Now Mayzie, hiding behind a tree, saw Austin arrive on horseback. What she didn't know was that Rudy was not far behind.

"Right on time." Mayzie said to herself. "But just to make sure there are no tricks."

Mayzie disguised herself as Uniqua. A few seconds later, Austin dismounted.

"Mayzie?" Austin called out. "Mayzie!"

Mayzie, as Uniqua, ran up to him and buried her face into his chest. Now normally Austin would've been suspicious, considering the last time there was a fake Uniqua, but at the moment he was too worried about Uniqua to think straight.

"Uniqua!" Austin gasped, relieved.

"Oh Austin." Mayzie said in Uniqua's voice.

"You escaped." Austin was impressed.

"Yes, but you have to stop her! She'll destroy everything!"

"She can't destroy anything without this." Austin took the spell out of his shirt.

"Austin no!" Rudy called out, firing an arrow.

The arrow knocked the spell out of Austin's hand and stuck it in a tree.

"Think straight will ya?" Rudy said as he caught up. "Remember what happened before we battled Rothbart?"

Austin had told Rudy the whole story on their way back that night so Rudy knew about Tasha being hypnotized and transformed for the ball.

"What!" Austin gasped. "You!"

Sure enough, Mayzie turned back into her real form, disappointed.

"You and your bratty brother!" Mayzie snapped.

"Watch what you call him!" Austin snapped back.

"If it's any consolation, you're not the first to underestimate me." Rudy chuckled. "Actually I was the first but that's not the point."

Mayzie growled and went towards the tree to retrieve the spell. Austin used a branch to pole-vault himself there and he got the spell first.

"Give me Uniqua and then you can have the spell!" Austin ordered.

"Uniqua's not here with me." Mayzie retorted.

"Then go get her!" Rudy snapped.

"Hey I just took a long journey here!" Mayzie snapped back.

"Should've thought of that first." Austin glared. "Come on bro!"

He and Rudy ran off. Rudy quickly grabbed the paper from Austin and put it inside his shirt without Mayzie noticing and to Austin's confusion.

"Seek out the princes and bring them to me!" Mayzie commanded.

A seeker grabbed Austin and Rudy and carried them back to her.

"So that's how she kidnapped Uniqua." Rudy remarked.

Mayzie reached towards Austin but Austin shrugged.

"I don't have it anymore." He said.

Mayzie looked confused for a few seconds and then glared at Rudy, who stuck his tongue out at her.

"Once I get the power to destroy you'll be the second to go." Mayzie muttered, reaching into his shirt and grabbing a piece of paper.

She then left on another seeker. The one Austin and Rudy were on disappeared, causing them to fall to the ground.

"Give me Uniqua!" Austin ordered.

"Sorry, but I need her for an experiment: to see if the power to destroy really works." Mayzie cackled as she left on her seeker.

"No!" Austin gasped.

"Prince Austin, Prince Rudy!" A familiar voice said.

Pablo and Whizzer had arrived, Morton on Pablo's back. The journey proved to be too much for him on foot.

"Follow that fireball Pablo! Go!" Austin ordered.

"No, no that won't be necessary sir, Whizzer here knows the way." Pablo smiled.

"Okay but we have to hurry! Mayzie's got the power to destroy and she'll use it on Uniqua!" Austin slightly panicked.

"No she doesn't and no she won't." Rudy chuckled.

"Huh?" Everyone else said.

Rudy pulled a piece of paper out of his shirt.

"Since she had already tricked Horton I had a feeling she had more tricks up her sleeve so I came prepared." Rudy grinned. "What she has is a different sort of message, one that I wrote."

"Rudy, you're a genius." Austin smiled.

Rudy just shrugged with a smirk.

They left for Mayzie's place anyway. They still had to get Uniqua out of there. And Tommy too, according to Pablo and Morton.

Around that time, Uniqua was trying to think of a way out. Then she remembered what had happened to the rock Mayzie threw onto the fire-dome and tried it with a pebble. The same thing, only a smaller hole formed in the dome when the pebble disintegrated. Uniqua noticed a boulder high above...

"Nothing like a quiet evening sitting by the fire." Tommy said dryly.

Mayzie arrived cackling.

"You just can't keep a good woman down." Mayzie said smugly.

She then flew back to her lair still cackling.

"Of course she sort of puts a damper on things." Tommy muttered.

Mayzie landed and unrolled the paper...only to find this:

You tricked Horton so we tricked you!

Gotcha ya old witch!

Following that was a face with its tongue sticking out.

"WHAT?" Mayzie shrieked. "That little rat of a brat!"

She was about to throw the paper into the fire only to get an idea.

Austin and the others now arrived.

"Uniqua!" Austin gasped quietly, seeing Uniqua as a swan. "Oh not again.'

"You're telling me." Uniqua nodded quietly. "Anyway no time for that, you have to stop her!"

"Don't worry, she doesn't have the spell." Rudy smiled, pulling out the piece of paper: it was the trick one he let Mayzie take. "Er...well she does now but..."

"She must've used the power to change to make the papers change places." Austin facepalmed.

"Oh well, it was a good idea while it lasted." Rudy shrugged.

"You should really stop her." Uniqua insisted.

"Not without setting you free first." Austin shook his head.

"No Austin!"

"Is there any escape?"

"Austin!"

"I won't see you die! Now is there any escape?" Austin insisted.

Uniqua gave in.

"I think so, see that boulder up there?" Uniqua jabbed her head in the direction of the boulder she saw earlier.

As Uniqua explained her plan and the others went into action, Mayzie prepared the spell.

Pablo and Whizzer grabbed some rope and tied it around the boulder. Austin and Rudy pulled on one end while Pablo and Whizzer pushed the boulder from the other end.

"Are you sure?" Austin was worried about accidentally crushing Uniqua and Tommy.

"Trust me Austin, pull!" Uniqua whispered.

They did, but had trouble.

"Are you pushing or am I doing all the work?" Whizzer grunted to Pablo sarcastically.