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Commentator: Welcome back my non-fairy tale and snow queen wannabe friends to the latest instalment in 'Frozen: What Could Have Happened'! Before we begin let's take a look at some of the reviews you've sent us. PROFESSOR! OPEN THE SHOOT!
(The Professor does so, and out pops six envelopes)
Right then! Our first review is from ErinMilne:
*gasps* No. Nonononono you did NOT just do that! It was going so well for Gerda, too! Very dramatic. Oh, please let her end up safe next chapter...
You'll see!
Professor: Our second review is from vinzgirl:
Hood chapter can't wait to read more.
Sammy: Hood chapter? There was a hood in this chapter? Oh wait there was.
Professor: I believe she meant 'good'.
Sammy: Oh. Right. I knew that. Our third review is from Samantha:
Why can't they call you Elsa? Huh? That's your name!
Huh. That's a fair point. Why doesn't she like her name?
Commentator: She'll go into more detail about that this chapter. Now with three reviews left, let's see which minions get to review. PROFESSOR! PULL THE LEVER!
Professor: Very good, Sir.
(The Professor pulls a lever, activating what looks like a slot machine)
Right then. First one up is - oh no. Sir, not him. ANYONE BUT HIM!
Figure off screen: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
(A wild looking man with stuck up hair in a white lab coat flies down in his hover bubble car.)
Professor: (Face palms himself) Not the Doctor!
Sammy: What? We have Doctor Who cameoing? YAAAAAAY!
Professor: No Sam, it's not Doctor Who.
Sammy: What? The holographic doctor from 'Voyager'.
Professor: No Sam, not that Doctor, it's-
Doctor: Oh Sir! (Shakes the Commentator's hand) It is such an honour that you have chosen me to be a part of your review responses! Personally I don't know why you didn't choose me to be your right hand man all these years rather than the guy who doesn't even have a right hand over there! I mean all he does is criticise you, whereas I would have never complained about you want to tell multiple versions of a fairy tale adapted as a Disney film!
(The Professor hisses at him)
Commentator: You know, I did wonder in the past whether it was such a good idea to have TWO scientists in my employ, but now I realise you two balance each other out. He's a complainer and you're a suck up.
Doctor: I would gladly lick any boot you had, if you wore any.
Commentator: Ahem, so yeah, here's the review for you to respond to.
Doctor: Gladly! Our fourth review is from Samantha:
Please don't kill Elsa off. Okay? Please redeem Elsa!
Doctor: Well I don't know. Personally I'm hoping for a scene where she turns to ice and then is cracked or something like that.
Commentator: Doc, you are diabolical.
Doctor: Thank you, Sir! Well, I'm off to do some inventing. (flies off in his bubble car) When you get fed up of the other guy, call me!
(The Professor mutters under his breath)
Commentator: So Prof? Who's up next?
Professor: - Huh? Oh right, next is -
(Everyone hears cackling as a shadow of a witch flies in the room and hovers in the air)
- Shadow Witch.
Commentator: Ah, Shadow Witch! It's been a while.
Shadow Witch: Indeed it has, my dear Master! I think the last time I was featured was in the star trek themed chapter of 'Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged: With Commentary'.
Commentator: Ah, good times. Well anyway, if you can gladly respond to this review.
Shadow Witch: With Pleasure. Our fifth review is from Randomness Girl:
Feels!
- feels?
Commentator: Ah yes, a number of our chapters evoke alot of feeling.
Shadow Witch: - I see. Well, I'm off to make potions and do other witch things! Call me when you need my services!
(Shadow Witch cackles again as she flies out)
Commentator: So who's our final guest?
Professor: That would be Skull.
Sammy: - Skull?
Professor: Skull.
(The door opens, revealing a fiery skull)
Sammy: SKULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
(Hides behind some furniture. The skull surrounded by magical fire hovering in mid air floated over)
Commentator: Ah, Skull, there you are! If you would do the honours of responding to our final review?
(Offers him the envelope. Looking down, the skull tries to bit the envelope off, only to end up setting it on fire)
Commentator: Ah, never mind, here's a back up!
