- Flynn Rider's testimony

Flynn Rider was brought in, as he sat down and looks over the court a gaggle of girls in the visitor section start screaming and jumping up and down. The judge banged for order with his gavel, but no one can hear over the din.

Flynn takes action, he shoots a smolder at a couple of the noisiest ones, who go down in a swoon.

One girl in a tight pink corset jumps up on a chair, waves her arms and screams "Flynn Ride Me!" He blows her a kiss with a wink, hoping someone will catch her as she goes down backwards over the chairs into the crowd behind them. Soon the guards move in and carry the fainted girls out.

Once it was quiet the judge asks, "Does that happen often?"

Eugene looked at the royal box, the king was definitely grumpy looking, his little girl had been talking about Eugene rather a lot, looked embarrassed and nodded saying, "Usually it's not that bad, but I've been out of circulation for a while and the tension must be building up. It should dissipate in a few weeks."

The judge just looked at him for a while. Eugene blushed.

"So why did you steal the crown?"

"I wanted a big pile of money and an island to live alone on."

"That's all?"

"Well, there was the challenge of it. Could I steal the kingdom's most valuable treasure?"

"You know why it is the most valuable treasure in the kingdom, don't you?" the judge asked.

Eugene looked at the royal family. "Yes. I'm sure there are treasures in this kingdom that would fetch more on the black market, but that wasn't the point. It was the most valuable therefore I had to try to steal it. The Stabbington Brothers are good muscle, but not exactly bright. I needed them to get me down to the crown and back up, but I was planning on ditching them in any case. They even helped me do that. We ended up in a little box canyon and they gave me a boost, they thought they were being smart by demanding the satchel first, but I am a master thief. I had no trouble at all of relieving them of the satchel."

"The guards split up to chase me and capture them. With the guards after me I had to run. They were really serious, they were shooting at me. I was diving through trees and bushes to get away. Most of them got hung up in a low tree, but the Captain and Max were still hot on my tail, I was able to pull a Tarzan and knock him off of Max, but Max is a lot smarter then your average horse and we started fighting, and ended up going over the side of a cliff, I hid and stumbled into a cave that lead to a small canyon with a beautiful tower in it. It looked like a great hiding place, but there were no doors at the bottom so I climbed it and got knocked out by Blon- um, Princess Rapunzel."

"She knocked you out?"

"Yes, a few times with the fro- um, her chameleon sticking his tongue in my ear to wake me up."

Several people shiver at the thought of that, but Pascal looks pleased with himself.

"She had tied me to a chair with her hair. Then she proposed a deal, I would get the satchel back if I took her to see the lantern thing they do for the princess, that was happening the next evening. I was in a bind, but she seemed earnest about the whole thing. So I took the deal, it seemed easy enough."

Flynn rolled his eyes.

"She was afraid of grass when she came down from the tower. Which was weird enough, but then she proceeded to flip out on me. She'd be as excited as a kid on the first warm day of spring after a long cold winter then flip around saying how despicable she was for being a disobedient daughter. She went on like that for over an hour. I was getting a little fed up with it. It was going to take forever to get to the kingdom if she was crying all the time."

"We were almost attacked by a bunny rabbit and I found that she's afraid of ruffians and thugs so I took her to the Snuggly Duckling to scare her back to the tower so I could have my satchel back. They tried to take me for the reward, which had gotten quite the boost, almost enough to be tempting to turn myself in for." Flynn gave a respectful nod to the king.

"But she charmed them all by just asking them if they had a dream, and they all do. They helped us escape from the guards. We got to the dam but were surrounded again and she swings away while I fought the guards and Max with a frying pan. She grabs me with her hair and swings me away and over the Stabbington brothers. Then Max broke a support beam to get to her, but I held her hair and she was able to swing away, but then the dam broke and we were all running from the water. We eventually got clear and ended up making camp not far from the kingdom."

"I had cut my hand in all that and she healed it with her hair. I had thought she was just a goofy girl who didn't get out much, but now obviously she was some kind of witch or maybe even magical being but then she said she had never left that tower." Eugene shook his had at that.

"She was so kind and good, she liked my real name, I decided that I needed to show her as good a time as I could. I'm an orphan and had missed so much of being with a family, but to have stayed in that tower, which wasn't all that big, was terrible, even if she did have family there, but she wanted to go back. She said she didn't want to at first, but her emotions were a little out of control, though not like when we first left. I could tell she intended to go back, because she is that good inside, which was touching, she loved her ...the person she thought of as her mother." Eugene flicked a look at the royal family, he didn't want to hurt them with calling Gothel-mother.

"We got to the kingdom and spent the day avoiding guards and showing her around. I took her out on a little boat so she would have the best possible view of the lanterns. I have been tempted to take her to the plaza so she could see it up close but the view from the water was better and no guards."

"Then I saw the Stabbington Brothers on the shore. I tried to give them the crown so they would leave us alone, but they knew about the girl and knocked me out. Then the PubThugs broke me out of the prison and Max took me to the girl. I found Gothel holding her hostage and she gave herself up to me and then we were captured by the guards."