The kids then acted quickly and they continued to sneak around in The Engine Room as Sugar Plum continued to act as a dictator and not the sweet, helpful fairy they once knew. The tin soldiers were also hard at work and were even helping create more and more of themselves with the machine that Sugar Plum had told them to use. They soon snuck about before finding boxes of clockwork mice that stacked in front of them.
"Clockwork mice?" Jack and Jill wondered quietly and curiously.
"Guys, I think I have another idea." Clara said with a hopeful smile.
"Ooh. That sounds promising." Jack smiled back.
"Does it have to do with these mice?" Jill then asked.
"As a matter of fact, it does," Clara nodded as she picked up a box. "I think it's time to show these people what it means to be afraid of a mouse."
Jack and Jill then picked up other two boxes and nodded, going along with what Clara was suggesting as it sounded like a very good idea. As they did that, once the castle drawbridge/door was lowered, the tin soldiers began to march on out and began to leave the castle so that they could help Sugar Plum conquer The Four Realms. However, as they left down the bridge, they were soon met with the Poninchelles from the strange land the kids had stumbled into before and meeting Mother Ginger. The strange creatures rolled on out like a bunch of balls and soon rolled over toward the tin soldiers.
The tin soldiers braced themselves instantly and drew out their swords as the Polichinelles rolled by without fear and merely blatant joyfulness. Soon, the Polichinelles rolled out and bounced against the tin soldiers, knocking several down at once.
Sugar Plum soon sensed distress and her wings fluttered as she left the castle and hovered to see what was going on. Once she looked down, she was outraged and frustrated. "Forget those ludicrous clowns! I want Mother Ginger!" she then commanded.
The kids soon hid as best as they could and soon wound up the backs of the toy mice they now had and soon let them go, sending them zipping across the floor against the tin soldiers who were still multiplying in The Engine Room for Sugar Plum's reign of terror. The tin soldiers soon began to notice the toy mice and attempted to slash them with their swords while the kids hid themselves away from the soldiers which would cause serious trouble for them.
"Now to stop the water wheels." Jill then suggested before she rushed with Clara and Jack to the crank in the room.
As the tin soldiers were distracted, Clara and Jack stood next to Jill as she grabbed the wheel and grunted while pulling it to turn it. Jack and Clara then helped her out to give her extra muscle to stop the water wheels outside. After that was done, they peeked out to see that the tin soldiers were still there, going up against the swarms of clockwork mice with their swords.
"They're still here..." Jack whispered.
Clara then backed away, accidentally hitting a shelf behind her and it then suddenly made the objects on the shelves fall and clatter on the floor.
"Clara!" Jack and Jill cried out.
"Sorry!" Clara replied sheepishly.
Unfortunately, the tin soldiers heard the kids and were soon on their way in that direction. The kids then ran away before they would get caught by those tin soldiers, but when they ran the other way, there were other tin soldiers headed right for them.
"Time for some Avengers Grimm training." Jack told Jill.
"Right." Jill nodded in agreement.
The tin soldiers soon drew out their swords, going to fight against the kids despite them being only children. Clara was luckily doing well for herself so far, even if not as trained or experienced as Jack and Jill since they were avengers. She even kicked one away right in front of her while Jack elbowed a soldier behind him while Jill tripped the soldier and made it fall on the floor suddenly. The kids continued to fight until one of the Polinchelles soon rolled out before opening up to reveal...
"Mother Ginger!" The kids cried out once they saw the woman had come and found them.
"At your service, Your Majesty." Mother Ginger replied before she took out a whip. "DUCK!"
The kids then ducked down suddenly as three tin soldiers appeared right behind them and Mother Ginger lashed out at them instantly. More and more soldiers came from the corners as Mother Ginger continued to lash out at them away from the kids.
"Clara, we have to stop that engine before any more soldiers come out and attack The Four Realms." Jack soon told the girl.
"Right," Clara nodded. "I can disable the Engine."
"Go! I'll take care of this lot." Mother Ginger then replied as she continued to crack her whip.
"And we'll help." Jack and Jill then told Mother Ginger.
"Are you two sure?" Mother Ginger asked in slight concern.
"We've faced much worse than this," Jack reassured. "Even Death himself."
"Not to mention his Messengers." Jill added as bravely as she could.
"Bless your brave little hearts," Mother Ginger said softly before she narrowed her eyes. "All right. Just watch out for my whip." she then warned them.
"Right!" Jack and Jill replied before they began to fight the tin soldiers along with Mother Ginger while Clara would disable the engine.
The tin soldiers were getting weaker and weaker luckily thanks to the power of teamwork. One solider even now had his head on backwards until Mother Ginger snagged him in her whip, bringing him right over and spinning before she then kicked him away from her to be done with, knocking him right into another solider to fall on the floor together. Jack and Jill used their combat skills, deciding not to use their powers maybe this one time as they weren't sure if they could tell anyone else about them. That is, unless Mother Ginger and Clara were to become fellow Avengers Grimm as recruits if they had Alice's approval in Looking Glass.
