Aladdin watched as Jafar became a giant red genie playing and boasting with his newly acquired power. When in the middle the chaos provoked by the titan like djinn that was now dwarfing the palace, he spotted his goal.
Nobody understood why.
Why did he convince the power hungry sorcerer with the idea of being inferior compared to his blue genie friend, who was also in pure shock by the result. But when the street rat took the black oil lamp in his hands, he brought Jafar back to the reality as two gold brasses cuffed the wrists of the freshly transformed red genie.
The red smoke tail mercilessly pulled the new tenant of the black lamp in his new home, the former vizier was screaming in denial as he was getting smaller and closer of his prison.
Aladdin said the words his blue friend used when he told him about being the genie of the lamp. "Phenomenal cosmic power!" Iago tried to flee but Jafar caught him in mid flight and they both entered by lamp's spout in puff of red smoke and colored feathers. Aladdin concluded. "Itty bitty living space..." With a mocking tone. I was the end... For the moment.
It was the epic tale of a street rat who went into the cave of wonder, met his best friend by rubbing a lamp and married the women he loved after this adventure. They lived happily ever after, despite everything that happened in the last 2 years. Aladdin, Jasmine, the sultan, the whole city of Agrabah, even the whole world were facing new threats. After Jafar, came other power hungry individuals, humans or not. Peace was never lasting but it wasn't a bother for Aladdin as a new adventure was always at the corner and made the usual boring life of a prince, exciting. With his now wife, his best friends ready to give a hand, he travelled all around the world. He met new friends, discovered many cultures and incredible creatures, fought against formidable opponents. He even met his own father, the boss of the legendary forty thieves.
It never ended...Not even the day after Jasmine officially became his wife and him the future sultan of Agrabah. But this time, he thought it was the one too much…
Aladdin was heavily panting, Abu his monkey friend was waving the flying carpet at him like a fan. "I can't let them... I have to protect it at any cost!" he said to himself.
Way under the palace, in the most secret and guarded room where many traps lay. The former street rat was looking at the said thing he wanted to protect… Innocently sitting on pedestal right in front of him, the black oil lamp he knew too much.
"IIIII'MMMMM BAAAAACKKKK!" Genie screamed, appearing out from thin air in the palace's garden with shots of confetti and sparkles accompanying him. The magical blue being went on a trip after Al and Jasmine wedding as he wanted to let them enjoy their honeymoon. Despite the genie insistence to be the one planning the most heavenly trip for the newly wed, Aladdin refused, at least he managed to secretly slip the lamp in their luggages, just in case of emergency. But the genie who had the biggest and brightest smile of the world at the moment just came back on earth when he realized the sad and gloomy atmosphere of the gardens.
"Waow…I didn't know it was Halloween today." Genie took out a calendar saying Halloween eve in 632 years, 5 months and 13 days. "That's what I thought." He concluded throwing the calendar and the pumpkin he putted on his head before he searched for his friends. When he saw Jasmine sitting aside the fountain, looking at her reflection in the water. He floated closer to greet her. "Hey princess, what's happening around? I forgot to buy the Agrabah Post on the way." But the princess reacted to the joke by hugging the big blue genie.
"Oh genie, It's Aladdin…" she cried when she released the magical being who suddenly got lively hearing this.
"AL! Something happened to my best buddy! Just wait here princess, I'm bringing him back here in a flash." Genie transformed in a blond guy with determined eyes speaking through a cell phone. "I don't know who you are, I don't know what you want but if you don't return Aladdin now I will find you and I will..." But jasmine interrupted him.
"Genie! Listen!" and she explained the whole situation.
A few minutes later, genie was descending through the place underground. "DING! 666th basement, secret vault for extremely dangerous artefacts." A voice announced while the magical man floated away from small rectangular room.
"Al…" He called but the only answer he got, was the sound of a sabre being drawn out.
"Who's there?!" A scared and surprised tone asked. When Genie looked at the owner, he discovered Aladdin. A sabre in one of his hand, his face was pale with tired eyes, his legs and arms were slightly shaking. Everything needed for the tiredness to transform a fine young man into a zombie craving for coffee.
"It's me Al…Your best friend. You know the one who have blue skin and a lamp for home." Genie said slowly, trying to calm his friend.
Aladdin turned himself and putted the sabre down on a pile of many others. The room was like one the guard's armory with many weapons on racks and the grounds.
