The Motley crew of the VKs marched over the bridge, hiked along the craggy coast, and wound their way up the road that led to Auradon Prep. The scene that greeted them was shocking. The school's green lawn was littered with sleeping students.
Atem: They're asleep, everyone.
Joey, Atem and Candice tried their phones. Hoping to reach someone who could provide an explanation, but not one of them worked.
Atem: I can't get Sakura.
Joey: Or Kacy or Mai.
Candice: Or Johnny. The signal's out.
Yugi wandered ahead of the group, turning his head from side to side every few feet. There was just so much to look at. His jaw fell open when he spotted the most enormous building he'd ever seen.
Yugi: Is that Auradon Prep?
Candice: Yeah. When everybody wakes up, you're going to love it.
Yugi: (Shock) "Yes!"
With everything that had happened, he'd almost forgotten about getting to go to school. In Auradon, in that beautiful building. Matt, too, stood in awe of Auradon Prep, which until that moment had been a place he'd only heard about. The lush gardens, the chirping birds, the manicured lawns, it was all more than he had imagined.
Matt: Geez. Everything is so...
Becky: Freaky.
Matt: ...green. You have leaves on your trees. And what are those coloured things on the bushes?
Becky: Uh... Flowers?
Matt: Flowers are pretty. (Then his eyes fell on the prettiest sight yet: a large bowl of ripe red grapes) Cantaloupe! Mm! Mm! (he put his hands around the large bowl, lifted it to his mouth, and dumped the whole bunch of grapes in at once)
Louise: We don't have fresh fruit on the Isle, remember?
Becky: They're grapes.
Matt: Grapes? I love grapes.
Sasha sashayed up to another napper and picked money out of its pocket.
Sasha: I believe I deserve some compensation for my muscles, my wile, and my role in this endeavor.
Becky: You do. (She took the money out of Sasha's hand and put it back in the napper's pocket) Me not squashing you like a bug.
Sasha: Think I'm scared of you, Becky?
Atem & Louise: "Girls."
Nearby, Candice saw her dog Dude, happy that he ok.
Dude: Mm!
Candice: Dude.
Dude: Delicious. (Burps)
Dude sat beneath a picnic table, eating a hot dog from a conked-out boy's hand, Dude was living his best life, until he saw Candice and belched.
Candice: Dude, really?
Dude: What? It wasn't me, I swear. Okay. It was me.
Candice: Hey, do you know what happened here?
Dude: Yup. Kaiba showed up. He put everybody to sleep. And then he turned some of them to...
Joey: Guys. (He pointed at a statuesque girl who stood a few feet away from Dude) Hannah turned to stone.
Hannah was frozen in granite, still wearing her marching band uniform.
Becky: All right. Everybody stay on their toes.
Louise: Look, since we're here, let's check the school.
Atem: No. Kaiba went straight for the crown, so, I think it's safe to assume that she's gonna go for Sakura and her castle next. That's where we'll go.
Louise: Says who?
Atem: Says me.
Louise: Says you. And that's supposed to mean something to me?
Joey: Guys.
They had bigger fish to fry, not that Louise was frying fish anymore, they just had more important matters to focus on, like stopping Kaiba.
Atem: "To the castle."
Somewhere hidden in the deep forest, Kaiba is hiding in the Fairy cottage (The same cottage were his mother was hidden from Maleficent) with Billie, he look into the orb of the scepter, and saw Atem and the VKs as they make their way to castle to find Sakura, Kaiba was livid.
Kaiba: (angry) How did Atem break my spell?
Billie: (scared) I don't know.
Kaiba: (he turned over a glass fruit bowl) and what is Louise doing here?
Billie: Hey, no, no, no, no, no. (Kaiba throw the bowl in her direction, but she ducked nimbly out of the way and fretted)
Kaiba: Come clean, Billie. Where did they go?
Billie: (Scared) I don't know. I don't know, okay? I can go check for you. How about that?
Kaiba: STAY!
