"Hi, what's your name?" A girl asked China.
"You're very beautiful." A second girl said to China.
"Oh, thank you." Chin smiled.
"Girls, listen. I am not a toy, I am not a toy," Finley told two girls before getting kissed by the two girls. "Oz! Kids!"
Alexandrite and Evie giggled a little bit.
"My, my, what pretty hair and how young and what a pretty face you have~" A black-haired girl with clear skin said, taking Evie by her arm suddenly and looked up and down at her.
"Oh... Uh... Thank you," Evie smiled bashfully as she looked back at the girl who was around her age. "It's my natural hair of course."
"You seem like you've come from very far away." The girl said with a small smirk.
"You could say that, yeah... Even further than Kansas," Evie nodded before squinting her eyes slightly. "Say, don't I know you? ...You seem familiar somehow."
"I'm not sure what you mean," The girl said innocently. "I'm just here with my best friend coming to meet you in person~"
"Oh, that's good to know." Evie said.
"Yes, she should be around here somewhere." The girl said innocently while looking around.
"Can you tell me what she looks like?" Evie smiled. "Maybe my friends and I can help you find her."
"Of course," The girl replied. "She has blonde hair with blue and was wearing a green dress."
"It's Esabella!" Mal, Jay, Lonnie, Ben, Felicity, and Chip gasped as they suddenly shot up from their seats before looking at each other. "You know her? How? Did you meet her?" they then asked each other, still talking at once.
"WAIT!" Felicity soon cried out to make them stop. "There's a pattern going on around here."
"Yeah, it seems she's in almost every one of our adventures that we've been on." Chip said.
"Well, I'm sure we can find her." Evie smiled.
"Oh, thank you." The girl replied.
"By the way, what's your name?" Evie asked.
"Margaret Eastwood." The girl replied.
"Margaret," Evie smiled. "What a lovely name."
"Margaret sounds like an old lady name." Doug whispered to himself.
"Doug!" Evie scolded.
"Oh, sorry," Doug smiled sheepishly. "I guess it can't be worse than Mabel?"
"You're a classy boy, aren't you?" Margaret deadpanned to the teenage dwarf.
"I-I think I'll be quiet now." Doug said, looking as bashful as one of his uncles, as he stepped aside.
"While we search for my friend I couldn't help but notice your adult friend," Margaret said. "Is he really the Wizard?"
"Um, of course." Evie smiled nervously.
"Really? Hmm... I expected him to look more like a wizard and not just a man in a top hat." Margaret said.
"Yeah, well, um, he's a modern wizard," Evie made up. "That's just how they all look nowadays."
"Ya don't say~" Margaret replied, almost suspiciously.
"Evie, you promised not to lie after we moved into Auradon." Meowstic whispered as she came out of her PokeBall.
"Shh~" Evie shushed Meowstic nervously as she tried to keep calm.
China and Finley were still having trouble with the kids who treated them like toys.
"Oh, hey! You stop that right now," Doug told the kids. "China and Finley aren't toys!"
"Aww..." The kids pouted.
Aipom began to try and think of how to keep the kids happy without getting taken as a toy before he got an idea. The monkey-like Pokemon soon started to do a little dance to entertain the kids.
"Aipom, what're you doing?" Doug asked.
Aipom shushed the teenage dwarf before he continued to dance. The kids looked over and laughed as they crowded around Aipom. Aipom smiled, not minding the dance at all, and had fun keeping the kids happy.
"Wow, thanks," China said to Doug. "I think your new monkey friend saved us."
"Yeah, he sure did." Finley said.
"So that's why he was dancing," Doug smiled. "Clever Aipom."
"What? No fireworks?" Oscar asked Glinda as he noticed they didn't have fireworks for a show of his greatness.
"Don't get greedy." Alexandrite scolded Oscar.
"They should have fireworks for The Great and Powerful Oz and his friends, shouldn't they?" Oscar smirked boastfully.
"This is going to come back to bite you if you don't stop." Alexandrite warned.
"What are fireworks?" Glinda soon asked, feeling confused.
Alexandrite smirked a bit.
"Remind me to show you sometime." Oscar soon told Glinda.
"Unless there's something you'd like to confess, Oz?" Alexandrite suggested as she crossed her arms.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Oscar told her.
"Glinda, I didn't know if you'd like these or these." A man said as he showed two different bouquets of flowers to The Good Witch.
"They're both good, I couldn't possibly decide." Glinda told him.
"What lovely flowers." Evie smiled.
"I like the yellow ones." Alexandrite added.
Glinda just gave a polite smile and the man soon walked away with a smile back. The teenagers and their Pokemon soon stood in the crowd while Oscar and Glinda walked up a set of stairs.
