The Princess And The Maverick Vol 2 Chapter 11: The Lost Treasure Of Herz Der Sonne, a Kingdom Hearts + Tangled Crossover fanfic

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(Updated 11/24/2023: I changed Silver Rex to Omega Rex. After I remembered that Verum Rex's suit is Silver. 😅. Just got caught up in the moment to remember properly. My bad folks.)

I probably said this before. But the episode this chapter is based on, is based on the comedic movie from the 60s, 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'.

And speaking of movies. I saw The Flash last week. While it's not the 'No Way Home/Days Of Future Past' of DC I was hoping it was. It was a pretty entertaining film. While I actually enjoyed the Flashpoint story and animated film much more. I think this Flash movie succeeded where it mattered for the most part.

The Flash gives a 7 out of 10.

So back to this chapter. This will follow very closely to the episode with a fee characters added and certain ones replaced due to age difference and alternate situations. For example. Rocket will be taking Varian's place in this chapter.

And we also have a cameo character from 'Star vs. The Forces of Evil' that will show up at the end. 😉

But before we begin. Let's answer some comments. ⌨️

SPYRO 101: Lol! Yeah. That reference totally fit Zurg. Thanks again for Helping me with writing this chapter. 😂👍

RustyPete12: Well if you've seen Season 3 of Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure. I'm sure it's very obvious who is pulling Cassandra's strings. However, I will say this. The subject of Thanos and Zhan Tiri. Is actually connected in a way I won't give away. And as for the Black Order. Do you mean you wanna see them come as a future thread or you don't wanna see that happen? Maybe we can discuss it in the PMs. Thanks again for your support. 👍

Alright! Now that we're all here!

LET'S GET DANGEROUS! 😎

The Lost Treasure Of Herz Der Sonne.

Morning at Multicorp HQ...Xandar...Orion Forge's office...A couple of months ago…..

it's not uncommon in space for young teenagers to get into the business world. But most of the Earth's that Multicorp operates in are for the most part unaware. There are managers and Co-CEOs who maintain the illusion that none of these worlds are connected to the same corporation. But Orion's great great grandfather started this business. And Orion is running it. Back from when it collapsed from his father's death.

Sometimes that requires him having to get into the office to take certain shifts. Most of the time. Walter Alias and the dedicated Board of Directors are running the company. But as long as Orion does his part. He calls the shots.

Meaning today he has to be in the office.

Orion's office was bigger than an average convenience store in New York City. The room was white metallic with a theme of blue neon lights in some areas. And all of the furniture matched the theme. He had a desk and chair in the back center of the room. A circular table with a set of chairs on all ends and with a middle exposure for a hologram projecting the company's logo.

There was a large square shaped fireplaces with pure stones for burning a decent fire in the room. But it was off for the moment since it's not cold outside. And there were books stacked up on certain shelf sections around the room. And a glass shelf in the right side wall containing all of Orion's rewards and noble prizes. One from so many different worlds. About twenty three different ones. Be probably has the rest stored somewhere else.

Currently Orion was wearing a black business suit and sitting at his desk writing down notes and filing paperwork. Then he looked at the readers.

"Before anyone asks. Yes. This is a flashback." Orion he stated. "No. Nobody's getting murdered."

Just then. The wall slid near the moral of the galaxy on the right end corner shifted as Arianna the Queen of Corona came walking through. She looked back with an intrigue that she will never get used to.

"You know one of these days you'll walk in here during a meeting with priests of Pama and they'll think you're their goddess." Orion remarked as he noticed her come in. "How are you Ari?"

"I'm doing just fine. Just came to see how you were doing, sweetie." Arianna said as she walked over.

"I'm doing well. Just passing the time taking care of my shift. And not in that Wolf Of Wall Street kinda way." Orion said as he finished filing off another set of paperwork. "This is one of the few places where keyblades are not needed."

Then he offered a seat for Arianna in front of his desk.

"Looks like you've been keeping yourself busy with all that paperwork." Arianna commented as she took the offered seat.

"Actually you got me about to wrap things up and crap. It's almost 3 PM which will be time to leave it to the board. I've been here since 8 Am and I'm about ready to hallucinate into thinking you're an ink pen." Orion remarked and he just finished off with another paper set of paperwork. With only a few more to go.

"You know, you have a lot more patience for this than Rapunzel." Arianna stated with a humorous smirk. "I honestly could not imagine her doing this kind of work without tearing her hair out."

"The golden hair or her original pixie cut?" Orion asked with a grin.

"Both. Even if pulling her gold hair out is technically impossible." Arianna said with a grin

"Well. One impossible thing that happens in space is outside." Orion pointed out of the window.

And Arianna looked out to see the futuristic city of Xandar. With its high skyscrapers. Hover vehicles. And alien citizens of every species walking and going about their day.

"Two reasons the main Multicorp building is on this planet and nowhere else is one, I can do business here without getting Twitter attention for my red skin. And two. Xandar is one of the few worlds where aliens of every race don't give two craps about difference." Orion stated as he looked out with her.

"I understand. The people of this planet work as one species, despite their differences, and work to keep things going." Arianna said in understanding. "If only all worlds were like that."

"From what I can tell. Corona is no different." Orion figured.

"Well…Yes and no. Although the unity of our nation has never been stronger than it is now, until Rapunzel came home to us, and helped change things for the better." Arianna said with a fond smile, just from thinking about all the positive things Rapunzel had caused just by being in their lives.

"I hear ya. Never mind the fact that the ex-malefactors from that 'duck bar' I forgot the name of were working nine to five jobs. Despite being designed like Medieval Powerpuff Girls villains. But also the fact that she brought out the best in even the lowest of society." Orion stated as he thought back on the times when his sister was around. "Hell...I was too busy for about six to seven years, trying to get my life back out of the ruble. Too busy to even try and connect with people in town. And then she came along."

"And she helped you to open your heart up to other people again." Arianna said in understanding.

"More like for the first round. I barely opened my cardiac up to people in the past. Trish filled the whole void." Orion admitted. "My own parents were too stiff about me dying to even try to connect with me. Even Friday and I could only connect to a talking house plant. But Zel...She got me out of the basement. Out of the masked double life for a day or so. And...Then I meet you and Fred during an evening at dinner and suddenly. I finally got a whiff of what I was missing."

Orion spoke calmly but sincerely. He was basically saying the closest thing he ever got to experiencing true parents were Rapunzel's parents. And Arianna. She practically is the only mother he ever had.

"Well, I assure you. You will never feel alone like that again. Not with Rapunzel, or Frederic, or me." Arianna said while giving Orion a motherly smile.

Orion nodded as he sighed as he stacked the paperwork away.

"Maybe this weekend I can show you and Fred around town? I mean you both have already been to Twilight Town. So you're qualified for an updated trip." Orion made an offer to his adopted mother.

"I think I'd like that very much, Sweetie." Arianna said softly, liking the idea.

"That also means you'll have to wear a different outfit to blend in. Especially Fred. I don't want anyone thinking he's an extra for a Witcher III fan club." Orion pointed out.

"Oh don't worry. I'm sure he won't mind. And I'm sure I'm going to enjoy my new outfit too." Arianna said with a smirk.

After that, Orion finished up with his paperwork and walked into the portal with Arianna to return home for dinner.

She was right. Rapunzel had a way of bringing everyone together despite their differences. The difficult part is having those with differences to work as if they're never there. It's not an impossible dream. But it is a difficult one.

Rapunzel can do the impossible. And she'll continue to.

The present day at Castle Corona's Throne Room...

Rapunzel was currently looking at an image of what the throne room used to look like before the Ravagers Saporians attacked Corona. Then she lowered the image to show just how destroyed it truly was, making Rapunzel frown slightly, knowing how much work needed to be done before addressing all her friends and townspeople who were there to help.

Eugene and Lance were there. Including Xavier the Blacksmith. Vladimir from the Snuggly Duckling.

"Oh! That's what it was called. Now I remember! I could've sworn it was something dirtier." Orion said in the background to break the fourthwall.

Hush! I'm writing here!

Anyway. Also they had Feldspar the Cobbler. Old Lady Crowley. Kiera and Catalina. And the two guards Stan and Pete. All were there to help Rapunzel rebuild the Throne Room. However some motivation was required.

"Okay, everyone. After the Saporians and Ravagers' attack, this kingdom could use a real pick-me-up. And what better way to bring everyone together than with a community project?" Rapunzel said to the group.

"Whoo-hoo!" Several before gave a cheer to that.

"With a little hard work, and a whole lot of Corona spirit, we can rebuild this Kingdom." Rapunzel said confidently before setting her image of the throne room down into a nearby barrel and pulling out several shovels and tossing them to everyone "So let's do it!"

"Yes!" Eugene cheered.

"Okay!" Vladimir shouted.

"Let's do this thing!" Lance cheered.

As everyone ran in and got to their cleaning and repair posts. Rapunzel felt confident that this would go well. After all, she never failed in bringing everyone together. Right?

Just then she heard a knock at the door.

*"Ding dong! Ahyuck!"* Goofy's voice was heard outside.

Rapunzel went over to answer the door and opened to see Mickey Mouse. Donald Duck and Goofy standing there and Donald scowling up at Goofy.

"Let me do the knocking next time." Donald grumbled at Goofy

"President Mickey. Donald. Goofy. It's so good to see you three again, it's been too long." Rapunzel greeted with a bright smile on her face.

"Awe. Just call me Mickey. I'm only called president in my world after all." Mickey politely waved it off.

"We heard about ya needing help to repair the place." Goofy smiled.

"So we came to help." Donald held up his tool box.

"Aww, that's very nice of you." Rapunzel said happily before inviting them in. "Come on inside then. The more the merrier I always say."

Just then. Rocket came in from the door with his tool box of electric tools and his goggles on.

"Just in case anyone decides to bring the whole house down. I'll be workin with them to apply a more dense structure." Rocket said as he walked in. "Besides, Forge just sent me a raise to do so."

"Great. With your help we should have everything as good as new in no time." Rapunzel said happily. "Where is Ryan right now, anyway?"

"Where else? In the office today at Multicorp, doin paperwork and other pencil pushing scut. When he's not using a Keyblade. He's either using a pen. Microphone, game controller or a pillow." Rocket shrugged.

"Or spending time with Friday." Rapunzel added with a smirk. "Well then, let's get this show started."

Yozora walked in with his ex-Nobody clone Lucas as they had tools with them. They had just heard Rapunzel's last statement.

"You know if Drax heard you say that. He would've said something like 'What show? I see a lack of stage and audience, let alone how our construction should entertain them'." Yozora said as he mimicked Drax a bit.

"How's it going, Princess?" Lucas greeted.

"It's going great. All things considered." Rapunzel said as she gestured to the damage. "How are things going with you and your little Mrs?"

"If you mean both of our little Mrs'. They're both out shopping and getting their nails done or other un-masculine things." Yozora answered about what Hoshi and Kara are up to.

"So we decided to come on over and pass the time in case more trouble comes knocking." Lucas added.

"Well, I'm more than happy to have you guys here helping." Rapunzel said. "And I can assure there's absolutely no trouble around here this time."

"You got everyone who's used to their personal environments together to do grueling manual labor?" Lucas asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah. Why?" Rapunzel asked.

"No reason." Lucas waved it off as he and Yozora went to work on the throne room repairs with everyone else.

And so far everything was going smoothly. Until...

Ten Minutes Later...

"Heeey! I was the artistic eye!" Catalina shouted at Kiera in one corner of the throne room.

"You dip! I paint!" Kiera shouted back.

