...COMMERCIAL BREAK OVER...
Aladdin and Jasmine were flying across the desert only a few miles from Agrabah. Though as they closed in, they were starting to feel the winds pick up around them, causing turbulence.
"Woah! Steady, steady there Carpet," Aladdin encouraged as he held onto Jasmine.
She asked, "what's happening?"
"I'm not sure, but I have a bad feeling," Aladdin answered with dread thinking this was all the work of Mirage. They flew around the last mountain peak that separated them from Agrabah, only to find his suspicions confirmed. The two humans and Carpet saw how their city was enshrouded by a dark cloud veil of rain and wind! In the distance they saw how a few buildings had been blown away already, and the storm showed no signs of slowing down.
"Agrabah's being blown away!" Jasmine exclaimed in horror, "Father and the others are still in there!"
"We gotta get inside, hang on!" Aladdin said before Carpet flew right toward the entrance gate of Agrabah where the storm perimeter lay. However, upon approach, more gusts blew out against them, propelling Aladdin, Jasmine and Carpet back the other way where they tumbled out of the air. They roughly landed on the sand dunes, shaken up but unharmed.
Aladdin and Jasmine groaned as they pulled back to their feet. Jasmine said, "we…we can't get in."
"Not the front way anyway," Aladdin added. He looked toward the city before he scoped out the whole area surrounding it, including above. His eyes eventually fell upon the duo responsible for this calamity.
"Jasmine look!" he pointed to them. She followed his direction and saw them too as Carpet flew back up behind them. The sounds of the dual villains' laughter could be heard even from where they were standing.
"Mirage!" Jasmine exclaimed in outrage.
"...and Malcho," Aladdin seethed, realizing the evil serpent he thought he had trapped was now free. He should have figured that if the flying snake could survive extreme cold, he could survive extreme heat too.
"They're working together?!" Jasmine questioned in terror.
"It would explain the storm," Aladdin said, "Genie and Iago once told me how Malcho used to specialize in creating torrential storms of destruction. Mirage no doubt gave him the means to."
"What are we going to do now?" Jasmine asked, "either one of them is dangerous alone! How are we going to stop them together?"
Aladdin brought his right hand under his chin as he pondered this dilemma. Right now, the combined magic of Mirage and Malcho had both trapped Agrabah and its citizens inside a raging storm, and sealed Aladdin, Jasmine, and Carpet out. On top of that, both of their genie friends had been captured by the evil elemental leaving them without their own magical advantage. If they were going to stop the evil pair, save Agrabah, and free the genies, they needed an alternate magical advantage.
Suddenly, he remembered something, something that could be just what they needed, and where they could find it! "I have one idea! Come on, let's fly!" Aladdin took Jasmine by the hand as they reboarded Carpet. His magical friend took flight and he redirected him toward a familiar destination.
"Where are we going?" Jasmine asked him.
Aladdin grimaced as bad memories came back to him, "somewhere I hoped I'd never have to go back to."
Flying through the air at top speed on Carpet, Aladdin led Jasmine to his intended destination. It was the only place he could think of that they could find the one thing that would help them turn the tide against Malcho and Mirage. Jasmine soon recognized the area they were flying into, and it disturbed her.
"Aladdin…" she stuttered, noticing the dark patches within the desert sands below, "...were coming into…gulp…the Land of the Black Sand."
"I know," Aladdin said in a dim tone, clearly not pleased to be back in the land once ruled by one of his worst enemies.
"Aladdin, don't tell me you're after something in Mozenrath's citadel?! You know we can't trust anything that monster hoarded in there!" Jasmine argued. She knew that even with their final defeat of Mozenrath when they set him and Xerxes adrift into the skies above, all the dark magic he left behind was still too risky to meddle with. His gauntlet had been locked away in the palace vault and the Land of the Black Sand was now deemed 'Restricted' by the Seven Deserts council which Sultan was a part of.
Aladdin had something different in mind though, "don't worry about that, there's nothing here of Mozenrath that I trust to use, not after everything he put us through. However, there was one thing that I remember was located here that could be the only thing to stop both Mirage and Malcho."
He redirected Carpet to the ground as they flew past a familiar canyon, one that Jasmine remembered traveling through once before. The reason why lay at the end of the canyon, where it opened up into an open valley where a ruined crystal lay in pieces all over the valley center.