"You know, I should tell you," Oscar nervously said to The Good Witch. "I might not actually be a wizard."
"Yes, I know." Glinda nodded.
"Oh?" Oscar asked with wide eyes.
"Well, at least not any kind of wizard we were expecting." Glinda explained.
"Uh... You could tell?" Oscar then asked.
"Yes. I can also tell you're weak, selfish, slightly egotistical, and a fibber," Glinda replied. "And I can tell that your little friends are very different and more than anyone would expect of them."
"I see... Anything you don't know about me?" Oscar then asked as they quietly talked together.
"Whether or not you'll save my people." Glinda then clarified.
"Uh... No. I just told you," Oscar shook his head nervously. "I'm not the wizard."
"But they don't know that if you can make them believe then you're wizard enough," Glinda whispered to him as they faced the crowd. "These are desperate times after all. Can you make them believe?"
The crowd began to look ready to hear what Oscar would say.
"Will I still get that gold?" Oscar whispered to Glinda.
"Uh-huh." Glinda whispered back.
"Good people of Oz... Your wizard is here!" Oscar soon addressed the crowd as he announced himself.
The crowd soon cheered, though the teenagers and Pokemon looked a bit disappointed.
This was shown to be being watched by Theodora back in Emerald City with her crystal ball as the Ozites cheered for their new wizard while she was heartbroken and depressed.
"What's the matter, sister?" Evanora asked as she came to check on Theodora.
"Look at how happy they are," Theodora firmly pouted. "Do you think she'll be his queen?"
"Well, of course she'll be his queen. What did you expect?" Evanora nearly scoffed. "Can't compete with Glinda's charms, no one can."
Theodora soon began to cry again, though her tears seemed to be more acidic than normal human tears and were even burning her flesh. "Sister, it hurts." she then said in depression.
"Such is a broken heart, your precious wizard did that to you." Evanora nodded.
"Make it stop." Theodora begged.
"Would you like me to?" Evanora prompted.
Theodora had a bit of a hopeful, though small wicked smile forming.
"Would you like your new friend to join us then?" Evanora then asked.
"Yes, I would very much so." Theodora nodded.
"I shall fetch her for you then." Evanora nodded in return and soon walked off.
Meanwhile...
Narissa soon left her crystal ball and soon became Natalie again, smirking to herself.
"I need to help my sister," Evanora told her. "Perhaps you'd like to help out?"
"I could do that," Natalie smirked. "I just got some work done myself."
"Good for you." Evanora smirked back.
"So shall we help her the same way the king died?" Natalie asked with a smirk.
"What better way?" Evanora asked before seeing Natalie bring out a green apple.
"I had a feeling you would want to do the same thing to her that you did to the king." Natalie smirked.
"It will definitely make Theodora feel a little bit better." Evanora replied, about to take the apple.
"Of course it would," Natalie smirked as she held the apple out of Evanora's reach. "I know you'll use it responsibly though."
Evanora nodded and soon, she caught the apple as it was tossed to her.
"Let's go see Theodora then." Natalie suggested.
"We almost sound evil." Evanora remarked.
"Not evil, dear," Natalie grinned. "Wicked... And wicked and darkness always win~"
Eventually, Theodora was sitting beside Natalie on the chaise couch, surrounded by lit candles all around.
"One bite is all it takes," Evanora instructed Theodora. "One bite, and your world will change forever. One bite and your heart will become impenetrable. One bite and you and I will finally share the throne. Unless you'd rather see Oz and Glinda there."
Theodora looked wide-eyed at that last part before swiping the apple quickly and bit into it before suddenly, a dark aura filled the room and the atmosphere made the lights on the candle fizz out suddenly, though the fire stayed in the fireplace. "You're the wicked one! Not Glinda." she then realized.
Evanora smiled and nodded her head darkly.
"Sister, you lied to me." Theodora realized.
"It's nice isn't it? How clear everything becomes." Evanora said evilly.
"And trust me, you'll feel so much better once the pain goes away." Natalie told Theodora.
Theodora gasped before groaning as she tore off his pearl, breaking it before making her way over to some curtains. "What is happening to me?" she then asked them.
"Don't worry, this won't hurt a bit." Natalie promised.
"Yes, it's just your heart withering away," Evanora added. "Fear not, Theodora. Soon you will feel nothing at all, except beautiful wickedness."
Theodora soon screamed in pain before she soon looked very dizzy, grabbing the curtain and ripped it off as she suddenly fell to the floor.
"Sister...?" Evanora called softly as soon she and Natalie soon came to take a closer look and soon, Theodora clutched the table, having long, black nails that were almost like claws and she scratched across the tabletop, now becoming rather villainous and wicked.