Close by, Stan and Pete were standing with their backs facing each other, arguing over which colored paint to use.

Next to them was Max and Rocket growling at each other.

"Try and chew on my apple bombs again, and I'll put a special surprise in your feeding trough!" Rocket growled angrily at Max, who just glared back while growling.

At the other end of the throne room, Eugene was up on a scaffold, fixing the windows while below, Xavier was painting some of the lumber as Rapunzel was chopping wood with an ax.

"I know this is typically your thing, sunshine. But if you're trying to bring everyone together, maybe grueling manual labor isn't the best idea." Eugene said while leaning over the railing of the scaffold as Rapunzel chopped another log.

"Don't think of it as grueling manual labor." Rapunzel said to him while trying to be positive. "Think of it as creativity, through destruction."

**Crash!**

Dust kicked up as part of the wall on the other side of the room collapsed.

Everyone looked over to see Feldspar the shoemaker standing next to Old Lady Crowley as they were coughing after causing an outer layer of wall on the other end of the room to collapse. Both were holding wooden mallets.

"Oooh! Now look what you made me do!" Feldspar complained.

"That was your fault, Loafer!" Old Lady Crowley spat back.

"Loafer?! I've never been more insulted!" Feldspar dramatically exclaimed.

"What's a Loafer?" Rocket whispered to Donald who just shrugged in response.

"Feldspar! Old Lady... Uh, Mrs. Crowley." Rapunzel said as she came over and stood between the two before they could bicker any further. "Let's not fight. Yes, we were supposed to keep that wall. But hey, this just gives us more work to do, together."

"Ugh!" This earned a groan from the two.

"This is why Crowley works alone. "Crowley muttered as she walked away before Feldspar nervously cleared his throat.

"I'll go get glue." Feldspar said as he quickly walked away.

**Crash!**

Another part of the wall broke off, making Rapunzel cough from the dust kicked up. When everything settled again, Rapunzel looked over and her eyes widened as she gazed upon a hidden image drawn on the wall that was hidden behind the part that collapsed. It looked like a map with ancient writing, a large river, and several landmarks.

"Hang on good gents. I've got me a new *Hic* set of 20/22-ish reading glasses. I'll read for you." Short slurred as he came over with a pair of dirty reading glasses. And he cleared his throat before he began reading the script on the wall. "donkey oil, pineapple moose confetti yippity doo..."

A few painfully hellish minutes later...

"Spoon mustard nictitating membrane. Hot pocket." Shorty still slurred as he read.

"SHUT UUUUUUP!" Donald screamed loudly in annoyance.

"Thank you." Rocket exhaled in sweet relief that it was over.

Rapunzel however instantly recognized the letters the moment she got a closer look. She saw that the writing was in Seporian. Thankfully this wasn't out of her skill and inventory to translate.

"Need help translating that?" Mickey Mouse came over to Rapunzel and offered.

"No thanks, Mickey. I already came prepared

" Rapunzel said, holding up a Seporian Dictionary.

"Well, that's convenient." Mickey said as Rapunzel started to translate the words. "So, what does it say?"

"It says 'Here lies King Herz Der Sonne's lost treasure.' Woah!" Rapunzel said, getting excited towards the end as she turned towards the others. "You guys! This is an honest-to-goodness treasure map!"

"I have heard the legend of Herz Der Sonne's lost treasure." Xavier said with his hands rubbing together as he began recalling the legend. "It is said to be buried in his crypt. The tale begins millennia-"

"Ah, Xaves. Bottom line this would ya?" Eugene interrupted him.

"She's right. It's a map." Xavier said.

"This is just the thing to bring everyone together." Rapunzel said excitedly.

"So is this actual treasure that makes everyone rich or is it an old as scut relic that can be sold for a big price?" Rocket asked as he held his hand up.

"I am Groot." Groot guessed.

"Friendship? I got that for free!" Rocket replied to Groot with a scoff.

"Well. My Nephews and Uncle Scrooge got along whenever they go out to explore for treasures and lost relics." Donald figured as he thought about his family and their 'Ducktale' adventures.

"Yeah. But they got along because they're family." Mickey said.

"These people are either like neighbors at a company picnic or tourists ready to literally kill to get first in line for the rides." Lucas shrugged and corrected himself by saying quietly . "Sorry. What I mean is, money can make a lot of enemies."

He winced at the end saying that. He learned the means of what makes enemies in humanity from studying at Syndicate XIII lair.

"Come on guys. I'm positive this treasure hunt will do the job." Rapunzel said confidently before adding. "But you're right. We should be careful in how we go about doing this so things don't get messy."

"Hmmm. Well, what if making a mess became part of the game?" Goofy said while thinking.

"Oh brother." Donald sighed at Goofy's lack of understanding.

Rapunzel's eyes widened as she had an idea.

"Goofy, you're a genius!" Rapunzel exclaimed happily.

"I am?" Goofy asked, confused.

"That's highly debatable." Donald groaned out.

"Yozora, has my 'hat' been fixed yet?" Rapunzel asked Yozora, giving him a wink as a hint of what she was actually asking about.

"Yeah, Orion and I finished it up in the Mav Club workshop. And we both kept Rocket from updating it with bombs." Yozora answered and curiously asked "Why?"

"You'll see." Rapunzel grinned.

Rapunzel had a plan to get everyone working together. Not as a whole. But as individual teams. So that it can become a whole. Because their competitive natures that cause them to argue will be warranted for what's about to happen next.

And it's gonna be a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Deal.

Later on outside the castle courtyard…..

Everyone was gathered together as Rapunzel stood in front of them with the stone map on her left side and a special invention covered in a white sheet on her right side. As she stood to address them all for what this treasure hunt is going to be about.

"How many of you have ever dreamed of having a treasure of untold riches?" Rapunzel asked the crowd in front of her.

"Hmmm..." Lance hummed as a big smile appeared on his face as he fantasized himself with untold riches.

'Untold riches…' Lance thought as he began to have an imagination.

In his head as he is shown to be lounging on a fancy sofa with a bowl of fruit right next to him on a table, piles of gold in the background with a baby grand piano made of gold to the right, a picture of him in a gold frame nearby, and to the left was a Lifesize statue of him made of caviar.

"Now this is living." Lance sighed in content as he ate grapes from a vine. "Don't you agree Lance Schmitt of caviar?"

Then everything was switched to Vladimir's imagination.

As Vladimir dreamed of owning a collection of different living colored unicorns. All around him like ponies ripe for the taking

"I'll take them all." Vladimir said with a laugh as he was surrounded by the unicorns licking his face and snuggling their snouts at him.

Then everything switched to Maximus.

As in Maximus' imagination. He was wearing a cavalier hat with a feather on it and sitting on a carriage, with Eugene and Lance being the ones pulling it forward.

"Reigh!" Maximus neighed telling them to go faster.

Then Rocket smiled as he had a fantasy.

Everything changes with Rocket imagining himself running down a golden road. With many different weapons and combat vehicles of every size and quality. From tanks to attack space ships and bombs.

"Hahahaahaha! I'll take five of these!" Rocket beamed as he ran by several tanks.

"And nine of theses!" Rocket ran back several battle ships and he marveled at the sight of a bunch of giant proton bombs that resemble atomic bombs. "Oooh. I want the big one. THE REALLY BIG ONE! HAHAHAHAAHAHA!" Rocket's laugh echoed in the fantasy.

While Rocket was still gazed off in his fantasy. Goofy on the other hand pondered as the scene changed to a fantasy...where everything was blank and static.

"Uhhh...I wouldn't know what to do with all that money." Goofy shrugged.

"I would..." Donald began to gaze off as he imagined himself winning the treasure. And all of his deepest dreams that seemed so impossible. We have to even break the fourth wall to show what it is in general.

As an orchestral chorus played in the background.

"Donald~ Everyone loves Donald~"

Donald imagined himself standing at the entrance of ToonTown. Now renamed at the front. Donald Town. Then he imagined himself dressed as Sorcerer Mickey guiding the stars on the hill like he did as Yid Sen's apprentice. Then he imagined accepting an award while being applauded on stage. And the fourth wall breaks to show one of Walt Disney's old footage.

"During the last few years. We've ventured into a lot of different fields. We've had the opportunity to meet and work with a lot of wonderful people. I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing." Walt Disney said in the footage of his office. And then his last three words changed to him speaking with Donald's voice. "This all started by a duck."

Donald was still standing with the others smiling in his own little world, as Rapunzel continued her speech to the occasion of the treasure hunt. Which caused everyone to pay attention.

"We are holding a Corona-wide race for the lost treasure of Herz Der Sonne!" Rapunzel dramatically spoke in her speech.

"Yeah! Whoo-hoo!" The crowd cheered in excitement, ready to race for the chapter.

"But wait. It gets better." Rapunzel said, getting everyone's attention again. "Because this is about having fun together, everyone will be racing with a partner!"

"Ugh!" Several people groaned, not too fond with that little catch.

"Who picks our partner?" Vladimir asked.

"Ah ah. Not who." Rapunzel said before reaching to her side and pulling a tarp away. "What."

Where the tarp was, now stands a strange looking device that looked like a mesh of gears, ball machine, wind pointers, and wires and antennas, and it looked to be powered by a hamster on a wheel.

"Couldn't we have just pulled names out of a hat?" Eugene asked.

"Oh, but it is a hat." Rapunzel said, gesturing to the device. "I call it the Horotory. Automated. Team-builder. Or H.A.T. for short."

"I am Groot." Groot sighed in relief.

"He's relieved it's not a real hat." Rocket translated casually.

"I am Groot." Added.

"He hates hats." Rocket translated.

"I am Groot." Groot added.

"Just himself. He doesn't mind others." Rocket translated.

"I am Groot." Groot added.

"He used to hate hats on anyone until he met Donald and Goofy." Rocket added.

"I am Groot." Groot added.

"But back then. One minute you think someone has a weird shaped head and the next minute you realize part of the head is just a hat." Rocket translated and looked up at Groot cynically. "That's why you don't like wearing hats?"

Groot nodded.

"Where do hats fit into all of this again?!" Eugene exhaled with an exasperated expression.

"Well. As fun as this is. I hope you don't mind if Lucas. Yozora and I step out." Mickey spoke up politely.

"Besides we got a throne room that still needs fixing." Lucas pointed out.

"And it'll give us an excuse to use most of Orion's tools." Yozora remarked.

"By all means. We already have plenty of competitors anyway to make this a big event." Rapunzel said.

"Also. I know you said nothing will go wrong. But just in case any kind of danger happens." Yozora said as he handed Rapunzel a new device.

It was her very own gummi phone. Purple and themed after the Coronian flag. Which of course matches her frying pan.

"Ooo, my own gummi phone! Thanks!" Rapunzel beamed as she accepted the device. "I'll be sure to call if things do somehow go south."

"You remember how to use it, right?" Yozora asked with a grin.

"No worries. Friday and Hoshi taught me how with their phones." Rapunzel said with a confident smirk.

"Alright. You all enjoy! Donald, Goofy. Behave yourselves. By that I mean try your best." Mickey winked at his best pals Officer Goofy and First Mate Navy Donald.

"Don't you worry, Sir." Donald said with a salute.

"We'll do our very best, Mr. President." Goofy said with his own salute.

After Mickey. Lucas and Yozora walked back into the throne room. Everyone looked at Rapunzel as she was about to start the HAT machine

"Are you sure you don't want any fireworks for that thing?" Rocket offered yet again.

"Maybe later." Rapunzel said before grabbing the lever to H.A.T. "Alright. Let's get this started."