(Opens it for him to read)
Skull: OUR FINAL REVIEW IS FROM SAMANTHA:
Thank you for this chapter again!
UM, YOU'RE WELCOME.
(Floats out of the room)
Sammy: (Peeking out from behind the furniture) Is he gone?
Professor: Yes Sam.
Sammy: Shudder. That guy's gotten scary over the years.
Commentator: Well with about a hundred and fifty words to go, I think it's time to begin my take on a 'Snow Queen' Disney film if made during the renaissance!
Professor: Sir, are you sure? We may not have enough time -
Commentator: Look, I was already stalled before, I'm not waiting again!
Professor: Sir, please, think about this -
Commentator: Do you WANT me to replaced you with the Doctor?
Professor: Please continue.
Commentator: Thank you! Ahem:
In our finay story, it's explained how the evil snow queen tried to freeze the land with her mirror, but the mirror got destroyed, saved but a few pieces, but these pieces are enough to freeze the land when spelling out a word, so unable to set it herself, she sends one of the pieces flying out to find someone who can do it.
We cut to a scene where best friends Gerda and -
Professor: TING!
Commentator: What the? We're out of time already? And - Professor, why are you acting like the Clock?
Professor: I thought listening to a familiar sound might spare myself from being shocked.
(The Commentator looks at him, before shocking him).
Commentator: So here's the next chapter, 'Mending a Wounded Heart'!
"NO!"
Kai stretched out his hand to the falling girl, a girl he did not know, and yet...He clutched his heart again as he fell to his knees.
The queen saw a little red headed girl of about five fly through the air.
"Anna?"
Climbing up the rope, Hanna saw Gerda coming down.
"GERDA, NO!"
"No! Stop!"
Elsa sent a pillar of ice out of the wall of the chasm. It caught Gerda by the hood, letting her hang. Elsa moved her hand towards her. The pillar rose and put Gerda gently on the ground.
"See? I knew there was still good in you."
"Good? I am not good, child. I am above right and wrong, even though the world sees me as nothing but a monster."
"I don't think you're a monster."
The Snow Queen was stunned at what she just said.
"What?"
"I just think you've been very lonely."
Now she was confused.
"Lonely?"
The Snow Queen laughed.
"Look around you, child! Look at all these snowmen and snow bees! I am anything but alone!"
"But it's been a long time since you've had any real human contact, hasn't it, Queen Elsa?"
"I told you before not to call me that!"
"Why? Why do you hate your name so much?"
"It is no longer my name. That girl is gone. Now there is only the Snow Queen."
"No. I don't believe that. I won't believe that. I know that the girl you were is still in there, somewhere, no matter how much you try to lose yourself in the persona of the Snow Queen."
Gerda walked towards her.
"Why do you even care? Why should you care about my well being? Even after taking your brother, shouldn't you hate me?"
Kai looked up.
"What?" He asked.
"I know I should," Gerda answered, "I should have every reason for wanting to hate you, for taking my brother away, for wanting to kill him just to take the last piece of the mirror."
"Mistress, what is she talking about?" Kai asked, getting up.
"I even dreamt about you, about an evil sorceress who imprisoned my brother, who wanted to do him harm. Despite all those times defending you, deep down, I was afraid of you, and I had every reason to be. But now that I see you, even after everything you've done, do you know what I see? I don't see a monster, or an evil sorceress. I see a lonely old lady, who has been alone for many years, not from any fault of her own, but because she thought it was best that way. So what I'm saying-"
She offered her hand.
"Is that you don't have to be alone anymore."
The queen backed away. She stared at the hand as if it was a viper, ready to strike. What a peculiar child. Both her and her brother; complete strangers, yet bearing her no ill. The queen looked down at her smiling, trusting face. even after everything she had done, this girl wanted to be her friend. Was she wrong? Had she been wrong all these years to fear people? Shaking, her hand started to rise. The queen then saw in the reflection of the floor the woman about to strike her with her sword. Slowly, the queen raised her finger to meet the blade. It caused an explosion that sent the attacker flying backwards, her sword split in two.