Theodora soon stood up and looked very different, having sickly green skin and appeared to be very ugly like a bad witch, she grabbed her red hat and it soon became black and pointy.
"Oh, sister, you're hideous," Evanora remarked. "I can cast a simple enchantment and have you looking just the way you were before."
"No! This is who I am now!" Theodora hissed. "I want him to see me like this. I want him to know that he was the one who made me this way!" she soon began to laugh evilly and wickedly as she had changed after biting into the apple.
"Oh, dear..." Evanora said.
"Oh, this is too perfect." Natalie smirked.
Meanwhile, with Glinda, Oscar, and the teenagers...
"It's imperative you behave like the leader they think you are," Glinda told Oscar. "Morale is essential if you have any hope of defeating Evanora."
"So, Ms. Evanora, do you have a plan?" Doug asked hopefully.
"No, The Wizard has a plan," Glinda clarified. "He's going to lead us into battle and take back the throne.
"And do we have an army to help do this?" Oscar then asked hopefully.
"Of sorts." Glinda nodded.
"Oh, this should be good." Muscles smirked to himself as he stood with Aipom, Bunny, and Meowstic on the floor.
Eventually, Glinda showed the army to Oscar and the teenagers which were random townspeople. "The Quadling, Your Highness." she soon told him as they stood in line.
"You're soldiers?" Oscar asked the group.
"No, sir," One man replied. "Farmers mostly."
"Farmers?" Oscar blinked. "But you can fight?"
"No, sir. Many of us can hoe." Another man replied.
"Oh, you can hoe." Alexandrite then said.
"And I can work with iron." The blacksmith spoke up.
"Well, that's good." Oscar nodded.
"I bake bread." The baker soon added.
"Yummy." The group nodded.
"I can sew." The seamstress spoke up.
"Not so helpful." Oscar replied.
"Ooh, maybe we can work together?" Evie smiled hopefully.
"That sounds nice, dear." The seamstress smiled back.
"I can make a scarecrow." One of the people stated.
"Ah. Well, that'll come in handy." Oscar remarked.
"Maybe you could make him a brain." Doug smirked.
"Don't joke." Hercules smirked back.
"And these are the tinkers." Glinda said as she show Oscar, the teenagers, and Pokemon a group of old men.
"Are you kidding me?" Oscar whispered to Glinda.
"We're tougher than we look, Wizard." One of the tinkers told him.
The other tinkers voiced their agreement.
"What they lack in stamina the Tinkers make up for in ingenuity; they can build anything." Glinda reassured Oscar.
"And I tell you what else," Another one of the tinkers added. "We can build anything."
"Yeah, I-I got it." Oscar nodded.
"And we're prepared to storm The Emerald City." The tinker continued as the others agreed with him strongly.
"If you don't keel over on the way there." Oscar rolled his eyes then.
Glinda glared in anger and soon reached out at him suddenly.
Oscar yelped as he was suddenly grabbed by the arm and pulled away by Glinda as Alexandrite smirked a little from that.
"And Finally, the Munchkins." Glinda then concluded, showing the last of the group of townspeople who had volunteered to be part of the army.
"From The Lollipop Guild and The Lullaby League?" Evie guessed before covering her mouth.
"Why, yes... How did you know?" Glinda replied.
"Lucky guess?" Doug smiled sheepishly.
"Well, yes, some of them are," Glinda nodded. "I hope you kids are ready to fight too."
"Oh, we sure are." Hercules said.
"Yep." Alexandrite nodded.
"I'll do what I can, although I don't know what I can do to help to fight against the Emerald City guard." Doug said.
"And I'm sure the Pokemon will be more than happy to help with the battle." Evie said.
They soon heard music playing as they saw many tall men coming down the stairs, looking ready for battle.
"Are those really the munchkins?" Evie whispered to Glinda.
"Yeah, they seem kinda... Big for munchkins..." Doug added. "I mean, I'm the tallest one in my family, but still."
"Please tell me you gentlemen can fight." Oscar begged to the munchkins who looked big and tall and not short and tiny.
"No, but we make pretty clothes." One of the munchkins said.
"Also we sing." A second one added.
"Ah, no," Oscar then shook his head. "That won't be necessary."
"I like it, I think it's cute," Glinda smiled. "I hope you like it."
"Uh, no offense, sirs, but are you sure you're munchkins?" Doug asked. "I don't wanna be rude, but... You seem kinda big for munchkins."
Suddenly, the tall soldiers burst open their long jackets to reveal several small men all sitting on each other's shoulders and they burst into a song and started dancing about the fulfilled prophecy.