This was Dagger Rock, or what was left of it, considering it was destroyed after Mozenrath somehow escaped from it following his entrapment at Jasmine's hands. The rock was also a giant Crystal of Ix, the very same gem Mirage had used to create the device which now held Genie and Eden prisoner.
Carpet landed in front of the ruined crystal before Jasmine acknowledged it, "Dagger Rock…can't say I'm glad to be back here again."
"Me neither, believe me," Aladdin said as he dismounted. "But this rock may give us the only chance to beat Mirage and Malcho at the same time."
Jasmine finally understood, "you're going to use it to trap them just like it trapped the genies?"
"I don't see why it wouldn't," said Aladdin, "the Crystal of Ix captures and contains great sources of magical energy. Mirage and Malcho are perfect candidates. We just have to get close enough to use it on them."
He observed the whole area before crouching down to search the ruins. Jasmine still had to ask one thing in regards to his plan, "but how are you going to get close enough to them to use it?"
"I'll do what a street rat always does," Aladdin says standing up, before turning around to face Jasmine with a decent sized crystal piece in each hand, "...I'll improvise."
Back in Agrabah, the palace group had no choice but to evacuate the citizens as a whole. The storm continued tearing the roofs of buildings and toppling stone towers as a crowd of people were being led to one of the escape routes near the west side of the city with Sultan and Razoul at the head. Razoul had sent out Hakim and Fazal earlier at Sultan's orders to redirect any remaining citizens to the east side escape routes, leaving the two leaders to tend to their group. The storm had blown away their turbans, but they led on regardless.
"Everyone! Remain calm and stay together! We're almost there!" Sultan called out.
Razoul added, "his highness speaks the truth! The entrance is around the next bend, now let's move!"
Everyone followed them behind them like a small traveling band. Dhandi, along with Abu and Iago on her shoulders were among them as they followed the crowd of grownups.
Iago yelled, "I'm starting to wish that I had just stayed in bed today!"
Abu yapped at him for his complaining until Dhandi cut in…"just hold on you guys! They said it's just around the corner!"
"...Just around the corner…" Iago muttered to himself, remembering how many times these Agrabah incidents always seemed to go from bad to worse, "...kid, you've got a lot to learn about adventures!"
"No!" Razoul's outcry caught their attention, and the threesome made their way to the front where Sultan and Razoul were gaping in dread at the right side of a dead end wall.
"The entrance to the catacombs, it's gone!" Razoul shouted.
"How is this possible?!" Sultan demanded an explanation which Razoul couldn't give an honest answer.
"I don't know your highness! It's always been here according to city inspection records!"
"And when was the last time an inspection was done?!" The Sultan demanded another explanation.
Razoul swallowed a lump, hesitating to answer knowing his ruler wouldn't like it. Fortunately for him, he didn't have to, as another spectacle caught everyone's attention. The wall glowed a purple aura with transparent ribbons enveloping it, before a door suddenly appeared on the wall much to everyone's shock. The aura faded away before someone familiar emerged from it.
"Everyone down here!" Sadira called out.
"SADIRA?!" Iago cried aloud, as the appearance of the Sand-Witch apprentice caught him and everyone else by surprise.
"What is the meaning of this?!" Razoul demanded.
"There's no time to explain! Get everyone down here where it's safe!" Sadira called out until another familiar face appeared beside her.
"You heard the lady! Get moving or lose it!" Wahid shouted.
"Wahid too?!" Iago groaned, "...great, guess the gang's all here."
Sultan recognized his daughter's friend and acknowledged her aid, "alright everyone, enter single file and move swiftly, GO!"
Razoul said, "your highness, we must get you to safety and…"
"Not until everyone here is safe first!" Sultan cut in, "as ruler of Agrabah, my people come first, and that's an order Razoul!"
Razoul didn't argue, and everyone entered the catacombs through the door with Wahid and Sadira escorting them from both sides of the door. Soon enough, all the people had entered and all that was left was Dhandi, the animals and the palace twosome. The two street rats also noticed that two key people were missing from the group.
"Iago, where's Aladdin?" Wahid asked first.
"...and where's Jasmine?" Sadira asked next.
Iago answered both of their questions, "...your guess is as good as mine!"
The two of them bore worried expressions about their hero and friend before Sultan appeased them, "Aladdin and Jasmine are away looking to stop the ones responsible for this calamity, but we must hold out ourselves until they can do so!"