Rapunzel then started turning the lever which raised a bowl of berries up to the big hamster, making it start running on his wheel, making the wind direction pointers turn, causing a bell to chime, causing a hammer to repeatably hit a button, which caused two colored spheres to be pushed out of the top of a dome and into the cups of spinners which sent them into and down a tube into gears which knocked them into a robot glove that moved to deposit the balls into a pan, where Rapunzel picked them up.

"And our first team is... Stan. And..." Rapunzel said, reading the balls.

"Pete. Stan and Pete." Pete chanted anxiously.

"Kiera!" Rapunzel announced before tossing the two balls aside.

"What?! This is an outrage! It's Stan and Pete! Everyone knows it's always Stan and Pete!" Pete ranted.

"Yeah! And I don't want to be paired up with some dopey guard." Kiera muttered.

"You're not paired up with some dopey guard. You're paired up with... Oh." Stan said before realizing she was referring to him.

And with that, the pairings continued, the next pair being announced. As Rapunzel drew out the next two balls.

"Pascal. And Max." Rapunzel said happily. "Aww, cute."

Pascal smiled smugly, knowing he and Max had this in the bag, making Pascal hold up a fist to Max to fist bump from Pete's shoulder.

Max smiled back and fist bumped Pascal, but was too hard and all but accidentally punched him across the court. This made Max smile sheepishly.

The next pair was announced as Rapunzel drew out two more balls from the H.A.T.

"Xavier, and... Rocket!" Rapunzel announced.

"WHAT?!" Rocket yelled in shock before looking at Xavier, who smiled back at him, making Rocket exhale and sulk.

Next pair announced.

"Donald Duck, and Hamuel." Rapunzel announced.

"WAK?!" Donald yelled, shocked before looking over at the stupid Raven. "Ah nuts."

Next pair was drawn in two balls.

"Eugene... And of course, Lance." Rapunzel said.

"Hahaha!" Eugene laughed joyfully while he and Lance shared smug smiles. "Are you kidding me?! Me and Lance together, searching for treasure?! Just give it to us now, Folks!"

"Then we have..." Rapunzel began to announce the second last pair. "Goofy and Groot."

"I am Groot?" Groot said, surprised before sharing a glance with Goofy.

"Gee, looks like we're partners. Ah-hyuck!" Goofy said with a laugh.

"I am Groot." Groot agreed with a nervous smile, as he was not sure how well this was going to go.

"And finally... Me, and Feldspar!" Rapunzel announced before running over to him excitedly and raising her hand for a high five. "Up high, Feldspar!"

"Oh please don't hit me!" Feldspar recoiled, thinking Rapunzel was going to hit him before realizing he was mistaken. "Oh, oh I get it. It's a gesture of camaraderie. Well, then I'm all-in. Up high!"

Feldspar put his hand up and the two high fived each other.

"Ow." Feldspar muttered as Rapunzel walked away to speak to the group once more.

Rapunzel got two more balls out of the HAT.

"Vladimir and Monty." Rapunzel announced.

Monty and Vladimir seemed to agree as Rapunzel rolled for the next pair.

"Catalina aaand Pete!" Rapunzel announced and beamed.

"Awe man." Catalina sulked.

"Irony." Pete muttered in how his best friend ended up with her sister as well.

"And finally..." Rapunzel announced as she got the balls for the final pair. "Shorty and Miss Crowley!"

"A pleasure to be working with you *Hic!* Good Sir." Shorty slurred with gentlemen bow to Old Lady Crowley.

"Ugh. There's a very good reason Crowley works alone. And we'll all see why soon." Crowley crooned.

"Okay, everyone!" Rapunzel said as she gestured for everyone to walk over to the map. "Take a good look at the map. Be sure to memorize it. Because you cannot take it with you. It's up to you and your partner, or should I say your new bestie, to find your way to the treasure."

As everyone was looking and studying the map. Goofy was doing the same as he raised his hand.

"Uhhh...What's this swirly line that looks like the east river of the forest?" Goofy asked Rapunzel.

"Uh, that would be the east river of the forest." Rapunzel responded with a timid smile.

"Ooooooh." Goofy realized.

"Are snapshots allowed?" Rocket asked as he held his hand up.

"No, Rocket. Taking snapshots of the map would be cheating." Rapunzel answered.

"Yeah sure but just hypothetically. What if it's used on someone elses phone? The owner would be cheating not me, right?" Rocket tried to rationalize his act.

"Nice try, Rocket. But it would still be cheating." Rapunzel said with a smirk.

"No no that doesn't follow. It's 'someone else's' phone, Goldie. You understand?" Rocket insisted calmly as Kiera and Catalina were silently giggling. "What's so funny? What I can't have a discussion with Corona's second lady?"

Rocket was still camly talking as Groot gently nudged him over to end the conversation.

"I am Groot." Groot whispered assures he's still got his eye on Rocket.

"Thank you Groot." Rapunzel said to Groot before looking curious. "By the way, who's phone was that anyway?"

Just then Rapunzel's new Gummi Phone began to ring with a display of Orion and Rapunzel posing for a picture in front of the clock tower in Twilight Town giving each other bunny ears from behind and they smiled for the picture.

This was her display for whenever Orion called. Especially since his nickname *'Ryan* was on the call ID.

And the ringtone was Maverick's classic rap by Orion Forge.

Listen up, I got somethin' to say

That's right, I run ma mouth all day

Step up, take a blood bath

Now you're tryna run and it's makin' me laugh

Ha, ha, ha!

Where you gonna go to?

Try to hide, but you know that I'll find you

Tippy toe, sneakin' up behind you

I'm Maverick, do I have to remind you?

"Hold on, Ryan's calling." Rapunzel giggled with a humorous eye roll before answering the call. "Hey there, Rapper Man. How's my little bro doing?"

*"Rapper Man? Do I look like Eminem to you?"* Orion responded on the other end of the phone.

"No, you look like Black Widow had an affair with Hellboy." Rapunzel said jokingly.

*"And you look like Taylor Swift's barber is on strike."* Orion deadpannned on the other end.

"Awe…That's probably the nicest thing you've ever said to me." Rapunzel said dramatically with a joking smirk. "So, what's up?"

*"I'll just start over. Oh good it works! My phone was missing this morning for some reason so I went out and got a replacement. Just needed to make sure all my contacts work."* Orion responded.

He was unaware that Rocket stole his phone earlier.

"Well I think it's because-" Rapunzel almost replied with a winced experience.

But then Orion spoke up more.

*"Also Kara just texted me. Our folks the King and Queen are just a week or two away from waking up. Their Chain Of Memories is almost repaired."* Orion gave the good news about Frederic and Arianna.

Telling Orion about where his missing phone went to was shoved into the back of Rapunzel's mind as her eyes widened at that news.

"Are you serious!? That's great!" Rapunzel exclaimed happily. "I haven't really spoken to them since I left Corona the first time. I can't wait to see them and talk to them again!"

*"Kara will also bring Doctor Strange over to see if there are any issues with the connection. Which in this case is unlikely but you know doctors. All standard procedures and liberal protocols."* Orion responded, sounding like he was shrugging. *"But seriously. I know you waited much longer to see and talk with them again. But I...We, are gonna make this happen, Zel. You and me. And we'll make up for lost time. And I sure as hell mean all of it."*

"Awww! You're such a sweetheart!" Rapunzel gushed sweetly. "I'm looking forward to it. It's gonna be amazing!

*"Yeah I'm the silver spoon with red paint. Oh and aside from that. I'm gonna be a little late coming home later. One of my A'askavariian employees caused a flooding in the one of the restrooms in the lobby. I keep telling the board to put in some multi-species toilets, but they all said noooo!"* Orion added a bit of sarcasm at the end.

"Well, we're gonna be very busy here too." Rapunzel said, getting ready to tell her about the treasure hunt. "During renovations for the throne room, we uncovered a hidden map to the lost treasure of Herz Der Sonne, and almost all of us are taking part in a race to see who can find it first."

*"So...It's like an episode directed by Stanley Kramer. Gotcha. Also if Rocket is competing. Make sure he's with Groot or someone with higher standards. Cause when it comes to competitions, he plays dirty where he can."*Orion broke the fourth wall and warned.

"Oh um..." Rapunzel said nervously, giving a sheepish smile. "About that..."

*"Zel? Who did you pair him up with?"* Orion asked sternly.

"Well, I may have paired Rocket up with... Xavier." Rapunzel answered nervously.

*"The blacksmith with a Never Ending Story for lips? Yeah... We don't have to worry about Rocket. Worst case scenario he'll die of boredom. Serves him right for taking my cell phone."* Orion quipped.

He knows how endless Xavier's long list of legends and instant tall tales can get on the nerves of people with a short fuse for patients.

"Yeah. I'm sure Xavier can handle Rocket just fine." Rapunzel said with optimism before looking confused. "Wait, how did you know it was Rocket who took your phone?"

*"I read the script. That and I found a sheds of furry gray hair on the stand where my cell phone usually is."* Orion smugly replied.

"Well, very good detective work there, Ryan." Rapunzel said.

*"It wasn't detective work. Even The Thing's girlfriend would find that while sleep walking."* Orion remarked.

He was making an Alisha Masters reference.

"Yeah, Rocket's quite the shedder, ain't he?" Rapunzel said.

*"Anyhow. I'll leave you to it. Let me know who wins. And by that I mean let me know who suffers more from trying to win so I can sell them insurance later."* Orion quipped on the phone.

"Will do, Ryan. Have fun at work." Rapunzel said to him.

*"Oh I'll try. All these large piles of money are cutting off my air. Ack! I'm drowning! Goodbye cruel fate formally known as Princess Blonde Ambition. Ack...Goodbye...Uuuhhh... See ya."* Orion mimicked drowning in money before he casually said bye and hung up.

"Eh, he'll be fine." Rapunzel said with a giggle. "Now it's time to get this treasure hunt started."

And so as everyone finished studying the map. Everyone left to get ready for the race to Herz Dorre Sonne's treasure.

Later on in the town square...

Everyone who was taking part in the treasure hunt made their way over to the starting line, Donald and Goofy were stretching in the background. And others were getting ready for a race that would more than likely end with the winner in riches beyond their dreams.

People began lining up to the starting line. And at the starting line, Pascal was sitting on top of Max and hissed down at Rocket.

"I'm gonna chew your corpse and turn you into an empty wallet after this, Scales!" Rocket hissed up at Pascal.

Off to the side was Rapunzel, standing by a cannon with a lit torch in hand to use the cannon to start the race, Hamuel hidden inside the cannon without no one knowing about him.

"On your mark... Get set..." Rapunzel said before lighting the fuse.

*BOOM!*

The cannon went off, launching Hamuel out straight out of it.

"Treasuuuure!" Rapunzel declared loudly,

Then all the teams began running, Rapunzel following suit until her eye caught Eugene and Lance sitting at a table with food and tea, relaxing, making her stop in her tracks. Seeing that Eugene and Lance who are both experienced treasure hunters. We're both overconfident that they'll win by a landslide. So they might as well relax.

"It's sad, really. All these people, getting their hopes up when Lance and I are obviously going to win." Eugene said smugly to Rapunzel.

"Oh, I'll tell you what will be sad. The look on your face when me and my partner get to the treasure first." Rapunzel said smugly. "Right Feldspar?"

"Oooh!" Feldspar groaned as Rapunzel turned to see his head stuck in the spokes of a carriage wheel. "Does anyone have any butter?"

Rapunzel raced over with Eugene right behind her and the two helped Feldspar get unstuck and standing.

"Thank you." Feldspar said before taking some steps away.