"Huh. Deja vu."
The queen picked up the blade that had snapped off. She inspected it.
"This sword. I know this sword."
She looked at Hanna.
"I see. You're the daughter of the young couple who led the attack on me twenty years ago, aren't you?"
Hanna looked at her with intense hatred.
"You bet I am."
She roared as she charged at the queen with her broken sword. The Snow Queen raised her hand, sending shafts of ice to pin her against the wall.
"You hate me, don't you, young mortal?"
Hanna struggled against the ice.
"More than anything in the world!"
The queen turned to Gerda.
"You see, child? Look at this face. Look at the hate etched in this expression. This is how the world feels about me. You and your brother may not think of me as a monster, but the rest of the world will always hate and despise me, for what I am, like this woman here."
"She hates you because you took away her family, not for your powers!"
"As if mortals need a reason for hating me. To them, I will always seem like a monster. As long as I have these powers, that will never change."
She walked towards Kai.
"Your heart's hurting again, isn't it, Kai? I'm afraid what your sister told you was true. The last piece of the mirror is stuck in your heart, and in order to get to it, I'll have to cut it out."
Confusion in Kai's expression soon turned to terror, as he realised what that meant. He tried to run, but his feet sank in the floor so he was unable to move. He then found himself falling backwards onto a slab of ice, and ice straps appeared to strap his wrists and ankles on.
"Kai, no!"
The Snow Queen waved her hand at Gerda, who also got trapped against the wall like Hanna. Olaf and Bae also went to help Kai, but the queen impaled both parts of Olaf's body on icy spikes and trapped Bae in the floor.
"Mistress, please! Don't do this! DONT DO THIS!"
"Be quiet, Olaf, I will deal with you later."
Walking towards Kai, she made an ice dagger appear in her hand.
"Your majesty!" Kai struggled, against both the bonds and the pain in his heart, "Please, spare me!"
"I'm sorry, Kai," The queen apologised, "But there is no other way. This is best for both of us."
"No! Your majesty! Please."
"Shhh. Don't worry, my little prince. I will end your pain."
"Queen Elsa I love you!"
"-What?"
"I love you, Elsa! I love more than anything in the world!"
Elsa smiled.
"Thank you, Kai. But your love cannot save me."
She raised the dagger.
"No, no, please no, please no, please!"
"No, no!" Gerda was screaming, "Don't do this! No like this! Not like this!"
The Snow Queen prepared to bring the dagger down.
"LET ME COMFORT HIM!"
The queen stopped. She looked at Gerda.
"Please. Don't let his last moments be one with fear and terror! Let me soothe him. If this is his last moment, let me make him as calm as possible!"
The Snow Queen and Gerda held each other's gaze. The queen waved her fingers. The ice keeping Gerda up gave way, and let her drop.
"If you try anything, I will know."
"I know, I know."
Gerda walked towards her struggling, fearful brother.
"Shhh," She cooed, "Shhhh. It will be alright, it'll be okay."
Gerda placed her hands on the sides of Kai's face, and her head on top of his.
"I'm right here. I'll always be here."
What was that song Kai always sang to her when she was upset?
"Nnothing's going to hurt...you," She managed to sing, "Not when I'm around."
Wait a minute, thought the queen.
Mustering more confidence, Gerda continued.
"Nothing's going to bite you," She sobbed as she sung, "...So please don't make a sound."
This song. I know this song.
Thunder had clapped, waking up Elsa. Although startled, she was fine, but her little sister Anna was beside herself.
"Anna!"
Elsa climbed over to her sister's bed.
"Anna, it's okay! Thunder won't hurt you!"
"Oh Elsa!"
Anna hugged her tightly.
"I had the most terrible dream! I dreamt that you were trapped in an icy cage and no matter how much I knocked I couldn't get to you!"
"Shhh. It was only a dream. I'm right here."
Elsa tried to go back to her bed, but her sister wouldn't let her go.
"Please stay with me!"
