Disclaimer; I do not own The Impossibles and Big D; they are the copy write property of Hanna Barbera. I do not own most of the original characters mentioned in this and other chapters, the Impossibles regular identities and character traits. The transformers, which allow The Impossibles, to become their super hero selves while separated and agents like Skittles/Impossi-Pup, locations like Khakistan and SSHQ, these are the creations of friend and talented writer and artist Erin T. Aardvark. I do have some original characters and locations of my own invention.
Authors notes; As always, I want to thank my friend Irual, fan fiction writer & mentor who tirelessly helps me ready my chapters for posting.
Now sit back relax and enjoy this new chapter, read and review please, as the adventure continues….
Chapter eight. Royal Switcharoo.
Nether FG or Fluey wanted to leave either of their friends at the hospital.
Even though they were not at fault they where blaming themselves because of what had happened.
With Multi's head injury and Coiley's being hit by that diabolical dart, Fluey could not help thinking, if they had only caught Sandrina at the same time they caught her minions, Coiley would not be in the hospital in very serious condition.
He was feeling especially guilty for the predicament that their blonde band mate Coiley, (AKA Calvin Collins) was now in, however, in looking after Multi, they hadn't caught up to the scheming Princess in time to prevent her getaway and Fluey had no idea, if tearing into the wall in their room had even produced any positive results.
Nevertheless, Prince Ali had studied Khakistanian customs while traveling to America and these customs dictated that royal funeral ceremonies and the burial of the late monarch had to be three days after death.
Therefore, after one of the doctors attending his father had revealed that Sultan Khazaiah Sayedso had passed away Prince, now Sultan Ali had to return to the palace to announce to the staff and the rest of the city and country that Sultan Sayedso had died.
Arrangements for the royal funeral of his late father had to be started, beginning with official notice of the Sultan's death.
It was decided that FG would stay with Multi and Coiley at the hospital, as they did not want them to be left all alone, while
Fluey reluctantly agreed to drive the Prince and one of the royal guards back to the palace.
Ali insisted on leaving the other guard named Akbar, on duty at the hospital, just incase any of Princess Sandrina's criminal cohorts decided to try to finish what she had started.
Fluey knew that until the Princess was apprehended it wasn't safe for His Majesty to be alone and being a super powered crime fighter meant he had experience and ability to counter most threats incase she was able to slip past the guards again.
Arriving back at the palace Ali, Fluey, Rashid and Skittles entered the throne room, they were met by the Sultan's advisors and Ali informed them of the passing of his father.
Word of the Sultan's passing was then relayed to the local news stations and broadcast to the rest of the country.
While Ali was meeting with his advisors about funeral arrangements, Fluey and Skittles were walking around and Fluey was checking in with several of the royal guard.
Fluey also used his wristwatch communicator to contact SSHQ as he and Skittles were making their way back to the throne room.
"Agent Fluid reporting in."
"We're receiving you Agent Fluid." answered Big D.
"I've some sad news to report Chief, Ali's father the Sultan has died. Prince Ali is now arranging with the ministers for the royal funeral, which will be in three days."
"Very well, please pass along our condolences to the prince. Has the Princess Sandrina been located and caught?" inquired Big D
"Not as yet (Fluey answered) but an entire company of palace guards are on the lookout for her Chief, they have the palace well covered, but so far though no one has spotted her."
"Very well, keep on the alert. (replied Big D, then he asked) Has there been any change in Agent Coil's condition?"
"No Chief, but the doctors have only just started to treat him, it will be a four to five days before Coiley is back on his feet again, but Multi will be able to check out of the hospital in a couple of days."
"Very well, remember to be alert, report any updates and watch out for the Princess Agent Fluid….we can't afford to let anything happen to the new monarch. It would certainly cause an international incident were anything to befall the new Sultan. Big D out."
Fluey straightened to attention, saluted and replied, "Right Chief, Agent Fluid out!"
Fluey's communicator signal went to static and as he deactivated it Skittles, who had been pacing around suddenly started getting excited about something.
She ran to a part of a wall in the main corridor near the throne room, right to the hidden door in the portrait (doing her pointing (poing) routine) it was the same one she had originally chased Sandrina to, before they had lost track of the Princess.
Before he could figure out why Skittles was so excited, Prince Ali who had concluded his meeting walked up to talk to the dark haired Impossible.
