(Will sporadically update this if liked enough!
This is an Audrey-centric story, but peers into the lives of the VKs and AKs affected. It takes place in regards to an AU where the VKs never became Good, Mal only never liked Ben, and grabbed the wand at the coronation but still didn't give the wand to Maleficent. Oh, and Audrey and Ben had been in a dating.)This is an Audrey-centric story, but peers into the lives of the VKs and AKs affected. It takes place in regards to an AU where the VKs never became Good, Mal only never liked Ben, and grabbed the wand at the coronation but still didn't give the wand to Maleficent. Oh, and Audrey and Ben had been in a dating.)
"I told you so!"
In hindsight, it seemed like the right thing to say. But for Audrey, it now seemed pathetic.
What had happened: After taking the wand from Jane, a fail-safe, curtesy of Fairy Godmother, activated and surrounded Mal and the VKs as they had the wand. As Ben tried to get the wand from Mal, they all look up at them with evil smirks and Mal's eyes glowed bright neon green. She laughed in Ben's face and revealed the truth: They never turned to the Good side. They were playing every single person in the room who had ended up supporting them! Ben's face fell as Mal explained how she had tricked Ben and used him, and the fact the spell wore off and he told her he still "loved" her was music to her ears. By then time the fail-safe deactivated, and before they could put on their facades, it was too late. They were completely exposed to the entire kingdom of Auradon!
And then Maleficent came crashing in.
Angered but slightly impressed the VKs still managed to get the wand, she demanded it is handed over to her. But her daughter was pissed: her long thought out plans ruined and the very presence of the Mistress of Evil was the last straw! To punish her for all the things she and their parents put their kids through, Mal waved the wand and turned her into a lizard, her size as small as the amount of love in her heart!
After imprisoning Lizard-Maleficent away, Mal was prepared to wave the wand at the nobility of Auradon when the former King Adam and Fairy Godmother fought and procured the wand from the young dragon fairy. But the entire court had been in an uproar! The VKs were immediately arrested and put in a holding cell until further notice, the coronation (and after-party) had been canceled as well, and the paparazzi were having a Field Day with current events that just happened!
The Villains' Kids had been under orders to free Maleficent from the Isle! Yes, Jane did some of the work breaking the Isle's barrier, but Mal and the VKs still admitted to ill intention on Auradon!
Originally, Audrey would've wanted to bask in delight that she was right the entire time, but she didn't feel victorious. She felt disappointed and depressed. Why? Because she constantly and repeatedly warned everyone about the VKs but was pushed aside as the "bitter ex-girlfriend". All that time, She wanted to cry. She wanted to tell. She wanted to use that sharp tongue that her Grandma Leah said was "Not fit for a Princess of Auroria!"
But as the chaos ensured, watching guard usher away Ben and his family away while all the royal families were escorted out of the hall, Audrey just stood her head up like a true princess and held back her tears as she followed her family to the home they were staying in.
After everything had happened, after losing some of her friends and reputation as others favored and defended Mal and the VKs against her, losing Ben and being humiliated, she didn't know whether she could trust anyone at Auradon Prep ever again.
As Ben and his parents were ushered into a limo to escape the paparazzi (the biggest scandal to hit the Royal Family by the Future King's love betrayal with Maleficent's daughter! Oh, how the press would eat this up!) he was fighting the emotions of sadness, shame, regret, and humiliation of his own.
How could he have let this happened? He vouched for the Mal and her friends! He let them into his country, his home, his coronation. Hell, his heart!
He remembered watching Mal's eyes glow green with an evil smirk on her face. Ben had truly believed she had some good in her. Yes, he should have been cross when he realized she had put a love spell on him, but he wouldn't deny he felt something for her. Even when she had thought he'd drowned in the lake, she tried to rescue him. And even though she was unaware that he was curse-free, she still tried to hive him the antidote. Wasn't that Good? Or had she been faking it the whole time?
Ben didn't even wanna look up at his parents' faces. God, they must have been so disappointed in him. They trusted him, before and after he had won the election, stood with him when he made his decree - even if they were against it - and this is what he had to show for it!? He failed them, couldn't keep his personal feeling from duty, and nearly paid the price for believing and trusting the VKs so easily…And for hurting Audrey.
She warned him. Time and time again, she tried to tell him that something like this would happen. Yes, he had fallen out of love with her, but he thought she couldn't understand the responsibilities and changes he was going through. He even defended Mal against her, when all she had been trying to do was protect him. From them, and himself.
He wanted to laugh bitterly at that stupid display he did at the game. Audrey may have pulled an act to save face by getting with Chad, but he knew he hurt her deeply.
But like the rest of the people of Auradon, he didn't know how he would make it up to her for ho's screw up.
Similar feelings were amassing amongst the Auradon students after the failed coronation.
Fairy Godmother was livid with Jane, for her childish actions could have endangered the kingdom. All for she could grow her hair out longer! If she wanted to, she could have brought the topic up with her!
And speaking of which, she was livid Jane had allowed Mal to use magic on her and Lonnie in the first place! It was against the rules and in strict dress code violations! The Fairy Godmother grounded her daughter for an unspecified time and let all the heroes know what their children had been doing.
The imprisoned VKs were hit with a truth spell and spilled a lot of their plans and activities, especially about how they were tasked to steal the wand and the Love Potion Mal put on Ben. But the plan changed tp double-cross their parents and take the kingdom for themselves, unleashing the worst of the worst from the Isle to help construct chaos. Had they not been exposed, this is how they would have gone about it:
Mal, as Ben's girlfriend, would have been soon expected to be introduced as a new Lady of the Court. From there, she would have begun meeting with influential figures while collaborating with Jay to have weapons, food and more smuggled into the Isle.
Jay, though working with Mal, would gain access to certain faults and hidden mines in the kingdom, looting all the treasures and wealth from right out from under all of the nobilities' noses. Some of it would go to the Isle as well.
Evie, a brilliant witch after her mother, had plotted to slowly poison the student population with gas, which held similar components to the apple given to Snow White, and then cause a chemical explosion to destroy the whole school! She also plotted to have it blamed on Doug, as he would sometimes be the last to leave the Chemistry, where the explosion would start.
And Carlos plotted to slowly but surely poison a majority of the animals in the kingdom, from farm animals to the domesticated one, including the dogs, leaving only vegetation the sustainable food source available.
Ironically, they told Fairy Godmother about how certain students treated them, like Chad. And by "they", it was Evie's admission into giving more reason to blow up the school.
The fallout responded with a lot of disappointed parents (even Cinderella and Prince Charming), lots of grounding, and for Ben, the loss of support in the Auradonian people. Not to mention the feeding frenzy the media was having.
But for the Auradon students itself, it was a different story. Those who were friendly to the VKs from the start couldn't understand how they got played or why they didn't see through their acts. The girls upon getting Mal and Evie popular were regretting their actions, listening to them and their "hair rebellion", the boys regretting letting Jay and Carlos into their ranks and circles, but a certain group of AKs was dealing with shame of their own: Losing Audrey, a shell of herself, who had become detached from her school activities and wanted nothing to do with anybody at all.