"Okay Anna, I'll stay as long as you want."
The two girls laid down together. Anna was still sobbing.
"Shhhh. Shhhh." Elsa tried to soothe her. She started to sing:
Nothing's going to hurt you, not when I'm around
Nothing's going to bite you, so please don't make a sound
No matter how dark things may seem, have no fear
Anna drifted back to sleep.
For I will never leave you. I will always-
"-be here."
Startled, the queen dropped her dagger. It smashed into a thousand pieces. The ice that was also keeping the others captive also gave way. No longer struggling, Kai stared at Gerda.
Wait, he thought. This song. I know this song this girl is singing to me. I used to sing it to her when she was little!
The ice surrounding the part of Kai's brain that contained his memories of home and family broke.
Kai's eyes glowed blue for a moment.
"Gerda?"
Gerda nodded, smiling, tears still dripping down from her eyes.
"AH AH AAAAAAAAAH!"
The pain had return, more fierce than ever. Kai clutched his heart.
"You foolish girl!" the Snow Queen shouted, "You've made it worse!"
Her finger nails grew to the length of claws.
"Out of the way! I'll cut it out!"
Gerda saw something emerging from Kai's chest.
"WAIT!"
It was clear. It looked like a piece of glass. It was then that she knew.
It was the mirror shard.
Grabbing it with her hands, Gerda tried to pull it out. With every heartbeat, it seemed the shard was getting pushed further out, though only by a little bit. Gerda held onto this glass shard, the shard responsible for taking her brother away, for making him cruel and uncaring towards everyone, especially her.
"Let - go - of - my - brother's - HEART!"
Mustering all her strength, Gerda managed to pull the shard out. It flew across the room, sliding on the floor. Kai clutched his heart as he stood up, breathing heavily, but with each breath, it became easier.
"Feeling better?" Gerda asked.
After a few more breaths, Kai became calmer, and stopped struggling.
"Yeah, great! Thanks."
He turned to look at her.
"G-Gerda?"
He was staring at her as if he was only looking at her clearly for the first time in years. Gerda weakly smiled.
"Hey, big brother. Long time no se-"
"OH GERDA!"
He threw his arms around her.
"Gerda, I'm so sorry! I said such terrible things to you before! I didn't mean them! I didn't mean any of it! Please, can you ever forgive me?"
Gerda was stunned. This, THIS was her brother! She knew that removing the shard would return him to normal, but still, she couldn't believe it. How many times had she dreamt of this moment? Dreamt of how Kai would see the errors of his ways, and they would start playing again like he used to, or it turned out he was under an evil spell, or that it would turn out that the Kai she had been with for the past four years was an imposter, with the real Kai barging in and shattering the evil ice changeling, and they would embrace, with every dream ending with the last words the old Kai told her. "I'm here. I'll always be here." And every time she would wake up, and start to cry, realising that the New Kai was still around, that he wasn't there. Gerda clutched her brother tightly, buried her head into his shoulder, making sure that despite all the fantastic things that had happened to her, this time it wasn't a dream.
"I've missed you Kai!"
"I've missed you too!" Her brother sobbed, "So much!"
"Young lady."
The Queen walked towards them.
"Where did you hear that song?"
Kai looked at her.
"Our grandmother used to sing it to my sister when she was little in order to calm her down. I used to sing it to her too whenever she wasn't around."
"Your grandmother?"
The queen's eyes fell on the mirror shard on the floor. She smiled.
"The last piece. Well child, I thank you for getting the shard out. It was perhaps not as quick as my method, but now, at last I can finish the mirror."
She strolled towards the last piece. Hanna stood in her way, her broken sword raised. The Snow Queen sighed.
"Must we go through this again?" She asked, "You know that you stand no chance against me, don't you?"
"I don't care! I don't care even if I lose my life, I'm not going to let you finish that mirror! You think I'll let you complete it so that you can take over the world?"
"Take over the world?"
The queen gave Hanna a puzzled look.
"What on earth do you take me for?"
"How about an evil meglomaniacal sorceress, does that sound right?"
