Meanwhile, Jane was admiring a crown, Austin's future crown that he would get once he became king. It was gold with diamond shaped amethysts studding it.

"Beautiful, simply beautiful." She smiled. "Soon Austin will be married, and the kingdom will have a king again."

"I doubt it, Austin still refuses to be king unless he finds Uniqua." Horton, who was there, disagreed.

"Oh poppycock!" Jane scoffed, setting the crown down. "All that will change at tomorrow night's ball."

Tyrone suddenly rushed in with a big mail sack.

"They're all coming to the ball your highness." Tyrone smiled, obviously excited but trying to hide it. "Every princess is coming."

Jane clutched a bunch of RSVPs with a squeal of excitement. Even though she was mostly serious and dignified even she had her weak moments.

"Oh goody goody, oh my." Jane smiled, looking over the RSVPs. "You see, Horton, one of these is bound to change his mind."

"Oh absolutely...not." Horton smiled to himself, knowing better.

"Do not lose one." Jane ordered Tyrone, poking him in the nose with the RSVPs she was holding.

"Oh no, no, of course not." Tyrone bowed, smiling...and then wincing once Jane's back was turned; after all, there were dozens of RSVPs.

"Where is Austin? Oh never mind I know where he is, working on the mystery of the Fat Animal." Jane sighed, an RSVP falling out of her hand.

"The Great Animal your highness." Horton corrected, trying to catch the dropped RSVP; Tyrone beat him to it.

"Well, Big, Great." Jane replied dismissively. "It's large and it has fur."

And that's exactly where Austin was, doing research in the castle library. Rudy wasn't helping him because he was busy practicing his archery.

Listen to me, Austin. It's not what it seems.

"What did King Garnett mean?" Austin said to himself as he continued searching through the books.

He kept searching and searching...until he found a book that answered his question.

"It's not what it seems...of course! It's not what it seems!" Austin said excitedly, flipping a page in the book back and forth. "Now I'll find you Uniqua!"

He tore out two of the pages, and started to rush outside. Before he could even leave the library though, me met up with Jane and Tyrone - Jane was still holding the RSVPs she grabbed earlier.

"They're coming Austin-oh!" Jane began excitedly, only to be interrupted by Austin kissing her on the cheek and continuing to run. "Austin, where are you going?"

"To find the Great Animal!" Austin called back.

"Oh wonderful." Jane said, not really meaning it but still being supportive. "Just make sure you're here tomorrow night."

Austin stopped, confused.

"Tomorrow night?" He asked.

"Uh, the ball." Jane tapped the RSVPs.

"Mother I...I can't." Austin said apologetically.

Jane started whimpering.

"Oh please mother, don't do the lip thing." Austin sighed, defeated. "If I leave now maybe I can be back in time."

Jane, ecstatic, tossed all the RSVPs into the air with a cheer...much to the annoyance of Tyrone, since there were over thirty of them.

"Thank you darling!" Jane laughed.

"But please mother don't turn it into one of your beauty pageants." Austin said with friendly sternness.

"Oh, no no no no no, it's just a few friends." Jane shook her hand in agreement.

But when Austin left...

"And their daughters." Jane added with a smirk, before turning to Tyrone. "I want this to be big! Every princess must have her own introduction."

Tyrone, startled, dropped the RSVPs he was picking up.

"But you said..." He protested, confused.

"Forget what I said." Jane started to leave. "Now, send for the cooks and tell the band to start rehearsing! And I want four footman for every carriage, maybe five!"

Tyrone went back to pick up RSVPs, making annoyed faces when Jane had her back to him and smiling when she was facing him. Then, when she had completely left, poor Tyrone repeatedly banged his head onto the floor.

Meanwhile, back at the lake, Pablo was told the whole story.

"Let me get this straight, you mean every night when the moonlight leaves the lake you-" Pablo stretched his head out and put his wings on the side of his body. "*Honk honk!*"

"Right." Uniqua, back to being a swan, nodded. "The following night, if I want to turn back into my real form, I have to be on the lake."

"*Hmph*." Tommy scoffed to himself. "All she needs is a little moonlight, me I have to be smooched."

"No fear." Pablo smiled. "You fly to your prince, we bring him back to the lake, the moon comes up, you change into a princess and *trumpet* live happily every after." Pablo finished, dipping Morton...he would've dipped Tommy but he was too big.

"How will I find him?" Uniqua asked.

"You don't know where he is?" Pablo dropped Morton with shock.

"Hey!" Morton protested.

"Oh, sorry."

"I don't even know where I am." Uniqua shook her head. "It was night when I was kidnapped and the monster that grabbed me...well...I blacked out."

"Oh."

"Hey, I'll bet Rothbart knows where you are." Morton snapped his fingers.

"Oh that's a great idea." Tommy agreed sarcastically. "Just say: 'Mr. Rothbart I'd like to leave now do you have a map or something?'."

