband and i wanted to take off!" Said Helena.
"Really? 'Cause someone took off from Stacy's life, and...i know it wasn't me. And then you come back, and you expect everything to be just as it was when you left. But guess what? Life doesn't stop just because you can't deal with it!" Said Rex.
"Sounds like you have things all figured out." Said Helena.
"Mrs. HeLL, you're Stacy's mother, and...i care about you. And i will care about you until the day i die, but i'm sorry. I'm not gonna let you make me your excuse for every miserable thing that happens in your life, and i'm not sacrificing my life with my kid because i'm afraid you're gonna fall apart." Said Rex.
"Give me a break, Rex! You want me to fall apart! Because if i end up in prison or an institution, you don't have to feel guilty anymore! But guess what? It's not gonna happen. I'm gonna make you pay for what you did to my daughter." Said Helena.
"This isn't just for Stacy, this is you getting payback." Said Rex.
"There's nothing left for Stacy in this world...not since you revealed your utter facelessness, like the De ViL you are." Said Helena.
"Oh yeah, i see, i'm heartless and unfeeling. How dare i have a problem with her keeping my son's existance from me for 10 whole years! How dare i have a problem with her helping some mad woman steal hundreds of Dalmatians, and my son, from the state of Texas!" Said Rex.
"SHE DID IT FOR YOU, REX! YOU AND HER! She devoted the whole thing to you. For pete sake, Rex, she loved you. 'WHY,' i don't know." Said Helena.
"I don't want that kind of love and devotion." Said Rex.
"You don't deserve it." Said Helena.
"You're nuts." Said Rex.
"No...i'm very sane. My motive isn't as 90's as Cruella's. Mine is just good old fashion revenge. You took my child from me. And now i take your's and i can't think of anything more rational." Said Helena, with her blue eyes now big as saucers.
"You'll never get away with this." Said Jason.
Helena focused on the 12 year old boy. "Of course i will. Everything is tracable back to Candace in London. Including how she stole your Dalmatians in Kansas. And...well...you know the rest. But let's just say you, and your gang, followed Candace here to New Zealand, where you found out she was hidding all of London's Dalmatian puppy population here at this wearhouse. And you confronted Candace and she had a nervous breakdown the way my daughter did and took you all prisoner and locked you up on this abandoned property...but not before one of you was able to trap her on the property with you. Okay. So have i covered everything? Or am i leaving anything out?"
While Helena was talking to Jason, Rex eyed the open door and slowly started heading towards it.
"You know what though, who gives a flying CARE ANYWAY!" Said Helena as she swung around, pointing the gun at Rex, who stopped in his tracks. "Let 'em try and track down the possible true mastermind behind this repeated incident! The London police don't even know that i exist."
"You're as crazy as your daughter was!" Said Rex.
"What did you just say?" Said Helena.
"Uh-oh." Said Jason.
"Was that a negetive? A put down? A discouraging remark about my daughter? About my Stacy?" Helena asked.
"No, Stacy was a good girl, Stacy was perfect. You did a bang up job, Mrs. HeLL." Said Rex.
"It's not wise to mouth off at me with a gun, Rex. Your girlfriend spoke poorly of Stacy and i let that one slide. I was a good mother. You know what makes me sick? I am sick to death of people saying that it's all the parents' fault, that it all starts at home with the family! So if you wanna blame someone, why don't you blame your mother?! She's the one who got Stacy tangled up in all that Dalmatian madness and broke up my family! And then you sent my daughter to jail! You don't know what it is to be a parent! To raise a child! To teach her! And guide her..."
"And abandon her?!" Said Rex, cutting Helena off. "Isn't Candace suppose to be in the cellar?"
Helena turned her back on Rex to look out the door, only to see that there was nobody there.
Rex then pushed Helena out of the way and Jason elbowed Xaldin in the ribs, causing the Dark 13 member to release the 12 year old boy. Father and son then ran out of the office and Jason closed the door and placed a near by chair up against the doornob, trapping the two villains inside.
Helena and Xaldin ran up to the door and tried to open it, only to discover that it was stuck. The two adults then started banging themselves up against the door, trying to break it down.
"HEY!" Helena screamed.
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Meanwhile, in an old basement, Keegan, Isabella and Charlie were each sitting in a chair back to back. The three kids, and the chairs, were duct taped to each other, they all had their hands handcuffed behind their backs, their mouths and eyes had duct tape over them and their ankles were duct taped together as well. This was in reference to The Texas 104 Dalmatians incident/film when Jason was kidnapped and held hostage by Cruella and her gang in Australia. The three kids rocked around in the chairs, trying to free themselves, but were powerless to do so due to the fact that they were taped to the chairs. As the kids continued to struggle, Lady Black stepped out of the darkness, holding a sharp hunting knife in her right hand.
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Back in the cellar, underneath the Lumberjack building, Jerry was sitting on the ground, all alone, away from the others, thinking about everything he had just learned about his wife, Linda, how insane she really was, and how he had missed it all those years until now. But most of all...he hated himself...for putting Keegan in harm's way.
Candace walked over to where Jerry was sitting. "Hey."
Jerry looked up and saw Candace standing beside him. "Hey."
Candace bent down to Jerry's angle. "Are you okay?"
"I can't believe i trusted her. How could i have been so stupid? You know, i've known Linda and been married to her for six years. How could i have never seen this?" Said Jerry.
"Jerry...Jerry, how were you suppose to know?" Said Candace.
"I put Keegan in danger, that's all i can think about." Said Jerry.