"You guys are gonna do just fine... In second place." Eugene said, muttering the last bit quickly as he walked away.

"Oh ha ha. Laugh now. But Feldspar and I are gonna be a force to be reckoned with. Right Feldspar?" Rapunzel said before turning to her partner, only to frown when he wasn't there. "Feldspar?"

"Wouldn't ya just know it?" Rapunzel heard Feldspar and turned to see him with his head stuck in another wheel. "I did it again."

Rapunzel looked exasperated at this and figured that maybe she'd be doing most of the heart work for this race.

And she thought being a Guardian of the Unknown was hard work.

Later on at Feldspar's shoe shop...

Rapunzel was looking with the same exasperated expression out of the window of the shoe shop, as she saw how the other competitors were getting a little hit ahead in the race.

Even Vladimir was so enthusiastic he was carrying his boat ride with Monty carrying it from on top due to how strong Vladimir is.

"Unicorns. Unicorns. Unicorns. Unicorns. Unicorns. Unicorns." Vladimir kept changing as he ran.

Even Groot and Goofy were seen going by the window with confidence.

"Wow, we're making great time!" Goofy beamed.

"I am Groot!" Groot agreed as he ran with him on long wooden legs.

Rapunzel groaned in the meantime as she was being held up by Feldspar. Who was too busy packing.

"Uh...Feldspar?! I appreciate how excited you are, but you really don't need to pack much!" Rapunzel politely called over as she looked behind the counter of the shop.

Then Feldspar suddenly came up with a large beige camp pack that was bigger than his body and placed it on the counter.

"Wooow! What do you have in there?" Rapunzel asked with a nervous smile.

"Well shoes mostly. And of course shoe polish. Shoe horns. Shoe laces." Feldspar said as he went by to toss and search through the rest of his things while Rapunzel was looking in between anxious and annoyed.

"You know what? Why don't you fill me in on the way? We are already behind." Rapunzel suggested, trying to be patient.

"Yes. Yes. You're right." Feldspar said as he stood and held his arms out, prompting Rapunzel to help him slip his giant bag onto his back, having an annoyed and sore look on her face during and after due to the bag being so heavy. "Don't worry. We're going to win. After all, we're the only team with a map."

After saying that, he pulled out a copy of the map, making Rapunzel gasp in shock.

"What?!" Rapunzel exclaimed before taking the map and holding it to her chest to hide and avoid looking at it. "What, where did you get that?"

"I took an impression of the map." Feldspar answered.

"No, no. We can't use the map. That's cheating." Rapunzel said, shoving the map back to Feldspar.

"Well, that's one word for it." Feldspar muttered.

"What's another word for it?" Rapunzel asked with an annoyed look.

"Well, well what do I look like, a thesaurus?" Feldspar asked, irritated as he moved towards the door and tried to go through, his backpack keeping him from doing so.

"Feldspar, come on. We can win this fair and square." Rapunzel said to him, making him turn around to look at her. "We don't need a map."

Feldspar looked hesitant before putting on a confident smile and rolling up the map to put away in his overalls.

"You know what? You're right! And when you're right, you're right! We can, ney, we must win this using nothing but our wits." Feldspar declared as he walked out the door, only for him to trip, trapping his head in another wagon wheel, making Rapunzel roll her eyes and sigh in exasperation.

"Well, wagon wheel, we meet again." Feldspar said to the wagon wheel like it was an old enemy.

A second later, Kiera came whizzing by, riding on top of a wheelbarrow that Stan was pushing it quickly. Even as a former thief who's now a commoner of Corona. She still has an art to con people. After all, Eugene and Lance taught her and her sister how to be better people.

"You know, I can't help but wonder why I have to push you in a wheelbarrow." Stan panted out as he kept pushing.

"Because I'M not big enough to push YOU in a wheelbarrow." Kiera said as if that made sense. "Now hurry!"

Oh, I get it now." Stan said as he kept pushing, even though he really didn't get it.

Meanwhile at Xavier's Black Smith shop. Rocket was working on something behind the shop while Xavier licked his finger and tested the air.

"Hmmm a northerly wind is coming." Xavier figured.

Then Stan was seen running by with Kiera in the barrel. Which had the old Black Smith thinking.

"If only there were a way to catch its mighty draft and use it to our advantage." Xavier wondered.

Then Rocket came back out as he flipped his multi tool in his hand.

"Way ahead of you, Smithy. Those deadbeat Saporians that used hot air balloons to attack the town gave me an idea to use their idea. Only ya know. Make it better. And legally better." Rocket remarked and he went and grabbed some material out of his pack.

Which of course sparked a memory of a story inside the Blacksmith's brain.

"Ohoho. That reminds me of a legend of a mighty balloon. In days of yore. An intrepid traveler ventured into the..." Xavier began telling a story which made Rocket yawn as he continued working.

Rocket was too busy thinking of money and treasure to even get a little bored to even listen to the Blacksmith's tale.

Meanwhile out in the Forrest...

Donald was getting ahead of the group with that stupid crow Hamuel who was too busy flying in circles. Needless to say. He was getting a little exhausted without an extra pair of hands to help him.

"Ugh. 'Build a hat' she says. 'Work with the dumb bird' she says. 'Those are the dumb rules of the dumb balls' she said." Donald grumbled annoyed with how he got stuck with Hamuel. "When I find that treasure, I'm chucking those dumb rules out the window."

Then he looked up and saw Hamuel doing something stupid. Often birds like woodpeckers and such would peck their peaks at hard barks for bugs or fruit surfaces. Hamuel was stupid and cross eyed enough to peck his beak on top of a tree.

At a wasp's nest.

"Squack!" Hamuel kept pecking at the wasps next above the tree.

"Hey! Cut that out before you get them mad!" Donald yelled up at him frantically.

Donald was even shaking his fist at the bird. Until he noticed Max was riding up from behind with Pascal on his back. Donald being devious and thinking about the treasure had a sinister smirk as he was scratching his chin.

"Hmmmmmm..." Donald then smirked up at the wasps nest.

As Max and Pascal were about to pass under the tree. Donald was up on top above the branch where the wasp's nest was. And as Maximus ran by. Donald kicked the Wasps nest and it fell down...

But the wasps didn't fall with it. And they were all hover behind Donald. Looking angry as they buzzed loudly. Donald gulped.

"Uh oh..." Donald slowly turned looking fearfully at the wasps, then he ran away from them. "WAKAKAKAAKAKAKAKAKAK!"

As the wasps were chasing the poor duck around. Hamuel was stupidity wearing the empty wasp nest on top of his head.

Meanwhile somewhere else across the forest…..

Pete was with Catalina as the guard was sniffing the grass and even testing his tongue against it before he tested it with his fingers. While Catalina was standing there looking unimpressed.

"Yup...it's what I was afraid of. What we got here is a good old-fashioned Corona sap pond." Pete concluded...While looking at a pond of sap that was in front of them the whole time.

As if Catalina didn't catch on.

Okay, Kid, to cross this, we'll need expert timing, balance, and agility." While he's talking, Catalina rolled her eyes and climbed up a vine behind Stan. And takes it in her hand to determine the right angle to jump. "Now, fortunately, I've got the training-"

"Later, Pete!" Catalina yells as she ran off and jumped and swung across the cliff. "Wooo hooo!" She cheered and made it across. And landed like a pro as she looked back at Pete with a smug look

"Oh..." Pete muttered. Then as a means to follow the girl's lead. He took another vine.

"Pete, your time to shine." Pete said to himself with determination.

But Pete took off and swung on the vine. He yelled as he swung into the sap and sunk in.

Much to Catalina's annoyance.

Meanwhile at the Cafe in Corona Town Square...

Eugene and Lance were still enjoying their brunch without a care in the world, so sure that they had the treasure hunt in the bag.

At this point, Lance was moving around the food on his plate, making a smiley face using eggs for eyes, a lemon wedge for a nose, and broccoli pieces for the mouth.

"Ahem. Another tea cake?" Eugene offered Lance in a relaxed regal tone.

"Why not?" Lance said before accepting the plate

"Yeah, it's not like we're in a hurry." Eugene said nonchalantly while looking at his pocket watch.

"Say, is that a new watch?" Lance asked.

"Why, yes it is, old chap. I bought it with some of the gold we're going to be getting from the treasure." Eugene said as he put his watch away.

"Hahaha, good for you. Some days, you just gotta treat yourself." Lance said with a light chuckle before eating some of his cake.

"Speaking of the treasure though, old buddy. Maybe we'd better not take this race lightly." Eugene said with a serious face as he poured himself a cup of tea. "I mean, after all, everyone in Corona is competing."

Eugene and Lance stared at each other for a few seconds before breaking down into laughter at the absurdity of what he just said. "Hahahahahahahaha!"

"I'm sorry! I just had to go there!" Eugene said through his laughter while Lance continued laughing. "I know. I know. That's the oldest joke ever. But I couldn't help myself. And I just can't keep a straight face. We are so gonna that treasure first."

Lance let out another chuckle as Eugene took another sip of his tea.

"Oh you said it." Lance said before yawning and stretching, reclining back in his chair with his arms behind his back. "Food coma, here we come."

"Oh, I'm way ahead of ya bud." Eugene said with a slight yawn as he reclined in his own chair as the two smug bastards decided to take a nap.

On the other hand, Lucas came out of the craft store with more buckets of paint with a fine color as he looked over and saw Eugene and Lance taking a lap. Obviously to their over confidence.

"Morons." Lucas muttered as he walked away.

Meanwhile back in the forest...

A picnic blanket was set up with Rapunzel and Feldspar sitting down, with a plate in front. Some silverware and a full course meal fully cooked.

Feldspar ate very slowly, much to Rapunzel's displeasure. He took a bite of his fried porkchop and chewed very very very very slowly. Rapunzel focused on Feldspar's mouth to see if he'll swallow at any point. The seconds were ticking.

And at one point, when it looked like he finally swallowed as Rapunzel looked relieved. Unfortunately like a cow chewing his cud, his food came back up for him to chew again, grossing Rapunzel out and frustrating her.

"Feldspar!" Rapunzel snapped, making Feldspar swallow his food before Rapunzel reigned herself in. "Are you, um... Almost done?"

"Oh I'm so sorry. But mother always said never treasure hunt on an empty stomach." Feldspar said condescendingly before taking another bite of his food.

Needless to say, Feldspar made an entirely fancy looking full course meal for something that wouldn't have even panned out for a camping trip, let alone an entire race against the clock to find treasure.

"Uh, couldn't you have eaten some nuts on the way or something? Did we have to stop so you could fry a pork chop?" Rapunzel camly while gritting her teeth a bit gestured at the all of Kitchen supplies and utensils all piled up behind her.

Even a squirrel was standing on the pile while feasting on a spare loaf of bread. Feldspar stared awkwardly back before replying.

"Well yes." Feldspar said before wiping his mouth with the map he drew.

"Wait, Feldspar. Is that your map?" Rapunzel asked with narrowed eyes.

"Might as well use it for something, huh?" Feldspar reasoned before seeing a few words on the map. "Oh, it says beware the crypt."

Uh oh.

Upon hearing those words, Rapunzel gasped in horror and took the map from Feldspar.

"What are you talking about?" Rapunzel asked while looking over the words of the map before handing it back to Feldspar. "You can read this?"

"Well, I'm fluent in Seporian of course. The Saporians invented the winged-tip loafer. Don't you know any cobbler worth his shoehorn knows Saporian?" Feldspar said to her while holding up the map.

"I will be honest. I did not know that." Rapunzel said with a befuddled look before getting back to the matter at hand. "What else does it say?"

