MEANWHILE IN ROTHBART'S CASTLE...
Jackson began to follow Rothbart inside after they dealt with Odette, Atticus, and Cherry for another evening. "Your wishes to make Odette your Swan Queen are as annoying and tedious as when I've tried to win back the heart of Jessica Fudo," he then rolled his eyes a little. "Not to mention the efforts that are as clunky as my parents' attempts to hide my Aunt Cruella away from me and my sisters when we were growing up because my father was afraid of what would happen if we found out about her and her legacy."
"You do make a good point... However, no matter what they do, I'm always one step ahead," Rothbart told him. "On the other hand, Prince Derek's vow could ruin everything. I'll gonna have to deal with him... But how?"
Bridget soon came over to help out.
"It's a shame you don't have someone to use as a back-up princess to trick Prince Derek so that he makes a vow to the wrong girl you would use to disguise as Princess Odette." Jackson hinted with a small smirk.
"Wait... That's it, boy!" Rothbart then said as that gave him an idea. "I'll get Derek to offer his vow to the wrong princess."
"Yes, but you'll need a princess in order to do that first and I'm sorry, buddy," Jackson smirked. "I'm very handsome and amazing, but I can't make a very convincing girl."
"Not you, you will disguise yourself as that Atticus boy." Rothbart told him.
"Then who will be disguised as Princess Odette?" Jackson asked.
Rothbart soon looked at Bridget.
"Me?" Bridget smiled.
"Her?" Jackson asked.
"That's it. I'll make you look like Odette." Rothbart grinned at Bridget.
"That's gonna take a lot of work." Jackson smirked as Bridget posed, trying to look cute before glaring and huffing at Jackson.
"But it'll be worth it!" Rothbart told the both of them. "Because when he makes his vow to the wrong girl, Odette will die! And I'll finish Derek off myself." he then proclaimed.
"And what of Atticus and Cherry?" Jackson wondered.
"They'll be yours for your disposal." Rothbart smirked.
"That does sound promising~" Jackson smirked back.
"Oh, I love it. I mean, this is really classic," Rothbart grinned. "This is me!"
A spotlight then shined down on him.
"Hm... Looks like it's time for the traditional Villain Song," Jackson cued before smirking at himself. "Not for me of course, but maybe another time~" he then chuckled a bit to himself.
"Gosh, it's such a hoot to see them quaking~" Rothbart sang as he made the ground shake with his magic. "When I'm king, they'll have to treat me with respect, I can't wait to see their poor hearts breaking~"
"Oh, I know the feeling." Jackson smirked.
Bridget yelped as the ground shaking had startled her.
"When I'm king, they'll treat me with respect~" Rothbart continued.
Bridget then knelt down beside Rothbart's shoes, polishing them with her sleeve before she went to kiss them, only for him to continue walking away.
"I can't wait to watch their poor hearts breaking~" Rothbart then sang as he blew heart-shaped bubbles from a bubble wand.
Bridget popped the bubbles with a giggle before the final one seemed to explode in her face.
"So much for politically correct~" Rothbart continued to sing, imagining a grand ballroom with him as a king and all sorts of people from Queen Uberta's kingdom there. "Up 'til now I've pulled my punches, I intend to eat their lunches, No more Mr. Nice Guy, not for me~" he then hit Chamberlain in the head as he landed on the dining table, grabbing the turkey legs off the platter and made the tiny man eat them before he started to dance on the table.
Bridget then came by before seeing Chamberlain and looked at him with hearts in her eyes before she went to kiss him until Rothbart suddenly grabbed her and spun her about.
"If you think that I'm hard-hearted, Well, let me by, I haven't even started~" Rothbart then sang before letting her go and turned a fountain into three ladies to use as back-up singers.
"No more Mr. Nice Guy, no sirree~" The singers, Rothbart, and Jackson soon sang together before they ended up in the water together.
Rothbart soon used his magic to make Rogers and a band start playing as he conducted them before being shown to be Rothbart before Jackson appeared next to him. "Soon as my witchcraft has zinged them, I'll gain control of the kingdom~" he then sang as he used his magic on the band, making their instruments attack the band members and made them disappear.
"As for Odette?" Jackson smirked as he made a fake Odette appear with his magic.
"Well, that's tragic 'cuz I'm going back to that old black magic~" Rothbart sang as he used his magic to turn the fake Odette into a swan before appearing as a stage magician as he pulled Wesley out of a hat dressed as a rabbit.
A couple of spotlights then shined down to show Queen Uberta and Rogers dancing together during the villain song number.