Billie slumped her shoulders and silently obeyed; Kaiba walked toward his little pet and ran his fingers through her hair. (Billie like it for a while) He grinned malevolently.
Kaiba: It's about to get a little ugly.
Maybe Billie made a huge mistake by joining forces with Kaiba, he out of control. Meanwhile the VKs arrive at Sakura's palace as they continue to search for her.
Atem: SAKURA!
Dude: (Laughs) this way.
Atem: (Sighs) Sakura could be asleep anywhere.
Yugi: Or turned to stone.
Joey: Okay. (Clamped his hand over Yugi's mouth)
Atem: SAKURA!
Dude: I got a scent. Very pungent cologne. Easy to track. Follow me, people.
Candice: That's great, Dude.
Dude: FYI, I give great cuddles, too.
Matt: Really? I never had a pet growing up. Well, except for the elk head in Dad's man cave but that wasn't...
Louise: "Hold up." What's this? (She saw deep claw marks scratched into the wall, a framed ancient map that hung on the wall had been cut clean in half)
Candice: Uh... Any chance this was already there?
Dude: And follow me.
Atem: SAKURA!
They arrive into the palace's hall of Armor, as Atem continue yelling for Sakura, Sasha's eyes lingered on the more portable items, like a sparking halberd and antique shield, and she wondered if anyone would notice if a few trinkets mysteriously went missing. As if reading her mind, Becky moved up quietly behind Sasha.
Sasha: (Whistles) I can feel you looking.
Becky: Good.
Matt continues looking at Dude, still can't believe that he the only dog who can talk.
Matt: So you can track, cuddle, and talk. Hey, do you think his puppies would be able to talk, too?
Candice: All right, man. He's taken. You want a dog, adopt a rescue.
Dude: (Laughing) Talking puppies. That's crazy.
Yugi: Come here. (Dude walked over to him to be scratched)
Across the room, Louise and Atem were locked in their own tete-a-tete.
Louise: I bet you lost some sleep thinking about me on the loose?
Atem: No. Dragons don't really lose sleep. I wonder what fried octopus tastes like.
Joey: Okay. Why do we not do this?
Louise: We're celebrating our differences.
Kaiba continue watching them from the scepter, he laughs as he about to make his next move against the VKs. Clank! Clash! A suit of Armor that had stood stiff for centuries on a high wood pedestal clicked its heels and turned toward the group.
Sasha: I believe we're being challenged.
Atem and Louise, too busy one-upping each other, failed to heed Sasha's warning.
Louise: Let's split up and look for Kaiba.
Atem: That makes absolutely no sense. Unless you give me my ember, he's going to spell you.
Sasha: GUYS! We have a situation here.
That would prove to be an understatement. The bewitched knight moved and spoke ominously in Kaiba's voice, the effect was disturbing.
Kaiba: (V.O.) Do you like a princess, Atem?How about a knightin shining Armor?Or knights?(Laughs)
The lead knight swung his lethal sword with a swift, authoritative gesture, and the rest of the suits of Armor in the long hall magically clinked to life and drew their sharpened swords on the VKs.