"I have begun the process for my late father's funeral, his mortal remains will be transported here to the palace to lie in state in the throne room, so all who wish to pay their respects will be able to do so.
The funeral will take place and then at the stroke of midnight two days from now, he will be transported to the catacombs below the throne room, to be entombed alongside my mother the Queen."
"I've just been reporting in, our Boss Big D extends his condolences to you, Your Majesty on behalf of the United States and SSHQ." Fluey replied.
"Please extend my thanks to your Chief on behalf of Myself, the kingdom and country of Khakistan." Ali answered.
On the opposite side of the wall, having failed twice in her attempt at taking the throne, Princess Sandrina was hoping to escape, she had decided that sticking around wasn't doing her any good, since there were so many guards on the look out for her. The last thing Sandrina wanted to do was to return to prison, which would be the most lenient punnishment her brother might impose.
She had worked her way down the side corridor that she had originally escaped into leading up to the second floor of the palace after moving some of the debris aside.
She heard muffled voices and had edged her way over to the hidden door, she was now standing listening to the conversation between her brother and Fluey, shocked to find out her father had died.
Even if she was now an orphan, she did not think that would earn her any sympathy among those in the palace or the surrounding city after her treachery had been revealed.
But this revelation brought back Sandrina's stubborn resolve that her brother never become Sultan, which caused her to decide to revert back to her plan, to rid herself of the thorns in her side, meaning Prince Ali and his look-alike, even if it was the last thing she ever did.
Memories of her upbringing and the love her father had showered on her as a little girl because she was his only child, brought tears welling up into the princess's eyes.
She was brought back to the present, when Sandrina heard the Impossibles' dog barking from the other side of the hidden door.
Silently wiping her tears away as she was backing up, Sandrina decided a hasty retreat back to her second floor hideout, was the only way she could stay out of the hands of those in control of the palace long enough to carry out her revenge.
Outside in the hall Skittles was trying to get Fluey and Ali's attention after her sensitive nose picked up the princess' scent through the cracks the guards had made earlier prying open the hidden door.
Finally, out of frustration, she revved up after backing up a few paces and ran at the picture full tilt, busting a small pup size hole in the frame of the hidden door; this action immediately got the attention of the two dark haired teens.
Opening the framed portrait door, they followed the super pup into the large cavernous room, behind the portrait, then following the echo of her barking, Fluey and Ali finally found Skittles sniffing around some rubble piled up at the beginning of a side tunnel.
Ali had remembered the map that Rashid had shown to him. "This tunnel is blocked, (he said), so the guards didn't investigate it passed this point."
Skittles was still doing her pointing (poing) thing, making Fluey suspicious about the tunnel being impassable.
"I don't know, your Majesty, Skittles has a talent for smelling out crooks and she's usually right."
Fluey had a small pen, one of the clever inventions, Reggie had called the Illuminator in his pocket, he took the slender pen and pushing it's top button, turned it on, directing a surprisingly powerful light beam into a small opening, lighting up that part of the side tunnel.
Princess Sandrina was a few feet up the path and desperately pressed up against the wall, nervously looking over her shoulder and edging her way along the tunnel to keep from being spotted as the beam lit up a good part of the dark passageway.
Stepping back, the princess nearly gave herself away as she was grabbed from behind and a hand swiftly muffled her cry as a deep voice whispered menacingly, "Quiet she devil, or the next sound you make will be your last!"
Pocketing his pen light Fluey took a small square device out of his other pocket, but before he could press the green activator button on his transformer, Skittles revved up and ran head long into and thru the debris blocking the entrance to the tunnel.
She screeched to a halt right in front of the princess and before Skittles could react, a man dressed in black tossed a bag of dust or spices at the small white super pup while at the same time attempting to drag the princess up the path.
The spices trickled down on her and poor Skittles was reduced to helpless sneezing as her super sensitive nose reacted to the powder.
The mysterious man in black picked up Princess Sandrina and disappeared quickly up the tunnel as Fluey and the Prince arrived to find the incapacitated sneezing pup all alone.
Immediately concerned for her, Fluey knelt down beside Skittles and looking the stricken pup over wondered aloud, "What could she have inhaled? Your Majesty, we should have the guards come back and search the rest of this tunnel. I'll take Skittles out for some fresh air and have my cousin FG come back to the palace to keep an eye on things while your guards and I check this out."