"What are you doing here?" The tired street rat roughly asked before sitting on a block of rock.
Genie responded once he looked all around. "Jasmine is sending me, she's worrying about you… It's been a month since you slept in your bed or even talked to her… She told me you were spending all your times here… So, I wonder what happened? And perhaps, let me take things from here, you need to relax and..."
But he was interrupted by Aladdin. "No way! I need to defend it. They know its here, if they lay a single finger on it, we're all lost!" The street rat looked at his best friend with crazy obsessed eyes.
Genie was worried but now he was scared, Aladdin became like some of those many masters he had before him. Masters who became obsessed by the protection of the magic lamp they had. Thinking if they let anyone touch it or if the genie leaves after their 3rd wish, they will be taken down by the next owner of the lamp. That's precisely how his lamp got locked in the cave of wonder for ten thousand years by an extremely paranoid master.
Right now, he needed to put Aladdin to sleep before his health would be in danger but his mind was not well and couldn't be changed. When he spotted, behind the rock, Abu, sleeping on the carpet who was gently rocking him. Suddenly a shiny light bulb appeared, which attracted Aladdin attention. Genie took it and gave a few taps with his finger mimicking an electrician and the street rat forgot about it as he got back to his guarding.
The magical being setted himself aside him on the block of rock before he asked him. "Say Al, how about guarding this room along with you?"
The street rat didn't looked at his friend and quickly replied. "Suit yourself."
After a few minutes of silence, Genie broke it. "You know, I discovered something amazing while I was away."
Aladdin grumbled. "I don't want to talk."
Another moment of silence followed before the magical being was heard again "This rock is pretty uncomfortable for sitting, even if it's reminding me a cute little robot, your back must hurt if you have spent a long time here."
Genie expected another rough response but instead spotted an opening when his friend responded. "Yeah. Didn't had the time to bring a sofa or a bed."
The blue man quickly responded. "I know something so comfortable you wouldn't believe it, mind if I replace this ol rock bloc?"
Aladdin nodded without any care, the genie could do anything as long as it didn't trouble his attention and guarding. Genie got to work, twisting his fingers before saying. "Alrighty, but since this room is crampier than my lamp then I need to make a little adjustment."
The street rat blinked as the genie work was a little flashy but he didn't complain when he suddenly felled himself comfy on an extremely soft surface. "Way better." He thought as he relaxed his back, still focusing on the room. But when he felt he was slowly moving up and down, he realized something was off. This movement and the fact the room now seemed to be bigger, much bigger. He stood up but had difficulty to maintain his balance as his feet were on nothing but a very soft blue surface. Aladdin looked around in panic, thinking he was being trapped but only saw a genie giant face smiling at him. His sharp mind quickly acted as he found the responsible. "WHAT DID YOU DO GENIE!?" he asked, almost screamed in anger.
"Told you, it's something I discovered during my travel, it's called relaxing on a giant belly. I didn't have the space to grow so I… Well, you know that sizes are relatives and also a matter of view." The genie explained and also tried to skip the main concern of the friend who was now on his belly.
"Are you kidding me? I'm the size of a doll! How I'm supposed to guard and protect this room when I'm looking like a living toy?" The shrunken Aladdin asked in fear, pointing how vulnerable he was.
"No worry Al, you're literally sitting on semi phenomenal cosmic power, if anything happens, I'll make you normal size before you can say, tiny." Genie smiled, trying to be convincing but ignored the other complaints as he only responded. "Relax and enjoy while you're guarding the vault."
The tiny Aladdin mumbled angrily but rapidly stopped as guarding was more important to him. Thinking hard about how unfit his situation was. His mind was constantly troubled by the rhythm of the belly slowly going up then slowly going down, like waves on the sea. He was sitting but his back slowly acted like it was independent of him as it laid down on the soft, the very soft blue surface. Also warm, how come the body of a genie could be so relaxing…
The street rat vision slowly faded as he was only thinking about softness, warmness. In a flash, he was now sleeping soundly as faint snore was heard.
