"Partners in crime!" Techo Lawyer cried, amused. Jess felt a twinge of impatience.

"Look, shut up and listen," Jess said, rising. "There's something wrong. Seriously wrong. The Faerie Queen is not in this room. No, she's not. The Faerie Queen's been kidnapped and that impostor up there is our judge and jury! And not only that, but sooner or later, people are going to find out who that impostor up there is. Neopia could descend into waaaa-"

Jess was cut off mid-word by another glowing eye strike by the Faerie Queen. Jess slumped, unconscious, in the witness box, knocked out in a fixed court, unable to not only save Neopia but also to defend herself against being frozen.

Alexa looked out through tearful eyes as her friend was taken away to their cell. She was the only one left now.

Jhudora and an invisible Blanche, BeatofSaint01 and tigger2002guy was wandering through the hiding place, looking for Fyora. Jhudora had suspected that she might be in some dark, creepy basement, only to find out that the hiding place didn't have a dark, creepy basement. So then she suspected that Fyora was hidden in one of the four really really high towers that were, no doubt, filled with spiders and cobwebs, but she wasn't there either. So then Jhudora got the brilliant idea to ask for directions from Maelstra.

"I want to give her a piece of my mind," was Jhudora's excuse, "for banning me from Faerie City."

"Good for you," Maelstra had smiled, and she told her that she was in the dark, creepy basement after all.

"What?" Jhudora asked. "Which dark, creepy basement exactly?"

"The one that to get to via a trapdoor, hidden under the red rug in the living room," Maelstra answered.

"Oh," Jhudora replied stupidly.

Jhudora walked over to the red rug and pulled it away. Underneath, a painted green trapdoor stood out from the fluffy white carpet.

"Kind of redundant to have a rug on a carpet," Blanche remarked.

"Jump down," Jhudora whispered to the invisible trio, and so they did. As she dropped down, she closed the trapdoor after her.

"Fyora!" a relieved Blanche yelled. Jhudora then remembered to take the invisibility spell of the Neopets.

Fyora was conscious now, although still tied up.

"What's 'at?" Fyora muttered warily. "I still don't wanna eat," she mumbled at the purple figure approaching her.

"Fyora!" Jhudora said, quickly. "In ordinary circumstances, I'd have left you here... but some foolish rebels have decided to take over Neopia... and you know what, they don't know the first thing about running a country! And," she said, as an afterthought, "they're draining away your power to make you a Grey Faerie!"

"Can we stop them now?" asked Blanche, worried again. "Now you're conscious Fyora, can't you undrain power or something?"

"No," answered Fyora sadly. "Now I'm awake, I can preserve the power I have left... but I can't regain my old powers."

Jhudora untied the rope binding Fyora's wrists ever so carefully.

"You can untie your own ankles," she said after that, and left her alone.

"I must ask you," Fyora said gracefully but curiously, "What are you doing here? Why would you want to save me?"

"Neopia beckons," Jhudora replied cryptically. Blanche explained better.

"You're the only one who can prove to Neopia the Jahanara is an evil impostor and not the Faerie Queen because you're the Faerie Queen... well, unfortunately technically she's the Faerie Queen now because she rules Neopia, but yoy should be the Faerie Queen because your name, Fyora, technically means "Faerie Queen" in Old Faerie Language, and because she has to pretend she's you just to be the impostor Faerie Queen!"

I never said she explained it well, just better.

Fyora stood up now.

"Jhudora," she said seriously. "We have to conjure a portal... it's the only way all five of us can get out of here."

"We?" Jhudora asked. "You're the Faerie Queen. You're the strongest Faerie in Neopia... surely you can conjure a portal!"

"No," she replied. "I'm too weak, and I'm half a Grey Faerie already... weak even for the most tired and weak Faerie. But together we must be able to summon enough power."

Jhudora and Fyora closed their eyes really hard and concentrated.

For a whole sixty seconds.

"It's no-" tigger2002guy began to say, but then a circular window appeared, to a spot in front of a pink wall.

"You first," Jhudora said to Fyora. "No doubt the trial is nearly over by now."

"Library Faerie!" a confused (and visible again, the invisibility spell having worn off) Zoe yelled. "I need help!"

"Certainly," the Library Faerie smiled. "How may I help you this night?"