Feldspar cleared his throat before reading the Saporian text.

"All who claim the treasure shall be made to banana." Feldspar read.

"Made to banana?" Rapunzel asked with a raised eyebrow before Feldspar realized his error.

"Oh, what am I thinking? Zarrose is banana." Feldspar said, correcting himself. "Zarroso means 'suffer an eternity of doom'."

Something told Rapunzel she should've let Mickey Mouse translate the text for her after all.

"You mean..." Rapunzel started with a serious tone as she grabbed his shirt to make Feldspar look her in the eye. "I just sent my entire Kingdom to their doom?"

"Well, suddenly frying a pork chop isn't the worst thing one of us has done today." Feldspar said nervously, trying to look on the bright side.

"We have to get there first, so we can stop the others from disturbing the crypt." Rapunzel said with a serious look as she stood up. "Here, give me the map."

"But you said that would be cheating." Feldspar said.

"Feldspar!" Rapunzel snapped, the safety of her kingdom overshadowing the competition completely.

"Okay fine!" Feldspar said back before looking over towards his food. "But can I at least finish my parfait-"

Rapunzel didn't give him a chance to finish as she quickly grabbed him and dragged him along as fast as she could, determined to stop the others before it was too late.

Meanwhile up the stream…..

Stand the Guard was on a small boat rowing fast up the stream with Kiera up front they anxiously followed the trail as Vladimir who was still carrying his boat while chanting 'Unicorns!' ran past them on the water. With Monty on the boat.

Kiera decided to use desperate measures as she looked through Stan's personal bag.

"Excuse me! I couldn't help but notice you're rifling through my personal effects?!" Stan protested.

"Hey, Captain Stashe! Look around! We're losing! I'm looking for anything that might give us a leg up!" Kiera sarcastically replied as she pulled out a spare guard's helmet as she asked "You brought a spare uniform?"

"A good soldier never travels without an extra uniform." Stan said proudly with a smile as he was oblivious of the hot air balloon over them.

But Kiera saw it and smirked. "Good idea." She sinisterly said as an idea hatched.

This hot air balloon had Rocket and Xavier riding inside. And the Balloon's basket at the back was outfitted with an engine and a four double pipe nitro turbo boost at the back. Which was added by Rocket. And giving them plenty of time. It didn't go too fast as it would otherwise tip them over.

"Haha! Who says only birds can air travel in this century?!" Rocket smirked up at Xavier.

"Indeed." Xavier said with a chuckle. "Have you heard the Legend of the Lone Birdman of Swandalay?"

"Uh...Not really." Rocket said with a nervous smile. "Since I'm not from around here. But lets-"

"The ancient people of Swandalay were actually a seafaring tribe." Xavier began making Rocket and slouch over the edge of the basket, before his eyes widening at seeing what looked like a Corona soldier stuck in the water, holding onto a rock for dear life.

"Don't get involved...Don't care...Stay focus..." Rocket muttered with his eyes closed, even though seconds later, his conscience won out, making him frustratingly exclaim. "Aaaaagh! Flark our team moral codes! Hold the spiel, Smithy! A guy down there needs help!"

Seeing this, Xavier pulled the cords and brought the balloon down to the ground.

"Hold on! We're almost there!" Rocket called out as the balloon landed, allowing the two to disembark and run over to the water to help the poor soul.

But when they got close, Rocket narrowed his eyes and grabbed the helmet and saw there was no one underneath it.

"What the-" Rocket muttered.

Right before both Rocket and Xavier's eyes widened when they saw their balloon flying away, with Stan and Kiera inside. Those two stole their balloon!

"What are you doing?!" Xavier called out to them in shock.

"Looks like we're winning!" Stan called down with a smug smirk with Kiera having a smug smirk of her own.

"YOU SCUTTED LITTLE TWERPS! I BUILT THAT RIDE FAIR AND SQUARE!" Rocket screamed and shook his fist at them as they flew off with the hot air balloon.

"There's nothing in the rules that says we can't be smarter than you!" Kiera called back with a tease as they flew away.

Which for some reason sparked another story from Xavier.

"She reminds me of the legend of the Perpetua Demosthenese, the young girl who thought she was smarter than all of those around her." Xavier began casually telling a story.

While Rocket groaned and hung his head back, he even hid his tiny head in the guard's helmet.

Meanwhile on another part of the forest…..

Maximus was running and riding at hide speed with Pascal on his head. As they ran faster than the wind. They even ran past a bush and shook some leaves off.

But Pascal looked back and gawked for a moment before he frowned and tapped Max's ear to get his attention. Then Pascal pointed at the back of Max's saddle.

Max narrowed his eyes and halted as he glared at the duck who caught a ride on him while the horse wasn't looking.

Donald was riding Max for almost five minutes until now.

"Oh. Hahaha. Did I need a ticket first?" Donald asked nervously.

First rule of a race is. There's no such thing as helping the competition.

"REEEIGH!" Max neighed angrily as he reared forward to lunch donald up.

"Woooah!" Donald yelled.

Then Max rear kicked Donald off away with his back hooves. And was sent flying waaay back.

***REAR KICK!***

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK!" Donald screamed as he landed in an empty wasp hive. Left by Hamuel on the ground. As the sneaky dumb bird. "Oooooh..."

Who gets stuck with all the bad luck? Take a guess.

Way ahead of the forest…

Pete the Guard along with Catalina was making good time. Up until Pete who was still covered in yellow sap. Got caught in a large thorn bush and was stuck inside. Making Catalina wait in annoyance against a boulder with her arms crossed.

"I I know how this looks, Kid, okay. But rest assured, I-I have this under control..." Pete groaned as he was trying to pull himself off the thistle vines that were around his limbs. Causing him to trip forward. With a bird's nest on his head. "Oh, that-is that a...Well, that's a lot of...can you pry off some bramble?"

"Shoo! Shoo!" Catalina waved her hands and tried to get the bird on his head away.

But it didn't leave its nest. So Catalina proceeded to try and get the branches off of Pete but was having difficulties. Then suddenly Old Lady Crowley was seen on a wagon coming up from the hill behind them..being pulled by Shorty.

"Out of the way, slowpokes!" Shorty slurred as he laughed and ran while pulling the wagon

But unfortunately Shorty tripped and landed on Pete's sap. Which caused the wagon to flip over with Crowley in the air. She stopped her fall with an open umbrella. But she slowly descended into the thorn bush with a glare aimed at everyone.

"This is why Crowley works alone." Crowley said before she fell in with no reaction.

Talk about bad luck happening by the miles.

Way back in the forest…

catching up at a certain point was Groot and Goofy. Who were both standing at the road looking at a faded sign in between two paths. They weren't sure which path led to a hill and which one led to a river off the path.

"Hmmm...Maybe we should stop and ask for directions." Goofy wondered as he scratched his chin.

"I am Groot?" Groot asked in annoyance. Translated: "Like who? Do you see anyone else out here?"

"Uhh sorry I can't translate Groot. Maybe this dictionary catalog might have your language in here." Goofy replied as he read the book and muttered. He read through one of the pages before he looked up and asked. "Is that 'I am Groot' with one or two notes?"

Groot groaned as he shook his head.

"Groot! Goofy!" Both heard their names from behind and turned to see Rapunzel and Feldspar running up to them, Rapunzel being the one who spoke. "Thank God we ran into you two!"

"Rapunzel?" Goofy was surprised.

"I am Groot?" Groot asked what was wrong.

They could tell it was serious. Especially since Rapunzel is being less competitive.

"There's no time. We have to stop the treasure hunt." Rapunzel said as she went on to quickly explain. "Feldspar and I just found out the treasure is cursed. And anyone who claims it will bring about an eternity of doom."

"Oooh nooo! We gotta stop them!" Goofy gasped as he realized.

"I am Groot!" Groot gestured for which path to take ahead.

"We've got to hurry then!" Rapunzel exclaimed as she ran ahead with Feldspar following behind. "Come on guys! Follow me!"

"Donald?! Come in Donald! Can you hear me!" Goofy screamed at his communicator as he ran with Rapunzel and the other's.

*"Goofy, I can hear you! You don't need to yell!"* Donald screamed over the communicator. *"What is it?!"*

"We gotta stop everyone! The treasure is cursed!" Goofy replied, sounding like a panic.

"*WAK?! CURSED?! OH NO! NOT AGAIN!*" Donald screamed loudly.

This was Port Royal and the Aztec cursed treasure all over again.

As they ran for the top of the hill. Rapunzel looked at the map to see the river which was just up ahead. And so was everyone else going at their own speed.

While Donald was way behind running after everyone trying to scream that the treasure is cursed. But he was so pitched in his screaming ducky voice. No one could understand him as he ran.

"I think that's everyone." Goofy gulped as he knew where they were heading.

This happened as Feldspar collapsed on the ground next to them with his shoe gear scattered out of the heavy bag he was carrying.

"Okay, Goofy. We will never catch them on foot. Time for a new tactic. Think Rapunzel. Think, think, think." Rapunzel said to herself on that last note as she looked over the map and then glanced at the stuff that fell from Feldspar's bag, being shoes and wheels, giving Rapunzel an idea. "What did you say was in your bag?"

The question made Feldspar look up at her confused.

Groot caught on and smiled as he extended and stretched his legs to stand tall enough to run fast.

"I am Groot." Groot nodded.

Rapunzel smiled and nodded as they got ready.

Meanwhile down at the river…..

Rocket was using the boat Stand and Kiera was rowing in. While he was being anxious to be surrounded by the water of the river. He kept whimpering and chattering his teeth as he rowed while ignoring Xavier's latest story.

"And so, goes the legend of the wise man's dummy," Xavier finished.

Then suddenly Rapunzel's sped by them with Groot who was carrying Goofy. Rocket did a double take and looked to see Rapunzel running on some roller skates she slapped together from Feldspar's shoe kit. With Feldspar hanging onto her hair from behind like a water skyline. Rapunzel was enjoying the speed while keeping up with Groot.

"Yaaahoooo!" Goofy cheered from riding on top of Groot.

"I've never felt so aliveeeeeeee!" Feldspar exclaimed in excitement.

"Oh sure. Now she likes shoes. What a hip...Wait a flarkin minute." Rocket stopped his sarcasm to notice.

Rapunzel was holding a map!

"HEY! CHEATERS! YOU GET A MAP BUT I DON'T GET A PHOTO SHOT?! WHAT A LOAD OF-" Rocket shook his fist yelling until he nearly tripped in the water. Making him yelp like a girl. "EIP!"

Thankfully he didn't fall in as he huffed in relief. Then Xavier pondered another tale based on Rocket's rant.

"Using a map is cheating indeed."

Xavier said as he began another legend. "Which reminds me of the legend of the Cheating Willows-"

"ENOUGH WITH THE FLARKING LEGENDS!" Rocket bellowed as he rowed the boat much faster to catch up with Rapunzel.

Meanwhile, with Pete and Catalina, there was a bird nest on top of his head with a bluebird inside, and Shorty was still stuck to his back.

A second later, Rapunzel is seen speeding past on her skates, pulling Goofy and Feldspar as long as Groot ran along.

"If only my mother could see me now!" Feldspar exclaimed as he was pulled along.

"I can't wait to tell Maxie I did this!" Goofy and exclaimed.

Pete gasped as he saw Rapunzel with a map.

"She has a map!" Pete exclaimed before narrowing his eyes. "Well two can play at that game?"

"You have a map?" Catalina asked with a raised eyebrow.

"No. I do not." Pete said, sagging in place.

"It's okay, buddy." Shorty said from behind him, giving his shoulder a reassuring pat.