Genie exhaled in relief as his friend didn't smelled the trick and felled asleep. "Sorry, I tricked you Al but you desperately needed it." And with a slow movement he took the doll sized man in his hand and left the underground. He went to the bedroom where he met Jasmine but when she wanted to talk. He putted a finger in front of his mouth, gesturing a "shh…" and showed the tiny Aladdin before he putted him on the bed. With little zap of gold he made his friend normal sized before covering him with sheet like a mother taking care of her son and then left without a noise. The street rat turned in his sleep but jasmine joined him and that seemed to calm the man. The night passed quietly as nothing disturbed it.
Aladdin woke up, he was feeling fine after a good night of sleep. He took his breakfast like every day, with jasmine who seemed more than happy to be with him. Everything was good when he thought about it, he wondered why he was feeling bad recently, it was like he was waking from a nightmare. A nightmare where he had to guard a lamp to prevent the most terrible crisis falling upon Agrabah because of two evil people now aware of its existence. The street rat froze, his smile disappeared as he stood still. It wasn't a nightmare, it was the reality and the danger was here. He bolted to the palace underground, much to Jasmine despair who told him to wait but it was no use.
Aladdin reached the vault where he saw the black lamp was still here but when he tried to approach it, a tall bearded man with a grey robe and blue skin appeared and screamed.
"YOU… SHALL… NOT… PASS!" Stomping the ground with his staff as the sheer volume of his voice created a storm.
The street rat protected himself with his arms and stood against the wind before he asked. "Genie?"
Suddenly… Everything stopped. And a voice asked normally like nothing happened. "Hey Al! Had a good night?"
A little dumbfounded but used to his friend reaction who often went overboard, Aladdin responded. "huh…Yeah, what's the meaning of this?"
The genie dismissed everything, the beard, the robe. Before he answered. "I wanted to show you that I can protect this vault."
The street rat recalled yesterday meeting with the magical being as he said. "You tricked me to sleep…"
The blue man suddenly responded. "Had to! You managed to transform yourself into a treasure hoarder. And there's nothing worse than living to protect things like gold and magic lamps... Believe the genie whose lamp was the most sought and treasured thing for millenniums."
Aladdin could clearly see what the genie meant as he realized that he spent a whole month without talking or seeing Jasmine. "I know, we saw that with many people, the true treasures are our family and friends, those we care about. But can you understand how dangerous the situation is now?"
"You didn't tell me or Jas what happened and when I asked, you were stuck in loop." Genie changed his face to Aladdin's with paleness and tired eyes saying. "Protect the lamp, protect the lamp, protect the lamp, protect the lamp…"
The street rat was a little scared seeing himself. "Did I really look like that yesterday?" He asked incredulously.
"I'm afraid so... You understand how scared and worried I was about you…" The genie responded with his normal head. "But it was yesterday, now you're fine and your mind is clear so how about explaining me what happened. I may be a genie of the lamp, right now I'm in the fog." A grey thick cloud suddenly surrounded genie's head as it turned round on his neck with light going out of the eyes.
Aladin tried to sit somewhere when carpet floated to offer a him a seat. "Ok… You do remember the moment we decided to keep the black lamp."
"If I remember? It was like yesterday for me. Monkey guy! Play it!" The genie clapped his hands, making Abu who was still sleeping around, woke up and pushed the button of a big machine. A big square of white appeared on the wall and displayed a number then another one.
1… Aladdin was holding the black magic lamp who contained Jafar. The former sorcerer who wished to become a genie was loudly arguing with Iago his accomplice as they were hearing muffled voices coming from inside.
"Allow me." Genie took the lamp and grew to a giant size with a baseball cap on his head. "ten-thousand years in a cave of wonder to chill him out!"
"Genie wait!" Aladdin interrupted the magical being who was going to flick the black lamp away.
"What's the matter?" The genie asked.
"I don't think it's a good idea to send them to the cave of wonder." The street rat announced.
Genie shrunk back to his normal size and floated aside his friend with the lamp in his hands. "Are you sure, passing all these years will surely made them think twice about being evil."
But Aladdin come up with arguments. "That's not what I'm worrying about, it's about them being far away." The magical being scratched his head as he listened. "You see, Jafar knew about the cave of wonder, about the lamp. He discovered how to obtain it right?" Genie nodded. "So if you send him away, there's still chance for someone to find his lamp. Imagine if it's just an innocent adventurer or worse someone with evil intentions… So I think it's better to have it under our watch, making sure nobody rubs it."