Wahid, who had always admired Aladdin, believed the Sultan that his hero would save the day like he always did, and said, "alright then! Come on, follow me!" The young boy entered the catacombs with Dhandi, Iago, and Abu right behind him.
Before Sultan and Razoul entered, Sadira said to them both, "you two go in ahead, I'll cover our escape."
Sultan said with gratitude, "thank you my dear." He entered with Razoul following his ruler right behind him. Personal experience had taught the guard to not trust Sadira and her magic, but his leader's authority and judgment overruled his own and merely stayed by the Sultan's side as they entered the catacombs. Sadira followed right behind them as she cast a spell which restored the camouflage effect over the entrance, hoping that they had given the evil magical entities the slip. Sadly, that wasn't the case…
Aladdin and Jasmine soon returned to Agrabah's outskirts on Carpet. Aladdin kept the two crystals in his pants pockets as they came in for a landing near a mountain pass. It was one of a series of locations that led into Agrabah's underground trade routes for emergencies. Given how Mirage and Malcho had blocked the main entrance into the city, Aladdin needed to use another way around them. Carpet had landed near the entrance to a cave which led to an underground route before Aladdin dismounted.
"Come on Jasmine, let's go!"
"Wait Aladdin!" Jasmine halted him. "I can't go in with you."
"Why not?" he was confused.
"If we both go into Agrabah from here, Malcho's storm will just continue tearing it apart. I'll go and distract him," she proposed.
"Jasmine, that's too dangerous! Mirage is up there with him!" Aladdin argued. "Our best chance of saving Agrabah is from inside."
"I'm aware of the risks! But trying to get into the city from here will take too long, and I won't let those two monsters destroy my home," Jasmine declared, her mind made up. "You take this way in and direct the people to safety, I'll keep them busy…come on Carpet!"
The magical entity headed her plea and took off, much to Aladdin's dismay, "Jasmine NO! Come back!" It was too late, they were out of reach.
"Urgh! Sometimes I wish she wasn't so stubborn," he grumbled before looking to the sky with a sad look and pleaded, "you better come back Jasmine, you have too." Having said his prayer, the noble hearted street rat entered into the cave and proceeded his trek into the underground catacombs.
Unknown to everyone down below, the Agrabah rescue party's every move was being watched by Mirage through one of her window portals, with Malcho hovering right next to her as they continued watching their storm's handiwork with sick delight. Mirage found Sadira's little attempt to conceal their escape quite amusing.
"Hehehe, how cute, that pathetic amateur really thinks her little spell can protect anyone from my power," Mirage gloated.
Malcho cleared his throat, "AHEM, I believe you mean OUR power, after all it was MY storm that started this."
Mirage sneered at him, "and don't you forget who gave you the means to CREATE said storm, you flying reptile. Remember all you have is a loan, a loan I can instantly rescind at any time."
Malcho growled before lowering himself to face her directly, "you think because you are evil incarnate, that you can order me around? You cat empress?"
Mirage said point blankly, "actually…yes, I can." There was clear tension between their uneasy evil partnership, something Genie and Eden were awkwardly witnessing as they humorously looked back and forth between the two villains. Silence continued as Malcho and Mirage traded glares, until the flying snake broke it.
"Hmph…well I can at least say I respect your gumption, somewhat," Malcho said.
"Save your respect for someone who actually cares for it," Mirage commented, "but, if we can both agree to shelve any internal disputes until our mutual goal of destroying Agrabah and Aladdin is achieved, we'll talk terms regarding ownership of your 'power' later."
"Deal," Malcho agreed, reluctantly. He then turned back to his storm and said, "Now, I can finish wiping what's left of Agrabah away with a mere breath, but that still leaves the matter of those escaping underground."
"Not to worry," Mirage cut in, "once your storm has finished its job, I'll finish it entirely, by collapsing the former Agrabah's foundation, and all its people, into a sinkhole from which they will never escape! At last the once prosperous kingdom will be remembered as nothing more than a tragedy!"
The two of them wickedly laughed at their soon to be victory. The disgust the genies felt from the evil duo's dark intentions prompted Eden to rant on her and Genie's behalf, "you horrible monsters! I promise, you won't get away with this!"
Mirage turned her attention towards her captive and retorted, "we already have my dear, it's only a matter of time."
"Your time is up, Mirage!"