All: Watch your back, watch your back
Watch your back, watch your back
We can counter their attack
Hit 'em 'til the Armor cracks
Louise: This could get a little sticky
How to win this battle could be tricky
But I know the best way
Fall back let me lead, you hold the line
And we'll bring them to their knees
Atem: Swords in the air if you're with me
They got us outnumbered one to fifty
But victory is ours
Cause I got a strategy, you take the left
And the rest of you can follow me
Louise: uh-uh
Atem: This is my crew
Louise: Well this is my squad
Atem: This is my turf
Joey: Oh my gosh, look guys
We've got bigger fish to fry
Put your differences aside
Cause right now we're on the same side
Until the night falls, everyone
All: We'll stay together 'til the battle is done
Watch your back, watch your back
Watch your back, watch your back
We can counter their attack
Hit 'em 'til the Armor cracks
Until the night falls, we're aligned
It doesn't mean that we're on the same side
Watch your back, watch your back
Watch your back, watch your back
Hit 'em hard and hit 'em fast
They're too heavy to react
Atem: This situation's getting kinda heavy
Hold your weapons tight keep 'em steady
'Cause if we stick together we can make it out alive
I'll cause a distraction, you attack them from the side
Louise: All my soldiers stand at the ready
We can cut 'em up like confetti
We'll hit 'em from the front, you counter from behind
Don't forget the fate of Auradon's on the line
All: This is all out war, they got us outnumbered
The way the swords clash is the sound of the thunder
Atem: And we are not going under, we will never run for cover
All: We battle for the victory and ride for each other
Joey: Until the night falls everyone
We'll stay together 'til the battle is done
All: Back to back, back to back
Back to back, back to back
We can counter their attack
Hit 'em 'til the Armor cracks
Until the night falls, we're aligned
It doesn't mean that we're on the same side
Back to back, back to back
Back to back, back to back
Hit 'em hard and hit 'em fast
They're too heavy to react
No matter how many times the VKs hit the knights, they always come back up, but then Atem had an idea, as his eyes flashed bright green, as he cast a spell.
Atem: Suit of Armor strong and true, Make this metal bust a move!
Then he raised his arms high and launched into a dance move, having fallen under his spell, the knights raised their swords duplicated Atem's dance move.
Louise: "Oh now we're talking"
Catching on, Louise jumped onto the platform, she popped it and pumped it, the knights repeated every one of her moves. Candice, too, put the knights through a complex combination, Yugi, not wanting to miss out on what now looked like fun, ran back into the hall and rejoined the others. The knights matched the teens' hip-hop moves step for step.
Joey: Until the night falls, you can trust
All: I'm gonna help you win this battle because
I got your back, got your back
Got your back, got your back
All for one and that's a fact
Night fall pitch black
And one by one, the metal soldiers exhausted themselves and dropped to the floor with a clatter, collapsing into a large heap of metal. The lead knight, last to fall, toppled with a deafening crash. Kaiba them from the scepter and was shocked that they defeated the knights.
Kaiba: (screaming) "NO!"
Exhilarated by victory, Atem and Louise forgot themselves been enemies, they smiled at each other.
Louise: We did that. That's what I'm talk...
As they were about to high-fived each other, they stop, the moment was sweet, until the two sides remembered they were supposed to be sworn enemies. The teens separated quickly into their two distinct cliques, abandoning any sign of friendship that had been there just moments before. Atem, Becky and Candice stood to one side, while Louise, Matt and Sasha stood to the other, Only Joey jumped forward.
Joey: Guys, come on. This was so great. We were a team. We worked together. Come on.
Everyone glared at Joey in silence, but he remained undeterred. They'd already done the hard part of coming together; now they just had to acknowledge it.
Joey: You know what we should try? An icebreaker. You say something you really like about the other person, okay I'll start. Sasha, I love your hair colour. Now, you go.
Louise: Is he always this perky?
Joey: Oh, it wasn't really your turn, but thank you.
Atem: Okay. Joey, come here. I love you.
Joey: I love you too.
Atem: I love this energy, but we are very short on time. Kaiba clearly knows that we're here and we need to get out of here, ASAP.
Louise: All right, where does this non believer bunk down? Even if he's not there, we might find some sort of clue.
Joey: Actually, he's still in the dorms.
Atem: You're right. Because of summer school.
Sasha: (Laughs) What? Summer school? Summer school! No wonder he wants revenge.
Atem: (pointed to Becky, Candice, Sasha and Matt) Okay. I need you guys to go find Sakura. We will meet back at Joey's in two hours, okay?
Louise: Sounds like we're going with my plan. I'm just saying.
Atem: It was kind of the obvious plan.
Matt: Louise said it first bro.
Louise: (High-fived Matt) Right. So my plan.
Atem: Whatever
Everyone headed out of the hall, as Becky, Candice, Sasha and Matt going to the forest to find Sakura, Atem, Joey, Yugi and Louise going to Auradon Prep to Kaiba's dorm.