Peri was awakened by Jack's cries for help. Readjusting herself in the hammock, she was startled by the appearance of a seven-foot hare standing above her and Jack.

"Crikey, wha'd do this time?"

Jack looked down at Elsa. From her position, she could see the pained expression in his face, but the rabbit couldn't. He didn't want to let on how much the comment hurt.

"How should I know!" he snapped. "She just collapsed!"

The rabbit took Elsa's limp form in his strong arms and hopped off down the tunnel, Jack flying after. A second later, they emerged in a beautiful green cove filled with flowers and huge rocks shaped like eggs, some with legs and faces. Fragile, little white eggs with legs and arms but no faces played in the garden. Gently, the rabbit lay Elsa down on a bed of moss and turned to face Jack again.

"What's that you're wearing? A papoose?"

"Ice hammock," Jack said through gritted teeth. "Pitch and Syndrome took away all of Peri's pixie dust. But we don't know what happened to Elsa, Bunny."

"Can you put me down first?" Peri asked. "I feel a little better now."

"Oh, yeah."

Jack waved his hand and the frost around Peri dissolved. She hopped lightly to the ground and ran over to Elsa.

"I think she just fainted," she said calmly.

"When was the last time she ate?" Bunny asked.

Jack tried to remember. "Um...we had some snacks on the plane flying into the island to rescue Peri, but she was too nervous to eat. Before that was..."

"Kansas, when I was captured," Peri said. "We went there from Jamie's house, and we were at the North Pole before that."

"Right. You were making fairy food that afternoon and we couldn't find Elsa. Frozone went out to her castle and when I heard about the kidnapping I brought some fairy food for her to try."

"But did she get a chance to eat it?" Peri asked.

"I didn't see."

"Hang on a minute," Bunny interrupted. "How long ago was this?"

"It's hard to say," Jack said. "We've been traveling across time zones, and time isn't my speciality."

"It was at least 12 hours," Peri said. "But she was at her palace for a long time before that."

"She didn't eat for twelve hours?" Bunny yelled. "I expect the same thing goes for sleep?"

"Well, don't expect me to keep track! I'm just a spirit, I don't need food to survive, and Peri's probably the same way."

"I could do with some now, though," Peri said.

Bunny groaned in frustration and hopped over to a stationary egg-shaped rock.

"Give us a break," Jack said. "We were busy saving the earth."

"You're just lucky eggs and boomerangs aren't my only hobbies," Bunny said, bringing out a bunch of plants and some non-magic eggs. "I'll bring her round in a few minutes. But I don't care what the villains are doing, she's human and you are staying here for the night."

Jack nodded curtly and flew up to a ledge in the mossy cliffs. Peri leaned against the rock and watched Bunny mix up a soup and begin feeding it to Elsa with a little wooden spoon. Just breathing in the fumes from the stew made her feel reenergized.

"I don't believe we've been introduced," Bunny said after awhile.

"I'm Periwinkle, but you can call me Peri. The Moon brought me and Elsa forward in time to help fight Pitch and Frozone."

"Forward in time? That is impressive. My name's E. Aster Bunnymund, I'm the Easter Bunny. You can call me Bunny."

"Ok."

"So, they took your magic? How?"

"Syndrome, that's this science guy, had these machines and put things into my skin. It hurt, it drained everything out of me. I've never felt so helpless and vulnerable."

"And how do you feel now?"

"Better. I got some sleep flying over here, and the soup smells really good."

"Have a spoon," he said, tossing her another wooden spoon. "It's mostly the effect of the Warren. This place is full of magic. It's not replacing your magic, exactly, but it's helping you survive. Although, honestly, I don't know how much longer you'll last."

"Once I get to the North Pole I'll be fine. I have some more pixie dust there."

"Good. My tunnels will take you straight there in the morning, as soon as Elsa is strong enough. In the meantime," he said, looking up at the cliffs. "I think you should talk to Jack."

"Do you two not get along?"