"No, Jerry, you didn't. You were mislead and decieved just like the city of London was. Jerry, i can asure you that none of this is your fault, not any of it. But now's not the time to be beating ourselves up over what has happened. Now's the time to escape from this place and get those Dalmatian puppies back home to London, where they belong." Said Candace.
"But how? I mean, we're locked inside a storm cellar. There are no windows, no good reception to our cellphones, and no other doors in the place." Said Gigi.
Candace got to her feet. "Let's look around. There has to be a way out of here."
Jerry got to his feet and he and the gang, humans and dogs, started looking around for anything they could use for an exit. As the group continued searching, Gigi was startled by an eye, looking at her through a hole in the sealing.
"Hello, Miller." Came a voice from the sealing.
"AH!" Gigi screamed.
"AH!" Rex screamed.
"Rex. Is Jason with you?" Gigi asked.
"You bet he is. He's my good old sidekick. Now pass up those pups, quick." Said Rex.
"Okay." Said Gigi.
Inside the building, Rex and Jason were on their knees by the large hole in the floor. One of the four puppies, Dice, was passed up through the hole and joined the two humans.
"One. Have a seat." Said Rex.
The second puppy, Mickey, was passed up through the hole next.
"Two. Good, come join us." Said Jason.
"Come on, you guys, hurry up, hurry up. Hurry up." Said Rex.
Candace and Jerry helped Gigi and Bo pass the last two puppies, Max and Olive, up through the whole.
"Okay, that's all of them." Said Gigi.
"Thanks for your help. We'll come back for you and the others after we find Keegan, Isabella and Charlie." Said Rex.
"I'll hold you to it." Said Gigi.
With all of that said and done, Rex and Jason got to their feet and ran off to look for Keegan and his two friends, with the Miller pups following close behind. But they soon stopped in their tracks when they saw Cruella, Xehanort, Linda, Donna, Frankenstiene and Clyde all entered inside a room while Adriana stood outside. Rex, Jason and the puppies all hid behind a corner as Adriana looked in their direction. The young british girl then saw a white tail wagging around the corner.
"WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?!" Came an angry voice, causing Adriana to flinch as she turned to see Xehanort standing in the door way.
"Nothing. I was just thinking, that's all." Said Adriana.
"ADRIANA! GET IN HERE! NOW!" Linda screamed.
"Yes, mother." Said Adriana before rushing inside the room where the others were.
Xehanort closed the door to the room, joining the other villains.
Rex and Jason and the puppies poked their heads out from around the corner and saw that the cost was clear.
"Come on, let's go." Rex whispered before he, Jason and the puppies continued onward in their search for Keegan and his two friends.
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Meanwhile, inside the room, Xehanort and the villains were having a meeting with each other. After putting Copper back inside the delivery truck's trailer with the other 103 Dalmatian puppies, making the number of them be 104 again, the Dark 13 leader headed inside the building to talk business with the others.
"So what were you saying earlier about the furriers, doctor?" Cruella asked.
"I was saying that everything is going according to plan and that the furriers are on their way here right now." Said Xehanort.
"Are they ilegal furriers?" Cruella asked.
"Of course, miss De ViL. Nothing but the best." Xehanort asked.
"How much?" Cruella asked.
"50 Dollars a week." Said Xehanort.
"Oh. That's not much." Said Cruella.
"It's all they can aford." Said Xehanort.
"What about Helena's footage of her real life sequel of the 104 Dalmatians incident?" Frankenstiene asked.
"It's all taken care of. Our web cameras caught everything on film from the IMax theater in Ontario, Canada to Kansas to London, England to here in New Zealand. Except for here, that is. Miss HeLL's real life, found footage-like film is completed." Said Xehanort.
"Good, we'll cut and upload it later and make it all tracable to Candace." Said Frankenstiene.
"Uh, mother?" Said Adriana.
Linda looked at her youger daughter. "What?"
"Is it alright if i go check on Keegan and his friends? You know, to make sure they're still where we left?" Adriana asked.
"Hurry back." Said Linda.
"Yes ma'am." Said Adriana before heading out the door.
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Adriana walked down the hall, went around the corner, and then got out her cellphone and dialed a number. She placed the phone to her ear and waited for somebody to pick up on the other end.
"Come on, come on. Pick up, pick up." Adriana whispered.
"111, What's your emergancy?" Came a female accented voice on the other line.
"Hello, operator? Get me the New Zealand police." Adriana whispered. "Yes, i'll hold." The young british girl waited for someone to answer.
"Hello?" Came a male accented voice.
"Hi, is this the New Zealand police station?" Adriana whispered.
"Yeah, why?" Asked the male voice.
"No time to explain. I'm at an old abandoned Lumberjack MiLL with a gang of people who are using it as a hideout. Get the police over here right now, it's an emergancy." Said Adriana.
"What's the emergancy?" The male voice asked.
"A gang of people have stolen 104 Dalmatian puppies from London, England and are holding them hostage here at the Lumberjack MiLL. They just kidnapped nine people, six adults and four kids. Please get here as quick as you can. " Said Adriana.
"We're on our way." Said the male voice.
"Thanks." Said Adriana before ending the call. She then resumed walking through the building until she came to a door. The young girl opened the door and went down stairs to a basement to check on Keegan and his two friends, where they were being held, only to discover that their seats were empty and that the duct tape that bound them had been cut. She then looked up at a window and saw that it was open. The kids had gotton free somehow and managed to escape.
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