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The Wizard sat in his throne room, lounging boredly on the large chair. He had seen neither hide nor hair of that Glinda woman. Such a shame, he was planning on talking to her about her odd behavior.
He slowly let his eyelids droop. Then, all of a sudden, he was jolted awake by the front doors slamming open. He blinked rapidly, sitting up straighter. Wha-?
Glinda was walking towards him, tear marks evident on her face.
The Wizard muffled a smirk, and got to his feet, instantly adapting to a father-like role. "My dear, what happened?"
Glinda had gotten surprisingly good at acting over the years. She wrapped her arms around herself, and looked at the Wizard as though terrified. "Elphaba kidnapped me, your Ozness. She made me tell about… about…" She broke off, as though unable to continue.
The Wizard frowned, and placed a hand on her arm.
Glinda innocently and inconspicuously took a step back before continuing with the agreed-upon plan. "She's coming here, your Ozness, to fight you."
The Wizard paused for a few moments, thinking. He then smiled slyly. "Then we'll meet them. Go to your rooms, Miss Glinda. I'll get everything ready."
Glinda nodded slowly, and then walked quickly away, only allowing herself to smile with satisfaction once she was safely in her rooms. It had worked. Now what she had to do, according to Elphaba, Idina, Victoria, and EVERYBODY else, she had to stay in her rooms, out of harm's way.
Exactly three days from the day the news was delivered, the Wizard and an elite group of Gale Force officers marched out of the city. They lined up in a formation near where the woman, Glinda, had said that Elphaba would appear from.
Soon enough, a dark shape was visible in the sky, and several more were on the ground. Elphaba, for it was she in the sky, swooped down, landing several yards away from the Wizard and the Gale Force. She held her broom in her left hand, and the Grimmerie was in her right, pressed tightly to herself. She glared with pure hatred at the Wizard, hate being the one thing she didn't have to fake.
Soon, many of the Elphabas, along with Annaleigh and Megan, stood behind Elphaba, but not in green makeup. Idina stepped forward, until she was next to the naturally green woman. It was now obvious that the actress was the witch's equal, a fact that the Wizard instantly noted.
Elise wasn't at this battleground of sorts, having been ordered to stay behind by and with Kerry. Everybody had agreed on keeping the girl out of whatever was to come, and as Kerry had grown fond of her, she had volunteered to stay back at Kiamo Ko.
The Wizard stepped forward, a fake smile on his face. "Well, Elphaba, I hope you realize your friend betrayed you."
Elphaba let herself get carried away in this pointless exchange. Her acting had also improved. She paused, as though in shock, before speaking up a bit loudly. "That matters not to me. What matters is your plans on destroying another world."
The Wizard's expression turned defensive. "My reasons are my own, and none of your business. Anyway, how did you figure that…" He seemed to take in the Elphaba and Glinda actresses for the first time. Then, a TRULY wicked smile crossed his face. "But you always did seem to love lost causes…"
He motioned to the Gale Force, who immediately split into two groups and began advancing towards Elphaba and the women. Elphaba thrust the Grimmerie into the hands of Idina and pushed her into the crowd, before stepping between the two groups, brandishing her broom and trying her best to live up to her stereotype.
The men hesitated, and then continued.
Elphaba bit her lip, and then threw her broom to the ground. She wouldn't be able to make them stop, but she could protect the women that were with her. As the Gale Force descended upon the Elphabas and Glindas from Earth, she began chanting a spell. The women all began to glow, as they had before, and then they disappeared.
Elphaba bent down to pick up her broom, biting her lip. But when she straightened, she found herself face-to-face with heck. Idina stood in the middle of the Gale Force men, held by the arms and hair, and had several guns pointed at her. She had a brave face on, but it wouldn't last long.
And the Wizard, standing beside her, had the 'Grimmerie' in his hands. He grinned evilly. "Check and mate. My game."
Elphaba looked around for a solution, but found none. Her eyes locked with Idina's for a split-second, but in that very short amount of time, they communicated. Idina mouthed a word. Elphaba nodded. As two men moved for her, Elphaba rose into the sky, mounted her broom, and sped back towards Kiamo Ko as fast as she could fly.