"Not in the past, but I thought, well, I had hoped all that was behind us. Something's bothering him and its more than just Elsa collapsing."

"Why do I have to talk to him? I mean, what makes you think he'll talk to me?"

"I dunno. You just have a calming presence about you."

Peri remembered what Elsa had said about the boys tension when she was absent. "I have been told that before...I guess it's worth a shot."

Unable to fly, she began to climb up the cliff face, which wasn't that steep and had a lot of footholds. After a few minutes of struggling, a snow ladder unrolled from the top to meet her halfway and gratefully, she took it.

"Snow ladder. Nice," she said, sitting next to Jack. "Bunny says that Elsa will be alright now, but she'll probably sleep for a long time." He didn't reply. "Come on, Jack, don't beat yourself up about it. Elsa is the kind of person who pushes herself too hard. It probably would have happened anyway."

"It's not that," he admitted.

"What? Don't tell me you like her?"

"What? No!" He shoved her playfully. "We're just friends. Besides, even if I did she's going to return to her own time and it would never work."

"How do you know? We don't even know how we got here in the first place, we may be stuck here forever."

"Yeah, but we don't know that. Even if you were from the same time, I'm immortal, she's not. Plus, we're in the middle of a war. So even if I DID have feelings for her, I'd have to put them aside for the moment."

"You know," Peri said with a smirk. "You really seem to have thought this through. I suppose you skipped the first thing on your list, which is to convince yourself not to fall in love with her?"

"The point is NOT about Elsa," Jack insisted. "It just feels like everything is pointless."

Peri suddenly turned serious. "In what way?"

Jack sighed. "Everything in my life. For 300 years, I didn't have a purpose. I didn't know why I was a spirit and could make snow. Nobody could see me. Then the Moon picked me to become a Guardian to defeat Pitch. For the first time, my life made sense. And then we learn that less than a week later Pitch has already come back! Same thing with Syndrome, even though I wasn't part of that. Even the rescue mission seems pointless. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad we got you back, but we lost Frozone. Gained one, lost one. It's like we just swapped prisoners."

"But we gained knowledge, so we'll be better prepared next time. For example, I learned that they've been working together to cheat death and make everyone thing they had died. If we take them on at the same time we might be able to put them down for good. Maybe Pitch coming back was phase 2 of the Moon's plan?"

Jack smiled a little. "Maybe you're right. But we still need a good plan, and right now we don't have any ideas."

"Leave it for morning," Peri said, yawning. "We may not need sleep to survive but we can't keep running forever."

Jack tapped his staff against the rock and two snow slides appeared. Peri grinned.

"That's more like Jack."

"Last one to the bottom's a rotten egg!" he yelled.

"Oi!" Bunny yelled. "I heard that! And no snow in the Warren!"

Laughing, Jack leaped down the slide. He didn't care.

Peri was confused. One minute, she had been falling asleep in the Warren and the next she was sitting in a natural sinkhole, watching a trial. To her alarm, it was one of the Scout Fairies' trials, and Tinkerbell was their victim. Unable to move or speak, she watched helplessly as her sister was interrogated, although she couldn't hear exactly what was being said…until the end.

"I herby sentence Tinkerbell, a tinker fairy, to banishment on the mainland," Nyx, one of the Scouts, said.

No! Peri tried to yell. You can't do that! But somehow her voice wouldn't work. They must be using magic to keep silent, she realized.

Just as a strong water fairy tried to take her away, Zarina flew in.

"Catch!" she yelled, dropping a bag down at Tink.

But she had misjudged the positioning, and the bag landed on the ground and exploded in purple pixie dust. The dust landed on a wagon full of lost things, and to Peri's horror, they began to fly on their own and whiz about the dell in astonishing speeds. Chaos reigned as the screaming onlookers tried to flee, she herself ducked as a particularly sharp object zoomed past her head.

"Thanks a lot!" Tink yelled as she was dragged away.