Meanwhile Donald was still running from behind as he was having trouble trying to keep up and he huffed and hunched over his knees.

At first he realized he wasn't going to make it in time. Then an idea popped up in his head. And he pulled out his gummi phone to make some calls.

For the team...Of course he didn't realize that Rapunzel had already sent a text to her brother Orion.

Meanwhile back on the hot air balloon Kiera and Stan stole from Rocket. Things were going well. Until Stan took control driving the thing.

"I'm free as a bird!" Kiera said before looking grouchy. "Is what I would be saying if you hadn't steered us into a tree!"

Because Stan and Kiera's balloon crashed into a tree. And the basket was now hanging by the branches.

"You know, I'm starting to get why they used to call you Angry." Stan muttered as he tried to remove the vines from the basket.

"Whoo-hoo!" They both hear and look down to see Rapunzel rolling by fast, pulling along Feldspar and Goofy while Groot follows on foot. "You might say, I'm on a roll!"

"And I feel the need for speed! Ah-hyuck!" Goofy laughed as they were following her.

But Stan and Kiera saw that Rapunzel had a map.

"She's got a map!" Kiera exclaimed angrily.

"Hey! Cheaters!" Stan yelled out at them.

Back at the Cafe…..

Both Eugene and Lance were still sleeping, until Eugene abruptly woke up with a gasp.

"Lance!" Eugene gasped, making Lance wake up quickly, removing his head from his plate, his face covered in food.

"Who!? What!? Where!?" Lance asked, looking about frantically.

"Dude, we overslept! If we don't hurry, we're not gonna win that treasure!" Eugene exclaimed frantically.

"Ah! Caviar Lance!" Lance shouted as the two quickly stood and started running, hoping to not be too late to claim the treasure.

Finally down at the cave of Herz Der Sonne's treasure...

Rapunzel. Goofy. Groot and Feldspar made it first. Thanks to their fast thinking and compromise.

The entry looked like an 2nd century tomb with rocky marble structures and vines everywhere around the entrance.

"Whew! This is it!" Rapunzel echoed in relief as she cleared away the vines blocking her way in with the help of Goofy.

They all looked inside the room to see that there were a bunch of tombstones on the walls. Vines and debris in several places. And that it was barely lit inside. But they saw the treasure itself inside of a small blue box with a skylight on the roof. And the treasure was stationed on a stone pedestal with the Saporian symbol on it.

"We made it here first!" Rapunzel smiled brightly.

"I am Groot!" Groot agreed as he looked around and Goofy came in with Feldspar.

"Alright! I'll block the entrance!" Feldspar said.

"I'll help him with that." Goofy offered.

"I am Groot." Groot offered to do the same.

"Hey!" They heard Stan shout and turned to see him and the other competitors coming in, all of them not too happy right now. "Cheaters!"

They're mild victory was short lived as all the other competitors came in and they all furiously protested at Groot, Goofy, Rapunzel and Feldspar for cheating.

"For shame!" Xavier stated.

"I'll block the entrance from here if that's alright." Feldspar said nervously, hiding behind Rapunzel.

"I'll stay right by your side, Rapunzel." Goofy said as he stood to her left, holding his shield out to block people from going further.

"I am Groot." Groot said, standing to her right and extending his arms out to black the other side.

Rapunzel gave an appreciative smile to the two before looking at the approaching angry competitors.

"You're cheaters!" Kiera shouted.

"Yeah! Wait..." Rocket started before turning his gaze at Kiera. "You're one to flarkin talk for stealing my balloon!"

"That was well within the rules!" Stan came up to defend Kiera.

"Turn me around so I can get in on this!" Shorty called out in his usual drunk voice.

From there, it devolved into everyone bickering with each other, while Xavier just kept standing there with a finger to his chin in thought.

"Stop fighting and listen!" Rapunzel yelled out to get their attention. "No one can take the treasure! It's cursed!"

"Why should we listen to a cheater?!" Stan asked while pointing at Rapunzel.

"Yeah!" Several people said in agreement.

"I'm not a cheater!" Rapunzel exclaimed before taking a breath, all the while, Catalina was able to sneak past Goofy on Rapunzel's left without him noticing. "Okay. You can make an argument that I did cheat. But it was to save your lives!"

"Come on people. This is Princess Rapunzel we're talking about." Goofy called out to everyone. "Do you really think she would make up such an excuse that involves a possible danger to her Kingdom just to win a competition?"

"I am Groot." Groot said, agreeing with Goofy.

But before the logic could sink into anyone…

"Hey!" Vladimir shouted, bumping into Monty. "The girl's got the treasure!"

That made everyone turn to see Catalina sitting on the pedestal with the treasure box in her hands, a smug look on her face.

"Oops, guess she sneaked past us." Goofy said bashfully.

"I am Groot?" Groot deadpanned, translated: "Gee, what was your first clue?"

"No, wait wait wait wait!" Pete exclaimed as the others ran past Rapunzel, Goofy, Groot, and Feldspar to try to get the treasure from Catalina.

Only for Catalina to toss it at Pete, making the box get stuck to his chest, his face was showing that he was unamused by this.

Just then as everyone was going to approach Pete and take the box. Rapunzel stood in front and tried again to warn everyone.

"Stop! Listen to me, everyone, please. It says right here if you claim that treasure, we are all doomed!" Rapunzel read on the map.

Rocket was the first to hear how serious she was being. Before he exhaled and pulled out two laser pistols. And then he hopped over and landed on top of Groots shoulder to point at the other competitors. Halting them.

"Alright! Game rules changed, Morons! The first idiot to try and open that box, Gets ripped a new one!" Rocket threatened as Rapunzel smiled to see him standing by her.

Then everyone heard a loud rip from behind Pete.

"I already did." Shorty slurred referring to his pants.

"Ugh. I hope that's not mind." Pete rolled his eyes.

"Woah woah! Hold on! You're gonna shoot at the little girls too?" Stan asked Rocket as everyone held their hands up.

"Uh. Right here!" Kiera called over as everyone looked.

Kiera and Catalina were already standing with Rapunzel as well.

"Why do you think I tossed it?" Catalina smugly tossed it.

"Come on! We've all known Rapunzel for a while! Has she ever been the type to lie about something cruel and serious like this?" Feldspar called out. "Let alone fool everyone?! I mean she's bad at that!"

Mostly because Feldspar doesn't need Rapunzel's help to be a fool.

"No but her boyfriend is." Vladimir pointed over with a scowl.

Because wouldn't you know it, Eugene and Lance just arrived, without having heard Rapunzel's warnings. And Eugene snuck rolled over to Pete with the box.

"Yoink!" Eugene said as he pulled the box off Pete and rolled away again as everyone took notice and stood next to Lance as the two opened the box. "Woah!"

"No, Eugene! Don't!" Rapunzel cried out and tried to run over to stop him. But it was too late.

The box released an evil red light that shined out of the ruins and shot up into the sky, where an ominous face appeared in the blackened clouds.

The girls screamed as the whole place began to shake and glow in an ominous red.

"What did you do?!" Lance exclaimed as he shoved the box into Eugene's arms.

"You flarkin idiots! You just doomed us with an evil curse! That's what you did!" Rocket shouted at the two from atop Groot.

Everyone turned to see the symbol above the altar glow ominously.

And then all around, coffins with face designs shook with the eyes glowing red before they opened, revealing skeletons dressed in red robes and headdresses. Screeching with glowing yellow eyes and began surrounding the group.

These were called the Undead.

"The legend is true!" Xavier gasped. "The Undead protectors of Herz Der Sonne's treasure have risen!"

"What?! Wait a minute! You knew about this and are only telling us now?!" Rocket shouted at him in both shock and annoyance. "Maybe next time, you should lead your history lessons with the High doom ratio Legends!"

"Screech!" The undead screeched as they came closer.

"Eugene! Put the lid back on!" Rapunzel called out to him sternly.

Eugene quickly did just that. But nothing happened, except the undead screeching once more and began charging at the group.

"We have to put it back where it belongs!" Rapunzel exclaimed as she undid her hair and whipped it at the nearest undead.

Which knocked the Undead back.

But then suddenly the room flashed red as the entire treasure chamber expanded and formed into what looked like a large tomb chamber behind them. Which resembled the size of an arena.

As everyone was trying to fend off the Undead. Over five Eliminator Heartless began to spawn. Resembling british knights with shields that had a living hound head with sharp teeth and demon looking eyes. And in addition. Some additional spawns of large Neoshadow Heartless appeared with them.

"Heartless?! How are the Heartless here?!" Eugene gawked as he kicked sn Undead off of himself.

"I am Groot!" Groot yelled.

"He said the curse must be pushing past the cornerstone's protection!" Rapunzel translated as she whipped her hair against a few more undead.

But they kept coming. And as the Heartless ran into attack.

***CRASH!***

Verum Rex came crashing down from the roof as he slammed the debris onto a Eliminator Heartless and shot two more down with his twin keyblade arm cannons. Making the Undead back up as they recognized him. And he looked around while narrowing his helmet eyes.

"Yozora!" Rapunzel cheered happily.

"Yep! I brought em!" Donald was heard from the skylight as he yelled and swung his cutlass around to break and chop pass several Undead.

Then Mickey Mouse flipped in with his Star Seeker keyblade and landed as he ran over to fight the heartless.

Then Lucas came in with his armored form as he landed as well and jumped to go assist Verum Rex.

But as five of the Undead came over to charge at Feldspar who panicked. Rapunzel ran over to help until the ground lit unfire in front of the Undead. And the fire formed and spelled out words on the ground. With a neon effect.

***'Guess Who?'*** the fiery words read.

"Ryan, you are incredible in your timing!" Rapunzel called out happily, knowing her brother was there.

She did text him after all. But Rapunzel wasn't going to tell Donald that. Neither was the Maverick.

***Slow Motion effect***

Then suddenly as one of the Undead was sneaking up behind Rapunzel. She turned into and gasped only to see Maverick coming down from the roof on top of some collapsing debris. And as he was in the air. He came down on the Undead slowly, with a drawing in his hand. As the Undead looked up. Maverick pointed at the drawing which was a crayon drawn image of Maverick slashing an Undead's head off.

Then he summoned his keyblade and slammed into the Undead with a slash at the neck.

***Slash!***

Then the slow motion affected ended as the debris crashed down and Rapunzel waved her hand as she coughed a bit from the dust.

And as the dust cleared Rapunzel smiled to see Maverick holding the Undead's head skull up and using it as a puppet from behind the debris.

"Chaos is a disease! Meet the cure!" Maverick stood up in a hilarious heros voice before he added casually. "Okay, well not the cure, more like a topical ointment that reduces swelling and inch. Hi Linch!"

Maverick waved and greeted at an Undead behind Rapunzel which got her attention.

"Raaach!" The Undead hissed.

Then Maverick constructed a neon bazooka.

"Bye Linch!" Maverick quipped as he fired a neon rocket.

Which impacted the Undead and sent it into the air and exploded with a puff of red and orange fire and smoke.

***Boom!***

"Nice one, bro!" Rapunzel exclaimed as she got ready to face the other enemies before them.

Then two more undead came over as Maverick pulled out a weapon which was Rapunzel's vibranium frying pan and tossed it to her which she caught.

Then Maverick spun as he summoned his two keyblades and began to chop and slash at some incoming undead and Neoshadow Heartless.

While Rapunzel joined the fight by bashing her frying against the neon shadow. Dodging their attacks and spinning her golden hair to knock away five undead.