"Ohhhh..." Doug and Evie soon said once they then saw it.
"Okay, that makes much more sense." Alexandrite said.
"Yep." Hercules nodded.
"The prophecy was clear the wind would bring you and your young followers here~" The munchkins sang. "And so it was a man named Oz and his young followers would magically appear~"
"Alright, enough." Oscar said.
"No, keep going." Alexandrite said.
"I was quite enjoying it myself." Hercules chuckled as he crossed his arms.
"So sing a battle call, The Wicked Witch will fall, And so the Wonderous Wiz has come to save us all!~" The munchkins continued to sing happily.
"Alright, that's enough!" Oscar demanded. "Munchkins, stop!
Suddenly, the Munchkins stopped and everyone looked at him and the group with him.
"Party Pooper." Hercules rolled his eyes with a smirk.
"They do make beautiful clothes." Glinda remarked.
"Maybe I'll do a collab with Oz someday when we make it back to Auradon." Evie said to herself hopefully.
"Alright. Now, listen, Wanda-" Oscar began.
"Glinda." The Good Witch corrected.
"Guys, um... Take five," Oscar soon told the munchkins to get rid of them before he continued to speak to Glinda, looking unsure about this so-called army. "Uh... Glinda, these are all very lovely people. But do you honestly believe that they can kill a wicked witch and an army of flying baboons?"
"I don't expect them to kill anyone." Glinda explained.
"What do you mean?" Alexandrite asked curiously.
"I mean the good people of Oz are forbidden to kill." Glinda revealed.
"Huh. I didn't know that." Evie commented.
"Sure didn't stop The original Wicked Witch." Doug muttered in a deadpan tone of voice.
"Forbidden to-" Oscar asked her before looking to the good people of Oz who smiled and waved at him as he smiled back before facing Glinda again. "You expect me to lead an army that can't kill?"
"If this was easy we wouldn't need a wizard, would we?" Glinda asked him quietly with a smile.
"Well, good thing we will be happy to fight as many of those flying baboons and the Wicked Witch with help from our Pokemon." Hercules whispered to the others.
"Something's wrong!" A woman screamed.
"Ooh, this just keeps getting better and better." Doug sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Sarcastic much?" Alexandrite smirked.
"Please try to take this seriously." Hercules advised them both.
"Oh, relax, Herc," Alexandrite rolled her eyes. "I'm sure whatever it is, we can handle it, magic or no magic."
Everyone looks up and saw a mysterious black cloud in the sky surrounding the barrier around the city.
"Oh, my... That looks bad, doesn't it?" Margaret remarked. "What will stop the Wicked Witch?"
"The Wicked Witch isn't powerful enough to get through the wall." Glinda reassured.
"It looks like she's managing." Oscar noted.
"Not by herself she isn't." Glinda shook her head then as the situation quickly got from bad to worse.
"What does that mean?" Evie asked. "Is someone helping her?"
"Everyone, take cover!" Glinda soon called out to the townspeople as this was a very dangerous and horrible situation. "Run, quickly! Take cover! Take the children to safety! Run!"
Soon enough, something burst through the barrier in the form of a fireball as it was going to crash land.
"Glinda!" Oscar called out before getting her out of the way.
Luckily, the fireball didn't hit anyone but did crash land.
"Whew... That was close." Alexandrite sighed.
"But I don't think we're safe just yet." Evie said.
Everyone soon looked at the fire as it glowed and where something soon began to come out of it as they saw a shadowy figure before it was shown as Theodora as her new self. And where this new look of hers frightened the good people of Oz and where she even snarled at them, scaring them even more.
"There's so much good here. It sickens me," Theodora glared before getting out of the hole and went to one of the tinkers. "Still think your wizard can save you from the likes of me? With help from those children and their creatures?"
Margaret hid in the crowd before the blonde girl known as Esabella came over and stood beside her.
The two girls then smirked at each other before they continued to watch Theodora in action.
"Is that who I think it might be?" Doug whispered nervously.
"I think I see it too." Evie whispering back as she nodded in agreement.
Meowstic soon shivered as she hid behind Evie's legs nervously and worriedly.
"Still think your wizard can save you, from the LIKES OF ME?! Theodora snarled at the good Oz people.
The people screamed and panicked as she glided around, scaring them very much.
"Speak up or I will tear out your tongue!" Theodora threatened.
"Who's that?" Oscar asked cluelessly.
Both Hercules and Muscles seemed to face-palm as Theodora began to face the Kansas man.
"Don't you recognize me, Wizard?" Theodora sneered as she overheard that and soon quickly glided towards him. "Have I changed so much?"
"Theodora?" Oscar blinked.