Zarina swopped in lower and tried again, but Tink's captor batted it away. This time, blue pixie dust poured out into a nearby stream, which promptly swelled to three times it's normal size and strength. Peri leaped into the air and flew above the scene, dodging the wild lost things. Unfortunately, none of the other fairies were able to react in time, and they were swallowed by the river, and unable to fly away.

"No…TINK!" Peri yelled.

She closed her eyes against the tragedy, and felt someone shaking her shoulders. When she opened her eyes, she was looking into the face of Elsa, and she was back in the Warren. Peri looked around wildly.

"Hey, calm down," Elsa said softly. "It's alright, it was just a bad dream."

"No, I was back in Pixie Hollow…Tink's in trouble, I have to…"

"Is everything alright?" Bunny asked, running in from one of the tunnels with Jack.

"She just had a nightmare," Elsa explained.

"What's a nightmare?" Peri asked breathlessly.

Elsa looked at her strangely. "You don't know?"

"Spirits and magical beings like us don't have dreams," Jack explained. "I only know what they are because I know Sandy."

"Nightmare, capital N," Bunny clarified. "But how? The Warren is supposed to be protected against Pitch's attacks."

"His old ones," Jack said. "But now he's working with Syndrome. His technology has advanced Pitch's magic beyond anything we've seen before."

"Never mind Pitch, I have to find a way to help Tink!"

She tried to get up but Elsa forced her back down.

"Listen," she said firmly. "A dream isn't real. It's like…imagination when you're sleeping. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad. But it's just pretend."

"But it felt real," Peri insisted.

"They always do."

"Do you dream?"

"I have nightmares all the time," Elsa confessed. "But then I wake up and I try to remember, and the details start fading away and it doesn't make sense. And then I realize how impossible it was because I haven't even seen Anna in weeks so how could I have hurt…" she stopped and bit her lip.

"Tell us what happened," Jack suggested. "Maybe that will help."

"Well," Peri began uncertainly. "I was back in Pixie Hollow and Tink had been caught by the Scout Fairies. They arrested her and banished her to the mainland…I couldn't say anything. Then Zarina was there and threw pixie dust to try and help her escape but it went wrong. The purple dust hit the lost things and made them fly on their own…that was weird. And then the blue pixie dust made the river flood…hang on that doesn't make sense."

"See?" Elsa said encouragingly. "You couldn't make yourself speak and the pixie dust didn't act like normal. And how did you get there in the first place?"

"I…I don't know."

"Hang on," Jack interrupted. "You said blue and purple pixie dust?"

"Yeah. There are different colors that can give you the powers of another kind of fairy. The cyan pixie dust makes you act like a water fairy, and white makes you like an ice fairy, like me."

"What kind does Pitch have?" he asked urgently.

"White," Peri said.

"So he could use our own powers against us?"

"Technically. But he doesn't know how to use it. It's not just the dust, it takes skill. You may be able to think like a tinker, but your ideas wouldn't be the same. Once, Tink and her friends got their powers switched around and it was a mess. It took them a day or two before they figured it out."

"Is that the only kind you have up at the Pole?"

"No, Tink gave me some purple, which makes you fly fast, and pink, which gives you power over plants. And gold, which is the basic kind that lets you fly."

"Do Pitch and Syndrome know these things?" Jack asked, his voice rising in excitement.

"No, I didn't tell them the specifics."

Jack let out a whoop and flew into the sky, turning somersaults and laughing.

"Um, Jack?" Elsa called, looking suspicious.

"You, Periwinkle, are a genius!" Jack said, flying back down to them.

"I am? What for?"

"For bringing pixie dust with you! This whole time I thought we were at a disadvantage, but now the tables have turned. We can use pixie dust as our secret weapon."

"Yes!" Peri cried, jumping up. "We can use purple so we fly even faster and they won't see us coming!"

"Hey, Elsa, guess what?" Jack said. "You're going to fly."

"Wait, what?"