Which was fast.
Everybody residing in Kiamo Ko ran out into the courtyard as Elphaba landed. Seeing Fiyero, the green woman dropped her broom and collapsed into his arms, shaking her head mutely.
Fiyero looked down at her, concerned. "Fae…" He looked back up. "Back up, everybody!"
A few moments later, after Elphaba had calmed down, she stood back up and surveyed the crowd. "They took Idina…"
Immediately a chorus of 'oh no!'s, amongst other words started up.
Elphaba held up a hand, and it immediately grew silent. "But we'll get her back. We have inside help, remember. Glinda, and a few others who wish to remain nameless, at least for now. But we need to think. EVERYBODY who has EVER worked WITH Idina in that m… Wicked, come over here. Everybody else, make yourselves useful somewhere else. Elise… You just stick with Kerry. We might need your 'knowledge.'" But she didn't emphasize the quotes around knowledge, for she wasn't implying that Elise wasn't smart. Merely that the word hadn't been the best choice.
As people started organizing themselves, Elphaba turned back to Fiyero. They shared a knowingly look for a few moments, Elphaba shaking her head, and then she turned back to the crowd. "Let's get to work."
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Elphaba quickly gathered anyone who had worked with Idina in Wicked, hoping desperately that one would be able to answer the question that had been bothering her ever since her recent encounter with the Wizard. Once Megan, Shoshana, and the others had come together, Elphaba started to speak.
"Alright everyone…as you know, the Wizard has captured Idina, and I've been wond-"
"What will we do?" interrupted Megan in a frightened tone.
"Well I wanted to ask you all abo-"
"Glinda!" Shoshana immediately chimed in, "we can get Glinda to help us! She's on our side now, why don't we just get her to free Idina, the Wizard won't suspect her!"
Almost everyone listening to the conversation nodded in agreement.
"No, that's too risky" Elphaba stated. "Glinda is a very carefully placed ally, it's important that we keep her undercover as long as possible. Anyway, I was trying to say tha-"
"Well what about-" Megan started.
"Hush, will you!" Elphaba yelled. Once she finally had everyone's attention, she started again. "What I've been trying to tell you is that Idina mouthed something to me after she was captured, one word to which I can't decipher the meaning, and I'm hoping that one of you will."
The women all waited in complete silence, anticipating Idina's cryptic message.
Elphaba finally finished her statement, "Does the word 'tracksuit' mean anything to you?"
"The red tracksuit," Elise said quietly, yet without skipping a beat. Everyone turned to her with confused looks on their faces, so Elise sighed and continued. "You know, the red tracksuit from her last show! Idina was injured, so she came on stage at the end in her now-famous red tracksuit. Duh!"
"But why would Idina want us to know about a tracksuit she wore years ago?" Victoria asked, obviously as confused as everyone else in the room. Even Elise didn't have an answer to this question. Victoria continued, "So rather than sitting here in a dumbfounded silence, can I recommend that we send someone back to get this tracksuit? Maybe it will give us some kind of clue…"
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When Stephanie and Annaleigh returned a short time later with the tracksuit, Elphaba quickly looked it over, not noticing anything of particular interest. However, when trying to clean out the pockets, something fell out and hit the floor with a loud clang.
Elphaba slowly picked up the object, turning it in her hand. "How is this possible?" she asked no one in particular. "How could Idina have gotten this?"
"Oh, that key? It was given to us on opening night" stated Eden matter-of-factly. When Elphaba didn't respond, Eden thought it wise to elaborate. "On opening night, cast members and fans often send gifts. That key charm was given to all the Elphabas and Glindas who opened the show. I have my own copy at home too."
Elphaba could not remove her eyes from the golden key, with the letters "OZ" clearly etched on the top. "This is not just a charm…who gave this to you?" she asked quietly.
"I don't know" replied Eden, "there was no note, so we just assumed it was from some fan or ensemble member…is it of any importance?"
"Yes," Elphaba hastily replied, "This is the key to the Wizard's palace and inner chambers….Idina is a genius! She must have noticed the same key hanging from the Wizard's neck when she was captured and recognized it! Well ladies, we now have an all-access pass to the Wizard's palace..now we just have to figure out how to avoid being caught…"
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"Could Dorothy come back?" Elise mumbled to Annaleigh.