The familiar voice of Jasmine caused both Mirage and Malcho to turn around, only to be surprised at seeing the Princess of Agrabah herself right behind them, standing with hands on hips on a floating Carpet while throwing them a determined glare. Mirage and Malcho were surprised while Genie and Eden's faces lit up from seeing her again and cheered in tandem, "Princess!...Jasmine!"
"The princess?!" Malcho sneered, "what are you doing here?! And where is Aladdin?!"
"Out of your reach! Now I'm ordering both of you…LEAVE MY HOME ALONE!" she yelled at the top of her lungs.
Mirage nonetheless was unaffected, "Hah! like you have any authority over us princess!" she gloated before turning toward Malcho, "get rid of her, then we can move on to Aladdin."
Malcho sneered at being ordered around again, but obliged regardless, "fine then, just remember to leave me my chance at vengeance."
Mirage merely grumbled as the flying snake propelled directly towards Jasmine, who crouched down on Carpet as the magical rug dove and dodged his first attack. Carpet and Jasmine flew away with Malcho hot on their tails while Mirage turned back to the city as she began her own search for their main target. She activated her elemental vision, which allowed her to see every nook and cranny of Agrabah, whether above the ground, or below. After a few minutes searching, she saw a familiar body making its way through the underground catacombs.
Mirage chuckled saying, "hehehehe…and the street rat falls into the trap…" she vanished from sight, taking Genie and Eden along for the ride, albeit against their will.
Aladdin continued his run through the underground trade route. It was one of many that had been created following the Unkhbut sinkhole incident to restore trade to Agrabah. It also dual functioned as emergency routes in and out of the city, but were still heavily guarded at the city ends. Aladdin knew that if the palace staff had followed emergency protocols, they would have evacuated everyone down here by now hopefully.
Once he found the Sultan and the others, he could get their aid in helping Jasmine on the surface against Mirage and Malcho, so the sooner he found them the better. He rounded another bend which took him on a slight downslope to another chamber, one in which he found himself amidst the ancient ruins of old Agrabah where the Unkhbut once resided before they had been relocated to a new habitat in a far away cavern. Aladdin noticed nobody was present and called out, "HELLO?!...Is anyone down here?!"
"...Aladdin?..." a familiar voice echoed through the chamber, and on the other side near a tunnel, Aladdin saw a familiar face…
"Sadira?!"
"Aladdin! Over here!" Sadira called out, with Sultan, Dhandi, Iago and Abu by her side. Seeing his friends gathered together prompted Aladdin to run toward them.
As he approached, Sultan noticed his daughter wasn't with him and asked, "where is Jasmine?"
"Huff, huff, that's what I came to tell you sir!" Aladdin said running up, "she went to…Aaahhh!"...FLASH!
Aladdin was suddenly halted in his advance as a blinding flash of yellow appeared right in front of him, stunning and blinding the rest of the group. Aladdin fell on his back before looking up to see what came in between him and the others. Who it was, was definitely NOT the welcoming committee.
"Hello Aladdin," Mirage greeted eerily as she floated in front of him with her evil aura.
The street rat's eyes went wide as Mirage picked him by his coattails and said right to his face, "you're just in time for the finale."
He was helpless in her grip as she turned around to the horrified Agrabah group, "adios kiddies, say goodbye to your precious hero…and see you all…NEVER! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" She laughed wickedly before vanishing from sight with her captive. The horrified looks on their faces turned to despair as they saw the evil elemental take Aladdin away.
"Oh…Aladdin…" Abu whimpered as Dhandi hugged him in comfort.
Iago even said with a whimpering tone, "oh perfect!...I hope this is the part of the adventure where Al pulls off one of his miracle escapes, otherwise we're HISTORY!"
Meanwhile above ground, Carpet had kept him and Jasmine at least a rug length away from Malcho during the whole chase. He made another attempt at biting down on them only to CHOMP down on air as the princess and the rug flew out of his reach once again. Malcho growled at their continued evasiveness.
"You cannot evade me forever dear princess! Eventually, you WILL fall victim to my might!" the flying serpent declared.
Jasmine halted Carpet in midair so she could throw back, "YOU'LL be the one to fall you monster! Though for the record, you're not the first filthy snake I've outwitted Malcho, you're just next to being the UGLIEST!" She taunted while remembering the most vile being she and Aladdin had ever encountered.