Prince Ali was not happy about idea of Fluey pursuing the criminals, but he knew that finding and subduing them was important.
After explaining over his com-link to FG, who wore a communicator on her wrist like Fluey except instead of wrist watch, it was a bracelet and was only capable of transmitting audio no video, how Skittles was still wheezing even though he had taken the careful precaution of washing her face and setting her in front of the Impossi-mobile's air conditioner to give her fresh filtered air, he ask FG come to keep an eye on her and the new Sultan.
When the call from Fluey came through, she was sitting in the hospital room Multi and Coiley were settled into.
As her communicator went off, it woke Multi and he heard some of what had just happened at the palace.
"Fluey what happened? Are you and Skittles Ok? What about the Prince? " FG and Multi asked together.
Hearing the concern in their voices Fluey replied,
"Don't worry, Skittles is fine she just got a snoot full of some exotic powder or something, She's alright and so is Ali. FG, I need you to come to the palace."
Multi was sure there was something Fluey wasn't telling them over the communicator and wanted to accompany FG, but the injury to his head still ached a bit and FG insisted he rest up, promising to let him know what was up as soon as she could, putting his guitar within easy reach for fast communication, FG then left for the palace.
Fluey, Skittles and the Prince were waiting at the gate as she arrived by taxi and as she was paying the driver, the second in command of the royal guards Rashid, came out to the car and began to babble to them.
"Your Majesty, Esteemed guests, I must ask you to come to the throne room immediately."
FG scooped up Skittles while Ali and Fluey ran on ahead following Rashid, when they arrived at the throne room they got a HUGE shock.
Scattered around the room were the unconscious bodies of Sultan Ali's advisors and twenty of the royal guard who had been waiting there for the return of their royal leader, the new Sultan.
Pinned to the Sultan's throne with Princess Sandrina's dagger was a ransom note!
Rashid retrieved it and handed it to Ali who scanned the page and then read it aloud, "Honor demands you ransom the woman of Royal Blood….Prove your Honor or face insurgence, for you are raised in foreign lands and must prove yourself. Should you prove to be an Honor less Dog, then her head will adorn the palace gate…You have until Sunrise on the day of the Honored Sultan's Funeral, to hand over Ten Million dollars to us. We will contact you tomorrow with instructions."
Sitting down on the stair leading to the thrones Sultan Ali paused as the others looked on to see what his decision would be, considering all the havoc his sister had caused.
Looking up into the anxious faces Ali said, "Despite what my sister has done, she is family and My esteemed father loved her… but…this country can hardly afford this sort of ransom. I have to rescue her" the prince said getting to his feet.
Rashid stepped forward and respectfully blocked the exit saying, "Even if we knew where to begin looking your eminence, I must insist that you leave this business to us."
Fluey saw the expression on his look-alike's face and spoke up, "I'm an experienced crime fighter your majesty, Skittles can track her scent…Let us handle it, we can keep in touch with this."
He handed the young Sultan a duplicate communicator like the wristwatch com-link he wore and waited while Ali pondered everything that had been said.
FG meantime was letting Multi know via her bracelet communicator the latest developments, "It's a kidnapping…..no no…not Prince, I mean Sultan Ali, his sister…..according to the ransom note they left, it seems that she was taken by some criminal organization here…they're called the Thieves Guild….I'll let you in on any details we get…No Mark, don't move from your hospital room, your not well enough yet, besides Calvin should have somebody there he knows when he wakes up…now relax and get some rest I'll call you later."
Closing out her signal FG stood next to Fluey and was ready to assist the victims as they slowly regained their senses.
The palace advisors were waking up from whatever drugs had been used to keep them out of the way of whoever had left the note.
The Royal Finance manager stepped up, still unsteady from being drugged and offered, "We can raise the ransom Your Majesty, it will mean putting a modernization project for the city on hold but it can be accomplished."
Fluey added, "We can track the ransom money Your Highness and once we apprehend the villains you'll be able to put the money back in the treasury where it belongs. I'll contact Big D and see if our team back at SSHQ has any suggestions, but a lot will depend on how and where they want the ransom money delivered."
Ali winced at the though of these new friends having to suffer because of his family and their adversaries, he reluctantly nodded in agreement for now and the process of getting the ransom money together was started.