"May I have this dance?" Theodora scowled as she then bowed her head mockingly and soon made Oscar move like a puppet and moved him above the ground, making him dance for her.
"Hey, leave him alone!" Oscar glared.
"Oh... You children..." Theodora smirked as she soon did the same to Doug, Evie, Hercules, and Alexandrite, humiliating them next. "Don't worry... I haven't forgotten about you~"
"Theodora, please stop this!" Alexandrite begged.
"I get it! You're a little upset!" Oscar said to Theodora.
"More than a little I'd guess!" Hercules told him.
Theodora continued to play with them as if they were puppets before freezing them in front of the people in Oz in a dipping pose.
"Theodora, stop it. You're hurting them." Glinda told her.
Theodora then made Oscar spin before making him crash against a wall and dropping to the ground as a bunch of crates and barrels fell down with him.
The teenagers winced before Theodora grinned and was about to do the same to them.
"Theodora... What happened to you?" Oscar asked before she could do anything to them though, but they still levitated in the air.
"YOU happened to me!" Theodora sneered as she dropped the teenagers on top of each other and brought out a fireball in her hand.
"NO!" The teenagers cried out as that looked bad.
Glinda then extinguished the fireball with her wand, shaking her head at Theodora. "This isn't you, it's your sister. She's worked her magic on you. I'd hoped you'd be able to see through her." she then said softly.
"Oh, Glinda. So naïve, just like your father," Theodora shook her head. "That's why it was so easy for my sister to kill him."
"She only killed a man, not what he believed in." Glinda frowned.
"Hey, uh, you get out of here, Wicked Witch!" Evie glared, trying to sound brave.
"Yeah! Before the Wizard makes mush of you!" Another woman added as she held a broom protectively.
"Okay, I didn't say that~" Evie said nervously then.
However, the rest of the townspeople agreed as Oscar got up on his feet and the teenagers were helped up by their Pokemon.
"Oh, how sweet you all believe in him. Well, so did I once," Theodora told them before walking up to Glinda. "And you, my pretty one, when I return with my sister and her army and a new friend of ours, the yellow brick road will be red with blood with every Tinker farmer and Munchkin in your kingdom."
"You underestimate us, Theodora," Glinda told her. "We are a strong and united people and now the Wizard is here to lead us along with his young followers as well as their creatures."
"And as for your Wizard, he will be the first to die and you will all see that he is nothing, but a deceitful, selfish, and extremely mortal man," Theodora told them as she faced Oscar before facing the teenagers and Pokemon. "And as for them, they will be the next to die along with their creatures and the traitor, Aipom."
Aipom frowned as he didn't mean to make Theodora feel like he was a traitor to her. Muscles, Bunny, and Meowstic began to look over at Aipom in concern.
"Gimme that!" Theodora glared, taking the broom from the woman's hand and brought it over with her magic and soon looked right towards Oscar. "It was a broom that you wanted, wasn't it, Wizard?" she then cackled evilly and rode away on the room, leaving a trail of black smoke right behind her as she took off. As she left, the sky cleared a bit, but the townspeople were still scared and panicking as they ran off together.
"We have to do something!" Doug frowned.
"I'd like nothing more from it, Doug, but I don't know what." Hercules nodded in agreement.
"Yeah..." Doug sighed. "At least we're not all alone. My dad and uncles work really well together and would never leave each other behind."
"Great lesson." Hercules smiled.
"It's alright. It's alright! She's gone now! Don't be frightened! Now that the wizard is with us," Glinda told the panicking people before looking around for Oscar, though only his hat seemed to be left behind. "...Wizard?"
"He's chickening out!" Muscles glared. "Why, I oughta give him a piece of my mind!"
"Luckily we know exactly where to find him before he leaves." Alexandrite said.
Glinda the teenagers and Pokemon soon went to the room they were in before and where they saw Oscar packing his stuff.
"Leaving? But you promised to help us." Glinda told him.
"Yeah, well, that was before I knew what we were up against," Oscar replied. "An army and another Wicked Witch? This one bent on destroying everyone, especially me?"
"We can defeat them," Glinda said. "There must be something... Something we haven't thought of. Something that we're not seeing. Something we're on the verge of."
"Yeah, but what?" Evie asked.
"Glinda, you need a real wizard!" Oscar insisted. "Better yet, a general! Also, these guys are just kids, I can't let them get killed because of me."
"But you're all I have!" Glinda pleaded and soon walked towards him softly. "So you're not the wizard I was expecting. So you don't have the powers I thought you'd have. But you're here, there must be a reason. Maybe you're capable of more than you know."
"Glinda, I wish I had the answer, but I'm just a con man, I'm a carnival magician," Oscar frowned, feeling guilty suddenly. "I'm just not the man you want me to be."