The blue being balanced the arguments in his mind for a second before he responded. "You made a good point kid, smart and foreseeing…" Looking at the black lamp with concern before he went aside Aladdin. "Are you sure you don't have some genie bloods in your veins or any ancestor living in a lamp?" he jokingly asked.
The moving pictures displaying on the wall went blank as the machine operated by Abu made some clacking sounds.
"I just can't enough of our adventures, but I'm always thinking that not flicking the lamp in the cave of wonder is weird. Like we went off the track or something…" Genie said holding large cup of popcorn and a shirt with 3 black circles on it.
"It's me or I looked fitter in the past?" Aladdin asked before he got back to the main topic. "Anyway, we all thought it would safer this way, and it was. With all the people who tried to takeover Agrabah and the numerous who want us out of the pictures. Even my father the greatest thief of the 7 deserts doesn't know about it. It was a perfectly guarded secret…Until now…" The street rat walked to the black lamp before he turned to face genie and say with despair. "The day after the wedding, Abis Mal and Mozenrath sneaked into the palace. They got spotted but the moment after, they disappeared. We searched everywhere, every corner, every hide but nothing. I thought they ran away when I remembered about the only place nobody looks for and I was right. They were here, inside the secret vault we've built to keep Jafar's lamp away. I manage to kick them away as usual but they were so close."
Genie patted the back of his friend who was down with despair. "Don't be like that Al, you managed to defend it so don't lose your self-confidence for this. We both knew it could happen... There's no miracle solution…"
Aladdin look at Genie. "I know but if I was a second too late they would have rubbed it...Imagine Jafar coming back with genie powers and a master like Mozenrath. Everything we have done those past years could be nothing compared to that."
"I can understand your fear but guarding the lamp like you do, isn't a solution." The blue being responded.
"I know but it's the only one I found for now. Why did I suggest that wish to Jafar?" Aladdin sat on the ground, thinking hard.
"Don't say that Al, you've saved the day and if we analyse this correctly." Genie was now wearing a white coat and was typing on a sort of machine. "The problem isn't your action or those two even if Abis Mal and Mozenrath pairing together is surprising. No! The main problem is the lamp itself. As long its here and people aware of it there will be a risk."
"We can't hide it anymore, the word surely has spread all around, there's a magic lamp with a genie who can grant wish in Agrabah…" Aladdin said with despair. "I thought about moving it but there's surely people searching high and low for it, and the trail start from here…"
"How about entrusting it to people we know? We have friends far away from this land." Genie took out a map of the world with many pictures like Eden, Dandi, Hercules.
"No, I don't want to put other at risk, and it would the same as sending it in a cave of wonder. We'll be never sure that no one rubbed it…"The street rat dismissed the map.
Everyone was thinking hard, Abu was sitting on the floor mimicking the pose of Aladdin, carpet was slowly flying in round and genie was watching a whole set light bulbs.
"Come on, it's time to have a genius's idea, there's a power shortage or what?" he said to himself as everyone could hear the magical being annoyed voice.
The street rat thought about those words "Lamp, if it didn't exist in the first time." He thought but an idea came to complete. "If Jafar didn't existed." But he was not comfy with this idea but he asked his blue friend.
"Genie, what it would take to destroy a genie lamp?" he asked out of the blue.
The magical being suddenly froze, hearing this as he let the light bulb he was holding fall and crash on the ground. "Lava…" He slowly responded. "Evil genies often got their lamp sentenced to be thrown in a volcano… Don't tell me you're thinking about."
"No, no!" Aladdin quickly responded. "Just curiosity and a very bad idea. Jafar may be evil and committed many crimes but I can't just… Well, you know."
The magical blue genie floated near his friend and said. "I agree, not because it's forbidden for a genie to kill. But how we could face ourselves after that, doing something so horrible, we just don't have right to do it."
"If only Jafar could be different…" Aladdin announced.
"Not everybody have the chance to take the right path. Sometimes fate can be cruel and makes people evil… I know it, during the short time I was under Jafar's order I heard a little about his past. How about being in the shadow of a brother who was a prodigy as a sorcerer. How his teacher mocked him not being a talented magician and how his hard work was never considered… I don't say I forgive him for everything he have done or say he got a good reason. It's just, if he could have met the good persons back then." Genie explained.
This gave an idea to Aladdin. "That's it! Here's the solution!" He said with excitation. "We already travelled to the past and met the founder of Agrabah. Then we just have to go back in the past when Jafar is young and we tutor him on the right path."