The Snow Queen gave her a somewhat patronising look.
"If I was interested in taking over the world, why would I wall up myself here? Why would I create walls to keep people out and snowmen to guard me if I was interested in world domination? If I wanted to, why not send armies of snowmen outwards, spread the winter to the rest of the world?"
"Well I-"
Actually now that she thought about it, the queen made a very good point.
"Well then what else could you possibly want with a mirror that only shows the worst of the world?"
"This mirror," She pointed, "Is said to feed on the darkness of souls. The darkest parts. I believe that once the mirror is completed, it will feed on my own darkness, and free me of the burden I've had for years."
"So what, you think the mirror can make you good or something?"
Elsa smiled.
"In a manner of speaking."
Gerda gasped. She understood what it was that Elsa thought the mirror could do for her.
"Your powers! You think the mirror can take away your powers!"
Elsa looked at her. She nodded. Even Hanna was stunned to hear this.
"You - you want to lose your ice powers?" She asked.
The queen turned to look at Gerda.
"As I have told you before, as long as I have these powers, I will never be accepted by humanity, and I will always be alone. But once my powers are gone, I will be able to walk among people again. And maybe, just maybe, this winter will finally lift."
"But you don't need to give up your powers to do that! You've had the power to control them all along! Don't you remember what Grand Pabbie told you, that fear would be your enemy? SO STOP BEING AFRAID!"
"You make it sound so easy, as if fear is something you can just turn off. But fear is part of my very soul, and the more I even try to let go, the tighter it gets. I can never let go of my fear."
Gerda looked at her as she walked. With every step she made whiteness seem to spread from her and through the palace. It was then she realised as she looked around. This palace, this extension of the Snow Queen, was pulsating with fear.
"But there's nothing dark about your powers!"
The Queen stared at her.
"Nothing dark?"
For a moment she was silent. Then she let out a laugh that filled the hall.
"Nothing dark! Child, have you learnt nothing while out here? Look around you! Look at this ice fortress, these abominable snowmen, and I'm sure you met the ice dragon as well! Have you not seen what the winter has done to the land, what it has done to Arendelle, what it did to your brother? These powers have brought me nothing but misery and loneliness."
She looked at her hand.
"Were it not for this curse, I could have been with my sister. I could have ruled Arendelle without fear. I might have even found love, and lived happily ever after. Instead what is my ever after? A frozen world, all the people I loved gone, forever, with people constantly in fear of me, knowing that I destroyed so many lives. THAT is my ever after."
She dropped her fist, and looked back at Gerda again.
"So how can you possibly say that there is nothing dark about my powers? What proof do you have, what reason could you have for thinking that my powers are not dark, that there is one sparkle of light out of everything that I have created?"
Gerda already knew the answer.
"One sparkle of light, you asked for? One good thing that I can name that you've done with these powers? I'm looking at it right now!"
What she was looking at was Olaf. A thought suddenly came to Kai.
"What will happen to Olaf? And the other snowmen, and the snow bees, if you lose your powers?"
"It is my magic and will that sustains them, as well as this palace. Most likely, with my powers gone, they'll all turn back into ordinary snow."
All of the snow creatures were stunned and alarmed, unaware that the mirror they were helping to fix would be their doom.
"NO!" Kai shouted, "Queen Elsa, you can't! There has to be another way!"
"There is no other way. The only way that I can be happy, that the winter can lift, is if I give up my powers."
"How do you even know that the mirror can do what you think it can?" Kai asked her.
"The bees heard rumours, rumours of a magic mirror, that can suck away the darkest part of a soul."
"But what makes you think that that even means your powers?"
"I have to try."
Kai could not believe what he was hearing.
"THAT'S IT? You've based this whole plan, all this effort, on a rumour and speculation?"
"It's all I have!"
"Elsa -"
Olaf walked up to her.
" - Is this really what you want? Will removing your ice powers, really make you happy?"
Elsa nodded.
"Yes."
The snowman considered this.
"I see."
Running over to where the last shard was, he swiped it.