Glinda soon frowned back in vast and bitter disappointment.
"I don't know much about these kids myself," Oscar continued. "It feels like Hercules and Alexandrite showed up out of the blue a few months ago and they've been performing in the circus I came from with them. Also, I don't know Donald and Emily-"
"Doug and Evie." The two teenagers corrected.
"What they said," Oscar quickly replied from that before going on. "I don't know much about them, but they're innocent children who got dragged into this mess too. I don't even know if those Pocket Pets of theirs or whatever they're called will be much help either."
"Seriously? You don't know much about Pokemon, they can help; they have attacks that would be more than a match for an army of humans." Hercules told him.
"That's right." Alexandrite nodded.
"Someone needs to tuck me in." China's voice spoke up.
Oscar and the others soon looked to see China by the door.
"Yes, of course, allow me." Glinda said softly as she walked up to the china girl.
"My papa used to do it." China replied softly.
"Then I'm sure that Glinda will take very good care of you." Evie smiled warmly.
"Thanks, Evie." China smiled back.
"I see..." Glinda soon nodded to China. "Perhaps you'd prefer the wizard then?"
"Yes, please." China nodded then.
Oscar soon finished packing up before he saw that Glinda wanted him to do a favor for her as she smiled lightly at him. "Alright..." he then said, going to put China to bed and began to tuck her in a bit. "Alright. In you go. There you are."
"Just a moment," China stopped him before she turned around and patted her pillow. "Bring forth the covers now."
Meowstic chuckled a bit as she watched this with Bunny, Muscles, and Aipom.
"Yes, ma'am," Oscar nodded and then continued to tuck her in then. "Comfy?"
China then turned to go to sleep.
"Alright, good night." Oscar nodded and went to leave her alone for the rest of the evening.
"Do you grant wishes?" China suddenly asked him.
"Do I what?" Oscar asked as that stopped him.
"Grant wishes?" China explained. "The real wizard could grant wishes. People would travel to The Emerald City and ask him for things, and if they were good and noble wishes, he would grant them."
"Is that right?" Muscles commented with an amused smirk.
"Do you know what I'd wish for?" China then asked.
"Mm... Pretty dress?" Oscar guessed.
China then hung her head down in sadness. "To have my family back." she then told him.
"I sometimes wish that too before I met Evie." Meowstic said softly.
Evie frowned after hearing that.
"I know, I'm sorry I can't grant wishes; I'm not that kind of wizard." Oscar told China softly.
"That's what I thought." China frowned softly.
"Um, you see, where I and my young friends come from, there aren't any real Wizards," Oscar told China. "Although there is one, Thomas Alva Edison: The Wizard of Menlo Park. A truly great man."
"Did he grant wishes?" China asked.
"Uh... Well... Probably to those afraid of the dark with that lightbulb of us." Doug shrugged bashfully and Aipom chuckled from that.
"No, but he looks into the future and makes it real," Oscar soon explained to China. "He created the electric light, the phonograph, he created a camera that could take moving pictures."
"Pictures that move?" China asked with bewilderment.
"Yeah. Can you imagine?" Oscar nodded. "And all he had was a little bit of wire and some glass. With almost nothing, he made the impossible real."
"Is that the kind of wizard you are?" China asked hopefully.
"It's the kind of wizard I'd like to be." Oscar admitted.
"But you are that kind, I can tell," China smiled before yawning and put her head down and she decided to go to sleep then. "I'd rather you grant wishes, but that's a good wizard too. Good night, Wizard." she then added, unknowingly giving him an idea just then.
"Ohh... She's so cute!~" Alexandrite cooed.
Bunny pouted.
"But of course, not as cute as you." Alexandrite smiled as she then tickled her Buneary, making her giggle a bit.
"Meowstic... You had a family before you found me?" Evie asked her Pokemon.
"Well, yes, actually, I did," Meowstic nodded. "A very long time ago."
"What happened to them?" Evie asked.
"I lost them to some Pokemon poachers they were after us because of our psychic powers they were going after all of us but my parents let themselves get taken," Meowstic explained with a somber frown. "My older siblings told me to run, but I wanted to help save our parents. They told me I was too young and my psychic powers were not strong enough to fight off the Pokemon poachers or their own Pokemon."
"I'm so sorry." Evie said softly.
"I-I did as they told me and used Teleport and ended up somewhere else before getting caught in a PokeBall," Meowstic told her. "And that's when I met you, Evie."
"Mewostic... I had no idea..." Evie frowned as she soon scooped up her Pokemon in her arms.
"It's okay though," Meowstic said softly. "I miss them very much, but I love being with you, Evie... Though I don't really like your mother."