Genie turned himself in an old man with grey hair and weird yellow shirt. "Great Scott Marty! This will cause a rip to the time space continuum and create a paradox that can destroy the entire universe!"
The street rat was a little scared by his friend word and didn't quite understand. "Could you explain it with simple word."
Genie got back to normal in a puff of blue smoke. "Your idea is excellent." He added a quick "That's my Al." before he explained. "If you change Jafar's past it will affect yours. You'll never enter the cave of wonder and rub my lamp so we'll never meet. If we never met then, you'll never be able to marry Jasmine and set me free. Because Jafar would be a good man and will never search for my lamp and trigger the chain reaction that lead us to this present moment." Aladdin realized that without Jafar he would still be street rat dreaming of a better life. "And if we never met how did you go to the past and change it. The moment when past Jafar would decide to be good, you'll disappear as you could never travel through time without my help... It can also create time loop where you would travel to the past and disappear again and again and again." Genie cloned himself multiple times, each one of him saying again and cloned.
"Alright, no time travel." Said Al while the genie clones disappeared.
"Yeah, I would like to have a ride in the Delorean but if we want change things, we need to do it right in the present." The blue man concluded.
"How we could change Jafar? We're not hearing him anymore since Iago escaped from the lamp but I'm sure he's still furious and would take his revenge if we release him." Aladdin pointed the black lamp.
"You're right, I would wish we could…" Genie paused for a moment realizing what he just said. "He's really a case, he made me regret of not being a genie of the lamp any more."
"If only we could have a wish." Aladdin absent mindedly said before he repeated. "A wish... A wish, A wish! We have a wish!" He happily announced.
"We do?" Asked the magical being, puzzled as its face was messy.
"We have 3 wishes available right here." He took the black lamp showing it at his friend.
Genie looked at it with a perplex expression. "I thought you didn't want to see Jafar out of his lamp."
Aladdin explained. "I know but I took the problem the other way. I'm afraid someone with bad intention would release Jafar. But if I'm the one who rub the lamp… Then Jafar, as a genie, would be forced to grant my wish, right?"
The blue being scratched his chin. "You're right, genies must grant their master's wish, no matter if they want it or not, the lamp would force them to. But there's a major flaw… A genie can easily twist a wish."
"What do you mean twisting a wish?" The street rat asked.
Genie took a breath before he explain. "Thousands of years ago when I was a young genie, I twisted some wish but only for good, like with one of my previous master. A warmonger who wished to have the biggest army in the world for his endless wars, so I made all his soldier, giants."
"I'm sure he didn't mean this." Aladdin said, incredulous.
"Of course! But his choice of word allowed me to… So technically, I granted his wish." Genie took up a parchment where it was written, I wish to have the biggest army with a big "GRANTED" in red stamped on it.
"What happened after?" Asked the genie's friend, curious.
"At first he was happy with his army of giants until he saw the humongous amount of food he needed to sustain them… Famine was here but he refused to use another wish to cancel his first and even wished to have more soldiers and weapons. When one of his giant soldier heard about it, he opened the palace by the roof like a doll house and took my lamp from him." Genie took the form of a soldier with an armor and a sword who ripped the roof of a miniature palace to take a lamp who looked like a golden pebble at this size.
"First, they wished for peace for their country, then they wished for their family to be giants too and lastly they wished me to create a kingdom in cloud land, the country of giants. With a way to get back to their former country, making sure their leaders wouldn't go on a war again once they left." The magical blue being finished with a proud tone.
"They were good people." Aladdin said, he listened to the story like a good kid.
"Yep, diamonds in the rough, just like you. But what I wanted to explain with this fairytale I lived, is how it's easy for a genie to twist a wish. True we cannot kill but we can make our masters life very hard." Genie concluded
"A chance that my best friend is an expert with semi phenomenal cosmic powers." Aladdin was grinning at the said friend.
"I guess there's nothing that will change your mind." Genie took a deep breath. "Alright then, let's plan this!" He shouted as he made sheets of papers raining on them.
2 days later.
The palace was totally empty, no guards, no servants, no guests, no sultan and no princess. Only Aladdin, Abu, the carpet and genie were here. The day after Al come up with the idea of making Jafar grant his wishes, he explained his plan to Jasmine. The princess was not happy with the perspective of Jafar returning and mostly to be put away but she complied. Aladdin wanted to cover every possibility as the band worked hard on the plan.