"Come on, you tin cans! Fight us like a bunch of men!" Jill challenged.
"Way to go, Jill." Jack smiled, feeling very proud of his sister's newfound bravery. He then saw one soldier right behind her with his sword so he glared before charging at the soldier and then jump-kicked him right away from his twin sister.
"Whoa..." Jill whispered as she ducked down before seeing what her brother had done. "Thanks, Jack."
"What're twin brothers for?" Jack smiled warmly at his sister.
"I sure hope Phillip and Mouserinks are okay." Jill soon said.
"I'm sure that they will be just fine, especially Phillip," Jack replied. "He's a nutcracker soldier after all."
"But Mouserinks is just a-" Jill soon added until she suddenly thought of something. "...Mouse. Unless... He was The Mouse King all along."
Jack looked thoughtful with his sister. "...You know, that actually makes a lot of sense," he then said to her before he then also remembered scaring away "The Mouse King" with a "giant cat". "...I'm gonna have to owe Mouserinks an apology later."
Jack and Jill nodded at each other before gasping as the soldiers began to surround them suddenly since they took a break to talk.
Mother Ginger then whipped away those soldiers away from the twins before she continued to lash out at them more and more, though they couldn't keep this up forever. "Clara! Please hurry!" she then called out to the girl.
Clara was studying the engine as she tried to think as quickly as she could since lives were on the line right now. And soon, more fighting against tin soldiers continue to ensue, though it was getting harder and harder as more were being made by the minute.
"We can't keep up!" Jill cried out.
"There's too many of 'em!" Jack added.
Mother Ginger continued to crack her whip until it was eventually caught by someone very undesirable.
"Mother Ginger, I'm just so pleased you decided to drop in." Sugar Plum taunted as she lifted the woman's whip up in the air as she fluttered with her wings before dropping the woman right into a soldier pile to be left defenseless.
"Sugar Plum!" Jack and Jill called out, sounding very angry with the fairy right now.
"I'm afraid it's time for your story to end!" Sugar Plum glared before she flew back over to the gear they had turned before and soon turned it the other way to activate the water outside again.
"NO!" Jack and Jill cried out as they ran toward her.
Sugar Plum glared at the twins and then flapped them away with her wings, being a lot stronger than they expected. Jack and Jill were sent flying due to the wing gust and the soldiers soon caught them and they were soon tied up with Mother Ginger by her own whip.
"You just had to interfere again, didn't you?" Sugar Plum scoffed at Mother Ginger.
"I stopped you once before, remember?" Mother Ginger replied.
"You merely delayed the inevitable," Sugar Plum retorted before she looked around only to see that Clara was hidden from her sight. "The princess... Where is she?" she then demanded.
"Somewhere safe, I hope." Jack whispered to himself.
"She's gone! She's fled the realm," Mother Ginger soon told Sugar Plum. "She's safe from you!"
Sugar Plum then had a victorious smirk on her face. "Then I'm the queen of the castle and you're dirty rascals ~" she then sang mockingly.
"This is madness, Sugar Plum! It has to stop!" Mother Ginger cried out. "Also leave Jack and Jill out of this! They're not even from this world and they've done nothing to you!"
"Well, that's why they have to be disposed of as well since they're acolytes," Sugar Plum replied before commanding her tin soldiers. "Put them on the platform."
"Sugar Plum, why are you doing this?" Jack asked. "We thought you were a nice fairy!"
"Oh, but I am a nice fairy!" Sugar Plum replied before grinning. "I'm just not as nice when I don't get what I want from the people that I want~"
"Sugar Plum... I know you miss Marie. We all do, but this isn't gonna make you feel any better!" Mother Ginger told the fairy as the tin soldiers began to move them. "Jack and Jill also have nothing to do with this!"
"But they also know the queen's sister, Alice, who betrayed us just as worse as Marie did," Sugar Plum retorted. "We even promised her a better life and world, but she decided to just stay under the rabbit hole in that Hell Land she calls Wonderland."
"Leave Aunt Alice alone!" Jill called out.
"Besides, banishing you to The Fourth Realm made me feel just... delicious, but this... This is going to be... Exquisite," Sugar Plum soon sneered before smiling evilly as this looked like the end, especially for Jack and Jill. "Adieu. Farewell. Goodbye~"
"Sugar Plum, stop!" Clara soon called out once she showed herself again.
"Clara!" Jack and Jill called out in both fear and relief at the same time.
"Clara, run!" Mother Ginger called out to the girl who had come out of hiding. "Get out of here!"
"Seize her!" Sugar Plum then commanded her tin soldiers.
Two soldiers soon came out from the sides and took Clara's arms instantly.
"Don't do this. My mother loved you," Clara begged the fairy softly. "You had a special place in her heart."
"You, of all people, should understand, Clara," Sugar Plum scoffed. "She left you alone, too."