"It's okay, I love her myself, but she's very difficult to live with most of the time," Evie nodded in reassurance. "I think you should get some sleep too."
Meowstic nodded before going inside her PokeBall. Evie smiled as she was happy her Pokemon was getting some sleep until she, Doug, Hercules, and Alexandrite saw Oscar looking like he had an idea. Oscar and the teenagers soon went to Glinda so he could tell her his plan.
"Glinda, I got it." Oscar told her.
"What have you got?" Glinda asked him.
"A way out of this mess." Oscar replied before bring out a book and placed it on the desk.
"What is this?" Glinda asked as she picked it up.
"A battle plan." Oscar replied.
"Is it being honest?" Alexandrite deadpanned a bit.
Oscar gave her a look and she just grinned bashfully in response. Eventually, Glinda brought out a book entitled "Mastering Magic" upon Oscar's request as they all met up together.
"It's all in there," Oscar told The Good Witch. "Illusion, misdirects, sleight of hand."
Glinda began to look unsure about this.
"Look, I know I'm not the wizard that you were expecting, but I might just be the wizard that you need." Oscar then told her.
"You said you were just a con man." Glinda reminded.
"Precisely."
"Nothing but a trickster?"
"Yes."
"A terrible cheat?"
"The best there is." Hercules answered for Oscar with a smirk.
"Carnival magician's going to put on a show." Glinda remarked to herself.
"I'll put on a show of a lifetime, the likes of which The Land of Oz has never seen!" Oscar insisted in excitement. "Magic, mystery, prestidigitation! It'll be my greatest trick yet."
"I still think you should be honest." Alexandrite frowned, feeling unsure about this.
"You guys can help out like you did back in Kansas if you want." Oscar offered to the teenagers.
"Alright." Hercules shrugged.
"This plan might actually work." Evie said.
"Possibly." Doug nodded.
"We're gonna need everyone's help to make this work." Oscar said.
"Okay, but I'm watching you." Hercules warned.
"You got it, kid." Oscar nodded at him.
"Mm-hmm." Hercules nodded back before rolling his eyes.
And so, everyone went to get ready to show The Land of Oz their possibly first circus, though they tried to keep it down so that the Pokemon and China wouldn't wake up too soon. Doug and Hercules went with Oscar to meet the Tinkers.
"Tinkers, gather 'round!" Oscar announced, bringing out a scroll with plans.
"Quickly now!" One Tinker told the others, taking charge as they came to gather around.
"This is what you're gonna build," Oscar informed as he rolled open the paper and pointed out a design to them. "Where I come from, this is called a praxinoscope. Although I've made a few modifications. It allows you to project an image into space."
"Impossible!" One Tinker commented.
"Nothing's impossible if you put your mind to it." Oscar reassured.
"Become the square root of impossible." Doug added.
"Bully!" The Tinkers soon cheered together.
"You don't mind working, kid?" Oscar asked Doug.
"My dad and my uncles work all the time, sometimes they whistle while they do it, I also play more than one instrument in my school's marching band," Doug smiled. "I'm good."
A while later, Oscar and the teenagers and Glinda were seen with a map.
"These three roads all lead to the Emerald City," Glinda told them. "To the east are the deadly poppy fields. We'll have to avoid them."
"Why's that?" Oscar asked.
"One good whiff and it's everlasting sleep." Glinda said.
"And we're not exactly a terrifying army when we're awake." China said.
"Definitely not," Evie shook her head. "Poppy Blossom Perfume is an amazing fragrance though." she then smirked a bit.
"Please stay focused." Alexandrite warned.
"Oh, sorry." Evie smiled sheepishly then.
"Alright, we'll steer clear," Oscar told China before thinking about it. "Or... Maybe not."
Later on, Oscar was showing the Tinkers how to make black powder. "In carnival business, glass is always good, gives the audience a little wow. You gentlemen will be combining sulfur rock nitrate of potash and charcoal to create what is commonly known as black powder." he then instructed, giving a little demonstration that amazed the Tinkers.
"And that's how you do it." Doug nodded.
"We need 200 mails paid delivered to the main road by noon." Glinda instructed to the Quadlings.
"Please go as quickly as you can." Evie added.
Next, we get a montage of how all the townspeople were working to put together everything they will need for Oz's plan.
Margaret and Esabella were watching all of this in secret.
"So, did anyone see you?" Esabella asked.
"Nope, not at all," Margaret replied before smirking wickedly as her skin suddenly flashed green, making her look like Theodora, but she was actually Wilhelmina: daughter of The Wicked Witch of the East and niece of The Wicked Witch of the West. "They don't seem to be as perceptive as the others from this Auradon Prep."