"Old black magic~" The back-up singers sang together.
"Good behavior is so much duller, Time to show my one true color~" Rothbart sang as he zapped them and began to make them dance rather strangely.
"Baby, Mr. Nice Guy's history~" Jackson sang with the back-up singers before making Vicky appear to dance with him.
"Yeah!" Bridget grinned as she danced along with the back-up singers.
"...Where the heck am I?" Vicky asked as she looked around. "This isn't the Turner's place!"
"Forget the Turners," Jackson smirked at her as he took her hands. "Let's talk about us~"
Vicky smirked back before she began to dance with him during the song.
"Vengeance is what I believe in I don't get mad~" Rothbart sang, dressed in gym clothes before zapping Derek over and stepped over to punch him like a punching bag, then gave him an uppercut. "I get even Odette can't get to the ball 'cuz I won't bring her, So I'll zap up a date~" he then added, sending away the illusion of Odette with a ball and chain and soon zapped Bridget to wear a sexy black and red dress until she still had her face which then changed to Odette's face.
"Who's a real dead ringer~" Jackson and the back-up singers and before Vicky snarled at the back-up singers and attacked them before he looked over and smirked not-so-innocently.
"Up to no good, I love plottin', 'Cuz I'm so good when I'm rotten~" Rothbart then sang with an innocent angel halo after changing Bridget into Odette.
"No more Mr. Nice Guy, wait and see~" Jackson sang as he shot the halo at the band members, knocking into each of them before past Vicky.
"Wait and see~" Vicky sang.
"Oh, yeah." Jackson smirked.
"I'll become that nasty, naughty~" Rothbart sang as he pulled on the red carpet to make Queen Uberta and the other royal folk slip and fall before putting Kick Me signs on their backs, light matches around their feet, spray them with fountain water, saw a hole in the floor to make Queen Uberta fall through it, and even scared his female back-up singers with Jean-Bob on a platter as he tried to kiss them.
"Petty, spiteful~" Jackson sang as he hung from a chandelier and used his own magic to change Rogers into a lizard.
"Wicked, wayward~" Rothbart sang.
"Way delightful~" Vicky sang while throwing water balloons at Queen Uberta before she was changed into an ostrich.
"Bad guy I was born to be~" Rothbart then sang, shooting another magic blast that shot all around the room before it finally hit Bromley and turned him into an orangutan like King Louie.
"One more time." Bridget smiled.
"Hit it, boys." Vicky smirked.
"Lying, loathsome~" Rothbart then began to sing.
"Never tender~" The back-up singers then sang.
"Indiscreet~" Rothbart sang as he took Chamberlain away from Bridget before making him trip down the stairs, away from the old hag, who went after him anyway.
"Repeat offender~" Rothbart sang.
"No more Mr. Nice Guy, that's not me, Yeah!" The back-up singers then sang with Rothbart before Vicky and Jackson joined in as Bridget jumped up on the chandelier with Chamberlain, even if he was just an illusion, swinging back and forth.
"Do do do~" The back-up singers then sang before changing back into a water fountain.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you." Rothbart then said before laughing as he walked off after his song had ended and everything was slowly going back to the way it was before.
"So, uh... What's going on here exactly?" Vicky asked Jackson.
"Nothing much," Jackson smirked. "Just helping Rothbart with his plans so I can carry our MY plans~"
"Ooh... If it's evil I'm in." Vicky smirked.
"Oh, it sure is." Jackson smirked back as he told her about the plan.
Meanwhile, back with Derek, Mo, Patch, Thor, and Tyke...
The castle was shown to be getting ready for the royal ball that Queen Uberta had arranged for her son as everything was decorated, even the tables with tablecloths and roses as Rogers was instructing the musicians.
"Mother!" Derek called out as he came into the room with the others beside him. "Mother, have you s-"
"Oh, Derek!" Queen Uberta gasped at her son, wearing roses in her hair as it was styled differently while she was arranging roses in a bouquet.
"...Are those roses?" Mo asked the woman.
"Yes, my dear, they certainly are." Queen Uberta nodded. What are these?
"They're red." Derek noticed.
"Of course they're red." Queen Uberta said like it was obvious.
"At least The Queen of Hearts would like them." Mo shrugged at herself.
"I don't want red roses; I want white like a swan," Derek told his mother. "Have you seen Bromley?"
"No." Queen Uberta replied.
"Has anybody seen Bromley?" Thor asked.
"Sir, would you feed this to a swan?" Mo asked the server as she saw the food on the tray.
"Uh..." The server smiled nervously, unsure how to answer with the prince in the room.