Turning to Rashid he asked the guard to keep them informed as to the securing of the palace since the discovery of the additional passageway was causing more problems in keeping out the criminal element.
Turning to FG and Skittles Fluey gave the little pup a reassuring pat, "How are you feeling Skittles?"
He gave her nose a gentle tap, "Do you think you can track down the Princess for us?"
Skittles was more than willing but she was still having trouble from having inhaled all that dust and the chemicals from the spices that unknown to our heroes, had been thrown by the mysterious stranger when he kidnapped the deranged Princess Sandrina.
She gave a bark and leaped from FG's arms running to the portrait, but her at first sniff the poor super powered pup started sneezing again and was thrown back by the force of her sneezes bumping into Fluey's legs.
FG picked the pup up again and objected, "Skittles needs more time to clear out her nose and you should have the guards clear the passageway.
Before you try to venture anywhere in those tunnels, you should transform to your super persona. You can take a lot more punishment as Fluid man than Franky McAlister you know."
Skittles whined in disappointment but FG said firmly, "Oh NO you don't! Mark would never forgive us if we let something permanent happen to you."
Looking a bit sheepish Fluey agreed, "When the time comes I'll be ready!" he said.
There was really nothing else they could do (besides going ahead with the plans for the late Sultans funeral) at the moment, but wait for further instructions from that band a marauders, The Guild of Thieves, as to the delivery of the ransom money.
After he had talked to FG via his guitar communicator, Multi tried to relax as she had advised, but he was worried about the incident at the palace and even though he had no reason to like Sandrina, that did not stop Multi from being concerned the Guild might strike again.
FG and Fluey needed backup and he had to provide it whether he was fully recovered or not, besides occording to what the doctor had said he was due to be realesed the next day anyway.
Multi slipped out of his hospital bed and dressed, then making sure his transformer was in his pants pocket he grabbed his guitar and started for the door to leave the hospital.
He opened the door only to be met by the guard Ali had left to make sure no one got into the room who did not have authority to be there, since they were on the third floor there had not been any need to secure the window as a possible entry point.
"I'm sorry young sir, but until the Doctor in charge of your case tells me to, I can't allow you to leave the hospital. AND I am under orders from his Majesty to insure your safety."
He closed the door leaving a frustrated Multi inside and resumed his duty guarding the door.
The red haired Impossible could not fault the guard for following orders, but he had to leave and get to the palace to help Fluey and FG and so he took his transformer out of his pocket and prepared to change to his super persona, but first he walked over to Coiley's bedside.
Putting his hand gently on the unconscious Blonde Impossible's shoulder, he spoke hoping that some how Coiley could hear him.
"I've got to go help Fluey and FG Coiley, something has happened and they need me, so get better and we'll be back as soon as we can, Ok?"
Then he pushed the red button on his transformer and in a swirl of bright psychedelic colored patterns, changed to his Multi Man super persona and grabbing his guitar Multi stepped to the window opening it.
He duplicated himself out the window and down to the sidewalk three stories below.
Unknown to Multi, Coiley had somehow heard what his teammate had said and was fighting the deadly effect of the poison from the dart, back to consciousness.
"Multi…Multi don't…don't go…with out me!" he mumbled.
Coiley opened his eyes, he was feverish and soaked in persperation, but still being hooked up to Ivs and a monitor he found it hard to sit up. BUT, he was determined that some how he had to follow Multi and help Fluey and FG.
Finally he was sitting upright and began to try removing the Iv's and stand up.
As he moved to stand up his knees buckled and he collapsed to the floor beside his bed, the heart monitor and oxygen slipped off, sending an emergency signal to the front of the admitting station.
Quickly checking the room the signal was coming from, a doctor and nurse took off running, headed at top speed for Coiley's room with a crash cart thinking his heart had stopped.
Seeing the Doctor and nurse approaching at a fast pace Akbar quickly opened the door to the room and as they ran in…
"DOCTOR!" (the nurse yelled pointing to the empty bed) the other boy is missing!"
"How could he have gotten out past the guard?" the Doctor questioned, as Akbar ran in to lend assistance getting Coiley back into his bed.
"there's only one other way, out the window and it's open!" the nurse shrieked running over and leaning out the window trying to determine if Multi was on the ledge, looking up and down, right and left.
She couldn't see him because Multi was already around the side of the building, heading to the front trying to find a mode of transportation to the palace.
