Dream

"No, I need to see him, please let me see him!

The woman screamed and cried at the same time. Two men held her arms.

Mal looked around for answers and all she saw was a dark, abandoned room. She walked closer to see who it was, and when she finally did, she saw her own face.

"No, it can't be."

When she saw the face Mal lifted her hood and saw herself in it, it was her, it was her face there.

"Mal, is it okay?"

She woke up startled, jumped up from where she was and woke Ben up too.

"Yes, it was a bad dream."

He stood up, trying to catch his breath.

"You sure?"

He sat down next to his wife.

"Yes, you can go back to sleep."

Despite all the fuss, Maleficent's daughter looked around for someone who could help her.

"Hey, you, hey!"

She walked slowly to the other jail cell towards the man who was apparently floating, in this case Rashid.

"What can I do for you?"

He asked, yawning and opening his eyes to see the girl.

"You know you're floating, right?"

She asked, not sure if she was seeing correctly.

"That's what happens when you gain the magic of Cherise's cat. What do you need?"

Rashid has the same mannerisms as the laughing cat.

"You know a lot about magic, don't you?"

"A bit, a bit too much, but why the question?"

Rashid had a natural irony, sometimes he seemed to be from the Isle of the Lost.

"Where would be the safest place for us to stay if we escaped?"

"The Fairy Sanctuary, Agatha can't go in there."

"Why?"

"Witches don't enter fairy places and the reverse, ancient agreements."

"Where is it?"

"It used to be." He laughed wryly. "The land was destroyed. There are few fairies now and only fairies find the hiding place where they live."

"Fairy Godmother?"

"Helena doesn't know, she's been banished since she chose to live in Auradon."

"There's no other way?"

"Jane, she's still half fairy, maybe it'll work."

"You're right, do you think it will work?"

"We could try, but we'd have to get out of here and this dungeon is anti-magic."

"It's against your magic."

She pointed to the cell, opening a small space between the large ones. Rashid gave a frightening smile to some.

(...)

Auradon

"And here is the throne room."

Chad was indeed taking a tour of the castle as Agatha had requested.

"Auradon looks so boring, is there no magic here?"

"Not much, there are some artifacts in the museum."

"And people with magic?"

"Not many."

"And I thought that after twenty-five years there would be some improvement. Explain something to me, there are several kingdoms with different kings, but Auradon is the capital of all this?"

"Basically, Ben is the king of everything, that's why it's called the United States of Auradon."

"I always knew you'd make it, my love." I said quietly, just for her to hear. "Do you have a map around here?"

"There should be one in Ben's room. What do you need it for?"

"I don't remember telling you my plan, kid."

(...)

Dungeons

By dawn everyone was awake talking about an escape plan.

"Okay we need to get out of here, Agatha will destroy Auradon if we don't do something."

Mal said as if it wasn't obvious.

"That much we know."

Jay said, the son of Jafar trying as hard as he might not to feel angry about it all.

"So, as I was saying, we need a safe place to stay and according to Rash, there's only one place."

"The Fairy Sanctuary? It doesn't exist anymore."

Helena said, already imagining the idea.

"It's Rashid for you." The wizard looked sternly at Mal. "And there are still some fairies and I don't think they're out in the open."

"How do we get there? Only fairies find the place."

Helena warned.

"Your daughter is half fairy."

"Me? That's impossible."

Jane freaked out when she heard that she could be the salvation.

"There is a way, I think it's possible."

The fairy godmother thought of a possible solution.

"And how do we get out of here in the first place?"

Evie asked again.

"I can break the jail cell." Everyone looked at Mal, startled that she was capable of destroying this kind of magic. "What?"

"Could you have destroyed it all this time?"

Doug asked as if it were obvious.

"Yeah, maybe, it's easy magic."

"But if we leave Agatha will notice."

Loonie reminded.

"I make holograms of us. I need everyone's phones."

Carlos said as if it were very easy to do.

"Okay, we'll all get out of here."

Mal showed herself to be a natural leader again.

"Are you sure it has to be everyone?"

Jay said, looking at the former guardians

"Yes, we'll all leave."

"Mal, when you let everyone go, Doug and I won't go with you."

Evie said to her friend.

"What? Evie, why?"

Mal couldn't believe what her friend had said.

"I need Tommy, I need to know about my son."

Evie said tearfully.

"Let's all go then. We can't be separated, okay?"

"Okay."

"Okay."

Carlos said, causing a hologram of them to appear in the cell.

"All right, now it's my turn."

Mal said, going to do his part in the plan. The woman closed her eyes, concentrated and let out a great magic, a great force that made the invisible field give way and the cell open.

"It worked!"

Cirse said, passing her hand between her large ones.

"Good."

Mal leaned on her husband, tired from the magic.

"Are you all right?"

Ben asked, seeing his exhausted wife leaning on him.

"Yes, just tired."

She said almost out of breath.

"Let's go, before that crazy woman gets here."

Adam reminded everyone.

"Wait, let's get Tommy first."

Mal said, still tired.

"Okay, Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Bo!

Fairy Godmother did some quick magic and suddenly everyone was at Doug's aunt and uncle's house.

"Doug? What happened?" One of the uncles asked. "Fairy Godmother, here? Adam and Belle? Evie? The king?"

"Uncle Grumpy, where's Tommy?"

Doug said, calming him down at seeing so many people

"He's with his father."

"Hi Grumpy."

Evie said.

"Mal why don't you sit down for a while? You still look weak."

Belle noticed that she didn't seem to have regained her strength.

"Cirse, I need your help."

Helena said in her friend's ear

"What for?"

"Magic dust for Jane to find the Sanctuary. She'll need it."

"Magic dust doesn't exist anymore, Helena."

"In my magic wand, you're going to pull some out, okay?"

"All right."

Suddenly the wand opened, revealing a huge compartment of magic dust.

(...)

Auradon

"Does Neverland still exist?"

She asked when she saw the place on the map.

"Three days' journey."

"I need to go to my cabin."

"What for?"

Chad asked. Cinderella's son seemed to have gotten used to his new position as the witch's lackey.

"My spell book."

"Take Mal's book."

He spoke as if it were obvious.

"Mal has a spell book?"

"It was Maleficent's... and I should have kept my mouth shut."