Then Maverick ran over. Grabbed a small pebble. Heats it up with his fire power and grabbed an Undead by the neck when it was about to attack Eugene from behind.

As Eugene turned after finishing off an Undead. Maverick used the hot pebble on the Undead he had a surrendered hold around its neck and pressed the hot pebble to its forehead.

"Aaaagh!" The Undead shrieked in pain before Maverick forced the hot pebble in its mouth and covered it with the Undead's eyes widened in pain.

"I've never said this, but don't swallow!" Maverick quipped.

"Okay, that's more than I needed to hear. And I don't think I'll ever unhear that." Eugene said with a slight cringe.

"Hey Mav! Give us a hand!" Armored Lucas called over as he slammed a Eliminator Heartless' shield into another large Heartless and then thrusted his keyblade through.

"Go on, Kid! We got this!" Eugene insisted.

"Alright! Let's wrap this up cause I got a pre-order collectors edition of Street Fighter 6 to pick up later and my neighbor gamestop closed down and now I have to go to the one inside the mall!" Maverick protested as he ran down slashing and flipping like a ninja at Undead left and right. Then he slammed his fist down to the ground causing a fire wave that wiped out ten Neoshadow Heartless. "Ruaagh! ***k you Biden!"

Kiera looked down and shook her head. "Does he ever take danger seriously?" Kiera asked Eugene with an unamused expression.

"Only on very rare occasions. And you'll know it's bad when he does take it seriously." Eugene said before he held the treasure box close and made a run for the pedestal, dodging past undead here and there.

And when he got half way there, an undead jumped in front of him screeching, making Eugene resort to punching the monster, only for it to catch Eugene's fist in his bony hand and using Eugene's fist to punch him in the face.

"Woah! I pack quite a punch!" Eugene yelled as he shook it up, before the undead tossed him away, making him drop the box.

Over with Lance, he was fighting an undead and managed to rip its left arm off, only for the arm to act on its own and punch Lance on the top of the head.

"Man, this is weird! Ahhh!" Lance said with a scream at the end as the hand lunged at Lance's face, knocking him down.

With Feldspar, he just got to his feet and tried to run away, only for an undead to grab him and hold him by the soldiers.

"Oh please! I'm but a humble shoeman!" Feldspar pleaded only to be thrown towards the others and landing upside down, Monty keeping him from falling over. All the while, the Undead continued to run about attacking people

"Thunder!" Goofy yelled from across the room and struck the Undead with a lightning spell which made it shatter to pieces.

"Iiigh..." The single skull of the Undead groaned after it was struck by Goofy's lightning.

"Ahyuck! His joints popped." Goofy mused as he pointed at the downed undead.

But then more were coming out of the open standing coffins around the tombs. Mickey tried smashing several but they kept being repaired. So Mickey ran over and flipped into the air to air slash several coffins. He was knocked aside by one of the Undead afterwards which made him grunt as he hit the ground.

"Wooooah!" Mickey yelled and grunted on the ground.

Rapunzel ran over to help the President up.

"Are you okay?!" Rapunzel asked.

"Haha! So much for bringing people together buh?" Mickey smiled nervously while trying to be upbeat but it was impossible at this point.

But then Rapunzel looked over and saw the treasure box on the floor and her face brightened as an idea came to her from what Mickey said.

"It is not too late to do that, Mickey." Rapunzel said enthusiastically as she helped him up. "We are getting out of this, together."

"Well, you obviously have a plan." Mickey said, giving a smile. "Call the shots, Rapunzel."

The Princess smiled at this. As she got everyone nearby together. Mostly the competitors.

"Okay, Everyone!" Rapunzel said, calling all her competitors into a group huddle. "Our only chance out of this is to put that treasure back on its altar. So let's show these mummies what Corona Spirit can do!"

Everyone cheered before they broke the huddle and made a run for different parts of the crypt.

Rapunzel climbed on top of a rock with Feldspar and Mickey right behind her.

Rapunzel then used her hair and flung the box towards the altar, only for an undead to grab the box from the air.

But that undead got a rude interruption from Vladimir Charging towards him with his sharp horn helmet, with Monty riding on his back, ramming the undead into a wall and making it fall apart. The two then gave each other a thumbs up.

Several undead tried converging on Rapunzel, only for Kiera, riding on Stan's shoulders, to pop out of nowhere and knock several undead back.

And then Catalina, after removing a wooden weapon from Pete's sap, lunged at the undead and began using a sharpened stick as a sword, pushing them back. As she rode on top of Max.

Rapunzel saw this with a big smile as Catalina with the help of Maximus, began cornering several undead.

Then Rapunzel saw an opportunity to run as she did and grabbed the box while sprinting past the fight.

"Out of the way! Coming through!" Rapunzel yelled like a shopper in a rush as she held a tight trip to the treasure box. Running for the pedestal.

But she stopped and gasped "Eugene!" From seeing her boyfriend in danger.

Eugene knocked a few Undead aside as more were about to attack him from behind. But then they were blasted by Rocket's guns as he was riding while standing on top of Maximus who galloped across the chamber. Ramming more Undead as Rocket was shooting more. And Pascal would tongue whip several.

"Raaaaaugh! That's it!" Rocket roared as he rapidly fired from his guns.

Max came over and the back horse kicked an Undead's head off as it looked worried before it landed on the back of Pete's head which was still covered in sap. Which at the back made the Undead's head look like it was the one covered in sap. And for some reason the Undead looked almost embarrassed at this.

Why? It's dead. It shouldn't even be embarrassed.

"Here's a sweetener!" Donald yelled as he ran by and tossed the wasp nest at the headless Undead. Which made it panic and run around from getting stung by the wasps.

"Reeeegh!" The Undead screamed with the wasps stinging it.

"Hahahahahahahahahaha! Good one Fowl Feathers!" Rocket laughed and pointed.

Just then another Undead cornered Xavier. Who was pondering at it for a moment.

"Ah, returned from the grave, I see." Xavier said as he started his tale. "Much like the Mummy of Questiana. Or so the story goes." You see, there once was a mummy who..."

As Xavier told the story. The Undead spawn looked bored as its jaw was hung open. Only for it to fall apart and fully die from boredom.

Talk about irony.

"Huh? I'll never underestimate stupefied story telling again." Rocket remarked as he rode off on Max to fight some more undead.

"Okay, Feldspar. Time to separate the steeled toed boots from the galoshes!" Feldspar gave himself a pep talk before looking down and noticing a wooden boat, giving him an idea.

He quickly grabbed the boat and set it down on a rock with one side down and the other side up, like a seesaw. Then he ran over and grabbed Rapunzel who had the box and set her down on the down side of the boat.

"Feldspar, what are you doing?" Rapunzel asked, greatly confused as Feldspar took off his large heavy bag.

"Princess, need a lift?" Feldspar asked with a big smile, making Rapunzel realize what his plan was.

"Feldspar!" Rapunzel gasped with a big smile before Feldspar dropped his bag on the upper part of the boat, bringing it down quickly and launching Rapunzel into the air. "You're a genius!"

And he was because Rapunzel landed right in front of the altar. She gave the undead a quick glare before turning around to set the box down onto the altar. Several undead reached out to stop her but were too late as the box was set on the altar.

As soon as the box touched down, it and the symbol on the altar glowed before releasing a flash of light, and the ominous face in the sky faded and turned into a red beam that shot down back into the crypt.

And the undead turned into red energy and were sucked back into their coffins which sealed themselves up again, and the ominous red lights faded back to natural sunlight.

With the danger resolved, everyone cheered in victory.

"We did it!" Eugene exclaimed as he high fived Lance and everyone else cheered.

"I did it!" Feldspar said happily before adding. "Alright, we did it. But I did it mostly."

Then Maverick. Verum Rex and Lucas landed in front of Rapunzel as they were just finished admiring each other's work.

"Hey Zel. Listen, we've been talking while literally popping a few joints. And we've been thinking. And I don't know if you or the Readers have noticed. But Lucas and Kara doesn't have hero names of their own." Maverick said in realization.

"Oh, you're right, they don't." Rapunzel said in realization before thinking. "Any ideas?"

'Maybe Lucas could be called Bellator, which is Latin for Warrior. And for Kara, she could be Maga, which is Latin for Sorceress.' PRO figured.

"Eh technically we can spin the Latin a bit with English. I mean his girl is called Swift. So...I was thinking of something close to home like maybe...Omega Rex?" Lucas replied as a name came to his thought.

Because he's the last and only one who will be considered a second Verum Rex. Omega Rex.

"What do you think?" Mickey asked Rapunzel.

"I like it." Rapunzel said smiling. "What about Kara?"

Just then Kara came in wearing a new white outfit from a sling ring portal. She stepped in next to Lucas and gave Rapunzel a slight wave.

Kara's new sage outfit was a skin-tight white sleeveless top and a white skirt that went down to half her thighs. She also had white wrist guards that covered her lower arms, and white rings on her biceps. And as usual, she was barefoot since her style of magic was more effective when in constant contact with the ground.

"Sorry I'm late. The girls and I just got back." Kara said timidly.

"That's okay, we were just wrapping things up here." Rapunzel smiled before noticing Kara's new attire. "I like your new outfit, by the way."

"Thank you." Kara meekly smiled as she posed a little in it. "A Sorceress at Kamer-Tag sewed this up with the finest fabrics of the Multiverse. It integrates with my echo spells and sage abilities."

"Nice. It's a shame you missed the fight. With that outfit, you look raring to go." Rapunzel said.

"Ah It's fine. I mean not in that not helping you part. But there will be other battles. And the White Sage will be ready to cast a spell or two when needed." Kara grinned with her hand on her hip.

The name caught Rapunzel's attention.

"White Sage, huh?" Rapunzel said with a smirk. "Is that gonna be your new hero name?"

"Pretty much." Kara smiled and nodded.

"These two our their own little duo of Guardians that will go on their own adventures. Especially with Danielle and Claire. But they're official Guardians as well now." Verum Rex stated. "And they'll expand our operations for new recruits and to be our eyes and ears in other locations."

"That's great. I hope to hear all about your amazing adventures at some point." Rapunzel said cheerfully.

"Thanks." Kara smiled back.

"Alright everyone take all conversations outside cause it's time for the Guard Dogs' favorite red bro here to plug some holes in!" Maverick said as he held up a barrel of TNT and another bag of C-4 explosives.

'Hehe! That's what she said!' TEC mused.

"So, does this mean we're celebrating this victory with Fireworks?" Eugene asked humorously about the explosives.

"Or are we gonna see just how high an ancient tomb can fly?" Lance asked humorously.

"Well...Basically I'm gonna blow the shit out of this place. That's what she also said." Maverick said about blowing the place up before he walked off.

"Uh, Ryan. I don't think blowing this place up is such a good idea." Rapunzel said with a slight nervousness to it as she came up to him.

"Zel. Nothing that can bring the Heartless to this world can stay. I know this place is a momento to our kingdom's next door neighbor, but if we didn't take that box over there. Someone else will eventually." Maverick insisted.

"I know that, Ryan. But how do we know blowing this place up won't cause the curse to awaken once more?" Rapunzel asked while voicing her concern.

"Because it won't explode. It'll implode. And dematerialize. If it worked for that Aztec Treasure in the Pirate World." Maverick shrugged.

"He's right. We cannot allow this treasure to fall into the wrong hands." Verum Rex replied in agreement.

"Rest assured, Your Highness. Once this place is destroyed. So will the dark incantation that came with it" Kara assured.

Rapunzel looked hesitant for a moment before nodding in agreement.

"Okay. I trust you know what you're doing. So go ahead with your explosives." Rapunzel said.

