...for both Ratcliffe and Powhatan's armies were marching towards the impending battle.
Ratcliffe:
This will be the day... (Let's go, men!)
Powhatan:
This will be the morning... (Bring out the prisoner!)
Indians:
We will see them dying in the dust...
Pocahontas:
I don't know what I can do
Still I know I've got to try
Ratcliffe, English Settlers & Peanuts Gang:
Now we make them pay...
Pocahontas:
Eagle, help my feet to fly...
Indians:
Now without a warning!
Pocahontas:
Mountain, help my heart be great...
Indians:
Now we leave them blood and bone and rust
Pocahontas:
Spirits of the Earth and Sky...
English Settlers, Peanuts Gang and Indians:
It's them or us
Pocahontas:
Please don't let it be too late...
English Settlers, Peanuts Gang and Indians:
They're just a bunch of filthy, stinking savages! Savages!
Indians:
Demons!
English Settlers & Peanuts:
Devils!
Ratcliffe:
Kill them!
Indians:
Savages!
English Settlers & Peanuts Gang:
Savages!
Ratcliffe and English Settlers:
What are we waiting for?
Ratcliffe, English Settlers, Peanuts Gang and Indians:
Destroy their evil race until there's not a trace left!
Pocahontas:
How loud are the drums of the war?
Ratcliffe, English Settlers, Peanuts Gang and Indians:
We will sound the drums of war! Savages! Savages!
Now we sound the drums of war! Savages! Savages!
Upon arriving at a plateau, Ratcliffe and his men were startled to find John placed on a stone slab. Behind him was Powhatan raising his club to put an end to his life.
Indians:
Now we sound the drums...
English Settlers & Peanuts Gang:
Now we see what comes
Of trying to be chums
Of course it means the drums...
Pocahontas:
Is this the death of all I love carried in the drumming of...
English Settlers, Peanuts Gang and Indians:
Of...war!
"No!" cried Pocahontas as she threw herself across John.
Powhatan stood in shock upon seeing his daughter trying to protect the prisoner.
"If you kill him you'll have to kill me, too."
"Daughter, stand back!" ordered Powhatan.
"I won't!" shouted Pocahontas. "I love him, Father."
Now, everyone was in shock when they heard her words, including Snoopy, Woodstock, Meeko, Flit and Percy, who had followed Pocahontas to the plateau.
"Look around you." said Pocahontas. "This is where the path of hatred has brought us."
She kept holding John close to her, adding. "This is the path I choose, Father. What will yours be?"
Powhatan didn't respond. He gazed at the settlers and Peanuts Gang armed with their gun and clubs, then at his warriors with their arrows poised in their bows.
As he stood there, unsure of what to do, the wind picked up and swirled around him.
At once, Powhatan could feel the spirit of his wife guiding him to hear with his heart and realize the truth of Pocahontas's words.
He held up out his club and raised his voice for everyone to hear.
"My daughter speaks with wisdom beyond her years. We've all come here with anger in our hearts, but she comes with courage and understanding. From this day forward, if there is to be more killing, it will not start with me."
Then, he turned to one of the warriors and said. "Release him."
Once John was free from his bounds, he immediately embraced Pocahontas.
As he and his fellow animals watched, Snoopy cried tears of joy.
As they watched as well, the settlers, Peanuts Gang and warriors lowered their weapons.
But Ratcliffe was still unmoved, for he said. "Now's our chance! Fire!"
"What are you, blind?" asked Peppermint Patty.
"They let him go!" reminded Linus.
"They don't want to fight!" added Marcie.
"It's a trick! Don't you see? Fire!" protested Ratcliffe.
But they did nothing, only to glare at him.
Enraged, Ratcliffe reached for a musket from one of the soliders.
"Ratcliffe, don't!" pleaded Lucy, who tried to take the gun from him, only to be pushed away by his foot.
"Get back!" snarled Ratcliffe. "You and your little friends shouldn't play with guns anyway."
John turned to see him take aim...at Powhatan!
"No!"
But as he pushed the chief out of the way, Ratcliffe took the shot.
The Peanuts Gang gasped as John was hit.
"John!" cried Thomas.
Pocahontas rushed to support John after he fell to the ground.
Stunned with what he had just done, Ratcliffe turned to his crew, who were more shocked than he was.
"You shot him!" gasped Pig-Pen.
"He stepped right...right into it!" fibbed Ratcliffe. "It's his own fault!"
"You've lied to us for the last time!" said Schroeder, who hit Ratcliffe in the leg with his club.
"Get him!" shouted Peppermint Patty as she and the rest of the Peanuts Gang charged and hit him with their clubs.
"Get back, you treacherous brats!" demanded Ratcliffe.
Thomas pried the musket from his hands and ordered. "Put him in chains!"
As the settlers restrained Ratcliffe, he angrily vowed. "I'll see you hanged and behind bars for this!"
"Ah, put a cork in it!" said Lucy, who, along with the Peanuts Gang, followed Thomas up to the plateau, where Pocahontas and her father stayed by John's side.