In the rotted parts of Never Land, Rapunzel and Daphne arrived and looked over the edge.
Tong used a glass bottle to see the landscape like a telescope.
"The ship has been their hideout in this wasteland" he growled. "Flynn Pan and your brother must be in there."
He handed Daphne the bottle to see.
"Mom…" Daphne gasped in horror. "You might wanna see this."
Rapunzel was handed the bottle and saw that the Jolly Roger, which was obviously stranded on the sand, guarded by changelings.
Twilight didn't like this.
Daphne suddenly had an idea.
"Mom, Twilight, I've got an idea" Daphne whispered. "But we need the ship in one piece."
The girls whispered to each other, much to Muttley and Tong's confusion.
"Great idea" squealed Twilight. "We'll just need the perfect diversion."
"In other words, someone has to be live bait" agreed Rapunzel.
Muttley glared at the girls, he hated being the bait.
"Come on" groaned Daphne. "You guys have to create a diversion!"
But the pirates didn't budge.
"Uh-uh, no thank you" protested Tong. "I am staying right here and waiting for the coast to be clear."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, me too" Muttley grunted in agreement.
"So, don't expect me dressing like a woman and dance like a gazelle."
But Rapunzel and Daphne already left.
Muttley shrugged, then he and Tong went after them.
"Everyone stay here and wait for my signal" Twilight whispered to the army.
Queen Novo finally dropped Dastardly from the sky, screaming.
He landed with a soft poof and noticed Muttley and Tong heading toward the Jolly Roger with Daphne and Rapunzel.
Dastardly was still confused. He had so many questions. Why were they rescuing Flynn Pan when they are in the most dangerous place in all of Never Land? Why would Rapunzel risk her life for her own son?
Inside the ship's brig, the changelings cheered and laughed as Zhan Tiri approached, now disguised as a creepy little girl.
The Lost Boys were chained over their heads, their feet dangling. They hated it!
"Let us go!" demanded Angry.
The changelings only cackled in response.
Down below them, Flynn was locked in the brig. He was trying to break out, but the ship was solid.
Suddenly there was a creak.
Flynn silently gasped with delight when he saw a familiar trio sneaking by. Rapunzel and Daphne put their fingers to their lips, indicating to him to stay quiet.
When he saw that his friends had came back, Flynn began to think of a way to distract Zhan Tiri to escape.
"Way ahead of you, Flynn" Daphne whispered.
Rapunzel unlocked Flynn's chains and the three flew off.
Outside, the guards were distracted by Twilight creating fireworks until they were knocked out and the pirates snuck in.
Tong thought for a second, then it hit him! His face lit up with such a brilliant idea.
"THAT'S IT!" Tong exclaimed, only to be shushed by Muttley.
"Rasm frasm shuttem up."
"Sorry, Muttley. It's just… Everybody has to have a weakness, right? Even Zhan Tiri!"
Muttley nodded in agreement, "Right..."
"Now if I could just find out what that weakness is..." Tong slowly began the think, with Muttley imitating what Tong was doing.
"But not now, Mutt. That will have the changelings catch us."
In the cabin, Dastardly had dressed himself to his formal pirate attire sans hook. He was ready for war.
While Dastardly snapped out of his thinking, something slowly began to distract him. It's the sound of terrified voices, echoing in and out.
Dastardly at first tried to ignore it, but it only got louder. Suddenly, the captain had chills running down his spine when he began to suspect the worst.
"No... Please no..." Dastardly quietly trembled.
He turned to see that Tong, by a chance of misdirection, had entered a hall filled with broken mirrors.
Dastardly didn't remember having broken mirrors on the ship.
But these weren't ordinary mirrors. Each cracked reflection showed the saddest and the most humiliating moments of the man's life.
Dastardly and Muttley wanted to help, but it was too late. Tong had entered a major panic attack so bad that he was caught.
