"Señorita Mara!" Alejandro knocked on the door again. "Señorita Mara, are you there?" He pushed open the bedroom door and looked around. The room was empty. "Diego! Felipe!" Diego heard his father and followed his son to Mara's bedroom. "Diego, Mara is gone!"

Diego hurried into the room. Nothing. Felipe picked up her vest from the floor. Underneath it was a message. He picked it up and gave it to Diego.

"Dear Zorro,

I have your hero, Mara Kendall. If you want her back, give yourself up."

Diego crumpled the note up and threw it.

"What did the note say, Diego?" Alejandro asked from the doorway.

"She's been kidnapped, and I know just who did it."

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Mara woke up with a splitting headache.

"Comfortable, Señorita?"

She looked up to see Ignacio looming over her cell.

"Not exactly, but thanks for asking." She rubbed her head and got up. "What do you want with me, Ignacio?"

"I want what any man wants." Mara almost looked scared as he stared at her. "I want Zorro!"

Mara rolled her eyes. "You are so blind, Ignacio."

"You mean, you know who Zorro is?"

"Well, you obviously think I do. So...yeah... I guess I do." She smiled and sat down on the bench.

Ignacio grabbed the cell bars. "TELL ME!"

"You know, you are sickeningly persistent." She crossed her legs and arms.

Ignacio screamed in frustration. "Why won't you tell me?"

"Zorro has to tell you himself. I cannot make the choice for him."

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Diego paced his laboratory. Felipe sat in the corner watching him.

"I don't know what do to, Felipe. I could go as Zorro, but then I would still be both men. I could go as Diego, but they wouldn't take me serious enough for me to help Mara."

Felipe suddenly got up and handed Diego his saber. Diego smiled and remembered his teacher's words when Sir Kendall gave it to him.

'But in this world there is often greater value in daring, self-reliance, intrepid courage and sharp Toledo steel.'

Diego grinned. "Felipe, ready Toronado. I'm going to save Mara." Felipe smiled and touched Diego's arm. "Of course, Felipe. I can't save her without you."

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Ignacio dragged Mara out into the plaza and held her tied hands behind her back.

"Your hero better come soon, Señorita, or I will hang you for high treason."

Mara scoffed a laugh. "High treason, indeed."

In the distance, Mara spotted a black horse with a black rider coming towards the village. She grinned. Zorro had come.

Victoria had spotted him as well. "Alcalde! Look! It is-" She stopped as Zorro reached them. "-Diego?" Mara smiled. Zorro did not have his mask on. "Diego, why are you dressed like Zorro?"

"I took some advice from a friend of mine." He nodded to Mara.

Ignacio dropped Mara's hands. "Diego? I should have known! Lancers!"

The lancers poured out of the armory and headed straight for Mara and Zorro. Mara felt hands on hers, pulling her away from the soldiers and out of danger. It was Felipe. She sighed with relief.

"Felipe!" She turned her back to him. "Could you untie my hands?" She felt a tug on her ropes, and then Felipe pushed her against the wall. Before she could say his name to ask him what he was doing, he leaned in and put his lips on hers. She reveled his touch as he brought his hands up and worked them through her hair. All of the noises around them fell away. Mara pulled away. "Felipe, I thought that you loved another girl." Felipe looked confused. "I overheard Alejandro and Diego talking about you wanting to marry a girl." Felipe smiled and took her hand. "Me?" He nodded and leaned in to kiss her again.

"Felipe," Zorro, I mean Diego's voice rang through their little world. "If you're finished with your business, I think I'm finished with mine." Felipe and Mara looked over at Diego and saw the group of soldiers at his feet. Mara smiled as Felipe took her hand and they walked over to the hero. Diego looked over at Victoria, who stood speechless on her tavern's veranda. "Victoria," Diego said as he held out his hand. She walked over to him and took his hand.

"So, you are Zorro." She stared into his eyes, trying to figure him out. "I think I always knew." She smiled.

"I am sorry for my deception, Señorita." He kissed her hand. "I mean, Victoria."

"Is that all you can say to me, Diego? After all these years?" She grinned.

Diego grinned back. "Of course it isn't." He took her face in his hands and kissed her. Felipe and Mara tried to look away, but it was an amazing kiss. Diego put his hands under her arms and lifted her off the ground. She wrapped her arms around his neck to steady herself, and kept kissing. Felipe looked at Mara with a sheepish grin.

She shrugged. "Ehh, what the heck." She grabbed Felipe's neck and pulled him into a kiss.