First the palace needed to be empty to prevent any innocent casualties.
Second, genie would cast an invisible barrier around the palace and then hide around, ready to make a surprise strike on Jafar if he was too rowdy.
And third, Aladdin has to be outside on carpet, ready to fly away with the black lamp. Abu, not wanting to leave his side would be with him.
As for Jasmine… They wanted for her to be in safety, but they knew she wouldn't just sit and watch them. She would be the last hope, if everything else failed. She would be the one to find a way for putting Jafar back in his lamp.
Everybody was ready, Aladdin took a deep breath before he rubbed the black lamp. Red smoke emerged from the lamp's spout and rapidly formed a giant red cloud who revealed genie Jafar when it dissipated.
"YOU! THIS TIME I'll CRUSH YOU, MISERABLE INSECT!" Jafar shouted as he charged toward Aladdin.
A little afraid, the master of the black lamp stood up on carpet and calmly said. "Stop…" Pointing the lamp at the genie.
Jafar suddenly froze in mid-air, his fist in front as he was aiming to punch his arch nemesis. He growled. "You may have the lamp but you released me and this land will never know peace as I will roam around it." He then shouted himself in the air at high speed, trying to put the maximum distance between him and Aladdin. When his cuff suddenly retained him back as he barely left the palace's surroundings. He tried to flee again but each time the golden brasses who cuffed his wrist retained him like they were invisible chains coming from the lamp. Jafar came back in front of Aladdin, a little defeated.
"Not fun to be a genie, now will you grant my wish?" Aladdin asked, mocking the giant red magical being.
Jafar exhaled flames through his nose in annoyance but complied. "You have 3 wishes, say them so I can be rid of you for eternity."
Aladdin took a breath, calming himself and said his wish like he planned with genie. "My first wish is to be the only one who can free you from your genie servitude."
The giant genie saw red and tried to crush the street rat with his hands who was bigger than him and his carpet, saying in rage. "Why you little!" But something in his head blocked him and forced to grant his wish. So he snapped his fingers and said with an extremely annoyed tone. "Granted. Now the second one, quick! Every second in your presence disgusts me."
But the red genie insult didn't troubled Aladdin as full of confidence he made his second wish. "I wish for all your memory since you were born and also the one when you became a genie to be locked away, to be reborn as a new genie kinder with empathetic heart, the next time you enter your lamp."
Jafar was shocked, he tried to come around it or finding a way to prevent the granting but it was useless. His hand slowly rose beside his effort to keep it down, making his arms shaky. His fingers readied themselves for the snap. He thought "No! No! Noooo!" but the finger snapped and the word slip out of his mouth. "Granted…"
Aladdin heart was heavily bumping in his chest as ordered the genie. "Go back to your lamp."
The red genie tried to flee but didn't had the time as the lamp was already sucking him back into it. His resistance didn't last as in matter of second the giant genie became a little plump of red smoke retreating in the lamp spout with a little puff. Before that he added. "Damn you Aladdin… This isn't over, your wish isn't perfect…" As a last threat was echoing in the air.
Aladdin waited, anxious, his heart still beating strong and fast. He took a moment to have a breath but not a minute after Jafar got back in his home, he rubbed the lamp.
Red smoke erupted from the spout again and formed a giant red cloud, again. The time seemed to slow down as the cloud was slow to uncover the genie.
A voice, sounding like Jafar but different emerged from the cloud. "I'm the genie of this lamp and the one who own it is my master and will be granted 3 wish…huh?! Its feels like you only have wish, that's weird." Aladdin who was reassured hearing a different voice suddenly got worry as the ting behind the cloud noticed something was fishy. "Doesn't matter. You have 3 wish, say them and I will grant it."
The cloud finally lifted, revealing the new genie. He was still a giant red genie but his body and face was different. Jafar was bald with a little ponytail, here he had long black hair with a big ponytail on top of it, he now had a beard underlining his chin with a goatee and his body now abhorred impressive muscles furnished with a six pack.
The red genie asked "Tell me what makes you happiest for your wish is my…" he briefly interrupted himself before asking. "Do I know you?"
Aladdin muttered to his monkey friend. "Abu, I think it worked…"