"Take it back," Derek said as he tossed away the tray, making the food scatter off of the tray. "Get something light, something fresh."
Tyke soon caught some of the food in his mouth and smiled. "Mm... I quite like it." he then said out of approval.
Derek then approached the musician in the room as he was leading the band to play their music. "No, no, no, no, no, Rogers, hold it." he then said.
"What's wrong?" Rogers asked in concern.
"Tonight the music must be played rubato, soft and graceful, like a swan." Derek suggested.
"A swan?" Rogers asked, giving him a strange look.
"Have you ever seen a swan, Rogers?" Derek then asked.
"Of course I've seen a swan." Rogers scoffed.
"If you could play a swan, what would it sound like?" Derek then asked.
Rogers then cued the band member to blare his French horn to sound like a swan honking before laughing at that.
"Mr. Rogers, maybe you should try soft and graceful, like music for a ballet." Mo then suggested, showing her feminine side a bit.
"Yes, exactly!" Derek nodded before looking around. "Where is Bromley?" he then asked.
"No one has seen him, Derek." Queen Uberta told her son calmly.
"Really? What a shame." Thor said.
"I know. I was gonna ask him to be my best man." Derek replied.
"Best... You mean...?" Queen Uberta stammered to her son.
Derek smiled, nodded, and winked at his mother.
"Oh... Derek!" Queen Uberta beamed excitedly to her son once she realized what this meant as she dashed over to him.
The food server then walked away as two servants carrying the punch bowl lifted it up and out of the way, but the punch then splashed and landed back in the bowl and splashed around Rogers and the others as the music soon began to swell in the style that Mo had recommended.
"There you go, Rogers, that's the stuff," Derek beamed as he soon took his mother by the hand and danced with her, even dipping her a bit that got her hair in the punch bowl, but she didn't seem to mind or care. "Come on, Mother."
"Don't be so secretive, Derek~" Queen Uberta laughed happily and hopefully. "Tell me who she is."
Derek just laughed too before he soon tossed the red roses in the air from excitement.
"Let's just say it's someone very special, Your Majesty." Thor said to the queen.
"Yep and two others will be coming too." Mo smiled.
"Oh, this is exciting." Tyke smiled back.
"I'm quite excited myself," Queen Uberta beamed. "I'll be a mother-in-law and perhaps soon, a grandmother~"
Patch, Mo, Thor, and Tyke exchanged nervous glances at the idea of Queen Uberta being a grandmother.
Meanwhile, back at Swan Lake, Jackson was finishing telling Vicky what she had missed and what he was up to.
"So... Wait... Lemme get this straight," Vicky spoke up. "You're trying to rewrite the history of Fairy Tales?"
"Something like that, yes," Jackson smirked and nodded. "I know it sounds weird, but I wanted to start in smaller places before I head to my ultimate goal. I saw some students from a school called Ever After High who met a different Red Riding Hood and Big Bad Wolf before Little Red got hoodwinked and I came here 'cuz I knew Atticus and Cherry haven't had a Swan Lake adventure."
"Those two have been through a lot, huh?" Vicky asked.
"Yeah... It all started with Cinderella," Jackson smirked before he took out Cherry's adventure scrapbook. "Also, the villains of The Disney Kingdom tried to corrupt Atticus into the dark side during that Halloween at The House of Mouse, but I found a way for them to get payback."
"Ooh, nice." Vicky smirked.
"Thank you. Thank you." Jackson smirked back.
"With this evil plan of yours this history should be rewritten in no time." Vicky smirked.
"Oh, yes," Jackson nodded. "Right after this, it might be an even bigger plan. I don't know if those guys will come back to this world for another adventure like they usually do, but maybe someday... I'll make note of that."
"So, what happens after this?" Vicky asked.
"A bit of a surprise that involves a cricket who makes a careless mistake that doesn't seem very heroic." Jackson replied before he took out a picture of who he was talking about named "Jiminy Cricket".
"Careless mistake?" Vicky asked.
"Let's just say, he suddenly decided to make things a little bit interesting," Jackson told her with a smirk and a wink. "I thought they were interesting too and it's almost affecting the world around Atticus and Cherry back home before they ended up with Sherlock Holmes with that annoying cat and mouse duo."
"So then shall we go greet our 'guests'?" Vicky smirked as she air quoted the last word.
"Oh, yes. Rothbart even has roses for one of them." Jackson smirked back.
"Come on then, let's go." Vicky grinned.
"Of course, my Empress~" Jackson smirked and nodded as they walked off to go and join Rothbart.