Clara looked soft until she looked as calm and patient as she could. "No. She left me everything I need. I'm not alone," she then said. "Sugar Plum, we are not alone."
Sugar Plum looked soft for a moment as the twins looked hopeful that the fairy would have a change of heart. "...You're right. I have a big, beautiful army to protect me," she then added, dashing their hopes instantly then. "No one will hurt me ever again."
"I know you're angry, but you can still do the right thing." Clara then told the fairy softly.
"I don't think that Clara's mother or Aunt Alice would want this from you, Sugar Plum." Jack added.
"No way." Jill nodded.
"Sugar Plum, listen to them," Mother Ginger agreed of course. "This isn't what Marie wanted for us and neither would her sister even if she preferred Wonderland."
"For us? A true queen does what's best for herself." Sugar Plum retorted selfishly.
"No!" Jill cried out. "No life is worth a kingdom!"
Jack nodded as that was advice that the twins lived by since Snow White had adopted them.
"They're right," Clara added. "A true queen does what's best for her people and you were right, Sugar Plum. I am every inch my mother's daughter."
The engine began to whir as the ray left Mother Ginger and the twins and soon went a different direction.
"You fixed the engine?" Jack asked Clara.
"Of course I did." Clara nodded.
"Nice." Jill replied with a relieved smile.
"Clara, what have you done?" Sugar Plum then asked suddenly. She then looked over to see that the machine was rising up and aimed right for her instead of Mother Ginger and the twins, so she screamed as the electricity crackled and she was instantly shot... Soon being shrunken down into a lifeless toy on the floor as she faced a very grave punishment for herself.
Jack and Jill, though relieved that Sugar Plum couldn't hurt anyone again, felt a little somber that it had to be this way for the fairy.
"Let me go..." Clara softly told the soldiers that had her arms until she broke free and they fell to the floor instantly as they were now lifeless toys too. She then went to go over to the platform. "Are you guys okay?" she then asked.
"Just fine, Clara," Jack reassured. "You did really great out there. You'd be a great Avengers Grimm member."
"Thank you," Clara smiled as that touched her deeply. "Put in a good word for me for Aunt Alice."
"We will." Jill added with a nod.
Clara then walked on over and found the woman on the floor with the twins. "Mother Ginger?" she then called before she knelt down and hugged the woman and the twins.
"Well done, Clara." Mother Ginger smiled warmly and proudly.
Jill also smiled as Jack had a bit of a blushing smile.
And so, peace was finally restored for everybody in this world. Everybody then gathered around as Clara was given a young queen's dress, wearing an icy gown with a glittering tiara while Jack and Jill also had royal garb as they retired to the castle after a very big battle against The Sugarplum Fairy of all characters.
"You look very beautiful, Clara." Jack said to the girl.
"Thank you, Jack. And you look very handsome." Clara replied warmly.
"Children, it's over," Shiver said as they came to visit the kids. "We are saved."
"Peace is restored," Hawthorne added. "The realms are reunited."
"And it's all because of you, my dears." Mother Ginger concluded, wearing her hair differently and looking more like a proper queen as she was much happier.
"I couldn't have done it without my friends," Clara said as she smiled warmly at Jack and Jill who smiled back before she looked softly over at Mother Ginger. "This all could have been avoided if only I listened to you, Mother Ginger." she then told the woman softly.
"Oh, it's not your fault. No one else did either," Mother Ginger reassured warmly. "Your mother would be very proud of you, my dear. Very proud."
The kids all smiled as that sounded like a very happy ending for all of them.
"Captain Nutcracker, would you escort the children to the Christmas Tree Forest and then return in your new post as Captain of the Guard?" Mother Ginger soon requested as she saw Phillip as he walked into the room next.
Phillip smiled proudly and bowed down a bit with Mouserinks on his shoulder.
"What about your bridge?" Clara soon asked Phillip since he had been promoted from where he once was before.
I'm afraid I'd be lonely," Phillip replied before smiling. "I suppose I have you to thank for that."
"I suppose you do." Clara smiled back warmly.
"And besides, I have a new friend now." Phillip then added as he looked down on his shoulder to see Mouserinks.
Mouserinks squeaked in response.
"Mouserinks, I'm very sorry about that cat scare when we first met," Jack softly told the mouse as he stepped closer. "We just thought you were a bad Mouse King. Can you forgive me?"
Mouserinks squeaked in response before he seemed to hug the boy's face.
"Aww..." Jill and Clara cooed warmly.
"Looks like all is forgiven." Jack then said with a small smile.
"Sure looks that way." Phillip nodded.
"Should we get going now?" Jill then asked Clara.
"Not just yet," Clara replied. "Let's take a moment to enjoy becoming Saviors of this world."
Jack and Jill then shared smiles with each other.
"I suppose there's nothing wrong with that." Jack then said.
"It'll help remind us of home too." Jill added.
And so, the kids walked back into the end of the castle and stood out on the balcony. Down below were very blessed and proud subjects as Clara truly lived up to her mother's legacy and it was now time to live happily ever after.