However, like Jafar, Malcho didn't take kindly to being mocked and let out a loud roar as he flew toward the princess again with his wings shrouded in clouds and lightning dancing around them. Jasmine and Carpet recoiled in shock from seeing Malcho fly above them and lunge down with lightning charged within his jaws. Carpet reacted just in time and pulled him and Jasmine out of his path before he clamped down. The chase continued as the serpent pursued them through the air. Malcho switched tactics and fired bolts of lightning from his now glowing eyes. Carpet evaded them while Jasmine held on for dear life. Observing her surroundings, Jasmine looked for something that could help with getting that worm off her tail. She noticed a rocky outcrop with stone arches, and decided it was best to try some fancy flying.
"Alright Carpet, let's show this worm who the real flier is!" Jasmine said to her magical companion who picked up on her plan and headed for the arches. The two of them neared the rock formation with Malcho bearing down on them. He approached with his mouth open wide, ready to clamp down and swallow them whole. Jasmine knew he was close from feeling his foul hot breath behind her, but waited for the right moment.
She took it, and both Jazz and Carpet dived down just as Malcho CHOMPED, flying in between the stone work forcing the flying serpent to slam into one of the arches with a CRASH. He pulled himself back up and searched for his targets all over the stones but they had used the natural environment to elude his sight. Their escape made Malcho let out an angry ROOAAR of defeat. His partner appeared behind him floating just above him.
"Oh hush you big lout!" Mirage silenced his venting making him turn around to face her.
"What did you say?" he asked menacingly.
"I said HUSH! The princess and the carpet are nothing but fodder, and will be dealt with shortly," Mirage explained before bearing a wicked grin, "...after we deal with our true prize right here."
She pulled Aladdin out from behind her, where he helplessly dangled by his coattails. Intrigue cast itself upon Malcho's face as he brought himself up to his level.
"Hello Aladdin, so nice to see you again," he hissed with glee.
"Feelings not mutual! I assure you," Aladdin said, scowling at the serpent.
"I'm sure," said Malcho scowling, "last time we met, you trapped me in a pit! And now, I will have my payback."
"Yeah? Well your track record with that really doesn't work in your favor!" Aladdin taunted, which made the serpent hiss as he inched closer to the street rat so he could feel his breath on his face.
"So many ways I could end you for your humiliation of me…but after much collaboration with Mirage on the matter, we finally came to a decision where we would both get our vengeance upon you," Malcho explained.
Mirage finished, "...to split our revenge, we ultimately agreed, to split you! Simply put, your soul will be separated from your body, and banished to a pit of utter torment and agony!...for my pleasure of course…while leaving your body behind for Malcho to devour himself."
Malcho licked his chops and said, "if anything, you'll be a much more fitting meal than the parrot."
Aladdin bore a horrified expression at what they intended for him, and Genie and Eden shared in it as they screamed in tandem, "NO Al! You can't be banished! What about all our adventures, game nights and future double dates?!...and no deserves to be snake bait! Especially you!"
Ignoring the genie's cries, Mirage calmly asked Aladdin, "Well hero, ready to face your judgment?"
Knowing it was now or never, Aladdin said with a dropping head, "alright then, you got me, both of you. I just ask for one minute to say goodbye to Genie and Eden, we've been through too much for me to leave it like this."
Mirage and Malcho looked at each other, and deciding that they had the upper hand in every way here, shrugged in a nonverbal manner that said 'what the heck?'
Mirage set Aladdin down on the stone beneath them, and then Genie and Eden's lantern trap in front of him, and then said, "very well Aladdin, you can have one minute to say your goodbyes…and then, oblivion."
One minute was all Aladdin needed, and he bent down to whisper something to Genie and Eden. They winked at him before he stood back up to face the wicked pair who surrounded him and he said, "if this is to be my final moment, I have one last thing to say…"
Malcho wickedly asks, "...and what would that be?"
Aladdin smirks before pulling his two trump cards out of his pockets, and with a crystal in each hand he shouts, "IXTALA!"
The crystals glowed to activate upon the command, horrifying Mirage and Malcho as a beam shot from each crystal and hit them simultaneously.
"What?!...AAAHHH!..." they each shouted aloud as the beams ensnared them both, helpless to escape as Genie and Eden watched in awe. The villains struggled to escape their entrapment by stretching out in the opposite direction, but the power of the Crystal of Ix had already captured their evil magical energy and sucked them both into their own crystal as they helplessly cried out in vain…
"NOOOOOOoooooo!"...Shooommm!