"Tong, no" Muttley said, his voice hoarse, on the verge of tears.
Dastardly snatched Muttley and retreated, hiding in the cabin underneath the bunks, as changelings passed by the doorway. He then peeked out from under his bunk.
"Tong… Namaari… What shall I do now?" sobbed Dastardly.
The pirate captain's emotions so strong and released after bottled up for many painful years, it hurt him on the inside.
Muttley whined at his master, patting his back in comfort.
Something pinched his barefoot. It was his sword that was rotted during his time in the caves. But it had been polished back at the dam and ready for battle.
Picking up the sword, Dastardly stared at his reflection in the blade. He then remembered his conversation with Daphne.
"All I wanna do is find my mother and brother and return home" said Daphne.
With a heavy sigh, Daphne sat an inch from Dastardly.
"I guess we're in the same boat" she continued.
"The same boat! That's it!" exclaimed Dastardly.
"What's it?"
"I'll give you passage home on my ship once we recover it and your family."
"And kill Flynn? No way!"
"My life is hanging by a thread! I will not rest until I have my revenge! HE RUINED MY LIFE!"
"NO!" snapped Daphne. "You ruined your own life! You could have stopped hunting down Flynn but you didn't! He didn't cut your hand off and Sisu was trying to help you!"
Dastardly was taken back by this girl's feisty attitude.
"I'm sorry" sobbed the captain. "It's all my fault. I am sick of it!"
Daphne got down on Dastardly's level and held up his head.
"I know it feels that way" she said gently. "Like, all the time. But... it isn't true. Zhan Tiri will never win. As long there is faith and trust."
Dastardly continued to stare at his reflection, then his face turned to pure anger. He grew the most evil face he could and rage only filled his mind right now.
"We're going to do what I should have done a long time ago, Muttley" he growled. "And this time, revenge will be served cold."
"Bring him up!"
The changelings did as told and Flynn was raising above the brig, to be drained.
"Any last words, boy?" Zhan Tiri asked deviously.
"Let the Lost Boys go!" Flynn demanded.
"Oh, they'll go right after you! One by one, drained until you are nothing but skin and bones!"
The Lost Boys protested angrily.
"Not so fast, you old cod-fish!" a voice called.
Everyone turned to see Rapunzel and Daphne had come to the rescue.
"Or you'll have to answer to us!" Daphne added to the threat.
"Raps? Daphne?" Flynn asked with a smile. Of course he already knew they were here.
The Lost Boys cheered for the girls coming to their rescue.
"Good heavens," Zhan Tiri falsely cried. "Run, run for your lives! It's... It's... a couple of little girls!"
The Changelings cackled along until a bright light blinded them.
It was Twilight!
She rushed over to Flynn, who was very thrilled and ecstatic to see her. Since he was unlocked by Rapunzel, Flynn flew around the alicorn.
"Twili!" he cried. "You're alive! And you're bigger!"
Zhan Tiri was furious!
"Impossible!" she growled. "I killed her off!"
"You will never win, Zhan Tiri" Daphne said, standing up to the dark spirit. "Not as long as there is faith, trust and pixie dust."
"You can't stop me especially when there's only three of you."
"Who said we came alone?" Twilight smirked.
Soon, Muttley appeared and made a goofy face to distract Zhan Tiri. The spirit tried to drain him, but he was too fast.
"Disloyal mutt!" hissed Zhan Tiri.
"Rasm frasm 'dis is how I roll" Muttley snarled before launching himself and bit Zhan Tiri.
Suddenly there was a loud rumble and…
CRASH!
A part of the ship broke through to reveal the entire residence of Never Land, forming an army.
Flynn's jaw dropped in surprise, then smiled. "Unbelievable!"
The Northuldra had their weapons ready, the animals were snarling and the fairies were glowing red with anger.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the calvary has arrived" Dastardly shrugged.
Flynn then hovered over the army.