"I need to know how I can stop this mess," Zoe panted. Running miles in a land when she should be at her own trial wasn't good for her conscience.

The Library Faerie beamed. "We have plenty of books about messes. If you need help cleaning up your NeoHome, I recommend 101 Ways to Make Cleaning Fun by John Doe."

"What?" Zoe asked. "I need to know how I can put the right Fyora on the throne again because she's been kidnapped and this other Faerie's disguised as Fyora and she's going to freeze me and send me back to Earth if I don't stop her!"

"I am sorry. Only the Faerie Queen can clear up that mess. You must speak with her about it."

The Library Faerie was like a computer, Zoe thought.

"But the Faerie Queen's been kidnapped, remember? I told you just before!" she yelled angrily.

"Sorry, I can not help you," the Library Faerie smiled. "Enjoy your evening."

Zoe trudged outside none the better. A few steps away from the library, Zoe really needed to kick something, she felt so angry.

So she kicked the library.

"How much longer?" Blanche complained. "This is so... exhausting..."

The five were now running along the Faerie Castle corridors, before the Neopets magically appeared in the pound.

"Ten minutes, maybe," Jhudora answered. "Provided we keep up this pace."

"Bu - but that's awful!" Blanche moaned.

"Save yourself, dear," Jhudora answered. "We will save the day. After all," she remarked, "All Neopian Times stories have a happy ending."

"But we're not a story," Blanche protested.

"Yes we are, darling," Jhudora said. "Or we will be when we fix this mess."

Blanche noticed that the picture of Jhudora had turned into a purple-and-green blur.

"Everything will be all right," Jhudora intoned hypnotically.

"All right..."

"Yes, everything will be all right," Jhudora repeated.

"All right..." said Blanche again, but the she brightened. "Well, we'd better hurry if we want to save the world!"

"Well, darling," Jhudora met up with Fyora. "Do what she said!"

Fyora, quite tired already, kept running along.

aussiejewel and Jess were roughly shaken awake two Grundo Guards.

"Whaddo ya wan, big nose?" aussiejewel asked sleepily.

"I'll get up when I feel like it," Jess said crossly.

"Stupid prisoners," mumbled one Grundo Guard.

Jess closed her eyes and opened them again. When her eyes were opened again, she was sleeping on the defendant's desk.

"Oopsie," she muttered, and sat up straight. "aussiejewel! aussiejewel, wake up... we're back here!"

aussiejewel whacked her owner's arm with her hoof, but then opened her eyes rather reluctantly.

"Oops," she said, while suddenly sitting up straight.

Alexa smiled at them hopefully from the other end of the desk, but whispered quietly, "is Zoe back yet?"

"Don't know," Jess muttered. I remember, I was talking in the witness box, but then this force thing forced me to close my eyes and sleep! And I was woken up by two Grundo Guards. I blinked, and when I opened my eyes again, I was here!"

"Ah," said Alexa. "Well, I had to listen to that idiotic Techo make remark after remark to make it seem we were certainly guilty. If I hadn't known you guys, well... I would have believed you were guilty, too!"

"So there's not much chance then?" aussiejewel asked sadly.

"Not much," Alexa said sadly.

aussiejewel began to cry, quietly.

Zoe suddenly popped out of nowhere into the fourth, previously empty, defendants' chair.

"Hey!" she exclaimed. "How did I get here?"

"I think they have a summoning device," Alexa said. "It can call anyone to anywhere."

"That's nice," Zoe muttered sarcastically. "Okay now, why did I get here?"

"They've got the verdict now," Alexa said. "I'm almost certain it's against us."

Jess hung her head in shame. She'd never actually broken the NeoLaw, but almost felt like she had.

"The verdict is here," announced the impostor Faerie Queen. "Defendants, please rise."

"diamondzoe4 and alexasparkleli," she began, "have been found to have knowingly assisting opalgirl26 and aussiejewel to scam the Hidden Tower. Therefore, they cannot be frozen and will instead both be issued a warning."

Zoe sighed with relief: a warning. She could live with that.

"opalgirl26 and aussiejewel, on the other hand," she continued, "you have both been found... what?"

The impostor Faerie Queen paused to stare at something at the back of the room.

"What on Neopia is going on?"