"Nurse…." (the doctor yelled) as she pulled her head into the room again, "I need help with this boy, we'll send out an alert on the other one as soon as we're done here."
Between the three of them they managed to get Coiley back into bed and temporarily strapped down long enough to hook him back up to all the monitoring machinery and the Iv's back in, finally after everything was in place the doctor introduced a sedative into Coiley's Iv drip and in no time at all the blonde Impossible was asleep.
Then as the nurse removed the straps they all breathed a sigh of relief that the boy would be alright, but all the time they were taking care of him, a semi-conscious Coiley kept mumbling about someone called Multi, leaving to help with an emergency and not really telling them about who this Multi was, or where the red haired teenager Mark Mills, who had been checked in with him, had gone.
Multi meantime was looking around in the front of another building having found no cars or taxis around in front of the hospital and not wanting to be caught he decided to look elsewhere.
Back at the palace the whole incident of the kidnapping was being discussed with the prince trying to organize everything concerning the ransom.
Fluey was suspicious though, about this being a legitimate kidnapping.
After all the things Princess Sandrina had pulled in the past, he was sure this was just another attempt at ether kidnapping the Prince or even a way of getting Ali alone so she could try again to eliminate him.
Fluey was determined to take Ali's place for the delivery "If" that was what the instructions demanded.
Even thought he hadn't discussed it yet with ether FG or the Prince, Fluey figured he would cross that bridge when he came to it.
It would take the palace finance minister until the next day to liquidate enough of the royal assets in order to gather together the ransom.
A day later around dawn, outside the palace at the gate to the palace grounds, the royal guards were keeping watch and continued to be on high alert. On orders from Azeem, who was not taking any chances after the sneak attack in the throne room, Rashid had doubled the guard at every possible access to the grounds.
Azeem didn't want a repeat of the invasion The Guild of Thieves had pulled off.
Suddenly a fiery arrow appeared, streaking through the gate and landing in the dirt.
Rashid quickly extinguished the flame and untied a piece of tanned leather on the shaft, it was wrapped around a parchment.
The guard then took the parchment directly to the throne room where Sultan Ali and the others (who hadn't slept much in the last couple of days) were waiting anxiously for any word from the Thieves Guild.
Approaching and bowing respectfully, he handed the note wrapping and all to the new Sultan.
Slowly Ali opened the parchment, Fluey who was closest to the Sultan glanced at his royal look-alike, seeing the concern on his face as Ali looked at the note.
His expression was grim as he read the note aloud, " Sultan Ali Sayedso, Follow these instructions to the letter, or deadly consequences will be the result.
Place the money into a carpetbag, leave the palace heading due south until you reach an oasis, place the bag under a date nut palm, the only one at the oasis, then leave.
Princess Sandrina will be released as soon as we have the money. No tricks or she will die."
The message was sealed with a signet in wax, the sign of the Guild, which was a dagger thru a crescent moon.
Before Fluey could speak up and tell the prince that he shouldn't be the one to deliver the ransom they were interrupted by the sultan's financer who arrived in the throne room carrying a bag.
Approaching Ali he set the money sachet, a non descript carpetbag down and bowed respectfully.
Then said, "Your Majesty, here is the ransom ready for delivery, but you should have someone other than your self deliver it. These unworthy dogs might decide to capture your Highness in order to extort more money."
"I appreciate your concern but the note specifically says it must be I who delivers the ransom, now if you will excuse me I must prepare myself."
Ali picked up the bag and turned heading down the hall, leaving the small group in the throne room heading to his father bedchambers to change, only pausing to order a horse to be readied for his short journey.
Fluey had agreed with the finance minister about it being better for someone other than Ali to deliver the money and since he and the prince looked nearly identical, he could impersonate Ali and the Guild wouldn't know the difference until the Princess had been rescued.
After letting FG know that he would talk Ali into letting him take his place for the delivery, Fluey hurried after the young Sultan, to let him in on his plan.
Arriving in Ali's new quarters, Fluey found the Sultan just finishing putting on a riding outfit and explained that what he wanted to do was to dress like the him and make the delivery, if there was trouble he could transform and make the rescue.
Of course Ali was not in favor of the dark haired Impossible taking his place…but he seemed to go along with the idea, allowing Fluey to change out of his performance outfit and into some spare riding cloths.