"That's it!" Uniqua gasped.

"A map!" She and Pablo both said excitedly.

"*Doh!*" Tommy hit himself on the forehead.

"Let's do it!" Uniqua smiled.

She and Pablo immediately flew toward the castle and started looking in all the windows.

UNIQUA:
We're off on a mission
We're tough, in good condition

PABLO:
We're short

UNIQUA:
But standing tall

UNIQUA, PABLO, AND MORTON:
No fear!

UNIQUA:
There's danger, around us

Tommy tried to sneak away.

TOMMY:
They'd hurt us if they found us

But Morton stopped him by grabbing his tail, startling him.

MORTON:
Our backs are to the wall

UNIQUA, PABLO, AND MORTON:
No fear!

UNIQUA:
'Cause we have all the courage we require

PABLO:
Take it from a frequent flier

UNIQUA:
Try your luck
Our plan will fly

UNIQUA, PABLO, AND MORTON:
No fear!

Uniqua finally found a map and told Pablo. They flew back to Tommy and Morton.

"It's hanging on the wall, in the upper chamber." Uniqua told Tommy and Morton

"Uniqua will keep a look out while we get the map." Pablo planned.

"We?" Tommy said skeptically.

"You're not going to help us?" Pablo was surprised.

"Are you crazy?" Tommy frowned.

TOMMY:
This plan if applied'll
Be simply suicidal
You'll be a sitting duck

UNIQUA, PABLO, AND MORTON:
No fear!

TOMMY:
Suppose that I do this
Who knows if we'll live through this
How about a kiss for luck?

UNIQUA:
No

PABLO AND MORTON:
Fear

UNIQUA:
Our team is shy one striped yellow-furred volunteer

TOMMY:
No way Jose!
No chance!

MORTON:
No choice

UNIQUA, PABLO, AND MORTON:
No fear!

Morton and Pablo started dragging Tommy towards the castle.

"No don't!" Tommy protested. "Stop it, stop it! Don't! Come on guys, I don't wanna go!"

They quietly snuck into the castle.

"All right, quickly." Pablo whispered.

"No problem." Morton said as he ran past them...only to fall into a small hole in the floor.

Tommy struggled to reach Morton so that he could pull him out.

"Whenever I have a big job to do, I'll always hire someone small to help." Tommy grunted sarcastically.

"I heard that!" Morton snapped.

Tommy managed to get Morton out, who zoomed ahead of them again. They started going up the stairs. When they got to one of the levels, Morton looked back with a smirk and accidentally hit a wall.

"I'll be okay, I'm fine." Morton said, wobbling around dazed.

"I'm gonna die, I knew it!" Tommy moaned. "I'm on a dangerous mission with an accident-prone mouse! You're gonna get us all killed!"

Tommy hit a suit of armor as he said that, causing it to almost crash onto the ground. Fortunately Pablo caught most of it, unfortunately the helmet fell off and landed on the ground.

"What was that?" Tasha frowned, going down a flight of stairs towards the noise.

Uniqua quickly got her attention by tapping the window.

"Huh?" Tasha started following this new sound; she soon noticed Uniqua. "What does she want?"

Uniqua disappeared from Tasha's sight and flew back to her friends.

UNIQUA, PABLO, AND MORTON:
We will take any dare
That the other side'll dare to dream up
We'll fight tough, we'll play fair
But we're sure to win because we'll team up

Pablo grabbed the map and was about to give it to Uniqua, but Tasha appeared and closed the window, cutting off Pablo's escape!

"Oh no you don't you thief!" Tasha glared.

"Head for the door!" Pablo ordered.

"Not so fast!" Tasha cut them off there too.

Pablo, Morton, and Tommy huddled

"All right, Morton goes deep, Tommy gets the hand-off." Pablo ordered. "Ready?"

"Break!" Pablo, Morton and Tommy high-fived.

"Huh?" Tasha was confused.

"Set, hut-hut." Pablo said as Tommy passed the map to him as if it were a football.

Morton quickly ran to the wall near the door.

"I'm open, I'm open!" Morton waved his arms.

Pablo tossed the map to Morton, who caught it, but Tasha caught him and knocked him aside with the map as if he were a tennis ball. Pablo found a tennis racket nearby.

"Catch that map!" Pablo said as he knocked Morton back.

"I got it!" Morton said, snatching the map out of Tasha's hands.

Morton ran out into the hallway, and then passed it to Tommy who was waiting for him. Tommy leapt over some strewn furniture...only to accidentally leap over the rail overlooking the lower floors! Tommy screamed in terror, but Morton swung down from a thick rope and grabbed Tommy's arm with his tail.

"Saved ya." Morton said.

They both landed on the next level safely, only to meet Tasha.

"Give me that map!" Tasha ordered.

Luckily, Pablo was there and raring to go.