"WHAT?" Asked Elphaba, "I didn't hear that? What'd you say?"
Elise smirked, "I was just saying, could Dorothy come back... I mean could a little girl cough land in Oz again and ask to see the Wizard because Glinda said he could help her?"
They all stood in silence looking at each other with Elphaba looking down.
"I don't think that would work. You see, we need to get to Idina, not the Wizard. We have the key, so we don't need to find a way inside. We just need in without being noticed." Elphaba looked up just to say this, "So I don't think it would be necessary."
Megan raised her hand, and Elphaba responded, "Yes?"
"Do you know any invisible spells?"
Elphaba smiled, "1. That's only in Harry Potter. 2. If it was invisible than how could I see it?" She retorted in a sarcastic way. Everyone but Elise and Megan smiled.
Elphaba started to pace back and forward, "What could we do to get it and be unnoticed..." She was talking to herself, "We need a secret weapon..."
"Elphie?" Shoshana interrupted, "Elphie? Could you make wings?"
Elphaba looked up, "What are you talking about?"
Shoshana continued, "Like the monkeys, the wings for the monkeys... you could do the levitation spell on some of us and we could fly there and then when we get there we could... enter noticed..." Her voice trailed off.
Elphaba had a sense of enlightenment on her face for the first time. The Levitation spell! "However, they wouldn't see us walking up." Elphaba said excitedly. "I can hover above the castle and you all can go get her, or at least 2 of you can. Once you get her out, I can take her on my broom. They won't know there is a problem if the 'green girl' isn't in the castle."
Elise walked up, "The... levitation... spell? Like where the monkeys grew wings? Like... can I get some? If I'm going to be in Oz forever then can I have wings?"
"I don't think so. It's too dangerous." Elphaba replied. "Is anyone against the idea?"
Everyone shook their heads and glanced around the room at everyone.
"Okay, let me think about the full plan including details... I'll be back soon." She walked out of the room and sat against the cold brick wall. Within 5 minutes she was back in the room where everyone was waiting.
"O...kay, everyone ready? Listen up!" Everyone walked closer to her, "Here's the plan. The 'Elphabas' will get wings- not Elise and not the 'Glindas'. So you will get the wings and I will be on my broom hovering over the castle awaiting the signal. You- the 'Elphabas'- will fly to the back of the castle. There is a door back there that is similar to the 'Employees Only' doors in your world. You will enter there and scatter to find Idina. I will give you all something that is like an 'electronic map' of the castle. If there is trouble you send a red signal and I will see where you are on my 'electronic map'. If you find her send a green signal. Once you find her, I will know where she is because you will send a green signal. I will then signal all the other 'Elphabas' to exit the castle, and the mission will be complete. Once I know where Idina is, I will fly to the nearest window and get her. We all will fly back here with Idina on my broom with me. Does anyone have any questions?"
No one made a comment or made any indication that they were confused. "Okay then."
"Everyone that is getting wings go stand over there. All that aren't stand behind me."
All of the 'Elphanas' stood where she asked them to and Elise snuck behind the group. Elphaba sat down and opened the Grimmerie.
"Ah may ah tay atum. ah may a tah tay may tu se say ta. Ah may ah tay atum. ah may a tah tay may tu se say ta."
Wings formed on the 'Elphabas' backs and once they all started to move away from the group Elphaba saw Elise curled on the ground with wings sprouting from her back. She was breathing but not moving until...
"AH!" She screatched. "I... HAVE... W..I..N..G..S...! WINGS!" Elise sat up.
Elphaba was furious, "I told you N..." He voice trailed off when she clearly saw Elise's hands. They were growing... fur. "Oh no! I knew something would happen! Why didn't you listen?"
Elise looked up at Elphaba, "What's wrong?" While she innocently said this everyone gasped .
A/N: Hey everyone! I am back from camp. It was fun, but now I have like 35 bug bite. :( But here's another update. Hope you all enjoy it and as always read and review! :)