"Okay, everybody!" he said as he cut the Lost Boys loose. "Let's shed some light in the dark! CHARGE!"
"GET THEM!" shrieked Zhan Tiri.
The two armies charged, swords clashed and creatures fighting changelings, who switched into copies of whomever they fought with.
As Rapunzel was fighting her evil clone, she saw that Daphne was climbing up a slimy rope toward a cocoon containing Elroy.
The Lost Boys were freed by Flynn and they grabbed weapons.
Boun was trying to outsmart the changelings through many tunnels until they collided into each other. He laughed at their failure.
"You fart factories, slug-slimed, sack-of-rat-guts-in-cat-vomit, cheesy, scab-picked, pimple-squeezing finger bandages. Week old maggot burgers with everything on it and flies on the side!"
The Lost boy walked away, nose in the air and proud of his insult.
Alberto and Luca popped in and out of the barrels, dodging the changeling's hits as if it were whack a mole.
"I am here!"
"No, I am here!"
Soon, the two shined lights into the changelings' eyes, blinding them.
Boun took the advantage of throwing eggs at the distracted monsters, knocking them to the ground.
Angry and Lance were cornered by large changelings that resembled Tin, Pan and Alley.
"En grade!" they shrieked.
Of course, Angry wasn't going down without a fight.
"Hey, you guys" she said mockingly, "why don't you just eat us! You two-toned zebra-headed, slime-coated, pimple-farmin' paramecium brains, munchin' on your own mucus, suffering from Flynn Pan envy!"
"What's a paramecium brain?" Lance asked.
"I'll tell you what a paramecium is! Those are paramecium! It's a one-celled critters with no brain that can't fly! Don't mess with us, pal! We're the Lost Boys!"
"Ah, we're gonna make rubbish out of you" said the leader of the trio. "Come on then!"
As if on cue, Lance curled into a ball and Angry rolled him toward the changelings, knocking them off their legs.
"THUD BALL!" they cheered, high fiving each other.
More changelings flocked the deck, the Lost Boys moved as Lance was ready to roll into a ball again.
"GANGWAY!" screamed the littlest Lost Boy. "Look out!"
Lance's ball crashed into the changelings, sending them flying. But he couldn't stop and sent Dastardly flying into the air, crashing onto the floor.
"Watch it, trog!" he yelled.
The Lost Boys groaned.
"Ten points for the captain" Flynn laughed.
Muttley swung over and grabbed a knife that one changeling had and knocked his evil clone down.
"RAPHNE!" Muttley barked.
This caught the girl's attention and the canine tossed the knife to her.
Daphne caught the weapon and freed Elroy! He was about to fall when Daphne caught him with one arm.
"Elroy!" she cried with joy.
"Daphne!" Elroy shouted excitedly. "You saved me!"
They embraced tightly.
Just as the siblings were climbing down the rope, they heard a voice calling them.
"Daphne… Elroy…"
"Dad?"
And it seemed like their father, John Smith was over by the helm, calling to his children.
"Daddy!" cried Daphne, running up the stairs.
She was happy to see her father again.
"Daphne, no!"
It was Dastardly who pulled her back.
"It's not your father!" he said fearfully. "That was a changeling!"
The vision of John Smith then reverted back into a changeling and hissed.
"Okay, this gets weirder and weirder" said Elroy, confused.
Tong knocked the hissing changeling off the helm.
Dastardly then faced the two children.
"Are you alright?" he asked.
"Yeah, I think so" Daphne replied. "Thanks."
Daphne then handed the knife to her brother and cracked her knuckles.
"Alright, no more Miss Nice Girl" she said aggressively. "Nobody kidnaps my brother and gets away with it."
Daphne proceeded in beating the heck out of the changelings before they could even get the chance to transform.
The adults were awestruck.
"That is some daughter you got, milady" Dastardly admitted.
"Thank you, Captain" smiled Rapunzel.
The war is not over yet!
To be continued…