Standing side by side with Prince Ali and looking into a full length mirror, Fluey was satisfyed with the results, they look absolutly Identical except Fluey still wore his black gogo boots instead of the desert boots the prince was wearing. Fluey then turned and stooped to pick up the carpetbag.
After straightening up, he was suddenly grabbed from behind.
In a lightening quick move Ali had grabed a hold of Fluey's arm with one hand and before he could react to this sneak attack, Ali reach up to put his other hand on the side of Fluey's neck pressing on a certain spot causing the teen to stiffen and then collapse to the floor rendering him unconscious in seconds and at the same time dropping the bag.
Picking his look-alike up and carrying him over to the bed, Ali carefully set Fluey down and looking at the unconscious Impossible he said, "I am sorry Franky, but this is something I MUST do!"
With that, he turned and picking up the carpetbag, walked out the door closing it behind him….
Multi had changed back to his regular self just after reaching the ground outside the hospital and then pocketed his transformer before striking out on his own to reach his friends.
Finely after wondering the streets of Khakistan all night and most of the morning, Multi secured transport of a sort, well, he was on his way to the palace, on a camel.
It was the bumpiest most uncomfortable ride the red haired teen had ever experienced and not long after sunrise Multi was just begining to warm up after being out all night, he was tired and his head was still aching a bit which didn't help matters any.
AT the palace FG and Skittles were waiting for Fluey to return to the throne room.
As they stood there, the dark haired teen appeared walking down the hall, but instead of coming into the throne room he headed right passed with out coming in to let them know the plan of attack.
Both FG and Skittles looked at each other dumbfounded,
"Franky?…FRANKY…..where are you going?" FG shouted watching as the dark haired teen continued down the hallway and right out the front entrance of the palace.
"Well, how do like that Skittles….Skittles?"
It was then that FG noticed that the pup had put her nose to the ground and was heading the other direction.
She was heading back up the hall, to what had been the Sultan's bedroom. Following the little puppy, FG wondered what in the heck was going on.
As Skittles neared the big ornate doors she suddenly started barking and doing her pointing (Poing) routine and scratching at the door urgently.
FG pushed one of the doors open and was practically knocked over as Skittles ran by her excitedly and into the room.
Barking, she headed directly over to the bed where a lone figure lay apparently unconscious, as she approached FG was surprised, the figure on the bed looked like her cousin Franky, but how could it be, when they had just seen him leave, this had to be the prince but what had happened?
Stepping closer, she recognized that it was Franky, his bangs were slightly askew and she saw the small scar on his right temple, from the wound he had shown her after being shot by Ali's sister a year ago, when she had mistaken him for the Prince.
Skittles jumped up onto the bed going over to Fluey and nudging him with her nose whinning, FG put her hand on his shoulder and gently shook it.
"Franky…..Franky wake up….wake up!"
Finally after a little while she was rewarded with a low moan, as he raised his arm up to his forehead. "Oh…man….what hit me?"
The he suddenly sat up a little too fast. "Oooh, Holy Headaches!"
Looking around he noticed where he was and confused ask FG,
"How did I get on the bed, where's Ali? The last thing I remember was turning to pick up the bag of money and being grabbed from behind, then everything went black."
"Apparently the Prince pulled a switcheroo on you cousin and is now headed out to the Oasis to meet the kidnappers. We saw him leave a little while ago and thought it was you." FG said.
"Holy Mesopotamia, what a mess, Ali has put himself in danger, instead of letting me handle it." (Fluey exclaimed sliding off the bed and still feeling a bit dizzy) We have to get to him before he gets into more trouble."
FG helped him to sit on the edge of the bed, "Wait just one minute Franklin Peter McAlister, you aren't in any shape at the moment to go gallivanting around the desert trying to find Prince Ali, Stay here till your head clears, I'll go on ahead and try to stop him from getting into trouble with those crooks and I'll keep in touch through our communicators!"
Fluey tried to argue the point but his head was aching due to the temporary lack of oxygen, brought on by the Princes' tricky knockout pinch.
So, he agreed to wait for a little bit before following FG out to find the Prince.
Leaving him and Skittles, FG used her earring transformer to switch to Fluid Girl incase there was trouble when she caught up to Ali, having a horse from the royal stables saddled she started off using a tracker built into her communicator tuned to the prince's and went in search of Ali, trying to stop him from getting into serious trouble……