Aladdin stood still letting out a breath of relief as he held both crystals in front of his face and grinned at the captured Malcho in his left hand and the captured Mirage in his right. Unlike Genie and Eden, they were both cramped inside their crystals, not too dissimilar to when Xerxes had been once mistakenly captured by Mozenrath. The two of them could only helplessly blink as the villains had finally received their comeuppance.
Aladdin lightly laughed and said, "looks like you two are the ones facing judgment today, and trust me, it's LONG overdue."
He set the two crystal traps on the ground as he picked up Genie and Eden's lantern, "you two alright?"
"Relieved is more like it!" said Eden, with Genie following, "haha, you can say that again baby! But Al, how are you gonna get us out of here?"
"With just one word, now, what was it again? Hmmm," Aladdin thought for a moment before saying with a smile, "oh yeah…IXTABOR!"
Holding the lantern above his head, it glowed upon the release command, and then shooting out from the top came Genie and Eden, now free.
"YES!" Genie and Eden cheered together before embracing each other lovingly.
"Ohhh, I'm so glad to be able to do this again without feeling claustrophobic!" said Eden.
"Me too!" Genie said before they turned down to fly at Aladdin and wrapped him up in a big hug, "Way to go Al! You did it again! And this time it was two for two!"
He set him down so he could say, "haha, well serves them right for ruining our double date."
"You said it, Aladdin!" Eden said with a respectful gesture, before turning her attention to the trapped evil entities. She picked up Mirage's crystal while Genie picked up Malcho's.
With a mischievous grin the female genie said to the now helpless evil elemental, "from what I've heard, you have a lot to answer for pussycat! And not just for ruining my day out with my man and his amigos!" she said with a pointer finger.
"That goes for you too slinky!" Genie said with a pointer finger, "YOU are in a lot of trouble for everything you've caused from here to the rainforest!"
Genie then turned back to his best friend and asked for his two cents, "so Al…what do you think we should do with them now?"
"I think I have the perfect place in mind for them," Aladdin said, remembering what they had once reserved for Mozenrath.
The sound of laughter was heard amidst the palace that overlooked a restored Agrabah city, courtesy of two phenomenal and completely cosmic genies in love. Per Aladdin's recommendation, the now imprisoned and powerless Mirage and Malcho were sealed away in the palace vault in separate chests, buried amidst the treasures of Agrabah where they would hopefully never be seen or heard from again. Aladdin and his friends had said their thanks to both Sadira and Wahid as the two street rats returned to their respective homes within the city before their whole group returned to the palace where Aladdin and Jasmine aimed to finish what they started with Genie and Eden.
They honestly couldn't think of a better way to end their first double date being amongst family and friends after escaping a near fatal catastrophe. As the whole group enjoyed their time inside the palace toy room, a grateful Sultan said to Aladdin, "you've saved our city once again Aladdin, and you've once again proven your worth, and behalf of all Agrabah, I thank you."
"Always ready to serve Sultan," Aladdin accepted his gratitude, "with or without that good old genie magic apparently."
"Haha, yeah! Instead it was that good old Crystal of Ix magic that saved the day, who knew?" Genie said, shrugging at the unbelievable irony.
"I'm just glad to have both you and Eden back," Dhandi said, "regardless of how you did it."
Speaking of Eden, she and Jasmine were in the midst of a match on the target game, in which Eden made a bullseye on her last shot and cheered, "yes!"
"Nice shot Eden!" Jasmine complimented, "you're certainly a worthy opponent."
"Haha, thanks Jazz!" Eden said, "you should have seen me at the Goldfield shootout that time I went to Vegas, now that was a mexican standoff that would drive anyone loco tacos!" her head briefly turned into a taco before returning to normal. Jasmine stepped up and took her turn while Abu and Iago watched while perched on the scoreboard.
Abu chirped his own opinion on the match to his feathered compatriot who gave his own comment, "at this point Abu, I'd say it's anyone's game, especially if Eden is not even gonna bother using any Genie magic to landslide over Jasmine!"
"Not a chance!" Eden called out hearing them, "this is a straight no tricks, all skill match, not that I'll need them anyway!"
Jasmine laughed and said, "alright Eden, you asked for it!" She pulled back and made her shot, and it hit the target in a bullseye! "Yes!"