"Reach!" Tommy said, handing the map to Pablo and then stopping to catch his breath.

Pablo continued running, but then saw Morton poised and ready. Tasha was in front of him, holding a mop like a baseball bat.

"Hey batter batter batter." Morton smiled, his hands open.

Pablo, smiling, revved up like a baseball pitcher and tossed it to Morton. Morton grabbed it with his tail, folded it, and rolled up like a ball so that the map was inside.

"Oh the crowds going wild!" Pablo walked around with his wings raised triumphantly.

CHORUS:
No fear
No fear

Tasha used her mop as a hockey stick to roll Morton around, hoping to get him dizzy enough to unroll. Pablo grabbed another mop from a water bucket, spilling water on the floor, and grabbed Morton with it so that if Morton unrolled Pablo would be able to get the map. Both he and Tasha slid around on the spilled water as they pushed Morton, until Tasha banged Pablo into the wall, dazing him.

CHORUS:
It would be fine if one of us knew how to steer

Tasha then hit Morton hard, causing him to hit Tommy's head and knock him down. Morton unrolled, and grabbed onto Tommy's ears. Pablo, who had recovered quickly, leapt onto Tommy's back too.

PABLO:
Get a grip

MORTON:
Get set

PABLO:
That's our best bet
No breaks!

MORTON:
No sweat

They slid Tommy down the stair rail, and flew off. They then crashed through the window. Meanwhile, Tasha tried to follow with her mop but crashed into the wall instead.

PABLO:
And no regrets!
We're dead!

MORTON:
Not yet

PABLO AND CHORUS:
Oh no not yet

Pablo was able to fly into the air, but Morton and Tommy started falling towards the moat where the alligators were waiting.

"Save me." Morton prayed.

Pablo caught him and they both skidded onto the ground. Tommy meanwhile tried to use the map as a parachute, but he was too heavy, Fortunately Uniqua grabbed him just in time...and the fact that the alligators started fighting over who was going to eat Tommy helped too. After resting on the ground for a few minutes, Uniqua studied the map.

"There's Austin's kingdom, when do we leave?" Uniqua smiled, excited.

"In a few minutes, we have to work out a few details first." Pablo smiled back.

Meanwhile, Austin found Rudy practicing his archery. Well, he was earlier, now he was taking a break and eating an apple. Austin put down one of the pages, a picture from the book he found, on Rudy's lap.

"It's a mouse." Rudy shrugged.

"The Great Animal." Austin corrected.

"A tad small wouldn't you say?" Rudy chuckled.

"Yes...until it changes into this." Austin put down another picture, this time of a dragon. "An animal that can change its shape. A harmless creature approaches, then, suddenly, it's too late."

"You mean...*gulp* you mean it could be anything?" Rudy swallowed the piece of apple in his mouth.

"Anything." Austin confirmed.

A fly then buzzed by Rudy who, startled, tried to swat it away.

"Well...almost anything." Austin added, realizing that the change from a bug to a harmful creature like a dragon was too great to be possible.

"Oh." Rudy calmed down, relieved; he quickly followed Austin into the woods.

Back at Swan Lake, it was now time to activate the plan. Tommy and Uniqua were swimming side-by-side at the part of the lake surrounded by trees and flowers into an inlet. Morton was on Tommy's back.

"Uniqua, I apologize for the way I've been acting." Tommy said.

"It's all right Tommy."

"No no, this Austin is very important to you and all I can do is think of myself." Tommy shook his head.

"Everyone does that." Uniqua pointed out.

"Please Uniqua, don't make this any more difficult than it already is." Tommy slightly pleaded. "Accept my apology, please."

"Okay, I accept." Uniqua smiled.

"Good, now we can kiss and make-up." Tommy said, getting up slightly and preparing his mouth for a kiss.

"Tommy!" Uniqua and Morton - who almost fell when Tommy got up - scolded.

"What? What did I say? What? What?" Tommy said, confused.

"Ten hut!" Pablo ordered, flying down and landing on the shore near Uniqua and the others.

Tommy, startled, jerked up, causing Morton to almost fall off his back again. Morton caught his balance and saluted to Pablo.

"It is zero hour troops." Pablo paced like a general. "Uniqua, prepare for takeoff."

"Right." Uniqua nodded.

"The rest of you have your assignments, is everyone ready?"

"Ready for action sir!" Morton saluted again.

"How about you Tommy?"

Tommy pretended not to hear.

"Tommy?" Pablo tried again before getting it. "Highness?"

"Yes, I am ready." Tommy smiled nobly.

"Takeoff!" Pablo ordered, diving in the water and then flying into the sky; Uniqua was not far behind.

"Good luck, have a nice flight!" Morton called out to them.

"Remember, it anything happens to her I'll have you whipped, flogged, put on the rack and then have you butchered and roasted!" Tommy warned Pablo.