"OLAF!" The Snow Queen shouted readying herself to strike, "You drop that piece or I'll-"
Olaf was running to the mirror.
"Olaf, what are you doing?" Gerda asked.
"I'm going to do what I was told to do. Finish the mirror."
"Olaf, didn't you hear what she said?" Kai told him, "If this mirror really does what she thinks it does, it means you'll turn back into lifeless snow!"
"I don't care. If this is what it will take to make my mistress happy, then I don't care what happens to me."
The Snow Queen was stunned at hearing this.
"Olaf..."
"Let's see," Olaf was saying to himself, "line up the piece, make sure it fits-"
Olaf slipped the piece in.
"No wait, stop!" Gerda shouted, followed by Hanna and Bae, "Grand Pabbie warned us! If that mirror is completed it would be-"
magic burst from the mirror, knocking everyone back. Elsa looked up.
"It is finished."
She walked towards the mirror, a wild, delirious look on her face.
"At last. For the first time in forever, I have a AAH!"
She screamed as she placed her hand to her lips. What she saw horrified her. Inside the mirror was her reflection, but it didn't look like her. The Elsa inside the mirror had pale blue, scaly skin, her hair dirty white and rough. She wore a dark blue dress, her fingers were like claws, her eyes glowing blue and pupiless. She slowly walked towards the apparition.
"Wha - what is this?"
As she spoke, she saw that the reflection had sharp teeth too.
"Don't you recognise me, Elsa?" The reflection asked, "I am you inner self."
"My inner self?"
"Yes."
Everyone else looked inside the mirror. None of them liked what they saw. Gerda looked like a wild and ugly beast, her red pigtails like snakes. Kai's was pale white, his hair pale blond, as if the reflection had no life in it. Hanna's skin looked like ice, and her hair was as white as snow. Bae's seemed more like a fierce long legged bear than a reindeer, his antlers like a pair of twisted, dead branches. Olaf's thought he looked like a mini-version of the bigger snowmen, his twig arms looking creepy; even his pointed carrot nose looked like it was rotten, and he could have sworn he saw a worm eating it's way through. They all had pointed teeth and claws, and pupiless eyes. Even the other snowmen looked different, even more frightening and ice spikes sprouting everywhere, whereas the snow bees saw that they were hairy, had large pincers at their mouths and spiky feet.
"Yes," The reflection continued to say, "your inner self. Your true self."
"My true self? I- I don't understand."
"Don't you? Deep down, you know the truth, don't you, about what you are. You abandoned your own sister."
"NO!"
"You froze the entire land."
"Stop it! STOP IT!"
"The number of lives you destroyed because of it."
The Snow Queen turned away, clutching her head.
"The number of lives you destroyed after, like this woman's family?"
"No right, no wrong, no rules for me," The queen muttered.
"Even now, you were willing to sacrifice a child's life, and destroy countless lives just to get what you want."
"I'm free!"
"You are a villain, Elsa, and deep down you know it."
"SHUT UP!"
The queen turned to smash the mirror. The reflection grabbed her wrists when they struck. White energy was passing from Elsa and into the mirror.
"Yes. Give it to me, GIVE IT ALL TO ME!"
The others stared.
"Is that supposed to happen?" Gerda asked.
Everyone knew that something wasn't right. They immediately went for the queen. As hard as they could they pulled her out of the grasp of the reflection. The reflection inspected itself. It moved a leg forward, and was able to pass through. The reflection stepped out of the mirror.
"Ahhhh, finally!"
The reflection stretched its arms.
"Being trapped in that mirror for half a century can give you such a crick in the neck! It also didn't help that I was scattered across the globe. So thank you, Queen Elsa. Thank you for putting me back together."
Weakly sitting up, Elsa stared at the reflection.
"Who are you?"
"Don't you recognise me, Elsa? no, I suppose you wouldn't like this. Light can play tricks on the eyes. Look closely, Elsa, and see who I am."
Elsa glimpsed at the mirror. She gasped at who was inside. She recognised the person, but could not believe who it was.