"Then this was the perfect place to send those two," Esabella smirked. "Those two won't last the battle, even with help from those two humans and speaking of which, we should do something about them."
"What do you have in mind?" Wilhelmina asked.
"Oh, something that will have some truth to Theodora's threat," Esabella smirked. "After all, even if we may be young, it doesn't mean we can't get a little violent with magic and kill a person or two."
"That's pretty intense..." Wilhelmina commented.
"You want to avenge the death of your mother, The Wicked Witch of the East, don't you?" Esabella reminded. "That adventurer Cherry killed her with Dorothy Gale's house all those years ago, remember?"
"She did not!" Felicity glared at the screen. "That house just happened to fall and squish The Wicked Witch of the East! Mother would never kill anyone on purpose!"
"You know they can't hear you, right?" Jay rolled his eyes.
"I know that, Jay, I'm just frustrated," Felicity defended. "I knew Esabella was bad, but I didn't know she was this soulless and horrible."
"Especially since The Enchantress cursed my dad just to teach him a lesson for acting like a beast." Ben spoke up.
"Are you still in or out?" Esabella asked darkly.
"Heh... Do Trolls live under bridges?" Wilhelmina smirked to answer Esabella's rhetorical question.
"Good, then you will help me by killing this one," Esabella smirked as she showed Alexandrite while she wasn't looking. "I'll use my magic to kill her brother."
"Wilhelmina wouldn't really kill anyone." Dot said.
"I sure hope she doesn't." Neddie said.
"And you will kill her, the same way Evanora killed the king," Esabella smirked as she showed a green apple. "Give her a poison apple and she will be dead and those two fools will be too disheartened over the loss of their two friends to help with the battle."
"How incredibly wicked and despicable." Wilhelmina remarked, taking the apple.
"I was hoping you'd think so~" Esabella grinned. "Just don't draw any suspicion." she then warned her friend.
"Oh, no worries," Wilhelmina replied before she changed skin tone again, becoming "Margaret Eastwood" again. "My own mom wouldn't recognize me~"
"Oh, you are correct." Esabella smirked.
"Now all I have to do is give this to her as a 'Thank you' present for helping the good people of Oz a chance to be free from The Wicked Witch." Margaret said.
"Ooh. Clever." Esabella smirked.
"Yep, but I'll let her have it where no one can see us." Margaret said.
"Clever girl," Esabella approved. "Get into position then."
"Sounds like a good idea." Margaret nodded in agreement.
Doug, Evie, Hercules, and Alexandrite began to help out as best as they could as Aipom, Meowstic, Muscles, and Bunny joined in. Esabella and Margaret looked over and snuck around a bit while the others were distracted. Bunny suddenly shivered.
"Are you okay?" Muscles asked the Buneary.
"I'm fine," Bunny replied. "I just got a cold chill down my spine."
"Hmm... That's a bit concerning." Muscles said.
"I know, so should we stay by our trainers' sides?" Bunny asked the Machamp.
"Hmm... Quite possibly." Muscles nodded.
"Yes!" SJ smiled. "What a smart idea."
Muscles smiled at Bunny and soon escorted her over to Hercules and Alexandrite were, acting like a big brother to her too. Bunny smiled back before looking around as she tried not to worry, but she couldn't help but feel something wrong going on.
"Aw, she's got nuthin' to worry about..." Dude said. "...Right?"
"Well, there are those two girls and Evanora and Theodora." Jane reminded her boyfriend's dog.
"Oh... Right... I guess there is that..." Dude nodded sheepishly.
Carlos sighed and pet Dude to relax him before he would start worrying too.
"What are you guys going to do without me?" Felicity playfully sighed as she wrapped a blanket around Dude as she sat with Chip, Grookey, and Mismagius.
"We'll figure that part out later when we get there." Dude said.
"Yeah." Carlos nodded.
"Where are you going?" Boris asked Felicity and Chip.
"Chip and I are traveling the world after all of this," Felicity replied. "We're probably not staying in Auradon forever."
"Won't you miss everyone here?" Bella asked. "All of your friends and family and family friends are here."
"Well, sure, but everybody has to grow up and move on eventually," Felicity said. "My cousins left Greendale and moved into Southdale and met their best friends and favorite neighbors, The Clarks."
"We'll be back again soon." Chip added.
"Not to mention my sister is traveling outside of Auradon right now to fulfill her new legacy as a fairy godmother rather than a fairy tale princess." Chad remarked as he sat with Audrey.
"And I'm taking a gap year with Gil to have our own adventures," Jay added. "I'm really excited."
"None of you might not be able to leave if we don't get that book back." A voice soon said.