Iago tallied up the score and said, "...and that puts Princess Jasmine ahead by one!"
Eden sighed in defeat but accepted it with grace with a ballroom bow, "and I bow to the champion, heehee…"
Eden leaned closer to Jasmine and whispered, "ruler of your city, die hard looks, heart of gold, and you're a dead shot! It's no wonder Aladdin fell for you Jazz, you're the total package." She elbowed her new friend playfully who giggled from the compliment.
"Thanks Eden! And if you ever want a rematch, just call," said Jasmine.
"You're on," Eden said with a nod.
"Alright ladies!" Genie called out joyfully, getting their attention, "the games are done, the cities rebuilt and the big bad villains are history! You know what that means?..." He paused for a suspenseful moment before blurting out…
"...Itsssss a PIZZA PARTY!" He shouted as he conjured a stack of pizzas in the center of the room, which everyone cheered for. Genie went and opened two boxes to reveal the two choices, much to Dhandi's delight.
"Dig in everyone! We got pepperoni and gumdrop! The perfect blend of classical and trendy," he leaned in towards Eden with wiggling eyebrows, "...just like us sweetie, tch tch."
Eden giggled and gave her boyfriend a chin tickle, "awwww you remembered, my big sweet blue lug…kiss"
Aladdin and Jasmine embraced each other as they smiled at the Genie couple, while Sultan, Dhani and Abu laughed in delight. Iago on the other hand was trying not to lose his lunch, "oh yuck! Oh come on, can we please not see this right before dinner? Too much sentimentality can ruin an appetite, urgh." The whole palace group merely shook their heads at him.
Soon enough, everyone had each taken a slice and were enjoying the pizza party together. Friendly conversations broke out amongst all of them, and ended with the original palace lovebirds.
"Friends and family, pizza night, and another adventure of saving Agrabah from evil, can you think of a better way to end a double date?" Aladdin asked Jasmine as they both enjoyed a slice together.
"Heehee, nope, although I could have done without the adventure part for a change," Jasmine admitted.
"Can't blame you for that Jazz," said Eden while looking at Genie with a smile, "but we just always seem to get interrupted like that."
Genie nodded and added, "the good news is, it never lasts." He and Eden took a bite of their own pizza, before Iago decided to throw in his two cents into the conversation…
"I'll tell you all one thing," the parrot said, putting up a fighting pose, "that worm Malcho got what was coming to him for messing with this bird…and if he ever shows his ugly mug again, I'll go BOOM! and KAPOW! then BAM! and…"
His bravado broke when he turned around to see Malcho's face opening its mouth wide at him with an adorably fake GROWL coming from it. It was enough to fool Iago who flew away at top speed out of the palace window past everyone who watched him flee in terror as he screamed at the top of his lungs, "AAAAAAAAAhhhhh!...HE'S OUT TO GET MEEEeeeeeeeeee!..."
Everyone turned around to see that it was only a Malcho puppet handled by the one and only Abu the monkey who pulled out his head to chirp and laugh at his own joke. Everyone else joined in on the joke as they laughed aloud at the prankster monkey who pulled a fast one on his aviary friend. Abu kept laughing while shaking the puppet until he stopped as the screen closed in on him and he broke the fourth wall waving to the crowd beyond…
"Bye bye!"
End?
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Well, I think that helped tie up all the loose ends very well, don't you? I've been wanting to write something like this for a while and I'm glad I was able to complete it and share it. Would you agree it helps better in setting the stage for Aladdin and the King of Thieves? Please feel free to share your thoughts in a review if you wish.
But before you go, there's one last scene I wanted to add before we end this lost episode...check it out!
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Meanwhile, in a hidden cavern underneath the city, the all-seeing soothsayer Fasir watched the palace group enjoy their party and Abu's prank from one of his vision windows. Knowing his purpose was complete, he finally decided it was time…
"Thank you Aladdin, you have ended the battle I have fought for so long. With Mirage now locked away, I can finally rest, until the day comes when I am needed once again."
He disabled his vision window before turning around and entered into another chamber where an open coffin lay waiting for him. Without a break in his step, he entered and allowed it to slowly close in on him as he said his final words, "...for now though…I…will…rest…"
BOOM…the coffin sealed shut, and all was quiet. Until the day comes when evil would arise again, the forces of good will also arise to combat it once again.
THE END