"Alrighty then. Let's see how much C4 is this gonna take?" Maverick walked over while carrying the explosives.

'No more than twenty ounces.' PRO answered.

'What?! Ugh I hate the metric system!' TEC groaned. 'How much in American?!'

'Let's see uh...Carry the seven...' PRO processed.

"Dude ***k math! Let's just use all of it." Maverick said sinisterly as he teleported in multiple corners and planted bombs in every corner.

"Now we're talkin." Rocket smirked in excitement to see the explosions.

"Yeah we may need to back up a bit. Like outside. Way outside!" Eugene suggested as everyone quickly went out and left for Maverick to work his explosives.

Everyone quickly ran outside as Maverick was just finishing up with adding every inch of explosions inside and outside the cave. Even the top of the tomb was covered in explosions like fire ants.

"Ooooooh boy. That looks painful." Lance winced at the sight.

Then Maverick teleported back with the group and cleared his throat. As he had a trigger in his hand and held it out to Rocket.

"Care to blow this Bone Thug house a new one, Ringtail?" Maverick quipped as he offered the trigger to Rocket.

"Forge, you read my mind!" Rocket said with a slightly psychotic laugh as he took the trigger. "Let's light this flarker up!"

And Rocket pressed the trigger.

Then suddenly the entire Tomb of Herz Der Sonne's treasure began to spark from all the bombs and lit up a bright fiery blue all over as it was shattering. Then in the sound of a warp drill...

***BOOOM!***

The entire Tomb dematerialize into matter. Until the lights were gone and it was nothing left but ashes. Much to Rocket's amazement.

"Good riddance." Kiera scoffed with her arms crossed.

"Flarkin right. But oooh that implosion!" Rocket gushed at how awesome that was.

Then Maverick came up to Rapunzel as he shifted out of his armor and into his keyblader attire.

"Next time. Let me pick the scavenger hunt location." Orion grinned as he patted her shoulder.

"You know what? I think I just might let you do that." Rapunzel said, releasing a sigh of relief that the danger was now over.

"Cool cool. If you'll excuse me I got a PS5 Street Fighter game to pick up. Are you all okay with walking back or do you need a ground bridge?" Orion said as he checked his phone for text messages and got an alert from GameStop.

"I think we'll be fine just walking." Rapunzel said.

"Sweet. See you at dinner. And the next ending cutscene." Orion gave a thumbs up as he walked off. While breaking the fourth wall.

'Are we still pretending this is a video game?' PRO deadpannned.

"It's based on one so..." Orion shrugged as he was beamed out of the area.

Rapunzel smiled and shook her head at her brother's witty antics as she began to walk off with everyone else.

Meanwhile Stan was trying to pry Short off of Pete's back while he's still covered in sap.

Kara noticed and walked over to them.

"Here let me." Kara waved her hand as a mystic symbol waved from her palms.

Causing all of the tree sap to fade away and Shorty fell to the ground with his same dopey grin. And he burped.

"I'm gonna miss that ride." Shorty slurred.

"Finally. That was very uncomfortable." Pete said as he stretched himself.

"Thanks for that, Kara. You just saved us hours trying to get the sap off of him." Stan thanked the barefooted sage

"No problem. Just watch where you land next time." Kara grinned as she walked off.

"You're not so bad yourself. For a big, dopey guard," Kiera complemented teasingly to Stan as she walked off with Catalina.

"Aw, thanks. You know..." Stan looked flattered at first until her words slowly sunk in. "Wait a minute..."

Then Rocket walked up to Xavier and rubbed the back of his neck and he decided to complement the old blacksmith.

"You know. You weren't so bad back there, Smithie." Rocket complemented.

"You too, Rocket." Xavier smiled.

"Also I didn't get a chance to hear the rest of that Cheating Whasit legend you were trying to tell me." Rocket grinned.

"Really?" Xavier said with a big smile as he warned. "Well, it is a rather long story."

Rocket doesn't mind since he doesn't like a silent forest to walk by anyway. And he's still impressed with how he took down an Undead with his story.

"Meh. I've got time. And it's a long walk." Rocket shrugged as he walked off with the group next to Xavier.

"Hmmm. Well. The Cheating Willows is a story that begins with..." Xavier began telling it.

"Uh huh...Yeah..." Rocket muttered as they walked off.

For a treasure hunt that started out empty. It also burned out all of the steam they all had with each other earlier. Know everyone is starting to get along after working together. And Rapunzel can't help but smile.

Later on at the entry to the Castle Throne room...

Rapunzel is standing in front of everyone as the doors to the throne room were to her right, with a purple ribbon wrapped in front of it.

"And so, it is my honor to present to you our brand new throne room." Rapunzel announced as she cut the ribbon and opened the doors for people to enter.

The throne room looked good as new with flowers set up on both sides of the room, six circular tables for a party and two rectangular tables with all the party foods.

People entered and looked around in awe. All of the competitors were there as well.

"Well, the treasure hunt didn't go quite how I planned. But it did bring everyone together." Rapunzel said to Eugene and Lance.

"Yeah." Lance said with a broken voice. "Even if I never got to meet... Caviar Lance, it was still exciting."

"You know sunshine, I think it all kind of turned out well, for everyone." Eugene said, wrapping an arm around Rapunzel as the two happily watched everyone enjoying themselves and getting along.

Just then Mickey. Donald and Goofy came up with Yozora and Lucas. As they wanted to know what Rapunzel thinks of the designs they gave the place.

"So. What do you think? We kept it close to home. As close as possible. Haha." Mickey asked Rapunzel.

"I think it looks perfect. Thank you so much for all your help with this, guys." Rapunzel said to them.

"Course I hope the bright purple is more of inspiration and not...How do I say it without sounding offensive?" Eugene pondered.

"We never sound offensive?" Lance inquired.

"Actually the idea came from Minnie." Mickey admitted with a smile.

"Yeah. She's our first lady." Donald smiled.

"Of course Orion requested to bring in a large supply of Caviar in the shape of Lance to the kitchen for some reason." Goofy pondered as for why he got that in.

Lance froze at that.

"Did... Did you say- EAAAAAAK!" Lance squeaked in excitement as he ran as fast as he could towards the kitchen. "I'M COMING, CAVIAR LANCE!"

Everyone froze for a moment. Either weirded out or admired how fast Lance just left. Or they felt both.

"We...Also called someone from Mewni to help with Vladimir's wish." Yozora spoke up.

"Really? Who?" Rapunzel asked.

Just then a floating green unicorn head with green eyes and star pupils with a star tattoo to the side of its neck and pink hair came in.

Or rather. Princess Lilacia Pony Head floated in. And she looked annoyed.

"Alright y'all! shut yo faces! I just got paid fifty bucks and a bag of glitter by a red skinned tourist to come here! Where's the partay action at?!" Pony head yelled out the moment she came in.

Which shocked Rapunzel and Eugene.

"It's like that kid is constantly trying to find things to haunt my nightmares." Eugene said with wit.

"Why would Ryan bring over the floating head of a unicorn?" Rapunzel asked, the last word she said drawing the attention of Vladimir.

"Did you say... Unicooooooooorn?!" Vladimir exclaimed with a crazed expression as he turned around.

"Oooh Cheese puffs. Pony Head is Peacing out! Later!" Pony panicked and ran back out the way she came, as fast as she could float.

"COME BACK, UNICORN! LET ME LOVE YOU!" Vladimir shouted as he gave chase after the floating unicorn head.

"Okaaaay?...I guess that's two rich dreams down." Eugene said awkwardly.

"I'm just confused how Ryan even knew those were what they wanted." Rapunzel said with a confused and befuddled look. "And it makes me wonder who's next."

Just then Rapunzel's new gummiphone pinged as she just received a message from Orion. Just at the very moment she asked.

She opened and read the text message.

*'According to my schedule. A floating Unicorn head just arrived. If you asked how I knew. Keep in mind these guys are an open book who blurts out their feelings. That and Vlad would never shut up about Unicorns.'* Orion's text message read.

"Well, that answers that question. And also makes me wonder if he's either psychic or just has the castle bugged." Rapunzel said with a smirk before responding with her own text. *'Thanks for letting me know. Look forward to any other surprises you might have in store.'*

*'Cool. Anyhow. Gotta go. Kicking Ryu's ass right now. 👍😎'* Orion texted about playing Street Fighter 6.

*'Okay. Have fun.'* Rapunzel texted before she addressed Mickey and said to him. "Thanks again, Mickey, for all your help."

"Awe it's nothing. But hey. I almost forgot to tell you. The Million Dream Festival is in ToonTown next weekend. And you and the team are all invited. The audience will especially want an appearance from the Guardians themselves." Mickey announced to Rapunzel and everyone else.

"Really? Well you can't count on us being there!" Rapunzel said happily.

"I hope this festival isn't an event where we have to fulfill one million life long dreams. Is it?" Eugene asked curiously with a little wit.

"Ahyuck! Nope. The Million Dreams Festival is...Uh...Well it's like uh...Gawrsh. Donald? How would you describe it?" Goofy asked.

"I would say it's an event where it seems like being there makes millions of wishes come true." Donald said enthusiastically.

"Yeah. You see, at the festival. Everyone who enters, competes for the votes of the citizens of ToonTown. And you earn their votes by doing a lot of good around the town. You can either start an interesting business like an ice cream shop or a car lot and such. Entertain them in any way or simply by doing heroic deeds." Mickey explained how it goes. "And the one with the most votes. Earns the Million Dream Award and a special mystery prize in addition."

"Oooh, I love mystery prizes." Rapunzel said excitedly.

"Glad to hear it. And we at the Disney Federation are also looking forward to the King and Queen of Corona waking up." Mickey smiled with a thumbs up.

"You bet!" Donald smiled and nodded.

"Let us know when they wake up, okay?" Goofy smiled.

"You bet." Rapunzel smiled gleefully.

"So all's well that ends well huh?" Lucas remarked.

"Sure but. But I keep thinking that maybe. Just maybe we forgot something." Eugene wondered.

If it's Max's dream. Don't worry. It was more of a suggestion than a dream. But Eugene is right. They did forget something.

Back over at the thorn bush in the forest...

The sun was setting as the large thistle bush was still there. And so was Old Lady Crowley who was unphased and still standing grumpy looking inside the bush. Everyone forgot she was there. On account that the mere thought of her negative existence gives everyone nightmares.

Still someone will come and get her eventually.

"Is anybody there?" Old Lady Crowley called out from the thistle bushes. "Hello?"

And if not. She'll just figure out that there's enough room to walk out without getting pricked. She's small enough so don't worry everyone.

She'll be all right.

THAT'S ALL FOR NOW FOLKS! 🎉🎉🎉

Well this took a while to edit. Don't worry I'll get on the Guardians Of The Depth story next.

As for what comes next. I'm wondering about having the team either visit Springfield of the Simpsons next, like just a few days before they head to the Million Dream Festival. Or just head straight to Mickey Mouse's world for the festival.

Please let me know which world you want them to visit next.

Also as for what happens in the chapter that will be based on the Tangled episode titled 'Beginnings'. Since it's mostly a flashback of Cassandra becoming friends with Rapunzel. I'll leave that one alone mostly and will probably just insert certain parts of the beginning into the next chapter.

But for the other episode titled 'No Time Like The Past'. I might have Rapunzel and Yozora sent back in time along with Pascal to a different set in time. Something regarding Eugene's family tree that's connected to a certain classic Disney film and a Sword. 😉😉😉😉

Let me know what you all think of these ideas if you figure it out and if you have any story ideas. Again. Let me know.

Thank you all so much for reading!

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